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LinkedIn post:

I read the two orders issued by USDOT Secretary Duffy on his first day on the job yesterday, and the most concerning part to me as it relates to FRA-funded passenger rail development efforts (particularly the Corridor ID Program, which funds most of the projects I currently work on) is that it seems one of the administration's policy priorities is not to fund any projects that don't show a benefit:cost ratio (BCR) of greater than 1 (having estimated monetized benefits that exceed estimated costs) using a traditional benefit-cost analysis (BCA).

To add to this, the administration likely won't allow climate or emissions reduction or racial equity benefits to be considered in the BCA. Passenger rail projects rarely show a BCR of greater than 1 using a traditional BCA, because the vast majority of the benefits they produce accrue to the local economies of the communities they serve, result from taking cars off the road, or are otherwise difficult or impossible to capture in a traditional BCA. Under Biden, FRA was working on guidance that would have replaced the traditional BCA with broader 'economic impact analysis' for passenger rail projects - an effort I strongly support. I'm afraid that effort now won't come to fruition.

So even if this administration keeps all of FRA's grant programs in place, if they strictly apply this new BCA standard while ignoring climate/emissions and equity benefits, hardly any passenger rail projects will be able to get funding for implementation. I hope I'm wrong.

(Also worth noting that all the 'anti-woke' nonsense in these orders may spell the end of USDOT efforts focused on racial and gender equity and justice. Ugh.)

How does one say "Bend the knee" in Spanish?

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

See, Canada, that wasn't too hard, was it?

So what I would like to know is:

Where da fuck are Trump's latest poll numbers?

I can't find any for the past two weeks. And we all damn well know polls were taken. They always do.

If they were bad, they'd be broadcasted 24-7 on PMSNBC and CNN and Bluepedosky

I do know the Dems are at only 31% favorability, the worst this century.

AmericanKulak says

If they were bad, they'd be broadcasted 24-7 on PMSNBC and CNN and Bluepedosky

I do know the Dems are at only 31% favorability, the worst this century.

Exactly!

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

AmericanKulak says

If they were bad, they'd be broadcasted 24-7 on PMSNBC and CNN and Bluepedosky

I do know the Dems are at only 31% favorability, the worst this century.

Exactly!

Oops!

One slipped thru!



https://issuesinsights.com/2025/02/03/trumps-executive-orders-have-solid-voter-backing-ii-tipp-poll/

HeadSet says

Ceffer says

"You're going to fap so much, your hands will become hairy, calloused mitts and you will be proud of them!"

And blind.

Remember, you can slow down if you start needing glasses.

Today Trudeau's CANADA caved

Next Up:
Dept of Ed?!
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1886549708069388669

US Sovereign Wealth Fund (like filthy rich Norway's)
https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1886545880188158259

Holy Shit #1342 of first 30 days of Trump

JUST IN: Dozens of Dept of Education employees have been placed on leave in connection with Trump's EO to eliminate DEI. - ABC

Today WSJ reported that Trump is weighing a plan to dismantle the Dept of Education.

It's finally happening 👀

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1886549708069388669

I think citizens are just sick of gays and this trans shit. I don't know a single racist currently. My grandma died 5 years ago...

No one cares about gays. They can go do what they want. At what point in modern history has anything stopped them besides AIDS? It's like watching someone puke. I'm out, have fun. That's my vibe towards gays even have a couple gay friends. Though they're not the bombastic types. You wouldn't know if you met them.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/education-department-trump-executive-order-eeaf1cb6

AmericanKulak says

HOLY SHIT


What next, tariff Turkey until they surrender their imperialist-colonialist conquest of Constantinople?

It was only a few years before Spain in the New World, so why not?

Are you being sarcastic? How is Trump wrong? This is happening NOW, not 100s of years ago.

GNL says

Are you being sarcastic? How is Trump wrong? This is happening NOW, not 100s of years ago.

No. Nobody ever wanted to talk about how racist anti-White South Africa got. Hell, Bono and the UN and everybody were making light of it.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Good solution. If implemented it will give them meaningful flow of US weaponry (not Potato's niggardly drip feed) AND free them from any obligations under the NNPT.

RWSGFY says

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Good solution. If implemented it will give them meaningful flow of US weaponry (not Potato's niggardly drip feed) AND free them from any obligations under the NNPT.

Soooo, keep the war going? How about, rare earth for what's already been given? Then stop giving.

AmericanKulak says

No. Nobody ever wanted to talk about how racist anti-White South Africa got. Hell, Bono and the UN and everybody were making light of it.

Forgot to add: Part of the Apartheid Deal was constitutional assurances there would be no uncompensated land transfers.

From LinkedIn. Note that she was responsible for turning Seattle into a shithole previously.:

On Friday night I was (unjustly, I believe) terminated as an Assistant United States Attorney. Not to denigrate prior employers or colleagues whatsoever, but this was the best job I have ever had, and my coworkers and I were fired not for doing it poorly, but for doing it too well. Professionally, I have never been more proud than when I uttered the words, “Mindy Deranek for the United States of America.” To the victims who protected the Capitol and those inside on January 6, 2021, thank you for your service, then and now, and for trusting us to help tell your stories and create the official record of what happened there that day; that cannot be erased. To my coworkers, I am so honored to have worked with such a talented and dedicated team. We did good and important work, and I love and miss you all.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

n Friday night I was (unjustly, I believe) terminated as an Assistant United States Attorney. Not to denigrate prior employers or colleagues whatsoever, but this was the best job I have ever had, and my coworkers and I were fired not for doing it poorly, but for doing it too well.

No. She was fired for misleading her bosses about what was feasible and not feasible, for providing precedent that pushed the Leftoid view while refusing to provide contrary prcedent that would assist her Trump appointed boss' policies and desires.

This is covered here:
https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/20222702-federal-bureaucrats-resisted-president-trump

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

El Salvador offers to take US prisoners...

GNL says

Soooo, keep the war going? How about, rare earth for what's already been given? Then stop giving.

how about telling them you will give them money for their rare earth but we want rare earth now for what we have already given you...then we will buy more.. once the accounts are settled, we can continue to buy and ukraine can spend the money on whatever they want.

Trump has been moving so fast, the Mockingbird MSM and world wide ANTI press have had a hard time keeping up and producing counter narrative disinformations and TDS lies. I guess blitzkriegs have their advantages.
Trump is going after the fountainheads of fiat bucks that keep the madness going. He's going after their arteries rather than little sorties on the peripheral veins.

The now traditional lying media stunts protecting their corruptions are symptoms that the boils of government are being lanced. Don't send them strongly worded letters or appeals to their basic morality and ethics, take away their money sources and let them expose themselves with their squealing.

Don't forget the dead people and the truckloads of pre-printed election ballots.

https://t.me/BannonWarRoom/63033

Ooooooohhhhh. The baby cries. Hold on let me post this in 3 threads.

WookieMan says

Ooooooohhhhh. The baby cries. Hold on let me post this in 3 threads.

@Patrick now he's doing what he falsely accuses me of doing.

Trump Rex

Ceffer says

Pretty sure that's fake.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

This is also YUGE.

I think Trump removed the "De Minimus" exception to the tariff.

Patrick says

Ceffer says

Pretty sure that's fake.

Yup, it's fake:

https://patrick.net/post/1383475

Dems filing for Articles of Impeachment (again).

The Wolfman called; he wants his face back.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/doge-days-wednesday-february-5-2025

If the passionate and plain-spoken young lady in the next clip is any sign, the Democrats are badly misreading the room by targeting Elon Musk as the villain (instead of the politically untouchable President Trump). Warning: She uses lots of adult language liberally (but appropriately).

https://nitter.poast.org/elonmusk/status/1887037017361420749




“You democrats are literally trying to shoot the f— messenger!” This kind of clip is why they want to shut down TikTok.

The debate over DOGE is dividing people into two camps. The majority of the country includes we sane people, people of common sense, such as the salty young lady in the clip. And then there is a much smaller but usually much louder group of people who have permanent rooms on board the gravy train. Since DOGE threatens to evict all the freeloaders, they are freaking out. A serious showdown is coming, and we all must prepare for the fight.

What I loved about this TikTok video is what it represents. It signals a kind of turning point where the victim-grouping and race-baiting and identity politics are all failing. Americans are rallying together against the left. Leftism no longer occupies the high ground of coolness and fashion. Leftism increasingly represents a frustrating annoyance for everyone, like a drunk second cousin at a child’s birthday party.

For once in our lifetimes, and maybe since the Founding, the good guys finally have a fighting chance. Trump’s order of operations is extremely promising, as in first dismantling USAID and disorganizing the FBI before tackling the CIA. It is a masterpiece of military maneuver, a carefully sequenced strategy to weaken the enemy before bringing a direct fight.