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He meant to say that the Titanic was not built in a day (though Nero, famously, played on while it was sinking).

It turned quite efficiently by 90°, just not on the axis he means

Hit iceberg 11:40pm April 14. Disappeared 2:20am 15th.

The analogy fits if you think of the administration as the sinking ship.

He can’t even get his metaphors right. It’s Oil Tankers. Not the Titanic.

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Having briefly steered a similar ship very close to the same size, I can say that full U-turn takes only a few minutes. One can not only turn it around overnight, but also load it up with passengers, sail a hundred nautical miles, drop those passengers off and turn around *again*, for a return trip.

While the orchestra plays YMCA?

Unfortunately also a macron thing rn

I'm getting déjà vu: hasn't Vance already tried this analogy before? And people picked holes in it for the same reasons last time

Turning is what sunk the Titanic. By turning to avoid the iceberg, it ripped a hole in 4 watertight compartments. Had it not turned, it would have ruptured 1 or 2 and not sunk.

Key selection criteria for his speechwriters being … 😂

It doesn't mean that they're *good* speechwriters, though...

"No! No, you don't understand! We have to steer the Titanic back *into* the iceberg to save us!"

He is admitting the US is holed below the waterline and will sink.

JD Vance followed up by stating, "And as they say, icebergs were never built in a day!" /s

Here's hoping !

See next post.

All icebergs lead to Rome.

Well then it must have hit it at night... (Inspired by my Dad's similar joke)

"you can't Tokyo Drift them" challenge accepted. That'll be the only way to get through the Strait of Hormuz soon

To have the VP of the US comparing the economy to a ship that famously sank is, shall we say, an interesting tactic.

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