Wrong. John Henry was a steel drivin’ man. He bored tunnels by driving drills into rock with a sledge hammer. Black powder, and later dynamite, was packed into the holes, set off, and the debris carted away. He most likely learned the skill working in a mine. John Henry drove 15 holes while the steam drill only made nine, according to the song.

Wait! I thought that the Chinese built all the railroads in this country? Was he actually Jon Hen Ri?

Scary job: the guy who holds the drill in place while another man hammers it.

Railroading is an ideal job for men who don’t miss their families, if they have them. You are on call most of your life, you work long hours and when you get off the train, you’re put up in a cheap motel 300 miles from home to await a return trip. The job conditions tend to select poorly socialized men, as long as they do not break the rules printed in the book.

There was no psychological test in my day, and I doubt its usefulness. It’s not a job for normies.

Chinese immigrants are not picked out of a rice field randomly. China can spare a few million bright people in order to (A) displace less robotic American students, (B) drive down tech wages and thereby discourage Americans from entering STEM, (C) get access to American innovations, and (D) establish a second alien market dominant minority within the U.S. that despises us and can be counted upon look out for their homelands’ interests. China does not send people here to make America stronger.

BTW, Koreans don’t like us either.

The Japanese did this with American-born Japanese before WW2. They were known as “Kibei”, and were regarded by the Attorney General as the most dangerous of the Nisei, having been through the Japanese equivalent of the Hitler Youth. Some remained in Japan through the war, serving as translators.

Radical Center is right. They should never be let back in.

Conversation stopper: “If black lives matter, why are they always shooting each other?” Be prepared for sputtering and shunning.

The big issue was “hanging chads”, if you recall. If you don’t push the pin all the way through the card, the little bit of paper (the chad) does not separate from the ballot and so the ballot cannot be counted by a counting machine. Much like when you try to put too many pieces of paper in a paper punch. So, when the black poll workers tried to punch all the unused ballots after the polls closed, they put more than one ballot in at a time and got exactly what you get when you stick seven sheets of paper in a punch that will only reliably punch through six sheets.