Of course, as is always the case, what other countries can manage handily, the greatest nation on the planet can never achieve.

For the money spent, you wouldn’t think it’d even be close between us vs. some bumpkins in caves. And yet, time and time again, it is.

It’s simple. They’re marketed highly because the profit margins are higher for the manufacturers on pickups than they are with cars, and they get to skirt some of the tighter requirements set on passenger cars.

Who said anything about idiots? I’m just saying to put something behind your hollow words.

The U.S. has had a transcontinental railroad since the 1860's. Don’t even start with this “how will we build...” Do you have any idea how much land railways already own? This isn’t a matter of “huh how do we build a rail line to this place?” since it’s probably already had one or more, for over a century - it’s matter…

You do realize the interstate system is not cost effect right?

How many miles between L.A. and Seattle, Einstein?

People keep parroting this, apparently without any idea what the words they’re typing mean.

You’re making it very, very clear, that you have never driven between cities on either coast. What do you think we do? Drive on the beach? Do you have any clue how roads are surveyed?

I’ve been to Japan, they probably have more magazines and books about trains than about cars.

What does coastline have to do with the distances between cities? Do you think trains are boats that have to follow the coastline?

How much super glue you sniff today?

We could just stop wasting money on the military, which if we’re completely honest, has done a pretty shit job of getting anything worthwhile done successfully over the past half century.

They’re probably going to think Texas is a state in China now.

Of course not. But it’s not like it was a walk in the park for any other country.

Frankly, a rather weak red herring.

No need to be generous, just technical.

Your argument seems to be built on the idea that if we do not have high speed rail between the very hardest to service points on the map, there is basically no point in any of it. I don’t really buy that.

I feel like you’re missing something very crucial but elementary here. I’m not sure if it’s that you don’t know there are countries bigger than the U.S. - or that other countries possess terrain and vast distances, or what?

I’m not sure what you expect to convince me of, when your argument is basically that it would be easier to build a system here, than in China.