- Black Lives Matter sign is seen at their home.
Posted on 09/30/2021 12:25:35 PM PDT by weston
“RE; Amtrak....I wonder what their ‘alternate’ transportation is/was.”
Several years ago we took
Amtrak from Pasco WA to Portland Or transferred to the Amtrak coming down from Seattle going to Sacramento CA. On the trip back because Amtrak does NOT own any of the rails they have to give the right of way to the freight trains. On coming back Amtrak had to pull over on a side rail a lot of times for the freight trains and this put our train way behind schedule to get to Portland in time to catch the train to Pasco. So they took us off the train in Klamath Falls, Or. put us on a Greyhound bus with some sandwiches and we were on our way directly to Pasco, WA. It was NOT what we were expecting 6 hr 30 min (386.5 mi) via US-97 N.
“they will be throwing a lot of folks at a wall to see who “sticks”.”
The GOPe never learns
Agree 100% with Roy
Go Amtrak....and, go Greyhound 🙃
(At least they gave you sandwiches, right? :) What a long day.
“At least they gave you sandwiches, right?”
Yes they did and they were very good sandwiches at that. :-)
Interesting link of those in transportation trying to fight the mandate.
https://www.usfreedomflyers.org/who-we-are/
- Black Lives Matter sign is seen at their home.
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Amen!
US nuclear submarine engineer and his wife are charged with passing secrets to a foreign government hidden in PEANUT BUTTER sandwiches after being paid $70,000 in crypto – but they were actually dealing with undercover FBI agents
Navy nuclear engineer Jonathan Toebe, 42, and wife, Diana, 49, were charged Saturday with selling secret information to an unidentified foreign country
Court records show that Toebe unwittingly communicated with FBI agents about these secrets in a scheme that stretched from December 2020 until now
Toebbe received separate cryptocurrency payments totalling $100,000, according to the Justice Department
The package sent in April, which had a return address in Pittsburgh, was obtained by the FBI last December, a month after the 2020 US Presidential election, through its legal attache office in the unspecified foreign country.
If you are extremely overweight—please do not think you have the authority to yell at people who are in shape and unvaccinated about trusting doctors, science, and preventable death.
A little self-awareness goes a very long way.— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) October 11, 2021
Amen!
It’s so backed up here at Dallas Airport there aren’t any hotel rooms. Haven’t slept at airport since I was in my 40’s. And I don’t have my luggage. What an adventure. 😂😂😂— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) October 11, 2021
I'm stuck in a city where I know no one, rental cars are sold out, hotels are full, and I may not be able to fly home due to the airline workers' strike against govt mandates.
I'm ELATED. I will take an uber, find a Red Roof Inn and crawl home if I have to. Keep the faith.✈️💚— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) October 11, 2021
Republican support in factory towns and rural areas has DOUBLED in comparison to Democrat gains in cities and college communities in another worrying sign for Biden’s party before 2022
By ELIZABETH ELKIND, POLITICS REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:39 EDT, 8 October 2021 | UPDATED: 19:48 EDT, 10 October 2021
People living in the American heartland - populations outside of urban centers that rely heaving on manufacturing - have been abandoning Democrats in favor of Republicans in droves, according to a new report exposing a weakness in President Biden’s party as the 2022 midterms loom.
‘Democrats have been hemorrhaging millions of votes in small and midsized working class counties,’ the 82-page report claims.
And those voters went straight to Trump in 2016 and 2020. Nearly 40 percent of GOP gains from 2012 to 2020 were in these areas alone.
Working-class towns where manufacturing jobs dominate the local economy are difficult to place in the usual electorate classifications that rely on geography. They are too far outside of urban centers to be considered suburbs, and are not rural farming communities.
After helping elect former President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 this voting block swung heavily toward Trump in 2016.
‘The hit we took in small and midsized manufacturing counties was the biggest reason Trump won the presidency in 2016 and almost did it again in 2020,’ the report’s summary reads.
Biden in 2020 did do slightly better than Hillary Clinton, but not well enough - Democrats’ hard-won urban and suburban increases were outpaced by losses at a 2:1 margin in those areas.
It’s the latest sign of Democrats’ declining appeal amid sinking poll numbers for the top three Democrats in Washington with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi all grappling with their diminished likeability.
But the report, commissioned by political group 21st Century Democrats, shows signs of a larger disconnect that’s been years in the making.
‘We just quit showing up,’ John Pouland of 21st Century Democrats told DailyMail.com. ‘You’ve got to show up to win, and - you don’t even have to win. You just got to do better.’
‘You’ve got to start showing up and start doing better, and that’s the only way it’s going to turn around.’
Ten states with ‘factory town’ communities are studied including the critical battleground states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
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Good morning, lysie!
I’m not quite sure what that is but the fruit sure looks good, thanks.
One of those nights for me, up half the night.🙃
As much as I don’t like naps I may just have to try to get one today.
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