@averagejoe1 saidDid trump put an end to a rail safety system which probably would have stopped this train from derailing?
How long are you sheep going to hold out with defending our Bastille?
Trump? Is it Groundhog Day. I am laughing at your administration, speaking for me, of course. Check this out. Yes I know it is a FOX report, because your people won't report it.
So what? It's true. BTW, is he a husband or a wife?
Was the GOP funded by 6 million by railroad owners?
Yes on both accounts.
Dear oh dear. So trump is at least partly to blame.
@soothfast saidI gave a thumb's up too.
Oh my god, you are an idiot. Can you even read at the level of a kindergarten primer?
You're welcome.
@earl-of-trumps saidWhy are you such a Trump apologist?
Blaming Trump, is he? lol
And somebody questioned whether or not Buttigieg was qualified...?
Forged'aboud'it, man! He's a democratic party winner lol
This is the same tool that said America's roads are racist! Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner-winner, chicken dinner!
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@averagejoe1 saidAJ: "How long are you sheep going too...blah, blah, blah...?"
How long are you sheep going to hold out with defending our Bastille?
Trump? Is it Groundhog Day. I am laughing at your administration, speaking for me, of course. Check this out. Yes I know it is a FOX report, because your people won't report it.
So what? It's true. BTW, is he a husband or a wife?
Well, considering that Republicans blamed Jimmy Carter for all of our country's woes for over 8 years.
And after consulting my karmic calculator; I'd say that we've got at least 6 more to go!
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@wildgrass saidHow do you know it was not an act of terrorism?
How would you know?
Authorities set fire to the chemicals on purpose.
https://www.newsweek.com/did-control-burn-toxic-chemicals-make-ohio-train-derailment-worse-1781273
Five of the cars contained vinyl chloride, which becomes hydrogen chloride and phosgene when burned. Phosgene is a deadly gas that was used in chemical warfare during World War I. Gee, why wouldn't the corporate news media and Pete want to talk about that? Chemical weapons.
Pete has some splaining to do. Is he talking about Phosgene?
@soothfast saidThe weight of a train can make the breaks almost useless in emergency situations.
When a train car derails, the momentum of all the cars behind it may cause those cars to be derailed in turn. That's when chemicals can spill or explode. So it all comes down to the brakes on each car. The more modern train brakes, like anti-lock brakes in automobiles, can kill more of that momentum faster to prevent or reduce derailments.
It can take miles to slow down. Too much weight plus speed.
@wildgrass saidThe wreck was. Not Butti blaming Trump.
I don't watch any of it. But it appears based on a simple internet search that the story has been covered on all major news networks.
Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said that Norfolk Southern had botched its response to the accident. “Norfolk Southern has repeatedly assured us of the safety of their rail cars—in fact, leading Norfolk Southern personnel described them to me as ‘the Cadillac of rail cars’—yet despite these assertions, these were the same cars that Norfolk Southern personnel rushed to vent and burn without gathering input from state and local leaders. Norfolk Southern’s well known opposition to modern regulations [requires] further scrutiny and investigation to limit the devastating effects of future accidents on people’s lives, property, businesses, and the environment.”
Shapiro was likely referring to the fact that in 2017, after donors from the railroad industry poured more than $6 million into Republican political campaigns, the Trump administration got rid of a rule imposed by the Obama administration that required better braking systems on rail cars that carried hazardous flammable materials.
According to David Sirota, Julia Rock, Rebecca Burns, and Matthew Cunningham-Cook, writing in the investigative journal The Lever, Norfolk Southern supported the repeal, telling regulators new electronically controlled pneumatic brakes on high-hazard flammable trains (HHFT) would “impose tremendous costs without providing offsetting safety benefits.” Railroads also lobbied to limit the definition of HFFT to cover primarily trains that carry oil, not industrial chemicals. The train that derailed in Ohio was not classified as an HHFT.
Nonetheless, Ohio’s new far-right Republican senator J. D. Vance went on the Fox News Channel show of personality Tucker Carlson to blame the Biden administration for the accident. He said there was no excuse for failing infrastructure after the passage last year of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, and said that the administration is too focused on “environmental racism and other ridiculous things.” We are, he said, “ruled by unserious people.”
He also issued a statement saying that “my office will continue to work with FEMA” over the issue, although FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has not been mobilized because Ohio governor DeWine has not requested a federal disaster declaration.
Heather Cox Richardson 2/15/2023
@averagejoe1 saidLink!
But what do you think about Buttegieg blaming Trump. A liberal trait, you attack the messenger rather than considering the message.
This should interest our readers a bit more than chiding old senile AvJoe. Why dont liberals recognize issues and answer questions?
@averagejoe1 saidNorfolk Southern has cut its workforce by 33% in the last 20 years, while increasing the loads carried by its trains and pouring its enhanced profits back to shareholders by stock buybacks (a 4500% increase in them) rather than purchasing new, safer equipment. https://perfectunion.us/norfolk-southern-boosted-shareholder-payouts-4500-slashed-workforce-33-prior-to-ohio-disaster/
How long are you sheep going to hold out with defending our Bastille?
Trump? Is it Groundhog Day. I am laughing at your administration, speaking for me, of course. Check this out. Yes I know it is a FOX report, because your people won't report it.
So what? It's true. BTW, is he a husband or a wife?
"But the Secretary of Transportation is gay" is what caused the accident according to our dimwitted right wingers!