Thanks. I hope it does improve.

Actually, All Complex Machinery/Systems are at risk. People here Crude and think "Diesel, Gasoline, Oil". Not Kerosene, Plastics, Solvents, etc.
Next as fuel increases in cost, so does everything that requires shipping.
Tires will become more expensive, etc. etc.

And Kudos to Trump.
If I had to choose between BOOTS or EXPENSIVE BARRELS ($10/gal gas). No Boots!

And I think Trump should make an address to that effect:

Dear Fellow Americans,
I had a choice. Boots on the ground, or blockading Iran and starving them of the cash they need to run the IRCG. I choose the later. Gas prices will rise, and I apologize to all of the working men/women who will pay that price. But I believe the lives of our soldiers are worth saving by exploring this. Besides, the LEFTISTS believe Fossil Fuels are killing us, so here is there chance to GIVE THEM UP completely. Stop using the, because they are too expensive. Stop FLYING out to protests, stop buying new signs.

I would rather all Americans share the cost of this, than forcing a few to die for it.
If we have to, we will. But right now, this is a temporary pain at the pump.

I will consider bombing whatever wells Iran is still pulling oil from, so we don't have to suffer as long.

Your Favorite President!

I have to tell you, being close to the Navy, the changes coming from the administration are gothic, and just awesome! The next step we hear is taking the NAVSEA workforce from 10,000 to 1,000! FANTASTIC! They have totally changed the decision ownership to the people responsible to get things done. NAVSEA 05 (Technical "no"-sayers) are being spread to the wind,. Absolutely fantastic changes.
The system will be turn back into a mess again. It always does, but not right away.

Great changes.

👍 "The Navy are idiots, but are completely eclipsed by the Army in utter stupidity."
As long as they aren't audited, punished, and corrected for stupidity/corruption the situation will only continue and get worse.
Government has never been competitive in anything except, perhaps, when competing against other incompetent governments.

It's been my experience that decisions like this that are made in the military can be traced back to politics. A recent example would be when they picked the F-22 instead of the F-23 during the runoff was that even though the F-23 was the better plane, the F-22 was picked because of having more political support for the manufacturer.

More Jamie Daimon narcissism.

I don't know about this.

The fire could certainly have been managed better, but this implied that Ozone laundry eliminates/significantly reduces water usage, and it does not.

This may be a "green thing". However, I would NOT want steam from the engine room going to the laundry at all. This water is chemically controlled for corrosion et al, not just water, and has no business being cross connected to a stupid use like laundry. In a submarine, such piping would have to go through both reactor compartment bullheads. Those penetrations would cost more than the whole stupid laundry.

Maybe the ozone thing sucks and is wasteful, but this article does not defend it well. Fundamentally the ozone eliminates soap, not water.

Idiocy on the part of the Navy is wide and deep. If anyone cared about cost, green or warfighting, they would have deployed the hybrid electric drive system we developed and tested almost 20 years ago on DDG51. It saved ~$3M/yr fuel cost (depot not delivered), increased time on station considerable, and offered ~3MW of additional electrical power to the ship, that is needed for the AMDR and laser weapons. We had to sell it all over the navy, and because the part that buys equipment doesn't buy fuel, no one cared. So, we went to Congress and got $ to fund it. (today, we'd just do it ourselves) Then after we teamed with our competitor, pooled $, designed, built and tested it, the Navy put it out to competition, and selected a cheap commercial system. That system was too big to fit both shafts, had massive EMI issues, and when tested at sea, it failed miserably, not able to control in any sea state, just tripping offline over and over. Seven (7) were built, and they sit in the Philadelphia shipyard gathering dust. Our system was ~$10M/ship, saved $3M/yr, paying itself off in three years, and resolved power issues. We have ours back and use it for testing various stuff. The Navy are idiots, but are completely eclipsed by the Army in utter stupidity.

"If it moves, salute it. If it don't move paint it."

That old bromide is part of Navy culture. One would think that every sailor knows the inherent danger of spontaneous combustion caused by drying paint and piles of fabrics.

The absolute absurdity of infusing garments & fabrics with Ozone should be a court martial offense, and the imbecile that approved it should be charges with willful destruction of Navy property as well as interfering with ship movement.

Basically, anything and everything until some Green idiot gets the death penalty. How else are they going to learn the lesson and not attempt something that stupid ever again!

Sneaky commies. ;^)

Who would have thought dirty laundry would supplant missiles as the means to take out a US carrier?

Here's to ya...

WOW, Dobrien! Huge and great collection kicked off by Rod Serling and closed with winners shaking hands. Tony Soprano has it nailed. Gosh, so many memes and so little time! Thank you for posting!!!

Very much so, DOB!

Yeah, that turd has floated right to the top of the news again.

Kakistocrats = Congressmen Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales announced they will resign from their seats in the House of Representatives, following high profile allegations of sexual misconduct. The House ethics committee announced earlier in the day that it has launched an investigation into Democratic congressman Swalwell, after reported allegations of inappropriate behavior, sexual assault and rape. Over the weekend, Swalwell ended his bid for California governor amid the accusations against him. Later in the day, Gonzales, a Republican from Texas, announced he will file paperwork to retire tomorrow, amid growing calls for his expulsion after he acknowledged having an extramarital affair with a staffer who later died by suicide.

Timely

Things don’t look so good for the traitor.

Memestradomus

Weird how he is in the spotlight.

This achieves two things at once that match Trump’s stated goals:

Immediate pressure on Iran (starves the regime of its main revenue source — oil — without a full ground war).
Shifts global oil supply away from the Strait by making Iranian exports unreliable or impossible.
The supply-shift angle

~20% of world oil (and a huge chunk of LNG) normally flows through Hormuz; Iran’s recent mining/closure already caused the worst energy shock in decades.
A blockade would cut off Iran’s exports (which still move through Kharg Island and the Strait) → buyers in China, India, and elsewhere lose that discounted supply and must turn to U.S., Saudi, Brazilian, or other non-Iranian oil.
Trump has been openly pushing this exact outcome: “Buy oil from the United States of America. We have plenty.” He wants the world to fill the gap with American exports, reinforcing U.S. energy dominance.
the blockade is the mechanism that forces the supply shift Trump’s broader strategy envisions. It turns Iran’s own chokepoint weapon against it while accelerating the long-term reordering of oil markets that the war has already started (higher baseline prices, more U.S. leverage, less petrodollar dependence on adversarial routes).

The reset = talks fail → unleash naval/economic tools. The blockade is the cleanest, most targeted tool available to do exactly what Trump has signaled: reopen (or control) the Strait on U.S. terms and reroute global oil flows away from Iranian/Hormuz dependence toward American supply. It’s economic coercion that doubles as strategic supply-chain reengineering. Whether it actually gets implemented depends on what happens in the next few days of talks, but it is squarely on the table as part of the reset plan

Attempted to pick a favorite, but couldn't.

All of them sad and 100% true.

Thanks for another great group of memes, DOB. Keep up the great work!

I haven't paid attention to polls, nor have I ever been contacted to take one, with the exception of AMAC. This conservative answer to AARP publishes a poll each week with multiple choice answers with far greater depth than any poll I have ever seen. Your post has cleared up a lot of questions I have wondered about concerning polls. A poll can be used in too many weighted ways, and now I have a better understanding how it's done. Thanks for a good post.

These aren't memes, they're sheer firepower aimed at a bunch of cowards hiding behind a fat, lazy target. Keep up the shooting gallery, Dobrien, and expose them all the way!

Very impressive new technique you're having fun with, and great memes to boot. :)

FFA, based on this statement your cynicism is showing - "publishing this "research" will enhance JPM's profits and steal from small investors" - but I am in complete agreement.