Posted on 08/10/2025 1:50:54 PM PDT by DFG
We’re having a News Conference tomorrow in the White House. I’m going to make our Capital safer and more beautiful than it ever was before. The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The Criminals, you don’t have to move out. We’re going to put you in jail where you belong. It’s all going to happen very fast, just like the Border. We went from millions pouring in, to ZERO in the last few months. This will be easier — Be prepared! There will be no “MR. NICE GUY.” We want our Capital BACK. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
We’re talking light industry, of course, especially along the railroad corridors through DC and Maryland, which supported industrial operations (including food and household goods suppliers which were more localized back then) that in turn supported a working class. I was thinking specifically of the Irish and German Catholic working class that lived around Catholic University. There were plenty of jobs for them outside of government in the trades.
The from 1950 to 1970 the “manufacturing” and “construction and trades” occupations dropped from 25% of jobs in the District to 10%.
In my suburb it would be house to house, judging by externals; we are totally racially integrated. At least no one around here—a community of maybe 500 townhomes—rubs it in with political campaign signs any more, except the one dumbass with the black sign "in this house we believe..." followed by rainbow-color woke dogma. Only a very few even fly the Stars & Stripes, and the several who do put it out back over the patio instead of out front. So far, no outbreaks of war, praise God.
“...or it will all be over.”
It has taken 40 years to find a president that is willing to tell people to go to hell when they mistreat the citizens. It took even longer to gain control of the house and senate while a conservative president was in office to get anything passed at all even though that house and senate was filled with rinoes and so much more could have been accomplished like is happening now.
Problem is I don’t see a conservative candidate on the horizon to step in and melt down liberals. It may be the end for a long time or until the country melts down. We keep having to get up off the canvas every time.
wy69
My neighborhood is mostly Indian, so as long as there are no Pakistanis, I’m good. ;)
“”Problem is I don’t see a conservative candidate on the horizon to step in and melt down liberals. It may be the end for a long time or until the country melts down. We keep having to get up off the canvas every time.””
We keep getting “beaten down” (Jasmine Crockett’s favorite term re: combating the GOP) and they keep getting away with it. This next three and a half years is, I believe, our very last chance. If we don’t make the most of this last chance, the left will come back into power with a vengeance.
That is why most of us are extremely concerned about bringing those leftist perps to justice quickly (before Trump leaves office). Eliminating voter and election fraud mechanisms is crucial, and reigning in rogue leftist judges is also a no-brainer requirement. Our impatience is due in part to the fact that we know that these next few years will fly by rapidly, just as these past six months has flown by. We don’t want to get to 2028 and realize that ‘none’ of the law-breaking leftists are behind bars... yet. Because if the Democrats steal another election, we know they will never be brought to justice.
As for that “melt down liberals”... I think JD Vance has the will but does he have the same level of stroke that Trump has? Only time will tell.
“I think JD Vance has the will but does he have the same level of stroke that Trump has? Only time will tell.”
He hasn’t got much time and he needs to get more vicious in his work. I think getting him out into the public eye and from behind the senate desk could be very important to get his face in front of the voters. Biden did the same thing with Kamala but she failed in everything she was assigned to and the only reason she got as many votes as she did was because the media was protecting her and without doing anything, she saved criticism. And not all liberals vote lock step when their pocketbook is being raided and they can’t afford the necessities of life like food, housing, and medication. Even a hungry dog will bite its master.
wy69
“”I think getting him out into the public eye and from behind the senate desk could be very important to get his face in front of the voters.””
I agree. He needs to treat the next 3-1/2 years as campaign years, because we cannot afford to lose to the rats in 2028. Vance needs to show what he is capable of and then some.
Many big cities had a boom in suburbanization then -- cheaper real estate for companies wanting to exploit the housing boom when the troops came home from WW2. So your point is valid, but neither yours nor mine tells the whole story.
In my experience, cultural differences, whether from outright racism or a natural clash of values—from workplace expectations to differing social and sexual behaviors—were the main impediments to success when the government started trying to engineer immediate racial integration, and contributed largely to “white flight.”
In the 50s-60s, as a young girl attuned to what was “blowin' in the wind”, many of the white adults' complaints seemed simply racist to me. In later years, I would start to recognize that although civil rights were necessary, much was sacrificed to bring it around. And we hear of these same general contrasts still today about white vs black cultures—an undesirable resistance to what the whites then called the “work ethic” that powered the early growth and development of the country, as well as to traditional sexual ethics, with higher illegitimacy and abortion rates among blacks.
I've been hopeful that Trump's efforts to bring more jobs and a better economy to working people will help more blacks (as well as all others) to form stable two-parent families and to own affordable houses. As for DC, “make city living great again.”
. In later years, I would start to recognize that although civil rights were necessary, much was sacrificed to bring it around.
The problem with the Civil Rights Movement, as with most of the movements of the time, was that the Communists were driving the bus, and their only goal was to use the issue to tear down society, and replace it with their “utopia”.
Vance looks pretty good to me. His early background insulates him from being viewed merely as a spoiled Ivy Leaguer. Like Trump, he exemplifies the American Dream. And he says a lot of the right things. I have hopes for him.
As Trump’s successes become too numerous for even the legacy media to ignore, more closeted conservatives will follow his example and come out. Not a moment too soon.
You are correct, sir.
“Vance needs to show what he is capable of and then some.”
One problem is that he is working in Trump’s shadow. As was said in vaudeville “kind of a hard act to follow” where an act is so impressive that the audience expects the next act to be equally, if not more, spectacular, making it difficult for the subsequent performer to meet those high expectations.
So the conservatives may be in the same problem the liberals are right now, no one to carry the ball as good as Trump so the standard falls backward because it was so incredibly high. Vance may be good, but can he live up to Trump’s standard. The only good thing is that if the race was fair in 2028, without the media and the manipulations, Vance will still be a step down but everyone else two steps down.
wy69
A significant influence on DC sociology was the land clearance in SW DC from the 40s and ending in the early 70s. It scattered what had been relatively stable neighborhoods of poor blacks, where the porch sitting grandmas influenced social behavior and social control by keeping working parents aware of their children’s naughty behavior. Also taking it on themselves to scold bad behavior. High rise condos with no porches was a sociological loss to low income society. Probably one reason big places like Cabrini Green have failed so miserably to help the poor.
Lots and lots of reasons for the issue.
Layers upon layers and each community is different. That is why i say it has to be solved by the community and in large by voluntary work.
To the smarmy assholes reading these conversations. Give us a solution for thise still homeless in Western NC and Eastern TN. Give us a solution for those who are homeless in Pacific Palisades. Texas...
Oh i bet their solution is to shoot them, or put them in jail.
To you smarmy assholes...average cost to house an inmate is about 60 to 100 grand now per year.
https://youtu.be/jzdHQUKYS3Q?si=a5hksIxcWAQSy2fZ
Learn about Skid Row And just how complicated the issue is.
“”One problem is that he is working in Trump’s shadow. As was said in vaudeville “kind of a hard act to follow” where an act is so impressive that the audience expects the next act to be equally, if not more, spectacular, making it difficult for the subsequent performer to meet those high expectations.
So the conservatives may be in the same problem the liberals are right now, no one to carry the ball as good as Trump so the standard falls backward because it was so incredibly high. Vance may be good, but can he live up to Trump’s standard. The only good thing is that if the race was fair in 2028, without the media and the manipulations, Vance will still be a step down but everyone else two steps down.””
Without question, good points, all. And Vance would still be a zillion steps up from what ‘any’ Democrat would be.
“”There will be no “MR. NICE GUY.” We want our Capital BACK. Thank you for your attention to this matter!””
Two little words.
Go.... Trump!!!
The time for Mr. Nice Guy is over. Way over. Time for recovery, cleanup and taking out the trash.
They didn’t want Washington D.C. to be Rome. They were spot on there.
“And Vance would still be a zillion steps up from what ‘any’ Democrat would be.”
But the unfortunate side of that is for many years, has the correct person been elected to maintain the needs of the voters except Trump? Liberals do not vote for the best person, they vote liberal. And the conservative party is not filled with all conservative people. So the best we can expect after Trump is someone trying to break even while the libs, and assisting rinoes, help to move further into destroying the country. Maybe it’s time for De Santos. He seems to be the only ranking conservative willing to put dems in their place except maybe Abbott from Texas. I can’t think of anyone else besides them and an untried, unproven Vance.
wy69
“”Maybe it’s time for De Santos. He seems to be the only ranking conservative willing to put dems in their place except maybe Abbott from Texas. I can’t think of anyone else besides them and an untried, unproven Vance.””
I can see a role for DeSantis perhaps as VP to Vance. But only time will tell if that duo would work. It’s possible that over the next few years, another option will become available. I happen to like Byron Donalds, as well, as a possible VP pick.
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