Ignorant Sen James Risch, R Wishes Navy a Happy Birthday with Photo of Chinese-Made Warship

[HAB911]

A U.S. senator’s birthday greeting Wednesday to the U.S. Navy on Twitter turned out to be anything but happy after commenters noticed the photo of a ship accompanying the tweet was not one of the Navy’s.

“For 246 years, the @USNavy has answered the call to defend America from threats abroad so we can remain safe at home,” Sen. James Risch, an Idaho Republican, wrote. “Today, we celebrate them.”

Below the message was the U.S. Navy logo over a somewhat shaded photo of a large, gray vessel.

“Not a U.S. ship,” Dave Brown, defense editor at Politico, tweeted back. “Appears to be a Pattani-class offshore patrol vessel belonging to the Royal Thai Navy, which means in it was built by China.”

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/10/14/idaho-senator-wishes-navy-happy-birthday-photo-of-chinese-made-warship.html

[tanyev]

1. Are they outsourcing their tweets?

I just googled "U.S. Navy ship" and the first page of images was nothing but U.S. ships. You'd almost have to be deliberately trying to screw up something that easy.

[HAB911]

3. dumb lazy staff seems to be a recurring problem with Rs

[Tetrachloride]

2. Hammer this guy with search terms

USS Ronald Reagan
USS Jimmy Carter
USS Constitution
USS Wisconsin
USS Iowa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_(BB-61)

[sarisataka]

7. Keep it simple

Just search: US Navy ship

Most of these mistakes could be avoided if they simply typed two more letters. My cynical side suggests it shows how much they actually value the US military.

[Champp]

4. "Hillary's emails tricked me into this egregious boner" - republican Senator JR

[marble falls]

5. Just another boiler plate patriot. We know who our real friends are.

[sanatanadharma]

6. Right wing talking points, resources, picture collections for press releases, tweets, etc...

It seems as though right wing talking points, resources, picture collections for press releases, tweets, etc...

...were compiled by Russian groups who themselves Googled 'boat' or 'gun' or 'tank' etc, resulting in their getting local results, then compiled and sent to Moscow Mitch for dissemination throughout the always-wrong-right borg-team.

Short and shallow thinking fails to see the gestalt; valid connections are ignored, conspiracies invented, just to maintain the illusion of being right.