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This administration is going to take a decade and a lot of s scouring powder to remove.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
02/23/2023 11:56 Comments ||
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Since the Great Society of LBJ, with a few hiccups like Reagan and Trump, every lurch leftward has never been fully corrected.
The Bidet Administration is by far the hardest veer towards Marxist Socialism, and I see little hope of any huge rightward turn given how many depend on some form of government income. Every act of sanity in the conservative America First playbook will be decried as "racist, homophobic, xenophobic, anti-climate and cruel".
The American body politic is increasingly composed of a sad mix of low-information voters, clueless immigrants here for the sweet ride, and generations of younger adults who were never taught critical thinking or their cultural birthrights. but rather short attention-span emotional reasoning, visual not literary, the sad group-think conformity of Facebook and Twitter.
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This is Newsom's plan for California put on steroids and applied to the entire country. The lie is that they want upward mobility for "people of color and underserved communities". So, of course you are a rayciss if you oppose the plan. But the real aim is to destroy America as we know it, to destroy the working class and the middle class and to destroy prosperous communities in the suburbs so they can be replaced with dense, poverty stricken blue cities. Property values in the suburbs will decline as new tenements are built and populated with people who know absolutely nothing about what it takes to create value, accumulate wealth and pass it to future generations. After all, what will these people do for jobs in their new neighborhoods that they couldn't do in their old neighborhoods? They won't get better educations. Test scores in their new "low poverty" schools will decline along with discipline. Drop out rates will increase. Because there are not enough native born "people of color and underserved communities" to fill the new tenements, many of the newcomers will be immigrants, legal or otherwise, from Third World countries. If this was not so, they could simply renovate existing slums. It's all coming to a neighborhood near you.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/23/2023 12:44 Comments ||
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I live in a well-to-do suburb in South Carolina, and two black families have bought houses on my block in the last two years. They are responsible, take care of their properties, take part in subdivision activities, and are welcome additions to the neighborhood. WITHOUT any federal coercion, please note.
It is not about race. It is about--well, I'm not sure what it is about, but race does not enter into the equation.
Posted by: Tom ||
02/23/2023 14:02 Comments ||
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No, Tom, it is not about race. There are plenty of responsible blacks and even more irresponsible whites. Race is merely a cloaking device. It's about communism.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/23/2023 15:38 Comments ||
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[FoxNews] Buttigieg would not answer questions about toxic train derailment because he was taking ‘personal time’ "It's for my Enemies of the State album."
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg raised eyebrows on Tuesday when he refused to answer a reporter’s questions about the crisis in East Palestine, Ohio, before oddly asking to snap a photo of the journalist.
Reporter Jennie Taer approached Buttigieg while he walked outside in Washington, D.C., identified herself as a journalist from the Daily Caller News Foundation and asked what he had to say to "the folks in Ohio, East Palestine, who are suffering right now" in the aftermath of the toxic train derailment that leaked dangerous chemicals into the air.
Buttigieg declined, repeating that he would not answer her question because he was taking some personal time.
"Right now, I’m taking some personal time, and I’m walking down the street," he said.
[Hot Air] RYFKM?
The response from the federal government to the environmental disaster unfolding in East Palestine, Ohio and the surrounding areas has been pathetically slow, as has been clear for weeks. The EPA finally ordered Norfolk Southern to clean up the toxic mess today, but the mandate arrived weeks late and many dollars short. The derailment and toxic chemical leaks (and burns) have brought new attention to the Department of Transportation and Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has been notably absent from the action. Yesterday, when Daily Caller investigative reporter Jennie Taer happened to catch sight of Mayor Pete out in public, she took the opportunity to try to ask him about the situation. That didn’t go well, with Buttigieg informing her that he was trying to enjoy some "personal time" and snapping a picture of her. Here’s the video of the encounter that she later posted on Twitter.
I asked Secretary Buttigieg about the crisis in East Palestine and I guess he didn’t like that so he took a pic of me. Im just doing my job, sir. @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/HjKNgF25FJ
— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) February 22, 2023
When Taer asked Buttigieg if he was planning to go to East Palestine in person, he said that he was. But when asked when he might be doing that he declined to say. The Transportation Secretary appears to have free "personal" time to go for a stroll, but not to go address the questions and concerns of the people impacted by the toxic train wreck.
And what was the point of asking the reporter if he could take her picture? That sounded rather threatening, didn’t it? It’s as if he wanted to make sure he could identify her in the future in case she caused any more "trouble" by simply doing her job. It would appear that the lovable Mayor isn’t quite so lovable without a script in front of him.
Keep in mind that this is the same Transportation Secretary who initially told the public that the derailment and subsequent spill weren’t really a big deal because "it happens all the time." Here’s a short walk down memory lane.
Pete Buttigieg on the Ohio train derailment disaster: "While this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing." pic.twitter.com/5NFtZnlDmg
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 16, 2023
Yes, there are frequent train derailments, but the vast majority of them don’t result in a carcinogenic mushroom cloud rising up over the countryside. And if there really are that many derailments every year, doesn’t that sound like a problem? Perhaps a problem that someone in authority should be doing something about? Someone such as, I don’t know... the Secretary of Transportation, maybe?
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/23/2023 00:00 ||
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there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing
I wonder why he hasn't tried to reduce that count.
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Re #6 - It's also over 200,000 miles of railroad main line, and over 300,000 miles of track. It also depends on the level of reporting required by the Federal Railroad Administration. Back in the day, only derailments with $50,000 of total damage were reported. That reporting damage level has dropped a lot since than. One wheel off the rail, corrected by the train crew in an hour, is technically a derailment, although not reported to the FRA. The railroads continue to be profit-driven, but like other transportation systems, stuff happens.
Somewhat related - I guffawed last night, when the local news reported 'the EPA says they're gonna make the railroad pay for all of this' in East Palestine. Morons. The railroad always pays.
Full disclosure: From 1972-75 I worked for the Norfolk Southern predecessor, Southern Railway, and since then devoted a good bit of my 45-year engineering career to freight rail and rail transit.
Posted by: Bobby ||
02/23/2023 8:34 Comments ||
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Could be that start of a new trend. There have been derailments caused by sabotage - Oregon an few years ago, where they caught the chick, and Arizona 20-odd years ago, where no one was caught, IIRC. I found tampering at a derailment 23 years ago, but it was not the cause of that derailment. The operator did call the FBI.
The best sabotage is done by folks who know how to bypass the safety systems...
Posted by: Bobby ||
02/23/2023 10:11 Comments ||
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It would appear that the lovable Mayor isn’t quite so lovable without a script in front of him.
Everyone with gamesmanship knew this, but nice to see it said out loud and framed on camera.
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there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing
A classic example of deflection from a classic example of a sociopath.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/23/2023 13:03 Comments ||
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Yeah, of those 1000 derailments, 800 or so are like the chain slipping off my bicycle sprocket. The other 200, not so much. But how many actually make national news every year? A dozen or so?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/23/2023 13:08 Comments ||
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