Ever Notice…
By Mitch Berg
… how iconic brands in Minneapolis never find buyers? They always go from humming along to closing up shop for good?
Psycho Suzies tiki lounge may have been one of the most distinctive bars/restaurants in the city, that, for its many faults, as always been pretty creative on the food front.
It’s been a while since I’ve been there – although one of my most treasured memories is cleaning Bridget Cronin‘s vomit off my shoes during one of her birthday parties there. But every time I was ever there, it was packed, especially on gorgeous summer nights, where you could sit and look across the Mississippi River at the sparkling of gunfire from North Minneapolis.
You think it would be a hot property, including its branding, for someone.
But nooooo…
Psycho Suzie’s Motor Lounge announced it will permanently close on Aug. 19.
“For the past two decades we’ve welcomed you through our tiki laden jungle to enjoy tropical drinks, pizza pies, waterfront seating, and the company of new and old friends… but all good things must come to an end and this Psycho Suzi is ready to hang it up and put on her retirement hat,” said owner Leslie Bock, in a Facebook post.
So what Minneapolis social tradition will be next? City government has drawn a line in the Sand around the first Avenue, clearly – that place is escaped the apathy of the market. Thanks to city intervention a number of times.
The Dakota? God forbid.
August 4th, 2023 at 2:12 pm
Last time around, rAT was so drunk, he put slot machine chips into the ballot box, and claimed he’d been cheated because someone removed the pull lever.
I bet if anyone checked, they’d *still* find Hillary ballots up in his ER Nurse/daughter’s crimped fish mitten from 2016.
August 4th, 2023 at 2:35 pm
It’s not illegal to go into a bank.
It’s not illegal to wear a ski mask.
It’s not illegal to own a gun.
It’s not illegal to say “Give me the money.”
I hope you can see that individual actions may be legal, but in combination are clearly wrong and illegal.
August 4th, 2023 at 2:40 pm
^^The ol’ blather machine is turning over at a solid 3200 RPM today!
It’s like ChatGPT. No reason behind the words, no meaning, since their is nothing there to give it meaning.
August 4th, 2023 at 2:42 pm
Since I am OT anyway, here is the interview with the Obama biographer everybody is talking about: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/david-garrow-interview-obama
A sample:What do the Obamas and their circle have in common with each other? They are Ivy League people, who ran away from whatever they came from in order to become members of the credentialed elites, whose loyalty is to the system that gives them prestige—or rather, gives prestige to their degrees, of which they are the holders. Once they pair off and reproduce under the seal of Harvard or Yale, they may find it seemly to donate money to an NGO that offers microloans to female entrepreneurs in Pakistan. So why should Obama, the ultimate winner, carry on the charade that he’s part of a community, whatever that means, with these people? He’s happy to go on NPR and talk about meaning or Marilynne Robinson novels or whatever, to make the wine moms identify with him, so he can put one over on them. Just don’t ask him to visit the hospital when you get cancer, because he’ll be hanging out on someone’s yacht, with the other winners.
August 4th, 2023 at 3:57 pm
It really is worthwhile remembering Bush V Gore from 2000. Gore lost every recount, but he had the FL supreme court members appointed by a crooked Dem governor to constantly throw Gore lifelines. Gore it all the way to the Supreme Court.
Really, If I was on Trump’s defense team, I would just have Dem witnesses explain everything that was on the record about them using every legal gambit they could imagine to steal elections when the official count put the GOP in the lead with the official count. Even drag in Al Franken & his people, it would be a great example of a US Senator who got into office by relentlessly pushing every legal lever until he got enough votes to be declared the winner — and then stop the counting.
August 4th, 2023 at 4:03 pm
Regarding Psycho Suzi’s in particular, it’s on the market for $6 million, but the average income for a restauranteur is $200k or less. Not everybody can be Guy Fieri, and when you’re right on the border of North and Northeast, going into industrial areas, someone with a bit less savvy than the original owner is going to say “pass.”
And then, yes, you’ve got the city’s tax structure and lack of law enforcement, which doesn’t make things any easier.
UMMP; where was that guy back in 2008, when it would have mattered?
August 4th, 2023 at 6:08 pm
bikebubba, the quote I gave was from the interviewer (David Samuels), and not the interviewee & Obama biographer (David Garrow).
Garrow published his Obama biography in 2017. It is in many ways a record of the malfeasance of the MSM in investigating the life and character of Obama while he was in office. In Obama’s 2 (!?) memoirs, he clearly identified people from his early life, yet no MSM journalists ever bothered to contact them, to see how their recollections of Obama aligned with his memoirs.
I nailed Obama correctly here, on SITD, years and years ago. Obama was and is popinjay, a parrot who taught himself to repeat the banalities and bien-pensant ideas of the white upper middle class.
If I can criticize the black elites for one thing, it is their uncritical acceptance of “black” people. Michael Jackson was a moral monster, and was embraced by the black community as one of their own. Obama is a half black, half white, middle class guy, who was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia. He is about alienated from the experience of black Americans as I am.
August 4th, 2023 at 6:13 pm
The restaurant business is terrible, It is highly regulated and difficult to scale. Margins are thin and are very sensitive to macroeconomic conditions, which you cannot control. I suspect that many standalone restaurants only continue to stay open because you can launder money through them.
August 5th, 2023 at 9:10 am
Good Saturday morning to everyone who doesn’t have any conditions of release to violate.
August 5th, 2023 at 9:18 am
Betty Danger’s has been for sale since before the pandemic and clearly no one wants to spend the $6 million for a place with the liability of a ferris wheel. She then reopened it with an anti-government animal house theme…. after taking $500,000 in government PPP loans. Not so anti-government it would seem.
Suzi’s has been on the market for several months. The only thing it has going for it is the location, but even that it limited, as they can’t trim back the vegetation along the river. She’s done nothing to upkeep the interior over the years. The place needs a huge investment.
Anything that goes in there will be better than it has been the past decade. Even if they level it and turn it into a parking lot.
August 5th, 2023 at 9:56 am
So sad to wake up in a country where the democrat regime jails its political opponents.
August 5th, 2023 at 10:21 am
Pot. Meet kettle.
https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1687496195885735946
August 5th, 2023 at 10:42 am
Trump is centering his campaign around his sense of personal grievance and deprivation of legitimacy by a vengeful Washington distant from “real” America. This approach will solidify somewhere around a 35-38 percent hardcore approval rating.
The Democrats have both a strong record and a constructive program for the future. How to build around that?
The Republicans are likely to be resource poor and even more importantly candidate poor. They can’t be everywhere and they can’t defend everything. The Democrats should attack the Republicans broadly and in particular with strong local campaigns up-and-down the ticket. Make the billionaires spend and spend — particularly to defend.
The Democrats should run a full-court press with their strong all-star Washington team stressing the broad achievements of the administration to the American public with lots of in-person appearances across the country. So it just shouldn’t be the president on constant display and the sole focal point — it should be broader array of faces showing up on local TV screens.
The National effort should if anything be out-weighted by strong campaigns for Senate, the House, state legislatures, and open governorships. In particular, the Democrats should wage strong campaigns in 80-100 Republican congressional districts and every incumbent Republican senators should face stiff challenges. Make them accountable for their votes.
Trump is the ideal “small” candidate upon which to wage a Big Campaign.
August 5th, 2023 at 10:49 am
Bad link — from Big & Tall
August 5th, 2023 at 2:38 pm
No wonder the link is bad, rAT. You’re more of a little and short kind of Pedo.
August 5th, 2023 at 2:41 pm
rAT squeaked: “Good Saturday morning to everyone who doesn’t have any conditions of release to violate.”
Jfc…talk about projection.
Do you still have a GPS leash on your leg rAT.
You can say, I won’t squeal on you for going up to the Indian c@sino
August 5th, 2023 at 2:46 pm
Think about this, rAT.
Trump bangs hot girls in perfumed silk sheets every night….your daughter sells her crimped fish mitten to all comers in a ditch behind he Quickly mart and Town Pump.
No wonder you’re obsessed with him.
August 5th, 2023 at 2:49 pm
Tbh, I’d probably by some rides for the guys at the Methadone dispensary..
I’m compassionate like that.
August 5th, 2023 at 3:27 pm
Wait…I better be careful.
What’s your daughter charge for a toss in the ditch, rAT?
Friend and family price…
August 5th, 2023 at 4:22 pm
Seems like it is time, once again, to remind SITD readers and commenters that “Emery” predicted that in 2016 Hillary would win over Trump in a landslide, that the Brexit vote would fail, and that he still believes that Trump colluded with Putin to steal the 2016 election from Hillary.
August 5th, 2023 at 4:34 pm
Matt Taibbi:
Democrats [. . . .]are repeating the process of cooling turnout by blasting their own protest candidate, and instead of an alert-if-off-putting Hillary Clinton on the ticket, the standard-bearer is a half-sentient, influence-peddling version of Donovan’s Brain, with no one behind him but Kamala Harris — who just got asked by a trying-to-be-friendly reporter at ABC if “race and gender” were a cause of her own historically low approval rating. Absent a big switch, our future is either Donald Trump, who by next year will be in more restraints than Hannibal Lecter on the tarmac, or this DNC dog’s breakfast. Other countries are surely already laughing. It’s getting harder to resist joining them.
August 5th, 2023 at 4:45 pm
Imagine being so insane that you believe that 60 million or so of your fellow American citizens are members of a violent, nihilist death cult. This what the TDS people believe. How can you continue to to believe in democracy — the idea that our leaders are responsible to the people they govern — if you believe this nonsense?
August 5th, 2023 at 5:50 pm
Jonathan Turley:
The government acknowledges that the Constitution protects false statements made in campaigns, but it insists that Trump must have known that his statements were false and therefore was engaged in fraudulent statements to obstruct or challenge electoral results.
As a threshold matter, one problem is immediately evident. If Trump actually did (or does) believe that he did not lose the election, the indictment collapses. And so in an effort to demonstrate his knowledge, the indictment details how many people told Trump that he was wrong about the election and wrong about the law. I was one of those voices. Trump did not listen to me, most legal analysts or even his White House counsel. Instead, he listened to a small group of lawyers who assured him that a challenge might succeed and that there was evidence of massive election fraud.
But Trump is allowed to seek out enablers who tell him what he wants to hear. All presidents do this. (Joe Biden, for example, ignored virtually unanimous legal opinion and relied upon a single law professor’s say-so to justify an obviously unconstitutional executive action that later had to be reversed.)
This case, which criminally targets the sitting president’s leading opponent, is much more dangerous because it sets up the federal government as the arbiter of truth.
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4137650-even-lies-are-protected-speech-new-trump-indictment-bulldozes-the-first-amendment/
August 5th, 2023 at 9:16 pm
Trump is charged with lying because he says the election was stolen
But if the election really was stolen then he’s not lying
That means we must litigate the election To determine whether it was stolen to determine whether he was lying
Sounds good to me. I’ve been saying that since day one. Open the warehouses and bring out the ballots, manually recount every single one. Let’s get started.
August 6th, 2023 at 4:02 pm
If we can’t attack the Capitol, is this really America anymore? ~ Woolly
August 6th, 2023 at 5:19 pm
@ Big & Tall Those that don’t necessarily support Trump need to hear Trump’s defense argument that there is not sufficient evidence that Trump knew he lost the election. And Trump’s supporters, need to acknowledge the volume of detailed evidence of the many plots to overturn the election, which were outlined convincingly — but in an indictment that few of them have likely read…..
August 6th, 2023 at 5:24 pm
And Emery invents a statement out of thin air, and attributes it to me. It really is time to bring out the ban-hammer Mitch.
August 6th, 2023 at 6:59 pm
There will be no trial. It is a publicity stunt to smear Trump.
August 7th, 2023 at 9:44 am
You can sincerely believe in the Easter Bunny, too … but if your parents, your aunties and uncles and your neighbors all tell you that they have been the ones hiding the Easter eggs, then your “sincere beliefs” are quaint, but no longer valid.
August 7th, 2023 at 9:56 am
OK, Emery, if Trump is to be prosecuted for putting inordinate resources into challenging an election, what about Al Gore, John F’ing Kerry, Hilliary Clinton, and Stacey Abrams? Inquiring minds want to know. All of them arguably spread a lot of manure around.
August 7th, 2023 at 10:11 am
The indictments of Trump have nothing to do with Hunter Biden, or Hillary Clinton’s email server, or any of the other hypothetical what-about-isms Trump’s supporters toss out as if they had any relevance. They aren’t Democrats trying to indict Trump out of the race. They are the legal system of the United States upholding the rule of law.
August 7th, 2023 at 10:14 am
BB, you are foolish to engage with the troll.
The troll’s purpose is to pollute SITD’s comment section with anti-GOP and anti-Trump talking points. It isn’t to comment in good faith.
August 7th, 2023 at 10:40 am
“So sad to wake up in a country where the democrat regime jails its political opponents.” ~ Woolly (note the quotation marks)
Trump’s level of public support should matter not a whit to how the application of justice is administered. If he’s done something wrong, and any dispassionate observer will agree that he has, then he should face the consequences. Naturally he’s going to play the victim card to the point of tedium and naturally his hard core of supporters will join in the whinge fest.
But a mature democracy can only exist and function if its leaders are as accountable as its most humble citizens. If social status is to be a factor in determining whether or not someone pays a penalty for wrongdoing then we might as well hand the keys of the shop over to the mob and its chosen messiah.
Let justice take its course, regardless of how the process affects his standing among Republicans. They’ll say it’s politically motivated regardless of the evidence.
But doing wrong should *always* carry consequences.
August 7th, 2023 at 11:20 am
The troll has now reached far past the blather limit and entered the verbal realm of gobbledy-gook. Even he doesn’t know what he is trying to say.
People are sometimes like this when they are in the manic phase of bipolar disorder.
August 7th, 2023 at 4:00 pm
UMMP; I could be a fool to engage with the troll, or I could be illustrating to thinking people exactly how badly the troll is diverting from reality. Your call. :^)
August 7th, 2023 at 5:36 pm
Disgraced FBI official who probed Trump-Russia ties set to plead guilty to illegally working for Russian oligarch
This is Chuck McGonigal, the pipelined the info that came to be known as the “Steele Dossier” to Chirstopher Steele. McGonigal was a close associated with the Hillary Clinton campaign.