Shot in the Dark

Let Them Eat Paint

Overdoses.

Public solicitation and delivery of prostitution.

Open drug dealing.

Gang activity. Robberies. Muggings. Assaults

No, I’m not talking about the House DFL Caucus offices. I’m talking about the big Metro Transit stations in Minneapolis.

And what’s the remedy?

According to Metro Transit and its big government stakeholders: murals.

Metro Transit is turning to murals in an effort to make its bus and light-rail stations more welcoming.

The latest installation is at the I-35W and Lake Street Transit Station in south Minneapolis, a busy hub that’s been plagued by graffiti and where two people were wounded in a shooting this spring. Police data also show there have been two robberies near the station this year.

Local artist Kada Goalen spent six weeks and 90 gallons of paint transforming gray and beige concrete walls and pillars into a vibrant spectacle featuring giant songbirds against a backdrop of color.

Let’s cut to the chase: what this is is not a serious attempt to make Transit less onerous at best, dangerous at worst.

It’s yet another transfer of money from taxpayers to the favored clients of the political class.

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16 responses to “Let Them Eat Paint”

  1. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    I’m absolutely sure that if the mural has an image of St George of Floyd that crime will stop and peace will reign.

    Local artist Kada Goalen is called a muralist… is that a graffitist with a rich sponsor?

  2. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    I’m betting that it has already been vandalized.

  3. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Maybe retitle this post “Let them eat paint”? Looks like the AI voice recognition did a typically great job!

    My thought regarding the transit stations is that at a certain point, you need someone there with the credibility and authority to tell people “this is not the place to ply this trade. We are trying to maintain a society here.” It reminds me, to a degree, of where my daughter and son in law live, and I was a bit nervous until interactions with the neighbors made clear that it was not the richest neighborhood, but it was a working class neighborhood where people will say “knock it off” if you get too far out of line.

    Again, “we have a society to maintain here. Knock it off!”

  4. Greg Avatar
    Greg

    Play classical music LOUDIt works like bug repellent on the human cockroaches.

  5. Pig Bodine Avatar
    Pig Bodine

    greg
    good idea, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos on a loop while the sun is up and a medley of Webern, Schoenberg,and Alban Berg’s LuLu on a loop at night
    and as you suggest, very loud.

  6. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    I like the classical music idea, but at some point, you need someone to replace the speakers that get broken and stolen, and hopefully also to arrest those who break and steal the speakers. A working society needs a watchman, more or less.

  7. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    The most appropriate mural for the Lake St. station would be of the Mos Eisley cantina. You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

  8. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    Scum and villany? How about the Lesko Brandon administration? Article in this month’s NRA magazine touting a $25 million defense department contract awarded to ATN Corp to deliver thermal-imaging systems to the Ukes by the end of the year.

    Will there even BE a Ukraine by the end of the year?

    Rifle scopes from $1,000 and up. Sure, they have Bluetooth and dual core processors, video capability you can share on social media, but do the Ukes really need all that right now? Is lack of wifi scopes their main problem?

    The company president was born in Kiev, set up donation sites for the Ukes, generated lots of great PR for the administration’s war effort and now lands a huge government contract. With all the scrutiny these days, I wonder how they’re handling the 10% for the Big Guy?

  9. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Bigman:
    My guess is that he and the rest of the corrupt cavalry, skim it off the top somehow.

  10. cosmicwxdude Avatar
    cosmicwxdude

    I mean fine n dandy that they want to pretty it up, but it will just be destroyed quickly and will do NOTHING to prevent crime. Then again, these are likely naive-ignorant DFLeftists so..um..yeah.

  11. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Hmmm…..$1000 scopes with night vision might be great for preventing the Russian Army from maneuvering, even at night, but I’m thinking it just might be overkill for dealing with prostitution and drug dealing in the Metro. Plus, where are you going to sit if you’re trying to stay back 1000 yards–close to a mile–from that station?

    I’m going with policemen who will politely make arrests and explain to people “we have a society to maintain here”.

    (nice threadjack attempt, guys, but really, if Ukraine were fencing the materiel they were getting from the free world, the situation would look very different, and quite frankly, the FSB would have killed Zelensky because they’d have found people that could be easily bought)

  12. mjb003 Avatar
    mjb003

    The city activists are always trying to suggest murals for my neighborhood. I always tell them, look, we work hard here to keep our neighborhood clean, we get any graffiti cleaned up as soon as it happens. We don’t need a professional graffiti artist cluttering up the business walls. Put it in your own neighborhood in Mac Groveland if you like murals so well. So far, I have kept murals from my corner of the world. I didn’t see myself as that person, but I must be the “knock it off” person of my block.

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  14. Bettyboop Avatar
    Bettyboop

    i don’t get it. If art calms the savage beast, why isn’t graffiti working?????

  15. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    Will there even BE a Ukraine by the end of the year?

    Even UKEs do not want to fight (see dismissal of recruitment generals for taking bribes to NOT send people to the front, or more likely for not sharing the bribes with Kermit). What a joke! You are absolutely right, Big, this is all about the military complex raking in obscene profits. I was looking at NV but ATN is now out of the running. Wanna know something interesting? Quite a few high-end NV companies were founded, are run by, and still manufacture in FSU.

  16. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    Boop, savages did not go to the U for 13 years to study art to appreciate it. All they see is a rorschach pattern that incites them to action, any action, but mostly violent. If only they were paid reparations to go to school for 17 years to study art. Oh how wonderful the world it would be!

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