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Nobody, not the Navy, not the contractors, no one, wanted this change. It’s insane. And all because one sailor told him in passing that steam was better.

I'm sure with all the paperwork and the very specific installation expertise required, it will take at least 2.5 years before they are able to begin the work. meanwhile, he will have forgotten about it by Monday

Odds on the orange menace having stock in steam catapult manufacturers? High.

The Party of "Fiscal Responsibility" in which there is always funds for stupid and deadly shit, but somehow we can never afford to feed starving kids nor have universal healthcare...

AAAHHH!!!! I just figured it out!!! This STUPID fucking move would take our BAD ASS aircraft carriers OUT OF COMMISSION for MONTHS, while they do this REVERSE-retrofit. THAT’S the objective!!! Use up all of our ammo on Iran, and then take our carriers off the board. Trump needs to GO!!!

Can’t read the article, but I recall that during his first term 🍊 toured the Ford and somebody complained about the electromagnetic technology to him. He said then they should go back to steam. He remembers crazy things.

This is fucking hilarious. The stupidest people on planet earth are in charge of the world's largest military.

Because #CadetBoneSpurs Trump is now an expert in aircraft carrier operating systems✅

The navy should ignore this order & move on.

Even those extinct dinosaurs knew that electromagnetic catapults are by far more efficient & cheaper to operate than those steam ones. Most likely the company that makes the steam driven system "donated" to the re-election campaign.

how did biden make trump order this?

To be fair, the President has worked out that the expense of the more modern systems is exorbitant, and that money could be better spent on more fake gold trimmings at Mar-a-Lago.

Not The Onion

When these ships are decommissioned in a few years due to their tech & machinery being made inept, maybe we can just use the catapults to launch billionaires into the middle of the ocean

Such a f-ing idiot. Kipling's "Ballad of the Clampherdown" anyone?

What the fuck??!!

i'm going to be dickhead's advocate and ask which system was in place when the jet planes kept falling in the ocean last year?

Trump is trying to make steampunk uncool

Trump: “Having mastered casino management, birthday card designs for pedophile BFFs, university administration, public health, and reflecting pool maintenance, I will now turn to nuclear-powered aircraft carrier design” bsky.app/profile/wsj....

At what point do they just stop carrying out his insane orders and just *say* they did to allay him?

$$$$ costing billions $$$$ affordability is a "made-up" word "The word 'affordability' is a con job by the Democrats." - Trump

*IN the military, that is.

I thought this was an Onion headline

"A catapult too far" is what I hope will be the slogan of his eight years in future textbooks about Trump's presidency.

it's related to batteries and sharks, isn't it

PEDOtRUmp don't know jack. He will DESTROY the USA

Considering the navy can't stop murdering people, I'm fine with Trump taking carriers out of service. Dock them and paint them gold for all I care.

I am thinking aobut scenes involving the French in Monty Python And The Holy Grail at the moment ... :)

somebody 🙄 will be making boatloads of $$$ on America's tax dollar - probably never made an honest buck in his life.

Taking us back to when we were great

Freedom* Actually, feedom is fitting

Trump acts like the biggest dipshit American chauvinist in US history and liberals say, "he's just like Kim in North Korea." Trump is an American president elected by Americans because of longstanding American racism & fascist malevolence. Goddamn, is this a dumbass country!

Reminder, this is why we can’t have healthcare

The orange traitor is intentionally ruining everything that was great about the US.

When you remember he works for Putin, everything he does makes sense.

Reminder: Putin owns Trump. Second Reminder: Putin's #1 goal is to destroy the United States. When you accept that, you clearly see why Mobster Trump is doing all the nonsense he's doing - while he, his children & right-wing fascist pals get rich from all of it.

ドローン対策　 最新鋭でも　 飛び立つ前にだと　　 機能発揮出来ないまま

He's gonna do trains next, he wants them all converted back to coal.

We are, but for some of us, it's a bitter pill. Marie Gluzencamp-Perez is my Rep and 80%of the Dems I know are mad af they have to vote for her. She really needs to talk to what is supposed to be her base.

We are ruled by fools and their many foolish enablers. I think it's a foregone conclusion that this era of Drumpf and MAGA ends badly for this country and people and the damage will be lasting. 🫤

What is truly disgusting? Not one person SecDef, SecNav, General Caine, CNO have integrity to tell him what an idiotic idea this is.

don't forget the classic "psyop" and "smokescreen" options for some other agenda (like not releasing complete epstein files as per the law), the more optionss the more fun to keep guessing!

WTF.

Trump wouldn't have a clue about this. Who is pushing this? And why?

This is the stupid, incompetent timeline*, so yes. *It's like Bizarro World: It's very clear what the stupidest, worst, most incompetent decisions are, and how they will cause long-term harm. And those are the decisions that are made.

It's not just you. It's stupid & incompetent.

To Trump, the taxpayer is a bottomless pit. Whatever whim he comes up with, he's willing to spend billions or trillions or our dollars--from a war of choice in Iran, to tearing down a wing of the White House, to giving away money to terrorists, to installing marble armrests in the Kennedy Center.

Hopefully the military will dazzle him with brilliance and baffle him with bullshit until he’s no longer relevant.

“We want 19th C technology for our 21st C aircraft.”

Hey someone on your staff should probably write an article about uhhh "foreign powers" hmmm "anticipating a crippled fleet due to the catapult renovations taking them out of service for months" I assume Murdoch and such don't want to get attacked at sea, and that should help a lot.

This is the Onion, right?

Not the Onion?! ZOMG 🤯

It's a short step from "bring back coal" to "bring back steam power."

Literally burning Tax money

The dementia grift. It's the new weave. He doesn't care that we know he's ripping us off with the same fury in which he fills his oversized adult diaper.

Waste, fraud, abuse (ad infinitum).

Well, he is the president you love to hate, would anyone expect any less?

Trump also said Ukraine could make Patriot missiles, but that didn’t last long.

None of my business.

TRUMP IS AN IDIOT

Totally mystified by why another adult can’t say, “No. You’re not going to do that. You destroy everything you touch.”

The rest of the world is happy that American self sabotage will help keep them safer from fascist invasion by the pedophile nation.

Regardless of the stupidity of it all, how does he plan to do this when warships are out in the middle east for his quagmire?

Fucking hilarious

Fuck. Donald. Trump. May the Grim Reaper visit him this very night.

me logging into bluesky

Commander-In-Diapers strikes again

Moronic

Yes, but unfortunately they’ll still drop those bombs. They’ll just redirect money from somewhere else, probably from a fund that actually helps people.

This is great for Russia.

Jesuschrist now you've manifested it into being

🎯

Think we can also guess who gets the no bid contracts.

I'm not saying we won't discover blatant bribery, but this reasoning tracks perfectly with the YMCA song fan: "Trump is making good on a promise he made almost 10 years ago to go back to the steam system after hearing a sailor praise it while visiting a ship during his first term."

Some orders should be “on the calendar, sir” but not actually implemented. 🤦🏻‍♀️ FFS

Maybe work on getting fresh food and working toilets to the USS Lincoln first.

What if instead of that, they pay for food and soap and toothpaste for the sailors.

Destroy the tech we already have, in order to make us even more vulnerable to attack by foreign nations, that’s the goal right?

This is the kind of thing that in any other environment you would laugh at knowing it was a joke, but under Trump the stupid never ends, never goes over the line, the stupid just keeps moving the goal posts farther out into eternity's never ending chaos.

*sound of my frantically looking for the Onion byline*

New trump™ jet fighter launching system is gonna be lit!

Republicans are not just devout cowards and in most cases pedophiles. Oh no. They are also the dumbest creatures on planet earth.

We are ruled by a lying idiot spending our money like it is his, to benefit his friends, that pay him to be his friend.

maybe they can catapult the sailors on the USS Lincoln home

Well, if you're gonna "bring back coal"...

Do they know they can say no

And you're helping this madness @wsj.com

Boldly unlearning every lesson ever learned before 2016

Is Congress going to say something?

Well, America has displayed it's limited munitions production & logistics capability on the world stage so it makes sense they'd not need to launch fully loaded aircraft off their carriers... without ripping the nose gear off.

Sounds like someone’s failsons have invested heavily in old, expensive technology.

This is so fucking stupid. Next we should get rid of the nuclear power plant and go back to sails.

I guess we just pretend there is no longer a process to make those type of changes just whatever the whims of the president is. Do better. 

That's actually the truth

Trump didn't order the Navy to paint the ship gold?!

How would we know if Trunt was working for Russia and trying to destroy the US from the inside? Looks the same as what he's doing now.

This is what MAGGOT ideology and DUI hires gets you (and yes, he may as well be drunk off his ass)

Aircraft carriers are built around the launch system and elevators not the other way around. Likely cost as much or more than building a complete new carrier from scratch. But with poorer capabilities. Ensign Idiot is a naval design genius.

Electricity is woke!