Not supporting Muriel Bowser anymore

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Anonymous wrote:Downtown is packed today and crime stats are back down well within the norm - the whole DC is empty and full of crime is old news

Agreed. DC is thriving.

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Anonymous wrote:Downtown is packed today and crime stats are back down well within the norm - the whole DC is empty and full of crime is old news

Agreed. DC is thriving.

That’s insane. Crime is horrendous and they still are fighting tooth and nail to avoid taking reports. This is a full sham

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Anonymous wrote:Downtown is packed today and crime stats are back down well within the norm - the whole DC is empty and full of crime is old news

You call having 182 murders so far this year while Baltimore has 190 as crime being down within the norm?

Chicago has 544 murders and 2.6 million people. DC has 678,000 people. If DC had Chicago’s population we’d have more than 700 murders so far this year. If the norm is okay with you, that’s sad.

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Anonymous wrote:Downtown is packed today and crime stats are back down well within the norm - the whole DC is empty and full of crime is old news

You call having 182 murders so far this year while Baltimore has 190 as crime being down within the norm?

Chicago has 544 murders and 2.6 million people. DC has 678,000 people. If DC had Chicago’s population we’d have more than 700 murders so far this year. If the norm is okay with you, that’s sad.

And Philadelphia has 193 murders this year and has 1.5 million people. DC has 182 murders and 678,000 people.

New York has 352 murders this year and 8.2 million people.

LA has 266 murders this year and a population of 3.8 million people.

If being as dangerous as Baltimore, more dangerous than Chicago, more than twice as dangerous as Philly, and waaay more dangerous than LA and NYC is the norm to you, we have to aim much higher.

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Anonymous wrote:The assault she’s unleashing on federal workers by solely blaming them for downtown DC not being “vibrant” because of remote work, is just so out of touch. And she’s aligning with the incoming administration? Has she lost her mind? I’m angry at this. I just want to vent. Why are feds always targeted unfairly for everything?

If she really wanted Federal Workers to return to office, maybe thinking about how they might get to the office will help.
Rock Creek closing Beech Drive
CT Ave - it is bad enough that you no longer have the additional lane but adding in the restaurant taking over the lane
Losing lanes to bike lanes (some that are barely used) has lead to gridlock
Changing some streets to one way etc etc etc

DC transportation policy shouldn’t cater to your car addiction. In fact, it should wean you off your car addiction. The metro area has a great public transport network. I’d recommend familiarizing yourself with it.

Compared to London, Paris, and other capital cities in the Western World, the DC Metro is incredibly small and incredibly unsafe. Asking people to give up their cars to risk their safety on an unsafe, paltry Metro network years is ridiculous. Maybe build some more Metro lines and make it less stabby and THEN ask for people to get out of their cars to use it.

Every single time our local governments try to make public transport and micro-mobility better and faster - bus lanes on Georgia Ave, the Purple Line, various bike lanes etc. - the car addicts and NIMBYs rise up to delay, disrupt, and sometimes outright destroy the proposal. And then they claim that because public transport sucks and micro-mobility is unsafe, they have no option other than to drive.

Did you know that your constant whiny and name calling makes you look like a child?

Well, if you could kindly leave your name here, we can refer to you directly by that and not descriptions like “NIMBY” and “car addict” that apparently offend you so much.

And you’re Raging Bike Nut.

Bicycles are brilliant and beautiful machines. What’s not to love?

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Anonymous wrote:Downtown is packed today and crime stats are back down well within the norm - the whole DC is empty and full of crime is old news

You call having 182 murders so far this year while Baltimore has 190 as crime being down within the norm?

Chicago has 544 murders and 2.6 million people. DC has 678,000 people. If DC had Chicago’s population we’d have more than 700 murders so far this year. If the norm is okay with you, that’s sad.

And Philadelphia has 193 murders this year and has 1.5 million people. DC has 182 murders and 678,000 people.

New York has 352 murders this year and 8.2 million people.

LA has 266 murders this year and a population of 3.8 million people.

If being as dangerous as Baltimore, more dangerous than Chicago, more than twice as dangerous as Philly, and waaay more dangerous than LA and NYC is the norm to you, we have to aim much higher.

I like to compare similar sized cities.

Seattle has 755,000 people and 48 homicides year to date.

Portland has 630,000 people and 65 homicides year to date.

Boston has 653,000 people and 22 homicides year to date.

Oklahoma City has 702,000 people and 26 homicides year to date.

Denver has 716,000 people and 56 homicides year to date.

San Francisco has 808,000 and 24 homicides year to date.

[Anonymous]

Trump moved a whole agency (BLM) out of town to Colorado. As a result a lot of employees retired or quit. He may move other agencies out of the district west of the Mississippi river.

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She has destroyed the city fully. It was so beautiful when she too over, but she allowed crime to infest every single area and now everyone lives in fear equally. Much more everywhere than previously, but more equal. GET RID OF HER!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Trump moved a whole agency (BLM) out of town to Colorado. As a result a lot of employees retired or quit. He may move other agencies out of the district west of the Mississippi river.

She’s going to get her wish that workers will be back in the office under Trump. The joke on her will be that the office will be anywhere but DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Aww you poor thing. You to stop "working" from home. Grow up and work a 9-5 like normal adults. There are lots of reasons that bowser is a disaster and this isn't one of them. Please do all of us taxpayers a favor and retire.

Funny because I live in Arlington and my $$$ neighborhood is full of very successful private sector employees who WAH at least several days per week including my DH who hasn’t gone into an office (aside from occasional large conferences and events to mentor others) in over a decade. And he makes more than me (plus stock bonuses). Many of them work with colleagues and clients across the globe so they work odd hours at times (with busy and slower seasons) versus the 9-5 butt in seat in some office complex of the Boomer generation.

I will be sure to let them all know they aren’t “normal adults.” Also I’m willing to bet you are at least 45 if not older and have no idea how things work anymore.

DP. So then go get one of those jobs. WAH was a temporary emergency measure during a pandemic and started when schools were closed. It was never, ever, in no way whatsoever meant to be permanent. The fact that people are throwing tantrums about it ending FOUR YEARS LATER is insipid.

But why shouldn’t it be? Why not continue with something that has so many benefits? Or are we now a society that just looks to implement policies meant to make people’s lives harder?

The cruelty is the point, whether in policies toward working people, toward families, or toward strangers on the internet, especially here.

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Anonymous wrote:Aww you poor thing. You to stop "working" from home. Grow up and work a 9-5 like normal adults. There are lots of reasons that bowser is a disaster and this isn't one of them. Please do all of us taxpayers a favor and retire.

Funny because I live in Arlington and my $$$ neighborhood is full of very successful private sector employees who WAH at least several days per week including my DH who hasn’t gone into an office (aside from occasional large conferences and events to mentor others) in over a decade. And he makes more than me (plus stock bonuses). Many of them work with colleagues and clients across the globe so they work odd hours at times (with busy and slower seasons) versus the 9-5 butt in seat in some office complex of the Boomer generation.

I will be sure to let them all know they aren’t “normal adults.” Also I’m willing to bet you are at least 45 if not older and have no idea how things work anymore.

DP. So then go get one of those jobs. WAH was a temporary emergency measure during a pandemic and started when schools were closed. It was never, ever, in no way whatsoever meant to be permanent. The fact that people are throwing tantrums about it ending FOUR YEARS LATER is insipid.

But why shouldn’t it be? Why not continue with something that has so many benefits? Or are we now a society that just looks to implement policies meant to make people’s lives harder?

The cruelty is the point, whether in policies toward working people, toward families, or toward strangers on the internet, especially here.

When you are talking about “cruelty is the point” in reference to RTO, you have lost all perspective. Log off.

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Anonymous wrote:Downtown is packed today and crime stats are back down well within the norm - the whole DC is empty and full of crime is old news

Agreed. DC is thriving.

What are you talking about? Half the storefronts in this city are empty and the economy is booming.

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Anonymous wrote:Downtown is packed today and crime stats are back down well within the norm - the whole DC is empty and full of crime is old news

It's amazing what Stockholm Syndrome will drive some people expect and never ask for anything better.

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Anonymous wrote:Downtown is packed today and crime stats are back down well within the norm - the whole DC is empty and full of crime is old news

Agreed. DC is thriving.

Huh? DC is pretty far from thriving. You gotta go back to the pre-Anthony Williams days when things were as un-thriving as they are today.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been here for 35 years and have never had my car or house broken into. I live and work in the city. I socialize in the city. I love the city. I also don't walk around like I am oblivious with my head in my phone, which I see a lot of!

I'll see your 35 years and add 5. In that time we've had two of each: house break-ins, car break-ins, and bikes stolen. But oddly, no porch pirates ever. Go figure.