‘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.
Nancy Mace, Newsmax, why are you giving them the oxygen of attention? Neither are credible from the start.
So we know what we’re up against.
This isn’t some crazy person howling into the wind, this shit gets broadcast and people believe it. People with no media literacy just slorp it up and make it part of their worldview like they already have a neuralink implant.
Ignoring it is worse IMO. Then you’re just letting them get away with it.
The only ones who don’t already haven’t been paying attention and likely aren’t going to.
Nope, it’s crazy people howling into an echochamber. Just as inconsequential as into the wind, since other crazies are howling the same things.
If you’re brainwashed enough to believe Newsmax under any circumstances, being exposed to more of it won’t help.
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.
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 😁