So y'all neocons want to conquer the world — with a military so inept that it cannot even design, and run an aircraft carrier's toilets?

25 February 2026

Self-reflection in a mirror dripping poop?

The following is a vignette entirely representative of the American condition:

One of the most formidable weapons in the Navy is its largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford.

Reports are that it’s already within striking distance of Iran, if need be. At a cost of about $13 billion, you’d expect it to have everything needed to wage war in the 21st century, and it does.

Except that it has one problem – its toilets are broken.

The most recent reports are that for a ship that houses a crew of over 4,000, there are only 650 toilets on board. Of those, more and more of them are just not working.

Ship designers simply didn’t plan on enough commodes for the size of the crew on the ship.

This means 45-minute waits on a good day.

The second issue is that the way the plumbing system is designed, if one valve for one toilet breaks down in that hinky vacuum collection system, all the toilets in that department stop working.

The third problem is that most of the critical repair operations to the system can only be done when the ship is at port.

The Navy Times revealed that a 2020 Government Accountability Office report “pointed out that the sewage pipes woven throughout the [Ford] were too narrow to properly serve the flushes of the 4,000-plus crew members onboard... To unclog the toilets, the Navy has been forced to spend $400,000 per flush of a unique acidic chemical designed to flush out and unburden the strained pipes.”

Think about this

Defecation is a predictable human necessity.

And the physics of fluid dynamics, even in reasonably complicated systems, have been well understood for decades.

Yet somehow, the US Navy has been too technologically airheaded to understand its latrine problem well enough to insist that America's— generally incompetent, money-extorting and politically unaccountable — armament contractors deliver reliably working, elementally necessary systems.

So, with all that in mind

Y'all blithering dopes are still going to conquer the world Marco Rubio style?

The moral? — America's demented clown show embarrasses itself . . .

. . . virtually every time it does anything that requires large-scale, quasi-intelligent effort.

Thus demonstrated, is our culture-wide inability to realistically self-evaluate and plan, strategically wisely, accordingly.

Lack of brain eventually becomes a momentum-gathering form of national suicide.

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So y'all neocons want to conquer the world — with a military so inept that it cannot even design, and run an aircraft carrier's toilets?