Another Train Derailment

enki · 2023-02-15T21:54:12.364Z

DougBH:

enki:

SixFoot:

It’s also worth typing “East Palestine, Ohio” into your browser this morning.

If only someone would pass a law requiring trains to have ECP brakes while carrying hazardous materials.

If, and that is a big if, such a law would be beneficial to stop something like this, the Biden administration has had two years to propose such a law or regulation. For two years he had a completely friendly congress available to pass it. At some point, even Biden and his administration have to take responsibility for something.

I won’t argue with that. A law was made by one administration, rescinded by the next, and not corrected by the current.

RTchoke · 2023-02-16T01:57:08.629Z

And who is fighting that legislation? I’ll give you a hint. It starts with railroad and ends with companies.

Who lobbied to get that rescinded? The same people who can now, if they chose to, equip their trains with the needed equipment. But they won’t. There is no law saying they aren’t allowed to add ECP braking systems, they just won’t do it until forced to because it costs them money.

DMK · 2023-02-16T12:59:36.785Z

What a brain dead moron. How about he makes a quota that for every neighborhood project X number of people has to be hired from that neighborhood.

What is that going to look like? Plumber assistant? Skills and experience are required. Same with all other trades. With no skills or experience it would just raise the price to complete the project to hire X number of unskilled workers.

Anyone in that neighborhood that does have skill and experience is already working for someone.

We really need people in government with successful private industry experience for the position they are holding.

WuWei · 2023-02-16T14:56:57.830Z

Time for de ghey to shine.

Nemesis · 2023-02-16T15:06:44.586Z

Who wants to bet several years from now East Palestine in Ohio will be a cancer cluster but all we will hear is that it has nothing to do with the derailment and subsequent dispersal of liquid PVC.

No one will ever be held accountable but the residents will suffer.

SixFoot · 2023-02-16T15:07:33.076Z

Nemesis:

Who wants to bet several years from now East Palestine in Ohio will be a cancer cluster but all we will hear is that it has nothing to do with the derailment and subsequent dispersal of liquid PVC.

No one will ever be held accountable but the residents will suffer.

Hear him!

coolidge · 2023-02-17T06:25:47.751Z

USA TODAY

Norfolk Southern train derails in southeast Michigan; investigation ongoing

Emergency crews were on the scene in Van Buren Township, where about 30 Norfolk Southern Railway train cars went off the tracks Thursday morning.

Looks like another derailment. Whats petey booty judge saying about this?
According to the following article, booty judge does what every little lib does and blames trump. I am sure he has pulled his trumpy bear out and is hitting it as well.

Fox News

Pete Buttigieg faces call to resign after East Palestine disaster: 'Serious...

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is calling for the resignation of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg because of his handling of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.

zantax · 2023-02-17T06:33:30.695Z

Just want to point out, we average 1700 train derailments a year in the US. That’s not good of course but I think we are seeing some selective reporting at this point.

Gaius · 2023-02-17T11:54:04.041Z

Nemesis:

Who wants to bet several years from now East Palestine in Ohio will be a cancer cluster but all we will hear is that it has nothing to do with the derailment and subsequent dispersal of liquid PVC.

No one will ever be held accountable but the residents will suffer.

Incorrect.

Sec of Transportation Pete Buttikieg is already in DC blaming Trump for the Ohio train derailment.

someone will be held accountable and that someone is Donald Trump!

Fox News

'Complete embarrassment:' Buttigieg blasted for touting 'rail safety,'...

Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is being slammed on Twitter for punting the blame for the East Palestine train derailment to the previous administration.

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PS Why is he blaming Trump from DC? It would make more sense the Sec of Transportation fly to Ohio and blame Trump from there.

bigtwnvin · 2023-02-17T12:03:31.492Z

But “Pothole Pete” checked off the right boxes that satisfies the “diversity” quota. What could go wrong?

bigtwnvin · 2023-02-17T12:06:40.617Z

Booty-gedge like his clueless boss is an incompetent unqualified ■■■■■■■■

Gaius · 2023-02-17T12:06:53.168Z

zantax:

1700 train derailments a year

Yup!

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Nemesis · 2023-02-17T12:07:27.818Z

I agree he handled it atrociously. When a disaster happens blaming previous admins is just lazy and stupid.

Nemesis · 2023-02-17T12:10:54.821Z

I have to add I am disappointed in Buttigieg. This was his chance to shine politically and he ■■■■■■ it up.

I need to get myself elected and show them how its done.

Gaius · 2023-02-17T12:15:18.495Z

Nemesis:

I agree he handled it atrociously. When a disaster happens blaming previous admins is just lazy and stupid.

Blaming Trump from DC? Really.
He’ll never be President.

When the US had a supply chain problem and oil prices spiked
Joe Biden wasted no time flying to the Port of Los Angeles to blame Putin-flation and corporations who a “have more money than God.”

See?? Fly somewhere with a backdrop and start blaming others from there.
THAT’s why Joe Biden is President and Pete Buttigieg is not.
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SixFoot · 2023-02-17T13:18:08.772Z

Nemesis:

I have to add I am disappointed in Buttigieg. This was his chance to shine politically and he ■■■■■■ it up.

I need to get myself elected and show them how its done.

He can’t just “I’m Gay!” it all away, can he? If only someone qualified was given that job.

Rodeo · 2023-02-17T13:49:32.576Z

SixFoot:

Nemesis:

I have to add I am disappointed in Buttigieg. This was his chance to shine politically and he ■■■■■■ it up.

I need to get myself elected and show them how its done.

He can’t just “I’m Gay!” it all away, can he? If only someone qualified was given that job.

No one has done a good job on this….I see no reason to be overly impressed with Ohio’s Republican governor either. It appears everyone has been quick to point fingers and slow to do much.

Pothole Pete and the Biden’s….mayor Pete got his job not because he’s competent but because he checks a box…maybe Biden owed him a favor for getting out if the race and his support or something. The “cabinet that looks like America” nonsense continues to be revealed as the joke it is. Hire people because they are competent not because of who they sleep with. Pothole Pete is light years out of his league in this job.

I want everyone to remember this event the next time the Biden’s and pothole Pete and a bunch of leftists start babbling about A) the forgotten Americans and b) the environment and the climate. We’ve got an environmental catastrophe effecting an area of middle class just average Americans, probably people clinging to their guns and their bibles…and the Joe Biden pothole Pete admin could care less.

Maybe if the folks there had crossed the border illegally and been chased by a meany on a horse the biden bunch would notice…if they were on the border with Ukraine instead of Pennsylvania…

Our “commander in chief” said “we’re building an economy where no one’s going to be left behind. My economic plan is about investing in places, people that have been forgotten,"…

Actions speak way louder than words Joey…the folks in East Palestine, Ohio have learned about being forgotten.

tnt · 2023-02-17T13:57:11.456Z

I agree Buttegiege should have gone to ohio, but honest question - is the DoT responsible for clean up of the actual chemical mess? Does he have any authority over that?

SixFoot · 2023-02-17T13:59:09.545Z

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Rodeo:

We’ve got an environmental catastrophe effecting an area of middle class just average Americans, probably people clinging to their guns and their bibles…and the Joe Biden pothole Pete admin could care less.

Like I keep saying, it’s because things like this don’t equate to more power and revenue for the government.

Nothing is for you, or me, or any other peasant. Hasn’t been for a long time.

Rodeo · 2023-02-17T14:17:32.718Z

SixFoot:

Like I keep saying, it’s because things like this don’t equate to more power and revenue for the government.

Nothing is for you, or me, or any other peasant. Hasn’t been for a long time.

I proposed an answer to that problem a while ago…

The operative words were”term” and “limits”.

There’s plenty of blame here to go around….where is the state federal partnership to clean up the mess? Who’s doing the testing of water and air quality? I keep hearing about Norfolk southern hiring people to do tests supervised by the EPA, that’s like allowing the crook to investigate his own crime. Why was no one from the railroad or the administration at that town hall meeting this week? If they were afraid they could have zoomed in I’m sure someone could have hooked up a big screen? Why do I feel like if this was 2018 Rachel Maddox and Jim Acosta would be crying on tv demanding answers and impeachment…and people like pothole Pete would be leading the charge?

I’m no expert that’s why we pay these people…to deal with crises…maybe if the people in Ohio had just hired Hunter…

Those folks deserve a lot more help than they are getting.