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this entire administration is irredeemable scum.

Article is a good read about Miller.

The choice of USS Doris Miller marked the first time an aircraft carrier would honor an enlisted sailor, and the first aircraft carrier to be named for an African American. Asked about his decision to name the carrier after Miller, Modly told CNN that it was recommended to him by a group of retired Black admirals, and that he believes “one of our most powerful warships should bear the name of a sailor like Miller to bring greater attention to what makes our Navy so unique — and great.”

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[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 22 minutes ago

While simultaneously he shits on that one boat with an unreasonable duration at sea, he steals the glory of an actual solier, and still finds a way to stroke his own ego while he's at it. Not to mention the cost at tax payers expense of whatever bureaucratic ripples this sends out.

He's going to die. They're going to uncover truly horrific things of unprecedented scope, and then to save face they're going to paint him as some sort of mastermind. I'm going to have to grow old and die myself as they contort Turnip's career as some sort of Machiavellian genius, when in fact he has all the nuances of a screeching adolescentwith a negative kill ratio on counter strike. They will build the myth to preserve the institution, but I'll never forget how brazen and clumsy he was or how complicit are the people warming themselves on the flaming wreckage he leaves in his wake.

[–] juice702@lemmy.world 8 points 53 minutes ago

How the military puts up with this draft dodger astounds me. I get he’s their “boss” but my god how embarrassing.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 minutes ago

USS Bonespurs is fine with me.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They’re gonna have reinstate the draft to maintain the military

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 3 points 14 minutes ago

Looks like fragging is back on the menu boys!!

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Once they're out of power, we can continue naming stuff after them, like latrines, landfills, etc

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

It already means fart so we can name toilets Trumps instead of Johns.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

The ship is not expected to be delivered until 2034

Why do they bother? It's not like the ship will still be named after Trump by the time it's built even if it's named after him now.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 hour ago

Why do they bother?

To pacify a diaper soiling orange baby. Once out of office, the Trump name is getting dropped like a trud...unless this fascist trend continues.

[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 1 points 33 minutes ago

It's just a way to jerk off that POS blob of orange mayonnaise.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

At least it would be named after a colored person.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I hope that carrier shits itself then

[–] cosmos8188@leminal.space 5 points 1 hour ago

Its like a curse. The moment trumps name gets painted on there, the whole ship starts falling apart.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 22 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Nothing coded about this, I guess.

How often do the Tone Police in the Murc's Law Media scold and chastise the liberals for daring to say the obvious out loud - that the Republican Party is filled with racists and donnie is their favorite guy for this reason?

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

USS Shitzenpantz

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Erase little Donnie from history beyond as a cautionary tale, he deserves no better

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

Maybe just take his name off the buildings and boats. It may feel good, but I can feel the Moses memes coming from here.

Let the name be stricken from every book and tablet. Stricken from every pylon and obelisk. Let the name be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of man, for all time. AI slop image of Trump parting the sea while an angel bangs an eagle overhead

No thank you

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Kamala definitely would've done this, too... /s

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 2 points 50 minutes ago
[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

I thought they aren’t named off of persons that are alive? I wonder who’s gonna win out here… T*, a racist shitbag who skated service thanks to daddy, or a black navy man.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There is precedent for naming ships after living US presidents, but in both cases, the person had been out of office for years and had served in the Navy aboard the type of ship that bears their name.

  • USS Jimmy Carter: An attack submarine commissioned in 2005. Carter was a nuclear technician with the Navy in the early days of nuclear submarines, and died in 2024
  • USS George H. W. Bush: an aircraft carrier commissioned in 2009. Bush was flew torpedo bombers in WWII and died in 2018
[–] dhork@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If the army ever commissions a golf cart, maybe that would be appropriate.

[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

Or an airline catering cart

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's okay, he's already half dead. They renamed the JFK memorial and put his name there, so there's already precedent for sticking his name places reserved for dead people.

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

lol. Sure. But that was illegal, and isn’t precedent. Maybe in his head it is.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 2 points 56 minutes ago

There's even more precedent for him doing illegal things! So it's all fine. /s

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Putting his stupid face on coinage is illegal too and it doesn't seem to be stopping them.

One gets more obsessed with their legacy the closer they get to their death.