Good morning: Hope you all had a good “Day On” yesterday. As usual, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day brought out some stark irony as the people who would have actively opposed his protests use his legacy to score internet points.
SPOG would’ve gassed and beat MLK to the tune of “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy” https://t.co/lEcDM6hDzt
— DivestSPD (@DivestSPD) January 16, 2024
Donald Trump won the Iowa Caucus by 30 points: The Hawkeye State overwhelmingly chose the former president to be the Republican Party’s nominee in the upcoming election. Trump received 51% of the vote despite him facing 91 felony charges. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won the spot of first loser with 21% of votes, and Nikki Haley came in right behind him with 19% of delegates. Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the race after finishing in the single digits.
Trump’s Iowa victory speech had some banger one-liners. He kept commenting on the height of his youngest son, Barron, who’s 6′ 7″. When Trump talked about President Joe Biden, he said, “I don’t want to be overly rough on the president… but he’s the worst president we’ve ever had and he’s destroying the country.” Trump also said some xenophobic bullshit about immigrants, saying they come over our borders from prisons, jails, and mental institutions, despite studies showing both illegal and legal immigrants commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans.
The Tacoma Police Department (TPD) clears officers for Manny Ellis’s death: An internal affairs investigation found the three officers involved in the death of Ellis did nothing wrong. Today, TPD Chief of Police Avery Moore must make a final determination about punishment for the officers. Meanwhile, the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington launched an independent review of Ellis’s death late last week.
Hundreds march for MLK in Seattle: People gathered at Garfield High School before marching in honor of MLK’s legacy. According to the Seattle Times, dozens of the demonstrators called for a ceasefire in Gaza and connected the struggle of Black Americans to that of the Palestinian people.
Big business still trying to buy more Seattle City Council seats: Mayor Bruce Harrell consultant Tim Ceis sent an email to big business interests saying their campaign contributions earned them the right to put Tanya Woo on the Council, and then urged them to press the council members they bought to install her in the seat left vacant by CM Teresa Mosqueda. I bet most of the new Council will shamelessly show they’re bought and paid for by big business and vote for Woo.
LOL 1) Love the open admission that corporate cash bought Seattle’s current council 2) Love how big biz is already setting the agenda 3) Love how labor, after basically sitting out the council election, may be mounting a last-min campaign to secure a two-seat pro-labor minority https://t.co/NpIAJ2o9Fh
— Rich Smith (@richsssmith) January 15, 2024
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson blocks grocery merger: Ferguson filed the lawsuit to block Kroger from buying Albertsons, which would have merged two of the largest grocery chains. Kroger owns QFC and Fred Meyer, while Albertsons owns Safeway and Haggen. Ferguson said the merger would drive up prices and reduce competition. Seattle already doesn’t have enough non-boutique grocery options to play a proper game of Fuck, Marry, Kill. Like, right now the best you can do is Safeway, QFC, and maybe Fred Meyer? But, Fred Meyer feels closer to Target than QFC.
Burst pipes spilled water into Seattle University student housing: In fact, pipes burst across the City yesterday. KIRO 7 put together a roundup of everywhere with flooding, including the airport.
Speaking of the weather: Temperatures should reach a high of 36 today, with wind chills making it feel more like 19 to 29 degrees. Slight chance of freezing rain and snow later this evening.
Meanwhile: An arctic blast is sweeping across the US, walloping states with freezing temperatures, according to the New York Times. Across the country, the majority of people face subzero temperatures, and at least seven people have already died as a result of the icy conditions.
The Emmys happened last night: I haven’t caught up with all the results yet, but Vogue posted basically every single look from last night, so I’ve been scrolling that. Ded at Selena Gomez’s dress. Dear lord, that look.
In honor of MLK Day: The song that helped establish the holiday. Stevie Wonder literally wrote such a bop celebrating MLK’s birthday taht Ronald Regan had to give everyone a day on.
well
Wormtongue
we’re Hardly Alone:
most of the fucking
Planet can see that Murder
on a Biblical Scale is either Gen-
ocide or will Soon Be . and your little
Pedantic Gymnastics’ll go a Long Ways in
Assuring
Israel’s ultimate
Demise. well played
Wormtongue. O! & happy Armageddon.
but
at Least
you’re keeping
BiBi outta Prison.
so there’s
that Too.
Doug dear, Let’s recap Our Little Exchange:
I expressed concern about the merger
You said “It’s pretty easy to avoid Kroger/Safeway in Seattle. PCC, Central Co-op, Met Market, or even Trader Joes are better options.”
I replied that QFC and Safeway are “about the only games in town” in the valley.
You said that it’s a poor neighborhood that’s why it’s a food desert
I pushed back saying that the valley is not a food desert, with it’s three Safeways, one QFC, one PCC and numerous small markets – as well as more Safeways and Kroegers in Renton, and made the point that if they are allowed to merge and are either required to close stores or close stores in the name of efficiency, that could create a situation where there are less stores, less competition, and higher prices – and the glamour stores that you apparently think are on every corner will not be in the valley anytime soon.
It’s really not a difficult concept to grasp.
Or is it?
@86: You left out “US helplessly embroiled in spreading regional conflict” in the middle, and, “earth spins out of its orbit” at the end, but otherwise, it’s up to your usual standards. B+
@16 Catalina Vel-DuRay: Thank you and bless you for so consistently telling it like it is. SLOG needs more commenters like you.
@52 Rickety Racketeer: Dude. Stop chugging the MAGA Kool-Aid. FOX TeeVee causes brain cancer.
@69: No thanks, raindrop dear. Every time I see a comment made by teenieweenie I just scroll past.
Dude must have serious lead poisoning in his tap water.
@1 Max Solomon for the WIN, and comment of the YEAR!! +1 Agreed and seconded.
“You
don’t just get to
pick your own mean-
ings for the words you use.”
“there
Is NO justify-
cation for Terrorism.
EVER.”
emphasis
mine all mine
but Yeah!
“You
don’t just get to
pick your own mean-
ings for the words you use.”
way to bring that
convo Fool
Circle.
thnx!
you might wanna
quit whilst you-
’re behind.
& yeah
auntie Gee!
scrolling past
the venom & vile
projections’s the Only
way to Go. I do Concur
@92 kristofarian: +1 Agreed. Personally, I may have finally shut him up by referring to him as teenieweenie.
Dude’s all for endless heated arguments and no sense.
My guess is that he’s 14 going on 40, terminally bored, and mad as hell that he still can’t legally drive or vote.
@92: Yeah, but the problem with “genocide,” “terrorism,” and other words always meaning anything you want, is that ultimately they’ll mean nothing at all.
And I’m very proud to speak against you doing that.
Good night.
@92
was directed
directley at @61:
in spite of your
incessant Whinings and your
overly-endowed sense of Entitlement
You Don’t getta have
it both fucking ways.
sorry olde man!
ya Know
tentsey I’m
seriously NOT
“worried” about
fucking Genocide
losing its fucking Punch
that there’re
Albotrosses bringing
about the End of Humanity
for What
fucking REASON?
is what’s got
Me concerned.
“but otherwise, it’s
up to your usual
standards. B+”
dude.
You’re
Unwell.
truly
Sorry.
get Better.
oh
and when
they started calling
Climate Activists “Ecco-
Terrorists”* they diluted the
word down below Zero. sad.
*they’d burned
a few unoccupied
homes under construction
& possibly destroyed some equipment
but perhaps I’m misremembering an Edward
Abbey book and conflating the two. ah, the mind!
speaking
of Owning
the Language
[the means of communiction]:
When Yemen
Does It It’s Terrorism
When The US Does It
It’s “The Rules-Based Order”
by Caitlin Johnstone; Jan. 17, 2024
oodles more:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/when-yemen-does-it-its-terrorism
care to hazard a guess
on Who Writes
The Rules?
@97: Yeah, you’re right; anything as high as a “B” wasn’t warranted by your actual performance, but in the age of special snowflakes and participation trophies, grades just get inflated sometimes.
(Also, I wouldn’t want you to go bawling to Johnstone; the most she would do is hit you, and I was very afraid for you — specifically, that you’d enjoy it far too much.)
Ashley, the next time you’re doing a tribute to honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on MLK Jr. Day would you be so kind as to have his photographed image be the main photo of your TS news article instead of a recycled blowup of the Orange Turd?
Are you among the DJT’s organized crime fan base? If so, what exactly do you expect to gain if GOP neofascism reclaims the White House?