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Trump orders Pentagon to redesign US aircraft carrier to use steam catapults to launch jets
(www.theguardian.com)
genius says digital systems are too complicated ...
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Sure why not. Lets bring back biplanes too.
Remember folks: this is how he makes money.
He's not stupid. He's using his power to pour more taxpayer dollars into private companies owned by him and his buddies. This is what theft and abuse of power looks like.
Meanwhile in China where they believe in science and innovation:
https://nextgendefense.com/chinese-carrier-electromagnetic-catapult/
I’m not a fan of Kelly, but “ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit” is a good line.
What are your qualms if you don't mind me asking? Is it the military aspect?
That would be enough. He's also a proud Zionist, which should be enough to exclude anyone from polite society, but that's half the fucking population that needs their moral compass replaced.
“So I said, ‘What is this?’ ‘Sir, this is our digital catapult system’”, Trump went on. “It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said – and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers – I said, ‘What system are you going to be’– ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said, ‘No you’re not. You[’re] going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good’.”
A Guardian review of Trump’s public remarks shows that he has retold that story, with variations, every year since 2017.
The President of the United States folks…just wow…smh.
I went into this assuming it had something to do with the US running out of rare earth minerals needed for magnetic systems.
Nope, just a weird bugbear the gameshow host won't let go of.
like so many of the "problems" he is "trying" to fix. Truly bizarre.
Another grift on the backs of the citizens more than likely. Nay, positively. This pedophile's whole existence is a grift to the universe. Utter trash. It's atoms need to be vaporized as they don't belong.
And the no-bid contract goes to:... The Carrier Steam Company, established 2026, by Donald Trump Jr.
Totally above board, of course. Although the Chairman would be Donald Trump Sr. Which would be a conflict of interest, except the Supreme Court would decide it's not.
You know he's just making it up when everyone says "sir" to him in his stories, but that's hardly better that this is just his version of how it should have went.
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Remember, this president suggested injecting bleach to cure COVID....he should have been severely punished for encouraging ppl to kill themselves.
Did anybody end up doing it? I wouldn't be surprised, but I've not seen any news stories since that shit show.
I do recall that poison centers saw an uptick in calls from people taking the animal version of ivermectin.
oh wait:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766883
some of this was people washing their food with bleach, some was people actually ingesting it after drumpfuck's press conference
We can only pray for a Lisa Simpson. 🙏
This is completely unrealistic; this nation would never elect Lisa Simpson.
Literally preferred a child rapist over a woman.
Twice.
Are y'all still going on about this? The (to oversimplify) racists voted for their racist candidate; the decent people didn't get a decent candidate to vote for so they voted less. The idea that either of them being women had anything to do with it is unmitigated bullshit.
They could just show him an AI generated video of an aircraft carrier with huge steam plumes every time a jet launches. They could get away with it.
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Why not make the whole carrier steam powered?
So remind me why a retard with no knowledge about anything, has any say about anything? Let experts be experts, and pedo retards die in their piss.
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I can already see the malicious compliance gears in motion:
"Yes, sir!"
The Naval CNO creates a project, codename "Ouroboros". With the stated goal of replacing EMALS with steam. The project is assigned to whichever Colonel is on the shit list who is tasked with the feasibility study and creating the RFI.
3 years later
The whole thing is shit-canned by the next President.
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The Insane Clown Posse could not be reached for comment by the time of publication.
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He’s desperately trying to bankrupt the country and destroy its power and capability.
Oh shit I might actually have to start rooting for him then.
He's not trying to bankrupt the country. He's trying to rob it blind. Bankruptcy is just a by-product. It's how he does business.
I can't say for certain that he's a Russian agent, but it is concerning how many things he does coincide with what a Russian agent would do.
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just when I think drumpfuck has said the stupidest thing ever, he outdoes himself and says something even stupider.
I used to think it was just shock and awe, but i think he legitimately is just that dangerously stupid and self important
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The orange pedo probably watched some dumb old movie and got the idea stuck on his pudding brain, hence this stupid ass crap...
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