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The lesson the Establishment is drawing from the Memphis murder is that cops should retreat more to the donut shop and not pull over so many bad drivers of color. This makes sense to them since practically nobody other than my readers knows that lethal driving by blacks and, later, Hispanics roared upwards during BLM’s racial reckoning.
The one sane alternative to traffic stops is automatic cameras mailing out tickets, as most of Europe does. Washington DC has gone a long way in that direction. But that only works if drivers aren’t allowed to fake their license plates, for example, by buying or printing fake paper plates.
Lately, DC has decided that doing anything about its big boom in fake plates would be racist because our society’s Sacred Cows are the main fake plate offenders.
From the blog of somebody named Tom Lee who rides his bike in Washington D.C.”
FAKE TAGS ARE A REAL PROBLEM
1 day ago… I have been immersed in enough safe streets rhetoric to agree that making our streets less deadly is about how we build, not who we blame. Incompetence or inattention are inevitable human foibles. We know drivers will make mistakes and it is more productive to ameliorate those mistakes’ effects than to contemplate how we will punish them.
I buy this, with one exception. I get angry at drivers who do not try. The ones who don’t accept that they have a responsibility to others and that they consequently must make an effort. The ones who selfishly exempt themselves from the rules. The ones who choose lawlessness. I get very angry at them.
And recent years have provided a nearly-ubiquitous signal that such a driver is near: the fake temporary tag. All of a sudden, it seemed, paper tags were everywhere. Often they were on credible-seeming vehicles–ones that looked new, or at least newly washed. But sometimes the expiration date had passed. And as the months wore on, they started showing up on increasingly-implausible beaters.
These days it’s obvious: fake tags are part of the scofflaw trinity, along with defaced plates and opaque plate covers.
The reason this trend started is equally obvious: automated traffic enforcement, or ATE. Speed cameras annually collect more than $100 million in fines from area drivers. And that’s just D.C.’s cameras! Compared to the era that preceded them, these systems have made enforcement of traffic laws shockingly consistent. They make a difference in safety, too, as even AAA–a reliably brash proponent of motorists’ most chauvinistic impulses–has grudgingly admitted.
The relative scale of automated enforcement is immense. Enforcement of traffic laws by humans is, by comparison, so constrained as to be irrelevant. ATE dramatically increases the frequency with which drivers are punished.
But ATE systems work by connecting a license plate back to a driver. Sever that connection and the citation will never find its target. ATE transformed citations from an occasional episode of motorist misfortune–not so different from a flat tire–to a persistent nuisance. Some drivers took steps in response.
I think this is easy to understand. Spend any time near D.C. roads, and it’s easy to see, too. But why isn’t anyone doing anything about it?
DC HAS GIVEN UP
The city convened a task force about fake tags, which did a study, and then decided not to do anything. Why?
Although the Task Force convened to determine options available to move forward, with the assistance of the Mayor’s Office of Racial Equity, it was ultimately determined not to move forward with many of the initial ideas due to the possible negative impact on people of color. Therefore, law enforcement continues to enforce fake temporary tags using their existing processes.
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The insanity is being turbocharged lately. It’s been going on for decades, but it’s really shifted gears since 2020. As most everyone here knows all too well.
Someone please remind me: what’s that Latin phrase about how things speed up toward the end?
The sad thing is, it's also pretty easy to not descend into hell. It could all be so easily avoided. But avoiding that, apparently, is nothing compared to the moral glow of racial righteousness, so hell it is.Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @The Wild Geese Howard
D.C. is awful. If you go 40 m.p.h. or run a yellow light, then you get a speed camera citation for $200. D.C. has a population of only 700,000 people, so they are collecting $140+ in fines for every adult and child. This is in addition to heavy income, property, and sales tax.
I don’t visit D.C. enough to memorize camera locations. But I don’t blame locals for evading this oppressive “tax” by using fake license plates. D.C. was notorious for uninsured motorists. People simply can’t afford all this.
The nannies are fond of repeating that driving is a driving is a privilege, not a right, which, strictly speaking, is true, but it has become such a basic necessity of modern American life that there's no doubt in my mind that if the founding fathers were resurrected and asked to re-write our constitution for the modern era, they would list driving as a constitutional right.
You want to jail that guy swerving around all over the place right after the bars close? Fine. You want to ticket that punk teenager doing 50 in a school zone? Also fine. But the persnickety bullshit has gone too far.
It should also be noted that these Boomer farts like Steve who now want to jail anyone under the age of 50 for doing five over the limit in the fast lane probably drove halfway across the country to Woodstock fucked up on acid. The are truly the worst generation.Replies: @anonymous, @AceDeuce
I reckon I have bicycled about 200,000 miles over more than 4 decades, and I have never even stuck my big toe in “safe streets rhetoric.”
It’s a win-win because blacks get a free ride and they can say crime is down. In the short run. Long term, they’ve got a huge problem coming their way. “Broken Windows” theory has been proven right over and over.
Said it before:
Minoritarianism is incompatible with civilization.
Sure a lot of our problems end up being … blacks. But if it wasn’t the sainted blacks, it would the PWCNPAOOSARL++ (People Who Can Not Pay Attention Or Otherwise Stop At Red Lights.)
Should they be excessively fined by these automated systems and driven off our highways when they were simply … born this way?
A very blacks can become the latter pair when standards are not lowered. The country would not be hurt by their presence in such jibs if. the black race had not been made a sacred cow race. That sacred cow race will mean the death of this country eventually.
Similarly the city of Seattle revoked its bicycle helmet law because it disproportionately impacted people of color, i.e. blacks got most of the tickets. The law was originally passed by liberals as a public safety measure. Now they revoke it because it is racist, not remembering why they passed it in the first place. In a few years they will have another safety campaign pointing to the increase in head injuries and pass it again.
This blogger says safety is about “how we build, not who we blame”. But he also discovers he doesn’t like scofflaws, like he is the first person ever to realize we need law enforcement.
Liberals can’t remember twenty minutes ago.
The peeling license plate pandemic in NY is so bad that the state is begging motorists to get their plates replaced on the state’s dime:
https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/license-plate-peeling-ny-drivers-can-replace-theirs-for-free/
The crapification of most major US cities continues.
Say what you want about their politics, but leftist yuppies and hipsters sure did transform non-Georgetown DC from a dangerous ghetto to a beautiful high amenity city from about 1995 to 2015, even with the giant local undertow and without a hard on crime mayor like NY, Chicago, and LA enjoyed.
The trend is reversing and I don’t think it will re-reverse towards law order and gentrification ever again.
The supply of well-adjusted young whites that moved from the hinterlands to big cities is running dry. For example, the 1980-born non-hispanic white cohort was about 2.7m, the 2002 more like 2.0m, maybe 2.3m if you add in white/NE-Asian hybrids and white phenotypical hispanics.
Replacing this salutary flow are third world chain migrants and native-born lumpenproles of all races who live off of crime, welfare and disability fraud and spend their days destroying their brains and bodies with increasingly cheap and pure narcotics.
Separately, it's pretty funny to hear a DC biker complaining about non-enforcement of traffic laws, when bikers in DC somehow manage to combine obnoxious disregard for traffic laws with a bottomless well of self-righteousness. They are probably the only thing DC motorists hate more than ATE fines.Replies: @Anonymous
When the poor white trash do this kind of thing, they get arrested and charged with felony counts:
https://nypost.com/2016/03/04/upstate-ny-woman-jailed-for-super-obvious-fake-license-plate/
https://time.com/4247974/fake-cardboard-new-york-state-license-plate/
I've been fooled a few times with some very White-sounding names, however. Cultural appropriation at its worst. Timmy Ryan's and Sean McIntyre's who are coal black negroes - hold my hair while I throw up, thank you.
I believe that “somebody named Tom Lee” is the brother of Timothy B. Lee, who currently contributes to the Substack “Full Stack Economics” and describes himself in his Twitter bio as “Alum of @washingtonpost, @voxdotcom, and @arstechnica”. I recall Tim used to work for either Cato or Reason.
Though I’m not sure how much credit to give it (There were pre-existing conservative tendencies towards removing them) there was an argument made to remove laws requiring front plates from Ohio on the basis that it was a reason to pull drivers over and thus another way for black men to have contact with the police. Ohio now no longer requires front plates since July 2020 but I believe the law was passed pre-Floyd in 2019 but only came into force then. And as I said, there was a pre-existing conservative constituency for it.
A system for tickets Steve suggested like the kind used in the rest of the industrial world (At least on main roads and highways) outside North America relies on front plates for enforcement. They’re useful too for auto tolls.
https://cincinnati.com/story/news/local/2015/07/23/eliminating-front-license-plate-helped-shooting/30545935
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/31/front-license-plate-ohio-law-samuel-dubose
I don't know anything about toll systems, though.Replies: @mc23
“who rides his bike in Washington D.C.”
The irony is lost on Mr. Lee, who doesn’t seem to realize that cops never stopped enforcing traffic laws against cyclists, for the simple fact that the former never actually started enforcing traffic laws regarding the latter.
Cyclists are quite comparatively the negroes of vehicles in traffic. When is the last time a cyclist was cited for running a stop sign or just coasting through a stop light? In DC, or anywhere in the nation?
Perhaps cyclists are just butt hurt because they are no longer the only demographic (along with bus drivers, I suppose) that roam the public roads with impunity?
The horse cop pulled over the cyclist. I don't expect to see that combination again in this lifetime.Replies: @Cortes
Has Mr. Lee ever paid an annual vehicle registration fee, displayed the tag and carried the registration papers thereof? Has he shown proof of insurance, or passed proficiency tests and then paid a annual fee for a City operator's pemit, or carried that permit when pedaling? Has he ever paid user fees for those Lexus Lanes he and his ilk have demanded for their exclusive use, which have cost the City million of dollars to create?
The smart-money bets here are: no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and no.
Almost all metro-area corridor studies show that cars, trucks and buses make up 85 to 95 percent of the trips per day, depending on which blocks in the corridor are observed. Pedestrians are the 5 to 15 percenters. Bikes are, almost without exception, a small fraction of 1% of t/d. There's your minoritarianism.
Lee correctly points to the fake-plate drives as the low-level destroyers of good order that they are. But he forgets what his Momma told him: there are three fingers pointing back at him.Replies: @Mike Tre
Choose, bike riders: you're an adult with a vehicle who obeys the law and is thereby entitled to be treated as an equal by car drivers, or you're a kid sporting around the neighborhood who shouldn't bitch when you get clobbered by a car.
-DiscardReplies: @Achmed E. Newman
This license plate–rule-of-law–post, the decolonized math post, the down with objective journalism post–and for that matter world-star-hip-hop cops and the imported Jamaican “white-privilege!” killer–all bring up the same question.
Do you want to live like this? Do you want to live in their world?
I’ve got zero problems with someone who wants to live with Jamaican immigrants, have hip-hop-cops, read whiny POC journalists, turn math over race obsessed incompetents and toss out traffic enforcement.
But I do not want any of that shit inflicted upon me–my family, my kids, my posterity, my nation.
When are we–the productive normies–going to tell these people that? “Enough. You trash your own nation, but not ours. We are not going to be part of it.”
Commenter 6 sums it up:“…allows them to grow some teeth, to bite us in the ass in our own neighs!Sixty days for written comments ought to fill up an entire issue of the Federal Register.
Freedom of Association where are ye?”Replies: @Glaivester
I hope next year you’ll be saying this not here, but in person to marginal GOP voters in swing states. There will be lists of registered Republicans who vote irregularly. An articulate and earnest retiree volunteer like you knocking on their door to explain why defeating Biden is so important, one-on-one, is worth more than $10,000 of ads people generally try to ignore.
The other great thing to drive GOP turnout is go to areas Trump won with 75% or more of the vote and figure out why some houses have no registered voters. Some will be new residents who need an updated registration and info on polling places. Others will be people who are basically lazy or very apolitical conservatives who don’t vote. Getting them to turn out isn’t always easy, but you’d be surprised how many will do so if someone just asks. Some people mistakenly believe they can avoid jury duty by not voting, clearing that up can be all that’s needed.
Election season volunteer work just feels great. Most of the people you contact will thank you and it is just restorative toward your love for America.Replies: @Adam Smith
You just have to come to terms with the fact that you live (metaphorically) in late-imperial Rome. The population has been debased and there's no going back. I wish it weren't so, but it is.
Odds are never, that opportunity likely long lost:
Abraham Lincoln was a big supporter of the “colonization” of former slaves. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 he said, “If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves and send them to Liberia — to their own native land.
If all earthly power were given me: in exchange for their US citizenship, Liberian 🇱🇷 citizenship and monthly “allowance” of $1,000 for life, to any who'd like. 3 crime convictions and the offer becomes a mandatory.
Liberia’s average yearly wage is $2-3K, the newly minted Liberians would be “move’n on up, to the Eastside”. Win-win for both Liberia, and much more importantly, the future of the USA 🇺🇸Replies: @That Would Be Telling
Say what you want about their politics, but leftist yuppies and hipsters sure did transform non-Georgetown DC from a dangerous ghetto to a beautiful high amenity city from about 1995 to 2015, even with the giant local undertow and without a hard on crime mayor like NY, Chicago, and LA enjoyed.
The trend is reversing and I don’t think it will re-reverse towards law order and gentrification ever again.
The supply of well-adjusted young whites that moved from the hinterlands to big cities is running dry. For example, the 1980-born non-hispanic white cohort was about 2.7m, the 2002 more like 2.0m, maybe 2.3m if you add in white/NE-Asian hybrids and white phenotypical hispanics.
Replacing this salutary flow are third world chain migrants and native-born lumpenproles of all races who live off of crime, welfare and disability fraud and spend their days destroying their brains and bodies with increasingly cheap and pure narcotics.Replies: @Anonymous, @Recently Based, @Skyler the Weird
I just visited family in Santa Monica for the first time in about a decade. Holy shit! What the hell happened?? The decay is shocking. Homeless and the mentally ill are ubiquitous and storefronts are empty all along Wilshire Boulevard. Third Street Promenade is a depressing shell of its former self. I was afraid to take a short walk from our hotel to a restaurant on Wilshire after dark.
The collection of circumstances that made them nice just are never going to reappear.
And it happened really fast too. Hard drug decriminalization and the rapid influx of methheads from around the USA started around 2018 or so, and then the Summer of George in 2020 finished them off.
Leftist areas like SF and Santa Monica were hit hardest because of their hostility to police. Try to arrest a black criminal screaming “I can’t breath!” in San Jose, San Diego, Pasadena or Irvine, and people will respectfully give the police their distance. The local lefttards white black and hispanic in Santa Monica or SF however will whip out their phones to record them while crowding around and jeering at the police.
Do you want to live like this? Do you want to live in their world?
I've got zero problems with someone who wants to live with Jamaican immigrants, have hip-hop-cops, read whiny POC journalists, turn math over race obsessed incompetents and toss out traffic enforcement.
But I do not want any of that shit inflicted upon me--my family, my kids, my posterity, my nation.
When are we--the productive normies--going to tell these people that? "Enough. You trash your own nation, but not ours. We are not going to be part of it."Replies: @J.Ross, @SafeNow, @Pixo, @Recently Based, @danand, @tyrone, @Gordo
Hey. Hey. Do you even Slava Ukaina, man? You sound like you are failing in your revolutionary consciousness. If we don’t start the wars then how is Invade The World, Invite The World supposed to happen? Not like we have a choice.
Do they announce “Taxation Without Reparations”?
M.O.R.E.!
Timmy Tom Tom, Tommy Tim Tim. You stupid idiot. Not a driver, the owner.
Yeah, I don’t know. I’d feel a lot better about traffic cameras if they weren’t such obvious cash cows. Two traffic cameras in DC come to mind, of which both I was a victim.
One caught speeders on a limited access freeway heading out to Suitland/Gaylord. Everybody drives 65-70 along the route–i.e., the safe speed is 65-70. Then, just before the traffic camera, everyone who drives the route every day and knows there’s a camera there slows down to the posted speed limit, which they maintain until they get past the speed camera, then back to the generally recognized safe speed. People who don’t drive that route every day continue at the safe speed, get nailed, and then get a demand in the mail a few days later for a couple of hundred dollars. (A demand, by the way, that really hurts those of limited means and acts as a punishment for having a valid license plate.)
The other speed camera enforces a similarly ridiculously slow speed limit on South Dakota Ave, which is enforced regardless of the variations in traffic conditions.
The blogger you quoted sounds like a pansy. I’ll bet he’s vaxxed and believes in the Miracle of the Two Planes, Three Skyscrapers.
This source of this quote isn’t stated, but presumably it’s from the report of the task force on fake tags.
1. A “task force” to deal with the problem is a ridiculous waste of time, money and resources. The obvious solution is to enforce the applicable laws. And …
2. DC city officials now openly proclaim that equality under the law is void. Violators driving while black are exempt. And …
3. The automated long arm of the law reaches out to drivers of any race foolish enough to have legitimate plates on their cars spotted by cameras. And …
4. What next? If a bank security camera records robbers who conceal their identity by wearing ski masks, does that mean police shouldn’t bother solving the crime but only go after perps whose faces are visible?
And finally …
“Enforce fake temporary tags” — task force reports should not be written by illiterates.
Do you want to live like this? Do you want to live in their world?
I've got zero problems with someone who wants to live with Jamaican immigrants, have hip-hop-cops, read whiny POC journalists, turn math over race obsessed incompetents and toss out traffic enforcement.
But I do not want any of that shit inflicted upon me--my family, my kids, my posterity, my nation.
When are we--the productive normies--going to tell these people that? "Enough. You trash your own nation, but not ours. We are not going to be part of it."Replies: @J.Ross, @SafeNow, @Pixo, @Recently Based, @danand, @tyrone, @Gordo
AnotherDad, even if somehow separation did occur, they will come for your posterity, in the form of new neighbors. Until yesterday I was thinking this would take a few generations. But then I read Jared Taylor‘s current essay about proposed new regulations. These regulations may be summarized as affirmative action in housing that will foist diversity neighbors upon people who thought they had found a way to have a pleasant, decent life. There will be a 60-day period for public comment.
Commenter 6 sums it up:
“…allows them to grow some teeth, to bite us in the ass in our own neighs!Sixty days for written comments ought to fill up an entire issue of the Federal Register.
Freedom of Association where are ye?”
https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/affh-the-latest-race-swindle/
Minoritarianism is incompatible with civilization.
Sure a lot of our problems end up being ... blacks. But if it wasn't the sainted blacks, it would the PWCNPAOOSARL++ (People Who Can Not Pay Attention Or Otherwise Stop At Red Lights.)
Should they be excessively fined by these automated systems and driven off our highways when they were simply ... born this way?Replies: @Shamu
Downs people are born that way and they should not drive, nor should they vote or serve on a jury, much less be allowed to become lawyers and judges.
A very blacks can become the latter pair when standards are not lowered. The country would not be hurt by their presence in such jibs if. the black race had not been made a sacred cow race. That sacred cow race will mean the death of this country eventually.
Lots of blacks have fake tags because they don’t have a license and that’s because they can’t read and thus could not pass the driving test.
”’”” Incompetence or inattention are inevitable human foibles. We know drivers will make mistakes and it is more productive to ameliorate those mistakes’ effects than to contemplate how we will punish them.”””
Now that is really stupid. Bad drivers who speed or text-drive or run red lights should not be excused because of their ” inevitable human foibles”. These people are killers and i say lock them up. 110 americans are killed EVERY DAY on our highways because of criminal driving.
The irony is lost on Mr. Lee, who doesn't seem to realize that cops never stopped enforcing traffic laws against cyclists, for the simple fact that the former never actually started enforcing traffic laws regarding the latter.
Cyclists are quite comparatively the negroes of vehicles in traffic. When is the last time a cyclist was cited for running a stop sign or just coasting through a stop light? In DC, or anywhere in the nation?
Perhaps cyclists are just butt hurt because they are no longer the only demographic (along with bus drivers, I suppose) that roam the public roads with impunity?Replies: @Twinkie, @Seaman, @Mr. Peabody, @Jamsportle
I’m not favorably inclined toward cyclists, but there is a college town in the Midwest where the speed limit around the campus is 15 mph and the cops are known to ticket cyclists. I didn’t believe it until I saw with my own eyes! And, yes, I also got a ticket driving. The surrounding city issues several hundred tickets a year, but, despite a tinier fraction (1/9th) in population, the campus area issues several thousand tickets per year (reportedly nearly 100x the rate per capita).
The municipality is 93% white, by the way.
Can we just create a reservation system for blacks, like with Native Americans, where they govern themselves on those areas but in the rest of the country they get prosecuted by the same laws in the same manner?
Yes, similar things all over formally nice urban areas like the high end parts of Santa Monica.
The collection of circumstances that made them nice just are never going to reappear.
And it happened really fast too. Hard drug decriminalization and the rapid influx of methheads from around the USA started around 2018 or so, and then the Summer of George in 2020 finished them off.
Leftist areas like SF and Santa Monica were hit hardest because of their hostility to police. Try to arrest a black criminal screaming “I can’t breath!” in San Jose, San Diego, Pasadena or Irvine, and people will respectfully give the police their distance. The local lefttards white black and hispanic in Santa Monica or SF however will whip out their phones to record them while crowding around and jeering at the police.
OT: Doctors shouldn’t fat-shame: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/02/01/doctors-fat-shaming-fat-phobia/
And maybe if the fatties lost weight, they'd not be misdiagnosed. After all, the first rule of problem solving, for doctors or anyone else, is to address the obvious things first. Car won't start? Check the battery. Confused and combative? Check the blood-alcohol level. The obvious thing may not be the right answer, but it's where you start.
Fat African female doctors in rainbow gear don't know that? Bias confirmed.
-Discard
At the point it has gotten now, Whites should console themselves that cosmetics no longer to look white at all are far cheaper and far safer than the other way round (blackface is of evident bad taste for sure but looking vaguely like a dot Indian thanks to a discrete burnishing like so many Californicators do is of better taste than ever) and that donning fluo coloured hair and body piercing also immunizes quite efficiently against the stigma of being white, though the all efficient-panacea against any suspicion of anti-semitism, even more than being an orthodox Jew, is claiming oneself of the sexual diversity alphabet. If you enter a queer union you are at the very top of the new pecking order being installed and your YT videos have but very little chance to be stricken. Ideally you should emit from time to time the opinion that child-adult love should no longer be discriminated against, as it is the last hurdle to fell before full access to unhindered pleasure absolute, and be honoured anew as they were in ancient Athens if we are to develop into a real Athenian-like world democracy at all.
Do you want to live like this? Do you want to live in their world?
I've got zero problems with someone who wants to live with Jamaican immigrants, have hip-hop-cops, read whiny POC journalists, turn math over race obsessed incompetents and toss out traffic enforcement.
But I do not want any of that shit inflicted upon me--my family, my kids, my posterity, my nation.
When are we--the productive normies--going to tell these people that? "Enough. You trash your own nation, but not ours. We are not going to be part of it."Replies: @J.Ross, @SafeNow, @Pixo, @Recently Based, @danand, @tyrone, @Gordo
“ When are we–the productive normies–going to tell these people that? Enough. You trash your own nation, but not ours.”
I hope next year you’ll be saying this not here, but in person to marginal GOP voters in swing states. There will be lists of registered Republicans who vote irregularly. An articulate and earnest retiree volunteer like you knocking on their door to explain why defeating Biden is so important, one-on-one, is worth more than $10,000 of ads people generally try to ignore.
The other great thing to drive GOP turnout is go to areas Trump won with 75% or more of the vote and figure out why some houses have no registered voters. Some will be new residents who need an updated registration and info on polling places. Others will be people who are basically lazy or very apolitical conservatives who don’t vote. Getting them to turn out isn’t always easy, but you’d be surprised how many will do so if someone just asks. Some people mistakenly believe they can avoid jury duty by not voting, clearing that up can be all that’s needed.
Election season volunteer work just feels great. Most of the people you contact will thank you and it is just restorative toward your love for America.
This blogger says safety is about "how we build, not who we blame". But he also discovers he doesn't like scofflaws, like he is the first person ever to realize we need law enforcement.
Liberals can't remember twenty minutes ago.Replies: @Jon, @Redneck farmer
He ends his post even worse:
He can’t even bring himself to complain about people dying without first apologizing about how distasteful it is to blame the people causing these deaths.
Blacks are disproportionately criminal, therefore black criminality must be decriminalized. The logic in New America.
At this point we are just giving up anything and everything related to having a functional society because blacks aren’t very good at living in a functional society.
And while Team GOPe is way too much on the side of Negroidolatry, see the Martin-Zimmerman and jogger cases, the former rewarded with a US Senate seat, there's still plenty of "law and order" and no extra sympathy for negro perps in lots of Red state America. Or so I like to think in my very deep Red part of it, where whites are the most common criminals but negroes are fantastically over-represented in the very worst crimes.
Thus, and it's not a conspiracy theory, they've talked enough about it, the desire to Federalize all local law enforcement to implement anarcho-tyranny or worse nationwide. Which will be quite a trick with our institution of sheriffs, but the U.K. did it (or was law enforcement always that way after 1066???). Things will get dicey if they try that, could be a spark to a hot shooting civil war. Meanwhile they're expanding their efforts to ban gas stoves and we continue to buy guns and ammo at astounding and unprecedented rates and loosen gun control laws.Replies: @HammerJack
The irony is lost on Mr. Lee, who doesn't seem to realize that cops never stopped enforcing traffic laws against cyclists, for the simple fact that the former never actually started enforcing traffic laws regarding the latter.
Cyclists are quite comparatively the negroes of vehicles in traffic. When is the last time a cyclist was cited for running a stop sign or just coasting through a stop light? In DC, or anywhere in the nation?
Perhaps cyclists are just butt hurt because they are no longer the only demographic (along with bus drivers, I suppose) that roam the public roads with impunity?Replies: @Twinkie, @Seaman, @Mr. Peabody, @Jamsportle
In Downtown Houston I watched an entitled cyclist ignore a stoplight, even though a cop on a horse was stopped on the corner.
The horse cop pulled over the cyclist. I don’t expect to see that combination again in this lifetime.
OT but related: Conservative cold take on killing of GOP city council member: “It’s those Demonrats not caring about gun violence against Republicans.”
Drill down you find out that she’s black, a 30-yo beauty and it’s New Jersey! Plus her husband is a crazy Nigerian loon. https://nypost.com/2023/02/03/slain-nj-councilwomans-husband-posts-bizarre-facebook-birthday-message/ Dozens of explanations here. Pretty sure she wasnt targeted for favoring enterprise zones and TIF’s.
Do you want to live like this? Do you want to live in their world?
I've got zero problems with someone who wants to live with Jamaican immigrants, have hip-hop-cops, read whiny POC journalists, turn math over race obsessed incompetents and toss out traffic enforcement.
But I do not want any of that shit inflicted upon me--my family, my kids, my posterity, my nation.
When are we--the productive normies--going to tell these people that? "Enough. You trash your own nation, but not ours. We are not going to be part of it."Replies: @J.Ross, @SafeNow, @Pixo, @Recently Based, @danand, @tyrone, @Gordo
Not any time soon, unfortunately.
You just have to come to terms with the fact that you live (metaphorically) in late-imperial Rome. The population has been debased and there’s no going back. I wish it weren’t so, but it is.
https://withoutthewhitecoat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/phto-casual-3-2280c24f2e0c55c3314741bba5b31759-scaled-600x400.jpgReplies: @Recently Based, @Jamsportle
That article is amazing:
No, what she (Shirlene Obuobi) learned in medical school is correct. Unless you have somehow repealed the laws of physics, if you ingest fewer calories than you consume for a sustained period of time, you lose weight.
Based on years in the NYC area, where alternative side of the street parking was a huge issue, I have to ask if these street cameras are capturing things that are against the law but are not safety issues? In NYC the streets were mostly too crowded and enough people didn’t own cars for speeding violations to be the issue it is in most other places in the country.
So for DC, what is the excuse for not cracking down on these temp licenses?
If it is just voter anger, then shame on these politicians who aren’t willing to reduce speeding, accidents, deaths and injuries. Is this to accommodate immigrants? Again, if so, shame on these politicians.
Say what you want about their politics, but leftist yuppies and hipsters sure did transform non-Georgetown DC from a dangerous ghetto to a beautiful high amenity city from about 1995 to 2015, even with the giant local undertow and without a hard on crime mayor like NY, Chicago, and LA enjoyed.
The trend is reversing and I don’t think it will re-reverse towards law order and gentrification ever again.
The supply of well-adjusted young whites that moved from the hinterlands to big cities is running dry. For example, the 1980-born non-hispanic white cohort was about 2.7m, the 2002 more like 2.0m, maybe 2.3m if you add in white/NE-Asian hybrids and white phenotypical hispanics.
Replacing this salutary flow are third world chain migrants and native-born lumpenproles of all races who live off of crime, welfare and disability fraud and spend their days destroying their brains and bodies with increasingly cheap and pure narcotics.Replies: @Anonymous, @Recently Based, @Skyler the Weird
Have spent a lot of time in DC since before 95 to today, and you are exactly right about the good 20 years, and how it is deteriorating rapidly.
Separately, it’s pretty funny to hear a DC biker complaining about non-enforcement of traffic laws, when bikers in DC somehow manage to combine obnoxious disregard for traffic laws with a bottomless well of self-righteousness. They are probably the only thing DC motorists hate more than ATE fines.
Someone please remind me: what's that Latin phrase about how things speed up toward the end?Replies: @silviosilver, @GomezAdddams, @Renard, @tyrone
Not sure which phrase you were thinking of, but news like this reminds me of another Latin phrase: facilis descensus Averno. (The descent into hell is easy.)
The sad thing is, it’s also pretty easy to not descend into hell. It could all be so easily avoided. But avoiding that, apparently, is nothing compared to the moral glow of racial righteousness, so hell it is.
https://youtu.be/CCzD3ONQsmMReplies: @Achmed E. Newman
What is the problem that is coming?
My wife and I spent 4 months in D.C.last year,from mid Feb. to mid June.We stayed with friends who were operating a “pop up”restaurant on H street,and lived off of Nanny Helen Burroughs in the Deanwood section of town.Having grown up in Boston,I thought that I’d seen it all when it came to aggressive driving.Now I know the meaning of driving defensively.People passing on the left,right,making u turns right in front of us.Pedestrians not just casually crossing the streets,but giving you that greasy eye,almost daring you to hit them look.Groups of 10 or more dirt bikes and ATVs racing up and down H st,popping wheelies as the crowds cheered them on.There was a blatant disregard for the rules of the road.My wife absolutely refused to get behind the wheel.This,combined with the filth and trash everywhere on the sides of the roads,the really poor condition of the roads,marijuana smoke wafting thru the air wherever we went made it a very memorable visit.Not to mention the fact there were armed guards in every supermarket,CVS,Walmart we went.Even Whole Foods on H street had an armed guard.This is our nations capitol? WTF???
The way photo tickets work (in the states I know of) is that the machine takes the pictures, then someone has to verify the license plate and try to match it up to a person. So if you’re driving your own car, they pull your DMV photo and match it against the photo they got from the ticket. If it doesn’t match, they either have to throw out the ticket or start trying to figure out who the driver was. Usually this happens when it’s a rental car because that’s still relatively easy (at most a cookie cutter subpoena to the rental company). If you’re driving a friend’s car, a car that has never been registered to you, a stolen car, etc, there’s no way to figure it out that doesn’t involve a ton of resources (mostly time).
What’s more, if you do get the right driver and he just doesn’t give a damn and ignores the ticket, what do you do? Well, you suspend his license so he can’t drive. But why can’t he drive? What’s going to happen, you going to give him a ticket for driving suspended? So what, his license is already suspended. So his insurance might get canceled, except he didn’t have any to begin with. Now he’s driving with no license or insurance, but what does he care? Back when he might get stopped by the cops it might be a deal, but since courts started stopping the cops from towing the cars of suspended/uninsured drivers, he might not care even then.
The streets are where the “chump effect” is most pronounced. If you’re part of polite society, you register your car and carry insurance. If you’re part of fringe society, you don’t do either of those. Back in the old days (ten years ago), you’d get pulled over and get a ticket for one or both of those. If you didn’t pay it, you’d get suspended. Then when you got stopped, the cops would have your car towed and you’d have to pay tow fees to get it out (plus pay for at least a month of insurance). That didn’t stop everybody, but it stopped some. Some higher courts decided that wasn’t cool because the cops were seizing an object, not the person misusing it. But the public was already losing its stomach because of who was having their cars towed.
So the costs are socialized. Your uninsured motorist coverage is part of a huge wealth transfer.
I hope next year you’ll be saying this not here, but in person to marginal GOP voters in swing states. There will be lists of registered Republicans who vote irregularly. An articulate and earnest retiree volunteer like you knocking on their door to explain why defeating Biden is so important, one-on-one, is worth more than $10,000 of ads people generally try to ignore.
The other great thing to drive GOP turnout is go to areas Trump won with 75% or more of the vote and figure out why some houses have no registered voters. Some will be new residents who need an updated registration and info on polling places. Others will be people who are basically lazy or very apolitical conservatives who don’t vote. Getting them to turn out isn’t always easy, but you’d be surprised how many will do so if someone just asks. Some people mistakenly believe they can avoid jury duty by not voting, clearing that up can be all that’s needed.
Election season volunteer work just feels great. Most of the people you contact will thank you and it is just restorative toward your love for America.Replies: @Adam Smith
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The sad thing is, it's also pretty easy to not descend into hell. It could all be so easily avoided. But avoiding that, apparently, is nothing compared to the moral glow of racial righteousness, so hell it is.Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @The Wild Geese Howard
This comes from the capture of our country by the modern Left born in the French Revolution, which is infamous for its murderous holiness spirals. Which of course were a thing long before that bloodshed, status is a big thing to humans.
The speed and red light systems I’m familiar with do not rely on a front plate. If you watch, you’ll notice the camera takes photos both of the front and the back of the car (coming and going). The front photo is for the purpose of identifying the driver, since citations can’t be issued to cars, only to drivers. Traffic law in most (or all?) states has been decriminized, which means that the state only needs to reach “more likely than not”, which means a photograph of your face matched up to the departing rear license plate.
I don’t know anything about toll systems, though.
The sad thing is, it's also pretty easy to not descend into hell. It could all be so easily avoided. But avoiding that, apparently, is nothing compared to the moral glow of racial righteousness, so hell it is.Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @The Wild Geese Howard
Almost like an express elevator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1l50slBaGg
That’s an average of 14 miles per day. That’s unusually high. 200K is like riding from NYC to Portland OR 70 times — almost twice a year within those 40 years. There has to be a story here. Can you share it?
18.7 miles each way to work 3 times a week, I do that April to October here in the Inland Northwest. Then a longer ride on the weekend between 55-75 and up if I go with friends on a longer group ride.
That’s good for about 5,000 miles per year. Many of the guys I know in cycling ride 10,000 miles per year (retired living in Tucson).
The bike is one of the most efficient machines ever invented. You can ride a long way and if you do it regularly it gets so you can do it quite a lot. When I get my cycling legs under me, once a week I’ll ride a long route to work of about 32 miles one way.
I’m on the low end, some of these dorks live on their bikes…it’s weird.Replies: @Anonymous
For now this is a “speak for yourself.” While chronicling the horrors of what Team Blue is doing to their turf, remember this isn’t most of the country, although I’m not sure how much of the population it is, and that’s changing fast as many people sort themselves into more sane locations (which of course may doom them).
And while Team GOPe is way too much on the side of Negroidolatry, see the Martin-Zimmerman and jogger cases, the former rewarded with a US Senate seat, there’s still plenty of “law and order” and no extra sympathy for negro perps in lots of Red state America. Or so I like to think in my very deep Red part of it, where whites are the most common criminals but negroes are fantastically over-represented in the very worst crimes.
Thus, and it’s not a conspiracy theory, they’ve talked enough about it, the desire to Federalize all local law enforcement to implement anarcho-tyranny or worse nationwide. Which will be quite a trick with our institution of sheriffs, but the U.K. did it (or was law enforcement always that way after 1066???). Things will get dicey if they try that, could be a spark to a hot shooting civil war. Meanwhile they’re expanding their efforts to ban gas stoves and we continue to buy guns and ammo at astounding and unprecedented rates and loosen gun control laws.
Someone please remind me: what's that Latin phrase about how things speed up toward the end?Replies: @silviosilver, @GomezAdddams, @Renard, @tyrone
Love and Embrace Black History Month. Reason “Why” I have loaded up with 100’s of Amos and Andy old flicks and there are some good views –the time Amos bumps against Mrs. Robiason ( mother in law to America’s future Monkey King with BO), another is the time Kingfish meets Madam Queen next to Trump Tower and another is Lightning talking with Tommy Cotton about balloons and then another is Calhoun giving Tucker Carlson and Lindsey Graham advise on tight grips from behind. Gotta go now —-
Now that is really stupid. Bad drivers who speed or text-drive or run red lights should not be excused because of their " inevitable human foibles". These people are killers and i say lock them up. 110 americans are killed EVERY DAY on our highways because of criminal driving.Replies: @HammerJack
Yes. After 9/11 (though not soon after, of course) I started pointing out to people that the carnage on our nation’s roadways amounted to a new 9/11 every single month.
It fell on deaf ears. I have the impression that people believe vehicular deaths are inevitable, like the sun coming up in the morning. Or like Troof posting a video from WorldStar of wypipos behaving badly whenever there’s more carnage from his peeps. But I digress.
What's more, if you do get the right driver and he just doesn't give a damn and ignores the ticket, what do you do? Well, you suspend his license so he can't drive. But why can't he drive? What's going to happen, you going to give him a ticket for driving suspended? So what, his license is already suspended. So his insurance might get canceled, except he didn't have any to begin with. Now he's driving with no license or insurance, but what does he care? Back when he might get stopped by the cops it might be a deal, but since courts started stopping the cops from towing the cars of suspended/uninsured drivers, he might not care even then.
The streets are where the "chump effect" is most pronounced. If you're part of polite society, you register your car and carry insurance. If you're part of fringe society, you don't do either of those. Back in the old days (ten years ago), you'd get pulled over and get a ticket for one or both of those. If you didn't pay it, you'd get suspended. Then when you got stopped, the cops would have your car towed and you'd have to pay tow fees to get it out (plus pay for at least a month of insurance). That didn't stop everybody, but it stopped some. Some higher courts decided that wasn't cool because the cops were seizing an object, not the person misusing it. But the public was already losing its stomach because of who was having their cars towed.
So the costs are socialized. Your uninsured motorist coverage is part of a huge wealth transfer.Replies: @HammerJack
Still more material for the Reparations Ledger which never actually gets added to the Reparations Ledger.
And while Team GOPe is way too much on the side of Negroidolatry, see the Martin-Zimmerman and jogger cases, the former rewarded with a US Senate seat, there's still plenty of "law and order" and no extra sympathy for negro perps in lots of Red state America. Or so I like to think in my very deep Red part of it, where whites are the most common criminals but negroes are fantastically over-represented in the very worst crimes.
Thus, and it's not a conspiracy theory, they've talked enough about it, the desire to Federalize all local law enforcement to implement anarcho-tyranny or worse nationwide. Which will be quite a trick with our institution of sheriffs, but the U.K. did it (or was law enforcement always that way after 1066???). Things will get dicey if they try that, could be a spark to a hot shooting civil war. Meanwhile they're expanding their efforts to ban gas stoves and we continue to buy guns and ammo at astounding and unprecedented rates and loosen gun control laws.Replies: @HammerJack
Count your blessings. Although I’m neither D nor R, the last two places I’ve lived went from red to purple to blue over the course of a decade or two (my current locale is teetering) and the transition hasnt been fun.
Three things mostly to blame, near as I can tell: 1) internal migration from wrecked (blue) cities and states 2) massive migration from wrecked (third world) hellholes and 3) endless MSM propaganda. Three strikes and you’re out.
Copy that. I am a near-native of Arizona, which is currently undergoing warp-speed Californication. I wish all these stupid California bozos would just die. They are the most horrifyingly self-unaware NPC's that ever existed.
) The aspirational send their kids to college, and they come back, if at all, reliably indoctrinated in Wokeism. Especially the women. And anyone brought in for a job requiring a degree is another brick in the wall.
) Lots of federal money sloshing around here, and it comes with strings attached; i.e. DIE must be honored. Thus the schools and receiving agencies put on struggle sessions and dredge up the required number of gender transitioners, etc. etc.
Someone please remind me: what's that Latin phrase about how things speed up toward the end?Replies: @silviosilver, @GomezAdddams, @Renard, @tyrone
motus in fine velocior
I don't visit D.C. enough to memorize camera locations. But I don't blame locals for evading this oppressive "tax" by using fake license plates. D.C. was notorious for uninsured motorists. People simply can't afford all this.Replies: @Renard, @Mike Tre, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
On the bright side, the net payers of fines and taxes are a minority of the population. But I’m definitely missing something here, not even including how this justifies driving without license, tags, or insurance.
I haven’t ridden as much as him, but here’s how my good years work.
18.7 miles each way to work 3 times a week, I do that April to October here in the Inland Northwest. Then a longer ride on the weekend between 55-75 and up if I go with friends on a longer group ride.
That’s good for about 5,000 miles per year. Many of the guys I know in cycling ride 10,000 miles per year (retired living in Tucson).
The bike is one of the most efficient machines ever invented. You can ride a long way and if you do it regularly it gets so you can do it quite a lot. When I get my cycling legs under me, once a week I’ll ride a long route to work of about 32 miles one way.
I’m on the low end, some of these dorks live on their bikes…it’s weird.
“…and if you ever dare to claim that we wield inordinate power, we will crush you like the pathetic little insect you are!”
Pfff. If I ever got ticketed bicycling in a 25mph (or faster) zone I’d consider it an honor and frame my citation.
Safety over laws is my motto on a bicycle.
Oh, by the way, if you were a student at the university (undergrad or grad) or an employee and you applied for a concealed carry permit, the head of the police called your dean or supervisor, which usually led to a conversation with you.
It's definitely one of those "leftists are the real fascists" kind of places.Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @Ben the Layabout
If you know Nyack, pâté de foie gras is more likely.
The KKK is just everywhere these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzjGkquFGlk
During my time as a DC resident (1991-1994) I experienced two things I’ll never forget:
On a city street leading from Rock Creek Park to Connecticut Avenue, there were craters that shook one’s bones when driving a car through them. This in a “good” part of town. Also, I didn’t see it myself but heard that some residents nearby dealt with a big hole in the street by dumping old mattresses in it.
I had some routine driver’s license or registration business that could only be conducted in the motor vehicles bureau headquarters downtown. I spent hours waiting in lines and being directed from one office to another by surly black clerks. Having apparently suffered the same treatment or worse, a white woman was literally crying.
Thus my introduction to a city run by persons of color.
Do you want to live like this? Do you want to live in their world?
I've got zero problems with someone who wants to live with Jamaican immigrants, have hip-hop-cops, read whiny POC journalists, turn math over race obsessed incompetents and toss out traffic enforcement.
But I do not want any of that shit inflicted upon me--my family, my kids, my posterity, my nation.
When are we--the productive normies--going to tell these people that? "Enough. You trash your own nation, but not ours. We are not going to be part of it."Replies: @J.Ross, @SafeNow, @Pixo, @Recently Based, @danand, @tyrone, @Gordo
“When are we–the productive normies–going to tell these people that? “Enough. You trash your own nation”
Odds are never, that opportunity likely long lost:
Abraham Lincoln was a big supporter of the “colonization” of former slaves. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 he said, “If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves and send them to Liberia — to their own native land.
If all earthly power were given me: in exchange for their US citizenship, Liberian 🇱🇷 citizenship and monthly “allowance” of $1,000 for life, to any who’d like. 3 crime convictions and the offer becomes a mandatory.
Liberia’s average yearly wage is $2-3K, the newly minted Liberians would be “move’n on up, to the Eastside”. Win-win for both Liberia, and much more importantly, the future of the USA 🇺🇸
Now and going forward, as long as we have a pretense of "democracy" negroes are vital subjects for our ruling trash, including the GOPe which keeps chasing whatever fraction of their legit vote they can get (or I suppose they could try to start cheating like Democrats, DeStantis has been accused of that). If that pretense ends one way or another, outside of anarcho-tyranny their prospects might become very grim, with some part of Africa perhaps becoming an attractive alternative. My throwaway line is send each of them there with an AK-47 and a copy of The Prince.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
One last bit. Philadelphia, and Spirit Airlines.
Agent dared to charge her for oversize luggage.
Can you guess where this is going?
I wont even post the pics.
https://mol.im/a/11707233
https://youtu.be/CCzD3ONQsmMReplies: @Achmed E. Newman
I’m goin’ straight to hell, just like my Mama said, I’m goin’ straight to hell.
I counted up 6 violations that I’d committed after a cop pulled me over and threatened me with $138 for one of them. Thing is, every one of those moves was for my own safety, so I do the same each time on that trip… except I look for that cop car in that spot now.
Safety over laws is my motto on a bicycle.
It should be easy for AI working on traffic camera data to calculate whether violating car owners belong to favored or disfavored groups. Then you let word get out that fines and penalties will not be issued, or if issued, not pursued, against favored persons. So people will start driving with genuine license plates again. Problem solved.
This is an extremely leftist small college town. It’s the only place I had an issue with a local LEO. The local PD, which, to state again, issues 100x the per capita rate of speeding tickets as the surrounding communities, was extremely lavishly equipped with a helicopter and an armored vehicle (!) as well as a large SWAT contingent. This is a town of 50,000-60,000 residents, with very little violent crime.
Oh, by the way, if you were a student at the university (undergrad or grad) or an employee and you applied for a concealed carry permit, the head of the police called your dean or supervisor, which usually led to a conversation with you.
It’s definitely one of those “leftists are the real fascists” kind of places.
The horse cop pulled over the cyclist. I don't expect to see that combination again in this lifetime.Replies: @Cortes
Recently I was nearly bowled over by a guy cycling fast on the pavement (=footpath in UK) when I was getting off a bus. To my amazement, a police car which was passing caught him within 250 yards and the cops issued an on the spot ticket. Usually cyclists are untouchable, breaking traffic laws with impunity.
John David Washington is an idealistic young programmer, on his first day at the DoJ, where he plans to use AI to protect the innocent and punish the guilty, without fear or favor. Then his corrupt mentor, Ethan Hawke, shows him how things really work.
Training Data, in cinemas this fall.
One caught speeders on a limited access freeway heading out to Suitland/Gaylord. Everybody drives 65-70 along the route--i.e., the safe speed is 65-70. Then, just before the traffic camera, everyone who drives the route every day and knows there's a camera there slows down to the posted speed limit, which they maintain until they get past the speed camera, then back to the generally recognized safe speed. People who don't drive that route every day continue at the safe speed, get nailed, and then get a demand in the mail a few days later for a couple of hundred dollars. (A demand, by the way, that really hurts those of limited means and acts as a punishment for having a valid license plate.)
The other speed camera enforces a similarly ridiculously slow speed limit on South Dakota Ave, which is enforced regardless of the variations in traffic conditions.
The blogger you quoted sounds like a pansy. I'll bet he's vaxxed and believes in the Miracle of the Two Planes, Three Skyscrapers.Replies: @anonymous
Vito, it’s perfectly OK to write, “both of which I was a victim of.”
It takes a bicyclist to refer to AAA as “a reliably brash proponent of motorists’ most chauvinistic impulses.”
Someone please remind me: what's that Latin phrase about how things speed up toward the end?Replies: @silviosilver, @GomezAdddams, @Renard, @tyrone
………Let’s Thelma and Louise this bitch……..OH! ,sorry you wanted latino , here : “we don’t need no stinkin’ country”.
Do you want to live like this? Do you want to live in their world?
I've got zero problems with someone who wants to live with Jamaican immigrants, have hip-hop-cops, read whiny POC journalists, turn math over race obsessed incompetents and toss out traffic enforcement.
But I do not want any of that shit inflicted upon me--my family, my kids, my posterity, my nation.
When are we--the productive normies--going to tell these people that? "Enough. You trash your own nation, but not ours. We are not going to be part of it."Replies: @J.Ross, @SafeNow, @Pixo, @Recently Based, @danand, @tyrone, @Gordo
…….That’s want we thought we were doing in 2016 with the election of Trump ,of course we found out the president doesn’t have much power and the two -party system is a sham ,as is our “demockrazy”. What to do? ,elect Trump again ( if even possible) I guess, maybe he won’t be so naive the second time around.
Biology is much more complex than physics.
This blogger says safety is about "how we build, not who we blame". But he also discovers he doesn't like scofflaws, like he is the first person ever to realize we need law enforcement.
Liberals can't remember twenty minutes ago.Replies: @Jon, @Redneck farmer
I get an e-magazine about government. An expert will talk about enforcing laws to prevent crime or accidents. In the same week, multiple articles about…. disparities in law enforcement.
Systemic Racism causes Speed and Traffic cams to issue tickets to motorists Driving while Black.
Say what you want about their politics, but leftist yuppies and hipsters sure did transform non-Georgetown DC from a dangerous ghetto to a beautiful high amenity city from about 1995 to 2015, even with the giant local undertow and without a hard on crime mayor like NY, Chicago, and LA enjoyed.
The trend is reversing and I don’t think it will re-reverse towards law order and gentrification ever again.
The supply of well-adjusted young whites that moved from the hinterlands to big cities is running dry. For example, the 1980-born non-hispanic white cohort was about 2.7m, the 2002 more like 2.0m, maybe 2.3m if you add in white/NE-Asian hybrids and white phenotypical hispanics.
Replacing this salutary flow are third world chain migrants and native-born lumpenproles of all races who live off of crime, welfare and disability fraud and spend their days destroying their brains and bodies with increasingly cheap and pure narcotics.Replies: @Anonymous, @Recently Based, @Skyler the Weird
DC has always been a shit hole. Non Georgetown DC and the NoVa and Maryland suburbs were ghetto in the Eighties when I lived there. They must really be bad if you thought 95-2015 they were good. The old joke went What’s the longest bridge in the world? The 14th street bridge. It goes from Arlington Virginia straight into Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Parris
Thanks for the bridge joke -- I'd not heard it before.
Hence the ‘sustained period’ part.
I hear this a lot about weight loss, but If you start fat and live in a calorie deficit for a sustained period, you will lose weight.
Anyone who lived in NYC from the 70s up to the early 90s can tell you what happens. Up here we had over 2,000 murders a year (now it’s down to about 500), rapes, assaults, muggings increase. Tax revenue goes way down, services are cut, poverty abounds, drug use skyrockets-dealers start running neighborhoods, and the city gets worse and worse. Giuliani was able to reverse this trend in the 90s, and Bloomberg continued and improved on his methods. Now that the Pale population in NYC is way under 50%, the steady decline here will just continue. DC has been a craphole since desegregation, but we could see Mexican levels of crime before long.
No matter what, processes in Biology can’t violate the laws of Physics.
Whites are the safest demographic to pull over, in terms of anticipated compliance and least probability of a racial grievance being drummed up.
Yeah, I can’t think of a more brilliant and beneficial criminal justice theory.
Let’s decriminalize everything that leads to more prosecution/incarceration of the blacks.
Carjacking criminal? Why, more blacks will end up in jail. De-criminalize. Let’s move to rape and murder too.
Surely, a civilization-saver.
If they ever move to A.I. policing, surely the robocops will programmed not to notice the criminality of whatever blacks are doing.
Even the Terminator must be programmed to be black-friendly.
To a white guy, it says, “F*** you a**hole.”
To a black guy, it’s programmed to say, “Hey Bro, what is up?”
Is there a country on Earth that does more to dumb down society’s standards of conduct to the level of it’s most unproductive demographic?
The peeling New York license plate fiasco began several years ago, during the reign of (Andrew) Cuomo II. Whoever he hired to manufacture a particular batch of plates did a monumentally terrible job; the paint had little adhesion to metal and would quickly peel off the plate, leaving it illegible.
Cuomo II’s announced solution was to have everyone in the state buy new plates, which would have had the salutary results of 1) concealing the malfeasance of Cuomo’s political friend, and 2) a financial windfall for the state.
He backed off after fellow Party members complained, and to this day there are a lot of illegible plates on the road.
I love the logic:
Can’t we take this further? “If Ohio did not require people not to rob banks, X never would have been stopped for robbing one.”
This is “but for” causation – if you hadn’t had stopped for coffee, you wouldn’t have been in the railroad crossing the moment the train came roaring by – therefore, the collision is Starbucks’ fault.
The REAL reason Samuel Dubose is dead relates to what happened AFTER he was stopped for not having a plate. Thousands of people get stopped for traffic infractions without ending up in fatal confrontations with the po-lice.
License plate scanners and cameras are an affront to privacy. There can be no freedom without privacy. The escalation to automated vehicle identification required a countermeasure. The fake temporary tag is a lame version of it. There are others and there need to be more. The police can do whatever legitimate enforcement they need to after probable cause has been established. Driving a privately-owned vehicle is travel, not commercial transportation, and it is not a priviledge, but a right. We need to reset the balance between civil liberty and social order.
Having a fake license plate is also useful for toll toads that depend upon taking a picture of a license plate for cars that do not have transponders or the HOV (HOT) roads/lanes. If law enforcements depends upon one having a legal license plate, then people will avoid them. It happens for the food trucks in DC. Many of them have stolen or fake plates on the food trucks so that they can avoid parking tickets or other citations.
I don't visit D.C. enough to memorize camera locations. But I don't blame locals for evading this oppressive "tax" by using fake license plates. D.C. was notorious for uninsured motorists. People simply can't afford all this.Replies: @Renard, @Mike Tre, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
If blacks or anyone else take action to avoid the gaze of the overbearing surveillance state, then I don’t have a problem with it. Traffic citations are little more than a thin veil for increasing tax revenue for greedy politicians and lazy traffic management bureaucrats.
Separately, it's pretty funny to hear a DC biker complaining about non-enforcement of traffic laws, when bikers in DC somehow manage to combine obnoxious disregard for traffic laws with a bottomless well of self-righteousness. They are probably the only thing DC motorists hate more than ATE fines.Replies: @Anonymous
What does your handle “recently based” mean?
18.7 miles each way to work 3 times a week, I do that April to October here in the Inland Northwest. Then a longer ride on the weekend between 55-75 and up if I go with friends on a longer group ride.
That’s good for about 5,000 miles per year. Many of the guys I know in cycling ride 10,000 miles per year (retired living in Tucson).
The bike is one of the most efficient machines ever invented. You can ride a long way and if you do it regularly it gets so you can do it quite a lot. When I get my cycling legs under me, once a week I’ll ride a long route to work of about 32 miles one way.
I’m on the low end, some of these dorks live on their bikes…it’s weird.Replies: @Anonymous
What kind of bike do you ride?
What do you mean by “get my cycling legs under me”?
Odds are never, that opportunity likely long lost:
Abraham Lincoln was a big supporter of the “colonization” of former slaves. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 he said, “If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do as to the existing institution. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves and send them to Liberia — to their own native land.
If all earthly power were given me: in exchange for their US citizenship, Liberian 🇱🇷 citizenship and monthly “allowance” of $1,000 for life, to any who'd like. 3 crime convictions and the offer becomes a mandatory.
Liberia’s average yearly wage is $2-3K, the newly minted Liberians would be “move’n on up, to the Eastside”. Win-win for both Liberia, and much more importantly, the future of the USA 🇺🇸Replies: @That Would Be Telling
On the Liberia proposition, past and future: As I understand it, Lincoln changed his tune when he and I suppose some fellow Republicans realized what negro voters could do for them, which Jim Crow notwithstanding worked until 1932.
Now and going forward, as long as we have a pretense of “democracy” negroes are vital subjects for our ruling trash, including the GOPe which keeps chasing whatever fraction of their legit vote they can get (or I suppose they could try to start cheating like Democrats, DeStantis has been accused of that). If that pretense ends one way or another, outside of anarcho-tyranny their prospects might become very grim, with some part of Africa perhaps becoming an attractive alternative. My throwaway line is send each of them there with an AK-47 and a copy of The Prince.
Better make that a copy of "The Little Prince." Smaller, thinner, easier to read, plus it has simple drawings. My bet is 85% of them wouldn't be able to tell the difference anyway.
On the other hand, a hardcover edition of "The Prince" plus "The Discorsi" could at least be used as a club.
Oh, by the way, if you were a student at the university (undergrad or grad) or an employee and you applied for a concealed carry permit, the head of the police called your dean or supervisor, which usually led to a conversation with you.
It's definitely one of those "leftists are the real fascists" kind of places.Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @Ben the Layabout
As Dave “Iowahawk” Burge put it: “College: an oasis of totalitarianism in a desert of freedom.”
The irony is lost on Mr. Lee, who doesn't seem to realize that cops never stopped enforcing traffic laws against cyclists, for the simple fact that the former never actually started enforcing traffic laws regarding the latter.
Cyclists are quite comparatively the negroes of vehicles in traffic. When is the last time a cyclist was cited for running a stop sign or just coasting through a stop light? In DC, or anywhere in the nation?
Perhaps cyclists are just butt hurt because they are no longer the only demographic (along with bus drivers, I suppose) that roam the public roads with impunity?Replies: @Twinkie, @Seaman, @Mr. Peabody, @Jamsportle
Indeed.
Has Mr. Lee ever paid an annual vehicle registration fee, displayed the tag and carried the registration papers thereof? Has he shown proof of insurance, or passed proficiency tests and then paid a annual fee for a City operator’s pemit, or carried that permit when pedaling? Has he ever paid user fees for those Lexus Lanes he and his ilk have demanded for their exclusive use, which have cost the City million of dollars to create?
The smart-money bets here are: no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and no.
Almost all metro-area corridor studies show that cars, trucks and buses make up 85 to 95 percent of the trips per day, depending on which blocks in the corridor are observed. Pedestrians are the 5 to 15 percenters. Bikes are, almost without exception, a small fraction of 1% of t/d. There’s your minoritarianism.
Lee correctly points to the fake-plate drives as the low-level destroyers of good order that they are. But he forgets what his Momma told him: there are three fingers pointing back at him.
What’s needed are citizen, action groups, composed of young males of the Emmitt Till persuasion, who are geared up and ready to deal with other young males of the Emmitt Till persuasion who drive badly. We could both defund the police and funnel money towards young black males of the Emmitt Till persuasion for a good cause, namely, reducing the overall number of police stops, among other things.
We could get creative and call it, oh, I don’t know, the Emmett Till Response.
If you know Nyack, pâté de foie gras is more likely.
https://i.ibb.co/ch05xpJ/Screenshot-20230205-021813-Daily-Mail-Online.jpg
The KKK is just everywhere these days.Replies: @Hunsdon
I’m not proud.
OK, anon. I’ll stick with my original. Thanks, though.
I don't visit D.C. enough to memorize camera locations. But I don't blame locals for evading this oppressive "tax" by using fake license plates. D.C. was notorious for uninsured motorists. People simply can't afford all this.Replies: @Renard, @Mike Tre, @Herbert R. Tarlek, Jr.
There’s this dude named Eric Peters who writes about all this nannying and revenue generation around motoring. You should check him out.
The nannies are fond of repeating that driving is a driving is a privilege, not a right, which, strictly speaking, is true, but it has become such a basic necessity of modern American life that there’s no doubt in my mind that if the founding fathers were resurrected and asked to re-write our constitution for the modern era, they would list driving as a constitutional right.
You want to jail that guy swerving around all over the place right after the bars close? Fine. You want to ticket that punk teenager doing 50 in a school zone? Also fine. But the persnickety bullshit has gone too far.
It should also be noted that these Boomer farts like Steve who now want to jail anyone under the age of 50 for doing five over the limit in the fast lane probably drove halfway across the country to Woodstock fucked up on acid. The are truly the worst generation.
Count your blessings. Although I’m neither D nor R, the last two places I’ve lived went from red to purple to blue over the course of a decade or two (my current locale is teetering) and the transition hasnt been fun.
Copy that. I am a near-native of Arizona, which is currently undergoing warp-speed Californication. I wish all these stupid California bozos would just die. They are the most horrifyingly self-unaware NPC’s that ever existed.
Until we come to our senses and amend the constitution to allow the blacks to do whatever they want, we are going to continue to have these unfortunate situations
I don't know anything about toll systems, though.Replies: @mc23
When I or other people I know have gotten tickets from toll systems the picture shows the front plate and if you’re using fake plates you’re not paying the toll, sort of like fare jumpers on the subway another cost saving measure for certain segments of society.
Do you want to live like this? Do you want to live in their world?
I've got zero problems with someone who wants to live with Jamaican immigrants, have hip-hop-cops, read whiny POC journalists, turn math over race obsessed incompetents and toss out traffic enforcement.
But I do not want any of that shit inflicted upon me--my family, my kids, my posterity, my nation.
When are we--the productive normies--going to tell these people that? "Enough. You trash your own nation, but not ours. We are not going to be part of it."Replies: @J.Ross, @SafeNow, @Pixo, @Recently Based, @danand, @tyrone, @Gordo
When we break the control of the traitors and aliens who rule over us, and they won’t give up easily.
Now and going forward, as long as we have a pretense of "democracy" negroes are vital subjects for our ruling trash, including the GOPe which keeps chasing whatever fraction of their legit vote they can get (or I suppose they could try to start cheating like Democrats, DeStantis has been accused of that). If that pretense ends one way or another, outside of anarcho-tyranny their prospects might become very grim, with some part of Africa perhaps becoming an attractive alternative. My throwaway line is send each of them there with an AK-47 and a copy of The Prince.Replies: @The Germ Theory of Disease
“with some part of Africa perhaps becoming an attractive alternative. My throwaway line is send each of them there with an AK-47 and a copy of The Prince.”
Better make that a copy of “The Little Prince.” Smaller, thinner, easier to read, plus it has simple drawings. My bet is 85% of them wouldn’t be able to tell the difference anyway.
On the other hand, a hardcover edition of “The Prince” plus “The Discorsi” could at least be used as a club.
You pretty well covered it, but I’ll add these notes from my red area:
) The aspirational send their kids to college, and they come back, if at all, reliably indoctrinated in Wokeism. Especially the women. And anyone brought in for a job requiring a degree is another brick in the wall.
) Lots of federal money sloshing around here, and it comes with strings attached; i.e. DIE must be honored. Thus the schools and receiving agencies put on struggle sessions and dredge up the required number of gender transitioners, etc. etc.
And as the months wore on, they started showing up on increasingly-implausible beaters.
Or, high inflation and increasing numbers of mandates on new auto manufacture has left newer cars out of the reach of many, so more people are buying these “implausible” beaters. Since these beaters are more breakdown-prone and have fewer remaining miles on them, they change hands or are replaced more frequently, meaning more paper temp tags.
In the author’s bubble, nobody is too poor to afford a nice-looking car, apparently.
Commenter 6 sums it up:“…allows them to grow some teeth, to bite us in the ass in our own neighs!Sixty days for written comments ought to fill up an entire issue of the Federal Register.
Freedom of Association where are ye?”Replies: @Glaivester
Essay linked here:
https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/affh-the-latest-race-swindle/
Grammar fags may give you shit, but this has a quality and quantity that they lack.
NoVa and Maryland were ghetto?
During Trump’s miraculous run and election, they didn’t give up easily.
This is the Woke mantra about law-and-order.
When they rule the roost, non Whites get an automatic pass.
Hence Chicago, NYC, LA, et. al.
Since all “people” have some skin “color” (other than, possibly albinos) their proclaimed excuse for letting scofflaw non Whites (in DC, who could that refer to?) ignore the traffic laws and safety protocols is totally bogus.
We are all, save a tiny freak group, people of color.
The next step in Woke discrimination is to reserve some enforcement only for “non people of color,” namely those perceived to be White. Better carry your racial passport with your drivers license.
-- Don Van Vliet/Captain Beefheart
When they rule the roost, non Whites get an automatic pass.
Hence Chicago, NYC, LA, et. al.
Since all "people" have some skin "color" (other than, possibly albinos) their proclaimed excuse for letting scofflaw non Whites (in DC, who could that refer to?) ignore the traffic laws and safety protocols is totally bogus.
We are all, save a tiny freak group, people of color.
The next step in Woke discrimination is to reserve some enforcement only for "non people of color," namely those perceived to be White. Better carry your racial passport with your drivers license.Replies: @Anonymous, @The Germ Theory of Disease
Black is not a color.
Has Mr. Lee ever paid an annual vehicle registration fee, displayed the tag and carried the registration papers thereof? Has he shown proof of insurance, or passed proficiency tests and then paid a annual fee for a City operator's pemit, or carried that permit when pedaling? Has he ever paid user fees for those Lexus Lanes he and his ilk have demanded for their exclusive use, which have cost the City million of dollars to create?
The smart-money bets here are: no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and no.
Almost all metro-area corridor studies show that cars, trucks and buses make up 85 to 95 percent of the trips per day, depending on which blocks in the corridor are observed. Pedestrians are the 5 to 15 percenters. Bikes are, almost without exception, a small fraction of 1% of t/d. There's your minoritarianism.
Lee correctly points to the fake-plate drives as the low-level destroyers of good order that they are. But he forgets what his Momma told him: there are three fingers pointing back at him.Replies: @Mike Tre
Out of reactions but thanks.
When they rule the roost, non Whites get an automatic pass.
Hence Chicago, NYC, LA, et. al.
Since all "people" have some skin "color" (other than, possibly albinos) their proclaimed excuse for letting scofflaw non Whites (in DC, who could that refer to?) ignore the traffic laws and safety protocols is totally bogus.
We are all, save a tiny freak group, people of color.
The next step in Woke discrimination is to reserve some enforcement only for "non people of color," namely those perceived to be White. Better carry your racial passport with your drivers license.Replies: @Anonymous, @The Germ Theory of Disease
“Everybody is colored. Otherwise you couldn’t see them.”
— Don Van Vliet/Captain Beefheart
Rosslyn was little empty back then – not much going on after dark – but was never “ghetto”. The only ghetto areas in NoVA back then were parts of Alexandria and south Arlington.
Congressman Stan Parris said that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Parris
Really? No Kidding?
For any given crime, if blacks do it more, you have to decriminalize it.
For any given standard of performance, if blacks live up to it less, you have to toss it.
End result: no law, no standards.
The irony is lost on Mr. Lee, who doesn't seem to realize that cops never stopped enforcing traffic laws against cyclists, for the simple fact that the former never actually started enforcing traffic laws regarding the latter.
Cyclists are quite comparatively the negroes of vehicles in traffic. When is the last time a cyclist was cited for running a stop sign or just coasting through a stop light? In DC, or anywhere in the nation?
Perhaps cyclists are just butt hurt because they are no longer the only demographic (along with bus drivers, I suppose) that roam the public roads with impunity?Replies: @Twinkie, @Seaman, @Mr. Peabody, @Jamsportle
I once had the pleasure of watching cops pull over cyclist after cyclist during some sort of massive group ride, all of them for running a stop sign.
Choose, bike riders: you’re an adult with a vehicle who obeys the law and is thereby entitled to be treated as an equal by car drivers, or you’re a kid sporting around the neighborhood who shouldn’t bitch when you get clobbered by a car.
-Discard
For example, I ran a red light from a stop with no cars in the way, purposefully, to get ahead of the stack of cars on the downhill, so I wouldn't be in their way, and vice versa. It's by far not the only time, but this motorcycle cop pulled me and cost me $80 and no points - because I gave him false info and paid the fine with cash. Next time, I'd do the same thing - good for me, and good for the drivers.
Take a walk in the other man's cleats sometime.
(Actually, I don't wear the spandex and cleats. I just ride in regular clothes to get place while getting a little exercise.)
https://withoutthewhitecoat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/phto-casual-3-2280c24f2e0c55c3314741bba5b31759-scaled-600x400.jpgReplies: @Recently Based, @Jamsportle
Maybe I’m biased, but generally speaking I don’t need lectures from fat African females wearing rainbow gear.
And maybe if the fatties lost weight, they’d not be misdiagnosed. After all, the first rule of problem solving, for doctors or anyone else, is to address the obvious things first. Car won’t start? Check the battery. Confused and combative? Check the blood-alcohol level. The obvious thing may not be the right answer, but it’s where you start.
Fat African female doctors in rainbow gear don’t know that? Bias confirmed.
-Discard
Huh?
Maybe. On what do you base that? Certainly not based on crime rate/arrest rate per capita.
Goodwhites are terrified to bring up race, so most probably. Though people around here probably not – there is a good amount of white grievance-airing here (with some of which I happen to agree, to be fair).
We need the “talking to plants” moment.
Choose, bike riders: you're an adult with a vehicle who obeys the law and is thereby entitled to be treated as an equal by car drivers, or you're a kid sporting around the neighborhood who shouldn't bitch when you get clobbered by a car.
-DiscardReplies: @Achmed E. Newman
Bull. The main safety goal of a cyclist is to get and stay away from the f__ing cars. For cycling, safety and the laws don’t match up that well. Safety comes first though.
For example, I ran a red light from a stop with no cars in the way, purposefully, to get ahead of the stack of cars on the downhill, so I wouldn’t be in their way, and vice versa. It’s by far not the only time, but this motorcycle cop pulled me and cost me $80 and no points – because I gave him false info and paid the fine with cash. Next time, I’d do the same thing – good for me, and good for the drivers.
Take a walk in the other man’s cleats sometime.
(Actually, I don’t wear the spandex and cleats. I just ride in regular clothes to get place while getting a little exercise.)
The nannies are fond of repeating that driving is a driving is a privilege, not a right, which, strictly speaking, is true, but it has become such a basic necessity of modern American life that there's no doubt in my mind that if the founding fathers were resurrected and asked to re-write our constitution for the modern era, they would list driving as a constitutional right.
You want to jail that guy swerving around all over the place right after the bars close? Fine. You want to ticket that punk teenager doing 50 in a school zone? Also fine. But the persnickety bullshit has gone too far.
It should also be noted that these Boomer farts like Steve who now want to jail anyone under the age of 50 for doing five over the limit in the fast lane probably drove halfway across the country to Woodstock fucked up on acid. The are truly the worst generation.Replies: @anonymous, @AceDeuce
Where’d you get that idea? Didn’t you ever hear of “nine is fine, ten you’re mine”?
Oh, by the way, if you were a student at the university (undergrad or grad) or an employee and you applied for a concealed carry permit, the head of the police called your dean or supervisor, which usually led to a conversation with you.
It's definitely one of those "leftists are the real fascists" kind of places.Replies: @That Would Be Telling, @Ben the Layabout
Nearly all States forbid firearms on school property even with concealed carry. Here in FL, curiously, one can carry a Taser type weapon on campus with said permit, although from what I’ve read a stick would probably be more effective.
I lived most of my life life outside DC until 2003. Your observation isn’t entirely accurate. Yes, the 80s were bad, but DC proper bucked the deteriorating urban cesspool trend of most Negro-infested cities, gentrifying quite a bit 1990s to present, as the dramatic decline in the Black population share from its peak roughly in the 1970s will show. It’s currently in the low 40s, still rather higher than the ideal percentage (0%).
Thanks for the bridge joke — I’d not heard it before.
What happens when a person with a fake Washington DC license plate travels to another state?
You are absolute correct!! Even in my own local propaganda rags in blue Delaware, it is disgustingly, blatantly obvious how they go out of their way in order to make examples of some of the poor, White criminals – criminals of the almost entirely HARMLESS variety who are just desperate and feel out of options. These local rags revel in posting the largest, most unflattering photos of Whites possible, for some really petty, NOT NEWS WORTHY crap. Meanwhile, the most heinous, violent, and rampant crime being committed by the usual suspects often contains no more than a mere paragraph of the barest in bones of info – very obviously given in the most stingy, obligatory, and begrudging of manner. Oh, and all the better when the violent, thieving animal is under the age of 18 – and they often are, of course, so then they can really keep these “non note-worthy” crimes to a couple sentences at the most. When the criminals are “of age” – it is a 50/50 crap shoot on as to whether or not a photo will be included. When a photo is not included, 8 times out of 10 the name suffices in letting one know who we are dealing with.
I’ve been fooled a few times with some very White-sounding names, however. Cultural appropriation at its worst. Timmy Ryan’s and Sean McIntyre’s who are coal black negroes – hold my hair while I throw up, thank you.
The nannies are fond of repeating that driving is a driving is a privilege, not a right, which, strictly speaking, is true, but it has become such a basic necessity of modern American life that there's no doubt in my mind that if the founding fathers were resurrected and asked to re-write our constitution for the modern era, they would list driving as a constitutional right.
You want to jail that guy swerving around all over the place right after the bars close? Fine. You want to ticket that punk teenager doing 50 in a school zone? Also fine. But the persnickety bullshit has gone too far.
It should also be noted that these Boomer farts like Steve who now want to jail anyone under the age of 50 for doing five over the limit in the fast lane probably drove halfway across the country to Woodstock fucked up on acid. The are truly the worst generation.Replies: @anonymous, @AceDeuce
The Schoolmarm can defend himself-plus, I’m pissed at him for sitting on/deleting some of my comments-but I just want to point out that “Steve” was 10 years old when Woodstock was held. I don’t think that he and his buddies drove there.
You soy-laden punks are about as fkd up as a football bat. I saw some other young ‘tard online today stating that people making the then-buck and a quarter minimum wage in the 60s could afford a new house back then. LOL. uh, no. Not even close.
I’m a late era boomer myself, and in 60-some years on this planet, I never once compared how I was doing vis a vis my parents. I was too busy handling my fking business. So was everyone else I knew. (If you work at handling your business, you’re too busy to whine like a little bitch.) Come to think of it, I never heard my parents talk about their lives in relation to their own parents’ lives, either. Just you goobers. Sad!
In that case, he's one of the later boomers that drove to Saturday Night Fever fucked up on coke and disco biscuits. Same wine, different bottles.
You soy-laden punks are about as fkd up as a football bat.
My regular workout consists of over a hundred push-ups and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo-Ac6EIYTE
I'd like like to see you attempt something similar, gramps.
I saw some other young ‘tard online today stating
"Young 'tard"? I'm a Gen-Xer in my late forties. (Well, that's relatively young, I guess...)
that people making the then-buck and a quarter minimum wage in the 60s could afford a new house back then. LOL. uh, no. Not even close
Perhaps an overstatement but it's an exaggeration of an underlying truth. My first apartment here in metro Phoenix in the mid-90s was $410/mo and included all utilities. Inflation adjusted, that's about $810/mo. Housing was probably even cheaper for your cohort. I defy you to find even lousy studio apartments anywhere near that cheap today in the Phoenix area.
I’m a late era boomer myself,
Disco biscuits. I knew it.
and in 60-some years on this planet, I never once compared how I was doing vis a vis my parents. I was too busy handling my fking business. So was everyone else I knew.
That's probably because you spoiled brats grew up in a time and place of economic prosperity unparalleled in human history and were the last western generation who could reasonably expect not to be worse off than your parents.Replies: @AceDeuce
The Schoolmarm can defend himself-plus, I’m pissed at him for sitting on/deleting some of my comments-but I just want to point out that “Steve” was 10 years old when Woodstock was held. I don’t think that he and his buddies drove there.
In that case, he’s one of the later boomers that drove to Saturday Night Fever fucked up on coke and disco biscuits. Same wine, different bottles.
You soy-laden punks are about as fkd up as a football bat.
My regular workout consists of over a hundred push-ups and this:
I’d like like to see you attempt something similar, gramps.
I saw some other young ‘tard online today stating
“Young ‘tard”? I’m a Gen-Xer in my late forties. (Well, that’s relatively young, I guess…)
that people making the then-buck and a quarter minimum wage in the 60s could afford a new house back then. LOL. uh, no. Not even close
Perhaps an overstatement but it’s an exaggeration of an underlying truth. My first apartment here in metro Phoenix in the mid-90s was $410/mo and included all utilities. Inflation adjusted, that’s about $810/mo. Housing was probably even cheaper for your cohort. I defy you to find even lousy studio apartments anywhere near that cheap today in the Phoenix area.
I’m a late era boomer myself,
Disco biscuits. I knew it.
and in 60-some years on this planet, I never once compared how I was doing vis a vis my parents. I was too busy handling my fking business. So was everyone else I knew.
That’s probably because you spoiled brats grew up in a time and place of economic prosperity unparalleled in human history and were the last western generation who could reasonably expect not to be worse off than your parents.
In that case, he's one of the later boomers that drove to Saturday Night Fever fucked up on coke and disco biscuits. Same wine, different bottles.
You soy-laden punks are about as fkd up as a football bat.
My regular workout consists of over a hundred push-ups and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo-Ac6EIYTE
I'd like like to see you attempt something similar, gramps.
I saw some other young ‘tard online today stating
"Young 'tard"? I'm a Gen-Xer in my late forties. (Well, that's relatively young, I guess...)
that people making the then-buck and a quarter minimum wage in the 60s could afford a new house back then. LOL. uh, no. Not even close
Perhaps an overstatement but it's an exaggeration of an underlying truth. My first apartment here in metro Phoenix in the mid-90s was $410/mo and included all utilities. Inflation adjusted, that's about $810/mo. Housing was probably even cheaper for your cohort. I defy you to find even lousy studio apartments anywhere near that cheap today in the Phoenix area.
I’m a late era boomer myself,
Disco biscuits. I knew it.
and in 60-some years on this planet, I never once compared how I was doing vis a vis my parents. I was too busy handling my fking business. So was everyone else I knew.
That's probably because you spoiled brats grew up in a time and place of economic prosperity unparalleled in human history and were the last western generation who could reasonably expect not to be worse off than your parents.Replies: @AceDeuce
The Schoolmarm deleted two of my posts replying to your drivel. You must be his special needs nephew or something.
Oh well. Sucks to be you, baby boy. Keep crying. Looks like you haven’t seen the ball since the kickoff.
Yes,as a white guy I certainly experienced surly,rotten customer service at banks, retail stores and places like Home Depot,which were very unorganized and dirty.I have spent plenty of time in poor third world cities and can’t help but draw parallels,especially with all the armed guards and trash and the feeling like nobody gave a shit.That being said,we did live in a very black part of town and there were a lot of decent folks who went out of their way to be friendly,invite us into their homes,and warn us where not to walk,etc.On the whole though it was discouraging.Apon leaving,we felt like we’d had our fill.Culture shock for sure,time to get back to civilization.