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.
  • 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.

  • 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!

    • 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.

    • 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.

  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    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.

    • 4am@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      Hey if jet fuel can’t melt steel beams, imagine how little a COLD BOAT would do? Checkmate, Atheists. /s

    • csm10495@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I am not qualified to have a technical discussion on this matter.

      However: big boat hurts big bridge; makes sense to me.

      • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        6 months ago

        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.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
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      6 months ago

      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

  • 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.”

  • 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

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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?