Trump At CPAC: Democrats Want Funding For A Train From California To Hawaii

[CatWoman]

Link to tweet

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Trains to Hawaii?????

[jberryhill]

4. Well...

https://www.americabyrail.com/AllTours/Hawaii-by-Rail--2018-510.aspx

DAY 1: DEPART CHICAGO

Hawaii by Rail tour members will meet the Tour Director in Chicago’s Union Station. The Metropolitan Lounge will be our base in Chicago. The Willis Tower, one of the world’s tallest buildings, is close by. Other Chicago attractions are a brief cab ride away.

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The rest at the link.

[mwooldri]

7. Freddie Laker comes back from the grave!

The Skytrain was a service between London and New York. Of course it was a plane, not a train...

Freddie Laker would probably love to see a Skytrain to Hawaii...

I know it's a bit off topic but ...

[Volaris]

17. I'd spend a trillion tax dollars on a stable floating high speed rail line to the most western state

Their tourism economy would probably triple in less than a week.

What you doin for the weekend?
Taking off Thursday and Monday for a short vacation.
What you doing with it?
Taking the train to Hawaii to go surfing.
You live in CHICAGO.
I know. Isn't it awesome?

[brush]

30. And the fast train (aka, high-speed rail) was to be LA to Vegas.

He screws everything up with his lies.

[ck4829]

2. If it was feasible, it would actually be pretty awesome

[leftieNanner]

16. I totally agree

Train travel is so civilized. I fly because I like to go places, but I'm not fond of flying itself.

My daughters went to college on the East Coast (we live in the west) and then they stayed there, the little rats! So I fly. If it didn't take three days and cost a ton of money, I would take the train.

[Hortensis]

3. Lol. Apparently there's a train project in HI.

Construction problems are all blamed on Democrats.

Idiot in Chief didn't understand what it was all about, except the Democrats part of course.

[mahina]

29. It's a city and county of Honolulu, nonpartisan

And it sucks.

[onecaliberal]

5. God he's a dumb fuck.

[lunasun]

18. The people there laughing at this are even dumber

[onecaliberal]

23. No question. Theater of the absurd.

[freedom2020]

6. this is Trump's

attempt to criticize AOC's Green New Deal.

Specifically the part that say that says

Totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle
manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out highspeed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary, create
affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every
combustion-engine vehicle

It does seem to call for high-speed rail to replace air travel completely.

[Volaris]

21. That would be badass

The rich would still fly, airfare would quadruple, and I'd be just fine with that.

[brush]

31. Most I agree with but getting rid of air travel makes no sense...

Most don't have time to sit on a train for 2-3 days when a plane can get you somewhere in a few hours.

High-speed rail, sure. It will serve purpose, but so does air travel. A green new deal has to make sense, not just be a romantic vision of what train travel used to be. High-speeed rail and air travel co-exist in Europe, why should one replace the other?

[Caliman73]

39. "stops becoming necessary" is not "replacing completely"

The proposal is likely not worded in the best way but nobody should be naive enough to think they are talking about eliminating ALL air travel. They likely meant domestic air travel. People jump on planes from Boston to New York or from LA to San Francisco every day. Those short jump flights are incredibly taxing on the environment. If a network of high speed rail can be established that reduces the travel time between those short jump cities, then it would give travelers another very viable option that would eventually eliminate those routes. If sufficient infrastructure could be built across the nation, then eventually it would make air travel less necessary and less profitable.

Right now in California, you either fly for an hour and a half or you drive for upwards of 6.5 hours to go from cities in the north to the south. The California project would have shortened a main travel point to 2 hours. That would have allowed me to visit my family at least a couple times a month.

[UniteFightBack]

8. This is a lie...we want it to go to Australia. nt

[ck4829]

9. With Soros Bucks, we can make it go from the West Coast to the East Coast... the long way

[CatWoman]

14. G'Day, Mate

[watoos]

10. This has to be from the Onion?

Someone needs to give him antibiotics, his syphilis is spreading.

[jmowreader]

37. Antibiotics won't cure that degree of syphilis

For that you need iron...the kind cell doors are made of.

[Iliyah]

11. And the crowd ate it up . . .

[lindysalsagal]

12. I want a train to the planet where

no one is dumb enough to vote for our gop.

[asiliveandbreathe]

15. I can't wait for a cartoonist to work that train in....perhaps Jim Kerry could bring it to

life....3--2--1----…

You made me LOL....

[Scurrilous]

20. LOL

[lame54]

13. As silly as a giant wall

[itsrobert]

19. Trump is playing 5 Dimensional chess

He is actually in the 5th dimension

[panader0]

22. You drive the train onto a ship and sail to Hawaii.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

24. Crap! Who told Fat Donnie about our plans for an underwater train?

Did someone leak the secret video of the scale model?

Actually, China has floated the idea of an underwater train to America:

Next thing you know someone will want to build a tunnel for ships...

[Initech]

25. Da fuq???

[love_katz]

26. Bwhahahaha!

ROFLMAO! Off to the Greatest Page with this thread.

[mahina]

27. Fucking dolt.

[GoCubsGo]

28. His Adderal must be tainted.

The sad thing is that all those morons in the audience lapped up this shit like it was champagne and caviar.

[TlalocW]

32. I'd rather have the pneumatic tubes from Futurama

I'm sure one could be built that connects the west coast to Hawaii.

TlalocW

[liberalmuse]

33. He's Austin Power's father.

This is ridiculous.

[haele]

34. I once used the Federal Gov. travel site to schedule a Hawaii work trip

And Amtrac was one of the authorized ways to get there. There was no way to actually book a ticket, though.
Just a glitch in the system at that time. I think it's been fixed by now - that was 15 years ago

Haele

[underpants]

35. Did his "guys in Hawaii" tell him this?

[oasis]

36. Uncovered while looking for Obama's birth certificate.

[struggle4progress]

38. People, get ready