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Switching focus to politics, Tripper comments incredulously on California’s high-speed rail project, which desperately needs billions more to continue. He criticizes Gavin Newsom's leadership, comparing him to disenfranchising figures like Trudeau and Trudeau-esque gestures—crossing legs, colorful socks—as symbols of superficiality rather than effective governance.
He challenges the premise of the project itself, comparing it to trivial pursuits such as a miniature train at Griffith Park—an attraction that provides joy but pales in importance to the life-altering needs of the populace. Tripper rhetorically asks who benefits from the high-speed train, emphasizing that many Californians would rather enjoy simple pleasures than foot the bill for an expensive, scarcely used monorail.