Biden Brushed Off East Palestine Mayor's Attack!

Republicans are trying to Katrina Biden. The president hasn't went to East Palestine, Ohio and the right is outraged as expect.

The President of the United States can't magically make things better. He's a human being who will never satisfy Americans. Regardless of what he/she does, there's always critics making noise.

East Palestine, Ohio became a political lightning rod. Instead of working together to clean up, recover and rebuild, we have just resorted to blame, shame and complain. Republicans seize upon the current president not visiting the pro-Washed Up 45 town.

Since when has any president visited a train derailment. I don't remember any president visiting a train disaster. I can say that presidents been at the scenes of deadly mass shootings, hurricanes, openings, vacations and numerous other events.

Besides, why shut down roads, airspace, waterways and distract workers from cleaning up the toxic spill from a train derailment.

No one died as of yet. But to the far right and these polarizing idiots, it's worst disaster since Chernobyl.

Note: Chernobyl is nuclear facility in Ukraine. It's an abandoned community of Pripyat after a nuclear disaster. 

Washed Up 45 did a campaign stop in the village. Who was with him?

Gov. Mike DeWine was not there. But Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) and the mayor of the village, Trent Conway. 

Conway had took aim at President Joe Biden for not visiting the village. The village was hit with a devastating train derailment. Biden, DeWine, Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Josh Shapiro, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) were aware of the derailment.

It happened three weeks ago on Feb. 3.

The junk food media was obsessed with the Chinese balloon that cross the U.S. and the decision to shoot it down. Mind you that all of us, including yours truly didn't care much about the train derailment until DeWine decided to do a control burn.

The train company Norfolk Southern was carrying a hazardous freight train. The derailed train was Norfolk Southern train 32N operating from the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis yard in Madison, Illinois, to Norfolk Southern's Conway Yard in Conway, Pennsylvania, on the Fort Wayne Line. Aboard the 9,300 feet (1.76 mi; 2.8 km) long train were an engineer, conductor, and conductor trainee. The train consisted of 141 loaded cars and 9 empty cars. Other reports note one more car, for a total of 151 cars, weighing 18,000 tons.

Of those cars, 20 were carrying hazardous materials, including chloroethene (vinyl chloride), butyl acrylate, 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, isobutylene, combustible liquids, and benzene residue.

The train departed Madison on February 1, and had suffered at least one mechanical failure before the derailment.

The train burned for more than two days, and then emergency crews conducted a controlled burn of several railcars at the request of state officials, which released hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the air. As a result, residents within a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) radius were evacuated, and an emergency response was initiated from agencies in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

The mayor of the village decided to run to Fox to trash Biden for not showing up.

Washed Up 45. J.D. Vance and Bill Johnson appear at a campaign event in East Palestine with mayor Trent Conway. It doesn't appear that the former president went to the disaster scene.

Conaway, who has been vocal about his concern for residents after a train derailed in his town and leaked dangerous chemicals into the air, had strong words for the president when asked about the federal handling of the toxic spill as news of the president's surprise visit to Kyiv circulated.

"That was the biggest slap in the face," Conaway said on Fox. "That tells you right now he doesn’t care about us. He can send every agency he wants to, but I found out this morning that he was in Ukraine giving millions of dollars away to people over there and not to us…on President's Day in our country, so I'm furious."

Here's the thing: Will a visit by the President of the United States change anything going on in East Palestine, Ohio or in the world?

No.

But since the president had a scheduled appearance in Poland but did a surprise appearance in Ukraine.

It riled up the far-right. How can the president care about Ukraine when there's people in Ohio suffering?

Well the federal government was on sight the moment the train derailed. DeWine had said directly that he had gotten a lot of support from the federal government. The president would come but many expect there will be protesters and "Let's Go Brandon" noise being shown around the town. His critics would say that it's a photo-op or staged event.

The far right mock Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for wearing safety equipment at the site of a toxic waste spill. The train derailment led to a toxic spill and these idiots mock it.

In an interview with David Muir on ABC, Biden stated there's no need to visit East Palestine. He said that all the federal authorities are there to make sure the community is getting back together. 

Biden noted that Norfolk Southern's CEO should be the person there. His company is solely responsible for the actions.

Biden told Muir on Friday that he's "made it clear" to officials on the ground that "anything they need, we'll make it available to them."

"Let's put this in perspective. Within two hours of that derailment, the EPA was in there. Within two hours. Every major agency in the United States government that had anything to do rail and/or cleanup was there, and is there," Biden said.

"In addition to that, I've spoken at length to the congresspersons, the governors, the senators from both states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. And I've made it clear to them anything they need is available or -- we'll make it available to them," he said.

Asked if he's spoken to the mayor, Trent Conaway, Biden said he couldn't recall. But according to a timeline shared by the White House Friday evening, Biden's team has attempted to reach the mayor by phone four times since Feb. 6.