No MinisterFriday’s Quick Hits
A roundup of fun and insanity.
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Britain now down to five operational frigates
I didn’t expect the Royal Navy to collapse further in the brief time since I wrote my post, Britannia Rues The Waves, but here we are:
HMS Iron Duke has been stripped of her weapons and sensors and has not been to sea since October 2025, despite no formal decommissioning announcement being made.
Every navy in the world is constantly decommissioning warships as they age and become obsolete, not worth a re-fit. The US Navy recently made that decision for a Los-Angeles class attack submarine, the USS Boise (SSN-764), which had been sitting in dock since 2015 waiting for a refit, the contract for which was only finally awarded in 2024. But the Navy realised its remaining 20% of service life, perhaps three deployments, wasn’t worth another $1.9 billion, which is better spent on newer subs.
But in the case of HMS Iron Duke the refit had already been done:
Iron Duke had been laid up in Portsmouth since 2017 and arrived at Devonport in such poor condition that the structural work on her hull was almost twice what had been needed on any previous ship in the class….The withdrawal comes less than three years after a £103 million refit that by any measure was extraordinary in its scope. The work took 49 months and more than 1.7 million man-hours, and was described as the most complex ever carried out on a Type 23.
Any investor understands the sunk cost fallacy, but this wasn’t a question of finishing the job, as with the USS Boise. The Iron Duke had been at sea as recently as late last year and even if it wasn’t worth upgrading her further why just pull her from service when there are so few ships?
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Artiste
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/2051328121345876154
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More Green Party Hilarity
https://twitter.com/ArchRose90/status/2051590271331143947
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More News of Cultural Enrichment
https://twitter.com/Ryandally08/status/2051778095485702541
…. which the female staffer said may be offensive to other cultures. “She grabbed me by the arm and said ill need you to button your cardigan up to cover yourself to protect the other cultures in the lounge”
Bitch should have been wearing a hijab, but it could have been worse for her.
https://twitter.com/LizaRosen0000/status/2051375960910340542
Filed under “Useful Idiots”. Speaking of which, in the USA….
https://twitter.com/christopherrufo/status/2052127445999136981
The irony of a Rich, White Male giving her shitty Islamic-Jihadist-Adjacent group $40 million I’m sure never occurs to her. And before unloading the usual bunch of modern Left Identity Politics BS perhaps Ms Billoo should – like the Greens Antoinette Fernandez – look into her family’s past to see if they were part of the slave trade, since the East African Muslim route was even larger than the trans-Atlantic one.
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More Identity Politics for the Win
This is where it gets you.
https://twitter.com/RachelMoiselle/status/2051959471908290702
Speaking of Jew Hate, after years of saying that Trump is Hitler and the GOP are Nazis, the Democrat Party have decided that none of that matters now – and the head of The Babylon Bee once again realises that their satire cannot match reality.
https://twitter.com/The_Kyle_Mann/status/2051373239558144400
Mr Platner is more popular with Maine Democrats than their former Governor, which is why she exited the race for the Senate seat this year, making his nomination a certainty. I’m not a big fan of the incumbent, Republican Susan Collins, but I’ll be grabbing popcorn when she debates this asshole.
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But as always Democrat voters know who to really hate.
https://twitter.com/Geniustechw/status/2051844397063688421
Now she doesn’t suggest actually gassing them, she just wants to put them into a big room that looks like a gas chamber and tell them they’re going to be gassed so they can shit themselves in terror.
I don’t think she’s thought this through. Does she really think that right-wingers subjected to such terror are going to be all meek and mild with people like her when they get out? They’ll learn a lesson all right, but certainly not the one she intended.
She’d also likely include this guy, even though he’s a big Democrat online influencer and hates Trump and the GOP, because he made That One Fatal Mistake that all Lefies make sooner or later when they step out of line on just one thing.
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/2052067377471250624
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The People Have Chosen – And They Must Be Punished
In various parts of the USA, from New York City, Mayor Mamdani’s brain fart on taxes it looks like it’s going to produce the expected effect (not expected by him of course)…
https://twitter.com/WallStRollup/status/2051741291268964646
…. to California where decades of hating on oil companies has finally produced the expected result.
https://twitter.com/SenValladares/status/2051366058213228734
Those Californians who move to Mississippi will not only appreciate being able to gas up their cars and enjoy a lower cost of living, but their kids will be better educated.
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/2051710034568982878
To be fair there are more than a few Nick Kristof’s out there who understands what’s happening to his beloved Democrats and their states, but he and his ilk are outnumbered by the teachers unions and Lefty academics.
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Flyboys
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/2051922182767362227
#AntisemitismJewHatred #California #DemocratCities #DemocratParty #DoubleStandards #GreenParty #HypocrisyHypocrites #NewYorkCityNYCAndState #Slavery #UsefulIdiots #ZohranMamdani