Posted On: Wednesday - July 8th 2026 6:35PM MST
In Topics: Humor California Economics Race/Genetics
I stole that one of at least two puns from the Red State article that Instapundit linked me to.
BART is the Bay Area Rapid Transit System. (Why not BARTS?) I've ridden on those trains quite a long time ago but not quite in the Pong era. That's Pong, as in the first video game I ever saw. Well before Space Invaders and Donkey Kong, Pong seemed pretty sophisticated at the time, the end of the 1970s, but for a quarter a game, very pricey. The following video is from close to 3 decades later, but the deal with the corners reminds me somewhat of old Pong:
What one Ms (It's California, plus I don't know) Debora Allen in the video below mentions is the "1970 era" or "Pong era" fare gates that used to be at the BART stations. Interestingly, as I tried to find out whether she is a Miss or Mrs., I found that the former BART Director was far from a D.I.E. hire, born femality aside. Hah, see, speaking of the 1970s, her departure from BART was very much in the spirit of the 1970s, as Divisive BART Board Member Debora Allen Passes Out MAGA Hats to Colleagues On Her Way Out the Door. Hah, nice job! (Imagine Che Guevara shirts or what-have-you - that'd be expected, right along with Ruby Tuesday's coupons.)
In a sign of things to come in the year ahead, as Trump supporters from every basket of deplorables feel emboldened to once again spit in the faces of others and proclaim their dominion, a conservative BART director on her way out gave out a provocative parting gift to her colleagues.Oh, no! Anyway, this fun and provocative lady was NOT to be the subject of this post, but I'll have to have another for her, cause...
The BART board is changing next year with several directors, including Congresswoman-elect Lateefah Simon, moving on.
Allen was notably the only board member to vote against requiring vaccinations for BART employees, and she caused a stir in June 2020 when, after the killing of George Floyd, she tried to gloss over the killing of Oscar Grant by a BART police officer as not "murder."I don't know of this Oscar Grant yet, but wow, yes, Conservative Californians do still exist.
OK, back to THIS post, the video below shows a black woman who tried to scoot under the new BART fare gates that Ms Allen says was one of BART's and her best project in decades.
The viral video of the black lady (she turned her head for a split second, so we know) stuck like a pig under the door is the story of the day for BART. She was told to stay put as moving the gates will only hurt more. This humor is not lost on your Peak Stupidity blogger. That station has got plenty extra gates, and they'll get her out before she gets really hungry. However, there's a bigger story in here though...
This short Bay Area NBC news video starts with who I thought might be Miss Pong actually, but no, she's Jennelle Wang, and then she hands it over to some Hernandez lady. The story has some good Steve Sailer style material that is purposely not completely Noticedโข, publicly, by anyone in it, even Conservative Ms Allen.
You CAN still piggyback* if you're quick and agile, but these new glass and aluminum gates have stopped much fare-"jumping" per, let's just call her Miss Pong. They've got numbers. Per current BART Director Liz Ames (also amazingly ALSO White), revenue collected has gone up by $10 million, which will pay off the $90 million fare gate project in a decade or so (well, there's interest).
Maintenance and cleaning costs have gone down too. Maintenance might be lower for now due to the new equipment, but why the savings with the cleaning?
Less [sic - give Miss Hernandez a break - she ain't from around here] fare evaders means less litter and less graffiti... and, she says, "less crime".Hey.... what are you tryin' to say here? The people who weren't paying before don't go in now and they are the ones that littered and tagged the walls and trains and occasionally knifed unsuspecting riders? Look, I don't care who you are, that's there's just plain racisss!
Roll the tape:
There's a 2nd order effect here on ridership. If a lot of those teens - oops, no, I just mean they might be in their teens, you know - aren't riding the BART trains now, the whole experience will be nicer for everyone else, meaning ridership will go and revenue may increase more than expected from just the higher fare collection ratio alone. More nice White people, some maybe even sporting MAGA hats, will result in yet more White people, to the point where BART may yet again resemble the Pong era, an era in which electronic glass and aluminum fare gates WERE NOT NEEDED due to all the White people.
Alas, you can't go home again... even if you don't get stuck under the gate like a pig.
PS: There's a pretty cute black girl who appears for a couple of seconds at 0:43. She seems to know her people, kinda', from what I gather.
* An example shows up at the end of the news story. She's black too.
Comments:
Moderator
Thursday - July 9th 2026 5:51AM MST
PS: Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta is what I think MARTA stands for. Never heard the Peachtree Parking Lot one before, but I've been among the traffic around Atlanta - I think mostly I've been lucky.
Speaking of the traffic and then Steve Sailer (with that old reference to "Tiny Duck") it was both he and "Paul Kersey" on the Unz Review blog who taught me why people, mostly White, put up with that wasteful long-distance commuting in the heavy traffic day-in/day-out. I mean, I've seen lots of this my whole life, the traffic, the problems with black people, etc. but I remember still wondering why people like those McMansions out in those exurbs. I like to be close to stores, the school, whatever, and I like to be able to get places on my bicycle. The exurbs are not my ideal kind of place.
After enough conflicts with blacks, and after learning - mostly from Mr. Kersey who is especially familiar with the Atlanta metro. - how these ghettos keep expanding and moving from county to county outwards - I understand.why people live in the far out exurbs and must commute 10-25 miles, often taking an hour each way. It's a shame it had to be that way.
Nice cat picture though!
Speaking of the traffic and then Steve Sailer (with that old reference to "Tiny Duck") it was both he and "Paul Kersey" on the Unz Review blog who taught me why people, mostly White, put up with that wasteful long-distance commuting in the heavy traffic day-in/day-out. I mean, I've seen lots of this my whole life, the traffic, the problems with black people, etc. but I remember still wondering why people like those McMansions out in those exurbs. I like to be close to stores, the school, whatever, and I like to be able to get places on my bicycle. The exurbs are not my ideal kind of place.
After enough conflicts with blacks, and after learning - mostly from Mr. Kersey who is especially familiar with the Atlanta metro. - how these ghettos keep expanding and moving from county to county outwards - I understand.why people live in the far out exurbs and must commute 10-25 miles, often taking an hour each way. It's a shame it had to be that way.
Nice cat picture though!
M
Thursday - July 9th 2026 5:48AM MST
PS
Piggy-backing is unlikely to be as much of a problem. You need two people (and only two), you still get one fare, and they have to coordinate pretty well.
Call it an intelligence test.
Piggy-backing is unlikely to be as much of a problem. You need two people (and only two), you still get one fare, and they have to coordinate pretty well.
Call it an intelligence test.
Moderator
Thursday - July 9th 2026 5:41AM MST
PS: I've been on MARTA too, maybe 3 or 4 times. I hesitate to watch your video now...
The Alarmist
Thursday - July 9th 2026 4:34AM MST
PS
I never felt the urge to use MARTAโฆ I preferred sitting in the Peachtree Parking Lot, AKA I-75.
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I never felt the urge to use MARTAโฆ I preferred sitting in the Peachtree Parking Lot, AKA I-75.
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Adam Smith
Wednesday - July 8th 2026 10:13PM MST
PS: Good evening, Mr. Moderator,
Feeling nostalgic...
https://i.ibb.co/JFrcv36b/Whiteface-May-8-2016.jpg
https://www.unz.com/isteve/its-almost-as-if-the-democrats-coalition-of-the-fringes-tends-to-turn-into-a-circular-firing-squad/#comment-4139254
Good times...
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Feeling nostalgic...
https://i.ibb.co/JFrcv36b/Whiteface-May-8-2016.jpg
https://www.unz.com/isteve/its-almost-as-if-the-democrats-coalition-of-the-fringes-tends-to-turn-into-a-circular-firing-squad/#comment-4139254
Good times...
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Adam Smith
Wednesday - July 8th 2026 9:08PM MST
PS: I rode the MARTA a couple times..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ
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Be not afraid, Mr. Moderator.
Mr. Alarmist,
I once made it to and from Hartsfield in 80 minutes each way. (It usually takes about 90.) (Unless I hit some traffic in the Peachtree Parking Lot.)
But, yeah... I don't think I'll ever be taking the marta again.
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