BAES 116: WHO WILL DIE FIRST: TRUMP OR AMERICA?

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Ben and Emil

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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0:00.0	Well, we got this new Acella train. The more I looked at it, the more I was like, okay, it's impressive that it goes 165 miles an hour. That's fast.
0:09.1	The new trains are not, however, meaningfully faster, 24 minutes slower than the fastest service on an original Acella train.
0:18.1	How? What are they doing?
0:20.9	Acella's speed depends less on the train itself and more on the rail infrastructure.
0:24.4	Curves, outtated signal systems, track congestion.
0:26.7	I propose a solution.
0:28.3	Domestic terrorism?
0:29.4	He said domestic terrorism.
0:30.8	It was a joke.
0:31.5	And there's something to that, though.
0:33.4	We got to get RFK to actually do a 180, Just start jabbing the kids, you know, the vaccines.
0:40.3	We need an army of autistic kids.
0:43.3	Give them budgets, unlimited budgets, and say, go buck wild.
0:48.3	You want to excise some of these demons, exercise these demons from you?
0:52.3	We're going to let you blow up a bridge. Come with me as we set up the new rail line that's going to run from Washington, D.C. to Boston.
1:00.9	You notice how I'm not making eye contact with the camera.
1:06.5	I'm looking down town with me Tell me what's going on
1:12.6	Tell me what's going on
1:15.6	Yeah
1:22.6	you look different
1:23.6	I'm a different guy
1:24.6	You but you look different
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