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"Unlivable": Minneapolis slips into hellhole status -- by default
Hotair ^ | 08/23/2023 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 08/23/2023 6:32:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

What belongs in Breaking News:

Dem Controlled City Found To Be Safe and Clean.
(Would be in Babylon News).


41 posted on 08/23/2023 9:07:34 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: hinckley buzzard

1978 South Dakota and Minnesota. It was like smalltown USA. You seldom saw black people, no Muslims, people were old school Democrats or Republicans, and the Indians were the only minorities to speak of. It really wasn’t that long ago, Grease was playing at the theatres, Paradise by the Dashboard light got played a lot on the Jukebox, and I introduced Van Halen to a bunch of people who couldn’t comprehend that music.


42 posted on 08/23/2023 10:37:20 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: quantim

The only state that Mondale won...

President Reagan got all the rest...

:)


43 posted on 08/24/2023 1:03:17 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: blueunicorn6

The end state of importing 10s of thousands from somalia.


44 posted on 08/24/2023 1:55:26 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Glad2bnuts

I left the Minneapolis suburbs in 1979. We had two black kids that were really smart and attended my High School instead of in the city.

My mom grew up in South Minneapolis. When she was 7 she would take public transportation up to Lake Street for her violin lessons after school. By herself. Her dad had a shop on Hennepen and she would walk over there afterwards and ride home with her dad.

It was the street car, and about 1925, but still...


45 posted on 08/24/2023 2:12:11 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Minneapolis used to be a nice place. But Democrats ruin every nice place they get their hands on. If you want to know what Democrats will do to this country, look at any city run by Democrats.


46 posted on 08/24/2023 3:45:46 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wherever policing is defunded, urban blight follows everywhere it’s implemented. People who vote for these suicidal policies are The Walking Dead zombies. The drug addicts are the human survivors. At least they know what they’re trying to achieve.


47 posted on 08/24/2023 4:27:05 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: SeekAndFind

Nice to hear, vote for sh## get sh##


48 posted on 08/24/2023 4:34:51 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind
Look up the "Curley Effect", where politicians can deliberately make life worse for residents, because the people who decide to move away (the middle class) are the ones who wouldn't vote for them.

Unmentioned is that these homeless encampments are in middle class and business areas.

Even a drugged out junkie knows that if he sets up his tent in the ghetto and annoys people there, they will just shoot him with as little regard as they shoot each other, and the police will not care. Meanwhile if a middle class resident beats up a bum for crapping in his yard, the police WILL arrest the homeowner.

49 posted on 08/24/2023 10:32:56 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: The Duke

Crop duster. Haha! Love it!

We get a helicopter spraying the wetlands around us for mosquitos. Big excitement! They fly so low they shake the house.

Same here with amenities. Our only hardware store left a few years ago which is a bummer. Otherwise we’re good with a grocery store, pharmacy, bank and five restaurants. Population is around 5,000.


50 posted on 08/25/2023 5:56:42 AM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: SeekAndFind

The city government is based on the political notion of Kissing Black Ass

The only crime to be thoroughly investigated is te death of a Black criminal caught in the act


51 posted on 08/25/2023 6:05:23 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: SeekAndFind

The task of the coalition of City States is ruling America.

The Coalition of City States is the mortal enemy of America


52 posted on 08/25/2023 6:17:15 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: mplsconservative
At the risk of giving away my top secret location I'll mention that here we have a single restaurant named, believe it or not, "Toot 'n Tell It" (which refers to the fact that they once had a drive-thru window, and they wanted drivers to toot their horn before placing an order.). Every day at lunch time their very large parking lot is filled to overflowing. Inside, in one corner, you'll find the Mennonites (in fact, they did all my amazing concrete work), in another are the farmers who seem compelled to shout out the going price of beans every time they walk in the door, and in another are grandparents with their sweet little grandkids (one little girl, in particular, could give Shirley Temple a run for the money).

And everybody here either knows you by your first name or by your nickname.

The skyscrapers of years past have been replaced with grain silos.

Every Saturday, if you want to go to the hardware store, you have to race against the noon testing of the city tornado siren, because that's when the hardware store closes.

Every forth Friday the firetrucks get moved out of the firehouse to make room for the professional wrestling troupe that comes in. Some of those fire trucks are classics from the 50's and 60's, and are in excellent condition.

The trick here is to not become so popular that you end up having to pick toilet paper out of your trees the morning after Halloween.

And, if you feel tempted to hire young Bishop to move some bricks around your property, forget it! Word's out that his upper body workout is not up to par.

Such is life in the hinterlands of rural West TN!

53 posted on 08/25/2023 4:05:38 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: The Duke

“the hinterlands of rural West TN!” - bkmk


54 posted on 08/25/2023 4:09:11 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: The Duke

Loved your reply. TP in the trees. Doesn’t happen here much after October. Snow and all.

The description of your town is spot on.

I see the same people everywhere I go in town. Always pleasant, always kind. It wasn’t that way in Minneapolis.


55 posted on 08/26/2023 3:48:25 AM PDT by mplsconservative
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