Posted on 03/28/2024 8:20:42 PM PDT by bitt
The recent bridge collapse in Baltimore is an absolute nightmare, and our thoughts are with the victims and their families during this incredibly tough time. Beyond the heart-wrenching loss and the basic “whys” everyone’s dealing with, there’s one crucial question not many are asking: Can America rebuild the bridge?
Sure, it might seem odd to wonder about our capability to build a bridge in 2024, but sadly, it’s a valid concern these days. When you consider how our nation is faltering under inept globalist rule, dragged down by dangerous DEI agendas that place “charity” over excellence, and watching the decimation of hardworking middle-class America, the question isn’t just rhetorical—it’s a stark reflection of our abysmal current reality.
Revolver has been calling attention to this decline in American society for quite some time, starting from when Biden first introduced his “infrastructure bill.” Fast forward three years, and here we are: bridges collapsing, roads deteriorating, and let’s not even dive into the chaos unfolding in our skies or the sorry state of our airports. Meanwhile, as China makes serious strides forward, it feels like we’re just spinning our wheels, stuck in neutral. It’s a stark contrast that highlights where our priorities have been misplaced and the need for a serious reevaluation of how we invest in our nation’s future.
Revolver:
Infrastructure has been a popular cause on the right since Donald Trump’s presidential run began six years ago, and for good reason. If President Trump had started his first term with a massive bipartisan infrastructure project that included the Wall, rather than following GOP hack Paul Ryan’s tax cut agenda, the country would almost certainly be better off. Spending money to develop America and improve the lives of citizens is a much better use of the country’s wealth than fighting forever wars in the Hindu Kush or simply keeping half the country on the dole in one form or another.
But there needs to be a degree of realism as well: In the country America has become, it’s never as simple as just spending money on infrastructure instead of warfare and welfare. Without truly ambitious, far-reaching reforms, and a competent non-corrupt leadership class to implement them, infrastructure is either a spoils system for special interest clients, or simply an expensive effort to maintain a crumbling status quo.
This is the real tragedy of the infrastructure bill. It’s not just about waste, excessive expense, incompetence, or special interest grift, though all that is there and it is impossible to imagine a major bill without these corruptions. It’s also, at a deeper level, about the disappearance of greatness from our national spirit. Fifty-two years ago, the United States sent men to the moon. Today, America is no longer capable of a moon-landing level national project — in fact, America may literally be incapable of an actual moon landing, too. Regardless, this infrastructure bill aspires to nothing of the sort.
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Don’t be so sure of that, the West point used to graduate mostly engineering students now they graduate students who major in the Humanities and other useless courses.
“As long as no Whiteys are involved, absolutely.“
-‘Cos whitey ain’t never built nuthin’ in dis country in da FIRST place! Barack TOLD us so!..”
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I still do not understand why the ship turned into the bridge when it was drifting past.
yes
That was a great post by our Travis McGee.
... using imported steel.
If we can re-educate the under water basket weavers so they can become under water welders, we will be OK.
That bride was like two seesaws. When one crash it flipped the other up and it crashed too. This design makes the bridge more light weight and costs less. There is one problem: risk of catastrophic failure.
No, no power needed to DROP the anchor. Pulling it back in does require power.
Hmm....getting conflicting information.
The MV Dali DID drop anchor. Didn’t slow it down much.
Is it true that the Dali had 4 anchors?
Looks like the dropped only the port anchor in an attempt to swing the bow to port.
Among the many statistics about this great lady was the fact that on approaching port, she cut her engines 30 miles out!
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