NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 2)

[Kimstu]

@Rick_Kitchen

Congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio wants to impeach Pete Buttigieg over the Ohio train derailment.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1626554444539215874

No doubt he was equally quick to denounce Trump’s Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao concerning the 2017 derailments in Iowa and Washington, the 2018 collisions in South Carolina and Wyoming, and derailments in Virginia and Indiana, and similar catastrophes in 2019 and 2020?

[2017]
10 March – United States – A freight train convoying ethanol derails and bursts into flames as it crosses a trestle bridge near Graettinger, Iowa. At least 27 of 101 cars derail. […]

18 December - United States - 2017 Washington train derailment : Amtrak Cascades passenger train #501, the inaugural run of the Cascades service on a new rail line designed for higher speeds than the previous route, fails to slow down when approaching a 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) speed restriction and derails on a bridge over I-5 in Pierce County, Washington. Three people are killed and over 80 injured […]

[2018]
4 February - United States - Cayce, South Carolina train collision : Amtrak Silver Star train #91 traveling from New York City to Miami collided with a CSX freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, killing at least two people, injuring at least 100 others, and spilling thousands of gallons of fuel […]

19 May - United States - A CSX freight train is derailed when a bridge collapses under it at Franconia, Virginia […]

17 June - United States - A freight train consisting of 89 cars derails and causes an explosion outside of the city of Princeton, Indiana. Of the 23 derailed cars, 5 contain propane. Authorities evacuate homes within a 1-mile (1.6 km) radius of the derailment.[ […]

4 October - United States - A Union Pacific freight train loses its brakes and collides with the rear of a stationary train in Granite Canyon, Wyoming.[citation needed] Preliminary NTSB reports have put the cause at a kink or pinched air hose along with a communication failure between the head end and the train’s end-of-train device. The crew of the runaway train were killed […]

[2019]
6 January – United States – A Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derails in Jefferson County, Georgia near Bartow, prompting the evacuation of all addresses within a 7-mile (11 km) radius of the crash site due to tanker leakage. No injuries from the derailment were reported; however, at least 26 people, including a firefighter and three law enforcement officers, were treated for chemical exposure […]

9 April – United States – Several cars of a Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad train derail in Dickson City, Pennsylvania […]

16 April – United States – Six cars of a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying trash derail in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. The train was traveling westbound from Oak Island, New Jersey to Mingo Junction, Ohio. The derailment backs up train traffic as far away as Chicago […]

17 August – United States – About 140 cars from two BNSF Railway trains derail near Walton, Kansas due to high winds from a storm […]

[2020]
1 January – United States – A BNSF freight train strikes a landslide and derails near Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho. Both locomotives end up in the Kootenai River. Two crew are rescued by boat […]

13 February – United States – Five cars of a 96-car CSX freight train derail in Draffin, Kentucky due to a rockslide. The locomotives and train cars caught fire, causing evacuations of nearby communities. Two crew members from the train were taken to a hospital […]

27 March - United States - In Deland, Florida, an Amtrak Auto Train derailed when 8 train cars tipped over, 1 person was injured […]

29 July – United States – A freight train derails on a bridge in Tempe, Arizona. The wreck catches fire and the bridge collapses […]

11 October - United States - In Lilburn, Georgia, a CSX train derails during heavy rains following Hurricane Delta, causing minor injuries to the two occupants of the locomotive […]

28 November - United States - In Wellington, Colorado, a BNSF Train collided with an empty train car and derailed with the train wheels of the empty train car which made the BNSF Train derail, 1 person was injured […]

Oh, he didn’t? Somehow I thought not. (And I’m not even including the dozen or so regional or light rail accidents or ones involving automobiles in the same period.)

Actually, I was a bit surprised myself to learn how not-rare train derailments and even hazmat-related mass evacuations following train derailments are in the US. Certainly, nobody who didn’t make any fuss about the several such incidents during the Trump years has any standing to be calling for Buttigieg’s head about the Ohio disaster.