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

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*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

 

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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

 

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Republican proposed Legislation to change Black Lives Matter Plaza to Liberty Plaza​

03/03/25

On Monday, Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde introduced House Bill 1774, which would amend a U.S. Code to withhold “certain apportionment funds” from D.C. unless Bowser removes the Black Lives Matter phrasing from the street. The legislation also demanded the street be redesignated as “Liberty Plaza” and called for the District to remove all the Black Lives Matter Plaza references from city websites and official documents.


In a social media post , Clyde said, “It’s time for our nation to leave this failed agenda behind — starting with the removal of the BLM Plaza from America’s capital.”


“President Trump is 100% right: we must clean up Washington, D.C. for the American people,” Clyde added in a statement announcing the bill. “I believe that removing BLM Plaza must be part of this critical effort. After all, BLM is a radical, defund the police organization — but we are not a defund the police nation.”


If Clyde’s bill passes, D.C. has 60 days to comply by removing the phrase from the street and scrubbing it from all materials under the city’s jurisdiction. In 2023, the city faced similar legislation from another group of Republican lawmakers, though nothing from that proposal came to fruition.


Republican lawmakers have also proposed a bill to end the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973, which allows the city to have control of its own local affairs, including the ability to elect a mayor, a council of representatives and Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners who manage neighborhood concerns. Congress still has the authority to review all legislation passed by the D.C. Council and the president appoints the city’s judges

Mayor's statement

 

[Secure Da Bag]

So basically, he's looking at mass gentrification.

 

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DC mayor warns of layoffs after Congress goes on recess without resolving budget crisis

Apr 14, 2025
Congress went out on recess last week without resolving the DC budget crisis

 

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08/11/25

 

[BigMan]

This is about the disenfranchisement of democrats and black people, as well as a gross expansion of executive power over congressional and local power.

 

[Wepa Man]

 

[WIA20XX]

This is about the disenfranchisement of democrats and black people, as well as a gross expansion of executive power over congressional and local power.

I wonder if this is gonna get the *real* DC politically active. Cause all the previous protests I've been to, it's a lot of Woodley Park and Logan Circle folks