{"id":38777,"date":"2022-10-29T15:07:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T19:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=38777"},"modified":"2022-10-29T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T20:15:26","slug":"french-rail-company-quits-kalifornistan-says-theyre-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=38777","title":{"rendered":"French rail company quits Kalifornistan, say\u2019s they\u2019re nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. One of the last boondoggles Govno Jerry Brown foisted on the state of Kalifornistan was his plan for a high speed rail system. As I recall, the original plan was to have it go from Los Angeles to San Francisco. That plan was quickly dumped and a new one put in place that only makes sense to a crack addled Kalifornistan politician.<\/p>\n

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One of the companies that came in was the French national railroad. France has one of the best high speed rail systems in the world, probably rivaled only by the Japanese system. It made sense to have a company with experience in building and running a high speed rail system. Then the French came in and found out just how bad things are in the People\u2019s Democratic Republic of Kalifornistan. Here are the details from Breitbart<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The French national railroad company intended to help California build its high-speed rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles, but ended up leaving the state to pursue projects in war-torn North Africa, which the company said was a less \u201cdysfunctional\u201d place.<\/b><\/p>\n

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The\u00a0<\/b>New York Times<\/b><\/em> published a lengthy essay on Sunday about how California\u2019s \u201cbullet train\u201d failed \u2014 despite the fervent desire of Gov. Jerry Brown (D) that it be built, and the investments of both the Obama and Biden administration in its supposed construction.<\/b><\/p>\n

There is a reason that Jerry Brown is also known as \u201cGovernor Choo Choo.\u201d He wanted to basically have his own, life size, taxpayer funded train set to play with.<\/p>\n

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The <\/b>Times<\/b><\/em> noted<\/a>: <\/b><\/p>\n

Now, as the nation embarks on a historic, $1 trillion infrastructure building spree<\/a>, the tortured effort to build the country\u2019s first high-speed rail system is a case study in how ambitious public works projects can become perilously encumbered by political compromise, unrealistic cost estimates, flawed engineering and a determination to persist on projects that have become, like the crippled financial institutions of 2008, too big to fail.<\/b><\/p>\n

Nothing is to big to fail of course, and that includes some of these massive banking institutions. The problem with the high speed rail project in Kalifornistan is simple. The ruling elites out there can\u2019t admit that, from day one, it was a debacle looking for a place to happen. They also, in their classic Progressive Elitist \u201cI know what\u2019s best, not you!\u201d manner, refused to listen to people and organizations that actually know what the Hell they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

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The state was warned repeatedly that its plans were too complex. SNCF, the French national railroad, was among bullet train operators from Europe and Japan that came to California in the early 2000s with hopes of getting a contract to help develop the system.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Silly French. Even though the whole world makes fun of them, there are things they are very good at doing. Building Nuclear power plants for one, and building high speed rail systems for another. (Aircraft carriers? Not so much) Then they ran into that one group that makes the Cheese eating Surrender Monkeys look good, the Kalifornistan Progressive.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere were so many things that went wrong,\u201d Mr. McNamara said. \u201cSNCF was very angry. They told the state they were leaving for North Africa, which was less politically dysfunctional. They went to Morocco and helped them build a rail system.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

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Ouch! That should tell you just how bad this whole situation was for the French. Of course, North Africa has a different set of problems, but those problems can be generally solved with cash donations to someone\u2019s retirement fund. With Progressives, they generally won\u2019t stay bought, and the French couldn\u2019t send in the Foreign Legion to deal with the troublemakers. In any case, in one of the few smart things he\u2019s done, Gruesome Newsom finally drove stake through the heart of Govno Choo Choo\u2019s dream.<\/p>\n

Upon taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) canceled<\/a> the high-speed rail project because he said it would \u201ccost too much\u201d and \u201ctake too long.\u201d President Donald Trump (R) then tried to have $1 billion that federal taxpayers had already paid into the project returned to the national government. <\/b><\/p>\n

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But President Biden and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg restored the funding, hoping to build a high-speed rail link between sparsely-populated rural cities in the Central Valley that are most often traversed by car. <\/b><\/p>\n

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Leave it to these to idiots, well one idiot and one senile old fool, to reinforce failure. It\u2019s what progressives do. The reasons that this project has failed was all the interference by politicians trying to get their piece of the pie and of course, radical environmentalists. In the first case, the political hacks wanted the rail system to make stops throughout Silicon valley and towns along the route. This would defeat the purpose of the system. It\u2019s meant to be an express system, not a commuter rail. A High Speed Rail system can hit speeds over 150 miles an hour, but not if they have make stops every 15 miles.<\/p>\n

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The next problem were the radical anti-human extremist envirowhackjobs. They threw constant roadblocks in the routing of the rail system and constantly dragged the state into court. This was another reason that Newsom finally killed the project. Of course, what Buttplug and Dementia Joe actually have planned is paying off all of the progressive elites with taxpayer funds. I don\u2019t see them laying down one foot of track.<\/p>\n

The French are used to dealing with the corruption of Turd World countries and now how to handle it. (Usually with cases full of cash) What they didn\u2019t know how to deal with was the epic stupidity and incompetence of American progressives. It\u2019s no wonder they pulled the plug and left.<\/p>\n

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