The NYT reports.
Buttigieg had said "he did not want his visit to be a distraction"? That didn't work when George W. Bush said it about Katrina (and it was more believable that he would indeed have been a distraction).
Anyway, Trump brings his brand-name water. Well... why not? I remember when Trump first came out with that water and it was used in a challenged on his show "The Apprentice." I'm trying to find my old post on that episode. I can remember saying his image on the label was very unappealing because off his conspicuous hair and the instinctive human loathing of hair in one's drinking water.
ADDED: I found the old post, from February 17, 2004:
Hair on water, indivisibility, and Amy as the winner. Prof. Yin has a nice post on last night's The Apprentice. He doesn't like the idea of drinking from a bottle that has Trump-hair on it. Yeah, come to think about it, hair and drinking water are a horrible combination. And a picture of Trump is inherently (in-hair-ently) a picture that draws attention to hair. And hair in its most loathsome form, I might add.
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Buttgieg didn't want the trip to be a distraction for him.
There was some other disaster where Trump brought water. I only remember Melania getting press hate for wearing stilettos on the plane and tennies on site.
Everybody needs water. The bottle logo looks more like a crown now. Free marketing and a humanitarian gesture are wise moves.
This man clearly does not want to be president. He can't be distracted from handing out that $400 million dollar slush fund Pelosi gave him.
If not for the large black SUVs pulling up and the CNN cameras waiting to show Petey Buttigieg, he would never have been noticed anymore than a lump of **** floating down the Leslie Run would have been.
I suppose the Mayor of East Palestine has to be there to meet with him. And because of Petey's party, probably the Guv of Pennsylvania will show up. But what do any of them represent? The failure to help? The lack of concern for their own citizenry in light of the billions spent abroad?
Hell, an illegal immigrant walking over the border gets more money, healthcare, clothing, and shelter than these people have gotten.
Biden is famous for not showing up and for turning his back on people when they ask him questions.
Butplug? Took him weeks to get away from whatever he was doing to even show up.
But you folks voted for Biden & Co. Reap what you sow.
Brilliant effort by NYT to pick up the turd by the clean end.
I'm wondering if we are getting the whole story here about what he brought. I don't trust the media.
It showed a mostly empty container and said he brought 13 pallets of bottled water. That's about 25m bottles or about 5 per person in Palestine. Sounds rather paltry.
Was that the intent of the reporting? To show pedjt as a cheap publicity hound? He never has been in the past.
I suspect that there are additional tricks somewhere the media is not telling us about.
Even if it is 25m total, good on him. He is the man in the arena actually doing something.
Brandon has done nothing. Buttegig showed up today unannounced at 7am, refused to even respond to reporter's questions. 20 days after.
Sad.
I just remembered something from Herbert hoover's (excellent) memoirs. There was a monster flood of the Mississippi River in 1924. The river was 20-30 miles wide in places. I am sure it was due to global warming!
Sec commerce hoover spent 2-3 months living on a train going up and down the river helping out in the disaster.
Of course, that was par for hoover's course. Private citizen saved millions of Belgians from starvation during ww1.
John Henry
My president. One of the most down to earth we have actually ever had.
Bootyjudge said he was taking personal time off this week. Musta changed his tiny muddled mind.
Trump is cashing in on somebody else's political power play.
The power play is turning derailments into a "public problem," where it had previously been a railroad problem.
Sociologist Joseph Gusfield studied it. The road to political power was to identify a new "public problem and take ownership of it." The problem would previously have been, say, a personal moral failing, the original instance being drunk driving until the late 50s. Drunks didn't actually kill many because drunks tend to drive extremely slowly. Almost everybody gets home after the party. But Mothers against Drunk Driving came along ("If it weren't for the drunks, most of them wouldn't be mothers" - F.T.Grampp) and took it on as a public problem.
The people of the town are owed a lot from the railroad, just as a legal matter, to make them whole. Where's the public problem?
And the railroad was there first. They built the town around it, so it's not like the railroad is a moral interloper.
What happened to all that money from the infrastructure bill?
Not only does the Democrat administration ignore major concerns in red areas, they ignore them in blue areas as well (see rising murder rates in our cities).
Mayor Pete has proven himself worthless when it comes to results. But liberals don't concern themselves with results. He's gay. Adopted a baby with his husband. Pretends to ride a bike around DC with a gay helmet. He checks many of the required liberal boxes.
His ability to perform under pressure doesn't matter. Environmental disasters don't matter to liberals either. Especially ones you can actually see. They like the ghost trickery. Things they can't see...and can form into anything they want. Like Carbon and Global Warming.
It's all bullshit.
An image of Trump's hair on a bottle of water seems to be a bit of a stretch. 20+ years ago I started commenting on the absurdity of bottled water labeled "Deer Park" but it still sells to this day. Water from a deer park is not water I find appealing. Perhaps it is the old story of the hikers drinking the cold natural mountain stream water only to find a dead deer upstream around the bend when they resume their walk.
Most loathsome form? I dunno, I've cleaned out a bathroom drain or two; hair that's brewed for a fear years in a shower or sink drain comes up in a form that's maybe a bit more loathsome than depicted on a water bottle picture.
Not that it's a competition!
Ineffective in A domestic crisis!? He's been ineffective in every domestic crisis.
I saw the network news (David Muir) last night. There was a brief snippet showing Trump's appearance and, then, a longer segment where the reporter explained how the Republicans and Trump might have caused this derailment by softening safety regulations. I also read the NYT piece. Congratulations to them for noting the response from a Trump spokesman that this accident was probably caused by an axle problem and not by the brakes. (The brake regulations were what were softened.)....Here's what I know: Norfolk Southern has accidents a great deal more often than other railroads. Buttigieg's response to the accident was slow and lame. The Biden administration made no attempt to alter Trump's weakened regulations. The news media is biased. It's probably not wise to drink coffee at the local McDonald's unless it's made with Trump Clean Water.
First Trump move in quite awhile that was actually a good solid leadership move.
Trump Water doesn't extend the brand. I could see him selling steaks or whiskey (not tequila or vodka), but pure, clean water and health foods are not what I associate with Trump.
"And when it comes to slaughter. You'll do your work on water, and lick the bloomin' boots of him what brought it."
Yeah. When you're thirsty you don't read the bottle.
Trump. The one man in American politics who does not actively loathe you. Vote accordingly.
Mayor Pete looks really bad in his walkaround...he is surly and doesn't connect at all with anyone.
He's a credentialed automaton who has a job because he's gay.
I have my problems with Trump, but in person people love him and he has a gift for connecting with folks.
Mayor Pete will never be president...
Gee, why would the people of New Palestine need a distraction?
Maybe from the spewing of toxic fumes purposely allowed under a “controlled “ burn?
Or the death of wildlife and domesticated animals, alike?
The unknown effects of all the chemicals they’re inhaling?
When someone important takes time to visit- to listen and walk areas of destruction, to put a hand on a shoulder and tilt a head toward the pain… that means so much when you’re feeling abandoned.
Trump is setting an example.
Can he use it as a “photo op”? Sure.
Is that why he went?
I don’t think so- not anymore.
It’s bigger than him.
Be best.
America 1st.
One of the traits I look for an in an executive is the ability to quickly define and deal with problems, including having the wrong people in the wrong positions.
In politics, that's a problem. You can't be seen HURTING your own people. It creates these ludricrous outcomes where you give people a chance to lead and they fail and get shuffled around to similar positions.
Look at Rahm Emmanuel. He was involved in hiding a police murder, got the video surpressed until after his re-election, then leaves office. He's considered for a cabinet position with biden, TranSec, then being an ambassador to China or Japan.
Note the interchangeability modus operandi. At a time of extreme global pressure with China, our Ambassador is considered interchangeable. At a time of global infrastructure failings, our Cabinet Secretary is considered interchangeable. Not "Here's our top pick for the job" but what job can we give to reward a party loyalist.
This is why our parties are in downfall. They are dissolute failures at governing.
I said:
I suspect that there are additional tricks somewhere the media is not telling us about.
S/b trucks, not tricks
John Henry
East Palestine.
Idk why I thought New Palestine.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
Rusty said...
Trump. The one man in American politics who does not actively loathe you. Vote accordingly.
Trump is the only candidate anywhere in American politics right now that cares about the actual voters and citizens of this country.
The vast majority of Americans who hate politics and politicians see this and that is why more people voted for Trump in 2020 than any person in history by millions of votes.
Everyone else is a career politician that thinks about their consultants and their donors first.
That is why Desantis would be wise to not even try to run against Trump and hope to be Trump's Vp. Until Desantis figures out how this works he will be a 65 million vote general candidate at best.
Let the record state...
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/22/michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer-trying-give-norfolk-southern-15-million-taxpayer-funds/
Help the poor?
Kate said...
There was some other disaster where Trump brought water. I only remember Melania getting press hate for wearing stilettos on the plane and tennies on site.
That was in 2016 when there was massive flooding in Louisiana. Trump went with a couple of tractor-trailer loads of water, toilet paper, Pampers, etc. It greatly helped his campaign because Obama and Hillary! both ignored the situation.
Democrats never do anything wrong. The Republicans just claim they do, while they "Pounce".
However, Trump and R's do screw up, and do things wrong. And the MSM takes them to task. Its totally non-partisan.
So if FEMA denied for weeks that E.Palstine was a disaster area needing assistance. IF Biden would rather give money to Kiev than Ohio. If Biden would rather visit Kiev and then give hope to Americans suffering from a Chemical Spill. IF the Transportation Secretary would rather tell Construction workers they are "Too white" than visit E. Palastine, then that's just "Republicans Pouncing".
You'll notice the only Republican showing up and seeming to care is TRump. Gov Dewine wouldn't even pressure FEMA for disaster aid, until a bunch of Nazis showed up at a E. Palstine Townhall and made a stink. Vance just jetted in for a quick photo-op. Nobody else from the DC Republcians seem to give a damn.
Maybe, the RR company bribed the Republicans AS USUAL. Or maybe its they don't care about the middle/working class.
It shows you, take Trump out of the GOP, and is the same old Rich man's club full of globalists shedding tears over "FREEDOM" 4000 or 6000 miles away, while they say "Fuck you" to average Americans. Will continue as long as Americans put up with it.
Slightly OT...
https://www.news-gazette.com/newsletter/content/daily_headlines/oil-spilled-when-turbine-crashed-down-near-paxton/article_3c313f0c-9394-5419-b27c-0ca108853860.html?utm_source=news-gazette.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletter%2Foptimize%2Fdaily-headlines%2F%3F-dc%3D1677153612&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline
Not only are they not recyclable, but, thousands of gallons of oil spilled.
Biden offered the people of East Palestine a big "fuck you" as he zoomed off to Ukraine and, no wonder. Did East Palestine give Hunter millions of dollars? Of course not ! Why should they expect anything from Biden or his toadies? Bill Clinton was a bit more subtle about it but "the Senator from MBNA" is all about the Benjamins.
My takeaway is that Althouse, thanks to her TDS and her elitist disdain for the suffering of the people of East Palestine, chooses to focus on Donald Trump's hair and a long-forgotten (by normal people) episode of "The Apprentice," rather than on Trump's bringing food, water, and cleaning supplies to a community in desperate need of all three. Though why the residents of East Palestine should have to clean their houses and not the corporate officers of Norfolk Southern is beyond me.
It is also becoming very clear why many of Pete Buttigieg's constituents in South Bend -- the black community in particular -- loathed and despised the man. Like far too many Democrats of his generation (and younger) he is contemptuous of people who work for a living.
Buotyjudge is a useless diversity hire. He should go back to birthing babies.
Buttigieg had said "he did not want his visit to be a distraction"?
He meant a distraction from his vacation. Look, I'm pretty sure that East Palestine will be OK without a visit from Pete and his butt-buddy. Is there any record of Pete-Pete ever solving any actual problem in the real world? I think there was something about putting colored lights under the footbridges in that little town he was the mayor of. If he weren't a homosexual, no one would ever have asked him to do anything.
"That didn't work when George W. Bush said it"
So what? (D) is for Different.
An interesting aspect of this from the GOP primary aspect, DeSantis hands were a bit tied in helping out. Maybe Florida could have provided some aid, but in so doing, it would make DeWine look weaker. It would also call into question lack of aid from Ohio neighboring GOP governors. Trump is showing brilliant leadership skills here and making his opponents on both sides look weak. As it was in 2016, the opening was made for Trump due to the vacuum created by the lack of leadership in both DC based parties.
Has anyone at NYT or other media talked about the actual chemistry of this mess? I hear that some of it is “vinyl chloride” which is toxic and I hear that the way to control it is to do a “controlled burn” — but I also read that burning vinyl chloride produces dioxin, which is maybe even more toxic. Has EPA or FEMA briefed us all on the hazmat, the dangers, the exposures (actual vs permitted), the time/space affected by the stuff, the plan for keeping people safe, the plan for remediation, the likely cost?
Are reporters asking? If not why not?
It is a very interesting contrast. Trump is an egomaniac with a plethora of personality flaws, but he is usually successful at what he does and he genuinely seems to care about other people. Buttigieg comes across as a normal, decent person, but he is incompetent at everything and finds other people to be a nuisance. The personalities do not match the reality.
Pete is always leading from behind.
this got should only be playing with Hot Wheels. End of story. WTF
I'm reminded of this quote: "80 percent of success in life is just showing up."
Owen, sheesh. Think, man! That kind of reporting might involve MATH or even CHEMISTRY!
Gusty 11:13 - nailed it.
Rcocean—I have been wondering myself about Vance. This would seem to be what his image is supposed to be all about —standing up for the poor white folks. He should be all over the news, all over FEMA, all over Biden and Buttigieg .
Another phony, apparently
Pete is immune from criticism. But he can call anyone a racist and get away with it.
A Harvard grad, Rhodes Scholar, Oxford grad and former McKinsey guy can't figure out how to reduce the number of train derailments? And what about Southwest's computer system that lead to the shutdown of all air travel.
Pete is a failure.
The media are not going to let JD Vance gain any attention - you know that, right?
Althouse:"Anyway, Trump brings his brand-name water. Well... why not? I remember when Trump first came out with that water and it was used in a challenged on his show 'The Apprentice.' I'm trying to find my old post on that episode. I can remember saying his image on the label was very unappealing because off his conspicuous hair and the instinctive human loathing of hair in one's drinking water."
I'm betting that the Trump Campaign (with donor money, of course) paid the Trump Organization for Trump water. And of course paid the Trump Organization (or whatever shell subcorporation owns the plane) to fly Trump Force One from Florida to Ohio. And that the whole trip was essentially a donor-funded campaign event.
Trump is all about branding. Some people like that.
A model of ventures and visibility for not-for-profit and profit enterprises alike.
Owen
Reporters can't even tell the difference between Carbon a and carbon dioxide
How do you expect them to know anything more complicated than that?
John Henry
I wouldn't call JD Vance a phony - yet. I'm puzzled by his behavior, but who knows the backstory. Could be he was told to "Butt out" by Dewine and the local congressman - whoever he is.
Its the same ol' story with Republicans. Are they stupid or uncaring or bought off? you make the call!
Its amazing how Trump behaves like a stand up guy and gets zero credit. Donates his salary? WHo cares. Loses $zillions because the Left destroys his businesses? Whatever. Seems genuinely concerned about average Americans? So what. Refuses to bomb Iran because too many causualties? What a Oranged hair egoist! Wants us out of useless wars like Syria/Afghanistan? He's a vulgar game show host!
Thank you, N101
"...the reporter explained how the Republicans and Trump might have caused this derailment by softening safety regulations."
Of course, Li'l Pete was too busy with...things...to jump in there and fix the issue with those Softened Regulations. For two years. And Biden wouldn't have understood if someone read it to him.
He has been mostly stonewalled by this gang of pirates and we know because ns was goung along the dei formula
Fred Drinkwater @ 12:42: my bad. Won’t happen again.
"...the reporter explained how the Republicans and Trump might have caused this derailment by softening safety regulations."
Yep. That's what the left's been screaming about for the last two weeks. Of course they have no answer when asked why the Biden Administration didn't reinstate the rules.
@boatbuilder,i believe that Vance was the first politician to go to East Palestine.
Owen, I did a search related to your thoughts. The first hit was USA Today with a fact check, basically debunking all the concerns. Except, it debunks it like most bias organizations do, by pointing out the truth of the statements made then making a strawman of the arguments made based on those truths and then claiming the strawman is false.
For example, myth 1: "Environmental experts said that there is no "massive death plume" raining hydrochloric acid on Ohio residents following the Feb. 3 trail derailment. " The myth begins by describing that vinyl chloride when exposed to common air breaks down into hydrochloric acid and phosgene gas, which is the concerns I've heard. But then the article notes the Ohio EPA says there was no acid rain. A couple of things "no acid rain" is not the same as on "massive death plume", and while I think "massive death plume" is hyperbolic, the concerns of many in the area is the death to livestock and wildlife that has occurred related to this incident, yet the Ohio and Federal EPA suggests nothing about the controlled burn is related to those deaths. And after noting the chemicals created by vinyl chloride volatility in air, there is no more discussion as to harm they could cause.
When you read the sources, none of the factcheck involved actually going to the area and talking to people affected. All of it involved government sources and other news media.
If Trump "softened the regulations" - why didn't Biden harden them?
He's had two years. And has never said boo about these "Soft Regulations" before.
And Biden is the one who gave the two huge RR companies everything they wanted and ordered the RR workers back on the job, despite their protests that the RR companies sick leave policy and refusal to hire more workers was hurting RailRoad safety.
But what do facts matter to the Democrat voters? Nothing. They care nothin' for nobody except themselves. They either vote their ethnic/sexual group identity or just want a piece of the Graft. Biden could literally start a nuclear war and they'd all vote for him in 2024.
My takeaway is that Althouse, thanks to her TDS and her elitist disdain for the suffering of the people of East Palestine, chooses to focus on Donald Trump's hair and a long-forgotten ...
Well, one has to do what one has to do if they want to be invited to the best houses in Madison.
Hamilton Burger makes another air-tight case against Donald Trump, let's see if he can win this time.
Of course it didn't bother him a bit that Hillary Clinton lied on campaign finance filings as to the purpose of her payments to that law firm that fabricated the dossier for her. But speculative crimes regarding bottled water, Hamilton Burger is right on it.
At least it wasn't Moland Springs water.
Shadow preezy isn't a bad thing for Trump to do while he's campaigning.
“Trump is setting an example.”
Where would we be without Trump to set an example?
Chuckling kindly.
It's been said that burning vinyl chloride also roduces phosgene. This is a poison gas used in WW. I was a mass casualty weapon. Terrible on the lungs. A war crime today.
@doomberg had a great article about the train derailment and the actual combustion products that puts the accident into a more accurate perspective. Let us not forget that hyperbole often gets flexed in all directions to score public opinion points.
"But you folks voted for Biden & Co. Reap what you sow." Well, ackshuaallly - all the Biden voters are reaping right now is smug satisfaction seeing the rednecks suffering miserably from the sarcastic press coverage of flyover country, while the people of East Palestine were just standing at the side of the road, cheering for the person they actually voted for.
ABC News should fire this old hag for this. They own what these idiots say, since it is a part of their "news" division. Just goes to show how ABC news sucks and can't be trusted. How vile can you be??
Nicholas Fondacaro
@NickFondacaro
Joy Behar says the residents of East Palestine got what they deserved because they voted for Trump.
"That's who you voted for!" she shouted at the camera. "In that district. Donald Trump, who reduces all safety. He did in those days."
TDS is pretty strong with the never Trumpers on this thread. They HATE when Trump is better caring about American people than they are.
If Trump could STFU about other Republicans and his other thin skinned remarks he would be a shoo in for the nomination and the election. How stupid are the Dims politically? All Biden had to do is show up with Mayor Pete and the head of FEMA and make a speech and shake hands. For a guy who has been in politics he has learned nothing but how to grift. Give Bill Clinton his due as a politician, he would never have had done what Biden did.
Inga said...
“Trump is setting an example.”
Where would we be without Trump to set an example?
Chuckling kindly."
Is that supposed to pass for an intelligent and cynical remark? Trump is setting an example, an example why Biden isn't fit to be president.
The nice ladies on the View blamed the people of Ohio for the spill.
Rubio has been jumping on Mayor Pete.
“He is an incompetent who is focused solely on his fantasies about his political future & needs to be fired,” Rubio tweeted Tuesday. For his part, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) went on Tucker Carlson Tonight last week to talk about the lack of federal attention to East Palestine.
Republicans pounce! Even Politico has noticed.
The barrage of criticism appears to have caught Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg flat footed.
Reporter asks him some questions and he looks really bad.
His failures in office are piling up.
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Tens of thousands of pounds of goods, food, water being delivered to the people of East Palestine, Ohio right now before Trump’s visit.
Trump paid for all of it.
Number of goods delivered from the Biden Administration: 0.
The View ladies are all Nazis.
Michael K said...
Biden offered the people of East Palestine a big "fuck you" as he zoomed off to Ukraine...
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That is demonstrably untrue. Let's see how much I can make this hurt for you.
Here is Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, telling the world HIMSELF that he has spoken with President Biden, and the President had offered to the Governor, "Anything you need." And DeWine had not called the President back since that call because the Governor did not think that any federal assistance was needed at the time. That was just before Biden went to Europe. Video!
https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1628800439821950980
From the great Ron Filipkowski's (FL attorney, former prosecutor, relentless critic of Trump and DeSantis) Twitter feed:
"While Rs try to blame Buttigieg we learn:
1. Trump removed safety standards
2. DeWine ordered the chem cars be burned
3. DeWine declined Fed assistance
4. DeWine said Norfolk Southern CEO “gave him his word” all would be well
5. CEO no-shows at town hall
6. CEO is a DeWine donor"
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1626175472206839809"
Russia Collusion Truther and Hillary/FBI Hoax Dossier Dead Ender Inga: "Where would we be without Trump to set an example?
Chuckling kindly."
cubanbob: "Is that supposed to pass for an intelligent and cynical remark? Trump is setting an example, an example why Biden isn't fit to be president."
You have to remember Inga's idea of a model and "perfectly normal" family is one where the father showers with the adolescent daughter, the son sleeps with the his dead brothers widow while also sleeping with strippers on the side while also having coke/sex parties with underage hookers overseas.
Once you see what Inga applauds, you really want to strive for her hisses.
Saint Croix: "Rubio has been jumping on Mayor Pete."
Rubio knows if he is to have a future at the national level he has to overcome his 2016 performance and win over a bigger chunk of the republican base that has turned more populist.
Not for 2024 of course.
HBTPFH: "Trump is all about branding. Some people like that."
It's not 2015/16 anymore and Trump is no longer an unknown political quantity. If Trump's brand is strong, its because of his actions over time that have forever reinforced that brand.
Similarly, its not 2015/16 anymore so fake LLR's find their online faux "conservative" persona's are nowhere near as effective (very low bar) as they once were.
We should do a poll as to what the Althouse blog marketplace believes LLR Chuck's "brand" happens to be. That would be amusing though, honestly, not surprising in the least.
Unfortunately, amusing + unsurprising = not poll worthy.
OK Chuck, I'll take your bet. For $5.
Since you made the claim and since even our president emeritus is innocent until proven guilty, it's up to you.
Prove he paid for it with campaign funds.
Or send a fiver to me at po box 1128, Fajardo pr 00738.
If you can afford it.
John Henry
Chuck the liar blaming Trump. A day ending in Y
Chuck
Care to provide some actual proof that the train derailment was Trump's fault? Your #1 states clearly that the train derailment was Trump's fault because he....
1. Trump removed safety standards
Got proof?
or Did you get that tid bit from an idiot who got that tid-bit from The View?
You do realize Buttigeg is head of transportation circa now - right? Or are all democrats - your precious democrats - infallible in the face of their actual ineptitude?
Pretty hilarious that the right-wing fascist Republicans are dumb enough to give former president combover Blondie a pass on gutting the EPA and letting the train companies keep using the ineffective brakes (with Civil War-era “technology”) that caused this disaster.
In the past, Republican fascists were happy to gut the EPA since they figured most pollution only impacted black Americans. (Which is A-OK with them). But now that their corporate giveaways ended up poisoning their very own poor white redneck voters, they act all concerned.
Pretty hard to find someone else to blame given a history that pathetic.
But not only will they try, they’ll even claim that malignant narcissist Trump actually “cares” about them! (He doesn’t even care about his own family).
Well, he did care enough to let hundreds of thousands of them die of his botched pandemic response while he stood around next to the real doctors and tried to sound smart by suggesting that they try to “knock (COVID) out… by an injection inside or almost a cleaning” with “disinfectant” or “powerful light inside the body.”
Republicans will poison themselves to give homage to this man. That really is how dumb they are. (And how much contempt fhey have for anyone who doesn’t think like them… meaning by using their BRAIN.
"There was a brief snippet showing Trump's appearance and, then, a longer segment where the reporter explained how the Republicans and Trump might have caused this derailment by softening safety regulations."
Secretary Pete 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."
Trump was not in office when that law was passed in 2015. One wonders why it took three years to implement it, and why one might blame Trump for doing his job...
Article II, Section 3:
"... he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed..."
John henry said...
OK Chuck, I'll take your bet. For $5.
Since you made the claim and since even our president emeritus is innocent until proven guilty, it's up to you.
Prove he paid for it with campaign funds.
...
I didn't propose a bet.
Anyway; April 15, 2023 will be the Trump '24 Campaign's next quarterly filing date. Then we'll find out.
Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
Chuck
Care to provide some actual proof that the train derailment was Trump's fault?
No. Thanx for asking.
You have to watch this Fox News Channel video twice.
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1625953747431002123
The first time, just listen to Governor DeWine's calm explanation. It's really easy to understand. Then, the second time you watch, just look at Martha MacAllum on the left side of the screen. Watch her expression as she gets all the wrong answers that neither she nor her Fox producers ever wanted on the air.
Martha is clearly thinking, "Oh shit I am going to get the Jacqui Heinrich-Kristen Fisher treatment."
hpudding: "Pretty hilarious that the right-wing fascist Republicans are dumb enough to give former president combover Blondie a pass on gutting the EPA and letting the train companies keep using the ineffective brakes (with Civil War-era “technology”) that caused this disaster."
A few years back the typical time from democratical/LLR (but I repeat myself) lie to full debunking could be years. Over the last several years that time gap shrunk to just months and then weeks.
And now we have the LLR's and hpuddings of the world simply saying screw it and tossing in things that were proven lies weeks ago.
I don't care what Mayor Pete does or doesn't do for the rest of his life: that vile posed photo of him and his male spouse reclining in a hospital bed dressed in hospital gowns as if they had just delivered a baby who came out of a woman's body is so grotesquely denialist to womanhood that I can't believe he has concern for living things beyond himself. Only a sociopath of pretty major proportions could choose to pose that way.
Also, how much maternity leave did Sarah Palin take when she actually carried a child and gave birth? To a special needs baby?
Also, does Mayor Pete's spouse even have a job? Why did Pete need months of maternity leave?
He must have something big on Biden to not be fired for his complete lack of ... real labor. At the office.
Tina - indeed.
How does Mayor Pete have a job? He's a diversity hire. As we all can see - He doesn't have any qualifications. He's no different than most pols. A loyal figurehead for the corrupt money grubbers and lazy sex starved FBI types - who kill people to hide secrets.
Drago said...
You saved me the effort. Thanks.
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