It’s official. Selena Gomez gotstago. Also that dude you saw today who you think could possibly be Mexican, if you aren’t low effort enough to try real hard. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/17/us/manhattan-brooklyn-bridge-ship
Two random thoughts 1. The ship was 30 feet higher than the bridge clearance. WTH? 2. CNN noted “large” number of women sailors on it. Wait for the “it’s DEI fault” posts from the right wing to appear.
30 ft is insane. Makes me wonder if there were some issue with language barrier or metric vs imperial. I don't know how you mess up 30 ft of clearance
The bridge has 127' of clearance. So this ship was apparently about 157' high above the water line. Brooklyn Bridge - Wikipedia The ship was a training vessel, so that may explain some of the inexperience. https://apnews.com/article/brooklyn...an-navy-ship-ca335dc85ebfbf981bc38516985461c8
Unfortunately, the responsibility for this "attack" goes back to Trump. Obviously, after Trump spent years demonizing the Mexican people, their leadership felt a need to send a goodwill ship to the U.S. (manned partly by beautiful women, something even a lecherous troll like Trump can appreciate) to let Americans know that they are not bad people. Unfortunately, the effort may have been hurried a bit, with not enough experienced sailors on board. Just another example of Trump's reckless pronouncements and decisions getting people killed.
From what I've read and heard about, the ship lost power as it went into reverse prior to the power going out. They couldn't stop the ship from rear-ending the bridge and the sailors were all facing forwards so never saw what was going to happen until it did. 2 ships losing power near a bridge. Coincidence?
Hmm, never thought of that, someone hacking the computer systems of these ships causing bridge attacks that look like accidents?
From what I read, the ship took a wrong turn on the way to Iceland. They should not have been attempting to cross the Brooklyn Bridge, but they went in the wrong direction.
It looked like the ship was going too fast for it to have lost power and drifted into the bridge, unless there were strong currents in the area. I think it more likely that they were headed in the wrong direction (not realizing how to get out of New York on its way to Iceland), realized it when it was almost too late, and lost power when the ship was switched from reverse to forward power.
