Posted on 02/18/2023 11:14:30 AM PST by John Semmens
In answer to those wondering if any of the blame for the East Palestine, Ohio rail crash should be placed on him, the hapless Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg pointed the finger blame at former President Trump. "It was during the Trump Administration that the Department of Transportation failed to implement a requirement for electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes for trains carrying certain dangerous chemicals," the Secretary said.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy called Buttigieg's contention "misinformation. The regulation Secretary Buttigieg cited would not have applied to the train that derailed. A more relevant factor was President Biden's cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline. For obvious reasons, shipping dangerous substances via an underground pipeline is far less risky than shipping them by rail. In the two years that Buttigieg has been Secretary of Transportation he has been unable to accomplish anything that would improve the safety of any mode of transportation."
Stung by Homendy's refutation of his unsuccessful attempt to shift attention away from his lackluster handling of his job, Buttigieg suggested that racism was to blame for the crash. "The sad truth is that there are too few non-white minorities working on the railroads," he argued. "The dominance of white thinking and white values in both management and labor unfairly excluded the kind of diversity that the Democratic Party has been striving for since we lost the Civil War. Only by increasing the diversity to include not only racial minorities, but also the entire spectrum represented by LGBTQ in railroad construction can we expect to see a safer and better quality of results in our transportation systems."
In related news, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's request for federal disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was initially rejected. Now it's been approved. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell explained "we realized that the optics of rejecting aid to a county where voters went 71.7% for Trump to only 26.8% for Biden in 2020 were bad. Second, while it was Gov. DeWine who gave the Norfolk Southern Railroad permission to burn the deadly chemicals--sending plumes of poison gases into the local air and water, it would reflect poorly on the Administration if we didn't try to help mitigate the disaster."
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Buttigieg is Insane
Buttplug is just a typical blame shifting rat. The regulation Trump changed didn’t even apply to the type of train that crashed.
Even if the regulation change effected this crash, Secretary S**t-for-brains had 2 years to rescind the order.
Didn’t take even a day for keystone to rescinded by the meat puppet.
When did Trump become a railroad engineer for Norfolk Southern?
When did Trump become a railroad engineer for Norfolk Southern?
As soon as the train derailed.
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