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Deregulation and its discontents.
1 posted on 02/14/2023 1:24:31 PM PST by babble-on
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Why are you posting this? Are you making a connection between this deregulation and the recent train accident? Do you have any basis for this connection?


2 posted on 02/14/2023 1:26:43 PM PST by dangus
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So deregulation caused the train derailment?


3 posted on 02/14/2023 1:26:49 PM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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Right, as soon as we have multiple train derailments under the current administration some AH has to post “what about Trump?”. GTFU


4 posted on 02/14/2023 1:27:25 PM PST by dblshot
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Biden is in office for over 2 years. It is BIDEN’s regulators that are responsible for anything that happens under their watch.


7 posted on 02/14/2023 1:30:59 PM PST by Erik Latranyi (Make America Florida)
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Babbling, derailments happen from sabotage and things blocking the train. Brakes don’t block or derail trains. Brakes are never the root cause of a train derailment.

Your brain is stupid.


8 posted on 02/14/2023 1:32:07 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Hi babble-on

Love ya!

- Bob

9 posted on 02/14/2023 1:32:45 PM PST by JonPreston
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If it is true that this train carried on for over 20 miles with a grinding and sparking axle then the railroad will be way more than liable for all this. Maybe even criminally liable.


13 posted on 02/14/2023 1:36:04 PM PST by Revel
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I see, so the recent (staged) train derailments are not Buttgig’s fault. It’s Trump’s fault, yes?

Balloons too. Trump’s fault.

Classified Docs? Everybody does it. Right?

How is an excuse for the Ukraine fiasco worked in? Not out yet? Ah .... I know ..... Trump was colluding with Putin, yeah, bet that’s it.


14 posted on 02/14/2023 1:36:37 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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Ahhh...I get it! Trump’s fault.


17 posted on 02/14/2023 1:41:10 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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Might have helped some but not much. The wreck in Ohio was caused by a failed bearing, which locked up and then caused one end of the axle to burn off. Once both sides of the wheel set were no longer captured in the truck they were mounted in, the wheel swung around and cause everything to come off the track. Then the weight of the train remaining on the track, even with the brakes on all the cars in emergency, started to pile into the wrecked cars like an accordion. So really, locking up the wheels a split second sooner would not have done much to change what actually happened.


18 posted on 02/14/2023 1:41:54 PM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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These train derailments never would have happened if we just passed an assault weapons ban, once and for all!

Right?


20 posted on 02/14/2023 1:43:20 PM PST by cockroach_magoo (“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”  - Huey Long)
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I read the day of the first derailment, that safety regulations had RECENTLY been dropped by Biden and now it’s ‘Trump’s fault’?


24 posted on 02/14/2023 1:47:56 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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There’s no evidence that better braking would’ve prevented what happened in Ohio.

If anything the evidence points to the train derailing because one of the axles broke during emergency braking caused by the detection of an overheated axle!


27 posted on 02/14/2023 1:48:39 PM PST by Skywise
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Elect a RINO and all will be great again.

This is what RATs are saying to absolve themselves from their responsibility on their watch.


28 posted on 02/14/2023 1:49:32 PM PST by dforest
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The train was on fire for miles before derailment. This is an asinine correlation, the stupid burns, with the BS artist.


32 posted on 02/14/2023 1:51:11 PM PST by rollo tomasi
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Railroad companies have all the financial motivation in the world to be safe. The derailment in Palestine, OH is costing Norfolk Southern each day the tracks are not open. Government goes overboard on regulations, and since only morons work for government they don’t know what to regulate when regulation is needed.


38 posted on 02/14/2023 1:53:23 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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uuuummm, oil wasn’t the problem...


40 posted on 02/14/2023 1:54:18 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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So why didn’t Sleepy Joe just reregulate back to Obongo standards ? Huh ?


48 posted on 02/14/2023 1:58:41 PM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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Maybe we should use pipelines to move oil instead of trains.


49 posted on 02/14/2023 2:00:14 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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This was referring to electron C breaking. And it reviewed by multiple agencies and congress.


56 posted on 02/14/2023 2:16:01 PM PST by HollyB
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