Anonymous wrote:The national guards people I have seen are hanging around at low-crime metro stations (Farragut North and West, Dupont, and metro Center). They are in pairs and are not doing much except looking at the commuters. They look young, and I hope we don't get a triggerhappy guardsperson who mistakes a cell phone for a gun and randomly shoots a commuter.

Big waste of money and time, and that's not even taking into account the authoritarian actions of Trump which is anotehr issue altogether.

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Anonymous wrote:The federal Government needs to take over and run the city. Get rid of the mayor and city council. She's had it for ten years and has totally screwed it up.

In a democracy, that’s up to the voters. Are you against democracy?

LOL! It’s the DC Democrats that are against Democracy. When Congress gave D.C. an elected mayor and council back in the 1970s, there was concern that the city’s new legislative body would be dominated by Democrats. So to ensure some ideological diversity, equity, and inclusion, a compromise was hatched: at least two of the four at-large members can’t be Democrats. Initially that meant the council included representation from both the Republican Party and the Statehood Green Party, but for the last two decades there haven’t been any members from a non-majority political party. Instead, the council’s two non-Democrats are former Democrats who drop the party affiliation in order to run for council. The last person to do this was McDuffie, who formerly represented Ward 5… as a Democrat. Cry us a river.

If a supermajority of people who live here are Democrats and vote Democrat, how is that undemocratic? No one said Republicans can't live here. They prefer McLean, VA.

My extended family that lives mostly in DC proper like what's going on right now They support tougher policing and removal of homeless. They are low middle class to middle class and vote Blue. Some things are objectively wrong and trying to do something to fix them is a positive thing. Whether the impact will be long term remains to be seen, and I would very much like to see permanent changes vs. temporary performative measures that give an appearance of things working. But have to start somewhere, doing nothing only makes things worse over time.

Your family sounds normal. From private conversations most of my DC neighbors actually support this try, but are afraid to say so publicly because of the vocal and aggressive minority.

no.

Wanting a change in policing (most DC residents probably on board) and wanting Trump to let a bunch of hillbilies in MRAPs harass citizens are two different things.

Trump doesn't understand what the actual crime problems in the district are, how can he possibly solve them?

I don’t know, but we know our elected officials won’t solve things so might as well try something else.

Anonymous wrote:The national guards people I have seen are hanging around at low-crime metro stations (Farragut North and West, Dupont, and metro Center). They are in pairs and are not doing much except looking at the commuters. They look young, and I hope we don't get a triggerhappy guardsperson who mistakes a cell phone for a gun and randomly shoots a commuter.

Big waste of money and time, and that's not even taking into account the authoritarian actions of Trump which is anotehr issue altogether.

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Anonymous wrote:The federal Government needs to take over and run the city. Get rid of the mayor and city council. She's had it for ten years and has totally screwed it up.

In a democracy, that’s up to the voters. Are you against democracy?

LOL! It’s the DC Democrats that are against Democracy. When Congress gave D.C. an elected mayor and council back in the 1970s, there was concern that the city’s new legislative body would be dominated by Democrats. So to ensure some ideological diversity, equity, and inclusion, a compromise was hatched: at least two of the four at-large members can’t be Democrats. Initially that meant the council included representation from both the Republican Party and the Statehood Green Party, but for the last two decades there haven’t been any members from a non-majority political party. Instead, the council’s two non-Democrats are former Democrats who drop the party affiliation in order to run for council. The last person to do this was McDuffie, who formerly represented Ward 5… as a Democrat. Cry us a river.

If a supermajority of people who live here are Democrats and vote Democrat, how is that undemocratic? No one said Republicans can't live here. They prefer McLean, VA.

My extended family that lives mostly in DC proper like what's going on right now They support tougher policing and removal of homeless. They are low middle class to middle class and vote Blue. Some things are objectively wrong and trying to do something to fix them is a positive thing. Whether the impact will be long term remains to be seen, and I would very much like to see permanent changes vs. temporary performative measures that give an appearance of things working. But have to start somewhere, doing nothing only makes things worse over time.

Your family sounds normal. From private conversations most of my DC neighbors actually support this try, but are afraid to say so publicly because of the vocal and aggressive minority.

no.

Wanting a change in policing (most DC residents probably on board) and wanting Trump to let a bunch of hillbilies in MRAPs harass citizens are two different things.

Trump doesn't understand what the actual crime problems in the district are, how can he possibly solve them?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have any other place to admit this - but I’m glad. My car was broken into twice while I was in NOMA. I took a trip to the target in Ivy city and I don’t see the crazy homeless man on the corner who was biting at the wind. If you know you know. I can actually walk to my Whole Foods off P street and not deal with panhandling or men passed out on the street. I hope this enforcement sticks around because the quality of life means more to me than anything. I’ll never admit this to my friends/neighbors but I’m secretly happy they are here.

NP. I'm happy too and I'm not ashamed to admit it! I'm tired of hearing about people trying to have a good time in NoMa, H ST, U St, Ivy City, Chinatown area and coming back to their cars to see it broken into, I'm tired of seeing cars with their wheels removed sitting on milk crates, I'm tired of seeing all the graffiti, I'm tired of seeing the police look the other way when crime happens right in front of them, I'm tired and sad of all the CVS's that had to close because the city woudn't do anything about the theft, I'm tired of nearly everything being locked up at some of the stores, I'm tired of seeing the unpermitted "vendors" in Columbia Heights, that area is a MESS!! BTW, the man that was on the corner of NY Ave and 16th St NE near the Target has only been moved. I saw him last week, but I've forgotten where. I've removed myself from all of my democratic organizations because I want to see real change. Our city leaders and MPD have failed us. Time for something new.

Sounds like you're tired of DC and need to move.

Nope. I love DC!! I hate the crime. Both can be true. I'm not moving. This is home, I just want it cleaned up a bit. Those of you that are protesting can't really be happy with all the senseless crime. Just like he may be trying to own the libs, I believe some of you go against everything just because it's Trump. I'm having a hard time believing that you are all OK with the crime in this city and don't want someone to try and clean it up. That blows my mind!

What Trump is doing is not fixing anything. It's just theater.

I am from NYC.
I noticed the difference spending an evening in DC this weekend. I have not seen tents, sketchy people skulking around the corners, no panhandlers on every intersection like before. Only one panhandler in Gtown, not on every block of M st like before, only a few homeless sleeping in sleeping bags in the niches of some office buildings. Only 2 visibly mentally deranged people, one emerging from Rock Creek Park pathway. And not a single National Guard, the city didn't look "occupied" at all. Lots of people shopping and dining, various booze cruises going by on the Potomac and overall healthy vibe IMHO. I really do hope they keep it up. Whatever they are doing is working.

In Manhattan they removed the tents long ago and you cannot live on the streets without being harassed by cops. There are still a lot of people you see sleeping on the streets, I suppose DC will have to deal with this too unless they get really draconian.

You know in DC they haven't done anything to help the homeless people, right? They just moved them where you, visiting from NYC, don't see them.

If that's your idea of a government program "working," well, there you go.

Just fine with me. I really don't care what happens to the homeless. I don't want to see them, smell them, be around them. They are drug and alcohol addled and a public nuisance. If it was just the odd homeless person, it'd be one thing. But people like you (and I emphasize you) allowed this problem to fester and grow over the years and now basically claim nothing can be done but let them take over public places and libraries.

At least Trump is doing something. Which people like you never did. And the dirty secret is that it's working for the vast majority aka not homeless people. And that's what matters.

It’s costing over $1 million a day. It’s not sustainable.

Look at the money the government is saving with doge. Over 200 billion. That's enough to cover the cost.

DOGE saved virtually nothing. It was all pretend savings. Government spending is up five percent this year.

DOGE has just exposed all of your social security data. I don't agree that they've saved $200 bn, and with the harm they've done, their cost to the US has been astronomical.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html
DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer.

Anonymous wrote:The national guards people I have seen are hanging around at low-crime metro stations (Farragut North and West, Dupont, and metro Center). They are in pairs and are not doing much except looking at the commuters. They look young, and I hope we don't get a triggerhappy guardsperson who mistakes a cell phone for a gun and randomly shoots a commuter.

Big waste of money and time, and that's not even taking into account the authoritarian actions of Trump which is anotehr issue altogether.

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Anonymous wrote:The federal Government needs to take over and run the city. Get rid of the mayor and city council. She's had it for ten years and has totally screwed it up.

In a democracy, that’s up to the voters. Are you against democracy?

LOL! It’s the DC Democrats that are against Democracy. When Congress gave D.C. an elected mayor and council back in the 1970s, there was concern that the city’s new legislative body would be dominated by Democrats. So to ensure some ideological diversity, equity, and inclusion, a compromise was hatched: at least two of the four at-large members can’t be Democrats. Initially that meant the council included representation from both the Republican Party and the Statehood Green Party, but for the last two decades there haven’t been any members from a non-majority political party. Instead, the council’s two non-Democrats are former Democrats who drop the party affiliation in order to run for council. The last person to do this was McDuffie, who formerly represented Ward 5… as a Democrat. Cry us a river.

If a supermajority of people who live here are Democrats and vote Democrat, how is that undemocratic? No one said Republicans can't live here. They prefer McLean, VA.

My extended family that lives mostly in DC proper like what's going on right now They support tougher policing and removal of homeless. They are low middle class to middle class and vote Blue. Some things are objectively wrong and trying to do something to fix them is a positive thing. Whether the impact will be long term remains to be seen, and I would very much like to see permanent changes vs. temporary performative measures that give an appearance of things working. But have to start somewhere, doing nothing only makes things worse over time.

Your family sounds normal. From private conversations most of my DC neighbors actually support this try, but are afraid to say so publicly because of the vocal and aggressive minority.

no.

Wanting a change in policing (most DC residents probably on board) and wanting Trump to let a bunch of hillbilies in MRAPs harass citizens are two different things.

Trump doesn't understand what the actual crime problems in the district are, how can he possibly solve them?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have any other place to admit this - but I’m glad. My car was broken into twice while I was in NOMA. I took a trip to the target in Ivy city and I don’t see the crazy homeless man on the corner who was biting at the wind. If you know you know. I can actually walk to my Whole Foods off P street and not deal with panhandling or men passed out on the street. I hope this enforcement sticks around because the quality of life means more to me than anything. I’ll never admit this to my friends/neighbors but I’m secretly happy they are here.

NP. I'm happy too and I'm not ashamed to admit it! I'm tired of hearing about people trying to have a good time in NoMa, H ST, U St, Ivy City, Chinatown area and coming back to their cars to see it broken into, I'm tired of seeing cars with their wheels removed sitting on milk crates, I'm tired of seeing all the graffiti, I'm tired of seeing the police look the other way when crime happens right in front of them, I'm tired and sad of all the CVS's that had to close because the city woudn't do anything about the theft, I'm tired of nearly everything being locked up at some of the stores, I'm tired of seeing the unpermitted "vendors" in Columbia Heights, that area is a MESS!! BTW, the man that was on the corner of NY Ave and 16th St NE near the Target has only been moved. I saw him last week, but I've forgotten where. I've removed myself from all of my democratic organizations because I want to see real change. Our city leaders and MPD have failed us. Time for something new.

Sounds like you're tired of DC and need to move.

Nope. I love DC!! I hate the crime. Both can be true. I'm not moving. This is home, I just want it cleaned up a bit. Those of you that are protesting can't really be happy with all the senseless crime. Just like he may be trying to own the libs, I believe some of you go against everything just because it's Trump. I'm having a hard time believing that you are all OK with the crime in this city and don't want someone to try and clean it up. That blows my mind!

What Trump is doing is not fixing anything. It's just theater.

I am from NYC.
I noticed the difference spending an evening in DC this weekend. I have not seen tents, sketchy people skulking around the corners, no panhandlers on every intersection like before. Only one panhandler in Gtown, not on every block of M st like before, only a few homeless sleeping in sleeping bags in the niches of some office buildings. Only 2 visibly mentally deranged people, one emerging from Rock Creek Park pathway. And not a single National Guard, the city didn't look "occupied" at all. Lots of people shopping and dining, various booze cruises going by on the Potomac and overall healthy vibe IMHO. I really do hope they keep it up. Whatever they are doing is working.

In Manhattan they removed the tents long ago and you cannot live on the streets without being harassed by cops. There are still a lot of people you see sleeping on the streets, I suppose DC will have to deal with this too unless they get really draconian.

You know in DC they haven't done anything to help the homeless people, right? They just moved them where you, visiting from NYC, don't see them.

If that's your idea of a government program "working," well, there you go.

Just fine with me. I really don't care what happens to the homeless. I don't want to see them, smell them, be around them. They are drug and alcohol addled and a public nuisance. If it was just the odd homeless person, it'd be one thing. But people like you (and I emphasize you) allowed this problem to fester and grow over the years and now basically claim nothing can be done but let them take over public places and libraries.

At least Trump is doing something. Which people like you never did. And the dirty secret is that it's working for the vast majority aka not homeless people. And that's what matters.

It’s costing over $1 million a day. It’s not sustainable.

Look at the money the government is saving with doge. Over 200 billion. That's enough to cover the cost.

DOGE saved virtually nothing. It was all pretend savings. Government spending is up five percent this year.

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Anonymous wrote:The federal Government needs to take over and run the city. Get rid of the mayor and city council. She's had it for ten years and has totally screwed it up.

In a democracy, that’s up to the voters. Are you against democracy?

LOL! It’s the DC Democrats that are against Democracy. When Congress gave D.C. an elected mayor and council back in the 1970s, there was concern that the city’s new legislative body would be dominated by Democrats. So to ensure some ideological diversity, equity, and inclusion, a compromise was hatched: at least two of the four at-large members can’t be Democrats. Initially that meant the council included representation from both the Republican Party and the Statehood Green Party, but for the last two decades there haven’t been any members from a non-majority political party. Instead, the council’s two non-Democrats are former Democrats who drop the party affiliation in order to run for council. The last person to do this was McDuffie, who formerly represented Ward 5… as a Democrat. Cry us a river.

If a supermajority of people who live here are Democrats and vote Democrat, how is that undemocratic? No one said Republicans can't live here. They prefer McLean, VA.

My extended family that lives mostly in DC proper like what's going on right now They support tougher policing and removal of homeless. They are low middle class to middle class and vote Blue. Some things are objectively wrong and trying to do something to fix them is a positive thing. Whether the impact will be long term remains to be seen, and I would very much like to see permanent changes vs. temporary performative measures that give an appearance of things working. But have to start somewhere, doing nothing only makes things worse over time.

Your family sounds normal. From private conversations most of my DC neighbors actually support this try, but are afraid to say so publicly because of the vocal and aggressive minority.

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Anonymous wrote:The federal Government needs to take over and run the city. Get rid of the mayor and city council. She's had it for ten years and has totally screwed it up.

In a democracy, that’s up to the voters. Are you against democracy?

LOL! It’s the DC Democrats that are against Democracy. When Congress gave D.C. an elected mayor and council back in the 1970s, there was concern that the city’s new legislative body would be dominated by Democrats. So to ensure some ideological diversity, equity, and inclusion, a compromise was hatched: at least two of the four at-large members can’t be Democrats. Initially that meant the council included representation from both the Republican Party and the Statehood Green Party, but for the last two decades there haven’t been any members from a non-majority political party. Instead, the council’s two non-Democrats are former Democrats who drop the party affiliation in order to run for council. The last person to do this was McDuffie, who formerly represented Ward 5… as a Democrat. Cry us a river.

If a supermajority of people who live here are Democrats and vote Democrat, how is that undemocratic? No one said Republicans can't live here. They prefer McLean, VA.

My extended family that lives mostly in DC proper like what's going on right now They support tougher policing and removal of homeless. They are low middle class to middle class and vote Blue. Some things are objectively wrong and trying to do something to fix them is a positive thing. Whether the impact will be long term remains to be seen, and I would very much like to see permanent changes vs. temporary performative measures that give an appearance of things working. But have to start somewhere, doing nothing only makes things worse over time.

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Anonymous wrote:The federal Government needs to take over and run the city. Get rid of the mayor and city council. She's had it for ten years and has totally screwed it up.

In a democracy, that’s up to the voters. Are you against democracy?

LOL! It’s the DC Democrats that are against Democracy. When Congress gave D.C. an elected mayor and council back in the 1970s, there was concern that the city’s new legislative body would be dominated by Democrats. So to ensure some ideological diversity, equity, and inclusion, a compromise was hatched: at least two of the four at-large members can’t be Democrats. Initially that meant the council included representation from both the Republican Party and the Statehood Green Party, but for the last two decades there haven’t been any members from a non-majority political party. Instead, the council’s two non-Democrats are former Democrats who drop the party affiliation in order to run for council. The last person to do this was McDuffie, who formerly represented Ward 5… as a Democrat. Cry us a river.

If a supermajority of people who live here are Democrats and vote Democrat, how is that undemocratic? No one said Republicans can't live here. They prefer McLean, VA.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have any other place to admit this - but I’m glad. My car was broken into twice while I was in NOMA. I took a trip to the target in Ivy city and I don’t see the crazy homeless man on the corner who was biting at the wind. If you know you know. I can actually walk to my Whole Foods off P street and not deal with panhandling or men passed out on the street. I hope this enforcement sticks around because the quality of life means more to me than anything. I’ll never admit this to my friends/neighbors but I’m secretly happy they are here.

NP. I'm happy too and I'm not ashamed to admit it! I'm tired of hearing about people trying to have a good time in NoMa, H ST, U St, Ivy City, Chinatown area and coming back to their cars to see it broken into, I'm tired of seeing cars with their wheels removed sitting on milk crates, I'm tired of seeing all the graffiti, I'm tired of seeing the police look the other way when crime happens right in front of them, I'm tired and sad of all the CVS's that had to close because the city woudn't do anything about the theft, I'm tired of nearly everything being locked up at some of the stores, I'm tired of seeing the unpermitted "vendors" in Columbia Heights, that area is a MESS!! BTW, the man that was on the corner of NY Ave and 16th St NE near the Target has only been moved. I saw him last week, but I've forgotten where. I've removed myself from all of my democratic organizations because I want to see real change. Our city leaders and MPD have failed us. Time for something new.

Sounds like you're tired of DC and need to move.

Nope. I love DC!! I hate the crime. Both can be true. I'm not moving. This is home, I just want it cleaned up a bit. Those of you that are protesting can't really be happy with all the senseless crime. Just like he may be trying to own the libs, I believe some of you go against everything just because it's Trump. I'm having a hard time believing that you are all OK with the crime in this city and don't want someone to try and clean it up. That blows my mind!

What Trump is doing is not fixing anything. It's just theater.

I am from NYC.
I noticed the difference spending an evening in DC this weekend. I have not seen tents, sketchy people skulking around the corners, no panhandlers on every intersection like before. Only one panhandler in Gtown, not on every block of M st like before, only a few homeless sleeping in sleeping bags in the niches of some office buildings. Only 2 visibly mentally deranged people, one emerging from Rock Creek Park pathway. And not a single National Guard, the city didn't look "occupied" at all. Lots of people shopping and dining, various booze cruises going by on the Potomac and overall healthy vibe IMHO. I really do hope they keep it up. Whatever they are doing is working.

In Manhattan they removed the tents long ago and you cannot live on the streets without being harassed by cops. There are still a lot of people you see sleeping on the streets, I suppose DC will have to deal with this too unless they get really draconian.

You know in DC they haven't done anything to help the homeless people, right? They just moved them where you, visiting from NYC, don't see them.

If that's your idea of a government program "working," well, there you go.

Just fine with me. I really don't care what happens to the homeless. I don't want to see them, smell them, be around them. They are drug and alcohol addled and a public nuisance. If it was just the odd homeless person, it'd be one thing. But people like you (and I emphasize you) allowed this problem to fester and grow over the years and now basically claim nothing can be done but let them take over public places and libraries.

At least Trump is doing something. Which people like you never did. And the dirty secret is that it's working for the vast majority aka not homeless people. And that's what matters.

It’s costing over $1 million a day. It’s not sustainable.

Look at the money the government is saving with doge. Over 200 billion. That's enough to cover the cost.