If that’s true the sequence of events will be something like:

• Trump demands the ship be sent immediately because he doesn’t understand what “dry dock” is.
• Someone in the chain of command who understands how bad that is uses proper channels to politely call for a small delay.
• That officer is immediately fired. Right-wing media starts rumor they are a trans immigrant when a document from 2012 is found where they listed pronouns.
• The officer is replaced with a 26-year-old toadie who has a background in podcasting about flat earth.
• Toadie immediately sends the ship.
• Ship sustains heavy damage from corrosion because it wasn’t painted yet, or some shit.
• The hospital ship spends 90 days sitting off-shore in Greenland. During this time it treats a handful of patients who, it later turns out, got paid to be there and aren’t even citizens of Greenland.
• Ship returns to USA to actually do the refit, where it turns out the damage is now catastrophic.
• Jared Kushner receives contract to build replacement ship, named “USS TRUMP 12” because we have 11 other USS TRUMPs.
• The money changes hands.
• The ship is never built.
• This is only reported by Common Dreams.

edit: fuck it, made it more elaborate.

I don’t live in the UK but I got pulled into the UK camper van / canal boat / bushcraft segment of youtube. The recommended videos are often something like “London has FALLEN” on a video featuring a normal street with people walking around, but I guess not enough of them are white. It’s a whole subgenre, each channel full of people with St. George’s Cross profile pics agreeing wildly in the comments that its all gone to shit now.

It really is a tragic parallel to what you see on algorithmic “media” in the USA. Every comment section is a gutter where terminally online people circlejerk with fear and hatred as lube.

Anyway I’m thinking of starting a peertube channel where I upload art videos.