The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

[Kepler]

I really don’t understand why younger voters are so negative when it comes to Biden. Is it student loans or something more?

Relentless misinformation from propagandists enabled by people who vote for Susan Collins.

Look in the mirror, Concern Bro.

[rufus]

It was people from the right protesting her over the weekend not the left.

Why, she not crazy enough?

[unofan]

I'm not too sure what this project even is, but I'm puzzled about how it is that it's Mexico that gets to decide where a railroad line will be located in the U.S. I think the location of railroad lines is a pretty complicated process. I had some problems with a railroad one time and I seem to recall that it involved the Surface Transportation Board, along with the State government.

They get to decide where the border crossing is on their side. If New Mexico wants it, then nothing Texas can do about it.

[SJHovey]

They get to decide where the border crossing is on their side. If New Mexico wants it, then nothing Texas can do about it.

Yeah, that's great. Except there aren't any US lines that go down to the Mexican border in New Mexico, or any lines in Mexico that go up to the New Mexico border, unlike Texas where BNSF, Union Pacific and the Kansas Southern all operate.

[French Rage]

It's a new one they're building to eventually connect Mazatlan and Winnipeg.

[SJHovey]

It's a new one they're building to eventually connect Mazatlan and Winnipeg.

Seriously?

[walrus]

Not good: https://www.boston.com/news/politics...1=hp_secondary

I really don’t understand why younger voters are so negative when it comes to Biden. Is it student loans or something more?

This does not bode well for November.

I'd guess 6.20 /gallon diesel fuel will be a bigger issue come November.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Dean Philips showing the facts to Matt birk lol

https://twitter.com/deanbphillips/st...Ahb8a0rTgMQs2g

[Handyman]

Yeah, that's great. Except there aren't any US lines that go down to the Mexican border in New Mexico, or any lines in Mexico that go up to the New Mexico border, unlike Texas where BNSF, Union Pacific and the Kansas Southern all operate.

I bet if you think about it you can figure it out. Here is a clue...add the word "yet".

Texas nedded this to beef up funding for their dilapidated rail lines. That is now dead. New Mexico now has the ability to raise funds for it or get federal money. Abbot, again, cost Texas jobs and money.

[SJHovey]

I bet if you think about it you can figure it out. Here is a clue...add the word "yet".

Texas nedded this to beef up funding for their dilapidated rail lines. That is now dead. New Mexico now has the ability to raise funds for it or get federal money. Abbot, again, cost Texas jobs and money.

None of that makes any sense.

First, Texas doesn't have "dilapidated rail lines." They don't have any rail lines at all. Rail lines are privately owned.

Second, do you think Union Pacific or some company that actually owns rail lines is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars (or more likely, billions of dollars) to build new lines in New Mexico just because the Governor of Texas and the President of Mexico are in some political pizzing match? When was the last time you actually saw a new rail line constructed? I'm not talking about a few miles of street car lines like in the Twin Cities. I'm talking about honest to good rail lines, where you are driving across that countryside and thought, "huh, when did they put those rail lines in?" I'm going with "never." Not when they already have perfectly good, working rail lines to and from Mexico already in place.

Third, have you ever seen where trains enter the country from Mexico? This isn't like crossing the Canadian border in Pembina, ND in your '14 Camry. They have a giant, secure area, fenced in, well lit, where the trains are brought in and stopped. The Border Patrol then does a close inspection. Then the railroad security does an inspection. The frigging trains are x-rayed from front to back. Thermal imaging is then used. Finally, they run through the dogs.

You think they're going to set up one of these complexes on the border in New Mexico, a state that doesn't even have a town of 50 residents on its border, when they already have perfectly good security complexes (and people to work them) in actual cities elsewhere?

Here is what this smells like to me, although honestly I have no working knowledge of Mexican politics. This smells like a situation where the President of Mexico promised a "train to Winnipeg" (I don't know, maybe like a border wall), and is now going to use this to derail (pun intended) a plan that was never going to happen.

[aparch]

Correct, in that it's still in the design phase. But it's for a proposes link from the Pacific port of Mazatlan to Winnipeg.

it appears that existing rail traffic is funneled toward the middle of Mexico (San Luis) then North, which is why Texas is the brunt of the crossings. The other main line follows the Pacific coast to Tijuana.

The proposed route appears to use rail lines between the two big routes and go from Salamanca to Torreon to Ciudad Juarez.

The No-Texas alternate route looks to get to that point, then swing 20 miles west around the tip of El Paso and fall more in line with Las Cruces NM.

In fact, a quick trip to Google Maps of the area shows BNSF with a huge yard in Santa Teresa. Depending on who they get trackage right agreements from, they can just use BNSF routing up to Albuquerque, then to Kansas City, then to Winnipeg. UPRR would be more direct from El Paso to Kansas City.

I can guarantee you that UPRR, or any of them, would absolutely build new lines if it meant they were able to speed up shipping. In fact, I've watched them hold up a federal interstate project AND an airport expansion because they "might expand a rail yard."

[ScoobyDoo]

They're going to do whatever makes them the most money. If they think leaving Texas will do that, they're gone. Texas is going to be missing a lot of companies and tax income in a few years.

[joecct]

Baltimore city schools.

https://wjla.com/news/local/baltimor...passes-classes

[Handyman]

That smells of fraud to me. They wanted the money for his attendance and figured his parents wouldn't make a fuss if the teachers passed him.

[French Rage]

[Her son, Qwantay Spearman, has physical disabilities. He attends ConneXions, a charter school in West Baltimore, where he’s thrived, earning a 3.7 grade point average, until this year.

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