I half remember something like that happening in Brazil. The right proposes something the left approves, there’s no fight, they realize their mistake and start opposing their own idea.
I’m reminded of the time Mitch McConnell filibustered his own bill because too many Democrats supported it.
Trump, a very stable genius knows high speed rail is a good idea. I am extremely against high speed rail as an antifa leftist.
carcinisation of mass transit – right-wingers and tech bros keep re-inventing the train
Except they always do it in the dumbest ways because they don’t want to have to rub elbows with plebeians. They want their own private service, every time.
Trains used to have private cars, that’s totally available to those shit bastards. Train don’t care
what if we put everyone in an artillery shell and simply fired them along a ballistic arc toward their destination?
Soon:
Related: The Cannon Travel was legit one of my favorite parts of the video game Secret of Mana.
The Miracle Transport Machine in Legend of the Mystical Ninja, too!
If I could take that bad boy to work everyday, you bet your ass I would.
At least this is a real train, not “pods” or just some teslas in a tunnel.
some teslas in a tunnel with no clearance and no ventilation
On fire.
Except this is just…a train? What are you saying they’re reinventing here?
Also, it’s absolutely just a play on the final words of the post rather than an actual appeal for more trains.
That’s just an Americanised Version of the Siemens Velaro Novo Platform
If trump managed to build effective high speed rail that goes coast to coast, hits more than just NYC and LA, and is affordable, I think history would probably end up forgiving him for a lot of shit.
Never gonna happen though.
It’d be Trumps “Hitler build the Autobahn”.
Canadian here. No we fucking won’t.
I wouldn’t trust it for a second. They’d use it to move minorities into camps more efficiently
Arbeit Macht Frei, baby.
That’s German for “All aboard the Trump Train!”
OK but you missed a golden opportunity to use the word Fahrt.
Only Arbeit is capitalized and its the only noun.
In german the capitalisation of words sometimes changes the meaning of the:
macht (from the verb machen, to do/make) Macht (as a verb means force/power/might)
I saw this double meaning several times, like the title of an art exibition: Geld Macht Kunst ( money, power, art or money makes art)
Yeah, they would arrest more Latinos without due process and have us build the rail as slave labor (contracted out to their corporate buddies, ofc.)
Or just a quick stop in the valley between Dry Mountain and Saline Peak near Death Valley to “drop off some passengers”.
And there is no forgiveness either.
It would make getting to DC for protests a whole lot easier.
This is exactly how you motivate a toddler.
At least the toddler grows up eventually
Actually I find “Here comes the airplane” to be way more effective.
… is this a 9/11 joke?
Deadass im okay with naming it the trump train we can rename it later it would 100% get him to build it
All aboard the MAGA express
Chhoooo chooooo, next stop: Nazitown
Somehow I’m thankful this image is AI generated for once.
I don’t think I’d trust anything with his name on it.
I am for high speed rail, but I am 150% against the Trump train.
I would prefer my 200mph train to stay on the tracks.
When you arrive at the train station, the trump train pulls in, and its 2 jackasses pulling a train of red wagons built by telsa.
On an unrelated note I, another scary leftist, am so triggered every time I see a Tesla. Right wingers switching to EVs really makes me feel like an owned lib.
YES! I TOO MINDLESSLY HATE ELECTRIC CARS!
IF PEOPLE START ALL GOING ELECTRIC I WILL BE SO MAD I WILL RENOUNCE KARL MARX AND START EATING MEAT AND RETURN MY HAIR TO NORMAL COLORING
I SURE HOPE THEY DON’T START BUILDING NUCLEAR PLANTS
YES CYBERTRUCKS FOR EVERYONE. ALL MY MONEY TO MUSK!!! TIRE PARTICULATE IN THE AIR AND PAVEMENT OVER EVERY ECOLOGY! CHILD SLAVES MINING THE MATERIALS!!! YES!!!
200mph? Like those french trains in the nineties?
Yeah, even the german ICEs can do that much. US mediocratism as usual.
Hey now, we were mediocre before but now have crossed well into toxic inferiority.
It can do that much for about 20 minutes before it hits a Stau.
ICE making America Great Again!!!"
Fun fact: the train pictured here is a Siemens Velaro. That’s the same family of train as the ICE.
It’s the American Pioneer Edition, the variant for the American market, set to operate Brightline West services, but even that one is based on Velaro Novo, a platform designed 100% in Germany.
Edit: Velaro Novo for comparison:
200mph is pretty good. That’s 320 kph. IIRC, China’s high speed rail has a max speed of 350kph, often cruising at 300kph.
Honestly at this point, we should just all fully get behind this tactic as I think it genuinely has a good shot of accomplishing more than taking politics seriously.
The giant, gaping flaw in your idea is that it requires leftists to all rally together and cooperate on a unified plan and actually work together.
At which point might as well elect competent representatives then lol
I’m convinced that the majority of our population do not give a flying fuck about representation or leadership and just participate in democracy when they’re seeking emotional validation.
The problem with this is that the most emotional ones in need of the most validation are the ones who would vote in literal Reincarnated Vampire Turbo Hitler Khan if it triggers the other side.
You’re describing something very deep, while only touching the surface.
On the left, people are not very forgiving of other leftists, when they cross the line. And if you really cross the line, then we just don’t want you on our team anymore, gtfo.
On the right, it’s like no matter what you’ve done, as long as you fight for the same thing as the others, you can still be on the team. This is why you see artists make a shift to the right, just before a big scandal, they know they will still have a fangroup as long as they share rightwing propoganda.
This is great for the right wing in the short term, but eventually the techbros and the christofascists, and the Nazis will all realize that they don’t really have anything in common, except a desire to rule everything. “But not like that, like this!”
It’s gonna be interesting to see the showdown between all the different fascist groups Trump has under his flag.
Yes, fascism cannibalizes itself. This means that, in the end, fascism always collapses, however, that doesn’t prevent it from doing lots of damage in the meantime
Musk sabotaging this “centuries old technology” based project in 3…
The only reason Trump wants to do this, is because Elon would get the contract. Just another way to funnel taxpayer money into the hands of the PayPal Mafia.
Actually, Musk would embrace it and claim to invent the whole concept, say that no one has ever done it before, even while just rebranding a Siemens Mireo: https://tech.yahoo.com/transportation/articles/tesla-launches-worlds-first-electric-111535136.html
What if we made the Trump train… But instead of a train it was a car and instead of a railroad it’s a street.
Don’t worry it will be bankrupt in no time like all the other Trump stuff including Casinos.
It’s high speed rail. I’m guessing the general attitude in here is that we don’t want this to fail.
How can you bankrupt a casino? How do you find against math itself and win?
Two casinos.
And the answer to your question is money laundering.
If money laundering bankrupted casinos, then Las Vegas would be just another ghost town in the desert. It takes a special level of stupid to bankrupt a casino. Especially if you are using it to launder money.
It was actually 4 casinos.
https://news.temple.edu/news/2016-10-25/bankruptcy-expert-studies-trump-casinos
Those Las Vegas casinos you are referring to are in compliance with money laundering laws. Trump’s were not.
If you’re not taking in enough to cover the amount of money laundering you’re doing, you’ll end up with a loss on the books.
Ummm, the casinos in Vegas were very much not in compliance with much of anything for decades…https://themobmuseum.org/exhibits/open-city/#%3A~%3Atext=In+the+1940s+and+'50s%2CMob+syndicate+could+invest+here.
I’m sorry, I thought it was pretty obvious that I was making a comparison that was contemporary with FinCens actions against the Trump crime syndicate. Not 70+ years ago.
I get that, but my point was that some of the most corrupt, greedy, and murderous people in the history of the US managed to build an entire city out of nothing, in the middle of the desert, well away from anywhere. In a place that no same person would ever want to be for any reason, and they turned it into a destination for people from around the globe.
It wasn’t greed, corruption, or money laundering that bankrupted his casinos. It was unmitigated, weapons grade, stupidity and incompetence.
He is fighting against math right now. Maybe the real game with the tariffs is market manipulation.
How can you bankrupt a casino?
All of Atlantic City basically collapsed on itself as Vegas siphoned away the high rollers.
Trump thought he could buy into an old casino and revitalize it. But he’s Trump, so he did it all wrong and just got to ride the crash all the way into the dirt.
Trump knew he wasn’t going to revitalize anything. The whole thing was a money laundering scam for him.
Well, he thought running a casino was an easy way to print money. He threw a ton of investment at pastiche, bilked his builders, shortchanged his staff, and created a very glitzy slum.
The Adelsons and the Wynns have been laundering money in the same way, but none of their casinos go belly up. They’re just as evil but far more competent.
NO!!!
LETS DIG A TUNNEL INSTEAD!!!
So this legitimately happened in Chicago ten years ago, fortunately it went nowhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Express_Loop
The most frustrating part is that WE ALREADY HAVE A COMMUTER RAIL FROM DOWNTOWN TO O’HARE, it just only runs three times a day, and only on weekdays.
Musk did this in other places also. The Boring Company (get it? Get it?) is a fraud designed to keep people from moving away from electric cars.
With America’s amazing track record of spending big on repairs and maintenance to infrastructure, I can see absolutely nothing going wrong with this at all.
Let’s declare a war on bad infrastructure! We can funnel all “War on Y” money in. America First! Let’s reduce unemployment with a huge jobs program. Hire everyone to build tracks, trails, and parks.
So, you’re not going to believe this, but…
Okay forget rails, we put big fucking monster-truck tires on the trains and just crash through the countryside.
Just have the people who maintain the roads in michigan build it! What could go wrong!
well US could have been already working towards that if Elon did not derail all funds to his ridiculously failed hyperloop
