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Could his appalling mishandling of the East Palestine train derailment be curtains for Trans Pete, that is, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg? His mismanagement has become the occasion for a rare demonstration of dissension within the Biden administration, which usually marches, nay, goose-steps, in proudly authoritarian lockstep. But could this be fey Pete’s last dance?
After the woefully inadequate Transportation secretary found a way to blame Trump for the catastrophic train derailment, he got pushback from an unexpected quarter: National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy, who branded Buttigieg’s politically opportunistic claims “misinformation.” Misinformation! That’s something that only “MAGA Republicans” are supposed to be spreading, not good team players such as our Pete!
Homendy’s word choice made her rebuke all the more blistering. The Biden regime has repeatedly sought to deplatform and silence those who questioned their propaganda line, on the spurious grounds that the dissidents were spreading “misinformation.” Will Biden’s handlers now silence Buttigieg? Don’t bet on it, but the onetime front-runner for becoming America’s first (openly!) gay president has seen his star dim considerably during his stormy demonstration of his own incompetence as Transportation secretary.
Buttigieg’s troubles began on Valentine’s Day, when he took a break from his Mr. Mom duties to post a long thread on Twitter, making excuses for the East Palestine catastrophe. The culmination of this cynical exercise in self-justification was Pete’s blaming the derailment on a Florida man, one Donald J. Trump. After explaining all his tireless efforts to keep train travel safe, Buttigieg tweeted: “We’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation (like the braking rule withdrawn by the Trump administration in 2018 because of a law passed by Congress in 2015), but we are using the powers we do have to keep people safe.”
See? The dastardly Trump withdrew a rule requiring quality brakes on trains, and look what happens! A train derails in Ohio and spews hazardous waste all over the area! Is there no end to Orange Man’s enormities? The evil he did lives on well after his presidency ended. The only problem with this neat little scenario was that none of it was true, and Homendy wasn’t having it. Without naming Pete, she expertly dissected him, and left the pieces in a neat little pile on the Twitter floor.
On Thursday, Homendy tweeted that “anyone speculating about what happened, didn’t happen, or should’ve happened is misleading a suffering community – PLEASE STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION. For example… Some are saying the ECP (electronically controlled pneumatic) brake rule, if implemented, would’ve prevented this derailment. FALSE – here’s why… The ECP braking rule would’ve applied ONLY to HIGH HAZARD FLAMMABLE TRAINS. The train that derailed in East Palestine was a MIXED FREIGHT TRAIN containing only 3 placarded Class 3 flammable liquids cars. This means even if the rule had gone into effect, this train wouldn’t have had ECP brakes.”
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Mike says
was un aware of this. The rail roads have sensors along the tracks that are designed to detect hot wheels. Now if the car wheels had been on fire what happened to the sensors? was the system operative? Did it fail? or was it disabled ? more question then answers Here is one fact that can not disputed. The federal government and the Media and Washington has failed at every turn.
wpm says
The railbeds on many freight lines are shot ,the traffic on freight lines is max out with trains over two miles long with mix cargos thanks to no new pipeline most bulk oil is transported by train. The number of members in train crews was cut under the Biden administration .Mayor Pete came out when given the spot as Transportation big muck and muck that he said he loved trains, maybe not the ones that normally run on tracks ? Now that the whole thing is one flaming toxic mess good luck trying to find out what caused the accident ,if a plane when down and you burned the whole plane on the ground to ashes on purpose with the blackbox recording device in it would you find the cause of the crash??
Barbara says
A lot of the tracks and ties need to be replaced for decades and have been ignored. A lot of the rail roads have not maintained nor fixed need repairs. There has not been follow up by the government or rail roads.
Trains that travel 2 5 mph tells you how dangerous the tracks are. Any faster and the tracks are sliding out of place.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The EPA, which was created to protect us from evil Big Oil, Big Chemicals, Big Pollutants… now issues a statement that the air and water there is safe. As Sen JD Vance said, their officials should be fine w/ drinking that water if they think there is nothing wrong w/ it
CephasH says
Buttiegig was hired quotaonly to meet an LGBTQetc quota. He is actually more than incompetent.
Robin Datta says
“Wallops Buttigieg”? I thought the first name was Peat.
James Lincoln says
Buttigieg is the result of hiring based on DEI rather than knowledge, skills, and abilities.
OLD GUY says
Our government is way more interested in sending people, materials and cash to foreign relief and governments. When it comes to helping our own citizens or ensuring that our infrastructure is in good shape and safe they don’t have the time or resources to do the job.
Foreign aid is the federal governments favorite program. Once our government leaders send the money or equipment to another country there is no telling where the cash ends up, often times the people it is supposed to help never see the money or the help. STOP spending our TAX DOLLARS on foreign aide.
Americans need help and our infrastructure is falling apart, spend those dollars at home.