As most people know, there's a heavy police and national guard presence in DC. However, as far as I know, they are just booting people out of DC, not making them disappear.

It stands to reason when the police and national guard presence goes back to its old level that many of the people will just come back, since we haven't resolved any of the underlying problems that led to all the crime and homelessness.

Keeping all those people posted up costs a lot of money. I would say unless the plan is to have the military permanently occupy every major US city, that we are wasting our time.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of crime or homelessness, but this just seems like a temporary way to move the problem around at great expense, not to solve it.

Am I missing something here?

It's become somewhat of a meme now when there is a story on crime, or other bad things happening in a city, people pipe up and say "That's how it is in blue cities!" "This could only happen in a Democrat city!" However, I noticed they never say "... and that's why only want to live in X" or "... that would never happen in Y".

If living in "blue cities" are such a nightmare, where are all these Utopian "red cities" that people are apparently in favor of?

I realize there's no singular answer for this, but many of the MAGA crowd attribute many of our current woes to the prior administration, like cost of living, inflation, unemployment rates, etc.

I'd imagine that every day that passes and we get more and more distant from Biden's presidency, it gets a bit harder to blame him for every problem.

e.g. It'd be hard to blame many of the increased prices on electronics on him, since much of this has been driven by Trump's tariffs (but I bet someone will attempt to refute this!)

This is a long-winded way of me asking the community, have you seen any Trump fans start to come around at all? When do we start living in the conditions (good or bad) of Trump's America and stop laying blame on the last administration?

I'm interested to see what people of all persuasions feel about this.

For myself, I have seen some minor loss of enthusiasm among Trump followers, but I haven't seen anyone register as a Democrat yet :)

I was talking to one of my friends and he mentioned staying home on July 4, citing how there are a lot of really ugly things going on in the US.

After thinking about this myself, I'm starting to feel the same way. Instead of being proud of the country, I'm feeling like I'm just another wallet that companies and the government are trying to suck all the money out of.

The cost of living is going up, the housing market is a nightmare, I don't feel very confident in our government at all, the job market is a nightmare...

I think I'll be staying home this year too... anyone else?

YOU CAN PROVE TO YOURSELF ITS NOT A GLOBE

don't give in!

Since it's the main costume, you think it'd be easy to find crowds of people wearing them at the same time, but that's proved difficult for some reason...

I did a pasteurization one time and almost died

My Dad works at Nintendo and he said the same thing and then everyone clapped

Thoughts?

they poison you with lectins!

Owning the libs one day at a time

Part of the never ending battle to categorize every chemical as either "good" or "bad"

Polio peaked in the U.S. in the year 1952, with 57,879 cases. Once the vaccine became widely available in 1955, this figure dropped to 29,000 cases. So, to claim that polio cases were dropping significantly before this point is incorrect.

Tell me that such a thing is coincidence?

your welcome