skullmuffins
Banned
This is gross and entirely unsurprising. They should quit. Who would want to take a bullet for a president that doesn't respect the office, you, or really anyone outside perhaps his immediate family.
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Secret Service is broke cause Trump & family vacationing across the US
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itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
Pay them in exposure.
Pandora012
Member
I think they are required by law to protect them.
BronsonLee
Member
You really think they won't take one look at him trying to galavant around and go 'lol no', especially if budget stuff comes up?
Ya that's not good at all and it's a good way to alienate your bodyguards
My god no
jakonovski
Member
So Clint Eastwood will just let John Malkovich do his thing?
BoogieWoogie
Banned
I have no idea how many assassination attempts the Secret Service difuses in private but I have to imagine it's a pretty big number. If Trump went this route, I couldn't see him lasting more than six months.
bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
Great flick.
Dat free market is a bitch. Oh, well.
There are things you don't get difficult with and one of them is security and lives of head(s) of your nation. Leaders of USA need to be fucking nuts if they are willing to gamble with lives of President, Speaker, their families etc. just to stick it to Trump.
People making posts like this need to keep silent if GOP ever limits USSS and it affects future Democratic presidents too who can't afford private security.
ZeroCypher
Member
Can you imagine Trump supporters willing to work for the Secret Service for little to no pay? I bet a lot want to but that's not a good thing.
BronsonLee
Member
We're at the point now that nothing will surprise me anymore, and it mostly depends on how much of an asshole the next admin wants to be. I don't -think- it'll happen, but I'm wrong a lot so
Also I don't think he actually wants private security because he can't afford it
I don't think that'd go very well. You don't really want passion and vigor when it comes to security, you want experience and skillset.
shira
Member
Wouldn't they be even more expensive?
Adam Sadler
Member
Lmao this is ridiculous
Yup. That's how you end up with bodyguards beating protesters, like Erdogan's last visit.
I don't get this. What do hypothetical budgetary limitations that may or may not affect Democratic presidents have to do with Trump being such a lazy fuckboi that he's burned through the SS's budget due to his constant vacationing?
Fox Mulder
Member
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Would never ever happen. No other president past or future would make them spend 60k on golf carts.
Don't equate this insanity with a normal administration.
Goddamn. These people are there to give their lives for him and he treats them like shit
Lightning_Roller
Banned
Wow that's messed up. Just messed up.
Oh god, I hope that doesn't happen. A lot of those guys are just looking for an excuse to shoot people.
People are very openly hoping / advocating for USSS abandoning their posts and government limiting their protection parameters so much that it would automatically puts head(s) of state into risk of assassination (attempts), assaults etc. as they would have no protection.
If such moronic and short sighted caps and limitations would be put in place they wouldn't go away over night after Trump left office, especially when USSS keep protecting him and his family even after he leaves office.
I'm not saying what Trump has managed to do isn't amazingly stupid, but what people are advocating for here is dangerous for future administrations as those caps would be in place. Even could lead to real shit during current admin.
I wonder how people felt here when similar shit was aimed at Obama from far right.
BronsonLee
Member
The real issue is that they would likely not be very effective in defending against legitimate threats, and like Tovarisc says, you REALLY don't want to fuck around with the safety of a head of state
He can't afford it
UnemployedVillain
Member
What future Democrat would ever burn through money at the same rate as Trump? Please, explain to me what future Democrat would ONLY have meetings at their own private property, then simultaneously mark up the prices to extort even more money?
Lightning_Roller
Banned
You already know damn well why, Trump greedy as a motherfucker.
cpp_is_king
Member
"Federally mandated caps"
Won't trump just raise the caps?
Won't trump just raise the caps?
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Not if it has to be approved by Congress of the Senate.
This is the guy who is legendary for stiffing contractors who work on his buildings. He's not going to offer to pay them a cent from his own money.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Can they not tell him to fuck off?
With the exception of actual Presidenting work, fucking stop letting him go on these trips! Chain him to his office.
With the exception of actual Presidenting work, fucking stop letting him go on these trips! Chain him to his office.
I am 100% NOT surprised by this, and it is gross indeed.
If there are caps put in place, future heads of state would be aware of how fast they are burning through the budget and maybe stop and think before they take another frivolous vacation before more money is available for such things.
It's like, hey you have x-amount of trips already planned this year which eats up Y% of your budget. How you spend the rest is up to you. You want to take 80 golf vacations, just letting you know ahead of time, the secret service can only cover about 30 of those. So... ya know, plan wisely? Maybe don't take all those vacations you can't pay for - sort of like how everyday citizens live?
Strangelove77
Member
I feel like I'm living in a cartoon. In a really fucked up cartoon.
It seems like nobody in here actually read the article. At no point does it say the Secret Service has run out of money. The actual problem is that agents are capped at $160,000 per year combined salary and overtime. However due to the size of Trump's family that needs protection and the frequency of their trips many agents, amounting to about one third of the overall secret service workforce have reached that cap.
tl;dr: It's not that the Secret Service doesn't have the money to pay their agents, they just can't give it to them.
tl;dr: It's not that the Secret Service doesn't have the money to pay their agents, they just can't give it to them.
Psychoward
Banned
One more reason why the "I don't like Trump but I'm socially liberal and fiscally conservative!" excuse doesn't work
MadJackChurchill
Banned
Sure you'll be absolutely fine without them.
BlastProcessing
Member
Where do you think the money to pay private security comes from?