Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
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Now you see what we are dealing with. One Councilmember is a conspiracy theorist, but the others cite the same. What’s their excuse?
Not playing with a full deck. Abolish and pay the professionals. Also I’d like no taxation, no representation (it’s been useless) |
Anonymous
| Anything is better than a dictatorship of these mediocre nutcases racing us to the bottom |
Anonymous
“Vote” |
Anonymous
| Is this a good time to push for statehood? |
Anonymous
| God no. It’s a disaster. |
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Maybe he can link of with MTG to talk about Jewish space lasers while George Santos tells him how he hails from the Rothschild dynasty. |
Anonymous
You guys just about let non-citizens vote in elections. Do you think DC officials are competent enough to give non-citizens the correct ballot? If they vote in a federal election they wind up with a felony and permanent bar from immigration benefits. |
Anonymous
It’s a poorly written editorial. He notably doesn’t defend non-citizen voting. He also undermines his own argument about the home rule act because non-citizen voting in the nations capital is decidedly not a solely local matter. |
Anonymous
You undermine your own argument by not understanding that the non-citizen voting proposal only pertains to local elections. The AG doesn't need to defend it because the argument that the House is standing up to protect the value of citizenship for DC residents while simultaneously denying an representative elected by DC citizens the right to even vote on the matter is patently ridiculous. It's like being asked to disprove the existence of Santa Claus. |
Anonymous
Pretty much. These people are fascists. |
Anonymous
All elections in DC are Federal elections. |
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Today’s WaPo
The mayor and D.C. Council members go about their business within a well-guarded building and traverse the city in cars with official license plates that tell all comers who they are and why they should be left the hell alone. Do they know — do they care to know? — that Friday morning’s robbery spree comes with great costs? It’s more than a lost wallet, purse or coat. Those street robberies in broad daylight strike a palpable fear. It’s the kind of fear that makes a person — women and men of all ages — think twice before going out of the house. Which is the safest bus stop? What’s the best time to go to the supermarket or use an ATM? Where should I fill my tank? What do I do if …? Where should I run if …? What, oh what, can I say if …? How I would love to see one of our progressive council members come before just one day’s victims and tell them that the young suspects who violently robbed them should, if caught, be handled with great care because research on the brain has shown that people under 25 lack a fully developed prefrontal cortex needed for impulse control and a mature understanding of the consequences of their actions. Or so say justice reform advocates who argue for keeping young robbers out of secure detention at all costs. That philosophy carries the day in today’s D.C. Council. There is no relation between what’s being propounded in council chambers and what’s going down in the streets. Better to pay attention to the D.C. police alerts than what the council has to say. At least those alerts may help keep you alive. |
Anonymous
What’s the push behind all this lenient legislation? What is the main reason? Is it to makes us more safe somehow? How does it make us more safe? |
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| A serious community grassroots effort is underway to recall at least one possibly two Councilpersons who proposed these two pieces of legislation. Not because of the legislative effort but because they are terrible at their jobs. DC people are fed up |