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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23 years, actually:
“Airplanes developing serious physical structure issues.”
Is air travel safer today than it was, 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago?
Are physical structure issues a new issue with airliners, or are such problems less common now than they were in the past?
This Bridge is Named in Honor of
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
Author of The Star Spangled Banner
September 14, 1814
"Then Conquer We Must for Our Cause It Is Just
and This Be Our Motto: 'In God Is Our Trust.'"
Erected by The National Society
United States Daughters of 1812 * April 21, 1924
After the 1994 Northridge earthquake we rebuilt the freeway overpasses in under 90 days. The governor promised a $1 million bonus for each day that it was completed earlier than projected. I don’t remember what the projected time was, I just know it was done fast and the contractors got a big bonus which was shared with the workers. But these were a major interstates, the I-5 and I-10. They were not as big a stretch as the Key bridge but the point is clear. If it is necessary and desired it can be done.
Now 30 years later they are trying to add a lane in each direction for a 10 mile stretch north of that I-5 overpass That lane project was started during Obama’s first term under his “shovel ready” projects plan.
While dims are in charge, the bridge will be rebuilt with Chinese steel and mexican labor.
Then it will fall down again.
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Winning post of this thread.
Missed the memo!
The only super power left on earth is suffering from diminished skills and cannot rebuild a bridge.
Forget the rest of mankind would still be employing bridges reminiscent of Gilligan’s Island absent the US ingenuity in bridge construction.
If only they could hire the same company that fixed the major Los Angeles freeways after the 1984 earthquake.
Some of the major factors in the incredibly fast reconstruction in Los Angeles:
The government tossed out (waiver?) many of the ridiculous rules that do nothing to improve anything.
There were also huuuuge incentives to complete the reconstruction early. The reconstruction was finished 74 days early.
With Baltimore’s luck, the Hussein/Biden Regime will probably put Hunter Biden and AOC in charge of the bridge reconstruction.
Also, has anyone mentioned that Francis Scott Key is one of those evil Caucasians from America’s evil past? If they ever do manage to rebuild the bridge, it will definitely need a different name./s
And DEI engineering.
Our future is that of Africa. The old colonial-era infrastructure has collapsed and there's nobody now who knows how to repair it.
I still do not understand why the ship turned into the bridge when it was drifting past.
All sort of conflicting reported answers on what the pilot did or did not do.
If it is rebuilt one thing is for certain...it wil never be called the FSK bridge again. It will have a new DEI name. Guaranteed.
Someone told them to STFU, or else!
We haven't built sh*t in Gaza. We've only talked about it.
We'll know when the project has commenced when American service members start coming home in flag-draped coffins.
Holding with the communists’ rule of “not letting a tragedy go to waste”, much of the money supposedly designated for rebuilding will, instead, be distributed across the country and go into the biden-obama campaign for reelection...
The question was, “Can . . . ?”
Yes.
Is Maryland more efficient than California?
Neither is efficient.
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Meanwhile, I would have a ferry operating between the bridgeheads, by April 10th.
I would have enough, passable channel cleared and open for ship traffic by April 30th. MV Dali, still in place; leaving that ship to the investigators and deconstructors.
The MV Dali bow is hung up on top of what remains of, the south FSK Bridge support for what was the central span. From the starboard side, cranes and crews can remove all the cargo weight and then strip down the ship.
Leaving weight at the stern. The idea being, to, as much as possible, allow buoyancy to lift the bow, and then move the ship away and up into a shipyard for further consideration.
I would have a study of that south FSK Bridge support base, to determine if we use its remaining “stud” or not; but continue to work toward a replacement of some form.
Meanwhile, ashore, build new span sections, including redundancy.
Bridge supports in place, work the span sections out over the water, lift up and onto place.
The FSK Bridge could be open by late summer of 2025.
That can be.
Mexico says they can rebuild it for $100.00
Even if they do buid it.....you won’t catch me anywhere near it....no way Jose.
I predict this will end up like the CHIPS law that was supposed to help incentivize manufacturing computer chips in the US. It was so larded up with DEI requirements that the major players in chipmaking have ceased their efforts.
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