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Bateshorn

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  1. IT's funny, the local progressive movement has been touting Baltimore as a solution...right up until people pointed out that Baltimore deals with their teen problem using lock ups. I think DC is moving in that direction. Or was.
  2. No. We've had a couple of teen meet ups that have turned violent, particularily in the neighborhood that a lot of Trump staffers live in (Navy Yard). The criminal code is a fucking disaster (both too harsh and too lenient at the same time). In all fairness, Biden's US Attorney for DC refused to bring anything to trial for most of his presidency, leading to a car jacking crisis, but that was dealt with in 2023. Crime has been plummeting over the last 18 months. Really is just the teen issue, which is mostly just minor property crime and, for the lack of a better word, malicious loitering. The Big Balls thing happened at 4 AM. Nothing about it ads up at all. He was probably coming back from a local gay club, but nobody knows, but just like Dirty 6th....what the fuck were you doing out at 4 AM. Fox News has been ginning up a group altercation in Cincinnati the last week or so, which I think is really marinating in Trump's mind.
  3. The city is largely fine. We have a teen truancy problem that has been bedeviling the MPD for the summer, but using curfews, they've slowly been getting a handle on it. It tends to manifest as these huge teen events that spiraling into blocking traffic, fighting, eventually somebody fires a gun, everyone goes home. The broken DC criminal code and some unfortunate post COVID crime reform proposals mean the city has probably been a bit too lenient on property and minor crime for too long, but again, the Mayor and MPD are working through that. But it doesn't require militarizing the gotdamn city.
  4. This is fun.
  5. At this rate, my guess is Trump is talking socialized Medicine by next fall. Hell, he’ll probably call for repealing his own tax bill and a 45% tax rate just to gin up a fresh news cycle.
  6. I've been singing the Naked Gun version of the Star Spangled Banner since I was in 8th grade, and you can pry Enrico Pallazo out of my dead mouth. If we can't have a little sport at the expense of our Nation, what the fuck are we even doing? "Home of the Land, and Land of the FREE!" Also, I'll stop playing the Jimi Hendrix instrumental version on the 4th of July exactly never.
  7. This is not the first time I've used this line, but it's still correct: "I've taken Cody Rigsby Peloton rides that were less gay than that."
  8. Uh... it's not clear NASA actually owns Discovery. This will get litigated, and the fun part is John Roberts, as Chairman of the Board of the Smithsonian, would likely have to sit out the case.
  9. Smooth 40k plus one day loss in a long bogle-ish etf account. Really looking forward to how the market is going to react once it digest that BLS data is now cooked.
  10. Maybe I’m wrong, but I kinda get the impression the Canadians are no longer even trying to make a deal. They’ve just moved on and are disentangling their economy from ours.
  11. That’s because they are deeply stupid.
  12. I don’t disagree it’s spiraled out of control. They are basically building an entirely new building, inside the shell of two existing buildings. It probably should have been torn down and started from scratch. But then everyone would complain about design and historic character. FWIW, the overhaul of one of the House congressional buildings is probably going to be close to a billion once all said and done. And it didn’t require a full foundation overhaul and addition of a multi story below ground garage: Tl;dr: it’s over budget and doing historic renovations in swamp in DC is expensive as fuck.
  13. The building’s foundations are sinking into a subterranean creek under the building and it’s basically all asbestos and lead. There is no parking, so they had to put it underground, which is standard in dc since we have building height limits. Covid and inflation has made it super expensive. All the other gov buildings were built in the 60s-70s and are nearish to code, or got overhauled in the 80s-90s. The fed is over 100 years old and has never been overhauled/brought to standard. If it were anything else, it would be a tear down.
  14. I am so glad Jason Kander is taking care of this mental health, but there is a real part of me that wonders “What if?”
  15. Also, Merrick Garland is a bowl of room temperature pudding.
  16. Does anyone still have the Penn State Bowl Game Pedo Bear Gif?
  17. But also, we need to have a federal holiday in the middle of that month that’s based on the birthdays of some of the men who propagated the current system of governance that treated Gingers as 3/5 of a human being for the purposes of ensuring the people who REALLY liked subjugation of gingers would be in charge, at least until we had a huge civil war where we agreed you couldn’t own gingers, just treat them like shit. also:
  18. Everyone that's pitched me just makes me angry. LIke, I can not beat the market for free. I don't need to pay you to put me in a moderately aggressive etf blend. Or god forbid, Direct Indexing.
  19. Maybe I haven't seen enough of his act, but he comes off as a guy who generates a lot of headlines for a pretty mid comedian. He doesn't elicit nearly enough chuckles when I watch his specials for me to keep seeing him pop up in my feed with somebody having a hot take on whatever he's done this week. He's sort of the anti-Bill Burr in the sense that my sides hurt at the end of every Bill Burr special, so if people want to have an angle on this bit or that, I'm fine with it since in total Burr is fucking hilarious.
  20. I did not open this thread expecting to find a bunch of Anti-Ginger stuff and a dipshit defending "Redskins," but this is absolutely the worst timeline, so: IDC about the Guardians, that's a Cleveland problem, from a DC perspective, becuase Trump can cancel DC's lease on the RFK stadium site, he actually could affect the Commanders future plans. Harris can't build unless he can secure financing, which as of yesterday's tweet is now in jeopardy. Most directly, if VA goes Blue in the 2025 off year elections, the chances that Virginia offers the Commanders a fully paid stadium, with retail and development rights somewhere in the DC exurbs is very, very strong. Everyone wants the staidum on the old RFK site, but if the money is right, Harris isn't going to say no and the Owners will lean on him to take a deal with no private financiing/buy in. As the 49ers discovered, you can always B roll the city night shots for MNF.
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