Feb. 17, 2023 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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EPISODE 397: GOV. DEWINE AND GOV. SHAPIRO SIGNED OFF ON THE CONTROLLED BURN
On today’s can’t miss episode of Human Events Daily, Jack Posobiec drops the receipts on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and his inexplicable response to the train derailment and controlled burn of toxic chemicals in Palestine. Poso also dives deep into the hysteria surrounding the UFOs that captured the attention of the nation and could have very well been high school weather balloons. Was the military response theater, or a justified response? Finally, Poso discusses the concerning menta...
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This is obviously a very serious situation that is still very much unfolding.
And I'm here today to provide an update on how this situation affects Pennsylvanians.
The vinyl chloride contents of five railcars are currently unstable and could potentially explode, resulting in deadly shrapnel and toxic fumes.
As Governor DeWine and officials in Ohio just announced, To alleviate the risk of uncontrollable shrapnel, Norfolk Southern Railroad is planning a controlled release of the vinyl chloride at approximately 3.30 p.m.
However, the controlled release of the toxic chemicals also has the potential to be deadly.
Following new modeling information conducted this morning and discussed at length between myself, Governor DeWine, and our respective teams, I am strongly, strongly encouraging an evacuation in a one-mile by two-mile area surrounding East Palestine that includes parts of both Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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Today is February 17, 2023.
I'm with Dominique.
That's Governor Josh Shapiro.
State of Pennsylvania.
Announcing, essentially, that he signed off on this controlled burn after the derailment disaster in East Palestine, Ohio.
We also heard from Governor Mike DeWine.
Now, to understand this, we should do a map break.
So, producers, map break right here.
And I want to explain that East Palestine, Ohio is exactly on the border between Pennsylvania and Ohio.
It essentially sits right between Youngstown, Ohio and Pittsburgh.
I know Youngstown pretty well because my wife used to live there and she told me many, many stories about Youngstown and she used to live there.
She used to work there.
One of the first places where she lived after she came into the country, believe it or not.
And so East Palestine, And something that would affect the air and the water of East Palestine, of course, is going to affect everyone in that area.
East Palestine, that part of Eastern Ohio, and that part of Western Pennsylvania.
So you heard him there, pretending to puff his chest up, act like he's tough guy, the man in charge.
You hear the same type of technocratic babble from people like Barack Obama, like Pete Buttigieg.
Biden does it now.
Biden didn't used to do it, but he does it now a lot.
Conservatives do it as well, but a lot with the neoliberals, where one of the easiest ways to tell them, Hillary Clinton does it now as well, of course, where they pretend that because they know the details of some process so well and so intently that they Act as if that is the same thing as being a leader.
And if that is the same thing as making decisive action and judging the importance of their actions and what's going to happen.
Well, it turns out that Josh Pirro, governor, didn't actually care about the people of Western Pennsylvania the same way that it feels like Governor DeWine didn't care about the people of Eastern Ohio right on the border.
And Governor Shapiro, believe it or not, he's now sent a new letter blasting a three page letter.
Look at this thing.
Blasting Buttigieg, blasting the train company, blaming them, blaming them.
And to be sure, there's a lot of blame for them.
But he's saying this this had a significant impact on the residents.
Uh, they were not immediate.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection was not immediately contacted.
The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency didn't, uh, you know, it was not immediately contacted.
Should have been occurred immediately.
There should be identified.
You failed to implement United Command.
You created confusion.
There was a general lack of awareness.
Emergency management, the personnel was separated.
There were forced lines.
You gave inaccurate information about the impact of a controlled release.
Lurk-a-derk-a-derk-a-derk-a-derk.
The plume, the flames, everything.
Josh.
Josh.
I first met you 15 years ago.
Let me tell you something.
You were an idiot then, and you're an idiot now.
There is a person who was supposed to take command in a situation like this.
There is a person.
Who's supposed to take charge and actually stand up for the people that are affected by this.
But Josh, you didn't care.
Because all you care about is running for president.
That's why you leaked that story to Politico last year.
You think I don't know?
You think I don't have these receipts?
All you've cared about is running for your next office.
And I said it last year and I'm going to say it again.
All you care about is becoming president and you certainly don't care.
About the people of Western Pennsylvania.
Because you know they're never going to vote for you.
You know they're never going to donate to you.
Because that's not where your donors are.
You're not even running to represent them.
So why should Josh Shapiro care if their air is poisoned?
If their water is poisoned?
If their soil is poisoned?
You don't care.
You don't care at all, but now it's come back on you.
So you're trying to pretend, oh, I wasn't told and they lied.
There was misinformation.
There was Josh.
Josh.
It's over.
The first thing that derailed was this train, and we're going to get to the bottom of that.
But the other sound you're hearing is the derailment of your entire career.
Because ladies and gentlemen, Josh Shapiro signed off on the worst disaster to hit Pennsylvania since Three Mile Island.
And we are going to make sure that no one ever forgets.
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Last week in the immediate aftermath of the incursion by China's high altitude balloon, Our military, through the North American Aerospace Defense Command, so-called NORAD, closely scrutinized our airspace, including enhancing our radar to pick up more slow-moving objects above our country around the world.
In doing so, they tracked three unidentified objects, one in Alaska, Canada, and over Lake Huron in the Midwest.
They acted in accordance with established parameters for determining how to deal with unidentified aerial objects in U.S.
airspace.
At their recommendation, I gave the order to take down these three objects due to hazards to civilian commercial air traffic and because we could not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities.
We acted in consultation with the Canadian government.
I spoke personally with Prime Minister Trudeau from Canada on Saturday.
And just as critically, we acted out of an abundance of caution and an opportunity that allowed us to take down these these objects safely.
Our military and the Canadian military are seeking to recover the debris so we can learn more about these three objects.
Our intelligence community is still assessing all three incidences.
They're reporting to me daily and will continue their urgent efforts to do so and I will communicate that to the Congress.
We don't yet know exactly what these three objects were, but nothing right now suggests they were related to China's spy balloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from any other country.
You may remember President Biden pretending that he was fighting the aliens for about a week after he was cocked in 4K by the Chinese Communist Party in a massive spy balloon that flew over our nuclear silos.
We all saw it.
I was on Timcast that night.
Can all go back.
I had the shades on, but that I assure you, it was me.
And, uh, I said on the program that that should, that thing should have been blown out of the sky the minute it crossed U.S.
airspace.
I stand by that.
And of course he didn't.
He waited for it to continue its mission, leave U.S.
soil.
Then they shot it out after, after it completed its mission and the entire world saw it.
Folks, that's what it feels like to be owned.
But then an interesting, how do you say, occurrence came up next.
And what happened next?
What happened next was that suddenly there were UFOs everywhere.
We were under attack.
Was it an invasion?
Was it the little green men?
Was it Mars attacks come to life?
If you build it.
Oh no wait, that's the other one.
We were doing Kevin Costner memes the other day.
Sorry, I like them.
But it turns out that all of these identified objects, which were ordered to be shot down by the U.S.
Air Force, well, it turns out that they were not UFOs at all.
And here on the show, we told you that.
We told you that the president was lying.
We told you that the military was lying.
We told you that all of them were lying.
There were some people, and I'm not going to name names, But there were some people, including those in conservative media, that went along with this and fell for Biden's UFO psyop.
I feel bad for them.
I do.
Oh, no, wait.
No, I don't.
I don't feel bad for them at all.
Well, it turns out now that a small globe-trotting balloon declared missing in action by an Illinois-based hobbyist club has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by four heat-seeking missiles launched by U.S. Air Force fighters since it turns out now that a small globe-trotting balloon declared missing in This is from AviationWeek.com.
And apparently the club, the Northern Illinois Bottle Cap Balloon Brigade, is not quite pointing figures just yet, but the circumstantial evidence is at least intriguing.
The club's silver-coated party-style pico balloon reported its last position on February 10th at 38,910 feet off the west coast of Alaska in a popular forecasting cool The high-split model provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projected a cylindrically shaped object would be floating high over the central part of Yukon Territory on February 11th.
A cylindrical object floating over Yukon Territory on the same day.
We might remember That that's the exact same description that was given by the United States Air Force and the F-22s when they shot down a quote, unidentified object.
Remember Trudeau, in all this Trudeau's tweet, the Prime Minister of Canada, I have ordered Oh, excuse me.
No, that's not true.
He's trying to do that.
I've ordered the fighters to shoot down this unidentified object immediately the second it appeared on our sensors.
It was a high school weather balloon.
It was a bunch of high school kids set up a weather balloon to see if they could fly across the planet, across the whole world, circumnavigation, like Magellan.
And they did.
And it was amazing.
And they would have made it.
If not for the fact that the U.S.
government needed a scapegoat after they had been cucked by China, the Chinese Communist Party.
It means emasculated by another man, by the way, for those of you who aren't familiar with the term.
They blew up a high school with U.S.
Air Force fighters.
One of the missiles even missed!
Where did that go?
Who did that hit?
I hope it wasn't pointed at East Palestine, Ohio, because we still don't actually know what caused the derailment there.
That one's for you guys at Media Matters.
That's a free one.
I know you got interns on this week.
Folks, this is bad.
I remember when President Obama invited Ahmed the Clock Boy to the White House.
Your government just did this.
They ordered the U.S.
Air Force To shoot down high school weather balloons and pretended they were fighting aliens.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars of equipment.
If they're willing to lie about that, what else are they lying about?
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Democratic Senator John Fetterman checked himself into a hospital on Thursday, seeking treatment for severe clinical depression.
That's according to a statement by his office that said the 53-year-old Pennsylvania lawmaker, who flipped a Republican-held seat in last November's elections just six months after suffering a stroke, was at Walter Reed Medical Center after the attending physician for Congress evaluated him earlier this week and recommended inpatient care.
Fetterman's chief of staff wrote, quote, While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks, adding, quote, After examining John, the doctors at Walter Reed told us that John is getting the care he needs and will soon be back to himself.
So what is there to say?
What is there really to say about Senator John Fetterman?
We talked earlier about Josh Shapiro.
I think it says a lot about us as a people.
It says a lot about where we are as a country.
That, here's a guy who had clear medical issues.
He ran.
Cernovich had an interesting take.
He said, uh, he said, I think Federman ran because he thought he was doing something good for the country and he pushed himself through it rather than backing out.
Of course, now, Federman has put himself into Walter Reed because apparently he now has doubts and depression over the fact that he realizes deep down that he should have dropped out when he had the chance.
Remember, he had a stroke before the primary in 2022.
He could have easily dropped out back then and focused on his health, but he didn't.
And he got in over his head.
And the thing is, we're seeing the reports on him.
He hears voices like the teacher in Peanuts.
And what are we to make of this?
Because as a man, feel terrible for this.
Same way we feel terrible for the news from Bruce Willis that dropped yesterday.
He got his full diagnosis.
Frontotemporal dementia.
Six to eight year life expectancy.
That's it.
Bruce Willis is done.
And, cognitively, Bruce Willis is not going to be there much longer.
It is what it is.
But with Fetterman, here's the difference.
While you can say you have compassion for the man, and we do, certainly, he also pledged to represent the people of Pennsylvania in the United States Senate for six years.
We just had this massive situation in East Palestine.
And we have no senator.
There's no senator.
Our state has no senator there to actually do anything about it.
Why?
We're supposed to have two.
Every state's supposed to have two.
But ours is in Walter Reed.
Checked himself in.
And so, this is an issue.
This is a massive issue.
This is why we have laws on the books and regulations on the books for what to do when someone is, and it's, it's called not fit to serve.
And he knows deep down that that's what's going on right now.
He's not able to live up to the task.
And I don't think that he asked for this.
I don't think he wanted this.
Nobody does certainly, but now it's time to do the right thing.
Do the right thing for yourself, for your family, for your health, and for the people of Pennsylvania.
Senator Federman, the people of Pennsylvania deserve a full-time senator.
Not a part-time senator.
Not someone who isn't going to be there when there's a massive train derailment and people are concerned because they're not getting straight answers from their government.
About controlled burns?
About chemicals in the air?
About chemicals in the water?
What's going to happen to these people?
What's going to happen to these families?
What's going to happen to these schools?
These houses?
These hospitals?
These senior citizens out there in Western Pennsylvania?
Who's representing them right now, Senator?
Because it's not you.
It isn't.
All those union workers that you went out to, that you spoke with, that you said you were going to fight for, You're not fighting for them.
Nobody is.
Nobody's representing them.
Nobody's representing anyone in Pennsylvania.
As the environment is being destroyed by chemical explosions that were signed off by our own governor.
And I say this as a son of Pennsylvania.
Proud son of Pennsylvania.
I love Pennsylvania.
I will never stop loving Pennsylvania.
But sometimes love comes with hard truths.
We need real senators.
We need real representation.
And we don't have it right now.
My family?
They don't have representation.
They don't have anybody fighting for them.
What does it say about us as a country?
That we knew we would be in this situation, yet we let it happen anyway?
We've been talking this week about the collapse of complex systems, and I simply have to say, this is another system.
Our political system is on the verge of collapse.
We're seeing the collapse before our eyes.
It's like we're watching the Roman Empire fall, but we have Wi-Fi and memes this time.
Great.
Congratulations.
And as to Mrs. Fetterman, do the right thing.
You know what's best for yourself.
You know what's best for your family.
Put your family first.
I mean that sincerely.
If I were in a situation like that, I would do the exact same.
I'd step away from all this stuff and I'd go be with my family.
We'd have a guest host in here.
My social media stuff would go silent.
It is what it is.
It'll happen to all of us one day, one way or the other.
And I'm going to say a prayer for you guys today.
I'm going to say a prayer for the Fetterman family.
I will.
Folks, it's been a huge week, a lot of news, but I want to remind you that this weekend, I did announce this on social media, but I want to say it here on the show as well, that we have an incredible Sunday special lined up for you.
We've got Heather McDonald.
Yes, that's right.
From the Manhattan Institute is going to be joining us.
It's pre-taped, a one hour discussion where we get into All of these questions that we've been talking about this week.
And I think one of the more salient issues that's going on in our society, when we look at South Africa, we see a society that put diversity and equality and inclusion, critical race theory, right in their own constitution.
They're 20 years ahead of us.
So my question and the title of this special, it's going to drop 10 a.m.
Eastern.
On Twitter and Rumble and then it's also going to be on Real America's Voice later in the evening on Sunday.
Is diversity our greatest strength?
Or should we bring back merit, skills-based employment and qualifications?
