I am also critical of the Norfolk Southern train derailment.

HA! I stand corrected!!!! Thanks for pointing that out :)

Bellefonte would be a great choice. Beautiful town, stuff to do, trout stream down the middle of it, and lots of mountains

And yet nothing will happen to the company or the members of the board. In a just world the individual members of the board would be fined into poverty and then jailed or hanged.

I mean a lot of government officials have been ambivalent about this

No one from EPA or FEMA?

maybe being attracted to children ages people faster, idk.

IIRC there was a meeting with state officials, railroad execs, and chemical experts.

Ok cool

> psychotic and unrational

First off, it’s irrational. Unrational isn’t a word.

Second, those are both words I’d still ascribe to the right… but hey at least you got the uneducated part spot on.

He's already made quite a name for himself for similar causes, i'm just hoping he hasn't lost a sense of clarity since his roots. He's vocally pro-fracking lately, so i'm interested in seeing how aggressively he pursues this.

Come on gov, we need more big dick energy here. Time to show them the results when people fuck around.

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I don’t know that the GOP will try to do any of that…

Indeed. The headline gave me a chuckle. Did anyone expect the PA gov to "applaud" or be "ambivalent about" the train derailment?

The accident was so close to the border that it may have caused air and water pollution in PA.

The person that owns the property said there were so who do you believe.

The "pro derailment" camp is starting to look pretty sparse.

Who made the decision to allow Norfolk Southern to burn hazardous chemicals?

Mayo Pete can't really do anything that isn't run CIA ops or fix bread prices

Not very many, since the GOP gimped those powers following covid

Republicans shit on everything positive.

GOP voters love the line of Regulations are bad and handcuff the free market blah blah blah.

Then when they repeal them we start to see more and more why we NEED them to begin with... Because every corporate board room would vote to slowly kill and harm their own workers and citizens if it means increasing their stock by a few points and cushioning their bonuses.

As much as this might be the case, I'm not sure what all he can do beyond complain a bunch. The railroads have worked really hard to make it so that they only answer to the federal government and then neuter the limited oversight that exists there. And as long as at least 50% of the members of the federal legislatures are made up of some combination of republicans and a handful relatively conservative democrats, this isn't going to change barring a much larger catastrophe than this one.

Obama set regulations for safety but the lobbyists got it watered down to not include this type of train and cargo to NOT be considered hazardous and dangerous.

Trump repealed the regulations on safety after big donations from that industry to his PAC.

Biden has yet to restore the damages done by Trump and his Sec. Of Transportation is absolutely useless and too cozy with corporate America to address and attack this violence against the American people.

We need a Shapiro to put the screws to evil (yes, they knowingly and willingly harm others to boost their profits so they are evil) corporate ghouls and hold them accountable not just financially but with criminal and long term laiability for the inevitable cancer clusters that appear in this region down the road for the people who have to move back.