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If a Train Crashes in Ohio and Nobody Talks About it, did it Really Happen? Part Duex

Guest Post by Skinny

Last week I took a swipe at Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (or @SecretaryPete as he likes to be called) for missing in action for 11 days following the derailment of the Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio.  Although Secretary Pete was late to the party, he made up for it all on February 19, or 16 days after the derailment.

The military man of action jumped into the fray and did what all heroes due in the time of crises.  Did he jump into his assault Prius and ride into the center of the toxic cloud and safely disperse it?  Close, but not quite.  Did he commandeer Greta Thunberg’s flying boat, scoop up the toxic fumes in its magic sails and convert the noxious gas into a harmless marijuana smoke cloud?  No, but you’re getting closer.  He did what only a true military hero worthy of a Judge Advocate General designation can do:  he wrote a letter.

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If a Train Crashes in Ohio and Nobody Talks About it, did it Really Happen?

Guest Post by Skinny

By now everyone has heard about the train derailment in East Palestine that occurred 2 weeks ago on February 3.  However, you can be excused if you were late to the party hearing about the crash.  There were virtually no stories of the crash all day Saturday and it wasn’t until Sunday night, after Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued a tweet that the story was picked up at all.  A Google search show only 2 ABC affiliates mentioning the story on February 4th, then an AP story on February 5th followed by…nothing.

The story was memory holed for over a week.  Not even a controlled burn of vinyl chloride sending a black mushroom cloud thousands of feet into the air was enough to jog the media’s attention.  Since no black man was shot by a white cop and Trump failed to post anything controversial, the media was just not interested.  Incinerating and poisoning a bunch of white Trump voters just doesn’t move the needle.

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