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[–] [B] 2 points 10 months ago

Odd, given that he has no class

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    Trump class:

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    [–] 115 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    So they'll be shitty, ineffective and overpriced?

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  • [–] 57 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    They were actually still worthwhile up into Korea but the Korean war is the weird middle child between WW2 and Vietnam that everyone forgets about.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    It's not that I forgot about the Korean War, it's that I wasn't aware it had any significant naval component for which battleships were relevant.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    They were used for artillery along coastal regions, while not exactly the designated purpose of such ships it was highly effective. But yeah it was basically the last hoora of an aging design that had already started to become obsolete.

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  • [–] 53 points 10 months ago

    Because it will be full of Bubba's sea men?

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    [–] 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Sounds like the kind of warship you'd buy from AliExpress

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  • [–] 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] [S] 29 points 10 months ago

    What a vainglorious asshole.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

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

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    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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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Probably the worst ship that can be built, if the current admnistration is an indicator. Big as a carrier, but oblong instead of ship-shaped, and propelled by a standard-sized outboard motor sold by one of Trumps relatives for $fortune.

    Will also sink on launch, because including a bottom was too expensive.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    The only way he can have any class

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    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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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The US naval shipbuilding has been reduced to like ... two yards ... Bremerton and Baltimore, i think ?

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    They sink THAT fast?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    I can't wait to see these no class vessels

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Will these Trump class ships be really really huge but have no substance?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Tell me about this Trump class! Is it couth? Is it debonair? I must know more.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    glory holes in every room!

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    No VLS cells is such the perfect cherry on the turd.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    It'll be sold on late night TV? Operators are standing by, call now!

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    [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    may they all sink to the bottom

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I hope this cunt is alive to see all his bullshit erased but I won't hold my breath.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    My honest wish is that he gets to the point where he decides to run to Russia, and they keep him alive for a few more decades. That way he can see his legacy dismantled and his followers can go live in Russia and build themselves a utopia of ignorance.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I don't doubt it at all that if these shitheaps get built they will be: bigger (wastes of taxpayer money), faster (time to obsolescence) and be 100x more powerful (flushes in their toilets).

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    "Best looking" too.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I'm sure gold plated isn't mil-spec for warships, too hi-vis.

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