US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[The Nothingness]

Where's Mayor Pete? I assume he'd be there ASAP since its basically his back yard.

He's reportedly spoke with the Baltimore mayor over the phone and is on his way.

 

[World Famous Quasi Payer]

And they've only now decided to say anything. nice moral framework you have there. I've no idea why CSA seems to teriffy people in to not saying anything. People will report a nigger hanging around their house doing nothing, but when they know there's kids being raped, fucking nada. Absolutely enraging.

It doesn't terrify people, they just simply can't be asked to give a shit about teenagers having sex with adults. Isn't their daughter, isn't on their property, isn't their problem, and that's assuming they have a problem with it to begin with.

 

[General Disarray]

Diddy busted for possible major child trafficking ring; next day whoopsie doodle bridge falls down.

Just noticing things, that's all.

eta: get this guy on the phone, lmao

 

[mandatorylurk]

Maryland is such a shithole, and the way this is trying to be taken off the main page of news is very apparent damage control ala East Palestine.

If Larry Hogan wasn’t such a RINO he should be hammering how his successor as governor is an idiot and how this is what democrat rule looks lik and help him in the senate race (apparently he is in the lead in early polling)

 

[tehpope]

Update (1018ET):

An unclassified report from the DHS National Operations Center says the container ship "lost propulsion" before it rammed the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/watch-huge-bridge-baltimore-collapses-after-container-ship-strike

 

[The best and greatest]

Maryland is such a shithole, and the way this is trying to be taken off the main page of news is very apparent damage control ala East Palestine.

If Larry Hogan wasn’t such a RINO he should be hammering how his successor as governor is an idiot and how this is what democrat rule looks lik and help him in the senate race (apparently he is in the lead in early polling)

Eh, this is less a failure of any particular democrat, and more a systemic failure of international shipping if I had to guess.

The only real solution I see is to mandate inspections of any and all foreign vessels that make port in the US and if anything is found to be in need of repair it is forcibly kept in port until the issue is resolved or towed to drydock all at the shipper's expense.

 

[Sekirodiealot]

 

[The Taco Santo!]

It was a racist bridge, Francis Scott Key was a racist slaveowner, the bridge deserved it

This would never have happened if we just gave Basketball-Americans their deserved reparations.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

For a preview of this week's discussion: A cargo ship rammed one of the largest bridges in the world, Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing it to completely collapse.

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No information on the captain, crew, company, anything. Current rumor is that there were ~20 construction workers and 3 cars on the bridge at the time.

4chan rumor is that it's a Singiporian ship named The Dali, so this is obviously a Chinese spy attack, but if this is a meme I don't recognize it.

... Did that mendacious homosexual pretending to be Secretary of Transportation ever come back from baby-buying vacation?

New Brick Immortar video just dropped. That's just wild. You'd think something like this wouldn't happen after the Sunshine bridge collisions way back in the days yet it happened again.

I'm hearing reports that the standard crew were Pajeets, but the boat at that moment was being controled by one of the local captains from the harbor, as is standard for ships entering/leaving port.

Can't confirm. And of course the question becomes, was it a DEI hire? It was 1:30 AM, that's where I'd stick the DEI hires if I was stuck with them...

For all the shit (kek) pajeets get, a lot of them are merchant mariners kinda like pinoys and they seem to be decently competent. The captain of the evergrande ship that was beached in the Suez was also a pajeet but the real fault was on the Egyptian port pilots who were verbally fighting at the helm.

 

[FlappyBat]

Remember the only reason a person would not want the world to not know he fucked a hooker and cheated on his wife is because it would hurt his political campaign. There are no other possible reasons. Not his wife being pissed off. Not people thinking less of him. Not the possibility of losing business deals. No, the only singular possibility is a political campaign.

 

[Your Girlfriend's Dad]

Maryland is such a shithole, and the way this is trying to be taken off the main page of news is very apparent damage control ala East Palestine.

If Larry Hogan wasn’t such a RINO he should be hammering how his successor as governor is an idiot and how this is what democrat rule looks lik and help him in the senate race (apparently he is in the lead in early polling)

Dude it's front page everywhere and live feed on every network, what the fuck are you talking about

 

[Dick Mason]

Julian Assange has won his appeal to the UK's high court to get another appeal for extradition to the US.

https://apnews.com/article/britain-wikileaks-julian-assange-espionage-appeal-98c15267f0cdf63685bfb49766749a0a

https://archive.ph/AnqGy

Spoiler: Article

LONDON (AP) — A British court ruled Tuesday that Julian Assange can’t immediately be extradited to the United States on espionage charges, giving the WikiLeaks founder a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site’s publication of classified American documents.
Two High Court judges said they would grant Assange a new appeal unless U.S. authorities give further assurances within three weeks about what will happen to him. The ruling means the legal saga, which has dragged on for more than a decade, will continue — and Assange will remain inside London’s high-security Belmarsh Prison, where he has spent the last five years.
Judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson said that if no assurances are filed by the U.S., they will grant Assange permission to appeal extradition on grounds including breach of freedom of expression, and because he might receive the death penalty.

“If assurances are given then we will give the parties an opportunity to make further submissions before we make a final decision on the application for leave to appeal,” they said.
They said a hearing will be held May 20 if the U.S. makes those submissions.

https://t.me/RiseGS/15731

UK High Court Refused to Admit Fresh Evidence of CIA Plots to Kidnap or Kill Julian Assange…

The judges say the rationale for kidnapping or killing Assange would be removed if he is extradited, and the evidence is thus not worth consideration.

Read that again. No words.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

There is this news site that has "fact check meters" on stuff Trump says, and one of them claims it's "very false" that Manhattan has had a big increase in violent crime (or something like that). Do "woke" journos seriously expect *anyone* to believe such obvious BS?

 

[mandatorylurk]

Dude it's front page everywhere and live feed on every network, what the fuck are you talking about

This morning it was not, just the opening of morning shows like it was an oopsie like the fire under the bridge in L.A. months back, and then on to other things, bad weather last week took up more time. But now it seems everyone's realizing this is serious because there seems to be many more unaccounted for than first thought. And plus, the FBI said this was not terrorism so it actually was terrorism.

 

[DiggieSmalls]

There is this news site that has "fact check meters" on stuff Trump says, and one of them claims it's "very false" that Manhattan has had a big increase in violent crime (or something like that). Do "woke" journos seriously expect *anyone* to believe such obvious BS?.

their core audience is college educated dunces who believe anything they're fed because they're indoctrinated stooges.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Remember the only reason a person would not want the world to not know he fucked a hooker and cheated on his wife is because it would hurt his political campaign. There are no other possible reasons. Not his wife being pissed off. Not people thinking less of him. Not the possibility of losing business deals. No, the only singular possibility is a political campaign.

Bragg's whole argument regarding this is so laughable he should be disbarred for even attempting to prosecute the case.

 

[GamerGateSurvivor]

There is this news site that has "fact check meters" on stuff Trump says, and one of them claims it's "very false" that Manhattan has had a big increase in violent crime (or something like that). Do "woke" journos seriously expect *anyone* to believe such obvious BS?

They count on the reader to just read the headline and accept it as fact. Some of these sites will rate the things he says as false and then follow them up with "Well technically what he said was true but..."

 

[dustbuster]

Doesn't the "punishment" for this law involve a FINE?!
It's a bookkeeping offense.

 

[Betonhaus]

Bragg's whole argument regarding this is so laughable he should be disbarred for even attempting to prosecute the case.

I'm disappointed that there isn't a mechanism where if someone does something clearly idiotic it triggers an investigation on if that person actually has the expertise needed of their role and if it turns out they don't they get removed, but I suspect such a mechanism would be abused.

 

[DiggieSmalls]

I'm disappointed that there isn't a mechanism where if someone does something clearly idiotic it triggers an investigation on if that person actually has the expertise needed of their role and if it turns out they don't they get removed, but I suspect such a mechanism would be abused.

i think most of the stuff used for anti corruption eventually gets used for corrupt reasons. i think the real take away is that politicians arent human and should be treated like factory farm chicken.