Atlas Shrugged: Thank You for Riding Taggart Transcontinental<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\nDagny:<\/b> Well we somehow weren\u2019t able to defeat you and now we\u2019re stuck.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well you\u2019re stuck. I\u2019ve still got a fully functioning snake train I can get away on. Actually with a whole slew of new recruits.
\nDagny:<\/b> Wait, is that where all our workers fled off to?
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Of course! They were chomping at the bit to join up with Cobra. Apparently I\u2019m a far more likable boss than they\u2019ve ever had at Taggart Transcontinental. And they said that after I already shot a few of the more whiny looking ones. What do you think they would just\u2026 walk off into the wilderness in the middle of running a train? That would be completely ludicrous and unbelievable, even by the standards of this world.
\nDagny:<\/b> I can\u2019t believe they\u2019d just abandon us in our hour of need!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> I kind of heard through the grapevine that you abandoned this very same company before once?
\nDagny:<\/b> Well yes but I went off to find myself for purely selfish reasons so it\u2019s fine. They left to find themselves for purely selfish reasons so it\u2019s atrocious.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Look now that time you didn\u2019t even change your words.
\nDagny:<\/b> I don\u2019t have time to think of proper self justification at the moment, I have to take action and fast.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Let me guess you have to give a speech.
\nDagny:<\/b> I have to give a speech!
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Right, well for once I agree with you. Got a lot of people there lost and confused probably need someone to steer them in the right direction.
\nDagny:<\/b> Yes, I\u2019ve got to hurry if I\u2019m going to get in all the insults I have to.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Wait what\u2026 insults?
\nDagny:<\/b> Oh yes at all those people stuck on the train. They\u2019re just the worst.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> I\u2019m probably going to regret asking this but morbid curiosity seems to be driving me. Why?
\nDagny:<\/b> Because they have the unmitigated gall to ask me questions in their distasteful voices which I completely hate.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> You hate their voices?
\nDagny:<\/b> Oh yes, palpably so. In fact despite them asking perfectly reasonable questions of me the only person on the scene who likely has any knowledge of what is going on, and it being in fact my job to answer their questions and work to fix their problems, I just\u2026 oh I absolutely hate their voices so much I\u2019m going to devote actual time to identifying their disgusting tone of voice whenever I\u2019m forced to listen to them.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Well I guess we all can\u2019t have as poetic a voice as I do\u2026
\nDagny:<\/b> I suppose I could give a proper and longer speech since we won\u2019t have to worry about bandits attacking us, unfortunately.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Okay first of all. Though it\u2019s a bit of an insulting title for my grandiose plans I am basically a bandit and have attacked you, but second why wouldn\u2019t they and why is that unfortunate?
\nDagny:<\/b> Well, they won\u2019t attack our completely defenseless train because\u2026 bandits, despite being apparently so well known that they are openly acting in large scale gangs, aren\u2019t going after some of the easiest possible pickings for supplies that they could be after.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Okay that is just complete nonsense but considering the way this world seems to work I\u2019m just going to skip past that and reiterate, why is that unfortunate?
\nDagny:<\/b> Well in an incredibly charitable reading of my mood you could assume it means I would think we would be getting some contact with people who might rob us but at least save us. But considering I care nothing for the passengers and value property more than life it\u2019s more likely I just wish all these people would be murdered.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> They\u2019re your customers!
\nDagny:<\/b> There you go with that talk again\u2026 I\u2019m really not sure what you\u2019re on about. They\u2019re all poorly voiced whiny people who are getting in the way of my epic hero journey of self discovery. So if you\u2019ll excuse me I have to go openly threaten and mock them, while still somehow internally thinking even more disgusting thoughts about them. I\u2019m just a bit too busy to deal with you at the moment.
\nCobra Commander:<\/b> Okay now I think I\u2019m really starting to understand how you guys lost control of this world.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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