WaPo reporter hasn't a clue why it's so hard to get an Uber in DC

There’s little doubt that members of elite media live in an entitled bubble of their own choosing, opting to see the world through a tainted lens that in many cases conveniently favors the Democratic Party, but every so often they feel compelled to remind us anyway.

Take Washington Post senior national political correspondent Ashley Parker, for example. The “reporter” took to social media to marvel over why it’s so hard to get an Uber in crime-ridden Washington, D.C.

Parker tweeted: “Serious Q: Why are there suddenly almost no @Uber in DC anymore, and the ones here regularly cancel or take forever to arrive? Tho on the upside, if/when they do come, the fare is way cheaper than before.”

Of course, if Parker put some of her journalistic skills to work it wouldn’t take long to stumble across a big clue to her conundrum.

It’s a complete and total mystery. pic.twitter.com/tMsVJD1VaA

— Mark Ashworth (@marklarflash) November 23, 2023

Democrats are very slow in coming to the realization that when you opt not to prosecute criminals or otherwise coddle them by reducing charges, and let them out of jail for free when they do commit a crime, it tends to result in more crime — this being along the lines of government subsidies creating more of the very problem it seeks to remedy.

As for Parker, it’s all a big mystery. Never mind that two years ago an Uber Eats driver was killed in D.C. when two girls, 15 and 13, attempted a carjacking. The media was quick to note that the 15-year-old girl received the “maximum penalty” after being convicted — as a juvenile, that means she’ll be released at 21.

EXCLUSIVE: Law enforcement sources tell me 2 teenage girls, ages 13 & 15, are accused of an armed car jacking in SE Washington, DC. The car crashed & flipped over near Nats Park. The victim landed on the sidewalk & died at a hospital. Police arrested 2 suspects: @nbcwashington. pic.twitter.com/S5sqKE5gKc

— Shomari Stone (@shomaristone) March 24, 2021

As one social media user noted, D.C. is known as a “Carjack City,” so how could Parker be so clueless?

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on X:

Because Uber drivers have made the calculation that they can make money and not risk their lives in places other than DC, dullard. https://t.co/VRjdL5HASN

— RBe (@RBPundit) November 23, 2023

It’s a mystery, wrapped in a riddle, wrapped in an unwillingness to prosecute violent criminals.

— Kaiser Bill (@WaivedSAP) November 23, 2023

Your employer will likely publish something like “Uber drivers are terrified of what another Trump term could mean so they are moving.”

And you won’t question any of it.

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 23, 2023

Serious Q: Have you just landed here from another planet?

— JWF (@JammieWF) November 23, 2023

Who would let strangers behind them in their car in lawless DC??

— PhotographicFloridian (@JackLinFLL) November 22, 2023

Sometimes two seemingly unrelated events are connected in ever so subtle ways.

It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, but you’re allegedly a journalist so I’m sure you can work it out. pic.twitter.com/PtVON9TXYy

— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) November 23, 2023

You can probably get weed delivered faster than Uber ride in DC.

— Daniel F. Monroe (@USArmyOfficer) November 22, 2023

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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.

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