Blue City State Schadenfreude - Elections have Consequences
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Tense council meeting in Arvada, CO as Mayor Lauren Simpson tries to shut down residents’ concerns about a homeless center the City plans to open near an elementary school.
She initially tried shutting down public comment and had residents submit “comment cards” instead and threatened multiple times to end the meeting.
The city also accused concerned residents of “misinformation” for speaking out and sharing flyers about the planned homeless center.
This demographic is fleeing both California and New York by the thousands: report
Wealthy millennials are leaving blue states on both coasts and heading to red states in the south by the thousands, according to a recent study.
Millennials — those between the ages of 26 and 45 — who bring in $200,000 or more a year as a household are fleeing California and New York in large numbers while more and more are moving to Florida and Texas, according to a Smart Asset analysis.
California saw the largest departure of high-earning Gen Yers with a net loss of 9,181 households and New York saw the second largest with a net loss of 4,251 households, according to the analysis of the latest tax return data from 2021 and 2022.
The Golden State had 14,139 wealthy millennials move into its borders but saw more — 23,320 total — leave.
And bringing their moronic voting practices with them to ruin the good states!
When You Can't Lose Weight, Litigate! DOJ Wins Suit Against MD State Police 'Discriminatory' Fitness Test
As someone with a background in healthcare, and a general interest in first responders such as police officers being physically able to do their jobs, I am endlessly fascinated by the push to lower physical fitness standards for things like the military and police/fire departments.
It's part of the insidious push to DEI-ify every aspect of life. Because diversity, equity, and inclusion are more important than public safety and people's lives, apparently.
And these days, it's apparently 'discriminatory' to hold police to some sort of physical fitness standard:
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There are a few things I'd like to point out here.
First, this completely undermines the Left's argument that men can play in women's sports if they identify as female. If men are able to pass this physical fitness test (which is not that rigorous to begin with) at higher rates than women, it indicates men have a physical advantage over women.
But I digress.
As I mentioned above, the test is not that rigorous and candidates can take it up to three times a year. Physical fitness is hard. Maintaining a reasonable caloric is hard. Both require effort, discipline, and self-control. I know this from firsthand experience, having lost 70+ pounds in the last year or so.
But it can be done.
The 'body positivity' movement (part of the larger DEI umbrella) encourages gluttony and laziness versus physical activity and reasonable eating (note I didn't say diet). It tells people they're 'fine' just as they are and that the world is bigoted and hateful for not accepting them.
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Look at Asheville, NC right now -- roads wiped away and many areas are inaccessible by vehicle. How are first responders who can't complete a 15-minute mile and a half run supposed to reach these communities? How can we expect them to carry a child to safety or remove debris to free a citizen trapped in a collapsed home?
We can't.
Chicago Mayor Proposes High Interest Loan to Pay for Teachers’ Union Demands
Chicago is functionally bankrupt. It’s also run by Mayor Brandon Johnson: an incompetent radical appointee of the CTU teachers’ union. The CTU demands included everything from free weight loss drugs to a $2.5 billion pay hike for a group of people who are less effective as educators than the Washington Generals were at playing basketball.
How is Chicago gonna pay for even its existing obligations and vastly inflated salaries for the red shirts?
A $300 million high-interest loan. Seriously.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposal of what critics are calling a ‘payday loan’ for schools proved unpopular even with his own appointees on the Board of Ed who just resigned.
Wisconsin Supreme Court grapples with governor’s 400-year veto, calling it ‘crazy’
The case, supported by the Republican-controlled Legislature, is the latest flashpoint in a decades-long fight over just how broad Wisconsin’s governor’s partial veto powers should be. The issue has crossed party lines, with Republicans and Democrats pushing for more limitations on the governor’s veto over the years.
In this case, Evers made the veto in question in 2023. His partial veto increased how much revenue K-12 public schools can raise per student by $325 a year until 2425. Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425, more than four centuries from now.
“The veto here approaches the absurd and exceeds any reasonable understanding of legislative or voter intent in adopting the partial veto or subsequent limits,” attorneys for legal scholar Richard Briffault, of Columbia Law School, said in a filing with the court ahead of arguments.
That argument was cited throughout the oral arguments by justices and Scott Rosenow, attorney for Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Litigation Center, which handles lawsuits for the state’s largest business lobbying group and brought the case.
Clem72
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That's hilarious.
So he could just veto random letters and words until the only thing left is "E ver S g over Ner for l if e"
Dem Denver Mayor Mike Johnston walks back comments about using police to block Trump's deportation efforts
However, during an interview Friday with Denver’s 9News, Johnston expressed regret for his previous comments and the comparison he made. “Would I have taken it back if I could? Yes, I probably wouldn't have used that image,” Johnston said. "That's the image I hope we can avoid. What I was trying to say is this is an outcome I hope we can avoid in this country. I think none of us want that."
Johnston’s remarks come amid growing attention to Denver’s significant influx of migrants. A recent report by the New York Post revealed that since 2022, approximately 40,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in the city. This large influx has made Denver the city with the highest per capita number of migrants in the United States. Additionally, Colorado has drawn scrutiny in the past months for the presence of the Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang known for its criminal activities.
Trump’s proposal to enact mass deportations was a central element of his successful presidential campaign. Despite immediate pushback from Democratic leaders, the election results and recent polling indicate that a majority of Americans support large-scale measures to deport illegal immigrants.