Posted on 08/07/2025 5:09:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It’s time for America to reclaim its principal city as the jewel it was designed to be.
On Monday, a crime that would be shocking in most of America happened in Washington, D.C.
That crime, where it occurred, wasn’t shocking at all. And this fact should create consequences that Americans from Maine to Hawaii ought to be proud of.
Edward Coristine isn’t quite 20 years old, but he’s nonetheless a famous figure. Coristine is known by his alias, “Big Balls.” He’s a college student and programmer formerly appointed to the Department of Government Efficiency, but he’s now a permanent federal employee. Coristine held the title of senior advisor at the highest pay grade (GS-15) in the General Services Administration and then moved on to a job working for the Social Security Administration.
But on Monday his eventful life took a frightful turn, as he stepped in to protect a woman targeted by a group of animals on a D.C. street bent on carjacking her. She managed to get to safety inside the locked vehicle; Coristine was beaten severely by the would-be carjackers.
This incident was notable only because it happened to someone in the public eye. Violent crime in Washington, D.C., especially that perpetrated by feral youths with zero fear of prosecution or incarceration, is off the scale.
Consider that the current murder rate in Washington, D.C., is 41 per 100,000. That’s almost the highest in the world; it’s rivaled only by places like Caracas, Guatemala City, and Pretoria among international capitals. A murder rate more than four times higher than Mexico City, three times higher than Bogota, and at least 20 times higher than any of the capitals of major countries in Asia or Europe is utterly unacceptable.
Property crime in Washington, D.C., is every bit as horrific...
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NO SUPERVISION
NO DISCIPLINE
NO CONSEQUENCES
CREATES FERAL BARBARIANS
Self govt is too lofty. DC has been and is a failure because its leaders are failures. Time to give the place back to Maryland. Move the government out of DC.
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