Shovel ready 2.0
Otherwise known as "The Grift is On - Bugaloo".
Biden's "Biggest Achievement" Was Spending $1.2 Trillon on "Infrastructure."
How Surprised Would You Be to Learn That Almost No Infrastructure Has Been Built?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
a) Not surprised at all, I am reasonably well-informed
b) Somewhat surprised, I don't keep up with the news
c) Completely surprised -- my pronouns are Zey/Zem [Buck and the dazzler]
d) What are you talking about? I identify as a marmot and I am part of a polymorphously perverse polycule with various sexual weasels
Don't worry, everybody -- they spent a lot on Government Infrastructure and Racial Infrastructure. Almost as good as real infrastructure.
You will remember that Trump also tried to get an infrastructure bill through -- but Democrats refused to vote for it, to deny him any kind of a success.
Let's see how the Sage of Scranton did with $1.2 trillion that he set on fire and which we'll never see again.
Spoiler!
Rampant inflation and President Joe Biden's favoring of left-wing policies are contributing to a lack of progress on his landmark infrastructure law, analysts told the Daily Caller.
Two and a half years after Congress ratified the $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in November of 2021, there has been very little concrete progress on new roads or bridges. The trillions of federal dollars the Biden administration has poured into the economy may actually be hindering the completion of the infrastructure that Biden promised to build, analysts told the Caller.
"Right now, the inputs cost 31 percent more than they did in January 2021," David Ditch, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Caller. "They've been flat for, frankly, about two years at this point, but they increased so dramatically right away that even though the amount of available money for highway projects is much higher now than it was in 2021, the value of that spending is lower."
The lack of headway undercuts Biden's campaign messaging on "transforming our crumbling transportation infrastructure -- including roads and bridges, rail, aviation, ports, and inland waterways."
The Biden campaign touted it as "the largest infrastructure plan since President Eisenhower's interstate highway system."
The federal government has granted $454 billion to states across 56,000 projects, according to the White House. This commitment of taxpayer dollars would seem to make good on one of Biden's marquee campaign promises to deliver new bridges and roads to the nation. But of the 10 bridge and highway projects with the most money allocated from the bill, only one -- the $1.6 billion Penn Station Access project -- has broken ground on major construction.
As Obama was true of Obama's "infrastructure stimulus" -- which produced almost nothing except a few bike paths and dog parks in blue cities -- the purpose of this "infrastructure spending" was just another massive heist of money from Republicans to pour into Democrat precincts....
One of Biden's most touted campaign initiatives was to "rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and ports," a line he has repeated ad nauseam, including when he introduced former presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg to be his Transportation Secretary. Biden tapped Buttigieg, a move he lauded as "precedent-busting," to help "revitalize the nation's infrastructure," according to Politico.Buttigieg touted the bill's expenditures as "some of the most meaningful investments in infrastructure we've ever seen in this country."
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My mind quite can’t reach the point where it accepts that the UniParty wants to deliberately fuck is all over but I’m running out of alternative explanations.
I’ve never been anyone to be intimidated by other people and for the most part view career politicians as incapable grifters who depend on private taxpayers for their salaries, with the current President being the best example of that yet. He’s produced nothing on his own in his life except partisan division and a very sad excuse for a family that includes addiction, alleged molestation, and a granddaughter they all ignore. -
Only the strangest people claim out of nowhere that they aren't intimidated by anyone. Weird stuff. I like it.
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Everybody takes a grimace shit at times. Defecation makes us all equals. It’s why it’s hidden in private rooms in the first-world West.
Here’s a story. Was at the UW-Notre Dame game years ago in the 2000s taking a piss. Notre Dame clobbered us with some mediocre RB (Darius?) running wild. CFO of our company comes up to me in what were then undivided urinals, says hello, has “Ws” in purple on both sides of his face, and wants to shake my hand and say hello before we wash. I was like “uh hey gonna wash my hands” and then walked out of the bathroom without his cherished handshake. He was so wasted he didn’t remember it when I said we saw each there at the game, or more likely, feigned ignorance.
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Not the answer I was expecting, I have a smile, I'm the worst too, and I'm going to go take a dump too. Good stuff!
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Fuck, you added so much more after the edit. Sounds like a Tyrone year pretty much.
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You’re younger and somewhat bright based on your posts. Trust your brain, don’t be a dick in real life, and listen to learn at times even if you don’t want to hear it.
Politics is so binary now. I’m pro-choice but opposed to abortion because going through it when I was young, that’s a child to me. Get an abortion if you want but some women suffer after it for the loss of a child. I have a personal example of that and it would have changed our lives having the kid.
It’s an individual choice and ruined by binary politicians looking for votes. On that issue, Trump wanting states to decide it pissed off extremists on both sides and his polling hasn’t suffered. -
The worst part, Tyrone recruited a lot of the kids to Notre Dame that came into Husky Stadium and shit on Tyrone on the way to 0-12. People forget that. People forget that.
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Hey man, experience means more than anything, I can respect any thoughts or feelings that come from it. That's a hell of a burden.
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LSU, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, worst being Oregon 2011 on the black jersey 20th anniversary Don James game. Sat through them all driving from Portland. You young guys can’t possibly understand those beatdowns.
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I’m riffing and had a few vodka crans. My wife is zonked and the kids are all grown up.
Bears are out in Red Lodge so some campgrounds for the visitors are closed. Haven’t seen any yet on my piece of Rock Creek.
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Montana life
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I am very young and I am very fat. You wouldn't believe how young and fat I am
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Type 2 Diabetes isn’t an ideal life partner.
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Listen old man, I sharted in my pants at the 2008 Apple Cup as an ADULT. I ain't no spring chicken. I was at every one of the disasters you speak of.
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I'm still trying to wrap my head around this whole tale. Happened in November but it's news again. Right over the hill. Black bears, old ladies, coroners, the whole bit.
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As a grad student in Bozeman, have a friend still to today whose aunt lived in Bear Canyon and he was living there from Detroit and walked in to a black bear standing on their kitchen island. Walked straight through the screen door and bailed. Was a juvy with no cubs, thankfully. This happens in the woods. I wasn’t there but was at that house numerous times.
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Oh yeah black bears are in houses all over the place around Tahoe, there was a big hubbub about somebody who shot one last week, but Black bears are typically skittish as hell, non aggressive scavengers, big raccoons essentially, I've had multiple come through my campsites in the Sierras, One touched his fucking snout to my tent, I didn't enjoy it, but they scatter quick. They aren't comparable to grizzlies, they're not killers, yet this one killed an old lady in cold blood in her home, it appears.
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Craziest time I had wasn’t my grizzly encounter in Glacier on the Iceberg Lake hike, which happened within 30’ but it was a juvy male and we had bells so it wasn’t alarmed.
It was camping with my wife about 20 miles outside of Big Timber, MT with our malamute in about 1996. Dog got in a fight with a Big Horn Ram ona bike ride and then was so exhausted he slept through a wolf pack running right in our campground where we were the only ones there. No amenities, we do that shit still at times but went hard back then.
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I have strong memories of my hike at Iceberg Lake with pops, I was probably 14. Stared two mountain goats in the face from 5 ft away, that was fun, then we had a marmot follow us that was obsessed with our shoes. I lifted this marmot in the air attached to my foot. We ended up calling him Shoemunch. He was far too humanized.
Yeah, not the scary.
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Now that I'm thinking about it, I think Iceberg Lake was the trail where a grizz crossed the trail bout 100 yards up. Not far from the trailhead. Large group of hikers had assembled because of this bear and her cubs roaming a meadow blocking the path. My dad made a joke about holding hands and singing Kumbaya. People chuckled and groaned. That may have been the same hike. I'll have to ask him tomorrow.
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Also, having someone drop you with a bicycle at the top of Going-to-the-Sun Road on a weekday is 🤌. I did that later in life. Goddamn.
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What I didn’t know at the time (~2000) was the bears there are somewhat used to humans, even the sows with cubs in early summer. Scared the shit out of us since we were first in trail at 6am and other than critters, didn’t encounter any other large beasts on the trip to the lake and back. Stayed at the Lake lodge there and for some reason didn’t have our dog. Must have left him in Portland. A lake that in early July seemed like what would now be an AI scene of the most magnificent mountain lake reflecting a blue sky possible.
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Scariest shit I've encountered up there was taking a boat across Waterton Lake, literally into Canada, got off for a little hike, turned a corner, bull moose standing 5-10 feet in front of us, looking right at us. Biggest shock of my life. Bullwinkle himself, in Canada even. Bullwinkle is fucking huge and scary. Don't listen to anyone who says otherwise.
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Gardiner, Montana, mid-1990s, same malamute in a motel outside of Yellowstone. Wife and I took him out to piss after sunset, he (dog) tenses up, there’s a bull moose with a large rack 10’ away just standing there looking at us. Dog didn’t flinch and we scurried back into the room. They are absolute units. Only more massive animals I’ve been near are zoo elephants.
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Yeah our boy just stood there too. It was shock followed by getting creeped out. They just fucking stand there stupid, 20 ft tall with a lazy eye. It's weird shit. Cool experience though.
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These are the things that actually matter in life. Bitching about political party or leader affiliation is a result of social engineering and conditioning.
Neither Biden nor Trump are going to make things easier in an hour when I get out the fly rod and try to hook a rainbow or brown while listening to the new Russillo and/or Simmons pod. If that ornery grizzly is around, I’m guessing I’ll be fine though considering it’s been seen multiple times and is supposedly a male.
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My buddy is about to teach me how to fly fish next week. This is weird.
Soon.
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A great time to be alive! :)
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I was an extra in that movie during the party scene.
Not kidding and as a Sigma Chi our house was kitty-corner to the SAE house where the party scenes were filmed. Brad had beers with a few of us living at EX there for the summer on our deck because he’s a Sigma Chi from U of Missouri and I’m one from UDub and Montana State. He was basically an unknown then and my bros and I thought he was just fun and then we went to the Rocking R bar afterward. What a time it was to be alive!
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My scariest moment hiking was with my exwife hiking in the cascades past Oakridge Oregon... 6 or 7 miles in or so, not a sole around and it's starting to get twilight... we were on our way to the vehicle when something that looked like a black panter started track us and our two Dashounds... we picked them up and hightailed it... it tracked us for at least 2 miles....
And scariest ever was a helicopter ride in Kauai... we hit a bird or something and the pilot was freaked.... we had to go back.... luckily we landed ok, but I have had a minor fear of flying ever since... doesn't stop me though...
