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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Something's badly wrong with those people. Anyone who's not comatose knows that anyone who tells you that everyone but them is a liar, is a fucking liar.
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.
58 Comments
DrFistington@lemmy.world · 121 pts · 267d
So they'll be shitty, ineffective and overpriced?
Taco2112@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 267d
Don’t forget tacky.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 24 pts · 267d
But an important thing for ships, never a hole in one!
allriledup@piefed.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 267d
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 267d
Plated with lots of fake gold and shitty fonts.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 267d
And big bottomed. blobby shaped hulls. Slow and trashy.
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org · 14 pts · 267d
Well... They are going to be American made.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 267d
Seems like he might find a way to leave a contractor unpaid. Maybe several contractors.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 266d
And a pedophile human trafficker.
grue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 266d
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.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 265d
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.
grue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 265d
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.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 265d
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.
Heikki2@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 266d
It will literally have a bridge to nowhere
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 266d
Also completely incapable of telling friend from foe
shittydwarf@piefed.social · 54 pts · 267d
Because it will be full of Bubba's sea men?
BlindFrog@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 266d
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 267d
Sounds like the kind of warship you'd buy from AliExpress
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 267d
Shiny with fake gold trim everywhere, and gold colored flames painted on the side.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 267d
I'm picturing all those Wish website memes....
Shirasho@lemmings.world · 35 pts · 267d
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 · 27 pts · 267d
It isn't the deadliest tier of a weapon. Battleships have been obsolete for over 80 years now.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 267d
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 · 2 pts · 266d
Dave Eggers described him as having a "formidable intellect"!
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 267d
What a vainglorious asshole.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 20 pts · 267d
Utter embarrassment... anyone associated with this idiot ought to be profoundly ashamed of themselves...
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 267d
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 · 8 pts · 266d
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 · 6 pts · 266d
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.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 264d
Something's badly wrong with those people. Anyone who's not comatose knows that anyone who tells you that everyone but them is a liar, is a fucking liar.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 266d
Oh, so you've met my parents?
Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 267d
Man's scrambling to change media and public focus. Scrambling.
Mpeach45@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 267d
Design highlights of the new #Trump class #battleships:
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 266d
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 pts · 267d
One tiny gun.
harmbugler@piefed.social · 4 pts · 266d
All tiny hands on deck!
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 264d
"At least it goes off quickly."
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 266d
Everything leans slightly to the bow
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 266d
The only way he can have any class
BenVimes@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 266d
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.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 265d
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.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 264d
You'd think Trump-class would have a massive bottom.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 264d
Or a gold-plated one.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 266d
Like a 4 years old: "but Mommy! At the kindergarten Kim said that he got an air carrier! I want one too!"
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 267d
The US naval shipbuilding has been reduced to like ... two yards ... Bremerton and Baltimore, i think ?
mercano@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 266d
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 pts · 266d
China apparently has a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier currently under construction. I guess it doesn't count 'til it's finished, though.
thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 266d
They sink THAT fast?
Jaybird@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 266d
kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 266d
I can't wait to see these no class vessels
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 265d
Warship sized
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 263d
He's got hips
like battleships!
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 263d
What in the bingo 2025??
DegenerationIP@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 266d
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 265d
Will these Trump class ships be really really huge but have no substance?
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 266d
glory holes in every room!
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 266d
Tell me about this Trump class! Is it couth? Is it debonair? I must know more.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 266d
It's probably like his steaks, or his vodka, or his airline, or his casinos....
velindora@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 266d
Gonna sink?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 266d
No VLS cells is such the perfect cherry on the turd.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 265d
It'll be sold on late night TV? Operators are standing by, call now!