JD Vance Waited 10 DAYS To Acknowledge Ohio Rail Disaster

[tenderfoot]

Ten days after the train derailment in East Palestine, US senator JD Vance issued a statement from his office. The Ohio Republican says at one point in the statement: "Is the air and water safe for residents? So far, we have been told that air and the drinking water tests performed by the Environmental Protection Agencies, the Ohio National Guard, and Norfolk Southern have been encouraging."

[dchill]

1. How are drinking water tests "encouraging?"

Odd word choice.

[brewens]

8. No shit. It's either safe or it's not. There is no encouraging. n/t

[onecaliberal]

2. That is what they voted for.

[Captain Zero]

21. A hillbilly with a law degree.

Go Bucks.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. They only care if they can pin the problem on Democrats.

You won't see them writing legislation to mitigate future disasters from man-made environmental catastrophes.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. He has zero concern for his constituents, and they voted for that.

Didnt trump change some regulation that allowed this wreck?

If so hopefully ONLY trump voters were harmed and or their property.

[debm55]

7. Yes, the braking system.

[Freethinker65]

5. Ohio elected this idiot for 6 years.

[irisblue]

6. Could have had Tim Ryan, but nooooooooooo

[maxrandb]

9. This will appear cruel

But I have often driven through the shithole that is extreme northeast Ohio. It borders an equally shifty, shithole, Beaver County, PA.

There are more Confederate Flags than American Flags, and more Donnie Dipshit flags per capita than any other place on the face of the earth.

They voted for this shit. They voted that benevolent corporations like Norfolk and Southern didn't "need no fucking 'reg-a-lating'".

They voted for the most corrupt fucking Retrumplican supermajority rule that Ohio has ever seen, even after Retrumplicans robbed them blind to cover a private energy companies loss in another state.

and they did this for only one reason - the country dared elect a black man to the White House.

Their votes led to their poisoning.

Their votes turned their homes and land into an even worse festering cesspool of toxic waste, racism, misogyny and hatred than it was before.

Let them wallow in it.

[samplegirl]

11. Wait I live here and I've never

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voted for a stinking Republican in my life.
Many of us good democrats that work for our party feel so depressed that we were gerrymandered to high hell here.
Reagan ruined Ohio and so did Bush.
Trump furthered the wreckage!
I don’t want to wallow in it! Been fighting for years
and the trumpers and younger generation that are to stupid to know they have screwed themselves as well.
I’ve live here for 65 years and have spent the last 30 fighting against this shit!
Not everyone in N.E. Ohio helped turn it into a shithole!!!
I’m one of them!

[Hekate]

12. ❤️ samplegirl, I am glad you are there fighting the good fight, & am glad you are here at DU

Sorry as hell you got stuck with JD Vance.

[Conjuay]

17. I know

As a kid born into a union home, raised to believe in compassion AND the power of education, (and residing in Florida), we blue dots in the red ocean have to suffer being lumped in within a “Shithole” area/ state.

I too, have never voted republican, and that is over 50 years of voting.

I cannot understand why ANYONE would vote against their own self interests, but so many people apparently feel compelled to have others tell them what they should think, what they should do, and they are comfortable with that.

Stereotyping an area/ community/ state is still stereotyping.

Keep fighting!

[Turbineguy]

10. 9 days and he would have been guilty of

governing.

[RainCaster]

13. There is a huge amount of very toxic gases coming from the wreck

Taken from the CDC's website:

Phosgene was used extensively during World War I as a choking (pulmonary) agent. Among the chemicals used in the war, phosgene was responsible for the large majority of deaths. Phosgene is not found naturally in the environment. Phosgene is used in industry to produce many other chemicals such as pesticides.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ohio_train_derailment

[Norbert]

14. In another week he will tell you who will win the Super Bowl

[tblue37]

15. People were also told by the authorities that the 9/11 air was safe to breathe.

[banlesh]

16. This is his Katrina

He fucked it up.

[malaise]

18. Everyone of them who says the air is safe should be forced to stay there

for a week - that is all

[Tickle]

19. I thought the state

wasn't informed about this. I know the governor was pissed when he found out

[Paladin]

20. Why would we expect anything better from him? (nt)