Gun-grabber David Hogg rose to infamy following the Valentine’s Day, 2018, mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in a Miami suburb, which left 17 people dead and another 17 wounded.
Like all sniveling left-wingers, Hogg’s proclivity for hyperbolic rhetoric and little substance is both tiresome and hilarious. Such was the case on Monday when the man-child took to X (formerly Twitter) to declare “men want one thing” — high-speed rail.
No, really. Mr Know-It-All even tossed in “literally,” as if to qualify his nonsensical claim.
Men want one thing and it’s literally regional high speed rail with affordable, frequent and reliable local public transit connections and mixed use development around transit hubs.
Sorry, David— no. Not this man, anyway, and I’m pretty sure I’m not the Lone Ranger here. Nope, I’m good with driving a BMW and my SUV, thank you very much.
Men want one thing and it’s literally regional high speed rail with affordable, frequent and reliable local public transit connections and mixed use development around transit hubs🙂↔️
— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) May 7, 2024
The shredding of Hogg promptly began.
When you become a man, and that’s a really high bar for you, *then* you can speak of what men “want”. Until then, sit down kid.
Nicely played. One X user blistered Hogg just as effectively— in fewer words:
Do you know what a man is?
Oh, ouch. Can’t you just see Hogg absolutely seething as he reads the beatdowns? Here’s another:
Men don’t want that. You want that. There is a huge difference between men, and you.
Nailed it.
Men want one thing and it’s literally regional high speed rail with affordable, frequent and reliable local public transit connections and mixed use development around transit hubs🙂↔️
— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) May 7, 2024
High-Speed Rail
Let’s start with Amtrak, a government-subsidized corporation that runs the national passenger train service in the U.S. Open the Books Founder and CEO Adam Andrzejewski summed up the state of the corporation in July 2023.
Despite being heavily subsidized, Amtrak projects it will lose roughly $1 billion every year and has never in its history turned a profit.
According to Andrzejewski, many Amtrak routes continue to cost the company more money than ticket sales generate. And prospects have even worsened for the heavily subsidized boondoggle, following its 2000 introduction of Acela, the first high-speed rail service in the Western Hemisphere.
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas), chairman of the House Transportation Committee panel on railroads, said at a recent hearing that Amtrak needs a better business strategy.
Amtrak’s losses arise almost entirely from its National Network and long-distance routes. Rather than focusing on attracting riders to existing routes, Amtrak now seeks to expand this network, risking a greater expense to the taxpayer.
This brings us to California, as analyzed by The Hoover Institution.
In 2008, California voters approved $9.95 billion of state bond funding as seed money to build an 800-mile high-speed rail (HSR) network connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the Central Valley to coastal cities, at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour, with an expected completion date of 2020.
But now, 15 years after the bond issue, three years after the expected completion date, not one train has left the station. Not one route has been completed, even though nearly all the $9.95 billion seed money has been spent.
And the original budget of about $33 billion for the entire 800-mile system is now inadequate to build just one route (Bakersfield to Merced), whose cost pencils out to $207 million per mile — a cost that will almost certainly rise in the future, and for a route that may not be ready for ten years. Or more. Or perhaps ever.
California’s HSR is perhaps the greatest infrastructure failure in the history of the country. And the reason it failed is because of a gross failure of state governance, one on such a grand scale that it is nothing short of a betrayal of Californians.
Harsh analysis, but reality sometimes bites.
Yet, know-nothing David Hogg, the self-appointed authority on the “one thing [American] men want,” continues to make a fool out of himself at every concocted opportunity.
Just one more thing before we wrap this one up — in reference to the aforementioned gross failure of governance. As Ronald Reagan correctly observed:
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
The Gipper was right —and his wisdom rings even truer today.
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What? Just because David Hogg grew some whiskers, he thinks he’s a man? Pal, you’re no man. Just a pussy with a big mouth who thinks he knows what’s better for everyone. Sounds like a typical democrat! He needs to drift back to where he came from and dry up. He not as relevant as he thinks.
As with ALL leftist, this moron opens his mouth and leaves no doubt that he is clueless.