For decades Sodom-on-the-Potomac, aka Washington D.C., has lived high off the hog while the rest of the country has suffered from reduced standards of living, mass migration, a drug crisis, the gutting of our manufacturing base, recessions, inflation and on and on. While people in real America scraped by, the people in the D.C. area lived like the Capitol in The Hunger Games: rich, degenerate and sneering at the rest of the country. No matter who “won” the most recent “election”, the people in D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia just kept on living like aristocrats.
Granted there were trade-offs. The traffic in D.C. was ridiculous as was the cost of living. Along with their myriad ethnic restaurants where the mandarins could brag later about having dined on Bolivian-Mongolian fusion cuisine, there was also plenty of crime thanks to the D.C. underclass who would steal anything that wasn’t nailed down and those same mandarins would go to their overpriced homes on postage stamp lots and lock themselves in at night. In short it isn’t the sort of life most of us would envy or want. That didn’t stop the self-appointed elites from looking down at the rest of us with disdain while they flitted from one meaningless job to the next, doing nothing of actual value but acting as if they were indispensable.
With that in mind, this just tickled the ol’ funny bone…
“Washington Recession Begins”: DC Active Home Listings Soar, Jobless Claims Spike As DOGE Drains Swamp
Bright MLS, one of the largest multiple listing services in the US, just recently cautioned real estate agents and industry professionals: A toxic mix of a “new Presidential administration and higher-than-expected mortgage rates contributed to a slow start to the 2025 housing market” across the Washington, DC, metro area, plus surrounding counties in Northern Virginia and Maryland. Now, the floodgates have opened—active listings are soaring, and jobless claims are spiking across the region, as the writing’s on the wall: an economic downturn is just ahead for the federal bureaucracy as ‘DC Swamp’ draining accelerates.
Dang, that is just awful.
It is not just the actual Federal workers, with hundreds of thousands on the chopping block and most of those presumably in the D.C. area. There are also lots and lots of various associations, lobbyists, lawyers and various other groups that depend on the firehose of Federal money. As more spending is squeezed out it will have ripple effects all across the D.C. economy.
The people in D.C., along with being some of the most terrible people in America, also have come to view their prosperity as granted to them by divine right. Now the same people that sneered about regular Americans “learning to code” and needing to move to some shithole city when their rural economy was struggling are finding themselves on the other side of that equation and they don’t like it. Not. One. Bit.
Why would people object to finding waste, fraud and abuse in the government? It is not just because it is Orange Man Bad and Rocket Man Bad that are doing it but more so because so many in D.C. rely on waste, fraud and abuse to fund their extravagant lifestyle. Mean tweets they could sneer at but when you start to squeeze the supply of funding? That is going to hurt them far more.
I am loving it.
I am taking a little pleasure in just contemplating the disaster they feel their lives are in right now.
That small pleasure is way overshadowed ny the anger I am feeling as I browse thru the https://datarepublican.com/expose/ site.
Man, the way these bastards have funneled the money around between organizations is astounding.
Cutting the funding off was a brilliant idea. Whoever stumbled onto this deserves credit.
It’s fun to watch Orange Man Bad and the Musketeers taking pins to the balloons. Every little pop gives me some satisfaction.
I hope he keeps pushing and if needed, defying pedo judges and worthless coongress critters. Keep pushing until they foolishly go kinetic. Then make an example for the ages.
All that being said, I suspect this is only going to last so long. I’ll enjoy every single day of peace and use the time wisely to continue to prep.
Schadenfreude! Surely not the most admirable of human emotions, but, oh, so richly felt as I have come to realize the $billions (perhaps $trillions) of our wealth has been stolen outright by the entire FedGov apparatus: D, R, Independent, elected & unelected.
That these scum are now scrambling for a new host to parasitize, that they may suffer some anxiety over their personal finances, bothers me not.
I. Have. Run. Out. Of. Fucks. To. Give.
Maybe they can learn to code?
There’s a Meme that shows a Dirty, Hardhat-wearing Miner, the caption is “Maybe they can Learn to Coal”. It’s Hysterically Funny, because these tens of thousands of .gov Parasites have NEVER EVER Worked a real Job in their lives.
Best news in a long time. Here’s hoping that their financial lives are wrecked.
Oh hell yeah. Screw these no good sonsabitches, let them suffer immensely, they richly deserve it. And I have no compunction whatsoever over celebrating their suffering with a certain amount of relish.
May all of the SOBs go hungry, homeless, and destitute. I have no cares to give. DEI diversity this. We have been robbed, vilified, and had our lives and fortunes stolen. Fuck Every One.
Agreed – immense schadenfreude. DC/MD/NoVa produce/manufacture nothing. Everyone there works for fed, state, county government, NGOs, trade orgs, or lawyers and accountants for all of the aforementioned. Plus retail workers. It’s a diseased pustule that needs to be lanced and drained flat.
Lit UP, fixed it for us.
I keep hearing how the movie business has gone to shit but west LA home prices seem to be holding up
Well, with the recent fires, a lot of prime real estate has been taken offline, perhaps for the next several years depending on how quickly rebuilding takes place. I expect that will cause a major distortion in the housing market out there for quite some time to come.
I am a 64-year-old retired non-union construction worker. I have spent a lifetime dealing with being laid-off or the next job was a short 90-mile commute on the front range of Colorado. Here is my considered advice for all those poor government workers. SUCK IT UP BITCHES, learn to pick fruit or run a shovel.
But, but, but…if they learn to code, they’ll just lose their coding grift to AI!
Ow. I just smiled so wide it hurt.
This is a first-order effect, the visible ripple of those fired and selling their houses. The second-order effect was mentioned, that of the lobbyists and hangers-on that feed the former workers like Starbucks barristas and high-end hookers and security guards losing their hours, then jobs.
I would consider the third-order effects as the people normal rural people see and disdain (with two “d”s) that have the new truck and trailer with new side-by-side or boat blasting up to their lake home for a 4-day weekend every weekend ther isn’t snow.
These are the assholes that think they own everything, and usually act thay way until they get punched in the mush for being an unbearable faggot around a local. These are the retards the local Chamber of Commerce tries to impress and get more of their “tourist money” to put up new street lights to show the large potholes down town.
There is an earthquake coming, and rural areas should survive of they haven’t gone all-in on tourism to survive, because that section of “the economy” is now dead.
Hope everybody can grow their own.
I think the scale of the fraud now being uncovered, and the shrinkage of government staff – if both are taken even halfway to their needed resolution – is enough to tip the entire country into a severe recession. I’d argue we are already in a recession, though more on the mild side presently (not for all certainly, but for most above the poverty line just yet). The big difference is that this will be the first time the beltway has felt the effects of a bonafide recession in a long time.
This is going to be a necessary episode of taking some painful medicine to get back to a better state of health for us all. This will undoubtedly do permanent damage to some places whose existence was predicated entirely on bullshit spending, as well. It’s also needed in the respect that if Trump doesn’t choose to take the economic hit right now, so that we can hopefully see signs of recovery before midterms, the voting public – especially that part with no understanding of, or tolerance for a long range plan – will freak out and end up fucking us at the midterms by flipping one or both houses of Congress.
Can you begin to imagine the rampage that D’s will go on if they get back a controlling majority in either chamber? They already want blood now, and in 2 years, if given the opportunity, God knows what they’d attempt in retributive action against every person associated with Trump’s second administration. What they did last time was but a small sample.
We’re just watching from the sidelines, and there are as many players as there are potential plays to be played.
I’m not sure anyone really has a handle on how this will work out.
But one thing is as sure as the sun coming up tomorrow.
The mid-term elections have all been planned-for, gamed-out, think-tanked, and X-d’-chessed.
I can’t say what will happen, but I am reminded, both over the last month, and for the mid-terms, the FDR quote that said: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
I guess there are two questions: Are we being played now? Or who will win the battle.
learn to coal.
or pick lettuce
whichever
A positive side of this story that I haven’t seen addressed yet is that anyone in the new administration that is shopping for a place to call home, even if only the next four years is this: Pick out a few of the new listings that you’d be interested in, make an insanely lowball offer, sit back and wait. When it is summarily rejected, just wait. A couple weeks or a month later, make the same offer again. At some point in the market panic, you’ll get a really sweet deal.
Wait til we find out ain’t nothing but lint n cobwebs in Ft. Knox.
Sounds like those culprits are kinda panicking right now.
Ozark…you are correct. And then the dollar will crash. Even though it hasn’t been on the gold standard in years. Buckle up.
After years in retail meat and then the lumber business, “value” is a word that resoundingly comes to mind. In meat parlance, DC bureaucrats has been charging Wagu prices for cutter grade beef for a long, long time. Anyone in DC or any bureaucracy that wants to whine about this joyous turn, might do well to consider that they’ve been ripping American citizens off royally for decades and that little pleasure cruise has come to an inglorious end. They should be grateful if they are not some of them criminally charged. I assume major “productivity slowdowns” will ensue in large swathes of the remaining parasites. Hopefully the Trump administration anticipated this and has a plan.
Peter Grant has a VERY interesting post on Social Security payments and numbers. Who said that the American lifestyle is unhealthy and leads to early mortality?
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/02/doge-dishes-biggest-scandal-in-human.html
After 40 years, it is enjoyable to see these bastards get the steel worker/rust belt treatment.
Yup.
The boshefaggots have trotted out a (GASP!!!) DISABLED VETERAN!!! They CARE!!! They’re PATRIOTIC!!!!
Note there is zero mention of what his “job” was….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8fgLmbCUQU
He worked from home in HR for the VA according to the propaganda.
OK, isn’t that at least a double negative?
I’ve got no qualms with disabled vets getting some kind of preference cuz I are one and I’ll be selfish as the day is long, but I draw the line at 100% disabled drawing compensation, a .gov paycheck and another federal retirement after becoming 100% disabled.
Because 100% disabled means you CAN’T FUCKING WORK. He gets $4K or so per month for comp, the VA is paying him somewhere over $4K for “working from home” and his retirement would kick in at age 50 after a total of 20 years.
How again do you have a government job with a 100% rating?