Another Republican-caused disaster

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just find it strange all the Earth lovers have been largely silent on what is probably one of the biggest ecological disasters in recent history.

I just think it's strange that Ohio's elected Republican Senator, JD Vance, has barely had anything at all to say about this massive disaster in his state, and that he is not in the media discussing it, sponsoring legislation to help prevent future disasters like it, not sponsoring legislation to improve rail safety, hazardous waste transport, hazardous waste response or ANYTHING that would be even remotely useful.

Instead he's been busy doing things like posting idiotic pictures of himself posing with a gun pretending to be a tough guy who was gonna shoot down a balloon 60,000 feet up. (and special hint for the gun hugging morons like Vance - your gun can't even remotely reach something that high up - you're unqualified to own a gun if you don't even understand its capabilities).

https://twitter.com/missyeblack/status/1621679008080605184

What an embarrassing failure, Ohio. You should be deeply ashamed.

Yeesh. Ohioans who voted for him SHOULD be ashamed.

I always wonder after disasters like this which Republican voters will have an awakening. Watching your dog die due to a preventable industrial accident and realizing you yourself might become ill changes minds. I just wish it didn’t take a massive conflagration to make it happen.

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Anonymous wrote:The Secretary of Transportation was appointed to a no show just chill job for which he is extremely unqualified and the supply chain went to sht and now this.

The idea that someone gets blamed because of chopices made decades and years ago is ridiculous.

Southwest Airlines made the decision not to upgrade their 40 year old computer system. That is not on the Secretary of Transportation.
The railroad industry decided not to invest in new braking systems and previous GOP administrations cut regulations that would have mitigated this tragedy. See the previous post that shows directly the Trump Admin actions in 2017.

He’s supposed to have a real job. I guess you’re saying it’s a sinecure and he’s responsible for nothing.

No, I am saying there is a government role and a private sector role. The government person you are blaming has been on the job for two years. the issues behind the two episodes cited were years and decades in the making. Elain Chao has more responsibility on this than Buttigeig given SHE was the one who oversaw lifting regulations on train brakes. She also had 4 years to try to get SW Air to upgrade its systems and didn't.

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Anonymous wrote:The Secretary of Transportation was appointed to a no show just chill job for which he is extremely unqualified and the supply chain went to sht and now this.

As deliberate as the ‘non open border’

Pete got the job so he would be inside the tent pissing out and couldn’t primary Biden. Mayorkas was appointed to enable immigrations that would kill the working class.different assignments

For the last several decades, Republicans have kept wages stagnant for the working class, while giving big corporations, millionaires and billionaires tax break after tax break, shifting more and more of the burden on the working class, on consumers, on ratepayers - while corporate profits and the wealth of the richest has skyrocketed.

To try and suggest it's dems who are killing the working class is utterly ludicrous.

Are the republicans worse, absolutely. But the mainstream dem party doesn't fight hard for us (I'm a LMC single mom) but is happy to show up with a crisis narrative their hand out for protection money from the mean old GOP. (and blaming our current situation on immigrant workers is ridiculous)

They are figthing hard, but are stymied at every turn by things like the filibuster.

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Anonymous wrote:The Secretary of Transportation was appointed to a no show just chill job for which he is extremely unqualified and the supply chain went to sht and now this.

As deliberate as the ‘non open border’

Pete got the job so he would be inside the tent pissing out and couldn’t primary Biden. Mayorkas was appointed to enable immigrations that would kill the working class.different assignments

You're truly a special kind of moron if you think there Dems have some kind of deliberate plan to kill the working class.

Lol. The center-left McKinsey defenders have logged into the chat.

LOL nobody outside of whatever weird little bubble of political nonsense you live in even knows what the hell you're talking about.

Ok. The secretary of transportation must not have a real job.

His job seems to be running around playing whack-a-mole chasing after all of the crap broken by people prior to him.

Lol. He was Peter principled way over his head as an affirmative action hire to keep him inside the tent pssing out.

We can affirmative action all the HR ladies forever without anything really bad happening, but when you stick the unqualified in real jobs sht falls apart.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Secretary of Transportation was appointed to a no show just chill job for which he is extremely unqualified and the supply chain went to sht and now this.

As deliberate as the ‘non open border’

Pete got the job so he would be inside the tent pissing out and couldn’t primary Biden. Mayorkas was appointed to enable immigrations that would kill the working class.different assignments

For the last several decades, Republicans have kept wages stagnant for the working class, while giving big corporations, millionaires and billionaires tax break after tax break, shifting more and more of the burden on the working class, on consumers, on ratepayers - while corporate profits and the wealth of the richest has skyrocketed.

To try and suggest it's dems who are killing the working class is utterly ludicrous.

Are the republicans worse, absolutely. But the mainstream dem party doesn't fight hard for us (I'm a LMC single mom) but is happy to show up with a crisis narrative their hand out for protection money from the mean old GOP. (and blaming our current situation on immigrant workers is ridiculous)

They are figthing hard, but are stymied at every turn by things like the filibuster.

And yet they passed the reauthorized CAREs Act, ChiPs Act, BiPartisasn Infrastructure Bill, and Inflation Redution Act, all of which are designed to help the middle class, domestic infrastructure investment, and transition to a non-fossil fuel based economy. Pretty remarkable considering the narrow majority and lack of a filibuster proof Senate.

[Anonymous]

What a disaster, what is our dept of transportation even doing? We really messed up electing a President who appointed this disaster as head of DoT. This along with the recent airline near collisions goes to show Buttegieg isn’t up for the job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a disaster, what is our dept of transportation even doing? We really messed up electing a President who appointed this disaster as head of DoT. This along with the recent airline near collisions goes to show Buttegieg isn’t up for the job.

Social climber of no real expertise shuttled to a resume check job. What could go wrong?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What a disaster, what is our dept of transportation even doing? We really messed up electing a President who appointed this disaster as head of DoT. This along with the recent airline near collisions goes to show Buttegieg isn’t up for the job.

Social climber of no real expertise shuttled to a resume check job. What could go wrong?

He is one of the worst dept heads I’ve never seen honestly.

All this funding to protect our roads and railways and this happens. FAA is a disaster, our highways falling into disrepair and out rail system is crumbling.

Not surprised with Biden’s lackey at the head of DoT these things keep happening

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Secretary of Transportation was appointed to a no show just chill job for which he is extremely unqualified and the supply chain went to sht and now this.

As deliberate as the ‘non open border’

Pete got the job so he would be inside the tent pissing out and couldn’t primary Biden. Mayorkas was appointed to enable immigrations that would kill the working class.different assignments

For the last several decades, Republicans have kept wages stagnant for the working class, while giving big corporations, millionaires and billionaires tax break after tax break, shifting more and more of the burden on the working class, on consumers, on ratepayers - while corporate profits and the wealth of the richest has skyrocketed.

To try and suggest it's dems who are killing the working class is utterly ludicrous.

Are the republicans worse, absolutely. But the mainstream dem party doesn't fight hard for us (I'm a LMC single mom) but is happy to show up with a crisis narrative their hand out for protection money from the mean old GOP. (and blaming our current situation on immigrant workers is ridiculous)

They are figthing hard, but are stymied at every turn by things like the filibuster.

And yet they passed the reauthorized CAREs Act, ChiPs Act, BiPartisasn Infrastructure Bill, and Inflation Redution Act, all of which are designed to help the middle class, domestic infrastructure investment, and transition to a non-fossil fuel based economy. Pretty remarkable considering the narrow majority and lack of a filibuster proof Senate.

Those passed not because of Republicans but in spite of Republicans. A huge number of Republicans voted against those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a disaster, what is our dept of transportation even doing? We really messed up electing a President who appointed this disaster as head of DoT. This along with the recent airline near collisions goes to show Buttegieg isn’t up for the job.

Your anger should be directed to the adminnistration that repealed the safety regulations around brakes.

Your anger should also be directed at the railroad executives who put their own salaries and sotck buybacks over safety and investment in 21st century braking technology


But sure, rant on against Biden and Buttigeig, who are actually trying to address the issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a disaster, what is our dept of transportation even doing? We really messed up electing a President who appointed this disaster as head of DoT. This along with the recent airline near collisions goes to show Buttegieg isn’t up for the job.

Do you think the Secretary of Transportation personally inspects the brakes on all the trains? This is an expected consequence of capitalism. Corporations don’t act responsibly unless required to do so by regulation and oversight and they lobby and donate to candidates who will weaken both. The Trump Administration weakened both.

[Anonymous]

Heaven save us from right wingers ignorantly spouting off.

This is a Republican created problem. Or - unless you guys suddenly think hedge funds are hotbeds of liberal politics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What a disaster, what is our dept of transportation even doing? We really messed up electing a President who appointed this disaster as head of DoT. This along with the recent airline near collisions goes to show Buttegieg isn’t up for the job.

Your anger should be directed to the adminnistration that repealed the safety regulations around brakes.

Your anger should also be directed at the railroad executives who put their own salaries and sotck buybacks over safety and investment in 21st century braking technology


But sure, rant on against Biden and Buttigeig, who are actually trying to address the issues.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just find it strange all the Earth lovers have been largely silent on what is probably one of the biggest ecological disasters in recent history.

I just think it's strange that Ohio's elected Republican Senator, JD Vance, has barely had anything at all to say about this massive disaster in his state, and that he is not in the media discussing it, sponsoring legislation to help prevent future disasters like it, not sponsoring legislation to improve rail safety, hazardous waste transport, hazardous waste response or ANYTHING that would be even remotely useful.

Instead he's been busy doing things like posting idiotic pictures of himself posing with a gun pretending to be a tough guy who was gonna shoot down a balloon 60,000 feet up. (and special hint for the gun hugging morons like Vance - your gun can't even remotely reach something that high up - you're unqualified to own a gun if you don't even understand its capabilities).

https://twitter.com/missyeblack/status/1621679008080605184

What an embarrassing failure, Ohio. You should be deeply ashamed.

OMG. You are NOT paying attention.......You should do a little research before you go on a rant.

Do some research yourself, on the date of the derailment and the date of this statement. His first substantive statement about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The horrific train derailment of hazardous waste in Ohio - brought to you by Republicans, who constantly push for deregulation and letting businesses cut corners...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailment-white-noise/index.html

JB has attained virtually no successes as president, but he has produced a lifetime of major failures in less than a year!