{"id":145,"date":"2019-06-23T17:53:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T17:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palmdown.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2019-06-23T18:10:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T18:10:27","slug":"you-just-cant-fix-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"You Just Can&#8217;t Fix Stupid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 23, 2019<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/palmdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Democratic-Paradise.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149\" src=\"http:\/\/palmdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Democratic-Paradise.jpg\" alt=\"Democratic Paradise (Courtesy of NBCnews.com)\" width=\"760\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Democratic-Paradise.jpg 760w, https:\/\/palmdown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Democratic-Paradise-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic Paradise<br \/>(Courtesy of NBCnews.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good morning, boys and girls.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s play a game.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to submit a list of 14 &#8220;shithole&#8221; cities followed by a date.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see if you can guess the significance of said dates, keeping in mind that these cities represent the worst this country has to offer.\u00a0 These are all cities rife with police corruption and political malfeasance, out of control drug use, vagrancy, and sky high crime rates; many have fallen into bankruptcy.\u00a0 Sanctuary cities all.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s have a go!!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0Detroit\u00a0 1962<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0 1961<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0San Francisco\u00a0 1964<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Chicago\u00a0 1931<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Philadelphia\u00a0 1952<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Baltimore\u00a0 1967<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Newark\u00a0 1953<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Houston\u00a0 1982<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Seattle\u00a0 1969<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0New Orleans\u00a0 1872<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0St. Louis\u00a0 1949<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Oakland\u00a0 1977<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Washington D.C.\u00a0 1961<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0New York City\u00a0 2001<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Give up yet?\u00a0 These dates represent the last time the respective cities had anything other than Democratic mayors.\u00a0 Of the 14, eight have never seen a Republican mayor in my lifetime, and I&#8217;m 55 years old.<\/p>\n<p>New York City looks like the outlier here, with Republican Rudy Giuliani having helmed the dump in 2001, but fear not:\u00a0 Giuliani was an aberration.\u00a0 You have to go back to 1971 to find a Republican prior to Rudy, and indeed, Gotham City has only produced four Republican mayors in the last 103 years.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus points to Los Angeles, which has reported several cases of bubonic plague (yes, that bubonic plague), and many cases of typhus, due to rampant rat infestation, unchecked immigration, garbage everywhere, and &#8220;homeless&#8221; who like to shit in the streets.\u00a0 Eric Garcetti, Nancy Pelosi, and Gavin Newsom have a solution:\u00a0 bring in more unvetted illegals from Mexico, the country that features 12 of the 50 cities with the highest homicide rates in the world.\u00a0 Central and South American cities as a whole account for 41 of the aforementioned 50 cities with highest homicide rates, but FaceTuck Nancy and soy boys Eric and Gavin will tell you that the caravans making their way north are full of Rhodes Scholars and budding young engineers just waiting for a shot at the American Dream.<\/p>\n<p>All the Democrats need, they say, is to be rid of those pesky, racist Republicans, and, of course, more of your taxpayer dollars!!\u00a0 LOL!!\u00a0 You just can&#8217;t fix stupid!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 23, 2019 &nbsp; Good morning, boys and girls.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s play a game.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to submit a list of 14 &#8220;shithole&#8221; cities followed by a date.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s see if you can guess the significance of said dates, keeping in mind that these cities represent the worst this country has to offer.\u00a0 These are all &hellip; 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