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Putin is very very happy about this

Likely what will take place, but imagine working in such a shithole.

This change will require structural changes, probably relocating stuff etc. That will take way longer than 2 1/2 years to properly design.

Doing damage to America is not just stupidity. He is playing for the Red team. He's always been compromised.

Trump captured 61% to 65% of the veteran vote in 2024, matching the 60% he secured in 2020. Trump has repeatedly downsized the VA. Estimates of Active-Duty, Guardsmen, and Reservists ranged from 40-50%. So, yea, sorry for those who didn’t, but large swaths apparently wanted all this…

My brother in law just had a tornado pop up out of the blue with no advanced warning from the National Weather Service. House across the street was decimated… apparently the hundreds of meteorologists and radar technicians they fired haven’t been re-hired yet. So, yea, consequential presidency.

Education is being actively dismantled including injection of factually wrong information, most people who are already budget stretched are being priced further out of basics or actively sabotaged of previously existing benefits, infrastructure of any kind is crumbling and astronomically expensive..

Everything Trump does weakens America & our allies and/or benefits our enemies. No coincidence. It's naked treason and corruption. We live under what is in essence a hostile occupation government. We lost a war in 2024 with Trump's election that's of such a new kind that we didn't even notice.

Call me crazy - go ahead - but would cutting capacity help us or Russia, China, Iran, etc? Maybe the Russia "hoax" is less a hoax and more a complete capitulation to enemies?

Plus it takes the carrier out of operation for god knows how long.

Knowing nothing about it that was my first thought, it would probably reduce launch capacity, and that he’s either doing it for that reason or he’s doing it because some other traitor convinced him it would be better.

This is not going to work, he tried to do this last term too, it will requier a compleat redesign of the carrier, you can not refit the carriers already compleated or the carriers under construction. This will never pass budget review and becase there is no budget in the world to cover this.

Long oars like in the Odyssey…

This has been his worst nautical decision since he demanded a "N**a Navy"

On the plus side, anyone stupid and fascist enough to join the US military will suffer.

But consider this: comedy is legal again

Huh, maybe it's like the Russian missile deal, where the biggest lasting effect was the creation of a huge gap in medium-ranged surface-to-surface missiles for what would have been a good time to have more.

What’s the point? Does Trump just like how they look or what?

Wait until he tells us how he wants to get the steam power! Lol

Thinks steam power is better than electromagnetic power. Thinks magnets don't work when wet. Thinks stealth airplanes are invisible to the naked eye. Thinks windmills cause cancer. Thinks coal is clean. Thinks it's ok to inject bleach. There is no one on Earth any dumber than Trump.

Is Putin the one who told him super steam stories?

Yup, readiness and reliability are disabled. Putin couldn’t be happier….

Silly me, I thought Congress was in charge of funding such things **through the President’s budget** which is usually prepared a year or two in advance.

“Steam” fascinates MAGAts who want to return to the 1950s. It’s like “clean coal”.

Just install a boiler to emit steam cloud with each launch…

No unfortunately... news.usni.org/2025/12/22/t...

It’s “stupidity on steroids.”

And it would have to be one at a time, for years, at the expense of work needed for the Nimitz class. If you wanted to cede our Navy's hard power to our enemies, I can't think of a more elegant way to do so.

“Clark said early data from the Navy shows that the Ford costs about $100 million less a year to operate compared with a Nimitz-class ship”

anything that brings down the empire is good

Oh no, my imperial war machine

Ahahahahaha oh hell yeah

I am not upset or sad about this. In my lifetime the majority of US military excursions have not actually been to make me and other US citizens safer. Instead they have been excursions if empire. So I am not gonna be sad about dumb ass Trump decisions that actually reduce military readiness.

Okay I get that this is dumb and it’s Trump impulsivity and whim It’s less obvious to me why switching from an electromagnetic launch to boiling water and compressing steam is more load on the power plant.

Pretty much. Any new tech needs a good shakedown period, and the Ford was certified around three to four years ago (if memory serves). Plus saving space, weight, increasing flexibility and launches, fewer steam pipes…it’s a huge step up.

What the HELL is going on in our military???

But how’s the warrior ethos?

I use to work in reactor dept onboard the Carl Vinson years ago and I thought the same. Now they have to fit all the machinery needed for steam catapults and also make sure the reactor that wasn't designed to do so, can make enough steam for electricity, propulsion and catapults. Seems bad.

Just tell him we'll rename all EMALS carriers after him in some way and that should shut him up.

Good, we won't be able to bomb as many children in the future.

There must be a no bid contract he’s going to skim money from for this stupid project.

What would it look like if Putin had an asset installed at the top of the U.S. government? Just asking the question.

I'm sure the Navy will simply bow down and do whatever the fascist moron tells them to do. Kind of like what the rest of the US people are doing.

If it walks like a puppet and quacks like a puppet, it's probably a puppet.

I will give Trump the benefit of the doubt here and say this is: 1. Elderly obsessive behavior with something somebody told him once. 2. Demented disinhibition resulting in him forcing his half-witted opinions into areas where previously he would have realized he lacked expertise.

With Reagan was corruption disguised as being true believers and now you have corrupt true believers in their orange god.

"Basically indistinguishable from literal sabotage" - that applies to this entire presidency

right.

This made my head explode. Is this the scorched earth phase where he just drives the country into a ditch and the Treasury into bankruptcy to pay us all back for perceived persecution? How else can the reckless, pointless spending be explained?

See he’s literally the savior of mankind because he’s on the super deep special undercover mission to turn the whole planet on to communism by leaving a vile taste in their mouths forever associated with oligarchy

I keep saying he does exactly what I would want him to do if I was Xi.

But wait til those WW1 Trump Class battleships roll out. We’ll be something special!

Good. When considering fascists, it is important to remember that their incompetence is a blessing. WWII would have been much worse if not for the fact that most of the Nazis were bootlicking fools.

if i believed in such things i would think he was sent by god as a test and a shitload of “christians” failed

America is Chinese Evangelical's Israel.

Cue the Groucho Marx meme

The fateful synergy of this take is blowing my mind 😂🤯

I have begun wondering whether it *is* sabotage. What if he doesn't want the war to end?

Just say no.

the Yemenis had the navy so spooked they kept tokyo drifting carriers and knocking jets into the red sea

This has got to be the most bat shit crazy story of the day. I presume Macho Man Hegseth is onboard as well…

So weird. It's also interesting that the US had one of the best demographic outlooks in the developed world. Increasing childhood mortality and decreasing immigration was basically the only way to interrupt that. Indistinguishable from sabotage.

Allegedly. Big strong sailor, with tears in his eyes as Trump jerked him off.

This group of drooling idiots aren’t really up for such things and second or third order effects of military conflict.

Ohhhhh :(

He won’t call me a POG when he doesn’t have a tent to sleep in, a shitter to dump in… he’ll be pissed he has to do it himself.

Yeah, he's made it pretty clear he thinks the only job the military should have is Shoot Gun At Enemy, and everything else is woke DEI. Frankly, I'm surprised we still have an Army Corps of Engineers.

Destroyed by drones. Unprotected by the biggest, richest military in the world.

While we're at war over a body of water. Brilliant!

Wait...this was on an episode of Silo on Apple TV.

And steam takes up way more space, and requires all but redesigning the entire hull, and will put more stress on aircraft, and will struggle to launch drones, and—

If Putin told him to destroy the US, what would he be doing differently?

JDPON Don strikes again

What Trump crony will benefit? Follow the money

Brought to you by the same guy who just realized dumb has a b…

And in case you think that’s an exaggeration:

Mainstream reporters and pundits terrified of being labeled conspiracy nuts. But it's so obvious trump is a parasite eating the US from the inside

Can they just tell him they did it? How the fuck would he know, except through his Russian handlers?

Jeebus crispies.

most of what we're doing in the world is bad so i'm fully on board with this move. the less effective our military is at this point, the better.

I support this effort to reduce lethality

"You say all like is... how you say... a 'bad thing'."