Trump 2.0: MAGAA

[kalm]

I want whoever published this report fired! Immediately!

[Caribbean Hen]

I want whoever published this report fired! Immediately!

Back in the 70s, everybody had a garden and grew vegetables

I’ll never forget that day my father handed me a shovel and said start digging son, go out in the yard and dig up all the grass because we’re gonna be having a garden….

So after a couple of days of watching me out there dilly Dowling around with a shovel, trying to make fertile soil…
Somebody showed up with a motorized tiller and turned that soil over in a few minutes. And then I had to dig all the grass out put it in a wheelbarrow and haul it about 500 yards to the woods … after about 100 trips we had a “Soily” (SPM) garden. I think the best thing that came out of that garden was the squash.

[kalm]

I want whoever published this report fired! Immediately!

Back in the 70s, everybody had a garden and grew vegetables

I’ll never forget that day my father handed me a shovel and said start digging son, go out in the yard and dig up all the grass because we’re gonna be having a garden….

So after a couple of days of watching me out there dilly Dowling around with a shovel, trying to make fertile soil…
Somebody showed up with a motorized tiller and turned that soil over in a few minutes. And then I had to dig all the grass out put it in a wheelbarrow and haul it about 500 yards to the woods … after about 100 trips we had a “Soily” (SPM) garden. I think the best thing that came out of that garden was the squash.

On this, we agree. We’d be better off as a culture if everyone gardened. I talked to my mom extensively about being a child of the Great Depression. She lived in the city but every house in the neighborhood gardened, canned, kept chickens, etc. very self reliant and better than the crap we buy at the store.

Right now, we’re harvesting tomatoes, peppers, beets, amaranth, and Swiss chard. Squash is about there, melons, corn, and tomatoes are coming on. Recently seeded fall crops - turnips, carrots, radishes, rutabagas, and 5 varieties of greens. We also have 14 berry bushes that are finally starting to produce.

How about you?

[Caribbean Hen]

Back in the 70s, everybody had a garden and grew vegetables

I’ll never forget that day my father handed me a shovel and said start digging son, go out in the yard and dig up all the grass because we’re gonna be having a garden….

So after a couple of days of watching me out there dilly Dowling around with a shovel, trying to make fertile soil…
Somebody showed up with a motorized tiller and turned that soil over in a few minutes. And then I had to dig all the grass out put it in a wheelbarrow and haul it about 500 yards to the woods … after about 100 trips we had a “Soily” (SPM) garden. I think the best thing that came out of that garden was the squash.

On this, we agree. We’d be better off as a culture if everyone gardened. I talked to my mom extensively about being a child of the Great Depression. She lived in the city but every house in the neighborhood gardened, canned, kept chickens, etc. very self reliant and better than the crap we buy at the store.

Right now, we’re harvesting tomatoes, peppers, beets, amaranth, and Swiss chard. Squash is about there, melons, corn, and tomatoes are coming on. Recently seeded fall crops - turnips, carrots, radishes, rutabagas, and 5 varieties of greens. We also have 14 berry bushes that are finally starting to produce.

How about you?

Unfortunately no garden right now, I complain about the lack of goodness of the engineered vegetables from the local corner fruit and veggie stands…. Horrible compared to what I remember

[kalm]

Pure class.

[BDKJMU]

Pure class.

[kalm]

Pure class.

No one is crying. Just laughing at the grift and lack of taste.

[UNI88]

No one is crying. Just laughing at the grift and lack of taste.

Anyone who doesn't think a "gift shop" at the White House is tacky is

What's next:
- carnival games like ring toss or squirt guns & targets?
- a camera has you walk in and then they try to sell you candid photos as you leave like an amusement park ride?

[GannonFan]

Back in the 70s, everybody had a garden and grew vegetables

I’ll never forget that day my father handed me a shovel and said start digging son, go out in the yard and dig up all the grass because we’re gonna be having a garden….

So after a couple of days of watching me out there dilly Dowling around with a shovel, trying to make fertile soil…
Somebody showed up with a motorized tiller and turned that soil over in a few minutes. And then I had to dig all the grass out put it in a wheelbarrow and haul it about 500 yards to the woods … after about 100 trips we had a “Soily” (SPM) garden. I think the best thing that came out of that garden was the squash.

On this, we agree. We’d be better off as a culture if everyone gardened. I talked to my mom extensively about being a child of the Great Depression. She lived in the city but every house in the neighborhood gardened, canned, kept chickens, etc. very self reliant and better than the crap we buy at the store.

Right now, we’re harvesting tomatoes, peppers, beets, amaranth, and Swiss chard. Squash is about there, melons, corn, and tomatoes are coming on. Recently seeded fall crops - turnips, carrots, radishes, rutabagas, and 5 varieties of greens. We also have 14 berry bushes that are finally starting to produce.

How about you?

What if you really don't like to garden?? I really dislike any of the lawn care I need to do, and I certainly wouldn't want to put the effort in that would be needed for a good garden. I buy from the kid down the street who apparently has a good setup at his grandparents place (apparently a big property). He has fresh peaches, tomatoes, and just recently cantaloupe that was fantastic. I'm fine with that level of gardening - me buying from someone who does like to garden.

[Caribbean Hen]

Doing the garden and digging the weeds

Who could ask for more?

[kalm]

On this, we agree. We’d be better off as a culture if everyone gardened. I talked to my mom extensively about being a child of the Great Depression. She lived in the city but every house in the neighborhood gardened, canned, kept chickens, etc. very self reliant and better than the crap we buy at the store.

Right now, we’re harvesting tomatoes, peppers, beets, amaranth, and Swiss chard. Squash is about there, melons, corn, and tomatoes are coming on. Recently seeded fall crops - turnips, carrots, radishes, rutabagas, and 5 varieties of greens. We also have 14 berry bushes that are finally starting to produce.

How about you?

What if you really don't like to garden?? I really dislike any of the lawn care I need to do, and I certainly wouldn't want to put the effort in that would be needed for a good garden. I buy from the kid down the street who apparently has a good setup at his grandparents place (apparently a big property). He has fresh peaches, tomatoes, and just recently cantaloupe that was fantastic. I'm fine with that level of gardening - me buying from someone who does like to garden.

I’ll allow it and even if 10% more people take gardening it’s win. Not having to garden is a luxury.

I’ll add there’s greater benefit than growing food.

Greater connection with the earth and your food, healthier food (we do no dig, using our own compost, and little if any fertilizer or pesticides and no herbicides like roundup. Companion plants and species like mint and oregano keep the critters off it.)

Exercise

Vitamin D

Reduction in trash

Mental health

Going out at magic hour - right before sunset - and just casually checking on things, pulling some weeds, and just being there is one hell of a drug.

[GannonFan]

What if you really don't like to garden?? I really dislike any of the lawn care I need to do, and I certainly wouldn't want to put the effort in that would be needed for a good garden. I buy from the kid down the street who apparently has a good setup at his grandparents place (apparently a big property). He has fresh peaches, tomatoes, and just recently cantaloupe that was fantastic. I'm fine with that level of gardening - me buying from someone who does like to garden.

I’ll allow it and even if 10% more people take gardening it’s win. Not having to garden is a luxury.

I’ll add there’s greater benefit than growing food.

Greater connection with the earth and your food, healthier food (we do no dig, using our own compost, and little if any fertilizer or pesticides and no herbicides like roundup. Companion plants and species like mint and oregano keep the critters off it.)

Exercise

Vitamin D

Reduction in trash

Mental health

Going out at magic hour - right before sunset - and just casually checking on things, pulling some weeds, and just being there is one hell of a drug.

I ref basketball and I walk my dogs, along with working out in the mornings. That's my exercise, vitamin D, and mental health right there. Including being out at all hours of the day (I actually like the hour right before sunrise as my favorite time of the day - so much less people out than right before sunset). And I hate pulling weeds. Hate it.

[kalm]

This seems like a nice idea.

[BDKJMU]

[BDKJMU]

[UNI88]

Now do DC restaurant & business revenues.

[kalm]

7 days? But that’s not really the whole point is it?

It was trending down for years other than the spike in 2023. Went way down last year and is trending down further this year.

Can Trump be honest about anything?

[Caribbean Hen]

Now do DC restaurant & business revenues.

Will be on the up soon enough

Make American blue cities safe again

[Caribbean Hen]

7 days? But that’s not really the whole point is it?

It was trending down for years other than the spike in 2023. Went way down last year and is trending down further this year.

Can Trump be honest about anything?

Stop

You’re embarrassing yourself again and you have no idea what it’s like to walk around in these cities

[BDKJMU]

7 days? But that’s not really the whole point is it?

It was trending down for years other than the spike in 2023. Went way down last year and is trending down further this year.

Can Trump be honest about anything?

Wrong. Overall violent crime in DC shows:
-Increased in 2020.
-Increased in 2021
-Dropped in 2022
-Increased bigly 2023.
-Decreased bigly 2024 from record high levels of last 30+ years, BUT partly they were caught fudging the numbers of other than murders (hard to fudge). DC is 22 in US city population according to Wiki. Looking at 2024 murder rates they are one of the highest (4th) among the Top 25 population cities. Most of those cities you see mentioned with higher murder rates (St Louis, New Orleams, Memphis, etc) aren‘t Top 25 cities.

[kalm]

7 days? But that’s not really the whole point is it?

It was trending down for years other than the spike in 2023. Went way down last year and is trending down further this year.

Can Trump be honest about anything?

Wrong. Overall violent crime in DC shows:
-Increased in 2020.
-Increased in 2021
-Dropped in 2022
-Increased bigly 2023.
-Decreased bigly 2024 from record high levels of last 30+ years, BUT partly they were caught fudging the numbers of other than murders (hard to fudge). DC is 22 in US city population according to Wiki. Looking at 2024 murder rates they are one of the highest (4th) among the Top 25 population cities. Most of those cities you see mentioned with higher murder rates (St Louis, New Orleams, Memphis, etc) aren‘t Top 25 cities.

Manipulate the numbers all you want. The point is, there’s no crisis right now in DC. This is just another distraction or power flex.

Crime data expert Jeff Asher, co-founder of the firm AH Datalytics, wrote in a blog post Monday: “The bottom line is that violent crime in DC is currently declining and the city’s reported violent crime rate is more or less as low now as it has been since the 1960s. (Standard disclaimer that not all crimes are reported to police.) The city’s official violent crime rate in 2024 was the second lowest that has been reported since 1966.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/politics ... -check-vis

[Bobcat]

The FBI.gov stats do not back up any of Kkkalms klaims

BDK with the KO, 45 seconds into round 1

[Caribbean Hen]

It’s obvious Klam head has never had to conduct a NOK notification….. one of those would sober him up

[Bobcat]

If only one of us would log into a computer and navigate said computer to www.fbi.gov and do the research FOR him, then he would have to agree with the world. Unless hes in a pot fog, then we would get the usual posts in defiance of the facts

[kalm]

If only one of us would log into a computer and navigate said computer to www.fbi.gov and do the research FOR him, then he would have to agree with the world. Unless hes in a pot fog, then we would get the usual posts in defiance of the facts

My oh my. You guys seem a little triggered about this.

Since you’re unable to, here’s some FBI stats NPR used in a recent article. Like I said, this neither implies that a federal takeover is warranted or that Trump isn’t full of shit with his proclamations of how bad it is. Or maybe we should send in the guard to Memphis and Kansas City?

Oh…and yeah…why doesn’t the White House use the FBI #’s?

" So, in terms of murder, D.C. is much better off than it was in the '90s. Things got steadily worse starting in 2012, but then there was a dramatic turnaround about two years ago," he said, referring to how violent crime has fallen substantially in 2024 and so far this year.

Abt added that the key to understanding crime trends is deciding on the relevant time frame since different periods can tell different stories and lead to different solutions. For instance, looking at trends over decades can help determine long-term, chronic challenges to tackling crime, while focusing on a few years can help identify more immediate, acute issues.

" People say crime is rising. People say crime is falling," he said. "It all depends on where you set your goalposts."

Is it fair to compare D.C. with other cities?

Part of the White House's argument is that D.C. had a higher homicide rate in 2024 than New York City, Chicago and Compton, California. While that's true, Abt said the rate in D.C. is also lower than in other cities of similar size, like Memphis, Tenn., or Kansas City, Mo.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/19/nx-s1-55 ... -explained

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202 ... f-control/