That’s my thought, or even Russia who is currently using old military equipment due to the losses in Ukraine.
We only have their word for THREE jets being “lost at sea”. That’s 3 jets in less than a month.
THAT! What is even more baffling to me, is the fact that many veterans, and military people still support him after he’s cutting, or has already cut the programs that they need!
But yes, I get your point. Taking care of veterans (or even serving military) doesn't seem to be important to this regime. I guess they don't understand just WHO keeps the military functioning. (Hint: It's not robots or AI.)
I get your point, Ms Betty, but they didn't "throw away" the fighter jets, exactly. One went overboard as it was being towed when the ship took a sharp turn to avoid being hit by a missile. The other one went overboard after the landing mechanism failed to stop it. You know... shit happens.
"Being fired upon..." I think is what was written. It does seem like there were some bad decisions. And maybe some maintenance issues if the stopping cables didn't work.
Americans are slaves: Two thirds of our taxes , unending wars on foreign shores , making oligarchs , rich. And taxpayers homeless on the streets , unable to afford a home protecting Jews on wall street lobbying our senators. While we're asleep at the wheel.Complaining complacent. Soon to lose 1A 2A
It's time 330 Million americans exercise their second amendments domestically Legally eliminating 1070 tyrants: Congress senate-house of misrepresentatiyes. When we remove enough tyrants, a government starts doing for the people what the people can't do for themsells.
These wars are big business. They have nothing to do with american's freedom. Unable to afford a home homeless on the streets Oligarchs. If these men and women were smart. They wouldn't be fighting for a tyrantical government watching Rome and israel fall again/ Gaza strips of blood / Genocide
America became the fourth reich: July 20, 1945: Operation paper clip. Unending wars on foreign shores in our children's blood in vain/ Human commodities. Bought sold and traded by oligarchs Protecting jews on wall street lobbying senators: The love of money is the root of all evil/ Genocide.
Our priorities are our problems, our laws as prevention are too easily bent by people we thought would never be allowed to touch them, and our ability to fix problems comes at the expense of our ability to solve them in a real way. In a binary system, our ability to try multiple ideas at once is 0.
No you only get healthcare as an actual #warfighter. Once you retire you no long fight in wars. You can just be thrown away like the pricey fighter jet...
No one cares less about Veterans than Republicans. They care so little they'll cut all VA staffing and benefits while talking about throwing a military parade
Don't you wonder how much intel was lost because of the inept maga bunch that is supposed to be running the show but always manage instead to be the clown show.
Military pilots flying C-17 aircraft into Libya with immigrants who haven’t had their due process under U.S. LAW should be tried under the uniform code of military justice 🧌
What I learned when I was young and pretty was that conservatism is the belief that what works should not be changed, and if something doesn't work, one should be cautious about changing it so one doesn't change it for the worse.
Cruelty was never mentioned. That must be the new conservatism!
I didn’t say it is what we should do. Just that the people who now call themselves ‘conservative’ today just aren’t.
They seem to lean towards fascism, which is traditionally considered radical.
Everything is going too far to the right. Even progressives aren't towing the line. I usually prefer to be middle of the road, but the current environment is beginning to force me more to the left than I like. Somebody has gotta grab that rope that keeps humanity from falling off the cliff!
I think the USS Truman is broken. Its last major refitting was March 2011 to July 2012. The arresting cable assembly is probably its most stressed equipment.
I believe it's actually two cables, one strung across the deck connected to another which in turn connects to a hydraulic dampener.
And Trump can throw money at flying immigrants out of the country and pay other countries to take them. Trump is wasting our tax money while building his wealth.
It's not that we can't afford it, it's just more important for Republicans to see that the wealthy are taken care of instead of average people or the those that protect and defend them and our freedoms. It's more important for them that the wealthy have EVERYTHING and everyone else has NOTHING.
I don't think a jet r the only thing. Many accidents happen all year around, and lots of gear goes lots or broken.
The price tag is much much higher.
Doesn't Military have insurances as well?
Or the feds they’ve forced into retirement the supplemental Social security payments from MRA to social security is no where near the cost of the drones the Houthis have already shot down last week!
No the root of the problem is those who claim Christianity and then use it as a weapon against others. Love god and your neighbor is all God demands of Christians.
there's a few small pockets of genuine Christianity in the US but most making the claim to be Christian would cheer for Jesus to be deported into El Salvador... so not Christian then.
I have LOTS of nice Christians around me. My problem is not with Christians (that would be bigotry), BUT I hate LOTS of them. My problem is with Christianity. I hate Christianity because it is objectively evil.
"Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen."
That makes you both a bigot & a liar.
Maybe that's why you hate it so much? It points out your flaws
Someone said something to me the other day that I won't soon forget. He said that, since Jesus is god, he is responsible for all of the awful shit god did, too, like drowning EVERYONE and also killing all of the first born of Egypt. Jesus is an asshole.
While I agree that all organized religion is bad, I still maintain that the root of our problem in AMERICA is Christianity. It was the driving force behind slavery and before that burning people at the stake for being witches. If we get rid of the Christians, we fix our problem.
I once shared your pov. Now I think 'the opiate of the masses' is a tool of the wealthy. Witches were healers who threatened the power of men. Christianity justified enslavement but gave moral justification to its abolishment, too. But greed for more $ & power pushed slavery.
It's not individual's thoughts on spirituality or the message of Christ that I think is the problem, but the organization of those ideologies into a business model that is.
A financial crippling of religious entities and defunding their indoctrination capabilities is key to philosophical freedom
That parade needs to not happen. Fill the streets on the route, shut it down. I feel like that parade could b the tipping point where America tells mango Mussolini that we don’t need or want his fat felon ass in the oval anymore.
A fighter jet that pilots think an aircraft is unsafe but the defense department bought anyway is a good reason to lose them overboard. Maybe we should be looking at the planes.
May we add the POTUS who calls fallen heroes "suckers and losers" and Musk, the immigrant who immigrated to Canada to avoid compulsory military service, axed the veterans crisis and suicide hotline?
Idiocy is rampant... Logic and intelligence are the orphans in the WH of "make believe" he is their savior. The Republicans have surrendered they oath of office in lieu of a loyalty pledge to their idolatry of a man who claims he is the "chosen one" and they believe because he told them. 😠
I’m no conspiracy theorist by any means…but why do I get the feeling these planes which might have been flown by women or people of color and Petey Hegseth is trying to send a message that they’re not wanted. While preposterous in theory…it definitely could be possible. I wouldn’t put it past him! 🤷🏻♂️
Please, in defense of my sisters and brothers at sea please do not mock us. I’m trying to get answers through my contacts. Working 12 hours on and 12 hours off at sea for days on end is brutal. I know I’ve done many deployments. I wish people would wait for the facts before they judge.
A former pilot laughed as he told me about the 2 jets he bailed from. One crashed into the ocean and the other he barely escaped landing on the wreckage when the wind blew his parachute towards the flames.
He laughed about it costing $25,000 each time that jet left the ground. It’s sooo hilarious.🤬
Hey…take it easy now. I worked in Naval Aviation as an air crewman and SAR bubba. Let’s not politicize pilot fuckups. It’s part of, and not a small part, of Naval Aviation. Dangers abound, so let’s keep this to a NATOPS level gripe and move on. Yeah this admin. sucks, but not NavAv…we’re good.
Not saying our VA benefits are going to last much longer if the idiots keep plundering our tax dollars, but the VA does provide healthcare. Not dental though.
Well... planes were lost during combat operations. The 1st to high speed maneuvers avoiding enemy fire, and the 2nd to snapped arresting wire that only had 125 uses before replacement. I'm a plank owner of CVN75. Neither one of these losses seem to be due to any negligence.
You apparently don't understand the concept of discarding. They discard voters, veterans, citizens when they have no use for them. This is nothing new, let me know when we are genuinely ready to discard them, I'm all in
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Also farmer: "Can the government please give us money 'cause the government wrecked our exports?"
Me, sipping subsidized oat milk: 🤨
Prove me wrong, I desperately want to be wrong about this.
We only have their word for THREE jets being “lost at sea”. That’s 3 jets in less than a month.
“Everbody else does it.” DJT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/07/navy-fighter-jet-red-sea/
Maybe they only had two trucks for toys to play with as kids.
😉
You’re right about a another jet
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/06/politics/second-us-navy-jet-is-lost-at-sea
Apparently isn’t a good source
They make lots of money from the taxpayers buying fighter jets.
They don't make much money off of retired veterans having healthcare coverage and buying groceries.
'Groceries', the things Trump identified for us!!!!!💩🤡
Not giving pilots healthcare is intentional.
$120,000,000.00 that's a lot o money
Oh….
THAT’s where he is….
A humble supplement
Oh wait, the A-10 is far more suited for that.
Also Trumpublicans: Fuck those Losers & Suckers!
https://news.yahoo.com/pritzker-office-mockingly-calls-pet-181419412.html
When pilots "retire" and stop piloting, they are no longer of use.
Conservatives conserve.
Why is ANYONE still on the side of conservatives?! Veterans deserve better.
Progressives PROGRESS. #WeAreNotGoingBack !
Cruelty was never mentioned. That must be the new conservatism!
They seem to lean towards fascism, which is traditionally considered radical.
I believe it's actually two cables, one strung across the deck connected to another which in turn connects to a hydraulic dampener.
In place of the parade for Trumps birthday?
This wanker has been self enriching self aggrandizing since he was in his 20s
Anyone who reads a fucking full single scope background investigation knows Trump plainly fails the SSBI.
Want to explain why we let a SSBI FAIL? Run the nation?
The price tag is much much higher.
Doesn't Military have insurances as well?
Tax the billionaires, tax the church.
Cut off their welfare and they'll have to act in the best interest of the people, not their profits.
Or the more broad issue of people's susceptibility to belief in fairytales?
Those are three separate but intertwined issues.
"Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen."
That makes you both a bigot & a liar.
Maybe that's why you hate it so much? It points out your flaws
His message as far as I know would be incredibly divisive...
Love they neighbor and dine with whores but also...you gotta have faith in this God dude to gain access to heaven.
And let's not exclude the rest of the organised religions as weaponized forms of control and influence.
Fuck 'em all.
A financial crippling of religious entities and defunding their indoctrination capabilities is key to philosophical freedom
He just fooled many people.
May you rot in hell!
We could institute universal basic income with cash like that!
If I was into conspiracies, I’d say it was a false flag to restart the industrial war machine.
Masochists!
You know 'Warfighting'
How do we know for certain the earth isnt flat? Cats would have pushed everything off by now.
He laughed about it costing $25,000 each time that jet left the ground. It’s sooo hilarious.🤬
At least he addressed the real issues!/s
He's an echo chamber of all Russia propaganda, mis & disinformation. CHUMP WILL NOT GET RID OF HIM.
#uspoli