Regarding the police: City employment is like high school. You spend a certain amount of time there (usually 30 years, instead of four) then you get out. The magic number is 80: If your years of service plus your age equals 80, you are fully vested. You can either just retire, or go get a second career somewhere, and build some pension there. The utilities regularly see a sort of bumper pool game between PSE, City Light, Sno-Pud and Tacoma City Light.

Because of that, they get waves of retirements. This is the late 80's cops who are aging out.

Hilarious watching Leftists and Democrat politicians all boo-boo faced when Trump lists off the gigantic list of successes for the American working class. Really shows where these totalitarian pigs are at.

Looking forward to Facebook instilled counterpoints tomorrow.

Wonder what drug concoction AOC and Pelosi are on tonight. I'm guessing Pelosi took a bottle of Xanax and AOC is on a healthy bottle of anti-psychotics.

I can see why the mainstream tried to get us all not to watch this. Hilarious watching the Democrats and especially the Democrat female politicians mark out for Trump's speech like 12-years old did during the Beatles.

Can't wait to see how you'll spin this tomorrow. I'm guessing "HURRR TRUMP IS A RACIST LIAR" but we'll see where your creativity takes you tomorrow. Also a note about how woke and resistance fighting blah blah blah Pelosi is for shuffling papers around like a lost OCD tard. Something about the chick from Minnesota crying blah blah blah. AOC SO WOKE and Seething. Kamala Harris twitching from some neurological issue. And Bernie launching a thousand memes by being Bernie. Also can we talk about how the chubby chick who hates Israel is trying to raise the roof in 2019?

@2: You might want to use Spell-check before deciding on a username, MAGA-moron.

@2: Your intentionally provocative and indecent snark, so predictable and sophomoric, will be mostly disregard.

@4: Hiding under a new hashtag, MAGA-moron? Afraid to show your face?

@3: Hiding under a new hashtag, MAGA-moron? Afraid to show your face?
@6 was meant for @2 and @3.

raindrop @5: Why only "mostly disregard"?

I tag all the hash I can, granny.

What did we learn from the Democrats' reactions tonight. They hate a prosperous country. They hate the working and middle classes doing well. They hate border security. And they want to murder babies. Just look at these sour faced fucks.

Ha, socialism BTFO.

I can hear Stranger writers crying.

Awright - the chuckleheads are here! Stay strong, guys.

I personally couldn't stop laughing at Trumps ridiculously skewed tie when he waddled into the House Chamber, and during the first half of the speech - after which point I got bored and gave up - he looked like Dilbert. It was the continuation of a laugh from right before the speech, when I read that during a recent national security meeting this mendacious imbecile referred to Nepal and Bhutan as nipple and button. Maybe Dan can clarify whether this is a thing or not. If so, I'm praying that the Russians video taped it.

Here's a message from a North Korean proxy is trying to send into the dark corners tonight. This is actually pretty rare for NK proxies to get messages out. There's a really funny rumor Kim hangs out in the dark corners and plays a lot of WoW. Enjoy.

I ask the men and women of this Congress: Look at the opportunities before us!
Our most thrilling achievements are still ahead.

Our most exciting journeys still await.

Our biggest victories are still to come.

We have not yet BEGUN TO DREAM.

We must choose whether we are defined by our differences — or whether we dare to transcend them.

We must choose whether we squander our inheritance — or whether we proudly declare that WE ARE AMERICANS:

We do the incredible.

We defy the impossible.

We conquer the unknown.

This is the time to re-ignite the American Imagination.

This is the time to search for the tallest summit, and set our sights on the brightest star.

This is the time to rekindle the bonds of love and loyalty and memory that link us together as citizens, as neighbors, as patriots.

This is our future –our fate — and our choice to make.

I am asking you to CHOOSE GREATNESS.

No matter the trials we face, no matter the challenges to come, we must go forward together.

We must keep America FIRST in our hearts.

We must keep Freedom alive in our souls.

And we must always keep FAITH in America’s Destiny –that One Nation, Under God, must be the HOPE and the PROMISE and the LIGHT and the GLORY among all the nations of the world!

Thank you. God Bless You, God Bless America, and Goodnight!

This Nork proxy is releasing info and parts of the transcript before Trump even gets to it.

Is anyone watching this? This is unprecedented.

Nathalie, is there any way we can ban our problem child here?
I don't know what he gets out of hanging around our little community but his poison ruins entire threads.
We have a couple dozen semi-regular commenters whose perspective I enjoy reading, even some like Ted Shoreline Dave I regularly disagree with.
But this recent spate of childish drivel is too much.

@9, @11, and @12: You cement heads can all thank your buddy, raindrop @5 for his brilliant recommendation for paddling trolls. So here you go: WHAP!
@9: And I'll happily paddle all trolls dumb enough to keep coming back for more, especially MAGA-morons, sonny.

Can't handle real opinions. Demands censorship. Not my fault the Democrats are pathetic. Can we get rid of kalipugos please? His avatar is racist.

You didn't even watch this thing.

@16, sounds hot

@15 kallipugos: Okay, agreed---I've commented enough in this thread. But I do think raindrop (@5) had a good idea for troll paddling. I don't start shit, but I do prefer to end it.

@18 Doofus in Shoreline: Thank you for the reminder of how fortunate I am not to have a TV.
I didn't miss anything good coming from Trumpty Dumpty's State of the Idiot.

@17; WHAP! There you go.

Ever wonder what the outcome of having the most hated man in America as the face of the grand fight against the dreadful peril of socialism? The more Trump fucks up, the more Americans will embrace the opposite of whatever Trump likes. The guy is pure poison.

Sleep well.

@8: To be less severe I suppose. Force of habit mostly.

Good god what the fuck are you people smoking in Seattle?

Raise that roof, lady in white.

...

Old NBA horn thing soon.

I missed, at obviously the very least, Bongo Bong and a Counting Crows song last night.

;[

Renouncing David Duke and rejecting his endorsement: yet another thing any Democrat (in this case Tulsi Gabbard) does without hesitation that Trump is incapable of. Hell, even most Republicans are capable of knowing how to handle that, but not Donald Trump.

Has anyone used the term "pwn" since... I dunno, 2009? All I know is this guy is trying way too hard. Trolling requires subtlety and nuance. The guy who keeps making new accounts has all the subtlety of a marching band, and reeks of "look at me!" desperation.

76% positive response to the SOTU according to CNN.

Don't worry though, none of you actually watched it and you'll have your ignorant bullet points enforced by tomorrow.

I love the Slog PM. It’s the highlight of my day. Not sure if that’s good or bad. Probably sad.

Well... if you keep putting out food for them, it's no surprise that they keep coming back.

The funny thing about the Democrats all wearing those white robes is they were just missing the hoods.

Both CBS and CNN Polls: 76 Percent of Viewers Approve President Trump’s State of the Union Speech; CBS: 72 Percent Approve His Immigration Ideas

@31
I thought exactly the same thing... hoods, a noose and a burning cross and Senator Byrd would have felt right at home!

I'm sorry, does anyone really take the SOTU seriously? it's always a list of what any sitting President wants which nearly never comes to fruition.

And shouldn't Catalina be out calling 16 year old high school students pieces of shit?

Watching the members of congress in white only applaud or get excited for themselves was pretty funny.

The means is the end. If you censor to gain something else, you live in censorship. If you lie to achieve something else, like equality of outcome you live in lies. The means is the end.

Nancy Pelosi kept looking at her paperwork at times throughout the speech. We've never seen that before by the House Speaker. Bad form and disrespectful, no matter who the POTUS is.

@36 Indeed, neofascists endlessly trolling these comments sections to disrupt their political opposition are the means to an end we don't want: fascism.

So, to resume, protecting a discussion space for liberal and progressives by banning trolls without intellectual integrity is an important mean toward the end we want.

Catholic nuns having abortions due to getting pregnant from a priest... If that isn't the most literal definition of hipocrisy ever, I don't know what is.

Why should I be out calling teenagers "pieces of shit" when I've got you right here, Screaming darling?

And I stand by my words. Teenagers can be shitty. Shitty, shitty, shitty. And some can be real pieces of shit. I ought to know. I was a really shitty teenager.

The Catholic Church is the focus of evil on this planet for the past 1400 years.
Anyone who took their kids there deserves to fry in hell.
Anyone who embraces catholic "culture" would be better to wear jack boots and a Nazi swastika than display the heathen trinkets on their mantle.

What?!
You mean if you shit on the police and lie about them people won't want to join your police force?
We're shocked.

@38,

Wants censorship, calls other people "neo-fascists"

This is how retarded these people are. Probably also wants more government while unironically calling other people Nazis.

Seattle really needs to unfuck itself from this human trash.

F-ck the Seattle Police Department and f-ck each and every Democrat who still don't understand that the SPD is racist to its core. Is Seattle the ONLY f-cking city in the country where Democrats of Color on the City Council vote to reward killer racist cops with raises and bonuses? From today's Seattle Times:

Seattle police are using force at low levels but still can’t fully explain why it is used against African Americans at disproportionately higher rates, according to the department’s annual report submitted to the federal judge overseeing court-ordered reforms.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/report-seattle-police-use-low-levels-of-force-but-racial-disparity-remains/?amp=1

@43 It's not "other people" that I call neo-fascist that I want banned for trolling this space 24/7 (sick fuck), it's YOU in particular

@45

You are a very fucked up person. Using words like "Fascist" that you don't understand while being a fucking fascist. Keep advocating for people to be banned and censored who you don't have any argument against yet hurts your fee-fees while unironically calling them fascists.

I'm interested in how someone like you exists as an adult. You living off parents? You some button mashing monkey? How do you survive being this fucking dumb?

@46 For the record, I want you banned for being an obnoxious troll. Your being a xenophobe racist without compassion for your fellow man ( a neofascist) is your problem. Now, fuck off.

@47

You've demonstrated you don't know what these words mean. You've demonstrated that you are a fascist who can't handle anything beyond your echo chamber and you try to label people who you don't like with dumb buzz words that leftists like you have rendered meaningless. Also, what a clear historical example of what leftist is being the ignorant totalitarians while screaming about totalitarians. Also, you're trying to oppress a minority, dumb fuck.

You should feel shame but I doubt you feel anything at all.

Intimidation is the hallmark of fascism. Intimidation is not protected speech.

It's at the heart of why fashys have always been so theatrical. So obsessed with uniforms and parades. Il duce did it, Il Douche does it. From Goebbels to Yiannopoulos, it's how they gain power. Why do you think Trump was so obsessed with whether football players stand or sit for the special song? He needs to show his fashy minions he can use his platform to intimidate the resistance into silence. All under the guise of "free speech". The whole phony campus free speech panic was engineered by fascists to intimidate and to dupe do-gooders into protecting fascist intimidation.

Most everywhere in the world, people have used their common sense to see through this ruse. It's why you can go to jail for holocaust denial and why fascists symbols are banned in so many places. That kind of shit is the real threat to free speech: fascists abuse free speech to terrorize everyone. By telling vulnerable people that fascism is protected speech and fascist posturing is normal, they're telling them "you're next". It's not an idle threat. Fascists murder people in direct proportion to how normalized they are. All it took was a couple winks from Cheeto Jeebus and the fashys started driving cars into crowds.

Censor those motherfuckers. Kick them off the forums. Delete their accounts. You have to suppress fascists to protect the free speech of everybody else.

Fascists can still participate in the marketplace of ideas, short of threats. The problem is, fascism doesn't really have an ideology. They have no ideas to bring to the marketplace. Fascists can be socialist or capitalist. They can be anti-clerical or sectarian. For fascists, ideas are merely tools to gain and wield power. The only "speech" fascists have is fascists threats.

Censor the threats, and you've censored fascism itself. That's why Milo and Trumpy and all those dicks get so pissed off when they only things they're allowed to do are express valid political views about economics or social policy. If that's all they're allowed to do, their true fascist selves are totally suppressed. That's why they manipulate free speech absolutist dupes into defending their threats that are so effective in silencing the opposition.

Don't fall for it. These little pricks don't believe in free speech. Give them an inch and they'll use every scrap of power and influence they gain to censor the fuck out of everyone, as violently as they can get away with.

Look at the sheer hate that rolls out of these lunatics when their precious religious is exposed for the vile hate filled ignorance that it is. "We have to destroy free speech to save it!"

Yiannopoulos is a fascist? Apparently you didn't watch college after college descend into 1930s brown shirts chaos as this man's right to speech and assembly was taken away by "institutions of higher learning."

I'll be here reminding you of what a stupid fuck you are enjoying my 1st amendment rights.

Keep in mind, 49, you once had me banned because I obviously was some lunatic from Next Door(is that what it’s called?). You denied my assertion that I was once homeless and you denied the possibility that business owners and people functioning as businesses could ever stoop so low as commenting here.

You guys fucked with sex, you fucked with politics, and this is the end result.

Let me guess, you’re for punching what you construe as nazis?

“Hi, we’re the liberal elite”.

Who gets to decide who's fascist and who gets to steal who's rights?

George W. Bush?
Donald Trump?
The Federal Government?
Elizabeth Warren?
AOC?

You may be in vogue today, dumb fuck. But what happens when the person making those decisions doesn't like you tomorrow? You're so mind raped, you won't even know the difference. You're so mindfucked, you don't even know where your religion came from, why it's happening or even why you follow it beyond your dopamine hits of whatever acceptance you're missing in your life.

Use your fucking brains, idiots.

I'm simply sitting here typing out silly bullshit in this street rag's comment section and backing up what I say with evidence.

You are so triggered, you're demanding first amendment rights be taken away while I'm labeled as a fascist and you probably want worse for me.

Then you fucking idiots want to talk about being Anti-American with no sense of irony.

Then you wonder why most people under 30 look at you like we looked at George W. Bush.

You are the fascists, the Maoists and the totalitarians. This mental illness has swept this fucking city as the majority hate it but are terrified by it while a few frauds profit off of it and the rest of these dumb fucking robots blindly without thought follow it as shit just falls apart around us. A fucking meme steak salesman is President and he was the least frightening option. This is how fucked this is.

I'm not going to be confined by your ignorance or your perceptions of reality. Especially when your reality is a dopamine dictated Facebook informed slavery.

76% of "viewers" is what, like a couple thousand people?

"Then you wonder why most people under 30 look at you like we looked at George W. Bush." --free mkt. Poster

Thank Gawd most people under thirty have no great fear of Socialism
but the Repubs are gonna attack Anything -- esp. 'socialism'* -- which might bring us back to 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and early 1980 tax rates -- anything which might -- and is required, by our Constitution -- which might 'Promote the General Welfare.'

The far far FAR right tighty Whiteys will continue to double down on spreading the Fear of Socialism! to try and win enough votes to retain Power. All that gerrymandering and voter suppression is proving inadequate in their efforts to hand all Power to a select (self-selected) few, at the expense of the general welfare of the entire Citizenry.

Kleptocrats are not stupid.
(Nor are some of their Enablers).
And they'll stop at nothing

*our military is socialist
schools fire dept. highways
etc

@44 - Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Remember that next time you dial 911.

Can someone please explain to me why you are so enamored with the idea of replacing the word “government” with the word “socialism”?

This is a genuine question.

"once had me banned"

I did what? When? Who said they're the liberal elite? Me? Oh, I get it. You think everybody is all in it together, right?

Fascists see the world in pure and heroic terms, a grand apocalyptic showdown between us and them. So the "liberal elite", the "cultural marxists", the "globalists", teh gays, the feminists, everyone they can't deal with -- they mean THE JEWS, let's be honest -- is all in on it together. It doesn't matter how implausible the conspiracy and how laughable the complexity of everyone's contradictory motives, they convince themselves that everyone who can't fucking stand them -- and let's face it, fascists are unpopular -- is connected to each other.

Rest assured, dumbfuck, if I had the power to ban anybody, you and your 27 fake sockpuppet handles wouldn't be here. If you've got a complaint about the service you've received today, I suggest you take it up with the management. I don't know why you're so scared. Don't they always coddle you little fashy pricks to show off their free speech bona fides? It's too bad because there's a lot of smart people with things to say but they won't touch a forum infected with 4chan trolls and soy-obsessed MRAs. The alt right fucking murders people on the street. It happens regularly now.

Anyone ever wonder why The Slog is nothing like it once was? The fascists won. They came here and stunk up the place, and they were treated as equal members of the community. Anyone on the hate target list knows what comes next and they head for the door. Fascist censorship wins, and free speech do-gooders are the useful idiots who do it.

It's not too late. Censor every fascist cockroach on sight. No exceptions. Most every civilized country on Earth does it and it works.

"WHY won't you tolerate my Intolerence?!"

57

"Q: What’s an “MRA”?
A: Massively [W]rong Asshole. Or ‘men’s rights activist’.

Q: Why don’t the Odd Lady want none of them in her car?
A: MRAs are patriarchy-deniers. The ideologies of this violent and knobbish subset of the Male Dominion spring from male fear of women’s personal sovereignty, and manifest in practice as active misogyny.

Men suffer, O how they suffer, at the hands of subhuman conniving bitches who seek world domination through insane women-are-human propaganda and the misguided attempt to claim their own internal organs as private property.

The MRA imagines that women’s interests control and abuse him in an ever more feminized world; he erroneously sees himself as a battered victim of women’s agency, rather than what he actually is: a moron."

Thanks for that MRA reference, Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

"Bububut you HAFta let me in!! I'm with the banned!!!”

I received an education from the Hebrew University at Jerusalem and MIT courtesy of one Shai Reshef.

You’re out of your mind.

I’ll be at Chocolati on 45th for a couple hours if you want to see what the boogie man looks like.

Doing something for one Goldman.

You can even speak to me like that. I’ll just smile at you.

It’s like you’re speaking to a mirror, mouthful. You are what you see in the world, and all.

Good day all.

@52. Hey, relax. Ignore these leftie trolls. :). The lefties are already losing so they are trying to grasp at all the straws they can on their way to the bottom. BuzzFeed, Vox, Vice, and other fake news media is losing money and laying the regressive "journalists", there is more support for the POTUS than ever, and more and more people (even the libs themselves, like myself) are turning away from these nutjobs (#walkaway). The left is losing and they are kicking and screaming on their way to inevitable demise. :) So just ignore these spastics.

@57

Don't even know or care what this idiot is rambling about. Already been exposed for the dumb fascist that he is. Isn't it funny how desperate they are to stamp out any sort of dissenting or real thought? Thank god no one has given him any sort of power in h life. But you can clearly see why.

"Don't even know or care ..."

You obviously cared enough to reply, and reply again, and reply again. Four or five times. I got your number, don't I? Triggerd much?

Hebrew University. Classic. Always the same old bullshit. Next you'll say, "I've always been a died in the wool liberal with a capital L! I was at Woodstock! But this Steven Miller gentleman, he kind of makes sense doesn't he? And that Richard Spencer? Let's hear him out, why don't we?" Who falls for that shit? You're not fooling anybody.

Everyone hates you, you know? Go away.

@53
Viewers by network:
FOXNEWS 11,100,000
NBC 7,100,000
CBS 6,700,000
ABC 5,900,000
FOX 4,200,000
MSNBC 3,800,000
CNN 3,400,000

Yes, Hebrew University at Jerusalem. From NAND To Tetris. Art from Florida. English from Yale, which was not a learning experience. Waterloo.

And so on.

My father was nine when Woodstock occurred, and I haven’t the foggiest who those names are.

You are a wretched being.

Who banned you? From where? When? Why do you think I had anything to do with it? You call that a Hebrew University education? You just throw around bizarre assertions with no explanations? No evidence? Sounds like your average troll spewing, not someone with a serious education. Sounds like someone who just makes stuff up and knows they'll never be held accountable. Sounds like any one of thousands of 4chan drones trying to pose and posture and impress, but never really caring what sticks and what doesn't.

If you want to sell this story, you're going to have to walk the walk.

If loving punching Nazis is wrong, I don't want to be right.

https://www.upwork.com/fl/zachbailey

You are a wretched being.

"If loving punching Nazis is wrong, I don't want to be right."

An anathematic anthem for the Ages, to be sure.

https://www.upwork.com/fl/zachbailey ?

https://www.upwork.com/fl/zachbailey ?????

WHAT????

Is that supposed to make any sense? Have you forgotten how to form sentences? Can you not communicate in words? Are you drunk?

Who banned you? From where? When? How? You're the one who brought this up, so explain, if you can. You're drunk, aren't you?