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2024-02-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Tucker Carlson visits Moscow Metro station (short video)

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-16 00:55|| || Front Page|| [29 views ] Top

#1 Wasn't it Mussolini that made the trains run on time?

Posted by AlanC 2024-02-16 10:51|| 2024-02-16 10:51|| Front Page Top

#2 I see this more as an indictment of America and American politicians than an endorsement of Russian dictators.

I was watching Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest the other day on TCM. The movie showed Cary Grant in New York's Grand Central Station and on board a train bound for Chicago. Everything was clean. There was no graffiti, no hobos, no rats, no trash. Of course that's just a movie from 1959 but what would today's movies show? Oh, I know. They'd show low-life barbarians getting into brawls at the airport. Now it's not just the trains that are dirty, crowded and unreliable, it's the airplanes. To me that's an indication of a society in decline.

I saw the same thing for myself in Japan. Their trains are clean and always on time. They run like clockwork. I compare that with the San Diego Trolley and it makes me depressed. I'm confronted with the fact that they are more civilized than we are and the Japanese manage it without resorting to dictatorship.

I get another hint from Tucker's video: economic sanctions are not only chickenshit but they are totally ineffective.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-02-16 11:54|| 2024-02-16 11:54|| Front Page Top

#3 #2 Yes, One thing people notice when getting older you have time to compare before and after. Retired police or Fema each say what is this country becoming. It didn't take long for our infrastructure to crumble.

Posted by Dale 2024-02-16 12:38|| 2024-02-16 12:38|| Front Page Top

#4 When you allow anything,
anything becomes the rule.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-16 14:51|| 2024-02-16 14:51|| Front Page Top

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