Thanks for the drive around Brownsville. Lots of people say " It's not where you live, it's how you live". I think they are wrong because... when you come from poverty crime infested neighborhoods...it takes a toll on your health, mindset, spiritual vibrations, definitely affects your social skills but on the other hand...it sharpens your ability to figure people out fast. I tell young people to get out of the projects and bad neighborhoods while they are young because as you get older your chances of getting out are slim to none. I speak from experience...lived in East New York Brooklyn NYCHA from 1972 to 2000. 🙏✌️
The amount of deadly violence may be worse there and in other parts of Phili than Kensington. Young drug selling teenagers killing each other vs drug addicts killing themselves and stealing.
Sometimes I miss Brooklyn but then when I look at pics and or videos and see those gray skies I then remember why I left. The gray skies mostly all year around is extremely depressing it used to fuck with my mood, Ofcourse when it was nice and sunny out then that's when I would say there is no better city but like I said it's not very often we got sunny days. Ever since I moved to Tampa my energy has improved and mood as well. Nothing like waking up to a bright sunny day, it really does help especially if you are trying to avoid substance abuse. Life out in a sunny state is a different vibe it allows you to wake up super early and feel the sun's energy.
I was just about to comment the same thing. Kensington has hood on lock. Brownsville’s issue is there are too many projects to close together but if Bed Sty can gentrify then so can Brownsville.
Thanks for the memories. Grew up ENY in the 70's and remembered Pitkin ave as the shopping MECA. Belmont had fruit / veggie vendors in old wooden carts :)
Yep ...Pitkin Ave was the shopping MECA. It was packed with people and cars and damn good music coming from stores, cars driving by and from the windows of people who lived in the area.💯🙏❤️
How do you get around in New York if your an out of towner? I’ve been to NY once but didn’t really get to indulge in the fullness of it, so I wanna go back but my only concern is how to get around, especially if I want to go to some restaurants and sites in the Burroughs?
@ 0:47 to your right is 296 Sutter Av in Brownsville houses 3rd floor right side of the taller building was our apt 3C. Soooo Many Memories from my youth to adult hood. Made it out alive from the early 70's to the late 90's.
Thank you for showing my old neighborhood of ENY Brooklyn. A lot has changed, all of my OG friends have either passed on or move to Florida, New Jersey and/or Pennsylvania... For me it is California....
Why do people like comparing their hoods like its a badge of honor. Poverty is poverty no matter if your from Kennsington Ave or Cabrini Green. LMAO. Some guy from Brooklyn came down here to NM and tried that "I'm from Harlem and this ain't shit". He got his ass kicked by an older man who have lived in the ABQ streets a long time.
@@BloomingdaleTN Representing your city's okay. As long as you don't run your mouth in another city. Ive walked in a few hoods but I thought I was hard until I took a Samsung Galaxy to an Apple Store and ran my mouth about Siri. Those nerdy Apple employees told me to kindly leave.
I remember when i moved from brick city Newark to ocean hill Brownsville Brooklyn .. And when i went to DMV to get my id change over to my NY address information the lady that was helping me said damn honey you were born in Newark NJ and you moved to Brooklyn NY you went from worst to worst you didn't come nowhere i felt out laughing but she was right
350 blake ave ..i remember growin up there till i was 13...yup on the 7th floor...Ole Ann Jacobs lol..she was like the mayor round there...she knew all the knuckleheads when they was kids...i wonder what happen to alot of my childhood friends...like George...Frankie and his brothers Junior n Jamel...and they sister Asia...Darkskin Ann and her daughters..so many more but i 4get names..man shyt was always live around there💯😢
I worked in every one of those projects... dumont. Sutter. Blake marcy. Brownsville. Cypress...gotta watch your back....shit can pop off in a instant.....Rockaway and pitkin...dont miss that shit at all...
I used to drive a courier van through Brooklyn, JFK, and then out to Long Island. One of my stops was at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. Every week the same 2 guys would come down to the loading dock to get what I delivered, and then go into the same yarn about them knowing someone from Brownsville that could be my twin. Are you sure you ain't him? I'd laugh and say no you must have me mixed up with some other guy. Every week same story. I don't think they knew how well that I knew all the neighborhoods in the city.
Don’t know… I see a lot (like, a lot!) of expensive cars parked around in this ghetto. And not all ‘pimp mobiles’ or ‘drugdealers ‘speed mobiles’. Some green here and there. No boarded up homes and shops. No junkies lying around on the pavement. This is what one would call ‘a nice middle class neighbourhood’ in my country 😂.
I saw a bunch of kids playing on a court. Thats usually a sign that the place is somewhat safe. Place doesnt look too bad imo. Has potential to turn in those places in where people pay much to live.
I remember when I lived here in the sixties, this was a nice little community where you were connected to nearly everything. All of that changed in 1969; the last time I was here was in the nineties!🙄
Brownsville isnt what it use to be in terms of violence but its still violent. I can count off hand over 20 ppl i knew from the block who was murdered, included my brother
What difference from Philadelphia,,,These people are clean and on form,,,The shops are open everybodys well dressed,,If i came to Brooklyn this is what i would want to see
Not gonna lie, I don't really see how this is a dangerous neighborhood. As someone who's lived in places like Hayward, California, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, this just looks like an urban city. Keep to yourself and you're all good. Nothing like zombie apocalypse video you have of Kensington.
Yeah I was about to say the same. Then again i know nothing about what would define a hood/dodgy place other then seeing crackheads littered across the street. Sure there probably is poverty but that doesnt have to be all that scary.
Gotta live there to see the danger or come through at night. It's not like how it use to be. I grew up in Brownsville Projects. My brother and at least 10 childhood friends were murdered. All within a 1 mile radius.
Id rather not so I could live. New York's crime rates is surprisingly low for a big city, especially when compared to other large metropolises in the Americas
Wow, thanks for the video. I've never been to a city and haven't any desire to visit one. Don't understand what makes someone want to live in a city but I'm glad they do. Seems the only thing open are deli's and liquor stores.
Brownsville isn't dangerous as long as you stay out the GOT DAMN WAY and MIND YOUR GOT DAMN BUSINESS you're safe. Just a little tip watch your manners and people's body language and the company you keep. I'll feel safer in Brownsville than I would anywhere on God's planet...
@Babyboo-qd8wb All my life, I've lived in the Ville and never had 1 altercation. No matter what time I'm getting home, my hand on a stack of Bibles I'm safe 3am or 3pm.
This not what Brownsville looked like in the 50s and 60s. I hear people comment about what do you expect from these people when you come from poverty and crime. They created this. This their doing.
What is up with all these shops selling nails is there a lot of carpenter work to do😂 omg I need to do some work but I don’t have any nails no worries just go down by the Corner
It's nothing to do with the area, the area doesn't know where it is. Put a Queen in a palace and she'll keep it like a palace. Put a pig in a palace and it'll turn it into a pigsty. Which are you?
I’m just seeing this now and I must say, to drive through a so called terrible Neighborhood like BROWNSVILLE and say nothing about anything shows a negative connotation. It’s OBVIOUS that you don’t know the people. It’s also giving fear to interview the people. The camera work is not good, moving too fast. Therefore the question is , what is the intention for doing this? Why do people try to stigmatize people and where they live? Especially when you know Absolutely nothing about this place. She-{BROWNSVILLE} is loved by many and GREAT people come from there and some STILL DO. Get to know HER TRULY.
“The Projects” such as this, the Chicago Projects and any other mass consolidation of low or no income is the biggest failure of urban design ever invented by Democrat run cities. The CHA (Chicago Housing Authority) was created in 1937 to own and operate housing built by the federal government's Public Works Administration. In addition to providing affordable housing for low-income families and combating blight, it also provided housing for industry workers during World War II and returning veterans after the war.. A great idea? Since WWII, these complexes have been been a massive source for drugs, guns, crime, prostitution and generational poverty. These ghettos should be dismantled and the people assisted to diverse locations. Decentralize this source of misery.
So you're saying that it's the housing that is the source of all the crime? Not the lack of decent paying jobs, no money going into the community from government and businesses, and lack of opportunity? I'm definitely not against "decentralize this source of misery," but where would they go? Who isn't going to vote down low income housing in their community? Young people who have decent jobs and make decent money can't afford housing, so what are the working poor going to do once you tear down one of the few options available to them?
Anyway , it's dangerous for your life, guns, drugs, cops, goverment, unknown places, unknown rules. Definitely not in one person, if i had somebody or someone in US or UK then maybe, but I am more like an Easter Europe person. I think France or Spain will be a border for me for about 5-10 years, but I am looking forward Carribians
I know, it used to be such a nice, prosperous place before Biden took office three years ago! Crazy what one president can do in three years to a thriving place!
Thanks for the drive around Brownsville. Lots of people say " It's not where you live, it's how you live". I think they are wrong because... when you come from poverty crime infested neighborhoods...it takes a toll on your health, mindset, spiritual vibrations, definitely affects your social skills but on the other hand...it sharpens your ability to figure people out fast. I tell young people to get out of the projects and bad neighborhoods while they are young because as you get older your chances of getting out are slim to none. I speak from experience...lived in East New York Brooklyn NYCHA from 1972 to 2000. 🙏✌️
Thank you for sharing. Congratulations on success. Thank you for watching!
@@ghettomerica THANK YOU 🙏💯✌️
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Si Bob Marley voyait ça il serait bien triste !
Il disait " So much trouble in the World " :
(Bob Marley)
A comment of supreme intelligence
@BruceWayne-sz3th Yep, I've learnt to figure people out real fast just by their body language alone 😜💯
They say this is the worst area in Brooklyn and it still does not look Half as bad as Kensington Pennsylvania
The amount of deadly violence may be worse there and in other parts of Phili than Kensington. Young drug selling teenagers killing each other vs drug addicts killing themselves and stealing.
u think dirty mean violence?get real
@@ZexhoisBackThey never mentioned violence or dirtiness...
I just watched that video. That’s exactly what I was thinking. This looks like heaven compared to Kensington.
@@simeonemalone2922 use your head Kensington is filthy that’s why there saying it looks worse
Sometimes I miss Brooklyn but then when I look at pics and or videos and see those gray skies I then remember why I left. The gray skies mostly all year around is extremely depressing it used to fuck with my mood, Ofcourse when it was nice and sunny out then that's when I would say there is no better city but like I said it's not very often we got sunny days. Ever since I moved to Tampa my energy has improved and mood as well. Nothing like waking up to a bright sunny day, it really does help especially if you are trying to avoid substance abuse. Life out in a sunny state is a different vibe it allows you to wake up super early and feel the sun's energy.
Don't worry grey skies are coming to your neck of the woods real soon you can't run and hide from God
People in the south live longer for this very reason
You need to seek Jesus and maybe a therapist. NYC is not grey all year round and we get PLENTY of sunshine. Sorry you live in an alternate universe.
Certainly not bad compared to, say, Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia. The streets are clean and there's a lot going on.
This place is Beverly Hills compared to that.
New York City has a bigger budget than Philly!
Kensington is all dope heads ... Brownsville is known for gangs shootings and stick up kids
@@D4MI0Nwhy wouldn't it?
I was just about to comment the same thing. Kensington has hood on lock. Brownsville’s issue is there are too many projects to close together but if Bed Sty can gentrify then so can Brownsville.
Thanks for the memories. Grew up ENY in the 70's and remembered Pitkin ave as the shopping MECA. Belmont had fruit / veggie vendors in old wooden carts :)
Nice. Must have been cool back then. Thanks for sharing. Thank you for watching.
Yep ...Pitkin Ave was the shopping MECA. It was packed with people and cars and damn good music coming from stores, cars driving by and from the windows of people who lived in the area.💯🙏❤️
How do you get around in New York if your an out of towner? I’ve been to NY once but didn’t really get to indulge in the fullness of it, so I wanna go back but my only concern is how to get around, especially if I want to go to some restaurants and sites in the Burroughs?
@ 0:47 to your right is 296 Sutter Av in Brownsville houses 3rd floor right side of the taller building was our apt 3C. Soooo Many Memories from my youth to adult hood. Made it out alive from the early 70's to the late 90's.
Thank you for showing my old neighborhood of ENY Brooklyn. A lot has changed, all of my OG friends have either passed on or move to Florida, New Jersey and/or Pennsylvania... For me it is California....
You’re welcome and thank you for watching! Stay tuned as we’ll drop more East New York Videos in the future.
Dear Salsakid: Make the progress count, don't just get out of the frying pan...
NYC is so much better than in the mid 80's. Had so much fun there at the same time as well as a young man.
Why do people like comparing their hoods like its a badge of honor. Poverty is poverty no matter if your from Kennsington Ave or Cabrini Green. LMAO. Some guy from Brooklyn came down here to NM and tried that "I'm from Harlem and this ain't shit". He got his ass kicked by an older man who have lived in the ABQ streets a long time.
So true. Hood is hood. Poverty is poverty.
Some people like wearing shit as a badge of honor I suppose.
@@BloomingdaleTN
Representing your city's okay. As long as you don't run your mouth in another city.
Ive walked in a few hoods but I thought I was hard until I took a Samsung Galaxy to an Apple Store and ran my mouth about Siri. Those nerdy Apple employees told me to kindly leave.
Ok…
It’s stupid as a New Yorker I literally don’t understand why people are being proud of this 🤷♀️
Brooklyn mentality way harder than Kensington I ain’t gon hold u💯
Compared with Kensington street. Looks like a thriving community.
Kensington
Those housing projects look like multi-story prisons.
They are
East NY, East Philly, East Detroit, East Baltimore, East NJ, East L.A, East San Diego, East Oakland, Etc, Etc,... 💪 ❤💪✊👊
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I remember when i moved from brick city Newark to ocean hill Brownsville Brooklyn .. And when i went to DMV to get my id change over to my NY address information the lady that was helping me said damn honey you were born in Newark NJ and you moved to Brooklyn NY you went from worst to worst you didn't come nowhere i felt out laughing but she was right
I was born and raised in brownville I live on union near Sutter rutland it not bad as they say
Places always get more hype than worth. Outsiders looking in. Thanks for watching
i come from Oz so i know nought about seth low...why infamous and thanks so much for the drive around. i found it quite interesting
350 blake ave ..i remember growin up there till i was 13...yup on the 7th floor...Ole Ann Jacobs lol..she was like the mayor round there...she knew all the knuckleheads when they was kids...i wonder what happen to alot of my childhood friends...like George...Frankie and his brothers Junior n Jamel...and they sister Asia...Darkskin Ann and her daughters..so many more but i 4get names..man shyt was always live around there💯😢
It looks nice to me compared to Kensington Pennsylvania
Guess you gotta say excuse me 20x to get in the corner grocery store 😂
Detroit makes this look like a haven.
I worked in every one of those projects... dumont. Sutter. Blake marcy. Brownsville. Cypress...gotta watch your back....shit can pop off in a instant.....Rockaway and pitkin...dont miss that shit at all...
I used to drive a courier van through Brooklyn, JFK, and then out to Long Island. One of my stops was at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. Every week the same 2 guys would come down to the loading dock to get what I delivered, and then go into the same yarn about them knowing someone from Brownsville that could be my twin. Are you sure you ain't him? I'd laugh and say no you must have me mixed up with some other guy. Every week same story. I don't think they knew how well that I knew all the neighborhoods in the city.
Still waiting for danger - have you ever been to germany last years?
Don’t know… I see a lot (like, a lot!) of expensive cars parked around in this ghetto. And not all ‘pimp mobiles’ or ‘drugdealers ‘speed mobiles’. Some green here and there. No boarded up homes and shops. No junkies lying around on the pavement. This is what one would call ‘a nice middle class neighbourhood’ in my country 😂.
Where are you from?
This kind of neighborhood would definitely be called affluent, not "middle class", if you are from a crappy 3rd world country.🤣
These buildings are owned by NYCHA wich is a federal entity.....
I'm proud to be a New Yorker. Even our ghettos are nice! Compare this to any of your other videos.
I saw a bunch of kids playing on a court. Thats usually a sign that the place is somewhat safe. Place doesnt look too bad imo. Has potential to turn in those places in where people pay much to live.
@@zzzm1k3zzzyup that’s true
I was about 3 or 4 yo when I lived in a Brownsville tenement bldg about 1949-1951. Not the same today.
One thing I noticed about the boroughs in New York is you don't see a lot of trees trees are beautiful they can make the town look a little nicer
I grew up in ENY. I went to Thomas Jefferson. I lived on Sheffield Ave. From 1960 to 1975. I am a tomahawk for life.
I remember when I lived here in the sixties, this was a nice little community where you were connected to nearly everything. All of that changed in 1969; the last time I was here was in the nineties!🙄
Sounds so good. What mic are you using?
I love your videos because i get to see places that i will never ever see in person 😮
Thanks so much. I appreciate you watching. Please let me know any places you want to see.
@@ghettomericaHow about neighborhoods in New Orleans or Gary, Indiana?
Id still have to say, everywhere I saw on here of New Orleans makes this setting look nice by comparison!
Brownsville isnt what it use to be in terms of violence but its still violent. I can count off hand over 20 ppl i knew from the block who was murdered, included my brother
What difference from Philadelphia,,,These people are clean and on form,,,The shops are open everybodys well dressed,,If i came to Brooklyn this is what i would want to see
Looks better than Kensington in Philly.
I bet it's a field day for the repo man
This is what we are used to seeing. I'm just ready to leave now but part of me will miss my home
335 Sutter Ave and Stone Ave
Instead buying a plate ticket and a car for a roadtrip I could just lay down and watch your channel 😌
Not gonna lie, I don't really see how this is a dangerous neighborhood. As someone who's lived in places like Hayward, California, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, this just looks like an urban city. Keep to yourself and you're all good. Nothing like zombie apocalypse video you have of Kensington.
Yeah I was about to say the same. Then again i know nothing about what would define a hood/dodgy place other then seeing crackheads littered across the street. Sure there probably is poverty but that doesnt have to be all that scary.
Looks can be deceiving. Don't be fooled. Shootouts happen in broad daylight. Heavy gang activity etc. You definitely better watch ur back in Bville. 😐
Gotta live there to see the danger or come through at night. It's not like how it use to be. I grew up in Brownsville Projects. My brother and at least 10 childhood friends were murdered. All within a 1 mile radius.
Its too many projects across the stress from each other. Put this same set up anywhere and you'll see the same result
The drive through Kensington, Philly on a Friday morning was way more scary. Junkie hood.
Lots of corner stores!
What a cool place,,,Should be proud,,,New York is an amazing place
Seems cool! Wanna see a real and dangerous place? Come to visit Rio de Janeiro's favelas.
Id rather not so I could live. New York's crime rates is surprisingly low for a big city, especially when compared to other large metropolises in the Americas
Good job👌🏾👏🏾
Thank you! Thanks for watching!
Having kids they can't afford. STOP DOING IT
Homie passed my cousin's building on Blake not going to put them out there tho they names ring tho.
Wow, thanks for the video. I've never been to a city and haven't any desire to visit one. Don't understand what makes someone want to live in a city but I'm glad they do. Seems the only thing open are deli's and liquor stores.
Mike Tyson grew up there.
Brownsville isn't dangerous as long as you stay out the GOT DAMN WAY and MIND YOUR GOT DAMN BUSINESS you're safe. Just a little tip watch your manners and people's body language and the company you keep. I'll feel safer in Brownsville than I would anywhere on God's planet...
Lies!
@Babyboo-qd8wb All my life, I've lived in the Ville and never had 1 altercation. No matter what time I'm getting home, my hand on a stack of Bibles I'm safe 3am or 3pm.
Honestly, I thought it would be way worse. We have worse ghettoes in France.
6:24
Live in Brooklyn now but from Memphis.. It is NOT THAT BAD in comparison to Memphis!
Looks dreary
This not what Brownsville looked like in the 50s and 60s. I hear people comment about what do you expect from these people when you come from poverty and crime. They created this. This their doing.
I would have to say it is bad compared to my neighborhood, which is right next to Brownsville.
What is up with all these shops selling nails is there a lot of carpenter work to do😂 omg I need to do some work but I don’t have any nails no worries just go down by the Corner
It must be fingernails but same same but different😂
Likely fronts for money laundering
Yet it doesn't look bad at all compared to other places. Best city in the freaking world :)
Looks like most cities in the UK, especially the outskirts of London
Way nicer than Philadelphia
Grew up in bronsville 1945 left in1961wh
Looks like all the people live in these apartments
I grew up there in the 80s so my sons don't have to today. Suburb life
15:32 look like oblock
Brownsville Brooklyn is not dangerous or ghetto it's the certain people that make Brownsville Brooklyn dangerously ghetto
Used to work there in early 90s.........crack needles every where
Interesting but your quite violent panning gave me motion sickness !!
Brownsville looks like Park Ave compared to Kensington PA
Fakery, just a lot of people .... many locations much worst than this ....
Demographics have a play InThis compared to Kensington I think.
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Are they supposed to be proud about living in the most dangerous neighborhood. I think it's a damn shame.
It's nothing to do with the area, the area doesn't know where it is.
Put a Queen in a palace and she'll keep it like a palace. Put a pig in a palace and it'll turn it into a pigsty. Which are you?
But u don't have 300 thousand people in your area
And guns
Little dirty pa rural area don't compare
I’m just seeing this now and I must say, to drive through a so called terrible Neighborhood like BROWNSVILLE and say nothing about anything shows a negative connotation. It’s OBVIOUS that you don’t know the people. It’s also giving fear to interview the people. The camera work is not good, moving too fast. Therefore the question is , what is the intention for doing this? Why do people try to stigmatize people and where they live? Especially when you know Absolutely nothing about this place. She-{BROWNSVILLE} is loved by many and GREAT people come from there and some STILL DO. Get to know HER TRULY.
Страна которой нет уже 45 лет...
I'm back the real shimeka Sonia Clinton
100's of black people just standing around. Nobody on their way to work. Reparation's? I say get a job!
Leave the hood, simple.
Very similar vibe to London
Def cant wait to visit London. Thank you for watching!
Ummm no.
Gentrificate deese nutz.
K P seems a lot worse on the surface anyways.
It’s not dangerous…
I love black men I wouldn't care if he had kids I would babysit and even be friends with the baby mama.😊😊😊😊😊
why would anyone live in this place
This doesn't even look dangerous 😂😂
I would live there and I'm white. I'm from Chicago so I can handle myself no problem.
FAFO
Keep thinking dat
@@WhatYouWantWhatYouDontWant 16.😂
@@WhatYouWantWhatYouDontWant I'm Chris Hansen. Why don't you take a seat over there?
“The Projects” such as this, the Chicago Projects and any other mass consolidation of low or no income is the biggest failure of urban design ever invented by Democrat run cities.
The CHA (Chicago Housing Authority) was created in 1937 to own and operate housing built by the federal government's Public Works Administration. In addition to providing affordable housing for low-income families and combating blight, it also provided housing for industry workers during World War II and returning veterans after the war..
A great idea? Since WWII, these complexes have been been a massive source for drugs, guns, crime, prostitution and generational poverty. These ghettos should be dismantled and the people assisted to diverse locations. Decentralize this source of misery.
So you're saying that it's the housing that is the source of all the crime? Not the lack of decent paying jobs, no money going into the community from government and businesses, and lack of opportunity? I'm definitely not against "decentralize this source of misery," but where would they go? Who isn't going to vote down low income housing in their community? Young people who have decent jobs and make decent money can't afford housing, so what are the working poor going to do once you tear down one of the few options available to them?
Looks extremely boring, another reason why i don't want to visit USA and UK in a near future
Check our upcoming Harlem
Video. Harlem is very vibrant and full of life.
Cant compare the uk with the usa.Ok it has some dodgy areas but nothing like America.Theres hardly any guns for a start.
@@michaelkeene4708 Yeah, and UK is more dreadful than USA. USA has life and sushine
Faarrrrr from boring.. life in the city isn’t one smidge of boring
Anyway , it's dangerous for your life, guns, drugs, cops, goverment, unknown places, unknown rules. Definitely not in one person, if i had somebody or someone in US or UK then maybe, but I am more like an Easter Europe person. I think France or Spain will be a border for me for about 5-10 years, but I am looking forward Carribians
Whoever gave me 2 likes thank you
It's the honest God's truth.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Bidens USA god bless the queen LOL.
I know, it used to be such a nice, prosperous place before Biden took office three years ago! Crazy what one president can do in three years to a thriving place!
Yea because the president controls everything, fed,state,city & county. Everything that happens, its the president, doin that 👌👍🏼🫠
It was the same long before Biden. Good try though.