Gridlock

By artappraiser on Wed, 10/20/2021 - 4:15pm |

Protesters causing it. TOTALLY COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. The system as built and which people currently have to use to survive: roads for vehicular traffic. The only people who have a positive reaction to your protests: the lucky who don't have to get anywhere.

These people illegally shut down the two main arteries to Manhattan:

This morning climate activists shut down the FDR for 2 hours and the Westside Highway. Climate action needs to happen now. @XR_NYC #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #ClimateStrike #ClimateCrisis #nycprotest #WakeUp @protest_nyc pic.twitter.com/fhM9m1eqJr
— Megan (@mwatsonnyc) October 25, 2021

These people should know better; they no doubt had a permit which they got by the permit givers knowing it would be counterproductive:

'We will not comply!': NYC workers protest vax mandate with march across Brooklyn Bridge https://t.co/3zHCtbXc7w pic.twitter.com/vyzHY6LvBi
— New York Post (@nypost) October 25, 2021

NOW - Large protest against vaccine mandates in New York City.pic.twitter.com/2zvqrlZIhE
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) October 25, 2021

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Supply side economics?

https://digbysblog.net/2021/10/24/yeah-its-the-economy-sigh/

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/25/2021 - 4:31pm

compare this very serious protest by those with immediate terrible problems, to the above silly people:

New York yellow taxi drivers started a hunger strike this week, calling for relief on crippling loans they took out to purchase permits to drive cabs.

A brief thread:
— Rozina Ali (@rozina_ali) October 22, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/25/2021 - 6:27pm

The cabbies won what they wanted!:

After a month and a half sit in, and 15 days of hunger strike, the @NYTWA cabbies won. https://t.co/N5gYoZrCuY
— Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) November 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 11/03/2021 - 9:12pm

Amen! But both protesters and lefty commenter. Same as BLM brats from Brooklyn!

This is alienating to people, not endearing or persuasive. https://t.co/e9JTrYY2yj
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) October 25, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/26/2021 - 12:08am

Keep in mind the NYPD is majority minority. So this crowd is not representative of the NYPD. It's kind of convenient that the double-down Trumpian hold outs in the NYPD and FDNY are so willing to self identify. I think they should remember that Trump got the vaccine.
— Peter Moskos (@PeterMoskos) October 26, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/26/2021 - 3:00am

More counter-productivity:

This is absolutely disgusting behavior. It's not calculated to persuade but to inflict pain, including pain on an innocent family on one of the most important days of their lives. https://t.co/foUBBzHbEf
— David French (@DavidAFrench) October 30, 2021

It's definitely "cancel culture", i.e. don't invite Sinema to your wedding, expel her from society, make her a pariah

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/31/2021 - 3:39pm

Wake up to what is happening https://t.co/2yt0ctOypu
— Todd Walker (@ToddWalker) October 31, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/31/2021 - 8:22pm

Well gosh darn,I am so impressed; that should really convince the Senator, doncha think!? Surely he's gonna make a 180 turn now!

Reason #2 Manchin shouldn’t own a car pic.twitter.com/FEwDXhkgVz
— Marjorie Gaylor Queen (@Tim_Tweeted) November 4, 2021

Such great P.R., too, winning friends and influencing people!

Activists swarm Joe Manchin's Maserati as he tries to leave parking garage https://t.co/ZvdplwonfC pic.twitter.com/493ka7PKBd
— New York Post (@nypost) November 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/05/2021 - 1:36am

Well they already got a nice publicity bump for themselves with their anti-Jewish boycott, so they had to be creative to top that. https://t.co/EA4bKoYVTz
— David Frum (@davidfrum) November 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/05/2021 - 3:18am

James Fallows, media vs ppl

https://digbysblog.net/2021/11/09/lets-talk-about-msm/

Also example how to judge Biden (fairly and accurately)

https://fallows.substack.com/p/what-we-learned-at-the-town-hall

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 11/10/2021 - 1:09am

The crash happened at the San Francisco entrance to the bridge, where a few hundred anti-vaccine protesters had gathered for what they optimistically described as a “nationwide walkout” against vaccine mandates https://t.co/LU96j5WZgj
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 13, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 11/13/2021 - 1:25am

this meme never even entered my mind until now -

pic.twitter.com/R32Dcp1gyy
— JokerMakeupJacobite (@ClwnPrncCharlie) November 15, 2021

hat tip: Yglesias retweet

by artappraiser on Tue, 11/16/2021 - 6:39am

Is that Gwyneth Paltrow? did it give us Gwyneth Paltrow? Now that's apocalyptic.

BTW - if they're already on the San Francisco Bridge, what's to keep them from leaping off?
Need to build an access ramp?

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 11/16/2021 - 10:34am

doh, anarchy is anarchizing

Certain spectacles--the tiki torch march in Charlottesville, rioting and looting of cities, antifa in Portland, the January 6 storming of the Capitol--are radicalizing. The people who engage in them all but guarantee responses in reaction that add to the toll of damage to society
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) November 20, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/19/2021 - 7:31pm

This is how the Italians deal with climate change activists blocking the roads. Admirable. Be more like them. pic.twitter.com/B9nsSAh5Vr
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 17, 2022

Note likes so far: 46,800; retweets: 12,500.

by artappraiser on Sat, 06/18/2022 - 8:27pm

Meanwhile, in France.... https://t.co/BgBoebnlPy
— The New Culture Forum (@NewCultureForum) October 31, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/31/2022 - 3:26pm

.^ note the large # of approving replies on GD1964's original tweet

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/31/2022 - 7:15pm

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