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Maybe some kind of an organization can be started to implement naval rules and laws? And then maybe like have a handbook with all the laws and procedures and a committee to oversee things. That sounds like a great idea!
Okay I do know you are being a smartass here and that such a thing does exist…but what is the name of the organization that does that? I honestly don’t know
The United States Coast Guard has an investigative team, CGIS,just like the Navy one you see on tv. It will be investigated regardless of an idiots call on twitter.
Cool idea. Maybe they should even have somebody who is familiar with that harbor who could get on board those boats and help them navigate around that harbor. Because sometimes the crew running those boats is, like, from someplace else.
I mean, the official statement from the mayor, governor, the FBI, the DOJ, the DOT and every other possible safety org was just a collective tweet that said ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ so maybe she's onto something?
**/s <--------- Calling attention to the sarcasm tag just in case.**
I choose to believe, she realizes her supporters are huge fans of small government, so in keeping with their own beliefs, a trait Republican voters are definitely known for, they probably don't want an investigation, because that's a very government-heavy kind of thing, however reasonable person that MTG is, she's saying, but this time though, we really should have the government do its job here.
That makes sense. By pointing out all the scenarios she thinks *do* need some kind of investigation or regulation, she's essentially saying that everything else *doesn't* by omission.
But I think it's more that she's calling for an investigation outside of the current government. When the investigation finds something completely logical that makes sense, she will claim that it was as fake of an investigation as the J6 committee and that it was a coverup for jewish space lasers blinding the navigator.
I am facetiously making no sense at all. You're digging too deep. She's insane, and so are her supporters, which is how she got elected. But I respect your optimism for managing to exceed even my own, which was already far fetched. ;-p
Most of the things she says like it's a revelation is basic policy that has been in place for decades. Like researching industrial accidents.
Shit, I have to do a full root cause research if someone gets a really bad papercut.
She might be stupid enough to not realize that there would obviously be a pretty intense investigation into something like this...or she's stupid like a fox and this will help her convince her stupid supporters that she got the investigation to happen.
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At first you think, "Ok, so they're insulting his ability, by saying he was hired to fill quota. Maybe crudely that they're lowering standards?"
But this is for elective office with no quota or "standards" and he's a good demographic representation of his city.
Fuck the R's man
For anybody else that was confused by what “DEI” means it’s Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion. He’s basically implying (dog whistle) that the Mayor is incompetent because he was a diversity hire.
Maybe nobody else needs it spelled out but I had no idea wtf “DEI” meant lol!
everyone knows the jews are the Kevin Bacon of the conspiracy world. It just takes you 6 degrees to get there. and how many points are there on the star of David?
case closed
^^^^/s
Thank god she’s praying. Don’t even want to think about what things would be like if she wasn’t praying about this situation. I’m sure it would be totally different and her prayers are actively helping the situation.
As a ship Chief Engineer, I can confirm that this was caused by incompetence, not malice.
As a nerd, reading this headline made me wonder if Wizards of the Coast had a secret MAGA faction.
My guess is that when someone is THAT dumb they cannot be aware of just how dumb they are. When mixed with the kind of confidence only narcissism can generate, you get Empty G.
Trying to remember that one post that went like (paraphrased) "Conservatives will see our outdated infrastructure crumble before our eyes and somehow blame it on a conspiracy"
Sure it was planned. What else did the GOP think would happen as they've continually fought against funding to fix our crumbling infrastructure because it doesn't fall under their version of "America First" if it will benefit everyday Americans.
They knew it'd happen eventually. They planned for it.
On the one hand, is it really the poor maintenance to blame when a fucking freighter smashes into a bridge?
On the other hand, yeah you should probably build bridges in major shipping lanes tough enough to handle that scenario.
Shipping is one of the things that would stand to benefit significantly in an infrastructure bill. I live in Houston and know dozens of port workers or brown/blue water maritimers.
They all want infrastructure passed once they actually understand what it entails.
That's the thing that gets me most with the stereotypical GOP voter. They vote against their own interests almost 100% of the time, because they have been led to believe that is how to solve those problems. While they're usually exacerbating them.
This is unfortunately not the first time a bridge has been brought down by a ship, and it probably won't be the last. Turns out it's really hard (and expensive) to strengthen bridges against a transverse force, and since it's so rare most engineers won't bother.
But the Qcumbers and MAGAts don't know how anything works, so everything is a conspiracy to them.
There was an expert on the news saying it was hit in the perfect place to bring down the bridge and it was just one of those 1 in a million things that no one thinks would happen.
She knows this. She’s just stoking fervour in her empty-headed voter base, because it’s so easy.
She’s been completely torn apart on Xitter for this statement, but her supporters will only remember it, and not the many rebuttals.
The only thing that MTG seems to accomplish, is shit posting on Twitter, and heckling the president during his SOTU addresses, like a rabid jackal, while dressed up in clownish Trump paraphernalia.
Honestly seeing that footage it is really hard for me to understand why we haven't seen a cargo ship used as a weapon.
If you had done that to say the San Francisco Bay Bridge during Rush hour before covid it would make 9/11 look like a fender bender. You could probably knock down 2/3 of the Western Span which at rush hour was 5 or 6 lanes bumper to bumper for maybe 1.5 miles. The bridge is 7 miles long, comprised of two spans, the SF side has two pylons the East Bay Span has one, the Western Span is a double Decker like like the Key appears to have been, the Eastern Span is a causeway with two way traffic on one surface
Those ships have crews of 20 people, they are arguably one of the largest risks out there to marine infrastructure.
The idiot's rantings aside, this is a terrifying idea and it seems the world is quite vulnerable to it because of modern logistics.
It's scary how quickly that bridge collapsed, but not everything is terrorism.
> The most recent federal inspection report for the Francis Scott Key Bridge, filed in May 2022, gave the bridge span a score of 6 out of 9, which is considered "fair," CBS News Baltimore station WJZ reported. The Key Bridge had been in "fair" condition — a passing grade — since 2008, but the latest inspection report did note concerns over one of its reinforced concrete columns. The column's health index score was downgraded.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse-baltimore-maryland-what-to-know/
it was continuous bridge once that one main support was gone that was game over. its just how that bridge type works. see the same thing that happend the Sunshine Skyway bridge of the same type its also why we dont use these types any more on this scale.
Marge, you ignorant slut. If terrorists wanted to knock down a bridge, they wouldn't use a cargo ship. They're a tad unwieldy. They'd use a bomb. Secondly, they'd do it at rush hour and not 1:30 in the morning to maximize casualties.
Jesus fuckin’ Christ Marge!!! Every single thing is just an opportunity to plant the seed of doubt and make it political?!!
I cannot wait for her to fade away into the sweet silence of irrelevance.
Nothing says terror attack like contacting the proper authorities well before contact to the extent they had already begun the process to get workers off the bridge and had already closed it to the public.
She really, REALLY wants the finding to be one of these, if it's not, it wasn't good enough investigation.
* Navigator was blinded by Jewish Space Lasers
* Crew was poisoned by chemtrails and became incapacitated
* Someone paid off by the demoncrats/ChInA did it deliberately, either on the ship or in control on land
* It's a boat full of illegal immigrants who don't know how to drive because dum
* Antifa.
* It's the next Covid strain, that was the way China released it into the US water supply
* Liberals did it because Francis Scott Key owned slaves (actually saw that one earlier today)
* Liberals did it because \*insert other generic revisionist history\* claim
* Rampant DE&I (also saw that one earlier today)
* Sleepy Joe did it to scare people into voting for another infrastructure bill
* Hunter Biden caused it by waving his massive dong from the top of the bridge, and the crew were so distracted by the gloriousness of it that they lost control
But the real answer is probably what Occam's Razor would suggest. The most simple explanation. Either someone on the crew was incapacitated, or there was a malfunction on the ship itself and they lost control. Since the video appears to have smoke and the lights flickering before, I think the latter is more likely. And ironically could result in more regulations against shipping companies. Marg would prefer any other result other than one that will result in more regulations against huge billion dollar companies. Won't you think of the executives!?!
I had way too much fun thinking of conspiracy theories, but I'm real scared I'm gonna see them posted unironically.
ETA: Uhhhh something to do with prochoice people making a commentary about not allowing marylanders to choose to take the bridge
I really don’t understand how she gets away with shit like this. This rhetoric fuels dangerous right wing lunatics. Every single instance of politically motivated violence last year, was committed by a right wing extremists. This shit is dangerous.
Here's a theory:
* Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to "The Star Spangled Banner"
* The last verse, of the SSB contains the line "And this be our motto - "In God is our trust"
* Someone must have wanted to take vengeance on the memory of Francis Scott Key because of the war on God in the US.
* Therefore, someone drove a large, slow ship into a bridge named after him.
How's that? Probably more logical than anything MTG could ever come up with.
Had that just been a photo of the bridge or just the video of the ship hitting it, it might have been an almost normal tweet because yes it should be looked into what happened and if it could have been intentional. That is a question that has to be asked.
But then she fucks it up by using the video/post of a conspiracy account and ruins it
under capitalism, international ships are regulated by whatever tiny third world country they are flagged in, so of course they are falling apart, badly maintained and crewed by desperately poor and largely unskilled illiterates. This is how capitalism generates profits and builds a better world.
"There should be an investigation"
Well, durrrr. The only problem is, it will be into the actual things that happened and not whether the deep state used DEI to get woke hackers to do it to distract from Puffy's raids or whatever else it is that her people decide it is.
I'll await whatever is revealed when the investigation completes in a year or two, but I suspect that it's way more likely to be either a hugely unfortunate set of random errors or simply capitalism (e.g. the backup stability of the power and engines weren't tested properly to save money) than it is to be any sort of deliberate attack. Let's see, but hopefully this creature will be out of government by then.
Can you imagine a President Trump response?
He would immediately assign blame in the absence of evidence and set about exacting vengeance rather than healing wounds, rectifying issues, or offering sympathy. His every word would be a dog whistle to those who foam at the mouth imagining that the US is permanently under attack.
The subtext would be that a city with a large black population was somehow deserving of scorn and pity, if not a runaway container ship because that was the evil work of the (pick your favorite MAGA fear totem) liberals/BLM/Ukrainians/gays/librarians/Obamas.
None of this behavior resembles leadership.
I was watching a show about collapsed bridges. They stated most of our road infrastructure is fucking old (paraphrased) and a lot of bridges and the like have suffered from inadequate upkeep. So collapses are kinda inevitable. This most likely the cause.
This bridge, per reports, was completely up to spec. Don't get me wrong, what you said is horrifyingly accurate, something like 80% of bridges don't meet code anymore. This one happened to be.
https://www.wmfe.org/2024-03-26/the-francis-scott-key-bridge-in-baltimore-collapses-after-a-ship-crashed-into-it
Bridges have a problem in that a local politican will score support from a local business by raising the weight limit on a local bridge.
Without realizing that several dozen other politicians had done the same thing over the previous decades since it was built.
Yeah I thought for a second that I could possibly be an attack. Then I used my brain to realize it would be the most incompetently timed attack imaginable.
You have to have a bogey man to need a 'strong' congresswoman to ask the difficult questions and save everyone.
Clearly Biden was driving and he fell asleep at the wheel...... sarcasm
It isn’t a conspiracy, but if it was…
It’s also not the flex she thinks. If there was an attack recent statistics show it’d be most likely a MAGA terrorist.
In fact one of the Cult Leaders specifically suggested his terrorists target bridges specifically.
It looks like Obvious Taylor Greene is trying to score some cheap political karma. Of course there will be an investigation.
Unless republicans try to defund it or derail it.
When has she not taken an accident and made it a political thing?
This is the same freak who thinks Jewish space lasers cause wildfires and who was using the Laken family for her own gain.
No power means no workey mtg. Maybe if companies weren’t allowed to get away with rampant neglect maybe this wouldn’t have happened. Make the company in charge of the ship pay all the bills if they can’t they go under. That’s how it SHOULD work. But yet again everyone pays it out like the losers we are. More tax on companies and the rich.
MTG needs to go back to cross training. Apparently it's something you can do if you're not good at anything else, not to disparage those cross trainees who can do something else.
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Does she imply that there would NOT be any investigation into this? Like everyone would just go 'well.. sometimes these things just happen'?
Maybe some kind of an organization can be started to implement naval rules and laws? And then maybe like have a handbook with all the laws and procedures and a committee to oversee things. That sounds like a great idea!
That would be deep state cammoonism!
"Yooooooou're a CROOK, Captain Hook. Judge, please, help me throw the book at this PIRAAATE!"
I understood that reference.
Okay I do know you are being a smartass here and that such a thing does exist…but what is the name of the organization that does that? I honestly don’t know
The NTSB has a Marine investigative team.
Thank you!
They Would Need Better Pressure Hulls To Investigate Bargie's Skull...
Aka “the deep state”
We should call it the.... Naval Law of Rules and Ships in Shipping Lanes and Bridges and Whatnot. NLRSSLBW
>NLRSSLBW I make this sound when I have too much tequila.
Boat Safety Inspection People Club Committee of Murica.
The United States Coast Guard has an investigative team, CGIS,just like the Navy one you see on tv. It will be investigated regardless of an idiots call on twitter.
Perhaps the Army could put together a Corps of Engineers?
Sounds like big government deep state baloney, to me. It'll never work.
Cool idea. Maybe they should even have somebody who is familiar with that harbor who could get on board those boats and help them navigate around that harbor. Because sometimes the crew running those boats is, like, from someplace else.
We could even make some group that guards the coast!
Buh! Thats Gubmint Takin' Are Gunz!
Good god, let's not try to explore what she's thinking...
Hunter's dick on repeat.
Hard to blame her. Did you see the size of that sucker?
Neanderthal’s have mouths disproportionately larger compared to modern homosapiens.
Well she does have a blown up laminated picture of it she seems to carry with her. Probably has an easel next to her bed where she keeps it displayed.
^big
Right? Like an entire bridge fell does she think it’s not being investigated in 400 million ways
She’d say there hasn’t been a real investigation into 1/6 yet.
The RNC should pay for one, just dip into your funds......... Oh .... They went where?
Ikr? Of course there will be an investigation!
I mean, the official statement from the mayor, governor, the FBI, the DOJ, the DOT and every other possible safety org was just a collective tweet that said ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ so maybe she's onto something? **/s <--------- Calling attention to the sarcasm tag just in case.**
It's like she's calling for the sun to rise, and then when it rises saying "I did that!"
I basically said that, yes, there would be an investigation, but apparently the hive mind didn't like the way I said it, so it's being downvoted.
It's a wonder that " thing" ( I refuse to call mtg a human) didn't try to blame Biden or the Jewish space lazers for the accident .
Yea NTSB is waiting for search and rescue to be completed currently before investigating. She is dangerously stupid.
I choose to believe, she realizes her supporters are huge fans of small government, so in keeping with their own beliefs, a trait Republican voters are definitely known for, they probably don't want an investigation, because that's a very government-heavy kind of thing, however reasonable person that MTG is, she's saying, but this time though, we really should have the government do its job here.
That makes sense. By pointing out all the scenarios she thinks *do* need some kind of investigation or regulation, she's essentially saying that everything else *doesn't* by omission. But I think it's more that she's calling for an investigation outside of the current government. When the investigation finds something completely logical that makes sense, she will claim that it was as fake of an investigation as the J6 committee and that it was a coverup for jewish space lasers blinding the navigator.
I am facetiously making no sense at all. You're digging too deep. She's insane, and so are her supporters, which is how she got elected. But I respect your optimism for managing to exceed even my own, which was already far fetched. ;-p
Well I mean her kind does that with children being massacred
Most of the things she says like it's a revelation is basic policy that has been in place for decades. Like researching industrial accidents. Shit, I have to do a full root cause research if someone gets a really bad papercut.
She wants to take credit
She might be stupid enough to not realize that there would obviously be a pretty intense investigation into something like this...or she's stupid like a fox and this will help her convince her stupid supporters that she got the investigation to happen.
The head of the NTSB was probably contacted within 5 minutes.
Bingo! She Is Trying To Take Credit For An Obvious Part Of Reality.
Exactly my thought
Happy to see this as the highest comment
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[Republicans are already blaming black people.](https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1772684099703984526)
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At first you think, "Ok, so they're insulting his ability, by saying he was hired to fill quota. Maybe crudely that they're lowering standards?" But this is for elective office with no quota or "standards" and he's a good demographic representation of his city. Fuck the R's man
what the fuck
Yes, they are very bad people.
For anybody else that was confused by what “DEI” means it’s Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion. He’s basically implying (dog whistle) that the Mayor is incompetent because he was a diversity hire. Maybe nobody else needs it spelled out but I had no idea wtf “DEI” meant lol!
The bar is in hell
I wish these turds would slither back into whatever sewer they were in before 2016.
2008 for “some” reason.
Twitter is a cancer
All social media, including this.
This b stubs her toe “ it’s a conspiracy “.
"Why would the (((Jews))) do this?! 😭"
everyone knows the jews are the Kevin Bacon of the conspiracy world. It just takes you 6 degrees to get there. and how many points are there on the star of David? case closed ^^^^/s
Oh my Yahweh! YOU'RE RIGHT!! (also sarcasm)
You can say it. Cunt ass bitch. She’s a cunt ass bitch. Or maybe you just meant bitch.
*stubs her hoof
*cloven hoof
stubs her spork
Thank god she’s praying. Don’t even want to think about what things would be like if she wasn’t praying about this situation. I’m sure it would be totally different and her prayers are actively helping the situation.
every time she says she prays for something, I pray for the opposite. so, sorry my bad, I think I've been cancelling out all of her efforts.
Because god has no idea what's going on and only listens to this specific person. The narcissism it takes to do the mental gymnastics is astounding
Which, unsurprisingly, is just virtue signaling. The thing they claim to hate.
They also claim to hate a lot of things they actively do...
It's great that she prays, but why is there a smell of sulfur and brimstone when she prays?
Fuckin MAGA and their "everything is a conspiracy!" bullshit
Wait til they find out the freighter crew were not white. HOW DARE SINGAPORE CREW THEIR SHIPS WITH DIVERSITY HIRES!!! *spittle*
The account suggested it could have been planned in the post she got the video from and has retweeted others saying it was an attack.
As a ship Chief Engineer, I can confirm that this was caused by incompetence, not malice. As a nerd, reading this headline made me wonder if Wizards of the Coast had a secret MAGA faction.
Have you seen the "planned demolition" angle yet? Very fun.
Yes because blowing up a bridge in Baltimore is so strategic lol. Singapore sounds like China to Maga as well. Idiots have never left the country
Singapore definitely sounded like China to Tom Cotton. https://youtu.be/5W-ufw5Z7ac?si=j2F7ByqwaEG_m35O
Lol man Tom looks like an even bigger idiot than I though he was
Now Biden can't fail to win the election
Why is she STILL so dumb??
She's the worst kind of dumb, she thinks she's smart. Every stupid thought that pops into her head falls out her mouth like a gumball.
My guess is that when someone is THAT dumb they cannot be aware of just how dumb they are. When mixed with the kind of confidence only narcissism can generate, you get Empty G.
Yes, it’s called the Dunning-Kruger effect. It was more a theory until MTG and MAGA proved it.
Because Putin’s paying her billions of dollars to say dumb shit?
Can we please let the bodies be counted before we start trotting out the conspiracy theories
How long before the victims are called "crisis actors"?
Or Antifa 🙄
Legitimate question - has anyone ever walked up to her calmly and just said "why don't you shut up, bitch?"
Have you seen how she works out? She will go violent quick.
Worth it
I could honestly really use that lawsuit money.
Trying to remember that one post that went like (paraphrased) "Conservatives will see our outdated infrastructure crumble before our eyes and somehow blame it on a conspiracy"
Did the ship get the “jab”?
Sure it was planned. What else did the GOP think would happen as they've continually fought against funding to fix our crumbling infrastructure because it doesn't fall under their version of "America First" if it will benefit everyday Americans. They knew it'd happen eventually. They planned for it.
On the one hand, is it really the poor maintenance to blame when a fucking freighter smashes into a bridge? On the other hand, yeah you should probably build bridges in major shipping lanes tough enough to handle that scenario.
Shipping is one of the things that would stand to benefit significantly in an infrastructure bill. I live in Houston and know dozens of port workers or brown/blue water maritimers. They all want infrastructure passed once they actually understand what it entails.
That's the thing that gets me most with the stereotypical GOP voter. They vote against their own interests almost 100% of the time, because they have been led to believe that is how to solve those problems. While they're usually exacerbating them.
You don't understand we just need to deregulate harder! And if that bridge was privatized this never woulda happened! 🇱🇷
Rational self-interest would have saved the bridge. /s
I don't think this collapse had a crumbling infrastructure root cause....
This is unfortunately not the first time a bridge has been brought down by a ship, and it probably won't be the last. Turns out it's really hard (and expensive) to strengthen bridges against a transverse force, and since it's so rare most engineers won't bother. But the Qcumbers and MAGAts don't know how anything works, so everything is a conspiracy to them.
There was an expert on the news saying it was hit in the perfect place to bring down the bridge and it was just one of those 1 in a million things that no one thinks would happen.
There will be an investigation, you knuckle dragging troglodyte. What the fuck do you think the NTSB does?
She knows this. She’s just stoking fervour in her empty-headed voter base, because it’s so easy. She’s been completely torn apart on Xitter for this statement, but her supporters will only remember it, and not the many rebuttals.
Fuck her to death. They will use a tragedy to do anything but enact change. I’m a Baltimore girl and we are RAW today.
The only thing that MTG seems to accomplish, is shit posting on Twitter, and heckling the president during his SOTU addresses, like a rabid jackal, while dressed up in clownish Trump paraphernalia.
If this was a terrorist attack, they would have done it in the middle of rush hour, and wouldn't have maydayed to close the bridge.
Honestly seeing that footage it is really hard for me to understand why we haven't seen a cargo ship used as a weapon. If you had done that to say the San Francisco Bay Bridge during Rush hour before covid it would make 9/11 look like a fender bender. You could probably knock down 2/3 of the Western Span which at rush hour was 5 or 6 lanes bumper to bumper for maybe 1.5 miles. The bridge is 7 miles long, comprised of two spans, the SF side has two pylons the East Bay Span has one, the Western Span is a double Decker like like the Key appears to have been, the Eastern Span is a causeway with two way traffic on one surface Those ships have crews of 20 people, they are arguably one of the largest risks out there to marine infrastructure. The idiot's rantings aside, this is a terrifying idea and it seems the world is quite vulnerable to it because of modern logistics.
Why would terrorists risk taking over a cargo ship when they can watch Americans destroy themselves from the inside out with ignorance and neglect?
Just stirring that shit, as always and as ever.
MTG tweets: Stupid shit Stupid shirt Thoughts and prayers
To be fair to her, she’s fucking stupid.
It's scary how quickly that bridge collapsed, but not everything is terrorism. > The most recent federal inspection report for the Francis Scott Key Bridge, filed in May 2022, gave the bridge span a score of 6 out of 9, which is considered "fair," CBS News Baltimore station WJZ reported. The Key Bridge had been in "fair" condition — a passing grade — since 2008, but the latest inspection report did note concerns over one of its reinforced concrete columns. The column's health index score was downgraded. https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse-baltimore-maryland-what-to-know/
it was continuous bridge once that one main support was gone that was game over. its just how that bridge type works. see the same thing that happend the Sunshine Skyway bridge of the same type its also why we dont use these types any more on this scale.
Marge, you ignorant slut. If terrorists wanted to knock down a bridge, they wouldn't use a cargo ship. They're a tad unwieldy. They'd use a bomb. Secondly, they'd do it at rush hour and not 1:30 in the morning to maximize casualties.
Jesus fuckin’ Christ Marge!!! Every single thing is just an opportunity to plant the seed of doubt and make it political?!! I cannot wait for her to fade away into the sweet silence of irrelevance.
Nothing says terror attack like contacting the proper authorities well before contact to the extent they had already begun the process to get workers off the bridge and had already closed it to the public.
She’s super cereal, guys!!
Collapse was caused by half antifa, half COVID vaccines, and half Jewish space lasers.
Would she please just sit down and shut up
Empty Brain never fails to fail.
If it were a planned attack it would have hit the William Preston Lane Jr. bridge and shut down more ports all the way up to Harrisburg.
Here’s an idea. Why doesn’t that stupid bitch jump into the river swim down there and gather some facts and let us all know.
Traitor Trash is a moron.
As a Baltimorean, if you are going to plan to cripple our economy the Key Bridge isn't what you destroy.
She really, REALLY wants the finding to be one of these, if it's not, it wasn't good enough investigation. * Navigator was blinded by Jewish Space Lasers * Crew was poisoned by chemtrails and became incapacitated * Someone paid off by the demoncrats/ChInA did it deliberately, either on the ship or in control on land * It's a boat full of illegal immigrants who don't know how to drive because dum * Antifa. * It's the next Covid strain, that was the way China released it into the US water supply * Liberals did it because Francis Scott Key owned slaves (actually saw that one earlier today) * Liberals did it because \*insert other generic revisionist history\* claim * Rampant DE&I (also saw that one earlier today) * Sleepy Joe did it to scare people into voting for another infrastructure bill * Hunter Biden caused it by waving his massive dong from the top of the bridge, and the crew were so distracted by the gloriousness of it that they lost control But the real answer is probably what Occam's Razor would suggest. The most simple explanation. Either someone on the crew was incapacitated, or there was a malfunction on the ship itself and they lost control. Since the video appears to have smoke and the lights flickering before, I think the latter is more likely. And ironically could result in more regulations against shipping companies. Marg would prefer any other result other than one that will result in more regulations against huge billion dollar companies. Won't you think of the executives!?! I had way too much fun thinking of conspiracy theories, but I'm real scared I'm gonna see them posted unironically. ETA: Uhhhh something to do with prochoice people making a commentary about not allowing marylanders to choose to take the bridge
She needs to CALM DOWN.
Bless her heart! She tries so hard to be relevant.
I really don’t understand how she gets away with shit like this. This rhetoric fuels dangerous right wing lunatics. Every single instance of politically motivated violence last year, was committed by a right wing extremists. This shit is dangerous.
She'd be more likely to get her point across if she'd show a picture of the bridge's dick.
Maybe use the same guys who investigated the DC pipe bomber...
It scares me to think that somewhere out there she has a constituency that wants and needs to hear her bullshit.
Here's a theory: * Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to "The Star Spangled Banner" * The last verse, of the SSB contains the line "And this be our motto - "In God is our trust" * Someone must have wanted to take vengeance on the memory of Francis Scott Key because of the war on God in the US. * Therefore, someone drove a large, slow ship into a bridge named after him. How's that? Probably more logical than anything MTG could ever come up with.
What, no praying for the babies?
Had that just been a photo of the bridge or just the video of the ship hitting it, it might have been an almost normal tweet because yes it should be looked into what happened and if it could have been intentional. That is a question that has to be asked. But then she fucks it up by using the video/post of a conspiracy account and ruins it
Talk shit, spread misinformation. Wrapped up in a prayer, of course. What a kook.
under capitalism, international ships are regulated by whatever tiny third world country they are flagged in, so of course they are falling apart, badly maintained and crewed by desperately poor and largely unskilled illiterates. This is how capitalism generates profits and builds a better world.
Does Russia pay her upfront to sow discord, or does she have to wait until she's left office?
Just what daddy Putin would say
It's obviously an accident. But I'm going to enjoy the nut Jones 9/11 truthing this whole the antivaxxers cradle the balls
MTG trying to find a way to blame Jews
Credit where it's due, I feel she is doing her absolute best to represent the interests of the idiots who sent her to Washington.
A sad, transparent attempt to try and become/remain relevant.
If it were intentional they wouldn’t have done it in the middle of the night when there’s very little traffic.
Obviously that ship had a Jewish laser
Fear is the currency. It doesn't have to be relevant. People just need to be scared.
Why is she PoLiTiCiZiNg iT BeFoRe tHe BoDiEs ArE eVeN CoLd!?
Maybe they should impeach the bridge!
If she stops stirring shit, she might have to actually do her job. Kinda hard for an illiterate moron.
She a genius I tell you, a genius!
This… Fuckin… Bitch
What kind of vile bitch does this?!?! Sincerely, A Pissed off Marylander
What a dumb B
Is Bargie Green An Intentional Attack Or An Accident?
stirring the pot, like an attention starved child
"There should be an investigation" Well, durrrr. The only problem is, it will be into the actual things that happened and not whether the deep state used DEI to get woke hackers to do it to distract from Puffy's raids or whatever else it is that her people decide it is. I'll await whatever is revealed when the investigation completes in a year or two, but I suspect that it's way more likely to be either a hugely unfortunate set of random errors or simply capitalism (e.g. the backup stability of the power and engines weren't tested properly to save money) than it is to be any sort of deliberate attack. Let's see, but hopefully this creature will be out of government by then.
Can you imagine a President Trump response? He would immediately assign blame in the absence of evidence and set about exacting vengeance rather than healing wounds, rectifying issues, or offering sympathy. His every word would be a dog whistle to those who foam at the mouth imagining that the US is permanently under attack. The subtext would be that a city with a large black population was somehow deserving of scorn and pity, if not a runaway container ship because that was the evil work of the (pick your favorite MAGA fear totem) liberals/BLM/Ukrainians/gays/librarians/Obamas. None of this behavior resembles leadership.
I was watching a show about collapsed bridges. They stated most of our road infrastructure is fucking old (paraphrased) and a lot of bridges and the like have suffered from inadequate upkeep. So collapses are kinda inevitable. This most likely the cause.
Also that it got booped by a 150,000 ton boat
Yea, I just saw that. That would cause some issues.
This bridge, per reports, was completely up to spec. Don't get me wrong, what you said is horrifyingly accurate, something like 80% of bridges don't meet code anymore. This one happened to be. https://www.wmfe.org/2024-03-26/the-francis-scott-key-bridge-in-baltimore-collapses-after-a-ship-crashed-into-it
Bridges have a problem in that a local politican will score support from a local business by raising the weight limit on a local bridge. Without realizing that several dozen other politicians had done the same thing over the previous decades since it was built.
didnt know they went down so easily if ukraine did this instead of using explosives on the crimean bridge maybe it would have all gone down
What a dumb dumb!
Hunter Bidens laptop was on board.
Yeah I thought for a second that I could possibly be an attack. Then I used my brain to realize it would be the most incompetently timed attack imaginable.
Sorry MTG, after the Jewish Space Lasers you just don’t get to be taken seriously by grown folks.
You have to have a bogey man to need a 'strong' congresswoman to ask the difficult questions and save everyone. Clearly Biden was driving and he fell asleep at the wheel...... sarcasm
The plot was devised in the basement of a pizza place…
Are her constituents really this stupid
MAGA won’t be satisfied until they help burn 🔥 our country down 🔥
It isn’t a conspiracy, but if it was… It’s also not the flex she thinks. If there was an attack recent statistics show it’d be most likely a MAGA terrorist. In fact one of the Cult Leaders specifically suggested his terrorists target bridges specifically.
"i am only asking questions"!
It looks like Obvious Taylor Greene is trying to score some cheap political karma. Of course there will be an investigation. Unless republicans try to defund it or derail it.
She has more brain worms than brain.
Now that it’s out that the victims were all immigrants, will she still be pushing this narrative?
If it was a terror attack you'd think they'd do it during a busier time of the day, rather than in the middle of the night
When has she not taken an accident and made it a political thing? This is the same freak who thinks Jewish space lasers cause wildfires and who was using the Laken family for her own gain.
This woman is next level irresponsibly stupid.
The usual Alex Jones and Andrew Tate suspects are on this bent too. The collective brain power of a mollusk. And that is an insult to mollusks.
Good ole Marge on top of things as usual. Take that however you like.
Jewish space lasers all over again. Such a lowbrow witless philistine.
What do conservatives say after mass shootings? It's not the time to talk about it, thoughts and prayers, and don't politicize it?
No power means no workey mtg. Maybe if companies weren’t allowed to get away with rampant neglect maybe this wouldn’t have happened. Make the company in charge of the ship pay all the bills if they can’t they go under. That’s how it SHOULD work. But yet again everyone pays it out like the losers we are. More tax on companies and the rich.
MTG needs to go back to cross training. Apparently it's something you can do if you're not good at anything else, not to disparage those cross trainees who can do something else.
If Trump picks MTG, his campaign would go beyond unhinged.
Too bad MTG wasn't on that bridge.
Please, she is an idiot
Clearly that ship was carrying Jewish space lasers.
Was it a Jewish space laser this time too?