Wherein Donald Trump forces THE RESISTANCE to pretend there is no crime in D.C.
I Walked Through Trump’s D.C. Hellscape. It’s Now Clear What Exactly the Feds Are Doing Here.
Bewildered by the sudden influx of armed and armored agents swarming my hometown, on Tuesday morning, I decided to walk a sweltering mile in their shoes. Trump claims that emergency conditions require him to use the MPD to protect federal buildings and national monuments—so I went down to the Mall to follow the pathway of those DEA agents, hoping to see what they saw.
What I witnessed was an idyllic scene of American tourism. A nerd in a Millennium Falcon shirt made a beeline for the Air and Space Museum. A French-speaking couple took videos of each other trying to mount their Lime scooters. A set of parents and their adult children sat in the shade of some trees, giddily sucking down Rocket Pops. A time traveler from 2014 used a selfie stick to get a shot of her whole family in front of the Capitol.
But through the tactical Oakleys I had procured for this mission, I sensed chaos and criminality lurking beneath the surface. The runners zooming by in those strange tiny vests—what’s the big hurry? Those sullen teens trailing their parents toward the taco truck—why the hooded sweatshirts in 84-degree heat and 72-percent humidity? The quadrillion boomer men and four Buddhist monks in performance-fabric bucket hats—what on earth were they hiding under there, besides their sun-sensitive scalps?
I also wondered about the three buff young men in baseball hats and Americana T-shirts—where had they been on Jan. 6, 2021?—but I assumed that Trump’s agents would have given them a pass. Unfortunately, the only blatant crimes I witnessed were two cars speeding through a red light and a man wearing a fedora, which is illegal summer attire in my book.
“I’ll go to one of the low-crime areas to show there is no crime.”
No one serves smug cunt like Cauterucci. She walks around The Mall and declares the whole city safe. Just a hysterical ninny. I doubt it was Trump himself, but whoever did this has forced the left to defend a partially very dangerous and violent city, and that’s hilarious.
Now, I don’t care about D.C. Personally, I’d rather politicians marinate in the filth they’ve allowed to fester in the Capitol for decades. But it never gets to be a state unless 38 states vote for an Amendment to allow it. Good luck, fucksticks.
“Those awful MAGA idiot morons love Trump. It must be because he writes his social media post IN ALL-CAPS. I WILL WRITE IN ALL-CAPS TO WIN THEM BACK FOR MY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. ME AM GENIUS!”
Performative virtue-signaling has become a threat to higher ed
On today’s college campuses, students are not maturing — they’re managing. Beneath a facade of progressive slogans and institutional virtue-signaling lies a quiet psychological crisis, driven by the demands of ideological conformity.
Between 2023 and 2025, we conducted 1,452 confidential interviews with undergraduates at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. We were not studying politics — we were studying development. Our question was clinical, not political: “What happens to identity formation when belief is replaced by adherence to orthodoxy?”
We asked: Have you ever pretended to hold more progressive views than you truly endorse to succeed socially or academically? An astounding 88 percent said yes.
These students were not cynical, but adaptive. In a campus environment where grades, leadership, and peer belonging often hinge on fluency in performative morality, young adults quickly learn to rehearse what is safe.
The result is not conviction but compliance. And beneath that compliance, something vital is lost.
After 30+ years of PC bullshit, The Hill finally notices there might be a downside to turning students into brain-numbed bed-wetters.
I’m in the middle of a big bike race!
STOP TEXTING AND BIKING!
No no, he’s standing in the middle of the road texting as bikes go whizzing by.
Racist!
Oh, Newsome’s big plan is to try to play Trump’s twitter game? Holy Crap, there really is somehow going to be a third term…
That’s delicious. He just comes across as sniveling, petulant, and unoriginal.
California cool and smug trying to play New York bluster, but just not getting it. Using Taco as the big insult is the real chef’s kiss for me.
So… a California Democrat?
The TACO slur is fucking retarded at this point. Not only has everyone has forgotten what the letters originally stood for, tacos are good and everyone likes them.
That, and it is a pretty commonly used anti-mexican slur. Which is probably not a great look for a California Democrat politician looking to move up.
That has to be fake. It just has to be.
Drake, apparently SOF is not completely dead. I got something on my social media feed from SOF. I blame you.
Ooh! You can buy tacticool gear made by the finest artisans at Gweilo So Dum enterprises of Hong Kong out of that special alloy of antimony, lead, and mercury they use!
Sign up as merc in the Congo!
Would be the best glib article series ever.
Roland the headless Thompson gunner…
These days probably an AK or a FAL
Sign up as merc in the Congo!
We already have merc fiction featuring everyone’s favorite Dick Slashballs. DB and I are the only ones who write those stories but our output is very intermittent — approximately one story per year.
BTW, if you-know-who, the model for Dick Slashballs, is still lurking, please know that you are missed.
Yeah, that has Derpy tattooed on its ass.
Today’s music takes me back to a happy, skinnier time.
lol
There is another Soupdragons song, Pleasure, where the video has a bunch of my friends in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_FcaoXk9Z0&list=RDJ_FcaoXk9Z0&start_radio=1
The two guys sitting at the bar are Nate and Winn, and the young couple undressing, I cannot remember his name, Josh maybe, but her name is Allie, and she was very underage when this was filmed. Now she is married to another friend of mine.
Also, it was filmed at the Madonna Inn https://www.madonnainn.com/
We asked: Have you ever pretended to hold more progressive views than you truly endorse to succeed socially or academically? An astounding 88 percent said yes.
Astounding.
“Would you say you voted for Kamala Harris if you thought it would get you laid?”
“Just tell the professor what he wants to hear and you’ll get an A.”
^ How I actually got through college with a 3.93 GPA.
How come those evil Rethuglikkkans won’t admit what they think so we can trump up a rape charge or two as we expel them?
Only half of them routinely need to hide that they’re monsters to get some.
Personally, I don’t conceal my beliefs, but I take great pleasure in shocking people when they learn that I’m not a prog.
I didn’t conceal my beliefs in school, but I last attended school more than 20 years back and things were a bit different then. I don’t know what I’d do now. There are a lot of horror stories.
Sounds like Mrs. TOK and I. We don’t advertise our beliefs or get into arguments with people. Live and let live. But 90% of the people we know from roller derby are progs, and they just assume we are too.
Anything to get laid?
Back before I met my wonderful boyfriend, dating was hell. Very few conservative or conservative-tolerant homos out there. Fortunately, most of the completely rabid progs made it a point to signal that on their dating profiles, but even the ones who didn’t would inevitably ask about politics within the first five messages.
ask about politics within the first five messages.
When all you really wanted was a dick pic?
Isn’t it ironic?
“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
Turns out if you want those young women to swallow something else, you learn the sacred shibboleths.
[golf clap]
In a campus environment where grades, leadership, and peer belonging often hinge on fluency in performative morality, young adults quickly learn to rehearse what is safe.
I read that as “performative normality” on the first pass.
I’ve been doing that my whole life.
I’m surprised the first article doesn’t have a line like, “The only time I felt afraid was when I walked in front of the house of a man who committed 34 felonies!”
They are breaking ranks on this one. There was an anchor on ABC saying she knew of shootings outside their building, and she, and several others she knows, were mugged.
This is one of those 80/20 issues. And the sheer amount of low-hanging fruit the D’s are leaving around is enough to need to call in trash collectors.
Yes, exactly. They just keep doing it. Another instance is banning junk food from EBT cards. Not long ago these same people were trying to ban large sodas in NY.
But they were trying to ban large sodas for everybody not oppressing minorities by banning EBT junk food.
This. The lockstep conformity is breaking down and once that’s gone they are in deep trouble.
Anyone else annoyed by the frequent use of “unhoused” instead of “homeless”? Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like the word is trying to imply that it’s society’s fault for not housing them.
It always makes me think they just lost a house joust.
“Unhoused? What, they fall of the roof?”
persistent campers
What percentage of them belong in a mental institution?
All of them, but that doesn’t do much to differentiate them from the politicians and journalismists talking about them.
About 80% Drake
Anyone else annoyed by the frequent use of “unhoused” instead of “homeless”?
Why yes, yes they are, and you also nailed the reason.
And allows them to start pointing to things like “there are X amount of empty homes/rental homes” to get the public to nod their heads at “housing” them with all that private property
Residentially challenged.
They keep changing the nomenclature but they are still bums.
people experiencing unhousedness
I’m still pissed they changed it from bums to homeless.
Precision matters!
Bums are different than tramps are different than homeless are different than hobos are different from drifters are different from…
Crackhead usually covers the vast majority of them.
“I’ll go to one of the low-crime areas to show there is no crime.”
Indeed. The National Mall (not a shopping mall, flyover ppl) is one of the safest areas of DC. It is crawling with cops. National Park Police on the Mall itself, Smithsonian police in and around the museum properties. Metropolitan Police Department (DC cops) on the streets and sidewalks. DHS (formerly FPS) on the agency buildings.
Sort of like the Downtown Cleveland Arcade that’s not an arcade (but is a mall)?
Also try 10pm.
I rarely pay such close attention to who’s around me in public. When I did this morning, I was charmed by the characters near me and the microcosm of the city in each park. There were troubling signs of privation and a broken social safety net—the food bank line, an unhoused man sleeping on a bench—but despite Trump’s insistence that these people must be violently plucked out of American life rather than supported by their neighbors, they posed no threat to any of the other people living their lives in close proximity to one another. The D.C. public spaces that will be militarized and overpoliced in the weeks to come are exactly where you can best observe the interdependence and plurality that make cities great, and that conservatives view as a threat to their own ideological ends.
I think we can assume she rushed off to the nearest ATM to get a fistful of twenties to hand out to the impoverished victims of Trump’s America.
Anyone else annoyed by the frequent use of “unhoused” instead of “homeless”?
Right up there with “having obesity”.
You don’t have obesity. You’re fat.
I caught the obesity from a pizza. Or maybe it was a donut? Possibly some chips? Maybe cheese?
I blame food desserts.
Mmmm desert
Gravitationally challenged.
Sounds like an Ozempic commercial. “I have obesity… BUT OBESITY DOESN’T HAVE ME!”
I need an “I Beat Anorexia” t-shirt.
Tonio I was friends with a rather heavy woman in college who basically did exactly that.
She battled anorexia all through high school and came to accept that it was better fat and alive than dead and skinny.
“ and came to accept that it was better fat and alive than dead and skinny.”
Uhhh….still got her number?
Sadly lost touch.
Also very Christian and big believer in that faith getting through that. However, not at all pushy about her faith and never looked down at this nonbeliever.
I call it bacon touched.
“Christina, you ignorant slut. Walking through the safest place in DC only proves how big a chicken you are. You cringe when Garrett Morris walks by. Head downtown and walk a few blocks. Then rewrite your wretched excuse for an article.”
-D. Aykroyd
He needs to say that in his Doctor Detroit voice.
Late adolescence and early adulthood represent a narrow and non-replicable developmental window. It is during this stage that individuals begin the lifelong work of integrating personal experience with inherited values, forming the foundations of moral reasoning, internal coherence, and emotional resilience.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Inherited values? That sounds like eugenics. Somebody needs a good deplatforming.
“Non-replicable” and “begin the lifelong work” seem . . . inconsistent.
I was in DC last summer and was surprised by how clean and pleasant it was, but then I was only in the touristy areas and for the most part wasn’t out after dark. When I look at a map of DC I realize how little of it I actually saw.
I was there two weeks ago. Some serious crazies even by City Center, where we were staying.
Would you like some incoherent yelling while you shop Brioni and Hermès?
To be fair, San Francisco is my baseline. I probably wouldn’t have even noticed the DC crazies.
Berkeley, 40 years ago. I can’t imagine what Telegraph Ave is like today.
I don’t recommend walking around Anacostia, even at noon in a group.
Most of the touristy and/or government-centered parts of DC are about as low crime as a city can get. Try wandering around Anacostia, Cardoza/U St. NE, or Meridian Park, to get a real idea of the crime situation. I also see plenty of homeless encampments/open-air drug markets/impromptu live sex shows around the West End.
I finally got some good news regarding my oldest. At this point my wife, SIL, and I have all completely lost patience with her. My SIL has been taking her to medical appointments, and she finally found a psychiatrist who’s a total rock star. First appointment, he got her mental health records from 2017 and called her out on her bullshit. She’s off the charts on the depression scale, and he flat out told her, “you need help”. He’s ordering a battery of psych tests with the end goal of determining how independent she can actually be. She might end up in a guardianship situation.
Great to hear that there’s progress!
Glad for the good news.
Once you get past the hairballs it is worth the read.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-rome-20
Ask an expert
President Trump’s move to take over the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is “very problematic” and could tarnish police relationships in the community, warns retired U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn.
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Dunn served the U.S. Capitol Police — a separate agency from MPD — for 15 years and retired in 2023, about two years after helping protect the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 from a violent mob of Trump supporters. Dunn says he’s worked with D.C. police officers who were not trained to handle certain situations that require more specialized approaches, like de-escalation and mental health crises.
There you have it. Another example of Trump flailing around like a bull elephant in a massage parlor, destroying what had previously been a perfectly functioning and harmonious community relationship.
Wait, I thought the Capitol Police were massacred to the last man on 1/6. How did this guy survive?
Hillary and the rest of the Dems fucked with the wrong woman.
Newly declassified Top Secret emails sent on December 22, 2016 complying with President Obama’s order to create the manufactured January 2017 ICA about Russia expose how DNI James Clapper demanded the IC fall in line behind the Russia Hoax. Clapper admits that it was a “team sport” that required “compromise on our ‘normal modalities'”.
https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1955721194143146226
… and nothing else happened.
Who can be shocked any more at the depravity of the “Intel community”?
juris imprudent:
I switched to AMD decades ago.
They’ll find 50 prominent members to write a public letter explaining it’s perfectly normal.
This will be used by most of the MSM to “fact check” any version to the contrary.
Neph, didn’t we all?
If only their GPUs didn’t suck given the prices charged.
What jumps out at me is the hubris of these morons. They were so certain that he could never win and none of this would ever come to light that they put it in writing.
Me today……*sigh*
Put them all in prison. Yes, that commie twink Obama too.
I like how he puts it here:
Walter Kirn
@walterkirn
Intelligence chiefs writing stuff down in emails that I wouldn’t even allow myself to think.
Is the qualification for that job never having been caught doing anything naughty since you were 2 and thinking it will always be that way?
https://x.com/walterkirn/status/1955741392002801700
Put them all in prison. Yes, that commie twink Obama too.
Thank you comrade Beria.
The stupidity of writing this stuff down and not destroying it almost makes me wonder if they aren’t forgeries. Or maybe the “elites” really are that dumb.
When the whole apparatus is designed to allow you to be a fucktwit, you get to be a fucktwit
When you know you won’t be held accountable, why would you care what other people might eventually see?
Sedition is included in the constitution as a punishable offense for a reason. The trouble with it is that it is too easy to construe not-sedition as sedition so it has rarely been pursued. It could be the slipperiest of slippery slopes.
Now we have the problem of this flock of shitbirds committing the textbook definition of sedition and expecting to get away with it.
If they are not punished we will get more of it.
John Adams: ‘Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.’
Mr. Adams was unable to comprehend that non-religious people can be moral. Aside from that he is dead right.
The stupidity of writing this stuff down and not destroying it almost makes me wonder if they aren’t forgeries. Or maybe the “elites” really are that dumb.
Wipe it, like with a cloth?
It seems South Park is just going to target Noem from now on since her and her team have no clue how satire works.
Correct!
Aren’t all the new episodes already in the can?
I thought one of SP’s things was very short production to stay on top of current events.
I know they have a bunch of digitized production tools designed for exactly that short production schedule.
They generally churn out the episodes the week they air. There was even a documentary about it.
I can only applaud this decision.
Learn from Vance, people. He went along with the joke, and waddayaknow, that’s no fun for them so they leave him alone and concentrate on the people who bitch and moan.
Here is the notorious NYC catcall video: 10 hours of walking the most populous city in the US got her almost 2 minutes of footage. Go ahead and guess how the demographics turn out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A
And now for something completely different. There are 3,790 Unicode emojis. That’s already more than enough for an ideographic writing system; literacy in Chinese requires only 2,000 symbols and hieroglyphics got by with 800. You could make a code out of emojis with enough left over to be letters and numbers. For greater security, you could mix in plaintext red herrings. NSA code breaker Perry Fellwock said you need to intercept about 100,000 words from an unknown language or cipher to break it. A secure communication system based on smartphones and emojis requires no special equipment and would require intense cryptanalysis to break even if every single message was intercepted and analyzed. Of course, that would require recognizing that the messages were in code in the first place. Steganography for the win.
After 4,000 years, we’re back to the same writing system.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2024/01/words-and-other-endangered-species.html
I read that there is nothing new under the sun in some old book. It had a weird name. Bibble? Booble? Be-bile?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZvGfsDzTfU
I’m going on a date, meeting a gal at a nearby park.
Huh. This will be intriguing. I’m not in the mental mood I should be in and gotta flip it on. A song will do. (Such a good idea!)
I’m going for strut music, so I’m gonna so simple and ‘recent.’ Uptown Funk. Really, a well-done song. Get that funk on, y’all.
Can’t get much struttier than this.
Strut music
Also this.
Strut music
Funky.
Hey Ladies!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Naf5uJYGoiU
Good luck and godspeed you mad, brave fool!
strut music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDhNQPt8An0
courtship dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIUFEQeh3g
Good luck. Have fun.
And remember. Get your pants off!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcle1NCm9Y
Just not in the park.
This always works for me:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ktSWQ9Ki7TY
Date in the park,
Or an ambush?