USS Carl Vinson Heading To North Korea

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/08/politics/navy-korean-peninsula/


Well, if you guys need me, I'll be in my underground bunker. It's just a dog house, really, but I nailed rubber floor mats to the roof, which should keep out all of the excess radiation. Good luck to you.

Please let someone shoot that fat bastard in his face and take over the country and give up the nukes.

Somehow we've got to get a message to all the people beneath Fat Boy that we do not want to invade or conquer their backwater negative 3rd world shithole of a country. Just give us the nukes and shut down the nuke program. Of course we might want to skip the part about being a shithole country.

Hell we'll trade food for nukes.

"The Vinson strike group will operate in the Western Pacific rather than executing previously planned port visits to Australia"

PSYCH! YOU THOUGHT YOU HAVE PORT CALL, LOLOLOLOLOL!

In the Navy do they call it the Blue Weenie?

Hooray!! We're finally all going to die!!
*Shaves head, and draws a bulls-eye on scalp with lipstick*

Um. The quote very clearly says that this happens all the time. Who decided to make it news, and from what do they want to distract you?

HEY!! Don't you spoil this for me!
You fucking ruin everything else, just let me have this one thing!

I don't think you understand what you read. Yes US ships operate in this area all the time but the Carl Vinson was on her way to Australia and she was turned around to go back.

That's a big deal. A carrier travels with a whole lot of other surface ships and submarines. A port call is a big deal from a logistics side of things.

Zombie is absolutely right about this.

I was stationed on seventh fleet, which more or less exists to flex on China and when NK decided to rattle sabers. If it were something as simple as the simple Kim Il-Sung birthday dick waving they almost always pull during the holiday standdown (our only true period of down time), we'd get sent out for that.

They hardly ever bothered to involve the third fleet ships on their patrols, much less a carrier group, much less one going to a port that is a logistic nightmare as it is with five thousand sailors.

That said, this is a swinging dick move on Trump's behalf. Is it the start of WWIII? I hope not, since I can hear the ship whistles from 32nd Street Base from my backyard. Kim Jong Un knows lighting off live nukes into a human population will mean the end of his lifestyle as he knows it, which is more sense than Trump has. God, that's something I thought I'd never write

Kim Jong Un should not be thought of as a rational actor. Everything that comes out about him shows him to be paranoid and insane. Trump has far more sense than him. Trumps actions with the Carl Vinson are because of Kim Jong Un.

Insane from an external perspective. If you change the point of view, Kims actions are completely rational. Like Trump looking out for himself and his PR, Kim is looking out to tighten the grip on NK. For that he needs an external enemy (like all dictatorships do). Orwell described the phenomenon best in 1984's concept of doublethink: War is Peace.

Of course we all are in a perpetual real life doublethink situation. It's all around us no matter if we're in the US, in Austria or North Korea. And: external threats unite the people no matter how shitty the government actually is.

Well of course.

Dealing with crazy people for close to a decade I can tell you they always think they are the sane ones and everyone else is the crazy one.

In fact we have a house rule were I work: The more the person says they aren't crazy the more they actually are.

The problem with Kim Jong Un in my opinion (among many) is that he is too much like his movie obsessed father rather than his grandfather who while staggeringly brutal no one accused of being a foolish playboy.

...just

What was wrong with my opinion there Anna? In detail please.

It's the opinion of an idiot.

Source? Everything you've ever posted.

I would say if you want to survive you need a Mohawk, but now you shave your head and spray paint your lips and teeth silver and then you can fly through the air on poles while traveling a hundred miles an hour in the apocalyptic wasteland trump will create. Who knew when he coined ed the phrase make America great again he had just watched fury road.

You don't believe his father was a movie obsessed foolish playboy?

What difference does it make?

They're both dictators, no matter the size of tbeir DVD collection.

I believe you're a massive fucking tool who couldn't outwit a used condom.

Insults that say everything about you and nothing about me.

I will freely admit I can't remember what your problem is with me.

Probably can assume that you're simply following the crowd like a sheep.

Try thinking for yourself.

Oh, I do, Dayton. It's just that rational thought leads to the conclusion that you are a twat, irrespective of if I have a "problem" with you or not.

I'm sorry if that's inconvenient to your worldview.

In other words you have nothing.

No matter.

I have time.

Not enough. And yet also, for the rest of us, probably a bit more than we'd prefer.

True. For all of his many glaring faults, Trump isn't like Crazy Fat Fuck McGee. Trump also has a few people on hand to talk reason should he let his ego get the better of him, which it will, including H.R. McMaster, probably one of the better, smarter heads at the table.

Aren't Republican Presidents grand? We've gone from 'but he isn't as bad as Saddam' to 'but he isn't as bad as Il' in one iteration!

According to my wife, who is former Navy, missing an Australian port call is a very big deal. There's probably a lot of pissed off sailors in that strike group right now.

It's what leftists do when they run out of arguments. It's what they did at TBBS, it's what they do here.

It's where we desperately attempt to save as much face as possible.

Should we dayton on nk?