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I’m pretty sure it was that cargo ship, Dali

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That’s true but if we’d built a border wall in the middle of that river instead of a bridge then the bridge wouldn’t have collapsed… walls do work.

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Dam, that’s a good idea.

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I see what you did there. That was a dam good joke

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Absolutely right! We need to stop these cargo ships illegally emigrating to our country and taking our jobs!

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Damn straight!

I applied for a data analyst role at a company last year, and after weeks of interviewing, they informed me that instead of hiring a red-blooded American patriot like me, they decided to go with a cargo ship. Can you believe that?

Dat ship dun terk mer jerb.

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Why isn’t Biden doing something about the migrant cargo ship crisis?!

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7 points

And for that matter, why didn’t Obama stop this one?

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Ironically enough, we do actually have a law to stop something like this, the Jones act, which requires that ships transporting cargo between two parts of the US must be built in the US, fly our flag, and be owned and crewed by americans. All this actually does though is make shipping just a bit more expensive, because US shipbuilding is more expensive than the global average, so almost nobody builds cargo ships here, which means that ships that comply with the law are rare specialty constructs and thus even more expensive, so very few exist and trips that could be more efficiently done by ship from one US port to another are instead taken by things like trucks.

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Is this why our cruise ship in hawaii (sailing only between hawaiian islands) was american flagged and crewed by americans?

I was surprised because i always heard stories about how cruise ships are often crewed by exploited internationals and flagged in questionable jurisdictions so that workers can be abused.

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Possibly? Im unaware if it applies to things like cruise ships, or if it’s just cargo shipping

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That’s exactly why. It’s also why Alaska cruises make a stop in Canada along the way. If they sailed straight between Alaska and Seattle, they’d need to be US-flagged.

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My son is a cargo ship and he didn’t get in to the collage of his choice because of affirmative action.

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*jorbs

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*immigrate

Emigrate from, immigrate to.

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5 points

It was leaving

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“You’re on Homeland Security. I want to understand the threats or the potential threats that this country is facing right now…

“We go now to the headlines today, Donald Trump blah blah blah blah blah blah BLAH blah blah.”

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Surprised they didn’t add:

  • Ukraine
  • Hunter Biden’s Laptop
  • LGBTQ+ community
  • BLM
  • George Soros
  • Bill Gates

The usual suspects

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How can you possibly forget some of the greatest hits? Obama’s tan suit Obama’s birth certificate Hillary’s emails

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Not to mention socialism, CRT wokeness, affirmative action, globalism…

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I’m sure Ben Shapiro will work wokeness into it somehow.

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Obama’s spicy dijon mustard…

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8 points

Dijon mustard.

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9 points

What, no love for arugula-gate?

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I’m feeling giddy inside because I have not yet heard of arugula-gate. Please share.

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10 points

You forgot mother of all problems: WoKeiSM!

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You forgot Buttery Males!

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“Yes, Marjorie, you keep telling us how magnificent Hunter’s penis is, but it probably didn’t knock the bridge down. Now can you please put the pictures away?”

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7 points

Jewish space laser. Everyone knows that.

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They are. Don’t read twitter. Any republican buzzword is being thrown around as conspiracy theories for this accident.

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There was one Ukrainian crew member actually so the conspiracy theorists are going crazy.

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Who the hell stopped them from fixing the border and also imposed those COVID lockdowns?

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