President Joe Biden defended his exorbitant “infrastructure” bill Wednesday by urging Americans to imagine a world in which they can travel by rail at the speed of an airplane and traverse the globe’s entire circumference in just an hour.
These dreams of his — or “delusions of grandeur” rather, as some critics have put it — were shared during a speech he delivered at the White House (known by some as “Planet Biden”) about his so-called “infrastructure” plan.
“Investing in research and development help lead to lithium batteries, LED technology, the internet itself. It helped lead to vaccine breakthroughs that are helping us beat COVID-19.
“To the Human Genome Project, which has led to breakthroughs in how we understand and fight cancer and other diseases. Government, meaning the taxpayers, funded this research. Government,” he said about 10 minutes into the speech.
He added, “We stopped investing in the research, we stop investing in the jobs of the future and we give up leading the world. When we do invest in research, what we’re really doing is raising the bar in what we can imagine.
“Imagine a world where you and your family can travel coast to coast without a single tank of gas, or in a high-speed train, close to as fast as you can go across the country in a plane.” [emphasis added]
Listen:
Notice that he said “in a plane” versus “in a commercial plane.” This matters because the fastest jet aircraft in the world, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, has been clocked at speeds over 2,000 miles per hour, according to Lockheed Martin.
The fastest commercial plane, on the other hand, is the Boeing 747-8I, which has been clocked at speeds of Mach 0.86, which is about 660 mph, according to the Saudi National Center of Aviation.
Conversely, the fastest trains on Earth have been clocked at speeds of 197 mph, according to Forbes.
Big difference …
Train max speed is about 200mph.
Commercial airplane is about 700mph.
Biden is an idiot.— Rhinocrates (@Rhinocrates1) April 8, 2021
Biden’s lofty dream inspired an abundance of snarky responses.
Some portrayed the president as a man so out of touch that he lives on another planet:
Breaking News from Planet Biden: “Imagine a world where you and your family can travel coast to coast without a single tank of gas on a high-speed train close to as fast as you can go across the country in a plane.” pic.twitter.com/8NcucvmWcu
— Andrew Malcolm (@AHMalcolm) April 8, 2021
…snip…
But the president wasn’t done.
Later during his speech, he went on to suggest that his investments in “infrastructure” may make it possible in about a decade or so for Americans to be able to traverse the Earth’s circumference in just an hour by plane.
“I told my kids when I go on college campuses, they’re going to see more change in the next 10 years than we’ve seen the last 50 years. We’re going to talk about commercial aircraft flying at supersonic speeds, be able to figuratively, if we decided to do it, traverse the world in about an hour, traveled 21,000 miles an hour. So much has changed. We have got to lead it,” he said.
The responses to this especially lofty dream were particularly snarky.
Look:
Joe just said we’d travel 21,000 miles per hour on commercial flights. Has he heard of inertia and g-force?
— BLOODROBOT (IFBAP) (@MAGABLOODROBOT)
April 7, 2021
My 14YO just rolled her eyes when I told her Joe Biden wants airplanes to go 21,000 mph. Her exact words were: “21,000 mph going through clouds would be like a 600 pound person cannonballing into a pool.”
LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL.🤣🤣🤣
— AMABLACKPATRIOT (@DrShayPhD)
April 8, 2021
21,000 MPH? Sounds like a TON of greenhouse gases would be required. RUH ROH
— ThatCoolGuy (@Arebstar)
April 8, 2021
FYI, according to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson – among others – Biden’s bill barely even has anything to do with infrastructure.
“First, is this really about infrastructure? Bridges? Roads? Airports? Things we could actually use? Or is it yet another weird climate scheme/power grab/race-based redistribution plan? What exactly is this?” he asked during a “Tucker Carlson Tonight” monologue last week.
“Only about 5 percent of that $2 trillion will actually go to roads and bridges,” Carlson stated, noting that taxes for Americans “are going up dramatically.”
“So, 5 percent on infrastructure, 95 percent on social engineering. That’s what Joe Biden calls a once-in-a-lifetime infrastructure bill,” the Fox News host added. “He’s right about part of it: It is once in a lifetime. If this bill passes, the next generation will live in a very different country.”
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Then might i suggest Biden start walking to all his little events and take a rowboat for all those overseas little meetings
Yep, those new bullet trains are going to all the locations we currently fly to and at 500+ MPH Joe definitely nailed it. Given his engineering background I’m sure he even knows how to do it! You gotta wonder who writes this nonsense for him.
A big disadvantage of traveling by rail instead of an airplane is there needs to be tracks.
The first 119 miles of California’s 200 mph high speed rail project had an expected construction cost of $89 million dollars per mile. The distance from San Francisco to New York is 2,903 miles. This is a cost of $258,367,000,000 or just over 258 billion dollars. Now consider that many dozen rail lines would be needed of various lengths to replace airplanes with high speed rail. Not only is Biden not very smart, he doesn’t hire smart advisors.
Well, David. Can you not imagine a 4 level railway? All you need to do is disrespect the principles of fiat currency, and voila!
Sound’s just like Ol’ Joe and Obama’s promises back in 2008: 5,000,000 high-paying “green jobs” and the 150mpg car “in ten years” for just $150,000,000,000. When the dust settled, about 2647 jobs were created, each at a cost of roughly $57,000,000 per job. I guess a bunch of bureaucrats probably did get some high paying jobs out of it to spend the money…
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America is doomed …
I rode a Train from Dunsmur to Oakland Cal its been about 50 years
My family took a train from Everett Washington to Chicago. The train got lost. A bridge was out and in attempting to take a detour it took the wrong track.
Can we imagine the response from the main stream media if President Donald Trump had made such ridiculous comments? This is the key to what is happening to America today. No one is questioning this garbage. The democrats truly believe we are as dumb as …… {make up a name}, and that’s why they don’t want the masses to be too smart (schools remain closed) because you might realise they are lying to you, every time they open their mouths.
Who, in their right mind would ever vote for the democrats, given what they are doing to the country since this nutter became president??
Guess what folks, the CCP, Vladimir Putin, little rocket man and the mad mullahs are clapping their hands with joy. How did this happen? We are in serious trouble with this man in the WH.