Train derails in Montana: unconfirmed contents spilled as Buttigieg has a cow

No less than 25 train cars derailed in Montana on Sunday, spilling contents into a nearby body of water and into the ground.

Transportation Secretary and train hobbyist Pete Buttigieg, immediately stopped chest feeding his baby and got his butt out to The Big Sky State to assess the situation.

Just kidding. He's still chest feeding with Chasten by his side.

As with all train derailments with concomitant chemical spillage, first responders claim that there was no threat to the public, yet nobody knows what the train was carrying.

Montana Rail Link owns the railroad and like everyone on Twitter, is aware of the situation, but the company that owns the train has yet to be identified, according to NBC Montana.

There have not been any reported injuries from the crash but nobody is drinking the water, showering for digging up their mushrooms for dinner. This latest fustercluck comes less than a week after a 70-car train derailed in North Dakota carrying hazardous material.

Mayor Pete, who is used to not fixing potholes, has also not done much to fix the problem or apparently looked into the cause as far as we can tell, because if he had a clue, he would shout it from the highest CNN host's microphone.

The Canadian Pacific train derailed around 11:15 p.m. roughly a mile southeast of Wyndmere in Richland County, the company said in a statement. No injuries were reported. 

Officials said 31 of the 70 cars derailed, some carrying hazardous materials, and crews identified a leak of liquid asphalt. No fires were caused by the derailment and since it was less than 50% of derailed cars, it was seen as no big deal by the company and Buttigieg.

The cleanup was expected to last between seven and 10 days, local reports said. So far, six days have passed and the job is not complete, Pete.

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Shannon Brandt, who 'ran over' Cayler Ellingson charged with murder

Shannon Brandt, 41, is the scumwafer who is accused of fatally using his SUV as a weapon, allegedly killing 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson. Brandt has been charged with murder and new information alleges that Ellingson was indeed run over by an SUV.

Brandt was initially arrested after police say he fatally hit Ellingson with an SUV in the early morning of September 18 after a street dance that took place at a local bar in McHenry, North Dakota. Brandt fled the scene and later called 911 claiming that Ellingson was part of a "Republican extremist group," and added that the teenager was calling on others to come "get him."

He was sent to jail and released on $50,000 bail. He was not placed on house arrest but told that he could not leave North Dakota or drink.

Ellingson was rushed to a local hospital after the incident, but later died.

Capt. Bryan Niewind told Fox News Digital that there was "no evidence" that Ellingson was part of a "Republican extremist group" or that the incident had anything to do with politics.

Last Friday, Foster County State Attorney Kara Brinster announced that Brandt is being charged with murder and that the charge of criminal vehicular homicide has been dismissed due to the new murder charge.

Brandt turned himself in on Friday at the Stutsman County Correction Center. 

The murder charges are the result of an investigation by the North Dakota Highway Patrol, Foster County Sheriff’s Department and the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation. A probable cause affidavit for the new charges states that Brandt asked the 911 operator if he was going to prison.

"I just wanna ask you a question, am I going to prison?," Brandt asked the 911 operator, according to the document. During the call, Brandt "made comments regarding the incident being intentional and not an accident," according to the affidavit.

According to the affidavit, when the 911 operator asked "he wouldn't let your vehicle go then what happened," Brandt then responded "yes I…I just tried to take off and , he . . . he wasn't going to let me go, I, I hit him I didn't mean to and and he's subdued I was scared to death but he's subdued, he can't do anything to me now so, so this is why I'm calling you."

"I mean I…I almost oh god, I almost just runaway but I thought jeez obviously if it was a total accident I wouldn't be scared but I know it was more than that," Brandt said, according to the affidavit.

Ellingson called his mother before Brandt admitted to using an SUV to hit him, the affidavit states. He told the 911 operator that "he' or 'they' were chasing him." His mother told her son that she was "on her way to get him" prior to that call, the affidavit stated.

Brandt also told the 911 operator that Ellingson "wouldn't let him leave" and made a call to someone saying "something to the effect of your going to have to come here and handle him."

Which seems bogus based on what we now know, because during the time period between 2:00 a.m. and 2"42 a.m., the teenager only called and received calls to his parents. So Brandt appears to be lying.

An autopsy performed on Ellingson indicated that his injuries were caused by being "ran over" by the SUV, and not by being struck by the front of the car. Clearly this indicates that the murder was intentional.

Ellingson's last call with his mother was at 2:42 a.m., when he stated "something to the effect of they are after me or he is after me," and the call dropped, according to the affidavit.

Brandt was due in court on Friday morning for a bond hearing.

On a Sept. 19th court hearing, Brandt disagreed with the proposed bail amount, stating that he is not a flight risk and has a life that he needs to get back to.

"I have a job, a life and a house and things that I don't exactly want to see go by the wayside — family that are very important to me," Brandt said.

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Ellingson also had a life, a family and friends, and Brandt took that from him.

Ellingson's funeral was held on Monday.

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Heitkamp outs sexual assault survivors then apologizes

North Dakota Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp [if you think her name is funny, imagine if she had my last name]  had to apologize last week for outing a number of her constituents as sexual assault victims without asking their permission in an open letter to her Republican challenger, Rep. Kevin Cramer.

That is breathtakingly stupid.

Her campaign included the names and hometowns of 127 women in the open letter and called them "survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, or rape." Apparently, she doesn't really care about them beyond what they can offer her campaign.

Immediately after the ad ran in many North Dakota newspapers, four of the signees posted on Facebook that they never agreed to sign the letter.

Is a simple apology actually all that's required by the Heitkamp campaign? It seems as if these women, however many of the 127 were never asked for permission to use their names, have a legal case against the campaign.

Anyway, Heitkamp's campaign sent out a press release apologizing for the letter:

Sexual assault is a serious crime--and one that too many North Dakota women have experienced. In an attempt to bring awareness to this issue [and especially to win reelection] and push back against dismissive comments toward sexual assault survivors by Kevin Cramer, our campaign worked with victim advocates to identify women who would be willing to sign the letter or share their story. We recently discovered that several of the women's names who were provided to us did not authorize their names to be shared or were not survivors of abuse. I deeply regret this mistake and we are in the process of issuing a retraction, personally apologizing to each of the people impacted by this and taking the necessary steps to ensure this never happens again.

Lexi Zhorela, 24, from Bismark, told National Review that her name was added to the list of victims after her friend tagged her on a Facebook that solicited signatures for the open letter. Zhorela thinks her friend tagged her because she knew of her history as a sexual-assault victim.

"I speak for myself and many of the women whose names were used without our consent. We are very publicly humiliated. Some of us were given a formal apology on this matter, but for me personally the damage is done and my name is now out there forever. A simple 'sorry this happened' isn't going to cut it," Zhorela said.

Can money buy away humiliation?

Eve Lancaster, another North Dakota woman whose name appeared on the list without her permission told National Review that Heitkamp's use of the letter, intended as a show of support for victims, had the opposite effect.

"The ad is about non-consent. Why would they just go ahead and take our names without our consent? It's the same thing, just different case," she said, referring to the notion that the use of her name, like the sexual assault, was perpetrated without her consent, or that of the other women.

The Facebook post asked potential signers to confirm their support for the letter by contacting Dr. Tami DeCoteau, a North Dakota psychologist who worked with Heitkamp in the past.

Zhorela never contacted her nor did Lancaster.

The mutual "friend" of both Lancaster and Zhorela who wrote the Facebook post claims she doesn't know how their names ended up on the open letter and when asked if she wrote the Facebook post at DeCoteau's direction, the post's author told NR to "f**k off."

The friend sounds like she might be a liberal.


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Standing Rock Protest Ends with a Burp

Wednesday was the deadline given by N. Dakota's Governor Doug Burgum for Dakota Access pipeline protesters to leave the Oceti Sakowin camp and maybe go find a real job.

About 100 apparently unemployed people remained at the location. Some lit "ceremonial fires" by torching structures within the camp. Some took "ceremonial dumps" on the sacred camp ground. But most of the protestors decided to leave and return to their uninteresting lives.

They marched away, playing drums and singing Kumbaya and stuff, on their final shuffle off to whence they came.

One protestor, when asked what's next replied, "I dunno. Maybe see if there's an occupy movement or something. There's lotsa things to protest about, man."

Around 5 p.m. EST, cops arrested nine hangers-on at a roadway near the camp. Burgum had previously spoke late Wednesday afternoon, warning that anyone who remained was trespassing and may be arrested.

The sheriff's department posted on their Facebook page that it received a report that two clever people were taken by ambulance to the hospital after being burned when protestors set fire to camp structures.

Protestors who left voluntarily were sent on their way by "amnesty buses" to a local family center.

The North Dakota Department of Human Services, Department of Health and Department of Emergency Services have coordinated efforts to provide taxpayer funded health screenings, food, bus tickets, gas cards or anything they could muster to get the protestors the hell out of there and on their way home to their respective basements.

The protestors did not clean up after themselves and made an enormous hypocritical environmental mess. "Was this what their mothers taught them?" one observer asked."They should be ashamed of themselves," she added.

Since the low information idiots arrived, the state has spent nearly nine million dollars policing up after them. Last year, 565 people were arrested in connection with the pipeline. Nine out of 10 demonstrators charged with a crime were from out of state.

On February 1st, an additional 76 people were arrested who tried to set up a new campsite on private land.

Law enforcement said the protestors used violence and also harassed them and their families, along with local businesses and farmers.

Although former so called president Obama was not at the sight of the protest, he was there in spirit. He had the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deny a request for an easement needed for the pipeline's construction. But President Trump signed an executive order forcing the Army Corps to review that decision and now the pipeline is a 'go.'

Tremendous!


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