Pittsburgh's new mayor, Ed Gainey, was in office for less than a week before he stepped on a flaming bag of dog shit. For some reason, Pittsburgh ended up on a shortlist to host the 2024 Republican National Convention and the mayor, along with other city and county elected officials, came out in favor of having this great white stroke fest in our city. We may have to thank our not so pretty and crumbling infrastructure because Pittsburgh is no longer in contention to host the 2024 edition of the airing of white grievances.
Ed Gainey ran on a platform of reforms for the long ignored black community of Pittsburgh and within the first week of being in office he was willing to fill the city with a group of white supremacists that attempted to overthrow the government. I hardly see how making a few dollars off of hotel rooms would have been worth the hassle the convention undoubtedly would have brought with it.
It would have almost been worth it if it were the Republican party of the 1990s. Racism and their general hate of the other was most certainly present back then but it wasn't as loud and in your face as it is these days. Republicans from the suburbs that surround Pittsburgh got a good laugh out of everyone in the city voicing their concerns for public safety. They were trying to cover their asses by saying that the event was going to be a major political convention and not a T*ump rally. I'll go ahead and call bullshit on that because there isn't a difference between the two anymore.
The Republican party is currently trying to rewrite history in real time by claiming that an invasion of our capitol building in an attempted overthrow of an election was “legitimate political discourse.” If that's what they call discourse, I think I'll start showing up at some of their houses under the guise of wanting to talk and smear a turd on the walls of their living rooms. Fuck these people. They cannot be trusted in any way whatsoever whether they're wearing a hand tailored suit or a windbreaker with “Rambo T*ump” on it.
The suburbs around Pittsburgh are already a hotbed for white supremacist hate groups that operate in the open. That's where the scumbag that murdered eleven people at the Tree Of Life synagogue came slinking out of and there are a lot more where he came from. And they are organizing and recruiting like there's no tomorrow. Adding similar elements from all over the country to our city would probably not have been the best idea.
Unless you're a straight white male, Pittsburgh has always been a difficult city to live in. Having a bunch of yahoos that don't know how to process their emotions without violence infiltrating the downtown area while the people that live in the city try to live their lives is a recipe for disaster. I could definitely see a little old lady from the Hill District getting her ass kicked by some Young Republican frat bros while trying to change busses to get to her doctor's appointment. These fuckers don't respect anything that isn't white and don't know how to behave so there more than likely would have been all kinds of problems.
Outside of the possibilities for violence in the city, there's also the toll that an event of that size would have had on Pittsburgh's homeless population. They would have been rounded up and swept out of sight. Every time there's a nationally televised sporting event in the city, the homeless are always uprooted and forced out of anywhere where a camera lens might land in an attempt to cover up America's dirty little secret that poverty is rampant in this country. But as long as it's kept out of sight while millionaires play a game, who gives a shit.
Would it have been worth the money to have the RNC invade the city for a week? Probably not. The hotels and restaurants would have gotten a financial boost but that boost would have been temporary. Any money that would have hit the coffers of the city and the county would have ended up being spent on cops to pepper spray protestors and beat up innocent bystanders and the homeless.
I don't know if the Forbes Ave. bridge collapse had anything to do with sinking the city's chances of this bullshit convention coming to town but I hope it did. That bridge replacement is going to be funded through a little thing known as tax dollars which is something these assholes love to rail against. Corporate welfare buys a lot of yachts and private jets but it doesn't rebuild or maintain bridges and roads.
As far as I'm concerned, these pigfuckers can go run amok on the streets of Salt Lake City or Nashville. There are already enough bullies in the Pittsburgh area so we don't need any more of them in our town.
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