Guerilla Stop Signs Removed: A street safety vigilante took power into their own hands when they installed three unsanctioned, unofficial stop signs at the notoriously-blind intersection of 14th Avenue East and East John Street. It’s a spot where that steep slope of John Street finally crests and where people are trying to get to Safeway via all modes of transportation. Plus, now that Safeway has shuttered its more-pedestrian-friendly entrance on 15th Avenue East (remember when you could just walk into a Safeway via all of its entrances?), everyone is funneled into the entrance attached to the parking lot. It’s a messy intersection, one the city doesn’t seem to think of as much of a problem since they removed the three stop signs.
But Maybe It Worked: The guerilla stop signs did prompt Seattle Department of Transportation to gather data on that intersection and see if stop signs would be necessary.
Duke’s Closes Alki Location: Duke’s Seafood on Alki Beach will close immediately, ownership announced. The restaurant never recovered from pandemic and West Seattle Bridge closure-induced lows. Duke’s still operates six locations in Bellevue, Green Lake, Kent, Lake Union, Southcenter, and Tacoma. If you want a restaurant with sweeping, unobstructed views of the Seattle skyline—it’s for sale. Unfortunately, I doubt it’ll be a bargain.
Buying a Home? In This Economy? King County saw an 11 percent increase in homes-for-sale last month. The prices keep climbing. The median sale price rose 3.3 percent to a laughably-high $977,500.
Existing? In this economy? The stock market remains abysmal. In fact, it’s even worse than yesterday because China’s 34 percent tariffs on US goods went into effect. I’m just going to quote the Associated Press for these market updates. Here they are: “The S&P 500 was down 2.8% this morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 1,049 points, or 2.6, as of 9:35 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 3.2% lower.” It’s bad out there. Meanwhile, Trump doubling down. He says his “policies will never change.”
Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq crater after China announces first retaliatory tariffs
finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st…— Yahoo Finance (@yahoofinance.com) April 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
So Much for Job Growth: Despite federal layoffs, US employers added 228,000 jobs last month. We’ll see how this forced global recession impacts things in coming months.
International Duck Has Visa Revoked: The Department of Homeland Security cancelled an international University of Oregon student’s visa without warning for unspecified criminal charges. The university is trying to figure out how to respond.
The Weather: Ignore Mudede. Today, with its sunny skies and low-60s highs, will be glorious. Last week, it seemed the whole weekend would be glorious, but it does not appear to be anything special anymore and instead will be cloudy and rainy. Enjoy today.
The Economics of Mass Deportation: A new report out of the Washington State Budget & Policy Center found that undocumented immigrants are vital to our state in many ways. We have around 1.2 million immigrants here, which includes 619,000 non-citizens and 325,000 undocumented immigrants. On an economic level, we depend on our immigrant population, especially when it comes to state funds. Our undocumented immigrant population contributed around $1 billion in 2022 to our state economy in the form of state and local taxes. According to the report, if even 10% of our undocumented immigrant residents in Washington are deported, Washington state would lose $100 million per year in revenue. That’s not even considering the contributions they make to providing goods and services. Industries such as farming, restaurants, care and domestic work, and construction rely on immigrant employees. Mass deportation is cruel, senseless, anti-American, and bad economically. You’ll hear more on this from Marcus Harrison Green later today.
Don’t End Up Like a Case on The Pitt: Wear a helmet if you ride an e-scooter or an e-bike. According to Harborview Medical Center, last year 163 serious injuries from e-scooters or e-bikes came through their doors. Many of them were head injuries. E-bike and e-scooter injuries went up 37 percent from 2023.
Also, On That Note: No one spoil last night’s new episode of The Pitt. I missed it. I’m loving the return of episodic, appointment-viewing for television, but it is terrible for spoilers in this social media landscape. Can’t we have at least a 24-hour embargo before people start clipping things and blasting them on every platform? This is why it’s terrible that there’s really only one text-based social media platform these days (Bluesky). The influx of video everywhere else sucks. Numbs the brain. Spoils the shows.
Assault and Rape Charges for Russell Brand: United Kingdom police charged comedian and actor Russell Brand, 50, with “one count of rape, one count of indecent assault, one count of oral rape and two counts of sexual assault.” Four women brought the charges against Brand, who in recent years has become more of right-wing social commentator.
Enjoy this The Onion article from 2023:
Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender
— The Onion (@theonion.com) April 4, 2025 at 6:50 AM
RFK Jr. fires Health and Human Services Department Comms Teams: Instead of making public health more transparent like he promised, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doing the opposite. In Tuesdays spate of layoffs, seven employees in charge of communicating the health department’s work and its guidance to the public lost their jobs. According to these people, the communications offices of five HHS agencies housed in the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health have lost pretty much their whole staff.
Oopsie: RFK Jr. now says that the Department of Government Efficiency’s cuts, where around 20 percent of Department of Health and Human Services—or 10,000 people—were laid off may have been a mistake. He may reinstate some roles. I suggest he reinstate all roles and also leave his. Just a thought. Not sure he has many of those himself.
Meanwhile: Dr. Oz will lead Medicaid and Medicare programs. Thanks for nothing, US Senate.
Laura Loomer Calls the Shots: Far-right conspiracy theorist and white nationalist Laura Loomer told Trump to fire six National Security Council officials after an Oval Office meeting where Loomer “vilified the staff members by name,” writes the New York Times and attacked their loyalty and character. Trump then fired them. Michael Waltz, the national security adviser, was powerless to prevent the firings, showing that Loomer, who is a 9/11-was-an-inside-job truther, wields more power than he does. Trump denied Loomer played any role in this, but said she was a “very good patriot and a very strong person.”
Here’s Who Was Fired: From NYT: “The people fired included Brian Walsh, the senior director for intelligence; Maggie Dougherty, the senior director for international organizations; and Thomas Boodry, the senior director for legislative affairs.”
A Song for Your Friday: Heard this in a coffee shop the other day and it brought me back to 2011 when I listened to it on repeat.
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To be intellectually consistent, The Stranger should be cheering the wealth and income equally effect of the stock market cratering. It bites the wealthiest and highest income earners disproportionately hard.
Meanwhile, home equity, the largest source of net worth for the bottom 90% of the income spectrum, went up 3.3%.
All progress toward wealth and income equality.
Oral rape?
The last time I ate anything (except the donuts) from 7-11 was oral rape
“So Much for Job Growth: Despite federal layoffs, US employers added 228,000 jobs last month. We’ll see how this forced global recession impacts things in coming months.”
I was seeing a post on Bluesky suggesting that these numbers were doctored because the federal layoffs were deliberately excluded for no legitimate reason. We’ll see if a news outlet picks that up. Maybe one already has. Potemkin village labor statistics?–one of true sigs we are living in an authoritarian regime.
Big slap on the back to the apparent tens of millions of Trump voters and the tens of millions of non-voters who are somehow surprised that Trump is doing all the shit that he said he’d do. The one group of people that isn’t surprised? The overwhelming majority of us Harris voters.
@1:
Of course you fail to note that the uber-greedy – er, wealthy – while taking hits, still have more than enough to tide them over (okay, maybe they’ll have to sell one of their fleet of 100-foot yachts they use as tenders for their 400-foot super-yachts), and certainly enough to jump in on the upcoming Wall Street Fire Sale to pick up juicy deals on cratering stocks, thus substantially making up on whatever losses they’ve suffered. Meanwhile the rest of us are watching our retirement savings swirl down the loo and wondering if there will be anything left to live on by the time we’re forced out of the job market for being too old and “unproductive” (read: making higher wages due to our years of experience) in favor of younger, lower-wage workers, while The Incredible Husk guts our Social Security fund like a fishmonger taking a chainsaw to a salmon.
@3 Which Harris voters?
Beyonce, Oprah, Lebron, Taylor, JLo, Bad Bunny and several other celebrity Billionaires. Or did you mean Pelosi, Schumer, Bernie and AOC and all the others that gaslit us and said that Biden had full mental acuity? There is tons of blame to share… with many bad actors, both in hollywood and politics. Wouldn’t you agree?
Putting up guerilla stop signs is the most Seattle thing ever, peak passive aggression.
@5: incoherence.
@4, “Meanwhile the rest of us are watching our retirement savings swirl down the loo.”
That outcome also promotes income and wealth equality by closing the gap with the lowest income workers. Finally, baristas and retail workers will have wealth and income parity with folks like you and I.
@1: Oh please, Nathalie’s is the best Slog AMer we have, hardly as snarky and agenda-driven as some staffers are.
@7,
You’ve had the glaringly obvious logical fallacy of this attempted “gotcha!” assertion explained to how many times now?
You’ve also claimed on numerous occasions here to not support Trump, though I’d like to invite you to start doing so. Your childishly stupid and petty brand of rhetoric aligns quite nicely with his, and that of his childishly stupid, petty sycophantic supporters. You’ll find yourself right at home in the GOP.
@5 Blame to go around? The blame lies with people who voted for Trump, sat out the election, or voted for their “protest” candidate (seriously, who the fuck votes for Jill Stein with a clear conscious?). The choice was simple if you were paying attention. But if you were trying to make a statement or clinging to your purity politics, you’re reaping what you sowed. And so is everyone else.
I have a friend who was fired by DOGE and he never received the paperwork he needed to file for unemployment. I think this may be deliberate to keep the unemployment claims down, though I haven’t heard that this is a widespread problem.
@10: I disagree. No matter how people voted or didn’t vote, nobody expected this amount of damage to the economy. Blaming is vengeance and it doesn’t get you anywhere. America had two very problematic candidates and the blame starts with the DNC and RNC if you’re really looking for someone to blame. But blaming shouldn’t be your highest priority now.
I’m reading this comment @5, and of course, it’s a bad-faith attempt at false equivalence which I figure even the writer can scarcely muster any enthusiasm for. But I do have to point out the first line: “Beyonce, Oprah, Lebron, Taylor, JLo, Bad Bunny and several other celebrity Billionaires.”
First off, I can’t imagine that JLo and Bad Bunny are billionaires. (Perhaps this makes me guilty of underestimating Puerto Rican American wealth.) But I can tell you one characteristic all these individuals do share. They would all make infinitely better POTUS’s than the current one. You know why? Because none of them is a megalomaniacal, narcissistic sociopath, and all of them would sincerely want to do what is best for our nation.
speaking up, here’s a little suggestion. Why not come out of your shell and communicate with the rest of us like you’re a normal human being and we’re normal human beings–y’know, like if we were talking to each other in person? I mean, the sort of political rhetoric you’re engaging in–we might as well let AI spit out that sort of predictable agitprop anymore.
@9: um, ok. maybe you meant a different @7?
@1, This is completely backwards. Most Americans have their retirement tied up in 401Ks and they will be hit much harder than the investor class, who reap others’ losses in market crashes because they have the capital to ride it out and buy more stock when they bottom out. They’re in it for the long haul but anyone who plans to retire in the coming months-to-years or however this drags on will be fucked. Market crashes don’t fix inequality, they make it worse.
The inequality problem in this country isn’t driven by the middle class vs. the working poor, it’s billionaires and multi-millionaires vs. everyone else. The goal is not to even things out by making the middle class poor but to tax the ultra wealthy so they’re slightly less rich and the rest of us don’t have to fight over table scraps while hoping the market holds on long enough to survive through retirement. If you don’t know this already, I’m afraid you might be an idiot.
My retirement savings has taken a huge hit. Fortunately I’ll be dead soon from E coli.
@15 “The blame lies with people who voted for Trump, sat out the election, or voted for their “protest” candidate”
Seems like there’s a person who you forgot to mention, whose one job was to win the election, that probably bears at least a little culpability for not winning. Probably at least a little more than, say, someone who voted for Jill Stein in one of the 40 or so states where the outcome was not in doubt. But hey by all means don’t let me detract from your righteous outrage.
@14,
Yeah, sorry, didn’t realize there were two of you!
@12 All of us who didn’t vote for him expected ALL OF this. That’s why we didn’t vote for him.
@15 that’d
be a BINGO.
skilled at Propaganda
shredding Any UNITY
keeping us at each
other’s throats
how many Yachts’re
Too Fucking
Many?
b. how many
Homeless’re
Too Fucking
few? we’re
About to
Find Out.
“The guerilla stop signs did prompt Seattle… to gather data… and see if stop signs would be necessary.”
What?….What??!!!……..WHAT????????!!!!!!!! Did the Stranger actually just acknowledge that the city has taken swift action on a potential problem, even if it is only prelim???????!!!!!!
Zut alors!!!! That’s great news. It means that Trump will be gone tomorrow & Jesus will be coming Monday!!!!
Since when has Trump ever made his intentions unclear? Jesus tapdancing Christ on a cracker. There is no excuse.
@17: Most of us are pretty sure voters determine the outcomes of elections, but if you’ve got a different theory, please do let us know.
“Seems like there’s a person who you forgot to mention,”
Oh, you mean the person who said this?
“But we do have a real opportunity to win something historic. We could deny Kamala Harris the state of Michigan. And the polls show that most likely Harris cannot win the election without Michigan.”
“This is ground zero to punish Kamala Harris and defeat her.”
No problem. No one in Seattle will ever forget who said that.
It’s always the candidate’s responsibility to earn votes. Granted, running against a pathological liar and con artist presents a unique challenge to anyone playing by the traditional rules but the responsibility is still theirs alone to secure enough votes to win.
I’m reading the comment by thirteen12 @17, and when it comes to assigning blame for Trump’s victory, I certainly don’t blame folks like thirteen12. If anything, I have to offer him my begrudging congratulations. If I blame anyone, it’s the millions of gullible rubes who succumbed to the relentless disinformation campaign coming from the likes of thirteen12 and decided to sit this one out or vote for a third-party candidate like Vladimir Putin dinner party guest Jill Stein.
thirteen12, I do have to wonder though. I know it’s hard to resist spiking the football. But rather than looking backwards, shouldn’t you be reserving your energy for discrediting the new generation of Democrats who are emerging to challenge MAGA? Although, in fairness to you, you did engage in a pretty raw attempted character assassination of Cory Booker the other day for his marathon Senate speech. I dunno, could Senator Booker find himself more in your graces if he managed to get a chummy dinner invite from the Kremlin?
“Buying a Home? In This Economy?”
Home prices have nothing to do with the economy and everything to do with the corrupt state of the Real Estate Sales industry.
55yrs ago when I studied for the license I never wanted or used, first, no agent was allowed to represent BOTH the buyer & seller simultaneously (without notice). And, second, it was both illegal & unethical for an agent to present an offer to a seller if there was an earlier offer pending. The first offer had to be rejected for the second to be presented. That means BOTH buyers & sellers had to carefully consider their offers & acceptance/rejections. If the buyer low balled & the offer was rejected, he missed his chance if there was another offer waiting. If a greedy seller rejected an offer hoping for more, he might have missed the highest offer he would ever get. It was an efficient, considered market. What we have now is definitely NOT a market. It’s BIDDING WARS, nothing else.
The real estate industry thinks it’s smart by driving up prices to drive up their commission. (What’s happened is, if the seller is smart, he just negotiates for a flat rate.) The sellers think they’re on to a good deal because prices are driven up. What actually happens is, every 10-20 years, the market crashes and all the buyers relying on refinancing to pay their mortgage, lose their houses. Agents can’t sell (or earn) for a couple of years. And there are no more neighborhoods. Only gated communities with people looking to sue their neighbors at the slightest irritation.
Democracy for all!
Booooooooo!
Very well, Democracy for no one!
Booooooooo!
Hmm…Democracy for some, miniature American flags for others!
Yaaaaaaaaay!
“Existing? In this economy?”
Does anyone really think Trump gives a shit about tariffs? There is absolutely only one thing Trump cares about: TRUMP’S MONEY!!!
Unless I miss my guess, this is just another Trump Pump N Dump. Trump, on behalf of his minions, is purposely tanking the market. They’re Vulture Investors. They love to see the market tank because they get to Buy Low.
I checked, and Trump didn’t do this when he was first elected. But one year later, Covid hit and the market tanked any way. Don’t you think they learned from that? It was a perfect example of what to do this time. In a couple of months, Trump will be all…..”Tariffs? What tariffs? Tariffs are the worst! Only an idiot would erect tariffs!! Where did all those tariffs come from? Who put those tariffs in place? Let me at ’em!!”
And the tariffs will come down, the market will soar, and Trump & Co will make more money.
Conservatives Democrats and their allies never take responsibility for electoral losses even though they effectively control the Democratic party. They lose twice to a terrible candidate like Trump and its always the fault of the voter, of progressives, of the 3rd party candidates who attracted less than 1% of the vote and of course don’t forget the Russians. All so they can claim that their pro-status quo policies and campaign priorities had nothing to do with the losses. Pathetic losers have to be sidelined if we want to have a chance of turning this ship around
“Wear a helmet if you ride an e-scooter….”
Think of it (people who don’t wear protective gear) as evolution in action.
@22 FTW!
averagebob @29, I knew my comment @25 would set off your bat signal.
I don’t think anyone here is claiming that both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are blameless for Trump’s victory. Personally, I believe both of them can look in the mirror as to why Trump won and both of them should shut up and disappear forever. Just, our point is that Biden and Harris’s incompetence is no excuse for any of us as American citizens and responsible adults of voting age to have avoided doing our civic duty and taking the simple action of voting to prevent this catastrophe which anyone with any sense could have seen coming.
@19: So what? That’s all in the past now.
“I did not think the face-eating leopards would eat MY face.”
@29
“Conservatives Democrats and
their allies never take responsibility for
electoral losses even though they effectively
control the Democratic party. They lose twice to a
terrible candidate like Trump and its always the fault
of the voter, of progressives, of the 3rd party candidates
who attracted less than 1% of the vote and of course don’t
forget the Russians. All so they can claim that
their pro-status quo policies and campaign
priorities had nothing to do with the losses.
Pathetic losers have to be
sidelined if we want to have a
chance of turning this ship around.”
pathetic
losers’re overly-
Well-Represented
here
@ tS
“Pathetic losers have to be
sidelined if we want to have a
chance of turning this ship around.”
and Thanks
for the djt
wormmy
& so on.
your
Portfolio
is Safe. the
Rest of Us?
I
find
Your
Lack of
Empathy
disturbing.
@32 Quit blaming the people abandoned by Democrats for the last ~40 years. If you want the victims of neoliberal globalization and widening inequality to vote Democrat, you’ll have to start fighting for them. It was crystal clear after 2016 and even more so now. Kicking a couple of leaders to the curb while pursuing the same pro-status quo policies isn’t going to do it.
@32: “…doing our civic duty and taking the simple action of voting to prevent this catastrophe which anyone with any sense could have seen coming.”
Well, we did repeatedly warn the All Gaza All The Time crowd that “Gaza Isn’t Driving Votes,” but then Harris didn’t promise them every last thing they demanded, even though they stomped real hard and loud and everything, AND THEN, the engraved invitations Harris sent to each of them personally lacked even a semblance of proper gold filigree, so of course at that insult, they had to play Take My Ball & Go Home, as it’s the only game they’ve ever “won.”
And Trump is better than having “Genocide Joe” in office. Duh. Just ask the folks here! 😉
and of course we have to suffer the very same nonsensical drivel for the umpteenth time …
averagebob @36: “Kicking a couple of leaders to the curb while pursuing the same pro-status quo policies isn’t going to do it.”
Hey, good to know I’m personally responsible for the Democratic Party’s platform and for the Biden administration’s agenda, which was apparently too progressive for the voters but not progressive enough for the folks like you who are always trying to set a progressive trap for the Democrats (folks like you whose message is radically different from that of Bernie Sanders and AOC for anyone who’s paying attention).
No, what I’m responsible for as a non-omniscient private citizen is to pick from the choices before me. I made my choice against fascism and economic calamity. I passed the test. Millions of voters and non-voters, subjected to relentless manipulation from influencers like you, chose otherwise. They failed the test.
I can understand why you would want to confuse that. Anyway, I’m falling behind with my work, so I’ll have to let this be made last contribution to this thread. averagebob, the floor is yours. Have at me.
@10 — ” No matter how people voted or didn’t vote, nobody expected this amount of damage to the economy. “
I don’t mean to be rude, but come on! He is doing exactly what he said he was going to do. He talked repeatedly about tariffs. The Republican Convention featured Project 2025. Democrats kept pointing it out “Hey! Have you seen what they planning on doing?!!”
But to a lot of people it didn’t matter. They trusted the white dude over the black woman. Or they were fed up with the economy (even though we had the best economy in the world) and figured we should try something different. Holy shit, even with all of this going on, a huge number of people still trust Trump. They will trust his ass until the economy goes belly-up. That is the way this shit works. The guy is very popular with white dudes.
spews a pile of nonsense, then runs away claiming she is too busy with work
classic move from crackpot Cressona
@40 “even though we had the best economy in the world”
It doesn’t really matter to the 50+% who can’t make ends meet at the end of the month. It’s a stunning display of tone deafness to keep saying that the economy is doing great when it’s not working out for so many people
Shorter cressona @39: “Knowing only Harris or Trump could win, I voted for Harris.”
Shorter ‘bob @40: THATS CRAZY TALK!!!
@39 “the Biden administration’s agenda, which was apparently too progressive for the voters”
There is absolutely zero reason to believe this, but Democrats will act as if it’s unassailably true, which will cause them to alienate progressive voters again, and then blame said voters when they inevitably lose. Only things that are certain in life are death, taxes, and Dems running to the right then blaming the left for their failures.
https://www.patriciarobertsmiller.com/2025/04/04/progressives-are-children-of-the-enlightenment/
The thing with lying trolls like tensorna is they keep spewing the same garbage over and over again no matter how many times it is shown … to be garbage
Not only did I always say that people should vote for Harris in any and all battleground states but it isn’t about me, no matter how much lying trolls like to pretend it is: it is about the many who are disenfranchised from voting and all those voting against their own interest because the party of FDR has abandoned them.
@9, “You’ve also claimed on numerous occasions here to not support Trump, though I’d like to invite you to start doing so.”
I do oppose Trump. I have voted for his Democrat opponent twice and contributed money to Dems.
That doesn’t mean I slavishly and reflexively support economic equality at any price, as an end in and of itself. It does not mean I support creating that equality by punitively punishing people with high incomes and wealth, or people one rung up the economic ladder from me, just because they have more than me.
Europe has an effective flat tax by making the poor pay highly regressive taxes and fees so that they pay the same effective rate as the highest income tax payer. The poor and the wealthy should pay the same effective rate, when all taxes remitted to the government are divided by income. Everyone having the same skin in the game, as a proportion of income is fair.
That should occur in the U.S. by first, closing loopholes for high income earners at Federal level, not because it will produce a revenue bonanza – it won’t – out of fairness. In Washington it means putting an income tax in place that offsets sales tax revenue dollar for dollar. Once we all pay the same proportion, then we can decide if we ALL want to pay more for more government services, raising a variety of taxes, as Europe does, to keep everyone with the same proportion of skin in the game.
Slavish, Stranger like calls for income equality, for the sole sake of income equality, is agnostic about how that equality occurs. It is far easier to achieve by dragging people down from the top rung of the economic ladder, than by equipping the people at the bottom to climb.
People get paid more when they produce a service or product that consumers will pay a lot for without going on strike. Things like a meal out, or a discretionary retail good, if it hits a certain price point, get consumers voting against those goods and services by sending their dollars elsewhere or just closing their wallets.
Products and services that are produced with high productivity, pay workers more. It’s no accident that in retail, Costco and Starbucks offer some of the best wages and benefits. The sales per employee (productivity) lead their respective sectors and the retail sector in general.
Productivity (high sales per worker) is even more true of tech and other knowledge workers. The revenue per Amazon Web Services worker or Microsoft worker is whole magnitudes of order higher than retail.
But we never see The Stranger advocating for making workers upwardly mobile with skills and training. All we see calls for, particularly from Charles, is dis-empowering the masses of consumers that decide what gets produced, at what price, and punitive measures against the rich, Seattle homeowners, or workers like @4, because they have more income and wealth than the barista that makes their coffee. They want to bring down the top, but never raise the bottom.
In the 60’s and 70’s restaurant and retail jobs were not careers. They were jobs held primarily by the young while they up-skilled into higher-skilled vocational trade or got a college education. We need to get back to that. We need to fund training and stipends to incentivize low-skilled workers to up-skill, but The Stranger never calls for that (Calls for debt forgiveness for the unmarketable English Lit graduate isn’t that).
@44, Progressive voters have no history of staying home or voting for Republicans.
Working-class voters and swing voters do have that history. Trump won, with great Progressive turnout, because working-class, and particularly typically low-voter-participation voters, turned out, left the Democratic Party, and went for Trump.
So who do Dems need to appeal to? Progressives with no place to go, or voters that will switch to Republican?
@41: “…then runs away claiming she is too busy with work…”
Heh, when I was actually too busy with work to debunk one of your many, many items of nonsense, you declared my inaction was validation of your nonsense (https://www.thestranger.com/books/2025/02/26/79942126/author-qanda-omar-el-akkad-on-gaza-power-and-the-stories-empires-steal/comments). Then you rejected the (to you) absurd idea I had better things to do than debunk your nonsense. Limits do exist, you know.