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The Young Turks

Buttigieg Gets Busted

The Young Turks

TYT Network

News, Politics, Government

3.95.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Pete Buttigieg gets exposed by his own agency. Biden's DOJ sides with Norfolk Southern in a SCOTUS case that could make it harder for workers to sue corporations. Tesla fires dozens of workers at their Buffalo, NY factory the day after the workers announced a union drive. Moderna has announced that their vaccine will remain free after pressure from progressives. Over 30 states are facing a "hunger cliff" as food stamps are about to be cut. Host: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Woo! It's dope!

0:30.0

Well, the U.S. Change you to Antichrist Baron with you guys. We have super substantive stories

0:47.7

about trained derailments and how the government is screwing you and corporations are screwing

0:52.5

you. So, I.E. Welcome to the U.S. But we also have a little bit of fun where Kaylee Machinane

0:57.9

versus Donald Trump. Oh my God, what is happening? Oh God, this is still my beating heart.

1:05.2

All right, we'll do that later in the program.

1:07.0

Casper.

1:08.0

Honestly, we begin today with one banger after another from the lever. Okay? If you can

1:14.2

support the work they're doing, please do so because the lever is probably the only publication

1:19.6

that I've witnessed, cover the trained derailment story exactly how it should be covered

1:25.3

with a focus on the lack of regulations, the various players behind it. So let's get started.

1:30.7

Let's begin with liar Buttigieg.

1:34.5

In response to growing pressure for members of his own party, following a spate of train

1:41.0

derailment, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has been pretending as if he has

1:47.0

really no power to regulate the rail industry and prevent some of the terrible derailments

1:53.4

that have occurred recently, including the one in East Palestine, Ohio, which of course

1:57.8

led to toxic chemicals being released into the environment there. We're seeing endless

2:03.4

photos, videos, all sorts of imagery of dead fish, people living in the area with rashes.

2:09.7

Well, is that the truth? Is it true that the head of the Transportation Department doesn't

2:15.0

have the ability to unilaterally regulate the rail industry? Let's give you the details.

2:20.3

In a Twitter thread posted more than a week after Norfolk, Southern's fiery trained derailment

2:25.6

in East Palestine, Ohio, Buttigieg indicated that he cannot reinstate an Obama enacted Trump

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