American Thinker:
Hillary Clinton plans to attend the launching ceremony of a warship. And not just any warship, but the USS Gabrielle Giffords, named for the liberal congresswoman who was shot in the head. For Hillary, every decision is still about wimmen and grrrls. But her decision raises the larger question about whether it is appropriate to name a warship after Giffords.
After all, Giffords was viewed as a helpless victim. That doesn’t make for a very intimidating name for a warship. Giffords is called a hero because she survived. Does surviving make her a hero? I think surviving makes her a survivor. I think Giffords would have been a hero if she had been shot while doing something heroic. But Giffords was just giving a liberal speech.
SNIP: Can we just have a separate branch of the military for the politically correct already? Give them one ship, one airplane and one tank, [all unarmed, because, duh! Weapons are bad!] station them on an island and let the “Victim Squad” figure out the names for them. Let them figure out their ranks, dress code [or no dress. So unsanitary], decorations, whatever. Just get them the hell up out of here!
The USS McGuffin.
Almost as bad as USS Harvey Milk.
Make it stop!
With all those dignatories on board, perfect time to scuttle it.
It would be hilarious if it were intelligence-gathering vessel……
It always will list to the Starboard…………
One shot will put her out of commission.
Take it as an LCS or Gabrielle Giffords joke. I don’t care.
USS Vagina
Top speed: 1 knot, it’s a slow talker, I mean mover….
this is one more despicable perversion that Obama forced upon us. When a Navy ship has been named after an individual, it has always been named after Navy sailors or Marine Corps servicemen who did something heroic. Medal of Honor recipients, for example.
Naming a ship after Harvey Milk was justified at the time because Milk had served in the Navy (unheroically). But after Obama got away with that travesty, he foisted the Gabby Giffords on us and SECNAV Ray Mabus (Worst. SECNAV. Ever.) went along with it. Despicable, the lot of ’em.
Name it the USS Ann Barnhardt.
To be fair, Giffords was one of the few Democrats against gun control but that was before she got shot in the head. That could change anybody’s mind I suppose. They shouldn’t name a warship after her but rather something like a hospital ship the next time they build one.
That is the PUSSIEST name EVAH for a warship. How about the U.S.S. Vegetable instead?
@willysgoatgruff: You’re not a Navy guy, are you?
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The continuation of obutthole’s emasculation of America.
Trump should name the next Navy Oiler the USS Obama
You know what’s phuckered up?
Every time the CO arrives or departs, you will hear
on the general announcing system from the quarterdeck:
Gabrielle Giffords Arriving, Gabrielle Giffords Departing,
Gabrielle Giffords Returning.
The crew will fucking hate that.
You can thank Barky and Secretary Gaybus for that shit.
Goddamn it!
I agree with everything said about the name of the ship but of far more interest to me is Hillary’s on another leg of her desperate “Fighting for Relevancy” tour. You’re a third wheel now, Hill. Have you no dignity??
Hey, Gabby, Happy Birthday. Tell Mark to do the dishes and the laundry on your birthday. Tell him you want breakfast in bed…but none of that Tang® crap.
@ Vietvet…Nope, but I did a fact finding mission on an Alaskan salmon seiner….
Having been in the Navy I’m fairly sure the sailors who would serve on board this ship will come up with a less than affectionate nickname for it. They could call it the USS Hapless Victim or Victoria for short or just the USS Politically Correct boat (I know the Navy doesn’t have boats, they have ships), PC standing for Pretty Crummy or Pretty Crappy or Poorly Conceived etc. etc. And it would be manned (womaned) by a crew of feminazis, lezzies, queers and trannies just because and their ships song could be YMCA by The Village People. It makes me sick what has happened to the best Navy in the world under obummer.
The Navy has boats. They are called submarines.
They also have small boats. Small boats are carried upon
ships to use in each port when at anchor.
That is all.
Imagine having to explain this to Bull Halsey.
USS Crispy Cream
I mean….come on now! Stop with the jerk off names!
I wanna see the USS Chuck Norris
It’ll more likely be “Lisping to Port”
How come it’s not painted pink?
So its going to be named the USS drooling vegetable?
The USS Butt Pirate.
They should have named it in Honor of Judge John Roll (R) remember He Died,but MSM couldn’t be bothered to barely cover it.
The irony here is all the nasty people that are going to be killed by that thing. 😀
I know it is considered bad luck to rename a ship, but in regards to the Gabby Giffords, Harvey Milk, Jack Murtha, etc. the new SecNav should rename them in accordance with the traditional themes, such as after MOH recipients. The thought of standing a quarterdeck watch and having to answer the ship’s telephone “Quarterdeck, USS Gabrielle Giffords…” would just make me puke!
You have to admit it will be the only ship in the fleet that can take a direct hit to the CIC and not suffer any damage!
Does it get decommissioned for 5 days every month?
Kinda like having the geoduck as a sports mascot. Ever see a geoduck?
Those boats are over priced piles of junk.