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The DC ELITE are Finding Out Why Americans are SO PISSED at Government(DC METRO)

TheDemSocialist said:
If anything with all his redacted statements it shows he is pretty incompetent...
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Trump has proved his competence in business and politics, this is beyond justified dispute. HE is also a great father, which I respect greatly, and a lover of women.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Trump has proved his competence in business and politics, this is beyond justified dispute. HE is also a great father, which I respect greatly, and a lover of women.
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Trump literally just made three different statements on abortion in three hours. :lamo
 
DC Officials are claiming that Chicago shows that closing the lines is the right thing to do, based upon the 5 months rebuild of the Dan Ryan line a few years ago. THe choice was laid out to the people as 4 years of weekend closings, or 6 months of total shutdown. It was sold as " rip the band-aid off" would be better for the operation of the city but that was a lie, the real reason is that the total shut down saved 15% ish in costs even with running all the busses during the week. Of course the cost of clogging the roads with busses is conveniently not factored in. The government does the same thing with road rebuilds to save money, it used to be on the interstate they would only close about 3 miles at a time one way, and then move to the next stretch when they were done but during the mid nineties they started closing 15 miles or more at a time to save money, resulting is some long travel times a lot of the time as the road gets overloaded or everyone gets stuck behind someone who is moving very slowly. It used to be that good government meant keeping the systems working as they did the work but increasingly the government does not care about the inconvenience to the people from systems not working for longish stretches of time, they are all about what ever their ledger claims is the cheapest, even though they cook the books.

Now the DC system has been so abused for so long and is now dangerous so maybe closing lines for long periods for a complete rebuild is the right thing to do at this point, but if we had good government we never would have gotten to this point, and this reality must be kept front and center. What is happening in DC right now is not ok, and we all need to be clear about that.
 
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Hawkeye10 said:
At the cost of a year of his life and tens of millions of his dollars Trump has demonstrated the incompetence of the Elite, the nations anger at the incompetence of the elite, and shown that the cost of their failure to do better will be the little people burning to the ground much of what they hold near and dear.
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I thought that September 11th, 2001 clarified for American who had forgotten and who casually called actors and athletes "heroes" what an actual hero is. I guess I was wrong.
 
nota bene said:
I thought that September 11th, 2001 clarified for American who had forgotten and who casually called actors and athletes "heroes" what an actual hero is. I guess I was wrong.
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Heroes are people who accomplish against great odds gains for the collective regardless of their walk in life. I suspect that you are confusing the term hero with role model.

Trump is such a guy on both counts.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Heroes are people who accomplish against great odds gains for the collective regardless of their walk in life. I suspect that you are confusing the term hero with role model.

Trump is such a guy on both counts.
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Trust me when I tell you that I'm not confusing the terms "hero" and "role model."

A hero is a person of "distinguished courage or ability, admired for brave deeds and noble qualities."

Courage? Brave deeds? Noble qualities? Trump?! :lamo
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Heroes are people who accomplish against great odds gains for the collective regardless of their walk in life. I suspect that you are confusing the term hero with role model.

Trump is such a guy on both counts.
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:lamo

Yes, Donald Trump, against all odds, has gained for ... Donald Trump.
 
Kobie said:
:lamo

Yes, Donald Trump, against all odds, has gained for ... Donald Trump.
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Ever been on DC MEtro? I was, got to ride a brand new line summer of 77. How do you feel about how poorly it works, about how it has been mismanaged?
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Ever been on DC MEtro? I was, got to ride a brand new line summer of 77. How do you feel about how poorly it works, about how it has been mismanaged?
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Is Donald Trump running for mayor of Washington, DC?

Does the state of the DC Metro stink right now? Sure does. Is that an indictment of government as a whole, or, better still, the "elites" you rail against every day while repeatedly changing the definition of "elites" to suit whatever pro-Trump argument you're making at the time? I don't think so.
 
Kobie said:
Is Donald Trump running for mayor of Washington, DC?

Does the state of the DC Metro stink right now? Sure does. Is that an indictment of government as a whole, or, better still, the "elites" you rail against every day while repeatedly changing the definition of "elites" to suit whatever pro-Trump argument you're making at the time? I don't think so.
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Just what I would expect out of you.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Heroes are people who accomplish against great odds gains for the collective regardless of their walk in life. I suspect that you are confusing the term hero with role model.

Trump is such a guy on both counts.
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:lamo This is so pathetic.
 
Kobie said:
Just what I would expect out of you ... a non-response.
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You want to make this all about me and Trump, when what it is all about is the failure of the elite, and how the people have gotten to ENOUGH!

Now look, I dont want to get infracted but I need to somehow communicate to you that if you expect a response out of me then you need to present something that is worth my time.

The fact that you have somehow still not understood what this thread is about according to me, the guy who started it, is a problem. You have pretty much lost my interest.

And I dont know how we are going to get past this.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
You make your calls, I make mine, that is how this works.

But you being civil and generous would me nice.
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I am being civil. Im just laughing at you. Too bad your great leader and his supporters cant forcefully throw me out.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
You want to make this all about me and Trump, when what it is all about is the failure of the elite, and how the people have gotten to ENOUGH!

Now look, I dont want to get infracted but I need to somehow communicate to you that if you expect a response out of me then you need to present something that is worth my time. The fact that you have somehow still not understood what this thread is about according to me, the guy who started it, is a problem. You have pretty much lost my interest.

And I dont know how we are going to get past this.
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Donald Trump is part of "the elite." Why you continue to pretend this isn't so is beyond me.

You are using an unfortunate public transit situation to rail against "the elite." Given your usual GO TRUMP GO rhetoric, constantly claiming that he is the anti-elite, then yes, don't be surprised when analysis of your posts comes down to Trump stuff. You made that bed.

Sure, this situation is bad, and politicians ****ed it up (largely by kicking the can down the road and making the Metro the next city administration's problem to pay for). None of this SCREW THE ELITE nonsense makes any sense whatsoever in this thread.
 
Kobie said:
Is Donald Trump running for mayor of Washington, DC?

Does the state of the DC Metro stink right now? Sure does. Is that an indictment of government as a whole, or, better still, the "elites" you rail against every day while repeatedly changing the definition of "elites" to suit whatever pro-Trump argument you're making at the time? I don't think so.
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You don't understand...

Donald will make the trains run on time!
 
Threegoofs said:
You don't understand...

Donald will make the trains run on time!
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That's what they said about Mussolini. Of course, Mussolini didn't make the trains on time, for largely the same reasons that a President Trump (HA HA) wouldn't be able to.
 
The Federal Transit Administration has highlighted more than 220 defects during a Metro inspection, according to a letter sent to Paul Wiedefeld, general manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
The letter, sent from Thomas Littleton, associate administrator for the FTA, identified critical concerns of the FTA regarding fire and safety equipment and worker protection that caused the agency to direct WMATA to take immediate action.
The FTA inspection found a high percentage of partially- or non-functioning lights on tunnel walls, discharged and expired fire extinguishers in the tunnels as well as material stored in emergency walkways and missing third rail safety coverboards.
“Specifically, as a communicated to you Friday, April 15, the FTA is directing WMATA immediately to: (1) inspect and correct the degraded condition of fire/life safety equipment and features in the Metrorail tunnels, and (2) conduct a safety briefing for all employees who work along the right-of-way, operate trains, or authorize train movements to make sure they understand the rules in place to protect workers on the tracks,” the letter stated.
Regarding worker safety, the inspection discovered speed restrictions by trains were not being followed as they approached work crews on the tracks, hand signals were not used correctly, and briefings did not alert crews when situations or protections changed.
The FTA directed WMATA to have a plan in place within 10 days to fix the safety features and conduct safety briefings for employees no later than Friday, April 22.
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FTA Directs WMATA to Fix Tunnel Safety, Worker Protection Issues | NBC4 Washington

It is now very clear that money is not the only problem with DC Metro, that they suffer from basic management failure as well.
 
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