‘The city is dead’: D.C. restaurant reservations drop amid federal crackdown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn't the Restaurant Association run around crying about crime as a justification for not allowing cash transactions? Now that they have fed the narrative of a crime wave, they are upset their propaganda worked to such great effect?

No what are you going on about? Having the US military with weapons and ammunition scared people away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I didn’t have work projects in DC, I was still down there weekly but the costs to get there, pay for parking/take Metro (especially if I’m taking my kids), and high food prices post-COVID hasn’t made it worth going. This didn’t start with trump but it may well end with him. With the exception of the National Mall area, DC is just another small, dull American city. Maybe move the Capitol to the middle of the country and start over. At least then maybe it would create jobs there too and spread the wealth around.

That makes no sense whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I didn’t have work projects in DC, I was still down there weekly but the costs to get there, pay for parking/take Metro (especially if I’m taking my kids), and high food prices post-COVID hasn’t made it worth going. This didn’t start with trump but it may well end with him. With the exception of the National Mall area, DC is just another small, dull American city. Maybe move the Capitol to the middle of the country and start over. At least then maybe it would create jobs there too and spread the wealth around.

That makes no sense whatsoever.

I’m not sure pp knew they were typing. Seems more like an internal monologue

[Anonymous]

Andy Shallal reported revenues down at his stablishments significantly since the militarization of the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Andy Shallal reported revenues down at his stablishments significantly since the militarization of the city.

Ironically, he was a vocal defund the police cheerleader. Which basically got us into this current mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Andy Shallal reported revenues down at his stablishments significantly since the militarization of the city.

Ironically, he was a vocal defund the police cheerleader. Which basically got us into this current mess.

What mess? You clearly don't live here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I didn’t have work projects in DC, I was still down there weekly but the costs to get there, pay for parking/take Metro (especially if I’m taking my kids), and high food prices post-COVID hasn’t made it worth going. This didn’t start with trump but it may well end with him. With the exception of the National Mall area, DC is just another small, dull American city. Maybe move the Capitol to the middle of the country and start over. At least then maybe it would create jobs there too and spread the wealth around.

You clearly don't spend ANY time in DC if you believe this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I didn’t have work projects in DC, I was still down there weekly but the costs to get there, pay for parking/take Metro (especially if I’m taking my kids), and high food prices post-COVID hasn’t made it worth going. This didn’t start with trump but it may well end with him. With the exception of the National Mall area, DC is just another small, dull American city. Maybe move the Capitol to the middle of the country and start over. At least then maybe it would create jobs there too and spread the wealth around.

You clearly don't spend ANY time in DC if you believe this.

Washington is nothing like most national capitals. It’s not even in the top 10 most populous cities. Tell me, if DC did not have the national Mall with its museums/monuments and wasn't the seat of the federal government, what would attract people to the city over Chicago, New York, etc? It lost something with the white-ification.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I didn’t have work projects in DC, I was still down there weekly but the costs to get there, pay for parking/take Metro (especially if I’m taking my kids), and high food prices post-COVID hasn’t made it worth going. This didn’t start with trump but it may well end with him. With the exception of the National Mall area, DC is just another small, dull American city. Maybe move the Capitol to the middle of the country and start over. At least then maybe it would create jobs there too and spread the wealth around.

You clearly don't spend ANY time in DC if you believe this.

Washington is nothing like most national capitals. It’s not even in the top 10 most populous cities. Tell me, if DC did not have the national Mall with its museums/monuments and wasn't the seat of the federal government, what would attract people to the city over Chicago, New York, etc? It lost something with the white-ification.

What are most nations capitals? They aren't always located in the most populous cities. Australia?

Not everyone is attracted to super dense highrise cities like NYC and Chicago, they have their own problems. But if you want to live in one, then DC and most other US cities won't satisfy you anyway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I didn’t have work projects in DC, I was still down there weekly but the costs to get there, pay for parking/take Metro (especially if I’m taking my kids), and high food prices post-COVID hasn’t made it worth going. This didn’t start with trump but it may well end with him. With the exception of the National Mall area, DC is just another small, dull American city. Maybe move the Capitol to the middle of the country and start over. At least then maybe it would create jobs there too and spread the wealth around.

You clearly don't spend ANY time in DC if you believe this.

Washington is nothing like most national capitals. It’s not even in the top 10 most populous cities. Tell me, if DC did not have the national Mall with its museums/monuments and wasn't the seat of the federal government, what would attract people to the city over Chicago, New York, etc? It lost something with the white-ification.

It wouldn't compare, but because we are the seat of government, all kinds of really interesting people come here and make our city vibrant. That's every city. Take Wall Street/finance and the arts and what do you have in NYC? We have great neighborhoods and restaurants. We have really interesting and smart people too. I love Chicago, but in DC, you meet people who do things you've never heard of. That's why I love it.

[Anonymous]

If it weren’t the capital it just wouldn’t be here, but that’s not the city’s fault. That’s why it was put here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Andy Shallal reported revenues down at his stablishments significantly since the militarization of the city.

Ironically, he was a vocal defund the police cheerleader. Which basically got us into this current mess.

Except for 1) the only defunding of police has happened when the GOP refuses to vote for federal spending bills. There has not been any defunding of police in DC otehr than the GOP cutting the DC budget this spring so we can't spend our own money and 2) the whole "defund the police' manta was borne out of frustration over the police killing black people. Are you ok with police just killing people extrajudiciously?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Andy Shallal reported revenues down at his stablishments significantly since the militarization of the city.

Ironically, he was a vocal defund the police cheerleader. Which basically got us into this current mess.

Except for 1) the only defunding of police has happened when the GOP refuses to vote for federal spending bills. There has not been any defunding of police in DC otehr than the GOP cutting the DC budget this spring so we can't spend our own money and 2) the whole "defund the police' manta was borne out of frustration over the police killing black people. Are you ok with police just killing people extrajudiciously?

In reality, between 2015 and 2024, American police shot and killed about 180 unarmed black people (and 222 white people), according to a database from the Washington Post. Over the same period, close to 100,000 black people died of homicide. But, let’s keep going with your plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Andy Shallal reported revenues down at his stablishments significantly since the militarization of the city.

Ironically, he was a vocal defund the police cheerleader. Which basically got us into this current mess.

Except for 1) the only defunding of police has happened when the GOP refuses to vote for federal spending bills. There has not been any defunding of police in DC otehr than the GOP cutting the DC budget this spring so we can't spend our own money and 2) the whole "defund the police' manta was borne out of frustration over the police killing black people. Are you ok with police just killing people extrajudiciously?

In reality, between 2015 and 2024, American police shot and killed about 180 unarmed black people (and 222 white people), according to a database from the Washington Post. Over the same period, close to 100,000 black people died of homicide. But, let’s keep going with your plan.

Flawed database PP.

The Washington Post’s now-shuttered Fatal Force database — ‘designed to inform or inflame?’

https://www.americanexperiment.org/the-washington-posts-now-shuttered-fatal-force-database-designed-to-inform-or-inflame/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I didn’t have work projects in DC, I was still down there weekly but the costs to get there, pay for parking/take Metro (especially if I’m taking my kids), and high food prices post-COVID hasn’t made it worth going. This didn’t start with trump but it may well end with him. With the exception of the National Mall area, DC is just another small, dull American city. Maybe move the Capitol to the middle of the country and start over. At least then maybe it would create jobs there too and spread the wealth around.

You clearly don't spend ANY time in DC if you believe this.

Washington is nothing like most national capitals. It’s not even in the top 10 most populous cities. Tell me, if DC did not have the national Mall with its museums/monuments and wasn't the seat of the federal government, what would attract people to the city over Chicago, New York, etc? It lost something with the white-ification.

It would be a completely different place and have had a completely different history if the government wasn’t based here. What an odd comment.

What would Ottawa be or Canberra or countless other dedicated world capitols be if they weren’t the Capitol of their country?

London is thousands of years old and was made the Capitol because it was the main city, so yes that is a different kind of world Capitol and not really an apt comparison.