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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking News: Train carrying Rethugs to retreat hits trash truck...
I hope no one was hurt, but what an analogy....
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ETA: How to distinguish the trash from the Rethugs?
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MattP
(3,304 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,152 posts)I wish I could laugh, cant anymore.
malaise
(269,342 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Also, it has more value since much of it could be recycled.
dalton99a
(81,708 posts)Pachamama
(16,888 posts)And even it being a "Trash Truck".....how apropos....
Karma is a bitch....
malaise
(269,342 posts)One person on the truck is dead
Pachamama
(16,888 posts)That is sad....
I confess that I hope no children, spouses, Amtrak employees or Truck passengers/driver are dead or injured....
Can't lie that I don't feel anything for a GOP traitor against our Nation meeting their end...
Does that make me evil? I don't think so....I think the evil they are perpetrating against our Nation and citizens and even non-citizens, the environment is far, far worse....
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(52,510 posts)MichMary
(1,714 posts)Response to MichMary (Reply #4)
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abbeyco
(1,555 posts)On the way to planning & plotting and BAM, stopped by a trash truck!
On a serious note, I hope there are no major injuries.
spinbaby
(15,095 posts)But is sadly a tragic accident.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)He's dead. Another in the truck in critical condition.
So, is this still so funny???
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mythology
(9,527 posts)Suggests a greater concern for one over the other.
.99center
(1,237 posts)The OP made it clear that the members were ok.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)You think you some kind of mind reader? Because you failed if you think you are. Or are you just getting exercise jumping to conclusions.
I asked a simple question and you get triggered.
MichMary
(1,714 posts)there are an awful lot of people on these threads making sick jokes about a serious situation. My first thought was that I hoped no one was injured, hoped the truck was unoccupied.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)Because your remark ...
was out of line being directed at me. Being that you replied directly to my post.
C_U_L8R
(45,046 posts)malaise
(269,342 posts)No additional comment.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)malaise
(269,342 posts)The train cut the garbage truck in half.
What a fugging metaphor for ReTHUGs as they slink away for a retreat and family vacation while their President violates the law and wants to have the right to fire Civil Servants.
They are garbage.
Yonnie3
(17,520 posts)Dispatched at 11:17 some including medical back in service 11:45.
ETA: Medical helicopter on scene 11:49
ETA: Almost all emergency units are in service again as of 11:55
ETA: Link to google overhead view of the reported crash site. Very rural. You will need to cut and paste this link.
www.google.com/maps/@38.0774235,-78.7165401,94m/data=!3m1!1e3
malaise
(269,342 posts)I hope they're OK
Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)My dad worked on the railroad- he came home covered in blood more than once after trying to help crash victims. Its devastating.
Never race a train no matter how late you might be.
Hope that driver is going to be ok.
MichMary
(1,714 posts)DH worked for a railroad (as an accountant.) He knew of train engineers who were so psychologically messed up after a car/train accident that they couldn't operate a train ever again.
malaise
(269,342 posts)Close to Charlottesville.
MineralMan
(146,354 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Another is in critical condition.
MineralMan
(146,354 posts)Imagine a train full of GOP congress-critters, demanding that the train get moving immediately to get them to their destination. If you think that is not happening, you don't understand. They do not care about the dead and injured. They have tee times.
MichMary
(1,714 posts)I hate when people make unfounded accusations.
(Actually, a couple of the R congresspeople are docs. Think they are doing anything OTHER than treating the injured?)
MineralMan
(146,354 posts)Those who are injured will be treated by paramedics and taken to local hospitals, no doubt.
As for the Republican congress people, I imagine they are deeply annoyed at being delayed. But, their "thoughts and prayers" will be with the injured and dead, no doubt.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)There are multiple reports of members of Congress involved in the crash assisting the paramedics.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Zoonart
(11,921 posts)Thanks Mineral Man.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10169424
Yonnie3
(17,520 posts)Trump country.
Alea
(706 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)Another in critical condition.
Happy now?
BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)You actually made a post that wasn't bashing Al Franken in some way.
B2G
(9,766 posts)Use it.
BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)Good.
B2G
(9,766 posts)Anyone can make an accusation.
Backing it up? Not so much.
BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)You were caustic to people who dared to defend Franken, and you repeatedly bashed the man. Selective amnesia is also not a defense.
B2G
(9,766 posts)I see you can't find any examples to back that up.
Later.
BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,135 posts)I keep being told everything is fair game - it doesn't matter who else it hurts as long as it hurts the Republicans.
I wish I could use the sarcasm tag, but it's not sarcasm. One of the most challenging things about this administration and these times is the number of Democrats and other good people who adopt tactics that are inconsistent with our core beliefs on the basis that the end justifies the means. It doesn't.
stonecutter357
(12,699 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)MFM008
(19,837 posts)Hits a garbage truck.
Is the word euphemism?
BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)DU's morality police will come down hard on you. See above.
MFM008
(19,837 posts)They need to tell me I'm outrageous OR I hate republicans?
Ms. Toad
(34,135 posts)And I don't need a lecture.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)There's something wrong with you people.
MFM008
(19,837 posts)I meant metaphor.
to bad about the guy on the garbage truck.
He was actually working.
My mom's being
Turned out of a nursing home because of Republican policies and I may lose my home.
I don't care what anyone thinks
About my feelings for them.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Roll your eyes all you want. Doesn't change how awful y'all are being.
MFM008
(19,837 posts).......
renate
(13,776 posts)We'd be disgusted, and rightly so.
I'm embarrassed to read some of the comments here. We're better than this.
MFM008
(19,837 posts)I feel bad for the hard working guy on the garbage truck.
Marengo
(3,477 posts)MFM008
(19,837 posts)..........
Marengo
(3,477 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)need to hear more, but a train is on a track. If the equipment was working properly (maybe that is a factor) how do you get hit by a train if you're not negligently on the track when it is coming?
LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)and FR were celebrating."
We'd be disgusted, and rightly so.
I'm embarrassed to read some of the comments here. We're better than this.
A friend who has a FB account was in a nasty fight with some thuglican trash over there who were laughing at Maxine Waters, calling her all kinds of racist names (Monkey, welfare queen etc.), and they also said that Adam Schiff would look good with slug placed right between his Commie eyes (He's been getting death threats as you probably know. Commie? Hell, we have a treasonous, ruskie-loving, authoritarian, fascist installed in the White House). We're in horrible times as far as discourse is concerned, so when I see what we see as "our" side maybe go beyond, I Kanye shrug.
You have fatso-in-chief and a thuglican controlled CON-gress/Senate who are going to BE taking health care away from millions of folks (Via their tax scam bill) who will DIE without it, and they were patting themselves on the back, smiling about it, and praising Dear Leader Dotard in a Rose Garden ceremony. I fully admit that I throw insult bombs right back at thuglicans if they hurl them my way.
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Takket
(21,721 posts)This accident would be called Gods warning for our heathen ways.
mchill
(1,020 posts)still hard not to think of the metaphors.
Hoping the one person airlifted will be ok.
democrank
(11,115 posts)So sorry someone died.
fierywoman
(7,709 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)I thought it was satire with the GOP being the train wreck and Trump being the garbage truck...
Vinca
(50,336 posts)Sorry for the victims, of course, but Republicans hitting a garbage truck is karma at its best.
gopiscrap
(23,768 posts)I feel bad for the trash truck occupants...no sympathy what so ever for the gopers
cilla4progress
(24,802 posts)Very sad loss of life and injury.
We've always known GOP is a trainwreck.
Metaphor.