What’s going on down there…
Niggas eatin the Stranger Things alien
This Nigga does NOT speak for us. Nobody Black here in Atl is eating Road Kill. The struggle real, but Damn.
The hands in the picture are black tho…
This is someone dying while having an MRI scan. Before you die, your brain releases tons and tons of endorphins that make you feel a range of emotions. Tragically beautiful.
#1 post in Tumblr history
This from the walking dead
When I asked Del Signore about the past year here, he said he “didn’t see any change because we got a new president.” He nonetheless remains an ardent proponent. “He’s our answer.”
I asked Schilling what would happen if the next three years go the way the last one has.
“I’m not going to blame him,” Schilling said. “Absolutely not.”
Is there anything that could change her mind about Trump?
“Nope,” she said.
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“Everybody I talk to,” he said, “realizes it’s not Trump who’s dragging his feet. Trump’s probably the most diligent, hardest-working president we’ve ever had in our lifetimes. It’s not like he sleeps in till noon and goes golfing every weekend, like the last president did.”
I stopped him, informing him that, yes, Barack Obama liked to golf, but Trump in fact does golf a lot, too—more, in fact.
Del Signore was surprised to hear this.
“Does he?” he said.
“Yes,” I said.
He did not linger on this topic, smiling and changing the subject with a quip. “If I was married to his wife,” Del Signore said, “I don’t think I’d go anywhere.”
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He said he was going to bring back the steel mills.
“You’re never going to get those steel mills back,” she said.
“But he said he was going to,” I said.
“Yeah, but how’s he going to bring them back?”
“I don’t know,” I said, “but it’s what he said, last year, and people voted for him because of it.”
“They always say they want to bring the steel mills back,” Frear said, “but they’re going to have to do a lot of work to bring the steel mills back.”
He hasn’t built the wall yet, either. “I don’t care about his wall,” said Frear, 76. “I mean, if he gets his wall—I don’t give a shit, you know? But he has a good idea: Keep ‘em out.”
He also hasn’t repealed Obamacare. “That’s Congress,” she said.
And the drug scourge here continues unabated. “And it’s not going to improve for a long time,” she said, “until people learn, which they won’t.”
“But I like him,” Frear reiterated. “Because he does what he says.”
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“He’s kind of the last best hope, in my opinion,” said Bala, 65, a retired high school Spanish and reading teacher. “I haven’t run into anybody who’s said they’d never vote for him again.”
Next to Bala was a gray-haired man who told me he voted for Trump and was happy so far because “he’s kept his promises.”
I asked which ones.
“Border security.” But there’s no wall yet. “No fault of his,” the man said.
What else? “Getting rid of Obamacare.” But he hasn’t. “Well, he’s tried to.”
What else? “Defunding Planned Parenthood.” But he didn’t. “Not his fault again,” the man said.
I asked for his name. “Bill K.,” he said. He wouldn’t give me his last name. “I don’t trust you,” he said.
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“The thing that irritates me to no end is this NFL shit,” Schilling told me in her living room. “I’m about ready to go over the top with this shit. We do not watch no NFL now.” They’re Dallas Cowboys fans. “We banned ‘em. We don’t watch it.”
Schilling looked at her husband, Dave McCabe, who’s 67 and a retired high school basketball coach. She nodded at me. “Tell him,” she said to McCabe, “what you said the NFL is …”
McCabe looked momentarily wary. He laughed a little. “I don’t remember saying that,” he said unconvincingly.
Schilling was having none of it. “You’re the one that told me, liar,” she said.
She looked at me.
The NFL?
“Niggers for life,” Schilling said.
“For life,” McCabe added.
this is just the result of dismissing blue collar working class towns.
‘depressed town’ is spot on
I don’t know what’s more predictable: this article or the reactions from people in comments on this thread.
“Fuck these people!
Why wont they vote the way I want them to? They’re ruining the world!
Fuck these people!” Repeat every 2-4 years ad nauseum.
Jonestown is just one of many towns in PA that is locked in a level of rust belt he’ll that can make areas of Detroit look peachy keen in comparison. And it’s these areas that led to Donald swinging PA, just look at the election maps.
And those comments that are saying “fuck those people” are causing the exact opposite reaction. These are people living in an area that is ravaged by both failing economies and the career politicians that continue them. To simply dismiss them because “hurr durr dey voted for donald drumpf dey don’t matter” is hardening their resolve to Donald and the Republican Party. And if you want to win an election, you need to make the blue collar feel like you’re here to help and you aren’t another politician ready to crush their hopes and dreams under their show like a discarded leaf.
Yeah sorry that we don’t have the level of compassion for bigoted racists that you do.
I give less than a fuck about some racist sack of shit that lives in Nowhere, PA who is clinging to the glory days of the steel mill and coal mines.
Their entire existence is withering on the vine and dying as we speak and they can vote for Trump or Trump equivalents until they are blue in the face. That’s not going to change their fate. It would be nice for them if they could see that as well, for their own good.
I don’t have the appetite to coddle these people.
Bruh you just validated my damn post by being a little shit
As I said you can’t simply ignore blue collar people in other states, it’s called the United States for that reason. Nor can you simply label everyone in an area as racist and shutting them off from discussion because that builds resentment in your cause and will lead to people looking towards other parties. Simply thinking you can ride off of the votes of areas that think exactly like you do is the stupid shit that leads to candidates losing an election so spectacularly.
Also please make it less obvious you’re lurking this post/my blog because you’re gonna make this prediction pretty obvious. You’re either gonna start spamming my messages claiming I’m a racist or you’re gonna block me and then spend around half an hour vagueposting about me because I dared to not cower in front of your wet noodle of a retort.
**I post an article that interviews racist small town Trump supporters**
**I state the obvious and call them racists**
**You jump in the comments of my post and shout“Don’t call these obviously racist people racist, you’re ALIENATING THEM** (The horror!)
**You then tell me to “make it less obvious” that I’m reading the comments on the very topic that I started and receive notifications for**
Yeeeeeeah I think I’m about done wasting time on you. Good day sir.
Imma let yall get your shit off first, but yes I’m definitely blocking every racist sympathizer who contributed drivel in the notes of this post later on. I have no desire to interact with any of you further or have you contributing commentary to anything I post in the future.
Things to remember about the victim in this shooting:
- he was Hispanic
- he was seen trying to sign at the officers to explain what was going on
- he had no criminal record whatsoever
- neighbors reported that he always carried the “weapon” police felt threatened by, a pipe, because of the stray dogs in the area
- he showed no sign of understanding the officers’ verbal warnings not to get any closer, and it’s likely that he was advancing in order to read their lips
- he is the 712th death in police shootings this year alone
As a lifeguard, I was expected to know basic sign language in case any deaf clients came to us for help. Why the fuck are fucking police not required to have the same training, or at least be expected to entertain the thought that deaf people exist?
-V
anyway black women are having miscarriages in Flint and there has yet to be an outrage from the “pro-life” community
can we call this a genocide yet?
keep in mind this is a MAN-MADE health crisis. they changed the water of a lower-income black community for a reason. 12 people have died so far because of the water and now the women are suffering from miscarriages. this story needs as much attention as possible. a black community is still being poisoned and pro-lifers don’t seem to give a shit
LMAOOOOO vindication.
So some of yall know that I got rear ended on the freeway like a week and a half ago. The guy who hit me was super nice and all that.
So since he was at fault his insurance initially accepted the responsibility for it.
I’m at an auto shop right now getting an estimate that was mandated by his insurance company. And when I got there they looked up the case and said “he’s disputing that he is at fault”
And I was like “well it’s a good thing I have a dash cam and footage of the accident”
I pulled up the footage on my phone like “MILEY, WHAT’S GOOD???”
Get you a dash cam Bruh…..
The insurance adjuster just said “it’s really good you have this dash cam or it would have been your word vs. His and that would have been bad for you.”
If I ran across the lying ass nigga that hit me me right now I’d spit in his fucking face. You lying ass bitch.
Niggas have no integrity.
How dare you
Last week, five Baltimore City Councilors called on the city to revive the $1 home program from the 1980s designed to rehabilitate long-vacant properties. This proposal contrasts with a nearly $700 million state and city effort to demolish and replace 4,000 such buildings.
Unfortunately, Baltimore has a great many empty buildings. The city’s population peaked at nearly 950,000 in 1950 and has declined each decade since then, falling to about 615,000 people in 2016. This population decline contributed to over 16,000 vacant buildings. Aside from being an eyesore, these vacant and deteriorating buildings may also attract incidents of violent crime.
In the face of this seeming intractable problem, the nearly $700 million investment to rid the city of many vacant properties might appear to be a godsend. Announced in January 2016, the four-year Project CORE (Creating Opportunities for Renewal and Enterprise) has nearly $100 million to demolish entire rows of buildings and leave lots that are “clean and green” according to the project FAQ. Further, the state has promised $600 million in incentives and subsidies from existing programs to spur new development. Not everyone is happy.
Preservation Maryland and Baltimore Heritage are urging the city to seek alternatives to widespread demolition. The two organizations call for stabilizing historic vacant properties through new investments in the city’s Vacants to Value program, which seeks to redevelop city-owned vacant properties, and earmarking money for that purpose under Project CORE. Reviving the $1 home scheme may also be a good place to start.
Councilor Mary Pat Clarke’s revived the idea this past August and the Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held a hearing last Wednesday to discuss her resolution. Clarke’s proposal comes with the backing of H.O.M.E.S. a Baltimore-based community advocacy organization focused on rehabilitating rather than destroying many of the city’s vacant properties. (H.O.M.E.S. stands for Homeownership Opportunity for Mentorship and Economic Success.) The group says under the original scheme, prospective owners would purchase the building for $1 and commit to living in and repairing it.
The estimated cost to restore the properties was as a high as $100,000, so the city made low-interest loans available to new owners. With a one percent interest rate, Clarke’s resolution notes that new homeowners could pay as little as $300 per month to repay the loan. With the same terms in the 1980s, H.O.M.E.S. says no new owner defaulted on their loans. During the hearing, representatives from Mayor Pugh’s administration were less optimistic about the program. They said the federal funding available in the past is gone today, and that more comprehensive block-wide proposals are needed this time.
For every homeless man, woman, and child, there are six empty homes in the U.S.
They need to make it a complete step, not just piecemeal. Work with employed homeless and cover entire costs of making in habitable and delay payments for first year without accrued interest and a least 10 year freeze on any increase in property taxes (unless resold). Next is working with the in public housing and setting aside the units they vacate for homeless in extreme circumstances. Really need to set aside an entire building for sex offenders that is workable. We don’t have to like them to understand that NO ONE gains by forcing them to live on the streets. Properly setup and operated could go a long way to reversing inner city decay at the same time protecting neighborhoods from outside gentrification.
My brain exploded
There’s noooooo way that’s possible
Thank you, I’m gonna think about this all day
I still don’t understand because like wtf it doesn’t look like huh???????????
How?
Lmao wth
