Anonymous wrote:Crime is down bigly in NYC year over year.
But most reported crimes are up significantly year over year in Washington DC. Some areas have seen a doubling.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Donald Trump has never been a fan of Washington, D.C., and the feeling is mutual among most of its residents, who broke into spontaneous street celebrations when he lost the White House.
But the former president’s animosity has only grown since he left the city and as violent crime has continued to climb in the capital, while falling from pandemic-era highs in other cities, leading Trump to campaign on a “federal takeover of this filthy and crime-ridden embarrassment to our nation.”
He had me at filthy...
Can we get Biden to say something similar so I don't have to vote for Trump?
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-1 This city is NOT going to be better under Trump. Everyone will pull to the left to distance themselves from his outright insanity.
Do we not remember how much of a shitshow this city was under Trump? Leaving aside the J6 riots, he was non-stop inflaming racial tensions, leading to chaos and borderline riots after George Floyd.
Remember how Biden threatened to veto the Charles Allen's stupid crime bill when Allen was too tone deaf to get a sensible crime bill passed? Biden is a centrist.
We need an adult in office.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Donald Trump has never been a fan of Washington, D.C., and the feeling is mutual among most of its residents, who broke into spontaneous street celebrations when he lost the White House.
But the former president’s animosity has only grown since he left the city and as violent crime has continued to climb in the capital, while falling from pandemic-era highs in other cities, leading Trump to campaign on a “federal takeover of this filthy and crime-ridden embarrassment to our nation.”
He had me at filthy...
Can we get Biden to say something similar so I don't have to vote for Trump?
+1
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Donald Trump has never been a fan of Washington, D.C., and the feeling is mutual among most of its residents, who broke into spontaneous street celebrations when he lost the White House.
But the former president’s animosity has only grown since he left the city and as violent crime has continued to climb in the capital, while falling from pandemic-era highs in other cities, leading Trump to campaign on a “federal takeover of this filthy and crime-ridden embarrassment to our nation.”
He had me at filthy...
Can we get Biden to say something similar so I don't have to vote for Trump?
Anonymous wrote:Before the Control Board, were lots of companies leaving DC? In the 90s there was little remote work and the feds were much more firmly ensconced in DC. Now it is literally hollowing out in multiple senses of the word.
Can DC really afford a sizeable underclass that is poorly educated with few to no legal work skills? It seems to be past time to address truancy and to invest resources in catching kids up with basic math and literacy and perhaps expanding resources to learn trades. Breed in SF is talking about drug testing before benefits, like making involuntary commitment easier, another direction of CA that DC would be WISE to emulate.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It’s really incredible that citizens can’t connect their voting habits with the decline of living standards.
Such a simplistic, knee jerk and low information comment.
Which of the Whites would have been better on crime as Mayor? Trayon? Robert?
Who would have been better for AG? McDuffie, who did not even meet the qualifications re: legal experience? But, who, in true DC fashion, got them changed for next time?
Electable people with different views have to run. And not too many of them, or you get Nadeau. Grateful Lisa Gore stepped up this cycle.
You give away the game with the term "electable." Electable in DC means you have to comply with an ever growing list of check-boxes. DC voters will simply disqualify anyone who is essentially not a left-wing activist at this point. What is left to choose from is what ends up on the ballot. So yes, it is the voting habits of the residents that lead to them having to select from bad or worse.
Doesn't the Allen recall, with a cross section of donors undercut the point you are trying to make?
A lot of activists and CM are DSA, doubt the majority of the population of DC identifies that way. The pushback is real.
If Allen is recalled, a moderate takes his place, and gets re-elected in a "normal" election then I will believe it. But in all likelihood, we'll be complaining that the Ward 6 Councilmember is a nut for the foreseeable future.