Posted on 12/31/2021 3:27:52 AM PST by Kaslin
Its time for the little Nazi dictators of their state to step forward now
What kind of people live at the DMV?
The people that vote Democrat straight ticket?
Why are citizens putting up with this BS????
We have truly become a Nation of COWARDS!!
Indoor spaces like supermarkets and hospitals?
Yep.
My local DMV office is a nuthouse. Too many people and crappy service. It is understaffed.
As a general point of reference, when I left the DC area in late ‘98, the black population in the city was at 70%.
Have you ever been in a supermarket where the isles are crowded? The checkout lanes are another story, they can be crowded depending on the time of day. Personally I prefer my shopping to do around 8:00 am.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
It won’t matter what time of day it is if you’re not vaxed. And you’ll need an ID to prove it.
It’s a helluva lot easier to DMV online. Of course the RealID required a bit of shoeleather... but that was all pre Covid.
Which reminds me because of the vetting involved with real ID perhaps real ID could be used as a voter ID.
Politicians just don’t want to go there.
Oops there is nothing on either one. Besides both my son and I are on quarantine, which means we are not coming in contact with other people that might have it.
Cancer spreads, just saying......
You mean those people who just voted in a new Republican governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and house of delegates in VA?
“Given these forthcoming measures, wary Washingtonians will seek refuge in Virginia”
No, No, NO!!! Virginia is a haven of racism and white supremacy! After all, we just elected a … shudder… Republican governing team. You’ll hate it here.. really! Go to Maryland, Delaware or somewhere else! You’ll be miserable here!!
D.C. is often cited as the most rapidly gentrifying major city in the U.S. The city always had a substantial black population -- it was, after all, historically a southern city, and a slave city until compensated emancipation in 1862 -- but it did not become majority black until the 1950's, as the result of two great trends of the period: the mass movement of the middle class to the suburbs; and the post-WWII second Great Migration of rural blacks from the South. The black population topped out at over 70 percent in the 1970's.
By 1990, the black population was about 65 percent but gentrification was gathering steam. I've lived on Capitol Hill since 1979. It has been clinically interesting to watch gentrification march neighborhood by neighborhood. The exodus of Marion Barry and the advent of Anthony Willians and the Control Board was a huge turning point. (Dealing with D.C. government offices now is actually pleasant; the people are prompt and courteous, and they know what they are doing, which was often not the case in the Barry era. And wait times are now minimal. Even at the DMV, it no longer takes all day to register a car; you walk in, take a number, and are generally called within ten minutes.) The 2020 census data says D.C. is now 41.4 percent black, 36.6 percent white (38 percent non-Hispanic white), 11.3 percent Hispanic of any race, and 4.8 percent Asian.
After a long period of population decline, D.C. has been regaining population since 2000. We are now back above 700,000 and there is a severe low and moderate income housing shortage. The reality is that both DC and the inner ring suburbs have become extremely expensive, which is great for us long-term homeowners and a real hardship for young people. The commuting situation is ridiculous, with people coming in from Urbana and Frederick, Haymarket and points west, Stafford and St. Mary's counties, etc. People from Hagerstown and the lower Shenandoah Valley are coming in by train and commuter bus (and these commuter busses are the lux kind). Brunswick, Warrenton and Culpepper are commuter territory now.
It will be interesting to see if the COVID reaction has long-term effects in reconfiguring work patterns. Maybe. It's long overdue. Young people are looking at commutes of over two hours each way from the outer suburbs and opting for apartments and condos in the city. It's a sensible choice. The biggest impediment to complete gentrification today is probably the sad state of D.C.'s public schools. There are scattered success stories among D.C. public schools, mainly reflecting neighborhood gentrification; we have people moving onto Capitol Hill specifically to be in-bounds for Brent and Maury, which would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. High school remains a huge problem. If D.C. vouchered the schools and made private schools more affordable for the middle class, the pace of change would make your head spin.
Oops, a typo. I said in the last post that D.C.’s current population was 36.6 percent white. It’s 39.6 white, vs. 41.4 black, 11.3 Hispanic of any race, and 4.8 Asian.
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