The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
-Thomas Jefferson
The nation’s capital — surrounded by the richest, poshest suburbs in the entire country but curiously without any notable private industry that might have subsidized them — hasn’t been faring well economically as of late.
Questions abound.
With million-dollar home after million-dollar home, where on Earth did all of this largesse come from?
Was it manna from heaven?And why did all of these homes suddenly appear on the market coinciding with DOGE exposing all of the billions and billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse by the federal government?
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Via Newsweek (emphasis added):
Trump's return to the White House is directly affecting the Washington, D.C, housing market. The president's executive order calling for federal workers to return to the office or lose their job spurred an increase in demand for homes in the city. At the same time, mass layoffs advised by the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have left federal workers uncertain about their future and whether they would be needing a home in the area at all…
As of Monday early morning, there were a total of 2,400 homes listed for sale on Zillow in Washington, D.C, 253 of which had been put on the market in the last seven days and 461 in the last 14 days. More than half the homes currently listed for sale on the real estate platform, 1,489, have been added in the past 90 days.
Some homeowners in Washington, D.C, are not only apparently rushing to sell their properties in the city, but they are also willing to slash prices to attract reluctant buyers. Of the 2,400 homes currently listed for sale on Zillow, 426 have seen a price reduction.
Meanwhile, as reported by Libs of TikTok, Google searches for terms like “statute of limitations” and “RICO law” have markedly increased in the aftermath of Trump’s inauguration, which is probably just a wild coincidence.
PANIC IN DC: Google searches explode for:
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 16, 2025
- Criminal defense lawyer
- RICO law
- Swiss bank
- Offshore bank
- Wire money
- IBAN
- Statute of limitations pic.twitter.com/UYtBiapWDw
If I had my druthers, we’d just carpet-bomb D.C. sometime when Trump’s out of town and begin anew but, not being one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I'd consider a slow-burning collapse as the next-best thing.
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For the record, if you ever had any doubt, quantitative analysis has proven that Washington D.C. is the epicenter of psychopathy, harboring more soon-to-be-homeless clinically diagnosable psychopaths than any other American city.
Via Miami Herald, 2018 (emphasis added):
It’s not a joke. Our nation’s capitol really is full of psychopaths – and your state might be as well, according to a new working study from Southern Methodist University. The new analysis, which has not gone through full peer review but was published to the Social Science Research Network, ranked the 48 continental states and the District of Columbia by the psychopathic personality markers — or “traits” — of their residents. “These results are the first estimates we have, to the best of my knowledge, on the degree of psychopathy found in each state,” Ryan Murphy, author of the study, told Newsweek.
After all the number crunching, what was the top psychopath hotspot? Washington D.C. “The top five observations in psychopathy are the District of Columbia, Connecticut, California, New Jersey, and a tie of New York and Wyoming for fifth. The states that are least psychopathic are West Virginia, Vermont, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Mexico,” Murphy wrote.
Maybe it’s time to reopen all of those asylums Reagan closed.
