Anonymous wrote:I wonder if there is something in the Potomac and Chesapeake water causing this political malaise to creep down the coast. The sewage spill is an apt metaphor describing this phenomenon of a red state turning purple then blue, blue being a symptom of a body lacking oxygen.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be great if VA were more like MD. I often go to VA for work, and it's a mess. Crazy aggressive drivers, trash everywhere, chaotic roads, no sense of any planning (just buildings jumbled together on huge roads in a way that makes everything unwalkable), ugly strip malls everywhere, roads are poorly maintained with tons of potholes, and people are less friendly.

The most random clueless and aggressive by incompetence divers I see in Arlington are in cars with Maryland plates.

When I'm driving around Bethesda and Chevy Chase, and someone fails to use turn signals, is driving with high beams, blocks traffic by randomly stopping in the middle of the road, cuts across multiple lanes of traffic out of nowhere, can't stay in their lane, etc. -- 95% of the time they have Virginia plates.

Agree. Virginia drivers are horrific. I wish they would stay in Virginia where they can be in the company of the other awful Virginia drivers.

They can all drive slow in the left lane together.

Meanwhile in MD… tinted windows no blinkers changing across 3 lanes doing 90 mph. 695 is completely lawless with zero enforcement. Do you even have state troopers?

Right? It’s always a tinted 2007 Nissan Ultima and they drive insanely. No signaling.

KKK lives on in VA

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like the state legislature wants to copy Maryland’s failed policies in Virginia. Here’s a summary of some of the disastrous laws proposed this year.

HB378: will implement a state level net investment income tax and drive residents out of Virginia.
https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB378
HB537: Will threaten public safety by allowing violent felons that are arrested for another felony to be released without a bond.
https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB357

Does Maryland actually have both these laws/policies?

Maryland does have overly permissive/forgiving policies for violent criminals. They don’t have a state level net investment income tax but they have a local income tax (in addition to regular state income tax) that has a similar rate to this proposed tax.

Eg. The Maryland Second Look Act passed 2025 allows some violent convicted murderers to request a request a reduction in their sentence after 20 years in prison.

Seems like the Christian thing to do. Aren’t all people supposed to be capable of redemption? Isn’t the point of our prison system supposed to be rehabilitation? If someone isn’t dangerous anymore (or perhaps wasn’t all that dangerous in the first place ahem 14 year olds in the wrong place at the wrong time and tried as adults), why do we need to spend $40k per year keeping them locked up?

If the goal is strictly punishment, you might as well just execute everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be great if VA were more like MD. I often go to VA for work, and it's a mess. Crazy aggressive drivers, trash everywhere, chaotic roads, no sense of any planning (just buildings jumbled together on huge roads in a way that makes everything unwalkable), ugly strip malls everywhere, roads are poorly maintained with tons of potholes, and people are less friendly.

The most random clueless and aggressive by incompetence divers I see in Arlington are in cars with Maryland plates.

When I'm driving around Bethesda and Chevy Chase, and someone fails to use turn signals, is driving with high beams, blocks traffic by randomly stopping in the middle of the road, cuts across multiple lanes of traffic out of nowhere, can't stay in their lane, etc. -- 95% of the time they have Virginia plates.

Agree. Virginia drivers are horrific. I wish they would stay in Virginia where they can be in the company of the other awful Virginia drivers.

They can all drive slow in the left lane together.

Meanwhile in MD… tinted windows no blinkers changing across 3 lanes doing 90 mph. 695 is completely lawless with zero enforcement. Do you even have state troopers?

Right? It’s always a tinted 2007 Nissan Ultima and they drive insanely. No signaling.

KKK lives on in VA

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like the state legislature wants to copy Maryland’s failed policies in Virginia. Here’s a summary of some of the disastrous laws proposed this year.

HB378: will implement a state level net investment income tax and drive residents out of Virginia.
https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB378
HB537: Will threaten public safety by allowing violent felons that are arrested for another felony to be released without a bond.
https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB357

Does Maryland actually have both these laws/policies?

Maryland does have overly permissive/forgiving policies for violent criminals. They don’t have a state level net investment income tax but they have a local income tax (in addition to regular state income tax) that has a similar rate to this proposed tax.

Eg. The Maryland Second Look Act passed 2025 allows some violent convicted murderers to request a request a reduction in their sentence after 20 years in prison.

Seems like the Christian thing to do. Aren’t all people supposed to be capable of redemption? Isn’t the point of our prison system supposed to be rehabilitation? If someone isn’t dangerous anymore (or perhaps wasn’t all that dangerous in the first place ahem 14 year olds in the wrong place at the wrong time and tried as adults), why do we need to spend $40k per year keeping them locked up?

If the goal is strictly punishment, you might as well just execute everyone.

Have we locked up a lot of 14 year olds for 20 years that were just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Can we see a list of these victims?

I think it's ridiculous we try children as adults in this country in the first place.

Or we could regress back to DC pre-Trump where the city council did everything they could to blame anyone but the actual perpetrators of violence. You had the second look act, the youth rehabilitation act, essentially a broad mandate to be as lenient as possible. Not take anyone drivers license away even if they have $20k in speeding tickets and slammed into three people on rock creek parkway. Or remember those girls who killed the uber driver and came back to get their cell phones, as if that’s all that mattered, and not the bleeding driver, and who ultimately got like 3 years of basically camp….yeah I am really hoping we don’t do go weak on crime again.

Those people are voters and taxpayers that make your retirement possible.

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Anonymous wrote:It looks like the state legislature wants to copy Maryland’s failed policies in Virginia. Here’s a summary of some of the disastrous laws proposed this year.

HB378: will implement a state level net investment income tax and drive residents out of Virginia.
https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB378
HB537: Will threaten public safety by allowing violent felons that are arrested for another felony to be released without a bond.
https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB357

Does Maryland actually have both these laws/policies?

Maryland does have overly permissive/forgiving policies for violent criminals. They don’t have a state level net investment income tax but they have a local income tax (in addition to regular state income tax) that has a similar rate to this proposed tax.

Eg. The Maryland Second Look Act passed 2025 allows some violent convicted murderers to request a request a reduction in their sentence after 20 years in prison.

Seems like the Christian thing to do. Aren’t all people supposed to be capable of redemption? Isn’t the point of our prison system supposed to be rehabilitation? If someone isn’t dangerous anymore (or perhaps wasn’t all that dangerous in the first place ahem 14 year olds in the wrong place at the wrong time and tried as adults), why do we need to spend $40k per year keeping them locked up?

If the goal is strictly punishment, you might as well just execute everyone.

Have we locked up a lot of 14 year olds for 20 years that were just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Can we see a list of these victims?

I think it's ridiculous we try children as adults in this country in the first place.

Or we could regress back to DC pre-Trump where the city council did everything they could to blame anyone but the actual perpetrators of violence. You had the second look act, the youth rehabilitation act, essentially a broad mandate to be as lenient as possible. Not take anyone drivers license away even if they have $20k in speeding tickets and slammed into three people on rock creek parkway. Or remember those girls who killed the uber driver and came back to get their cell phones, as if that’s all that mattered, and not the bleeding driver, and who ultimately got like 3 years of basically camp….yeah I am really hoping we don’t do go weak on crime again.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be great if VA were more like MD. I often go to VA for work, and it's a mess. Crazy aggressive drivers, trash everywhere, chaotic roads, no sense of any planning (just buildings jumbled together on huge roads in a way that makes everything unwalkable), ugly strip malls everywhere, roads are poorly maintained with tons of potholes, and people are less friendly.

The most random clueless and aggressive by incompetence divers I see in Arlington are in cars with Maryland plates.

When I'm driving around Bethesda and Chevy Chase, and someone fails to use turn signals, is driving with high beams, blocks traffic by randomly stopping in the middle of the road, cuts across multiple lanes of traffic out of nowhere, can't stay in their lane, etc. -- 95% of the time they have Virginia plates.

Agree. Virginia drivers are horrific. I wish they would stay in Virginia where they can be in the company of the other awful Virginia drivers.

They can all drive slow in the left lane together.

Meanwhile in MD… tinted windows no blinkers changing across 3 lanes doing 90 mph. 695 is completely lawless with zero enforcement. Do you even have state troopers?

Right? It’s always a tinted 2007 Nissan Ultima and they drive insanely. No signaling.

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Meanwhile in MD… tinted windows no blinkers changing across 3 lanes doing 90 mph. 695 is completely lawless with zero enforcement. Do you even have state troopers?