This is classic republican style speech/base-rousing. '[insert city/state/region/country here] is terrible, it was once so much better, but now it's horrible. It's not you [insert crowd euphemism here] here, it's all those damn [insert boogeyman euphemism of choice here] coming in and ruining things! We've gotta take back the city/state/region/country!'
It's exactly what old what's-his-face did with the Haitians and dogs, the 'illegal' settlement in Texas, etc. Trump and his team are just so stupid because they take it so far that even the republican politicians in those areas look at them with stupefied expressions and correct the record.
Man, Trump chose someone from Ohio to be his running mate. I mean come on, the one thing Michiganders can agree on is that we hate Ohio - red or blue. Why would you want to elevate someone from Ohio as VP?
Lmao! Moved to Ohio for a bit. Met someone from Michigan, who then totally hated on me for being a Buckeye, was totally baffled at the time. Glad to see it's still going. I've always assumed, sports?
i listened to some clips from this appearance. he sounded a bit subdued.. like he's been beaten and whipped, and hasn't had his nap or his 'pick-me-ups' today.
Yeah, one of the differences between how stimulants work as a treatment for conditions like adhd vs as a pick me up is that. Tolerance is a minor annoyance when it’s there to mess with your neurochemistry, but as a “go drug” eventually you’ve gotta pay up. Nothing is free when it comes to using drugs to enhance beyond normal, and the further you go the more debt you accrue.
Trump could see a family of his supporters, shoot the child, and the family will love him more. This man can do no wrong and won't do anything wrong in their eyes.
I'm a Detroiter. Born here and I've lived a lot of places, but Detroit has the most genuinely kind people you will ever meet. Detroit is a cool city in beautiful state. Fuck Ohio.
The twin cities is by far the nicest metro area in the country. Went there to watch a football game against the Vikings, and compared to KC? Honestly a shame we couldn't delete KC, and copy/paste Minneapolis over KC. In a Denver jersey, I was treated better in the twin cities than in Denver. It was so wild. We won the game and I got several dozen compliments, they were so nice that it put me in a better mood and made me nicer. I can't say enough good things about the people of Minnesota.
I mean, yeah. Lots of shitholes all over. I live in one myself.
It's kind of the opposite of "developing" though. All it's industry got ripped away from it. Nothing got put back. I don't know why every country thinks it's OK to have a handful of rich cities and a whole load of former "something" towns.
This is definitely a thing that isn't talked about enough. Wealth disparity works exactly like this a lot of the time. It seems like the whole point of a country is to share infrastructure and resources, but a lot of places are treated like they're invisible.
Here in Canada, throughout the north we have a shitload of towns that at one point had or currently have a level of relative prosperity because of whatever resource extraction took place there. Lots of small towns have this eerie brand-new look that seems frozen in time for 40 years. And now even if that wealth is still accumulated by extracting from those regions, most of the actual wealth is siphoned directly back to city dwellers in southern parts of the country -- most of the labour is transient and most of the industries have their headquarters in far away places.
It seems like basically every bit of unrest could be solved by just, y'know, sharing.
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Do you not understand that it is the people that make any city shit hole? Like, it can't be blamed on the buildings, the landscape, or the economy. A city isn't a place, it's the people. When someone says a city is a shit hole, they ARE insulting the people.
I’d be offended depending on the city. Detroit has had its issues but it’s not the Detroit it was 20 years ago. Calling it a shithole is basically saying “I know your city is infamous but I don’t care enough to find out if that’s true. Also, it’s one thing if Vance or Walz does it, but Harris and Trump are lifelong coastal. Giving Michigan shit is a Midwest thing