someguyincleveland

💥 Let's go ahead and undermine the professionalism of the Planning staff by pretending that small-minded local elected officials know more than they do about traffic engineering and traffic calming.

💥 It's petty! We're allocating $2.3B and you want to quibble about flexposts? This is how fools prioritize things.

💥 The way Polensek stared Calley M. down with his demands and went (I swear I am not making this up) "capiche?" like a mob boss. What the hell.

💥 It's inherently clientelistic. If your Council member is personally dictating every detail of your street environment, then YOU as a constituent become accountable to THEM personally. It's a machine-boss move. It gives the Council member a whole extra set of levers and incentives to distribute.

My favorite bit so far is when Polensek went on a whole harangue about lane "delineators" (which I think are the same as "flexposts") in the streets, and demanded individual personal veto power over every such installation in Ward 10.

There are so many things wrong with this:

I'm not a lawyer but ISTM that judges need to sanction a LOT harder and a LOT faster than they have been.

Seems like everything that could possibly ever be said about "front-loading" driveways has been said.

I'm not sure if all the Members realize that they are responsible for the budget of a medium-sized American city of about 400,000 people and maybe *during the hearing* is not the time you should first become aware of what the various city departments and agencies do.

He seems to be saying ICE would be great if it was more effective. What the hell.

I'm catching up on the budget hearings and honestly what's up with Polensek? Is he okay?

I suppose you could say insisting on the rights of all people, including all trans people, is issuing a "political purity test." But why would you do so, while also ignoring the fact that those who refuse to enter the tent unless you push trans people out are ALSO issuing a political purity test?

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Of course. I stand corrected.

Using the app is a whole entire project in itself.

Half-assing would be an upgrade. They are eighth-assing at best.

Europe applauded.

Eichmann's defense was that he didn't hurt anyone, he just organized the deportations and the camp trains.

They hanged him anyway.

"Doing your job" is being a nazi if it's a nazi job.

I want to be the kind of boss who publicly roasts people who apply for jobs in my organization.

I mean yeah, always (always!) vote hard in the down-ticket, but right now the government is operating so far outside the Constitution that only the President makes policy in any meaningful way. It's wacky to pretend that's not so.

Imagine saying that in the year 2026.

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Dude is going down a whollllle rabbit hole there, and whenever someone asks *what are you doing that is useful?* he can't process the question at all.

No I'm saying TIM's code isn't valuable. Try to focus.

Oh you're talking about the hypothetical value, my mistake, carry on.

How is that the opposite, Tim?

Nothing of value is being produced *and* it feels to you like the right use of time. That's not a contradiction.

And the best case is still wildly illegal. It's still a partisan, vote-seeking speech to military members.

Okay but soldiers shouldn't have to parse the words of the President that hard. Nor should the public.

In the best possible light, it sorta kinda approximates sounding a little bit like an order. And that's still really bad. The President can't even be hinting at things like that.

If your job can be done by a random guessing machine, I have bad news for you about the job you've been doing up to now.

Credulity but also flat ignorance. Media people *do not know things.*

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It really does look as though journalism school teaches you how to do a "journalism product" but not really *inform people.*

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