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Anonymous wrote:Since when is Joe Biden a progressive?

You all really have Fox living in your head if you think "the progressives" are ruling the roost.

And frankly, I will take universal healthcare over evangelical fascism 7 days out of 7.

Why do you prefer fascism?

The progressives in DC and NYC spent the past two years pushing for bike lanes. All while Rome burned. If the ANCs used half the time they spent on bikes instead on schools and crime this would be a world class city. Instead it’s been two years of bike lanes and weed dispensaries. The Ds will now suffer generational losses at the polls.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/eric-adams-new-york-crime-midterms/index.html

What, exactly, do you think ANCs can do about schools and crime? They are not the mayor, they are not the school board and they are not the police force. I will be very interested in your response.

They could hold up the upzoning, which the mayor wants, until schools etc is addressed. Instead they traded that for bike lanes. It's the exact same lever.

+1000. But most of the ANC reps don’t and will never have kids. They literally have no idea what a crap show DCPS is and how they could help their community. All they want is these ridiculous bike lanes and pot dispensaries. Please go back to Petworth and live your progressive dreams. FFS.

It is also important to consider how many of these childless ANC commissioners will even stay in DC over the short, medium or long term.

A decent percentage of ANC commissions from 2012 don’t live in the city any more. Imagine applying that sort of short-term decision making focused on yourself as a temporary, young, single and childless resident over the needs of long term residents and families.
https://www.dcboe.org/dcboe/media/PDFFiles/nr_849.pdf

If you didn't run for ANC and are making these kinds of charges and hyperbole, then you are the problem.

How is it that in competitive races, the people who favor density and bike lanes keep winning?

It is rather a question.

Because most of Ward 3 are hard working two professional married couples. They don’t pay attention to the ANCs or the city council for that matter. In a one party town you just need 25 signatures to gat on the ballot. That’s not a mandate, son. Just because you got a participation trophy in 3rd grade rec soccer doesn’t get you on the varsity team.

You think there aren't hard working people in all the other wards? You think the people on ANCs don't have families and jobs? I guess you are too special to understand that the people who do this actually care about their communities and want to help other people. But that isn't surprising coming from someone with your salty outlook on things.

That's hilarious. They substituted their own desires for that of their community. It's not their intentions people are questioning. It's their judgment.

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Anonymous wrote:Since when is Joe Biden a progressive?

You all really have Fox living in your head if you think "the progressives" are ruling the roost.

And frankly, I will take universal healthcare over evangelical fascism 7 days out of 7.

Why do you prefer fascism?

The progressives in DC and NYC spent the past two years pushing for bike lanes. All while Rome burned. If the ANCs used half the time they spent on bikes instead on schools and crime this would be a world class city. Instead it’s been two years of bike lanes and weed dispensaries. The Ds will now suffer generational losses at the polls.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/eric-adams-new-york-crime-midterms/index.html

What, exactly, do you think ANCs can do about schools and crime? They are not the mayor, they are not the school board and they are not the police force. I will be very interested in your response.

They could hold up the upzoning, which the mayor wants, until schools etc is addressed. Instead they traded that for bike lanes. It's the exact same lever.

+1000. But most of the ANC reps don’t and will never have kids. They literally have no idea what a crap show DCPS is and how they could help their community. All they want is these ridiculous bike lanes and pot dispensaries. Please go back to Petworth and live your progressive dreams. FFS.

It is also important to consider how many of these childless ANC commissioners will even stay in DC over the short, medium or long term.

A decent percentage of ANC commissions from 2012 don’t live in the city any more. Imagine applying that sort of short-term decision making focused on yourself as a temporary, young, single and childless resident over the needs of long term residents and families.
https://www.dcboe.org/dcboe/media/PDFFiles/nr_849.pdf

If you didn't run for ANC and are making these kinds of charges and hyperbole, then you are the problem.

How is it that in competitive races, the people who favor density and bike lanes keep winning?

It is rather a question.

Because most of Ward 3 are hard working two professional married couples. They don’t pay attention to the ANCs or the city council for that matter. In a one party town you just need 25 signatures to gat on the ballot. That’s not a mandate, son. Just because you got a participation trophy in 3rd grade rec soccer doesn’t get you on the varsity team.

You think there aren't hard working people in all the other wards? You think the people on ANCs don't have families and jobs? I guess you are too special to understand that the people who do this actually care about their communities and want to help other people. But that isn't surprising coming from someone with your salty outlook on things.

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Anonymous wrote:Since when is Joe Biden a progressive?

You all really have Fox living in your head if you think "the progressives" are ruling the roost.

And frankly, I will take universal healthcare over evangelical fascism 7 days out of 7.

Why do you prefer fascism?

The progressives in DC and NYC spent the past two years pushing for bike lanes. All while Rome burned. If the ANCs used half the time they spent on bikes instead on schools and crime this would be a world class city. Instead it’s been two years of bike lanes and weed dispensaries. The Ds will now suffer generational losses at the polls.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/eric-adams-new-york-crime-midterms/index.html

What, exactly, do you think ANCs can do about schools and crime? They are not the mayor, they are not the school board and they are not the police force. I will be very interested in your response.

They could hold up the upzoning, which the mayor wants, until schools etc is addressed. Instead they traded that for bike lanes. It's the exact same lever.

+1000. But most of the ANC reps don’t and will never have kids. They literally have no idea what a crap show DCPS is and how they could help their community. All they want is these ridiculous bike lanes and pot dispensaries. Please go back to Petworth and live your progressive dreams. FFS.

It is also important to consider how many of these childless ANC commissioners will even stay in DC over the short, medium or long term.

A decent percentage of ANC commissions from 2012 don’t live in the city any more. Imagine applying that sort of short-term decision making focused on yourself as a temporary, young, single and childless resident over the needs of long term residents and families.
https://www.dcboe.org/dcboe/media/PDFFiles/nr_849.pdf

If you didn't run for ANC and are making these kinds of charges and hyperbole, then you are the problem.

How is it that in competitive races, the people who favor density and bike lanes keep winning?

It is rather a question.

Because most of Ward 3 are hard working two professional married couples. They don’t pay attention to the ANCs or the city council for that matter. In a one party town you just need 25 signatures to gat on the ballot. That’s not a mandate, son. Just because you got a participation trophy in 3rd grade rec soccer doesn’t get you on the varsity team.

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Anonymous wrote:Since when is Joe Biden a progressive?

You all really have Fox living in your head if you think "the progressives" are ruling the roost.

And frankly, I will take universal healthcare over evangelical fascism 7 days out of 7.

Why do you prefer fascism?

Oh grow up! Biden is a pragmatic Progressive and you should appreciate him while you can. In 2 years if Trump is elected again and you have a bunch of election-denying Trump cult members in Congress and state houses, Liz Cheney will seem like a Progressive.

Well, compared to authoritarianism, Cheney is a progressive, so...

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Anonymous wrote:Since when is Joe Biden a progressive?

You all really have Fox living in your head if you think "the progressives" are ruling the roost.

And frankly, I will take universal healthcare over evangelical fascism 7 days out of 7.

Why do you prefer fascism?

The progressives in DC and NYC spent the past two years pushing for bike lanes. All while Rome burned. If the ANCs used half the time they spent on bikes instead on schools and crime this would be a world class city. Instead it’s been two years of bike lanes and weed dispensaries. The Ds will now suffer generational losses at the polls.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/eric-adams-new-york-crime-midterms/index.html

What, exactly, do you think ANCs can do about schools and crime? They are not the mayor, they are not the school board and they are not the police force. I will be very interested in your response.

They could hold up the upzoning, which the mayor wants, until schools etc is addressed. Instead they traded that for bike lanes. It's the exact same lever.

+1000. But most of the ANC reps don’t and will never have kids. They literally have no idea what a crap show DCPS is and how they could help their community. All they want is these ridiculous bike lanes and pot dispensaries. Please go back to Petworth and live your progressive dreams. FFS.

It is also important to consider how many of these childless ANC commissioners will even stay in DC over the short, medium or long term.

A decent percentage of ANC commissions from 2012 don’t live in the city any more. Imagine applying that sort of short-term decision making focused on yourself as a temporary, young, single and childless resident over the needs of long term residents and families.
https://www.dcboe.org/dcboe/media/PDFFiles/nr_849.pdf

If you didn't run for ANC and are making these kinds of charges and hyperbole, then you are the problem.

How is it that in competitive races, the people who favor density and bike lanes keep winning?

It is rather a question.

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Anonymous wrote:In his late filing (he hasn't gotten one in on time at all) Krucoff showed 16 whole donations, many of them not even in Ward 3.

What is the opposite of a red wave?

I mean even the anti bike lane people aren't giving to him.

I don't know about that. The most recent filing (as of 10/31/2022) showed a total of just shy of $11k from individual District residents and just shy of $2k for individual non-District residents.

Matt's had $45k for DC residents and $5.6k for non-DC residents. So Krucoff gets a wee-bit more proportionately from non-DC residents (probably because the TERROR THAT IS BIKE LANE ON CONN AVE), but not by a ton - 15% vs. like 11% for Matt.

You are missing the point. In the last month, the bike lanes have been the central issue of Krucoff's campaign. There have been hundreds of posts on the local email lists and in this forum, and yet, he had a whopping 16 whole donations, and only 13 from people who live in Ward 3.

I am not sure how that kind of excitement makes him a remotely viable candidate. It certainly speaks to the "enthusiasm" of the anti bike lane mob.

How is it then that WABA endorsed an ANC 3C (which includes Conn Ave) candidate who maxed out to Krucioff?!

Anonymous wrote:Since when is Joe Biden a progressive?

You all really have Fox living in your head if you think "the progressives" are ruling the roost.

And frankly, I will take universal healthcare over evangelical fascism 7 days out of 7.

Why do you prefer fascism?

Oh grow up! Biden is a pragmatic Progressive and you should appreciate him while you can. In 2 years if Trump is elected again and you have a bunch of election-denying Trump cult members in Congress and state houses, Liz Cheney will seem like a Progressive.

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Anonymous wrote:Since when is Joe Biden a progressive?

You all really have Fox living in your head if you think "the progressives" are ruling the roost.

And frankly, I will take universal healthcare over evangelical fascism 7 days out of 7.

Why do you prefer fascism?

The progressives in DC and NYC spent the past two years pushing for bike lanes. All while Rome burned. If the ANCs used half the time they spent on bikes instead on schools and crime this would be a world class city. Instead it’s been two years of bike lanes and weed dispensaries. The Ds will now suffer generational losses at the polls.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/eric-adams-new-york-crime-midterms/index.html

What, exactly, do you think ANCs can do about schools and crime? They are not the mayor, they are not the school board and they are not the police force. I will be very interested in your response.

They could hold up the upzoning, which the mayor wants, until schools etc is addressed. Instead they traded that for bike lanes. It's the exact same lever.

+1000. But most of the ANC reps don’t and will never have kids. They literally have no idea what a crap show DCPS is and how they could help their community. All they want is these ridiculous bike lanes and pot dispensaries. Please go back to Petworth and live your progressive dreams. FFS.

It is also important to consider how many of these childless ANC commissioners will even stay in DC over the short, medium or long term.

A decent percentage of ANC commissions from 2012 don’t live in the city any more. Imagine applying that sort of short-term decision making focused on yourself as a temporary, young, single and childless resident over the needs of long term residents and families.
https://www.dcboe.org/dcboe/media/PDFFiles/nr_849.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since when is Joe Biden a progressive?

You all really have Fox living in your head if you think "the progressives" are ruling the roost.

And frankly, I will take universal healthcare over evangelical fascism 7 days out of 7.

Why do you prefer fascism?

The progressives in DC and NYC spent the past two years pushing for bike lanes. All while Rome burned. If the ANCs used half the time they spent on bikes instead on schools and crime this would be a world class city. Instead it’s been two years of bike lanes and weed dispensaries. The Ds will now suffer generational losses at the polls.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/eric-adams-new-york-crime-midterms/index.html

What, exactly, do you think ANCs can do about schools and crime? They are not the mayor, they are not the school board and they are not the police force. I will be very interested in your response.

They could hold up the upzoning, which the mayor wants, until schools etc is addressed. Instead they traded that for bike lanes. It's the exact same lever.

+1000. But most of the ANC reps don’t and will never have kids. They literally have no idea what a crap show DCPS is and how they could help their community. All they want is these ridiculous bike lanes and pot dispensaries. Please go back to Petworth and live your progressive dreams. FFS.

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Anonymous wrote:Since when is Joe Biden a progressive?

You all really have Fox living in your head if you think "the progressives" are ruling the roost.

And frankly, I will take universal healthcare over evangelical fascism 7 days out of 7.

Why do you prefer fascism?

The progressives in DC and NYC spent the past two years pushing for bike lanes. All while Rome burned. If the ANCs used half the time they spent on bikes instead on schools and crime this would be a world class city. Instead it’s been two years of bike lanes and weed dispensaries. The Ds will now suffer generational losses at the polls.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/eric-adams-new-york-crime-midterms/index.html

What, exactly, do you think ANCs can do about schools and crime? They are not the mayor, they are not the school board and they are not the police force. I will be very interested in your response.

They could hold up the upzoning, which the mayor wants, until schools etc is addressed. Instead they traded that for bike lanes. It's the exact same lever.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since when is Joe Biden a progressive?

You all really have Fox living in your head if you think "the progressives" are ruling the roost.

And frankly, I will take universal healthcare over evangelical fascism 7 days out of 7.

Why do you prefer fascism?

The progressives in DC and NYC spent the past two years pushing for bike lanes. All while Rome burned. If the ANCs used half the time they spent on bikes instead on schools and crime this would be a world class city. Instead it’s been two years of bike lanes and weed dispensaries. The Ds will now suffer generational losses at the polls.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/eric-adams-new-york-crime-midterms/index.html

What, exactly, do you think ANCs can do about schools and crime? They are not the mayor, they are not the school board and they are not the police force. I will be very interested in your response.

The ANCs were created so that the actual elected council members didn’t have to deal with noise complaints and building permits. They were not created to drive transportation policy, which if you look at the campaign signs and statements from most of the ANC candidates running, that’s the ONLY issues they care about. Most signs have a picture of a bike and a bus, when instead they should have a picture of a school and a badge on them. Because those are the issues that most normal people who own their homes and have children actually care about.

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Anonymous wrote:Since when is Joe Biden a progressive?

You all really have Fox living in your head if you think "the progressives" are ruling the roost.

And frankly, I will take universal healthcare over evangelical fascism 7 days out of 7.

Why do you prefer fascism?

The progressives in DC and NYC spent the past two years pushing for bike lanes. All while Rome burned. If the ANCs used half the time they spent on bikes instead on schools and crime this would be a world class city. Instead it’s been two years of bike lanes and weed dispensaries. The Ds will now suffer generational losses at the polls.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/eric-adams-new-york-crime-midterms/index.html

What, exactly, do you think ANCs can do about schools and crime? They are not the mayor, they are not the school board and they are not the police force. I will be very interested in your response.

Anonymous wrote:Since when is Joe Biden a progressive?

You all really have Fox living in your head if you think "the progressives" are ruling the roost.

And frankly, I will take universal healthcare over evangelical fascism 7 days out of 7.

Why do you prefer fascism?

The progressives in DC and NYC spent the past two years pushing for bike lanes. All while Rome burned. If the ANCs used half the time they spent on bikes instead on schools and crime this would be a world class city. Instead it’s been two years of bike lanes and weed dispensaries. The Ds will now suffer generational losses at the polls.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/eric-adams-new-york-crime-midterms/index.html

Since when is Joe Biden a progressive?

You all really have Fox living in your head if you think "the progressives" are ruling the roost.

And frankly, I will take universal healthcare over evangelical fascism 7 days out of 7.

Why do you prefer fascism?

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Anonymous wrote:In his late filing (he hasn't gotten one in on time at all) Krucoff showed 16 whole donations, many of them not even in Ward 3.

What is the opposite of a red wave?

I mean even the anti bike lane people aren't giving to him.

I don't know about that. The most recent filing (as of 10/31/2022) showed a total of just shy of $11k from individual District residents and just shy of $2k for individual non-District residents.

Matt's had $45k for DC residents and $5.6k for non-DC residents. So Krucoff gets a wee-bit more proportionately from non-DC residents (probably because the TERROR THAT IS BIKE LANE ON CONN AVE), but not by a ton - 15% vs. like 11% for Matt.

You are missing the point. In the last month, the bike lanes have been the central issue of Krucoff's campaign. There have been hundreds of posts on the local email lists and in this forum, and yet, he had a whopping 16 whole donations, and only 13 from people who live in Ward 3.

I am not sure how that kind of excitement makes him a remotely viable candidate. It certainly speaks to the "enthusiasm" of the anti bike lane mob.

I think this is just further proof that very few people in Ward 3 actually know that this proposal has been approved. Those who would be in favor of less invasive safety improvements are generally busy working parents who have happy lives and don’t, unfortunately, have time to babysit their ANC representatives.

Between this forum, the neighborhood listservs, the various ANC and DDOT meetings, there has been plenty of time for engagement. For me personally, I have spoken to several of my neighbors who 1) knew of the plan 2) support the plan 3) never posted on the listserv about it and 4) don't think it is a big deal.

DC has over 180 boards and commissions with decision making power. Do you know what all of them are up to? For gods sake it’s exhausting trying to push back on all the crazy stuff the Council is trying to do. I just don’t have any energy left to deal with the crazy ANCs.

How exactly do you "push back" on the Council? How is that working for you? Maybe if you were crazy enough to engage with the "crazy ANCs", you could actually have some influence over the odd decision here and there and wouldn't come across as so frustrated.

I’ve been pushing back on this insane criminal “reform” bill. It’s been a full time unpaid job. You’re welcome.

If it makes you feel any better I'm glad you're failing. Keep wasting your time, champ!

Well, thank god the mayor agrees with me and not with you.

And by the way, you might not want to turn on the TV on Wednesday morning. Or, really the next 10 years or so. America is about to let you know what they think about your progressive dreams. Have fun on your tricycle though.