Republicans are revving up for a D.C. smackdown

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Anonymous wrote:I’m okay with banning traffic cameras, banning no right on red law, and banning non citizens from voting. I’m sure there are others I won’t like, but I’m fine with those.

Non citizens aren’t allowed to vote.

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Anonymous wrote:PS and FFS, ban DC's death with dignity law? Because that's what is causing a daily hardship for DC residents?

THESE ARE NOT REAL ISSUES FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY LIVE HERE AND HAVE TO DEAL WITH REAL DC ISSUES?

effing GOP using DC for stupid pet GOP issues that have nothing to do with improving the lives of the people who actually live in the city

The problem is you can say the same thing about the Mayor and Council, and they live here. There is at least hope that some random Republican from Idaho might get it at some point.

I can't stand the mayor or most of the council but I think the odds that a GOP congressperson from Idaho is ever going to "get it" when it comes to making DC a great city for the citizens who actually live here and pay taxes here are nil. And I don't say that because I think people from Idaho are dumb -- I am from Wyoming originally. But the truth is that DC is a dense urban municipality with unique issues (due to being the seat of government and not being part of a state as well as unique things about it's demographics and history) and unless you are from a similar city (say Philly or Baltimore) you are never going to get it. And the arrogance of someone in that position thinking they can fix problems in this city is very similar to the "DC elites" who look at Idaho and think they know how to help the people there.

DC needs to be run by people in DC. We get bad candidates because so many people in DC can't or won't run for government positions (feds cannot run for local office while they are employed by the federal government and the transient nature of many DC-area jobs means we often lose people who have something to offer the city because they leave before they can become embedded enough to take that leap to running for office). Fixing that stuff would do a lot more to improving our elected government than hoping some Congressperson from a distant state or district will somehow understand DC in a way that its own citizens do not.

Keep in mind that DC is run by two types of people currently, those that got here last Tuesday and still have Ohio plates on their car, but feel like they are qualified to run this city because they went to Georgetown and "Long Time Residents" who view the city as a jobs-program and cash-cow. Neither of these groups really understands how to run a city. Each group has their orthodoxies and they become more orthodox with each wave of "educated" newcomers.

What a Republican does is offer the ability to act outside of those orthodoxies.

Think of what Bukele did with El Salvador. All the "experts" and inteligista insisted up and down that you couldn't solve the gang problem, and twisted themselves in a pretzel to preserve a broken status quo. Then along came a guy who said "why don't we put gang members in jail?" Now El Salvador is one of the safest countries in the hemisphere. It didn't take nuance and expertise, it took doing simple and obvious things that everyone understands except "experts."

That's what DC needs, someone to come in and ask "why don't we put violent criminals in jail?" That's something some random Republican can do that no one else in this city can do.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m okay with banning traffic cameras, banning no right on red law, and banning non citizens from voting. I’m sure there are others I won’t like, but I’m fine with those.

Non citizens aren’t allowed to vote.

https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/laws/24-242

"(B) Is a citizen of the United States; except, that this subparagraph shall not apply in a local election;".

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Anonymous wrote:I’m okay with banning traffic cameras, banning no right on red law, and banning non citizens from voting. I’m sure there are others I won’t like, but I’m fine with those.

You think running red lights in a dense urban environment is okay?

No, did I say that? Do you actually think red light cameras stop cars from running red lights? On my daily commute that passes through many DC neighborhoods with many cameras the answer is no.

So people just pay a fine daily? We have speed cameras on my street. They have dramatically slowed us all down.

For the 100 feet past the sign.

Still seems like slowing people down for just 100 feet is better than not slowing them down at all?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m okay with banning traffic cameras, banning no right on red law, and banning non citizens from voting. I’m sure there are others I won’t like, but I’m fine with those.

Non citizens aren’t allowed to vote.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/06/03/dc-noncitizen-voters-primary-election/

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Think of what Bukele did with El Salvador. All the "experts" and inteligista insisted up and down that you couldn't solve the gang problem, and twisted themselves in a pretzel to preserve a broken status quo. Then along came a guy who said "why don't we put gang members in jail?" Now El Salvador is one of the safest countries in the hemisphere. It didn't take nuance and expertise, it took doing simple and obvious things that everyone understands except "experts."

That's what DC needs, someone to come in and ask "why don't we put violent criminals in jail?" That's something some random Republican can do that no one else in this city can do.

I'm absolutely blown away by your comment. Bukele is a criminal who routinely violates the human rights of Salvadorans by incarcerating them indefinitely without trial and you think that's what DC needs? You are a sick, sick person. "I'm scared of the District because it's full of poor black and brown people so we need Big Daddy GOP to wipe their asses with the Constitution and lock everyone up indefinitely before trial."

You are an un-American lowlife pile of human excrement.

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How will banning speed cameras and overturning a local law to ban right turns on red help "restore law and order," though?

It's not about "restoring law and order." That's just the tagline they try to sell to ignorant rubes. GQP policy has and will always be that they are protected by law, but not bound by it, while liberals and Democrats are whom the law binds, but does not protect. GQP policy is to allow suburbanites to do whatever the hell they want in the District and other urban areas: drive as fast as possible for as little price as possible with as little consequence if any for their dangerous driving behavior.

Then after they defecate in the cities and the District, they drive as fast as possible home to their decrepit, segregated shltholes. This has been GOP/GQP policy since segregation and all the old suburban biddies who post here who are afraid of poor brown people are desperate for it to return here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m okay with banning traffic cameras, banning no right on red law, and banning non citizens from voting. I’m sure there are others I won’t like, but I’m fine with those.

As long as it's national. Just taking it out on DC because of our diminished representation is distinctly off.

You mean because you decided to live within a federal district?

[Anonymous]

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Think of what Bukele did with El Salvador. All the "experts" and inteligista insisted up and down that you couldn't solve the gang problem, and twisted themselves in a pretzel to preserve a broken status quo. Then along came a guy who said "why don't we put gang members in jail?" Now El Salvador is one of the safest countries in the hemisphere. It didn't take nuance and expertise, it took doing simple and obvious things that everyone understands except "experts."

That's what DC needs, someone to come in and ask "why don't we put violent criminals in jail?" That's something some random Republican can do that no one else in this city can do.

I'm absolutely blown away by your comment. Bukele is a criminal who routinely violates the human rights of Salvadorans by incarcerating them indefinitely without trial and you think that's what DC needs? You are a sick, sick person. "I'm scared of the District because it's full of poor black and brown people so we need Big Daddy GOP to wipe their asses with the Constitution and lock everyone up indefinitely before trial."

You are an un-American lowlife pile of human excrement.

I'm a NP, but what evidence do you have that the GOP would deprive anyone of their due process rights under the Constitution?

Your rhetoric is not helpful. What are your ideas for reducing crime and making the streets more pleasant and accessible to the taxpayers?

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I'm a NP, but what evidence do you have that the GOP would deprive anyone of their due process rights under the Constitution?

Your rhetoric is not helpful. What are your ideas for reducing crime and making the streets more pleasant and accessible to the taxpayers?

That's what is suggested when someone says they need someone like Nayib Bukele to "clean up DC." You should probably read up on your GQP adored Latin American strongmen.

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I'm a NP, but what evidence do you have that the GOP would deprive anyone of their due process rights under the Constitution?

Your rhetoric is not helpful. What are your ideas for reducing crime and making the streets more pleasant and accessible to the taxpayers?

That's what is suggested when someone says they need someone like Nayib Bukele to "clean up DC." You should probably read up on your GQP adored Latin American strongmen.

Thank you for chiming in for the "we can never fix the problem and anyone that wants to fix the problem is bad" brigade.

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Anonymous wrote:PS and FFS, ban DC's death with dignity law? Because that's what is causing a daily hardship for DC residents?

THESE ARE NOT REAL ISSUES FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY LIVE HERE AND HAVE TO DEAL WITH REAL DC ISSUES?

effing GOP using DC for stupid pet GOP issues that have nothing to do with improving the lives of the people who actually live in the city

The problem is you can say the same thing about the Mayor and Council, and they live here. There is at least hope that some random Republican from Idaho might get it at some point.

I can't stand the mayor or most of the council but I think the odds that a GOP congressperson from Idaho is ever going to "get it" when it comes to making DC a great city for the citizens who actually live here and pay taxes here are nil. And I don't say that because I think people from Idaho are dumb -- I am from Wyoming originally. But the truth is that DC is a dense urban municipality with unique issues (due to being the seat of government and not being part of a state as well as unique things about it's demographics and history) and unless you are from a similar city (say Philly or Baltimore) you are never going to get it. And the arrogance of someone in that position thinking they can fix problems in this city is very similar to the "DC elites" who look at Idaho and think they know how to help the people there.

DC needs to be run by people in DC. We get bad candidates because so many people in DC can't or won't run for government positions (feds cannot run for local office while they are employed by the federal government and the transient nature of many DC-area jobs means we often lose people who have something to offer the city because they leave before they can become embedded enough to take that leap to running for office). Fixing that stuff would do a lot more to improving our elected government than hoping some Congressperson from a distant state or district will somehow understand DC in a way that its own citizens do not.

The people in Utah that keep getting their land grabbed by Feds in DC say: back at ya.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m okay with banning traffic cameras, banning no right on red law, and banning non citizens from voting. I’m sure there are others I won’t like, but I’m fine with those.

You think running red lights in a dense urban environment is okay?

No, did I say that? Do you actually think red light cameras stop cars from running red lights? On my daily commute that passes through many DC neighborhoods with many cameras the answer is no.

So people just pay a fine daily? We have speed cameras on my street. They have dramatically slowed us all down.

For the 100 feet past the sign.

Still seems like slowing people down for just 100 feet is better than not slowing them down at all?

DP. Because slow-down-then-speed-up is more likely to result in accidents than a relatively continuous faster-than-the-limit due to the uncertainty it introduces to surrounding drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists.

The speed demon types are unlikely to have their behavior changed with cameras, happy to risk a fine for tinted plates, etc., that confound them.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m okay with banning traffic cameras, banning no right on red law, and banning non citizens from voting. I’m sure there are others I won’t like, but I’m fine with those.

As long as it's national. Just taking it out on DC because of our diminished representation is distinctly off.

You mean because you decided to live within a federal district?

DP, but I was born here, and I don't see why I should need to move somewhere else to have voting representation.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m okay with banning traffic cameras, banning no right on red law, and banning non citizens from voting. I’m sure there are others I won’t like, but I’m fine with those.

You think running red lights in a dense urban environment is okay?

No, did I say that? Do you actually think red light cameras stop cars from running red lights? On my daily commute that passes through many DC neighborhoods with many cameras the answer is no.

Yes, they do. After a few tickets, people stop running those particular lights, particularly when their car gets booted or towed, or a lien is placed on their property.

Few cars are booted or towed and outstanding tickets are not reported for collections. No lien, no ding to credit.