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The Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed only hours ago, but the AP is making sure you know Key was an evil slave owner
Not the Bee ^ | 03/26/2024 | Harris Rigby

Posted on 03/27/2024 6:14:42 AM PDT by Bon of Babble

They haven't even finished recovery operations yet, but the AP is already moving on to declare the collapsed bridge in Maryland "racist."

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To: Bon of Babble

The replacement will be named The Saint George Floyd Memorial Bridge.


41 posted on 03/27/2024 7:15:45 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: V_TWIN

Lol, maybe Jay Z. He seems fitting.
Former crack dealer that has stabbed someone.


42 posted on 03/27/2024 7:19:03 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Bon of Babble

Conspiracy theorists have been hard at work saying it was done on purpose. they hate it when I point to bridge collapses in the past.

Tacoma Narrows bridge (Galloping Gertie)1940
Silver King Bridge over 50 years ago
I-40 bridge in Oklahoma 2002
Now this one.


43 posted on 03/27/2024 7:20:02 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: SamAdams76

Around here, you hear Fort Hood a hell of a lot more than you hear Fort Cavasos.


44 posted on 03/27/2024 7:21:42 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("A Noble Heart Can Know No Ease Without Freedom.")
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To: Bon of Babble

Surprised Baltimore let the Key name slip by them before the accident.


45 posted on 03/27/2024 7:22:17 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: Bon of Babble

Even bridges and roads still in operation are having names changed if they were once named for former heroes now frowned upon.
One that comes to mind is the Stand Watie Memorial Bridge and Highway in Eastern Oklahoma. Used to be a Cherokee hero now a dud because he was also a Brigadier general in the Confederate army, and the last to cease fighting. He united the tribes in Oklahoma to the Southern Cause in the Civil War.


46 posted on 03/27/2024 7:27:03 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: V_TWIN

—> Oh it’ll have a new name when rebuilt......most money is on the “George floyd memorial bridge”.

Fentanyl Floyd Bridge


47 posted on 03/27/2024 7:29:32 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Bon of Babble

Well the bridge is considered a part of the interstate highway system so it’s kind of federal responsibility to rebuild it. It usually was 90% fed 10% state. Maybe it will be altered by the shipping company’s insurance.


48 posted on 03/27/2024 7:31:43 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

We had a great Freeper who used the name Stand Watie. He was a great gentleman. He passed on a few years back.


49 posted on 03/27/2024 7:32:38 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (Saludemos la patria orgullosos)
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To: Bon of Babble

The bridge is white. Coincidence? I think not


50 posted on 03/27/2024 7:33:00 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Bon of Babble

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51 posted on 03/27/2024 7:34:19 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: EEGator

Well, the nfl can certainly pick who can and can’t own even part of team.....Rush Limbaugh proved that.


52 posted on 03/27/2024 7:34:57 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

NFL and NBA are seeing who can be more woke.

I only watch some tennis and F1 anymore.
Even in tennis, on the Tennis Channel, the commercials are all blacks even though professionals are probably 93% white.
The only positive is I think they’re all heterosexual.


53 posted on 03/27/2024 7:45:30 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Bon of Babble

I posted much the same thing yesterday. No big surprise here.

They may as well just go there and call it the Pedo Faggot Child Sniffing Bridge.


54 posted on 03/27/2024 7:45:44 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

And may it stay that way!!

My husband worked at one of those schools that got their names changed - from “Braves” to “Patriots.”

Even with a very tight budget (they claimed) - the money appeared to scrape the name off the gym floor, change out the scoreboard, change over all the stationary - cost 10s of thousands I was told. Money couldn’t have been better spent, right?

I had a Brave sweatshirt for years that I wore all over town - got lots of thumbs up and positive comments from people.


55 posted on 03/27/2024 7:46:56 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: BigFreakinToad

I did too, lots of great minds, apparently. I thought it would be named for an illegal alien, since “they built America”.


56 posted on 03/27/2024 7:57:06 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: Bon of Babble

Here’s the link to what I posted yesterday. Looks like I called it on the wokesters refusing to honor FSK.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4226976/posts


57 posted on 03/27/2024 8:25:46 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: hanamizu

paint it white and name it Marion Barry bridge


58 posted on 03/27/2024 8:32:56 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: Bon of Babble

The new bridge will be renamed something else. Thats the setup telegraphed here.


59 posted on 03/27/2024 9:11:41 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: gunnut
Maryland will not name it the Key bridge.

When the Woodrow Wilson bridge in DC was demolished and rebuilt, they renamed it for a racist segregationist warmonger.

Woodrow Wilson.

But he was a democrat, so it's OK.

60 posted on 03/27/2024 9:19:47 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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