We were in Wenatchee once (in eastern Washington) during a vacation in the area, and there was a train track that isolated an entire section of town. A train got stopped for hours and we had to change our dinner plans because the restaurant we had planned to go to was on the other side and there was no way to get to it. I don’t know how people deal with that sort of thing; I can imagine being trapped if we were on the other side of it. And there are businesses that lose money from it (at least that restaurant didn’t get our patronage).
Were you on our YMCA ski trips to Rib Mountain? It was Dan Oelstrom’s job to lead us in shouting “Hey, shut that door! We don’t want any trains in here!”
Gallego’s friend then shared an insulting meme, writing, “This is how the world views many [Democrats]…” The meme featured a photo of Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro from Connecticut, reading, “If erectile dysfunction had a face.”
“They aren’t wrong!” Gallego replied.
In follow-up messages, he elaborated: “We look like the not fun party. Always telling and correcting people. Not allowing men to be men. Women to be hot. We used to be the party of sec [sic] drugs and rock and roll.”
Gallego also wrote, “Now Dem women look like Dem men and Dem men look like women.”
Bad enough that he was pals with Swalwell. He’s REALLY not making the party look good with this kind of talk.
Or the train is starting-and-stopping or even doing some forward-backward movements or is moving only intermittently…
SIX train lines run through my town. The town exists because of a control tower and servicing station built during the steam era to service freights. We get it all - short, long, fast, slow, weird movements…