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🚨 BREAKING: It happened - President Trump officially CANCELS funding for California Governor Gavin Newsom's failed "high speed train" project.
X ^ | 7/16/25 | Eric Daugherty

Posted on 07/16/2025 4:56:52 PM PDT by traderrob6

"This boondoggle, led by the incompetent Governor of California, Gavin Newscum, has cost Taxpayers Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we have received NOTHING in return except Cost Overruns."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
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To: traderrob6

Long past due. CA taxpayers should stand in line to congratulate President Trump.


61 posted on 07/16/2025 7:00:50 PM PDT by gildafarrell (e)
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To: DAC21

and the NGO money has dried up.


62 posted on 07/16/2025 7:03:16 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: Beowulf9

47 86’d that


63 posted on 07/16/2025 7:04:30 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: lewislynn

Don’t dishonestly accuse me of that
you know damn well that’s not the case, so what’s your motivation ?


64 posted on 07/16/2025 7:05:47 PM PDT by A strike (unfortunately PDJT is continuing the UKUS v Russia war)
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To: A strike

projected completion with overruns if continued


65 posted on 07/16/2025 7:07:43 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: hanamizu

“Number of feet of rail laid—zero.”

Number of Newscum and Pelosi cronies enriched - ~50.


66 posted on 07/16/2025 7:12:17 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: traderrob6

Illegals would ride free.


67 posted on 07/16/2025 7:14:38 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: lastchance

He has put the HSR through a rigorous audit to see if they have met the required terms of moneys already granted. They flunked the audit. There is some kind of clause that says if they don’t meet the terms of the agreement, further funding can be cancelled.


68 posted on 07/16/2025 7:17:50 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: traderrob6

And how much of the cost overruns have gone into Newscums pocket?


69 posted on 07/16/2025 7:25:37 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: bdfromlv

😆👍


70 posted on 07/16/2025 7:26:36 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Uncle Miltie
Willie Green deeply saddened (RIP)

I was not aware that Willie had boarded that long, black train.

71 posted on 07/16/2025 7:32:22 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Charles Martel

Pretty sure I heard that about a decade ago.


72 posted on 07/16/2025 7:49:20 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Angelino97’s 100% anti-Semitic lie: “Settlers tend to be ultra-Orthodox Jews, armed with Uzis.”)
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To: Charles Martel

How’s that whole kicking the Moors out of France going for you, anyhow?

Just got back from a 2 week bike trip in the Massif Central then down the Rhone to Avignon and Nimes. Everything was okay until Nimes, where your Jewish Correspondent found himself speedily pedaling 15 minutes through Arabia to safety.


73 posted on 07/16/2025 7:52:31 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Angelino97’s 100% anti-Semitic lie: “Settlers tend to be ultra-Orthodox Jews, armed with Uzis.”)
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To: traderrob6

Newscum’s presidential run donors will not be pleased ... the gravy train has been derailed.


74 posted on 07/16/2025 7:57:03 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Good.


75 posted on 07/16/2025 8:18:45 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: faithhopecharity
Yay! Billions poured horn that ray hole for nothing except graft and political Corruption

As was always intended. Democrats are evil not stupid. The Kalifornistan politicians were just as capable of seeing that it would never be finished as anyone else. It’s their base that is stupid, crazy, or stupid and crazy*. I’m sure that in Sacramento there was no real desire to build the thing, but only to keep the river of taxpayer millions flowing to their donors so that the kickbacks kept flowing into their pockets.

*academics and government “workers” are another category. It’s in their best economic interests to vote Democrat because the public trough that academics swill in is always overflowing with taxpayer’s hard earned pelf with Democrats in power and there are many more opportunities for raises and advancement for government apparatchiks when the party of unlimited government is in charge.

76 posted on 07/16/2025 8:51:32 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Dominic01

The Epstein stuff is a totally insignificant distraction that has absolutely no effect on our country orchestrated by people who want Republicans to spin their wheels and accomplish nothing of Trump’s real agenda. And I’m beginning to think that Pam Barbie is in over her head.


77 posted on 07/16/2025 9:02:20 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: from occupied ga

understood.

there were some folks who liked the idea of a train...
even tho there was no politically acceptable or feasible route into San Francisco (that was OK, just get the damned train into San Jose (expensive route through mountains, northern California’s largest city anyway, with cross-platform transfers to the local passenger train into San Fransicko) and the route into Los Angeles was obviously extremely expensive due to mountainous terrain

So, basically ten zillion tax payer dollars for a choo choo between Bakersfield and San Jose (not a bad thing, but priced in the stratosphere)

and it was widely known that the then-Calif senator sponsoring federal funding for this boondoggle was making $$$ off it (via husband’s business interests)...this was the big push for it


78 posted on 07/16/2025 9:03:06 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: PeterPrinciple

Probably a paid rent a mob financed by the contractors on the gravy train.


79 posted on 07/16/2025 9:05:55 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: lee martell
I knew the ‘Speed Train” was unworkable back when Gov. Jerry Brown was raving about it.

So did everyone else including Jerry Brown.

80 posted on 07/16/2025 9:08:59 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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