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Posted on 08/31/2026 6:44:21 PM PDT by ransomnote
Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see.
3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDT
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).
>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).
>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).
>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be resistant to blindly accepting fact-less statements).
>Decide for yourself (be free)
Those who attack you.
Those who mock you.
Those who cull you.
Those who control you.
Those who label you.
Do they represent you?
Or, do they represent themselves (in some form)?
Mental Enslavement.
The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).
When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable.
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
When you are awake, you are able to clearly see.
The choice is yours, and yours alone.
Trust and put faith in yourself.
You are not alone and you are not in the minority.
Difficult truths will soon see the light of day.
WWG1WGA!!!Q
In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.
Where We Go 1, We Go All
Funny Frank
Thank you for that clarification!
Re Last Straw:
Hhhmmm. Bars? Someone being jailed? A redhead being jailed?
The straws are red and gold—the royal colors.
When someone is bagged, he is caught.
Who wants that 5K from Uncle Sugar - or do you feel the Unk has doled out way too moolah already? ***
Now I know what you were talking about. 🤔 When Prez Trump said on Truth Social early in this second term that he wanted to give all citizens $1.5k from his (then) tariff boondoggle, I posted back that I could use the money but I would rather see the money applied to the national debt. Perhaps others followed suit because I never heard any more about the $1.5k giveaway.
A $5k giveaway? I am wondering if PDJT is getting soft in the head. 🗿
Maker’s Mark makes me time travel...
A wonderful video. Years ago I had 6 goats; nothing like Frank though.
Prayers for your safe journey! May you see many wonders!
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Another California High Speed Rail Disaster: Brightline West Makes Federal Loan Bailout Request
The private venture market has effectively declined to fully fund this project, and now taxpayers are being asked to fill the gap the market would not
Excerpt:
California’s perpetually incomplete high-speed rail project has no operational trains and no high-speed track laid on the actual alignment, as of August 2026. Gov. Gavin Newsom has blown $18 billion on the High Speed Rail and the project is about to run out of money, the Globe reported in “Gavin’s High Speed Rail Disaster in August.” So the governor replaced the prior variable 25% share of Cap-and-Trade auction proceeds, which were set to expire in 2030, with a set $1 billion per year for high-speed rail starting in FY 2026-27 in the 2026-27 California budget, after the loss of roughly $4 billion in federal grants in 2025.
California’s High-Speed Rail boondoggle, voter approved in 2008 for a San Francisco to Los Angeles line, has been whittled down to a Merced-to-Bakersfield line, is now estimated to cost taxpayers more than $231 billion, up from its original $33.5 billion price tag when voters passed Proposition 1A.
It is 2026, eighteen years later, and still there are NO trains running and the project is bankrupt.
But wait – there’s more!
There is another failing California high-speed rail project, this one is to connect the suburb community of Rancho Cucamonga, CA to Las Vegas, NV, known as Brightline West.
Brightline West has been working under a series of financing deadlines tied to its existing bonds. Bondholders agreed in early August 2026 to push the Equity Contribution Condition Deadline from August 1 to September 10, 2026. That extension gave the company extra time to raise at least $400 million in additional equity (part of an earlier commitment) and to continue lining up the rest of its capital.
In 2025, the Globe reported that the Brightline West Rail Project unveiled higher than anticipated estimate ticket prices. But that was just the tip of the spear. Tickets were increasing to $119 for standard class and $133 for premium class one-way tickets. Before taxes, a bare bones, no parking included, round-trip ticket was going to cost a minimum of $238.
When you can fly from Ontario to Las Vegas for $66, why take an expensive train?
In October 2025, the U.S. Department of Transportation revealed that Brightline West submitted an unprecedented $6 billion federal taxpayer loan request to salvage the financially distressed project.
.....The audacious scale of this federal bailout request is unprecedented, as the largest-ever Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing (RIFF) loans ever previously approved were only for existing rail systems requiring rehabilitation and improvement, John Sitilides told the Globe. Sitilides is federal affairs advisor to ReRoute the Route, ReRoute the Route, a Texas business and civic coalition opposed to federal subsidies for the proposed Dallas to Houston high-speed rail project. Those were for three aggregate RRIF loans made in July 2024 totaling $4.06 billion to rehabilitate and expand the Hudson Tunnel Project between New York and New Jersey, and the $2.45 billion loan approved in 2016 to Amtrak to improve the Northeast Corridor and purchase 28 new Acela trainsets.
No other Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing loan has ever exceeded $1 billion, yet Brightline is requesting a $6 billion loan for a project not yet under construction and years away from a hoped-for completion. Brightline launched the project in 2020 as an $8 billion “private venture” with a projected completion within four years. At the time of launch, Brightline struggled to secure investors willing to purchase an initial $3.2 billion in bonds, due to institutional skepticism that the projected construction costs were unrealistically low and could not be covered by overly ambitious projected revenues.
“The Biden Administration sought to salvage the project in two tranches. In January 2024, the Department of Transportation approved $2.5 billion of private activity bonds for the project, and in September 2024, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg approved a $3 billion grant request,” Sitilides said. “The project’s original $8 billion costs have escalated dramatically to $21.5 billion, nearly tripling in just five years, due to rising construction expenses, labor shortages, and materials inflation. These challenges have strained funding sources, delayed timelines, and raised doubts about the project’s long-term viability and revenue projections.”
Its other project, Brightline Florida, has failed to meet revenue projections, has never turned a profit, and used financial reserves to cover interest payments. That’s why credit agencies downgraded Brightline’s debt to CCC- “deep junk” status and now warn of the company’s possible 2027 default.
Brightline Florida’s 2025 revenue was about $214 million—roughly one-third of the figures used in recent bond documents—and ridership of 3.1 million passengers was well below earlier projections. The company has posted large net losses every year of operation, including $549 million in 2024 and $233 million in 2025; it has never recorded an operating profit after depreciation and interest, according to the Palm Beach Post.
.....If federal funds have been cut from the State of California’s high speed rail, why should U.S. federal taxpayers be on the hook for an unprecedented $6 billion federal loan bailout to salvage the failing Brightline West high-speed rail project?
.....The original Brightline West “private venture” promise has effectively collapsed. The Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing request makes clear that the project, if built, can only move forward with monies largely from taxpayers and tax-exempt bonds.
The private venture market has effectively declined to fully fund this project, and now taxpayers are being asked to fill the gap the market would not.
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No and hell no no taxpayer money for California high speed rail of any type. Let them sink or swim without taxpayer assistance.
Lamoille, Nevada
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Pat,
“This trip I have begun is in a Volkswagen”
Thanks for posting about you trip, bookmarked the site.
Owned ‘71 & ‘86 Westfalia campers, awesome vehicles.
Traveling in a VW is always an experience because you need two to keep one running and you can only travel singularly.
Have fun!
I hope you have a wonderful trip!
I agree 100% regarding Brightline West. Their Florida rail line is operational, but isn’t seeing the necessary amount of ridership to survive. In essence, it’s like most of AMTRAK, big on railroad ‘coolness’ but not able to sustain itself.
If passenger service were viable, Norfolk & Southern, CSX, and BNSF would all be running passenger service. But they’re not because not enough people want to ride the train.
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