JDHillFan

https://www.startribune.com/lake-street-progress-redevelopment-george-floyd-riots/600364728 A link for any dimwitted people such as @Roundybout that wish to minimize arson and declare all is well because everything has been rebuilt. It’s been four years after all! A couple excerpts: Even so, roughly a dozen buildings demolished after the 2020 mayhem remain empty lots. Dozens of other structures, like O’Reilly and the nearby Third Precinct police station have sat scarred and boarded up, waiting for a renewal that some are not sure will ever come. Migizi reopened in the new location in October. The resurrection helps, but Drummer’s heart still hurts. She and her husband miss their old neighbors at 27th and Lake. They and Ruhel Islam were the last to leave their buildings as smoke and fire enclosed them. Four years later, their old block remains a barren jumble of weeds, like many lots along Lake Street where businesses once thrived. Minimizing arson in support of politicians. Unbelievable. The Strib as it’s called is as liberal a paper as there is in America so any shooting of the messenger is unnecessary. Shown. Now it’s your turn.

It’s not my job to dissuade you from your “no harm done” delusions regarding arson. Very immoral, very weird position to hold.

You have internet access. If you prefer to live under the illusion of “no harm done” go for it. I see in another thread that you had no concern for a person of color bemoaning the upheaval in her life caused by the riots and resultant damage. Your cavalier response “it got rebuilt”. Please spare us the “I have morals” routine going forward.

What is a lady? A they? If you are not a biologist you do not need to answer.

An hour ago you were crowing that only .2% of buildings were burned down. To me, that equates to incredible hardship, heartbreak, and possibly worse for those affected. Feeling that way makes me a normal person. Go back and read what you have typed. To you it’s a political point with no harm done because everyone affected has been made whole. Sick and immoral.

How many people lost their businesses and were unable to recover? You seem to think the number is zero. You have spent the last several minutes excusing arson. How did you ever get to such a point?

Good for you. It’s essentially a no harm done situation, right? I’ve never been one to be fine with burning someone else’s business down. The fact that the building itself could be rebuilt is immaterial. I’m shocked that a moral Catholic like yourself is making the argument you are.

In order to pump up your preferred politicians, you are minimizing arson, and people losing their businesses. To use the word of the day that’s really weird. Beyond weird. Sick.

As an empathetic and moral person, which you have told us you are, it’s interesting that you would be so cavalier with peoples livelihoods. They probably didn’t need those buildings anyway. Carry on.

You have a hard time staying on track. Your claim was that the median voter doesn’t remember the riotous summer of 2020. I asked you what they do remember and your only reply was Covid. Now you’ve gone off on a tangent. Don’t be a Tiberius.

How about if I ask them if they remember “ fiery, but mostly peaceful”? do you think with Kamala’s connection to bailing out rioters and Walz inept response to the summer of love that the median voter will have their memory jogged? I get that you believe the median voter can only remember one thing per summer but that’s not how real life is. You will eventually learn that.

It’s not. Along with Covid the killing of George Floyd and the aftermath will be the event of the decade. That you want to pretend median voter doesn’t remember it is laughable. Edited to add Covid

Agree. I suspect the median voter remembers well being told that public protest was fine and a public health imperative, superspreading be damned, while small businesses and churches were still shuttered.

Please tell us what the median voter remembers from that summer. If anyone here represents the median voter, it is surely you.

As someone that wants the country gayer, shouldn’t you be applauding creative wiener usage?

Minnesota has never been considered a rust belt state. The Twin Cities are as modern and liberal as you will find in America and rule the day over the rest of the state.

Where did you get that from? Me saying I had no heartburn with his tenure equates to every substantive policy, every executive order and decision being “just wonderful”? Who are you, Redhawk? I wasn’t a big fan of rolling back overtime pay below Obama era guidelines though it was no impact to me or my immediate family. Changes/restrictions to the H-1B program was a miss in my book.

Is it wrong to dislike someone and view them as unworthy of the office of president?

Oh. Goalpost shifting. Got it. His handling of Covid was an abomination. Not in the same way you believe it to be an abomination. Beyond that, his time in office did not give me heartburn. He’s just an awful self-serving jackass and a disaster for the Republican Party. For his part, the mentally fit guy has been a lying, self-serving embarrassment his entire 50+ year stay in Washington. I’ve never defended a thing he’s done. The whole “threat to democracy” routine is hysterical, tired, and stale. The people that say it, other than you, don’t even believe it.

His badmouthing Kemp this past Saturday. Is that action recent enough? How about his childish name-calling. Is that suitable as a purity test? How about his willingness to call the sky blue in the morning, green in the evening, and deny ever calling it blue? Does that work for you? How about hawking bibles? Are those considered actions or are you now going to change the goalposts? This is hysteria befitting Tiberius. Sad.

Buzzfeed finally steps up where not a single other person in the country was able to come through.

Hope that name doesn’t gnaw at you. Hard to believe you were dumb enough to go all out on the mentally fit routine. I find it ridiculous when the blue team here tells us how wonderful the markets have done under the mentally fit one while ignoring the superior market performance under the previous guy. Even you, an individual that is an expert on everything, broke out a “Not.Bad.At.All” in reference to the S&P performance under President Mentally Fit. That was funny. Did you know it’s possible to intensely dislike Biden, Harris, and Trump at the same time?

Good to know you are here to divine the intentions of assorted conversations. Will definitely be handy.

No. It’s that you came in midway through a “conversation” and proceeded to act like you knew the genesis of it. Since you are mostly out to lunch here, I will summarize it for you: board lefties - stocks have gone to the moon on my guy’s watch! me - did you know that the Dow and S&P performed even better under the last guy? Here’s a data nugget. you - you aren’t supposed to use data that way and all you are doing is saying my guy is better than your guy. Nobody is telling you not to jump in midstream and assume whatever you want. It might be your thing. I wouldn’t know. Whatever the case, impressive work on your part.

That’s only because you appear to have difficulty with following along. It happens.