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This is a bad meme. Why?
Just because a ship is flagged from a country does not mean the country owns and operates it. Merchant ships are privately owned and operated. The rules on flagging are so crazy that sometimes there's very little connection at all with the ship's flag on that particular voyage, anyone in the crew, the ship's most recent port of call, or its destination. Just because a ship flies a flag does not make the government of that country liable for anything.
The bridge is going to be paid with insurance money. It's the ship's owner which is liable. It is owned by Grace Ocean Private Ltd, a Singaporean company. It was chartered by Maersk, and they'll likely pass on the liability to GOPL, since it's technically their equipment and their Indian crew. Maersk just held the cargo. GOPL is going to pay for this, not the American taxpayer.
So, GOPL is going to have to tap its insurance, the insurance brokers will fight like hell to low-ball them. This will drag in the courts for a very long time as they argue over maritime law. Biden's running his mouth like the idiot he is. It's an election year, so of course he wants to look like he's in charge and he's being generous (with other people's money of course, because Biden's a POS).
Regardless, it's a bad meme that draws the wrong inferences and implies the wrong conclusions.
I completely disagree. You just said the ship is owned by a Singaporean company and they're liable. That's makes it another country's ship. Unless you're being so obtusely literal because the actual country of Singapore doesn't own the ship.
Nevertheless, the meme is spot on. Normies won't make the distinction. Why would we pay for damages caused by a ship from another country?
Memes aren't for us. We're already awake.
Speaking of deliberately obtuse. I never argued that Singapore's gov't owned the ship or that it was liable. That's a straw man. The company owns the ship. The company is liable under Maritime law dating back to the 1850s. The meme is wrong. It is not the taxpayer's obligation to pay to fix every natural or man-made disaster that happens. I'm beyond sick of people thinking of the federal gov't (and all of our collective wallets) as their own personal piggy bank to crack open for whatever the cause of the day is. That's precisely the attitude you're supposed to be awakened to as a threat to this country. It's the attitude of people who want to use that money (that isn't theirs) for their own purposes. It's bankrupting our country. It's the cause of all of that inflation we keep whining about. This isn't the taxpayer's liability.
None of that precludes the taxpayers from voting to make it their liability. If the trade is in the collective interest and they vote for such a thing, there's nothing that bars such spending in the Constitution. But that sort of behavior is typically left to private people to organize charitable collections on their own, without the men with the guns forcing everyone to pay whether they want to or not. The principle is freedom, including the freedom to keep your own income and spend it on the things you think are important.
If you own one of those trapped ships, or own stock in the Domino sugar company, or one of the cruise lines that operates ships out of that now-blocked harbor, if you work in the shipyards, if you have an interest here, you're going to take steps of your own free will and self-interest to get this fixed. The people of the State of Maryland may vote to support this effort because they depend on that infrastructure. The 10th amendment says this is their right. So let the people who should be handling it handle it instead of looking to Uncle Joey Bribes for a payout.