EXCLUSIVE: The Navy is considering eliminating up to five high-level admiral positions key to the construction of ships and fighter planes.
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This is what happens when you pack your cabinets full of edgy "internet influencers", Fox news hosts, and inexperienced,unqualified ass kissers.
jul 16, 2025, 9:27 pm • 5 0 • view
Because - why would the US Navy beed ships or fighter planes . . . ??? #StopTheCoup #ToppleTheTyrant #FightFascusm
jul 17, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
We need ANGRY 😡 and SAD 😢 reactions on this app.
jul 17, 2025, 1:55 am • 3 0 • view
We need morals in the army.
jul 17, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
They will outsource it to highly paid consultants.
jul 16, 2025, 9:41 pm • 4 1 • view
TechBro Billionaires are destroying everything.
jul 16, 2025, 10:58 pm • 1 0 • view
The inefficiency of our nation’s shipyards is mind numbing. The unofficial slogan of one legacy yard is , “We build the best ships in the world… twice.”
jul 17, 2025, 12:40 am • 3 0 • view
Im not going to cry over American empire disintegrating 🤷🏻♂️
jul 17, 2025, 12:38 am • 1 0 • view
Literally doing russias work out in public.
jul 16, 2025, 10:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh no, who’s gonna take hooker bribes from contractors now?
jul 17, 2025, 12:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Keep dismantling the US, what could possibly go wrong
jul 17, 2025, 1:00 am • 2 0 • view
Another STUPID decision by military leadership in this STUPID government.
jul 17, 2025, 7:24 am • 2 0 • view
Just let AI design and procure ships and fighter planes.
jul 17, 2025, 12:22 am • 1 0 • view
You can't skim money if there are honest people in the way.
jul 16, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
I talked to a former Navy pilot recently who told me the Navy required them to fly around aimlessly for hours to beef their fuel budget. That’s a whole new perspective to me. Maybe they do need new leadership.
jul 17, 2025, 12:41 pm • 0 0 • view
So, leaving it up to military contractors to provide effective weapons systems that our sailors and Marines need for a fair price? Being honorable Americans, of course they will.
jul 16, 2025, 10:04 pm • 2 0 • view
THIS JUST IN: This regime is not acting in America’s interest.
jul 17, 2025, 6:14 am • 4 0 • view
Make it better by eliminating those with skills to move forward. For crying out loud.
jul 17, 2025, 2:21 am • 1 0 • view
It very apparent for some reason or someone is dismantling the country. There’s no rational to what’s going on. The conclusion is he’s weakening us to the point of a country collapse! You don’t fire all scientists,high ranking military, CDC,healthcare care,100 of thousands jobs disappear! My opinion
jul 16, 2025, 10:37 pm • 4 0 • view
Putin is still in control
jul 17, 2025, 12:51 am • 5 0 • view
If they’re true patriots, there won’t be room in this administration for them.
jul 16, 2025, 9:04 pm • 5 0 • view
It’s almost out as if Donald Trump is trying to weaken America from the inside out. It’s almost as if.
jul 16, 2025, 10:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Do you actually think an admiral works on the construction of a ship.
jul 17, 2025, 1:29 am • 1 0 • view
The dictators of the world must love Trumps gifts.
jul 17, 2025, 5:07 am • 0 0 • view
Of course
jul 16, 2025, 9:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Of course ...
jul 17, 2025, 1:08 am • 0 0 • view
In case it isn’t painfully obvious at this point: The US government has been hijacked by a network of international autocrats whose sole mission is the destruction of free societies everywhere. Are we going to let them defeat us? I say hell no.
jul 16, 2025, 8:59 pm • 10 1 • view
Why is Trump Disassembling America?!?
jul 17, 2025, 1:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Pete Kegbreath strikes again
jul 17, 2025, 1:24 am • 1 0 • view
It figures.
jul 16, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Never join this military
jul 16, 2025, 10:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Wait, what? FIRE the GUYS who know how to do … what the NAVY needs them to do?
jul 17, 2025, 1:22 am • 1 0 • view
Competence is a threat to this incompetent state.
jul 17, 2025, 2:51 pm • 4 0 • view
Fuck these short sighted vandals of the country. These GOP assholes don’t give a shit about what actually happens from their actions, as long as they do exactly what the Russian in chief tells them to do. What a bunch of weak willed spineless bootlicking sycophantic fascists. Fuck the GOP.
jul 17, 2025, 12:33 am • 0 0 • view
Trump is a clear and present danger to this country.
jul 16, 2025, 9:05 pm • 42 2 • view
Don't worry folks, it's all part of the plan.
jul 16, 2025, 9:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Great idea. I suggest getting rid of the president instead.
jul 16, 2025, 8:17 pm • 14 0 • view
No worries. Pete Hegseth can show up and demonstrate push ups in the shop to distract them...
jul 16, 2025, 11:02 pm • 1 0 • view
tRump is getting rid of all the high-level, well-respected military leaders, whom I am sure he knows will not go along with his authoritarian agenda.
jul 16, 2025, 10:10 pm • 3 0 • view
How many admirals do we have today compared to during WW2?
jul 17, 2025, 7:56 pm • 0 0 • view
…because nothing quite says ‘World Power,’ like planes dropping from the sky.
jul 17, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
What more proof do we need that he’s working with Putin to destroy America. Do you have to hit MAGA over the head with a 2x4?
jul 16, 2025, 9:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Hogsbreath works for Putin
jul 17, 2025, 2:30 am • 6 0 • view
Leaky Pete Kegsbreath is f**g up by the minute. It's only a matter of time when something REALLY serious crops up and he f**ks it up completely. It'll be a national disaster.
jul 16, 2025, 9:18 pm • 8 0 • view
Have to loosen things up for Putin
jul 16, 2025, 9:17 pm • 4 0 • view
Imagine the disasters that will happen.
jul 16, 2025, 9:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, and I bet Putin is gleefully rubbing his palms together just thinking about it
jul 16, 2025, 9:53 pm • 2 0 • view
And the stupidity continues 🤦🏽
jul 16, 2025, 9:16 pm • 5 0 • view
Great! The U.S. has never been more vulnerable 🤦🏻♀️
jul 16, 2025, 8:19 pm • 4 0 • view
I hope they consider Canada where we have just announced significant military spending and hopefully will be seeing initiatives to begin building at home instead of buying from others
jul 17, 2025, 12:31 am • 2 0 • view
Blue MAGA out here defending that military spend to the hilt.
jul 16, 2025, 9:57 pm • 5 0 • view
Every action trumps admin takes basically makes the US look weaker on the world stage. Like reduce the size of the military if you want but dont do it in a way that makes you look like an amateur.
jul 16, 2025, 10:05 pm • 1 0 • view
Cause sure. Why not.
jul 17, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Exclusive: Russia continues to take America down from inside the house.
jul 17, 2025, 11:34 am • 7 0 • view
This
jul 17, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
They really don't want to provide those #AUKUS subs, don't they?
jul 17, 2025, 5:08 am • 1 0 • view
Spoiler alert: they will be hired back as contractors for 5X the cost
jul 17, 2025, 12:40 am • 9 0 • view
Oligarch scabs will....
jul 17, 2025, 9:31 am • 0 0 • view
lol
jul 17, 2025, 1:27 am • 0 0 • view
As an EU citizen, I am proud to have a neighbor at war that rules over the entire Black Sea without having its own fleet. As a Swede, I am proud of that we have submarines which, in joint exercises, can sink aircraft carriers despite being built for a completely different sea than the Atlantic.
jul 16, 2025, 9:15 pm • 3 0 • view
I guess building planes and ships is too woke.
jul 16, 2025, 8:24 pm • 5 0 • view
A month ago we were going to revitalize American shipbuilding. I was skeptical.
jul 16, 2025, 11:08 pm • 1 0 • view
China will be thrilled.
jul 16, 2025, 8:21 pm • 8 0 • view
Seriously I don’t know what they’re waiting for. Maybe the knowledge that if they took us over they’d have to fix all this shit.
jul 16, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Why would anyone want to take over the US? It’s a powder keg of sectarian conflict just waiting for a spark.
jul 17, 2025, 1:52 am • 1 0 • view
If for no other reason than to light that spark. Taking down the one country that ever used nukes on another would be seen as a historic achievement.
jul 17, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
Lol. That's a little dark.
jul 16, 2025, 10:44 pm • 0 0 • view
But not wrong. Most of our infrastructure is decades past its use-by date. Roads are repaired half-ass for the lowest bidder. A lot of power lines are half a century old and 90% of it is still above ground. Water lines are repaired when they fail and are more than a century old in many areas.
jul 16, 2025, 11:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Our *nation’s capitol* has a part of its sewer system a literal creek that’s bricked over. No, we’re a hot steaming mess and China doesn’t want it. Imagine being given a car but it needs so much work you’d rather scrap it than repair it. That’s the US. The current owner’s driving it into the ground.
jul 16, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
China can already outpace US ship production by a factor of 12, this is just the icing on the cake for them.
jul 16, 2025, 9:11 pm • 7 0 • view
Why? To make us even more vulnerable?
jul 16, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
You really have to give the Trump administration props. They are doing an incredibly efficient job of destroying the country.
jul 17, 2025, 1:36 am • 1 0 • view
Big, beautiful gift to China!
jul 16, 2025, 8:23 pm • 4 0 • view
Hey @stonekettle.bsky.social have you seen this?
jul 17, 2025, 9:00 am • 1 0 • view
Just another example of an unintelligent cut. This is the type of cuts this administration is famous for as they cut, break and bend government as we knew it....
jul 16, 2025, 8:24 pm • 5 0 • view
What could possibly go wrong?!?!
jul 16, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump is deliberately sabotaging our military to benefit Chinese takeover of Taiwan and domination of the Pacific
jul 17, 2025, 11:06 am • 0 0 • view
at least coke will have cane sugar bruh
jul 16, 2025, 9:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Sounds like the wrong people in those positions....just more bloated of govt positions
jul 17, 2025, 1:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Moving the depository accounts around. _Somebody_ looked at the numbers. Very standard gangland profit-sharing.
jul 16, 2025, 9:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Making America stupid again.
jul 17, 2025, 4:13 am • 1 0 • view
Why have a public servant with decades of experience, professionally trained and dedicated to upholding the highest standards of seamanship and combat worthiness, making those decisions when you can hire an unqualified crony as a "consultant" at ten times the cost?
jul 17, 2025, 7:38 pm • 1 0 • view
I had read that in project 2025 that they would do stupid shit like that.
jul 17, 2025, 1:21 pm • 0 0 • view
AUKUS very definitely is actually U-SUKA
jul 17, 2025, 2:04 am • 3 0 • view
Oh for fuk sakes!! What else does moron want to destroy!? So with all this 💩 trump is doing is it an invitation for Putin to come on over !?
jul 16, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
This regime is brilliant,just brilliant. He’s using a super unqualified appointed by a corrupt person who avoided the draft 5x with bone spurs. The people of this planet must be so jealous of this military regime that has its finger on the pulse of this volatile world situation’s
jul 16, 2025, 8:30 pm • 5 1 • view
Putin: "Krasnov now the navy"
jul 16, 2025, 10:07 pm • 1 0 • view
I am certain admirals don't build ships 😄
jul 16, 2025, 8:14 pm • 8 0 • view
Being a chief of naval operations would seem to include overseeing of the building of ships.
jul 16, 2025, 10:41 pm • 4 0 • view
Trump sluts.
jul 17, 2025, 1:38 am • 0 0 • view
Yep. If it makes absolutely no sense, the regime is all in.
jul 16, 2025, 11:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Ahhh, the Boeing move! Let's see how that plays out for them Ken.
jul 17, 2025, 3:02 am • 1 0 • view
Trump should be removed by any means necessary
jul 17, 2025, 4:00 am • 0 0 • view
What you going to do? Hire some idiotic high school kids majoring in life guard skills and auto shop?
jul 17, 2025, 1:50 am • 1 0 • view
We need to reform the Defense Department’s procurement system so that we can produce the weapons needed for future wars instead of outdated, vulnerable, and extremely expensive weapons. Doing this will require leaders with extensive experience. The Trump administration has been firing these leaders.
jul 16, 2025, 10:36 pm • 1 0 • view
We absolutely need another incompetent twit leading construction of floating cities and flying arsenals. What could possibly go wrong?
jul 16, 2025, 9:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump is doing SO MUCH DAMAGE
jul 17, 2025, 9:16 am • 1 0 • view
Putin could not be more excited about this.
jul 16, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
If you’ve been following the debt clock Trump has spoken about making America the crypto capital moving beyond the local traditional banks. Moving beyond’ could mean overhauling the entire system, which puts those who hasn’t transitioned to the new system (QFS) into the risk of loosing everything.
jul 17, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
The future of warfare is dance-offs and rap battles anyway so we'll be turning the navy into a rag-tag crew of street wise ragamuffins with rough exteriors but hearts of gold.
jul 17, 2025, 9:51 am • 0 0 • view
If this isn’t treason, then nothing is treason. Aiding and abetting the enemies of the United States through the elimination of defense.
jul 16, 2025, 8:20 pm • 15 1 • view
I mean, technically "Pardoning someone found guilty of treason" was treason. It's just that the Democrats also laughed when someone put up impeachment articles, and then voted against the articles. So, like, it's not like they care either
jul 16, 2025, 8:58 pm • 8 0 • view
"...as the Trump administration takes aim at what it sees as a top-heavy military that has lost its focus." Right. Because "focus" is what Trump and his cabinet of unqualified frat boys are known for.
jul 17, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump probably wants to replace them with Russian ones.
jul 16, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, what brilliant moves this Regime makes!!
jul 17, 2025, 12:25 am • 0 0 • view
Remind me again what a Russian agent would be doing differently than Trump and Hegseth? I’m assuming Pete is just following orders.
jul 16, 2025, 10:42 pm • 0 0 • view
#navy #us-navy #admiral #three-star-admiral #naval-command #military-restructure #pentagon #department-of-defense #military-reform #military-organization #naval-aviation #shipbuilding #fighter-plane #brass #military-budget
jul 16, 2025, 8:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Ships are useless for crushing the domestic population.
jul 17, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah That makes a whole lotta sense
jul 17, 2025, 10:58 am • 1 0 • view
A race to the bottom..
jul 17, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
Well, we can't build an aircraft carrier in less than 12 years....one in 12 years. So maybe it's time for a different path.
jul 17, 2025, 12:37 am • 0 0 • view
What exactly do Republicans value these days? National security? Nope. Lower federal debt? Certainly not. Infrastructure? Never. The answer: tax cuts and deregulation that favor their billionaire & corporate paymasters under a veneer of nutty religiosity, race hate, and cultural warfare.
jul 16, 2025, 11:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Not to worry. Trump is appointing the CEO of Boeing to lead the United Launch Alliance to manage the program. What could possibly go wrong?
jul 16, 2025, 8:48 pm • 4 0 • view
jul 17, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
This is obscene. Why is Trump trying to destroy our military and its leadership? This is how murderers like Putin get a foothold in the country and take it over. Trump is Putin’s patsy. Always has been! Wake up America!
jul 17, 2025, 2:12 pm • 0 0 • view
This is disgusting! Why is Trump making our country vulnerable at this time? Consider that question.
jul 17, 2025, 1:57 am • 0 0 • view
They are dismantling all everything! It’s a “bust out” of all our shared public goods!
jul 17, 2025, 1:32 pm • 0 0 • view
sure, because why not 🙄
jul 16, 2025, 9:15 pm • 4 0 • view
New Law: Fuck the conservative supreme court. We need A Supreme Court Of the people By the people For the people guided by Wholesome Goodness, Real Justice, Truth Morals & Virtues with respect for all life human & nonhuman for Social Mores, Norms, Values & INTEGRITY! A Peoples Court Above all others
jul 16, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
What sense does that make? And this comes after increasing the budget for the military?
jul 16, 2025, 8:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Not sure how strategically this is bad? In case anyone is paying attention, the nature of war is changing and ships are a potential liability - costly to man and operate.
jul 16, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I can see this tracking very well for Australian AUKUS agreements.... Yeah, nah.
jul 17, 2025, 6:39 am • 0 0 • view
Trump has no idea what any of this means. Who is telling him what to do?
jul 17, 2025, 11:26 am • 1 0 • view
Putin?? maybe??
jul 17, 2025, 12:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Although I always suspect the worst political reasons for these staffing changes under Kegeseth, I understand it's possible strategic change is needed. Drones and AI are completely changing the landscape of war, and conventional production might set us up for ruin. We haven't seen how that...
jul 16, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
...plays out in naval conflicts. Imagine trying to design countermeasures for a small, AI-guided submersible strapped with enough explosives to compromise a carrier. We don't have all the info. They do. Despite current bullshit in D.C., competent leadership exists throughout the armed forces.
jul 16, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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jul 17, 2025, 5:45 am • 0 0 • view
How is Trump not a foreign agent? Everything single thing he does weakens our country and its reputation.
jul 17, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
Makes so much sense, especially since the world is becoming so much safer by the day
jul 18, 2025, 12:20 am • 0 0 • view
China is pouring money into its military, its energy infrastructure, and A.I. What are we doing? Spending 170 billion to arrest gardeners, nannys, day laborers, and skilled construction workers. Thank you, Donald "Caligula" Trump, for ending American preminence.
jul 17, 2025, 2:41 am • 0 0 • view
Hegseth prefers drones! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
jul 17, 2025, 5:49 am • 0 0 • view
Because maybe Hegseth thought the ships and planes would be less likely to tip over and fall in the ocean?
jul 16, 2025, 9:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Hmm… what could go wrong?
jul 17, 2025, 3:30 am • 0 0 • view
Cuts, cuts, cuts......where's the money going? Out the back door and into the greedy pockets of this regime and its backing. It's all one big grift.
jul 17, 2025, 12:09 am • 0 0 • view
I know it is a stupid idea but Putin said …
jul 16, 2025, 8:58 pm • 3 0 • view
… we know how to stop this
jul 17, 2025, 5:06 am • 0 0 • view
Were they all gay or something?
jul 18, 2025, 1:19 am • 0 0 • view
Doesn’t it seem like all the cuts to National security and the military is being done to weaken us so much that another country could come in and take us over quickly. Hmmm, could Putin and Dumpy be setting things in motion as we speak.
jul 16, 2025, 11:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Why??!
jul 16, 2025, 9:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Why?
jul 16, 2025, 9:39 pm • 1 0 • view
In a bid to ask for a larger budget next year due to inefficient and complicated logistics (being self inflicted).
jul 17, 2025, 5:35 am • 0 0 • view
Job could be done by 2-stars. What rank was Marshall when he planned and ran the US Army war games before WW2? An O-3?
jul 16, 2025, 9:57 pm • 0 0 • view
They can always go back to making them out of wood.
jul 16, 2025, 8:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Not saying this is something a threat to our country would authorize, but it sounds like the call is coming from inside the room
jul 16, 2025, 9:22 pm • 4 0 • view
Again, the idiots are firing the smart people. Otherwise how else can an idiot stand out in a crowd? China could not be happier!
jul 17, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
China, & Russia will be pleased! 😢
jul 16, 2025, 9:40 pm • 1 0 • view
This administration is going to get our men and women in the military killed by doing away with the knowledge of our high command.
jul 16, 2025, 11:59 pm • 3 1 • view
Yeah, if we have a country left to defend 😑
jul 17, 2025, 8:01 am • 1 1 • view
So much for battle readiness
jul 17, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
Interesting since the Navy doesn’t technically own those shipyards. They have to depend on contracts for building. Aircraft is built by companies like Boeing and Northrop Grumman. The active duty military does not build any of it, they just maintain it.
jul 16, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
My first ship was a precom destroyer that was being built in Bathe, Maine. We didn’t build any of it, that was the civilian shipyard workers who work for the shipyard, NOT the federal government. Journalists really need to start understanding this kind of stuff and lay off the misinformation!
jul 17, 2025, 12:03 am • 0 0 • view
Delays in building are usually the fault of the contractors, not the Navy. Boeing delivered the F-18 Growler 2 years late because of airframe design flaws. The F35 took awhile to roll out too!
jul 17, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
That will work out well /s
jul 16, 2025, 8:48 pm • 2 0 • view
USA slowly committing suicide 😔
jul 16, 2025, 11:06 pm • 18 1 • view
Pass the popcorn.
jul 17, 2025, 3:37 am • 2 0 • view
A problem of oversight will present itself, not a problem.id humans were all good,but we are not good,we lie and we cheat and when massive amounts of money involved= power and control and abuse
jul 16, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, what, what the fuck?! How did this Wikipedia get here?
jul 16, 2025, 8:16 pm • 4 0 • view
Sounds like a fool proof plan or is that a fools plan....🤔
jul 16, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s just nuts!🤯
jul 17, 2025, 5:18 am • 0 0 • view
The United States has 4 military shipyards. The Peoples Republic of China has 35. Now they are firing admirals who would build the next generation of warships? This administration is disinterested in maintaining the U.S. position in the Pacific and the world. Sorry, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. Shame.
jul 16, 2025, 9:20 pm • 32 3 • view
It’s definitely a complex issue. While numbers matter, the quality, strategy, and alliances like those with Japan, Korea, and Australia also play a huge role. But yes, transparency in defense priorities is crucial.
jul 16, 2025, 10:49 pm • 1 0 • view
You and your friends keep Trump in office. All that Jap blood is in your hands.
jul 17, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view
Smart
jul 16, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
His STUPID IS REALLY SHOWING NOW Should we remind the Commander In Chief, That Greenland IS AN ISLAND.
jul 16, 2025, 11:36 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 17, 2025, 10:44 am • 1 0 • view
How Trump can weaken America, let me count the ways 😏
jul 16, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Stand for "my buy out of the USA" memory DJT (a nothing)
jul 16, 2025, 8:29 pm • 2 0 • view
jul 16, 2025, 9:00 pm • 3 1 • view
Another smart decision
jul 16, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
A loyalty purge dressed up as efficiency savings huh
jul 17, 2025, 10:24 am • 6 0 • view