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It doesn't matter who is elected Mayor, Seattle is circling the drain.

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U.S. Capitol Police tell Congress they're totally incompetent, corrupt

You can see this was an inside job from space. These are the same thugs that maced disabled Americans and dragged them out of their wheelchairs for protesting against Republinazi attempts to repeal the ACA that would literally kill them.

And it's surprising that more hasn't been discovered about the two officers that died by "suicide" after the riots. I mean, one guy supposedly shot himself in the head >>>on his way to work<<<. Yeah, sure. And then he reloaded and shot himself six times in the back.

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4: No, they really committed suicide. What a mean thing to say.

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This is terrible news for the FWD: FWD: OMFG Seattle IS DYING!!1!! crowd:

Seattle among top markets as U.S. home prices increase by double-digit percentages for the first time in years

"Prices for homes in the Seattle area were up 13.6% in December compared to a year earlier. Nationally, prices rose 10.4% year over year.

That national jump in December was the first double-digit increase since January 2014... Over the longer term, Seattle-area home prices have risen 55% from December 2015, according to the index."

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Wait ... Bruce Harrel is black???

Huh, then why did I endorse him as a candidate 3 times ...

Man, next thing you'll tell me the VP is Indian and lived in Montreal ...

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Remember the 1960s and 1970s when every activist's phone was tapped? And half of the attendees at SDS or Black Panthers meetings were likely FBI informants? Remember J Edgar Hoover? Law enforcement really took it on the chin after that in the minds of the public.

It's not unlikely that law enforcement monitors Facebook/Twitter and has Signal, Telegram and other apps cracked. They knew what was coming, but to admit as much would be to attract public outcry about a surveillance state. And more cries to defund the police. So they just let it happen. Like Coventry. They knew this would be an unarmed group and that the collateral damage was likely going to be some laptops and furniture. Mourn for Nancy's podium like some sort of religious icon if you want. But it wasn't worth blowing their intelligence operation.

Remember this the next time you want to cc your Antifa contacts list. Not everyone is who they appear to be.

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Mr. Smith, if I might proffer a suggestion on style? The phrase "the country Georgia" feels very clunky to me. I'd use "the republic of Georgia", myself. Or just say "Georgia"; I think the vast majority of people will understand where you mean by context.

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Getting mad at Science because the sometimes the prevailing scientific consensus is wrong demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of what science is and what it's for.

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RE: Expectant father obliterates himself with "boy or girl?" bomb.

When that kid gets around to asking what happened to his/her dad, the mom's gonna have a really stupid answer.

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and when they built that Gallows (fully Functional! with Noose!) and were hunting for vp Pence and Pelosi (oh and any Bets on how might AOC have fared should they have stumbled over her whilst Storming OUR Capitol?) they were what, Just Joking, Sherlock?

not to Mention the Insurrectionists' healthy Stash of WMDs apparently within arms reach

gawd, yet Another Democrat Hoax?
haven't We Suffered Enough already?

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@12 -- 'he wasn't your Real dad'?

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@12: omg - What a torturous psychic pretzel that family with deal with forevermore.

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We need a Munson Diner.

Now that Twin Teepee's is gone. Hat And Boots is falling into disrepair. The Dog House has gone to the dog house. Even that place in Wallingford bit the dust, and that was a long time ago. So long ago I forgot its name.
And Googies? It's suffered "The Seattle fate".

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Slogging through the royal wheeze of Hammer-Grammar, I learn that MC has no idea what Science does ... and no idea how it is that he knows some things once thought true are now thought untrue.

And what MC thinks when he thinks of Philosophy, I hate to think.

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U.S. Capitol police are lying. They have already stated that they knew there was going to be a rally and they had been warned of violence by the FBI and the Secret Service and had been asked numerous times if they required National Guard backup. They simply did not feel that a bunch of white people were a problem. They refuse to acknowledge the biggest threat to this county, white supremacist terrorism. And those who weren't simply refusing to believe, were co-conspirators (a number of them have already been implicated). Pelosi's calling for the firing of the head of the CP is not an overreaction and the CP can't backtrack by pretending they didn't know anything when they DID and everyone knows they did! Fire every last one of them for not doing their goddamn jobs.

Meanwhile the 148 congressional representatives who voted against the certification of Biden's win of the presidential election are still sitting in congress. Why? Every last one of them is guilty of violating the oath they took when they took the job, they are guilty of sedition, and they are guilty of treason. The fact that THEY have not been forcibly removed from their jobs is obscene. Republicans need to be eradicated. They do nothing but collect their paychecks and steal from taxpayer funds. Everything else they destroy. Get them the fuck out already. Enough bullshit.

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@7 Downtown Seattle is boarded up and deserted, businesses flee, and homeless drug addicts control the streets and parks. Enjoy!

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@12,

Worse, the kid's pretty much directly responsible for his (or her, of course!) father's death. What a darkly comedic burden to carry around with one's self.

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@23,

I wouldn't say responsible for it exactly, but the impetus for it at least. But yeah. It's like that paradox story of going back in time and killing your grandfather. Like, if not for child, father would be alive.

Though the reality is, "if not for father's stupidity, father would be alive." But that's less poetic.

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@1 Seattle is not dying nor is it circling the drain but @7 its just as idealogical dishonest to state its all good because property ownership is holding steady. Over half the population in Seattle were renters in 2020 and those are the people who are now leaving the city because they no longer need to be here for their jobs and they are locked out of buying (https://www.seattlepi.com/realestate/slideshow/apartment-vacancies-seattle-rise-rents-decline-214673.php).

Beyond that more than 50k people used to commute into Seattle everyday for work and those days are gone even when there is a vaccine. At best you'll see 70% of that in the long run and it may even be as low as 40-50%. The reduction in the commuter traffic will impact the service industry that revolves around them and lead to lower sales tax revenues for the city. Whoever is leading this city for the next 4 years is going to face some tough challenges in the face of a declining revenue stream and an increased demand for city services to mitigate the lasting impacts of the pandemic.

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Darwin's a Huge
fan of these things.

& let's Hope none
of them go Big.

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"Seattle Council President Lorena Gonzalez, who is definitely running for Mayor, was the first council member to call for Murray's resignation. Might be kind of an interesting dynamic if Harrell does ultimately decide to jump in."

Indeed, it would re-create the same situation as our general election for Mayor in 2017, when Cary Moon had started her mayoral campaign by demanding that then-Mayor Murray resign, and Jenny Durkan had started her campaign by accepting Murray's endorsement. How'd that work out for you guys?

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Such horseshit. I told my girlfriend the night before the Trump rally, "I bet those fuckers try to storm the Capitol."

I'm not clairvoyant or any more perceptive than anyone, but I had been reading the fucking newspaper, and these assholes had been storming state Capitols or trying to or talking about it for months before this.

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@28

They'd been talking about it openly on social media for weeks! Just like they're talking about 3/4 right now. SMH.

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@32 --one word:

Pocket Nukes.

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Lorena Gonzalez versus Bruce Harrell. Fuck yeah. Finally. Two highly qualified and very reasonable candidates that understand nuance. And of course, city government -- did I mention that they are actually qualified?

I'm tired of these incompetent mother fuckers from outside city government thinking they can operate a major city. They all spend years trying to figure it out, then fuck it up. Last good mayor we had was Norm Rice and ... surprise, surprise, he was a member of the city council first. Of course he was. Look at Biden. A fucking eternity as a Senator, eight years a VP, and he is doing one hell of a job. You don't have to be the smartest person in the room if you are the wisest.

It is interesting reading that interview of Bruce Harrell from 8 years ago. So little has changed. Holy shit, he is basically talking about defunding the police with regards to Cal Anderson Park. Yeah, moderately so, but still. Oh, and upzoning too. Every issue he mentions is still highly relevant.

If he runs I'll have a very hard time picking between the two -- in a good way.

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@35 - have they No
Graffiti Artists then?

perhaps KemperFreeMan
can fly some in. Sad...

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@17: Having Harrell in the race would definitely be a good thing. He quit while he was ahead, and thus, has had no part of the culture of abject failure which has gripped our Council since his departure. He'd definitely get some or all of my Democracy Vouchers, as well.

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@36 -- I agree. I grew up in this town, and I'm only a few years younger than Bruce Harrell (in fact my sister was in the same calculus class at Garfield). I went to the same schools (Minor, Madrona, Meany, Garfield -- back when they were all majority black). I got to know the city, and the city was rough and tumble back then. In some ways it became safer in the '80s, and in some ways not (L. A. gangs arrived, and started spreading their random violent bullshit). But it is ridiculous to think that a city this large, with the same fundamental strengths (good bones, decent climate, great major university) is just going to die.

What I find interesting is that it is all a variation on ideas that were spread since Nixon (and probably well before then). It is the same anti-city, anti-immigrant, right wing reactionary bullshit that Trump spreads. It is an appeal to the suburbs, while being clueless to the fact that the suburbs are far more diverse, and have their own issues now.

I also find it interesting that people often complain about how "Seattle was better then". They are usually talking about the five years or so after they arrived. That point when they finally got used to the city, and started appreciating its quirks. Then suddenly they didn't want it to change. It's all bullshit. Great cities change. So do mediocre cities. There was no "Golden Age" of Seattle. It all goes back and forth. The only big thing I miss is the Sonics, and hopefully they will be back soon.

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"@1 Seattle is not dying nor is it circling the drain but @7 its just as ideologically dishonest to state its all good because property ownership is holding steady. Over half the population in Seattle were renters in 2020 and those are the people who are now leaving the city because they no longer need to be here for their jobs and they are locked out of buying."

Are they though? Is rent going to actually be cheap in Seattle in a year? Seriously? Because if so, I know a shitload of people who will move back to the city.

Oh, and how is it that people are "locked out of buying" condos, while apartments are suddenly so damn cheap? It doesn't make sense, and neither does your argument.

Seattle was booming. Now, maybe, it isn't. It could be a rough landing, while rents (and condo prices) drop to the point where they are affordable (like a normal city) and we get a lot more artists (you know, like most cities during the last big recession). Or it could be a soft landing, and prices don't plummet, but just stop growing like fucking crazy for a while. A middle class couple can actually afford a decent condo (and maybe even a row house!).

Similarly, less money will be spent downtown. Maybe. Huge numbers of people are moving there (this building will have people in it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1120_Denny_Way). That is a shitload of people who want to eat, drink and be merry when this fucking pandemic is over. That could happen relatively soon since we finally have someone in office who knows what the fuck he is doing.

There may be less money spent downtown, but those big office buildings won't be empty. I'm not saying it will be easy, but compared to being mayor of just about any other city in America, it will be a piece of cake. There are big financial problems (at the state and local level) all over the country. But again, fortunately we have someone in office who understands this, and knows that Republicans don't give a shit, and will steamroll those motherfuckers if he needs to.

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@21 xina for the WIN!! Agreed and seconded. I have nothing more to add.

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@44 -- Wait

were the Nazis
the Bad guys?


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