Yestterday is the day they sank – on purpose – the once-magnificent SS United States. The timing is fitting.
In case you didn’t know, the United States – the ship – was the fastest luxury liner ever made by anyone. This beautiful, sleek colossus – at 50,000 tons and about 1,000 feet long, she was comparable in size and heft to a WW II battleship – was capable of 45 MPH on the open ocean. Try to visualize something that big moving that fast.
She could easily outrun the fastest battleship.
In her prime – in the 1950s and ’60s – she was magnificent. She was designed by the brilliant William Gibbs, who had previously designed the Malolo – Hawaiian for flying fish – which survived what otherwise would have been a catastrophic collision with another vessel that tore a massive gash in the side of the ship that ought to have sunk her but didn’t because of Gibbs’ decision to extend the water tight doors all the way up to the main deck, such that Malolo did not suffer the fate of Titanic.
United States was his crowning achievement – and more than just that. It was an expression of American capability at the apogee of what, undoubtedly, will be regarded by future historians as the apogee of America itself. She was capable of making the Atlantic crossing in three days, 10 hours and 40 minutes. Probably faster than that, if she’d been run all-out. It took the Mayflower 66 days to do the same run.
United States was powered by four Westinghouse double reduction geared steam turbines that could each generate 60,000 horsepower; these were fed steam by eight Babcock & Wilcox Type-M boilers. She could carry 2,000 passengers in style and comfort. She was elegant and classy. Two things one rarely encounters nowadays.
That she is about to be thrown away says much about what America thinks of itself – and its history.
Like the Saturn V rocket, she propelled America to unparalleled greatness, now not just forgotten but also questioned. America no longer honors her history; she is ashamed of it. Statues come down. Tiresome lectures about “enslaved people” take precedence over the ol’ E Plebnista. Vulgar floating casinos full of obese slobs ply the oceans now.
Private attempts were made to save The United States but they lacked the money that was necessary to preserve her, as many of the relics of war have been preserved. It is telling that the United States – the government, that is – hasn’t got the money (or even the interest) in saving important artifacts of its history unless they happen to be part of military history.
How much has the United States spent so far on this war in Iran? The United States could probably have been saved for 5 percent of what has been expended on bombs and jet fuel and everything it takes to send aircraft carriers across the ocean to the other side of the world – and had that 5 percent been spent on the United States instead, the United States would at least have something to show for it. Something beautiful rather than ugly. Something that showed our best side rather than our darkest side.
Today, she goes to the bottom.
Maybe just like the United States, itself.
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Newly-elected D-party Rep Don Leonard explains how the Israel Lobby already threatened him with dire consequences on his first day in WARshington DC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYLnEQONtGE
Speaker Hakeem Jeffries is Israel’s made man, fighting tirelessly for the little west Asian apartheid colony he represents and funds at our expense.
Like those 11 D-bags who were either “stuck in traffic” or had “prior commitments” to attend what was essentially an AIPAC sponsored event so were “unable” to make the Kegsbreath impeachment vote? It will be interesting how fast the D-bags sell out their base and if they break the record for betrayal currently held by Trumpenstein and the Repukes. The signs are there already and they won’t likely be able to produce a head fake like the DOGE con to bamboozle the suckers with for a few months.
Look at how hard the push for AIPAC Shakur as Speaker has already begun so get the popcorn the circus is just getting started.
Atlantic crossing in January, ’65, one of 1,200 troops on the USS Patch (WWII Liberty ship), 9 freezing days in rough seas, from NY Harbor to Bremerhaven, Germany via the Great Northern Route. My first, and last, shipboard “cruise.”
The metaphors to the parallel empire declines, yup, depressing and absolutely correct.
However, if anyone’s a diver they may be interested to visit these artificial reefs.
Like the USS Spiegel Grove (a Thomaston-class dock lander near Key Largo) or USS Oriskany (an Essex-class carrier resting near Pensicola).
Fun fact, when Spiegel Grove was sunk she settled on her starboard side but hurricane Dennis righted the ship, so she now sits on her keel.
The SS United States will become the largest artificial reef, larger than the Oriskany.
https://www.stripes.com/history/2026-10-27/ss-united-states-sinking-date-largest-reef-23279520.html
Hey the old United States slips under the waves, the ‘new’ wave of United States occupiers is headed our way!
https://www.latintimes.com/us-vows-deportations-new-600-migrant-caravan-sets-off-mexico-border-inside-faith-hope-599681
Of course over the last few years of R control NOTHING has been done to prosecute the groups enabling and paying for this insanity. All the travelers look well fed, well clothed, and who paid for the giant Mexican flag? Catholic Charities, Lutheran Brotherhood, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society here we go again.
And Trump is ready to make an immigration deal: he wants the hotel and landscape cheap labor for his homes, hotels and golf courses (and so do the koch bros. and other billionaire republicans). Notice how he says “NO amnesty.” That’s because he WANTS amnesty and he’s gonna get it through the democrats. Then the voters will go Rubio Red Republican again in 2028 to stop the horses that already left the barn (and the hispanics will vote for Rubio too) and Israel will get another Israel first puppet to bleed, rob and destroy America!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-tells-dhs-chief-work-democrats-immigration-reform-no-amnesty
There has been a radical change in the understanding of most Whites of European descent regarding such guiding principles as freedom, equality, and tolerance.
These changes are destroying our country, and they have been orchestrated by many influential jews. These changes have taken place over the past 100 years in order to trick Whites into accepting that which will destroy them and the societies they had created.
Make no mistake. It is the White Race that has been targeted for destruction. In earlier generations of White men, the founders and creators of this society, the ideals of freedom, equality, and tolerance were seen within a particular moral and cultural framework, a framework that enabled the pursuit of those values, but as there must be, there were limits.
Let’s take freedom. Freedom as defined by our Founders never meant absolute freedom to do whatever one liked, but ordered freedom set forth within the founding documents. Not freedoms that would be hostile to or destroy our society.
How about equality? Equality doesn’t mean every kind of equality as the jews have made it. Equality never mandated any special treatment or rights in reference to skin color, IQ, sexual preference, as we have been forced to accept today. It referred specifically to political equality as citizens under the law, which meant equal treatment for all citizens as prescribed by the law. Equality simply means equal rights for all, and demands, special rights for none.
And tolerance. we hear a lot about that one on the jewsmedia. But tolerance never meant tolerance for everything as conniving jews have re-defined it, but tolerance for those things that would conform within the moral framework of our particular type of society.
Jews have discarded our traditional definitions. Leftist modern liberalism has emerged as an uncontrolled force and they have thrown away the cultural and moral framework devised by our Founding Fathers. Freedom, equality, and tolerance, are no longer understood according to their original comprehensive standard of what’s right, and what’s wrong, for an individual or our society.
Now, tolerance is always good no matter how offensive or destructive the behavior towards Whites and our once ordered societies.
Leftism is the jewish program for subduing a nation and bringing themselves to power in it; destroying the nation’s pride and self-confidence and cohesiveness, and thus creating conditions in which jewish power can thrive unopposed.
Leftism is simply jewish politics in a gentile society; jewish intellectuals, jewish money, jewish organizers, jewish propagandists, advancing jewish group interests by rendering harmless potential sources of resistance to themselves: nationalism, racial identity, cultural cohesion, religious identity, etc.
The bottom line here is that jews have elevated diversity, tolerance, equality, and anti-discrimination as the defining values of our society. It is supremely important for all Whites to understand that diversity is not our strength. a preposterous notion. It is a weapon of ethnic destruction devised by jews intended for use solely against Whites.
Jews in America, indeed, around the world, have legalized racism and discrimination against White citizens in favor of all nonwhites even to include non-citizens, via affirmative action, massive nonwhite immigration, the promotion of race-mixing, same-sex marriage, healthcare, busing, housing laws, etc.
Modern liberalism, championed by jews, is explicitly antiwhite and seeks the destruction of the White Race. Jew driven liberalism is about elevating and empowering sexual perverts and nonwhites, particularly blacks, over Whites, and about turning Whites into non-persons.
Keep in mind that while demanding multiculturalism and diversity for us White gentiles, jews practice an extremely ethnocentric separation, flouting all civil rights and fair housing laws that they impose on “the rest of us”. Google Kiryas Joel New York and Lakewood New Jersey for examples of the jewish double standard.
Mr. Jefferson proclaimed “pursuit of happiness” as a basic human right, not a “guarantee of happiness”, and particulaly not at someone else’s expense.
When citizens throw a few pieces of trash into the ocean they get fined or jailed. When government sinks 53,000 tons of metal into it they call it an “artificial reef” and that’s that.
I take this very personally too. I live in the Philly burbs and I used to see her every day moored near Center City when I was driving to work. I managed to go down to her dock a time or two to see her up close. I always prayed that they would at least open her up for tours if they couldn’t put her back in service, but of course that wasn’t to be. It’s truly a tragedy that they p**ssed away such an impressive part of our history.
Some things are preserved, though:
The space shuttle Endeavor is now on display in Exposition Park, LA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVkXZWlauIQ
There’s an interesting parallel between the decline of the U.S. and Britain. The peak of the British Empire was probably the Edwardian Era, and the Titanic one of its crowning achievements.
Well, we know what happened to the Titanic.
It all went the shit rather quickly for the Limeys. In 1910 Norman Angell published “the Great Illusion,” in which he argued that the possibility of war was absurd, nonsensical, and thus improbable. Six years later the British got 20,000 men killed in ONE DAY at the Somme. By 1918 they had lost 750,000 men out of a population of 45 million.
They still didn’t learn. Twenty years later the “Conservatives” made a pact to defend Poland that they had no business making and couldn’t keep, but they used it as a pretext for another war with Germany.
By 1945 they were broke, their colonies were being liquidated, and the public voted overwhelmingly for socialism. By 1965 their youth were mocking their past and getting knighted by the Queen for singing American Negro music about sex and drugs. Today they live in a politically-correct, disarmed surveillance-state dystopia overrun by nonwhite immigrants, and many of their native whites are degenerate scum.
One would like to think that the “elites” are not stupid enough to fuck up a good thing, but History would prove you wrong. Our own “elites” are perhaps not fucking up quite as dramatically (yet) as the British did a century ago, but rest assured they are indeed fucking it up.
> a pact to defend Poland that they had no business making and couldn’t keep
Had the British aliied with Germany, most likely they would together have driven the Bolsheviks back to Moscow.
In that case, Winston Churchill would have given no “Iron Curtain” speech, and there would have been no Cold War. That, of course, would have been a disaster for the weapons industry.
Much better for the people of eastern Europe, though.
Patton had it right when at the end of WWII he said we – meaning the US and Britain – had been fighting the wrong enemy.
George Lincoln Rockwell said the same thing.
Ain’t it funny how neither Britain nor US ever fought Red Russia (same with Red China), but now that they’re both fascist, especially Russia, look at US & UK (& Germany/all Europe) bait the Bear. Supposedly we were so scaredy of a nuclear holocaust that we couldn’t attack USSR, but now look at us blowing up NordStream II, attacking Russian oil refineries, attacking Moscow and St. Petersburg (killing civilians and harming civilian infrastructure) and even attempting to assassinate Putin.
How to sink a ship:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yGNzNibaN8
A perfect example of how bad it has gotten is that the US sends to real estate shysters to negotiate with serious diplomats in other country. Got to minute 20:55 in this video to see the clown show in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJRBSiTdm90
You want to pick at date when the decline was baked into the cake? How about the Six-Day War June 5 to June 10, 1967 when the US voiced absolutely no opposition the vicious settler colony’s illegal and immoral land grab, and allowed it to attempt to sink one of its own ships (the USS Liberty), the truth of which only now is beginning to be more widely recognized.
This set in motion its total subservience to IsraHell that we exist under today.
“To real estate shysters to negotiate with serious diplomats in other country” should be “two real estate shysters to negotiate with serious diplomats in other countries”. I shouldn’t post before finishing that first cup of coffee:)
I vote for November 22, 1963.
Me too:
In my many decades on this mortal coil, I have lost many friends, have been considered a “kook” and have been ostracized even by some family members for stating TRUTH.
I don’t give a damn.
Some of my detractors are now admitting that I was right, all along.
I will enter my next phase of existence knowing that I did the right thing by attempting to disseminate real TRUTH to all.
I first noticed the “jewish question” and takeover of the USA on November 22, 1963. This is where my skepticism and mistrust of government and the mainstream media originated as well as nurturing my interest in geopolitics which has served me well.
When JFK was whacked, a patsy put in place to take the fall, who was murdered by a jew (rubenstein) and the noticeable total 180 degree shift in foreign policy towards israel, I knew things would be bad from then on.
I purchased and read “The Warren Report on Assassinations” at a tender young age and thought to myself, “what a crock of sh!t”.
This shift towards israel started with LBJ achieving the presidency. The change was almost immediate.
The phony “six-day-war” instigated by the jews as well as the attempted sinking and subsequent government cover-up of the USS Liberty (AGTR-5) by israel “sealed the deal”.
Further studies led back to the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 and the jewish bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917.
The excesses of the Wiemar Republic and the world jewry declaration of war against Germany in 1933 were also factors in my awareness of what the jews were up to.
I still hold EVERY JEW on the planet collectively responsible for the actions of their brethren around the world. One can observe how jews behave in every country around the world, constantly denigrating their hosts with their mentally-ill notions of supremacy.
As far as I am concerned, ALL JEWS worldwide must be suspected of dual or no loyalty to any political entity but israel. Judaism is a political system disguised as a “religion” which has no place in the USA.
As to israel itself, it should be “delegitimized” as a political entity, its government officials and military must be tried for “crimes against humanity”.
The “ordinary (actually European transplants) jews” in israel (erroneously called “settlers”) are just as complicit in “crimes against humanity” and must be held to task for their crimes against the indigenous Palestinians as well to include every jew presently living on stolen Palestinian property.
A good start would be to invalidate every israel passport worldwide, making it unusable for identification or travel. Let the jews use their secondary passports to get around.
Continue by outlawing the possession of any passport apart from the holder’s country of declared citizenship. Dual citizenship must be abolished worldwide.
LBJ was a Jew.
“Research into Johnson’s personal history indicates that he inherited his concern for the Jewish people from his family. His aunt Jessie Johnson Hatcher, a major influence on LBJ, was a member of the Zionist Organization of America. As a young boy, Lyndon watched his politically active grandfather “Big Sam” and father “Little Sam” seek clemency for Leo Frank, the Jewish victim of a blood libel in Atlanta. Frank was lynched by a mob in 1915, and the Ku Klux Klan in Texas threatened to kill the Johnsons. Johnson’s speechwriter later stated, “Johnson often cited Leo Frank’s lynching as the source of his opposition to both anti-Semitism and isolationism.”
Already in 1934 — four years before Chamberlain’s Munich sellout to Hitler — Johnson was keenly alert to the dangers of Nazism and even gave a book of essays, “Nazism: An Assault on Civilization,” to the 21-year-old woman he was courting, Claudia Taylor — later known as “Lady Bird” Johnson.
Five days after taking office in 1937, LBJ supported an immigration bill that would naturalize illegal aliens, mostly Jews from Lithuania and Poland. In 1938, Johnson was told of a young Austrian Jewish musician who was about to be deported from the United States. LBJ sent him to the U.S. Consulate in Havana to obtain a residency permit. Erich Leinsdorf, the world-famous musician and conductor, credited LBJ with saving his live.
That same year, LBJ warned a Jewish friend, Jim Novy, that European Jews faced annihilation. “Get as many Jewish people as possible out [of Germany and Poland],” were Johnson’s instructions. Somehow, Johnson provided him with a pile of signed immigration papers that were used to get 42 Jews out of Warsaw.
But that wasn’t enough. According to historian James M. Smallwood, Johnson used legal and sometimes illegal methods to smuggle “hundreds of Jews into Texas, using Galveston as the entry port. Enough money could buy false passports and fake visas in Cuba, Mexico and other Latin American countries … Johnson smuggled boatloads and planeloads of Jews into Texas … [he] saved at least four or five hundred Jews, possibly more.”
During World War II, Johnson joined Novy at a small Austin gathering to sell $65,000 in war bonds. According to Gomolak, Novy and Johnson then raised a very “substantial sum for arms for Jewish underground fighters in Palestine.” One source cited by the historian reports that “Novy and Johnson had been secretly shipping heavy crates labeled ‘Texas Grapefruit’ — but containing arms — to Jewish underground ‘freedom fighters’ in Palestine.”
[article goes on and on about all he did for Israel: Resolution 242 (Israel don’t have to define its borders; no returning to pre 1967 borders; no mention of Jerusalem (doesn’t mention the USS Liberty) but does say this: “Kennedy was the first president to approve the sale of defensive U.S. weapons to Israel. But JOHNSON APPROVED TANKS AND FIGHTER JETS, all vital after the 1967 war when France imposed a freeze on sales to Israel.
Israel won the 1967 war, and Johnson worked to make sure it also won the peace.” (article goes on some more)
https://jweekly.com/2008/11/28/friend-ally-savior-revealing-lbj-s-jewish-ties/
You are correct. The change in USA policy was almost instantaneous after LBJ achieved the presidency…
LBJ almost single handedly wrecked the US:
(AI) “The Johnson Amendment is a 1954 provision in the U.S. tax code that prohibits 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations, including churches and other houses of worship, from endorsing or opposing political candidates. Named after its principal sponsor, then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, the law bars organizations from participating or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of, or in opposition to, any candidate for elective public office”
(AI) “The Great Society was an ambitious series of domestic policy initiatives, legislation, and programs launched by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson between 1964 and 1968. Its primary goals were to eliminate poverty, reduce racial injustice, and expand social welfare across the United States.
Key Components and Programs
• War on Poverty: Spearheaded by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which established the Office of Economic Opportunity, Job Corps, and VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America).
• Healthcare: Enacted through the Social Security Amendments of 1965, creating Medicare (health insurance for people aged 65 and older) and Medicaid (medical coverage for low-income individuals).
• Education: Passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, providing federal funding to schools with low-income students, alongside Head Start and higher education grants.
• Civil Rights & Voting: Championed landmark legislation including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (banning public segregation and employment discrimination) and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (protecting voting access)
_____________________
By declaring war on gov’t manufactured/made up “crises,” he found a new way for the federal gov’t to deprive Americans of their civil rights:
• The War on Poverty (1964). Declared by President Lyndon B. Johnson during his 1964 State of the Union address. This legislative effort created major federal programs including Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and the Food Stamp Act to reduce national poverty rates.
• The War on Crime (1930s & 1960s–1970s). Initiated in the 1930s by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and later formalized through federal policy by Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon. It led to the creation of federal law enforcement grants, stricter sentencing laws, and the expansion of federal policing.
• The War on Drugs (1971). Launched by President Richard Nixon, who called drug abuse “public enemy number one” and demanded a full-scale offensive. It resulted in the creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), mandatory minimum sentencing, and decades of domestic and international interdiction efforts.
• The War on Cancer (1971). Initiated when President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act of 1971. The campaign massively expanded federal funding for the National Cancer Institute to accelerate research into cancer prevention, detection, and treatment.
• The War on Inflation (1974). Launched by President Gerald Ford through the “Whip Inflation Now” (WIN) campaign, which urged citizens to voluntarily curb spending and conserve resources alongside federal fiscal tightening.
• The War on the Energy Crisis (1977). Framed by President Jimmy Carter as the “moral equivalent of war” during the 1970s energy shortages. It led to the creation of the Department of Energy and federal mandates for fuel efficiency and energy conservation.
• The War on Gangs (1980s–1990s). A coordinated federal and local law enforcement push aimed at dismantling street gangs and curbing gang-related violence and narcotics trafficking.
• The War on Terror (2001). Declared by President George W. Bush following the September 11 attacks. While it involved traditional military invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq, analysts note its metaphorical nature because it targeted a tactic and clandestine networks rather than a specific nation-state, leading to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and expanded surveillance powers.
• The War on COVID-19 (2020). Invoked by President Donald Trump, who referred to himself as a “wartime president” fighting an “invisible enemy.” The administration utilized the Defense Production Act to mobilize private manufacturing for medical supplies and vaccine development.
[I suspect the Roosevelts were also of Jewish heritage.]
I vote September 17, 1787.
Hi Adi,
JFK was before my time, but whenever I watch old videos of him and that time, it makes me feel the way I do when I look into one of those Christmas snow-globe things you shake to get the snow to fall around the scene. Nostalgia and sadness. And I wasn’t even there to remember it.
I think her fate was sealed from the 2008 depression. There was a deal pending to get her back to sea, but that time, the money ran out, and never really recovered. To the point though, it would have been nice to have a national ship to use for publicity and promotions of good will, or summits to happen. Even if only a static display in Washington or something.
But instead, we get what one commentor said when she was moved from the Delaware: “so long, Ikea Titanic”
The Queem Mary is still tied up in Long Beach Harbor.
Visit her if you get the chance. The engine room is impressive.
https://tinyurl.com/m9es48ae
Queen Mary.
Sorry about that.
Spending a night on the Queen Mary is definitely on my bucket list, or at least doing one of its “ghost tours”. Kudos to the city of Long Beach for considering it worth preserving and giving it a permanent home.
I was there in 2010, never went inside because you had to be a guest at the time. I did make it into that now derelict Foxtrot submarine next to her. That one was still in seagoing operational condition back then having just retired in the early 00s. It still smelled of fresh grease and diesel, and had no holes cut into the hull for wheelchairs. Probably going to be scrapped in place at this point.
‘Just like the United States itself.’ — eric
With the US election over, our overlords in little Shitrahell (which has leeched trillions from the US with its zionist permawars) are committing fresh atrocities. They just bombed Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, killing at least six including a doctor. Our tax dollars (and munitions) at work!
Meanwhile, here in the Homeland, the medical care situation is looking grim for the poors:
‘Hospitals across the country are mobilizing an expansive outreach effort in an attempt to ensure that roughly 19 million patients do not lose their insurance coverage under new Medicaid work rules that begin in January.
‘Saying the requirements are generating widespread anxiety and confusion, health care executives are using a variety of methods to help guide the Americans who will be affected. They are deploying staff and volunteers to contact patients with text messages, phone calls and offers of help.’ — NYT
In the 1950s and ’60s that Eric speaks about, we had a thing called ‘charity hospitals,’ locally funded by local people. That was before the US fedgov crated the healthcare cartel in 1965, and drove up prices by orders of magnitude. Now utterly dependent on Big Gov, rural hospitals face bankruptcy when Medicaid changes the rules to cut costs.
In passing, let us note that our rulers in little Shitrahell enjoy universal health care. As Israel’s beasts of burden, Americans on the bottom of the social spectrum get to sell their blood plasma or beg at freeway entrances if they get sick. But Iran will not get nukes!!! 🙂
We have nuclear powered naval ships. We have bunker fuel powered commercial ships. The nuclear navy refuels once ever 20 years. The fuel requirements for a commercial cargo ship are about four orders of magnitude greater than a nuclear aircraft carrier. The fuel tanks in a container ship are about 8,200 cubic meters of the space in the ship. That’s 2.2 million gallons. The solid fuel material in the two Nimitz class reactors is about 1 cubic meter (ChatGPT, public records estimate). And I get it, the container ship uses internal combustion while the nuclear carrier uses steam turbines, so from a space perspective it might not be that dramatic, but the space savings are significant.
But because that fuel will run the Nimitz for 20-25 years, it gets even worse for the container ship. Over the life of the reactor it will produce about 4.2 TWh in energy to the prop shaft (along with launching aircraft, desalinization and keeping thousands of crewmembers alive). A cargo ship will burn about 710,000 cubic meters of bunker fuel over the same period.
In 1959 a (possibly the only) nuclear powered merchant ship, the NS Savannah, entered service as a demonstration of the potential for “Atoms for Peace.” There were about 3 other examples globally, with the only one that really saw regular use as a nuclear powered vessel being the Soviet-era Sevmorput icebreaker that’s still used today, although it is owned by Russia, not an oligarch.
Nuclear power for me, but not for thee. Imagine how the cost of shipping would drop if 1) all that space taken up with bunker fuel could be more cargo, and 2) fuel becomes a fixed cost, maybe even a capital expense as part of building the ship. Sure, shipping companies would probably have to beef up security, but hiring retired Navy Seals and Green Berets isn’t anything compared the 710,000 cm³ of bunker fuel you’re burning.
Thank you, Eric, for this beautiful epitaph. I lived in Philadelphia many years, and used to see her moored in the Delaware. How upsetting to me, the giddiness by which they sank this old piece of art and feat of engineering, which they will now use to promote as a large fish tank for scuba divers. I shed a small tear last night, not so much for the rusted hulk they let her become, but that the awful fate of this ship so accurately reflects the empty husk of what used to be a pretty cool country. We too, shall list, roll over, and sink.
You bet, BAC –
It made me sad watching her slip beneath the waves. I need to take the TA out today…
Hi BAC, I think it would have been neat to view this magnificent ship, and to get some old school (disposable camera-ha ha) pictures. Her sinking is sad, tragic and all-too appropriate. Like the so-named ship, the United States is sinking, and by her own people (leaders). There is no saving this country, and many states are now over run by Communist Democratic leaders. Sad to say, even my state flipped Blue and when the idiot fools called “voters” figure out how bad things are going to get, they are going to wish Russia had taken over instead. But by then there will be nothing left to save. And Eric, take the TA out. Put some old school music on. Rock & Roll by Led Zeppelin is a good, car cruising song-hee hee. And do so while it is still legal to do so.
Stevie Ray Vaughan ‘Crossfire’ seems appropriate.
Drive the TA Eric. This looks like it might be the last week of 70’s temps here in my neck of the woods. I left the office yesterday at noon to go home for lunch, eat a quick sandwich, and hop in the Charger to enjoy a cruise back to the office to finish my day.
Now that it’s getting dark at quitting time, I got to appreciate the beauty of that shining B5 metallic blue under the light of the street lamp.
Here’s to preserving small pieces of America at her best.
You want a little bit of optimism today, check out this young girl’s videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@Firebird_Bryndi
Last night I was refueling ($3.79/gal). The next bay over there was a late 1970s TA. The owner didn’t appear to be in the mood to talk, and was fooling around with small jerry cans, so I didn’t speak to him. But man, what a difference between today’s cars! I had forgotten how low and lean the TA looked. The proportions are just right. The modern Charger and Mustang have those really high window lines (for safety of course) that just make them look bulky. And 15″ tires fit better, without the screwball RHYMS that are just something else to break when they hit a pothole.
I understand why you like it so much. And while the TA was the top of the line, I remember when the “Jim Rockford” basic looking car was everywhere.
Good stuff, RK!
You’e right. I see the contrast every time I walk past my TA to go outside to drive whatever the press car I’ve got this week is out there. A few years ago, I parked my TA next to a press car Camaro to show how cartoonishly proportioned the new Camaro is. It’s too bad the Camaro’s been cancelled as I’d love to do that comparison again!
If you went to the IKEA across the street, you would get a great view of her. Was truly in a horrible state though like you said. Would’ve been a nice attraction to the waterfront if they had fixed it up. The USS New Jersey across the river is a good example. It’s about the only thing worth going to Camden for.
I never heard of this until now. It’s a shame and it describes our condition as a national on the wane.
Most people believe that the U.S. was started on 1776 with the Declaration of Independence. It was actually founded at Jamestown in 1607. The average lifespan of any world power is 400 years, give or take a few decades.
We as nation have already ran past the expiration date and it is showing. World history also shows that power shifts between the East and the west every 500 years or so.
The west has had Great Britain and America until now. China has risen and is poised to establish it’s turn as the world power.
I agree fully, Eric. Since I first heard of it, I’ve often said the sinking of the SS United States is a fitting metaphor for the fate of our once great country. That 80 percent of people cheerleading for the cancer eating it from the inside is both telling and chilling.
It appears that there needs to be a global nuclear exchange that hopefully fries all the computers. I don’t see any other way out.
I’ll sit out in a lawn chair and wait for MIRV to show up and turn me into a forgotten joke if it makes any difference. Just as long as I know something better is coming for the survivors.