After 50+ years of self rule, DC residents and leaders brace for another attempted Fed. takeover

[get these nets]

*vid is from Nov 2024, right after the election



02/20/25

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[JP_614]

I doubt it. How much could a fed government fix DCs issues. Throwing money at the situation sometimes ain’t the answer.

 

[Elim Garak]

Democrats should counter with a bill to make DC a state.

 

[King Poetic]

Trump knows he going to hell soon

So he doing whatever he wants to fukk up the country he blames for his porn case and January 6th shyt

 

[Elim Garak]

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

The whole BOWSER act thing is very trollish but shyt is about to get very fukkin serious. Might even see a convenient uptick in crime so the Feds can scrap home rule. Trump will have direct control on one of the historic Black Metro hubs. Four years of this will really fukk up the stability of the DMV area. Wish the crash outs would just kill these cac feggits.

 

[Pazzy]

Democrats should counter with a bill to make DC a state.

Sounds like you need to read the constitution and bill of rights . DC will NEVER be a state

 

[get these nets]

I'm going to try to read this in the next few weeks

In the prologue, is this eerie line: "The attrition of African-American clerks in the Federal offices was not simply a routine political purging of loyal Republicans at the hands of newly Empowered Democrats. It was a deliberate subversion of a small but growing class of African-American middle class professionals."

This quote from your thread about Trump targeting Fed workers shows how history is repeating itself.

Wilson co-signed Birth of a Nation, and had a screening in the White House. One of the segments of Black people digustingly parodied in the film were Black elected officials(from Reconstruction era)
. In the article above

Earlier this month, Republicans in Congress reintroduced legislation to repeal the Home Rule Act, the 1973 law that gave the city limited self-governance. In a dig at the mayor, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tennessee), the bill’s authors, tagged the legislation with the acronym “BOWSER” for the “Bringing Oversight to Washington and Safety to Every Resident Act.”

Different century, same propaganda