Your are correct....at 70 yrs old it certainly does not mean, what it used to represent as civil liberty and civil rights to me. They change word meanings now like folks do socks.
Welcome to your NEW FRONTIER! Englush no spokken heer no moor! Sigh....
I abhor the disintegration of English in both the WRITTEN and SPOKEN forms. I won't even use the "textese" that everyone is texting with now--just to support REAL English.
I hear you!! I’ve lived in what I USED to call the beautiful north country Three decades on and I’m looking to get out of this state soon! Expect to use our tax dollars to house that Buffoon Walz in a mansion on a lake at
$17,000 a month! I live on less than that a year! Everyone Hates him!! How in hell did he get reelected! Oh gee, let me guess
Oh c’mon they’re tackling all the important issues - disfiguring children, getting rid of gas powered lawn equipment and vehicles, paid leave for all, abortion at any time.
Walz and Biden and all of the other DEMONratic and RINO "leadership" weren't really elected--they were "appointed" by the deep state cabalists via the "no excuse mail-in ballot and Internet hackable voting "machines" that were instituted in the "swing" states over the past 5 years. Things are moving at breakneck speed toward the total annihilation of our once great Constitutional Republic.
Great metaphor, Mom...reminds me of what Jesus termed the Pharisees...."whited sepulchres with rotting flesh & bones inside" (paraphrasing Scripture here)
Just noting that 20 years on, the countries selected for an *Amerikan Demokracy suppository* are now so unsafe that our Amerikan Guvernment says that nobody should dare to go there. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria. Go Team Obama/Bush! Mission accomplished
Detroit has been corrupt for so many years no one even bothers with it any longer. 65 years ago, it was the gem city of the Midwest. Doesn’t take long to destroy anything man touches.
Detroit was once considered to be the 'Paris of the Midwest'. The beautiful art-deco buildings that were once the pride of the nascent Detroit auto industry are still there.
I was shocked to learn that Kwame was/is a WEF Young Acolyte. Kwame's corruption was legendary as pretty much everyone knows.
The not-quite-fatal deathblow to Detroit started with Coleman Young. Coleman did everything he could to play the race card and to alienate Detroit from the suburbs. The culture of racial victimization has persisted to the city's detriment despite all attempts to reintegrate Detroit into the larger surrounding suburban area.
My Dad was an executive with the Detroit Free Press (back when it wasn't a garbage rag) and part of my childhood upbringing was spent with my Dad driving through Detroit and his pointing out all the ways Detroit's infrastructure was destroyed even before the '67 Riots and Coleman Young's administration. My Dad blamed the auto industry and seeing what happened to places like Pontiac and Flint, I tend to agree with him.
Places like the Grande Ballroom that was legendary for hosting bands back when music mattered like Iggy, MC5 (think 'Kick out the Jams'), are now empty husks along Michigan Avenue which is still, all these years later, like driving through a third world city or a post-apocalyptic movie set. I remember a friend who was a big Eminem fan making a trip to Detroit back in the late '00s to see Eight Mile looking for notable spots from the movie. Predictably, she was horrified particularly when she got a glimpse of Seven Mile towards the east-side.
It's been nothing short of miraculous that a dying, rust belt example of urban detritus has been brought back from the brink through the vision of the late-Mike Ilitch and Dan Gilbert. It's questionable whether it will be sustained with Michigan's leftward lurch under Whitmer and businesses migrating steadily out of the state.
Coming from mid Michigan, near Saginaw, you can add that city to the list. The auto industry did help in the destruction of Detroit, but over 80 years of Democratic influence have made it nothing but a scene of urban decay. It is living off it’s former sport’s glory now, the only reason any one goes to that area and if the pro teams don’t start bringing in championships, the fans won’t keep coming, but it is always good to get all kinds of Federal and state monies that is laundered and never actually helps those who need it.
The list of Michigan cities abandoned by the auto industry is long. As you said, Saginaw, Bay City, the aforementioned Flint, Pontiac, Detroit and the surrounding suburbs.
Detroit has its beauty. The classic art-deco buildings that date back to the '20s. The new construction.
Our favorite thing used to be to eat at this great Vietnamese place north of Little Caesar's Arena, walk down Woodward to the riverfront and Hart Plaza, hang-out down there, and walk back through Greektown, passing Ford Field and Comerica. We always felt safe, day or night.
Detroit's like any other city: you just have to know where you can and should not be.
If you haven't yet read it, I highly recommend Detroit: An American Autopsy, by talented Detroit-based writer Charlie LeDuff. Another great one is Detroit: A Biography, by Scott Martelle. The Detroit experience - socially, economically, and politically - remains relevant for all big American cities. I'm witnessing our increasingly blue capital city in a vast sea of red take on all the trappings of San Francisco, New York, and Chicago and threatening to bring the rest of our state with it.
Did this all start with the "death" of American dominance in the auto-making biz--which would have been from the late 1970's onward? Just curious, Hannah!
Detroit specifically was in recession beginning in the late '50s as the war-based economy started to contract. Detroit was a magnet for all of the war-based factory jobs in the '40s which brought lots of people and new social problems (the Detroit race riots in 1943, for example). When the war ended, so did the jobs. Detroit was already in decline by the time of the '67 Riots.
Thank you for educating me - I had no knowledge of the "war economy boost" on Detroit. We had that "somewhat" in my hometown of York, PA--the "Naval Supply Depot" was a huge employer until the early 1960's when it was purchased by AMF to manufacture bowling alley "pinsetting" machines. That continued until the late 1970's when AMF merged with Harley-Davidson and eventually was totally Harley by the 1980's. Harley almost left York a few years back due to a labor dispute, but thankfully it was resolved and jobs were saved. However, many other manufacturers in York have since left for the "Southern states" or they just expired altogether. York is also a "vestige city" now!
Minneapolis. Used to be my beautiful city...now it's unrecognizable. My husband and I can no longer stomach our *very high* tax dollars going to support this state's lunatic governor, abhorrent policies, abuse of power, overtaxation, worship of far left positions, abortion sanctuary state,, legal abortion UP UNTIL BIRTH, sexual mutilation of children...I could go on and on. We are looking to sell our house soon and move to a place where the government aligns with our Christian values. I simply cannot picture myself standing before God and admitting I continued to give these evil leaders my money KNOWING full well what they stand for. I'm done.
Well, even Dizzy Joe got a colonoscopy but(no pun intended) I think it was to see if they could find whose hand was running the puppet! Might be the same one running Fat Alvin!
Yeah! Especially for all the human feces laying around and currently serving in SF political offices, a unsuspecting person could get e-coli and cholera. 😝😉😅
When I was in SF 3 or 4 years ago, I was BLOWN AWAY by what a cesspool it had become. Drug addicts were accosting families with kids in the middle of the day, not a cop in sight. I was there with my wife, and for the first time, I truly was fearful to walk anywhere at night.
I wouldn't step foot near SF even if you paid me. People now assume if you park your car there, it will be broken into and possibly stolen. This once beautiful gem of a city is a cesspool now. Filthy, dangerous, ugly, peopled by monsters.
Add Portland, Seattle, LA, Chicago, NYC to the list. I think I forgot some 🙄
Detroit, Baltimore, Philly, Minneapolis, DC, St Louis,
Minneapolis in the Soviet Republic of Minnesota
They voted Walz back as Gov. It gives cartoonist Branco some of his best work.
That is a highlight in my day. We deserve leadership. Not liberal BOOTLICKING!
Voted 🙄
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Your are correct....at 70 yrs old it certainly does not mean, what it used to represent as civil liberty and civil rights to me. They change word meanings now like folks do socks.
Welcome to your NEW FRONTIER! Englush no spokken heer no moor! Sigh....
I abhor the disintegration of English in both the WRITTEN and SPOKEN forms. I won't even use the "textese" that everyone is texting with now--just to support REAL English.
It’s unbelievable what’s going on there. I am a Minnesotan-in-exile, although Wisconsin is becoming not much better.
I hear you!! I’ve lived in what I USED to call the beautiful north country Three decades on and I’m looking to get out of this state soon! Expect to use our tax dollars to house that Buffoon Walz in a mansion on a lake at
$17,000 a month! I live on less than that a year! Everyone Hates him!! How in hell did he get reelected! Oh gee, let me guess
Oh c’mon they’re tackling all the important issues - disfiguring children, getting rid of gas powered lawn equipment and vehicles, paid leave for all, abortion at any time.
Then its not too late to abort Walz! He’s brain dead anyway
Walz and Biden and all of the other DEMONratic and RINO "leadership" weren't really elected--they were "appointed" by the deep state cabalists via the "no excuse mail-in ballot and Internet hackable voting "machines" that were instituted in the "swing" states over the past 5 years. Things are moving at breakneck speed toward the total annihilation of our once great Constitutional Republic.
they were installed, like a toilet.
Great metaphor, Mom...reminds me of what Jesus termed the Pharisees...."whited sepulchres with rotting flesh & bones inside" (paraphrasing Scripture here)
Ahhh! Our lovely American sh-tholes. 😍 add Philly and Baltimore and the international capital sh-thole, Washington DC.
Just noting that 20 years on, the countries selected for an *Amerikan Demokracy suppository* are now so unsafe that our Amerikan Guvernment says that nobody should dare to go there. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria. Go Team Obama/Bush! Mission accomplished
Detroit has been corrupt for so many years no one even bothers with it any longer. 65 years ago, it was the gem city of the Midwest. Doesn’t take long to destroy anything man touches.
Detroit was once considered to be the 'Paris of the Midwest'. The beautiful art-deco buildings that were once the pride of the nascent Detroit auto industry are still there.
I was shocked to learn that Kwame was/is a WEF Young Acolyte. Kwame's corruption was legendary as pretty much everyone knows.
The not-quite-fatal deathblow to Detroit started with Coleman Young. Coleman did everything he could to play the race card and to alienate Detroit from the suburbs. The culture of racial victimization has persisted to the city's detriment despite all attempts to reintegrate Detroit into the larger surrounding suburban area.
My Dad was an executive with the Detroit Free Press (back when it wasn't a garbage rag) and part of my childhood upbringing was spent with my Dad driving through Detroit and his pointing out all the ways Detroit's infrastructure was destroyed even before the '67 Riots and Coleman Young's administration. My Dad blamed the auto industry and seeing what happened to places like Pontiac and Flint, I tend to agree with him.
Places like the Grande Ballroom that was legendary for hosting bands back when music mattered like Iggy, MC5 (think 'Kick out the Jams'), are now empty husks along Michigan Avenue which is still, all these years later, like driving through a third world city or a post-apocalyptic movie set. I remember a friend who was a big Eminem fan making a trip to Detroit back in the late '00s to see Eight Mile looking for notable spots from the movie. Predictably, she was horrified particularly when she got a glimpse of Seven Mile towards the east-side.
It's been nothing short of miraculous that a dying, rust belt example of urban detritus has been brought back from the brink through the vision of the late-Mike Ilitch and Dan Gilbert. It's questionable whether it will be sustained with Michigan's leftward lurch under Whitmer and businesses migrating steadily out of the state.
There are many WEF plants running for local office with much $$$$ behind them. The sheeple have no clue.
Coming from mid Michigan, near Saginaw, you can add that city to the list. The auto industry did help in the destruction of Detroit, but over 80 years of Democratic influence have made it nothing but a scene of urban decay. It is living off it’s former sport’s glory now, the only reason any one goes to that area and if the pro teams don’t start bringing in championships, the fans won’t keep coming, but it is always good to get all kinds of Federal and state monies that is laundered and never actually helps those who need it.
The list of Michigan cities abandoned by the auto industry is long. As you said, Saginaw, Bay City, the aforementioned Flint, Pontiac, Detroit and the surrounding suburbs.
I live in the Metro Detroit area, and honestly, while there's sketchy people here and there, I'd rather be here than in Chicago or San Fran.
Detroit has its beauty. The classic art-deco buildings that date back to the '20s. The new construction.
Our favorite thing used to be to eat at this great Vietnamese place north of Little Caesar's Arena, walk down Woodward to the riverfront and Hart Plaza, hang-out down there, and walk back through Greektown, passing Ford Field and Comerica. We always felt safe, day or night.
Detroit's like any other city: you just have to know where you can and should not be.
If you haven't yet read it, I highly recommend Detroit: An American Autopsy, by talented Detroit-based writer Charlie LeDuff. Another great one is Detroit: A Biography, by Scott Martelle. The Detroit experience - socially, economically, and politically - remains relevant for all big American cities. I'm witnessing our increasingly blue capital city in a vast sea of red take on all the trappings of San Francisco, New York, and Chicago and threatening to bring the rest of our state with it.
Did this all start with the "death" of American dominance in the auto-making biz--which would have been from the late 1970's onward? Just curious, Hannah!
Detroit specifically was in recession beginning in the late '50s as the war-based economy started to contract. Detroit was a magnet for all of the war-based factory jobs in the '40s which brought lots of people and new social problems (the Detroit race riots in 1943, for example). When the war ended, so did the jobs. Detroit was already in decline by the time of the '67 Riots.
Thank you for educating me - I had no knowledge of the "war economy boost" on Detroit. We had that "somewhat" in my hometown of York, PA--the "Naval Supply Depot" was a huge employer until the early 1960's when it was purchased by AMF to manufacture bowling alley "pinsetting" machines. That continued until the late 1970's when AMF merged with Harley-Davidson and eventually was totally Harley by the 1980's. Harley almost left York a few years back due to a labor dispute, but thankfully it was resolved and jobs were saved. However, many other manufacturers in York have since left for the "Southern states" or they just expired altogether. York is also a "vestige city" now!
BTW...I LOVE that pic on your profile - is she a female version of 45 with her bucket of KFC--LOL!!!!
Agree Emily!
Ahhh yes. How did I forget Detroit!
Chi'ago!
Fled this crap hole 2 years ago.
Minneapolis. Used to be my beautiful city...now it's unrecognizable. My husband and I can no longer stomach our *very high* tax dollars going to support this state's lunatic governor, abhorrent policies, abuse of power, overtaxation, worship of far left positions, abortion sanctuary state,, legal abortion UP UNTIL BIRTH, sexual mutilation of children...I could go on and on. We are looking to sell our house soon and move to a place where the government aligns with our Christian values. I simply cannot picture myself standing before God and admitting I continued to give these evil leaders my money KNOWING full well what they stand for. I'm done.
Good move--don't be Lot's wife and look back from whence you are leaving, Sarah!!
St Louis
All of California!
I was thinking the same thing. Dangerous, deadly places right here!
Well, even Dizzy Joe got a colonoscopy but(no pun intended) I think it was to see if they could find whose hand was running the puppet! Might be the same one running Fat Alvin!
They were looking for his head.
😂😂😂😂😂😂💯
Aren't all the level 4 countries more safe because they're not completely conquered by the snakes yet?
Yeah! Especially for all the human feces laying around and currently serving in SF political offices, a unsuspecting person could get e-coli and cholera. 😝😉😅
Eric! You're back at the top of C&C comments! Great job! 😉
FOR REAL.
😆
When I was in SF 3 or 4 years ago, I was BLOWN AWAY by what a cesspool it had become. Drug addicts were accosting families with kids in the middle of the day, not a cop in sight. I was there with my wife, and for the first time, I truly was fearful to walk anywhere at night.
I wouldn't step foot near SF even if you paid me. People now assume if you park your car there, it will be broken into and possibly stolen. This once beautiful gem of a city is a cesspool now. Filthy, dangerous, ugly, peopled by monsters.
Put every major city in America on the Level 4 list.