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If that mud is the best the Gonzalez campaign could come up with, they're getting desperate.

@1 - Don't conflate nobody preparing your soapbox as ignoring you. The staffer lays out the buffet of news items to chew on, and you can segue from there.

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Also worth noting that I think our resident idiot is likely trying to make a case that stranger/slog is being hypocritical w/ regard to our reactions to scientists recommendations regarding vaccines, as opposed to those relating to helmet safety. Apparently he is somehow unaware of the fact that the vaccine mandate is an effort to prevent transmission of a communicable virus which is capable of killing anyone that comes in contact with it, and a bicycle accident very rarely kills anyone other than the cyclist.

The most recent data I could find showed Washington averaging somewhere in the neighborhood of a dozen or so cyclist's deaths annually. Covid has killed well over 8,000 since the beginning of last year.

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Wanna take bets on whether Attorney General Milquetoast locks up Zombie Aunt Bee/Bannon?

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@3, @1 - There's more to being safe than death rates. A helmet will obviously not protect you from non-head injuries. And it's true that those cause many cyclist deaths. However, they do prevent head injuries. And while the thought of being dead contributes to why I wear a helmet, the thought of having a serious brain injury is the biggest reason. The article linked did not address that. Last time I crashed hard on the road I split my helmet. If not for the helmet, it would have been my head.

I still maintain that if you ride without a helmet, you are a fool. You are asking to wind up seriously impaired. And repealing the helmet law is very unlikely to change the rate of helmet usage in any case.

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Maybe sometime, somewhere, somebody will educate Rich as to which prior offenses are and are not admissible at trial, and why this is the case.

Until then, he'll keep writing as if he knows things he merely thinks.

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The Stranger might want to reflect on its own position on Ed Murray before jumping on those allegations. He was given his own Slog guest editorial to defend himself.
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/04/14/25077321/guest-editorial-the-motivation-is-political
Can any survivor trust you?

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@8,

Literally noone ever suggested any mandate to save a single life would be justified you stupid, lying fuck.

The most recent data I could find indicated the flu killed ~250 Washingtonians in a year. Covid was doing well over double that per month, and that's WITH the extreme distancing and precautionary measures that were put in to place. So to answer your question, no, there is no singularly defined number of annual deaths that would be deemed acceptable by a society, though if one did exist, it'd be safe and perfectly reasonable to assume it's well over 250 for Governor Inslee. No such number exists and your continued demands for one are comically petty, pointless and absurd.

Serious question.... Do you ever admit to being wrong about anything? Because everyone on here makes fun of you constantly. Seriously, go back and read through the responses to you; you're a fucking joke, dating all the way back to that fucking joke of a letter you sent back in 2016 or whatever. A little contrition on your part upon being proven wrong would at least earn you some measure of respect which you currently lack.

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Sorry, I really don't like being that mean in a comment. The whole, "I thought saving a single life was worth it.." thing really struck a nerve, Probably because I know the dude is smart enough to know that noone ever said or even suggested it such a thing. And again, has just demonstrated a repeated inability to admit to ever being wrong about something, which is annoying.

But I will say that fax has always been polite, despite also being obstinate.

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@13 ahahaha, is that what you really think? How adorable.

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You've gotta hand it to Dan Satterberg.

From Plea Bargains that force the innocent to plead guilty to to Brady Violations that protect dirty cops on the stand, the guy has consistently defended the worst behavior of prosecutors over the past 30 years and still pretends he's a reformer because his behavior is mildly less grotesque than the absolutely worst prosecutors in the country. Congratulations, your a hair better than Harry Connick Sr. You must be so proud.

Despite this, he can still find people in the media willing to parrot his self claim that he's a reformer. Imagine, defending cops who have a history of lying under oath from Brady violations by claiming it's really about unrelated violence charges rather than protecting the credibility of cops who will lie on the stand to help him secure convictions. His ability to gaslight, shift the subject and claim the moral high ground on a topic is truly breathtaking. A true politician.

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@molewacka - Do you cook like you think? If a recipe calls for 1tsp of cumin powder, do you feel it's hypocritical not to add it to every recipe?

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@18 -- Exactly.

Getting back to this question: "What is the consistent basis for determining the number justifying the mandate?"

One standard is whether the disease, left unchecked, would overwhelm hospitals. Most diseases don't. Covid has.

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Fuck the proposed redistricting maps! No fucking way am I voting in the 42nd District!

Lock up Trump, Bannon, and everyone involved in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol for high treason, al-fucking-ready! No exceptions!!

@1, @8, @9, and @13: Stop snorting hydroxychloroquine already, before you fall face down into your Cocoa Puffs and your keyboard becomes a jumbled mess.

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I voted as soon as I got my ballot. Thanks Rich for the reminder for all of us to get out there and exercise our constitutional rights. November 2nd is the deadline. This is how democracy works.

@5 Original Andrew: Maybe USAG Merrick Garland could call in to Washington State Attorney General, SuperBob Ferguson for a little help. I'd love for renowned chess champion Ferguson to hold a poker face and calmly state to a hysterically raging Orange Turd, Donald Jackass Trump and his pet Zombie Aunt Bee, Steve Bannon on their way to life imprisonment: "Checkmate."

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"Lorena González dropped an ad hitting Bruce Harrell on his responses to rape and sexual assault allegations leveled against others."

Aside from screaming, "She's desperate!!", this won't change anything. Seattle's voters have never shown much interest in swallowing the emissions of male convicts, so the money-grubbing 'accusations,' (never, ever made in any actual court, of course) from felons had no effect years ago. Carey Moon began her campaign by demanding Murray resign; Jenny Durkan had begun her campaign by accepting Murray's endorsement. Durkan trounced the well-financed Moon by a dozen percentage points, making it hard to believe any voters actually cared about what may or may not have happened decades ago. Expecting them to get all indignant now about Harrell's very sensible questioning of the allegations shows the González campaign is being run by someone with no real understanding of Seattle.


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