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After the current US President came to give a weekday speech in June 2023 at Palo Alto's Baylands, he went by limo to two daylight fundraisers, first in west Atherton (politician Westley's home) and then Saratoga/Los Gatos hills (hosted by Kevin Scott, a Microsoft executive, and Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedin) while Air Force 1 did a photo run over the Golden Gate Bridge departing from Moffett where Google has an exclusive private plane deal with (cough) NASA to use its runways. Or maybe an innocent reposition flight to SFO? I watched with my eyeballs AF1 fly over Palo Alto northbound less than 30 minutes after the Baylands' speech ended and the Westley event was happening. As the sun set I watched live on Flight Aware as a helicopter which had flown aerial patrol by the Baylands speech and around the 2 pre-announced fundraisers, too, finished circling a place near Gilroy and then did a joy ride up to downtown San Francisco and landed on a skyscraper by where there was a closed door event with many VIPs the next day.

Air Force 1 and Marine helos are for sale to the highest bidders. Lots of helo pads in downtown SF.

Big boys and girls fly. Never stuck in rush hour, not even in limos. SFPD will close streets from hotels to Moscone Center and to any other place the biggest VIPs will go, to empty them for the VIPs for this Potemkin Village show. Gridlock for the plebes. Look close to see the paying "Johns", the sponsors of this fiasco. https://www.apec2023sf.org/

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