Who’s running the country?
We in Michigan would really like to know.
Because we’re dying out here.
I saw an African family on the corner of Eight Mile Road and Van Dyke selling used shoes from plastic bags and clothes from roller bags.
The Warren cops ran them off and they crossed over 8 Mile to Detroit.
A white junky on a bicycle took a pair of boots the family left behind.
The VFW hall was torn down after it was purchased by the UAW, who built a union hall in its place.
I like the old VFW HALL.
It had Merle Haggard and Snoop Dog in the jukebox.
Not a soul was at the new UAW hall the Thursday before Labor Day, despite the fact that 2,500 auto workers at the Ram plant will be out on their asses next month.
Add that to the 700 software designers up at the GM Tech Center who were shown the door yesterday.
White collar, blue-collar, pretty soon… No collar.
Warren’s screwed.
The Alibi bar near the plant was doing a brisk business at two o’clock in the afternoon.
It won’t be like that come Thanksgiving.
An autoworker told me his teeth were bad cause he’d rather put his copays towards his kids medical deductible.
His mouth looked like a ruined fence.
The latest contract was good. But not that good.
It’s not preventing layoffs, even after we’ve given the company billions.
There’s old cinder block housing built for the southern war time workers.
People are still living in them.
The row houses look remarkably similar to the sharecroppers shacks from whence there people came.
But these people aren’t leaving.
Can’t. To where? By what means?
The trailer park that the rapper Eminem allegedly grew up in is on 8 Mile Road on the other side of the plant.
He didn’t. It’s a fairy tale.
What’s real is that even though the park is condemned a few pale ghosts live among the blown out windows and open sewer pipes.
Along Eight Mile someone tried to outrun a cop, hit a curb and sheared a tire and linkage off.
The car landed on its remaining three tires and the driver was immediately arrested.
I should expect the driver to be released in no time.
No room at the inn.
The wheels are literally falling off.
That’s the truth in America, east of Broadway.
What acknowledgement do they get from the political class?
Now that they want something, now that it’s clear what they’ve done to you, they pretend to be you.
Because that’s the mood of the country.
Apparently Kamala Harris worked at McDonald’s somewhere in Mississippi judging by the accent.
JD Vance is from Appalachia, which is apparently a suburb of Cincinnati .
And apparently Gretchen Whitmer the poor little rich girl is from Eight Mile.
Stop with the bullshit.
The expert class is desperate.
They’re devoid of answers in the time of populism.
We don’t need you to be like us.
We need you to do right by us.
So why won’t you?
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