As you probably already know, Donald Trump has turned the USS Abraham Lincoln into a floating gulag for any sailor unlucky enough to be stationed there:
Trump says record USS Lincoln deployment 'not nearly long enough'
President Donald Trump reacted to reports of poor conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln on Friday, claiming that families of service members are "not" concerned and saying that the vessel hasn't been deployed for "nearly long enough."
The president also confirmed that a new aircraft carrier is headed to the Middle East to replace it during a very brief gaggle with reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews Friday afternoon.
The aircraft carrier's movements come amid reports of mental health and supply issues aboard the USS Lincoln, whose long deployment to the Middle East in support of the Iran war includes a record-setting time at sea of more than 200 days. Navy leaders, including the Navy's acting Secretary Hung Cao, last week held a heated town hall for families of the USS Lincoln who had raised concerns about the conditions on the ship.
Tapper: What is your husband saying about conditions on the ship? Wife of Service Member Aboard USS Lincoln: My husband is appalled at the conditions on this ship. This is not his first deployment. And he is saying that it is the worst deployment that he's ever been on. His shipmates say the same.
— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) August 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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This should come as no surprise, as Donald Trump has never given a shit about the United States military except as a toy for him to play with. Trump also thinks anyone willing to risk their life for their country is a "sucker" and a "loser".
John Kelly confirms Trump privately disparaged U.S. service members and veterans
Trump called fallen soldiers "suckers” and "losers" during his presidency, according to a 2020 report in The Atlantic.
But do you remember the fate of the USS Abraham Lincoln during the last Republican administration that lied us into a disastrous war in the Middle East and then catastrophically botched it?
It was in all the papers.
That would be Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech, delivered on May 1, 2003.
And that, just two days before that speech, the cover story of the now-defunct Weekly Standard featured David Brooks declaring that The War Was Over!
Yay!
The Good Guys had triumphed! Neoconservatism had been vindicated. And it was time for the resistance to crawl under a nearby porch and quietly die, or dry up and blow away or dissolve into laughably delusional absurdism.
Pieces of Mr. Brooks' radioactively reckless and vindictive claptrap can be found here.
As you literati know, maritime myth and literature are full of stories about ships "sailing under a doom." The story of Jonah from the Bible. The tale of the Mary Celeste. The legend of the Flying Dutchman. Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Poe's MS. Found in a Bottle. Melville's Moby Dick. And so on.
Now I'm not saying that the USS Abraham Lincoln is cursed. I am saying that, if it is cursed, we definitely know why. And that, out of an abundance of caution, it wouldn't hurt to burn some sage, flick a little holy water around, ring some church bells, and never, ever put another Republican in the White House.
3 comments:
"...the cover story of the now-defunct Weekly Standard featured David Brooks declaring that The War Was Over! Yay! The Good Guys had triumphed!"
It's like Randy Newman's song "New Orleans Wins the War." The people of New Orleans have been told that WW2 is over, and in their triumphant partying they get confused and begin shouting, "We knew we'd do it! We done whipped the Yankees!"
Just when you think they can’t get more repugnant, they do.
Can we all stop with the absurd standard excuse that republicans are cowards and scared of Trump?
They weren't scare under GW Bush with his false pretense to war in Iraq. His multiple tax cuts during war in Afghanistan and Iraq. His selling off regulation for the banks that lead us into the bank collapse and the socialized bail outs. Outing under cover agents working to gather intelligence on Nuclear proliferation.
Republicans are not afraid of MAFA or Trump. They are worried about their wealthy owners of the republican plantation and being able to hold on to any future for them or their children being planted and raised on the plantation to become perhaps a SCOTUS justice for Elon.
Name me one republican that MAFA has attempted to kill or has killed?
Like present, GOP believes they only need lots of money to throw at their sex trafficking crime candidates and they will get delectated. For the most, they may be correct when you consider their bothers. It is difficult for me to look at the polls in Texas between Paxton and Talico. How is Paxton even close to coopeting
Money is speech and the wealthy will use their tax cuts to pay for pounding speech to sway the Numb Chucks.?
The Prez Adm has lots of wealthy donor owning people in office and they play with it all at our expense. Like Elon and his DOGE bouncing into our government and telling Americans as a immigrant that of which he will allow us to have and he doesn't need no legislative approval. Same legislative approval that made the laws. He paid for the SCOTUS justice majority and the wealthy spends lots of money on them and their families..
If republicans are scared of anything , it is the wealthy GOP plantation owners they fear.
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