Mayor Pete still learning to fly

[Doc]

2 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Now they complain the regulations cut. 

 

Isn't cutting regulations all part of there drain the swamp garbage? 

 

Regulation cuts had nothing to do with this crash.

[sherpa]

2 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

Regulation cuts had nothing to do with this crash.

 

And they could cut a whole bunch more, and it wouldn't effect safety one bit.

 

Instead they do what they do, and in Buttigieg he is what he is, which is an incompetent Transportation Secretary who took the job because he thought it would advance his political aspirations. 

 

In the meantime, let's spend more money changing the names of decades long systems while failing to bring them up to speed, because names are important and performance is not.

[SoCal Deek]

2 hours ago, Tiberius said:

Now they complain the regulations cut. 

 

Isn't cutting regulations all part of there drain the swamp garbage? 

Drain the swamp? You can’t use that catch phrase to cover everything that happens everywhere ya know…right? 

[BillStime]

 

So funny to see the cult "open" up their version of PPP - lmao

 

Can't believe Bonnie isn't over here marketing the new and improved imposter site.

 

@Deranged Rhino is doing what he does best - blaming everyone else but his savior.

 

Awe, @IDBillzFan is upset Trump is getting blamed for the train derailment.  Um, he did brag about cutting regulations, right?  lmao

 

 

 

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

1 hour ago, BillStime said:

 

So funny to see the cult "open" up their version of PPP - lmao

 

Can't believe Bonnie isn't over here marketing the new and improved imposter site.

 

@Deranged Rhino is doing what he does best - blaming everyone else but his savior.

 

Awe, @IDBillzFan is upset Trump is getting blamed for the train derailment.  Um, he did brag about cutting regulations, right?  lmao

 

 

 

This is a new twist on some old crazy—like yelling at the new neighbors for things the old neighbor did. 
 

Let them go, BillSy, or go chat with the folks over there.  

[BillStime]

1 hour ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

This is a new twist on some old crazy—like yelling at the new neighbors for things the old neighbor did. 
 

Let them go, BillSy, or go chat with the folks over there.  

 

 

mmmmhmmmm

 

On 3/28/2021 at 6:30 PM, Doc said:

Also the PPE was depleted under Obama.  It was his responsibility to replenish it no matter how it occurred, not wait 6 years later and for a new administration. 

 

Keep crying.

 

[Big Blitz]

On 2/23/2023 at 11:44 PM, LeviF said:

That’s Jojofromjerz???

 

One of the most disappointing developments in history to get that when her pfp is this:

 

 

Enjoy:

 

 

[LeviF]

4 hours ago, Big Blitz said:

 

Enjoy:

 

 

I can forgive woman for being hypocrite. 
I can forgive woman for being grifter. 
I can forgive woman even for being deranged leftist. 
 

I cannot forgive woman for being 20 pounds overweight. 

[ComradeKayAdams]

On 2/25/2023 at 9:29 AM, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

I know the literal definition of the word, as I’ve told more than a few posters on our journey here, I read books ‘n stuff too. 

 

Geesh, some people. 🤦🏼‍♂️

 

But is it an ethnic slur or not? And if so, which ethnicity?

 

On 2/25/2023 at 9:29 AM, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

I felt it ill-conceived, poorly implemented.  I also decline to accept your apology as I can only control how I receive what is written, not how it is intended to be received.  

 

Fine. But now I’m retracting my apology, so now you’ve just declined NOTHING. Ha!

 

On 2/25/2023 at 9:29 AM, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

It was not my intent to offer anything substantive on East Palestine until the NTSB came out with its final conclusion, maybe never.  We are now up to the “train might possibly not have probably derailed if things that happened had not happened sequentially because Trump…” and that seems silly to me.

 

Specious reasoning, Mr. Skin-erd. You’re deliberately narrowing the scope of the debate so that the orange-colored apple of your political eye can shirk blame. For the sake of the argument, let’s suppose that the NTSB review reaches an indisputable conclusion that no additional regulations would have prevented or mitigated the East Palestine train disaster…no ECP brakes, no extra mandatory train workers, etc…

 

The next question that naturally follows is more general and far more important: do the railway regulations that were fully overturned during the Trump administration still have merit?

 

Answer: yes, of course! All of the extensive inquiries that led up to the mid-2010’s Congressional push for ECP/other railway regulation are still there! On one side was a very large conglomerate of engineering consultants, safety analysts, and labor experts with no conflicting interests. On the other were a small handful of hired lobbyists from a few railway companies. Regulation advocates, pro-labor groups, and environmentalists still have many hundreds of damning case studies compiled on railway accidents (almost all of lesser impact than the East Palestine one, sure…though you should read about the 2013 one in Lac-Megantic…yikes…). These case studies also parallel the number of environmental disasters that can be directly traced back to the Trump administration’s castration of the EPA.

 

Summary: even if all your little deregulatory neoliberal zealot friends were to somehow “win” this round in East Palestine, dear Leh-nerd, you’ve still lost the war. The leftist revolution is coming. Join Commie Kay now or perish.

 

On 2/25/2023 at 9:29 AM, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

You’re free to stand by whatever you say or do, Kay.  Before you stomp off in your plant-based 4Reelz Chuck Taylor’s, though,

 

Stop right there! Leh-ny, you’re out of your element. We both know that ethical fashion is comfortably situated in my wheelhouse and flotsam far away from yours. Whenever you’re ready to drop the omnivorous haughtiness and open your eyes and expand your heart, we can begin a more proper (i.e. unidirectionally didactic) conversation on your tragic sartorial choices.

 

On 2/25/2023 at 9:29 AM, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

Btw, in my travels here, I’ve been called a cultist, f’n idiot, nazi, arrogant, red-neck (that’s still my favorite) and believe it or not, one cheeky tart referred to me as a “d*ck” and worse not all that long ago.

 

LOL! Oh, I can believe it. B!tches be cray-cray in the modern day-day. But to be called a “d!ck” in the hallowed genteel confines of an internet pro football message board?? Woah!! You must have done something particularly egregious, like suggesting the fraudulence of anthropogenic climate change based on an easily debunked blog article from “Watts Up With That?” and a barely-passing-grade command of middle school science. Something like that would be grounds for a swift slap to the pen!s and (not one but TWO) firm smacks on EACH buttock, IMO. Count your blessings, Leh-nerd.

 

On 2/25/2023 at 9:29 AM, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

I think this boils down the way people communicate, Kay.  Sometimes, when a fella says “I don’t like the soup”, he just doesn’t like THE soup.

 

What a delicious metaphor! One might say that this thread has been the Moroccan chickpea soup in our conversational history recipe book.

[Tiberius]

On 2/25/2023 at 2:05 PM, SoCal Deek said:

Drain the swamp? You can’t use that catch phrase to cover everything that happens everywhere ya know…right? 

It was about "cutting the red tape" and they cut that tape, right? 

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

17 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

But is it an ethnic slur or not? And if so, which ethnicity?

Italian-Americans, I’m told.  I learned this after using the word one day a while back.   

 

17 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

 

Fine. But now I’m retracting my apology, so now you’ve just declined NOTHING. Ha!

I had reconsidered in your absence, decided to accept your apology in the interest of the greater good. 

 

17 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

 

Specious reasoning, Mr. Skin-erd. You’re deliberately narrowing the scope of the debate so that the orange-colored apple of your political eye can shirk blame. For the sake of the argument, let’s suppose that the NTSB review reaches an indisputable conclusion that no additional regulations would have prevented or mitigated the East Palestine train disaster…no ECP brakes, no extra mandatory train workers, etc…

Yeah, you have the wrong guy on this one.  I have no problem criticizing Trump (how original, that “orange” thing though), but you asked me a specific question and I answered accordingly.   

 

17 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

The next question that naturally follows is more general and far more important: do the railway regulations that were fully overturned during the Trump administration still have merit?

 

Answer: yes, of course! All of the extensive inquiries that led up to the mid-2010’s Congressional push for ECP/other railway regulation are still there! On one side was a very large conglomerate of engineering consultants, safety analysts, and labor experts with no conflicting interests. On the other were a small handful of hired lobbyists from a few railway companies. Regulation advocates, pro-labor groups, and environmentalists still have many hundreds of damning case studies compiled on railway accidents (almost all of lesser impact than the East Palestine one, sure…though you should read about the 2013 one in Lac-Megantic…yikes…). These case studies also parallel the number of environmental disasters that can be directly traced back to the Trump administration’s castration of the EPA.

Kay, you imagine pro-regulatory, pro-labor, and environmentalist groups operate purely from a position of light and benevolence, and have no financial interest in the fruits of their….labor.  I do not.    I consider agenda and who benefits from The Cause.   I’ll wait for the final outcome of the investigation but you go ahead and leap before you look. 
 

17 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

Summary: even if all your little deregulatory neoliberal zealot friends were to somehow “win” this round in East Palestine, dear Leh-nerd, you’ve still lost the war. The leftist revolution is coming. Join Commie Kay now or perish.

Summary:  My friends generally work for a living, have disparate point(s) of view based on their own life experiences, and generally follow the societal norms of common sense and civility in polite conversations.    
 

At this stage of my life, of the two choices offered, I believe I would choose “perish” based on the rather humorless lives and easily manipulated lives of the typical modern American revolutionary.   Of course, there are other choices when you get right down to it. 
 

17 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

 

Stop right there! Leh-ny, you’re out of your element. We both know that ethical fashion is comfortably situated in my wheelhouse and flotsam far away from yours. Whenever you’re ready to drop the omnivorous haughtiness and open your eyes and expand your heart, we can begin a more proper (i.e. unidirectionally didactic) conversation on your tragic sartorial choices.

I see you as situationally ethical, and in that regard, pretty much like most people.  I stand by my comments. 

 

17 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

 

LOL! Oh, I can believe it. B!tches be cray-cray in the modern day-day. But to be called a “d!ck” in the hallowed genteel confines of an internet pro football message board?? Woah!! You must have done something particularly egregious, like suggesting the fraudulence of anthropogenic climate change based on an easily debunked blog article from “Watts Up With That?” and a barely-passing-grade command of middle school science. Something like that would be grounds for a swift slap to the pen!s and (not one but TWO) firm smacks on EACH buttock, IMO. Count your blessings, Leh-nerd.

It was a low level dig, certainly on the scale of d!ck to nazi. Pedestrian, but worth mentioning.   I count my blessings everyday, my friend, and that shapes my view of the world.   Before lashing out with dark fantasies of violence and assault, consider moments of personal reflection and the blessings visited upon you.   Fight your battles, soldier on, do your Kay thing, but find a moment to be grateful too. 

17 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

 

What a delicious metaphor! One might say that this thread has been the Moroccan chickpea soup in our conversational history recipe book.

I love Chickpea soup.  We’ll always have that, I guess, at least until you and the other Khmer Rouge suburbanites take down Big Chickpea.  ✊🏻

[B-Man]

 

 

                                               

 

 

[Irv]

35 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

                                               

 

 

 

Mayor Pete.  What an incompetent laughingstock.  What a mess. 

 

[All_Pro_Bills]

7 hours ago, Irv said:

 

Mayor Pete.  What an incompetent laughingstock.  What a mess. 

 

A check of the movie Idiocracy from 2006 might reveal striking similarities between the scene of President Camacho's cabinet meeting and what it must be like to attend a similar event under almost real-life President Biden's administration.

[Tiberius]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

                                                   

 

 

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[sherpa]

Biden's FAA Administrator nominee, one Phil Washington, isn't doing too well either.

Confirmation hearings are embarrassing.

Th man has no background understanding.

At some point administrations need to stop appointing folks to important positions based on political patronage, and lean towards competence.

 

Didn't used to be that way.

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

Hopefully not as bad.

 

 

 

[Doc]

WTF is going on with that company and its trains?

[Irv]

What a mess.  Mayor Pete sure to blame Trump.