Trains Derailing is all Trump’s fault…   Trump rolled back an Obama Regulation requiring RR’s to install different brakes which would be required for each car.   RR lobbyists gave millions to republicans – it is all their fault.   Buttigieg tells Norfolk RR that the train derailment and subsequent chemical leak – was all Trump’s fault.   The same view is applied to guns – yet no matter what laws and regulations Democrats Create – shootings still happen.   Talking points without any ‘bearing’.    

The Railcar Brake Regulation: The 2015 Obama era rule required cargo trains carrying crude oil or other flammable liquids to retrofit their braking systems with electronic braking systems.   The American Association of Railroads ( A UNION) attempted to appeal the regulation claiming it was too costly.

In 2018, the Trump Transportation Secretary rolled back that portion of the law.   There have been prior derailments involving chemicals – however, the vast majority of train accidents involve passenger trains which were NOT a part of the Obama braking requirement.  Passenger trains account for the vast majority of deaths.

In 2020, the very liberal USAToday wrote:   “ …there have been 4.8 derailments for every 100 miles of train track from 2015 to 2019, the most common cause of which are broken rails or welds.”   That would be during the era of the Obama regulation AND after.

And like Pharma – the fix was not to repair the cause – but to give a prescription med to the resulting symptom.   If a car hits a giant pothole in the street causing the driver to lose control and crash – is the car at fault?   Should all cars thereafter be made to withstand potholes?

More to the point – Transportation Secretary Buttigieg has been in office 2 years – did he review regulations? Did he implement new regulations? Did he rollback Trump’s deregulation?   Did he call for the maintenance and repair of railroad tracks?   No. In fact Biden/Buttigieg have been vocally reticent to make any rollbacks of Freight regulations even after the Ohio incident.

So what has Buttigieg done?  

In 2022, Buttigieg was handed $560 billion to overhaul the US infrastructure – including railroads.   At the time the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the US infrastructure a C-.   What did Buttigieg do?    He gave an interview to Anderson Cooper.   “Man, we gotta do this!”   He spent most of the interview cackling like a Kamala –

According to Buttigieg, this is what he has done:   “We’re having new conversations about safety resources that we haven’t seen when it comes to public transit, and haven’t seen in a very long time when it comes to rail, airports, and seaports…” Forbes, 2/2/2023.

Conversations?   What happened to the $560 billion?

That particular discussion seems off-limits.   Instead, Buttigieg prefers discussions about equity in transportation.   Giving NY and Maryland funding for repairs  would appear to be his only contribution according to Forbes.   In fact, Buttigieg claims that now that 2023 has arrived – now they are going to do ‘great things’…

So maybe the fault lies with lobbying groups paying republicans $6 million – according to a Tweeter Twat.

RailRoad Lobbyist Donations according to Open Secrets for 21-22:   $1,764,695 was given to Republican candidates, $1,408,068 to their Democratic rivals.

Of course there are multiple other considerations regarding the railroad derailments of recent and the warehouse explosions, including sabotage from either within or from an outside entity.   Russia and Germany have experienced a higher than normal incident of these sort of catastrophic events.   From a military standpoint, it could be a tit-for-tat shadow retaliation.   Or it could be easily parlayed by simply putting an object on the rails. Or a Molotov cocktail thrown at a warehouse.

Given the ‘transparency’ arrangement within our current government – it is likely they have zero incentive to tell the TRUTH.  But then, given that Congress is NOT required to actually show up at work for the last 2 years+ the rumor that Buttigieg was busy ‘wintering’ in Aruba might explain his roll eye reticence to actually DO SOMETHING!