Yes, a train safety rule was repealed in 2018-Why is the Slobfather heading to East Palestine today?

[malaise]

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/ohio-train-derailment-ecp-brake-system-mandate-trump-dot-administration-fact-check/536-d0ad26f7-84b6-4707-bcb1-7dc6e0a9f09f

We’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation (like the braking rule withdrawn by the Trump administration in 2018 because of a law passed by Congress in 2015), but we are using the powers we do have to keep people safe.
————++++++
It is pellucidly clear that he removed the regulations
Fuck this monster.
That is all.

[Scrivener7]

1. But I guarantee the press will eat it up and it'll be wall to wall coverage.

If his bullshit trip to the disaster he caused gets less coverage than Biden's trip to the middle of a war zone I will be surprised and thrilled.

[Turbineguy]

2. To tell people that if they get cancer

it will help him get re-elected.

[Docreed2003]

3. This is a man with no morals or ethics

He will refuse to address his responsibility in this tragedy and will instead choose to blame Biden and will likely say something absurd about "why is Biden not here?" All the while ignoring the Ohio governors absurd refusal until recently to accept federal help.

[Bev54]

21. He, no doubt will try to make Biden look bad because he is in Ukraine, while only

Trump is concerned about the toxic train derailment. He already has the mayor setting that up. It makes me sick the politics played in everything.

[doc03]

4. Their mayor criticized Biden for going to Europe instead of East Palestine. They voted for Trump

they will line the street welcoming him. Most of them watch Faux or Newsmax they have no clue.

[2naSalit]

7. +1

I wonder how many of them will be able to vote in two years.

[Diamond_Dog]

8. Exactly right, doc03

[malaise]

12. Thanks but they still need to know his role in their mess

[Diamond_Dog]

19. You can tell them until you're blue in the face.

I don’t think it will change their minds. In fact they will accuse you of making it up.

[malaise]

20. Well then they can start paying down on funeral plots, caskets, hospital

beds and cancer drugs.

[2naSalit]

5. Maybe the locals...

Most of whom voted for him, might have different view of him at this point. I'd like to see him get the bum's rush like McCain did that time he showed up on the rez and they ran him off before he got in the door.

It would be a good sign if they do see that he helped make this happen.

[Diamond_Dog]

11. It won't.

Like doc03 said, they will line the streets in hysterical worship for him.

And we now have idiot Vance stirring the shit saying that the Biden administration is blowing the town off because they’re white and Republican.

Tell me someone, would they have welcomed Biden if he had come right away? Or would they have booed him, accused him of making a chaotic photo op and getting in the way of recovery efforts?

I hope they give the Dumpster and Vance each a nice tall glass of tap water to drink.

Cheers, assholes.

[malaise]

13. We can hope

Dems need to bombard them with ads showing who removed the regulations

[2naSalit]

16. +1

But it will take some really eye opening and they don't seem like they're into that yet.

[GoCubsGo]

18. I wouldn't bet on that happening.

Their lying asshole MAGAt mayor is all over the place bashing Joe for going to Ukraine and helping them, in spite of the fact that Joe offered help on Day One. These are the same people who elected that lying prick. I doubt they are seeing things differently than what he's spewing.

[hatrack]

6. So he can talk about Sleepy Joe and Crooked Hillary and So Unfair!!!!

Why else would he go?

[SheltieLover]

9. To revel in the pain & suffering he caused.

[GoCubsGo]

10. He's returning to the scene of his crime--

In order to blame it on Joe Biden and the Democrats, like Republicans ALWAYS do. Not to mention he's taking advantage of the fact that most people in this country have no fucking clue as to how their governments, local, state and federal, work.

Oh, and let's not forget the ultimate reason: He wants the attention.

[malaise]

14. THIS

Sick of this shit- sick of this domestic terrorist

[2naSalit]

17. +1

[gab13by13]

15. They will throw a parade for him.

[Ferrets are Cool]

22. Exposure by the press and a chance to spew more lies.

[MichMan]

23. The NTSB states that it had nothing to do with the derailment and called a stop to misinformation

In a rare series of posts on Twitter on Thursday evening, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy issued "a message to the community" as well as "a plea to those spreading misinformation."

She added: "Nothing...nothing is more important than accuracy at a moment like this, which is why the NTSB is deliberate in our approach to investigations. Credibility is ESSENTIAL to our lifesaving mission. The NTSB process WORKS.

The NTSB chair addressed speculation that a rule on electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes -- if implemented -- would have prevented the train derailment, which she said was "FALSE."

"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," she tweeted. "This means even if the rule had gone into effect, this train wouldn't have had ECP brakes.

https://democraticunderground.com/10143035850


Who knows why Trump is going ?

[bluestarone]

24. Hell, him being the CHOSEN ONE, maybe he

Can just wave his arms, HEAL the sick, clean the water, put the old train back on the track, and ALL will be good.

[spanone]

25. Free air time to spew his toxic shit!

FUCK HIM

[allegorical oracle]

26. Publicity and to scold Dems. He's incapable of anything except self-serving fake empathy. nt