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Surprised they didn't add:
The usual suspects
How can you possibly forget some of the greatest hits? Obama’s tan suit Obama’s birth certificate Hillary’s emails
Not to mention socialism, ~~CRT~~ wokeness, affirmative action, globalism...
I'm sure Ben Shapiro will work wokeness into it somehow.
Obama's spicy dijon mustard...
Dijon mustard.
"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?"
You forgot mother of all problems: WoKeiSM!
I’m pretty sure it was that cargo ship, Dali
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.
Dam, that's a good idea.
I see what you did there. That was a dam good joke
Yeah. It really holds water.
I didn’t stay at a Fox News Propaganda Roach Motel last night, but I do have a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and I’m gonna go with the wild hypothesis that the big heavy boat hit a part of the bridge that was holding a decent amount of weight. That introduced a decent stress factor which weakened that part’s structural integrity, it started to give way, and the rest of the bridge followed suit.
But we all know big boats can’t hit bridge beams or something because open borders cause Covid lockdowns.
Idk, I have an engineering minor and I think immigrants are a much more likely cause than a giant fuckin boat crashing into the bridge
I don't have an engineering degree at all, but I design my 3D printed parts, and I think that immigrants stole the boat and rammed the bridge because the chemtrails in the sky made them all go crazy
Good thing Tennessee banned Chem trails then - https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2024/03/20/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-banning-chemtrails-what-to-know/73027586007/
I am not qualified to have a technical discussion on this matter.
However: big boat hurts big bridge; makes sense to me.
Republicans say such stupid things you don't need any real qualifications to prove them wrong. Usually, you don't even need to address whether the claim is true or false, you can just use basic logic to conclude that the claim is fallacious.
There is no logical connection between this bridge collapse and border policy or COVID response. The burden of logically linking these things lies with those making the claim. We have no burden to prove that no connection exists, we can simply point out that the claim has no logical explanation for connecting these things.
If 9/11 happened today half of Republicans on Twitter would be blaming Secretary Buttigieg before the second plane hit.
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
It’s rather important to remain calm in emergencies.
Particularly when noping the fuck out- I’m glad your cousin made it out.
Remain calm on your way out of the building.
Keep calm and GTFO.
And his coworkers?
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.
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.
well, what else happened today? Trump started selling Bibles. Coincidence? I'm just asking questions.
Absolutely right! We need to stop these cargo ships illegally emigrating to our country and taking our jobs!
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.
Why isn't Biden doing something about the migrant cargo ship crisis?!
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.
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.
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.
My son is a cargo ship and he didn't get in to the collage of his choice because of affirmative action.
Fuck Republicans.
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. 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.
TLDR; “right wing buzzword, right wing buzzword, right wing buzzword“ lol
right wing scare word.. Fox News is a terrorist organization..
Sounds about white.
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..
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.
Hey is that convicted Medicare fraudster and Florida Senator Rick Scott?
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?
"For insight into this tragedy, we turn not to anyone even remotely involved in the rescue or recovery efforts, nor an engineer of any type, but Skeletor, Scurge of Eternia, Evil Sorcerer of Snake Mountain, and He Who Stole Millions of Dollars in a Health Insurance Scam."
Who the hell stopped them from fixing the border and also imposed those COVID lockdowns?
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.