Posted on 07/25/2020 10:20:59 AM PDT by RightGeek
We are city people: we have seen it allliterally, allour entire lives.
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Thats why, when DCs Mayor Bowser spray painted Black Lives Matter in front of my tea spot, I knew I was done.
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Following Bowsers grand gesture, the litany of grievances against the city which I had been unconsciously accumulating for years began to pour out. Why do I accept that its dangerous to ride public transportation after hours? Why do I accept that if I go to the ATM on Barracks Row, I will have a homeless guy pounding on the door waiting for me to come out? Why do I tolerate my car windows smashed, again and again, only to have both cops and friends say, well, you must have left something on the seatas if its acceptable to commit a crime if the reward is valuable? Why do I tolerate streets full of urine and stinking of marijuana? Why do I put up with having to stick my fingers into my dogs throat to unchoke chicken bones someone discarded on the sidewalk? Why do I have to wait until an hour after the local school is dismissed to avoid problems with teen gangs? And take note: I have yet to even talk about the big crime events like murder or rape.
A man can only tolerate a homeless guy defecating outside his window for so long. The shuttered restaurants, the burnt out stores, the mask-shaming and sloganeering calls for diversity or justice are all just exhausting, not to mention intellectually vapid and morally bankrupt. Im going a step further: not only will I not be conscripted into your cause, but I will no longer even financially support it with the one thing I controlmy wallet.
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That’s the thing about leftists. They just can not leave you or anybody else alone. They know best not only how to live their own lives but how you should live yours. They’re not the least bit shy about using force to back up their designs for your life either. That is, after they have systematically stripped you of any power to defend yourself.
This is why they must be resisted at all costs.
It took 14th St. corridor almost 40 years to recover from the ‘68 riots.
Forty years.
And it only came back becuase of gays who didn’t worry about the schools b/c they don’t have children.
Who will save the ruined cities next time?
I've thought that this may have been George Soros' plan all along. To crash the value of real estate in major cities, then buy up major real estate at bargain basement prices, end the violence, and have values rise again.
We left WDC after 30+ years of “living” there. It is truly hopeless there. Escape while you are still allowed to do so. We moved to sanity in S UT...our Mayberry. Few LIB lunatics...none of their opressive BS. LIBs stay away. You are despised here. Being shunned will be the least of your worries.
The sack of Rome by the Visigoths will be repeated in DC, especially if Biden is elected. The deep state has no idea what’s waiting for them. They are that stupid.
The real turnaround for DC, however, was de facto bankruptcy, the Control Board, and Anthony Williams, who should be added to Mount Rushmore. It is amazing what getting rid of a race baiting crackhead crook of a mayor can do, especially when he is replaced by someone who is honest, competent, and wise enough to know that a city has to work for taxpayers and businesses, not just junkies, welfare moms and featherbedded government workers. Starting with Anthony Williams, we had a run of pretty good government. Vincent Gray and Muriel Bowser have been backsliders, but the city has changed enough that I don't think even a feckless panderer like Bowser can reverse the underlying dynamic.
As Guliani showed in New York, good leadership makes all the difference. The problems of the cities are largely self-inflicted. If a city can elect leadership that actually wants the city to work, as opposed to being merely looters and grifters, things can turn around.
Gentrification in DC does not happen in isolation. Suburban gridlock is suffocating. If I were a suburbanite, I would bend over backwards to live within a few miles of my job, but even so, movement around the area is awful and is only getting worse. Those older, close-in neighborhoods look more and more attractive with each wasted hour you spend in your car.
A lot of people here are operating on old information about DC. Many don't realize how many neighborhoods have flipped. Many have no idea how expensive DC has gotten, even in areas that your archived data is telling you are "bad." Most of DC is already unaffordable for young people, the exception being the new frontier of far Northeast and close-in PG County.
A lot of people here are unfamiliar with those areas because they were regarded for so long as blighted. If you are operating on old information, however, just drive down U.S. 1 from the beltway into DC (Rhode Island Avenue, which is Route 1, or Bladensburg Road, which is "alternate U.S. 1"). If you've not done it for awhile, you will not believe what College Park and Hyattsville look like today. Bladensburg Road is in the very early stages of being rebuilt, and it will take some time because it parallels a rail line, which holds things back. But it will happen. The Rhode Island corridor is sprucing up. New York Avenue, which parallels another rail line, is still an eyesore, but the city has some things moving there as well. At the rate we're going, everything inside the beltway is going to be reclaimed.
And then there will be no affordable housing at all left in DC, and young people will have to go to Urbana, Haymarket and Stafford County anyhow. Young people should move quickly if they can.
*good article ping*
> SOMEONE at SOME POINT is going to HAVE to put together that militia
This is happening big time, just not in places like DC. Tactical retreat is the only thing possible in such places. The only way to save DC is to take it by force from outside, but first the red areas need to be secured.
Are you stepping up to join your local patriot group?
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Started looking around trying to find an actual group.
> Started looking around trying to find an actual group.
https://www.thethreepercenters.org/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/734584506587238/
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