Will New York die of stupidity?
American Thinker,
by
Robert Weissberg
Original Article
Posted By: Msquared112,
6/13/2024 11:58:52 AM
Since the 1960s many of America’s foremost cities, notably Detroit, Newark, St. Louis, and Baltimore have exhibited sharp declines in population, economic vitality, and overall quality of life. Today, other major cities such Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and even New York City may soon join this list. (snip) This “death by a thousand stupidities” is currently occurring in New York City with its attempts to rescue its public transportation from bankruptcy.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/13/2024 12:08:32 PM (No. 1736634)
New York City is beyond the point of return, so it is just a matter of time before that rats nest crashes and burns.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sunset 6/13/2024 12:22:13 PM (No. 1736639)
As Geroge Orwell said, “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
31 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 6/13/2024 12:22:39 PM (No. 1736640)
I'll say it for the 4,753rd time: It's not stupidity, it's not a conspiracy, it's not outside agitators, it's not foreign agents and it's not climate change, it's M-E-N-T-A-L I-L-L-N-E-S-S. The Left is M-E-N-T-A-L-L-Y I-L-L.
25 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 6/13/2024 12:32:04 PM (No. 1736643)
They are already dead,just haven't keeled over.
7 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/13/2024 12:35:57 PM (No. 1736645)
Stupid, greedy, voters equals stupid, greedy, officials. AOC, anyone? At some point it becomes absolutely necessary to police oneself. NY'ers aren't there yet, apparently.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 6/13/2024 12:42:12 PM (No. 1736649)
Many of the electorate sheep, Baa Baa, thought that she would be "better" than the Nursing Home Murderer/Sexual Harasser that left office with his tail between his legs. Baa, Baa.
5 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
dbdiva 6/13/2024 12:55:55 PM (No. 1736651)
NYC will eventually revive however it will truly require an act of God to make it happen. If left up to human beings who are cut from the same cloth as its current "leaders" who are in their positions expressly to destroy the city, then turn out the lights now and be done with it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
SkyKing1222 6/13/2024 12:56:53 PM (No. 1736652)
Visited NYC in the early 2000’s.
Did the tourist stuff, Time Square, Central Park etc. Absolutely beautiful.
It left a major impression on me.
Exactly why didn’t every other American s*it hole city do what Rudy Giuliani did.
He showed everyone the template to resurrect these once great places.
It must be strange to be a democrat, watch the misery that surrounds you, and not even try to change it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Marthinius57 6/13/2024 1:19:18 PM (No. 1736662)
NYC stays afloat only by the influx of foreign investment. When that stops, and it will, the game is over.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RussZilla 6/13/2024 1:58:27 PM (No. 1736668)
NYC is the canary in the coal mine. Unfortunately, The bird is dead.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
samoasam 6/13/2024 2:03:48 PM (No. 1736670)
NYC IS DOOMED. Stupidity is just another softer description of Unbridled criminal behavior supported by imbeciles and encouraged by Marxist radicals whose intent is the city’s destruction. The word Stupidity gives these low life scum a favorable cover!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
danu 6/13/2024 2:44:30 PM (No. 1736677)
there's a tosser bandwidth #3 of mental illness; the demons above and below are stone evil.
pray for the restoration of all Our cities. they do not belong to bi-demonic or ogabe.
4 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 6/13/2024 3:18:22 PM (No. 1736688)
Reagan said it decades ago. "It's not that liberals are uneducated or stupid, it just that so much of what they know just isn't so."
Still true. Most of the "facts" that they base their lives on "just aren't so".
There aren't 57 genders.
You can't change sex. EVER.
The illegal aliens aren't here to "do the jobs that Americans won't do" unless you mean robbery, drug selling, child molesting, welfare fraud and various other criminal acts.
There IS such a thing as an evil person, and most criminals WON'T stop being criminals if you provide them with welfare and a free apartment.
99,99% of white people are NOT racist, and in fact don't actually think about race much unless some crazy leftist or black race hustler brings it up, usually by screaming "You are a racist" at some white person.
Being a homosexual is NOT 'normal'.
Human activities do not have any significant impact on the climate.
CO2 is not a pollutant, it is a beneficial trace gas, necessary for green plants to live, and therefore all life on Earth.
Gasoline cars are extremely low pollution, and overall more energy efficient than EVs.
Freon does NOT destroy the ozone layer, because it has 30 times the density of air and does NOT 'rise up into the stratosphere' any more than granite boulders float on lakes.
Solar and wind are NOT the future of energy, they are inherently intermittent, are unreliable and cost three or four times what coal, natural gas or nuclear power costs. They can never handle the grid base load. NEVER.
Natural gas does NOT cause asthma, it is extremely clean burning leaving only CO2 and water vapor after combustion.
There are hundreds more "facts" that liberal/leftist lives revolve around that are NOT TRUE, and they are continuously off the rails because of it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Kafka2 6/13/2024 4:13:16 PM (No. 1736713)
To answer the question,I would give a-firm yes. The spoiled brats that are trashing the city need be prosecuted.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
curious1 6/13/2024 4:42:04 PM (No. 1736721)
#13 provides a good summary.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
snakeoil 6/13/2024 5:18:14 PM (No. 1736734)
NYNY may be circling the drain but it is where most national news centers are located. I watch Fox News. It ain't perfect but compared with what else is out there it'll do. And it's located in NYNY. Move? To where?
2 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
hershey 6/13/2024 9:42:10 PM (No. 1736834)
All run by democraps....no more need be said.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/13/2024 10:06:01 PM (No. 1736841)
I can only speak for me and mine, but for us, NY is already dead!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mifla 6/14/2024 5:43:21 AM (No. 1736938)
NY's decline is accelerating.
No one will want to be a cop there.
No company will want to have an office there.
No one will be able to afford to live there.
The infrastructure is old and getting older.
The local voters are stuck on stupid and keep pulling the levers marked D.
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To answer the headlines question, one can only hope
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 6/15/2024 7:16:27 AM (No. 1737529)
#3, I think your half right. It's money and power for the upper elite on the left and stupidity for the minions that follow them.
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