Washington Times
A bridge in Rotterdam, Netherlands, will not be dismantled to make room for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s superyacht.
The 417-foot yacht is being built by Dutch firm Oceanco and won’t fit under the bridge, nicknamed “De Hef,” or “the lift,” unless the middle part is dismantled. Bezos committed to paying the cost to dismantle and reassemble the bridge to allow his $50 million yacht. More
Bezos and his Washington Post and his donations to BLM make him fun to ridicule. Then there’s that 4 times married tramp he hangs around with.
Hmmmm. It seems having billions doesn’t make everything go your way…
Maybe they can just dry-dock it and turn it into an air bnb…
Maybe he should dismantle his yachette, instead!
All the oligarchs have yachts, it seems. And some have rockets! As the saying goes, “The only difference between men and boys is the size of their toys.”
Maybe he can contract Elon Musk to builds rocket and shoot it over the bridge?
Just dig a hole under the bridge deep enough to let his boat pass. Its not rocket science.
At some point your boat might be big enough?
screw him and his boat
private yachts and private jets are exempt from EU carbon/fuel taxes. Not your car or truck though. Let the damn boat rot where it sits.
“When it comes to climate change, it’s rules for thee but not for me. That much is certain, especially after it was revealed that among those marine vessels exempt from the EU’s carbon tax are luxury yachts owned by the very billionaires pushing for climate change legislation.”
https://thecountersignal.com/yacht-owners-wont-have-to-pay-eu-carbon-tax/
“The European Commission’s planned carbon tax on jet fuel, which will be presented for legislation on July 14, will carry exemptions for private jets and cargo flights on the grounds that such journeys “aid to the conduct” of business, it was announced today. Apparently multi-millionaire celebrities jetting around the continent to visit their second homes is now classified as “business aviation”…”
https://order-order.com/2021/07/07/eu-to-exempt-private-jets-from-jet-fuel-tax/
Milwaukee Tools has A 330 foot lazer measuring device that is available at AMAZON for $352.57.
He should open up an account & order one.
The Prick Could have saved himself a lot of embarrassment.
@Meerkat — Bezos wouldn’t have to go to Musk’s SpaceX; he builds his own Blue Origin rockets.
Hell, Gibbs built boats in his basement and managed to get them outside.
He should just the air out of the tires, that yacht will just slip right under that bridge. Trucks do it all the time. 🙂
2ND RICHEST CAPITALIST IS A SOCIALIST, LOL
Isn’t he an American oligarch? Maybe the Russians will seize his crappy yacht,!and take it back to Putin.
Chain Saw and Gorilla Epoxy… Easy Peesy.
It’s the Netherlands, for crying out loud.
Obviously, Bezos’ is going to wait for global warming to flood Holland and he can just float his boat out to sea with the rest of Rotterdam.
Fill it with concrete and make it ride lower in the water.
Imagine the big brains behind the building of this yacht who didn’t think of this pretty obvious issue. These are the assholes running our world now.
When the yacht’s fabrication location was being shopped, this shipyard, only one of a few that could even do it, told Bezos that the bridge would be dismantled and reassembled when the ship was launched. There was some kind of agreement with the town. Do you think for a second he would have proceeded without that in place? Or maybe you’re stupid enough to believe that once they built it was when they discovered it wouldn’t fit?? Good fucking grief.
It was only after Bezos has provided 100s of millions(I think close to a billion for this yacht, not the paltry $50M quoted) in job creating wealth to this shithole town that the scum enviros crawled out from under a rock with this bullshit.
And anyone in these comments that disparage the man for his wealth, fuck off. What should he do with HIS money? yeah that’s right, it’s none of your fucking business. He earned it. Is he a tough ass businessman that is ruthless? yeah again. So don’t use his services.
Ask the 25,000 people in NY who lost jobs because AOC hasn’t got a fucking clue about tax credits, what they think about Bezos.
MMinWA: you misunderstand. We don’t hate Bezos because he’s rich, we hate him for his politics. He has supported and contributed to some of the worst politicians of our time, including Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell, and, of course, Obama. He supports open borders and a whole myriad of left wing causes. I don’t care what he buys with his wealth, just who.
^^^^ PRECISELY
I agree he’s used HIS wealth to promote policies that further increase his wealth. yeah it fucking sucks and I hate it as well but that’s the system we got got. He doesn’t support those politicians because he loves them but because they will force legislation down out throats and promote polices(like locking down 1,000s of small businesses).
It’s insidious and this corporatism is destroying our country because of their concentrated wealth. Nonetheless, he’s earned HIS wealth pretty much working with the rules he and people like him fostered. IOW legally. I’ll go back to my claim that if you think you have representation in DC, you are out of your mind.
Tell me how us rubes can change that. And please, voting HARDERER ain’t it. Although I see finally one state has banned voting machines. MO! And man am I trying to get back to the Ozarks.
In the meantime when he decides to shower a billion dollars into a small town’s economy, fucking let him. Don’t dog his ass because he’s done that.
@MMinWA July 4, 2022 at 6:20 pm
> He earned it.
Saint Karl thanks you for your… let’s call it… “service”.
Jeff Bezos real last name is Sanchez. His birth father abandoned him & his mother. She later met & married a man with the last name that Jeff wears today, as he considered this man his real father. Who was BTW, an engineer. Just a random thought. As for the yacht, it is just another liberal with more dollars than sense saying to the commoners “let them eat cake”.
Fnucky you grumpy bastard. I have steak and giant prawns waiting for you. AND the aforementioned illegal fireworks.
Smile. It’s a nice day
A deplorable lack of foresight, even for a WaPoo libtard.