{"id":49,"date":"2006-01-26T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2006-01-26T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T16:37:00","slug":"look-whos-talking-part-ii-revenge-of-the-shiny-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/49\/look-whos-talking-part-ii-revenge-of-the-shiny-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Look who’s talking, Part II: Revenge of The Shiny People"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Jon Talton lied in the Arizona Republic<\/a>, telling you that Maroney’s Dry Cleaning store on Central Avenue had not been killed by Trolley construction, when it fact it had, I wrote this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The trolley is killing long-established businesses up and down its route, and the green-cheese-heads who inflicted it on us, along with all the other doomed Downtown ‘investments,’ don’t dare admit this and dozens of other obvious truths. They use Soviet-style propaganda to afflict us with Soviet-style ‘improvements.’<\/p>\n

The next step in the game will be to plead with you to go out of your way to ‘support’ the businesses that are nope-no-way-uh-uh-never not being hurt by trolley construction. And that is propaganda perfection, Soviet-style, to tell two self-contradicting lies in one moondacious exhortation, challenging you–on pain of being declared a counter-revolutionary wrecker–to question anything you are told.<\/p>\n

Phoenix can survive Jon Talton, as odious as he is. And we will overcome the stupid mistakes of the moondacious green-cheese-heads Downtown. But I’m not sure that any good thing can thrive in a place where public discourse consists of nothing but lies, and where anyone who dares to whisper the truth is shouted down and, in then end, self-censored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The other shoe dropped today. That same Republic<\/i> editorial page that warned you all about liars<\/a> this Sunday just past, today issues the very lies I predicted<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Businesses along the construction route bear the brunt of a program that will benefit the Valley for decades to come. All of us should appreciate their sacrifice through these challenging times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Their “sacrifice” will be to be destroyed. The actual purpose of all of this massive destruction of wealth is to provide upscale amenities for the people talk-radio host Bob Mohan used to call The Shiny People. The downscale businesses in the path of the Trolley will not survive, nor are they meant to survive.<\/p>\n

This is important to understand, because again it’s the seen and the unseen. The planned “improvements” around which the Trolley is the lynch-pin will not be nearly as nice as predicted, but they will be very nice, especially from the point of view of The Shiny Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Jon Talton lied in the Arizona Republic, telling you that Maroney’s Dry Cleaning store on Central Avenue had not been killed by Trolley construction, when it fact it had, I wrote this: The trolley is killing long-established businesses up and down its route, and the green-cheese-heads who inflicted it on us, along with all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-general","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/21\/moondacity\/","url_meta":{"origin":49,"position":0},"title":"Moondacity…","author":"Odysseus","date":"December 6, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Jon Talton is the Arizona's Republic's house Socialist. 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