It's looking like we're deep into the "Grandpa is crazy, humor him" stage of things, with the U. S. Navy supposedly about to resume building battleships (hello, Billy Mitchell! Hello, Isoroku Yamamoto!), increasingly questionable oil tanker seizures, and the Heritage Fundation shedding senior members, most of them decamping to Mike Pence's no less conservative (but far less willing to wink at Nazis and Nazi-adjacent types) think tank.
In Imperial Rome, when Emperors went whimsical, it was often a prelude to things getting sporty. The men who wrote and amended the U. S. Constitution did their very best to build in circuit breakers and spillways intended to keep "interesting times" from becoming a pandemic. Did they succeed? Better fasten your seat belt and return all tray tables to the upright and locked position. The ride's liable to get bumpy.
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1 year ago
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If you ever wondered what the USA would look like with Kaiser Bill in charge, well, here we go. At least he had competent people like Tirpitz to reign in his more... interesting ideas regarding military technology.
Also, Lazerpig & the NAFO boys have one heck of a reaction here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqPDghQp__c
Imagine the reaction on the right if a Democrat said this:
"I looked at it, I said, 'That's a terrible-looking ship, let's make it beautiful,'" Trump said at the time.
He said Monday he will have a direct role in designing this new warship as well.
"The U.S. Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me, because I'm a very aesthetic person," Trump said.
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