They wouldn’t know how to govern, it’s not what they came here for. “Owning the libs” is the only girl for these grifters.

I’m disappointed at the paucity of slapstick goofball answers here. What about spending it all on free jet packs for everyone with a clean drivers license and good eyesight?

Is that a condominium?

Everything I hear about it just gets worse. The story from preplanning through to today would be a good subject for a documentary film I bet.

“The enclave “?

Yah true. But I wonder if there’s dedicated vegetarian places elsewhere in town? I’ve taken vegetarian friends to Newark in the past I’m trying to expand my comprehension.

I’m going ahead with the premise that there’s broad swaths of people that feel the Holliday’s are too much work. I’m not saying don’t see family, and I’ve already stated that kids should have Christmas every year since it’s mostly they who enjoy it the most. But for those who find all the hype burdensome-and we do exist- this solution offers an alternative choice between deciding to participate or not. What I’m saying is some of these people may actually wind up loving Christmas MORE if it was 1/3 as rare. It would perhaps become more precious.

The big issue will be shutting down the strident “war on Christmas” conservatives. This is one of their favorite talking points. But my solution would be to point out that by removing the outrageous retail marketing and exploitation aspect associated with the Holliday you’d be making it easier for actual religious minded people to focus on the biblical/Christianity aspect of Christmas. You might actually get support from staunch Christians for limiting the big business/retail exploitation of the birth of their savior.

Nope if it becomes socially acceptable to ignore it for long stretches you’re more at leisure to limit participation because you wouldn’t be “Scrooge” you’d be “less fanatical”.

Precisely. My theory is it’d actually make Christmas more worthwhile because people could prepare and pace themselves instead of having it be a huge morass you always have to navigate every year.

Oh you can’t completely escape it, but at least with my plan you’re free to chose your level of participation instead of the blanket automatic obligation.

How’s it possible for something like this to have a budget estimate DOUBLE at the planning stage? Must have originally been cartoonishly lowballed numbers that couldn’t withstand any scrutiny. One wonders which parts of the budget were in fantasyland?

C’mon he names himself after Batman. Do you expect a mature opinion on any optic from such a clown?

Acronyms without translation. Sigh.

Let’s apply this more vigorously in more locations and improve everyone’s safety and quality of life. It’s a no-brainer.

Lol they’d just become the most ironic extremists ever.

He’s actually on Reddit. He’s twocatsoneman.

Lol Sliwa! I had forgotten. Good lord.

If you’re standing on this spot wondering when the art gallery will open (maybe never, lol) and you want some art to look at you are in luck! Just 100’ away across Sip Avenue is the terrific Hudson County Community College art gallery: https://www.hccc.edu/community/arts/bdj-dcs-gallery.html take the elevator to the top floor and check out the terrific view from up there and look at an art show.

To be fair this is a proven revenue stream for most museums, without education programming it’d be hard to have a museum remain open long.

There’s a proven track record of Museum failures in Jersey City is what I’m stating. If they can’t manage a tiny museum what skills do they bring to managing the rollout of a big one?

....speaking of “a year ago”, the point raised when Pompadue was announced-and it’s cost to the city- was that the city was aparently happy to lavish money on the French museum but wont spend that same kind of dollar amount on getting old school buildings properly HVACed. What is a higher priority?

I’ve said before we should see if we can get a tiny museum to work FIRST. The Jersey City History Museum is two blocks from this location and is DEAD after it’s (re)opening was announced at the Apple Tree House last year, with no programming and no exhibits of any kind offered, and unfinished highly visible SIMPLE repairs evident on the tiny building’s exterior. It’s the picture of incompetence.