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Here’s the million-dollar question nobody is asking about the Baltimore bridge collapse…
https://revolver.news/ ^ | 3/27/2024

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; baltimore; blacks; bridge; bridgecollapse; corruption; dei; democrats; die; diversity; esg; infrastructure; rebuild
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To: al baby

“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.


61 posted on 03/29/2024 4:17:43 AM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: laplata

Thank ya. Thank ya very much.

h/t Elvis


62 posted on 03/29/2024 4:20:19 AM PDT by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: linMcHlp
Complete version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" showing spelling and punctuation
from Francis Scott Key's manuscript in the Maryland Historical Society collection.
 

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation!
Blest with vict'ry and peace may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto - "In God is our trust,"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
 
 
 
(I see the problem)

63 posted on 03/29/2024 4:22:21 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: monkeyshine
After the 1994 Northridge earthquake we rebuilt the freeway overpasses in under 90 days.

Bingo!

64 posted on 03/29/2024 4:23:07 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: frank ballenger
The pennies made from selling the border wall will not be enough to pay the families who suffer from a criminal act committed by someone who crossed our open borders during the Biden administration,” railed Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford.

Does anybody trust Lankford after he pushed a mindless "border deal" that would have depended on Biden and his party to fix the problem?

65 posted on 03/29/2024 4:25:04 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: bitt

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...


66 posted on 03/29/2024 4:25:40 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: MagillaX
I still do not understand why the ship turned into the bridge when it was drifting past.

'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.

67 posted on 03/29/2024 4:26:46 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: linMcHlp
From the starboard side, cranes and crews can remove all the cargo weight and then strip down the ship.

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?

68 posted on 03/29/2024 4:30:49 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: vespa300

There are other bridges out there just awaiting your arrival!


69 posted on 03/29/2024 4:31:34 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: MPJackal

Aren’t they ALL built this way?


70 posted on 03/29/2024 4:32:37 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: linMcHlp

ONE report says the ship is ‘bottomed’ in 25 feet of water.

THAT SEEMS VERY SHALLOW DRAFT FOR A SHIP THAT SIZE.


71 posted on 03/29/2024 4:33:51 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: bondjamesbond

I’ve noticed from GoogleEarth© that there didn’t seem to be much traffic across it during the day.


72 posted on 03/29/2024 4:34:12 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Soul of the South

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.


73 posted on 03/29/2024 4:37:32 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: daniel1212
Yet THESE three presidents...


(I hope this is a fish story Ol' Joe is telling!)

74 posted on 03/29/2024 4:37:39 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Texas resident

“Then it will fall down again.”

Without even having to be hit.


75 posted on 03/29/2024 4:39:10 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: daniel1212

AND——ASPHALT comes from fossil fuels !!!!!!!


76 posted on 03/29/2024 4:39:29 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: moovova
Welcome to the New America.

In sounds like ever project in New Jersey since the beginning of time.

77 posted on 03/29/2024 4:40:38 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Tonight on The Bickersons... )
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To: ridesthemiles
indeed!

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

78 posted on 03/29/2024 4:46:28 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ridesthemiles


Nine of them gets you 76.5 - 85.5 feet off the deck!

79 posted on 03/29/2024 4:50:22 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Looks like about 50 feet or so from the deck to the water...

Seems unstable to me!


80 posted on 03/29/2024 4:55:52 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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