Lets Talk About A Democratic City

[IM2]

Let's

I find it funny how a party whose last 2 presidents left the country looking like that picture tries blaming these kinds of conditions only on Democrats.

 

[IM2]

Lmao. Ok, now I see why some here think you're really a White guy trolling.

Like I care. Whites do commit 70 percent of the crime in this country. And whites are supporting a convvicted felon to run our ountry.

 

[Harry Dresden]

The real terror is the citizen with no criminal record who loses their temper and shoots somebody. Or the lack of opportunity that keeps people angry and frustrated who have access to guns. There are gangs and underworld people over the earth and no nation thats not in confict has it as bad as we do.

you take away gang gun violence and i bet the gun violence in this country goes down 70%....

 

[IM2]

you take away gang gun violence and i bet the gun violence in this country goes down 70%....

I doubt that. It will go down some but not 70 percent. Gang violence is not a new thing. Gangs were kiling in the 40's-50's

 

[marvin martian]

And the white boy still can't address this:

WHO OWNS THE GUN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES?

Which ones?

Most American firearms manufacturers are publicly-traded companies, so they are owned by the shareholders.

Norinco is owned by the Chinese government.

Romarm/Cugir is owned by the Romanian government.

Etc...

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I find it funny how a party whose last 2 presidents left the country looking like that picture tries blaming these kinds of conditions only on Democrats.

When was the president the mayor of Los Angeles or the governor of California?

 

[IM2]

When was the president the mayor of Los Angeles or the governor of California?

You are talking to a man who lives in a red state and has seen what the policies Republicans endorse implemented at the state level can do. So don't ask stupid questions and don't run your mouth blaming democrats for all the probems.

Near midnight on Tuesday, June 6, a number of Republicans in the Kansas legislature did something that few other elected Republicans had done in years: They acted responsibly. Joining with Democrats, they voted to roll back the huge tax cuts that Republican Governor Sam Brownback had inflicted on the state, which had devastated schools and other essential services while also depressing the state's economy. But after five years of this exercise in trickle-down, the damage had been done.

THE ROBERT B. DOCKING State Office Building looms large amid the sparse downtown Topeka landscape. Built along modernist lines in the 1950s, when government bureaucracy began to expand across the country, the simple concrete and glass structure provides a stark contrast with the Greco-Roman-style Kansas state capitol that has stood across the street since the late 19th century.

The Docking building was at one time home to most of the state government's agencies, such as the Department of Revenue, the Department of Children and Families, and the Alcoholic Beverage Control. Today, the 12-story, 500,000-square-foot building sits nearly vacant—a laminated white sheet of paper on the door reads: “No More Public Services In This Building.” One by one, the alphabet soup of state agencies that once occupied the building moved out, most relocating to rented space in private office buildings.

The decaying, hollowed-out building stands as a grim testament to the blunt-force trauma that Brownback's 2012 tax cuts visited on his state, and to the ensuing budgetary crises that led lawmakers to cut government services to the bone.

For years, Brownback has called for Docking to be demolished rather than renovated. It's an apt metaphor for his approach to government.

The state's health-care system teeters on the verge of catastrophe, as Brownback's privatization of state Medicaid services and further refusal to expand Medicaid has squeezed low-income Kansans and health-care providers alike. Dozens of struggling hospitals across the state are on the verge of closing. “We have to make decisions every day, on which bills to pay. I mean that literally,” one small-town hospital CEO says. Brownback’s decision to cut taxes rather than restore K–12 public education funding has strained both urban and rural school districts, compelling two districts to end the school year early. Meanwhile, he’s ushered in drastic cuts to social services and placed strict work requirements and other limits on welfare programs.

Kansas, Sam Brownback, and the Trickle-Down Implosion

The Kansas governor’s attempt to create supply-side nirvana in Middle America not only failed to grow the economy—it created a crippling crisis of government that led to a statewide rejection of his politics.

prospect.org

You republicans need to quit trying that Goebbels bs. Repeating a lie over and over and over doesn't make that lie chnge into the truth. Flint is a Democrat ran city fucked up by a Republican policy. There are examples like that everywhere. Jackson Mississippi is another one. Now we see Memphis. Democrats have not been perfect, but there is a reasn why Republicans lose these local elections and it's not because Democrats cheat. Or because they promise handouts. It's time you Republicans faced the fact that

YOU LOSE BECAUSE YOUR POLICIES SUCK!

 

[Nostra]

And the white boy still can't address this:

WHO OWNS THE GUN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES?

Stockholders of all races, Dumbass.

 

[Polishprince]

Republicans in this forum never take rsponsibility for anything. The love to blame democrats for everything wrong as if the draconian Republican policies they present are the panacea. Here we see one example of what Republicans do to "Democrtic" cities if they try proposing things that will actually help their citizens.

Tennessee Republicans tell Memphis to abandon gun reform or risk funding cuts​

Republican leaders in the Tennessee House and Senate warned Memphis officials on Monday that if the city puts gun reform on the ballot this November, the state will withhold the city’s sales tax revenue.

In a joint statement, House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, and Senate Speaker Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, said that the legislature “will not tolerate any attempts to go rogue and perform political sideshows.”

“If they do not want to participate within the state and state laws, then they do not need to participate in the state’s successes,” the statement said.

It’s not the first time the state has opposed local initiatives in Memphis. Earlier this year, the state legislature passed a law reversing police reform that the city council had instituted after the death of Tyre Nichols.

Tennessee Republicans tell Memphis to abandon gun reform or risk funding cuts

Republican leaders in the Tennessee House and Senate warned Memphis officials on Monday that if the city puts gun reform on the ballot this November, the state will withhold the city’s sales tax revenue.

www.wkms.org

Memphis has a gun crime probem and Republicans here run their mouths about it. Yet when they propose a solution to the problem Republicans use underhanded tactics to stop what they want to do. This goes on in other states as well.

Gun laws are the purview of the State government in Tennessee, not individual municipalities like the city of Memphis.

Would you feel the same if a conservative run area of New York state or Massachusetts would propose Constitutional Open Carry for their town, in defiance of New York state law?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Republicans in this forum never take rsponsibility for anything. The love to blame democrats for everything wrong as if the draconian Republican policies they present are the panacea. Here we see one example of what Republicans do to "Democrtic" cities if they try proposing things that will actually help their citizens.

Tennessee Republicans tell Memphis to abandon gun reform or risk funding cuts​

Republican leaders in the Tennessee House and Senate warned Memphis officials on Monday that if the city puts gun reform on the ballot this November, the state will withhold the city’s sales tax revenue.

In a joint statement, House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, and Senate Speaker Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, said that the legislature “will not tolerate any attempts to go rogue and perform political sideshows.”

“If they do not want to participate within the state and state laws, then they do not need to participate in the state’s successes,” the statement said.

It’s not the first time the state has opposed local initiatives in Memphis. Earlier this year, the state legislature passed a law reversing police reform that the city council had instituted after the death of Tyre Nichols.

Tennessee Republicans tell Memphis to abandon gun reform or risk funding cuts

Republican leaders in the Tennessee House and Senate warned Memphis officials on Monday that if the city puts gun reform on the ballot this November, the state will withhold the city’s sales tax revenue.

www.wkms.org

Memphis has a gun crime probem and Republicans here run their mouths about it. Yet when they propose a solution to the problem Republicans use underhanded tactics to stop what they want to do. This goes on in other states as well.

The love to blame democrats for everything wrong

Democrats are often to blame for everything wrong.

 

[Nostra]

Who owns the gun manufacturing companies?

WHITES!

So your racist ass doesn't think blacks own stocks? Gun mfgs have stockholders, Moron.

IM2

 

[Nostra]

Since white republicans own the most guns.... And spare me that silly ass first sentence. You embarass your race with that stupidity.

More blacks are murdered by other blacks than by whites, you racist idiot.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

I find it funny how a party whose last 2 presidents left the country looking like that picture tries blaming these kinds of conditions only on Democrats.

Obama and Bidumb.

 

[whitehall]

Democrat run Chicago is the murder capital of the freaking civilized world and lefties want to bring up Mempnis, Tenn? It must be getting desperate out there if politics as usual can compare to mayhem.

 

[BrokeLoser]

You are talking to a man who lives in a red state and has seen what the policies Republicans endorse implemented at the state level can do. So don't ask stupid questions and don't run your mouth blaming democrats for all the probems.

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Near midnight on Tuesday, June 6, a number of Republicans in the Kansas legislature did something that few other elected Republicans had done in years: They acted responsibly. Joining with Democrats, they voted to roll back the huge tax cuts that Republican Governor Sam Brownback had inflicted on the state, which had devastated schools and other essential services while also depressing the state's economy. But after five years of this exercise in trickle-down, the damage had been done.

THE ROBERT B. DOCKING State Office Building looms large amid the sparse downtown Topeka landscape. Built along modernist lines in the 1950s, when government bureaucracy began to expand across the country, the simple concrete and glass structure provides a stark contrast with the Greco-Roman-style Kansas state capitol that has stood across the street since the late 19th century.

The Docking building was at one time home to most of the state government's agencies, such as the Department of Revenue, the Department of Children and Families, and the Alcoholic Beverage Control. Today, the 12-story, 500,000-square-foot building sits nearly vacant—a laminated white sheet of paper on the door reads: “No More Public Services In This Building.” One by one, the alphabet soup of state agencies that once occupied the building moved out, most relocating to rented space in private office buildings.

The decaying, hollowed-out building stands as a grim testament to the blunt-force trauma that Brownback's 2012 tax cuts visited on his state, and to the ensuing budgetary crises that led lawmakers to cut government services to the bone.

For years, Brownback has called for Docking to be demolished rather than renovated. It's an apt metaphor for his approach to government.

The state's health-care system teeters on the verge of catastrophe, as Brownback's privatization of state Medicaid services and further refusal to expand Medicaid has squeezed low-income Kansans and health-care providers alike. Dozens of struggling hospitals across the state are on the verge of closing. “We have to make decisions every day, on which bills to pay. I mean that literally,” one small-town hospital CEO says. Brownback’s decision to cut taxes rather than restore K–12 public education funding has strained both urban and rural school districts, compelling two districts to end the school year early. Meanwhile, he’s ushered in drastic cuts to social services and placed strict work requirements and other limits on welfare programs.

Kansas, Sam Brownback, and the Trickle-Down Implosion

The Kansas governor’s attempt to create supply-side nirvana in Middle America not only failed to grow the economy—it created a crippling crisis of government that led to a statewide rejection of his politics.

prospect.org

You republicans need to quit trying that Goebbels bs. Repeating a lie over and over and over doesn't make that lie chnge into the truth. Flint is a Democrat ran city fucked up by a Republican policy. There are examples like that everywhere. Jackson Mississippi is another one. Now we see Memphis. Democrats have not been perfect, but there is a reasn why Republicans lose these local elections and it's not because Democrats cheat. Or because they promise handouts. It's time you Republicans faced the fact that

YOU LOSE BECAUSE YOUR POLICIES SUCK!

Lets be honest…you live in a DIVERSE blue shithole within a red state…right?

 

[IM2]

Lets be honest…you live in a DIVERSE blue shithole within a red state…right?

The shitholes in America are mostly non diverse, rural, and white. The Repblican governor/egislature fucked up the entire state.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

You are talking to a man who lives in a red state and has seen what the policies Republicans endorse implemented at the state level can do. So don't ask stupid questions and don't run your mouth blaming democrats for all the probems.

View attachment 1003056

Near midnight on Tuesday, June 6, a number of Republicans in the Kansas legislature did something that few other elected Republicans had done in years: They acted responsibly. Joining with Democrats, they voted to roll back the huge tax cuts that Republican Governor Sam Brownback had inflicted on the state, which had devastated schools and other essential services while also depressing the state's economy. But after five years of this exercise in trickle-down, the damage had been done.

THE ROBERT B. DOCKING State Office Building looms large amid the sparse downtown Topeka landscape. Built along modernist lines in the 1950s, when government bureaucracy began to expand across the country, the simple concrete and glass structure provides a stark contrast with the Greco-Roman-style Kansas state capitol that has stood across the street since the late 19th century.

The Docking building was at one time home to most of the state government's agencies, such as the Department of Revenue, the Department of Children and Families, and the Alcoholic Beverage Control. Today, the 12-story, 500,000-square-foot building sits nearly vacant—a laminated white sheet of paper on the door reads: “No More Public Services In This Building.” One by one, the alphabet soup of state agencies that once occupied the building moved out, most relocating to rented space in private office buildings.

The decaying, hollowed-out building stands as a grim testament to the blunt-force trauma that Brownback's 2012 tax cuts visited on his state, and to the ensuing budgetary crises that led lawmakers to cut government services to the bone.

For years, Brownback has called for Docking to be demolished rather than renovated. It's an apt metaphor for his approach to government.

The state's health-care system teeters on the verge of catastrophe, as Brownback's privatization of state Medicaid services and further refusal to expand Medicaid has squeezed low-income Kansans and health-care providers alike. Dozens of struggling hospitals across the state are on the verge of closing. “We have to make decisions every day, on which bills to pay. I mean that literally,” one small-town hospital CEO says. Brownback’s decision to cut taxes rather than restore K–12 public education funding has strained both urban and rural school districts, compelling two districts to end the school year early. Meanwhile, he’s ushered in drastic cuts to social services and placed strict work requirements and other limits on welfare programs.

Kansas, Sam Brownback, and the Trickle-Down Implosion

The Kansas governor’s attempt to create supply-side nirvana in Middle America not only failed to grow the economy—it created a crippling crisis of government that led to a statewide rejection of his politics.

prospect.org

You republicans need to quit trying that Goebbels bs. Repeating a lie over and over and over doesn't make that lie chnge into the truth. Flint is a Democrat ran city fucked up by a Republican policy. There are examples like that everywhere. Jackson Mississippi is another one. Now we see Memphis. Democrats have not been perfect, but there is a reasn why Republicans lose these local elections and it's not because Democrats cheat. Or because they promise handouts. It's time you Republicans faced the fact that

YOU LOSE BECAUSE YOUR POLICIES SUCK!

What does Sam Brownback have to do with Los Angeles and the state of California?

And when was Sam Brownback president?

 

[BrokeLoser]

The shitholes in America are mostly non diverse, rural, and white. The Repblican governor/egislature fucked up the entire state.

But let’s be honest, you live in a dirty, disgusting, diverse, divided blue shithole within a red state…RIGHT?
Don’t be afraid to admit the truth…there are lots of these shitholes…think New Orleans.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Republicans in this forum never take rsponsibility for anything. The love to blame democrats for everything wrong as if the draconian Republican policies they present are the panacea. Here we see one example of what Republicans do to "Democrtic" cities if they try proposing things that will actually help their citizens.

Tennessee Republicans tell Memphis to abandon gun reform or risk funding cuts​

Republican leaders in the Tennessee House and Senate warned Memphis officials on Monday that if the city puts gun reform on the ballot this November, the state will withhold the city’s sales tax revenue.

In a joint statement, House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, and Senate Speaker Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, said that the legislature “will not tolerate any attempts to go rogue and perform political sideshows.”

“If they do not want to participate within the state and state laws, then they do not need to participate in the state’s successes,” the statement said.

It’s not the first time the state has opposed local initiatives in Memphis. Earlier this year, the state legislature passed a law reversing police reform that the city council had instituted after the death of Tyre Nichols.

Tennessee Republicans tell Memphis to abandon gun reform or risk funding cuts

Republican leaders in the Tennessee House and Senate warned Memphis officials on Monday that if the city puts gun reform on the ballot this November, the state will withhold the city’s sales tax revenue.

www.wkms.org

Memphis has a gun crime probem and Republicans here run their mouths about it. Yet when they propose a solution to the problem Republicans use underhanded tactics to stop what they want to do. This goes on in other states as well.

Memphis has a democrat run city problem

 

[IM2]

What does Sam Brownback have to do with Los Angeles and the state of California?

And when was Sam Brownback president?

And what did Caifornia have to do with Memphis?