Col. Douglas MacGregor is a Bitcoiner! I didn’t know that!
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This is a smart man. He thinks on a strategic level.
I agree with almost all of what he says. I don’t necessarily disagree with the lack of utility regarding tariffs, that ownership of real estate is a bad idea relative to owning gold, silver or bitcoin, and that Israel is going to drag us into war, it’s just that I don’t have sufficient understanding either way on these subjects. He may be right on all of them.
Thought provoking.
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I first listened to this man when Tucker Carlson interviewed him about the devastating effects of the Ukraine war. It was an eye-opener, and no one is talking about this. He tells it like it is. Trump ought to get this guy on his staff. He is no BS with a background to back it up. https://youtu.be/iMUAaWK79Vc?feature=shared
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I 100% agree about building rail transport for goods spanning from east to west coasts. China is so far ahead of us in this technology (bullet trains), it is mind boggling. Bullet trains could deliver goods at lightning speed compared to trucks or other ‘stop and start’ cargo carriers. If we can put people on the moon and get them back to earth, this should be a cinch. Just another reason Trump needs to ask this guy in for a ‘sit-down-and-give-me-what-you’ve-got’ session.
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Trump had already considered Col. MacGregor for slots in his cabinet during Trump’s first term. He is also being considered for a job in Trump’s second term. We’ll see how it goes.
In politics, there’s just no telling.
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I’m not saying I’m against it but is it viable for working in the US? How are you going to protect the train moving at 200(?)mph from things like a buffalo standing on the track? From a herd of cattle? Not to mention there are dumb asses that would run on the tracks exercising on them.
We already have an existing system of cargo airplanes that can carry 25+ tons of cargo from coast to coast only in hours. With a bullet train you’re talking days not hours. If companies could or would buy planes like the latest military cargo planes that can carry even more tonnage would be a better system.
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Trains are a very fuel effecient method of transportation relative to other methods of freight shipping.
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Not arguing that, only that there are obstacles here in the US that would make using a bullet train less than optimal. Now if it’s carrying coal, grain, cars or other bulk items it can’t be beat. But then you don’t need a train going 200mph either.
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Aside from the fact that many of our tracks are only able to handle about 70 MPH. Over that increases the liability of a train derailing into the boogley weeds.
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Col McGregor may be a war hero, and a moral man, but I dont trust his opinions anymore.
He is a military man, educated and experienced. Yet he made multiple, specific predictions, about Ukraine, about Middle East, and they were not even close.
So he made a fool of himself on his core expertise. Take his advice outside his core expertise, with a grain of salt.
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I hear that. There are a lot of people I love to listen to who speculate. I hate that.
As smart as some of these folks are, they can’t see into the future.
When I listen to a podcast or watch a picture or read an article, I have a hard time paying attention anymore when they start talking about their predictions. OMG! Please, stop that!
I’m a Bitcoiner. I listen to the experts daily and I cringe when they try and tell me all the time that million dollar+ Bitcoin is just around the corner! I’m thinking, yeah, you been saying that for years now.
Just how would they know that?! The truth is they don’t have a clue. Maybe they say it to get people excited and keep listeners.
They should stick to talking about the things they do know about! That’s much more interesting.
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I would have read the article myself and posted it here, but I’m not about to subscribe to Wall Street Journal.
Here’s Natalie and Clayton talking about the piece:
Looks like Trump will end the Ukraine disaster soon and easily.
Hooray!
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I drove from a city on the water on the left coast to EKY in 5 days doing 70mph. Set the cruise on 70 and away I went. I drove from Kansas City to EKY in one day, 10 hours.
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I took a train trip once from coast to coast and back, following the Union Pacific northern route one way, and the Santa Fe southern route the other. We have an indescribably beautiful country. Having said that, between mountain passes with switchbacks, deserts with extremes of temperature (rails expand and contract a lot) and other factors, I can’t possibly see how transcontinental high speed rail could work, especially for freight. Bullet trains are short, light, extremely aerodynamic, and almost always powered by external electricity. Freight is heavy, bulky, and requires a lot of power to move. A 747 passenger plane has almost twice the range of a 747 feeighter, for example, because of the weight difference in what theyre carrying. The switchbacks through the Rockies are so tight that the corners of cars will sometimes rub. I don’t see why we couldn’t do high speed trains across the plains, but west of there seems like a problem, no matter what route you try.
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. Elon may have more than one purpose in a new administration?
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Most of the 737s fuselage is made in Wichita KN. By the time they reach Renton WA there are usually a few bullet holes in some of them. People shoot out insulators and such on high voltage lines. I think you will have a problem with that high speed rail. Gubment subsided trains moving people, I think that is what you mean by high speed rail, in cities can barely make it. If it wasn’t for the subsidies, those lines would go broke, same with AmTrack.
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We should concentrate on what the people are willing to do. Just like the EVs, don’t push shyte the people don’t want to do.
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Well, gonna be hard to shoot at anything that’s underground.
It’s just a possibility for high speed rail in the US was more my point in posting the link.
As to the government subsidies, as you said, the government already subsidizes our existing low speed rail system.…. So I guess I don’t understand your point?
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My point is freight trains make money, people movers don’t . Freight doesn’t care how long it takes. Airplanes are by far the safest way to move people. Even a high speed train won’t get a person to a place as fast as a plane. People will migrate to the fastest and safest method. Right now planes are a known and that tube is an unknown. Might work for certain routes but not all of the US.
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If you read the wiki, it’s intended for both people and cargo.
I’m not gonna disagree, air travel is faster and safer than any other “current” method of travel for people.
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