I am ok if this works.
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Hey, the trains here go that fast too
If it has Trump's name on it it will either be a scam or a fantastic failure. When has anything he was involved in been anything else?
Don't worry it will be bankrupt in no time like all the other Trump stuff including Casinos.
How can you bankrupt a casino? How do you find against math itself and win?
How can you bankrupt a casino?
All of Atlantic City basically collapsed on itself as Vegas siphoned away the high rollers.
Trump thought he could buy into an old casino and revitalize it. But he's Trump, so he did it all wrong and just got to ride the crash all the way into the dirt.
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He is fighting against math right now. Maybe the real game with the tariffs is market manipulation.
Two casinos.
And the answer to your question is money laundering.
If money laundering bankrupted casinos, then Las Vegas would be just another ghost town in the desert. It takes a special level of stupid to bankrupt a casino. Especially if you are using it to launder money.
It was actually 4 casinos.
https://news.temple.edu/news/2016-10-25/bankruptcy-expert-studies-trump-casinos
Those Las Vegas casinos you are referring to are in compliance with money laundering laws. Trump's were not.
If you're not taking in enough to cover the amount of money laundering you're doing, you'll end up with a loss on the books.
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It's high speed rail. I'm guessing the general attitude in here is that we don't want this to fail.
Deadass im okay with naming it the trump train we can rename it later it would 100% get him to build it
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Musk sabotaging this "centuries old technology" based project in 3...
What if we made the Trump train... But instead of a train it was a car and instead of a railroad it's a street.
Actually, Musk would embrace it and claim to invent the whole concept, say that no one has ever done it before, even while just rebranding a Siemens Mireo: https://tech.yahoo.com/transportation/articles/tesla-launches-worlds-first-electric-111535136.html
The only reason Trump wants to do this, is because Elon would get the contract. Just another way to funnel taxpayer money into the hands of the PayPal Mafia.
Hitler made the trains run on time.
(Not really)
No, but Hitler built the Autobahn (mostly for war purposes) and to this day there a still a few Germans that use this for "at least he did something good".
"Fascist administration carried out infrastructure (using slave labour) that would create benefit for the companies it was serving" isn't the own fascists think it is.
Not even that. The plans existed beforehand, and what the Nazis built was largely useless in war as rail logistics were way more important and the network was rather incomplete. What the Autobahn did enable, though, was the quick advance of allied troops. Parts of the Autobahn were also used as military airports which is why you see the current-day Autobahn make a weird curve around Ramstein Airbase. Those still exist but unlike in the cold war it's not airbases that can pop up within days but sections of paved median, with the barriers separating the directions being easily removable. That is, the runway is mostly in place, the rest would have to be constructed, OTOH it's dirt cheap to do.
Mostly, for the Nazis, it was a works programme. Millions of unemployed were put to the task under quite bad working conditions, the workers then wrote letters to the Führer portraying the bad, "Ungermanic, dishonourable" behaviour of their bosses, those letters never reached Hitler they reached the GeStaPo. C.f. "Wenn das der Führer wüsste".
Oh, EDIT, there's one good thing that came out of Nazi rule: They pushed full-grain bread, preferably rye, heavily. The whole ideology behind it was Nazi-typical bonkers, also preparation for a war economy, but the idea in general is definitely a good one and Germany kept its preference for at least partly full-grain as well as rye-heavy breads.
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Wasn't that more Mussolini's thing ? (Only in the propaganda, but still.)
Yeah, definitely Mussolini's propaganda
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Oh, great, more phallic shapes to slap the Trump label on.
I just got back from my local Trans Action Committee weekly meeting and interrupted their discussion on their plans to further subvert our children to ask them about this, and they hate the idea!
Trans is just trains without an i
You can't spell "public transport" without "trans"!
Art of the deal.
Act of the deal.