Something to be careful of: Derailing at very low speeds, like 2-3 MPH is very common and mostly harmless and to be expected. What we are really concerned with are the high speed derailments. So make sure that that high and low speed are not conflated.
This is something people are going to have to adjust to. The fact is that what Vice is reporting here is absolutely true. It has been true for a long time. Derailments are common in the US. We don't take care of our railway system because we have the highways and air travel. That's been true for decades, since before I was born.
Most of those derailments are minor and quickly resolved without harm to people or property which is why we rarely hear anything about it. It's the skipped heart beats and low-grade palpitations, the endless episodes of "heartburn" that go on perhaps for years before a heart attack. The ones paying attention know deep down they're a system of something ugly, but it's not that bad right now, and there are other priorities so they take precedence.
All through the Trump presidency we heard about the need for an infrastructure package. Trump had a $3.5 trillion plan that he could never get a window to push through Congress. Republicans wouldn't spend the money. Democrats were too busy pretending he was Hitler-Stalin-Satan. During the Obama years, we heard about the need for this kind of work, but Obama always wanted to push wokeness and wealth redistribution via the welfare system. During the Bush years, we heard about the need to fix the crumbling bridges and highways, especially in the interest of shoring up critical infrastructure against future terrorist attacks. After Katrina we heard about the levees and grand scale infrastructure that was in desperate need of repair. It was a matter of national security. But Bush had started two wars, doubled the national debt, and was sunsetting his regime giving away the farm to Africa in his final year. Republicans wouldn't spend more money because Grover Norquist demanded no new taxes, and Democrats wouldn't spend the money because they were too busy trashing Bush and massaging RINOs to support "compassionate conservatism" by expanding the social welfare system.... I could go on, back to the Carter administration, frankly, but you get the point.
We stopped taking care of our basic infrastructure because other things took priority and we could let this slide a while longer. Just wrap a politician in the flag, tell the people we're the greatest country in the world, and we'll ignore it too. And we did.
The truth is that our railways are crumbling and have been since the 70s. Our roads are in disrepair. Our bridges are cracked and many assessed to be at risk of collapse. Our seawalls, levees, dams, and other public works are in desperate need of a full assessment and major renovation work. Much of our country is in need of new public works for water management, a refurbished power grid, natural disaster resistance, and the like. We've known it for years. Civil engineers have produced hundreds of pages of reports for state and federal regulators and legislators.
But like all bureaucracies, the public only moves once we get a sufficiently high body count. And even then, maybe not. Right now, the Dems aren't going to stop their communist takeover unless they're forced by their own woke constituencies to do it. If you don't see massive protests of brown and female people, they aren't going to budge. Even then, did they fix Flint, MI or Jackson, MS's atrocious drinking water? Nope.
But the truth is still there. Our country is a shambles and our "leadership" is doing fuckall about it. Don't believe me? It's all public record.
Vice news demographic = 18 to 32 / based on their bullshit programming they are going after even younger …. I’d say 12 to 28 demo is more like it ….
They run cool, different, socially relevant programs (not my opinion) that completely spin a narrative for the progressive left: Ya know - Abortion good, drugs cool, transgenders normal, white people suck…. Normal talking points…. Problem is - the left has the youth! Like really young! Where is the counter programming? Where are the conservative channels that are independent ????? 🤔 I wonder …. Oh yeah, the media is controlled by 6 companies and they control what we see, hear and read…. The end of this movie is gonna be epic!
Something to be careful of: Derailing at very low speeds, like 2-3 MPH is very common and mostly harmless and to be expected. What we are really concerned with are the high speed derailments. So make sure that that high and low speed are not conflated.
This is something people are going to have to adjust to. The fact is that what Vice is reporting here is absolutely true. It has been true for a long time. Derailments are common in the US. We don't take care of our railway system because we have the highways and air travel. That's been true for decades, since before I was born.
Most of those derailments are minor and quickly resolved without harm to people or property which is why we rarely hear anything about it. It's the skipped heart beats and low-grade palpitations, the endless episodes of "heartburn" that go on perhaps for years before a heart attack. The ones paying attention know deep down they're a system of something ugly, but it's not that bad right now, and there are other priorities so they take precedence.
All through the Trump presidency we heard about the need for an infrastructure package. Trump had a $3.5 trillion plan that he could never get a window to push through Congress. Republicans wouldn't spend the money. Democrats were too busy pretending he was Hitler-Stalin-Satan. During the Obama years, we heard about the need for this kind of work, but Obama always wanted to push wokeness and wealth redistribution via the welfare system. During the Bush years, we heard about the need to fix the crumbling bridges and highways, especially in the interest of shoring up critical infrastructure against future terrorist attacks. After Katrina we heard about the levees and grand scale infrastructure that was in desperate need of repair. It was a matter of national security. But Bush had started two wars, doubled the national debt, and was sunsetting his regime giving away the farm to Africa in his final year. Republicans wouldn't spend more money because Grover Norquist demanded no new taxes, and Democrats wouldn't spend the money because they were too busy trashing Bush and massaging RINOs to support "compassionate conservatism" by expanding the social welfare system.... I could go on, back to the Carter administration, frankly, but you get the point.
We stopped taking care of our basic infrastructure because other things took priority and we could let this slide a while longer. Just wrap a politician in the flag, tell the people we're the greatest country in the world, and we'll ignore it too. And we did.
The truth is that our railways are crumbling and have been since the 70s. Our roads are in disrepair. Our bridges are cracked and many assessed to be at risk of collapse. Our seawalls, levees, dams, and other public works are in desperate need of a full assessment and major renovation work. Much of our country is in need of new public works for water management, a refurbished power grid, natural disaster resistance, and the like. We've known it for years. Civil engineers have produced hundreds of pages of reports for state and federal regulators and legislators.
But like all bureaucracies, the public only moves once we get a sufficiently high body count. And even then, maybe not. Right now, the Dems aren't going to stop their communist takeover unless they're forced by their own woke constituencies to do it. If you don't see massive protests of brown and female people, they aren't going to budge. Even then, did they fix Flint, MI or Jackson, MS's atrocious drinking water? Nope.
But the truth is still there. Our country is a shambles and our "leadership" is doing fuckall about it. Don't believe me? It's all public record.
Vice news demographic = 18 to 32 / based on their bullshit programming they are going after even younger …. I’d say 12 to 28 demo is more like it ….
They run cool, different, socially relevant programs (not my opinion) that completely spin a narrative for the progressive left: Ya know - Abortion good, drugs cool, transgenders normal, white people suck…. Normal talking points…. Problem is - the left has the youth! Like really young! Where is the counter programming? Where are the conservative channels that are independent ????? 🤔 I wonder …. Oh yeah, the media is controlled by 6 companies and they control what we see, hear and read…. The end of this movie is gonna be epic!
Biblical, you might say.