Learning From Failure?
By Mitch Berg
A friend of the blog emails:
The tides seem to be changing.
I remember when a similar editorial was written about downtown Minneapolis and the man who wrote it was basically canceled. And the Star Tribune took it down.
It’s interesting to note how the writer says, “I don’t raise these opinions in certain rooms, because I am deeply enmeshed in the progressive ecosystem of belief, and have adapted to those spaces for much of my life.”Glad he finally feels brave enough to raise these concerns. Hope we can get some real enforcement nationwide on Fentanyl use, crime, etc.
Hope springs eternal, I suppose. But that would involve admitting there’s a problem – and what the causes of those problems actually are.
Baby steps, maybe.
March 24th, 2023 at 6:21 am
Your hope is as busted as your link, Merg.
March 24th, 2023 at 7:15 am
Link worked for me.
Even if heightening security worked, you’re just pushing the problem out of the view of hipster progressives onto the streets.
There are probably a few hundred people, in a city of almost 400,000, causing thse problems. Why not lock them up?
We know why, don’t we?
March 24th, 2023 at 8:43 am
For all the vain posturing and virtue signaling about the white scourge and slavery progressives are perfectly obtuse when it comes to the pushers of fentanyl & co. Anyone pushing fentanyl is a slaver! Slavery is right there in front of them but they recoil from even acknowledging it. What a truly cowardly ideology progressives have embraced!
March 24th, 2023 at 8:49 am
From the Progressive Environmentalist point of view; if as posited the world is dangerously overpopulated why should we tolerate the socially destructive subgroup that is drug addicts? Shouldn’t we start the depopulation train going with them? Asking for a friend.
Hey maybe the all knowing Emery has an answer.
March 24th, 2023 at 8:53 am
He fixed the link. The comments are hilarious!
All those woke nitwits worrying about the feelz of people that drug themselves into oblivion precisely so the don’t feel anything. And they’d rather take a beating than insult blaks.
March 24th, 2023 at 9:11 am
What really squeezes my sponge is, all of this was happening on every light rail system in the country long before they started on your choo choo.
I remember riding BART in Cali when it first opened. I had a long ride from Hayward to Richmond, right through Oakland. There was already blaks working the car with 3 card Monte. Now, they just beat you to the floor and take what they want.
I’m sure the poor slobs that ride BART today look back at those as the good old days. Now, it’s a rolling MMA show, every day, and so is every other light rail system.
The reprobates running the show up there knew this, of course, even of the nitwits didn’t, but there was money to be made, and fiefdom’s to be enlarged. Now, it will never get better, and it will never go away. They’ll run it completely empty, if they have to.
March 24th, 2023 at 9:17 am
I was stunned to get a comment past the Strib censors the other day on the article about the new Transit Security Chief. My point was pretty simple: druggies/thuggies and regular commuters and families cannot co-exist on the transit system. Pick the one you want to favor, or you want coming through your automatic doors, but if the “preferred” clientele is druggies/thuggies, then the other group is going to continue to drop. 58 likes on the comment last I checked.
Maybe the fact that the censors allowed this indicates another slow turning toward acknowledging the truth over doctrine.
March 24th, 2023 at 9:32 am
For underperforming light rail I’ve always been surprised that no-one forewords the idea of including 3 or 4 flatcars for carrying containers in the rolling stock inventory. The downtown Post Office in Minneapolis has multiple semi runs to and from the airport every day – those could easily be facilitated with containers on flat cars between downtown and the airport. So 2 passenger cars and 3 container flatbeds on every run – it won’t create enough revenue to fully underwrite the passengers but it will offset costs and think how green it would be.
March 24th, 2023 at 9:36 am
“St. Paul man sentenced for sexually assaulting 15-year-old girl on Green Line train
Surveillance video captured the attack, and police recognized the assailant.”
“Brandon Trumanue Lindsey, 39, pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct in August and was sentenced Monday by Ramsey County District Judge Kelly Olmstead.”
So, you think the cops recognized Brandon from his coaching the PAL softball team? Anyway, he get’s the George Floyd discount on his sentence (5 years? lol), and will be out in half the time.
Meantime, Bikebubble, will you be organizing a campaign to keep his commissary account full while he suffers this raciss injustice?
March 24th, 2023 at 10:06 am
I don’t know about the rest of you, but if I’m staring down two or three drugged out thugs, I sure hope that there is an “Ambassador” in the car. I’m sure that most of the petite, blonde and woke white women, that ride the choo choo, hope the same thing. I mean, what good is a 6’ 5, 240 lb former marine Transit cop when you have an “Ambassador”.
The lack of people ain’t getting any better, either. The decent, sane LEOs and candidates, are moving to red states.
March 24th, 2023 at 10:31 am
“I don’t raise these opinions in certain rooms, because I am deeply enmeshed in the progressive ecosystem of belief, and have adapted to those spaces for much of my life.”
So, like a religion or a cult.
March 24th, 2023 at 10:36 am
@MacArthur Wheeler
LOL@ thinking postal workers having to conform to someone else’s schedule will work.
Besides, they’re moving away from downtown soon. What year is anybody’s guess but they keep saying it.
March 24th, 2023 at 11:01 am
TKS
I remember first hearing about the planned departure “any day now” of the downtown Mpls Post Office in 1974.
However the downtown PO is not the only possible customer, I just using the PO as an example, there certainly are other businesses along the light rail lines that could use the service productively.
March 24th, 2023 at 11:56 am
When Light Rail started a pair of armed cops enforced fares & rules. Cushioned seats were fine.
Currently— enforcement and prosecutions are ‘racist’ and they had to replace cushions with plastic seats due to many sitting in urine-soaked cushions.
March 24th, 2023 at 1:51 pm
Emery
Emery
You posture as an expert in economics, political science, moral philosophy, jurisprudence, bibliothecography, public health, biology, and epidemiology so I’m curious just what credentials do you have?
How many degrees do you hold?
Where did you get your Bachelors, your Masters, your JD, and your PhD?
Give us a peek behind the curtain, outline your CV.
March 24th, 2023 at 3:56 pm
Glad to see that even the left is admitting what Weird Al was noting in his first parody, “Another one rides the bus.” I’m also reminded of the “tragedy of the commons”–it’s not like anyone skilled in economics should fail to predict this. Unless you police things strictly, you’re going to get all the worst elements there–come to think of it, I’m surprised I didn’t see Kremlin Tom last time I rode.
But fixing it is easy, IMO. Downtown buildings are predominantly office buildings, and due to our response to COVID, a huge portion of those workers are working from home. So we really don’t need nearly as many of these buses, trains, and the like, and with that, we can adequately police the system.
March 24th, 2023 at 4:02 pm
I second Mac’s query
You’re a fabulously wealthy man about town, and multidisciplinary expert, of that we’re all convinced rAT.
What Ivy League institution of highest learning sent you on your road to success?
Was your brilliance recognized by your profs and peers, or did you bloom afterwards?
Tia rAT!
March 25th, 2023 at 1:07 pm
” they had to replace cushions with plastic seats due to many sitting in urine-soaked cushions”
Just like at the fabulous rodent EStAtE, eh, rAT?