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.
  • resetbypeer@lemmy.world
    101·
    9 months ago

    Surprised they didn’t add:

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

    The usual suspects

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    47·
    9 months ago

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

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
      34·
      9 months ago

      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

  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
    471·
    9 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.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
      15·
      9 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

    • csm10495@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      9 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
        4·
        9 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.

    • 4am@lemm.ee
      52·
      9 months ago

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

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    45·
    9 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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    351·
    9 months ago

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

  • rayyy@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 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
      1·
      9 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

  • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    9 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?

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
    5·
    9 months ago

    “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.”

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    22·
    9 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.”