Presidents nominating, and Senates confirming, SCOTUS seats via the the process defined in the Constitution is “packing”
Repealing a working-class tax cut won’t increase taxes on the working class.
Nobody’s coming for your guns.
“Anti”-Fa doesn’t exist.
High density cities, with all their accoutrements (mass transit, densely-packed infranstructure) are more sustainable, livable.
The protests are mostly peaceful.
A decade and a half of demonizing police and running a catch-and-release judicial system, combined with open threats to defund or abolish the police, have no effect on crime rates, silly peasants:
The problem isn’t that the Minneapolis Student Council and the president of its Sustainability Club are lying to the people.
The problem is that they know the people who vote for them are too uncritical, complacent, dependent or stupid to know any better.
So far, it seems like a winning strategy.
Politically, I mean.
Did the economic and demographic collapse of Detroit lead to better city government?
Cities and towns need an economic reason to exist. The kinds of activities that occur in cities must promote economic efficiency in a significant way.
Covid, and then the riots, have decreased the economic advantage of cities (though not smaller towns).
Rents are dropping in places like the Bay Area and NYC. This means that the perceived value of living in those places has decreased.
Liberals, more so than conservatives, believe that covid has brought with it a “new normal” of government guidance of the economy and our personal social behavior. If so, the “new normal” may mean the end of cities as cultural power houses, and the high density housing and mass transit they love so much (at least for others).
The problem is that they know the people who vote for them are too uncritical, complacent, dependent or stupid to know any better
I suppose there is something to this, but man, when I watch that Lisa Bender speak I see a true believer. I think she actually believes what she says – I mean, as opposed to, say, Nancy Pelosi or Maxine Waters.
Lisa Bender = proof that unchecked ambition NOT intelligence is what gets you that nice house on Mt Curve
“We have an epidemic of violence that’s affecting young people in our community, and especially young Black men, and we need our whole community to come together to address this violence,” Bender said.
“. . . affecting young people . . . especially young Black men . . . ”
I’m a little confused. Is being “violence-affected” somthing like being “justice-involved,” which in the olden days, we used to call “perpetrator?”
Joe Doakes, violence is a miasma, just floating around in the air, kind of like covid. People get it, and start hitting or shooting other people. Blacks catch it more than whites, and that is because of white supremacy.
Happy George Floyd Day to everyone. You are urged to commemorate his birthday by peacefully: pulling down statues, breaking store windows, setting fire to anything associated with the police, obstructing passage on freeways and train tracks, and attacking witnesses to your actions.
“The problem isn’t that the Minneapolis Student Council and the president of its Sustainability Club – ALONG WITH THEIR DFL PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM ALLIES IN THE MEDIA – are lying to the people.”
One thing that big cities need to learn is that with truck transport becoming cheaper and cheaper vis-a-vis rail and sea, the transportation and warehousing advantage of big cities is disappearing. Take a look at where, for example, new auto plants are located. It’s not, as a rule, in “brownfields” in the big cities.
If cities want jobs and industry, they can’t do stupid stuff like promoting unions and defunding the police. It seems that Democrats are slow to learn this, and hence are trying to hamstring the rest of us with their foolishness.
Joe Doakes, violence is a miasma, just floating around in the air, kind of like covid.
Max, you forgot to add that guns beget violence, so if you get rid of guns, there will be no violence, no need for police. Everyone’s happy. Bender is on to something, no?
One thing that big cities need to learn is that with truck transport becoming cheaper and cheaper vis-a-vis rail and sea
bike, have you looked at freight rates lately? That sentiment is just as wrong as bender’s. Better re-evaluate your assumptions to fit your conclusions.
… it occurred to me to wonder about the true power structure in Mpls, if not also St Paul. I have trouble believing that there aren’t real power brokers in both who actually *want* knuckle-headed true believers like Bender to (pretend to) be running things. I mean, I think about the mayor(s) too. There’s gotta be a reason that downtown money and power consider these dolts to be qualified for their jobs.
JPA – I know nothing of freight rates, but I’ve noticed the trend Bike mentioned.
West Publishing (publisher of fat, heavy law books) had a building on the banks of the Mississippi in St. Paul about three blocks from the main US Post office. West moved to Eagan, as did the Post Office. Amazon built its warehouse in Shakopee. Fed Ex has its freight shipping center in Roseville at I-35 and Hwy 36. UPS has its freight center North on 35W, near the Anoka airport. Bix Produce sold its refrigerated warehouse in St. Paul to the Governor to store Covid corpses, and moved to the old Slumberland warehouse in Little Canada (35E and 694).
These moves might not be related to shipping rates, they could be related to changes in transportation mode. The shipping, receiving, distribution centers that formerly were located in central cities (because that’s where freight trains unloaded) are moving to the suburbs (for easier highway access). But Bike’s central point – that Democrat mayors in the central cities cannot depend on captive industry – remains valid.
JD (and bike), the corn fields around Rogers (MN) up to Elk River, hundreds of acres, are now devoted to massive warehouses, some retailers with space needs, and light industries.
JD, it has to do with access to HWY AND rail. All of the ‘burbian warehouses you mentioned are located on a rail spur and close to a easy and convenient FWY exit. The second part does not exist in the DT core and most industries are now located outside of the DT, so why locate warehouses DT? It is pure convenience, common sense and operational efficiency and has nothing to do with freight rates. Rail freight rates are by far cheaper, as in x times, than TL rates.
And yes, bike’s point is correct, but his “why” is not.
There’s gotta be a reason that downtown money and power consider these dolts to be qualified for their jobs.
jdm, simple: graft and corruption. It is much easier to bamboozle an idiot than a person with a modicum of an intellect.
This video is causing a small uproar in the Nextdoor posts of SW Minneapolis. With Bender’s leadership this city is headed into a deep downward spiral.