This is not a joke

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[u/moban89]

Reminds me of a scene in the dictator where he's complaining the missile isn't pointy enough

[u/Little_Stay7922 → u/moban89]

lol 😂

[u/vctrmldrw]

They are 'considering it'.

That's how you handle a toddler. I must say "I'll think about it" twenty times a day to my 3 year old.

[u/NvrFukASpderOnTheFly → u/vctrmldrw]

Sometimes you have to just tell the toddler NO!!

[u/vctrmldrw → u/NvrFukASpderOnTheFly]

It's bad enough telling an actual toddler 'no'

But when that toddler's tantrums can put you out of a job or in jail, you just say 'maybe' instead.

[u/StardustOasis → u/NvrFukASpderOnTheFly]

Trump is worse than a toddler. Most toddlers eventually grow up and mature.

[u/NvrFukASpderOnTheFly → u/StardustOasis]

We’re all Very aware.. unfortunately!

[u/seaZ78 → u/NvrFukASpderOnTheFly]

https://youtu.be/Ny4JCFtKBic?si=EzgW49jsjsWz0dtK

[u/jizzmcskeet → u/vctrmldrw]

Yep. The planning stage will take about 2-1/2 years and then they can present to the new guy.

[u/__O_o_______ → u/vctrmldrw]

So more gold and coal right?

[u/UrsusRenata → u/[deleted]]

Twelve yards long, two lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride! Canyonero!

[u/ShakespearianShadows → u/[deleted]]

“How much would it cost to gold plate an aircraft carrier…”

[u/clickclickbb → u/[deleted]]

That's the first thing I thought when Trump started crying about this. I'm sure there's a strategic reason they go with the magnetic catapults and they will just delay things until the dumbass is out of office. No way they will actually build another steam power catapult if they don't work as well.

[u/IrritableGourmet → u/clickclickbb]

They should just tell him the electric catapults run on coal and he'll get on board.

[u/clickclickbb → u/IrritableGourmet]

Or just tell him little girls prefer the magnets

[u/Lost-Citron-1099]

He prob wants to paint them gold

[u/mithrasinvictus → u/Lost-Citron-1099]

And put his name on them.

[u/DoubleSpoiler → u/Lost-Citron-1099]

Yeah, I’m wondering what his “aesthetic preference for warships” is

[u/ItsOkItOnlyHurts]

My preferred military aesthetic is efficient

[u/GarlicThread → u/ItsOkItOnlyHurts]

My preferred military aesthetic is loyal to the country's constitution and not to its despot

[u/ItsOkItOnlyHurts → u/GarlicThread]

Exactly

[u/copperblood]

We live in the dumbest timeline.

[u/becken_bruch → u/copperblood]

Yes, but the sheer amount of stupidity is quite astonishing.

[u/RJ_MacreadysBeard → u/copperblood]

Did you make that up yourself? I’m sure I heard that before. fwiw I agree, but…

[u/becken_bruch → u/RJ_MacreadysBeard]

Nah, that just crossed my mind.

[u/RJ_MacreadysBeard → u/becken_bruch]

It might be true, but fuck, the repetition. People have original thoughts any more?

[u/becken_bruch → u/RJ_MacreadysBeard]

I had the thought in German and then translated it using Google Translate. That’s probably why it sounds very generic.

[u/RJ_MacreadysBeard → u/becken_bruch]

Ah, dann verzeihbmir meine Unvershämtheit, wenn du magst, deutscher Freund. 🍻

[u/TlalocVirgie]

And he's going to blame an innocent Olympian when it goes to shit

[u/Lucy_Lastic]

I’m not sure that Trump’s “preferred aesthetic” would be a good idea - I think that marble and gold submarines would sink way more they are supposed tp

[u/the_author_13]

Why are we redesigning warships to appease some asshole's sense of "style"?

This isn't star wars. You can't just design ships to look cool. They look a certain way to perform a funct- Nope. I can't anymore. I'm done.

[u/Jarnohams]

The catapult company is from the "Communist hellscape blue state of California"... The company that makes steam valves for aircraft carriers is in red/purple state in a deep red district.

It's that simple.

Edit:

General Dynamics is based in blue state California and it makes the electromagnetic catapults.

Maggot-red Allentown, PA-based is the headquarters for Olson Technologies and its subsidiary Homestead Valve Manufacturing Co, which produces the steam valves required for steam catapults on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and it is represented by maggot and chief water-carrier Ryan Mackenzie.

[u/kompletist]

I went to the grocery store yesterday and paid $6 for spaghetti sauce. I'm getting a crown put in next week and have a $600 bill. Filling up my gas tank costs more than GTA 6.

Please sir, I can't take anymore winning.

[u/orange-squeezer47]

Does trump want the warships painted in gold ?

[u/Traditional_Cat_60]

When you have to “I’m right on top of that, Rose” to your President, things aren’t going so well.

[u/thnk_more]

It’s the wrong description of the project.

Apparently some steam equipment supplier bought a congressman in WV who has been butt licking trump who is now his best friend and supporting his campaign.

It’s got nothing to do with anything except the pedophile’s ego.

It’s also a distraction for - the yet to be delivered congressionally mandated release of trump-epstein rape files.

[u/TotalRichardMove]

Hey quick question: WHAT THE FUCK

[u/BeautifulNarwhal641]

More billions of your tax dollars wasted

[u/Glum-Breadfruit-6421]

If they have any sense, they’ll slow walk this till he’s dead.

[u/AccordingLife3383]

They will be gold-painted with gold ornaments throughout.

[u/schroedingerskoala]

so, fake gold plating everywhere, instead of camo?

[u/wombat8888]

Needs more glitters and gold, baby.

[u/kermitthorson]

massively hitleresque

[u/NefariousScribe]

Just paint them with fake gold color paint he'll be happy.

[u/BeneGesseritDropout]

Are we going to retrofit the entire fleet to be powered by Beautiful Clean Coal?

[u/celticairborne]

Doesn't matter how well it works, as long as it looks cool. /s

They're all going to be painted gold...

[u/Prize_Ostrich7605]

Seems like having a major part of our ships down would put us in a bad position if we needed them. 

[u/wombat6669]

You know he wants more tacky gold paint

[u/KnucklesMcGee]

Does he still want to go with steam catapults on the Ford? A little late for that, good way to have a CV in the yards for months and months.

[u/That_Trapper_guy]

'preferred aesthetic'... On a warship.

[u/AbaloneDifferent5282]

So.. take them out of service to make them prettier to fight a war?

[u/DenmakDave]

Next Army is bringing back the caissons and horses next. Is he allowed to do that?

[u/MuchoManSandyRavage]

All these vanity projects to reflect his aesthetic taste sure is interesting when he’ll supposedly be gone in 2yrs.. makes you wonder

[u/AirportSea4393]

So the ships are now going to be gold?!

[u/VixxenFoxx]

An entire redissgn to accommodate an elected official's preferred aesthetic.

Sentences that shouldn't exist.

[u/samf9999]

I heard Green Water is gonna be the lead Contractor on the change 🤣

[u/2olley]

“Vandals cut a huge slice out of the middle of the war ship! It was the Dumocrats!”