Ben Bergquam just did a useful thing: He walked around the actual structures that have been built in Fresno for California’s high-speed rail project, and he showed how useless and incomplete the actual construction is. Screenshot from that linked video:
I laughed out loud, because I stood in that spot, and I did it in mid-August of 2025.
Click on that story and go look at the pictures and video. Sample:
The difference between the way this critically important high-speed rail site adjacent to a major Central Valley downtown area looked in August of 2025 and August of 2026 is that in August of 2025 I posted a thing that said there are no fences and you can just go look around, so they slopped up a half-assed fence. Beyond that, in a year, the site looks the same. No work has been done there. No improvements have been made. In 2025, the viaduct opened onto some dirt, not a paved causeway. In 2026, the viaduct opens onto some dirt, not a paved causeway. Zero. Nothing.
You’ve got video and video, from exactly the same place, apples to apples. The comparison is easy. Again, go look at my post from August, 2025. There’s a video there that I shot of the same spot where Bergquam shot video in August, 2026. Go look at how much a year of construction has changed the place.
Using various complex principles of temporal and sequential analysis, we can determine that my visit to this site and Ben Bergquam’s visit to this site happened approximately — hold on, now, this is science — one year apart. Nothing has happened there in the course of that full year. Hey, whaddya want for a few billion clams, baby, and can I interest you in a used car? Slick Gavin’s Greasy Emporium, folks, bring your wallets.
The balls on these people.
I don’t live in California and even I want my money back
They don't care that you know. The question is, can you slap on a consequence that matters?