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In reply to the discussion: President unveils new 'Trump class' fleet of battleships [View all]Kid Berwyn
(22,703 posts)13. LMAO.
In a long winded and totally demented confabulation with some admiral he was talking with, Marshall Vladimir Bonespurs talked up how our fleet as ugly and the Navy should bring back the big beautiful battleship. True story. Hell do anything to distract from his treasons, evil, perversions and historic criminality. So, yeah, go ahead and launch the USS Epstein Island, wingman.
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The American shipbuilding industry is on life support and cannot produce these ships . . . or any other ship
AverageOldGuy
12 hrs ago
#5
Gosh. Which hostile foreign power to whom Trump is indebted would benefit from this?
Orrex
10 hrs ago
#18
The Battleship became obsolete on December 7th, 1941, but that fact seems to have escaped
Jack Valentino
9 hrs ago
#30
I'm not sure that's totally true, especially in shore bombardment, but carriers had become much more important by then.
Gore1FL
9 hrs ago
#33
The way the navy does it is the class is named for the christened name of the 1st ship.
JohnnyRingo
8 hrs ago
#39
Doesn't congress have to approve the expenditure? Or is this like the $40 billion Argentina
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
4 hrs ago
#47