The District Of Congo
We might be hicks in the sticks but at least we can have laundry detergent on the shelves.
The ruling class in America, at least the political part if not the financial sector, rules from on high in Coruscant-On-The-Congo, aka the District of Columbia or Washington, D.C..
D.C. is really a few different worlds. Most of the mandarin class lives in the suburbs, northern Virginia and Maryland, in places like Alexandria, VA and Chevy Chase, MD. They commute into the District or work for various organizations headquartered in the ‘burbs. I have mentioned before but I was in that area during what the rest of the country knew as The Great Recession when the whole thing about tipped over. People were losing their jobs, cars and homes left and right but in the D.C. suburbs? It was still all rainbows and puppies. Housing prices were still sky high, new cars were parked in the driveways. The D.C. suburbs are pretty recession proof because the revenue they depend on comes via Leviathan and whether times are good or bad, Leviathan always has plenty of “money”.
Then there is “official” D.C., the stuff you know. Monuments and museums, the Capitol and the White House, all of those hideous buildings housing department HQs like the USDA with hordes of disgruntled Federal worker bees. There are also the lobbying firms, all lined up to buy Congressmen. Most tourists don’t see those places but that is where the real power in D.C. resides.
But D.C. isn’t just monuments and museums. The Southeast region of D.C. is a whole lot darker and more dangerous. For all of Their highfalutin talk, D.C. is very segregated.
Here is an example:
Dey will steal anything that isn’t nailed down, other than books.
In the coming weeks, a Giant Food market in D.C. will clear its beauty and health aisles of all national labels. No more Tide, Colgate or Advil, only store brands. Shoppers also will have to present their receipts to an employee before exiting the store.
It’s the regional supermarket chain’s most overt gambit against the rampant theft that’s plaguing retailers of all sizes. It’s also a potential last-ditch effort to avoid shutting down the unprofitable store on Alabama Avenue SE — the only major grocer east of the Anacostia River in Ward 8.
“We want to continue to be able to serve the community, but we can’t do so at the level of significant loss or risk to our associates that we have today,” said Giant President Ira Kress.
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Even Dollar Stores and drug stores are not immune…
That’s spurred retailers like Dollar Tree to take “a very defensive approach to shrink,” according to chief executive Richard Dreiling. The chain recorded a 30 percent decline in gross profit margin last quarter, largely because of shrink. Now more items will be locked up, moved behind counters or simply discontinued.
In downtown Chicago, Walgreens introduced a new anti-theft store with just two aisles of “low-value” products such as Band-Aids, snacks and batteries, while the rest is kept behind a counter and must be ordered digitally.
Batteries are kinda pricey, it won’t be long before they are stealing AAs. Why did I highlight “Ward 8” above? D.C. is divided into 8 wards….
For example, Ward 2 includes the Smithsonian, the White House and the Lincoln Memorial. On the other hand, Ward 8 includes streets named after Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X. Fun fact, there is a Popeyes Chicken at the intersection of MLK and Malcolm X. What else do we know about Ward 8? As I mentioned, D.C. is heavily segregated. While the city is about 38% White and 41% black, the races are not evenly distributed. You can see that in the data below…
If 69,531 people out of 78,513 in Ward 8 are black, that is almost 90% (88.5%). How strange that the only major grocery store in Ward 8 is locking everything up. Ritzy Ward 3 with a 10 to 1 ratio of Whites to blacks probably doesn’t have the same issues.
Meanwhile our nation’s capital is mired in a year of bloody violence, as is the case for most large cities. This is from a month ago…
The District’s homicide count climbed even higher on Monday as police said three men who were shot over the weekend died, bringing to 16 the number of people killed in the first six days of August.
D.C. has recorded 161 homicides this year, a 28 percent increase over this time in 2022. In just over seven months, the city has surpassed the total number of killings that occurred in all of 2018 and is on track for the deadliest year in two decades.
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The slaughter in D.C. had faded some since the Marion Barry days but is back with a vengeance. You probably don’t hear much about it and here is why: from the DCist website last year: A Majority Of D.C.’s Gun Violence Is Driven By Small Number Of People, Says A New Study
“In Washington, D.C., most gun violence is very tightly concentrated on a small number of very high risk young Black [sic] male adults that have a shared set of common risk factors,” says David Muhammad, the executive director of the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform. “This very small number of high risk individuals are identifiable. Their violence is predictable and therefore it is preventable.”
The number one common risk factor for young black males? Being a young black male. From the NICJR…
There is our old friend again: “despite”. A different Washington Post story, , also tells the expected tale….
Nearly two-thirds of D.C.’s homicides this year were committed in Wards 7 and 8, which are situated mostly east of the Anacostia River and include some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. But there also have been spikes elsewhere, such as Ward 1, which includes Adams Morgan and the U Street entertainment district. That ward has seen 18 killings so far this year, compared with eight at this time last year. Police say the motives for D.C.’s killings have been eclectic, ranging from crew violence to random robbery attempts to people settling petty disputes with guns.
https://archive.vn/KSMmu
That tells me that the ease of getting around D.C. via the Metro also makes it easy for criminals to get around town, and the ubiquitous masks that blacks still wear makes identifying them even harder.
The people living in Washington D.C. feel qualified with a touch of divine right to tell the rest of the country, places most would never visit under any circumstances, how to run our states, cities and families. They know better than you what is proper and healthy for your children, your local schools, your county. These same people live in a city specially set aside for them where stores lock up laundry detergent and their resident black population slaughters one another without a shred of basic humanity.
Perhaps our overlords in Coruscant-On-The-Congo should get Their own house in order before dictating how to live to the rest of us. We might be hicks in the sticks but at least we can have laundry detergent on the shelves.