Things that made you laugh today (Political Version)

[Seran]

Biden's EPA created one of the worst environmental disasters this country has ever seen.

Seran: But at least the train company is going to pay for the cost of the derailment!!11!!!11

LOL, what precisely does the EPA have authority over to force a railroad company from not understaffing trains, not performing rail maintenance and inspecting the braking mechanisms on their rail cars?

Union Pacific also had a derailment, multiple tons of coal all over the countryside because of poor corporate stewardship.

[Neveragain]

Union Pacific

Union Pacific is probably the best maintained railway in the country, their tracks are ALWAYS in pristine condition. They recently purchased the old Rock Island lines and replaced all the tracks over the past 4 years. They are even paying for an overpass in the town I live in so we don't have to wait on their traffic, something they were not required to do.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

LOL, what precisely does the EPA have authority over to force a railroad company from not understaffing trains, not performing rail maintenance and inspecting the braking mechanisms on their rail cars?

Union Pacific also had a derailment, multiple tons of coal all over the countryside because of poor corporate stewardship.

They should have striked and shut down the company rather than wreck a train, but Biden forced them to comply because of politics.

That's just another bad policy by your fearless leader in a 50 year history of bad policies. Next up is his decision to spend President's day in Ukraine sending another half billion of tax payer money to be laundered by his friends. He really wants the 10!

[Seran]

They should have striked and shut down the company rather than wreck a train, but Biden forced them to comply because of politics.

That's just another bad policy by your fearless leader in a 50 year history of bad policies. Next up is his decision to spend President's day in Ukraine sending another half billion of tax payer money to be laundered by his friends. He really wants the 10!

So, it's the federal governments fault for:

1) Not intervening further in a labor dispute between a greedy company and it's employees.
2) Not forcing private business to increase the number of engineers and crew on board trains.
3) Not requiring companies hire adequate employees to perform regular maintenance on track, rail and rolling stock.

Are you sure you're not a Communist? For all of these things to be the fault of the government, rather than private industry greed, the Feds would have had to of nationalized the rail carriers and been in control of all their business and operations. As that's not happened, you're going to have to write your representatives in Congress to work on a nationalization bill.

[Suppressed Poet]

So, it's the federal governments fault for:

1) Not intervening further in a labor dispute between a greedy company and it's employees.
2) Not forcing private business to increase the number of engineers and crew on board trains.
3) Not requiring companies hire adequate employees to perform regular maintenance on track, rail and rolling stock.

Are you sure you're not a Communist? For all of these things to be the fault of the government, rather than private industry greed, the Feds would have had to of nationalized the rail carriers and been in control of all their business and operations. As that's not happened, you're going to have to write your representatives in Congress to work on a nationalization bill.

You do realize that a Demcorat controlled Congress passed a bill, that Biden signed into law, which made the railroad strike illegal? Perhaps the better question you should ask yourself: Is my blue party who poses to be the champion of the working class actually fascist-adjacent? Their lips make empty promises for the masses, but their actions serve “private industry greed” (as you call it).

[Seran]

You do realize that a Demcorat controlled Congress passed a bill, that Biden signed into law, which made the railroad strike illegal? Perhaps the better question you should ask yourself: Is my blue party who poses to be the champion of the working class actually fascist-adjacent? Their lips make empty promises for the masses, but their actions serve “private industry greed” (as you call it).

The rail road strike is irrelevant to corporate malfeasance.

What /is/ relevant are the railroad safety changes made by the Trump administration enabling this. Or do you think making it easier for corporations to avoid safety upgrades by making them optional is less relevant than the corporations deciding to understaff trains to increase profits?

Amazing how Republicans are all for deregulation until it causes massive environmental disasters or spills. Then suddenly someone should have stopped them!

[Suppressed Poet]

In before Seran blames Trump.

You called it…

[Parkbandit]

You called it…

It's not difficult.. he has only 1 play.

It's like beating a toddler at checkers.

[Seran]

Total lack of surprise when Trump's rollback of rules that would mandate new electronic control braking systems on trains carrying flammable substances results in large derailments and environmental coasters. I'm just glad some of you are aware of Trump being proven culprit in so many scandals.

US miscalculated benefit of better train brakes

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration miscalculated the potential benefits of putting better brakes on trains that haul explosive fuels when it scrapped an Obama-era rule over cost concerns, The Associated Press has found.

A government analysis used to justify the cancellation omitted up to $117 million in estimated future damages from train derailments that could be avoided by using electronic brakes. Revelation of the error stoked renewed criticism Thursday from the rule's supporters, who called the analysis biased.

Department of Transportation officials acknowledged the mistake after it was discovered by the AP during a review of federal documents. They said a correction will be published to the federal register.

But transportation spokesman Bobby Fraser said the decision not to require the brakes would stand under a Congressional act that said the costs couldn't exceed the rule's benefits.

"This was an unintentional error," Fraser. "With the correction, in all scenarios costs still outweigh benefits."

Safety advocates, transportation union leaders and Democratic lawmakers oppose the administration's decision to kill the brake rule, which was included in a package of rail safety measures enacted in 2015 under President Barack Obama following dozens of accidents by trains hauling oil and ethanol in the U.S. and Canada.

https://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-u...050138219.html

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Total lack of surprise when Trump's rollback of rules that would mandate new electronic control braking systems on trains carrying flammable substances results in large derailments and environmental coasters. I'm just glad some of you are aware of Trump being proven culprit in so many scandals.

I realize you might not be aware of this, Trump hasn't been president for two years.