Trump’s swift demolition of East Wing may have launched asbestos plumes
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I'm pretty sure the only consideration was to do it quickly enough that they couldn't be stopped.
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Asbestos abatement is obvious, the building gets wrapped, at least the windows are sealed and people are going in and out in hazmat suits with respirators. Massive amounts of doubler bagged refuse is trucked away. The process takes time, a house in our neighbourhood took two weeks for abatement before it was torn down. They had to do abatement on the exterior of a building on my college campus and the building was sealed in blue plastic for a month. A building like this would take several weeks and would be obvious. But there was no clue that it was going to happen. the heavy equipment arrived on Monday and the demo began. No abatement was done. Everyone in and around the area was exposed. That includes everyone who works in the neighbourhood, anyone walking by, visitors to the White House, anyone that works in the White mHouse, delivery people, anyone in that area over the last several weeks.
It’s Class Action Suit Time.
It’s Class Action Suit Time.
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Of course not! They are pro-mask now! Look at all of those ICE officers.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up tearing out the whole white house.
IIRC, during his first term it came out that he thought the white house was dumpy and didn't like staying there, hence most his time mar a largo and his building in NYC (though that also allowed him to bill more to the government for the required secret service).
So now, assuming the monstrosity of a ballroom gets built as some in pics and the model, you know he'll complain and act that he just realized the rest of the property isn't to scale and looks awkward, so now he has to 'update' the rest of it.
Hence also the plans of a third term - if he really thought he wouldn't run or get it, he wouldn't be so focused on this and putting in the effort.
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Really doesn't matter if they did or didn't. The Supreme Court said that the orange lunatic is immune to prosecution, even for being fined or reprimanded. All fingers will point at him as the 'big decision maker' sparing all of the others involved in the illegal action.
The rule of law is essentially no more.
The rule of law is essentially no more.
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ColdWetDog
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And asbestos remediation is obvious. Tarps and bunny suits. Filters and compressors. Not backhoes and jackhammers.
They didn't do any asbestos remediation.
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I wonder if they know that the National Ignition Facility is responsible for a good bit of America's modern nuclear testing? Nah, that's boring science that doesn't make big-ass explosions. It does, however, help ensure our existing weapons work. Fuck's sake.
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ColdWetDog
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At this rate, it's pretty much the end of everything that isn't adjacent to a billionaire on Wall Street.
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I have no real pity for the administration vampires getting exposed to asbestos in the white house, but not everybody there is trying to destroy the country - some of them just have government jobs.
There's a big number of tourists D.C. and residents that have been nearby or downwind since they started. I really hope all the trick or treaters didn't get mesothelioma with their twizzlers.
There's a big number of tourists D.C. and residents that have been nearby or downwind since they started. I really hope all the trick or treaters didn't get mesothelioma with their twizzlers.
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The destruction of assets that are supposed to belong to the people with no oversight or consultation, entirely unilaterally, in order to replace it with something tacky and gaudy meant only for him and his mob of elite ring kissers, causing dismay, anger and alarm at the wanton desecration of something once held dear to millions, unleashing a cloud of toxicity and destructive waste in the process....
Is a more perfect metaphor for the Trump regime even possible at this point?
Is a more perfect metaphor for the Trump regime even possible at this point?
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His first energy secretary didn't even know that when taking the job, for the record.
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Can the entire administration and their sycophants camp out there and inhale it all? They can ascend to greater Maga trumpism, which shall save the America.
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Trump may not be touchable, but ACECO certainly is. They should know all about asbestos and the need for proper abatement. Their disregard for their own workers is just insane. And permitting offices and inspectors around the greater DC area should spend some serious quality time reviewing each and every ACECO job site for violations. After all, if they're willing to fuck around with asbestos, who know what else they're happy to fuck around with.
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Make
Asbestos
Great
Again
I fully expect to hear some release about how we need to add more asbestos to everything to improve healthy living...
Asbestos
Great
Again
I fully expect to hear some release about how we need to add more asbestos to everything to improve healthy living...
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What's amusing is that a lot of asbestos removed from buildings in California in the 80s-90s was deposited back into asbestos mines it was originally removed from in the 1960s-80s. So is Trump going to demands that it be re-mined back out of those sites and put back into those buildings?
Also, some of the major off-road reclamation areas west of Coalinga and signed as hazardous because of the loose asbestos-containinng soil from earlier mining activity. Appropriate use?
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One exposure can kill you.
Probably won’t, but when you expose hundreds of people, the odds of one of them failing their saving throw get pretty high.
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I'd settle for him stacking cardboard boxes of asbestos-laden East Wing debris in the Mar-a-lago bathrooms.
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One of the buildings I used to work in was "fully remediated" before we moved in, but they missed some pockets. So part of the building was cleaned out again. But this time, they dug out some areas and "encapsulated" the stuff instead of hauling it away.
Big government buildings of the 1920s-40s have just s*** loads of the stuff lying around. It's everywhere.
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One question is, who exactly is responsible for ensuring asbestos compliance? Is the demolition contractor not responsible? Locally I know of an old (> 100 years) house that was demolished, and prior to demolition the contractor visited and ripped up bits of floor tile, window frames, checked plumbing, etc. to verify that there was no asbestos. What could the penalties to ACECO be?
[Ninja'd by DarthSlack]
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This is such an ironic statement considering there is ample circumstantial evidence linking him and Trump Sr. to more than one mob.
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Photon_plumber
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Asbestos. I don't think about that too much, as most of the buildings in my area are either newer or have been remediated. The WH is from that era. It's probably packed with it.
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Photon_plumber
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Which is done in a very controlled way, according to EPA regulations. Do we still have a working EPA?
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Hey, I found a WW2 bomb under your driveway, so I'm sure you'll be glad to hear instead of calling the bomb squad, I lit the fuse.
Gotta get rid of these things sooner than later amirite?
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Just think about how much stronger your lungs will be once they’re done with the workout that processing asbestos gives them!
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AFAICT they don't actually do any lawyering, they just help with the paperwork to get your victim a payout from one of the class-action suits that has already been settled.
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Tell me you know nothing, have read nothing, and can contribute nothing to this discussion, without telling me.
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DOE and DOD giving each other nervous glances like uhhhh who gonna tell him
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Well, given how enamored the orange ret**d is with The Village People's "YMCA" I am not at all surprised that he likes top men. Not what you meant? My bad, sorry...
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I suppose the campaign against garbage rotting out in the street is also fake and led by the Mob, because mob families sometimes are in the garbage collection business as well.
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What is all the hand-wringing about? Clearly this all falls under the "official duties" of the ppresident*, so he had immunity. Perfectly legal.
*intentional with the small pp
*intentional with the small pp
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