@2
Can you give the 2020 Darwin award to 63 million people?

Xmas trees for Hawaii and Guam loaded on the M/V Maunawili Friday and Saturday

No on Jennings for Jeopardy. It should be Will Farrell doing his Trebek schtick.

Zuckerbot is a stone cold sociopath—just looking at his dead fish eyes squicks me out. He’d behead Priscilla Chan on FaceFuck Live live for a dollar, like some sleazy 21st century Henry VIII.

@Jack has gone full Howard Hughes and is drinking his own urine on his trip around the bend.

Be sure to tell every rabid, screaming MAGAt that they rigged the election against Prezinazi AntiChrist and it’s their fault he lost, followed by their home addresses and private mobile numbers.

Jennings would absolutely be the best and most obvious choice. Though I also kinda get the impression that he likes Washington and might not be super psyched about upending his current life and career and moving to LA, which would be a bummer, but also understandable. I'd think any of those former contestants who've had long, memorable runs could be considered as worthy of consideration.

Just looking at the recent GOAT tourney, both James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter also possess that same "nice mix of nerdy and socially awkward" that Nathalie mentions, and that I agree would be appreciated in a host. They're also relatively young and so would be able to hopefully hold down the fort for at least a decade or two. Finally, they're relatively apolitical (at least publicly) which I'm sad to admit would probably be helpful and appreciated by the powers that be.

To that last point, I'd heard Anderson Cooper's name mentioned, and though I think he'd be great, he'd also stir up some controversy (and yeah, I get the irony in not wanting to stir things up amongst a bunch of ignorant troglodytes by selecting a host for a program that celebrates education and knowledge, though the reality is it's a factor the producers are going to take into consideration. Though if they were willing to overlook said factor and wanted to simply troll the moron brigade, I'd like to nominate Merrick Garland for consideration.)

"sick fucking wreaths."

I like the idea, just not the phrasing, given the pandemic. How about "bodacious fucking wreaths" instead?

Eastern washingtonians are determined to drag us all down with their stupidity one way or another arent they? Fine the couple hosting the wedding into bankruptcy and refuse medical care to anyone who attended the wedding. At least keep them out of our hospitals. This bullshit has to stop.

300 wedding guests = lousy champaign

Maybe let's hold-off on more city and county police cuts until the defund crowd decides what, exactly, they will fund with their new monies. All I ever hear is "invest it in the community", which means what, exactly? Nobody knows, but for sure they know it will bring an end to gun violence and people making bad choices.

@2 - Maybe they think their families are a bunch of assholes, so they decided to thin the herd.

@12 - That's a you problem, not a them problem.

You not lifting a finger to type "defund the police policies" into Google and educate yourself on the many, varied and fleshed out policy proposals behind the slogan isn't an indictment of the movement.

Keep reporting the posts and tweets.

Now, as to the failure to follow ADA requirements, I hear there's a giant inaccessible wall on Pike or Pine near 12th, which is a CLEAR VIOLATION and it should be torn down, subject to a FULL REQUIRED DESIGN REVIEW which it never had.

Get ready to be sued over this.

@12: All your winning about relatively minor Seattle police budget cuts after years of non-stop budget growth is unattractive and tiring. Violent crime has continued to drop during the last 5 years the police budget grew almost 50%. Put on your big boy pants. The city council had this debate and made it's decision. You lost, move on.

As @14 correctly points out, your willful failure to study the extensive research on how to better allocate wasted police funding in the community is not an effective argument. You could start correcting your willful ignorance here, but you won't:

"The End of Policing" by Alex S. Vitale

@13: I've always been a mask guy, but this might be the best argument I have heard for holding a no mask party. Like the country song says, I don't even like half the people I love.

@14:

If you want to create a mental image of your typical RWNJ, look no further than the corpulent, inert adult-baby passengers of the starliner Axiom from "Wall-E": people who have so little interest or inclination to do anything for themselves they have to have everything shoveled into their mental hamberder-holes by someone else. Of course, it's ironic, given their fatuous belief in boot-strappy "self-reliance"; but then logical consistency has never been one of the Right's strong suits.

12 It looks like you can't see the forest for the trees. The city is filled with tents instead of decent housing because the rents are too high and wages are too low is one reason to fund the community. Mentally ill and addicted have little housing and treatment opportunities. Police brutality is a serious issue which is yet unsolved. Poverty is on the increase because of low incomes and impossible to pay all the bills. The community needs must be addressed.

Do you live in a mansion and have a trust fund? Most people don't.

Austerity caused by politicians giving our money to large industrial concerns and not to social needs. Neo liberalism has caused and is causing ruin for most people. Money for wars but not for human needs. Money for prisons but not for injustice.

Both presidential candidates are neo liberal but one is a fascist goon and so we have a problem. Ignorance is a big one.

@17

"Censorship" can't convince anyone of anything. A former third-rate reality television host with a long history of grift, collusion, cheating, and prevarication on the other hand...

perhaps @12 has a point:

It Pays to Advertise.

Its truly laughable that Trump followers call democrats communist and or socialist. Unable to find out what those words mean and look it up they throw them around as insults. Look up anarchism seriously and one thing it is clearly pro labor which the right wing is not.

Anti fascist means against fascism which was fought over in WW11. We have another fascist strongman called Donald Trump who unfortunately is not an answer to any of our problems but millions believe his lies and racism. He is dangerous and must be stopped.

@17,

What censorship exactly? You mean social media platforms fact checking posts and deleting obvious bullshit and misinformation? You do realize that kind of crap is wildly dangerous don't you? Go ask the patrons of Comet Ping-Pong in Washington DC if you must.

Also, please engage with this community and at least make some effort to respond to refutations of your posts, and requests to back them up with sourcing. Otherwise, I can pretty much guarantee this new profile of yours is destined for the same fate as mcbikeface and all those other childish feeds of parroted idiocy you've created. Though I must admit to getting a huge kick out of the fact that all your whiny-ass posts about the evils of site moderation are deleted by site moderators.

@19: Thank you for always providing sanity on these topics.

During a time of wide spread poverty in Seattle, more spending on guns and violence is not an effective answer.
Joe Biden is another neo Lib. His best argument for electability, and it's a powerful one, is that he is not Donald Trump. That does not mean we should pretend he is something that he is not.

@14: Such are the problems of sloganeering, no more exemplified than 'Defund the Police'. To expect everyone to educate themselves on the nuances is unrealistic and provides fertile fodder for exploitation by Fox News and politicians.

@14 - a slogan that you have to Google in order to know that it means something other than the ordinary dictionary meaning of its words is not really much of a slogan, is it?

@24: Time to hold our incoming Administration to their pledge:

"The Biden-Harris administration will work with Congress to pass police reform legislation including:
[...]
Stopping the transfer of weapons of war to police forces."

https://buildbackbetter.com/priorities/racial-equity/

Some people warned us about what Trump would do. Specific things that a lot of people didn't think would happen. If anyone can do the same for Biden, and BE SPECIFIC, how many people would say, "NO, he'd never do that." And do it without using the words "neo liberal" and "communist/socialist".

@14 OK I did a Google. From a recent Seattle Times article:
"“When we see this uptick in gun violence — particularly among Black youth — we want to create opportunities and a different environment that will allow them to grow,” she added. The center would be equipped with 3-D printers, students would be trained in computer coding and the center would develop partnerships with technological hubs to “create a pipeline that doesn’t exist right now,” said Holiday."
So their solution to gun violence is more after-school activities? I see...school clubs, sports, community centers, video games, and masturbating aren't enough to keep our youth out of trouble after school, got it!
@16 I want to know what the ideas of the people lobbying city hall to defund are, not Alex Vitale's.
The fact is, they don't know. The same Times article says they are spending $17m on surveys which "involve gathering data from the city of Seattle, holding focus groups and interviewing residents, as well as examining community safety models".
So while they have largely began the plan of shrinking the police force in size and duty, they have not implemented anything on the other side because apparently all of 2020 will be spent making a plan to "re-imagine public safety" rather than actually doing it.