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8. For many rightwingers, a ride on "Pinochet Air" is the preferred solution for those Trump deems undesirable.

Reply to Deuxcents (Reply #7)

Wed Mar 12, 2025, 05:44 PM

Mar 2025

"We could buy him a ticket on Pinochet Air for a free helicopter ride." (Rep. Mike Collins, R-GA, tweeting about getting rid of an undocumented immigrant). “Pinochet Air” refers to the death flights conducted by Pinochet’s secret police in Chile when thousands of critics and dissidents were disappeared, many thrown out of helicopters into the ocean.

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