Washington D.C. is by no stretch of the imagination safe. Trump, never one to let legal niceties get in his way, lives in Washington and wants to clean it up. It is, after all, the nation’s capital. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
the hard tasks of hard men making soft times
DC home rule by the federal government has become a hot topic this week. i would argue that it’s basically not even a radical idea. when faced with such outlandish circumstances, it’s a normal idea, a simple, run of the mill rocks are hard, water is wet obvious idea.
up until quite recently, even the notion of tolerating a city working as municipal DC does would have been an unusual conception in any sort of modern society.
merely allowing it to get there much less trying to sell that as a good thing would have gotten you run out of town on a rail by most prior generations.
and yet today it’s astonishing how many people suddenly need to be scraped off the ceiling when presented with the idea of “we need to get control of this place so that the streets are safe.”
this sudden eruption of “what do you mean!?! DC is fine, it’s lovely!” is just nonsense and invites obvious parody.
“it’s totally safe if you just keep your eyes down, and don’t wear any headphones or jewelry, never walk at night, keep your head on a swivel, cross the street if you see certain people, never take a nice bag out of the house, walk with a rottweiler, and never go to these 5 or 6 neighborhoods even with a security detail. oh and god, no, don’t ever park a car on the street.”
