JLG wins Democratic Primary for Mayor

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Anonymous wrote:If you like economic ignorance, rampaging teens, street takeovers by ATVs, a declining tax base, failing schools, increased crime and the loss of home rule, you should be ecstatic right now.

It's funny that JLG championed soft-on-crime policies that led to a really nutso explosion in crime in the city....

....and then that led to Trump commandeering the DC police force and putting troops on every corner, and that led to a precipitous drop in crime, but also pissed everyone off....

....and then JLG used that widespread antipathy towards Trump to get herself a promotion....

....which she will no doubt now use to revive her pro-criminal policies, which will mean crime will soar once againn....

....and then that will lead to guess what?

NG is only in the wealthy, majority white areas. Just saying.

At this point, the guard has mostly left the city. I only see them in tourist areas. But crime has really abated in the past year.

Crime is down everywhere 🤷🏿

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you like economic ignorance, rampaging teens, street takeovers by ATVs, a declining tax base, failing schools, increased crime and the loss of home rule, you should be ecstatic right now.

Kinda wondering if ending home rule wouldn't be so bad. It might be the lesser evil here...

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Anonymous wrote:If you like economic ignorance, rampaging teens, street takeovers by ATVs, a declining tax base, failing schools, increased crime and the loss of home rule, you should be ecstatic right now.

It's funny that JLG championed soft-on-crime policies that led to a really nutso explosion in crime in the city....

....and then that led to Trump commandeering the DC police force and putting troops on every corner, and that led to a precipitous drop in crime, but also pissed everyone off....

....and then JLG used that widespread antipathy towards Trump to get herself a promotion....

....which she will no doubt now use to revive her pro-criminal policies, which will mean crime will soar once againn....

....and then that will lead to guess what?

Rinse, repeat.

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Anonymous wrote:JG is not Mamdani. Her message is 100 percent anti status quo and deliberately “look at me, look at me” to DJT. THat look at me attitude puts a target on the backs of so many of our neighbors. Many of us have seen - first hand or by video - the early bone chilling ICE raids in DC. She doesn’t seem to care or maybe she doesn’t know (which is in itself a HUGE problem ) that the “look at me” attitude is going to hurt a lot of people in DC, directly and in the most meaningful way. I feel sick to my stomach about what I fear will come.

I hope and pray I am wrong.

Curious if this poster ever witnessed one of these incidents in person.

DP, but I have. So have my kids, more than once. And I get the GoFundMe requests for school families that had their primary breadwinner picked up, and my kids hear about it from the kids in those families.

I think this election had no good choice, but I’m terrified that JLG is going to poke the bear and call it a win while ignoring the impact on the most vulnerable populations in our city.

"Poke the bear"? I really don't get this line of thinking.

I've seen the horror this admin has unleashed on families here and am an immigrant myself. They will continue to do (or attempt) what they planned regardless of who is leading the city, and name-checking who is Mayor is just an excuse to rile up their bases AND the so-called Dems eager to say "I told you so." They are not here to collaborate or slow down.

Do you think Bowser has been effective in standing up for autonomy and self-governance in DC this part year? Genuinely wondering what it is that you want to see? What am I missing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you like economic ignorance, rampaging teens, street takeovers by ATVs, a declining tax base, failing schools, increased crime and the loss of home rule, you should be ecstatic right now.

It's funny that JLG championed soft-on-crime policies that led to a really nutso explosion in crime in the city....

....and then that led to Trump commandeering the DC police force and putting troops on every corner, and that led to a precipitous drop in crime, but also pissed everyone off....

....and then JLG used that widespread antipathy towards Trump to get herself a promotion....

....which she will no doubt now use to revive her pro-criminal policies, which will mean crime will soar once againn....

....and then that will lead to guess what?

NG is only in the wealthy, majority white areas. Just saying.

At this point, the guard has mostly left the city. I only see them in tourist areas. But crime has really abated in the past year.

There were over 2,500 NG troops deployed in late May. Now at 3,450+ in mid-June with target of up to 5,000 over the summer.

But if you don't want to look at the numbers and just go by personal anecdotes, I don't live in a tourist area and see them every day multiple times a day patrolling at metro stop, grocery store, playground, up-down quiet residential streets and more—as they have been doing for 300+ days.

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Hi - I don’t think Bowser has been particularly effective. But I think during Trump 1 when he was a constrained madman she poked a bit and he responded with a vengeance at the beginning of Trump 2 (unmarked cars taking neighbors, NG everywhere and of course Ed Martin and now the Fox commentator). He spoils for a fight as others mentioned and Bowser smartly realized that and it seems she may have adjusted her approach to save is the terror of martial law and tanks down our streets on a constant basis.

These are tools in his box and if we have a leader who isn’t playing him the way Mamdani has (with his weird reverence/ bend the knee) or at least is quiet the way Bowser was, then we may get crushed. I fear her confronting him will bring things we haven’t seen before … especially since his poll numbers are down and inflation is high and as of today it seems that interest rates may go up. This will make a madman even more mad. I think we need to stay away and sit tight and give money to senate democrat candidates.

[Anonymous]

PS: obviously there is a city wide schism and the more confrontational approach is winning so I will have to hope and pray that I am wrong and that she controls her impulse to lash back.

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Anonymous wrote:Hi - I don’t think Bowser has been particularly effective. But I think during Trump 1 when he was a constrained madman she poked a bit and he responded with a vengeance at the beginning of Trump 2 (unmarked cars taking neighbors, NG everywhere and of course Ed Martin and now the Fox commentator). He spoils for a fight as others mentioned and Bowser smartly realized that and it seems she may have adjusted her approach to save is the terror of martial law and tanks down our streets on a constant basis.

These are tools in his box and if we have a leader who isn’t playing him the way Mamdani has (with his weird reverence/ bend the knee) or at least is quiet the way Bowser was, then we may get crushed. I fear her confronting him will bring things we haven’t seen before … especially since his poll numbers are down and inflation is high and as of today it seems that interest rates may go up. This will make a madman even more mad. I think we need to stay away and sit tight and give money to senate democrat candidates.

Thanks for sharing your perspective. The lines of causation across multiple points in this thread just don't resonate with me, and oh well, we don't all have to agree obviously. I think we must live in different parts of the city.

Also think you're giving Bowser too much credit. Yes there's a madman but Bowser "poking" in 2020 doesn't even come to mind – it's easy to focus on the madman but he doesn't act alone and is part of a power apparatus that has been building up to this—and more—for decades. They had a plan, have more plans, and they are checking off boxes expedidoustly and probably laughing at us along the way.

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You lost me at power apparatus… and decades. Are you talking about Project 2025 or something else? And who is the they?

Also I doubt they are laughing at us. We don’t register.

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Anonymous wrote:DC, get ready for Trump rule.

Not with a Democratic Congress.

33 senate Democrats voted to kill that crazy DC crime bill. The national Ds aren’t crazy like the DC socialists.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you like economic ignorance, rampaging teens, street takeovers by ATVs, a declining tax base, failing schools, increased crime and the loss of home rule, you should be ecstatic right now.

It's funny that JLG championed soft-on-crime policies that led to a really nutso explosion in crime in the city....

....and then that led to Trump commandeering the DC police force and putting troops on every corner, and that led to a precipitous drop in crime, but also pissed everyone off....

....and then JLG used that widespread antipathy towards Trump to get herself a promotion....

....which she will no doubt now use to revive her pro-criminal policies, which will mean crime will soar once againn....

....and then that will lead to guess what?

NG is only in the wealthy, majority white areas. Just saying.

At this point, the guard has mostly left the city. I only see them in tourist areas. But crime has really abated in the past year.

There were over 2,500 NG troops deployed in late May. Now at 3,450+ in mid-June with target of up to 5,000 over the summer.

But if you don't want to look at the numbers and just go by personal anecdotes, I don't live in a tourist area and see them every day multiple times a day patrolling at metro stop, grocery store, playground, up-down quiet residential streets and more—as they have been doing for 300+ days.

You're conflating a number of things (also, do you even live here?). Last year, Trump had National Guard, ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, US Marshals, the DEA, Bureau of Alcohol and Secret Service officers patrolling the streets. He also federalized the DC police. Do you still see all those people on the streets? No, you don't. They've mostly been sent elsewhere. The National Guard troops are now ramping up ahead of the 250th anniversary events, but that's different from the "crime emergency" Trump declared last year in DC.

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It will be interesting to learn which special interest group bought JLG a house right before the election.

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Anonymous wrote:It will be interesting to learn which special interest group bought JLG a house right before the election.

Just rode by today to check it out. A $1.2 million dollar home, must be nice. I do know, multi-generational housing can't be built on that block. That's for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you like economic ignorance, rampaging teens, street takeovers by ATVs, a declining tax base, failing schools, increased crime and the loss of home rule, you should be ecstatic right now.

It's funny that JLG championed soft-on-crime policies that led to a really nutso explosion in crime in the city....

....and then that led to Trump commandeering the DC police force and putting troops on every corner, and that led to a precipitous drop in crime, but also pissed everyone off....

....and then JLG used that widespread antipathy towards Trump to get herself a promotion....

....which she will no doubt now use to revive her pro-criminal policies, which will mean crime will soar once againn....

....and then that will lead to guess what?

NG is only in the wealthy, majority white areas. Just saying.

At this point, the guard has mostly left the city. I only see them in tourist areas. But crime has really abated in the past year.

Crime is down everywhere 🤷🏿

Did y’all miss the whole report with data about how the national guard had ZERO effect on violent crime?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you like economic ignorance, rampaging teens, street takeovers by ATVs, a declining tax base, failing schools, increased crime and the loss of home rule, you should be ecstatic right now.

It's funny that JLG championed soft-on-crime policies that led to a really nutso explosion in crime in the city....

....and then that led to Trump commandeering the DC police force and putting troops on every corner, and that led to a precipitous drop in crime, but also pissed everyone off....

....and then JLG used that widespread antipathy towards Trump to get herself a promotion....

....which she will no doubt now use to revive her pro-criminal policies, which will mean crime will soar once againn....

....and then that will lead to guess what?

NG is only in the wealthy, majority white areas. Just saying.

At this point, the guard has mostly left the city. I only see them in tourist areas. But crime has really abated in the past year.

Crime is down everywhere 🤷🏿

Did y’all miss the whole report with data about how the national guard had ZERO effect on violent crime?

It obviously had a massive effect, if for no other reason that people didn't want to leave their homes.