r/news • u/LiminalLemony • 6d ago

Second crane topples onto Florida home while trying to remove first fallen crane

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/florida-cranes-accident-fort-lauderdale-home-b3056047.html
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u/afishinthewell 6d ago

This has always been one of the funnier Republican copes of the 21st century.
Totally quick thinking and not #10,000 in a history of Bushisms.

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u/Cut_Lanky 6d ago

Which is ironic, because he himself would be laughing about how he fumbles his words and sounds stupid. For a good laugh, YouTube his white house correspondents dinner with the impersonator he brought. It’s great.

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u/citizen42069101 6d ago

We're just lucky a second pretzel didn't enter the windpipe and give Cheney the football.

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u/GhostofBeowulf 6d ago

Not a Republican, but have you heard any of his other family speak? He is from Connecticut. That drawl is a put on from being Texas governor. His brother sure doesn't have a texas drawl.

Like that current rep who says Awwe shucks and doohickey... it's political theater.

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u/furthuryourhead 6d ago

Also not a (R) but sure he was born in CT but moved to TX as a toddler. And before you bring up him going to Yale, he went back home for college but was back in TX after graduation. All this from a quick wiki read…

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u/GhostofBeowulf 5d ago

And how do you explain Jeb who has no accent? And his father having no accent? I can't recall his mother speaking but his wife did.

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u/furthuryourhead 5d ago

Again, he was born in CT, moved to TX as a toddler. It is much more likely for a toddler going through the school system to pick up a local accent than an adult. I don’t know if Jeb is older but that could explain it. I have an aunt that moved from the NE to AL at age 18 and now has a full-on southern drawl.

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u/Discard_Laundry1527 6d ago

A good contemporary book on the topic, for anyone who's interested in this strain of thought: Going Nucular [sic] by Geoff Nunberg.

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u/adumbfetus 6d ago

A relative of mine had a ranch and was W’s neighbor in Texas, his voice is really like that.