Typically, people prefer to live far away from train tracks. But that’s because most people don’t live near the CTA Holiday Train. This festive train is located in Chicago, and it only runs during the months of November and December, just in time for the Christmas season. In fact, this is the popular train’s 33rd year of operation! But no matter how many times this train sets out on its tracks, folks can’t get enough of it. That even includes Sveta, a woman who can quite literally see this Christmas train from her very own apartment window. Check out the beautiful view she gets daily in the festive video below! @s.damiani the CTA holiday train is back in Chicago! #chicago ♬ staring contest – tomcbumpz “I get to see the holiday train from my window this year too… this city truly is magical,” someone shares in reply to Sveta’s video, another adding, “This is the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life. I would love my life if I saw this often.” Sure, trains can be noisy, but look at those gorgeous lights! It’s no wonder Sveta has a hard time imagining ever moving. And that’s just what the train looks like from a distance… All Aboard the Chicago Christmas Train, One of the Most Festive Mode of Public Transportation Around! @caricaturebydonna #ctaholidaytrain #chicago #foryoupage #christmas2024 #chicagochristmas #ctatrainchicago # #elvesoftiktok #holidaychicago2024 #chicagoeltrain #chicagotrains #holidaynostalgiatrain #chicagotransitauthority #chicagopublictransportation #chicagopublictransit ♬ Christmas Hip Hop – Tini Mc Inside, it’s even more magical. In addition to the colorful decor, passengers can expect to interact with friendly elves and Santa Claus himself. As if that wasn’t amazing enough, the CTA Holiday Train embraces the spirit of the season by giving back to the community. They do this through a charity food delivery service. More specifically, CTA employees help purchase and put together food baskets that are given to people all across the city. So, if you’re in Chicago during the holidays, make sure to plan your train rides accordingly! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Woman Shares Perfectly Festive View From Chicago Apartment appeared first on InspireMore.

Kids get a break from school over the holidays. Much to the dismay of many parents, the two-week break from school is often full of mayhem and mischief. For mom Alisha Gambrell, one day into Christmas break has already stressed her beyond her limits. From its appearance, the singing began before she finished her morning coffee. @alisha.gambrell Lord help me #roadto5k #momssupportingmoms #fyp #christmasbreak ♬ original sound – PA_mike_ For teachers, it is an entirely different story. They are celebrating having made it this far into the school year. @theycallmemrscowan We made it! #christmasbreak #winterbreak #teacher #teachers #elementaryschool #teachersoftiktok #teacherfyp #fyp ♬ sonido original – jesus Santana It isn’t just the young kids that invade their parent’s spaces. Sometimes, it’s the college daughter coming home with a ton of laundry and just as much drama. @mac_whittaker Sorry mom and dad #foryoupage #tennesseecheerleader #university #foryou #college #fyp #universityoftennessee #freshmanyear #utk #dorm #christmas ♬ dźwięk oryginalny – zoosja The soundtrack of the season is children singing, “Santa Claus is coming up your butt…” We have no clue where the original of this annoying background track comes from. “Butt” has always been one of those words that kids love and parents hate. Maybe just roll with it? As annoying as it may be for adults, the kids enjoy using the taboo word. It’s pretty innocent when you think of what they could be singing. If you’re a parent, you understand the frustration of a mom being done with Christmas break on the first day. There is no such thing as a midday nap. The screaming, crying, and fighting never seem to stop. And, of course, the incessant singing before morning coffee. @christi.mich The next 12 days are going to be grrreatttt!!! #kids #holidays #relatable #christmasbreak #winterbreak #fyp #moms #momsbelike #funny #christmas ♬ original sound – PA_mike_ No children were harmed while making these video clips. We cannot make the same claim for the parents. Hopefully, they have an adequate supply of Tylenol and maybe some earplugs available. If you’re a mom or dad who has lived through a Christmas break, we know you understand! Please share the pain of the parents who are currently suffering. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Defeated Mom Gives Peek Into How It’s Going “One Day Into Christmas Break” appeared first on InspireMore.

In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35 and 40%. He would average only about 41% approval over his tumultuous four-year tenure. No one knows what lies ahead over the next four years. But for now, Trump already polls well over 50% approval. His inauguration in a few weeks will likely not resemble Trump’s 2016 ceremony. In the 2016-7 transition, Democratic-affiliated interests ran commercials urging electors to become “faithless,” and thus illegally to reject their states’ popular votes and instead elect the loser, Hillary Clinton. Massive demonstrations met Trump on Inauguration Day. In less than four months after assuming the presidency, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate the hoax of Russian collusion. That wasted 22-month, $40 million investigation found no collusion, but did derail the first two Trump years. What followed the collusion ruse was a consistent effort to undermine the Trump presidency—two subsequent impeachments, the laptop “disinformation” hoax, the COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, and news suppression of any mention of the Chinese lab origin of the virus or questioning the closing of schools. In the Trump administration’s last summer of 2020, 120 days of riot, arson, looting, assault, and murder followed, with the denouement of the January 6 turmoil. In contrast, the 2024-5 Trump transition has all but assumed the presidency. Over 100 foreign leaders have elbowed each other to be invited to Mar-a-Lago or to phone in their congratulations to the newly elected Trump. Remember that in 2016 the Left screamed “Logan Act” if a Trump transition appointee even talked with foreign officials. So why is newly elected Trump a veritable cultural hero in 2024 in a fashion unimaginable eight years ago when the media had rendered him a near demon? One, Trump is seen now as a welcome relief. A departing and unpopular President Joe Biden leaves with about a 36% approval rating. The prior Biden years are now seen as abnormal. The Left’s cultural revolution championed fringe policies never quite seen before: destroying the border, welcoming in 12 million illegal aliens, nihilist critical race and legal theories, institutionalizing a third sex, and mandating woke/DEI quotas and indoctrination sessions. Yet Biden had inherited from Trump a secure border, an economy rebounding after the COVID quarantines, 1.23% inflation, no wars abroad, and cheap energy. Four years later, the outgoing Biden administration is widely unpopular. Almost every one of its policies polls before 50%. In reaction, Trump promises not just to restore his first-term success, but to expand it. Two, Trump personally remains transparent and energetic—eager to talk and meet anyone, anytime, and just about anywhere. His energy offers a sharp contrast with the non-compos-mentis Biden. The change is welcomed by an electorate exhausted by the past four years of presidential stumbling, wandering, incoherence, mind-freezes, and angry, “get-off-my-grass” aged fragility. Three, Trump is grudgingly admired, now even by some of his enemies who once sought but failed to destroy him. He endured two impeachments, five civil and criminal court indictments, incessant lawfare, a 95% negative media coverage, attempts to remove him from states’ ballots, and two assassination attempts. Yet all these unprecedented hostile efforts to end Trump may only have made him stronger—and more empathetic when seen as a target of increasingly fanatical enemies. Four, Trump has expanded his MAGA base and permanently branded it as an ecumenical movement that welcomes shared class interests rather than the tired old tribal racial and ethnic chauvinism. Trump also brought in disaffected Democrats, independents, and minorities in a way the Democrats could not with the evaporating “Never Trump” dead enders. Trump’s veritable campaign menagerie of RFK, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Dana White, and Kid Rock made it impossible for the Left to demonize MAGA Republicans as right-wing aristocrats or laissez-fair capitalists. Fifth, the endorsements of the Biden-Harris legacy media, calcified Hollywood endorsers, blowhard university faculties, and tech barons proved vastly overrated. It was trumped by more popular and dynamic Internet influencers, podcasters, bloggers, and maverick entrepreneurs. Sixth and finally, Trump himself proved more experienced, and more measured and reflective than in 2016. His team too was more disciplined and street smart, led by savvy chief of staff Susan Wiles. The past year has seen truly pivotal moments of Trump as an everyman—posing for a mugshot after being railroaded by a weaponized lawfare indictment, serving MacDonald’s drive-up customers, riding in a garbage truck cab, raising his fist and yelling “fight, fight, fight”—and after nearing have his head blown off by a would-be assassin. Add all of these once unimaginables up, and the people trusted more—and liked better—the Trump reboot than grouchy Biden or inane and inauthentic Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as their shared extremist agendas. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. (C) 2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. The post What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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