Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "MSNBC"
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@ChangingAperture first, the foundation is below the water, the pier was struck and likely damaged, leaving others to take impact and shearing forces as the bride collapsed down upon them.
Tell me you know nothing about bridge and highway construction and engineering without telling us all that you know nothing whatsoever about them!
*Maybe*, after thorough inspection and gamma imaging to ensure the piers are still usable after minor repair - with some likely needing replacement. Not that replacement would delay construction by that much. Six weeks for concrete cure before loading with the bridge support elements, about the same for preparatory work to construct replacement foundations and piers, pouring over a week to keep the concrete volume controllable and hence, temperatures under control. Slinging a bridge structure, then deck, welding rebar, pouring decks will take the lion's share of time.
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He's upset, he got rid of an opponent and wanted to run like his dictator buddies ran, unopposed so he could proclaim his godhood and supremacy to all gods due to no opposition.
That denied him, he's having a hissy fit, like well, many a toddler.
The old polite name for it is second childhood, the technical term is senile dementia. A rather aggressive form at that, given the rapid progression just in aphasia symptoms alone. Oddly, we were supposed to want Biden out absent such symptoms of actual disease, but vote for Trump who has symptoms in spades.
Because one really wants someone with advanced dementia in control of a thermonuclear arsenal that literally only requires a telephone call to launch and absolutely no recourse to stop. No office of government can halt, delay or ignore the order without being charged, convicted and executed for mutiny. Congress has no authority over those weapons, only the POTUS.
Might as well just put them all onto a real button and stick that button into the monkey cage at the zoo.
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@icu64x all it takes is Trump sending a crowd the wrong way and a few pull out weapons to perfect a charge of treason against Trump.
Then, the government can, on conviction, attainder everything he owns or will own and prohibit his children from any inheritance for the remainder of his life.
The US having done that to Robert E. Lee and his plantation, which is now Arlington National Cemetery. Took 20 years after his death for the family to get paid for the plantation, a mere $18k from Congress.
Treason is rare in the US for a reason, it's narrowly defined, requires two eyewitnesses to testify in open court and well, the penalty is expensive by any measure, the prison term variable (unlike Trump's representation that it's universal death penalty, it isn't).
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@Idiotsincarshere that'd be a vertical lift bridge. Any movable bridge costs a lot more to replace. Vertical lift bridges cost more to build, more to maintain, take more maintenance than either swing bridges, bascule bridges or fixed bridges, but are a better alternative in some locations.
A local Baltimore paper is trying to make hay over the bridge piers needing dolphins to protect them, basically concrete piers that'd block the ship, but in the case of that bridge, would also obstruct the port entry entirely for large ships. Not sure what one does with a port that one obstructs, other than admire a useless port. They could've gone with starlings, but again, there are limits to the strength to repel a large container ship and they'd want starkwaters built to cut ice, preventing pier damage.
Like any engineering problem, it comes down to what is able to be done, practical to implement and what one can afford to spend.
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@johnryan8859 that is absolute nonsense!
The day that he summarily, via fiat order, did order everyone displaced from a house of worship - to include the minister in charge of said edifice, then criminally trespass on said property, holding the bible up inverted is accurate.
Yeah, he had federal agents chase everyone, including the minister who had legal control of the church ejected from the property, under threats of physical violence and criminal charges. So much for the rights of the public to their religion, the rights to enjoy one's owned property and the right to control the activities that goes on on one's real property.
Frankly, after having my house of worship so profaned, I'd declare it sullied and irredeemable and order the razing of the National Cathedral, just to ensure no god-emperor wannabe can occupy it by force again. Just replace it with a lot with a tent, which could be stricken rapidly to prevent a recurrence. With a memorial to the place prominently in its place. With Trump's unholy name prominently mentioned as to suppressing property and religious rights and his unholy right to hold holy books inverted in the proper way of Satan...
I freely admit to a major character flaw, I am a very, very, very vindictive individual. And I get ahead, not even, occasionally taking the shoulders with it.
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