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Trump supporters willfully ignorant
When you see the multiple comments posted by Trump’s dead-enders, you know there’s a heap of gibberish on display.
They complain about Joe Biden. They complain about Hunter Biden. They complain about myriad fanciful transgressions committed by donkey clowns, which is predictable.
But what really defines them is what they don’t complain about.
Donald Trump falsely claimed that the 2020 election was rigged against him and there wasn’t a hint of outrage from his supporters.
Donald Trump actively engaged in a treasonous effort to negate the votes of the 81.5 million people who voted for Joe Biden, or against The Donald, and there wasn’t a mouse-squeak of protest from his followers.
I think it’s fair to conclude that the many folks who ignored Trump’s lies, and quietly sloughed off his effort to overthrow the legitimately elected government of the United States, supported his goal of becoming president for life.
And now they think they can distance themselves from his treasonous behavior by ignoring it.
On Sept. 24, 2020, Forbes magazine published the article, “Here’s Everything Trump Has Said About Refusing To Give Up Power.”
Readers can look it up online, check out https://tinyurl.com/55st8apf or, if you’re a Trump dead-ender, dismiss it as “gibberish.”
The bottom line is this: Engaging these folks is an exercise in futility. They’re willfully ignorant — and proud of it.
Walter Wouk
Summit
History lesson for Russia’s president
Dear Mr. Putin, if you remember your history lessons, you would know that good has always triumphed over evil.
It always has and always will.
Kenneth Kimball
Schenectady
Taxes a big reason why residents leave
John Figliozzi’s Feb. 19 opinion piece (“Leaving New York is about more than taxes”) might better have been entitled, “Another Progressive whistling past the graveyard.”
Using some cherry-picked statistics, Mr. Figliozzi assures us that taxes are not a major factor, in fact only fifth, cited by people leaving the state.
By itself, that may seem reassuring. But a closer look at that survey shows that a whopping 68% of those leaving have incomes over $100,000 (48.75% over $150,000!).
My guess is that the 15% tax departures fall into this group, and what state can survive with this sort of income drain?
The taxes they pay, as well as the money for goods and services they buy, are lost forever.
He is right on two points though: Taxes aren’t the only reason people are leaving and people don’t think they are getting acceptable value for the taxes they pay.
On the first point, he could have mentioned crime, failing schools, high energy bills, massive regulatory burdens, corrupt politicians and an unaccountable legislature with skewed priorities.
He does say our legislature and governor “could” address the abysmal return on investment for taxes paid. Do you believe they will, John? If so, give me a call, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you.
David Ochse
Porter Corners
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History lesson for Russia’s president
What American needs to know about Putin and Ukraine. It is all connected take a minute ad read this from Glenn Beck. Hate him love him what he is saying makes sense.
Because not a single world leader has been willing to speak the truth about the far-left’s dangerous ideology, a huge vacuum emerged. And Vladimir Putin, during a recent speech, attempted to fill that void by appealing to conservatives in the West: ‘Look at what they’re doing with their own people,’ Putin said. ‘It is all about the destruction of the family.’ But his speech, Glenn explains, was a BAIT AND SWITCH one. In this clip, Glenn explains the TRUE meaning behind this EVIL man’s deceptive words. And, Glenn exposes the ‘capital-T’ Traditionalist behind Putin’s message: Alexander Dugin, who may just be the most dangerous man in the world…
TranscriptBelow is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: So yesterday, Russian president Vladimir Putin gave his state of the nation speech in Moscow.
It is amazing how this was reported on. They belittled and mocked him in many of the reports, that I saw from the West.
It was a — a speech that was supposedly directed to his people. But it was also directed to the world.
To people, all over the West. Who are sick of being told that they’re racist, Transphobic, or whatever else.
And it’s — it’s hard to angle — hard to argue that angle.
It is, when somebody says, what you know they’re doing to the country? They’re destroying the western set of values. You’re like, yeah.
And that is the point. It’s a trap!
I’m going to read what he said yesterday. And I want you to think about whether or not you agree with him.
He said, Western Nations are using Ukraine as their puppet. Yeah, I think so. I think so.
I think Ukraine might be a part of that. But there is something dirty going on here.
He said, they distort historic facts, and constantly attack our culture.
The Russian Orthodox church and other traditional religions of our country. I haven’t heard any of that, anywhere.
They cannot ignore the fact, that Russia cannot be defeated on the battlefield.
Well, I don’t think I agree with that either.
So they’re waging increasingly aggressive information attacks. First, all targeting the young generations.
Lying on every step. Distorting historical truth. Attacking our culture. The Russian orthodox church, be and other traditional religious institutions within in our country.
Now, that was for his people. Then he says to his people, and look what they’re doing in the West. To their own people.
It’s even worse. Look at what they’re doing, they’re destroying the institution of family. Their cultural, historical identity.
And the destruction of the family, the national identity, the perversion and abuse of children, up to pedophilia, are now accepted as a new norm.
Is the West destroying the institution of the family? Yes. Cultural historic identity, oh, yeah. Destruction of the family? Uh-huh.
Cultural national identity? Yep. Perversion and the abuse of children up to pedophilia. Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh.
And he goes on, and priests are forced to bless same-sex marriages. As it became known, the Anglican church plans to consider the idea of gender neutral God.
Millions of people in the West understand, they are building led to a real spiritual catastrophe.
I think all of that is true. He then says, maybe we should take a look at this — I’m sorry.
Maybe they should take a look into the Scripture, into the holy book of any religion.
It says family is a union between a man and a woman. And these holy texts are now being increasingly doubted in the West. The Anglican church is being considered a gender-neutral god.
Okay. There’s nothing false about that last part. And on the surface, if you’re just wondering where is a leader that is going to stand up against this stuff. You hear Putin say it, and you’re like, okay. He’s a really bad guy. But listening to what he’s saying.
All he’s doing is describing the evil of Marxism that has taken hold in the western world.
Yesterday, NPR praised puberty blockers and sex change surgeries, for children.
Most sane people are tired of the leftist takeover, of culture. And Putin knows it!
And because there’s a vacuum of anyone, anyone in leadership around the world, that will stand up for the things that we have always known to be true.
There’s a giant vacuum. And when you have a vacuum that big, even the coldest — the coldest blooded murderer, mass murderer can step in to that vacuum, and go, I’m here.
This is why he — his message is so dangerous.
It is a bait-and-switch.
So what is it, that he’s actually saying?
What is it he’s trying to accomplish hereof?
This is so critically important, because this — it’s like a KGB influence operation.
Putin’s goal is to gain allies and to seed doubt.
Everyone is tired of left-wing extremism.
All throughout. Only the elites are still into it.
And it is a dangerous time for people making allies with people, who make points similar to ours.
I have said for 25 years.
You must know who is standing next to you.
They might agree with you object on several points.
But when it gets down to the details. The devil literally is in the tails.
Putin is interested in Russia, and Russia alone.
Don’t forget that he called the collapse of the Soviet Union, the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 21st century.
Putin’s goal is to frame Russia as the Roman Empire. Battling all the evils and the depravities of the Western world.
But I want you to be very clear on this.
That is the wicked punishing the and killing the wicked.
He might be speaking words that are true. But he himself is a false prophet. And a liar.
He is not a supporter of the rights that only come from God.
He’s a bloodthirsty killer.
Freedom of speech?
He murders anyone who disagrees. We merely silenced them through cancel culture. Or through private/public partnerships.
They’re both evil.
He defines us as evil.
And speaks to the horrors that we’re inflicting on Christians or Christianity, on — on gender confused children.
But his own KGB murdered millions of the deep faith. Sent them to camps for reeducation at best. And he approves of murder squads to kill homosexuals. It is, again, the wicked against the wicked.
Do not be fooled, there’s no good guy in this fight.
And he is doing exactly what I have warned you of, for the last, almost ten years.
And these tactics are traced back to one guy. I have told you, he is the most dangerous man in the world.
He is a radical philosopher named Aleksandr Dugin. He is Putin’s bizarre, mystical guru.
In his book, Foundations of Geopolitics, Dugin pushed the idea, that the US must be counteracted on the global stage. And the book became a standard-assigned reading in the 21st century, at the general staff academy. For Russian military leaders.
So all of the military leader, have been raised on Dugin. He went on to become a Putin adviser without portfolio. With Putin, echoing, sometimes in a matter of hours, according to experts, expressions Dugin was using in his media broadcast.
Dugin believes that America is the Antichrist, leading the world — and, by the way, I’m beginning to think that that might be true too, that we might be the great Babylon.
That we might be what our Scriptures foretell. Maybe that’s why America is not in the end time revelation.
Because maybe we’re the problem. We’re giving birth to it. It seems we might be on that road.
I pray for construction of our whole system, if we become that evil.
Please, dear Lord.
Okay. So he believes, we are the Antichrist. Leading the world, into what he calls the fourth revolutionary war. It’s summed up by his slogan, sooner or later, the endless spectacle is over. Then we will take revenge, mercilessly.
Dugin, so you know, his crest, if you will, is the ancient sign of chaos. He is an agent of chaos.
As are the Iranian imams and Twelvers. If you’re a long-time listener of the program. You know what those are are.
Twelvers are people that actually believe if I create enough chaos in the world. And set off enough nuclear bombs, then the messiah, different than our messiah, will return faster. So let’s just get it over.
That is what Dugin believes. The West is the Antichrist and must be destroyed. But all of modernity, everything modern, must be destroyed.
You know, what he said, what — what Putin said yesterday, was played before.
I mean, we said it. Reagan said it. Against the Soviet Union.
The U.S.S.R. was an evil empire. And while we had our problems, our society had not become evil yet.
Yesterday, Putin was praised by many on the right.
And they’re the words of traditionalism.
I just want to get to traditional families.
And our traditions. Because Barack knew, that to make this change, we had to change the way we talked to each other and our traditions. So I want to get back to our traditions.
Traditionalism is part of Dugin’s philosophy. But it is not traditionalism with a small T. It is a capital T. Small T traditionalism, family values. God, country, honor.
Okay?
Capital T traditionalism is very different. It is heralding the end of modernity.
It is a movement, that is just as real and dangerous and deadly as Naziism, fascism, and communism.
And any church, it didn’t group, on the right, that hears this kind of language, and foolishly starts to fall in with people who are, quote, traditionalists, are going to spell grave, grave trouble for the republic and for a chance of being able to survive.
Traditionalists despise the modern world. They believe that destruction is necessary for a utopia on earth.
Not heaven.
Armageddon comes. And instead of Christ coming down, his theology, a dark mass, then Russia steps in. And then we have the utopia.
Dugin,Putin within do not believe in the traditional values. The religious values.
But they know how powerful this message is.
They are selling you a cathedral, that is actually a windowless concrete building. With a basement, that you don’t want to know, what’s going on in the basement.
KGB, Putin, been using Russian orthodox church has a weapon for years.
And using clergy as intelligence assets.
Now, when Vladimir Putin or Alexander Dugin, or any of these capital T traditionalists speak, they will rail against the progress of the progressives. Okay?
The progress. The idea. The liberal ideas that progress is always good.
Well, no, it’s not. He’s right. The left’s idea of progress, has led to transgendered children on stripper poles. But what a capital T traditionalist believes, is to create this utopia, we must destroy modernity.
Collapsing the power grid. Using EMPs.
Anything that destroys the modern world must be used. The world over.
Armageddon must happen, so the modern world is completely destroyed. And out of those ashes, the Russian people will step up and fill their destiny.
It’s just another flavor of Malthusian poison. We just have to kill a lot of people. And then we’ll have utopia.
Traditionalism is easily anti-capitalist, anti-Christianity. Anti-anything it wants.
But it is a return to the medieval world first.
Russian renaissance, second. These people are not your friends.
They do not mean what they say. They do not speak for you.
Traditionalism, with a capital T, wants to use war to launch the world out of the dark age.
Because he believes, we’re now living in the Dark Ages.
The whole of modern world.
This is just evil. As any evil we have here, it is evil. Do not be fooled by false prophets. Many will come in his name. Do not be deceived.
He believes the global conflict is inevitable. Violence is a requirement.
The literal apocalypse is just merely a phase. Many of these things, the Twelvers in Iran, also believe. But under a different messiah.
They too threaten to burn the world, and wash it in the blood of the Jews and Unbelievers.
Iran is now an ally of Russia and China.
Dugin is pushing for the same things, and he’s been whispering all of this into Putin’s ear, urging him to push the red button of extinction.
Warning. I don’t know how many times — I can say this. Or will be allowed to say this, at some point.
Warning. All conservatives. Capital T traditionalism. Aleksandr Dugin.
Vladimir Putin, are not your friends. Do not pick sides between these two evils.
Because they’re leading us to destruction. Both sides.
Okay Walter what about this? Is this treason or not?
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11:29 PM – Feb 21, 2023
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11:51 PM • Feb 21, 2023
Bret Kavenuagh accusers now admits she lied. And this was all paraded by the MSM and attacks on him and his family. They should put in jail for life. Is this what Walter is talking about?
He wonders why they are called DONKEY CLOWNS. Walter welcome to the club. Will you admit you are wrong when the videos reveal it was coordinated by FBI AND DOJ? Let’s see if you can EEEE-HAWWW your way out it.
David Ochse
Porter Corners
Great letter and soon to follow the attacks I have said this before and have a neighbor who left for the reasons you have stated. Unfortunately with the flood of Illegal immigrants and the push to give the voting rights this will never change in the far left States. It is a train a lot more people will be on leaving NY, Ill. , CA. .
Let’s go Brandies is defined daily by his increasingly hysterical efforts to define his reality.
Posted by the creature let’s go brandies a nazi oriented posts such as the one below define him
please be sure to fact check any of his posts if you read them the are chock full of lies. FACT CHECK THE DUDE HE LIES
HE does not support this country often arguing in favor of hostile countries. Surely not someone who merits the massive amounts of attention he desires
It’s important to recognize a facist position for what it is and if you promote it identify if for what it is American DEMOCRACY thankfully does not support involuntary sterilization of women
Posted by let’s go Brandon on Jan 31 2023
own it dude don’t hide behind your fake name
“Okay if the women gets an abortion then she obviously does not want children why just sterilize her so she can have all the unprotected sex with as many partners as she wants and never have to worry about abortions? No different than suggesting men getting a vasectomy. You are correct men cannot get an abortion, yet a women would not need one is it weren’t for a man
Mr. Brandon 🤡posts drivel….I didn’t read any of it and never will. He is cut from the same cloth of people screaming about his freedom of speech….But these people want to ban books like “To Kill a Mockingbird” from schools.
I scanned F–JoeBiden’s post today and it is the usual gibberish, in this case, consisting primarily of an outrageously insane rant by far right radio personality Glenn Beck. The foolishness of this one excerpt is typical of the nonsense FJB chose to start our morning with:
“…the Anglican church plans to consider the idea of gender neutral God…”
What an absurd proposition. Beck and FJB imagine their omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient god as being one sex or the other? Did they check his genitalia? Does he sit or stand to urinate? I’m sorry but this nonsense, this attack on people who want to create a more equitable, inclusive, and compassionate society and economy was more than I could take this morning.
Walter Wouk’s been smoking some bad whacky tobacky up there in Summit. It’s 2023 Walter, get you some mean green and stay away from that brown stuff. It’s rotting your brain brother.
“Mayor Trent Conway of East Palestine Ohio: “As far as “Mayor Pete”, I would rather him just stay away, he’s just going to cause a circus, unless he’s going to bring his shovel and shovel some dirt and get rid of this contaminated soil.” You’re a day late and dollar short Mayor Pete, this was your opportunity to shine and you chose to stay politcal with the blame game. He should’ve been on the ground immediately showing the people that he was there for them. Just another big moment that the Biden sh#t show has dropped the ball.
In another move fraught with danger, McCarthy has turned over thousands of hours of surveillance footage from the 1/6 committee’s investigation into the insurrection on that day to TUCKER CARLSON, the man who defended himself in a lawsuit by saying no reasonable person would believe what he said on his show was TRUE?
From the DG article “McCarthy gives Carlson…” (p, A2) these excerpts should frighten us all:
“Any clip of footage the (1/6) committee wanted to use for their series of public hearings or for the final report had to be approved by Capitol Police to avoid any security breaches…”
“…officials have held back much of the surveillance video from hundreds of security cameras…” to prevent exposure of…”how the rioters accessed the building and the routes lawmakers used to flee to safety….”
Now that footage, unedited and in its entirety, is in the hands of an unscrupulous broadcaster, who in private acknowledged he knew the claims of a stolen election by persons liked Giuliani and Powell were false, yet broadcast them as valid stories.
Air Force One needs an escalator so our Gaslighter in Chief can safely enter it. 80 years old is way to old for a man or woman to lead the free world, its apparent every time Biden walks and speaks. We need age limits!!!! Noone over the age of 72 should be able to run. The RNC and DNC could give 2 sh#ts, they’d run a 1500 year old mummy if they thought it had a chance of winning.
Beck and FJB claim to fear a take over of America by democratic socialists. They also seem to be saying Putin is evil but so is NATO and Ukraine. Their solution is a return to a Christian United States with a “unified” autocrat in power to restore whatever imaginary American utopia they have in mind. They make no sense because everything they believe and say is based on what they see as a perfect society and that society would not correspond to the values of democracy, tolerance, inclusion, and compassion.
May reason and knowledge save us from these latter day Hitlers and Torquemadas, one of the key figures in the Catholic Spanish Inquisition.
Mr. Flynn I agree with half your statement on running anyone no atter how bad he is if they think they could win….Your statement came to fruition in 2016 when Trump won. I believe the Republicans would run Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson on the same ticket if they thought they could win
Who wouldve thought a game show host, skirt chaser, no experience polictician, would’ve beat a carpet bagger who was Secretary of State? Crazy huh? But you’re probably right about Hannity and Tucker, they probably would run them if they thought they had a chance. Imagine this Hannity / Carlson 2028 vs Olbermann / Reid 2028. USA! USA! USA!
Here is a truth for the BMDCs. The Bible says Moses asked God his name and he said to Moses YHWH which means I am who I am in Hebrew. We added vowels to his name calling him YAHWEH. Just to let you atheists know that every time you breathe you are calling out to God. Breathe in, YH, breathe out, WH. The first breath and cry of a baby are calling out to God.
FACTS…… in 2018 Trump an his criminal administration reversed train safety regulations that may have prevented the catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio.
If Putin is so great and America is failing, you’re free to move there. Try posting on Russian websites about your disagreements with the government like you do daily here about Biden, and see what happens to you. You might find yourself “falling” out of a window.
Ms. Hombach thanks for the factual statement the boys are getting overly frustrated today early you can tell by the attack on Mr wouk for his letter and the name calling now Big billy Brandie and silly Stevie you know about name calling nonsense behave you’re going to get yourselves in trouble again flame on ragers
Mr. Bill 🤡 the same people that gave “god” his name were the same people that said the earth ia 6000 years old and there were only 2 people made by god…Which one was killed and that left Eve procreating with her son Cain ….And Jonah and the whale. Also Noah and the Ark…All those family members have sex with each other to repopulate the earth because god killed everyone in the great flood;….Think of all that inbreeding …The Bible was written by people trying to explain why we are here. I collection of fables….These same people thought the Earth revolved around the sun. We onlt started getting the real story of how we became, When they separated Religion from Science. Stop using the bible as a crutch for your ignorance
Diane fact The Messiah Obama gutted those regulations in 2015 sorry donkey clown
Thank you Steve, for putting up your post: “Walter Wouk’s been smoking some bad whacky tobacky up there in Summit. It’s 2023 Walter, get you some mean green and stay away from that brown stuff. It’s rotting your brain brother.”
That post is the living proof that Mr. Woulk’s letter is spot on! Especially so on this part of the letter;
“And now they think they can distance themselves from his (Trump’s) treasonous behavior by ignoring it. On Sept. 24, 2020, Forbes magazine published the article, “Here’s Everything Trump Has Said About Refusing To Give Up Power.” Readers can look it up online, check out https://tinyurl.com/55st8apf or, if you’re a Trump dead-ender, dismiss it as “gibberish.”
Steve, You’ve been asked several times to voice your opinion on the “big lie” and, obviously, you dismiss it as “gibberish.” You never address it with fact.
You have zero credibility, because you only back up your lies and distorted opinions with the perfect word; “gibberish.” Now again prove me right by blasting me with more of your “gibberish.”
Diane, thanks for the fact you posted that should be, if nothing else, a strong consideration when considering the East Palestine, Ohio train wreck disaster. No-brains response proves the MAGAites inability to reason.
Christopher, I see FACTS are hard for you. Pres Obama admin initiated those safety requirements. Criminal Trump rolled them back in 2018. Very easy to look up an verify.
Diane sorry I know the facts the lie came from the Brandies the copy and paste queen of the coffee klatch. Thanks
Anytime someone leads with FACTS, there’s usually a big bunch of twisted crap afterwards. Let me help you Diane, LIBERAL FACTS. Diane has shown that she suffers from TDS, unfortunately Diane, its a slow progressive rot of your brain. Ask your doctor for antibiotics, that might slow it down a bit.
In December 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act into law following a number of high-profile train derailments in the U.S. and Canada.
The FAST Act included a provision that ordered the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and other researchers to review the ECP brake rule following complaints from railroad companies and lobbyists, including the Association of American Railroads.
The GAO report found flaws in the DOT’s estimates of potential business benefits of the ECP brakes, including reduced fuel consumption, reduced wear on wheels, and improved operational efficiencies. After the GAO released its findings, the DOT performed a revised cost-benefit analysis, which determined the benefits of ECP brakes did not outweigh the cost of implementing them. On Sept. 25, 2018, the DOT issued a final rule to remove the ECP brake rule from the FAST Act.
Oops it looks like it was the DOT, sorry TDS lefties. And here is the rest of the story… LOL..
GOVERNMENT
Yes, a train safety rule was repealed in 2018
The Department of Transportation repealed a mandate in 2018 that required safer brakes on trains that carried hazardous materials.
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Author: Erin Jones
Published: 6:25 PM EST February 17, 2023
Updated: 6:25 PM EST February 17, 2023
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On Feb. 3, nearly 50 train cars, including some carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash in East Palestine, Ohio. Following the crash, officials conducted a controlled burn of some of the train cars to prevent a potential explosion of a toxic chemical called vinyl chloride that was onboard.
Thousands of residents had to temporarily evacuate because of health concerns related to the fumes. The cause of the derailment has not yet been determined, and an investigation is ongoing.
Over a week after the crash, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg posted a Twitter thread on the work the Department of Transportation is currently doing to make trains safer. In one of the tweets, Buttigieg claimed one rail safety regulation involving brakes was withdrawn by the Trump administration in 2018 because of a law passed by Congress in 2015. Several others on Twitter shared similar claims.
VERIFY viewer Martha recently emailed our team to ask if these claims are true.
THE QUESTION
Did the Department of Transportation repeal a train safety rule in 2018?
THE SOURCES
Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act
Federal Register
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
Harvard University Environmental & Energy Law Program
Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) Union
The Railway Technical Website
Twitter thread by Jennifer Homendy, NTSB chair
Steven Ditmeyer, former director of research and development at the Federal Railroad Administration
THE ANSWER
This is true.
Yes, the Department of Transportation repealed a train safety rule in 2018.
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WHAT WE FOUND
The Department of Transportation (DOT) repealed a train safety rule in 2018 that required installing electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes on trains that carried highly flammable hazardous materials, including crude oil.
Most of the world’s trains are equipped with air-braking systems that use compressed air to stop each train car individually. ECP brakes, which use electronic signals to simultaneously apply and release brakes throughout the length of a train, were introduced to overcome the drawbacks of the air-brake system on long freight trains.
“Trains stop shorter with ECP brakes and everything is simultaneous. You don’t get the big run-ins that you get with conventional air brakes,” Steven Ditmeyer, former director of research and development at the Federal Railroad Administration, told VERIFY partner station WFMY.
John Risch, the national legislative director for the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) Union, wrote that “ECP brakes are the greatest safety advancement I have seen in my 40 years in the railroad industry.”
“ECP brakes slow and stop trains up to 70% faster than conventional brakes and are the safest, most advanced train braking system in the world,” Risch said.
In December 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act into law following a number of high-profile train derailments in the U.S. and Canada.
The FAST Act included a provision that ordered the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and other researchers to review the ECP brake rule following complaints from railroad companies and lobbyists, including the Association of American Railroads.
The GAO report found flaws in the DOT’s estimates of potential business benefits of the ECP brakes, including reduced fuel consumption, reduced wear on wheels, and improved operational efficiencies. After the GAO released its findings, the DOT performed a revised cost-benefit analysis, which determined the benefits of ECP brakes did not outweigh the cost of implementing them. On Sept. 25, 2018, the DOT issued a final rule to remove the ECP brake rule from the FAST Act.
A few months after the repeal, the Associated Press released a study that found that the DOT’s analysis omitted up to $117 million in estimated future damages from train derailments that could be avoided by using electronic brakes.
As a result of the AP study, the DOT issued a technical correction in January 2019 but maintained the costs exceeded the benefits of the ECP brake rule, according to the Harvard University Environmental & Energy Law Program.
The Biden administration has not reinstated the ECP brake rule. In Buttigieg’s recent Twitter thread, he implied the DOT is constrained by law from reissuing the mandate.
“I’m always ready to work with Congress on furthering (or in some cases, restoring) our capacity to address rail safety issues,” Buttigieg tweeted.
In a Feb. 14 press release, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the lead investigative agency into the Ohio train derailment, said investigators had examined the rail car that initiated the crash on Feb. 3.
“Surveillance video from a residence showed what appears to be a wheel bearing in the final stage of overheat failure moments before the derailment,” the NTSB said. The wheelset and overheated wheel bearing are currently being examined by NTSB engineers.
In an email, an NTSB spokesperson told VERIFY the train involved in the Ohio derailment was not equipped with ECP brakes. On Feb. 16, NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy addressed misinformation spreading about the derailment on Twitter.
Homendy directly acknowledged that the ECP brake rule would not have prevented the crash if implemented because the train that derailed in East Palestine was a mixed freight train that contained only three placarded Class 3 flammable liquids cars. Homendy said the ECP braking rule would have applied only to high-hazard flammable trains.
On 2/23/2023 Mr. Bill 🤡made another comment that showed his ignorance for Trump. Also on this day Mr. Flynn 🤡 attacked a woman in the forum with nothing but name calling because he has nothing of substance to say to refute the facts she posted.
And per politico the electric brakes were on for highly flammable cargo which the vinyl chloride was not. But Diarrhea Diane and her Donkey Clown ICP cannot help their disabilities of TDS. That Trump what an s.o.b. Showing up in Ohio supporting the citizens while the Traitor In Chief Biden protects his puppet government in Ukraine to continue his money laundering activities.
Darn it Trump why does he do these things man oh man he got a nerve.. EEE-HAWW
GV do you have the authority to place gender identity on Diane? How dare you say her , she unless you are Diane?
And instead of thinking critically about whether there should be increased regulations on the rail companies to prevent future derailments, or why America has so many more derailments than other countries, y’all just continue to argue about whether the blue team or red team is at fault for the crash, while these companies pollute our communities with their lax, penny-pinching rules. I hope Donnie brought extra paper towels to his rally so the community can absorb all the toxic sludge from their groundwater.
Thank you, Mr. Wouk (love Summit!).
And right on cue, as if to prove you right, out they come. The Loons of MAGA.
Rattling their swords, waving their holy books, claiming things that only they have been told to be true, their little eyeballs rolling around in their little eyeball sockets with the ensuing bad odors.
In the future, sociologists will have a field day with this group and dissertations and books and careers will be made. If they don’t hand us all over to the Russians first.
From your post Bill
“This is true.
Yes, the Department of Transportation repealed a train safety rule in 2018.”
WHAT WE FOUND
“The Department of Transportation (DOT) repealed a train safety rule in 2018 that required installing electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brakes on trains that carried highly flammable hazardous materials, including crude oil.”
Who was the president then?
Same story, partyou left out;
“In December 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act into law following a number of high-profile train derailments in the U.S. and Canada.”
Also part of what you posted:
“I’m always ready to work with Congress on furthering (or in some cases, restoring) our capacity to address rail safety issues,” Buttigieg tweeted.
“The Biden administration has not reinstated the ECP brake rule. In Buttigieg’s recent Twitter thread, he implied the DOT is constrained by law from reissuing the mandate.”
Regardless of anything the Obama administration implemented train safety regulations, and the Trump administration repealed them..
Thank you Lou, FACTS.
andbas I said FACTS, are hard for too many folks.
According to public records obtained by the San Francisco Standard, staff members who were accused of sexual abuse in San Francisco Schools were allowed to resign or retire instead of being terminated.
msm
President Donald J. Trumpy
April, 2018:
…speaking with Republican members of Congress, Trump boasted about the number of regulations being cut by his administration, and said, “We’re cutting record numbers of regulations; we’ve cut more regulations in a year and a quarter than any administration whether it’s four years, eight years, or in one case 16 years. Should we go back to 16 years? Should we do that? Congressman, can we do that?”
I posted the whole article Loonie LouLou, nice try at cherry picking you dope. The DOT were the ones that recommended it not Trump. Go have a TDS pill and take a nap.
And when confronted yet again with his falsehoods and failed attempts to deflect blame, marincic once again yells, “Squirrel!”
Yes, marincic, the story out of SanFran is awful if true. But we see what you’re trying to do.
Hey by the way, I wanted to go check out Ephrata, Suriname but when I told my travel agent I needed tickets to the Netherlands she set me straight. Looks like you were confidently wrong. First time for everything, I guess.
“staff members who were accused of sexual abuse in San Francisco Schools were allowed to resign or retire instead of being terminated.”
So what? Do you have any idea how much this is done for virtually any public position in the entire US? It is far CHEAPER to force a resignation or let someone retire due to an accusation, than it is to remove them and face legal costs, trials, etc. These creeps typically keep getting paid while on suspension and it could take years to resolve their case. This is just for an accusation too, not a conviction. In NYS, but probably in other states, if a government employee is vested for retirement, they could keep their pensions even if convicted. Not sure if still the case.
Here ya go, MAGA minions. A real timeline of how the Feds wanted to, and tried to help but were turned away, and then attacked by Republicans and their tools, as we’ve seen here.
But I’m sure it’s fake news, or twisted facts or something, and some Democrat needs to jump through their magic hoop to make it all well again.
But have at it!
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Within hours of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) inspectors arrived at the scene. Also within hours the Biden administration sent officials from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Dept. of Transportation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been coordinating with Ohio as well as federal officials. President Joe Biden spoke with Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, offering assistance and support – which the Republican governor rejected.
Governor DeWine, up until just one week ago, had rejected additional federal assistance, and refused to declare the area a disaster. In fact, it was only after Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio issued a statement demanding Governor DeWine “officially declare a disaster in East Palestine and seek the full support of the federal government to bolster the state of Ohio’s ongoing clean-up efforts,” did the GOP governor do so.
Just one day earlier Gov. DeWine told MSNBC he did not see a need for additional federal assistance, even though President Biden had called him and offered it.
One day after Gov. DeWine finally requested federal assistance, the White House in a statement said, “the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced they are deploying a team of medical personnel and toxicologists to conduct public health testing and assessments. The team will support Federal, state, and local officials already on the ground to evaluate individuals who were exposed or potentially exposed to chemicals and help ensure timely communications to the public.”
President Biden again called Governor DeWine this week, from Poland, just after delivering a speech in Warsaw.
Despite all these efforts from the Biden administration and wider federal government, high-profile elected Republicans and right-wing media critics have gone so far as to attack Secretary Buttigieg. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has repeatedly attacked Buttigieg, even calling on him to resign over the Norfolk Southern train derailment. U.S. Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) called for Buttigieg to be impeached, simply for not going to the scene of the accident.
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David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
February 23, 2023
If that wheel bearing was made by Big Tom Callahan we wouldn’t be in this predicament. Buy American!
For Marincic: It is not up to the school district to prosecute. How ignorant can you be? Whether they went after them to force a resignation or not is irrelevant and, as Bill pointed out, saved the school district a great deal of money. Law enforcement and the American judicial system will determine their guilt or innocence. Don’t you understand that?
Meanwhile:
Illinois Public Radio reports: 2/23
“A Normal man was sentenced to 88 years in prison on Wednesday for criminal sexual assault of a minor and possession of child pornography. Michael D. Schneider worked as a staff member at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Bloomington before his arrest in June 2021 on the felony charges.
The victim, now a college student, struggled through tears to read a four-page victim impact statement. Periods of depression, suicide attempts and self-harm were all part of the aftermath of the grooming and sexual assaults that started when she was about 14, she said.
The fact that the pornography depicted toddlers engaged in sexual acts with men, and Schneider blamed the victim “should be enough to lock him up and throw away the key,” said state’s attorney Erika Reynolds.”
Peoria’s NBC affiliate reports: 2/23
“Judge William Yoder called the more than 100 videos and images of child porn found on a thumb drive in Michael Schneider’s home “repugnant beyond belief.” Illinois law dictates each individual piece of porn carries its own criminal charge. Schneider faced 130 charges in total, he pleaded guilty to 15. He was sentenced to four years per charge, totaling 60 years.
Authorities confirmed Schnieder, 35, was also a choir director at Bloomington’s St. John’s Lutheran Church. Several of the supporters in attendance bore the ashy cross marking the first day of Lent. Forty individuals wrote letters to Yoder in support of Schneider, asking for a lighter sentence or the possibility of parole.
The mother described the grooming behavior Schneider used on her daughter that she learned of only after the fact. She described him taking her to buy lingerie and sex toys for the girl.”
Reuters reports: 2/23
The Roman Catholic religious order of Jesuits said on Tuesday that accusations of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse against a prominent member of the order were highly credible and that restrictions on him had been tightened. The order said on its website that it would start an “internal procedure” against the priest, Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, 69, a well-known religious artist.
About 25 people, mostly former nuns, have accused Rupnik of various forms of abuse. One ex-nun told how he used what she called psychological control to force her into sexual acts, and deployed “cruel aggression” to “destroy” her, particularly after she refused to have three-way sex. His superior in the order, Father Johan Verschueren, used both male and female pronouns to describe Rupnik’s accusers.
Mayor Pete looked so presidential today in his construction garb. I’m sure there’ll be a MSNBC piece about how he rose to the occasion. Meanwhile, the people on the ground are cussing every time they hear his name. Corporate media propaganda blows.
Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Oxford, attending the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant. He was mobilized and deployed to the War in Afghanistan for seven months in 2014. Wikipedia
Flynn, why don’t you post a short Wikipedia biographical excerpt to show us what educated and patriot men Trump and his two older sons are?
All that education, and he wasnt smart enough to get there early to show his concern. It’s the optics that wouldve made the people there feel like he was on top of things. Instead he chose to Blame Trump, dodge reporters questions, and then the people lost faith in him. Education doesnt mean jack sh%t if you have no common sense. Education is overrated as you can see.
Maybe Mayer Pete should have gone to the McDonald’s there and buy a few burgers for the people and get a to go order and eat burgers on the fly back to Mar-Lago ?
Opps * Mayor
Lou & Diana:
Sorry to tell you.
While the train spilled a stew of vinyl chloride and other toxic chemicals, the rules, which Trump’s Department of Transportation repealed in 2018, wouldn’t have applied because the train wasn’t classified as a “high hazard flammable train.” The category is reserved for certain trains filled with crude and other flammable liquids.
So the 2018 rollback only applied to non-high hazard flammable trains.
Once again, Flynn posts something that proves my contention that the far right values symbol over substance. His primary concern in this post is “optics.”:
Steven Flynn
February 23rd, 2023
All that education, and he wasnt smart enough to get there early to show his concern. It’s the optics that wouldve made the people there feel like he was on top of things. Instead he chose to Blame Trump, dodge reporters questions, and then the people lost faith in him. Education doesnt mean jack sh%t if you have no common sense. Education is overrated as you can see.”
The definition of optics is ” the way in which an event or course of action is perceived by the public.”
And, no Flynn, education is not overrated. You and other far right posters prove that every day.
More gaslighting from this disaster of an administration.
Kamala Harris claims Biden has “reduced heating and electricity bills so folks have more money in their pocket. Anyone seeing this on your National Grid bill because mine’s just the opposite of what she’s claiming. Electricity is up 11.9%, fuel oil is up 27.7%, and natural gas is up 26.7% over last year.
Steven:
Some good news – because of the mild winter across the US and Canada natural gas supply is in abundance so producers will be cutting those prices (per WSJ).
It has to be true kid the Lame stream media says it is. The elite have more money in their pockets because we the people pay their bills. Maybe when she is no longer a VP she use her talents to suck the chemicals out the Ohio river . What the heck it got her to be VP . She never met a garden hose she didn’t like
So I guess Biden releasing the oil reserves didn’t lower fuel prices Mr. Flynn 🤡 the election denier ?
According to an analysis from the Department of the Treasury from July, the release of oil from the SPR helped lower the price of fuel in the US by an estimated range of 13 to 31 cents per gallon.
That would be nice Joe.
I’m sorry that you are not smart enough to Google chuckles.
Ephrata, Suriname
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ephrata
village
Bauxite ship on the Cottica River near Ephrata
Bauxite ship on the Cottica River near Ephrata
Country Suriname
District Commewijne District
Resort Bakkie
Area
• Total 81 km2 (31 sq mi)
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Ephrata was a village located within the Bakkie resort of the Commewijne District of Suriname.[1]
Ephrata started as a sugar plantation,[2] and had been documented as early as 20 November 1708.[1] The plantation is located on the Cottica River.[1] The surname “van Ephrata” (English: from Ephrata) is often used by Boni Maroons.[3]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ephrata, Suriname.
“Kaart van de Plantagie Ephrata en een daaraan gelegen stuk land”. Atlas of Mutual Heritage.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 21 May 2020.
“Plantage Ephrata”. Suriname Plantages (in Dutch). Retrieved 21 May 2020.
Silvia de Groot (1970). “Rebellie der Zwarte Jagers. De nasleep van de Bonni-oorlogen 1788-1809”. De Gids.
Guy:
Our strategic reserve shouldn’t ever be touched. Those reserves are in case of war. When President Trump wanted to double the reserve because oil was trading at zero or below The Democratic Congress blocked it. They certainly should never be sent to foreign countries for their use.
Anthony J. Santo
February 23rd, 2023
For Marincic: It is not up to the school district to prosecute. How ignorant can you be? Whether they went after them to force a resignation or not is irrelevant and, as Bill pointed out, saved the school district a great deal of money. Law enforcement and the American judicial system will determine their guilt or innocence. Don’t you understand that?
And near the end of the story it says that other children were molested because they did not report it which is THE LAW!!!
Joseph Vendetti
February 23rd, 2023
Guy:
Our strategic reserve shouldn’t ever be touched. Those reserves are in case of war. When President Trump wanted to double the reserve because oil was trading at zero or below The Democratic Congress blocked it. They certainly should never be sent to foreign countries for their use.
You know better than speak the truth Joe, get ready for the attacks.
Bill Marincic
February 10th, 2023
Dumb Chuck, he said his family immigrated from, you don’t immigrate from Schenectady, Wow.
Ephrata, Suriname is a country in the Netherlands. There I did your work for you.
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No marincic. You’re wrong. Still.
-Forbes.com
No, Former President Trump Did Not Fill The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Robert Rapier
Senior Contributor
Apr 1, 2022,12:39pm EDT
This week President Biden announced the largest SPR release in the history of the reserve. The White House released the following statement:
“The scale of this release is unprecedented: the world has never had a release of oil reserves at this 1 million per day rate for this length of time. This record release will provide a historic amount of supply to serve as bridge until the end of the year when domestic production ramps up.”
Indeed, we have never seen a release of this magnitude before. If the full release is realized, it will reduce the SPR inventory back to levels last seen in the early 1980s.
President Trump’s Odd Claim
The announcement prompted an odd response from former President Trump. Through his spokesperson, President Trump claimed:
“So after 50 years of being virtually empty, I built up our oil reserves during my administration, and low energy prices, to 100% full. It’s called the Strategic National Reserves, and it hasn’t been full for many decades. In fact, it’s been mostly empty.”
There’s just nothing about that statement that is true. As you can see in the graphic below, the SPR levels have never fallen below 500,000 thousand (i.e., 500 million) barrels of crude oil since the 1980s.
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In fact, the highest level ever for the SPR was in 2010, when Barack Obama was president. Further, there was actually a net decline in the SPR when President Trump was in office. When he took office in January 2017, the SPR contained 695 million barrels. When he left office four years later, the SPR contained 638 million barrels. So not only is the claim of filling it untrue, but the level of the SPR actually declined while President Trump was in office.
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Fact-Checking Donald Trump On The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Robert Rapier
Senior Contributor
Nov 16, 2022,02:45pm EST
The chart easily disproves the first part of Trump’s claim. However, I will say that Trump proposed to top off the SPR during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. But, as I noted previously, 1). The directive was blocked by Democrats in Congress; and 2). The SPR was already within 13% of its highest-ever level when that directive was issued. In any case, it’s clear that it wasn’t filled during Trump’s time in office.
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When talking to you dumbchuck and the rest of you I realized that you can’t fix stupid. Anytime I write anything all you DCs say it’s a lie which is not true, you are just to stupid and lazy to look yourselves, and when you do see it’s the truth you ignore it like the good BMDCICP you are.
You people act like our oil reserves are depleted …they are not….we still have 371.58M in reserve ….If the USA was totally reliant on foreign fuel sources I could see you point ….In times of war we would direct all fuel to stay for domestic use only as we did during WWll
Yes marincic. We all fail to realize how wise and edumacated you really are.
Our bad. We’ll try to do better.
Guy:
We used 6 billion gallons in WWII. We used 1.88 billion gallons of fuel during Operations Desert Shild and Desert Storm – between August 10, 1990 and May 31, 1991. So what we have in our strategic reserve goes extremely quick.
Joseph I just think the amount released by Biden can easily be replaced in times of dire needs….Biden helped the people by releasing the oil. I don’t think he put the USA in any kind of danger. If he released all of our reserves you would have a point. But he didn’t. It seems to be gloom and doom anytime Biden tries to help the American people.
Joseph Vendetti
February 23rd, 2023
Lou & Diana:
Sorry to tell you.
While the train spilled a stew of vinyl chloride and other toxic chemicals, the rules, which Trump’s Department of Transportation repealed in 2018, wouldn’t have applied because the train wasn’t classified as a “high hazard flammable train.” The category is reserved for certain trains filled with crude and other flammable liquids.
So the 2018 rollback only applied to non-high hazard flammable trains.
Joe, sorry to tell you neither one of us put the blame of the train wreck specifically on any one, or claimed it could have been prevented because of law changes, so don’t try to make us look bad.
I also know, according to what I’ve read, the laws agent orange repealed apparently would not have prevented this disaster, nit-whit Marincic posted that, that’s not the point. But it should be noted tRump was in office when train accident prevention laws, Obama implemented, preventing future train wrecks, (Not unlike the MAGA party) were repealed.
The point is that MAGA moron dip-sh/ts like little Willy 🤭 Marincic are trying to make this a political issue…
“A massive clean-up is underway, officials are testing local water systems, wells, streams and creeks, and multiple investigations are beginning.
But these Ohioans in the epicenter of an environmental crisis, which suddenly arrived on their doorsteps on February 3, are also becoming political extras on an early stage for GOP White House candidates like former President Donald Trump”
“Republicans are using the derailment to claim that while President Joe Biden is lavishing billions on Ukrainians he visited in a daring trip to wartime Kyiv this week, he is neglecting needy Americans back home.”
“You are not forgotten,” Trump said after traveling to East Palestine on Wednesday — although lacking the power of his former office, he has more capacity to boost his slow-moving 2024 campaign than to fix the disaster.
Joe you totally missed the point!
The fat orange ass could not care less about the people of Ohio or anywhere else for that matter, and Fox and top MAGA politicians are propagandizing foolish MAGA followers. As usual.
I agree ChuckD, Marincic appears to be well edumacated.
When incapable of successfully arguing his point, he frequently posts absurdities and deflects. Today, he seems to be refining a new technique, agreeing with his critics while pretending he knew the truth all along, or purposely misinterpreting their posts. Forget swimming in your sister’s Olympic size pool Marincic; do puzzles, read more, take a few night classes, exercise your brain; it appears a tad in need.
Bill Marincic
February 23rd, 2023
I posted the whole article Loonie LouLou, nice try at cherry picking you dope. The DOT were the ones that recommended it not Trump. Go have a TDS pill and take a nap.
Read my above post, brainwashed little Willy.🤭. You’re twisting this train disaster into a non-existent political issue.
As far as the nap goes, no can do, I’m headed to do 50 laps in my sisters Olympic size swimming pool.
You’re a pathological liar Mr Bill.
Lou, I like it. The Fat Orange Ass is a great description of his physicality and character. FOA cares only about himself. He is not a patriot and he is not religious. He uses religion to gain political support.
He is the kind of man who would love to have a state religion. That way the approved Church could give his autocratic government all the “moral” support and “divine” authority it needed to do whatever it wants. Is anyone surprised that the Russian Orthodox Church supports Putin’s ongoing terrorism against Ukraine?
Santo without a doubt I guarantee you that I have read more books by the time I was 20 than you have your entire life.
Bill Marincic
February 23rd, 2023
I’m sorry that you are not smart enough to Google chuckles.
Well I “Googled chuckles” and it kept on saying see William Marincic.🤡
I have good reason to believe you made this up: “And near the end of the story it says that other children were molested because they did not report it which is THE LAW!!!”
I believe you would have included that in your original post. Also, if school officials didn’t turn evidence of child abuse over to the police, they would have been arrested and charged. It is law enforcement and courts that are charged with keeping molesters off our streets.
Do you have any evidence that you aren’t full of it?
Diane Sanders Hombach
February 23rd, 2023
FACTS…… in 2018 Trump an his criminal administration reversed train safety regulations that may have prevented the catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio.
Loonie LouLou it looks like your people and Mayor Buttfudge or whatever his name is are the ones making it political. I posted the truth, it hurts doesn’t it LouLou
Bill Marincic
February 23rd, 2023
Santo without a doubt I guarantee you that I have read more books by the time I was 20 than you have your entire life.
All while doing backstrokes in his sisters Olympic sized swimming pool.
Reading Dick and Jane thousands of times (so you could understand the meaning of the book) doesn’t count.
Now tell us you’ve got a higher IQ than “Santo.”
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No thanks, Loonie Lou is enough right here. You have zero monthly listeners Loonie Lou, shocker.
Bill Marincic
February 23rd, 2023
Santo without a doubt I guarantee you that I have read more books by the time I was 20 than you have your entire life.
It is hard to believe. You don’t sound particularly erudite. Otherwise, you wouldn’t make such a ridiculous statement. You have no idea how many books I have read over the course of my life.
That is why it is safe to say, you are full of “merde.” You have once again proven yourself to be a b–llsh-t merchant, as my dear old Dad used to say.
Loonie LouLou it looks like your people and Mayor Buttfudge or whatever his name is are the ones making it political. I posted the truth, it hurts doesn’t it LouLou.
What truth you imbecile, no one is denying anything regarding facts, including the one in a million you post.
Read my response to Joe, and you can count the post as 100 books, and really best best Tony with your library of Congress reading, abilities.
Mr. Bill 🤡reading comic books don’t count….And I really don’t think you are fully literate…You see pictures and headlines but can’t seem to grasp what’s in the body of the article.
Guy, great minds think alike! I was just about to type:
Marincic, you shouldn’t count “The Cat in the Hat” or “See Jane Run”!
Santo, I became an avid reader at 6 and continue to this day averaging 2 books per week and more my entire life of 58 years of reading, figure it out.
I recently finished “No Higher Honor” by Condi Rice and “How I saved the world” by Jessie Walters. I have read Mein Kamph, Helter Skelter, and PT 109 By William Doyle. I have read John Sandford’s 30 or so “Prey” books alone along with Kellerman books, which include Johnathan and Faye. Too many authors to list.
Mr. Bill 🤡 I think spelling Mein Kampf correctly would be a start. I also believe you have mixed in the Bible with Mein Kampf in your brain and you can’t seem to distinguish between the two. As for the others there will be a pop quiz tomorrow on one of those books you mentioned ….so bone up
Guy Varoma
February 23rd, 2023
Maybe Mayer Pete should have gone to the McDonald’s there and buy a few burgers for the people and get a to go order and eat burgers on the fly back to Mar-Lago ?
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Guy Varoma
February 23rd, 2023
Opps * Mayor
Hey Aroma, you even mispelled OOPS what was that you said?
Mr. Bill 🤡the difference is mine was a typo quickly corrected….yours what out of ignorance
Bill Marincic
February 23rd, 2023
“Mayor Buttfudge” How old are you, and what grade are you in? Perhaps third for the second time.
You remind me of Scut Farkus, the bully who got his ass kicked by Ralphie in the movie “A Christmas Story.”
Yeah both of your typos were no big deal, the difference is you lie the F is just on the other side of the G, where your E is eight keys away from O. I mistyped you are ignorant. That is the difference.
Bill Marincic
February 23rd, 2023
Guy Varoma
February 23rd, 2023
Maybe Mayer Pete should have gone to the McDonald’s
Marincic, that’s “mayor” and the “e” is separated by five keys from the “o”. You give meaning to the expression “like shooting fish in a barrel.”
Marincic, someone who constantly boasts about his delusional accomplishments, in all likelihood, has none. If someone is accomplishing in a field it is usually self evident. – Michael Jordan doesn’t have to tell anyone that he’s a great basketball player.
When assessing the proficiency of writing skills, and mastery of the English language from the posts put up on this forum, comparative speaking, Anthony Santo makes you sound like a preschooler. Give it up braggart, you’re only making a bigger fool of yourself than you already
Mr. Bill 🤡 you remind me of The 3 Stooges when they sang “Swinging the Alphabet”
B—A—bay
B—E—be
B—I—bicky-bi—B—O—bow
Bicky—bi—bow—B—U—boo
Bicky—bi—bow—boo
Billy’s a dope.
😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bill you’re trying to talk to post turtles pseudo elites who believe that they are the common denominator. Sadly you look around and more and more people see the Socialist Democrats for what they really are. Even our own city council is corrupt. It’s their nature and then they play word games to divert attention. Or just blame MAGA or Trump it is all they have.
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Marincic, Mayor is clearly a typo, whereas someone who read “Mein Kampf,” an incredibly long-winded and boring book by a psychopath, would have to be a student of history or a Hitler admirer. I think the latter. Explain how Hitler justified his hatred for the Jews in “Mein Kampf” and his “stab in the back theory.” Where and when did he write the book? Why was he where he was? Also, what rank was Hitler in the German army during WWI? What award did he receive following WWI? What did he do to earn that honor from the German government? What injury did he suffer during the war? Name one general who plotted to assassinate him in 1943? How and why was this attempt made? What injuries did Hitler suffer? What did he order done to those who plotted against him?
Mr. Brandon 🤡 you coming to Mr. Bill’s 🤡 rescue isn’t helping him ….it makes him look worse
FJB posts, “Sadly you look around and more and more people see the Socialist Democrats for what they really are.”
You are sad because “more and more people see the Socialist Democrats for what they really are”? I believe you hate “Socialist Democrats”, so wouldn’t you be happy if people saw them “for what they really are”?
Try to make some sense.
I guess trump used all his paper towels….
Mr. Bill I’ll give you a hint … Rudolf Hess transcribed and edited Hitler’s Mein Kampf while he was in jail…..if you call it that
Didn’t the words of Mr. Wout’s letter come true here.
The number of people who harbor mis- or disinformation, knowingly or not, is still stunning.
(Sorry…Mr. Wouk)
Santo, first I read Mein Kampf because it was a part of history and I read it in the early 70s while in high school. As for your questions, answer them yourself. I owe you nothing.