This is going to be one of the meaner blogs I write and that’s okay. I need to get this shit off my chest and it’s perfectly in line with today’s slower Chicago Sports News schedule. I told you guys early things would get a little weirder and this is what I’m talking about.
I’ve heard enough about the fucking trains in this country.
Every other week it’s some other asshole on twitter talking about high speed rail travel.
Every where I look there’s some bozo communist complaining for more trains.
People want trains and they want them bad.
WAH WAH WAH GIVE ME AFFORDABLE CROSS COUNTRY TRANSPORTATION
I’m here to tell you these people are dipshit morons and they can’t be trusted.
First off, rail travel already exists and you can get yourself some any time you want. The trains are out there if you want a romantic experience.
So is air travel, which is a perfect barrier to entry for all people of all classes. If that’s too expensive, you probably don’t need interstate travel to that extent. I’ve long felt that way about airplanes.
The idea that there’s a secondary sub market of people needing to go from Chicago to Nashville but $350 round trip is too pricey for these people… I mean that idea is pure cheeks.
But most importantly it’s anti-American. I can’t say that enough. Every person who wants high speed rail across this country is signing away their right as an American citizen because we’re pretty much the only country on earth where you can cruise our level of interstate.
Eisenhower didn’t plan the greatest invasion in human history THEN lay one hundred thousand miles of American highway just so we could come back 80 years later and bitch about the train system.
If anything, it’s part of your American identity to hit the road.
Or just get on a plane.
But this romantic concept of sleeper cars and European values is so completely obsolete and quite frankly a little gay to me. We need to be gearing up for China and we’re over here connecting El Paso with Cincinnati?
Get your mind out of the fucking gutters.
And normally I want to listen to your conspiracy theories. Trust me. I’m on well/septic. I got the time.
But this just isn’t one of those things. There isn’t some elite group of people holding back high speed rail travel on grounds of class warfare. This is simply just a bad idea and the people with enough money to see it through know that, which is why it doesn’t exist.
That’s the beauty of America.
If it worked better, they’d do it already.
Now get back in line and go contribute to your 401k.
My guy, I think you missed the sarcasm in that post. I mean it says right there in the picture: pipe dream. And I really don’t see a lot of coverage of high speed rail outside of the occasional JB quote about a rail line from Chicago to St.Louis. Almost seems like you’re just looking for some excuse to rail (heh heh) against the “commies” or whatever. Maybe stick to MILFS for your non-sports content.
FCR, I’m right there with you re: the infeasibility of a transcon rail system. Nothing more American than a road trip and that’s the way it should be.
Next blog on trains need to be about the time Elon tried to scam us into his O’Hare “high speed” train