Jackson Jambalaya

Chock-Wad and his clown show council can't do or say anything without it being a tacit admission of failure. Jackson is in an accelerating a death spiral.
Crime, schools, streets, can't drink the water, it never ends.
In a commercial with his weird razor cut hair and bow tie, his wife refers to herself as Jackson's first lady. Really. Welcome to New Haiti.

It doesn't matter. By September the City and it's Mayor will be in full on progressive Covid Variant lock downs again with the rest of the country. Dr. Dobbs is lying about the sickness and already FORCING hospital employees to get the jab or be treated like sh!t . It's over folks.....this hidden enemy has somehow won.

lack of jobs. that’s a joke in 2021….

heck, burger flipping pays 15 an hour.

fat, dumb, and lazy people can get their hides off the couch or front porch and get a job!

Can he please just pick up the storm debris from over 2 months ago. WTF!!!

" In a commercial with his weird razor cut hair and bow tie, his wife refers to herself as Jackson's first lady. Really. Welcome to New Haiti".
July 15, 2021 at 3:08 PM

Jacksonians apparently like him.
They elected him yet again.

He'll be in office until 2025.

Unbelievable!

Lumumba says, “The State has failed to provide adequate funding”. City of Jackson no longer wants to be financially obligated for the services they provide or for infrastructure costs needed. The City (and Mayor) expects the State and/or the Federal government to foot the bill.

I’m always perplexed by the forced correlation of crime and poverty. I grew up extremely poor and never once did anyone in my family break the law because we were poor. The reality the excuse-driven mayor won’t admit is that when you’re poor, you end up working up 2, 3, 4 jobs to make it. When in the hell would you have time to commit crimes??

It’s just another liberal excuse for poor life choices. And we have people in power who provide those who prefer the government teat excuses all day long for not helping themselves. It’s pathetic!!

I don't think anybody had high hopes for Antar, but it would have been hard to imagine at the beginning of his term that he would be as relentlessly incompetent as he is. Anyone with the means to move from Jackson and chooses to stay is complicit.

The problem according to the Mayor is "inadequate funding" in slowing violent crime. I agree. So let's start by using JB Weld to glue solid quarters to the street below parking meters. Time spent trying to pick up a solid quarter means less time spent committing violent crime, right. If that doesn't work, perhaps a Wells Fargo armored vehicle with a back door flapping in the breeze letting single one dollar bills fly out the back while driving down I-220 would surely slow down violent crime. Right.

Some people criticized the Governor for not inviting the Mayor to the press conference yesterday. Why should he do so? The Mayor has nothing to do with areas under state jurisdiction. If the Mayor wants to get invited, he should probably start acting like a Mayor instead of a baby.

When are we going to grow up around here!? That's why it's a sh*t show around here now!? Because people and their freakin' egos are not being stroked by this person or that person.

It really boils down to do we want to come together as a community or maintain the status quo of carrying on as if Jim Crow only ended 4 years ago and integration is being forced on everyone.

The mayor is like those people who received $1,500 covid checks last year and then whined that it wasn’t enough.

Each successive year of Lumumba’s tenure so far has resulted in a per-capita homicide record. Did the underlying conditions really get that bad, that fast?

Yes, Empty Suit was elected Mayor this year. But let’s look at the numbers: he was elected with about 13,150 votes. That’s out of a city with 170,000 people of which about 115,000 are voting age. It should be so easy.

They are both clowns playing to their base. Nothing more.

Ehhh throw money at the problem and pay people free money. That way they can have a bunch of free time on their hands to be productive, or what?

well, in the mayor's defense, when it only takes 13,000 votes to be re-elected to the office, his statement, as unfortunate as it is and indicates for the good people of Jackson, would really seem on point for the number of votes he could generate.

Above said, when there is every day, a stabbing, and gun altercation, rampant petty crime, trash riddled city, with a water system that is probably getting worse by the day........Maybe on could say "thank you" for caring enough to get involved in this city and helping us change directions......

Jackson needs money. How do we solve it because this ain't it? I don't think the current Mayor has a plan other than to keep drawing that salary.

1. Control crime through policing. Make current and potential residents and businesses feel safe. Saturate businesses districts with police to create the perception of safety so Jackson is where people want to spend their tax dollars. A City or State cannot fix the underlying, true cause of crime - destruction of the family unit and/or poverty.

2. Send a damn water bill to folks so the revenue is there to bring the water/sewer up to standards.

2. Create an environment that is friendly to businesses. Keep your infrastructure up to par in your areas that are generating sales tax revenues. Work with State to sell the to and attract new businesses and get people solid jobs so they get out of poverty.

3. Enforce existing homeowner codes to clean up these neglected/abandoned homes/businesses in neighborhoods. Pride in the City starts with the perception of it by City hall.

4. Once tax revenues begin increasing, focus more on City beautification projects like bringing back the street sweepers, adequately and timely repairing potholes, sewer issues, etc.

5. Make this a City we can all be proud of as Jacksonians and Mississippians.

" Can he please just pick up the storm debris from over 2 months ago."

Don't hold your breath.

Seems he doesn't care about real problems in Jackson,
but only want's to look good on national media.

Intervention. The first step is understanding and admitting you need help. The mayor ain’t there yet!

Maybe I'm not reading this correctly, but it looks to me like it boils down to this. We will accept the state's money, but not state law enforcement.

Chuck is an idiot. People are dying and you will only take help on your terms. You have blood on your hands for each day your ego will not accept the much needed help. Yes, root problems need to be addressed. But you are blaming anyone and everyone for your lack of action.

What the governor is doing is a good way to force the mayor to do his job. The state is going to prove that Jackson needs to step up and protect it's citizens. The primary function of any government is to protect it's citizens. It can be law enforcement related. It can be environmental related. It doesn't matter whether you like the governor or like the mayor. Any citizen should be behind their own protection.

The primary function of government is to protect the rights of the citizens. At least that's what Thomas Jefferson thought. What did he know? He was just an old white guy, right?

Mr Mayor, I am a black retired disabled Veteran with over 36 years Service to this great country. Our State doesn’t need any money for so-called social programs to stop ignorance! We as a people forgot Reverend Kings Dream!

If non Americans can come to this Country with no money, cannot speak English and succeed! Why can’t we as a people, as a whole be successful law abiding citizens! Tell the people to stop the madness, tell the people the truth!

If you can’t do this Mr Mayor then you go to these crime ridden communities and live with the non- complaint!

Pull your suit off, Mr Mayor and be frank with your constituents!

Mr Mayor I want you to succeed! But you have to get off this false narrative and be honest with the community!

I Love you my brother.

It ain’t the Government’s job to pay for civility.

Education and technical abilities are the key! Get tough on crime and send these fools far far away!

Chockwe, if you keep this up much longer, you are no longer helping us. You must stop being slovern and just do what’s right for your people. The children should learn that hard work pays off. Forget what this dream has been.m and move on. Be better.

Meh at least this will solve the sticks, rocks, and bottles chase debate. Time to fire up Mobile One Command Center Frank Melton style.

"However, we must also apply the same effort toward authoring solutions that address the root of the problem. The State has failed to provide adequate funding in this regard. In order to realize true impact, it is necessary to also stand up and bolster the social supports and community programs that lift up our communities by addressing issues of poverty, joblessness, mental health, gaps in education and opportunity and more."

Um, yeah, it's a whole new paradigm, things will be different THIS time, and the check's in the mail (I'll leave, er, "the location of discharge" to others).

Holy-mutherflockin'-fuck. It well may be true that a pony is nearby if one discovers a pile of ponypoo, but heaping horseshit into a mountain won't produce even the tiniest of miniature Shetlands. Anyone looking to Count Chockuwe and his pal the Tatertot-with-cheese-ish sauce to shovel less but work more is setting themselves up for disappointment. Until at least a few folks start facing the actual on-the-ground facts, nothing is going to change for the better.

Baby Chok says. . ."the answer is Mo Money Mo Money Mo Money". Then we will hire a paid "consultant" (i.e., Baby Chok's friends) to study the issues for several years. . .

Jackson. . .the City of Progress.

9:27. Jefferson owned his slave concubines. Literally. So I don’t think he really thought those rights extended to people of color (or women for that matter.)

Anyway- The current mayor is incompetent. And the people of Jackson (or most of
those who bothered to vote) likes the direction of the city. Sad.

Tate has finally decided to grow a pair and do something.

"We are pleased to see within the plan shared today that the State of Mississippi and Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is moving towards the transparency that we identified as an urgent need when the City of Jackson created the Police Identification Task Force."


~Sigh~

"The primary function of government is to protect the rights of the citizens. At least that's what Thomas Jefferson thought. "

That's Locke, not Jefferson, albeit Jefferson could be argued to have had a less-encompassing, (very) broadly-similar sentiment based upon Locke's general expression of the sentiment. If that sounds like a lot of caveats, it is. From Mr. Jefferson himself:

"Are we then to stand to our arms, with the hot-headed Georgian? No. That must be the last resource, not to be thought of until much longer and greater sufferings. If every infraction of a compact of so many parties is to be resisted at once, as a dissolution of it, none can ever be formed which would last one year. We must have patience and longer endurance then with our brethren while under delusion; give them time for reflection and experience of consequences..."

Of note, Jefferson used the exact phrase, "hot-headed Georgian," in several letters circa 1823/4-1826 (the year he died). Perhaps a gentle suggestion for further reading. Or merely a rationalization for those who would act like hot-headed Mississippians.

Chucky is just clinging to that tired old democrat/liberal mantra that has been pushed on this country for 60+ years. We as a nation have thrown trillions of dollars at the poverty issue, and it's no better today that it was when LBJ kicked off his Great Society/War on Poverty. And that's exactly the way that the dems/libs want it. They have succeeded in making several generations of Americans, mainly blacks, wards of the state, and Chucky is just following that same playbook. It took decades for us to get to this point, and I really don't think there's any reversing it.

[And] at the end, not satisfied with merely setting the historical record straight, the 'gentle' 7:30 couldn't resist taking a pot-shot swing at other Mississippians.

I've been poor, but I never chose to become a criminal.

According to Chuck, that makes me a unicorn.

Who knew.

The reason he wasn't invited to the press conference or even asked about it is because no one respects this clown. Literally no one. No one in government, not one of his constituents outside of his dog and pony show(Sista Rukia & The First Lady of Jackson included lol) absolutely no one. Everyone sees he is about him and not Jackson. He wants to beg for money but play the blame game and take responsibility for nothing. He is an empty suit clown who wont address real problems and he hides from the public, or is surrounded by his entourage so they cant call him out on his lack of give a shit for the city he represents.

The typical Marxist answer. Give us more money and look somewhere else for results. No difference than the Marxist in the White House and their agenda to tear America apart with racist lies. I said yesterday that Chokwheat wasn’t gonna like outside cops messing with his peeps. And if I was Reeves right now I’d pull all help back and let the chips fall. Bottom line you elect shit be prepared to eat shit!

10:02, Thank you. Semper Fi.

He's wrong anyway, 8:23. Jefferson never referred to John Locke as a "hot-headed Georgian".

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,

Those words, above, belonged to Thomas Jefferson, not John Locke. It may be true, John Locke influenced Thomas Jefferson, but these words were not penned by John Locke on our Declaration Of Independence. As an aside, Locke contended for life, liberty, and property. Property does not equal happiness, unless you are one shallow human being.

How did you ever come to the conclusion that Jefferson was speaking of Locke in those letters. By the way, I only found one reference to a hot headed Georgian? The letter to Giles is concerning, in Jefferson's opinion, power being usurped from the states. From what was in the letter to Giles, it implied that Jefferson was in agreement with this person, but not ready to divulge that information. I believe your Google powers are fading.

10:06 should be advising Tate.

Tate should hold a presser and say, "Sorry, Chuck...didn't mean to offend. MHP cancelled. My bad."

Not that it would make any of his blind groupies see his ineptitude more clearly, if the last 4 years were not sufficient.

In response to 1:10,

I never said that Jefferson was speaking of Locke in the use of the phrase. Locke was English (and died before Georgia came into existence). The only thing related to Locke is the correction of the attribution of the sentiment expressed.

As to "hot-headed Georgian," anyone interested in the content of Jefferson's letters ought to read his actual letters rather than interpretations of them from secondary sources, Google/SERP or otherwise. Speaking of (mis)attributions: to "quote" Mark Twain, "Be careful reading health books. You could die from a misprint."

Typical Democrat Mayor response. Give me more money to solve my problems. But the money never solves a damn thing because they don't know how to use it wisely. Jackson is no different than other cities being run by democrats. They Govenor knows he can't fix Jackson. All he can do is try to protect the State infrastructure and provide some type of safety to state employees and others working in the capitol complex area.

You really should be a politician, wait, you may be one. I like people like you. You say something, and you get called out on it. You then proceed to say you didn't mean what you said. Then you say you were misunderstood. Are you taking something, like some medication, maybe some maryjane? You are rambling, barely coherent.

"From Mr. Jefferson himself:" Did you notice you ended that with a colon, which implied the sentences to follow that colon were connected to what was written before the colon? There were two people you spoke of before that colon, Thomas Jefferson and John Locke. Of this, I am sure, Thomas Jefferson did not call himself a hot headed Georgian. That only left John Locke. If you are very old and have cognitive issues, I understand. I'm old myself. Simply admit your mistake, don't double down.

Having read again your post, I really think you're a young smart ass that, because of self-esteem issues, has to appear to be the smartest person in the room. I'm sorry you're not. I never needed anyone to interpret Jefferson's letters for me when I was younger. What is the level of arrogance required to assume some stranger, you have never met, isn't well-read? This you surely have the answer to.

Kingfish, I know this is off-topic, but this cat, well you can read.

In reply to 7:47PM:

I'm sure Jefferson would have supported your right to make all the assumptions you desired to make. I certainly do.

Heck, anything to help I-55 and I-20 be a little safer, a lot of people run those roads including lots of people from out of state that don't know the danger.