I do not know when this video was shot (it appears to be from June 2021). Whether it is recent or from the past it is both searing and sickening.
Instead of trying to clean up this scourge, our legislators are voting to send an additional 40 Billion dollars to Ukraine. Yeah, that makes sense.
Got the corn popped, Internet active, safely ensconced in the hinterlands of a county of less than seven people per square mile, in the interior.
Best seats in the house…
I see you enjoy tragedy. I’m more of a comedy fan.
Maybe …
But this video clip cannot possibly be real.
Looks very staged . . .
It is, go to youtube and search Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia.
While 60 billion is huge by itself, there is the inflation tax on everyone that is the much, much more, though low per person – Guns or butter? The arms companies and grafters in the Ukraine, Ukrainian and American, get both
They Get What You Pay For
Oh, woe! The Joes say, “No.”
Tweedledee and Tweedledumb agree:
War? Spend freely. Peace? Go slow.
Manchin, Biden: urinate or pee.
Trousers, diapers soil the same.
Shit or defecate, mere choice of words.
Donors rule. The people? Tame.
Schiff and Cheney: Siamese twin turds.
Democrats. What can one say?
Wannabe Republicans for rent.
Call them “Leftists,” they’ll obey.
“Always Further Right” → the way they went.
Really. What did you expect?
President and Senator for you?
Cast your vote, then genuflect.
Money purchased not one Joe, but two.
Michael Murry, “The Misfortune Teller,” Copyright © 2022
WTF? It looks like a movie set. That is horrible, those people are like floating in space, high on who knows what, what a waste of lives. I’m not American but going by a lot of comments I’ve read by people from there, I going to say Democrats are in charge of that State.
Yeah, The Walking Dead.
You’re looking at “The Bad Part of Town” in a typical American city. The Democrat run cities are the worst. See San Francisco, Chicago and New York City.
I’m sure you have cities like that in your country. They’re in just about all of them.
Sorry,
But these scenes are not to be found in either Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherland or France.
The combination of poverty, homelessness, open addiction and simple neglect is not at all common or ubiquitous.
This is a decidedly uncommon scene.
Agreed. I think, by accident, you stumbled on the astonishing insularity and parochialism of many Americans. I travel to the US frequently and have affection for the place, but wow their education sucks.
I went to the same schools in South Africa that Musk attended, and like for him, the experience was not ‘warm and fuzzy’. But by God we were educated and taught to be disciplined and operate from facts. Many Americans, sadly, seem to have lost that ability. And it shows.
The fact that Biden is funding Ukraine while neglecting US citizens is unconscionable, but it is the trend across the Western world. Biden is not alone. There is just more money involved.
I saw this scene in Switzerland in the mid-1980s when young people were shooting heroin in the parks in some of the big cities. Most were dead from AIDS within 10 years. Now Switzerland hands out heroin & clean needles. The US could do the same, but our working class jobs can’t support a family, so these people feel abandoned. This is a national disgrace.
You can find similiar scenes around any major train station in Germany. Hamburg, Frankfurt/Main, Cologne, Berlin – you see these poor, wrecked creatures everywhere – you just need to open your eyes. Poverty is visible all across Germany.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
Groucho Marx
The government cannot fix the government…and for my part we are beyond a political solution to what ails the internal (and external) US dysfunction. I honestly don’t know what the solution is…I have some ideas…the hell with it I’m going to the rifle/pistol range–it just makes me feel better lol.
Youre right. Looking at this in aggregate and then assuming the government, who is far removed from the plight of the average American, can only make this worse. We need small unit leaders who are selfless, to lead by example, on the path of recovery. No more tax dollars. Pray, then go out and help by washing, cleaning up, and feeding. Or we can be proud and distance ourselves, point the finger, and say, “You had it coming!”
The American governments war on the American people continues. In the future you will own nothing and you will be happy: or else!
When the NSDAP ruled Germany, everyone was required to have a job. They didn’t care what it was but you had to have a job. So there were many street sweepers and the streets were spotless. There were many lamppost cleaners, but the cities were spotless. You had to contribute to society. None of this do nothing all day and collect welfare nonsense. Too much freedom and the slackers will take advantage of it. I bet if the men who died in WW2 saw this they would feel like they died for nothing…what a disgrace….
Yes LARRY the video is sick and the $40B (like so much of federal spending) is insane but let’s look at the big picture. Who really runs this country?
The following are some start dates for globalist institutions;
1921 Council on Foreign Relations
1954 Bilderberg Group
1971 World Economic Forum
1973 Trilateral Commission
1993 World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Programs
For a hundred years, how many of our Presidential candidates, Congressmen, Senators, Judges, Cabinet Members, Agency Executives, Media Executives, Editors, Journalists, Bankers, Corporate Executives and Hollywood types have had ties to some of the above?
As George Carlin once said, “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it!”
Our country has been destroyed from whithin by traitors and legions of useful idiots. Is it any wonder that we are just history’s latest corrupt dying empire to be circling the drain?
And what did those evil Nazis do for their citizens? Sure it’s a little creepy from and individualists perspective but…
https://spartacus-educational.com/GERjoy.htm
I’ll take that environment any-day over what we saw in the video, which was not as bad as some I’ve see where people are defecating right out in the open on the sidewalk, and laying around naked. What a effing disgrace….
I was in the Fairmont area of Philadelphia last week. Third world streets, potholes and filth everywhere. The new buildings downtown are hideous, just graceless glass and steel heaps. I drove in, did what I had to do and left. I’ve been in far safer places in the Third World.
Circumstances forced me to go there, as a number of family members cling to middle class city life there, hated by the elite and seen as prey by the underclass. Years ago I told my relatives to get out; they didn’t listen. My sympathy level is zero.
I left in 1968; the train from Paoli ran through on West Philadelphia freight yards. The yards were empty, nothing being made in the city. No locomotives, no shipbuilding, no heavy industry that supported the city and nation. I saw and I left, despite centuries old family ties.
The city elite tolerates the drugs, filth and general lawlessness and will do so until them mob comes after them directly. Eventually they will confiscate private pensions of citizens in other states to fund their corruption and bankrupt employee pension schemes. Any reassert ion of Federalism by voiding of Roe v Wade is an anathema to these people.
I don’t want my money wasted in this or any other urban trash dump! These people are getting what they voted for and what they deserve.
Full disclosure: my great great grandfather saw Philadelphia as a Godless hole in 1843. He moved to the country and established a large farm. He was precient! I grew up in that suburban area.
If I were a PLA general, I should suddenly cut the fentanyl supply. The drug denied users will riot, like the zombies they are. The resulting chaos will be fun to watch!
More than harsh. Wicked in fact.
Consider yourself fortunate your life’s path was not anything like that of some of these other human beings.
There but for grace of [insert some sort of homily] go I..
Reality is harsh. Money to infinity could be dumped into Philadelphia but nothing would change. The city elite will never admit to policy failure. They cannot, their style of living depends on the status quo.
Wicked? Wicked is:
Driving out employers over the last fifty years, through corrupt labor practices and wasteful taxation.
Drumming into every young minority that manual labor is below them, and that they should take no pride in ancestors who worked as domestics, as railway laborers or for Pullman Company train service. This isn’t new; I saw it in the 1960’s. (I had family members who worked for the Pennsylvania; all serious railroaders and passengers respected the skill of the legions of porters, cooks and stewards who made travel far more pleasant than it is now. Ponder turning out meals for several hundred passengers in an area smaller than the typical residential kitchen. These men were light years ahead of the typical airline steward crew. And they were well paid!)
Importing millions of illegals to compete for a limited number of unskilled and semi skilled jobs. I’ve seen this first hand.
Passing thousands of young through useless schools. I’ve seen this first hand as well.
The Episcopal Church closing the Church Farm School 30 miles west of downtown Philadelphia. The school for years boarded poor, fatherless boys, requiring both manual farm labor and academic study. I think the Church decided that the farm work was demeaning, or more likely they wanted to sell the property for millions.
Closing manufacturing plants all over the country, off shoring the jobs. I’ve been through that as well. But Bain Capital profited.
Making excuses for failure. I own my professional failures (failed to select for USN destroyer command, failed to keep employed in manufacturing much less attain six figure salary, failed to get a private sector merchant slot and ended up sailing for DoD.These resulted from my shortcomings, lack of ability and poor judgement, not somebody elses)
The elites don’t do this.
Forcing some poor truck driver in my South Carolina county to support failed far away cities with his taxes. Not to mention abusing his patriotism with useless wars.
At heart I’m a blue collar guy. The working class people in Philadelphia have my sympathy for job losses and their daily struggles as these are beyond their control. But those who can should walk away. I did that fifty years ago with no regret. Its not easy but it is doable, and it beats knuckling the forehead to evil elites.
Thanks for the memories. I had many rides on the PRR. The professionalism of the staff was legendary.
PRR was the best of the best and at one point actually had more employees than the federal government.
They pioneered advances in technology in locomotives and passenger cars.
Had they not been forced into suicide with that ridiculous merger, they possibly would have ushered in a new era of modern rail travel that would have been the envy of the world.
I would take the train over flying anytime, and a good high-speed rail system would make train travel a clear choice, less costly and in many cases faster once all the time waste with airports are factored in.
Instead we have that pathetic joke called Amtrak.
We all know where the money has been dumped.
I just hope there are enough clear thinkers left in control to stop the Neocon muppets and others from taking the rest of us down as the US implodes.
How many outside of fora like this realise that US has started WW3?
When we should be concentrating on saving the only planet we know, where it is possible there is a semblance of intelligent life, for the US to allow a handful of insane warmongers to destroy even more, would suggest it is time for the US empire to disappear.
And let’s not forget the CIA’s role in drug smuggling. Apparently what we’re witnessing above is an issuse of vital national security.
https://irp.fas.org/congress/1998_cr/980507-l.htm
I was in Philly 4 years ago on business. Corporate put me up in a very nice hotel right downtown in the financial district. Nice restaurants and bars, etc. But in the evening people passed out in the streets. Pretty sure one black guy lying on the sidewalk, within feet of the expensive hotel’s side guest entrance, was dead. After he was non-responsive to verbals, I gave him a little kick (he should have felt it, but it wouldn’t have broken ribs or anything like that) and he didn’t budge. Meanwhile, well dressed individuals and small groups would just glance very briefly and walk around this little tragedy as if it made no impression on them at all; like they hardly noticed for a second and then out of sight/out of mind, or they had grown callous. I cynically pondered to myself as to how many of these well heeled callous urbanites were otherwise virtue signaling democrats. I asked the doorman of the hotel to do something (911?) and he just shrugged. I asked the bar tender about this and he kind of shrugged it off too. I called 911 myself and, basically, they also just shrugged. The body (?) was gone in the morning.
Being from Detroit, originally, I’m no stranger to urban decay, drug abuse, homicide, filth and the degradation of humanity, but that was always in the ghetto; albeit the ghetto in Detroit was essentially 90% of the city. But I had never seen passed out (and dead?) people in the streets of the upscale areas. The reaction – or should I say “non-reaction” of the fancy denizens of the upscale area was – and is – utterly strange to me; something just so wrong about the whole scene.
I suspect that a top hotel in Calcutta would have removed the body to maintain the hotel’s posh image. Your experience says nothing good about the management.
Many squawk about the Mob, but those who lived in Italian neighborhoods
didn’t worry about thieves, muggers, dopers and dealers. Angelo Bruno kept order!
Sadly, these scenes are common in urban America. You see the same scenes all over the Third World. Poverty plays a big role in it. Much of it is due to Southern blacks moving north (because of lynchings, yeah, sure!) When they got there, they ended up in slums working for minimum wage if they worked at all. Cotton picking isn’t good training for industry (unless you’re white.) Drugs became common. There is no real answer. On the other hand, years ago I use to fly with a retired Air Force light colonel with liberal leanings. We’d fly into American and Canadian cities and see the difference. He said the only solution was some kind of chemical to be sprayed on American cities and cause blacks to disappear.
Wow you guys had some fun conversations didn’t you, kill all the blacks, then maybe the half backs, then maybe the Hispanics, then the Italians, the dark ones, keep the blonde blue eyes ones who are so great they only killed the most people in human history, you know sprayed them and stuff, gas maybe? That’s a type of spray…wait someone already thought of that…what was his name?
The spray? Used to be called zyklon B now it’s just called the Covid vaccine.
Must be a movie set, right?? OMG is that what living in a ‘blue’ state is all about??
My cousin lives in downtown ish Philly, it’s not a beautiful city but I enjoyed it’s close knit community feel and good cafes and restaurants
Did not get to see the sleazy side of it.
Drug wise countries are sliding into a type of repeat of the crack epidemic. With all the confused kids and economic mess, expect this to get worse. People under estimate the impact Covid race issues and Trans issues have on kids. It’s going to drive them nuts.
How is this addressed. My two cents
– values, truth, purpose mentors, faith, discipline and compassion
The disconnect between leaders and the people in the west has never ever been this great. It makes the above unattainable, the left is grinding out the most mentally destroyed generation in western history. Perhaps also the most controllable.
Time is running out to change things. The right is divided and it’s representatives like McConnell no longer represent them. Those who can do. Don’t act. And without acts. Nothing changes.
The west has been hijacked. Everyone is a passenger.
I stopped watching The Walking Dead because the plot was frustrating, the writers never moved on and the same characters kept expecting a different outcome with each new event…and they pay. Tiresome! Same here, same set apparently, and I’m numb to it as nothing changes. My outrage is toxic to me, I have to move on, reluctantly.
US needs a reset, but that will never happen as the govt has brought their sites internal down to the everyday parent, “minority report” style, to squelch any dissent before it can manifest (rightfully do I guess), but the dissent is the direct result of govt actions that subvert democracy, tread on the constitution, ignore the will of the governed.
I always say politicians follow P4: Personal, Party, President and People…in that order. What’s best for my job, then the party, then president if it aligns, and the people of all aligns.
Politicians speak for Politicians, not for me or even the US. If so, morons like McCain, McCarthy, McConnell, McDaniel,…McPelosi…Mc*Whatever, would not make statements saying “We…”, or “The American People…” are with you. Really? Nobody asked me, but those in other countries lump us in, we tow the line. I don’t!
I was brought up, indoctrinated, Russia bad! Not much context except Communism. It took the internet and 40 years before I could see the beauty in other countries, not just the societal issues (which are prevalent right here at home), and then research the background on why conflicts REALLY exist.
I am a Trump supporter, but not the man as much as the refreshing personality change from the elite. Unfortunately, he could not be confident in his gut approach and succumbed to the elites and deep state control. He came in as a businessman with a fresh look on globalism, walk softly and carry a big stick, to waving the stick like a bully, and that was a let down, and he’s doubled down on that in the wake of Ukraine.
Sorry, I digressed from the drug pandemic I don’t think it will ever be solved, because we are probably entangled too much as the enablers.
What you said about Trump is spot-on. I couldn’t agree more.
the heroin hunch
$40 billion won’t help, $400 billion won’t help, $4 trillion won’t help. This problem can be fixed for free, better than free, cheaper than free. We all know how.
But it will never be fixed because too many benefit from it never being fixed, in fact the worst it gets the more it benefits a certain class.
Look at this from.a politicians perspective.
If I am young and strong and angry, better I am on drugs of some kind out of my head than plotting how to overthrow them or get my job.
Once the disenfranchised, disturbed, weak, angry and sick are all hooked up what they say no longer mattes. Society discounts the druggies. They are no longer a threat to the order of the day.
Get mad about the world, hey drink or joint. Handle it this way
For God’s sake. Don’t think. Don’t actually try to change something.
And how would you clean up that “scourge” ?
The roots of this sickness are deep and built into the society.
You will see poverty like this is the third world – but not the drugs.
This is Kensington, fentanyl cap of the world
The United States getting closer to the rubbish bin of capitalism by the day.
And no, it’s not Russia’s fault. It is capitalism.