Elizabeth Warren brings it:

“Ruth Ginsburg was a woman who never let any man silence her,” said the Massachusetts senator. “The most fitting tribute to her is to refuse to be silenced, and to name exactly what Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are trying to do—steal another Supreme Court seat.

This kind of sleazy double-dealing is the last gasp of a desperate party that is undemocratically over-represented in Congress and in the halls of power across our country.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/last-rasp-of-a-right-wing-billionaire-fueled-party-dem-senator-rips-trumps-rush-to-fill-rbgs-seat/

I like the reading suggestions.

@3 Can't tell where your facetious ends and the sincerity begins. Maybe it doesn't?

Amazon creates 600 new jobs in Redmond, to move 15,000 jobs to Bellevue.

https://blog.aboutamazon.com/job-creation-and-investment/amazon-expands-in-redmond-wa-with-plans-to-create-600-new-jobs

Good Morning Charles,
I'm not going to ask for a citation but saying 50 percent of Americans have no wealth to speak of is a bit of a stretch. I don't agree.

Curiously, read this morning in Gene Baulk's column that Seattle now has a median income of greater than $100,000.
Seattle definitely has wealth.

@8 - Read the definition of "household" which includes roommates and everyone living in the same residence. Cram enough minimum wagers in a crappy apartment and the numbers add up. About 25% of "households" make less than $50K and minority "households" skew much lower than non-minority . Seattle is a good example of income inequality.

Charles, until the BLM movement can control the pyromaniacs in its midst, the media will indeed be "ragging" on it.

You seem to be relishing in the idea that people from all over are visiting Seattle for various reasons, then lament the fact that many of these places AND the airports which they are moving through have lax covid measures, or no measures at all.
And we sit here in Phase 2, like we aren't even supposed to be traveling to other counties for fun and shit.

@14 Read it again - you got the wrong end of the stick.

@9 I take it more as patois native to some other region of the internet. So on that reddit, or whatever it is, his post would make perfect sense and express some deeply held wisdom. But to outsiders, its a puzzle.

Why is it shocking that a working American has only $20 in her account? She has a job. We have no idea what her salary is, her expenses, her living situation, or how she spends her money. Now she has more. Be happy for her and don't hijack her good twist of fortune just to bash capitalism.

@19 arr oh eff ell. Next time throw in some advice about thrift and you'll win the cake.

Just got an email from the UW alumni list-serve for my college. Anybody want to rent a 3bdr in Beacon hill for $4k per month? They allow pets with additional deposit. Definitely a good sign for working families.

@21: Okay - you and Charles have had your exploration alert fix.

I hope she goes out and spends it on whatever she wants. Of course, if she spends it luxury items it will blow your entire narrative.

Nothing on Putin's announcement? Seems he's telling Trump he's washing his hands of him. Trump can't win without foreign interference and he's now been told that won't be happening. OOF, that's gotta hurt. Then again Trump could always go live in North Korea.

Time to stay the fuck out of Indiana (OK, yet another reason to stay the fuck out of Indiana).

Given that another 100k dead in that state is not going to help the Mango's cause, you would have thought that Macho Man Mike Pence would have leaned on them to be a little more careful.

@18 Superman III ruined that for everyone

@24: Please don't stereotype her as a welfare queen.

@31 - exactly. Too bad that all the people who are sick with COVID won't be able to go vote in person. If only there was a way to vote without showing up. Oh, wait, some mango-colored idiot decided that was a bad idea. Here's hoping that most of the voters the Repubs kill off are their own.

@13:

Until police departments can control the murderous racist thugs in their midst, the rest of us will continue ragging on them...

@17:

We're the kind of country that forces the elderly to continue working long after they should have been able to retire and enjoy their "golden years" in relative comfort, health and safety, so they can stay just barely out of poverty. And even then, we'll bankrupt them into penury the moment some inevitable geriatric medical condition forces them to give up whatever savings and property assets they've managed to accumulate during their working lives in order to pay for it - unlike literally every other advanced society on the planet.

@35:

They spend it now, because they have needs now, you know: rent, food, clothing, transportation, medical bills, child care, and other essentials - and yes, a smart phone is an essential these days, as is internet access (try scheduling job interviews, doctors appointments, etc., without either of them). Buying a few shares in a startup is only an option once you've paid for all the necessities, and most people living at or near, and most definitely below the poverty line can't afford the luxury of investing money for tomorrow when they need every penny they have right now.

@18 I was making extra money at an hourly job because they coded me as the wrong position and then when I quit these motherfuckers tried to get the money back. I was like LOLNOPE.

Hey, if I inherited 150-million dollars, there's no reason those poor people can't do the same, other than they're too lazy to do it.

@18, 43 Yeah, it happens now and then, especially in large bureaucratic firms where things can fall through the cracks. At one job I received an extra day's pay on every holiday for a few years even though employees of my classification technically weren't eligible for that benefit. Eventually they caught their mistake but (wisely) decided not to try to recoup the money. I would have quit on the spot if they had.

Chuck tourism sucks everywhere not just Seattle. Fires and CHOP don’t have anything to do with it.

@53 Its not that the stuff you say isn't true in some abstract sense - the fortunate will always be fine. But what about the unlucky and the mediocre? Shouldn't society work for them too? Should't they be able to live more than one missed paycheck from homelessness?

Or is it more important that they suffer, as objects of aesthetic contemplation, to illuminate the parable.

More believable that Biker was in the finance industry than the furious professor was actually a professor of history.

@61: There's nothing about your disposition that leads anyone to think that you would be drawn to teaching history, or anything else for that matter. You enjoy reprimanding way too much. Nor is there any self-reflection or questioning one's beliefs coming from you. Granted, such attributes are not easily divulged on Slog, but your personality disorder is enough to validate these observations.

@65 Prof, thanks for the entertainment... I got some good chuckles out of that. These people are just beyond stupid. It's a little like shooting fish in a barrel, but fun way to start the weekend anyway.

@65: Exactly, you never read, think, and comment. You just troll.
@66: I'm happy you're so easily amused.