Thanks! 👍

Definitely one of my favorite parts of "Atlas"!

So many useless eaters, of the liberal "persuasion" gone, poof, just like that. 😄😄👍👍👍

Try this one
https://rumble.com/vw9lkb-atlas-shrug...

As usual, skipping ahead doesn't work on rumble.

Ahh for sure my brother. My daughter and her family got to Orlando Airport this afternoon for the flight back to the TwinCitues. The flight was canceled. They needed to book another night, rent a SUV to drive to Atlanta, From there a flight to Memphis and a five hour layover than to Chicago, another overnight then fly back the next day. It really is a total shit show with these airlines. Clearly absolute idiots running these soon to be extinct businesses. Think about it, they support the same cockwaggles that are ending Oil and gas. What are the refineries going to do just make fuel for planes. How much a gallon will that cost?
It’s like James Taggart has been cloned over and over.

Loved it....many parallels to the present day, laughing.

That was the part of the book that shocked me, woke me up, and I saw this real society we are living in, not the fantasy of the book, heading in that direction. I always felt it, I never read anything that articulated it so well.

That is one big Shrug resulting in your tragedy. Bless them.

That reminds me! I had a Chemistry professor who was a bomber in Vietnam. He probably incinerated thousands of people. It must have affected him, because when the Gulf War broke out, he made a deal with the University. You give me a piece of land, and don't pay me any salary. I will teach for free, you will pay the tax bill for this land. They agreed. So he built himself an A-frame house, with a woodstove and loft. His own little Gulch, he planted vegetables and hunted small game. And he was an excellent Chemistry teacher. He would not pay taxes to the US government to watch his money be used to incinerate more people. He invited all his students up there. I ate gopher, squirrel and rabbit, and wild broccoli.

Our hearts go out to you N.

Thanks for that little historical record. Who benefits the most from canceling pipelines in the US. Why it is Buffett’s BNSF rail, to the tune of $2billion per year. Safety be damned, his campaign contributions are more important.

I listened to the audiobook a few years ago and when I heard to this I did not think one was better than the other. I could be wrong it just didn’t strike me as grating. I do see your point in the snide smug attitude these deletes display, good grief. It is very much non-fiction today. Maybe the accent and the loud yelling put you off. I will however try to find Orwell’s audio book.

The genius of Rands Atlas Shrugged, in part was the way she could predict the consequences of the collectivist mush. This particular segment
Showed how potentially in real life ignoring reason and logic can be catastrophic , with the twist of projection we see so much of today.
The board reminds me of the January 6 deselect committee.

Bring back rail?
Buffet bought BNSF in 2009 at a premium. "Hedging a bet". Unadulterated BS!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bu...
I knew 10 years ahead of Warren how valuable rail was. I built the first fixturing for GE's tier 1 locomotive diesel engines. (Still have the prints in my files, along with all the fixture drawings and full cost of manufacture)
GE and Toshiba were in a global race to introduce "traction" motor tech. Full radial field control of the stator to armature made 3 phase look like a Honda 50 to it's Interceptor, gasoline to top-fuel. And fuel was what it was all about.
The second largest consumer of diesel fuel was about to cut it's consumption by 33-35%, second only to the US Navy.

And then: Regulation of on-road diesel emissions 2004. Have to keep the oil companies profitable by shifting cost through regulation to the consumer. "The Spice Must Flow" https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/...

Across the flatlands of the central US, 1.5 mile long trains run with special container flats over 80 feet long stacked 2 high with 40 foot containers. And we got to pay for Buffet's "risk".

I've been working in the fields of rail, OTR truck, electric power plant and oil drilling since 1994, through the medium of manufacturing the prototype and production fixtures, and repairables. I quit, went Galt, shrugged. Ive been offered 2+ times to return.

Disturbed:
No more defending the lies
of the never ending wars.
It's time to make them realize
we will no longer be their whores.

I'm growing my own food, tending my trees, emptying my life vessel for the young who seek relief.

Talking about people who don't care. In Texas if a railroad crossing has only a track for one train, they don't have to put up lights so you can see it at midnight when a black train with no graffiti on it crosses. My children died (son and wife) because of this. Putting those lights up where they belonged cost the railroad dearly as compensation to my four orphaned grandchldren.

Thanks for that. Actually, from listening for an hour, I do not like the voice, it is rough and guttural. The characters portrayed are rough and crude but only when threatening down, within their set they would be smug and superior and pretend to be cultured. I will listen again to my Scott Brick rendering. I've not played it for years.
I listen to audio books a lot, while driving. (How long can that last?). Of all, the most compelling was Orwell's 1984, cannot remember the narrator, Stephen Ruszeki? a Polish name maybe, compelling, in fact chilling.
Example- Smith is reading a book to himself, it is a child's school book, you hear the narrator, and Smith, and a female teacher all at the same time in one voice- "London was not always the beautiful city we know today.. " Absolute irony combined with disgust.

He did a good job reading with his style expression, it brought the story to life. I remember reading that scene in AS and my heart sank. Not because of any intense love for the people in the book, but because I saw the patterns in our society that similarly led to that fictional disaster. Things falling apart, people not caring, delegating their work to those who can't do it or don't care...

What really freaked me out was a few years after I read AS, they tore up one of the railroad tracks where I live. There were two parallel lines, I guess they only used one line, which still runs today, and so they thought they could salvage the steel and sell it to Japan. It got me spooked for awhile. I'm all better now.

Speaking of which, we need to bring back rail. 110 cars stacked two high, pulled by two diesel engines is way more efficient than 220 individual tractor trailers driving cross country. Truckers would run North South routes for regional distribution, but the East West national distribution would be by rail. It could be balanced so that truckers would not lose their jobs, and have shorter working hours, having a better lifestyle, and less accidents on the road.

When I am president, after I fortify the Southern border with 12,000 Dillon M134A miniguns mounted on towers every 1/4 mile, I will bring back rail. And the chain guns firing at will, will create a biological human wall the stench of which from cadaverine and putrescine will deter anything with a nose from approaching the Southern Border. The stench of death is all that is needed for immigration reform.