Detroiters Get Free Donuts With Their Poisoned Dirt
Detroit's leaders hide behind brownies after toxic soil got dumped in demolition holes all over the city
I’ve seen a lot of dumb shit from the Detroit political class over the years, but this one literally takes the cake.
What’s Detroit City Hall doing about the poisoned demo dirt peppering the neighborhoods? Dirt that has been found too toxic for the human touch?
The Demolition Department has launched a marketing campaign held at its job sites. They’re handing out donuts to fat kids, and brownies to junkies—trying to manipulate them into happy poses for their social media channels.
“Look! Demolition and Donuts! Board-up and Brownies! Never mind your elected leaders have poisoned you! Eat, Booboola! Eat!”
Two weeks ago, there was the picture of a happy-faced kid licking a glazed Krispy Kreme while an active demolition was going on in the background. Never mind the poisoned dust blowing all over him.
Post it!
Can you imagine the Flint Water Department handing out cups of Kool-Aid to the kiddies?
This is the city’s solution to a ballooning scandal that may end up costing more than $100 million to clean up. Money the city doesn’t have.
What Detroit does have is one giant scandal, a second federal investigation into the dirt, and zero answers.
An ex-con was walking by the pop-up brownie table set up in the street, last week. Influencers from the Demo Department tried to wrangle him into a photo-op. He declined both the selfie and the sweets explaining that he has extra-judicial issues and promotional photographs were of little help to him.
I explained the purpose of the event to him.
“I knew it was something, man,” he said. “I’m like brownies and board-ups? What the f*** is that about?”
And now the neighborhood knows.
It’s not been a good first quarter for Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield. Her predecessor Mike Duggan left the city impoverished, poisoned, and under-policed.
Duggan left office, left the Democratic Party, and then launched a bid for governor of Michigan as an independent.
To return the favor, the Democratic Party launched an anti-Duggan billboard campaign this week, showing how Mike “Magoo” has poisoned the people.
Before he jilted them, the Democrat brass took Duggan’s largesse and kept quiet. Now, they’re after his ass.
Sheffield better figure out something, and figure it out soon. After her lavish inaugural parties and perpetual Insta posts, people are starting to call her Mary Antoinette.
The let-them-eat-cake strategy is wearing thin. The people are tired of crumbs.
