If Sawant is the joker who's supposedly leading the great socialist revolution, we might be waiting awhile.

Much like the Stranger, she has long slid into near comical irrelevance.

@1

The message of the Joker is not to use it as an excuse to be violent and hate rich people (although that is its canned facade); it is to not abandon your social services, as well as to gain empathy between the classes. Why bother being as wealthy as Thomas Wayne if you live your whole life as an abhorrent curmudgeon full of hate? Why bother being as free as the clown people if the result is fire and mayhem?

The world shits on people again and again and again from all walks of life. The point is to show you the consequences of losing empathy and a sense of unity. The masks the money it's all a show a comedy of errors. The point is that we don't let our people get so desperate that they can no longer distinguish reality from their own delusional escapes from the crushing gravity well of infinite sadness that can only be turned around if people give a shit about each other enough more than their goods and services and people made commodities through their cartoon dollar sign pupils or bullflag-tinted lenses from the lances in their sides.

I think Teresa and Lorena can do for Kshama what they did for Zach.

https://youtu.be/boQMLXLI-fI

Point in case

The endorsements from Teresa and Lorena just highlight the fact that the entire City Council is a bunch of extremists. Everything they touch turns to shit. They have failed to address the homelessness crisis and even fueled it with bad policy, so they are running against a bogeyman. Vote them all out.

Is Bezos trying to become King of Seattle?

“Now it looks like Amazon’s Super PAC donation—which now totals $1.5 million, and is being used to fight against Sawant—changed their opinion.”

It’s called, “the devil you know.”

(Also, their opinion that Zachary DeWolf would make a better CM than CM Sawant is not the same as an opinion that Egan Orion would be a better CM than CM Sawant, so there was no need for anything to change their opinion.)

@8: They hate Sawant and Sawant despises them. Remember, they're "Corporate Councilmembers" who have thwarted The Peoples' Will, as expressed by Kshama Sawant. They've both admitted to finding Sawant difficult to work with and personally abrasive.

This is a craven defensive move. They likely think Sawant will win just based on popular reaction to Amazon's cash drop (wow, BERNIE's tweeting about her!!!).

Mosqueda and Gonzalez, both consummately ambitious people, want to ram their idea of progress through, damn the torpedoes or public opinion. They apparently figure hopping on the Red Wave will enable them to bask in Sawant's reflected glory. And they apparently figure Kshama will owe them big time. A stupid miscalculation: Sawant has loyalties to no one but herself.

They probably think, too, that if Sawant wins, they'll be insulated from Bezos' thunderbolts. I suspect they are wrong. I rather doubt Amazon will sit by in the next election cycle, waiting until the last minute to throw its weight around. Amazon will approach it strategically next time. It's rather surprising they weren't more forward looking with respect to Sawant.

Kshama won't be their lightning rod. More like an ungrounded tower in a thunderstorm.

They're gonna be burned by this move.

Jason Rantz rocks!

He's gay too.

Jason "Rantz"?
I thought it was Cramps.
My bad.

Sawant and Modi have the exact same mechanism of exerting political control.

Seattle's only hope for the future lies with the Amazon-backed candidates. Sad, but true.

It's always best when Bjillionaires
choose for us.

You can even ask the Homeless.

Wow, Mosquito got fat.