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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Right-Wing Media Blames Bridge Collapse on ‘Open Border’ and COVID Lockdowns

www.thedailybeast.com

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Right-Wing Media Blames Bridge Collapse on ‘Open Border’ and COVID Lockdowns

www.thedailybeast.com

jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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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.
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  • theodewere@kbin.social
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    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…

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    That is a serious disconnect from reality.

    I mean, this was a failure on multiple levels, but Covid and immigration aren’t anywhere near the list of things that went wrong.

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      well, what else happened today? Trump started selling Bibles. Coincidence? I’m just asking questions.

  • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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    Fuck Republicans.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    Hey is that convicted Medicare fraudster and Florida Senator Rick Scott?

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    Absolutely right! We need to stop these cargo ships illegally emigrating to our country and taking our jobs!

    • Optional@lemmy.world
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      *jorbs

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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      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.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        Why isn’t Biden doing something about the migrant cargo ship crisis?!

        • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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          And for that matter, why didn’t Obama stop this one?

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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            Probably something to do with Benghazi. We should have a congressional investigation into that.

            • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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              Well all know Benghazi happened because of Hunter Bidern’s laptop.

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      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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        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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          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.

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      My son is a cargo ship and he didn’t get in to the collage of his choice because of affirmative action.

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      *immigrate

      Emigrate from, immigrate to.

      • LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz
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        It was leaving

  • BuckFigotstheThird@lemmy.world
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    Stop giving Fox News attention.

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    They should test the whole team for illegal substances. What kind of hard and illegal drugs does one have to take to come to such “conclusions”?

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

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      Fun fact: I had a cousin in the second tower on 9/11. They told everyone in his office to remain calm and he was just like “nope” and got the fuck out

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        It’s rather important to remain calm in emergencies.

        Particularly when noping the fuck out- I’m glad your cousin made it out.

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        And his coworkers?

        • diffcalculus@lemmy.world
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          To shreds, you say?

          • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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            I like you

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            Obviously it’s not “too soon” for a 9/11 joke, but what made you think this was appropriate to say to someone who has one degree of separation from this tragedy?

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          I think they made the “nope” decision as a group (or at least his team). I was young when it happened and honestly haven’t brought it up with him since. I figure it’s kind of a traumatic thing to just bring up at a family gathering.

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        Remain calm on your way out of the building.

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          Keep calm and GTFO.

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    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?

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    Surprised they didn’t add:

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

    The usual suspects

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      You forgot mother of all problems: WoKeiSM!

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      How can you possibly forget some of the greatest hits? Obama’s tan suit Obama’s birth certificate Hillary’s emails

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        Obama’s spicy dijon mustard…

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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        Not to mention socialism, CRT wokeness, affirmative action, globalism…

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          I’m sure Ben Shapiro will work wokeness into it somehow.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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        Dijon mustard.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
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        What, no love for arugula-gate?

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          I’m feeling giddy inside because I have not yet heard of arugula-gate. Please share.

          • Optional@lemmy.world
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            https://newrepublic.com/article/117504/obama-failed-foodies

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              Thank you for this!

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      You forgot Buttery Males!

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      “Yes, Marjorie, you keep telling us how magnificent Hunter’s penis is, but it probably didn’t knock the bridge down. Now can you please put the pictures away?”

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      Jewish space laser. Everyone knows that.

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      They are. Don’t read twitter. Any republican buzzword is being thrown around as conspiracy theories for this accident.

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    “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.”

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    Who the hell stopped them from fixing the border and also imposed those COVID lockdowns?

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    I’m pretty sure it was that cargo ship, Dali

    • stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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      That’s true but if we’d built a border wall in the middle of that river instead of a bridge then the bridge wouldn’t have collapsed… walls do work.

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        Dam, that’s a good idea.

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          I see what you did there. That was a dam good joke

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            Yeah. It really holds water.

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    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.

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      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

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    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.

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      That is far too kind a description.

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        Indeed. Children eventually grow up.

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