Posted on 04/01/2024 11:40:53 AM PDT by nickcarraway
It was just after 1:30 Tuesday morning when Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D) says he received the call from the city’s fire chief. “He said, ‘Sir, the Key Bridge collapsed,’’ said Scott, who was awake with a three-month-old child when the call came in. “I said, ‘Repeat that.’ He said, ‘The Key Bridge collapsed, a ship hit it, it’s gone, sir.’ ”
Scott, 39, said he threw on his official Baltimore city jacket and headed for the scene, calling the governor, the presidents of the state Senate and city council and the city administrator along the way. When he arrived at the shore of the Patapsco River to see the wreckage, “you could still hear it moving at that point,” he said of the the Dali, the 985-foot ship that had taken down the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Just before daybreak, as Scott began appearing in national television interviews to speak of the “unthinkable tragedy,” the attacks started.
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Politicians are such azhos. They all think they are the answer and action hero every time there is a catastrophe. What they really need to do is keep their asses and propaganda new cameras in D.C. and let the real Americans take care of the catastrophe.
let me understand...white men created the vast majority of the modern world we live in, black men claim it was their backbone and intelligence that built the modern world we live in but when it all starts falling apart it’s blamed on the white men who created the modern world we live in BUILT by the black men who were supposed to be intelligent enough to follow the instructions? am I the only one confused on who is really to blame?
Let’s Go Brandon! (Not racist)
this is the guy that claims his job in life is to make white people feel uncomfortable
So, an X tweet, condemning DEI, not black people deserves this entire story?
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has a lot to do with the port authority, the shipping, and Hawkins Point at southwest end of the FSK Bridge.
The City of Baltimore has an expectation of him, that he will stand up for the city and represent the city.
The commerce in the harbor is important for the success of the city and the residents.
Same for the port functions and access to, from, the Port of Baltimore and many physical harbors therein.
On the morning of March 26th, at the initial news conference, he may have been in a bit of a pique because of the disaster that had NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE. His being a politician with stock in DEI and the Democrat Party.
But time will reveal how much of a leader he is, instead of “civil rights leader” on the matter of recovery from the FSK Bridge loss.
IMHO
It’s not because he’s black. it’s because he’s a radical communist moron
Moore has done OK with this. I think it falls in his skill set. he’s a lousy governor when it comes to regular governor stuff though
“I don’t see how anyone beyond the shipping company have any culpibility in the matter.”
The ship had serious electrical problems in port. I have not read what those problems were. I wonder who signs off on a ship being safe to head out to sea. Is there any sign-off authority by the port staff or is the shipping company the only approval needed to leave port?
First time I saw him on the TV, I thought he was some kind of thug in between crack deals.
This jerk is the racist.
Exactly.
But Scott never misses an opportunity to play the race card.
Smollett strikes again!
What obviously-contrived BS, this governor vomiting...
All leading up to changing the name of the “potential” bridge replacement to honor obama or chavez or some other ardent communist......
He was elected in 2020 and it is now 2024. What got better for blacks and browns, as they put it, in that time? Anybody criticizing this guy is automatically racist. Same stupidity different day.
I’ve always assumed that before a ship gets underway the heads of the various depts have to report to the Captain that they are good to go.
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