Why do MoCoites keep voting for the same? Silver Spring residents are melting down due crime

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Anonymous wrote:Sock puppets on a Friday night.

We’ve found the obnoxious too online Silver Spring head in sand progressive. Do you think this crime is NBD? You may want to talk your fellow liberal Silver Spring and Takoma Park friends. I think you will find out that their progressive values end the moment these things begin to affect them personally. It’s one thing if it’s 20-something males shooting each other at 2 AM on Georgia Ave. It’s quite another when its middle aged women having a guns shoved in their face at 7 PM trying to shop at Safeway.

You may not be aware, but the neighborhood is starting to get a reputation for crime and you may not be able to understand this, but it is not a good thing.

Which neighborhood is "Silver Spring"? Woodside Park? Leisure World? White Oak? Aspen Hill? Please explain.

Are you actually this thick or pretending to be this thick?

No one on DCUM cared when the crime was in the Aspen Hill Silver Spring. Hypocrites.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sock puppets on a Friday night.

We’ve found the obnoxious too online Silver Spring head in sand progressive. Do you think this crime is NBD? You may want to talk your fellow liberal Silver Spring and Takoma Park friends. I think you will find out that their progressive values end the moment these things begin to affect them personally. It’s one thing if it’s 20-something males shooting each other at 2 AM on Georgia Ave. It’s quite another when its middle aged women having a guns shoved in their face at 7 PM trying to shop at Safeway.

You may not be aware, but the neighborhood is starting to get a reputation for crime and you may not be able to understand this, but it is not a good thing.

Which neighborhood is "Silver Spring"? Woodside Park? Leisure World? White Oak? Aspen Hill? Please explain.

Are you actually this thick or pretending to be this thick?

No one on DCUM cared when the crime was in the Aspen Hill Silver Spring. Hypocrites.

Disagree. People have been complaining about gangs and human trafficking for years. It's all around the Wheaton/Aspen Hill area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Online Left in Silver Spring, median age of 24, believe that Marc Elrich isn't woke enough because he loves cops too much. They want him to defund the police more.

I believe that this "Online Left" is orchestrated the ones committing the crimes, or their friends. Convince everyone that the police and the criminal justice system are the problem so that you can commit crimes with no fear of being caught. It actually has worked brilliantly for them so far. Tons of people marched for defunding the police and the politicians listened; the criminals must have been watching with glee.

You give too much credit to these children. The online Left are not committing crimes, they are just tweeting. Stealing a car or covering for their friends would involve getting up from their Twitch streams and World of Warcraft.

Correct. They are just morons tweeting for social media engagement. What is interesting and scary is that they are able to capture the attention of many Councilmembers. It is bizarre to me that they can be so obviously immature, so wrong about issues as important as life and death and then still Councilmembers are quick to seek their approval and also boost these people on other issues. That is what troubles me the most.

They are also not all 24. Most seem to be in their mid to late 30s who share a common trait of being underemployed Millennials who blame other people for their situation. The oddest thing that they do is spend a disproportionate amount of their time concerned about what is going on in other peoples communities that are not their own or what other people do with their private affairs. I remember not too long ago that they used to do this creepy thing going around posting pictures of other peoples houses trying to generate outrage because they were too nice. Absolutely deranged group of people with internet poisioning.

Are you talking about people who's initials are D. R., or M.E. perhaps?

I have no clue who D.R. is, but an M.E. posts endlessly on Nextdoor and is totally insufferable. Thinks he is a savior for minorities and poor people. Thankfully, it seems like people have grown tired of him, as his posts generate no comments anymore.

D.R. ran for the planning board back in like 2007 and Elrich voted against him and he has held a personal grudge against Elrich for 15 years. He's also the biggest whiner on the MoCo internet

Elrich wasn’t the only one who voted against him. IIRC, he had written a lot of very disturbing blog posts that at the very least demonstrated that he could not perform the job adequately. He apologized and claimed that he wrote those things when he was a young (they were written when he was in his mid-20s) and he doesn’t hold those views. After his nomination was voted down, he has proceeded to prove everyone who voted against him correct and that his “apology” was an utter lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sock puppets on a Friday night.

We’ve found the obnoxious too online Silver Spring head in sand progressive. Do you think this crime is NBD? You may want to talk your fellow liberal Silver Spring and Takoma Park friends. I think you will find out that their progressive values end the moment these things begin to affect them personally. It’s one thing if it’s 20-something males shooting each other at 2 AM on Georgia Ave. It’s quite another when its middle aged women having a guns shoved in their face at 7 PM trying to shop at Safeway.

You may not be aware, but the neighborhood is starting to get a reputation for crime and you may not be able to understand this, but it is not a good thing.

Which neighborhood is "Silver Spring"? Woodside Park? Leisure World? White Oak? Aspen Hill? Please explain.

Are you actually this thick or pretending to be this thick?

No one on DCUM cared when the crime was in the Aspen Hill Silver Spring. Hypocrites.

Let’s be more specific. None of the Silver Spring social media progressives have ever cared about crime in Aspen Hill and they have only cared about crime in DTSS to the extent that they can call their neighbors racist who are sick of it and want to do something about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sock puppets on a Friday night.

We’ve found the obnoxious too online Silver Spring head in sand progressive. Do you think this crime is NBD? You may want to talk your fellow liberal Silver Spring and Takoma Park friends. I think you will find out that their progressive values end the moment these things begin to affect them personally. It’s one thing if it’s 20-something males shooting each other at 2 AM on Georgia Ave. It’s quite another when its middle aged women having a guns shoved in their face at 7 PM trying to shop at Safeway.

You may not be aware, but the neighborhood is starting to get a reputation for crime and you may not be able to understand this, but it is not a good thing.

Which neighborhood is "Silver Spring"? Woodside Park? Leisure World? White Oak? Aspen Hill? Please explain.

I think this is referring to the 7pm armed Thayer/Fenton Safeway carjacking last week, so the neighborhood would be DTSS and the areas bordering it, particularly around Fenton toward TKPK and (to a lesser degree) the side streets toward Dale.

Honestly I am not quick to call "crime!" and make rash assumptions based on 1 incident. But there have been a bunch of incidents, increasingly earlier, and with a young teen who likes to spend time in DTSS and takes these routes often walking with friends at a variety of hours my spouse and I have decided there is NO walking at night and now we are not sure that's good enough. I think I will lay off that Safeway for a while too, though I do love it. Was it in the garage or the upper surface lot? That must have been terrible for the people who work there: a lot of those workers are lovely and have been there a long time.

From reports on Nextdoor from people who saw the victim after the incident, it was the upper surface lot.

The first hand account that I read on Nextdoor was very disturbing. I really hope that lady is going to be okay. That’s a lot of trauma to deal with.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At this point, if a moderate republican ran for office in MoCo, and focused almost exclusively on getting tough on crime (more police, better pay for police, harsher sentences for criminals), I would definitely vote for him/her, and I know many others who would do the same. Truthfully, David Blair dropped the ball by not doing more with this issue.

Reardon Sullivan did this. But he lost 75%-25%. MoCo just has different priroties, which are (A) Vote blue no matter who, (B) Be Woker than your neighbors, and (C) Stick it to the evil right wing

For as long as I've lived in Montgomery County, which is over 20 years, the Montgomery County Republican Party has failed to understand that Montgomery County voters simply do not want to buy what the Montgomery County Republican Party is selling. Several times over the years, I have been disgusted with this or that Democratic candidate, and considered voting for the Republican candidate as a protest vote. Every single time, I have reconsidered as soon as I looked at their campaign literature. If there were still candidates like Jean Cryor or Connie Morella, it would be different, but the Republicans would never run anybody like them these days, plus nobody like them would run as a Republican these days. Anti-vaccine, anti-immigrant, anti-voting by mail, anti-LGBTQ, anti-acknowledging that their guy lost the 2020 election, no way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Online Left in Silver Spring, median age of 24, believe that Marc Elrich isn't woke enough because he loves cops too much. They want him to defund the police more.

24-year-olds in Montgomery County are living with their parents or other older relatives, because they can't afford the high cost of housing in Montgomery County.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw an interview with Jawando on don lemon after the terrible incident with those two police officers at the elementary school center as leaked (the one where the police officers were suggesting someone should smack the kid), and it was clear to me that neither Jawanda nor Lemon had watched the whole video before the interview because they had mistakes on basic facts. That video was a very bad showing from two officers of MCPD but jawanda was making all sorts of conclusions that weren’t warranted because he was wrong on the facts. I really don’t like him and think that he’s a one trick pony and that one trick is playing on white liberal guilt.
We could really have the best police force in the nation and be a leading model for training and accountability. (I think MCPD was already probably one of the best in the country.). But it’s easier just to slash and burn the department I guess.

Jawando is good example of the kind of slick politician with national aspirations that just does not understand the needs of his constituents in part because he has insulated himself from the harm that his policies cause. This is particularly true when it comes to crime.

DTSS getting so dangerous that families don't let their teens go out after 7? He doesn't care, he moved to the countryside. Weekly lockdowns in public schools due to guns and rumours of guns? Why would Jawando bother to lift a finger - his kids are in private school, after all.

Meanwhile, he shills his new book and claims credit for policies that look good on paper but that completely fall down in the implementation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I saw an interview with Jawando on don lemon after the terrible incident with those two police officers at the elementary school center as leaked (the one where the police officers were suggesting someone should smack the kid), and it was clear to me that neither Jawanda nor Lemon had watched the whole video before the interview because they had mistakes on basic facts. That video was a very bad showing from two officers of MCPD but jawanda was making all sorts of conclusions that weren’t warranted because he was wrong on the facts. I really don’t like him and think that he’s a one trick pony and that one trick is playing on white liberal guilt.
We could really have the best police force in the nation and be a leading model for training and accountability. (I think MCPD was already probably one of the best in the country.). But it’s easier just to slash and burn the department I guess.

Jawando is good example of the kind of slick politician with national aspirations that just does not understand the needs of his constituents in part because he has insulated himself from the harm that his policies cause. This is particularly true when it comes to crime.

DTSS getting so dangerous that families don't let their teens go out after 7? He doesn't care, he moved to the countryside. Weekly lockdowns in public schools due to guns and rumours of guns? Why would Jawando bother to lift a finger - his kids are in private school, after all.

Meanwhile, he shills his new book and claims credit for policies that look good on paper but that completely fall down in the implementation.

At least 229,826 of his constituents disagree with your assessment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Online Left in Silver Spring, median age of 24, believe that Marc Elrich isn't woke enough because he loves cops too much. They want him to defund the police more.

24-year-olds in Montgomery County are living with their parents or other older relatives, because they can't afford the high cost of housing in Montgomery County.

A 1 minute search has informed me that you can rent a studio apartment in downtown Silver Spring for $810 per month. If you are 24 and cannot afford that then you have other problems rather than housing costs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I saw an interview with Jawando on don lemon after the terrible incident with those two police officers at the elementary school center as leaked (the one where the police officers were suggesting someone should smack the kid), and it was clear to me that neither Jawanda nor Lemon had watched the whole video before the interview because they had mistakes on basic facts. That video was a very bad showing from two officers of MCPD but jawanda was making all sorts of conclusions that weren’t warranted because he was wrong on the facts. I really don’t like him and think that he’s a one trick pony and that one trick is playing on white liberal guilt.
We could really have the best police force in the nation and be a leading model for training and accountability. (I think MCPD was already probably one of the best in the country.). But it’s easier just to slash and burn the department I guess.

Jawando is good example of the kind of slick politician with national aspirations that just does not understand the needs of his constituents in part because he has insulated himself from the harm that his policies cause. This is particularly true when it comes to crime.

DTSS getting so dangerous that families don't let their teens go out after 7? He doesn't care, he moved to the countryside. Weekly lockdowns in public schools due to guns and rumours of guns? Why would Jawando bother to lift a finger - his kids are in private school, after all.

Meanwhile, he shills his new book and claims credit for policies that look good on paper but that completely fall down in the implementation.

Don’t think you need to worry too much about Jawando. His colleagues have ostracized him and has no political future. He got the least number of votes of all At-Large Councilmembers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Online Left in Silver Spring, median age of 24, believe that Marc Elrich isn't woke enough because he loves cops too much. They want him to defund the police more.

24-year-olds in Montgomery County are living with their parents or other older relatives, because they can't afford the high cost of housing in Montgomery County.

A 1 minute search has informed me that you can rent a studio apartment in downtown Silver Spring for $810 per month. If you are 24 and cannot afford that then you have other problems rather than housing costs.

I'm guessing you haven't tried to get rental housing lately. Finding something on Google at an advertised rent is not the same as actually being able to rent it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Online Left in Silver Spring, median age of 24, believe that Marc Elrich isn't woke enough because he loves cops too much. They want him to defund the police more.

24-year-olds in Montgomery County are living with their parents or other older relatives, because they can't afford the high cost of housing in Montgomery County.

A 1 minute search has informed me that you can rent a studio apartment in downtown Silver Spring for $810 per month. If you are 24 and cannot afford that then you have other problems rather than housing costs.

I'm guessing you haven't tried to get rental housing lately. Finding something on Google at an advertised rent is not the same as actually being able to rent it.

No. That was apartments.com that showed real-time availability. It also showed that there were 2-BD apartments for $1550. So that 24 year old Silver Spring resident could rent that and get a roommate, like a lot of current and past 24 year olds in the area. Including me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Online Left in Silver Spring, median age of 24, believe that Marc Elrich isn't woke enough because he loves cops too much. They want him to defund the police more.

24-year-olds in Montgomery County are living with their parents or other older relatives, because they can't afford the high cost of housing in Montgomery County.

Oh boy, M.E. has found this thread. Try to ignore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At this point, if a moderate republican ran for office in MoCo, and focused almost exclusively on getting tough on crime (more police, better pay for police, harsher sentences for criminals), I would definitely vote for him/her, and I know many others who would do the same. Truthfully, David Blair dropped the ball by not doing more with this issue.

Reardon Sullivan did this. But he lost 75%-25%. MoCo just has different priroties, which are (A) Vote blue no matter who, (B) Be Woker than your neighbors, and (C) Stick it to the evil right wing

I never heard of the guy and I am guessing most voters didn't either. In a race for county executive, you must be able to raise lots of money and get ads on TV.