While Fox’s Maria Bartiromo tried linking the disaster to border policies, Matt Schlapp suggested it had something to do with post-COVID labor policy.
  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    If 9/11 happened today half of Republicans on Twitter would be blaming Secretary Buttigieg before the second plane hit.

  • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I think people have also been sneaking the “DEI” dogwhistle in there. Are people not tired of hearing a new scary acronym all the time?

  • rayyy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The right wing mental inbreeds will believe the stupidest shit, and if proven wrong the imprint on their minds will still cause them associate something bad connected to the bridge and border policies.

    • 4am@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      They all want to have the next podcast that gets Koch funding or whatever. Daily Wire has a position open, whoever quacks loudest might just be a ringer

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    I didn’t see them ever blame the bridge collapse on the open border. It was more of a very bad segue to a different topic while still showing images of the previous topic on-screen.

  • theodewere@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    the magic of being “conservative” right now is never taking responsibility for anything… those loud mouth shit eaters can find someone to blame for everything…

  • resetbypeer@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Surprised they didn’t add:

    • Ukraine
    • Hunter Biden’s Laptop
    • LGBTQ+ community
    • BLM
    • George Soros
    • Bill Gates

    The usual suspects

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Absolutely right! We need to stop these cargo ships illegally emigrating to our country and taking our jobs!

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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      6 months ago

      Ironically enough, we do actually have a law to stop something like this, the Jones act, which requires that ships transporting cargo between two parts of the US must be built in the US, fly our flag, and be owned and crewed by americans. All this actually does though is make shipping just a bit more expensive, because US shipbuilding is more expensive than the global average, so almost nobody builds cargo ships here, which means that ships that comply with the law are rare specialty constructs and thus even more expensive, so very few exist and trips that could be more efficiently done by ship from one US port to another are instead taken by things like trucks.

      • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        Is this why our cruise ship in hawaii (sailing only between hawaiian islands) was american flagged and crewed by americans?

        I was surprised because i always heard stories about how cruise ships are often crewed by exploited internationals and flagged in questionable jurisdictions so that workers can be abused.

        • alester82@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          That’s exactly why. It’s also why Alaska cruises make a stop in Canada along the way. If they sailed straight between Alaska and Seattle, they’d need to be US-flagged.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Damn straight!

      I applied for a data analyst role at a company last year, and after weeks of interviewing, they informed me that instead of hiring a red-blooded American patriot like me, they decided to go with a cargo ship. Can you believe that?

      Dat ship dun terk mer jerb.

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “You’re on Homeland Security. I want to understand the threats or the potential threats that this country is facing right now…

    “We go now to the headlines today, Donald Trump blah blah blah blah blah blah BLAH blah blah.”

  • Talaraine@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    I swear, hearing whatever crackpot theory these buffoons come up with is starting to sound like your own children shrieking about who’s touching who for hour 5.

  • someguy3@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    TLDW, Fox Host: “You’ve been talking a lot about the potential for wrongdoing or potential for foul play given the wide open border. That is why you’ve been so adamant.”

    Snippets of the reply from Senator whatshisname : Border border border. I don’t want Drugs, Terrorists, Criminals. Sanctuary cities. Crime. “Anyone can come into our Country and demolish our way of life.” Military age from China, scary. … Debt. Inflation. Border. Inflation. Fox host: Inflation. Inflation. Inflation.