Pentagon Pete’s Goons Smear Sailors’ Families With Bonkers Defense - They’re pointing to sailors eating ice cream last month as proof the USS Abraham Lincoln isn’t in crisis.

Sounds like that old "he owns a car so he can't really be poor" argument.

Don't they usually give them bulk icecream to eat when they need the space in the freezer for dead people?

"I can't be going through a crisis. I just finished a tub of ice cream."

Thing about logistics is that it's basically that one joke from Life of Brian: "what have the Romans done for us lately?" Doesn't matter what things were like last month, what matters is what things are like now. And right now things in CENTCOM look pretty bad.

If not on a Sunday, ice cream is generally a last ditch effort to prop up fading morale or to soften REALLY bad news.

This is like how fox news tries to say poor people should stop complaining cuz they have refrigerators and microwaves when 100 years ago nobody did.

you eat ice cream when moral is bad, the freezers fail, or moral is about to get very bad because command knows what they are about to do to you

Yes, ice-cream ... The pentagon has their "The Five Food Groups Wheel" covered.

Knowing this administration, they probably sent the ships ice cream a month ago so that they could point to it later and say "see, the troops are fine. We're not abusing or neglecting them."

That's actually classic narc/abuser behavior. Buy your kids some ice cream so that you can tell them how spoiled they are when they complain about you beating them or being emotionally unavailable.

I wonder where these assholes learned it...

How much of a sociopath do you have to be, to respond to serious concern about the well-being of their loved ones with "We gave them ice cream a month ago, isn't that good enough?" and think that's an appropriate answer that ends the argument.

The problem for Trump and his tribe is that once you are known as a liar, who believes you about anything?

Holy shit! Ice cream!?

In the Faux News administration?

According to fragile little babies like Jesse Watters (who always seems to be midway through a gay panic) it isn't manly to eat ice cream in public...

...don't they eat more ice cream when folks die so they have more room to store bodies?

I've cream is what you get the kids after they go through trauma.

Legitimately, this is a thing we all know.

US military would be vastly better managed by Punxsutawney Pete…um,er…Phil

Reminds me of a story in _The New Scientist _ in the dying days of the Soviet Union where scientists at the space research institute were sent crates of ice blocks instead of the parts they needed for the space station. They were punching and elbowing each other out of the way to get to them.

Ah yes, nothing says "all is well" like eating ice cream. Just ask my fiance when it's her time of the month.

Let this be a 'Let them eat cake' momet please. And hoist Pete Antoinette to the scaffold.

That's right, tell these people that have voted for you, that they are being whiney and disloyal, as their CHILD defends this country in Trump's AmerIsraeli War®.

I wouldn't count on their vote next time. That's going to the candidate that promises to end this war on Day One, and bring their child home, and means it.

Suckers and losers.

Didn’t they make them eat ice cream?

Lmao, even