>>8291319 (PB)
Although he implies that he is better qualified to deal with the current corona virus threat, he never actually accuses DJT of making any errors regarding it.
Rather than taking a dump on Trump, though, he SHOULD be arguing for the US to come together to support Trump rather than fighting him.
Trump has spent three years trying to close the southern border and the Democrat party, the media and the courts have fought him tooth and claw every step of the way. They fought his foresight and now want him to close the southern border … after having done all in their power to make that impossible.
Fucking children in adult clothes!
>>8291290 (PB)
Mail got from Detroit to Toledo FASTER in the days of steam than it does now. Until local piddly-dink cities (looking at YOU, Rockwood, MI) started putting 25 mph speed limits on trains, the MCRR and the NYCRR went through town at 100 mph. Once they got through over the bridge in River Rouge, it was "high ball you all" straight shot to Toledo. From there, similar mains ran east and west at similar speeds. Even before the security theater at the airport, a letter mailed from the Michigan Central depot post office in Detroit would be waiting for an airline passenger when they arrived in Chicago.
Drop it off at the depot, take a cab to Detroit City Airport, non-stop to Chicago, pick the letter up … it would be waiting.
We could do the same now. Following decades of neglect through WW2 and afterward, all the major main lines are now 100% heavy gauge welded rail.
Two things need to change. 1) local villages, etc, need to lose the right to impose speed limits and 2) passenger trains need to be given top priority again. As of today, they are only an after-thought behind freight and, even with 100% roller bearings, freight goes no faster than 70 mph.
ss/ Former road and yard, freight and passenger, qualified on 5 divisions simultaneously, conductor for PennCentral ==>Conrail.
I started in Detroit, became qualified on the Detroit division, Bay City branch and Michigan division (Jackson and west), Then, when things got slim there, transferred to the Toledo division where I worked as a pilot on the Toledo coal docks and ran down the road on the Elkhart division. By trying to stay in Detroit, I bounced back and forth a couple times before finally getting a literal pink furlough slip. I showed up for work one day and was handed the furlough slip and told to go home. ISTR they cheated me out of my "show up" pay for that day.
>>8291353 (PB)
And the other 3 horsemen?