The lessons to take from this:

1) If you're in the US, leverage that legal protection to say these things for your UK friends who can't!

2) Stop fucking giving Head Bigot JK Rowling money to finance legal terrorism against people who identify raging bigots as raging bigots.

Agreed. Still gives me chills every time I read it.

Trump's main problem with current USN ships is that they're "ugly", and he's going to use his "great sense of aesthetics" to make the new class "beautiful".

I'm sure a cruiser hull covered with golden Home Depot decorative moldings will TERRIFY our enemies.