And You Thought Project 2025 Was Bad

[@CityNerd]

Tired of the woke left's Marxist crusade to (checks notes) increase housing supply? Even more tired than you are of seeing me do promos at the end of my videos? Well, I can't help with the first thing - you're just going to have to get used to towering apartment blocks being built at the end of suburban cul-de-sacs. I don't make the rules. But I CAN help with the other thing, because if you watch my stuff on Nebula you see it early, without ads, and without promo segments. Use my custom link to get the best deal! go.nebula.tv/citynerd

[@Civil_Maniac]

@@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!

[@crowmob-yo6ry]

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!

[@The_General_Zubas]

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.

[@jimmydee1130]

@@Civil_Maniac As a "planner" - and thereby a fantasist - CityNerd (checks notes) fails to grok the impact of nearly 15 years of ZIRP.

[@YooToobStyle]

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.

[@jennifertarin4707]

I love how you can be totally sarcastic without even changing your tone of voice

[@rayt5]

"That's my secret: I'm always sarcastic."

[@TheSkystrider]

Hahahaha. I'm always sarcastic 😁 Yes love your sarcasm without any change in tone of voice!

[@NothingXemnas]

Same as Patrick Boyle. No tone change, but packed with sarcasm.

[@CityNerd]

What sarcasm?

[@kellitrevino650]

😂

[@gardenboydon]

Thanks for not staying away from political topics. City planning/ car centric infrastructure is political

[@Cyrus992]

Not true. Our efforts promote traditionalism and deregulation. This channel is a hack

[@antekm2639]

Just an extension of the neo-liberal dystopia which is the great United States of America

[@CarlVonFozzy]

City planning/car-centric infrastructure shouldn't be political, but unfortunately, it is.

[@critiqueofthegothgf]

@@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.

[@Vaasref]

@@critiqueofthegothgf I would even say it literally, etymologically comes from city (from the greek polis). Same for the word "citizen" by the way.

[@PalmelaHanderson]

I wish people would stop falling for "we'll bring back manufacturing jobs." Spoiler: No, they won't. Their corporate backers will never let that happen. And that's not a Democrat/Republican thing, it's just a capitalist thing.

[@T61APL89]

The richest man in the world and labour leader sides with President Trump. Why wouldn't they be able to bring back manufacturing jobs that the Democrats are handing over to China? The teamster leader spoke at the Republican convention and fled in terror from the DNC, is there any reason for that? You're neomarxist talking points don't hold up in the court of Joe Rogan my "comrade".

[@Geotpf]

People also incorrectly blame the wrong thing for the loss of manufacturing jobs. For the most part, it's not China. It's not Mexico. It's robots. Robots and other automation are the main source of worker replacement in the manufacturing industry. The number of man hours for a Detroit automaker to build a car is like a quarter of what it was a few decades ago, which means what once took four workers can now be done with one. The United States manufactures more goods in the US, in inflation adjusted dollars, than it has in any time in history. It's just that a modern factory is filled with robots and a couple nerds to program and otherwise babysit the robots, as opposed to a bunch of big sweaty guys welding things by hand or the like.

[@GuardianAngle93]

If the entire manufacturing company leaves for a foreign nation Yes it is that offshoring fault.​@@Geotpf

[@imperialmotoring3789]

Right. "Capitalism". Yaaaaawn,.

[@rexx9496]

Actually manufacturing has seen large growth under Biden. And the Chips act is bringing semiconductor manufacturing back as it's an issue of national security to not depend do heavily on Taiwan.

[@blores95]

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.

[@happycommuter3523]

He gets by because the media gives him a pass for everything.

[@Solstice261]

​@@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

[@counterfit5]

His answer about childcare costs at an economist meeting was a mess of incoherent rambling that answered absolutely nothing.

[@fanboy50]

It's not hard to understand: Trump has set the bar in hell, so when he's totally incoherent it's within expectations. Everyone for whom that incoherence is a dealbreaker already doesn't support Trump, because while he's worse now than he used to be, Trump has been nigh-incoherent since 2015. The people that *do* support him think Trump's ranting and raving is relateable or at least fine, and don't think it's a problem. And for the undecideds... well, obviously, the incoherence isn't a dealbreaker. Trump's supporters go after Biden for his gaffes because they're literally just looking for excuses to rationalize their dislike of the guy they already hate, and the media allows it because the Very Serious People in the news media *do* care about the incoherence and so they focus on Biden's because people outside the far right (correctly, I'd argue) care about having a competent President.

[@reed6514]

Media is an ad farm, in part, & they run so many nonsense political drama stories. Though some lf Bidens "gaffs" really may be signs of mental decline, whereas Trump was always this stupid.

[@nlpnt]

Isn't it weird how Trump never lived in those "beautiful suburbs" but instead spent the prime of his life in Manhattan?

[@eric2500]

Some of it. His childhood was arguably more suburban, but you know he never rode the subway, come on...

[@dohdoh2430]

Isn't it weird how Trump always said he has nothing to do with project 2025, but yet you still go on about it? Why is that? Whats wrong with you people?

[@racool911]

⁠@@dohdoh2430Because we aren't idiots. Anyone who graduated elementary school knows that people could lie, which Trump is obviously doing. If one of your strongest thinktanks funding your campaign makes some policies with more than 100 of your staff, you can't detach yourself from that.

[@dohdoh2430]

@@racool911 So it turns out you are idiots then. This is from their own website: Project 2025 is a plan from Trump: FALSE Even liberal USA Today’s fact checkers have rated this claim as false. They wrote unambiguously that “Project 2025 is an effort by the Heritage Foundation, not Donald Trump.”

[@FinancialCharles]

Wait who are u voting for?

[@nacoran]

Weird that a guy who, when he's not going bankrupt, develops high density housing in cities is going to save the suburbs.

[@Cyrus992]

@@nacoran Yeah, why have HUD get involved?

[@V45194]

Checks out! He's also gonna save us from immigrants, like his own mother, his paternal grandparents, and two of his three wives. Come to think of it, had this country been more nativist in the past, individuals like Trump and Stephen Miller literally would not exist today.

[@JohnFromAccounting]

It's really strange how before Trump's political run, he was known for skyscrapers and high density developments. Yeah, I get that he also has Mar-a-Lago, but Trump Tower and Trump International Hotel are quite iconic buildings in the hearts of two of America's most important cities. His record is the opposite of the California NIMBY policies he's supporting. We all know that he doesn't write his own policies, and I don't think he reads them either. He knows the economics of density, and then turns his brain off and puts in policies that perpetuate low density suburbs.

[@billw5189]

Please, let’s not imply that Trump actually does anything such as, “develops.” I’m, (we’re), quite sure he cannot focus on anything, analytically, as would be required by a real developer, or leader. He does understand fraud, intimidation, and plausible deniability

[@martin2289]

Attempting to appeal to suburban women, he regularly boasts of keeping "low-income housing units" out of areas where they live. Check out this article from Politico: "Trump is going to war on low-income housing in suburbs. He once embraced it." Every problem Trump harps on about, his "policies" (such as they are) would exacerbate, or even wildly accelerate. Same goes for all of his specious and politically expedient "tax cuts" which are all smoke and mirrors b.s. to disguise the defunding of key government services and his utterly ridiculous notion of gaining a windfall of "free" money from widespread tariffs that he imagines will be paid for by foreign countries to "repay" the U.S. for "stealing" jobs in the past. I am not making that last bit up, merely paraphrasing what Trump has said in his insane rally speeches. Got off topic, sorry for rambling. Hard not to get worked up when thinking about the sheer insanity of all this and the fact half of Americans think this guy is a serious option...

[@calvinhosworld]

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 of your Atlanta visit. Ask #37

[@KevinBauman]

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.

[@Cyrus992]

It’s disgusting how these urbanist channels are making partisan agendas. It’s no wonder after 3-4 decades, sprawl hasn’t been curtailed.

[@ecurewitz]

I was in Chicago this May, it was fine. I’m often in Boston and Providence - again both are fine

[@DiamondKingStudios]

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.

[@KevinBauman]

@@DiamondKingStudios let's be honest, they don't want the cities to be safe, because would undermine the narrative that liberals are bad.

[@jonesthemoblin1400]

I love how his literal plan to deal with homelessness was the thing from Deep Space 9 that was presented as utterly unconscionable.

[@robincharles7057]

🤔 If you are meaning the episode I'm thinking of it took place in August of 2024 o.o

[@PBI45]

there's not a level too low for neocons to sink to

[@elliotagnew9960]

What episode is this? I might have to check it out

[@matthewgladback8905]

@@elliotagnew9960 "Past Tense," I think.

[@robincharles7057]

@@matthewgladback8905 That was the episode I was thinking of too, just looked it up and it says they went to August 30, 2024.

[@MrBblhed]

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.

[@bonne_vie]

Rules don't apply to him

[@mjbset93]

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 different 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.

[@FameyFamous]

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.

[@kjmav10135]

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.

[@christopherneil8265]

What do you mean? He lives in his own home, complete with its own golf course and spa

[@adaywithoutdonald64]

I didn't realize the Motel 6 was considered a luxury hotel. I'm glad DT told me the truth!

[@Cyrus992]

@@adaywithoutdonald64 he was referring to Manhattan

[@ecurewitz]

@@Cyrus992and there are budget hotels there too

[@Cyrus992]

@@ecurewitz ok

[@ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE]

Bedbugs love Motel 6.

[@hyper_on_rr8623]

DT wouldn't tell the truth even if it world make him money

[@ryannatividad3137]

The irony is that Trump was a New Yorker and lived in MANHATTAN of all places for decades...

[@harvey66616]

Maybe a little ironic. But not so much when you recognize that while Trump was technically domiciled in Manhattan, one might not really consider his presence _living_ in the city, in the same way that millions of actual New Yorkers _live_ and _experience_ the city. Walking out the door to a waiting car, that takes you to a completely different high rise building where you exit the car and go straight into the building, and doing that every time you go from one location to another, is not really _living_ in the city. It's more just taking up space there, and is not likely to imbue any real appreciate for what a city is and provides.

[@JohnFromAccounting]

@@harvey66616 He was a part of the city in the past. When he took over operation of Wollman Rink, that was a big deal. Maybe as he got older he grew tired of the New Yorkisms.

[@DefenestrateYourself]

@@JohnFromAccountingeveryone around him is tired of him lol

[@C1K450]

@@DefenestrateYourself​​⁠they weren’t saying that until he ran as a republican 9 years ago though

[@timmmahhhh]

It is appropriate he moved to Florida.

[@parkmannate4154]

Which is worse, Trump or that so many people still support him despite literally everything he says and does

[@parkmannate4154]

Also Simon is great but his 40k army choice is not

[@cameroncrowley5719]

The worst is the two together, like a toxic couple that no one can invite anywhere

[@Cyrus992]

What do we gain from the millions of migrants?

[@johnhantak8525]

Trump is a symptom of a larger underlying problem in the United States.

[@sol_in.victus]

@@Cyrus992 i dont know, everything you have?? america was built on immigration

[@jonathanyun7817]

"You could make a pretty strong argument for voting against this guy just so we don't have to spend the next 4 years listening to him talk" JESUS CHRIST I FELT THAT IN MY BONES MY CACKLING MIGHT HAVE AWAKEN MY ROOMMATES edit: Which party currently has relatively mostly college-educated voters and which party wants to abolish the dept of education? It's not that hard to see the problem here. Additionally, tuition in the US used to be free, until leaders realized they didn't want people to know how to organize and protest. They didn't want so much scrutiny on the policies they were pushing, because if working class people realized they were voting for tax breaks to the wealthy, maybe they would change their mind. But if they don't even know what a tax break is, then republicans and corporate interests are allowed to rest on their laurels. If you've read this far, you probably have some propensity for critical thinking and/or are invested in the future of this country. In that case, I'd recommend looking into Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and getting involved with a local chapter, so you can make direct contributions to educating your community and electing local officials that have the interests of the people at heart, not those of corporations. Our situation is bleak, but not hopeless. There are people out there working for a better tomorrow if only you looked for them. People can be stupid and cruel, but no kindness goes unappreciated, and we can build a better world together. Enjoy the rest of your day and maybe get off youtube for a bit :)

[@Electrodexify]

Sorry skittles, but we saw how incompetent the Harris administration was in not delivering what they promised. Many people that were not republican are switching over to MAGA

[@diodelvino3048]

Don't listen to that idiot in comments, we've known long enough how his supporters create their own version of what happened that's the opposite in reality, Biden administration delivered alot on investments in infrastructure, more than double the amount of jobs created in the previous administration , and even the CHIPS act that's bringing in more manufacturing for us, while the administration before made promises, all those failed job creation promises (Carrier Plant, US steel, Foxconn, Intel factory jobs which the Biden administration actually delivered on ) These idiots don't care what facts and sources you present them with, because again they'll get embarrassed and lie thinking everyone they're talking to is just as low intelligence as them , all those failed promises that are easy to research, and also the tariffs that came out of our pockets, he failed that's why he wasn't re-elected. You can try to have an intellectual conversation about how bad Trump's policies are , but once you challenge their ideals and easily show how flawed it is they just resort to name calling , crying ,and again creating their own false reality that they made up and its always easy to disprove , which is funny as hell, just laugh at them and ignore their cult like behavior.

[@prakashmayadev4715]

look who is talking.

[@larkohiya]

Sadly Kamala is not very far off from Trump, policy wise. They both working within the same logical framework of how production and economy functions. One is just "nicer". Trump is not better. But both are not ideal or best or even close to the person who I would validate as even worthy to step into the door as a possible candidate. None of the candidates for these major two party systems are acceptable to me.

[@davidblair9877]

@@Electrodexify uh…Harris isn’t the President? What promises did Trump deliver on, precisely?

[@frankguy6843]

I can't get over the disconnect of like half the country believing big cities are essentially warzones with constant crime and bodies piled up or whatever. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, we'd often go into the city for shows or sports. Now I live in the city, as do most of my friends, and my parents are still in the suburbs. My dad is genuinely scared of Chicago. Despite his own son living there and telling him IT IS SAFE THEY ARE LYING TO YOU. He still believes the TV. My mom recently had her sister in town and they spent a day downtown and had an amazing time, she told me on the downlow she is going to try and convince my dad it's okay to go downtown.

[@41chemist19]

I grew up in Chicago, most of it is relatively safe... But there's a reason it has a reputation, the bad parts are pretty bad. In the area I was in, we had several hundred gangs in the area. Even middle school kids carried weapons for personal protection. Our school had metal detectors outside all the entrances... I moved away shortly after my best friend in middle school disappeared. Again, not all of Chicago is like this, but being completely dismissive of this reality can lead you into some pretty bad situations.

[@frankguy6843]

@@41chemist19 Yes but it's always been like that, it was like that when we were kids and when my parent were young and going downtown. They think it is particularly dangerous all over Chicago right now, to the point my dad seems afraid to even go downtown to a nice dinner or show.

[@SuaNam08]

In regards to big cities, and people being scared of them now, I always say “Don’t worry too much. The city is segregated by class and race as it has been for decades. The places where the city wants you to stay and spend money are heavily policed and also monitored by surveillance cameras.”

[@frankguy6843]

@@SuaNam08 Sadly spot on

[@imperialmotoring3789]

You must live in Hipsterville? I'm guessing Logan Square? I'm sure you didn't move to Marquette Park! Lifelong Southsider here and have noticed a massive decline in neighborhoods that were once very nice, like Brighton Park Gage Park and West Lawn. I am voting for mass deportations. It will open up a lot of housing for low-income Americans! Sure, fumigation will be required, but maybe they can get a grant from Mayor Brandy Johnson?

[@peabody1976]

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.

[@MofoMan2000]

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.

[@ArkaSaura]

Lies about Haitian immigrants? Unmitigated immigrations puts a burden on all public resources, and infrastructure.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

@@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.

[@kevinwoolley7960]

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.

[@Wico90YT]

@@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.

[@GramLikesBread]

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

[@Nphen]

The messed up thing is that Hooverville hovel towns from the Great Depression, and favelas & barrios in South America, and even Kowloon city outside Hong Kong, are nicer than today's tent encampments, and had more freedom than Sanctuary Districts in that DS9 episode. Even though the 2008 crisis is less than 2 decades ago, no one remembers that hundreds of thousands of homes were lost to utility shutoffs & foreclosure. This "housing shortage" is a result of our brutal regime of power & water shutoffs & forced evictions instead of debt forgiveness and loan restructuring.

[@seibot187]

What else is he supposed to do for lore accuracy? He cant really start the irish revolution, can he?

[@christopheraaron1255]

It does mean Irish reunification is just running a bit behind.

[@Sephiroth144]

@@seibot187 I mean, we're a few decades late for the Eugenics Wars- so pretty sure its a different timeline.

[@KevinFeeley_KHF]

I can't get enough political policy projects that are titled "Word+Number."

[@Davemon115]

Hopefully he covers Sum 41 next, it's the most insidious one yet.

[@KevinFeeley_KHF]

@@Davemon115 Blink-182 will be the end of us all. Not to mention Front 242 or Omega-3.

[@isaacho4573]

Order 66

[@nf3959]

And then after Agenda 47 is trashed, he'll disavow it and claim his new plan is Formula 409.

[@KevinFeeley_KHF]

@@isaacho4573 66?!? What am I going to do with 66 of them?

[@katarjin]

10:45 Unsettled continent? UNSETTLED? ...who am I kidding these kind of ...people don't consider Native Americans human.

[@Denes2005]

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.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

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).

[@Nun195]

Grifters flock together.

[@counterfit5]

Elon is mad that his kid hates him for good reason.

[@meneldal]

@@DiamondKingStudios There's no point in using hydrogen if we don't source it from water.

[@memethief4113]

​@@DiamondKingStudios I don't think Elon will ever support hydrogen fuel cell cars, his opinion on them has always been that they are extremely inefficient and not worth using (for cars). At the very least pre-2018 his views were relatively normal though he's gone absolutely crazy since then. One thing to note is that for a short period of time when Trump won the election Elon acted as a climate advisor until Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Accords, so he does actually believe in climate change.

[@ChrisKP11]

I'm pretty sure Germany thought fascism would never come to their country, until it did.

[@dvderek]

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”

[@Solstice261]

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

[@mom.left.me.at.michaels9951]

His name is mentioned in project 2025 one in every three pages!

[@timmmahhhh]

How do you know when a Republican is lying? His mouth is open.

[@kare7840]

Then he changed his mind because of some of their ideas. You do remember he was Democrat till the party went woke and stupid. Do you even remember when you had friends in both parties?😢

[@alpaca6462]

​@@kare7840 he claims to not even know what P25 is or have even read it, despite him being on video praising the same plan. Explain that?

[@acetiger10]

Wow project 2025 with just a coat of paint

[@TukaihaHithlec]

And bad painting at that

[@counterfit5]

Lead paint

[@liam3284]

wearing a red hat

[@SynchroScore]

More like a coat of piss.

[@sdeepj]

The irony of the Republican resistance to multi-family housing is it’s rooted in the libertarian argument that government should not hinder development

[@Cyrus992]

It’s disgusting how these urbanist channels are making partisan agendas. It’s no wonder after 3-4 decades, sprawl hasn’t been curtailed.

[@reilandeubank]

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

[@JordanPeace]

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

[@DiamondKingStudios]

⁠@@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.

[@kevinwoolley7960]

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.

[@johnlabus7359]

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!

[@bigbud8182]

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.

[@Solstice261]

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

[@GeeEm1313]

Thank you. While parts of Portland are sketchy, it's not dangerous. There are a couple of intersections to stay away from, and there's gang violence. But a lot of what people think about Portland is overblown. I mean, it's no Thousand Oaks. But I've lived outside of DC during the crack era.

[@GirtonOramsay]

I've visited multiple times and biked across the entire city as I contemplated moving there. It's definitely got good urbanism with narrow streets and actual bike and transit networks. But the homeless situation is definitely bad there. I saw people sleeping on the trams, a banshee going crazy on a downtown bus and scaring the driver badly, and a madman just slamming a bat on everything at the Saturday farmers market downtown with massive crowds around.

[@josephsimmons9241]

Good point! Homeless people are not the problem. It's people who think they are the problem who are the problem!

[@jimmydee1130]

Plan 9 from Outer Space -----The good old days, when plans were still in single digits.

[@lesliefranklin1870]

LOL!

[@1brocktune]

I would give this a like, but there's already 69 of 'em!

[@Preinstallable]

lmao!! remember the tragedy of plan 9 from bell labs

[@mitchellnagy6667]

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!

[@CityNerd]

Thanks!

[@arash3250]

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.

[@jimmydee1130]

Correct! I prefer administrations that enjoy meddling in affairs around the globe and embrace the support of Dick Cheney.

[@theevilmoppet]

@@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.

[@FunctionFIVE]

It is borderline insanity that anyone is taking him seriously much less even voting for him

[@exalented]

Literally just mirror everything you said and it applies to the left. The entire world for some reason is becoming more authoritarian.

[@arcane1012]

Its basically a cult at this point. Throngs of supporters who hang on his every word and respond to any and all opposition with direct and immediate confrontation and trying to dash others credibility no matter how wrong they may be. To try and get people to see how bad it truly is is like trying to bring a horse with rabies to water

[@matt45540]

It's wild his campaign staff didn't even try and edit it

[@ULTRAOutdoorsman]

And that's after it was named by one of his kids, after playing a Hitman game

[@jubeat4451]

this is the edited version, of course

[@fade2blac352]

Here before the bigotry.

[@crowmob-yo6ry]

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.

[@yungrichnbroke5199]

@@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.

[@hamder]

Sorry to the bearer of bad news, but bigotry has been around for awhile.

[@milliedragon4418]

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.

[@Cyrus992]

It’s disgusting how these urbanist channels are making partisan agendas. It’s no wonder after 3-4 decades, sprawl hasn’t been curtailed.

[@seansaca]

CityNerd 2028

[@scpatl4now]

Transportation Secretary!

[@rockobonaparte]

According to KZbin, this needs to be translated to English. I think this is a strange way for KZbin to request that it wants to know more about this.

[@ecurewitz]

Ray gets my vote

[@DiamondKingStudios]

⁠@@rockobonaparteKZbin endorses Ray? Imagine

[@jyutzler]

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.

[@c11p]

You are a gift to this country, CN. Thank you.

[@Cyrus992]

It’s disgusting how these urbanist channels are making partisan agendas. It’s no wonder after 3-4 decades, sprawl hasn’t been curtailed.

[@marygemmacapodanno2035]

If Trump is so unhappy with the USA, why doesn’t he just move to Russia or North Korea. Good riddance.

[@remaks8405]

Because he wants to turn the US into Russia 2.0

[@H3llo_Kidd3n]

Because you believe Democrat Propaganda and YOU are the SHEEPLE!

[@karenpack1010]

They already have a dictator

[@TinaSummers-k6g]

Yes yes go trump

[@JohnnyRayThompson]

alot of us are unhappy with the way the country is being ran here lately, wed rather fix it then leave it.

[@TheBluWitch2024]

I've been in Seattle / Capitol Hill since I moved away from a conservative, bigot-filled small town at 19 yo (32 years ago), the diversity, opportunity for jobs, and urban lifestyle are all great and important ASSETS - yes, we have people struggling with mental health and addiction, but I see them as an unfortunate symptom of greater issues that society has as a whole, NOT the cause. Reducing funding for health care and making apartments too expensive are direct results of Republican / conservative / austerity policy and so the blame is fairly directed at those who are shouting and victim-blaming these unfortunate souls.

[@agaragar21]

Thank you for that clear thoughtful response !.....I can't read these comments sections anymore!

[@JesmondBeeBee]

Thanks for reading the transcripts rather than playing video of him. I'd have definitely skipped it otherwise. Rule of thumb - any candidate claiming they will "end crime" can be immediately dismissed as a liar.

[@wajeehkhan01]

CityNerd the goat fr

[@sirjuly2791]

I like when you make these videos related to the election. Because urbanism IS inherently political

[@prakashmayadev4715]

no

[@robertivaniszyn840]

I love how they open with "A conservative administration is a NIMBY administration"

[@Cyrus992]

@@robertivaniszyn840 It’s harder to build dense areas in CA than Texas

[@kevinwoolley7960]

@@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

[@Cyrus992]

@@kevinwoolley7960 Exactly well Harris is from SF and Oakland. Also, CA does have CEQA and Prop 13 as well.

[@NelsonBrown]

@@Cyrus992 in the past few years California has been changing. There was a trio in 2021 of SB8, SB9, and SB10 that allowed more infill density, exceptions to CEQA reviews, etc. I would love to see CN check in on the impact of those laws and other changes in SLTT laws about density and urbanism around the nation.

[@Cyrus992]

@@NelsonBrown Right but we need to see an uptick in construction

[@kathleenhudson8429]

I have appreciated your videos for quite some time. Thanks for this one. I live near Los Angeles, which has a huge homeless population and a big housing crisis . I know they have been trying to work on both for some time. The latest I heard is about Costco, which has no stores in the central part of the city. There is a suitable plot of land for sale, but the city has told Costco that if they want to build a store there, they must also build housing. So they are building an 800-unit apartment complex, with almost 200 of those units designated low income. We need more creative solutions like this.

[@ZackScriven]

Public transit should be seen as a bipartisan issue because effective transportation infrastructure benefits everyone, regardless of political affiliation. While conservatives have historically been perceived as opposing public transit, today there is no clear consensus on this stance. Many conservatives, including myself, recognize the value that transit brings in terms of economic development, reduced congestion, and improved quality of life for all citizens. Transportation connects communities, creates jobs, and supports businesses by making it easier for workers and customers to move efficiently. Investing in transit isn’t about expanding government; it’s about investing in the future and ensuring our cities remain competitive and livable. Conservative values like fiscal responsibility and economic efficiency can align with transit development, as high-quality infrastructure ultimately leads to reduced transportation costs, less road maintenance, and greater returns on investment through increased property values and economic growth. While past political divisions may have put transit on opposing sides of the aisle, it's clear that modern realities-such as urbanization, environmental sustainability, and economic competitiveness-make it an issue that transcends partisanship. The Rio Grande Plan is a prime opportunity for both sides to come together and champion solutions that serve the broader public good, creating lasting benefits for everyone.

[@prakashmayadev4715]

a men brother

[@avibarr2751]

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

[@liesesadler5295]

It was also a very handy way to get rid of “problem” women. s/

[@DiamondKingStudios]

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.

[@Solstice261]

​@@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

[@DiamondKingStudios]

@@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.

[@Solstice261]

@@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

[@ericcarlsonweb]

Thanks for taking one for the team and diving into that steaming pile of brain rot.

[@shieldgenerator7]

lets pray for those brain cells he lost while watching

[@MattTrevett]

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.

[@electrified0]

They still suck in pretty much all the ways cars do, though they certainly are marginally less bad in most ways while being slightly less convenient in extremely specific scenarios.

[@MattTrevett]

@@electrified0 It's working for my lifestyle.

[@michaelsmith9590]

Should you ever find you and yours in a situation which requires evacuation by car from South Florida, be thankful that you chose the wife's hybrid over a total EV when passing by a line of over fifty vehicles awaiting a battery re-charge at a tollway rest stop ahead of an oncoming storm; range anxiety X 10!

[@MattTrevett]

@@michaelsmith9590 I'll take that into consideration if we move to a place known for annual natural disasters.

[@foreverpainful]

a car only costing 20k? i find that hard to believe

[@Mars0984]

People: please don’t give up. Despite the next 4 years I trust we can push through and unite ❤

[@SarahRenz59]

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.

[@JohnFromAccounting]

It's all about framing. Most Americans are not smart and just go along with whatever they see on TV or hear in the media. You can frame the same urbanism differently to right wing and left wing people and they will end up supporting it. Changing the minds of Republicans in Texas is just as important as changing the minds of Democrats in California.

[@Mnews95]

Now people on the right will take deprogramming as an act of fascism 😂

[@RottenlyMoodyChild]

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?

[@RottenlyMoodyChild]

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

[@picachugirl2036]

7:06 Just wanna say, giving people a secure, private, place to live really does work. My dad was a homeless addict, in an out of prison for most of my life. But the tiny house program in California made it to wear he got treated for a ton of illnesses, and now he has section 8, and hes been sober ever since getting that tiny house. Fill the persons hirearchy of needs, and you just might successfully rehabillitate them. 😊

[@TraceyTra-kv1xe]

But trump wants barb wire and armed guards on watch towers because homeless people aren't people.

[@GClefCannon]

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...

[@MateusChristopher]

I'm pretty sure these new cities aren't going to care about anyone not pumping gas 😂

[@queenthxt]

That's like how the west was settled haha

[@jimthain8777]

@@MateusChristopher Can you explain why people LIKE breathing pollution? What do people have against fresh air?

[@starventure]

Modular cities.

[@robertmarley9380]

@@jimthain8777"the populace yearns for leaded petrol" - someone who ingested a little too much lead

[@kenbrown2808]

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.

[@JordanPeace]

Yeah, as much as this channel and other urbanism content on KZbin 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.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

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…

[@jimmydee1130]

@@DiamondKingStudios You could, once, before smarty-pants "urban planners" placed their jack-boot on the throat of American entrepreneurs.

[@Solstice261]

​@@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

[@kenbrown2808]

@@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.

[@johnsmiff8328]

I'm gonna move to a freedom city to sit in traffic for 3 hours a day 😊

[@MarloSoBalJr]

That city is called Houston 😅

[@Cruxis_Angel]

Florida in a nutshell.

[@stark5353]

Move to a low density area and be truly free.

[@ecurewitz]

Who doesn’t want the freedom to have two hour commutes and traffic jams

[@DiamondKingStudios]

@@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.

[@adamkreuz9068]

I love how Trumpers thought pointing you towards this would be so much better

[@MattieAMiller]

Trump is totally right about how unsafe cities are. I live in Minneapolis and I was murdered five times just this week.

[@user-yz8fs5zq6z]

Oh god,I hope you're not dead!!

[@SteveErickson-e8s]

R.I.P.

[@Dakotarunner2013]

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.

[@Mortthemoose]

JD Vance is heavily involved in the far right "Christian" Nationalists groups ie. The ones that want to enact Project 2025, and abolish democracy in America!! They want a Theocratic, Fascist Dictatorship!! I only recently found this out about Vance! This explains why he hates childless women! He just wants us to stay at home, make babies, and have no vote! It explains why he's changed his views 180° on Trump over the past few years! That has been baffling me! He's been indoctrinated by this far right group! Vance is very obviously educated, and with his beliefs now in Christofascism he is even more dangerous than Trump!!

[@SynchroScore]

Clearly, if our policies can't can't get adopted in a democratic government, the correct solution is not to get rid of our policies, but to get rid of democratic government.

[@GojiMet86]

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.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

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.

[@CityNerd]

There will be a special committee to determine who the true heroes are

[@gubieone]

@@CityNerd In typical Trump fashion it will be all about him I am sure.

[@mrvwbug4423]

@@CityNerd It will be Trump statues in the center of every "Freedom city" haha. but if you dare complain, the privatized techbro police force will make you disappear.

[@imperialmotoring3789]

That garish "Obama Center" is going up here on the Southside. Many people in the Woodlawn neighborhood are being forced out now because of the high cost of property taxes. Thanks Barry Hussein!

[@dustinDraig]

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

[@mh_dot_fm]

Take notice. If he is finally gonna be un-alived - that will be his fault to for not taking his protection serious enough. Should have thought better - that is the same logic as to that thats banks interest to check if he is lying and any mistake is their mistake. Opportunism breeds itself.

[@pin65371]

@@mh_dot_fm the banks had no problem with what he did. It was only that prosecutor that had an issue. That same prosecutor basically ran on taking out Trump. I found it sorta funny when that all went down the governor of New York came out and had to calm down all the real estate developers by telling them that they didnt have to worry about anything because they were only going after Trump and wouldnt go after other developers that were all doing the same thing. Also I dont know what you are going off about here about "if he is finally un-alived". Seems like you are sorta hoping that happens. Democrats are looking at every way to get rid of Trump and are now praising that the Cheney family is endorsing their candidate. It really shows how dumb many Americans are on both sides of the political spectrum.

[@imperialmotoring3789]

Then 34 felonies for paying off a loan on time, with full interest. Maybe we should charge al lthe college loan defaulters with felonies!

[@SynchroScore]

@@imperialmotoring3789 No, the felonies are for falsifying business records to make illegal contributions to a political campaign. Please find a better source for information.

[@imperialmotoring3789]

@@SynchroScore Oh ok. That pales in comparison to letting in 50 million illegals to replace us, and spending the entire FEMA budget on the illegals, plus many other budgets.

[@Nilessterner]

Why do city lovers and cats go so well together??? I live in SF love the city. Love BART, MUNI, Golden Gate Transit, Sam Trans, and all the other wonderful transit options. I also love my kitty bobo. Looking for cats in windows in my second favorite activity in the city after getting hammered at my local and safely walking back home.

[@karengrohs4942]

I have this theory that Democrats are 1) more likely than Republicans to live in cities and 2) more likely than Republicans to choose cats as pets....

[@tHebUm18]

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.

[@MegaLokopo]

You do realize it is possible to support public transit, while also believing it is best to leave it to the private sector. Everyone wants public transportation to be better, the only question is how much do we want the government to be involved.

[@tHebUm18]

@@MegaLokopo Incorrect. Clearly Project 2025 details a plan to make public transportation not exist in favor of more cars/car infrastructure. It discusses overruling state/local efforts to get rid of parking minimums which is absolute insanity. It is also supported by the entirety of Republican policies in the post-Reagan era that they don't value public transportation and actively undermine efforts at state/local levels to do it--and generally refuse to adequately fund infrastructure investments to even maintain what we have. Remember every week being "infrastructure week" for 4 years under Trump and no legislation was ever passed? Thanks for sharing your uninformed voter perspective though.

[@tHebUm18]

@@MegaLokopo Your claim is at odds with the entirety of American governance (at the federal level) in the post-Reagan era pretending R's still stand for literally anything except tax cuts for the superrich and culture war junk. They have been actively antagonistic to state/local gov'ts efforts to improve the lives of their people because they are the party of the rich and don't care about the lower/middle class that would use public transit, only the wealthy who scoff at the notion. Actions speak louder than words and you're lost in time if you think they've cared about the needs of common people since the 70's.

[@tHebUm18]

​@@MegaLokopo Maybe among the voter base. Certainly not true in the slightest about who they've put in office the past 40+ years at the federal level, maybe here and there at the state level but even then fairly rarely. Their primary policy objective is tax cuts for the rich. Tells you all you need to know about how they feel about services for the poor and middle class.

[@MegaLokopo]

@@tHebUm18 You do realize government revenue goes up as taxes go down, because as you raise taxes, the rich put more effort into paying less taxes. Also even if you assume that tax cuts for the rich is the primary objective, that doesn't mean anything, because people are allowed more than one objective. Trump supports public transport, he just doesn't want the government involved, like I said, and he is the most recent republican president. But yes it isn't every politician, but I never said every politician.

[@OurGlobalAffects]

remember folks that voting is "woke"

[@darksoulsss2618]

Democracy is woke. We should be more like Russia and north Korea.

[@lizmade2296]

Remember when a candidate being BILLIONS of dollars in debt disqualified a candidate from running due to their financial volatility being a NATIONAL SECURITY RISK?! Pepperidge Farms remembers

[@redwolfexr]

"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)

[@ecurewitz]

If I win the lottery, I’m moving to the big city

[@tykers.]

You hear the racial overtones because you’re an actual racist. Hope this helps! 😊

[@pin65371]

@@tykers. they love to talk about dog whistles all the time but they are the only ones that hear it.

[@rc7625]

​@@pin65371Yeah, you clearly don't understand the whole point of a dogwhistle. Then again, no one has ever accused MAGAts of being remotely intelligent.

[@pin65371]

@@rc7625 I dont really even like Trump. Just because I am calling out people that see racism everywhere doesnt mean I'm some maga person.

[@squiddler7731]

Whenever I hear about how "building mixed use development will destroy propery values," I'm just reminded of when my Mom was looking to buy a new home, and one of the ones we looked at was shockingly cheap for the size. We got there and it turned out there was good reason for that: just across the backyard was an incredibly loud car wash that could clearly be heard throughout the entire house and is apparently open 24 hours a day. And I remember not even two years earlier, a new car wash had been built a block away from our previous home (not close enough to be a problem for us, but I'm sure someone suffered for it). Remember whenever that whenever they say that we can't allow resturants or anything slightly denser than a single family home because it would "ruin the neighborhood"

[@jacobrhoton8052]

Lost it at "I don't even need to fact check that because it's so obviously true" @ 8:07

[@madambluewave]

Right!? 😂

[@UnReal31337]

The incarceration and camps part sounds like a Star Trek: DS9 episode about the Bell Riots in San Francisco's sanctuary district/Tenderloin

[@Inaf1987]

Mail in votin has started in PA, MI and WI

[@zyoninkiro]

Also in Utah. I'm overseas and I was able to cast my ballot electronically. Overseas voter should check what options they have.

[@wolfjarlgrbane5771]

Parts Inspector 8yrs ago. 80% at least on any car is imported including ford and chevy.

[@cameroncrowley5719]

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.

[@Skyace13]

Ok the “whether or not it’s worth it depends on you and your preferred actuarial table” got me good lol

[@awilder87]

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.

[@ahuddleofpenguins4842]

What I wish more people realized that project 2025 is literally explicitly for when/if vance becomes president.

[@johnchedsey1306]

The thought of Vance being one artery clogged heartbeat away from the Oval Office should scare everyone. That guy is the definition of "ick" and "Ladies cover your drinks"

[@magnubeido832]

Its for whenever the next Republican candidate becomes president period....yes Insert [name] on the Republican ticket and boom.... You get project 202x

[@imperialmotoring3789]

Hope so!

[@DefenestrateYourself]

@@imperialmotoring3789we’ll pray for you, sweaty. Thoughts and prayers

[@James.99]

The Heritage Foundation creates the policies for Republican presidents. It doesn't matter who it is. Project 2025 will be the law of the land next time we get a Republican in the white house

[@joeydryoel3866]

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.

[@Mathtron5000]

Trump: "Electric vehicles will *KILL AMERICAN CARS* Also Trump: "Elon Musk is my new best friend"

[@rapiddeltoro9366]

Musk is trying to mine lithium in the US and to stop outsourcing it from other country's that have no epa standards. Most of the energy in the US used to charge the cars and power homes is from fossil fuels.

[@johnthomas2970]

14:14 “he finally got a dedicated studio instead of shooting in his spare bedroom. This is called ‘living the dream’” 😂

[@gregorymoore7617]

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?

[@AutoGamerZ_]

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.

[@elefante8572]

Look up “CA YIMBY Max Dubler Prop 33” for an opposing opinion on this. Prop 34 is an effort to prevent the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has been criticized for a lack of attention to patient care and tenants, from sponsoring further ballot measures (like Prop 33).

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

@@AutoGamerZ_ _"OHHH NOOO NOT THE RED and PURPLE COUNTIES"_ like please do I need to explain why they don't not need to be hurt with rent issues? Maybe they'll finally leave to a Red State, and leave California alone.....

[@eddaugherty335]

"I don't even need a fact check on that, because it's so obviously true." 🤣 Well said.

[@joebehrdenver]

Can't wait to see "Freedom Cities" in Badlands National Monument and Great Basin National Park. /s

[@DiamondKingStudios]

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.

[@superextempman]

"wait guys i feel like were missing something important.... oh yeah the water!"

[@jonathanleonard1152]

Related to EVs. We drove 240 miles each way on a trip. We recharged at level one and level two stations that were free to use. We made no stops except for restrooms. I say we made out very well financially.

[@Lonewolf-i8p]

EV charging is not free. Are you grifter Musk?

[@arcoirislagallinacanibal]

@@Lonewolf-i8p There is EV chargers that are free to use, and if you are talking about the cost of electricity for the city/commerce that provides it, that's pennies (quite literally) electricity is quite cheap compared to fuel

[@tea3ali]

We drove from home in "Northern NJ to Ontario, Canada in our hybrid. About 465 miles one way, non stop, in 6.5 hours without charging or getting gas, and still had about 150 miles of charge and gas left when we got to our destination. Also took my husband's Tesla (I convinced him to trade it in for another brand): one charge going, one charge coming back, about 8 hours. Trump doesn't know what he's talking about.

[@smallstudiodesign]

@@Lonewolf-i8puhmmmm what are you talking about? Our former apartment complex had several free EV Charging stations on the various parking levels. Many other residential developments has the same in our city. Also, many places of employment offer complimentary electric charging, plus numerous shopping centres we frequent offer free EV charging for their customers. So you need to get your facts straight. Or you’re living in an EV hostile jurisdiction.

[@Lonewolf-i8p]

@@arcoirislagallinacanibal Then why I am Icreading articles if people saying it cost them $88.00 to charge their EV.

[@stephanierobinson4946]

Always happy to see your videos pop up in my feed, even when they are about unsavory topics. Thanks for doing what you do!

[@hilarymoonmurphy]

Thanks for your hard work Ray!

[@sitiesito715]

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.

[@thomasopp9104]

"You can forget it, Michigan. You can forget it, South Carolina. You can forget it, everybody."

[@HeatherFarris]

Unfortunately for those who don’t care our life is political. Policy making is correctly impacting all of our lives and policy is political. Thank you for not shying away from it.

[@kjmav10135]

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.

[@Solstice261]

What a pity, Vermont is such a beautiful state, it deserves more attention if it has been so neglected

[@Nun195]

This is typical of rural areas. My mother used to get nervous about crime in whatever big city I was visiting until she took a job in her rural county as a 911 operator. Put a whole new spin on what was going on around her.

[@JohnFromAccounting]

It's absolutely not fair to accuse conservatives politics alone of causing the problems when the blue states have just as many, if not more, issues.

[@farrahupson]

@@JohnFromAccounting Our economic system is the main cause of the underlying problem described here. It benefits big business to pay people less and less until they are "forced" to move to another country so they can pay even less. Instead of taking sides, maybe we deal with the fact that businesses today have no other goals than to increase their stock prices, when there are actually lots of other goals that we could be incentivizing.

[@SuaNam08]

I think US general public opinion on drug addiction has evolved since the 90’s, in large part because drug addiction began to happen to white suburbanites too in large part due to big pharma. Republicans by and large had already framed drug addiction to their base as an individual moral failing, and also the collective weakness of black and brown people. And when it comes to any problem, the only tools in their toolbox are punitive, so police brutality and incarceration are the only things they suggest as reducing the number of people who abuse drugs.

[@azazel166]

Dear Americans, VOTE in November, you can slack off at the beach later.

[@RallyingforRail]

The sarcasm=11/10. This Trump plan for cities= -11/10. As someone who researched Project 2025’s plans for mass transit and rail transit, I can honestly say that this sounds like a less cohesive, less intelligent, version of Project 2025 (which by itself is pretty awful, as we both know).

[@sophia1176]

listening to this guy read quotes from donald trump has to be the funniest thing i've heard all week

[@Babriel_]

Really enjoy your content! There’s currently a large non-motorized trail project being planned in Destin, FL (already has necessary funding and prioritization). They mayor (Bobby Wagner) did a long walkthrough with questions for residents on possible routes. I was thinking this could be right up your alley and would be interesting to get your insight on how to think through questions on intersections and routes, etc. Thank you!

[@adaywithoutdonald64]

I appreciate your sarcasm.

[@drsunshineaod2023]

"Magnificent it was" - what is he, Yoda?

[@kevy8377]

There is video of Trump talking to the Heritage Foundation praising them and describing them as producing the plan for *our* movement.

[@theelectricwalrus]

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

[@jefferson808]

Proof?

[@kealiimooring]

Can’t wait for Plan 53 after this one gets backlash

[@liamtahaney713]

The only thing that sounds stupider than trump is a trump quote read dead pan

[@kmlynden1]

I can't financially support but thank you for this.

[@lucasdude]

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

[@pickledragonrebel]

I live rurally, so I can't go anywhere w/o a car. However, town is 30 min away, so we only go when absolutely nessesary. We plan ahead to make sure we have supplies we need and try to live off the land as much as possible. After all, we moved to the country to have our own little utopia,so why would we want to spend time away from it? I agree about the suburbs. They are a living hell !

[@imperialmotoring3789]

There are single family homes in the city too. Guess you never been in one?

[@lucasdude]

@@imperialmotoring3789 you missed the "around nothing" part

[@imperialmotoring3789]

Why must everyone live like you want them to live? We are not allowed to choose for ourselves?

[@lucasdude]

@@imperialmotoring3789 you missed the "you couldnt pay ME enough..." part in my original message. why are you trying so hard to look for something to be upset about

[@NelsonBrown]

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.

[@mikebarushok5361]

Same here, on both. Watch here after watching on Nebula to boost the KZbin algorithm to increase the reach and to wade through the comments. And also wonder the effect of watching at 2X speed (or skipping forward a few times).

[@Electrodexify]

Sorry, you are the minority. The majority are too awake to be influenced by the youtube algorithm. They'll watch it and associate this video with the democrat admin that promised and promises but did not fulfill

[@Preinstallable]

@@mikebarushok53612x speed actually hurts the algorithm because you're watching the video for half the time, 0.5 or 0.25 speed makes you watch 2x or 4x as long so that boosts the video

[@metem_psycho_4260]

Life is political. Thank you for speaking your mind City Nerd. The fact that these people can read Trumps words and turn around and call Kamala in idiot is bafflingly hilarious.

[@nictyphoon9437]

LOOK WHAT YOUR BORDER CZAR DID. LOOK WHAT HER ENERGY POLICIES DID. LOOK WHAT HER INTERNATIONAL POLICIES. DID. THERE WORLD IS BLOWING UP IN FRONT OF YOU

[@Electrodexify]

Kamala is not smart, her interactions are fake

[@Tantejuju65]

You! This was a master class in monotone sarcastic delivery. Bravo!🎉

[@JayseabeeSTL]

Already seen this on Nebula, but gotta make sure to like and watch again so my man gets that KZbin Premium watch time from me.

[@erinrising2799]

7:00 sounds like he wants to set up the Sanctuary districts that Star Trek warned us about.

[@megarockman99]

So, not only does he have concepts of an affordable health plan alternative, but also has concepts of an agenda, too.

[@Seydaschu]

Are they TRYING to give them evil-sounding names?