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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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    Surprised they didn’t add:

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

    The usual suspects

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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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        Not to mention socialism, CRT wokeness, affirmative action, globalism…

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

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        Obama’s spicy dijon mustard…

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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.

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            https://newrepublic.com/article/117504/obama-failed-foodies

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              Thank you for this!

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        Dijon mustard.

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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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      You forgot mother of all problems: WoKeiSM!

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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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      There was one Ukrainian crew member actually so the conspiracy theorists are going crazy.

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

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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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    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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        Remain calm on your way out of the building.

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    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.

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      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

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        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

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          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/

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          U forgot the Covid tho

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          …and they couldn’t mentally overcome the chemtrails because all the 5G activated their COVID vaccines to turn them into government slaves. IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB! And no one has the fucking balls to say it.

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

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

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        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.

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

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

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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.

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      *jorbs

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    Fuck Republicans.

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    Sounds about white.

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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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    Hey is that convicted Medicare fraudster and Florida Senator Rick Scott?

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    deleted by creator

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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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    Stop giving Fox News attention.

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    At this point they will likely blame their constipation with the Open Border and COVID lockdowns

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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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