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[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 52 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 37 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 23 hours ago

Shiny with fake gold trim everywhere, and gold colored flames painted on the side.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

I'm picturing all those Wish website memes....

[–] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 37 points 21 hours ago
[–] Shirasho@lemmings.world 33 points 23 hours 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.

[–] hobowillie@lemmy.world 25 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Dave Eggers described him as having a "formidable intellect"!

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 28 points 23 hours ago

What a vainglorious asshole.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (3 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.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 7 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 13 hours ago

Oh, so you've met my parents?

[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 16 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] Mpeach45@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago (3 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.
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 4 points 16 hours ago

All tiny hands on deck!

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

Everything leans slightly to the bow

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Newport News is still around, it’s the only yard that’s built every nuclear powered aircraft carrier in the world, other than the Charles de Gaulle.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

China apparently has a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier currently under construction. I guess it doesn't count 'til it's finished, though.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

Like a 4 years old: "but Mommy! At the kindergarten Kim said that he got an air carrier! I want one too!"

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 7 points 22 hours 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.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 7 points 21 hours ago

The only way he can have any class

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

I can't wait to see these no class vessels

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 5 points 21 hours ago

They sink THAT fast?

[–] Jaybird@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

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" ?

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's probably like his steaks, or his vodka, or his airline, or his casinos....

[–] velindora@lemmy.cafe 3 points 18 hours ago

Gonna sink?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

glory holes in every room!

[–] DegenerationIP@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Tiny ego If you center everything around you. Well..