Be kinde to folk. This changeth the whole habitat.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 10
No. of Recommendations: 6
Phelan theory #2, which I would describe as "typical, toxic, work environment"
Trump fires Navy chief over formidable battleship demands
President Trump's push for a high-tech "Trump-class" battleship has claimed another administration casualty. Navy Secretary John Phelan was ousted on Wednesday after failing to produce a viable plan for delivering the president's dream warship on the aggressive timeline Trump desired, according to senior defense and administration officials
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg reportedly told Trump that Phelan wasn't a "team player," https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-fire...Seems that Phelan could have thrown some nonsense design out, to appease Trump the Conqueror. The Navy has been designing stuff like the "Trump class", for decades. What would he care? Given the length of DoD procurement programs, he would be long gone from office, and accountability, before anyone decides to spike it as another costly, DoD procurement fiasco.
That "team player" narrative, could apply as well to not getting a keel laid for a ship Trump can name after himself, as refusing to ignore the court ruling, and proceed with disciplining Kelly. I know from experience, anything that does not feed the "JC's" delusion, will draw that "not a team player", career ending, stain.
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 4
a high-tech "Trump-class" battleship
USS Bonespurs.
Always found beached after running away from any fight.
No. of Recommendations: 20
Well, just so we’re clear, John Phelan does not have any Naval experience. As a matter of fact, he has no military experience of any kind. Not to put too fine a point on it, but he also has no shipbuilding experience, or any kind of history with anything related to the navy, to ships, to the Defense Department, or anything else of interest. He did investment banking and finance, and next to nothing with actual industry or production.
What he does have is a history of large donations to Trump’s campaigns.
So the Donald appoints somebody who knows nothing about anything: procurement, supply chains, military; gives him a timeline for a ship class launch that would be unachievable even in the best of circumstance, then fires him because he can’t do something he knows nothing about.
I think in a nutshell that explains a lot of what is going on with this administration.
No. of Recommendations: 2
that explains a lot of what is going on with this administration.
"fires him because he can’t do something he knows nothing about."
No. of Recommendations: 4
What Phelane does have is a history of large donations to Trump’s campaigns.
...and a Dallas cheerleader wife. Trump likes to take that kind of wife "furniture shopping."
No. of Recommendations: 8
Well, just so we’re clear, John Phelan does not have any Naval experience.
There has been considerable discussion of what Phelan gifted we taxpayers as SecNav, on a Navy focused board on FB. The Constellation class frigate program was running years behind, and far over budget. The cost of a Connie had inflated to $1.4B, by the time Phelan cancelled the contract with Fincantieri, replaced with a contract for a gussied up Coast Guard cutter, from Huntington Ingalls.
The gussied up cutter lacks a VLS system, no means of carrying RIM-66 "Standard" surface to air missiles, and no anti-submarine capability. And what does this smaller and less capable ship cost? Preliminary estimate $1.4B/ship, the same as the larger, more capable, Connie. The mind boggles at how much *that* price will escalate by the time they start cutting steel.
So, how big of a bribe did HII pay?
That must be why his nibs wants that $1.5T/year "defense" budget: to provide more money, for more corruption.
Steve
No. of Recommendations: 16
That must be why his nibs wants that $1.5T/year "defense" budget: to provide more money, for more corruption.
We’ve always had some corruption. With Trump and his crew, it’s gone nuclear..
Billions. Tens of billions coming up.
No greater proof of Republican corruption exists than the sound of “Hunter Biden” on their lips.
It’s their way of saying “LOOK OVER THERE! A SQUIRREL!!”
Meanwhile, they’re shoveling bribe money, ponzi scheme money and insider trading gains into their pockets and crypto wallets.
It’s become unavoidably obvious that if they’re condemning Democrats for it, they’re doing it.
Child pornography,
Pedophilia,
Child trafficking,
Bribery
Vote tampering
Weaponizing government
Kickbacks
On and on
Like Democrats, Republicans are human and therefore prone to sin.
But Republicans, led by their president and their Supreme Court justices, have given permission and then passed out “get out of jail free” cards.
And their Republican congresscritters put on shades and walk through the Capitol tapping the sidewalks with white canes.
