THE TKC SATURDAY NIGHT PLAYLIST!!! EXPOSING THE DECEPTIVE ENTHUSIASM OF MLB ALL-STAR GAME HYPE AS A SYMPTOM OF KANSAS CITY POLITICAL CORRUPTION!!!
They say it's best NOT to smile at animals because they regard the showing of teeth as a sign of aggression. In Kansas City, a smile is most commonly used as a practice to deceive.
To wit . . .
ALL OF THIS HAPPY AND SMILEY ALL-STAR MEDIA COVERAGE IS A COMPLETE MISREPRESENTATION OF LIFE IN KANSAS CITY!!!
If vapid and mostly misinformed Kansas City hype is what you're looking for then please go read Joe Posnanski's latest blog post:
Joe Posnanski Blog: Kansas City
More than anything, it's a great insight into what a white guy with a reasonable amount of cash thinks about enjoying his privilege locally.
But Mr. Posnanski's observations have nothing to do with reality for most people doing time in this cowtown.
ALL-STAR VISITORS SHOULD KNOW THAT KANSAS CITY IS A HORRIBLE SMALL BURG THAT SHOULDN'T BE MISTAKEN FOR A MAJOR AMERICAN CITY!!!
Posnanski prattles on the local good life in a manner much more skilled than the dimwits at the Convention and Visitors Association but it's still nothing more than marketing hype.
The fact is:
Kansas City is a wicked little town controlled by a political and monied elite class of insipid self-aggrandizing fools who would rather enjoy meaningless honors than contribute anything worthwhile to the community.
The town is mostly inhabited by the working poor who don't realize their circumstances but still unwittingly remain slaves to whatever political or racial ideology that serves to dominate their prejudices.
Kansas City's infrastructure and institutions are crumbling but any effort at renewal has been hijacked by special interests and big companies populated by suburbanites who only venture inside city limits to advocate for a bigger check.
On the bright side, there are a few people who understand that life in this town is predicated on acceptance of urban myths and the status quo. Coming into contact with these few AWESOME folks is the only bright spot in Kansas City life but these aren't people who will be enjoying the All-Star game.
Finally, what makes Kansas City such a miserable excuse for a town is that our culture of failure is most often enforced with polite ignorance and/or adherence to the will of our ruling class. In Kansas City it's more important to have powerful friends than a point of view.
So, let's not forget that The MLB All-Star game was brought here with a series of deceptions perpetrated on local voters and taxes weighted upon the lower class for the benefit of people with enough disposable income to attend overpriced corporate pro-baseball games. The revenue promised is yet another urban legend that only exists in deceptive power point presentations given to naive politicos.
In other words . . .
MLB ALL-STAR GAME HYPE AT THE BEHEST OF FANBOYS AND BASEBALL DWEEBS REPRESENTS NOTHING MORE THAN THE MISPLACED PRIORITIES OF KANSAS CITY'S POLITICAL LEADERSHIP!!!
Kansas City's obsession with shiny, new tourist attractions is part of a political philosophy that has doomed this town to mediocrity. Sadly, it's not just naïveté or ignorance that keeps Kansas City chasing economic development and tourist pipe dreams but a concentrated effort of special interests which corrupts witless elected officials and deceives the mostly desperate and weak minded electorate for economic gain.
All-Star hype and so many tax schemes are nothing more than the symptom of Kansas City's demise at the hands of so many corporate grifters successfully advocating for their own entitlements against the best interests of our neighborhoods and community.
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And all of this has inspired tonight's Youtube playlist.
As always, thank you for reading and have a fun and safe weekend.
So, I take it you couldn't score tickets?
ReplyDeleteToo bad.
I'll try to tweet you some pics.
What a grump. Move already.
ReplyDeleteI haven't even started with these politicians yet! Great article! Insightful and true!
ReplyDeleteI HATE this fucking city and you, Tony, have articulated my inner most feelings and beliefs in this one article in a way that I am too impatient to do. I will frame it. Thank you!!!
Its kind of like being married to a man who beats you, isn't it Tony. You hate your surroundings but the only thing you do about it is bad-mouth behind their back. You know where the highway is and Mexico is south.
ReplyDeleteOkay, that was fucking funny.
ReplyDeleteBitch & moan, bItch & moan. Maybe you could write about real life on the East side of KC. Tony, you are a man with a vagina. Suck it up Sally.
ReplyDeleteI give it a 8 out of 9.
ReplyDeleteJoe Posnanski is a fat, balding, Steve Glorioso ,look-a-like, who lives in a world of white picket fences, rainbows and unicorns. He has a penis and a vagina. In the spirit of that physiology I can gladly say, Hey Joe, GO FUCK YOURSELF.
ReplyDeleteIt costs just as much to run Joe's blog as it does yours, Tony. You can take the privileged white guy angle and shove it up your ass.
ReplyDeleteI think you're pissed because you post and write nearly every day about how much you hate Kansas City, how people with a little less melanin in their skin are privileged and advantaged -- and it doesn't matter. Murders are up. The school system is worse than ever. Water mains break on a regular basis. Seven years of beating your head against a wall and not getting anywhere. That's got to suck, especially for someone who allegedly cares about Kansas City.
I'm sure you've heard that old "actions speak louder than words" phrase. Ever think about actually doing something to make Kansas City a better place, rather than writing about how bad it is?
John Rizzo - that is, everything and every one of the corrupt politicians and ignorant white people that had to do with getting him installed in political office - exemplifies the cowtown reasons Kansas City sucks. Tony, thanks for devoting so much of your effort to getting a tool like that elected so that now you can write about how shitty our politicians are.
ReplyDeleteThe MLB circus will come to town, wow the locals, scatter a few dollars around, and leqave with a bundle of cash.
ReplyDeleteBy Wednesday we'll all be breathlessly looking at each other and wondering what happened.
Great opportunity for the local swells and politicos to bask in the reflected bright lights for a couple days.
Then we're all back to reality, or at least what passes for it at 12th and Oak.
Check out the new baseball diamonds in about four months and you'll see just what KCMO is really all about.
What got the $3000.00 seats. Haha! Eat that po folk!
ReplyDeleteCan't find much to argue with in your post, Tony.
ReplyDelete6:47 is also right.
Worst writer ever amazing he lasted on the Star payroll for 15 years. But Joes a blogger now (last stop) where he can entertain his 20 regular readers.
ReplyDeleteYou know Joe is who he is you either like or dislike him. Me I don't read him enough to weigh on the matter.
ReplyDeleteBut will say what little I have seen is way better than any of the dribble Craig Glazer shoves down ourt throats day in and day out.
T gives us his opinion about things and either you agree or you don't. I don't think he hates KC anymore than I do but I can say he just as myself is really tired of the politicians who are ruining this town.
If your looking for corruption just go downtown to KCPD they have plenty of it for all of Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteWhiff of grapeshot my ass!!
ReplyDeleteTony's acerbic, vitriolic indictment of this city, the kleptocrats that run it in conjunction with a "Knockout King" shot at Jo Pa, might be the most impassioned and spot on critique of the powers in place I have yet seen him pen.
Today's written rib cage spreader reveals the internal organs and his (Tony's) prognosis of a necrotic and moribund patient, this city, it's politicians, citizens and the infected detritus left in teh wake of the machinations of those movers and shakers whom he says sacrifice the utilitarian needs of our infrastructure, literal and metaphorical, for self aggrandizing, petty, short term unrealistic goals.
I don't agree with all of it, but Tony's voice in this city is far more interesting, relevant and noteworthy than any writer for the KC Star by a country mile.
Free speech, dialogue and the truth on this blog, will lead all of we plebes far closer to the light of consensus than any bullshit vetted through channels and the politically correct prism from of our local 4th Estate gadflies, themselves infected by that disease Doctor Botello diagnosis in our citizen body.
Cops, city workers, city councilmen/women, the mayor's son, fireman, taxi cab drivers, street workers, construcition workers, landscapers, any end everyone in the city including the "N" word guy MUST be able to express thier opinion, and this vehicle is that place.
It is so egalitarian, communist, catholic and in my opinion, for what it's worth (That ain't much.) important.
Ya think Tony has a Black Light Picture of Che Guevara in his mom's basement?
Superdave.
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This city is held back by the elite mafia and crooks. Most of them are TKC tipsters. Glorioso, Riley, American Royal, Downtown Council and on and on really are welfare queens
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Very nicely stated
Well supposedly the major is expecting over sixty million in tourist revenue coming to this town this weekend. That's a lot of money to squander. That toy train is a for sure thing now.
ReplyDeleteTony, what do you think about all the public money shoveled to the Guadalupe Center? Corrupt?
ReplyDeleteI'd rather spend all my time in a good Ol smelly dive bar with idiots than the Regency any day. At least it's interesting.
ReplyDeleteBorn unto them was a male child that they named Antonio. And they were glad and full of joy. Then the Mexiking spoke and ordered them to fatten the child with tacos, burritos, snack cakes and hatred for the white man. And as he grew he acquired the breasts of a woman, a shitty car and even shittier computer. His breast oozed acidic brown milk that he fed on from lack of a paycheck. He became a willing tool of the white man. His hatred for them was false. He aspired to be like them in defiance of the Mexiking. His breasts grew larger.
ReplyDeleteIn life there are doers and complainers, which one are you Tony?
ReplyDeleteThere's a four billion half ass blogs on the internet most of which suck. Look at me!! I'm special! I'm a writer! I'm important! Hilarious.
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ReplyDeleteTony's unique hits, well oever 25,000 a day, is what makes his blog important in this town.
He is behind only the Star as I understand it in readership.
this city has given you something to write about. given you a way to help raise money so you dont have to get a real job. i get you do and say all this just to get people all pissy and have high site numbers.....but i think im done. tony, we are breaking up. you write about the same stuff and i am sick reading about how much you think this city sucks. I mean, its just not working out for us anymore tony. Your negative Nancy views, lack of work ethic, the shit on everyone attitude so people will read me... its old. you are not offering anything new and fresh. Plus, im tired of your bitching. i get enough of that from my girlfriend. Tony, maybe one day I'll come back to check in on an old flame. See if you are talking about anything positive or just the same rhetoric shit show you have been manifesting.
ReplyDeletestay calm. carry on.
Tony, you didn't post KC Week in Review and Nick Haynes this week. Oh wait, it was all about the All Star Game. Never mind.
ReplyDeletepppppplllllaaaaayyyy ball
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ReplyDeleteSorry your intel is wrong just go to KCC and ask Hearne and Glazer that. They will tell you they have the most read blog in KC.
But then those two have both thought everything they do or have done is better than anyone else can do
KC is the shit. Especially for how small it is. Loads of character, charm and culture. This city punches well above its weight. There's not another 2 million metro in the country with as much cool shit as this place except Portland.
ReplyDeleteAll-Star Game is boo-shit. For once I agree with TKC.
ReplyDeleteGood Job Tony.
ReplyDeleteTypical shame-faced, self-hating, low self-esteem-having, apologistic midwesterner bullshit.
ReplyDeleteYou guys don't know how good you got it in this town.
Timberlake? Fuck you.
ReplyDeleteSo who is the eye-candy bitch?
ReplyDeleteEvery time I read stuff like this I just laugh. No one is forcing you to live here. No one is putting a gun to your head to stay in KC. If you don't like where you live, move the fuck away. Find another city or small town or survivalist compound. Just quit moaning and groaning about something you have absolute control over.
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