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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“That bridge will never be rebuilt period”
Correct, if tax payer’s are paying for it, under bidens watch, nothing will be built back better.
Thank ya. Thank ya very much.
h/t Elvis
Bingo!
Does anybody trust Lankford after he pushed a mindless "border deal" that would have depended on Biden and his party to fix the problem?
And, why isn’t the shipping company being held to account? Seems they should be shouldering the bill to replace that bridge, not the American People.
And, they do have some mighty deep pockets at Maersk...
'Drifting' is what an object does when moving at the same speed as the water it is floating in.
All sort of conflicting reported answers on what the pilot did or did not do.
Well; it's the internet so we have that going for us.
This would depend I think, on whether the support was just knocked over, or whether the ship had enough inertia to ride UP onto the support base and is resting ON it.
Have we any pictures from the side to see if the waterline on the hull is at an angle?
There are other bridges out there just awaiting your arrival!
Aren’t they ALL built this way?
ONE report says the ship is ‘bottomed’ in 25 feet of water.
THAT SEEMS VERY SHALLOW DRAFT FOR A SHIP THAT SIZE.
I’ve noticed from GoogleEarth© that there didn’t seem to be much traffic across it during the day.
Tyson pork processing plant in Perry, Iowa just closed & put almost 2,000 out of work. Town is about 7,000 population.
MAYTAG operated out of NEWTON, IOWA, for YEARS.
THEN WHIRLPOOL bought Maytag & CLOSED the plant.
“WHIRLPOOL” Maytags are junk.
GLAD I GOT MINE BEFORE THIS HAPPENED.
(I hope this is a fish story Ol' Joe is telling!)
“Then it will fall down again.”
Without even having to be hit.
AND——ASPHALT comes from fossil fuels !!!!!!!
In sounds like ever project in New Jersey since the beginning of time.
When the 'containers' are stacked 9 high!!
Click THIS for bigger picture --} https://www.palmbeachpost.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/03/26/PWIL/73112115007-p-08-francis-scott-key-bridge-20240326.jpg?crop=3399
Nine of them gets you 76.5 - 85.5 feet off the deck!
Looks like about 50 feet or so from the deck to the water...
Seems unstable to me!
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