This meme came on my feed as one of those annoying “suggested” posts from FB which mysteriously have like 400K likes. It makes it seem like Düsseldorf just got rid of a highway and put in a park. Instead, the road was simply made into a tunnel.
▪️It’s called the Rheinufer Tunnel. It was built between 1990-93 and moved 1,928m of Rheinuferstraße underground. It took:
🔹600,000 m³ excavated earth
🔹235,000 m³ concrete
🔹22,000 tons reinforcing steel
And it moves 55,000 cars/day. It’s pretty cool, but is an example of smart industrial engineering, not some move away from highways.
https://www.wf-ib.de/en/about-us/history/from-1975/1993/the-rheinufer-tunnel-in-dusseldorf/
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
