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Shipwack

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5. I'm just surprised that...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2026, 01:45 AM

14 hrs ago

The idiotic battleship idea came from an actual naval officer. Then again, admirals are often idiots My own personal data points are only 4. One was a total idiot surrounded by enablers (Special Projects), and one (5th Fleet) may not have been an idiot, but seemed to be too full of himself.

As for the battleship, this gentleman talks about it with much more knowledge than I have...

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he was jealous of (Phelan's) closeness with Trump. These are the dumbest, most embarrassing, childish nitwits alive [View all] applegrove 16 hrs ago OP

Trump will fire Hegseth for the Iran clusterfuck dalton99a 16 hrs ago #1

WHEN??? vapor2 16 hrs ago #2

As soon as the fuck stops clustering. marble falls 16 hrs ago #4

There is an insane amount of clustering to unfuck when we are speaking of DumpCo. Celerity 11 hrs ago #11

Had Hegseth been a woman, he would have been gone last week. Norbert 11 hrs ago #10

Or a person of color. marble falls 5 hrs ago #12

Christ, we are living in a clusterfuck. 2 unqualified people running our military and neither OAITW r.2.0 16 hrs ago #3

I'm just surprised that... Shipwack 14 hrs ago #5

Phelan waren't no salt. He was a bidnessman that TACO met on the Lolita Express. marble falls 5 hrs ago #13

That seems a little thin. Mblaze 14 hrs ago #6

Because Tangerine Idi Amin is a demented narcissistic idiot. HappyLarge 13 hrs ago #7

Here's the thing, anyone Trump appoints to any position, OAITW r.2.0 13 hrs ago #8

Bingo. TACO will grab anything but the blame. marble falls 5 hrs ago #15

Yeah, I'm not sure I buy it either, unless we soon see Kegsbreath fired and Phelan comes back (nt) AZJonnie 13 hrs ago #9

That would be smart. Probably won't happen. Mblaze 4 hrs ago #16

He lets his people go if he can attach blame for his own fuckups. He'd let Ivanka go to prison if he could ... marble falls 5 hrs ago #14