Few can forget the media’s response to Hurricane Katrina in which its members spread open lies of cannibalism and mass killings. The furor generated calls for Bush’s impeachment while falsely accusing him of racism.
The Kucinich–Wexler impeachment articles introduced in Congress specifically mentioned Katrina in Article XXXI, claiming that Bush has “both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, failed to take sufficient action to protect life and property prior to and in the face of Hurricane Katrina” whereby he “has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and Commander in Chief, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office.”
The Biden administration has provided a stunning example of disregard and contempt for East Palestine in the wake of the rail disaster. Had this been a black area affected during a Republican administration, it would be the only story on every cable channel accompanied by nationwide protests, a congressional investigation and articles of impeachment.
Mayor Trent Conaway, stunningly, told a town meeting that no one in the White House had even bothered to reach out to him until a day beforehand.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took ten days before even tweeting about the disaster and has been busy blaming everyone else, dismissing it as one of 1,000 derailments a year and blamed Trump.
The EPA’s administrator Michael Regan took a brief break from pushing equity to finally go down to East Palestine. The EPA, which falsely claims that carbon is a pollutant, claims that the air is safe after the disaster.
No one believes them.
Mayor Trent Conaway told Fox News in an interview that he believes the water in the town is safe, as he has seen the reports that showed contaminants were not present in it. But “you can definitely smell” the chemicals, and he said people are developing rashes.
“You can definitely smell it in downtown and around the shopping district of our town,” Conaway said, referring to the odors residents are reporting.
It took over ten days for Regan to make it out for a photo op. And the media is frantically spinning.
‘Chernobyl 2.0’? Ohio Train Derailment Spurs Wild Speculation. – New York Times
Wild speculation. That’s from the paper that claims everything is systemic racism. The same media that pushed false claims of “We’re All Dying” in Puerto Rico.
The BBC is willing to publish Chernobyl analogies, but the U.S. media is playing damage control.
For East Palestine residents John and Lisa Hamner, life as they knew it came to a screeching, flaming halt at 8:55 pm on 3 February.
“It’s totally wrecked our life,” he told the BBC, choking back tears in the parking lot of his business, where the stench of chemicals and sulphur from the derailment remains powerful.
Mr Hamner’s eyes are red and swollen, which he credits to the lingering physical impact of the chemicals spilled in East Palestine.
Standing on a mound of dirt within sight of the charred remains of several railway cars from the derailment, Mr Hamner likened the incident to Chernobyl, an April 1986 nuclear accident in then-Soviet Ukraine.
He’s not alone. Over the course of two days in East Palestine, several residents told the BBC that they consider the derailment a seminal moment in the town’s history. At least for the foreseeable future, their lives will be measured by what happened before the 3 February disaster and what took place after.
The Biden administration, like its media allies, has provided ample evidence that it doesn’t care, both before and after the fact. That’s impeachable conduct by the rules that the Democrats made.
Should he be? Unquestionably.
Will he be convicted and removed? Corruption prevents it.
Some say Senate Democrats are in lock step.
Feel free to consider it the goosestep.
And the Fuhrer Principle in action.
You didn’t think the Left acted without underlying principle, did you?
I have been livid about the paucity of the Biden maladministration’s response to the E. Palestine disaster. You can bet that were this a largely black, Dem voting, area, or there had been a massive spill of toxins near an illegal alien facility, they’d have been on this like white on rice. The federal aid would have flowed like the rivers of Babylon. This truly disgusting display of the maladministration’s indifference to the plight of fellow Americans of the “wrong” racial identity and political orientation is absolutely disgusting.
Well, good article, I believe the damage was catastrophic from what little I’ve seen. But the point that interests me is the safety of pipelines vs trains for transporting such materials. I looked it up recently, if my memory is correct, pipelines are an order of magnitude or so safer than rail. And didn’t the administration shut down some pipelines?
To add a more personal real life story, spending 60 years in the west coast terminus of the USA railway system, with several oil refineries within a mile or so of my house, I saw countless incidents and such over the years, railway and pipeline safety was a constant public safety issue. I walked over pipeline routes daily, used to read the warning signs on my walks, etc. 🙂
Constantly worried about train accidents of course. Those trains are massively heavy, standing on the corner waiting for the trains to clear the intersection, the ground shook like jelly as the trains passed through, tearing up the streets over the long run.
When you say that pipelines are an order of magnitude or so safer than rail, you know what you’re talking about; you know exactly what an order of magnitude means. Unless you’re starting with a very small number, it means a lot.
Of course pipelines are safer than rail, and probably much safer than trucks for transporting hazardous materials. But Warren Buffet owns BNSF Railway Corp. and when Warren Buffet speaks, people listen, even when they should not. I doubt that his trains are in peak condition and it’s certain that the track they run on and the computer systems governing it are falling apart. It’s all good enough to ship, say, lettuce or lumber or any number of other heavy commodities across the country by rail, but hazardous chemicals? Not so much, unless there’s a whole lot of money to be made by the right people. Warren Buffet has put pressure on pipeline proponents and the pipelines are cancelled. Though he is not the only bad actor and one still needs to ask Cui (else) bono?
Oh, for a world of Dagne Taggart and Hank Reardon, creating the best track and the best trains… oh, for a world of talented people going on strike until the world recognizes its need for them!
Thanks Lightbringer! Rail is safer than trucks, I’m pretty sure.
As a person who has lived a long life much of it reading history ,politics and culture. I’m shocked and amazed how he Biden is systematically getting away with facilitating the destruction of America. He is Shamelessly does not care .
Many World leaders can at least fake sincerity. He can’t even do that . Again he dose not care .
He is an empty shell of a man selling his soul to the devil to maintain power as he and his family enrich themselves .
His shameless wife should now intercede on behalf of her husband , as most wives would do, and say you had enough it’s time ……you can’t run again your embarrassing yourself just go sit in your Corvette but cannot have the keys.
As the media tries to portray him as a “ good “ catholic those who still maintain a moral compass should see him as a soulis human where Satan has found a home..
I guess I’m just shocked that about half the nation dose not raise their fist at anger towards him.
As they did with Jimmy Carter ,Some clearly remember the sour mood of the nation when he was in office.
It’s hard to believe with a handful of active Republicans in Congress . Some conservative voices like Front Page and some on Fox News can hold back the barbarians at the gate. Just like many empires that before The majority of citizens felt helpless as they witnessed the collapse .
America is too young to die.
Watch Newsmax and Real America’s Voice. Fox news sucks.
America is indeed too young to die, but the barbarians have been inside the gates since at least the second Roosevelt administration. It’s a damned pity, and I still believe the We the People can turn it around yet, but perhaps I am just ensorcelled by my own wishes.
Will they do their duty or just sit around like statuary bounders and do nothing they tried to Impeach Trump without any due probable reasons but Bidens East Palestine is a Impeachable offence he is refusing aid to a American City in danger while he lavishes other Nations with loads of Cash this is Treason
His getting us into a war in Ukraine that is none of our business was treason. His continuing to lavish taxpayer cash on Ukraine, Iran, the Palestinians (not the ones in Ohio unfortunately) continues to be treason. And this last debacle certainly fits the word as well.
What was it that that red-headed Roman emperor did while Rome burned? And then he blamed the Christians for setting the fires.
Important topics here: safety in transportation, improving public infrastructure, assisting families in need after disasters. In order to do all these things, you need a well-funded, efficient federal government. The exact thing the people who wrote for and read this page eternally fight against. So easy to whine about a problem while working with all your might against the solution.
Oh, and comparing Katrina to the East Palestine derailment is ridiculous. It is a malicious analogy designed to create a false equivalence between two events that are distinct by orders of magnitude.
State governments are better equipped to help their societies. The federal government is completely incompetent and corrupt, you stupid, lying asshole.
Go fuck yourself and die.
As if MooseHorn really cares about public safety 🙂
“Moosehorn.” Good one!
What’s an order of magnitude?
We are losing our competence as a nation. This loss is almost certainly directly related to DEI infecting transportation. I am appalled by the presuppositions – that we must lower standards for women, black and brown people.
We are now in the age of disaster and death caused by diversity incompetence. Two recent Air Traffic disasters involved a female pilot taking a jet across an active runway:
And a black air traffic controller causing a FedEx heavy to land on the same runway where a Southwest Airlines was rolling for takeoff.
Does this not make all women pilots and black air traffic controllers suspect? I HATE affirmative action.
Better reporting of the JFK American Airlines female pilot error here. Tower and cockpit recordings available:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11639851/Two-planes-involved-near-miss-crash-New-Yorks-JFK-airport.html
Thanks for the info KH!
I for one am not planning on flying any time soon 🙂
Translation:
“You peasants will just have to become sick, die, tolerate wide spread death of animals , poisoned water, soil etc… as we down play the disaster (which is all Trump’s fault) so our ‘Great Leader” is protected from any blame or responsibility.
Interesting that the democrats are looking just like the soviets when it comes to destroying the environment, but, the environmentalists are OK with that as long as the money keeps coming to them. After all, what is a little poisoning when it comes to happening to conservatives, eh?
You really shouldn’t have mentioned the Bush impeachment proposal Greenfield. Most of the articles were about Bush’s illegal war in Iraq, campaign fraud, corruption. He’s a criminal who should be in prison. Your whining and shrieking has nothing to do with Bush II of course.
All you’re doing is falling in line behind the repubs who want to impeach Biden in retaliation for Trump earning himself two impeachments. It has nothing to do with what Biden did or did not do regarding this serious and ongoing disaster.
Would it be true that Trump earned impeachment by functioning outside the circle of what we rubes might consider corruption?
Trump was a literal crook who couldn’t stop committing crimes when he became president. He was and is utterly corrupt. His second impeach was because of he tried to pull off a coup. Isn’t that enough?
Beijing Biden Alzheimer Joe is a fraud. DON’T EVEN PRY TO PRETEND HE”S LEGITIMATE!!!!!!
Not even Brokeback Hasbeen Osama was as big a fraud., and he sucks dicks.
America is in the toilet, you scumbag! Go fuck yourself deep up in your ass.
You lick toilets seats for your leather daddy, Jeff.
You’re so gay you burp sperm bubbles. And you probably swallow them.
Don’t ever try a spam war with me, you half a sissy bitch.
You can’t win against me. NOBODY can
You fucking retard.
Daniel, for the good people of Ohio, East Palestine I hope here’s hoping that Erin Brockovich is stationed there with a contingent of lawyers who with a vengeance will go after the owners of the rail-line and the government who waited over 2 weeks to do anything for the people of Ohio.