[ExI] diamandis commentary

[John Clark]

Gregory Jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> The military is not filled with idiots and crazies.  *


*I agree, the vast majority of people in the military are smart and sane,
but unfortunately their Commander In Chief is a clownish cowardly imbecile
who likes to promote the small minority who are just as ignorant and stupid
as he is and are willing to become his sock puppet.  *

*> I recognize a cover story.* [...] *The things they do make sense,*
>

*You're assuming that the idea of bringing back battleships can't possibly
be as stupid as it seems to be, but considering the nature of the current
POTUS I think it is exactly as stupid as it seems to be.  *

 > *There is no law that says battleships cannot be submersible.  *


*If a "battleship" can be a submarine can it also be an airplane? Is a B-52
a battleship?  *

*> we do know the navy will not build an antiquated system on orders of
> POTUS.  *
>

*Unfortunately we don't know that at all because a dimwit is currently the
commander in chief.  POTUS says he helped design the new Trump class
battleships and has told naval architects not to use stealth because that
makes them ugly.  *

*"*TRUMP:*T**he new battleship that we have, which I’ve seen and helped
design, I put a little more spirit in the hull, a little bit more, give me
a little bit more hull, I want that ship to look gorgeous, you know. Forget
about stealth, they say, oh, it’s stealth. They design ugly equipment for
stealth, well, we’re designing great looking equipment"*

*Trump's **Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in his book that the POTUS
believed the US Navy places too much emphasis on how well a ship can fight
and not enough emphasis on how good it looks. POTUS complained that
American ships “look ugly but Russian and Italian ships looked nicer,
sleeker, like a real ship.” *

*Esper pushed back saying "Our ships are built to fight and win, not win
beauty contests", and POTUS fired Esper as Secretary Of Defense after only
16 months and replaced him with a sock puppet. *

*Trump went off about 'ugly' stealth warships*
<https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-goes-off-about-ugly-stealth-warships-us-military-summit-2025-9?utm_source=chatgpt.com>

*And I dare anyone to read all the POTUS quotes from the following and then
try to make the case that the man is not a moron.*

*Trump Goes On Bonkers Riff On Battleships*
<https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-goes-bonkers-riff-battleships-213040310.html>

 > *I have still not heard a plausible explanation for how they managed to
> capture Maduro with no US fatalities nor loss of aircraft.  That
> discombobulator business, no.  *


*The only evidence we have for the existence of a "discombobulator" comes
from the lips of the most untrustworthy man on the face of the planet who
for the last 10 years has on average told one public lie every 43 waking
minutes (the number of private lies told is unknown) therefore I have
chosen not to inflict wear and tear on my valuable brain cells thinking
about a "discombobulator".*


*Lies Told By The President *
<https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/479041-fact-checker-counts-16k-false-misleading-claims-by-trump-in-three>

*> Any ideas?*


*You don't need a high-tech super weapon, you just need the cooperation of
a highly priced Maduro crony who believes that cooperating with the US will
help him move up in the world. *

*John K Clark*
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