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Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by chx on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @05:11PM (#39832918)
> It's my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge and I expect the Congress to support my effort

This is what he said. I would expect Congress to play along too -- just how unpopular would it be to abandon Baltimore??

Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by depereo on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @05:48PM (#39833248)
Republican side probably doesn't care; Maryland voted 65% for a democratic party president.
Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by dgfitz on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @06:59PM (#39833793)
Baltimore city and PG county voted for a democratic president. Rest of the state was red.
Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by depereo on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @07:36PM (#39834088)
10 EC votes to Biden. 0 to trump and no hope of any in this year's election.

1/8 red house seats. The other 7 very comfortably blue.

The rest of the state doesn't seem like it matters much to the only results they'd care about - seats and EC votes.

Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by dgfitz on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @07:46PM (#39834134)
It doesn’t, I agree. Just pointing out that whenever Baltimore figures out Democrats have been fucking them over for decades maybe something will change.

Edit: not that Republicans are any better.

Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by Cheer2171 on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @07:19PM (#39833970)
> just how unpopular would it be to abandon Baltimore??

You underestimate how much vitriol is coming from the Right about Democratic-leaning cities. Baltimore is 60% Black and voted 87% for Biden in 2020. Baltimore isn't on the top of the list of cities they like to claim are failures, but just wait.

My dad is deep in the Right-wing media econsystem and he is convinced that the downtowns of Portland and San Francisco have been burned to the ground and the entire region is a lawless anarchy.

Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by fasa99 on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @10:32AM (#39839678)
"- just how unpopular would it be to abandon Baltimore?? "

I mean I'm from the Baltimore area and.. well.. I mean some of us would consider that town somewhat abandoned already, think Detroit. It has some pretty rough parts. With the main triggering event being 60s/70s loss of steel industry (Bethlehem Steel). Of all the big east coast cities (Boston, DC, NYC, Philly, Baltimore) I would say Baltimore is the most abandoned already.

Re:The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has C... by red-iron-pine on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @01:10PM (#39841813)
> just how unpopular would it be to abandon Baltimore??

As someone else posted above, Baltimore is a massively important US seaport, that moves tons and tons of goods.

Even the most pro-business Republican realizes that a lot of industries are going to get hurt, and in places far away from Baltimore, if they can't move freight through there.