Anonymous wrote:$5 bn a pop for new battle ships we don’t need
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-battleships-2674822078
"We do not need ships that are not optimized to provide lethality against the Chinese threat," Montgomery told the Journal, noting that the ship had "zero tactical use."
"That is not what these are focused on—they are focused on the president's visual that a battleship is a cool-looking ship," Montgomery said
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:$5 bn a pop for new battle ships we don’t need
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-battleships-2674822078
"We do not need ships that are not optimized to provide lethality against the Chinese threat," Montgomery told the Journal, noting that the ship had "zero tactical use."
"That is not what these are focused on—they are focused on the president's visual that a battleship is a cool-looking ship," Montgomery said
Great. Cool looking steam powered battleships to stoke grandpa’s ego but will be ineffective with all the saber rattling he’s doing.
The “waste” gets worse because these will never even enter service, but billions will be spent before the next administration cancels the project. And the next-gen destroyers the Navy actually needs will be further delayed.
Imagine being low-level program officer at the Pentagon, or engineer at one of the contractors, knowing that the next few years of your working life will be completely pointless.
Good time to be a defense contractor. Billions of dollars wasted on “cool looking” Warships and a guarantee that the next president will still have to fund the defense items we actually need
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:$5 bn a pop for new battle ships we don’t need
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-battleships-2674822078
"We do not need ships that are not optimized to provide lethality against the Chinese threat," Montgomery told the Journal, noting that the ship had "zero tactical use."
"That is not what these are focused on—they are focused on the president's visual that a battleship is a cool-looking ship," Montgomery said
Great. Cool looking steam powered battleships to stoke grandpa’s ego but will be ineffective with all the saber rattling he’s doing.
The “waste” gets worse because these will never even enter service, but billions will be spent before the next administration cancels the project. And the next-gen destroyers the Navy actually needs will be further delayed.
Imagine being low-level program officer at the Pentagon, or engineer at one of the contractors, knowing that the next few years of your working life will be completely pointless.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:$5 bn a pop for new battle ships we don’t need
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-battleships-2674822078
"We do not need ships that are not optimized to provide lethality against the Chinese threat," Montgomery told the Journal, noting that the ship had "zero tactical use."
"That is not what these are focused on—they are focused on the president's visual that a battleship is a cool-looking ship," Montgomery said
Great. Cool looking steam powered battleships to stoke grandpa’s ego but will be ineffective with all the saber rattling he’s doing.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Crybaby in Chief has used taxpayer $$ to add plaques under the presidential photos in his Walk of Fame:
White House adds plaques below Biden and Obama portraits, calling them ‘the worst President in American history’ and ‘divisive’
As part of the president’s ongoing effort to customize the White House to his liking, Trump set his well-known opinions of each former president in stone by adding plaques underneath the portraits that now hang along the colonnade.
But rather than neutrally describing each president, Trump chose to invoke more color – claiming former President Barack Obama is “one of the most divisive political figures” and asserting former President Ronald Reagan “was a fan.”
“Sleepy Joe was, by far, the worst President in American History,” the plaque underneath Biden’s reads. “Taking office as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States.”
As part of Obama’s description, the White House wrote: “As President, he passed the highly ineffective ‘Unaffordable’ Care Act, resulting in his party losing control of both Houses of Congress, and the Election of the largest House Republican majority since 1946.
For former President Bill Clinton, the White House attributed his legislative successes to “Republicans in Congress,” and boasted that Trump terminated the North American Free Trade Agreement, the trade deal struck under Clinton. The White House also included a line about how Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election in Bill Clinton’s description.
But for other Trump-friendly former presidents, such as Reagan, they receive more of a doting description...."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/white-house-adds-plaques-below-183334521.html
I cannot wait for the history books, which will last longer.
This is insane.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:$5 bn a pop for new battle ships we don’t need
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-battleships-2674822078
"We do not need ships that are not optimized to provide lethality against the Chinese threat," Montgomery told the Journal, noting that the ship had "zero tactical use."
"That is not what these are focused on—they are focused on the president's visual that a battleship is a cool-looking ship," Montgomery said
Great. Cool looking steam powered battleships to stoke grandpa’s ego but will be ineffective with all the saber rattling he’s doing.
Congress? Where are you?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:$5 bn a pop for new battle ships we don’t need
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-battleships-2674822078
"We do not need ships that are not optimized to provide lethality against the Chinese threat," Montgomery told the Journal, noting that the ship had "zero tactical use."
"That is not what these are focused on—they are focused on the president's visual that a battleship is a cool-looking ship," Montgomery said
Great. Cool looking steam powered battleships to stoke grandpa’s ego but will be ineffective with all the saber rattling he’s doing.