"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
02/11/2020 at 09:03 • Filed to: None
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"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer)
02/11/2020 at 09:03 • Filed to: None | 2
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A journalist once said that “Mexico City’s airport is to Lopez Obrador what the border wall is to Donald Trump.” Which is a phrase that perfectly encapsulates the unwavering stubbornness of both leaders, and their -verifiable- rejection of the truth. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun once in a while! Especially with Obrador’s other pet peeve: the Presidential jet.
A while ago, the president said that this airplane, a pharaonic reminder of administrations past, would be put up to a raffle. Each ticket would be half a thousand pesos (around 27 dollars) and there would be six million tickets.
The public laughed it up and called it ridiculous... But, was it? Because deep down there was a genius behind this scheme. His government had struggled to sell it for a year, despite commissioning the help of the UN, and even offering it to Justin Trudeau after the RCAF’s own VIP jet had to undergo heavy maintenance.
Regardless, it seems like selling this plane whole would be impossible. So why not raffle it? Shamefully, it’s pretty obvious that anyone who won that raffle would be suffocated by the great cost of maintaining this massive jet. Oh but wait ...
The government had a solution for them too! The jet would include two years of free operations by the Mexican government... which would let a good administrator earn a good chunk of money, or at least enjoy the plane until after the midterm elections.
But, alas, it won’t happen. They announced that the jet won’t be raffled, and instead, this highly publicized raffle would just be a regular lottery. In this lottery, a 500 pesos ticket could give you the chance of earning twenty million pesos, and they’d select 100 winners from the six million tickets.
If you do the math, it means the government would earn
a billion pesos from the raffle (prior to expenses, mind you)
, which is a lot more than what they’d get if they gave away the jet.
Some journalists pointed out that part of Mexican law prohibits the sale of the nation’s assets through lotteries, which might be the big reason behind the cancelation.
Nonetheless, this was the thickest smoke curtain ever pulled out, because as the raffle was discussed (and the next pointless project: changing the bank holiday system) Mexico’s Attorney General was trying to implement barbaric, authoritarian, and sexist policies that would greatly damage the human rights of Mexicans.
#sad.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Spanfeller is a twat
02/11/2020 at 09:13 |
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Dang maybe Alaska airlines will buy it for my Seattle- Kalispell route. This one plane could carry 100% of the daily load in one flight.
haveacarortwoorthree2
> Spanfeller is a twat
02/11/2020 at 09:14 |
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Please get me 5 tickets. Thank you.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
02/11/2020 at 09:24 |
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If you keep the VIP config, it only has 78 seats....
DipodomysDeserti
> Spanfeller is a twat
02/11/2020 at 09:28 |
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Obredor is the one Mexican in the world who can’t figure out how to sell a vehicle. Give this thing to my buddy, Tino, and he’ll have it sold in a day or two on CL or Offerup.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> DipodomysDeserti
02/11/2020 at 09:31 |
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This highly praised Tino should become the secretary of the...
ugh...
Institute to Return What Was Stolen To the People.
It’s A Thing.
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Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Spanfeller is a twat
02/11/2020 at 09:54 |
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The E-175 that I usually fly on seats 76! Seems like a win-win.
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DipodomysDeserti
> Spanfeller is a twat
02/11/2020 at 10:11 |
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Got his US citizenship a few years ago and is working to get his grandparents the hell out of Chihuahua. Spent a few years trying to keep the cartels from taking their farm, but was unsuccessful.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> DipodomysDeserti
02/11/2020 at 10:14 |
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Im happy for him for getting a US citizenship. Getting the papers must’ve been a huge relief.
I hope he’s able to extract his parents.
facw
> Spanfeller is a twat
02/11/2020 at 10:44 |
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It’s a bit baffling. Surely they could just sell it. They might lose a lot of money on it, but if that’s sort of irrelevant if the feeling is that they shouldn’t have it in the first place.
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DipodomysDeserti
> Spanfeller is a twat
02/11/2020 at 10:51 |
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Yeah it was. I think part of the issue of getting his grandparent here is convincing them to leave.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> DipodomysDeserti
02/11/2020 at 11:20 |
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I’ve never experienced anything remotely similar to such levels of stress as you describe them suffereing but ... To a lesser extent maybe I understand them.
Its hard to see Mexico as a horrible place when you’re in it. I think about it everyday. T here is very little justification to stay there other than attachment to what appears normal to us, and how weird everything else looks in contrast.
I know I’m a sheltered asshole that never suffered, but it’s a sentiment I’ve seen in other Mexicans time and time again.
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Spanfeller is a twat
> facw
02/11/2020 at 11:21 |
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All logic aside. Yes.
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DipodomysDeserti
> Spanfeller is a twat
02/11/2020 at 13:02 |
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I love northern Mexico, despite the current violence. This part of the world has been been violent for a long time, but remains indescribably beautiful.