Broken: Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapsed

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  1. MikeH92467

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    Up to now I thought there was a limit to your stupidity. :madhatter:
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    Fascinating. I didn't know Buttigieg had the power to influence foreign cargo ships to crash into bridges. Please elucidate.
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    Obviously had trump been in office this wouldn't have happened. Trade wars damper shipping.
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    I figured full container ships would have such a deep draft that losing power would mean the drag would bring it to a stop quickly, absent a current, but I guess that much kinetic energy is harder to dissipate with friction than I thought.
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    Again, your spineless backtracking is noted. If you didn’t believe him, then you’d not argue that he’s telling the truth for all those posts in the thread.

    You’re not even fooling yourself, so why not just admit that you’re a dumbass who believes a con artist? Trust me, we won’t think any less of you if you do.
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    Here’s what you don’t seem to understand. It’s possible that Bob Lazar did work at Area 51, there seems to be some evidence that he did, but maybe he was just a janitor. Maybe it’s all true except for he was working on a man made craft and was led to believe that it was an alien craft so from his perspective he was telling the truth. Maybe he’s a government plant meant to throw people off the scent of what was really going on. We”ll probably never know for sure. I don’t know and neither do you. Again, you don’t really care about this subject, you just want to be a jerk to people who do.
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  7. MikeH92467

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    So why did you say your clip was "extraordinary proof"? :chris:
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  8. Steal Your Face

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    What clip?
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    “This subject” is if the government is hiding dead aliens. The only reason one cares about is if they think the government is hiding aliens.
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  10. Steal Your Face

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    The overall subject is the possibility of aliens being on earth and no you c don’t have to believe it to be entertained by various alien stories. Plenty of people watch Ancient Aliens without believing it. Just like in the 90s when all of the shows like Unsolved Mysteries talked about various paranormal events people didn’t have to believe it to enjoy the show. You don’t get to dictate why someone would be interested in any given subject.
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    Are these aliens in the room with you now?
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    You do have to believe it to defend it as vigorously as you do.
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    I used to buy the Weekly World News and be entertained by it, but I never would have referred to a WWN story as "extraordinary proof" of ... well, anything other than the imaginative prowess of WWN writers.
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    No you don’t. Nobody made you god of the universe so shut the fuck up.
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    Just keep on proving me right.
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    Proving you right about what? What is the point of being a jerk someone over a subject you care nothing about?
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    Ive been posting speculation on Youtube that this was Christian Nationalist terrorism.
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    It is obviously a government lie created bny Obama and Biden to advance their woke ideology and to let immigrants into the country to trans everyone. Clearly, if we would just start driving over it we would see the evidence of aliens that @Steal Your Face sees.

    Hey FF why don't you try showing us all how it is done and take a long walk off the new short pier.
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    Can you explain WTF this is doing in the thread about the bridge collapse? We have a thread dedicated to your crazy alien conmspiracy theories.

    You are a fucking moron and gullible, but none of this has anything to do with the bridge collapse. There are plenty of other crazy conspiracy theories being promoted by your peopple at faux news. This is all caused by Biden DEI policies and illegal immigration according to your spoonfeeders so get the conspiracy right. There are no aliens and no bigfoot you fucking tool. This has more to do with those HB dickpics you love so much.

    Now get busy on your nightly Pirro box of wine and put the alien bullshit back in the proper thread you ignorant, inbred, piece of whiteboi teenage trash.
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    Hey, I'm agreeing with you guys. I didn't know an inept Secretary of Transportation could fuck things up this bad. I can't explain it, but first you had the record backup of ships trying to get into the LA port. Then you had about a train derailing every other week. Then you had an unprecedented FAA computer glitch grounding all flights in the US. After that parts started falling off Boeing aircraft on a distressingly regular basis. Now this. Maybe there's something to putting someone powerful and competent in charge of national modes of transportation instead of sticking the gay lovechild of Mr. Bean and Alfred E. Newman in there to rail about how roads are racist. :shrug:
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    Or they have to escape from Rosco P. Coltrane. Yeee haw!
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    Or you’re the Blues Brothers getting chased by everyone.
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    Your trolling games have become lazy and sloppy, sad!
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    Second sentence.

    ‘The port of LA?!?’

    LOL.

    It’s like @Steal Your Face pretending to argue guns and saying ‘But what about when you register, dur…’

    :lol:

    ‘The port of LA’, LOL… LA LB are combined the largest container ports IN THE WORLD. And anyone who knows anything calls them LA LB or Los Angeles Long Beach.

    @Ten Lubak you do international import/export business. Tell me about ‘the’ port of LA. How many baby seal skins, point blankets, beaver pelts or jugs of maple syrup you ever sold out of ‘the’ port of LA?

    There’s TWO you fucking ignoramus! I knew this shit twenty fucking years ago when I was a dumb college kid interning at the Alabama State Port Authority Office of International Trade (just FYI Mobile was 13th even back then, think 11th now).

    It’s the ports of LA you fucking dingus.

    But fuck all that. Who cares. You just show up every couple months or weeks when the trollkingdom you’ve run off to gets boring. Why should any of us do you any more service than laugh at your sad old ass and/or put you on ignore and forget you like everyone else in your life has?
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    Wait, is @Ten Lubak Art Vandelay?
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    Volpone is correct. This is why Joe Biden is a terrible choice for the Dems. Joe cares nothing for regulation and works with the corporations to stop any and all attempts to do any safety because that costs money. This is why instead of putting a person in Buttgag's position who is familiar with transportation, safety, and the position, he chose to put Pete in there to return the favor of him dropping out of the primaries when Obama told him to. This is not a position you just hand to a supportive friend so they can smile and wave. Biden has showed complete disrespect to very needed regulation on transportation and it has made for literal disasters.

    Reading through this threwad outside of the alien conspiracy bullshit it seems that mayube there should be a safety regulation that a ship so large and capable of taking out a bridge should have a backup power system and second screw. This is if I am getting the single screw comment right. This is not a small boat where if it loses propulsion will just bump into something.

    This is a ship the size of multiple city blocks carrying 10,000 tractor trailer trailers full of stuff. If it loses propulsion around a bridge pilon, which it has to navigate around at multiple ports, it will take them out. That bridge could not take ten thousand tractor trailers on it, why would it be able to withstand a hit from a boat carrying that much inertia? An engineer would know what is going to happen. Pete Butthead majored in History and Literature while also studying politics at harvard. He also has an honorary bachelors of arts in philosophy. Who the fuck would chose a person with that shit education to be responsible for our transportation.

    Pete probably isn't fit to be in charge of buttfucking as he has no medical education, and his only experience is being gay.

    Thanks Biden, and this is why no vote for you. Maybe if we had someone familiar with physics, engineering, and safety we might have gotten some regulations around any of the disasters of transportation we have had. Instead after the worst criminal corporate fuck in history, we put the worst corporate loving corrupt politician in history in charge of the country and he picked a pretty boy faggot with an education in literature, philosophy, and history in charge of safety of transportation on a federal level. I love my pretty faggots, but I would not let them under the hood of my corrola.
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    To be fair to Volpone, he's clearly trying his best.

    Poor fellow, hope he can avoid the standard retirement decline.
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    Pretty sure all this deregulation stems from Reagan (hell, I'll even allow Clinton might have some fault here too), and no one cared to or could get regulations back in place, until now when these events are becoming so egregious that they need to be addressed.
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    Ah, it's like I've come home from work and found Scarlett Johansson butt-ass naked in my bed and screaming for my cock, with the way you've teed this up for me.

    Let's start with your current claim (that we all know is bullshit, but we'll get to that in a moment) that you view conspiracy theories as nothing more than "entertainment." Okay, if that's true, then how is what I'm doing any different than you going into the various Star Trek/Star Wars threads and shitting them up with your complaints about how much you hate this or that about the new thing? You say that you don't "hate" the new thing, and that your comments aren't meant to be anything other than an attempt at getting people to see just how much better the new thing could be, if only people listened to your ideas. Yet, when I point out holes in the latest UFO claims you "just happen" to have posted here (not because you in anyway think that they are true, no sir), you bitch that I'm being "hateful" and "an asshole." You know, what we've all called you when you've shat on Discovery or whatever. Why is it okay for you to shit on other people's fun things, but not okay for us to shit on yours? :chris:

    Now, let's go deeper. What you're really saying is that you'd rather play "Let's pretend" than actually do the thing. You'd rather play Fox Mulder or Captain Kirk, or Sherlock Holmes, than actually try to be them. That's like saying you'd rather jerk off than try to fuck a beautiful woman. What kind of man does that?

    Oh, and don't claim that you're too stupid to figure all this stuff out. We live in the goddamned 21st century, where, for free, you can access all kinds of relevant information in whatever format is best suited to your style of learning. A good chunk of the engineering knowledge I have comes from books that were in the public domain and one could buy cheap reprints for next to nothing. Sure, a book written in the 1910s isn't going to tell you about how to build a modern car, plane, or whatever, but a shitload of the basic stuff used by people who do such things today was laid down in the 1910s, so if you apply yourself (like a man) you can figure a bunch of that shit out. And that's even before you get to the really complicated stuff that requires modern tech but you can easily find any number of YouTube videos/podcasts/websites/FB groups, etc for free, who will happily edumacate you on all of that, without you having to spend a penny.

    So, let's talk "mind fucks" shall we? You think that it's a "mind fuck" that the government is hiding dead aliens. Okay, now suppose that the real history of the world isn't that guys like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Thomas Edison were huge geniuses, but that in reality they were just guys who had lots of money and were bullshit artists, while the real work was done by folks who quite possibly didn't have a lot of education? Or were relying on tech from crashed UFOs? Because that's actually how it works. :yes:

    Doubt me? Go look at the official accounts by all the people involved. Elon was lucky enough to have the spare cash to invest in a little company that became PayPal. The only code Zuckerberg takes credit for is the "Poke" feature on FB, and the idea for the site. Bill Gates didn't write MS-DOS, he licensed it from Digital Research and then sold it to IBM. Jobs saw what Woz was doing and figured out how to make money with it (Woz was happy to give it away for free). Edison used the money he made from figuring out how to make a telegraph relay to hire people to invent things for him, while forcing them to sign over all the patent rights to him.

    You're not being "edgy" by entertaining the idea that the government is hiding dead aliens. You're falling into the trap set by the kinds of "elites" you think that you're thumbing your nose at by believing conspiracy theories. Which do you think is more dangerous to those in power? The idea that JFK was killed by someone who had the backing of the CIA, Mafia, the USSR, or time travelers? Or that some crazy lunatic could buy a gun on a whim and end the life of the most powerful man on the planet? Because if some rando can manage to kill the President, that's a far greater threat to those in power than an assassination that requires a state actor.
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