The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

[Kepler]

Pennsylvania. The power of price compels you.

[Handyman]

It's unconstitutional and will be tossed in court. They know that, so it's raw meat for the base to generate cheap press. They will find other excuses to slash the education budgets without this garbage (as if Florida hasn't already slashed their education budgets enough, based on the average IQ down there).

Care to wager?

[Handyman]

Lol I don’t consider you a centrist that’s all

At this point Swansong would be a Commie Pinko Socialist by Right Wing standards.

[Swansong]

At this point Swansong would be a Commie Pinko Socialist by Right Wing standards.

This is true.

There's a reason I don't join some of the pile-ons here, and a reason I don't join some of the choruses. I have moved a little to the left over the years, but the party has moved rather drastically to the right. I mean, hell, I only voted a D for president last year for the first time ever. (no, fear not, I never voted for Trump)

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

At this point Swansong would be a Commie Pinko Socialist by Right Wing standards.

For about a third of the country, anyone even slightly to the left of Tucker Carlson is now an extreme left Antifa commie whatever.

[The Sicatoka]

our centrists won’t care- as long as it’s liberals who are silenced

Complete foul-up by DeSantis.

Blind opinion surveys .... maaaaaybe. But this? Traceable? No. Just no.

Worse? It'll open him up to "So now you want quotas?" And he's already got that mess going in the courts.

[aparch]

Dammit Kepler, when did someone let you get an article in a paper?

;-)

[dxmnkd316]

What in the actual **** did I just read

[aparch]

What in the actual **** did I just read

That seems to be the concensus I've seen as a reaction to that article.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

What in the actual **** did I just read

The Magical World of Midwestern Whimsy. "Look Frank! They have a train just like us! And fancy restaurants where d-bags from the burbs hang out! Wow! Who knew it wasn't all decay, gang shootings, and urban rednecks?" *vom*

Whatever he was told about theater is dead wrong though. We have it, in fact in its heyday (the Roaring 20s) Detroit used to have almost as many theaters and theater seats as Broadway, but these days no other theater district in America compares to the sheer variety of Broadway. As for vagrants, Chicago and Detroit have their share, he just doesn't know where to look. Similar to Manhattan, the Detroit fuzz keep the downtown streets pretty clear of panhandlers, so a lot of them now beg on the fringes of the city where the cops are spread thin and in the trendy inner ring suburbs where young liberals with money live. They then retreat back into the city at night to score dope and squat in some flophouse or find a fleabag motel bed.

The chest thumping "proud of my city" stuff is dumb (e.g. "Detroit vs. Everybody"). You wanna know why it's a thing though? Because we got tired of the NYT running their semi-annual Detroit Progress Report articles, the NYP's weekly suggestions of declaring a state of insurrection in Chicago and sending in the Guard to deal with gang violence, and both cities being the perennial puppy Fox News can kick when they want to lather the base about "corrupt, socialist, Democrat-run cities".

[state of hockey]

This really seems to contradict the whole "we don't think about you." argument.

[dxmnkd316]

This really seems to contradict the whole "we don't think about you." argument.

That's what I thought the entire time reading that article. I'm wondering if what they really mean is "We don't care to update our preconceived notions. We just assume it's a lot like Blazing Saddles between Pittsburgh and LA."

I think fade nailed it.

[The Sicatoka]

Coastal elite visits Flyover.
Determines Coasts still better.

I'm shocked.

[dxmnkd316]

People are nice
it's less frantic
More open spaces
Nature is a thing
Things cost less




i hate it

[Kepler]

That's what I thought the entire time reading that article. I'm wondering if what they really mean is "We don't care to update our preconceived notions. We just assume it's a lot like Blazing Saddles between Pittsburgh and LA."

I think fade nailed it.

I can't get on to the site to read it from work but now I really look forward to it. :-)

Who is the writer?