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Grate (or is that Bigly) Expectations
Apparently it's all about Cheese when it comes to electing Republican Presidents.
DRS pair 66304 and tail-end partner 305 working 6Z80 09.00 Fairwater Yard to West Ealing Plasser sidings storm up the rise into Bruton Railway station.
A mystery working at the time (July 2020) but with all this focus on the 2024 US Presidential Election it starts to makes sense, once you realise that the acronym for the yellow railborne cheese-scraping devices - HOBC - stands for Handling Oversize Block of Cheese.
In July 2020 in the lead-up to the American Presidential Election, these and many other similar wagons from across the UK were pooled at West Ealing in late summer prior to being shipped out to the states in an effort to aid the Republican effort to get incumbent President, Donald Trump, re-elected for a second term by touring marginal swing-states re-enforcing the Trump message to "Make America Grate Again" (his 2016 election slogan) and the message this time around to "Keep America Grate" (I think that might be Keep America 'Grating' Donald).
In opposition to Trump's message, the Democratic party backed their candidate, Joe Biden with the confusing "Our Best Days Still Lie Ahead" (ha, come on Joe, it doesn't even mention Cheese, amateur).
The Republican Party have a long history when it comes to election campaign slogans relating to a certain Dairy product, in 1980 Ronald Reagan's team went with "You can't make an Omelette without breaking some Cheese", however in a break with tradition in 1984 the rallying cry for Ronnie's successful re-election was "Did the earth move for you, Nancy?". A back-to-basics 1988 campaign saw George Bush Snr run with the simple but effective "I'm the Big Cheese" and with a slight adjustment in 2000 his son George Bush Jnr was duly elected with the mantra "I'm the Small Cheese".
For the sake of balance it should be pointed out that amazingly the Democratic Party have never had to resort to Dairy-based slogans in order to secure election to The White House, in 1992 Bill Clinton was successful with "Pick a Card, any Card" and was re-elected for a second term with "Close that Window, there's a Draft in here" whilst Barack Obama triumphed in 2008 with "I'm an American, honest!" and in confident mood in 2012 went simply with "Go on America, you know you want to" (wink).
Grate (or is that Bigly) Expectations
Apparently it's all about Cheese when it comes to electing Republican Presidents.
DRS pair 66304 and tail-end partner 305 working 6Z80 09.00 Fairwater Yard to West Ealing Plasser sidings storm up the rise into Bruton Railway station.
A mystery working at the time (July 2020) but with all this focus on the 2024 US Presidential Election it starts to makes sense, once you realise that the acronym for the yellow railborne cheese-scraping devices - HOBC - stands for Handling Oversize Block of Cheese.
In July 2020 in the lead-up to the American Presidential Election, these and many other similar wagons from across the UK were pooled at West Ealing in late summer prior to being shipped out to the states in an effort to aid the Republican effort to get incumbent President, Donald Trump, re-elected for a second term by touring marginal swing-states re-enforcing the Trump message to "Make America Grate Again" (his 2016 election slogan) and the message this time around to "Keep America Grate" (I think that might be Keep America 'Grating' Donald).
In opposition to Trump's message, the Democratic party backed their candidate, Joe Biden with the confusing "Our Best Days Still Lie Ahead" (ha, come on Joe, it doesn't even mention Cheese, amateur).
The Republican Party have a long history when it comes to election campaign slogans relating to a certain Dairy product, in 1980 Ronald Reagan's team went with "You can't make an Omelette without breaking some Cheese", however in a break with tradition in 1984 the rallying cry for Ronnie's successful re-election was "Did the earth move for you, Nancy?". A back-to-basics 1988 campaign saw George Bush Snr run with the simple but effective "I'm the Big Cheese" and with a slight adjustment in 2000 his son George Bush Jnr was duly elected with the mantra "I'm the Small Cheese".
For the sake of balance it should be pointed out that amazingly the Democratic Party have never had to resort to Dairy-based slogans in order to secure election to The White House, in 1992 Bill Clinton was successful with "Pick a Card, any Card" and was re-elected for a second term with "Close that Window, there's a Draft in here" whilst Barack Obama triumphed in 2008 with "I'm an American, honest!" and in confident mood in 2012 went simply with "Go on America, you know you want to" (wink).