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Great take from somewhere on the internet-
Pete Buttigieg is telling us, "Listen, there are over 1,000 train derailments a year! You're just paying too much attention."
If you know the name of the secretary of transportation, you have a historically shitty secretary of transportation.
First the airlines now trains... it's almost like, you know, he wasn't qualified as a mayor of a small town to take on a governmental role and has spent way more time on paternity leave than he has working.
Pete Buttigieg is telling us, "Listen, there are over 1,000 train derailments a year! You're just paying too much attention."
If you know the name of the secretary of transportation, you have a historically shitty secretary of transportation.
First the airlines now trains... it's almost like, you know, he wasn't qualified as a mayor of a small town to take on a governmental role and has spent way more time on paternity leave than he has working.
That's a great point.
Maybe if he spent less time worrying about the racism of having white construction workers, he'd have more time for things that actually matter.
Cincinnati intake from the river has been shutdown today because of the train derailment. Nothing to see here.
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Too many to mention but here are a few:
Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Man is not free unless government is limited.
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Who else but the federal government has the ability to regulate interstate trade and travel? I think infrastructure is pretty within the bounds of federal government.
What happened to the airlines? Other than Southwest, and some weather?
Did I miss some crashes?
What happened to the airlines? Other than Southwest, and some weather?
Did I miss some crashes?
You're correct but as we see here, infrastructure has gone by the wayside for decades upon decades while we pump money into other countries. The easy answer is to hold the federal government accountable but, they don't give a fuck for us, that is obvious.
To answer directly, Congress. Interstate trade and travel are supposed to be regulated by Congress. Not tracking the point of that question; Pete Buttigieg sucks at his job as the guy that's not supposed to suck at his job. Instead of telling me about the inherent systemic racism of bridges and construction in general, he should be fighting for money and wooing other legislators vs. taking 6 weeks of paternity leave while a railroad strike was looming. He got the job because of his obvious intersectionality and not his skill.
And we have talked about it before; air travel is heinous now. Do you think Pete Buttigieg did a good job? Any reason you're defending him?
Gotta love how folks are chosen for these jobs.
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Oh I’m not defending anyone. Poor forum form, I was responding to Dame’s post above mine, about the feds.
Air travel is heinous now because there is little real competition. The airlines are a monopoly because they are basically regulated as such. Our airline industry is basically not capitalist, and in this way it is garbage.
ohhhh my bad. Agree and thanks for clearing it up. Agree on the air travel.
Not closing Northern Kentucky, guess they don’t have to keep the hicks safe.
Some scary near misses. FedEx and Southwest came within 100 ft of each other (find the flightradar24 tape on this, have spare underwear available). PHIK had a near miss, and there was another one just prior to Austin.
Buttplug waited 10 days after the derailment to make a comment, FEMA told Ohio to fuck off vis a vis the train wreck.
Ton of blame for the Ohio disaster, but Trump's Dr Evil here.
Probably trying to see if the "new" water will make a better quality meth.
Some scary near misses. FedEx and Southwest came within 100 ft of each other (find the flightradar24 tape on this, have spare underwear available). PHIK had a near miss, and there was another one just prior to Austin.
Buttplug waited 10 days after the derailment to make a comment, FEMA told Ohio to fuck off vis a vis the train wreck.
Ton of blame for the Ohio disaster, but Trump's Dr Evil here.
I just fucking laughed out loud brother. Buttplug.
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Both parties own the infrastructure nightmare. This has been decades in the making and worsening by the year.
I remember back in 10-11 there was supposed to be a bunch of "shovel ready" jobs fixing infrastructure. That's the last time I've heard about infrastructure, and still haven't seem much of those shovel ready jobs, but I could have missed something.
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Some scary near misses. FedEx and Southwest came within 100 ft of each other (find the flightradar24 tape on this, have spare underwear available). PHIK had a near miss, and there was another one just prior to Austin.
Buttplug waited 10 days after the derailment to make a comment, FEMA told Ohio to fuck off vis a vis the train wreck.
Ton of blame for the Ohio disaster, but Trump's Dr Evil here.
I mean near misses are scary, but some of them are pilots fucking up, and none of them are administrators not funding or properly taxing the populace to pay for improved infrastructure.
Has anyone here blamed Trump? Let’s not argue the straw man. I think almost everyone is saying this is everyone’s fault.
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You been to Bragg recently? That was one of them. The bypass, that is
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