He said, "Trust the government"…
😂🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/Hv5pgDRpQM
— Mikle Gonzales (@MikleGonzales) February 18, 2023
Posted on 02/18/2023 9:44:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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On February 3, a 141-car Norfolk Southern train derailed in the eastern Ohio town of East Palestine. About 50 of the rail cars were damaged, including five tank cars carrying toxic and carcinogenic vinyl chloride. Safety crews vented and burned the vinyl chloride. The town was ordered evacuated, ‘Leave Now’: Hundreds of Residents Near Site of East Palestine, Ohio Train Derailment Ordered to Evacuate.
To call the official response tepid would give it too much credit.
The Biden White House has essentially ignored the issue. Our alleged Transportation Secretary, the poster child for Equity in this regime, was more concerned about too many white guys getting hired on construction projects (Pete Buttigieg Is too Busy Blaming White Men for Things to Be Bothered With the East Palestine Disaster) to pay any attention. I guess the men there weren’t on maternity leave or enjoying the pleasures of gay parenthood, so they don’t count. When he finally did comment, it was to lie in an attempt to place the blame for the accident on the Trump Administration (Debunking the Claim That Donald Trump Is to Blame for the Ohio Train Disaster).
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine had been flying top cover for Biden’s inactivity.
Republicans: Where is Pete Buttigieg?!?
Ohio Gov. DeWine (R): President Biden called me and said ‘we will give you anything you need.’ I have not called him back.pic.twitter.com/UPUAEtOe9L
— Grant Stern (@grantstern) February 15, 2023
DeWine is nearly as pathetic as Chris Christie kissing Obama’s butt in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. If he thought his pandering would do him or the people of East Palestine any good, that thought was soon put to rest. On Thursday morning, 13 days after the train derailment, with the toxic plume from the burn-off of the vinyl chloride covering at least 225 miles downwind, DeWine asked for federal aid. Instead, he was told to FOAD because this was not a “traditional disaster.”
The DeWine Administration has been in daily contact with FEMA to discuss the need for federal support, however FEMA continues to tell Governor DeWine that Ohio is not eligible for assistance at this time
I can’t find any evidence that DeWine has visited East Palestine, which, if true, speaks volumes.
Senator JD Vance has visited (JD Vance Makes Horrible Discovery in East Palestine Creek; J.D Vance and East Palestine Mayor Sum up Failed Response of Biden Admin).
Finally, someone from the Biden regime has shown up, EPA Administrator Michael Regan. With him, he brought advice.
He said, "Trust the government"…
😂🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/Hv5pgDRpQM— Mikle Gonzales (@MikleGonzales) February 18, 2023
The video below is cued to that clip.
I can’t figure out if this guy is cruelly referencing Ronald Reagan’s “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help,” if he was making a play on “three biggest lies (your check is in the mail, etc.), or if he actually believed what he was saying. I don’t even know which would be worse.
What we’re seeing from the federal government, in this case appears to me to rise above and beyond the call of mediocrity and indifference that we expect and has slid head-on into maliciousness.
East Palestine is located in Columbiana County, OH. The voters in that county preferred President Trump to Joey SoftServ by 45 points in the 2020 [s]election. According to the Census Bureau, the median age is 40. Nearly half the households have someone over 60 living there. Fifteen percent of the 1208 families are people over 65, living alone. There are 33 Blacks in the town of 4,548. Only 9% of the town has a college degree. The median income is $26,000, compared to Ohio’s average of nearly $62,000.
Those data points explain 100% of the actions taken so far. To the Biden White House, these people are MAGA extremists who should just die anyway. To the bureaucrats everywhere, they are a down-at-the-heels, blue-collar, and overwhelmingly White town that just doesn’t matter and isn’t worth the effort of helping.
No, the government is not there to help. No, they don’t care about you. And no, you can’t trust them.
“TRUST every ill-equipped SOB we put into govt - or else!”
Bookmark
Another affirmative action hire.
Meanwhile, this so-called EPA “administrator” is on his way to Africa with an entourage that includes Hollyweird celebrities.
Their purpose.....to spread the gospel of so-called “climate change” in Africa.
I trust absolutely nothing from government at any level but especially not from the FedMob.
“I trust absolutely nothing from government at any level but especially not from the FedMob.”
I am only 50% as Libertarian as you are. But this was enough to be skeptical enough to never get Covid vaxxxxxed. The more the Government stooges aggressively, in your face pushed their all knowing vaxxxxx garbage. The more I knew I would never get vaxxxxed. I learned my skepticism here at FR. I used to mostly trust these Gubbermint shithooks.
“Don’t follow leaders, watch your parking meters”
LOL Well, I don’t know about “Libertarian” but I’m about as fed up and cynical as I can get.
I’m not sure it’s cynical though when they’re objectively the most brazen liars and criminals to ever infest Foggy Bottom.
Somebody should have immediately followed that vacuous remark with a question: “Trust the government to do what, exactly?”
His response after getting a question like that would be a double serving of Kamala style Word Salad.
Elmer Fudd like.
DC-- Nuke em from orbit and 10 other Imperial capitals worldwide too. We need a worldwide shuffling of the deck.
“Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to make sure”.
FRiend, I hate to say it but I completely agree with you.
Enough is enough!
Just make certain you register with your Democrat Precinct Captain so that you can continue to vote after you are dead.
:)
Hate turns into.......L.... You know the rest. You know this of this objectively. FR is where free minds engage.
That is outrageous, for Regan to skip out on a junket to party in Africa while Ohioans suffer.
He and Buttgig should be fired!
Regan is a proponent of environmental racism. I have never heard of the term. It refers to poor places in the world where the people are impacted with hazardous industrial activities of a toxic nature. Palestine Ohio is a poor city. I bet Regan didn’t think the people were black enough for his trouble.
Biden’s EPA administrator is an empty suit.
The WEF to the East Palestinians: “You’ll drink poison and like it.”
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