Days after a train derailed in Ohio, sending toxic chemicals leaking into area waterways and leading to a "controlled burn" that caused dystopian-looking clouds to fill the sky, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg hadn't addressed the situation with more than some tweets.
So, when Buttigieg spoke at a conference this week, people would have been right to think the Secretary of Transportation might, you know, address a transportation issue. He, of course, did not.
Instead, Buttigieg lamented the apparent lack of racial diversity among construction workers:
Buttigieg made no mention of the Ohio train derailment while speaking at a conference this morning but did find the time to say that there are too many white people who work construction. pic.twitter.com/q4WNcq10h9
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 13, 2023
Of course the man who had made tackling "racist" bridges a priority while the supply chain fell apart and product shortages raged would further lean into divisive identity politics like this.
Train derailments in Ohio, Texas and South Carolina — spewing toxic chemicals that are poisoning peoples water, soil and air and killing animals. @PeteButtigieg today: there are way too many white construction workers.
— 🇺🇸🤟🏻 (@esoryelsnya) February 14, 2023
What's more, Buttigieg has been equally obsessive at DOT with "climate" plans that demand radical transitions within the U.S. economy and transportation system to go "green" and save the planet...yet he's not running around with his hair on fire when toxic chemicals are released in a train derailment? What gives?
The climate cult ignoring the Ohio train derailment shows you they only care about money and power - and they really don't give a damn about planet earth.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) February 14, 2023