Um…Oakland, New York City, and a town near San Diego isn’t America.
It is not a toilet where I live and work.
I don’t let the MSM tell me about America from their echo chamber in Manhattan and LA.
Alternatively, some rando website pushing fearpr0n telling me America is trash based on - wait for it! - left coast cities, is fake news.
I have seen it for myself DoodleDork, who am I supposed to believe, you or my lying eyes?
Are you going to tell us that "tent cities" are not a thing too?
Chicongo
San Fansicko
There were a lot of Rust Belt cities that were also VERY polluted back in the 1970s.
I grew up in the suburbs of Buffalo in the 70s and 80s. I remember when they would say that pregnant woman should not eat fish out of Lake Ontario because the amount of mercury found in Lake Trout and Salmon. It was from all the chemical plants on the Niagara River on the NY side.
I recall when the river in Cleveland caught on fire because there were so many chemicals in it.
I remember when Bethlehem Steel used to dump the slag out in lake Erie EVERY NIGHT from the steel plant in Lackawanna. They did the same thing in Hamilton, ONT. I remember going up on the hill behind my house and seeing the glow on the horizon west over the lake.
I remember when there were lakes in the Adirondacks where the acidity was so high that all the fish died. I was from the Sulfur in the air from coal burning plants in Ohio and PA.
I remember when there was a land fill in Niagara Falls, NY where they buried barrels of chemicals. They covered over the landfill and built a neighborhood and school on top. Suddenly, all the people living there started getting cancer. It was called LOVE CANAL.
But but but you don’t understand! The moms said that Trump is threatening a “bloodbtah”... shelter in place! Wear a mask! Get vaccinated! Only 7 years left! Trump is threatening to cause another insurretcion! (Not sure when the first insurrection occurred because Jan 6 was a protest, not an Insurrection)... run for the hills! We are doomed if Trump gets back in (according to the fear mongering msm)
The msm are so feckless that they truly are incapable of telling the truth anymore! Trumps comment about a bloo bath were totally taken out of,context, and the lying evil msm knows that full well! They have turned out to be a most despicable organization!
I have the same experience. I grew up here, and am retired. You can always tell newcomers in town. The parents are appalled that nobody puts up with they sh**ty kids.