☭POLITICS☭: Election Season Hell

[johnny two cool]

U.S. Reps. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) and Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) last week introduced the Rail Passenger Fairness Act legislation to help Amtrak improve on-time performance across the country.

The bill would provide Amtrak the ability to take freight railroads to court to enforce current law that requires freight trains to give Amtrak trains preference when operating on those freight-rail lines. If the bill becomes law, it would help reduce Amtrak delays, hold freight railroad corporations accountable and save public money, the congressmen said in a press release.

"As a frequent commuter on Amtrak from my district to Washington, D.C., I have an acute firsthand understanding of how rail delays can adversely impact passengers and commerce,” said Boyle. “This legislation will provide railway passengers with additional safeguards from unanticipated rail delays and cancellations. Strengthening the rights of railway passengers only enhances customer satisfaction and trust in public transport and rail systems.”

In 1973, Congress passed the Amtrak Improvement Act, which mandated that intercity and commuter passenger rail be given preference over freight railroads in using a rail line. Freight railroads sometimes disregard the law, which results in Amtrak service delays.

Freight train interference was the cause of the majority of Amtrak’s delays in recent years; in 2023 the interference amounted to 900,000 minutes of delay for Amtrak riders, the lawmakers said.

www.progressiverailroading.com/federal_legislation_regulation/news/Bill-would-let-Amtrak-fight-freight-railroads-in-court-over-late-passenger-trains--73076


ugghhhhh i hate democrats i hate them so frickin muuuuuuuuch UGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[solidsnake]

Oct 16, 2024 12:34:31 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

As a side note I wish I could feel half the enthusiasm third party voters feel when their candidate declares their intention to do something they will absolutely not do. Got your third party candidates with very lofty goals about zero emissions this and that and housing for everyone with literally no one in the campaign with a clue of how to go about that. Oh, you're going to ban blackrock? Wow, I'm thrilled to see the absolutely negligible effect that will have on anything.

Third parties sometimes operate from the understanding that money and laws aren’t real. As long as you believe in something, it can be made manifest cuz it ought to be. The blessing of zero responsibility is you don’t have to contend with the world as it is.

[boundforgloryhole]

[YouMe&Violence]

Oct 16, 2024 15:27:08 GMT -5 boundforgloryhole said:

My mom hit David Duke with a grocery cart in Walmart.

[killedbyboard]

Oct 16, 2024 15:27:08 GMT -5 boundforgloryhole said:

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

Feels like the Venn diagram for "David Duke/Hitler was a good person" people and folks who fall for pyramid schemes/Herbalife is a perfect circle.

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[carl carlson]

how seriously can u take anyone w a blue checkmark on twitter at this point

[meatballmaniac]

Twitter stinks and is fake and desighned to rile us up and make us hate our neighbors.

[thefarce]

Oct 16, 2024 15:35:08 GMT -5 YouMe&Violence said:

Oct 16, 2024 15:27:08 GMT -5 boundforgloryhole said:

My mom hit David Duke with a grocery cart in Walmart.

Shame it wasn't a Silverado

[killedbyboard]

Oct 16, 2024 16:05:34 GMT -5 meatballmaniac said:

Twitter stinks and is fake and desighned to rile us up and make us hate our neighbors.

I know that's right

[boundforgloryhole]

Oct 16, 2024 15:35:08 GMT -5 YouMe&Violence said:

Oct 16, 2024 15:27:08 GMT -5 boundforgloryhole said:

My mom hit David Duke with a grocery cart in Walmart.

Queen shit

[JDS]

Oct 16, 2024 15:58:35 GMT -5 carl carlson said:

how seriously can u take anyone

[itii]

Oct 16, 2024 16:05:34 GMT -5 meatballmaniac said:

Twitter stinks and is fake and desighned to rile us up and make us hate our neighbors.

I don't need new reasons to hate the average american

[meatballmaniac]

Oct 16, 2024 17:20:54 GMT -5 itii said:

Oct 16, 2024 16:05:34 GMT -5 meatballmaniac said:

Twitter stinks and is fake and desighned to rile us up and make us hate our neighbors.

I don't need new reasons to hate the average american

im cool with everyone

[itii]

Oct 16, 2024 17:30:40 GMT -5 meatballmaniac said:

Oct 16, 2024 17:20:54 GMT -5 itii said:

I don't need new reasons to hate the average american

im cool with everyone

That show's a lack of integrity

[meatballmaniac]

Oct 16, 2024 17:36:45 GMT -5 itii said:

Oct 16, 2024 17:30:40 GMT -5 meatballmaniac said:

im cool with everyone

That show's a lack of integrity

I listened to Humanity is the Devil a couple few times, but for the most part you’re right.

[johnny two cool]

Oct 16, 2024 16:05:34 GMT -5 meatballmaniac said:

Twitter stinks and is fake and desighned to rile us up and make us hate our neighbors.

but it’s fun

[meatballmaniac]

Oct 16, 2024 17:49:49 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

Oct 16, 2024 16:05:34 GMT -5 meatballmaniac said:

Twitter stinks and is fake and desighned to rile us up and make us hate our neighbors.

but it’s fun

I disagree, brother. If you ask me, I think the whole internet should go jump in a lake.

[meatballmaniac]

More impotently, why didn’t you address my valid concerns about your portrayal of barbecue sauce in the pole?

[Aaron]

Elon definitely ruined the platform, which is an understatement. It’s also a shithole of bots and unhinged mutants. I love it. It’s the place for real and fake hard-rockers alike.

[johnny two cool]

make your own fucking poll

[carl carlson]

david duke is a sensitive man

[meatballmaniac]

Oct 16, 2024 17:57:23 GMT -5 carl carlson said:

david duke is a sensitive man

sensitive to dark skin 4 sure

[meatballmaniac]

Oct 16, 2024 17:57:14 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

make your own fucking poll

the profanity is uncalled for

[theywalkedinline]

Oct 16, 2024 15:27:08 GMT -5 boundforgloryhole said:

Didn’t know that’s why he was labeled a white supremacist. I thought it was the whole grand wizard of the KKK thing.

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

Do you guys ever wonder how they're gonna eventually make like... Ken Burns' The Civil War type documentaries about this entire Trump fever dream? Or like, how the fuck will they ever make an accurate Twitter documentary that everybody will be happy with?

[Sorley Boy]

I wonder if they will honestly. Besides Jan. 6th he hasn't really done anything of historical note, he's just dumb as fuck even by American political standards.

[theywalkedinline]

Oct 16, 2024 21:55:28 GMT -5 Sorley Boy said:

I wonder if they will honestly. Besides Jan. 6th he hasn't really done anything of historical note, he's just dumb as fuck even by American political standards.

Hopefully they do a whole episode on him dancing to his spotify playlist. Other than that, I think you're right. I think the documentary would have to be about the brainworm epidemic of the last decade. 

Narrated Civil War style. 

[thefarce]

Oct 16, 2024 21:53:21 GMT -5 Percussionist Foster Grant said:

Do you guys ever wonder how they're gonna eventually make like... Ken Burns' The Civil War type documentaries about this entire Trump fever dream? Or like, how the fuck will they ever make an accurate Twitter documentary that everybody will be happy with?

Ken Burns explains rare pepes

[itii]

I mean, trump is a symptom not a cause...