And You Thought Project 2025 Was Bad
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Against my better judgement, I accepted the idea that Project 2025 isn't Trump's "real" plan, and instead looked into Agenda 47, which I was assured by certain viewers was much more reasonable (and an accurate description of what Trump proposes to do if he wins back the presidency). What I found was disturbing on more levels than I can count.
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@@CityNerd you should do a video about the impacts of down payment assistance. Kamala Harris isnt talking about building better housing just dumping money into an already inflated system. Million dollar starter homes here we come!
It's funny because Chuck from StrongTowns is about as libertarian as one can get, but according to radical pro-car politicians, he's a "woke Marxist leftist". Speaking of which, I'm attending a presentation by Chuck himself on the housing trap tonight! Can't wait!
Man, I wanted to like this channel, But you're more interested in thinking he Democrats actually care about you than to look at better ideas.
Agenda 47 is better than anything the Democrats have, because the Democrats only had Bernie Sanders' plan, which can't be implemented, due to the corruption of the Democratic Party.
So sad that I have to Unsubscribe because I think Agenda 47 Is the best answer to America.
You seemed like a cool dude, until this Pro Democratic Party Bullshit showed up.
Bye.
@@Civil_Maniac As a "planner" - and thereby a fantasist - CityNerd (checks notes) fails to grok the impact of nearly 15 years of ZIRP.
Signed up for Nebula - but is not having promo segments really a bonus, given how much of your appeal is your amusingly dry delivery?
Suggestion of the week: spoof promo segments for products you really do like and or want to lampoon. See you at Cannes!
PS: much happier to support you on Nebula than on Patreon... the video curation and playback experience on Patreon leaves much to be desired.
Thanks for not staying away from political topics. City planning/ car centric infrastructure is political
Not true. Our efforts promote traditionalism and deregulation. This channel is a hack
Just an extension of the neo-liberal dystopia which is the great United States of America
City planning/car-centric infrastructure shouldn't be political, but unfortunately, it is.
@@CarlVonFozzy ? it's inherently political. city planning is enacted through legislation and is the medium through which the locations, type of housing, modes of transportation, and other resources are distributed, and most importantly, to WHO.
@@critiqueofthegothgf I would even say it literally, etymologically comes from city (from the greek polis). Same for the word "citizen" by the way.
It's scary that you filmed this before the VP Debate and JDivans (the Republican VP candidate) basically quoted these policies, including repeating lies about legal Haitian immigrants in his own home state.
It's just absurd if it weren't so organised and terrifying; just because the lead mouthpiece is not fully there doesn't mean the people behind It isn't deadly serious.
I was a bit disappointed to Walz's response to some of those things. I guess the whole urbanism message hasn't got through to the Harris campaign yet. And it is terrifying.
Lies about Haitian immigrants? Unmitigated immigrations puts a burden on all public resources, and infrastructure.
@@MofoMan2000It feels like the Democratic adoption of many issues pertinent to folks like me is sort of one step at a time. I was hoping in 2020 that the Biden campaign would focus on rebuilding infrastructure (especially passenger rail transportation, something I have always been passionate about), and the infrastructure bill was a response I felt pleased by.
Now in 2024 they talk about housing, but because there is probably some degree of slowness for major established parties to adopt new platforms without a serious electoral challenge, maybe their candidate will look at sustainable urban development in 2028 or 2032, though by that time I will hopefully be in a far different place in life.
The Haitian immigrants in Ohio are mostly legal, but they are not immigrants who entered through the regular immigration process with a green card according to laws passed by Congress, and they are not technically legal refugees either..
They are mostly here under the status of Temporary Protected Status, which is based on executive action on the part of the Biden administration. It is a temporary status that applies until January 2026 to immigrants who arrive in the US was from handful of specific countries, one of which is Haiti. They do not all arrive here legally, they may cross the border illegally and still receive this temporary status.
When the Biden administration decided to apply this status to immigrants from Haiti, the number of immigrants from Haiti immediately tripled. There was so much documentation fraud related to that process that the Biden administration halted it for a month this August. Given the amount of fraud involved, it's a stretch to claim these are all "legal" immigrants, many are likely not meeting the legal requirements for sponsorship and documentation. And this isn't what most people would identify as standard legal immigration which involves a green card and immigration law as outlined by Congress. And they are technically only temporarily legal until January 2026.
Just correcting some assertions here with the actual facts, there is some nuance to the statement that this is legal immigration.
@@kevinwoolley7960 Haitians have had TPS (created by Congress with authority to extend specifically designated to the Executive branch) since 2010. Trump attempted to end it in 2017 but was blocked by the courts. The 2022 designation stood at 155,000 going back to 2010. As of March 4 of this year ~200k Haitians had TPS designation, again, going back to 2010. The new designation would increase that by 309k. Their entrance to the country is essentially immaterial, if they are approved for status they're legally here.
Complaining they didn't enter with a green card (of which there are multiple types) ignores all other legal routes like TPS, asylum claims etx. Heck, TPS designations ending results in deportation...which republicans love.
The issue is TPS may only be apply for in the United States as we don't give states where they reside financial help....as evidenced by the original complain from Sprignfield.
I find it really funny that a person from a family that made their money off multi family dwellings and multi business buildings is so pro single family home. I have a hard time believing it but he said it so it must be true.
Rules don't apply to him
Reading comments here are a breath of fresh air. You can have reasonable doubts about an actual plan and be reluctant to vote for a candidate promoting that plan and vote for a candidate with a plan. What you can’t do and have me respect you as an intelligent decision maker is vote for the candidate who had the job before and has no plan. But he finds the time and energy to tryout every remotely believable conspiracy theory he thinks will help his campaign and hold on to them after being proven false.
Trump’s father developed apartments in Brooklyn and Queens. But Donald himself developed urban high rise condo apartments. I wonder how his suburban voters would feel if they knew about Trump Tower.
I’m sure those single family homes will be owned by huge, absentee, real estate conglomerates renting them out for inflated prices. Not to be owned by single families. Just rented.
What do you mean? He lives in his own home, complete with its own golf course and spa
I deal with visitors all the time. Conservative visitors are always shocked that Atlanta is safe. It always feels like their vision of cities and ATLANTA is from 80's dystopian movies like.... 'escape from NY', Detroit Robocop, judge dred, demolition man, etc
Still hoping to see a featured episode during your Atlanta visit. Ask #37
It's the same with most cities. When we were going back to visit Denver for 3 weeks, we were warned about how it was a virtual war zone, overtaken by Venezuelan gangs. It's not. There are problems, but it was fine.
We also went to Detroit, and all my family outside the city is too afraid to visit the city. The city has plenty of problems, but again, we spent plenty of time in the city with no issues.
Fox News, and the right wing media has portrayed cities as dangerous hell holes.
It’s disgusting how these urbanist channels are making partisan agendas. It’s no wonder after 3-4 decades, sprawl hasn’t been curtailed.
I was in Chicago this May, it was fine. I’m often in Boston and Providence - again both are fine
I have family in the Atlanta suburbs, and the news channels really don’t help in the perception of downtown Atlanta, which I visited multiple times growing up and consistently felt fairly safe doing so.
When it comes to how they wouldn’t expect Atlanta to be safe, I find it hard to assume at this point that some of their objections are in good faith. You can probably guess.
@@DiamondKingStudios let's be honest, they don't want the cities to be safe, because would undermine the narrative that liberals are bad.
It’s kinda weird seeing him dismiss EVs, while also being best buds with Elon. Actually no, less competition from other american automakers would be good for him.
Imagine he starts getting into supporting hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, which sound futuristic but also rely on fossil fuels to produce the hydrogen (so the big oil companies aren’t made totally irrelevant and can support it). I have relatives who have been convinced by conservative media to think EVs are some scary boogeyman (I have my own reservations but I find it ridiculous), and they tell me that hydrogen cars are the future because while they like that there aren’t really as bad tailpipe emissions (so they say), they aren’t so concerned about hydrogen production, all the while claiming that EV battery production is an environmental disaster (which may be true, but I’d like for them to be consistent in scrutinizing hydrogen, which they clearly aren’t).
Grifters flock together.
CityNerd 2028
Transportation Secretary!
According to RUclips, this needs to be translated to English.
I think this is a strange way for RUclips to request that it wants to know more about this.
Ray gets my vote
@@rockobonaparteRUclips endorses Ray?
Imagine
That's part of the problem, the alt-left isn't stuff like this, it is Jill Stein-like nonsense. In most of the country, candidates who share any aspect of this vision don't exist.
I love how you can be totally sarcastic without even changing your tone of voice
"That's my secret: I'm always sarcastic."
The irony of the Republican resistance to multi-family housing is it’s rooted in the libertarian argument that government should not hinder development
It’s disgusting how these urbanist channels are making partisan agendas. It’s no wonder after 3-4 decades, sprawl hasn’t been curtailed.
I've been happy to see lots of anti-NIMBY rhetoric on libertarian subreddits in the past few months tbh. Republicans are just practicing total cognitive dissonance
That’s the excuse they give, but at its core the aversion to multifamily housing is just thinly veiled racism/classism based on the idea that cities and urban density attract a “certain kind of people” that they don’t want in their neighborhoods. Very little of the current Republican voter base is actually in favor of taking away local control over zoning and density regulations, which is why the places that have done zoning reform to eliminate single family zoning and streamline development of new housing have been progressive states (CA, MN, WA, OR) and blue cities in otherwise red states like Boise and Austin
@@JordanPeaceEven the average American as the Republican Party imagines will still need to rely on some form of multi-family housing at some stage of his life, usually out of college but before marriage. Except in a few regions (mostly rural), few but the wealthier Americans can just move into a single-family house out of college, even the rare small ones.
But then again maybe it is about the property values of the 50+ year old homeowners.
Tell me in which states or cities is it easier to build, red or blue? Which cities tie up multifamily construction with years long permitting procedures? This is certainly starting to change, but it is ludicrous to blame the shortage of multifamily housing in our cities on the party that controls almost no cities at the mayoral and city council level.
You are a gift to this country, CN. Thank you.
It’s disgusting how these urbanist channels are making partisan agendas. It’s no wonder after 3-4 decades, sprawl hasn’t been curtailed.
7:00 The man actually wants to make Sanctuary Districts like Star Trek Deep Space Nine. He will not let 2024 end without the Bell Riots
I can't get enough political policy projects that are titled "Word+Number."
Hopefully he covers Sum 41 next, it's the most insidious one yet.
@@Davemon115 Blink-182 will be the end of us all. Not to mention Front 242 or Omega-3.
Order 66
And then after Agenda 47 is trashed, he'll disavow it and claim his new plan is Formula 409.
@@isaacho4573 66?!? What am I going to do with 66 of them?
Weird that a guy who, when he's not going bankrupt, develops high density housing in cities is going to save the suburbs.
@@nacoran Yeah, why have HUD get involved?
Thank you for reporting on Donald’s childlike ramblings and how harmful he would be to our community and society at large. It’s incomprehensible that anyone is still taking the former president seriously after his true cards have been revealed time and time again.
Correct! I prefer administrations that enjoy meddling in affairs around the globe and embrace the support of Dick Cheney.
@@jimmydee1130if you don’t prefer Harris over Trump I really don’t know what to say. And of ALL the flaws to pick with Harris, Dick Cheney’s endorsement??? Democrats have embraced that endorsement because a neoconservative finally realizing Trump has gone way too far and endorsing a liberal is the ultimate proof of their campaign thesis that the MAGA GOP is far too far right for America. It’s an electoral benefit to their appeal among moderates, of course they love it. They don’t love CHENEY, they just love his endorsement. Obviously.
It is borderline insanity that anyone is taking him seriously much less even voting for him
I love how they open with "A conservative administration is a NIMBY administration"
@@robertivaniszyn840 It’s harder to build dense areas in CA than Texas
@@Cyrus992 Yes, way harder, this isn't an issue for federal or even mostly for state government, it's a city and county level zoning problem, and Democratic enclaves and cities are notorious for regulatory delays, SF until at least very recently being one of the worst, but many many such examples
What I wish more people realized that project 2025 is literally explicitly for when/if vance becomes president.
Plan 9 from Outer Space -----The good old days, when plans were still in single digits.
LOL!
The only thing that sounds stupider than trump is a trump quote read dead pan
I can't believe this.....former President is allowed to run, let alone speak. "The police will do their job", just like they shot 4 people in a subway station over $2.90. And for people to not think that urbanism is not political blows my mind. I am glad you are not shying away from the issues that effect us all.
Which is worse, Trump or that so many people still support him despite literally everything he says and does
Also Simon is great but his 40k army choice is not
The worst is the two together, like a toxic couple that no one can invite anywhere
What do we gain from the millions of migrants?
Trump is a symptom of a larger underlying problem in the United States.
@@Cyrus992 i dont know, everything you have?? america was built on immigration
I'm all for CityNerd being a part of Harris' HUD team once she's president
Thank you for speaking up and doing this incredibly important work. Now more than ever it's important to hear voices like yours share expertise and give fact-based analysis in the face of a post-truth world. We need more people like you who take a pragmatic approach to solving the issues at hand.
A strong, measured rebut of the dangerous policies Trump is proposing like this truly DOES make a difference. I've shared so many of your videos with friends and family to great impact, and this will be no different.
Standing behind you and with all our other urbanist friends on the right side of history!
11:44 "Finally, I will challenge the governors of all 50 states to join me in a great modernization and beautification campaign........and building towering monuments to our true American heroes"
Huh, isn't that what those white-cape, horse-riding Southerners have done with their Confederate "heroes" for the last century? Or what all those brutal Soviet leaders like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and the Kims have done?
Strongmen really be strongmenning.
I like beautiful, modern cities and monuments as much as the next guy, but having such a top-down approach to me gives a worse impression than some local community effort.
It was federal highway construction, after all, for the sake of “modernization”, that have left scars in many cities that persist to this day.
If a government authority wants to put a monument to or statue of a historical figure in a public commons or some other space that civilians would consider prominent, I’d like for there to be a session of community involvement and feedback beforehand to ensure that the monument is able to express civic pride in a way that doesn’t sharply divide the community or give the appearance of endorsing ideas or principles most in the community would be against. If the Department of the Interior or HUD was just slapping down monuments in cities left and right it would feel like an imposition, and it wouldn’t sit right with me.
Here before the bigotry.
I just can't understand why someone would be so bigoted as to oppose good housing policies, even when said housing policies are better for the economy than the pro-segregation suburban sprawl.
@@crowmob-yo6rybecause the US has destroyed certain communities and people don’t want to live around unhealed, desperate people. We should heal people and meet their needs but that’s not the American way.
Sorry to the bearer of bad news, but bigotry has been around for awhile.
It would be nice to hear about your thoughts about the debate, that happened last night. With JD Vance and Tim Waltz. I do know that they mentioned a few urbanist things like housing.
It’s disgusting how these urbanist channels are making partisan agendas. It’s no wonder after 3-4 decades, sprawl hasn’t been curtailed.
Kind of beside the point but after the VP debate last night, it’s terrifying how many Americans are WAY more ok with lying fascists such as JD Vance as long as they sound and look slick
Public image and presentation certainly plays a part in many elections here, especially after television.
Known thing, most people won't check for info so if you look reliable and say something they like and give them a person to hate, they won't care if they are being led like sheep, especially in a country like the US in which and I am sorry to say this, critical thought has been murdered in a mercyless way and the goalposts moven so far towards insanity that as other people have said, the European extreme far right which is terrifying is just the republican party, with the democrats just being the same ideology but not so murdery, nothing good can come from such an odd division
I'm gonna move to a freedom city to sit in traffic for 3 hours a day 😊
That city is called Houston 😅
Florida in a nutshell.
Move to a low density area and be truly free.
Who doesn’t want the freedom to have two hour commutes and traffic jams
@@stark5353If I’m going to do that, I’d build a house way out in the woods and relatively far from other properties. Not those suburbs that try to square the circle of housing hundreds or thousands but trying to give each homeowner a sense of distance/space/privacy creating strange arrays of spaced-apart houses as far as the eye can see.
CityNerd the goat fr
It's wild his campaign staff didn't even try and edit it
And that's after it was named by one of his kids, after playing a Hitman game
6:57 - there was a time when they decided to put all the “disturbed” people in mental institutions. It quickly turned into a gross violation of human rights and dignity. As a “mentally ill” person myself who has seen the inside of psych wards, this is not it. The rhetoric of “lets put all the undesirables away in institutions” is dehumanizing and a nonstarter in terms of actually solving homelessness and mental health crises
It was also a very handy way to get rid of “problem” women. s/
Especially with children. If the general consensus was to put toddlers showing signs of autism into these facilities when I was about two or three, I wouldn’t have been able to integrate into being a relatively normal member of society nearly as easily, if at all.
I’m rather grateful that we made developments in that area, certainly including developments within the quarter-century before I was born.
@@DiamondKingStudiosi shiver just imagining it, it isn't only the mixing of autistic people which in many cases(such as me) can live a very normal life with actual patients with mental illnesses that need help, but the experiments, the actual torture that is recorded to have happened, anyone trying to sell intern camps for a group of people as something good has a hidden hate for that group
@@Solstice261 I think the diagnosis papers are still there for me. I worry that a government somehow less friendly than the proposed Trump administration could point to those and try to claim I’m mentally incompetent, regardless of my ability to prove otherwise.
@@DiamondKingStudios think that they are all to lazy to actually do that kind of research, the problem is the loss of pretty much any help or consideration for neuro divergent people, and I dread for children since when I was a kid I "looked autistic" and i imagine that is what those people actually think a mental illness is, "behaving weird" instead of any actual illness, let alone separate neurodibergent conditions like ASD and ADHD from mental illnesses, for the good of young people being born I hope those people never get enough support to do what they want
I didn't realize the Motel 6 was considered a luxury hotel. I'm glad DT told me the truth!
@@adaywithoutdonald64 he was referring to Manhattan
@@Cyrus992and there are budget hotels there too
@@ecurewitz ok
"low cost housing coming to your suburbs" All the dogs in my building started barking... Surely I am not the only one to hear some seriously racist overtones in that.
Especially since the previous bit was about making SFHs cheaper and more accessible. (by definition making ALL housing low cost -- I guess only if you are certain people)
If I win the lottery, I’m moving to the big city
not gonna lie though, i'd totally support the idea of creating a few new cities from the ground up, if they were transit oriented from the get go... imagine... you build the transit -first-, maybe some good intercity rail connections to get people out to it easily...
I'm pretty sure these new cities aren't going to care about anyone not pumping gas 😂
Man I love my EV. Cost me about $20k, gets 280 real miles on a charge. It's always ready when I feel like driving instead of biking. It's quiet, clean, the cost for energy is about 20% of gasoline.. the AC is stronger than any gas car I've ever had, there's no catalytic convertor to be stolen (ask why I care) and I can go on. The only problem is it's still a car and I definitely prefer any other mode of transportation so it's kind of a "longer trip/last resort". My spouse also has a hybrid which I'm looking at converting to plugin, but that takes us on the vacations across the US.. and she refuses to bike so there's that.
The scary thing is the number of people who will accept these unhinged rants at face value. Trump is unleashing a tsunami of lies that is drowning out all truth and reason. Even if Harris/Walz win in November (and I fervently pray they do), we still have the unenviable task of deprogramming millions of Americans.
For those bigots and denialists, try to use that last sliver of integrity to stay away from this community, thanks.
Mail in votin has started in PA, MI and WI
Also in Utah. I'm overseas and I was able to cast my ballot electronically. Overseas voter should check what options they have.
The irony is that Trump was a New Yorker and lived in MANHATTAN of all places for decades...
Side note: love that New Mexico United shirt 💛
Thanks again for making these videos, Ray. They are so important!
As others have mentioned, City Nerd 2028?
Omg the language sounded as seemingly drunkenly incoherent rambling as I'd expected 😂🤣 we're all going to hell. You can forget it everybody hahahaha
I like when you make these videos related to the election. Because urbanism IS inherently political
I was in Portland 3 and half days last month as part of a multi-location Oregon vacation. I walked over 25 miles over those days and I did come across homeless (especially in Old Town), but I never felt in danger & I didn't leave the city feeling like it was a shit-hole. In fact, I loved the city!
Facts. I live in Portland and it’s not nearly as bad or shitty as conservatives and the media will make it out to be. Yes there is a quite a bit of homeless but I never feel unsafe here.
Homeless people are a symptom of society not helping people get by after a bad moment in their life most homeless people were usually normal residents a couple years ago and won't be violent unless it is earned, a lot of homeless people will become reclusive or dodgy as police harass them and houses citizens treat them as if they had done something to deserve the situation they are in , is it really that unexpected that in cities where homeless people are treated as evil, they become less willing to interact, luckily if what you say is true it means in Portland people treat them like human beings
During the trump years, I lived in a tiny town in northeastern Vermont (population 328). Huge drug problems there. After my first winter, on the first morning after the snow melted, I walked down Main Street from my home to the post office. Main Street was LITTERED with spent syringes. I mean-everwhere. They had been thrown out of car windows all through the winter and had been hidden under the snow. Later, in the summer, I took a shortcut through the woods to go from a friend’s house back to my house. Along the path, I found a fresh rack of heroin, waiting for a pick up. I left it there and went home to call the State Troopers, and, of course, they couldn’t get to the site anytime soon because there were only, like six of them for the entire, geographically huge county and this wasn’t a priority. I think it was like, five hours later when they got there, and the purchaser was already gone. We lost seven people to fentanyl that year. Kimberly Clark had destroyed the only paper plant and moved it to China a few years before. Another paper mill had turned the local river into a Supersite clean up project that had n’t yet been funded. I mean. Come on. Complain about the cities when it is conservative policies that created these messes everywhere.
What a pity, Vermont is such a beautiful state, it deserves more attention if it has been so neglected
Can’t wait for Plan 53 after this one gets backlash
Dude you've hit on a gold mine... Deadpan reading of Donald Trump speeches, what comedy gold. Though I'd fear for your mental health after doing that for longer than 10 minutes.
Can't wait to see "Freedom Cities" in Badlands National Monument and Great Basin National Park. /s
I’m imagining the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of the Interior having fights over the placement of the cities (with the Interior representing concerns of both the National Park Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs), and the fallout of those spats leading to a series of highly-publicized cabinet firings and other scandals. Political historians would find a new holiday to affix the term “Massacre” right after real quick.
And then after those cities get up and running, the skeleton of an EPA tries to get their two cents in because something happened to the Yellowstone River or some other feature.
How long will the “freedom city” of Pine Ridge last? We’ll see if we have to find out come November.
listening to this guy read quotes from donald trump has to be the funniest thing i've heard all week
Ok the “whether or not it’s worth it depends on you and your preferred actuarial table” got me good lol
Anyone who cares about good city design cannot vote for Don!
Do you have thoughts on Prop 33 and 34 in California? Two seemingly housing and rent related propositions on the election cycle this year. Yes on Prop 33 in particular is endorsed by some good folks, but No on Prop 33 is also endorsed by CA Apartment Association and a group called YIMBY Action?
What prop 33 does is take the ability to enact rent control and moves it from being restricted and allowed within the boundaries of state legislations into the hands of local governments. The ballot initiative somewhat misleadingly frames this as this removing legal restrictions to allow these programs to expand beyond the limitations in said law, which is true, but it'd also allow local governments to end or greatly cut rent control, which many republicans in red and purple counties have argued for. Rather than fixing the issue by amending state law to work properly, which would fix the issue state-wide, this ballot initiative would help housing access and urban development in most counties containing big cities but would thus hurt it in many other areas, including potentially many of the purple and red suburban counties around some of the big cities in CA that also suffer the same issues.
I appreciate your sarcasm.
sadly, the current new built suburbs of Portland consists of blocks of multifamily housing with NO local stores. they are only marginally better than single family house suburbs.
Yeah, as much as this channel and other urbanism content on RUclips argues for increased density, I think the biggest issue I see is that even in places that do build medium or high density, there’s often still a complete segregation of zoning forms. No corner stores in single family neighborhoods, no ground floor office/retail space in medium density apartment complexes, and even entire condo towers with no pedestrian activity at the street level. More than increasing density, I think allowing for mixed use zoning needs to be something we’re more vocal about, and seems like something that could actually be supported regardless of political views or affinity for urban density if the framing of the issue was well presented.
I feel like it’d be easier to run a small business in carpentry, for example, if I could just use my garage as a workshop and sell from my front porch or out on the driveway, supposing I had a typical single-family detached house.
And in the same way, I’d go to local restaurants more often if there was one on a street corner I could just walk to amid all the houses.
But zoning, I guess…
@@DiamondKingStudios You could, once, before smarty-pants "urban planners" placed their jack-boot on the throat of American entrepreneurs.
@@JordanPeaceit's harder to legislate allowing for the construction of small supermarkets, since it really isn't even considered anymore, than it is to allow higher density so you often get this, where the higher density was achieved but they couldn't be bothered to allow any amenities to be built alongside
@@DiamondKingStudios personally, I prefer not to have neighbors. but for those who want to live an urban lifestyle, it can't be done with living space separated from workspace, separated from shopping space. I mean, even my town has figured out having commercial space on the ground floor and residential space on top of it works.
So, not only does he have concepts of an affordable health plan alternative, but also has concepts of an agenda, too.
The guy lied saying his 10k sqft condo was 30k sqft and said it was the bank's fault for believing him. So anyone who listens to him and believes what he said is a fool
I watch on Nebula first, then come here to write comments and click like.
I wonder if watching at 2.0 speed counts as much to the algorithm here.
"Totally normal American accent."
Who's gonna tell him?
Haven't you heard? Its Brainstorm48 now.
single-family homes, notably challenging to build in the US!
What can we say to the people who support this talk? Is it really about 40% of Americans? This is the challenge the urbanist faces. It seems daunting.
Reading actual transcripts of Trump is always a treat, an awful treat. I dunno how Joe Biden got so much flak for his gaffs when Trump rambles incoherent nonsense with the vocabulary of a 2nd grader. Trump really only gets by because he's animated and talks so hyperbolically because if you were to only read transcripts of his speeches they're basically unintelligible.
He gets by because the media gives him a pass for everything.
@@happycommuter3523and then quite ironically whenever he says something so absurd that even they can't let it pass, trump fans accuse the media of bias against trump and turn him into a martyr, I am convinced trump is actually the head of a cult of personality
Always happy to see your videos pop up in my feed, even when they are about unsavory topics. Thanks for doing what you do!
Is there an official comment section bingo card for these types of videos?
P25 mentions Trump 312 times out of
Voting is not enough. We are living in a world where the best option is the sister-in-law to the Chief Lawyer of Uber, a company that uses algorithms to pay people different amounts for the same job.
Yeah, but it's the bare minimum we should/could be doing but people only seem to care on the presidential election year
Voting local every year would have the greatest effect over anything else rn, especially on city zoning
Until you read the quote, I didn't realize how much the cadence of a trump rant matches a Wesley Willis song
Wow project 2025 with just a coat of paint
And bad painting at that
"I don't even need a fact check on that, because it's so obviously true." 🤣 Well said.
Thanks for your hard work Ray!
Basically it’s all just Reaganomics, which is just old fashion Neoclassical Economics.
Already seen this on Nebula, but gotta make sure to like and watch again so my man gets that RUclips Premium watch time from me.
Incarcerating homeless people in camps and how bad an idea that is, is literally the plot of a Star Trek episode where the gang goes back in time to *checks notes* Labor Day weekend 2024
Goddamit, that's another time star trek non-chalantly predicts the future, and this one is dreadfully bad
10 New cities sounds great! Get 10 Architect and Urban Design Teams from all over the world and let them build a modern City. A dutch city next to a japanese city next to a spanish city next to....
or you just build more suburbs
The Dutch, Japanese, and Spanish fixed their existing cities. Suburbs were the “new city”.
Them calling Democrats Marxist blows my mind every time.
They don’t even know what it means. It just sounds scary Cold War. Hilarious considering how the GQP adores Putin and his ilk.
2:50 Corporate Average Fuel Economy, is referred to as "CAFÉ standards". As in, no more coffee rings on the table cloth.
These are the people who think they're qualified to run the executive.
I think you mean "covfefe standards".
@@agilemind6241”despite the constant negative fuel economy standards”
As in, "CAFE" is functionally "café" when pronounced and it helps with memorization. Ain't nobody ever confused it with being a restaurant, until today.
My boyfriend always says you have an Ellensburg accent (unprompted). He's from Yakima, we live in Seattle, but I'm from the Bay Area so I don't have an opinion on that.
you couldnt pay me enough to live in the middle of nowhere. cookie cutter suburban housing makes me wretch. & i hate cars with a passion (for good reason. trauma reasons). living in a single-family home around nothing, having to drive everywhere, would be my own personal hell
Donald Trump at the Heritage Foundation: “This is a great group and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detailed plans of exactly what our movement will do”
And somehow a bunch of Americans herd that and didn't immediately burst out laughing at the idea of the heritage foundation being anything else than racist science deniers that only defend the interests of the companies that pay them
I can't financially support but thank you for this.
I think a video about the Quad Cities would be awesome! It's a mid-sized area that's well-centered amongst many larger cities. The cities started growing before the automobile, so their downtowns are historic and walkable. I think they've also done a decent job implementing the public transportion bus system despite its medium size. The amtrak proposal from Chicago has also been in the works for quite some time and may finally have backing with state funding. The downtowns have several revitalization projects ongoing, especially on the riverfronts in Moline, Rock Island, and Davenport. I could go on and on. This area is really lovely, though it has its issues and could DEFINITELY work on improving walk/bikeability as I'd say most people are quite car dependent at the moment.
"Magnificent it was" - what is he, Yoda?
Love the New Mexico United shirt!
Thank you, Mr. RUclipsr man. Very cool.
We should give the designers of the interstate system credit on having a plan to create something which had no precedent, and which focused on reducing decision points.
The "migrants in luxury hotels" thing is true! (In Massachusetts)
And it's because of the general housing crisis, which extends to hotels too. Massachusetts does not *want* to put migrants up in luxury hotels, but there is literally no other place to put them. A lack of affordable had led to many financially precarious families having to live in hotels as well as the migrants
I like the notion of people unfollowing a channel around improving our cities due to political reasons. Would they also be upset if you did videos on redlining? Videos on the sort of neighborhoods that were bulldozed for interstate highways? It seems difficult to square that a card carrying MAGA ever made it here and liked enough to subscribe without realizing their party's politicians are actively pining for more of that. Probably the same folks mad at professional sports leagues for "being political" like somehow political stands in sports are new.
Vance takes his cues from Curtis Yarvin, who has said, "If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator phobia." Have you seen the clip of Vance talking about how influenced he has been by Yarvin? Rachel Maddow focuses on this connection in two recent episodes.
10:45 Unsettled continent? UNSETTLED? ...who am I kidding these kind of ...people don't consider Native Americans human.
Me who was actually born in the drug capital of America and in the drug capital, these people would not be exaggerating about how bad it is.
Gee what a shock. He plans to build the Germania wet dream of his hero.
The incarceration and camps part sounds like a Star Trek: DS9 episode about the Bell Riots in San Francisco's sanctuary district/Tenderloin
Every time I hear "send in the National Guard" I'm reminded of the paper I read ages ago titled The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 by Charles J. Dunlap Jr. You should give it a read.
Fitting a "policy" line to the scatterplot of Trump's statements result in yuge RSME. Like RSME you've never seen. Enormous RSME.
Great video. Simon, keeping camera bodies and lenses on little pegboard hangers is absolute insanity, but you do you!
Renewable energy is actually some of the cheapest around. Look at Canada, their electricity is extremely cheap because it is mostly hydroelectric.
Canada, Norway, just the whole of Europe having to actually fight with the system to calculate electricity price using LNG as a base because when renewables managed to cover for most of the grid the price was so much lower it went negative, literally the only ones advocating for renewables being more expensive are either climate deniers and therefore don't want something that the associate with climate change and people with vested interests in the industry of fossil fuels going on with business as usual, which means selling electricity at an extremely expensive price by controlling supply, Trump happens to be both
GRACIAS SENOR NERD DE CIUDAD! TE AMO!
how can he get 50% of the vote? you‘re a crazy country
You haven't made it 'till Gerald Undone critiques your video production setup.
what is your favorite warm city?
Oh look , fascism. Who would have guessed
Thanks!
I love this creator's dry sense of humor ha ha
2025 was literally forwarded by Vance lmao pls