"dozen other cops just standing around and smirking in the middle of the road"

You must have amazing X-ray vision because all the cops in the video are wearing masks. Meanwhile, you implore U.S. Supreme Court Justice Breyer to resign his post. As if. This country needs Justice Breyer a lot more than it needs you.

How many SPD cops does it take to arrest a sleeping man, amirite fellas?

@1,

Lefties want Breyer to step down to insure that Biden is assured the task of nominating his replacement, and so as to not risk a RBG situation, should the worst happen in three years. It's probably not actually an unreasonable ask, especially in light of recent events and given the razor thin majority we've got in the senate.

@4 It's not an unreasonable request, unless you're Justice Breyer, and his opinion is the only one that counts.

@5,

And if Breyer cares about his legacy (which I have no idea if he does or not) he'd do well to consider that Ginsberg's legacy has been tainted by her not retiring when she could have been replaced by someone like her and was instead replaced by her polar opposite.

Is it fair that Ginsberg's legacy has a stain on it? Perhaps not, but anyone who lives in the united states knows we don't treat people fairly here.

@3: Well, any dude or dudette of any hue passed out drunk in the middle of Broadway and John on a busy weekday evening would cause quite a commotion with multiple cops tending to the situation and controlling pedestrians and traffic.

And gosh, it's ended so anti-climatical for so many that salivated for even more drama.

Yes, despite the fact that Dem control of the Senate is hanging by the thinnest of threads, it looks like Breyer is bound and determined to stay put for another term. I just hope he understands that this one HAS to be his last. A 7-2 right-wing court wouldn't stop at overturning Roe v. Wade. They would very likely destroy the regulatory state completely and would probably undo Social Security, Obamacare and Medicare while they're at it. Conceivably, even the laws barring overt race and sex discrimination by the private sector could be at risk. What's at stake is much, much bigger than one liberal-ish white guy's legacy. Unfortunately.

@9,

I feel like Roe is in peril regardless of what Breyer does. It's so incredibly fucking stupid that we're governed by a system in which the powers to enact, interpret and enforce our legal statutes is so disproportionately representative to the ideology of our citizenry.

I know molewacka will come on here at some point to suggest we should simply use our democratically endowed powers to enact policy change, but the reality is that the "democratic" system itself was set up to self-preserve and to render such changes insanely difficult. And the modern day shift toward polarized ideologies renders any such changes effectively impossible.

Gosh it's fucking stupid!

@ 10,

Confirmed: If there's one thing we can proclaim with certainty after the last two decades, it's that our abusive, sadistic, destructive "system" of government doesn't work.

Specifically thanks to the Senate, the Supreme Court, and Republinazi gerrymandering, which allow a tyrannical cadre of fascist religious fanatics to inflict their brutality on the majority of decent Americans.

"Libertarian sea community collapses under the weight of its own stupidity"

Kind of like the CHAZ/CHOP.

Rich--why is Washington Governor Jay Inslee being branded a "Tyrant King" in your article?
Inslee is busting his butt to put Washington State ahead of the country in lowering the COVID curve to keep us healthy and safe, and I feel he's doing a fantastic job (infinitely better than the unmasked zombie ex-cop and clueless idiot, Loren Culp ever could).
I am fully vaccinated and have had no qualms about remaining masked in public because I could still be asymptomatic and unknowingly pass COVID on to others.
I have postponed traveling--especially by airplane---to stay healthy.
Personally I feel it is wise to avoid going to large events attended by 500 people or more (i.e.: at The Gorge).

Way to GO, USAG Merrick Garland, and keep on rocking the house! Bravo to you for doing what 5 of 9 in SCOTUS stubbornly WOULDN'T, under misdirection of Mitch McConnell--grab the Texiban by the balls and hang 'em high. If anyone deserves a bounty on his ugly corrupt neofascist white male head, it's Greg Abbott, among a long line of RepubliKKKan shitwipes starting with Trumpty Dumpty down to his most MAGA-stupefied of rubes.

@11 Original Andrew: We need to get rid of the Electoral College, gerrymandering, and voting recalls (i.e.: the current shit going down for California voters to decide if Governor Gavin Newsom should be recalled--to be replaced by neofascist pro Trumpist RWNJ, Larry Elder).

What to do with all that remaining Zoo Poo?
I wouldn't mind seeing it dumped all over the Governor's Mansion in Austin, Texas.
If nothing else it would further demonstrate that Greg Abbott is so full of shit he could fertilize the entire African continent.

@13, Inslee isn't busting his butt to keep renters healthy and safe after they are evicted, which he could have prevented until the end of the year at least. Perhaps you're not without a job and way behind in your rent (obviously, since you have "postponed traveling"), but a hell of a lot of people are.

@15 sarah91: Actually I am technically unemployed, which is why my beloved and I haven't traveled since last September. Flying, riding the ferry, eating out, and hotel stays are expensive. My condolences if you are among those unemployed and behind on your rent. I am fortunate that for now I am not, but my rent can always go up. So we are trying to be as frugal as possible until our finances get better.
To be fair, Jay Inslee has had a lot of issues to address in addition to the COVID pandemic. Climate change, controlling wildfires and helping communities devastated by this summer's heat wave and long dry season, addressing student loan debt, and as you say, unemployment, to name just a few.
What would you do to ease the economic frustration of renters facing eviction due to back rent?

@3:

Depends on how many in a particular shift are short on overtime this month...

@9- Roe is going down Breyer or no Breyer. The Trump justices have their orders. All we can hope for is an incredible electoral backlash in 2022.

@18 dvs99: Jesus. What a crying shame that the future of Roe has come to that! I weep for women and adolescent girls everywhere, as well as little girls from birth to their preteens who have yet to experience their first menstrual period.
For the rest of my life I will always be amazed at the eerily good timing of my full bilateral hysterectomy in 2020.