When your policies are cut taxes for the super wealthy and round people up into camps, maybe you shouldn’t get to weigh in on how today’s cities are being run, because, you know, basic human decency and common sense
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It's also just stupid. Cities are largely "run" by real estate developers and public unions.
nov 26, 2024, 4:03 pm • 2 0 • view
By no means am I suggesting that “everything the Democrats do is perfect!“ I live in Los Angeles, and the number of people on the street there is obscene. But to suggest that the GOP has a solution for any housing crisis anywhere is a brain dead fantasy
nov 26, 2024, 4:09 pm • 609 14 • view
I’d love to see a “successful Republican-led city” with more than 100,000 people & use their ideas. No, not the idea of massive subsidy coming from blue states/cities. Wait, there *aren’t* any examples?
nov 26, 2024, 4:36 pm • 4 0 • view
All the GOP would do and does is push the homeless out to another city and make it their problem.
nov 26, 2024, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
The GOP don’t care. Period.
nov 26, 2024, 4:09 pm • 31 1 • view
They have a solution they just can't talk about it.
nov 26, 2024, 4:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh they have a solution. You might call it a Final Solution.
nov 26, 2024, 8:53 pm • 0 0 • view
"Brain Dead Fantasy" would be a great band name
nov 26, 2024, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Even if Democrat-led cities actually work Fox News will just tell people they don’t. Whenever I talk to red state relatives and Seattle comes up, they act like I came out of a Mad Max movie.
nov 26, 2024, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, the GOP has a "solution" for homelessness. Might even call it, I dunno, a final solution.
nov 26, 2024, 4:15 pm • 4 0 • view
Their solution is to make homelessness illegal and put them in for-profit prisons
nov 26, 2024, 4:16 pm • 9 1 • view
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nov 26, 2024, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Literally, and stated.
nov 26, 2024, 4:21 pm • 1 0 • view
andy i'm a very liberal anti-gop, anti-trump guy, but the data absolutely shows that cities that make it easier to build (like austin) do much better with housing costs and homelessness than NIMBY cities like LA and SF. GOP got this right in some places (not everywhere) kinda by accident
nov 27, 2024, 4:59 am • 1 1 • view
Yeah. Even for the sake of argument I can't even pretend that putting homeless people in camps, mass deportation, and giving more money to the wealthy would 'fix cities'. That the problem is that urban liberals are TOO NICE to the poor...
nov 26, 2024, 4:17 pm • 3 1 • view
They don’t even run serious candidates (or sometimes none at all) for big city mayor positions so that they can continue this narrative.
nov 26, 2024, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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nov 26, 2024, 4:34 pm • 288 30 • view
I am all for a universal basic income. People need basic things like food and shelter. With robotics and AI more will be unemployed. We are our brothers keeper.
nov 27, 2024, 6:11 am • 8 1 • view
St Louis recently tried doing this, but conservatives fought it, and tried blocking it.
nov 27, 2024, 4:29 am • 1 0 • view
Minneapolis and St Paul (particularly Minneapolis) and near in suburbs support the rest of the state of MN, just as most large metro areas in other states do. Let them keep their revenue to invest in their cities and stop sending $ to the red areas and see what happens.
nov 26, 2024, 4:24 pm • 2 0 • view
The GOP has mastered the art of the snow job. They spend all there time flooding the zone with lies and promises that are never kept. It’s a wonder they worship the P.T. Barnum of politics. And there are plenty of suckers in our country.
nov 26, 2024, 4:15 pm • 5 0 • view
They have a very simple solution, make it illegal to be homeless and put them in for profit prisons where they can be leased out for slave labor to replace the low paid migrants they just kicked out. Plays double duty of keeping people in shitty underpaid jobs for fear of being imprisoned.
nov 26, 2024, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
They have a concept of a solution which they will reveal sometime.
nov 26, 2024, 4:24 pm • 1 0 • view
alas... braindead Fox (viewers)... that shit is our downfall... Murdoch is an evil man. don't they have it on at military bases too?
nov 26, 2024, 7:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Their strategy is to showcase it, then blame Democrats.
nov 26, 2024, 4:11 pm • 5 0 • view
And red states export people to blue states. Before I moved to Seattle total of 13 murders in Santa Monica in a week. Both were from Texas and on the street.
nov 26, 2024, 4:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Basic human decency is not part of a GOP narrative.
nov 26, 2024, 3:59 pm • 9 0 • view
"Basic human decency and common sense" are a Pollyanna-ish indulgence to which no true believer in Gordon Gekko would ever stoop. These people, whom Janeane Garofalo used to call "Death Metal Republicans"(g), carry pics of Gordon Gekko in their wallets, captioned "He is risen!"😜
nov 26, 2024, 5:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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nov 27, 2024, 11:38 am • 0 0 • view
Saying they need to keep their current voters and persuade about 120,000 people across Mich, Wisc and Penn to vote the other way is too simplistic.
nov 26, 2024, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
The fallacy, Andy, is expecting republicans to have concerns about basic human decency and common sense.
nov 26, 2024, 4:07 pm • 3 0 • view