Anonymous
Post 02/11/2023 16:25     Subject: Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Frumin’s statement on this is telling — it’s all about the Council sticking it to the man and nothing about the people of DC. Needless to say, he’s lost my vote and I think Council are behaving like dangerously spoiled brats out for themselves. I don’t like this Congress any more than the next guy, but I’m grateful that they’re saving us from the Nadeau and Allen fever dreams.

I spent the first week of February defending our local democracy from Congressional interference. While the Republican-led House of Representatives is attempting to overturn DC legislation, the Council has said with a unified voice that Congress must keep its hands off DC.


If you are favor of colonialism when the outcome aligns with their policy priors, then you do not believe in the principle of representative democracy.


Colonialism. Oh you poor sad brainwashed warped loser


I’m not the one parroting Tucker Carlson’s talking points or claiming to understand the RCCA while spreading blatant falsehoods.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2023 16:23     Subject: Re:Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
Anonymous wrote:People want to whine about “colonialism” when there is now a direct line of responsibility between the DC government’s soft on crime actions and a Congress member getting assaulted in their home. These folks have proved without a doubt that DC is not deserving of statehood when their actions compromise the safety of Federal officials within their jurisdiction.



Assault the executive, assault the legislative…judiciary up next.

Cops make the arrests. System is broken.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2023 16:22     Subject: Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Frumin’s statement on this is telling — it’s all about the Council sticking it to the man and nothing about the people of DC. Needless to say, he’s lost my vote and I think Council are behaving like dangerously spoiled brats out for themselves. I don’t like this Congress any more than the next guy, but I’m grateful that they’re saving us from the Nadeau and Allen fever dreams.

I spent the first week of February defending our local democracy from Congressional interference. While the Republican-led House of Representatives is attempting to overturn DC legislation, the Council has said with a unified voice that Congress must keep its hands off DC.


If you are favor of colonialism when the outcome aligns with their policy priors, then you do not believe in the principle of representative democracy.


Colonialism lol. I find the sensationalist prose adopted by so many folks in the last few years to be so over the top. Yeah, dude. You must be like so oppressed.


I’m surprised you take issue with that word. You sound like the kind of person who runs around claiming that colonialism was actually a good thing for the colonized peoples.

In any case, anyone who cheers the intervention of the House in DC local affairs and presents to be a fan of democracy is deeply confused.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2023 16:00     Subject: Re:Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
People want to whine about “colonialism” when there is now a direct line of responsibility between the DC government’s soft on crime actions and a Congress member getting assaulted in their home. These folks have proved without a doubt that DC is not deserving of statehood when their actions compromise the safety of Federal officials within their jurisdiction.

Anonymous
Post 02/11/2023 12:48     Subject: Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
Anonymous wrote:


And yet, still has a crime problem.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2023 12:41     Subject: Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
Anonymous wrote:


Comparing DC to a state.

I believe the expression is “miss me.”
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2023 12:23     Subject: Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How bout you improve the DC living standards plagued by crime, ATVs, illegal activity and frankly DC government corruption, and let us defend the democracy, Frumin?

Who are you defending the democracy from, other democratic representatives of the people, Mayor, DoJ? Everyone told you the legislation was bad. There were some good provisions but they will not be lost as the result of your incredible ignorance in legislative writing and arrogance in ramming things down people’s throats.


DC's living standards are pretty high, actually.

Most of the crime and ATVs come from residents of other places, I mean how many arrests and time in court are the 1/6 insurrectionists taking up?

I’m going to need a citation.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2023 11:58     Subject: Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
You can have the statehood back in exchange for no tax. Also disband council. We could buy an amazing professional management team for that. DC could be Monaco.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2023 11:49     Subject: Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This whole situation plus the two other bills being reviewed by Congress illustrates the only reason I support DC statehood. This city is badly to poorly run in many areas but the way the Congress is allowed to simply over rule decisions of the democratically elected representatives of the people of DC is the definition of taxation without representation. Yes, I know, I could move elsewhere. Blah blah blah. That doesn’t make this situation any more acceptable in the capital of the free world. And I would say this if the party positions were reversed. And I don’t agree with major portions of the crime bill.

We should get to vote on exercise of the police power where we live without being overruled by people who live somewhere else.


The majority of DC residents actually pay no federal taxes. So there’s that.


Citation, please? How does this square with the fact that DC in aggregate pays more federal taxes than 23 states and more per capita than any other state

https://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton-announces-new-irs-data-show-dc-pays-more-federal-taxes-than-23.



I'm a DC resident and I certainly do pay federal taxes. A lot, in fact.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2023 11:49     Subject: Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
I mean honestly, the Secret Service is already arresting criminals.

Did I read correctly that those idiots Nadeau and Allen are further cutting the police force?
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2023 10:25     Subject: Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
I don’t blame the House members at all. It’s almost spring fly-in season and the streets are unsafe in daylight hours. No congressman is going to let their 4H Club get jacked up because Charles Allen wants to when the next mayoral primary. We need the national gaurd on the streets.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2023 18:20     Subject: Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
It’s also really stupid and from the same dumb political kitchen. Somebody is running an indoctrination camp on both sides. Cha Ching
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2023 18:14     Subject: Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Frumin’s statement on this is telling — it’s all about the Council sticking it to the man and nothing about the people of DC. Needless to say, he’s lost my vote and I think Council are behaving like dangerously spoiled brats out for themselves. I don’t like this Congress any more than the next guy, but I’m grateful that they’re saving us from the Nadeau and Allen fever dreams.

I spent the first week of February defending our local democracy from Congressional interference. While the Republican-led House of Representatives is attempting to overturn DC legislation, the Council has said with a unified voice that Congress must keep its hands off DC.


If you are favor of colonialism when the outcome aligns with their policy priors, then you do not believe in the principle of representative democracy.


Colonialism lol. I find the sensationalist prose adopted by so many folks in the last few years to be so over the top. Yeah, dude. You must be like so oppressed.
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2023 18:12     Subject: Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Frumin’s statement on this is telling — it’s all about the Council sticking it to the man and nothing about the people of DC. Needless to say, he’s lost my vote and I think Council are behaving like dangerously spoiled brats out for themselves. I don’t like this Congress any more than the next guy, but I’m grateful that they’re saving us from the Nadeau and Allen fever dreams.

I spent the first week of February defending our local democracy from Congressional interference. While the Republican-led House of Representatives is attempting to overturn DC legislation, the Council has said with a unified voice that Congress must keep its hands off DC.


If you are favor of colonialism when the outcome aligns with their policy priors, then you do not believe in the principle of representative democracy.


Colonialism. Oh you poor sad brainwashed warped loser


+1
Anonymous
Post 02/10/2023 15:31     Subject: Enjoying DC Council get dragged on the Hill
Anonymous wrote:


What does incarceration rate mean? If people are doing crimes doesn’t justice dictate that the should be caught and go to jail? Why don’t people just stop doing crimes?