r/PoursTea • u/jonnismizzle • 13h ago
Murdered By Words š©ø Sadly, this isn't the first election they've likened their policies to the Titanic. Have we learned anything this time?
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u/Spsurgeon 12h ago
The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank because the Rich owners ignored conditions and people with experience.
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u/Illustrious-Roll7737 9h ago
Even if they turned the Titanic around, it would not have taken all night.
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u/SoyTonatiuh 12h ago
Republican politicians are great at complaining and bitching when things they broke are being fixed and going well but horrible at fixing anything or bringing about meaningful change when they are in power because they arent builders. They are imbeciles. They are the party of ruin, stupidity, lies and deception.
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u/Exciting-Emu-3324 8h ago
They are thieves. They just cut taxes for their masters and gorge themselves on grift every single time.
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u/RicRacer 9h ago
Exactly. For decades the Republicans have simply been the complainers, with no plan or policy to fix anything. They only know how to bitch about things.
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u/Beanie1949 5h ago
Well, Reagan claimed he had a plan: a thousand points of light ( private charities) and trickle down economics āraising all boatsā. We saw how well that worked, so maybe Republicans without a plan is still better than with one. Then of course thereās Trump, whose āplanā was to āfix everything on the first day!ā
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u/CelticSnakes 6h ago
They love taking credit for othersā hard work, while impeding progress the whole time.
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u/jpmeyer12751 12h ago
But that is precisely what they promised while running in 2024!
Trump: "I will stop the war in Ukraine immediately!"
Trump: "I will resolve the national debt in 8 years!"
Trump: "I will lower your gas price!"
It is entirely fair to judge Trump and Vance based on their performance compared to their promises.
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u/True_Hunter_9684 13h ago
I have to imagine Yale hates the fact he went there after seeing him say such stupid things so consistently.
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u/TranTriumph 12h ago
You also dont plow the Titanic full speed onto the rocks because the captain is mad at being caught committing crimes.
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u/Specialist-Spare-785 13h ago
Just Dance Vance is not a smart man. Is he implying that his and Drumpfs corruption is gonna sink the US just like the Titantic? Just Dance and the felon have put the US is this position and now they are cinching the deal by drowning us all. Unless, we Vote Blue.
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u/AeliusRogimus 12h ago
I actually think he is pretty smart, he just has no charisma and is an empty suit who can't connect with people.
I hate Trump so much I can't even think straight when he's talking live, but he has a superhuman ability to sell bullshit and tap into white angst. Vance can't even crowd work a donut shop.
Trump picked the ultimate insurance policy with him as the VP, Vance would be far worse, and his technocrat sponsor is just waiting in the wings....
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u/Resident_Trash5605 10h ago
I suspect vance is a certain kind of smart. Like he went to Yale or whatever so I'm sure he is smart but his reasoning and ability to think on his feet isn't all that from what I've seen.
If you go to grad school you'll learn that there are smart people who work furiously hard and digest information and vomit it back at a very high level. They can even apply it adequately enough for school. But if they're asked to do something novel which will require them to use some creativity and critical thinking and not just apply what they learned in a way that they were already trained to do, they struggle.Ā
Based on my admittedly limited sample of vance, I'd guess he's that kind of smart. The kind that will excel if you ask him to do something where he was trained exactly how to do that thing, even if it's a complex version of that thing. But if something weird and novel comes up? You're gonna want someone else.Ā
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u/Grinchskates 10h ago
Itās always been the case, you can be smartest in the class and still be stupid as hell on the execution and the nuance.
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u/Former_Mobile3101 12h ago
Aside from the obvious comparisons and jokes, I am sure the titanic could have easily turned around several times in one night.
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u/dwrobotics 12h ago
Didn't this guy write books? Shockingly bad analogy for a writer. Titanic is literally a real life example of how reckless hubris, pig headedness and blind faith in leaders can lead to disaster for the poorest people - while the rich get to sail away in the life boats.
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u/Constant-Roll706 9h ago
It also, after a quick search, seems it would take about 6 minutes to turn 360 degrees at full speed. Should be able to turn it around overnight pretty easily
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u/Automatic-Channel-32 12h ago
The saying is, "You don't turn a battleship around overnight or an aircraft carrier overnight." Who the hell says Titanic? Jesus.
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u/Lonely_MuffinXo 7h ago
It's like his dying conscience still insists on reminding everyone what a disaster he is
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u/neddiddley 10h ago
Most people wouldnāt see a giant iceberg and steer the Titanic directly for it either, but here we are.
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u/stx06 12h ago
We learned that he wouldn't mind "if his work leads to 'the end times' because it's for 'God,'" which I didn't expect to hear anyone admit to.
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u/SpacePoddity 12h ago
Helping to bring about the End Times is a key facet of Dominionism, which is driving the āChristoā part of the proto-Christofascism weāre currently experiencing.
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u/Burnbrook 12h ago
The Lusitania is a more apt parallel for what they are doing to the economy.
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u/Taychon2319 12h ago
Actively sending the ship out so it will get sunk so we can get into a war is exactly right.
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u/SpacePoddity 12h ago
Iād say even more apt is American Airlines Flight 11, except Trump, Vance, and company are at the yoke.
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u/sharantir 9h ago
Even if the Titanic would have turn around, it would have taken like... 15 minutes?
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u/pissjugman 12h ago
Great analogy. Crash it being greedy and reckless and while it sinks, the people in steerage drown and the lucky and wealthy ones get rescued
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u/Ok_Recover_3952 12h ago
Who writes this stuff for them? š. Evidently they donāt read it before they get out there and open their mouths.
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u/She_1128- 6h ago
Nothing this administration has done has helped the middle and lower class! NOTHING! Everything is for the rich! This administration is taking the side of a known murderer, a known enemy of the U.S. in Putin! He is allowing thousands of innocent Ukrainians to die while he sucks up to his dictator boss, who by the way will kill him if he does not follow his directions, why, cause Putin owns Trump and is directing him to slowly tear our country down! It wonāt be bombs, or gun fire that beings the USA to its knees, it will be the hate of our own people that will be our undoing ! Remember that the meek shall inherit the earth not the rich!
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u/-Casey-Diaz- 2h ago
I hate to say it, but him comparing their handling of the economy to steering the Titanic is incredibly accurate. Power-outages and everything.
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u/krichard-21 13h ago
I cannot guess who wrote that speech. But why exactly would JD read it out loud?
What a "excellent choice". Since the filter would not permit me to use better descriptors.
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u/Own-Scallion-8713 13h ago
The jokes keep writing themselves. SNL is going to have years of material to run on with these clowns.
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u/bilser01 12h ago
MAGA policy likened to the titanic, a true comparison, badly designed and doomed!
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u/Aezetyr 12h ago
Well, yeah, the Titanic famously steered directly into the iceberg with the delusion that the ship could withstand it. Well, it didn't, and most of the poor/unwealthy on board died as a result. Which is quite possibly the most apt simile that vance here could have been told to use.
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u/BorkieDorkie811 12h ago
Genuinely one of the worst metaphors I've ever heard, and I edited a creative writing portfolio for my classmates in high school.
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u/5pankNasty 12h ago
I swear to God if they keep a majority the world needs to ditch everything American. I don't care if it's an economic suicide pact.
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u/Connect-Will2011 12h ago
The headline says this isn't the first time, but I'm having a tough time Googling around for that. My search results are coming up with this current quote and other people likening Trump's policies to the Titanic.
Does anyone here remember the first instance of this?
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u/jonnismizzle 12h ago
There's been a few instances of MAGA rallies bringing attention to the Titanic š¤£
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u/Connect-Will2011 12h ago
Yes, but I'm looking for an instance where the administration compares its policies to the Titanic, like the headline says.
I'm not saying I don't believe you; I'd just like to see what the other example was.
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u/JellyKind9880 12h ago
I think he may be paraphrasing from that Amy grant song (in which the line STILL doesnāt make sense within the songs contextā āit takes a little time sometimes to get the titanic turned back aroundā)
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u/Slablanc 12h ago
This depths of stupidity this administration shows is impressive. Itās almost like theyāre playing a bit just to see how much theyāll be able to get away withā¦.oh waitā¦
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u/LETSGOTACO22 12h ago
The Titanic sunk you ass hole & thatās what Trump ,you & his band of misfits are doing to the US .
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u/JL_upstateSC 12h ago
Aww. Just give him/them 2 more years. They'll use the time to make the nation great again. They're getting the hang of it. pumpkinprez has worked so hard on his adornments to DC that he missed getting the work done already.
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u/Own-Opinion-2494 11h ago
If the titanic had gone full reverse it would have floated for four hours. Help was two hours away
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u/Strange-Bandicoot475 11h ago
Whoās going to tell him his boss is the reason our economy became the Titanic?
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u/CaptianBrasiliano 11h ago
Very strongly very impressively smashing into an iceberg. Tremendous, Tremendous... No one's ever seen anything like it.
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u/PlayinK0I 11h ago
Some nice parallels between the maiden voyage of the titanic and MAGA that I donāt think JD is going for.
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u/mnstripe 11h ago
I mean.... technically, the Titanic DID go in a completely different direction overnight
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u/sniksniksnek 11h ago
I actually find it heartening that Thiel and the other members of The Nerd Reich looked at Vance and thought āpeople will rally behind this fella.ā
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u/Podoo_hutt17 11h ago
The Titanic sunk you idiot JD. What does JD stand for for anywayā¦ just dicks?
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u/Intelligent-Area-421 11h ago
And then it hit an iceberg
And then it sank
Just like the Spanish Armada.
No one ever expects the Spanish Armada.
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u/JellyrollTX 11h ago
Day one! Trump said day one! So he lied, just admit it! Biden needed 3 years to stem the inflationary spiral Trump put us on, but it was coming down dramatically at the end of his term, only to have Trump throw a wrench in to it
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u/Jmersh59 10h ago
No but you should be able to do it in two years time dummy. If he's such a great business man why did he say on day one?
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u/YerGoodBuddy 10h ago
He sure has a way with words. No elegy for this hillbilly. Heās still a national embarrassment.
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u/MrScribz 10h ago
Im sure it would take far less than a full night to turn a cruise ship. Or at least for a competent captain.
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u/Past_Significance_27 10h ago
The Titanic was already mostly turned around and they decided to change course and head for the iceberg.
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u/DG_FANATIC 10h ago
Stupid people are so dangerous to our evolution. A crowd full of abysmally stupid people listening to a semi intelligent dumbshit lie and propagandize to them lolā¦Terrifying.
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u/Prudent_City2435 9h ago
Why has James Bowman changed his name so many times? I refuse to call him by what he identifies as.
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u/Akkerlun 9h ago
USS Trumptanic. Itās a bigly huge boat. A boat the likes of which have never been seen before.
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u/samuraispartan7000 9h ago
The Titanicās hull wasnāt deliberately ripped apart either. Captain Trump looked straight at the metaphorical iceberg of Iran and said āletās ram into it as fast and as hard as we possibly canā and then got mad when the iceberg refused to move out of the way.
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u/madadekinai 9h ago
I am SO freaking sick of the hypocrisy.
They started blaming Biden only a few months in, including supply chain disruptions:
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2021/07/20/at-6-months-biden-fails-his-economic-report-card/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-blame-biden-inflation-are-they-right-2021-11-01/
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/gop-governors-team-up-supply-chain
Yet they grant unlimited latitude, patience and understanding for Trump:
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/24/republicans-investigations-biden-trump
The Biden administration faced extensive backlash, investigations, and political scrutiny regarding family business dealings, influence peddling allegations, and federal contracting practices.
"President Biden is compromised, and our national security is threatened. Records obtained through the Committeeās subpoenas to date reveal that the Bidens and their associates have received over $20 million in payments from foreign entities."
https://oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline/
And what did they find?
LMFAO, the evidence they found refuted their own claims. while investigators documented extensive foreign business dealings by Hunter Biden, the final reports failed to prove Joe Biden personally profited from or altered U.S. policy because of his family's business ties.
House Republicans, led by Chairman James Comer, alleged that members of the Biden family, most notably the former Presidentās son, Hunter Biden, and brother, James Bide used the Biden name to secure over $20 million to $27 million in payments from foreign entities in countries like China, Ukraine, Romania, and Russia.
https://oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline/
The House Oversight Committee launched inquiries into whether federal contracts and advisory positions were disproportionately awarded to major Democratic donors. For instance, lawmakers scrutinized federal contracts and loans given to companies associated with prominent campaign contributors, demanding transparency from the Office of Management and Budget.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_4a397cb8-c32c-11ec-94d6-475d63bf6384.html
There's like 500+ more, I don't have time to go through them all.
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u/McMeanx2 9h ago
Also, turning the titanic just 1 degree once it left port would have made the world of difference.
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u/sponge72222 8h ago
I love the analogy JD Davenport-fucker. Just like the titanic, weāre on a sinking ship.
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u/Real_Flamingo3297 8h ago
Youāre supposed to predict and respond to icebergs in the distance, not ignore them until the last minute and then blame physics for your own hubris and mismanagement
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u/Glum_Comparison6523 8h ago
What a putz!...this what happens when a clueless slab of meat, pretends to have a brain...they don't know what they speak about.
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u/H3L105_ai 8h ago
The Titanic (before it wrecked - which makes this analogy hilariously apt) took about 5 minutes to make a 180 turn.
JD needs to stick to what he knows best - f*cking couches.
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u/MrFunktasticc 8h ago
As bad as the analogy is , ships donāt take more than a day to turn around. So if the Titanic did decide to turnā¦yes it absolutely would happen overnight.
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u/Netsecandmexicanfood 8h ago
It sunk!! So forgetting history lessons are part of the GOP, or did they burn all the history books with references to the Titanic???
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u/WATC9091 8h ago
Actually they drove it in to the path of numerous icebergs, by choice. Never forget they created the problem they now canāt figure out how to resolve.
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u/Sabbathius 7h ago
These guys are so weird. They're always using Sith light sabers, comparing the country they're at the helm of to the Titanic, quoting Hitler, etc. Like...OK, once is an accident, twice is a coincidence. But at some point we just have to conclude it's who they are.
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u/ElitesoldierWar 7h ago
So the Titanic was an referance for the US Economy....
A Ship that Crashed and sunk at the End....
Yeah.......
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u/ghouly-cooly 7h ago
Trying to turn the titanic at all is what sank it, if it had kept going forward it probably wouldn't have sank and most people would have survived.
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u/hbgwine 7h ago
So, the ālogicā is that the Titanic had to take on a lot more water to not sink?
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u/PinIndependent4 6h ago
Comparing the economy to a ship famous for sinking when everyone thought it'd be fine? Really?
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u/kicktodayinthepeen I Stand With Her 6h ago
So we all gonna die on this sinking ship then? COOL. Heās such a twat.
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u/JustBug3403 6h ago
This is so dumb on severals levels not just the most obvious one. Why would you even want to turn around instead of...you know...avoid the icebergs.
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u/Organic-Spirit7523 6h ago
They already sank the economy with their rediculous policies and starting a war ..it was on the upswing when they took over ..the Titanic sank
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u/Hot-Butterfly-8024 6h ago
Maybe stick to crayons and stick figures. The whole āwordsā thing isnāt really working for your crew.
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u/CelticSnakes 6h ago
Trump & Co. turned the economy back into the Titanic, and are firing cannons on it as hard as they can. To hell with this lying creep.
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u/Jingtseng 5h ago
Pretty sure that, barring icebergs, had they needed to turn around, it would have taken less than six hours to do so
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u/Emotional_Royal_1033 5h ago
More importantly, the economy was not a Titanic in 2024 when they won the election. It became the Titanic.
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u/I_have_questions_ppl 5h ago
Where do they find those braindead morons in the crowds? Where are these "Lower prices" and "Bigger paychecks"? Just more bullshit republicunt marketing.
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u/lincolnlogtermite 5h ago
There is a difference between turning around and "Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead"
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u/ShortTop1487 burnt my tongue š 5h ago
And even if they did, it wouldnāt take two f*cking years to do it.
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u/VaEagle85 5h ago
Telling that the Titanic analogy popped into his head. Hey JD, this Administration feels like the Titanic to us too.
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u/bowmans1993 5h ago
While that is true. They did say they would lower prices, end the war in ukraine, and a whole bunch of other shit day one. Trump said he would lower drug prices like 600%, which.......isnt possible.
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u/misfitofscience76 5h ago
A ship that size can easily turn onto a reverse heading in about 3-4 minutes
It doesnāt take overnight
Get it right or I wonāt trust you ever again, JD! š
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u/Fishtoart 5h ago
Even without the iceberg, if you canāt turn the boat around in less than 24 hours, youāre in real trouble
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u/Cautious_Package6647 5h ago
Just 'love' how they keep trying to make these types of points like it's about Biden. So...he was so powerful that you can't change anything? Aka you are a bunch of weak ass lil bushes?
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u/AirportSea4393 5h ago
Admitting that slimy slug and cohorts have put the economy in the already sunken Titanic. In simple terms the economy is heading to the depths of the ocean-not good maga
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u/cityboy077 4h ago
Yeah cause 639 days is a blink of an eye. They have presided over the worst economy weāve seen in ages and still try to either blame Biden and dems or act like theyāve only been there for a day. Jesus
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u/ChrisBegeman 4h ago
I know that the Titanic famous sunk on its first voyage, but ships of the size can turn 180 degrees in at most a few minutes depending on the speed that they are currently traveling.
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u/South-Jersey-Old-Guy 4h ago
He is being the eternal optimist. He is sure if they hold the house and senate, in addition to $5000, they will pump a few gallons of Russian diesel into it and it will fire right up and float to the service.
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u/Oldschool831 4h ago
We know. Thatās why we didnāt believe you two years ago when you said youād fix all the problems on day one
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u/FaceTimePolice 3h ago
What a fitting metaphor. Also, the fact that the metaphor makes no sense at all is also fitting and so on-brand for this administration. š¤¦āāļøš¤”š
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u/Falkens_OXCOM_Theory 3h ago
The Titanic sank. Perfect comparison. You go Magat's, you be the Titanic. Let me know how that goes. š¤£
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u/HotwifeandSubby1980 3h ago
Seems like a ship could turn around in several hours.
I just donāt think heās right about that
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u/Lost-Pineapple9791 3h ago
America is both hottest, richest, most free, most perfect country ever bc of Trump
yet at the same time a poor, garbage, sinking titanic bc of Biden
Fascism 101
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u/EekumBokum100 2h ago
People being this stupid shouldn't be allowed in general. The fact that he's the vp oh just fuck it
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u/NotSure16 13h ago
Titanic and Trump Administration... both have/had an ICE problem.