But Biden still has a manifest destiny mentality when it comes to trains, and thinks rails are the world’s future. At the G20 a couple months ago, he got India, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, among a few other nations, to agree in principle to a working paper about an idea that might someday give way to an actual plan to come up with a route that will eventually be refined into a process to develop an eventual working group internationally to oversee the creation of a project to build a railroad that crosses the top of Africa from east to west before turning up through Israel for a stop in Haifa and then tunneling under half of the Mediterranean Sea into Greece.

Among all the craziness that drove all the Johnsons in Rock Ridge to save their little town from being taken over by evil profiteers that were trying to make a killing over knowledge of the precise route the coming railroad would take, there was a voice of calm in the middle of it all. His name? Mongo.

The Late Alex Karras’ deadpan deliver was just one of many highlights of Mel Brooks’ 1974 masterpiece, Blazing Saddles. It certainly could teach us all a thing or two about race relations, since it basically mocked them all, and above all, mocked and ridiculed all the people that practiced racism as America entered the iron horse age. The sad reality is that Mongo had his finger on the motivation behind why the antagonist in the story was acting the way he was. And he was a lot closer to the truth than our beleaguered and decrepit President, Joe Biden, last week.

Again, credit where credit is due, Biden, for now, is still on board, at least rhetorically, in standing by Israel in its attempt to get hostages back and eradicating Hamas. In a press conference, Biden said that there was no way Hamas could never again control any part of Gaza.

That’s great. Except the anti-Semitic wolves in the Democratic Party are growing louder, the polling is getter worse, and they’re at the door of the White House grounds, so much so that the Washington Post reported over the weekend that,

“We’re taking on a lot of water on Israel’s behalf,” one senior official said.

 

While the President should get appreciation for standing firm, okay, not firm, but at least kinda shuffling in place, he also popped out with this whopper at the same press conference.

Now if Joe Biden truly believes his new deal to build the India-Middle East-Europe Trade Corridor is the reason Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, there’s honestly no fixing that kind of delusional thinking.

Let’s call Joe Biden’s scam tram what it is. It’s trying desperately to offer an alternative to Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, which has already gotten a decade head start over the Biden train. On paper, the trade route, if completed, secured, and implemented in a world where free trade still exists, sounds reasonable enough. But its very announcement being the motivating factor for Hamas to send in the Nazis on the morning of October 7th to rape, pillage, kill and take hostages? Come on, man. The corridor, at the soonest, might be close to ready by 2049. I’m sure to Hamas, that seems like it’s right around the corner, so they clearly had to take action now. It’s fantasy.

Biden’s own personal narrative of the proposed trade route has been colorful, if not incoherent of late. Here’s one of the proposed routes.

Here was another.

California Governor Gavin Newsom doesn’t even care about his scam tram, the little train that couldn’t, the locomotive going from nowhere to nowhere that hasn’t seen Phase 1 coming close to completion, half as much as Joe Biden seems to care about his world peace train. Keep in mind California’s high speech rail plan started in 1996, and Phase 1 isn’t projected to be completed, for now, until 2030. It’s been delayed multiple times before. It will be delayed further. Its cost overruns put the budget for the rail, if it is ever completed, to be at least $100 billion more than proposed. It’s a debacle. Now throw in multiple governments across two continents and tunneled hundreds of miles under a sea and tell me how this Biden train is going to ever get built in any of our lifetimes. It’s not.

Even if construction of the rail route commenced, do you think the CCP is going to be sitting there saying, “Rats, I guess they got the best of us,” and move on to something else? If you thought the NordStream2 pipeline got a kink in its hose, just wait until real progress gets made on this railroad. It’ll get attacked or sabotaged along the way, and I don’t think Hamas will be the actors on the stage viewing the train tracks as an existential threat to them.

Biden tried to claim Hamas struck when they did because this agreement served as a way of bringing Saudi Arabia and Israel together. Sorry, Joe, you’re a little late to that game. Donald Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, and former special assistant to the President Jared Kushner beat you to that. The reality is Saudi Arabia would already be in the Abraham Accords were it not for the Biden administration actually going out of its way to resurrect Iran, hamper Israel, and open the door for mixed signals and commitments from the U.S. to the Saudis.

Even if you wanted to tie the Hamas attacks to the announcement of the India-Africa-Middle East-Europe trade route, that announcement was in September, just a month before the attacks on October 7th. The Wall Street Journal reported these attacks were in the planning for a long time, and they were only greenlit by Iran once Tehran knew the $6 billion was going to be unfrozen and coming to the Mullahs. The train didn’t impact the timing of these attacks one bit. It was the money. It was always the money. The money freed up the ability to make jihad on Jews possible.

The timing was also made possible by the perceived chaos in Israeli governmental leadership. After several elections finally leading to the strongest coalition Benjamin Netanyahu ever had, it was squandered over the reforms proposed and made to the Israeli Supreme Court. It tore the country apart. Many in the military said they would not respond to threats because of this perceived overreach by the Netanyahu Knesset. There were riots and protests all over Israel. Hamas, and their overlords in Tehran, miscalculated badly how divided Israelis actually were, because the atrocities galvanized them like nothing else internally or externally could have. And it still had nothing to do with trains.

Joe Biden is truly in a box. He does need to keep speaking, but not too much. He needs to show resolve that the United States will continue to back Israel. And then he needs to shut his pie hole, because when he continues to speak, the rest of the world sees what Lincoln warned about – Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.