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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours ago

Trump announces plans for new navy warships to be known as ‘Trump-class’

www.theguardian.com

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Trump announces plans for new navy warships to be known as ‘Trump-class’

www.theguardian.com

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours ago
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President says the ships will be bigger, faster and a hundred times more powerful than any previous US-built warship
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  • Mark@lemmy.world
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    So half way build, then stop paying people, and then blaming everyone else for not finishing it, and then scrapping it all while blaming Biden for the “Very failed ships that Biden should never have started building” ?

  • runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    glory holes in every room!

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    Like a 4 years old: “but Mommy! At the kindergarten Kim said that he got an air carrier! I want one too!”

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    So they’ll be shitty, ineffective and overpriced?

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      Don’t forget tacky.

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        But an important thing for ships, never a hole in one!

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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        Plated with lots of fake gold and shitty fonts.

      • allriledup [they/them]@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        so you’re saying they’ll be plated with fake gold?

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        And big bottomed. blobby shaped hulls. Slow and trashy.

    • Heikki2@lemmy.world
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      It will literally have a bridge to nowhere

    • WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org
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      Well… They are going to be American made.

    • Default Username@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      And a pedophile human trafficker.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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      Seems like he might find a way to leave a contractor unpaid. Maybe several contractors.

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      I mean, that would’ve been true anyway, since battleships haven’t been useful since WWII.

      Trump’s involvement just means they’ll be extremely so.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      Also completely incapable of telling friend from foe

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  • shittydwarf@piefed.social
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    Because it will be full of Bubba’s sea men?

  • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works
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    Sounds like the kind of warship you’d buy from AliExpress

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      Shiny with fake gold trim everywhere, and gold colored flames painted on the side.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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      I’m picturing all those Wish website memes…

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    This is not something a sane president would do. They would not want to win a nobel peace prize then want to attach their name to the deadliest tier of a weapon.

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      It isn’t the deadliest tier of a weapon. Battleships have been obsolete for over 80 years now.

    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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      Dave Eggers described him as having a “formidable intellect”!

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      I mean… maybe look up the Nobel family and their contributions to the world.

      Like, I sincerely doubt that it is the motivation at all. But… it would be ridiculously fitting.

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    What a vainglorious asshole.

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    Utter embarrassment… anyone associated with this idiot ought to be profoundly ashamed of themselves…

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      I honestly think so many of them went so balls-deep on embracing this loser that they cannot admit to themselves, never mind others, just how wrong they were.

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        Oh, so you’ve met my parents?

      • The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
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        The vast majority of them aren’t in the denial stages, because they’re still ignorant of everything bad that he’s doing.

        Remember, republicans have been maintaining a media ecosystem (Fox News and select radio pundits) for 40+ years spoonfeeding lies to these people, telling them at every opportunity that all other media networks besides them are liars and out to get them/destroy the country/etc. It’s a relationship not unlike domestic abuse, with the abuser telling their victim that no one will “love” and “care for” them as much as the abuser does.

        Fox News isn’t reporting on Trump’s low poll numbers, or rising prices, or that ICE is kidnapping innocent people, or that the govt released fully redacted Epstein files, or the damning unredacted files implicating Trump, or any other thing that could put this administration in a negative light. Their bottom line and continued existence depends on them keeping their audience divorced from reality. And their audience largely considers any other media besides Fox News as fake, so these ghouls must keep the grift going and the lies flowing.

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        They say that family and friends of psychopathic serial killers have that problem. Can’t viscerally admit that they accepted the killer into the family.

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    Design highlights of the new #Trump class #battleships:

    1. Very wide amidships
    2. Capable of wrecking entire countries
    3. Loudest engines ever
    4. Largely funded by Saudis
    5. Solid gold toilets
    6. Totally full of bilge water.
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      Everything leans slightly to the bow

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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      He has some kind of weird fixation on hydraulic vs. electric, too, so…have to incorporate that somehow.

      This guy is just so fuckin’ weird.

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      One tiny gun.

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        All tiny hands on deck!

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    Man’s scrambling to change media and public focus. Scrambling.

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    The only way he can have any class

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    I can’t wait to see these no class vessels

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    Bit of trivia: the mid-life refit program for Canada’s Iroquois-class destroyer was called TRUMP: Tribal Refit and Update Modernisation Program.

    That program happened in the 1980s, so Mr. Trump is 40ish years late to claim the name.

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