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
    145·
    9 months ago

    Surprised they didn’t add:

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

    The usual suspects

  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
    761·
    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
      27·
      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
      24·
      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
        10·
        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
      72·
      9 months ago

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

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    67·
    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
      49·
      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

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    62·
    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.

      • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        Yeah what if someone could make a bunch of money doing nothing and then lying on “news” programming about anything they can get away with for their own gain? Won’t someone please think of the robber barons and clergy and how this affects their ability to suppress and control the population??

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    511·
    9 months ago

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

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
      321·
      9 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
      26·
      9 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
        9·
        9 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
          13·
          9 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.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    9 months ago

    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.

  • theodewere@kbin.social
    14·
    9 months ago

    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…

  • rayyy@lemmy.world
    13·
    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
      2·
      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
    9·
    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
    8·
    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.”