Montgomery County is what happens when the Social Justice Warriors take over

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Alabama is what happens when Conservatives take over.

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Anonymous wrote:You can’t smoke outdoors in MOCO? Is that a joke?

thry banned outdoor smoking in bars and smoking and vaping is banned at all county property even outdoors

But in the rest of the county, which is most of it, you can smoke all you want.

no they banned smoking outdoors at all bars

Most of the county isn't bars. If bars is what you mostly experience in Montgomery County, then you have a bigger problem than a ban on smoking outdoors at bars.

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Anonymous wrote:You can’t smoke outdoors in MOCO? Is that a joke?

thry banned outdoor smoking in bars and smoking and vaping is banned at all county property even outdoors

But in the rest of the county, which is most of it, you can smoke all you want.

no they banned smoking outdoors at all bars

Most of the county isn't bars. If bars is what you mostly experience in Montgomery County, then you have a bigger problem than a ban on smoking outdoors at bars.

if I drink outside of a bar in the county anywhere but my home I get arrested

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One of two things will happen. Either the two factions of the extreme left will eat each other up and the County will elect sensible moderates, or the county will continue its decline into becoming a socialist backwater. I hope it's the former, but I'm not sticking around for the latter. #Bye.

OK with me.

-Montgomery County resident who wants more bike lanes, more housing around transit, and a police force that doesn't harass young black men for being young black men

Enjoy PG County

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can’t smoke outdoors in MOCO? Is that a joke?

thry banned outdoor smoking in bars and smoking and vaping is banned at all county property even outdoors

But in the rest of the county, which is most of it, you can smoke all you want.

no they banned smoking outdoors at all bars

Then smoke somewhere else.

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One of two things will happen. Either the two factions of the extreme left will eat each other up and the County will elect sensible moderates, or the county will continue its decline into becoming a socialist backwater. I hope it's the former, but I'm not sticking around for the latter. #Bye.

OK with me.

-Montgomery County resident who wants more bike lanes, more housing around transit, and a police force that doesn't harass young black men for being young black men

Enjoy PG County

As if that is s bad thing.

Holy snobbery Batman.

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Anonymous wrote:Alabama is what happens when Conservatives take over.

Ouch!

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Anonymous wrote:Alabama is what happens when Conservatives take over.

Ouch!

Also Kansas and Oklahoma but seriously I think there is just one guy here who lives in MoCo and works in Fairfax and is obsessed with grinding this axe as if the politics were hugely different in the two places.

Also you should just register republican bro and don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

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you should see the response in NP. Katz met with constituents and they are unimpressed and want to see results. I know hard cakes democrats who are telling their parents to get a gun because the county won’t do anything.

I wonder what hard cakes democrats are. Like smores or something?

It's cakes that are made without gluten, dairy or eggs.

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Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County has become a joke.

For the record, I'm a Democrat. A disillusioned Democrat, but still registered as one so I can have a chance to elect moderates in local elections. But I'm about to give up and move to Fairfax - where my new job is, where ALL THE JOBS ARE.
I would never vote for a Republican at the national level with the current clown circus that is the Party of Trump, but living in a One Party jurisdiction is NOT A GOOD THING.

Montgomery County politicians and the people who put them there are a parody of themselves. Their latest "community forum on policing" was 100% about complaining about how police officers are racist - absolutely nothing on how to reduce crime. the new Council and County Executive have a massive budget shortfall and dwindling tax base and what do they do? Hold a bajillion "racial equity and social justice" forums, listening sessions, galas, and fundraisers to show off their #wokeness with our taxpayer money. They replace the POW/MIA flag with the Pride flag. Every County staff hire is based around some kind of social justice and identity politics contest - you are unbeatable if you are black, disabled, and gay.

I'm a classical liberal - I'm for equality of opportunity, judging on content of our character, participating in a market equality. Meanwhile in MoCo, the Government is the biggest employer and it chooses based on identity politics and how woke you are.

My favorite thing to watch, though, is the Montgomery County Left eat itself up. It's all over Facebook and Twitter. There's the Social Justice Left (the Council and its allies) who obsess about transit-oriented LGBTQ housing and bike lanes and other things that only 1% of taxpayers would benefit from, and they are at war with the Socialist Left (the County Executive, who is a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists, and his friends), who oppose new housing developments because they are built by corporations who make money. It's pretty hilarious.

One of two things will happen. Either the two factions of the extreme left will eat each other up and the County will elect sensible moderates, or the county will continue its decline into becoming a socialist backwater. I hope it's the former, but I'm not sticking around for the latter. #Bye.

The county does not have a huge budget shortfall. It was a $120 million shortfall on a FY19 $5.4 billion budget, and they closed it in late January. 2% shortfall. It’s been far worse, and much more painful to close.

The new FY 20 budget is $5.8 billion, and they met the target reserve goal and funded OPEB. So not sure where you get this idea of a massive budget shortfall.

The forums don’t cost much at all, since they are held in government spaces, and racial equity will benefit 58% of the county. Sounds like government that’s responsive to its residents to me.

I’m not a big Elrich fan, but your view of government right now is not accurate.

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Anonymous wrote:

One of two things will happen. Either the two factions of the extreme left will eat each other up and the County will elect sensible moderates, or the county will continue its decline into becoming a socialist backwater. I hope it's the former, but I'm not sticking around for the latter. #Bye.

OK with me.

-Montgomery County resident who wants more bike lanes, more housing around transit, and a police force that doesn't harass young black men for being young black men

Enjoy PG County

Huh? Have you ever been to Prince George's County, even once? They need more bike lanes and more housing around transit too - in fact, even more than Montgomery County, because they've been doing even less than Montgomery County.

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Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County has become a joke.

For the record, I'm a Democrat. A disillusioned Democrat, but still registered as one so I can have a chance to elect moderates in local elections. But I'm about to give up and move to Fairfax - where my new job is, where ALL THE JOBS ARE.
I would never vote for a Republican at the national level with the current clown circus that is the Party of Trump, but living in a One Party jurisdiction is NOT A GOOD THING.

Montgomery County politicians and the people who put them there are a parody of themselves. Their latest "community forum on policing" was 100% about complaining about how police officers are racist - absolutely nothing on how to reduce crime. the new Council and County Executive have a massive budget shortfall and dwindling tax base and what do they do? Hold a bajillion "racial equity and social justice" forums, listening sessions, galas, and fundraisers to show off their #wokeness with our taxpayer money. They replace the POW/MIA flag with the Pride flag. Every County staff hire is based around some kind of social justice and identity politics contest - you are unbeatable if you are black, disabled, and gay.

I'm a classical liberal - I'm for equality of opportunity, judging on content of our character, participating in a market equality. Meanwhile in MoCo, the Government is the biggest employer and it chooses based on identity politics and how woke you are.

My favorite thing to watch, though, is the Montgomery County Left eat itself up. It's all over Facebook and Twitter. There's the Social Justice Left (the Council and its allies) who obsess about transit-oriented LGBTQ housing and bike lanes and other things that only 1% of taxpayers would benefit from, and they are at war with the Socialist Left (the County Executive, who is a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists, and his friends), who oppose new housing developments because they are built by corporations who make money. It's pretty hilarious.

One of two things will happen. Either the two factions of the extreme left will eat each other up and the County will elect sensible moderates, or the county will continue its decline into becoming a socialist backwater. I hope it's the former, but I'm not sticking around for the latter. #Bye.

Has anyone seen the ridiculous bike lanes around downtown Silver Spring? Requiring cars to park 4' from the curb for these short stretches of green bike lanes that don't go anywhere? And how about Spring St from 16th to Colesvile and side streets? How much traffic calming barriers can you build? There is so much sh#t in the road now it is unsafe for cars!

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Has anyone seen the ridiculous bike lanes around downtown Silver Spring? Requiring cars to park 4' from the curb for these short stretches of green bike lanes that don't go anywhere? And how about Spring St from 16th to Colesvile and side streets? How much traffic calming barriers can you build? There is so much sh#t in the road now it is unsafe for cars!

Why do you call them ridiculous? Have you tried biking on them?

If the problem is that the bike lanes don't go anywhere, then the solution to that is more bike lanes, so that they do go somewhere.

Also, more bike lanes make the roads safer for everyone.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190529113036.htm

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Anonymous wrote:

One of two things will happen. Either the two factions of the extreme left will eat each other up and the County will elect sensible moderates, or the county will continue its decline into becoming a socialist backwater. I hope it's the former, but I'm not sticking around for the latter. #Bye.

OK with me.

-Montgomery County resident who wants more bike lanes, more housing around transit, and a police force that doesn't harass young black men for being young black men

Enjoy PG County

As if that is s bad thing.

Holy snobbery Batman.

Uh, PG is not a bad thing. I suggested it because it is not plagued with the ridiculous nonsense of Montgomery County. Amazon refused to locate in White Flubg because if the politics.

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White Flint.