GOP Lawmaker Blames 'Diversity' for Bridge Collapse

[applegrove]

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 Baltimore’s 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]

1. snork..

SHUT THE F UP u dunce .

[ismnotwasm]

2. Stupid pig

Also, that’s coded racism

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

13. Poorly coded.

[SergeStorms]

28. For all intents and purposes....

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]

60. Exactly. It takes a particularly vile sort of vermin to resort to

using this tragedy to promote racial bigotry and HATE. Further PROOF there's NO low TOO low for these psychopaths.

[Deep State Witch]

3. Wow... This is Offensive

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]

4. The Governor of Maryland hired the captain of the ship?

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]

8. The government of Maryland hired the pilot who jump

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]

10. Republicans take advantage of every tragedy to score points - that should be one of the takeaways.

[applegrove]

14. They attach their propaganda to emotional events.

[Mad_Machine76]

66. Exactly

I just KNEW somebody from the other side would try this.

[Takket]

55. well.... if that smoke has been WHITE this might not have happened!!!!!!!

I'm mocking racists if that isn't clear to anyone.......

[Jim__]

57. Here's a video where the narrator says the pilot would have been aboard but the ship would be under ...

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]

41. Yeah, that would have been a cute trick, wouldn't it!

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]

44. No. Biden did that. He was in charge of maintenance

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]

54. Well, of course

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]

5. Bring this asshat to a street corner in Baltimore

Just for fun.

[TxGuitar]

9. "Try That in a Big City" LOL n/t

[Charging Triceratops]

6. LYMAN ... LIE, MAN

[eggplant]

62. I came here to say that.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

64. .

[ck4829]

65. Connect the dots, Pepe Silvia! PEPE SILVIA!

[Turbineguy]

7. Yeah

they had brown-skinned people holding up the bridge.

[LeftInTX]

11. Sounds like Qanon CT

[beaglelover]

12. What an IDIOT!

[MiniMe]

15. The ship was a Singapore ship

No Governor has any control over what another country does with their ships

[spooky3]

27. And the contractor was a Danish shipping giant. Nt

[sanatanadharma]

16. The cause of the accident was a corporate "tool" hauling corporate "profit" ...

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]

18. Yeah. Maybe all this propaganda is because coming on the heels

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]

17. It's all over Twitter as well as wild conspiracy theories

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

It’s seriously insane.

[applegrove]

19. Yeah. Maybe all this propaganda is because coming on the heels

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]

20. The Mayor of Baltimore being DEI was my favorite

Uh, know ANYTHING about Baltimore?

Several posters pointed out the “DEI” is just a new way to show that you are a racist.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

21. insanity in the youtube comments also.

[flakey_foont]

22. This s highly illogical

Does every tragedy have to be politicized? Maybe wait for more information before jumping to such an inane conclusion, Mr. Lyman

[StarryNite]

23. Those people get more stupid every day.

[flashman13]

24. WTF does this lunatic Lyman even think he is saying.

Stop electing stupid people while we still can!

[dalton99a]

25. Stupid Trump trash

[Harker]

26. That didn't take long.

I think some words of respect and sorrow for those killed and kindness toward their loved ones would be appropriate.

[ananda]

29. OK, what does the ship's mistake have to do with diversity?

Just wundrin'

[hadEnuf]

30. How the frig does a ship from Singapore crashing into a bridge

because it lost power have anything to do with diversity in Maryland?

Honestly, there needs to be a sanity test for Republican politicians.

[ShazzieB]

42. Lyman obviously didn't bother to check any of the facts.

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]

48. If the bridge construction started in 1972

then it's all Richard Nixon's fault.

[Brother Buzz]

43. A Singapore company ship chartered by Danish shipping giant Maersk crashing in the United States

Can't get more diverse than that

[CRK7376]

31. This governor wantabe

is dumber than dog shit....

[soldierant]

32. The brisge was built between 1972 and 1977

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]

33. It was just his turn to jump into the fray

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]

34. That makes no sense.

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]

35. The only diversity here is in the pretexts and excuses nt

[JohnnyRingo]

36. "If only they hadn't named that bridge after a woman!" haha

He can't be far from saying something that stupid.

[ClimateHawk]

37. The conservative way

The conservative way is to think with your heart (emotional reaction) instead of thinking with your brain.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

38. This is very strong evidence that the Groupies Of Putin have no living brain left.

[Warpy]

39. Knee jerking jerk

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]

40. Oh, ffs!

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]

47. He heard the victims were brown and thinks white people would have done a better job.

Somehow I guess?

Pure scum.

[LuvLoogie]

45. White male, state GOP, legislator...

I mean, what are the odds he'd be a racist piece of shit?

shrug:

[Oneironaut]

46. So trashy. Not an ounce of concern for the people who lost their lives.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

49. Go suck an egg, Phil.

You runt that rhymes with ________.

[marmar]

50. They're all like a bot now.

[Faux pas]

51. Yikes

they just keep trying to grasp at those invisible straws, don't they?

[bucolic_frolic]

52. "Apply the campaign talking points to everything that happens. Blame Democrats!"

They don't make then that dumb very often.

[viva la]

53. Singapore-flagged ship....

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]

56. Some peeps on Facebook

Are bleating "YUUUUUUUUUUUGE CONSPIRACY THAT THE DEEP STATE IS COVERING UP"

[republianmushroom]

58. Another dumber and dumber republican.

[marble falls]

59. Racist much, gubner?

[JoseBalow]

61. [sic] burn

Ouch

[Owens]

63. Who owns this ship?

A republican? Seems like a lot of republicans are trying to make this the fault of the Democrats

[Torchlight]

67. Watching GOP leadership running down the field holding this flat ball of stupid

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]

68. Scum.

[DallasNE]

69. More Like Deregulation

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.