So, are you ready for the meanest, dirtiest presidential election since Andrew Jackson was on the ticket? That’s what I think we’re heading for.
If I didn’t care about the country, it would be fun.
So, are you ready for the meanest, dirtiest presidential election since Andrew Jackson was on the ticket? That’s what I think we’re heading for.
If I didn’t care about the country, it would be fun.
It will be a nasty election but hopefully not a bloody one. Think I’ll stick with Christian Science Monitor for national news until maybe March 2021.
As a news source the CSM is pretty darned good, along with the AP (news only), the WSJ (news only), Reuters, and USA Today.
Is Steve Bannon back in the White House?
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510900-trump-claims-biden-is-against-god
Revving up his base.
Evangelicals understand this. Biden endorses gun control, homosexual marriage, abortion rights with Federal funding.
He’s against school choice and leans towards defunding the police. He would have Governors
Close churches for Covid outbreaks.
Not that they are blind to Trump’s faults. But both candidates stand accused of rape and racism and dishonest dealings.
As Biden needs the Black vote Trump needs the evangelicals, and needs them to show up.
Is it mean or dirty to point out this, wholly endorsed by DiBlasio, and wholly tolerated by Biden.
‘Our community is terrified, angry and frightened’: Upper West Side residents fury as homeless junkies and sex offenders are moved into three luxury hotels and turn the area into a spectacle of public urination, cat-calling and brazen drug use
The Belleclaire, the Lucerne and the Belnord in the UWS are three of 139 hotels being used as homeless shelters during the Covid-19 crisis in New York City
The city is paying $175 per person per night to house people to avoid COVID-19 outbreaks in shelters
It’s unclear how long they will be kept there; none of the hotels are accepting paying guests currently
Upper West Side residents say they are terrorizing the neighborhood with drugs and crime
They are complaining that they don’t feel safe and local restaurant owners fear they are driving away business
The only way for restaurants to make money is by offering outdoor dining but the owners say the homeless are approaching diners to ask for cash
It coincides with a mass exodus of wealthy New Yorkers, many of whom will never come back to the city
Mayor Bill de Blasio has turned on them, calling them ‘fair weather friends’ who ought to be taxed higher
Governor Andrew Cuomo is begging them to come back and says the city desperately needs their money
(Yeah, I’ll bet he is.)
Oh, and the city is choking in garbage and filth:
Garbage piles on NYC sidewalks attracting rats and raccoons after the sanitation department’s budget was cut by $106million
Trash has been accumulating across New York City after the budget of the sanitation department was cut by more than $100million.
Photos show bags filled with leftover food scraps, cans and bottles piled high on sidewalks or overflowing out of corner litter baskets.
Dead rats have been found among the waste and raccoons have been spotted climbing out of garbage cans.
City data shows that rat sightings increased from less than 1,000 in April 2020 to 1,658 in June 2020.
Rats, which like to eat garbage, carry bacteria and viruses that can cause serious illnesses such as fever, diarrhea and food poisoning.
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Local business owners and residents have been up in arms about their neighborhood’s rapid transformation into an open-air drug den, reminiscent of the 1970s and 80s, when rampant crime and crumbling infrastructure earned New York the moniker ‘Fear City.’
The apparent rise in brazen public drug use comes as New York City is roiled by an alarming surge in criminal activity, with gun violence doubling in the past two months compared with the same period last year.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has blamed the recent spike in shootings on the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that people grew stir crazy after weeks under a strict stay at home order.
But NYPD leaders placed the blame squarely on de Blasio, accusing him of losing control of the city after he bowed to demands of Black Lives Matter protesters and slashed the department’s budget by $1billion.
Police officials have also charged that the crime surge was driven in part by the recent release of thousands of prisoners from Rikers Island under a new bail law and due to coronavirus concerns.
(Nah, that’s crazy. There are Scientists and Studies that prove, conclusively, that Criminals have no connection to Crime.)
No, that’s pretty mild stuff. I’m thinking about a torrent of damning revelations, pretty much what we’ve seen in the NYT re: Trump for the last four years except about Biden and his running mate with the anti-Trump revelations continuing unabated. Maybe spiced by the occasional riot.
Maybe some indictments of Obama Administration officials.
Hard to picture how these cities put the genie back in the bottle without some real police violence. Or is it all supposed to clear up on it’s own once the evil
Orange man is gone.
‘So, are you ready for the meanest, dirtiest presidential election since Andrew Jackson was on the ticket? That’s what I think we’re heading for.
If I didn’t care about the country, it would be fun.’
I’ll raise you the election of 1860. The Union survived the 1824 election, and actually thrived and expanded. It damn near didn’t survive the aftermath of the 1860 election. 1876 was loads of fun too, though most of the excitement in that one occurred after the votes were counted (or miscounted).