The way my mind works, those videos of the container ship sailing out-of-control yesterday morning into Baltimore’s now-destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge immediately reminded me of the scene in “Jurassic Park II: The Lost World” when the cargo ship destroys the pier in San Diego because a Tyrannosaurus had eaten the crew. It does appear that the vessel in Baltimore had a catastrophic mechanical failure and the crew lost control of the ship, but it did get off a distress message soon enough to minimize the fatalities when the wounded bridge collapsed into the river.

Never mind, though: the incident is still rolling, ethics train wreck style, because it is being unethically politicized by both parties, and that’s because everything has to be politicized now.

Exhibit A: During his press conference announcing that the federal government will fund the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, President Biden said he had taken commuter rail on the bridge “many many times commuting from the state of Delaware either by train or by car.” Everything is about Joe, you see. The problem with the statement is that there were no rail lines over that bridge.

This would normally be in the “confused old coot whose mind is hovering on the brink of crippling dementia” category and worthy of Julie Principle status. However, this is also quite likely to be another one of Biden’s many deliberate lies, and as long as the Trump Deranged and the Axis of Unethical Conduct continue to claim that Donald Trump is unfit to be President because he lies all the time, Joe doesn’t get a Julie Principle pass. He lies constantly and always has, during his entire career.

I’ll give him his pass when the Washington Post creates a Biden lie database using the same criteria they used for Trump’s database—every exaggeration, hyperbole, joke, misstatement and opinion the Post Democrats disagree with, broken promise, example of deceit and actual, intentional falsehood is a “lie,” and the paper reports on the “lies” from both individuals using exactly the same news judgement and standards.

Exhibit B: Utah Republican Phil Lyman, candidate for governor, tweeted out that the DEI mania was responsible for the Baltimore disaster:

There was no evidence whatsoever that the cargo ship’s problems were caused by the “Didn’t Earn It” fad. I’m having a hard time figuring out how the bridge collapse could possibly be blamed on DEI. In a subsequent post, Lyman added, “DEI=DIE.”

As Marty McFly might say,

Then, when called on this cheap shot idiocy, Lyman blamed the tweets under his name on the anonymous staffers who handle his social media accounts. “I prefer a dignified approach and sometimes the people who handle the social media are more provocative than what I’m comfortable with,” Lyman said. Oh. And why do you allow irresponsible agents to speak for you on social media?

If there are any Utahns out there, do NOT vote for this guy.

Lyman wasn’t the only conservative to make the absurd leap from DEI to the bridge collapse. Former Florida State Rep. Anthony Sabatini posted a video of the bridge collapsing adding, “DEI did this.”

Exhibits C,D and E:

• Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones suggested said the he suspects the accident was due to a cyber attack , perhaps the beginning of World War III. Who follows that idiot? How does anyone who pays attention to him get through a single day alive, with only a rudimentary brain, like a salamander?
• American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp tweeted “drug-addled” workers and coronavirus lockdowns were to blame.
• Fox Business Host Maria Bartoromo claimed that the bridge disaster was in part caused by the  Biden administration’s illegal immigration policies. I would call this the equivalent of the Left blaming the accident on climate change.

Boy, The Great Stupid is strong on Twitter/”X” these days…and Google’s not working! Maybe World War III is starting…

This is a pot calling the kettle black classic, and another one of those wonderful incidents that is valuable primarily to demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt how partisan and biased most mainstream media reporters and pundits are. In fact, it is even better that that: it is smoking gun proof that bias not only makes you stupid, it makes you so hypocritical that you make a fool of yourself.

I could have easily called this “Stop Making Me Defend Ronna McDaniel!” The recently jettisoned Republican National Committee chair was a rank incompetent, which is why she was forced out. She speaks in nearly indecipherable Valley Girlese (or something), and I wouldn’t trust her “expert” analysis of a Road Runner cartoon. Nonetheless, NBC recently hired her as an election analyst for the same reason it has hired other incompetents with links to both parties: to give easily gulled viewers the illusion of “inside information.”

But the news of her hiring triggered one proven liar and incompetent after another on NBC and elsewhere to erupt that the hiring was a horrible breach of the journalism integrity and professionalism that none of the news divisions and networks have possessed in years, as if the hypocritical protesters were something other than what they are: biased, dishonest, untrustworthy partisan hacks (sorry, I’m trying to avoid that word, but sometimes it can’t be avoided.)

First Chuck Todd appeared on his old show “Meet the Press” (the reputation of which he managed to destroy during his tenure as host) to demand the NBC brass apologize to current host Kristen Welker for having to interview the new NBC commentator. Chuck was shocked—shocked!—that his network would hire someone who was biased and untrustworthy. Hilarious.

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Could there be a more disingenuous statement than Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer insisting that Republicans are “politicizing” the Gazan conflict and support for Israel? While the Republican Party, and especially Donald Trump as President, have been absolutely steadfast in their support for Israel, Democratic Party support has been equivocal at best, the equivocation highlighted by President Barack Obama’s disastrous deal with Iran returning millions in Iranian assets in exchange for a promise (from one of the most duplicitous regimes on earth) to delay its development of a nuclear bomb. (The most likely recipient of said bomb would be, naturally, Israel.) Iran, as was widely predicted by critics of Obama’s sell-out, used the assets it has to seed terrorist groups in the Middle East, including Hamas.

Although the Biden Administration has dutifully gone through the motions of sending financial and weapons support to the only democracy in the Middle East, it has also been smarting from the clear signs that a large segment of its base sympathizes with the Palestinians, even to the extent of excusing Hamas terror. One of the so-called “battleground” states in the upcoming election, Michigan, has a potentially decisive Muslim population that would be pleased to see a Palestine state extend from the river to the sea. If one would be an eager purchaser of the London Bridge, perhaps one would see no connection between that problem and the ridiculous, self-contradicting decision by Biden (or his puppeteer), announced in the State of the Union message, to go to elaborate lengths to deliver “humanitarian aid” to Gaza. You know: pay for Israeli military attacks on Gaza, pay to help Gaza suffer from those attacks as little as possible. Brilliant! But of course that insane decision has nothing to do with politics—just a desire to undermine Israel’s interests just enough to keep the White House.

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