this entire administration is irredeemable scum.

Article is a good read about Miller.

The choice of USS Doris Miller marked the first time an aircraft carrier would honor an enlisted sailor, and the first aircraft carrier to be named for an African American. Asked about his decision to name the carrier after Miller, Modly told CNN that it was recommended to him by a group of retired Black admirals, and that he believes “one of our most powerful warships should bear the name of a sailor like Miller to bring greater attention to what makes our Navy so unique — and great.”

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    How the military puts up with this draft dodger astounds me. I get he’s their “boss” but my god how embarrassing.

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    The ship is not expected to be delivered until 2034

    Why do they bother? It’s not like the ship will still be named after Trump by the time it’s built even if it’s named after him now.

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      It’s just a way to jerk off that POS blob of orange mayonnaise.

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      Why do they bother?

      To pacify a diaper soiling orange baby. Once out of office, the Trump name is getting dropped like a trud…unless this fascist trend continues.

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    Nothing coded about this, I guess.

    How often do the Tone Police in the Murc’s Law Media scold and chastise the liberals for daring to say the obvious out loud - that the Republican Party is filled with racists and donnie is their favorite guy for this reason?

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      Maybe just take his name off the buildings and boats. It may feel good, but I can feel the Moses memes coming from here.

      Let the name be stricken from every book and tablet. Stricken from every pylon and obelisk. Let the name be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of man, for all time. AI slop image of Trump parting the sea while an angel bangs an eagle overhead

      No thank you

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    I thought they aren’t named off of persons that are alive? I wonder who’s gonna win out here… T*, a racist shitbag who skated service thanks to daddy, or a black navy man.

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      There is precedent for naming ships after living US presidents, but in both cases, the person had been out of office for years and had served in the Navy aboard the type of ship that bears their name.

      • USS Jimmy Carter: An attack submarine commissioned in 2005. Carter was a nuclear technician with the Navy in the early days of nuclear submarines, and died in 2024
      • USS George H. W. Bush: an aircraft carrier commissioned in 2009. Bush was flew torpedo bombers in WWII and died in 2018
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      It’s okay, he’s already half dead. They renamed the JFK memorial and put his name there, so there’s already precedent for sticking his name places reserved for dead people.