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GOP Lawmaker Blames Diversity for Bridge Collapse
March 26, 2024 at 4:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2024/03/26/gop-lawmaker-blames-diversity-for-bridge-collapse/
"SNIP.........
Utah lawmaker Phil Lyman (R), who is running for governor, quickly used Baltimores Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse to boost his gubernatorial campaign by blaming the accident on efforts to make workplaces more diverse, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Said Lyman: This is what happens when you have Governors who prioritize diversity over the wellbeing [sic] and security of citizens.
In a subsequent post, Lyman added: DEI=DIE.
.........SNIP"
Applegrove:
GOP are all trying to show off to each other showing who can lie best. Thanks to Trump for making lying go nuclear.
AllaN01Bear
(18,781 posts)SHUT THE F UP u dunce .
ismnotwasm
(42,023 posts)Also, thats coded racism
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,828 posts)SergeStorms
(19,205 posts)he's shouting racist epitaphs. There's no coding involved. The people he wishes to reach with his statement picked that up in reading the word, "diversity".
What a tool that guy is.
B.See
(1,354 posts)using this tragedy to promote racial bigotry and HATE. Further PROOF there's NO low TOO low for these psychopaths.
Deep State Witch
(10,478 posts)How offensive can this guy get? I mean, the bodies of 6 people haven't been recovered yet, and he's claiming that the cause was... diversity? Because some of the construction workers were Hispanic?
How the FUCK does this guy know what's going on in Baltimore when he's in Utah?
Probatim
(2,551 posts)Hired the crew who was responsible for maintaining the ship?
I recognize nuance and critical thinking aren't key competencies for his voters but this is a hell of a stretch.
applegrove
(118,912 posts)on each ship going in and out of the Harbour and navigate till the ship is out at sea. Not the pilots fault if the ship lost power. CNN reporter also pointed out there was black smoke coming off the ship from the back. So not the pilot's fault either.
Probatim
(2,551 posts)applegrove
(118,912 posts)Mad_Machine76
(24,456 posts)I just KNEW somebody from the other side would try this.
Takket
(21,703 posts)I'm mocking racists if that isn't clear to anyone.......
Jim__
(14,095 posts)the command of the ship's master. Copied the video from another thread on DU.
I'm not sure if that disagrees with what you said about the pilot.
ShazzieB
(16,644 posts)I'd really like to know how the governor of a U.S. state can be held responsible for the actions of the crew of a ship registered in a country on the other side of the world!
COL Mustard
(5,969 posts)He hired the captain, the pilots and the crew. He also paid the Coast Guard to look away when the accident happened. This is all on him!
Yes, it's but you know there are people out there who would think it's all true.
calguy
(5,351 posts)Isn't this what happens when a Democrat is in the White House?
The only proof you need is that no ship ran into a bridge when trump was president, right? Well there you go!
Charging Triceratops
(169 posts)Just for fun.
TxGuitar
(4,218 posts)Charging Triceratops
(169 posts)eggplant
(3,919 posts)Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,998 posts)ck4829
(35,096 posts)Turbineguy
(37,415 posts)they had brown-skinned people holding up the bridge.
LeftInTX
(25,794 posts)beaglelover
(3,504 posts)MiniMe
(21,724 posts)No Governor has any control over what another country does with their ships
spooky3
(34,527 posts)sanatanadharma
(3,759 posts)The cause of the accident was a corporate "tool" hauling corporate "profit" at the lowest corporate cost.
If the ship suffered from insufficient maintenance or staffing or institutional knowledge, the bottom line was the better for it.
New container ships are too large for the Panama Canal, so many go around the south of Africa, which makes sense going to the South American Atlantic coast.
Just wait until the ships are AI operated.
applegrove
(118,912 posts)of Boeing's problems corporate profits are degenerating transportation safety and people notice when a pattern happens. Which mean the MAGA have to be fed some DEI and biden infrastructure gruel to keep them gullible and not aware that the GOP likes to kill people.
underpants
(183,019 posts)DEI
One of the pilots is from Ukraine
Slowed down videos
Speeded up videos
Lara Logan has a truly insane post
Gen. Flynn BLACK SWAN
Its seriously insane.
applegrove
(118,912 posts)of Boeing's problems corporate profits are degenerating transportation safety and people notice when a pattern happens. Which mean the MAGA have to be fed some DEI and biden infrastructure gruel to keep them gullible and not aware that the GOP likes to kill people. Nancy Mace blamed Biden's infrastructure legislation.
underpants
(183,019 posts)Uh, know ANYTHING about Baltimore?
Several posters pointed out the DEI is just a new way to show that you are a racist.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(8,154 posts)flakey_foont
(3,343 posts)Does every tragedy have to be politicized? Maybe wait for more information before jumping to such an inane conclusion, Mr. Lyman
StarryNite
(9,472 posts)flashman13
(686 posts)Stop electing stupid people while we still can!
dalton99a
(81,707 posts)Harker
(14,112 posts)I think some words of respect and sorrow for those killed and kindness toward their loved ones would be appropriate.
ananda
(28,905 posts)Just wundrin'
hadEnuf
(2,224 posts)because it lost power have anything to do with diversity in Maryland?
Honestly, there needs to be a sanity test for Republican politicians.
ShazzieB
(16,644 posts)He seems to have assumed that the bridge crashed due to faulty construction and further assumed that the construction crew was "diverse."
What a maroon.
hadEnuf
(2,224 posts)then it's all Richard Nixon's fault.
Brother Buzz
(36,502 posts)Can't get more diverse than that
CRK7376
(2,204 posts)is dumber than dog shit....
soldierant
(6,958 posts)Who was the Mayor of Baltimore theI mean, yesm diversity and ubckusion was just beginning to be a thing. in the seventies, but seriously?
Besides, it wasn't the bridge's fault it was his by a ship.
johnnyfins
(867 posts)For Christian White Nationalism.
You know that pardon came with some strings attached.
"ONE DAY, AND THAT DAY MAY NEVER COME, I 'LL ASK YOU TO DO A SERVICE FOR ME..."
paleotn
(18,014 posts)How does that even work? Commercial ship crews are a diverse bunch maybe? Hell, that's been the case since there's been ships and just now it's become a problem? What the fuck?!
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,693 posts)He can't be far from saying something that stupid.
ClimateHawk
(212 posts)The conservative way is to think with your heart (emotional reaction) instead of thinking with your brain.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,552 posts)Warpy
(111,456 posts)Probably has a roulette style wheel in his office, sections labeled LGBT and Abortions and Illegals and college professors and books in school libraries and the list goes on.
It's Utah so there's little danger of anyone asking exactly what the mechanism for diversity causing an electrical failure on a ship that caused a bridge collapse was. It's a pity, the spluttering would be epic and maybe they'd vote the asshole out.
ShazzieB
(16,644 posts)Let me see if I've got all the facts straight. Wasn't that bridge collapse caused by a bloody huge container ship slamming into one of its support columns? A container ship that was registered in Singapore?
Check, and check. So please explain to me, Rep. Lyman, how did "Governors who prioritize diversity over the wellbeing [sic] and security of citizens" cause a foreign ship to crash into a U.S. bridge? I'll wait.
Oneironaut
(5,542 posts)Somehow I guess?
Pure scum.
LuvLoogie
(7,071 posts)I mean, what are the odds he'd be a racist piece of shit?
shrug:
Oneironaut
(5,542 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,897 posts)You runt that rhymes with ________.
marmar
(77,118 posts)Faux pas
(14,712 posts)they just keep trying to grasp at those invisible straws, don't they?
bucolic_frolic
(43,490 posts)They don't make then that dumb very often.
viva la
(3,364 posts)I'm not sure that the US or the state had anything to do with the hiring decision.
Maybe this idjit thinks having a diversity of ships is the problem? After all, "Dali" sure sounds like a furrin name.
durablend
(7,467 posts)Are bleating "YUUUUUUUUUUUGE CONSPIRACY THAT THE DEEP STATE IS COVERING UP"
republianmushroom
(13,857 posts)marble falls
(57,502 posts)JoseBalow
(2,603 posts)Ouch
Owens
(209 posts)A republican? Seems like a lot of republicans are trying to make this the fault of the Democrats
Torchlight
(3,444 posts)is as bizarre as watching (nominal) peers asserting the meritless, false equivalency that Dem leadership is just as guilty because someone on a message board speculated.
twodogsbarking
(9,925 posts)DallasNE
(7,404 posts)Where there were no backup systems in place in case of a power failure. This catastrophe should not have taken place just as the airplane over Alaska should not have had a door blow off while flying. Deregulation has a heavy price.