Austin was already heavily democrats.
Austin IS pretty much the tech industry in TX. There are some small pockets in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. But it is pretty much Austin.
Texas is going purple.
Florida is weird, it's almost like a gay pride flag as it is really sectional as to where it is red or blue. I am not sure Scott and Rubio have smooth sailings in the reelections.
Austin is screwed cause of the Dems moving in there.
Really JC?
Dunno what made you go from an angry person to a civil person back to this angry attack other people person. Perhaps that is what you truly are.
Birmingham had tent cities. Your point? Ohhhhh I guess it is a shithole, piece of shit place, you know, Alabama. Because if it happens in one city, and a city, that is really close to you, I guess it is EVERYWHERE in the state.
wkrg. com/news/tent-city-not-mobiles-only-homeless-community/ - Mobile
cityblog.huntsvilleal. gov/huntsvilles-homeless-tackling-the-root-cause-together/ - Huntsville
And if you don't think that Mercedes could shut down quickly, you are clueless. Ask all the plants in the rust belt about that.
There will always be homeless people. The amount is tied to economic opportunities. If Mercedes closes tomorrow, there will be a massive influx of foreclosures and BKs in your area which will create more homeless people.
CA has the highest number of homeless people in the US. It is a very complex problem to solve. The area where TBR and I live, if you make me the furthest north, then draw a line to go dead east, that area that we just boxed in, that is roughly 8-9% of the US population. We have a housing issue. It's tied to having a land issue. That's tied to having a job issue. Stop having all the jobs in a CBD and decentralize them and you will get smoothing of jobs, smoothing of housing costs and more importantly, availability of land.
I am not trying to pick on where you live. It could be a LOT of places. You are not seeing an influx of people wanting to suddenly uproot from where they are and move to Vance. Because of that, you get really stable housing and land costs. In econ terms, your supply is greater than demand. Where TBR and I live, it is not like that. Where I am is worse. The state has mandated that cities expand housing. If they do not, there are consequences for it. Where I live, there is NO unclaimed land. We are trapped to the south by the ocean. We are trapped to the north by ~5k high mountains. These mountains come in and pinch the ocean. So our land looks like a crescent. Our fight is about going vertical. As the land from the ocean to the mountains elevate, people pay a LOT of money for the views. We have a vertical height constraint on buildings. This is an area that is about 150 sq miles and has about 200k people in it.
Austin, Texas is starting to see the issue as well. People want to be near their job and are paying a LOT to have a house that is close by. Those prices are going up and up. I bet if Austin starts changing their hiring, you will see more and more homelessness there.
A quick search proves my point
statesman. com/news/20200519/austin-sees-11-increase-in-homeless-count-45-increase-in-unsheltered-population#:~:text=The%20latest%20tally%20of%20homeless,population%20took%20place%20on%20Jan.
Guess what else Trump bankrupted !
@clyde, I don't know that I lost. I never expected Trump to get impeached. That result was telegraphed well before the trial. TBH, whether Trump gets indicted by the Senate or not, there was lots of new evidence shown in this trial, and to me it looks really bad for the Trump and the GOP. History will not be kind to Trump.
You know, I'm a New Yorker and I've seen Trump get away with an amazing amount. He's bankrupted 6 companies, losing his investors billions and billions of dollars, and somehow he still gets other people's money, just like he did a terrible job as President and still gets the votes of some of the people. Those losses? Somehow he even was able to use those losses to defray his taxes for years afterward, even though those losses weren't of his money. I note he's starting to run out of good will though. Deutsche Bank just dropped him, and I think that was the last major bank wiling to work with him. This latest thing with starting an insurrection and getting away with it, I have to tip my hat to him. No President would have dared do that, fearing the consequences, but you know, it's like he said, he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th ave and he'd get away with it.
Sn , you lost , just like the Dems did yesterday at the hearing. , sorry they FAILED again on a impeachment that was never a impeachment , The Dems shit on our constitution and they will be shitting on you soon !
ENJOY
JC555,
Yes, the USA has moved forward since 1964, and so too has Alabama.
But it’s not moved forward enough in terms of overcoming racism if its white voters are among the most fervent and solid for Trump of any state and has problems getting rid of Confederate statues and a state holiday for Confederate heroes.
All this anger...its a true saying anger breeds stupidity....read any thread in this forum...no civil discussions...mostly anger because you can't make a factual point...
EA.....you don't want to go there with pedophiles. At least we don't elect them and pass laws to protect them. Nasty ass freaks
Tbrm.....the hypocrite do nothing lib from shithole California. Go clean the shit out from your toenails and smoke your morning crack rock
EA......another stupid what if.
Mercedes is not closing tomorrow or the next day. We here are actually still working and not hiding from the covid19. ABC just another leftwing source that makes you feel better. Fucking liar
So JC can repeat anything he hears about California as gospel, but anything anyone says about shithole Alabama is invalid.
He can't even see his own hypocrisy...
You do know that the Capitol was stormed before Trump was finished with his speech. And the park is over a half mile from where the Capitol is , or did fake news forget to tell you that .
@clyde: Yeah, I knew that, but Trump said "fight" 20 times in his speech, so there were multiple times for the crowd to get riled up and move over to the Capitol. You just asked to give an example in his speech that shows he incited a riot, and I gave just one of MANY. Reports are that some of the crowd was moving toward the Capitol before the speech ended, and the riot was starting soon after that AS Trump gave his speech, which to me means it was igniting as he was talking, which is kind of damning, don't you think?
Nice lies . . .
abc3340. com/news/local/aldot-fails-to-address-growing-number-of-homeless-living-under-interstate-bridges
Homelessness and drug/alcohol addiction are not exclusive to CA. It is an economic issue. If that mercedes plant closed tomorrow, how many would be homeless? How many drug and alcohol issues would there be?
San Fran is just unique for homelessness because it is 99% a concrete city. The homeless tend to 'live' in the woods, under interstates (like in Birmingham), and other out of sight places. San Fran does NOT have that as an option.
But it's ok. Keep thinking that all of CA is like one city, and I will keep thinking all of Alabama is full of pedophiles because of Roy Moore in Gadsden.
Sapp.....the South has learned and moved forward. You can take your leftwing books and shove them up your ass. You have no idea what I do and talk with people about. You have no idea how we live. You are not needed here and honestly you would probably have a hard time connecting with anyone. People just want to live, prosper, and get along. It's not perfect but its nothing like you think.
Best cure for a drug addict is put them behind bars to sober up. Not give a safe space.
JC555,
It’s beyond dispute that Trump appeals to anti-Black and anti-Brown racism, and he’s supported in this by too many white elected Senators and Congressional representatives from Red states.
I don’t need to visit the South to read political and sociological studies of racial attitudes in every state in this country and make conclusions in this basis
How many conversations have you had with African Americans in Alabama about racism and racism attitudes. Sorry, but I don’t take you as the authoritative voice speaking for African Americans and people of color in Alabama about the existence of racism and prejudice in Alabama.
Cities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles do have problems with people living in poverty and homeless. This has deep reasons. But I don’t know what point of interest you are making by bringing up what your daughters saw in SF in a little vacation trip.
My deepest concerns are not about Los Angeles or my home state of NJ, however much I care deeply about each of these places. I’m concerned more about the state of the Union and what divides it and how the country can do better to fulfill its ideals of justice, equality, freedom and “promoting the general welfare” and how it can overcome the legacy of injustice and its problems with racism, poverty, plutocracy, militarism and greed.
I hope you share those concerns.
For me, Trump has intensified some of those problems and been a disgrace to truth and our processes of democracy including peaceful transfers of power after a presidential election.
I’ve been deeply critical of Los Angeles in general and the LAPD in particular. Los Angeles had two major rebellions against injustice in 1965 and 1992. It also had anti Mexican-American rioting in 1943 Zoot Suit riots and an 1871 mob riot against Chinese immigrants and it elected Reagan as governor in part because of his opposition to Civil Rights legislation of 1964-65.
I can easily outdo you in criticism of LA and California in issues of justice and social justice.
Let’s see you do a criticism of injustice and racism In your home state of Alabama, past and present. Please inform me as best as you can. I’m all ears.
Tbrm......drug addicts here are arrested. I never worry about stepping in human shit or walking around a tent city. Lol
There are more drug addicts per capita in Alabama than California.
Tbrm.....not everyone, just your sorry ass do nothing kind. I am sure California has some very good people who just have to put up with your kind.
Why go to California? Everyone’s leaving
Tbrm.....you can keep your drug addicts right there. Trust me, we don't want your problems. Maybe you can employ some with your commercial painting business. I am sure you use the illegal immigrants for that also. Freaking slave holder
It's a shame that you have never been to California, but know what everyone is thinking here.
Funfor2houston......I have a lot of farming equipment and tools. Tractors, 3 60" zero turn mowers, bush hogs, disks, tillers, pressure washers, welders, any power tool you can think of. I have people all the time come by, white and black, who borrow my stuff. As long as we know each other I let them borrow it. I have a black guy who has more than I do and we each have borrowed and used each other's stuff repeatedly. This happen all the time where I live. We don't do these kind of favors because of skin color, we do it because we know each other and trust each and YES like each other. It's a crying as shame that libs from California and New York have the gall to think what they do of us. Such a sad and disgusting world they must live in.
Even the homeless don't want to live in the South...
