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How many foreign leaders have ridden the T?
By adamg on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 12:15pm
In February, 2015, Boris Johnson, then mayor of London, got on the Red Line to try to get to some event at Harvard, but couldn't because we were having one of those blizzards.
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Good for him!
That winter was BRUTAL!
He looks like
A rejected version of the Doctor.
How many Massachusetts
How many Massachusetts leaders have ridden the T?
Governor Dukakis
Governor Dukakis did regularly (and still does; I've seen him on the 66 bus). State Rep. Tommy Vitolo does, as well; he's put fixing the T as one of his major issues.
I can only name one
There's Gov. Dukakis and..... yeah that's about it.
Byron Rushing used to take
Byron Rushing used to take the Orange Line and 55 bus to the State House. But he got voted out this past year.
I would argue
That all 4 Boston mayors elected since the MBTA was created had, at some point in their lives, ridden the T.
The bigger question is if any of them have ridden the Tube.
If a future Prime Minister of
If a future Prime Minister of the UK can ride the T, so can Charlie Baker
So can Mayor Walsh and the
So can Mayor Walsh and the City Council.
Does any of them besides Michelle Wu even have a CharlieCard?
Magoo for you.
Boris = Magoo. Magoo = Boris. Magoo.
I dont know but they usually get a picture
Can't mix with the common folk without proof.
Boris returned to London
And told his fellow Englishmen that the London Underground was safe,clean and reliable and the tube in Boston was unsafe, filthy and unreliable,
Not quite
While he was here, he was most impressed by the Big Dig and proposed London do something similar.
he does
not sound to me as insane as our American conservatives, with the caveat that I have only just heard him speak this morning. According to criticism by Jeremy Corbyn, the British conservatives do all the dirty tricks that ours do re: making voting difficult, cutting taxes for the super rich, etc. One thing that got me thinking, was that in his speech this morning, Boris stated that his party (and I paraphrase), the conservatives, have always known the "truth" about human nature, and that knowing this truth is what guides them.
Sounds like dog whistles to me. Ya know, it might be a lot easier for Muslims to assimilate to European culture if Britain and the United States made better sense on what the Iraq war was like for them. There has been no honesty about that at all. Conservatives want at all costs a structure to protect them from having to solve the problem of real human relationships. We hurt the middle east. No wonder Muslims won't assimilate. I don't think that their resistance to assimilation is good btw, but I understand it.
Bunch of knuckle-dragging cave fucks.
British conservatives are as twisted and bloodthirsty lying slobs as we've got here--they just sound intelligent when the speak. Our conservatives are degrading to the point that they speak in nonsense pentameter.
His photographs look so silly
His photographs look so silly and down to earth, it's hard to dislike the guy, even though I know I am supposed to view him as an English version of Trump.
"oi, he aint too bad, he's just like me."
"reckon i could have a pint with him."
(facepalm) People are STILL falling for this kinda s***?
BoJo
Does he seem like the type of person you would enjoy having a beer with, Refugee? Adam and I are liberals but that is how he and I assess political candidates, all things being equal.
Benazir Bhutto, Radcliffe '73
Likely rode the T at least once during her four years in Cambridge.
Also, given that Ho Chi Minh is believed to have worked at the Parker House in 1912 or 1913, there's a decent shot he had used the Tremont St. Subway at some point.
And, er, duh, no doubt Barack Obama rode the T during his years as a student at Harvard Law.
Obama lived on Winter Hill.
89 to Davis, then Red Line.
Except when he drove and got
Except when he drove and got parking tickets. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fine-for-parking/
Nice Man-Spreading, Alexander
Interesting character.
Judges too
My youngest brother while @ MIT sat on that very bench one evening. He shared it with a very drunken Federal Court Judge.
The Judge's story was apparently so compelling that my brother almost missed the last train to Cambridge.
So you just never know with whom you'll be sharing a bench