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.
well US could have been already working towards that if Elon did not derail all funds to his ridiculously failed hyperloop
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.
Trump supporters haven’t figured out we don’t just oppose them blindly, it’s just almost all terrible ideas.
Throw a good idea out there like a high speed train, and we have no problem supporting it, because non-Maga are generally well adjusted humans capable of reasoning.
I would be amazed if they can actually build the train using only American parts like they claim.
Spoiler warning: this is the same kind of grift. They’re not going to build anything. The money-addicts just say whatever lets them make line go up.
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.
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.
He is fighting against math right now. Maybe the real game with the tariffs is market manipulation.
puts on red hat Yep just MAGA over here with my high speed rail and free universal healthcare, just as the founding Trumps intended
Surely nothing bad will follow Nazis building trains.
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.
I would be happy if they just brought back the light rail that got people around in American cities 100 years ago before the car manufacturers bought up all the rail lines and shut them down. Crossing the country by train would be great but we need to be able to get across town first.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
It was General Motors. The toons in the movie were a non-political allegory for the black communities that were destroyed in real life.
I am ok if this works.
This is just Elon’s Hyperloop again
It’s cybertrucks chained up together !
He’d plaster his stupid face and logo all over it.
Easy enough to ignore.
And eventually paint over.
Not if they call it Trump trains
Its a fucking train, just call it train
They can call it Trump Train if they want I just want a train that will get me between Chicago and NYC cheaper than a plane but faster than a car.
Let them build first, we can change name later. Imaging having a high speed railway in US
Imagine just having trains already! Like in Europe, not the American shit
Finally, a way to get right wingers to support HSR.
Effective mass transit to own the libs?
Only 200mph tho? Kinda weaksauce compare to 🖐"CHINA"🤚
I just got back from my local Trans Action Committee weekly meeting and interrupted their discussion on their plans to further subvert our children to ask them about this, and they hate the idea!
Trans is just trains without an i
You can’t spell “public transport” without “trans”!
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Hitler made the trains run on time.
(Not really)
No, but Hitler built the Autobahn (mostly for war purposes) and to this day there a still a few Germans that use this for “at least he did something good”.
Not even that. The plans existed beforehand, and what the Nazis built was largely useless in war as rail logistics were way more important and the network was rather incomplete. What the Autobahn did enable, though, was the quick advance of allied troops. Parts of the Autobahn were also used as military airports which is why you see the current-day Autobahn make a weird curve around Ramstein Airbase. Those still exist but unlike in the cold war it’s not airbases that can pop up within days but sections of paved median, with the barriers separating the directions being easily removable. That is, the runway is mostly in place, the rest would have to be constructed, OTOH it’s dirt cheap to do.
Mostly, for the Nazis, it was a works programme. Millions of unemployed were put to the task under quite bad working conditions, the workers then wrote letters to the Führer portraying the bad, “Ungermanic, dishonourable” behaviour of their bosses, those letters never reached Hitler they reached the GeStaPo. C.f. “Wenn das der Führer wüsste”.
Oh, EDIT, there’s one good thing that came out of Nazi rule: They pushed full-grain bread, preferably rye, heavily. The whole ideology behind it was Nazi-typical bonkers, also preparation for a war economy, but the idea in general is definitely a good one and Germany kept its preference for at least partly full-grain as well as rye-heavy breads.
“Fascist administration carried out infrastructure (using slave labour) that would create benefit for the companies it was serving” isn’t the own fascists think it is.
Cars <—> Fascism
Wasn’t that more Mussolini’s thing ? (Only in the propaganda, but still.)
Yeah, definitely Mussolini’s propaganda
I’ve heard both… let me check where it originated.
Edit: yep. Mussolini gets firsties for the “Trains on time” propaganda. Looks like maybe around the early 1920s he was trying to convince people that fascists could do great things for society and the trains were part of the propaganda. Hitler gets mixed in to the trains propaganda much later.
