‘Sickening that Republicans are now blaming Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill for this bridge accident. The sheer gall and naked opportunism and idiocy,’ epidemiologist says

Republicans are facing criticism for attempting to blame the Baltimore Bridge collapse on President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill.

The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed on Tuesday after a cargo ship crashed into it.  Six construction workers are presumed dead.

South Carolina Representative Nancy Maceappeared on the rightwing channel Newsmax on Tuesday when she was asked why there are still old bridges and roads in the US after the passing of legislation to upgrade them.

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    8 months ago

    So we know what we’re up against.

    The only ones who don’t already haven’t been paying attention and likely aren’t going to.

    This isn’t some crazy person howling into the wind

    Nope, it’s crazy people howling into an echochamber. Just as inconsequential as into the wind, since other crazies are howling the same things.

    People with no media literacy just slorp it up and make it part of their worldview like they already have a neuralink implant.

    If you’re brainwashed enough to believe Newsmax under any circumstances, being exposed to more of it won’t help.

    Ignoring it is worse IMO.

    No. They subsist on attention. Clicks and shares from people who realize what lunatics they are benefit them as much in income and exposure as from those who don’t.

    letting them get away with it.

    Short of a modernized version of the Fairness Doctrine, that ship has not only sailed. It’s currently stuck and blocking the Suez canal of information because people with limited amount of attention use some of it on the lies of Newsmax.

    …that analogy kinda got away with me a bit, but I’m pretty sure I managed to make it understandable in the end 😁