George Floyd Statue Vandalized Days After Emotional Brooklyn Debut – NBC New York https://t.co/y5uGLsXn6b pic.twitter.com/SI3rwalEtf

— AfroPresencia.org (@afropresencia) June 25, 2021

There is a certain enjoyable irony on people freaking out to the fact that the statue of a black man was “vandalized” by applying a blackface.

Miguel posted this Tweet:

Champlain Towers luxury condos – Before And After Structure Collapse – Surfside, Miami Beach Area. Was it the result of poor engineering, building code violations, or something else? Too early to know or to rule anything out. Rescue operations ongoing. pic.twitter.com/qichiW6j2E

— 1776 Channel (@1776Channel) June 24, 2021

I will be the first to admit that I am not a civil or structural engineer.

I am a Materials Engineer with a PE and a decade and a half in forensic engineering.

Poor engineering?

The building was built in 1981.  It is 40 years old.  Buildings do not stand for 40 years, withstand multiple hurricanes, including a couple of Cat 5 hurricanes, and then collapse at middle age because there was poor engineering.

Things that fail due to poor engineering generally fail right away like the FIU bridge or the Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkway.

Florida does a lot of beach repair to keep the beaches nice for the tourists.  Florida won’t allow a beach to erode.  Saying the beach eroded due to global warming is ridiculous.

Sinkhole?  Maybe.  Florida is known for those.

I want to wait until the debris has been examined.

Until then, everyone can shut the fuck up.

I’m happy to answer failure analysis questions in the comments.

Just saw one local TV station already hinting that the blame for the building collapse may have been beach erosion caused by Global Warming.

The fucking bodies have not yet been recovered and they just had to push Narratives. They have zero shame or empathy for the families.

If you bitch at someone for not being masked while you yourself have your mask below your nose, we get to crazy glue your nostrils closed.

To control the spread of the virus, of course

In his 2 years as Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis has shown a Trumpian ability to weaponize the white resentment that drives Republican voters. But compared to Trump, research has found DeSantis is 35% less likely to trip over his own dick trying to enact horrible policies.

— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) June 24, 2021

This spring, in a move clearly targeting the #BLM movement, DeSantis signed into law HB-1, a piece of anti-protest legislation the governor likes to call his “anti-riot bill.”

— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) June 24, 2021

It’s a completely unnecessary law, especially given that most of the protests held across Florida last summer were peaceful. That alone is impressive, considering almost NOTHING that happens in Florida is peaceful.

— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) June 24, 2021

Florida gets made fun of a lot.

That is 100% driven by projection from the New York and California media.

Florida is a state that learns its lessons and does better next time.

When we have a Category 5 hurricane that wipes a city off the map, we change our building codes, dump money into canals and breakwaters, mandate flood insurance, and rebuild in such a way that the next time a hurricane comes through, the damage is minimal.

Louisiana gets hit, almost floods does nothing to fix it, embezzles the money to fix it, gets turned into the Noah’s Arc story.

California burns down year after year and does nothing to mitigate the fires.

When a pandemic hits, other states lock down hard, then harder, then destroy their economies and accomplish nothing.

Florida locks down, sees it doesn’t work, unlocks and engages in good policy, and comes out better off economically with a lower than average mortality rate.

Florida has a race riot and looting after hurricanes.  Florida decides it won’t tolerate that shit and sends out the police in full force to stop it from ever happening again.

Everywhere else doesn’t enforce the law, drops charges against looters and rioters, has more looting and rioting, and suffers billions in economic damage.

Maybe, just maybe, the reason Florida’s protests were mostly peaceful was that the cops didn’t give the protesters an inch to burn from the very beginning.

Then DeSantis decided to double down and make sure protesters from out of state who wanted to come to Florida and start some shit knew that Florida operates on a policy of “fuck around and find out.”  If a bunch of Antifa from Portland think they can block traffic in Miami and assault drivers, they are going to be sorely mistaken.

Florida makes mistakes.  Every state makes mistakes.  The thing about Florida is that they don’t make the same mistakes twice.  And what DeSantis does best is that he gets out ahead of shit and fixes it by watching other states make these mistakes before Florida.