Journalists simultaneously claim to be the smartest or dumbest people on the planet depending on what’s convenient in the moment.
Clown nose on, clown nose off routine.
The driver couldn't speak English.
He never should have been on the roads or let into the country by the Biden Administration.
And Toby Forsythe should be alive today.
@matthewstoller You’re a gross human being, no better than the Nazi rapist you’re twisting yourself in a pretzel to defend. Oh, he’s just a little rapey, let’s be adults about this.
Platner is a private school screwup, of a type familiar to people who went to private school. The fact that he was cast as a man of the people by elites, while the working class rejected him, seems kind of emblematic of the whole progressive project right now.
The only way they could have attended the funeral is with direct coordination with the IRGC, a designated terrorist organization.
Hinkle even led “death to America” chants from the stage.
If the administration is actually serious about this stuff, start with these four.
It wasn't despite his character flaws that so many progressives fell for Graham Platner. It was because of them. Nepo baby elites saw a Nazi tattoo and a guy who cheated and roughed up his girl and thought, "That's a real man." Working class people just saw a scumbag.
How to destroy a city.
Win an election by promising half the tenants frozen rents paid for by increased rents on the rest of the city’s tenants who often live in the same buildings with their subsidized neighbors. Pit neighbor against neighbor.
Create a city hostile to developers of apartments eliminating the potential for new supply.
Freeze rents so it is cheaper not to rent the apartment than to spend the capital required to renovate and rent it, shrinking the supply further.
Place all of the increased burden on the unregulated, market-rate tenants and the owners of buildings with no market rate apartments that can’t raise rents forcing them into foreclosure and the buildings into disrepair.
That’s all you need to do.
@ChrisCillizza Seems like a lot of leverage to me, Chris. What do you think?
Oh, I forgot. You're a leftist. You just throw out elections and install someone you like better to "protect democracy," right?