Link: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uss-gerald-ford-us-iran-conflict-iran-faces-us-wrath-but-5-000-sailors-on-uss-ford-face-650-failing-toilets-11130048

The USS Gerald R. Ford has been at sea since June last year. The Republican leader's decision to extend its deployment for a second time has snowballed into a growing list of problems, such as blocked toilets and sewage troubles.

But at least bidets work...they work, right?

Very happy for them.

Thankfully, the ship is surrounded by emergency toilet

Support the troops (with thoughts and prayers).

Gleefully send them off to a pointless war and then tell them we can't afford to take care of them. The Republican way.

Time to open up the poop deck

Man, I wish it were one-sided.

If Joe Biden had his way we'd still be in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya. (The 7 countries where Obama was making war at the end of his presidency all at the same time.)

Don't have to fix the ship if it gets sunk

These would be more useful.

some iranian: why do I hear entrance of the gladiator playing from the persian gulf?

"An army marches on its stomach", meaning the troops need a steady supply of food.

I think that also means "An army marches on its butthole", because the waste gotta go somewhere.

As is the US isn’t figuratively shitting on the world, now they’re doing it literally.

A sailor on board told the Journal that the crew members are angry and upset and wish to leave the Navy as soon as the deployment ends.

A competent president takes this into account and doesn’t run their people into the ground needlessly.

The Biden administration, in a move that infuriated trumpies, withdrew US forces from Afghanistan in 2021.

Whataboutism is awesome.

'in' is doing some very different lifting from case to case. America is 'in' the local airport, and they haven't invaded yet. Our own troops will be 'in' Haiti or their own back yards, but there for support as a unified force and not just to go armed.

'Making war' is going a lot of heavy lifting here too.

I worry you're making points out of very little, but I don't need to debate that.

Yes, following through on a withdrawal negotiated by the Donald Administration.

But it probably did infuriate Donald supporters, just like how Dems supported the genocide in Gaza until the presidency changed hands and it was no longer convenient. Partisans have no real political convictions. It's all a matter of convenience or just repeating whatever their algorithm tells them to think on a given day.

It's weird because USA has 11 aircraft carriers, easily enough to rotate their usage.

Release the Epstein files.

'the republican leader' do they mean the president? Trump? What a weird way to reference them.

To be clear, we should all be glad the US doesn't have a competent president in this case.

Only if they have any interest in people's long term well being. Which if they really had, they would send them to war.

That's nothing. Wait for them to come back disabled from the war and be called welfare-queens for the miserable rest of their life.

It's a special operation then?

What a shitty situation all around

Yes, but the Ford is new, shiny, and most importantly for Great Leader, bigger.