“This afternoon could reveal who our next mayor is.”

We want the Bruce, the whole Bruce, and nothing but the Bruce! 😁

Democrats are pathetic

"Democrats are pathetic"

The strategy wasn't working. It would have been even more pathetic to continue the strategy with people not get paid and getting very hungry.

Now all the congress has to vote on health care. They just might do something. Let's hope. God bless.

"Will we get our sweet release, or a ruined orgasm?"

Sweet release as Katie Wilson is fucked.

RIP Lenny Wilkens. Saw him in the QFC in Bellevue a few times. Legend. Not much of a dunker though -- 6'1" guard known for assists.

@1 You've been giving real MAGA energy with your dedication to Bruce recently. It's super gross and dumb and weird.

Natalie, none of your news items has a link to the source! No links at all!

@3 Aren’t you the dummy who doesn’t understand how the ACA works?

The Chicken @5: "Not much of a dunker though -- 6'1" guard known for assists."

I guess you could say like his fellow statue honoree Sue Bird. Unlike Lenny, though, I don't see Sue ever going into coaching, even though I'm sure she'd make a great coach. I'm not sure how I feel about statues outside arenas and stadia for sports figures (better them than Confederate generals I guess--especially outside an arena), but it's great that Lenny lived to see his statue unveiled and got to bask in that appreciation.

As for the shutdown ending, my thoughts are too complicated to express here, but I can say the comments @2 and @3 are nothing if not predictable for those two commenters. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Dick Durbin and his capitulating colleagues just voted for the biggest middle class tax increase in American history.

@8: No

@5 @9 Glad there are some basketball knowers here re: a dunking Wilkens. I didn't grow up watching Lenny but appreciate all that he means to Seattle and the community. The more I read about him the more he seems like one of the great ones, far beyond his basketball skills. I actually stopped by his statue at Climate Pledge. There was a flower on it that had blown away so I put it back.

Tensorama wrote over the weekend:

"Even if only “the company” ever gets punished by the government for dumping pollutants, that doesn’t mean individual employees of the company are free to run around dumping pollutants willy-nilly. It’s just that the company has to be the ones to stop the employees rather than the government. Make sense?"

That works well when you have something objective you can measure. Either the employee, under the control of their company or government agency, added a measurable pollutant to the water or they didn't.

It doesn't work well when we are talking about subjective conduct. It's why it is so difficult to discipline teachers for being demeaning to kids, principals for harassing staff and being dismissive to parents, cops when they are assholes, or more seriously, violate civil rights, ferry workers when they let a drunk driver off the ferry to kill, or college maintenance workers when they disregard a carbon monoxide alarm and someone dies. At what point does that conduct rise to the point that they are ineffective in what they are hired to do? At what point is the government legitimately disciplining to achieve a public purpose, and at what point are they denying a citizen, employed by the government, 5A, 14A, and other civil rights by using the coercion of a paycheck?

If something personally costs one little, you get a lot of the conduct that has low-cost for the employee. If it costs a lot, and more importantly is readily watched for and detected, you get less of the conduct.

That is where the private sector, which is "at will" shines. A private employer can arbitrarily, within the limits of civil rights laws, let someone go because the employee's conduct gives them a bad vibe. It is also where the private sector fails, because that subjective "at will" call masks unconscious or conscious bias, or even malevolent discrimination.

A lot of the legitimate disgust expressed here about government employees killing or maiming people within the scope of their employment, and taxpayers paying out millions, is from private sector employed commenters who get the sense they would be fired had they done the same thing. What they don't recognize is that public employment is not "at will", and can't be "at will" because the employees are not just employees, but citizens, in the same sense that the privately employed commenter is.

@9: "my thoughts are too complicated to express here"

Oh how original. That was line from Dorothy on The Golden Girls!

The grievance journalism at The Stranger over gun violence is apparently dead. There was a time when they would have bemoaned two people getting shot by a citizen trying to keep from getting carjacked. Under Noisy Creek, radio silence:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/would-be-carjacking-victim-shoots-2-in-self-defense-seattle-police-say/

@6: lol what's "gross and dumb and weird" is mistaking Bruce Harrell for "MAGA" 🤪

@11 Yes.

https://www.thestranger.com/slog-am/2025/11/07/80314474/slog-am-faa-cuts-flights-pelosi-will-retire-sandwich-guy-is-free/comments/12

"I must say I never knew that Obamacare subsidies affected private insurance rates."

@1. Yes! Or like my father used to say, "a Bruce in the hand is worth two Katies in the bush."

@18: This is no time for impertinence.

@21 - Sorry Biped, I meant 18.a

@17 I'm not saying Bruce Harrell is MAGA. I'm saying that repeating shit like "Brucetown!" over and over and over again is weird MAGA like behavior.

@23 He's only doing it because he knows Bruce is toast.

@23 24 @et all

sell,
Sumbuddy's
gotta Pwn them
Damn communiss! Libs

it may
as well be
bipps "Buggers" bippie.

@23: You can't hide from the Bruce! The Bruce hurts because the Bruce is all there is! 😂

@24: The vote didn't swing hard enough for Katie on Thursday and Friday. Subsequent drops will still favor Katie but not by as wide a margin on the Thursday and Friday drops. She needed to make up just a little more ground than she did. 😃 Oh well, she can always back to Balliol to finish that degree, mom invested so much into tuition already! 😆

@3 "The strategy wasn't working. It would have been even more pathetic to continue the strategy with people not get paid and getting very hungry."

More people continued to blame Trump and the GOP for the shutdown. Trump was spiraling and demanding the filibuster be killed, bringing him into direct conflict with Congressional Republicans. The REPUBLICAN strategy wasn't working and if the Dems had just held on a little longer there was a great chance they'd win. Instead, per usual, a critical mass of them were too weak to see the job through. So instead poor people and federal employees just suffered for 40+ days for absolutely nothing at all. Like I wrote: pathetic.

I’m happy we’ll know today (unless Katie takes the lead today, it’s over).

As for Viv’s band, meh - it’s no Tacocat

Sickening. Literally, physically, sickening. The Democrats absolutely were winning the shutdown standoff -- as consistent polling numbers, Trump's tanking approval rating, and Tuesday's election results made abundantly clear. They were making a well-articulated demand that people understood and agreed with. It was breaking through to low-engagement voters to an extent that's unusual in off-election years. So WTF just happened???

One of two things happened: Schumer either privately assented to (or perhaps even encouraged) the "moderate" Senators' virtually unconditional surrender -- thus prizing his donors, especially the airlines and big retail, above his constituents once again -- or else he's lost all meaningful control of his caucus. It's one or the other and I don't particularly care which. Either way it's time for him to step down from leadership. And if there's a silver lining to this toxic cloud, I now think there's a real possibility he'll have to.

@20 You know what, I mostly ignore you, but kindly fuck off. Today I was pretty much guaranteed a 2026 tax hike of $6600. I am not poor and I am not rich. I am middle-aged and self-employed. No time for impertinence? Just fuck off. You are truly dumb.

@30: But what makes you think the Republicans would have acquiesced had the stalemate kept going?

@30: After 25 years in the Senate, I suspect Chuck Schumer has forgotten more about politics than any of us will ever know! 😁 Schumer got what he could from the shutdown—a favorable turn for Democrats nationwide in the off-year elections we just held—but he was never going to be able to dictate policy from the minority.

He is also wise enough not to interrupt the enemy when he is making a mistake. If the Republicans don't vote to extend ACA subsidies, it will spike health insurance premiums in 2026, a congressional election year. If the Democrats can take back the House and the Class II Senate seats on the strength of the premiums issue, then they can fund whatever subsidies they want, and moreover fund on a more durable basis than trying to claw subsidies inch-by-inch out of a Republican congress.

As they say in tournament chess, "Never forget that your opponent is also playing chess!" 😛

@32 Because (aside from the whole ACA mishegoss) we are heading into the year's biggest holiday travel and food-buying period and the constituent pressure on Republicans to make a deal with Democrats that keeps the planes flying and the SNAP flowing would have become impossible for them to continue resisting. (Remember, Democrats have been openly calling for a negotiated agreement this entire time, it's only Republicans who took a my-way-or-the-highway stance -- and now their intransigence has paid off. Like I said, sickening.)

@33 Of course Schumer can't "dictate policy from the minority." But he certainly could have forced Republicans to negotiate a deal and gotten something tangible for his constituents. (Republicans really, really, really don't want to nuke the filibuster no matter how hard Trump pushes them to do it. It not only prevents a future Democratic legislative tsunami, but it also protects them from having to vote on politically risky things their base would immediately start demanding, e.g., a nationwide abortion ban. Not to mention the even riskier things Trump would start demanding.) But as long as Democrats held firm, there was no other way out for them. Surely Schumer recognized this, but I suspect his big donors (esp. the airlines and grocery barons) were screaming at him even louder than they were at Republicans. Time for him to go.

@33 the only thing Schumer earned today was a primary challenge from AOC. This and the Mandami win last week pretty much guarantees she will run against him.

@26 It would help your case if your own math showed that was true. But alas you're too attached to Bruceing to see what you wrote down yourself. If you're going to pretend to do serious analysis, you kind of need to actually, you know, look at the results of that analysis.

Go on and be a Bruce fanboy if you want, but don't pretend that the math supports your position.

PS Is Seattle still Brucetown if he wins by 0.1%?

@34: Donald Trump and Mike Johnson would have been still oblivious to all the intense pain going into Christmas and beyond with 10% air travel and no SNAP. They're the only two that could have made a difference with all the congressional Republicans in lock-step obedience and they would have held firm.

How bad is Washington that even Bigfoot bailed?
The most noteworthy thing about the new King County Exec is that he’s an immigrant. I’m sure he’ll do a bang up job.
I hope your progressive mayoral candidate wins. It will be fun to watch you blame republicans in two years when nothing changes.

@36: lol, you're making the classic mistake of assuming that trendlines can be extrapolated linearly into the future! 😂 You're correct that if the upcoming drops contain the same percentages as the Friday drop, Katie is likely on track to win (depending on how vote-curing turns out, a variable for which we have no data). Your mistake lies in your failure to question the assumption that upcoming drops will mirror the Friday drop. 😉

I think it's unlikely that the upcoming drops will exactly mirror the Friday drop. I think it's more likely that the upcoming drops, while still favoring Katie more than Bruce, will favor Katie to a less significant degree than the Friday drop did. That's bad news for Katie, because she needs the upcoming drops to maintain a consistent average of ca. 54.4 percent or higher in her favor. The Friday drop was just 54.85 percent, so her breathing space is quite narrow. If the upcoming drops fall off even a little bit, she'll lose.

In 2021, the last mayoral election in which Bruce was on the ballot, the post-Friday drops did, indeed, fall off. The chief factor in the fall-off seems to have been mail-in ballots (which favor Bruce) that were mailed on or close to election day. Arriving late in the counting process, the final tranches of mail-in ballots blunted the anti-Bruce wave which crested on Friday. 😃

One more time for the slower learners: I'm not saying that the post-Friday drops post more votes for Bruce than for Katie, I'm saying the pro-Katie bias in the post-Friday drops falls off a little bit compared to its Friday high, which is just what Bruce needs. 😃

I could hedge a little bit by conceding that the post-Friday, pro-Bruce mail-in tranches may be smaller this year than in 2021 because a lot of people were spooked by news about same-day postmarking, or maybe something-something hand-wave vote-curing. But rather than hedge, I'm just gonna tell you what's up, which is that we all live in BRUCETOWN! 🤣

@33 "If the Republicans don't vote to extend ACA subsidies, it will spike health insurance premiums in 2026, a congressional election year."

Setting aside that it's abhorrent to let people lose health care as an electoral strategy, do you honestly think that Dems would NOT have gotten an equal (or better) electoral bump by being seen to go toe to toe with Trump and the GOP and winning? You think people will be more supportive of them capitulating (again) resulting in further harm to the public? That's some real 4D chess you think they're playing.

Also Schumer voted no.

@40: “Setting aside that it's abhorrent to let people lose health care as an electoral strategy,”

I love how constantly hectoring the Democrats to be Tough Guys suddenly comes with some caveats. Republicans have neither decency nor shame, and will use those traits against everyone who does have them.

Getting the promise of a vote was the best the Democrats could do. They also showed they can sic Trump on the Congressional Republicans, which could prove very useful next year.

@35: Good. Nothing like a Brooklyn v. Queens cage match. Anyone who believes AOC’s appeal extends beyond her district’s narrow boundaries may get a nasty surprise.

@41 She's literally one of the most famously liked politicians in the country. She was literally the first person in the world to hit a million followers on Bluesky and she has 9 million followers on instagram. How many people live in her district exactly? 700k?

It's all a popularity contest. If you don't think these numbers matter, you're an idiot. We have a reality tv host as president for a reason. https://today.yougov.com/ratings/politics/popularity/politicians/all

You're all SO old.

It's not MAGA to want Bruce Harrell for Seattle mayor, but it doesn't fit in with our Bellevue-first sentiments. Bellevue: where your property is safe and all the kids are above average.

"Anyone
who believes
AOC’s appeal extends
beyond her district’s narrow
boundaries may get a nasty surprise."

Wormtongue thumpfnsorna on November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM

tell me Again?

WHY we give
This Guy a single
Ounce of "Credibility"?

and mr infallible
Fallibles yet
again

another nasty surprise?

@40: “That's some real 4D chess you think they're playing.”

lol, just regular politics actually. 😁 The Democrats played a weak hand well, which is the best you can hope to do with a weak hand. And they stopped before they overplayed their hand, a common trap. 😃 And they’ve set themselves up to rack some bigger wins in the future, because politics does not have an end date. 😃 Overall, I award the Democrats a full five thumpus emoji for their handling of the shutdown. 😛

Fully funding Obamacare from the minority was maybe an option for Senator Magicwand but it wasn’t an option for Senator Schumer. 😉 If you’re sore about it, then console yourself that the Obamacare funding fight is not over, and future rounds will be fought from more favorable terrain. 😃

It's over.
Katie Wilson 133,469 49.83%
Bruce Harrell 133,378 49.79%

Congrats to Wilson - the next 4 years should be interesting

@46: It's not over! Brucetown is never over! I demand a recount! 😄

@48 The first step to healing is to admit that you lost.

@49: It was stolen! The "international bankers" rigged the election with their AIPAC! 😂😂😂

"We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life."
- Harrell the Bruce
1320

@32 -- Bingo. Look, brinkmanship won't work if the other side wants to blow up the world. Grover Norquist famously wrote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub".

He would be considered a mainstream Republican. The Republicans will never give in on this issue. They don't give a shit. They know this is a losing issue. They don't care. Holy shit, the president was trying very hard to avoid having to pay SNAP benefits -- causing traffic jams in fucking Oklahoma as people line up for food -- on the same day that they gave out huge tax cuts for the ultrawealthy (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/trump-administration-tax-breaks-wealthy.html). Does this sound like a party that is going to crumble because you raised the health care premiums. Give me a fucking break. They don't care.

The Democrats probably knew this going in. At least this raises the issue. At least by the midterms, when people are paying way too much for their premiums and are willing to blame "all those fucking politicians" it will be obvious that it is only one party that is willing to suck the dick of the ultrarich while shitting on the poor.

I think Our Dear Thumpus is just trolling some of the more politically earnest here on Slog.

@42: "She's literally one of the most famously liked politicians in the country."

This is New York. We do not care what persons elsewhere in the country -- or in the world, for that matter -- think about anything. We make our own decisions here, one of which has been to retain Sen. Schumer for quite a long time now, thank you very much. We know that politics is not easy, and we're quite happy with how the shutdown is ending.

You're welcome.

@41 this race would be less about AOC and more about how old and unpopular Schumer is. Much like with Mandami there will be a % of people who don't necessarily support the policies but would vote against for them to get the old guy out of there. I'm not saying that's logical but I think its a factor. It would be interesting though to see how far her support does extend in a statewide race. A lot of it may depend on how Mamdani does the next two years. If half of the things people are worried about come to pass any political aspirations beyond her house seat will be DOA.

"Anyone
who believes
AOC’s appeal extends
beyond her district’s narrow
boundaries may get a nasty surprise."

Wormtongue thumpfnsorna on November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM

@42 -- Truthfully,
Correcting the
Record:

'[AOC]'s
literally one of
the most famously
liked politicians in the country.

She was literally the first person in the world
to hit a million followers on Bluesky and she
has 9 million followers on instagram.

How many people
live in her district
exactly? 700k?"

--@tbass1981

"We
do not
care what
persons elsewhere
in the country -- or in the world,
for that matter -- think about anything."

Wormtongue thumpfnsorna on November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM

then
Why Lie
about So Many
Things Wormtongue?

that is
if you truly
"do not care
what persons
elsewhere in the
country -- or in the
world, for that matter
-- think about anything!"

then Why
wouldja Even
Fucking Bother?

A.
you're
selling a
Narrative
that's Oodles
past its 'Sell By' date.

and we can
Smell it even
on the Left Coast

time to Change your
Narrative. or maybe
it's your Huggies?

Also, air safety and relief for the controllers is more important than keep the shutdown going hoping for a delusional win on the ACA.

@42:

“It's all a popularity contest. If you don't think these numbers matter, you're an idiot. We have a reality tv host as president for a reason.”

Thank you; you could not possibly have picked a better example to support my point. Trump lost his then-home state of New York by over twenty points in 2016 — to a transplant from Chicago! He lost New York State by a landslide again in 2020, when his opponent received the largest number of votes ever cast for a presidential candidate nationwide. (Trump had moved to Florida in 2019, whining all the way there about how we’d treated him so very poorly.) Trump fared a bit better here in 2024, with Harris beating him by ‘merely’ ten points. And, of course, that was after a jury of New Yorkers had convicted him on dozens of felony counts.

Voters in other states may* have fallen for his game-show persona, but to us here in New York, he’s always been just another loud-mouthed loser.

@55: For any occupied office, an election is always a referendum on the incumbent. My point was popularity amongst chattering classes means little to us New Yorkers. If we decide it’s time for him to go, we’ll vote that way. How many followers someone else has on social media won’t matter much, if it even matters at all. (Also, as you noted, AOC will be associated with Mayor Mamdani, and, like you, I have a hard time seeing that go well for either of them.)

—-

*Trump never won a majority of the nationwide popular vote, coming up short of 50% in all three tries.

@54 "This is New York. We do not care what persons elsewhere in the country -- or in the world, for that matter -- think about anything."

Right that's why you live on this Seattle blog, because you don't care what anyone outside NY thinks. I legitimately hope your entire persona here is you doing a bit the alternative is so sad.

@52, 57 Yes, Trump's power over the Republican caucus is unprecedented, but it isn't absolute. Surely enough Republicans DO care about the looming midterms that they would have made some kind of deal if Democrats had just stood pat for a couple more weeks. The generous concession Schumer offered last Friday (which I didn't condemn him for) added to the pressure on Republicans to break with Trump. As the holidays approached their discomfort and political precarity would have increased, not decreased.

But here we are. Yes, I know Schumer himself voted no. That means nothing. Congresspeople routinely vote against things they don't really oppose (and vice versa) as long as the outcome is assured. Susan Collins built her entire "moderate" persona on this tactic. Either Schumer privately approved of the surrender to please his donors (which I suspect is the case) or, if not, he's lost control of his caucus to the point where Democrats can no longer reliably sustain a filibuster. Those are the only two possibilities -- there's no Door #3 here. Either way, it's clear he needs to step down as minority leader. His age and seniority notwithstanding, he's just no longer effective in the role. And any senator who claims to have truly opposed giving in (and didn't just vote no for the optics) needs to prove it by publicly calling on Schumer to vacate his position.

The Republicans "caved" as well, and the Democrats got assurances on back pay for Federal workers. Lawrence O'Donnell:

https://youtu.be/Eqe0Suhoats

@59: Mike Blob resides in Portland, OR, and kristo’ has piled up well over a thousand comments at the Portland Mercury (including much shadow boxing with another commenter there, whom he accuses of being me). Yet, you seem to have no problem with any of that. What gives?

(Also, I recently described — yet again — my actual motivations for reading and commenting here. Please let me know if you need help finding that comment.)

@60: The Democrats couldn’t possibly care less about your pronouncements concerning their leadership, and it’s fun to watch you pretend they might.

@62a

'much'
'shadow boxing'
with 'Babs Johnson'
down @the Merc, wormmy?

you're
referring to
that One Time
when you accused
Xina* of whateverthefuck
it was; a brief, distant, nasty encounter
with someone who, if it Wasn't you, did a
remarkably Spot-On impersonation, whom Xina
took down like a warm spoon thru melted butter, with
grace & the ease of someone quite well-schooled in human
psychology, as she is; you declared 'victory' & slunk off, tail twixt legs

@60(b)
yeah. we've
All etched your
wonderful, vile pro-
jections deep into our
memory banks, you needn't
regurgitate your latest Defenses
of the Indefensivile, we've had our Fill

but thanks

and finally
and thank gawd

@62c

Exactly the Attitude
of the "d"nc, who gave
to us Hair Furor, not Once
but Fucking TWICE, a 'party'
that'd Rather Lose to fucking Hitler
apparently, than give up their lofty top
o' the food chain positions, whom you've again,
ad nauseam, defended, like Israel's Genocide on Palestine.

'they'
say Herman
Goering was a
warm and Cheerful,
Wonderful dinner guest.

Why can't you
be more Fun,
wormmy?

toss in a little
Humor, you know
just for some Balance?

oh
and
Happy
Veterans Day.

let Us remember those who
gave their Lives, Defending the
World against the Fucking Fascists.

*you are
MISSED.

@54 "We don't care what happens in other cities." ... proceeds to spend all day being a whiny bitch on a blog from a city clear across the entire fucking country.

Great job. slow clap

@54 Shouldn't you be on some food blog somewhere explaining that your city invented pizza and bagels and hot dogs and that nobody else can possibly make them correctly?

@62 Did he profess that he doesn't care what happens in any other city and then post on a Portland blog? I dont remember that. You literally just did that. That's the difference, you stupid fuck. Good lord.

@63 - 66

'Thee
Smartest
Man in ANY
Room!' trips over the
pattern in the fucking carpet

@62 Well excuuuuuse me if I want Dems to be a real opposition party instead of a junior governing partner whose main preoccupation is cleaning up the majority's messes so the trains (or in this case, planes) stay on time. Maybe you don't care about fighting fascism but a lot of us do.

@61
'Democrats got assurances ...'

So did the East Wing.

During Trump's first term, Lawrence O'Donnell was the prime example of a pundit species we used to call "hope peddlers." Every fresh Trump violation of longstanding D.C. norms -- big or small, flagrantly illegal or simply gauche -- would prompt O'Donnell to proclaim that this time he's TRULY finished, we've got him now, there's no way he comes back from this one, even Republicans have had enough of his shtick, etc., etc.. After enduring a couple years of that, I tuned him out entirely. Since I no longer have cable I'm not sure how surprised I should be that he's apparently still at it.

Punditry
Seldom requires
Accuracy in prognostication

long as one
Follows the Corporate
Line employment is generally secured

unless one gains weight
or loses their hair or
discovers Integrity

@64: Other than my not actually having written the phrase you put in quotes and attributed to me, that was spot-on. (Honest and accurate enough by your standards, anyway, right?)

@65, @66: Keep your shirt on (OMG, please!). I was merely pointing out the tiresomely predictable (and provincial) "you ain't from 'round here, boy," stuff is only applied to persons who disagree with the Stranger and sympathetic commenters, never to those who agree. It's just a cheap ad hominem attack, an attempted dismissal instead of an actual answer.

Now, back to your fanboy idiocy @42: AOC has nine million followers on a social media platform. Great for her. Becoming a social media follower takes one second and zero commitment. How many of those nine million are registered to vote in the state? How many are eligible? How many even reside in that state? How many are willing and able to make a contribution (at least one, and preferably some combination of, time, energy, and money) worthy of solicitation? Just those questions alone may have reduced that nine million to maybe a few hundred thousand -- or far fewer. So that's the actual, potentially-exploitable base. Now consider you're talking about a populous and well-off state, one with an extremely high cost of campaigning, so the potential impact of exploiting that base counts for far less than in most other states.

It's still better than not having a following on a social media platform, but it's not the slam-dunk you seem deluded enough to believe it is.

@68: I'll see your minority Democrats, and raise you Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress, and one in the White House, too. Rather than firing missives at a faraway senator who'll never know what you've written here -- let alone care -- how about considering all of the effort the Stranger (and supportive) commenters put into trying to stop Democrats from getting elected? The Stranger's most darling of all politicians campaigned "to punish Harris and to defeat her," and neither the Stranger, nor so much as one single supportive commenter here, issued even one word of criticism to her for it. How about telling them they're not part of any solution, but a small part of a huge problem?

@72 I'll let yours be the last word on the topic aside from one small fact-check: Presuming you're referring to Kshama Sawant, I did indeed denounce her explicitly for that move in this forum and because of it I will never support her for anything again. The Stranger shouldn't either.

'centrist'
Corporate Dems
(And Citizens United!)
have brought us to this
Existential Brink ~ to not
Recognize this or to Deny it

is the Surest highway to
the End of our little
Democracy.

thank God at
least Progressives're
putting this Front and Center.

@73 CKathes: I won't, either. Especially not after Kshama Sawant openly endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 election?!? WTF was THAT??

I've been living outside Seattle since 1997 but I'm glad that the votes are in favor of Katie Wilson as Seattle's next mayor. Bruce Harrell struck me as someone who only listened to the insanely wealthy and to hell with everyone else.

Rest in peace, Lenny Wilkens, Godfather of Seattle Basketball---a true legend and amazing role model for our community and region. Heartfelt condolences to the Wilkens family and loved ones. May Wilkens' spirit live on.

@4: Um, Calvin dear, have you checked the number of ballots tallied lately? Katie Wilson has officially been elected Mayor of Seattle, defeating incumbent Bruce Harrell. Evidently not even a colonoscopy can pull your head out of your gullible lil MAGA ass. How do you manage to see where you're going, sweetie? Filling in for Babybarf isn't doing you any favors.

@48 and @50: Deep breath, Trumpfus, gut in. Exhale. Don't let women scare you. Felon Mu$k's Mein Trumpf who thinks he's Burger King should---especially with midterms coming. Katie Wilson grabbed the tax dodging wealthy coddling incumbent, Bruce Harrell, by the balls and is officially mayor-elect of Seattle. The voters have spoken.
Have a nice day.

@74 kristofarian: I know, I know---don't feed the trolls.
I just love watching those who really ask for it squirm though---especially in their own shit, don't you?
The Repigs have had it coming for 45 years now. Roast in Hell, Dick Cheney.

@64, @65, @66: Just wanted to note this, before the thread dies/gets closed.

While I'm gratified to read I got to you so easily @54 that you had to whine repeatedly about it, please note that -- contrary to what you claim in all three of your comments! -- @54 does not refer to New York CITY. I wrote "New York," in the context of a hypothetical senatorial election contest between Sen. Schumer and Rep. AOC. A city cannot send a senator to Congress; only a state can do that, and so my reference to "New York" @54 was to the state, not the city.

Again, it was fun to see you lose it and just begin flailing, though.

@63-66

(@67, cont'd):

. . .
trips
shakes
fist at foor
yells at Cat
kicks Dog screams
at Children fires Maid 
"You will NEVER WORK IN
NYC* AGAIN!" throws television 
thru plateglass  window -- "it's 62 Floors, 
what Difference does it Make!?!" -- sits down, 
contentedly, and fires off yet another angry missive,
at them damn Progressives, over there, on the Other Coast

@the Stranger.

*or ANYWHERE!
for That
matter

"Again, it was fun to see you lose it and just begin flailing, though."

--so sayeth
@tS's Master
of Projections

@79

there
is no F
in Floor
there IS
however
a Fucking

L. pls make note!