Posted on 09/10/2025 9:32:55 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
In August 2025, the city of Philadelphia agreed to return a statue of Frank Rizzo to the supporters that commissioned the memorial in 1992.
The 2,000-pound bronze tribute to the former police commissioner-turned-mayor had stood in front of the city’s Municipal Services Building from 1998 until 2020, when then-mayor Jim Kenney ordered it removed days after protesters attempted to topple it during the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd. ---SNIP---
Like Rizzo, Trump’s appeal is more social and cultural than economic. Critics have argued that Trump’s promotion of traditional Republican economic policies belie the notion that he is a populist. Trump’s populism, however, lies not in his ability to deliver working-class prosperity, but conservative victories in the nation’s long-standing culture wars
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Who got murdered? not George Floyd, he overdosed himself.
This is Rizzo....Frank Rizzzo! Open your ears jackass!
Frank Rizzo left the Democratic Party. There was a time when the Democratic Party had a lot of patriots.
“””protests that followed the murder of George Floyd.”””
Murdered by fentanyl. And all the other drugs he had stuffed into his body that day.
Rizzo Forever.
This is Sol Rosenberg, I’ll bring my shoes and glasses with me so I’ll have them...
I’ve been saying for a while that we need to elect people who are the second coming of Frank Rizzo. The crap going on in our cities would stop dead.
He also had strong support from his South Philly homies. Things were taken care of.
"I'm so tough I make Attila the Hun look like a faggot"
"The Philadelphia Police Department could invade Cuba and win"
Ping!
I used to love it when you’d be sitting in an Italian restaurant, such as Nostalgia, and Frank Rizzo would walk in and shake hands with all us regular folks, table to table. Oh, and the Sarcone’s bread...
Now your making me hungry.
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