108 years ago today RMS Titanic received her first ice warnings.

[William769]

Link to tweet

[Blue Owl]

1. Eerie parallels indeed...

[BigmanPigman]

2. It is also the day FDR died.

Not a good omen.

[Cha]

3. Thank you for this, Bill.. I was just thinking

yesterday.. the anniversary of the Tragic Voyage of the Titanic is coming up. Yep, ignorance and arrogance.. a deadly combo.

A date in history I remember for some reason.

[KT2000]

4. If trump was Captain of the Titanic

> If Trump Were Captain of the RMS Titanic
>
> There isn’t any iceberg.
>
> There’s an iceberg but it’s in a totally different ocean.
>
> The iceberg’s in this ocean but it will melt very soon.
>
> There’s an iceberg but we didn’t hit it.
>
> We hit the iceberg, but the damage will be repaired very shortly.
>
> The iceberg is Chinese.
>
> We’re taking on water but every passenger who wants a lifeboat can get into one, and they are beautiful lifeboats.
>
> Passengers need to ask nicely if they want to get into a lifeboat.
>
> We don’t have any lifeboats. We’re not lifeboat distributors.
>
> Passengers should have planned for icebergs and brought their own lifeboats.
>
> I have a hunch that we really don’t need that many lifeboats.
>
> We have lifeboats. They’re our lifeboats, not the passengers’ lifeboats.
>
> The lifeboats were left on shore by the last captain of this ship.
>
> Nobody could have foreseen the iceberg.

[William769]

10. Perfect!

[Mendocino]

11. Let the lifeboats

be seated by class.

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R & Retweeted!

[brer cat]

6. K&R

[OnDoutside]

7. My granduncle drowned on the Titanic, so I can appreciate the parallel.

[kentuck]

8. Wow! I find that very interesting.

Numbers and dates are like an unknown language yet to be translated.

[Baclava]

9. What warnings? We are unsinkable, full speed ahead!