I think I’m evil for maybe enjoying those pictures a little too much! But I can just imagine how the MAGAts would react if those had been Biden supporters. My view is that they brought it on themselves, not by being Trump supporters, but by being morons, and showing that the two are pretty much synonymous. As for the question about insurance coverage, they will probably be covered (unless their stupidity extended to not having insurance, which would be fully in character) but it would be cool if they subsequently were denied insurance on the grounds of being irresponsible morons. It’s all part of Making America Great Again™.
Run Loud, Run Dumb
McMAGATS Navy
The Hunt for Blue November
(totally stolen from Twitter)
What would be most fitting is if there were one or more GoFundMe pages out there to help support the “victims” of the Lake Travis outing, and yet not one of them actually represented someone who lost their boat in the event.
Please do not link to any of those pages if so. They don’t need publicity.
McFail’s Navy
Yeah, there seems to be something to boats and this crowd – recall how some of the MAGAnt Mariners crashed the scene at the astronaut splashdown earlier in August.
I think it has a lot to do with boat fuel: ethanol. Use that to drive your car and you can end up in a world of hurt (unless you or your parents can buy your way out of it). Boating rules, while technically similar, seem to be much, much laxer (is that a word? more lax?). I remember a bad TV series from the late '60s where the boat captain was never sober (though they mostly showed him somewhere along Skid Road).
I’d think “foundering” fathers is both more accurate for sinking AND better for the pun.
The rules are pretty much the same. It’s the enforcement that’s virtually non-existent.
I live in Broward County FL = Ft. Lauderdale. We have a couple hundred miles of waterway and 10s of thousands of boats. At any given time all that water is patrolled by two, yep, two patrol boats with a total of 4 deputies. And only for 8 hours per day. meanwhile a few hundred police & sheriff’s deputies are on duty on land plus the state highway patrol. Sure there’s more people & cars on the land versus people & boats on the water. But percentage-wise the water is essentially unenforced while the land is not.
Then add that drinking and boating go together like, well, scotch & water and you have a dangerous mix.
TIL that skid row is a corruption of skid road, if the Grammarist website is correct:
The idiom skid row is actually a corruption of the phrase skid road , which refers to the greased road along which loggers dragged timber to the mills. The first skid road is reputed to have been in Seattle, Washington. These skid roads would have been areas where men gathered to look for work. When the work disappeared in the 1930s, homeless men still gathered on these skid roads
#BoaterSuppression
My mother grew up in Seattle and made sure to pound into my head that “skid row” is wrong. Sadly, the corruption has greater reach, and fighting it is like getting people to write the correct “affect/effect” or “complement/compliment”. It is literally a hapless cause.
That or #VoterSubmersion
As long as we’re sidewinding into questions of cromulent word usage, my pet peef(*) is the incessant mis-usage – by professional journalists no less – of the word “staunch” when they mean “stanch”. (Rarely the other way around, though.)
(*) peef n. Wild prairie-dog-like critter, easily caught and tamed, often kept as a pet. Pl. peeves.
It was a sign from Above. God is mildly annoyed.
“Trump 2020 – reaching the highest highs (Space Force) and the lowest lows (bottom of the lake)”
The peef is not related to the prairie dog at all, but to the Ursidae (bears) family in the suborder Caniformia of the order Carnivora. Cite.
Agree. The irony is delicious.
You must be rich enough to have a big enough boat to not get swamped by the asshole with the even bigger boat to be a Republican.
Might makes right is certainly the RW way.