If It Ain’t Woke, Don’t Fix It: Biden
Urged To Use Baltimore Bridge Rebuild
For Race Reparations
Breitbart,
by
John Carney
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
3/28/2024 12:22:24 PM
President Joe Biden is being pressed to use the reconstruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore as an opportunity to remedy alleged racial discrimination against blacks in the construction industry.
Biden said this week that he had told his administration officials to “move heaven and earth” to reopen the port of Baltimore and rebuild the bridge. The reconstruction efforts, however, may be complicated by demands that the project further leftwing ideas about racial justice, the treatment of immigrants, climate change, and wealth redistribution.
An op-ed in The Hill underscores that some of these demands may be irreconcilable.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Namma 3/28/2024 12:30:25 PM (No. 1687673)
The company that owned that ship should be paying for a new bridge. Not the American taxpayer! Legal Immigrants are treated just fine in this country. Problem is illegals are treated better than the citizens or legal immigrants. Remember how immigrants had to have a sponsor and a job waiting for them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 3/28/2024 12:34:02 PM (No. 1687680)
Never underestimate Joe's ability to eff everything up - Barry Obozo
And it looks like Old Demented is well on his way to effing up the Key Bridge reconstruction.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MarkTwain 3/28/2024 12:35:14 PM (No. 1687682)
I can see it now, the Joe Biden Rainbow Bridge. Constructed exclusively by the Proudly DEI Construction firm. Anticipated completion date: when hell freezes over because the Proudly DEI Construction firm only has 20 employees and half of them don't build anything, they just file federal compliance forms. The other half are the HR department.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ms1234 3/28/2024 12:36:14 PM (No. 1687683)
Oh great! A new bridge designed by DEI hires and built by DEI hires! The bridge will be ten times over cost and will collapse 5 minutes after the ribbon cutting ceremony. I think only DEI approved people should drive over it after it's done. At least we'll see how much trust they have in their policies.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/28/2024 12:39:52 PM (No. 1687685)
The six people who drowned were migrants. Legal or illegal?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 3/28/2024 12:40:30 PM (No. 1687686)
So the Hispanics (who actually died working on the bridge) don't count?
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They’ll also demand an all-female architect team design it. Then demand it be renamed for the immigrants who died in the collapse. I can see DEI lawsuits tangling the reconstruction up in the court system for a dozen years before work can begin.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lynngirl122 3/28/2024 1:02:56 PM (No. 1687707)
Does this nonsense EVER STOP
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
texaspast 3/28/2024 1:04:22 PM (No. 1687708)
If they actually comply with all the various regulatory requirements (environmental impact studies, etc.), construction on that new bridge won't begin for years. And years.
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This supports my firm belief that our country is going in the wrong direction, and I am not the only one who holds that view.
Vote Trump!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/28/2024 1:17:05 PM (No. 1687717)
In the name of sustainable growth, don't repair, reopen, or rebuild anything. It's the lefty way!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
HerbVA 3/28/2024 1:33:05 PM (No. 1687729)
Let the DEI fanatics be the first to drive over it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 3/28/2024 1:36:51 PM (No. 1687732)
There is a reason gov projects are over budget, tardy, and have less than stellar performance. You see it staring here, too.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
coyote 3/28/2024 1:54:56 PM (No. 1687748)
Joe, you are not a builder, you are not a construction supervisor, you are not a construction worker...butt out.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
FormerDem 3/28/2024 1:57:07 PM (No. 1687751)
I do not think black people need that help. I work with black people and in fact my bosses are a black woman and an Afghan woman and they do not need any help, they are sharp. Who needs those reparations is the NGOs who will distribute them. This is just feeding the donkey patronage machine. Say no. Actual working black people only need a fair chance. No to this.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
padiva 3/28/2024 2:28:29 PM (No. 1687772)
Hire Trump. It will be done on time and under budget.
Compare the NYC ice skating rink to the Big Dig in Boston.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
felixcat 3/28/2024 2:40:18 PM (No. 1687781)
Wasn't Joe just the other day saying illegals, er, Hispanic migrants built this country?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
hershey 3/28/2024 2:46:43 PM (No. 1687786)
And remind me how long it to the Governor of Florida to rebuild the bridge destroyed by the storm??? Or how long it to the gummint to rebuild New Orleans?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
janjan 3/28/2024 3:10:02 PM (No. 1687798)
They haven’t blamed Trump yet but they did find a way to make this racist. One out of two isn’t bad.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 3/28/2024 3:31:28 PM (No. 1687806)
Affirmative Action Bridge - - will topple over when the oar of a rowboat hits it.
Guaranteed.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
FJB 3/28/2024 3:53:21 PM (No. 1687814)
Saw this coming. Gotta call it the "George Floyd Span." MAGA-Vet.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
paral04 3/28/2024 4:12:55 PM (No. 1687827)
There is no discrimination in the construction industry but there are conditions. First you have to apply, then show up and do a good job. Race or national origin have nothing to do with it and I am sick of this. Slaves were freed over 150 years ago. Not all Blacks are descended from White slave owners. Some Blacks are descended from Black slave owners as there were thousands of them, which the NAACP choses to ignore. In addition there are thousands of Black here who came after slavery was outlawed.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2024 4:28:12 PM (No. 1687844)
Systemic RACISM.
They hate competent white people, and insist on government mandated racism.....WHICH IS ILLEGAL.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
SALady 3/28/2024 6:08:02 PM (No. 1687889)
And since I'm sure that Francis Scott Key said or did something at least once in his life that was totally OK at that time but would be considered racist now to some braindead lie-beral somewhere, they will be naming the new bridge the St. George Floyd Bridge!!!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
plomke 3/28/2024 6:11:16 PM (No. 1687895)
Fifty five years ago it took us ten years to put men on the Moon.
It'll be another fifty five years before anyone cuts steel for this bridge...
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
rochow 3/28/2024 8:45:52 PM (No. 1687990)
Reparations to use only blacks and illegals??? Who in their right mind is going to use that bridge when it is finished in 3015??
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/28/2024 10:59:37 PM (No. 1688020)
There were a number of construction workers employed by a private company on the bridge patching potholes when the bridge was hit and destroyed. It is being said that all those construction workers, who apparently were all killed were migrants of foreign origin. In this day and age that would mean that the construction workers were illegal aliens. If so, chances are the company that hired them considered them to be cheap foreign labor who would have accepted wages and working conditions much lower than American workers, including Black American workers, could accept and continue to maintain their customary US standard of living. In cases like that it does not matter if there are Black or White American workers who would be willing and able to do those construction jobs, if the employer is prone to do so and save a lot of money in wages, such employers will hire much lower cost illegal aliens instead. The reason employers know they can get away with doing that is that they have enough Federal politicians in their pockets to ensure that effective immigration law enforcement efforts will not be deployed against them and they will not be fined for knowingly hiring illegal aliens. During this current Biden Administration almost all would be effective immigration law enforcement efforts throughout the interior of the USA have been shutdown, so that employers can just hire as many illegal aliens as they wish without facing any law enforcement consequences, especially the masses of incoming illegal aliens from the Third World that Biden and his crew have been allowing into the USA in unlimited numbers under the false guise that since those illegal aliens may be eligible for asylum in the USA, that unlimited numbers of those Third World illegal aliens must be allowed to enter the USA to be heard, as “that’s who we are” according to Biden. Such Biden policies are ridiculous as there are billions of foreign origin people who reside throughout the Third World and Biden has publicly announced to them that they should “surge” to the US borders and he will allow them into the USA. Bottom line when most employers can freely hire illegal alien labor without consequences, because of all money they will save, those employers will hire illegal aliens every time to the detriment of American workers either Black or White, and is a major reason why Congress passed immigration laws to control cheap foreign labor coming into the USA in the first place.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
mifla 3/29/2024 8:12:11 AM (No. 1688163)
Let one minority company build the left half of the bridge and another minority company build the right have of the bridge. See what happens.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
rbruce20 3/29/2024 11:27:30 PM (No. 1688709)
Won't be able to use male/female electrical connections.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/30/2024 3:04:37 PM (No. 1689191)
Apparently the Biden crew is already rushing to set up handing out large amounts of federal money by way of quickly administered grants and loans for anyone who claims they were adversely affected by the bridge collapse. By doing that quickly, no doubt the Biden crew is setting that program up to be targeted for substantial fraud!
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You've got to hand it to Race-Baiters Inc. and their partner, the Dem party. Only yesterday, they were telling us that the country was built on the backs of black people.
If this becomes a DEI project, I would never trust it again.