The police should not roll their bicycle over protesters (point 2). And 10 day unpaid suspension, possibly broken up, seems like a slap on the wrist. Come on. And you have to think it would have been even less if it hadn’t been caught on tape.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now. And get vaccinated or boosted (boostered?) if you haven’t yet.
Well, looks like I am guilty of a racist hate crime.
Looks like I’m guilty of much worse.
And until recently I was one of the most powerful and influential lobbyists in the Republican Party.
Don’t know if this has been addressed since the November elections, but this Seatac homeowner is proud that we voted in three new progressives to our city council on 3 November. Out with the parochial exclusionary stuff, out with disregarding the community makeup, and in with equality, neighborhoods, and fairness!
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/3-progressive-candidates-just-changed-politics-in-seatac-heres-how/
There’s an article about these results in the Seattle Times, which, in typical Seattle Times corporate fashion, tries as much as it can to praise the outgoing councilmembers while attempting to look unbiased, but of course fails. Sure, Hill and Kwon did some good things (Stan Tombs did nothing good to my knowledge), but Sitterley openly supported the federal disaster named Trump, and there were a lot of questionable actions by the (less progressive members of the) city council during recent years.
I am excited to see what the next two plus years of new city council blood brings to this cool city.
@1 & @2,
That’s nothing.
I’m a fucking traitor who tried repeatedly to sell out the U.S. to our enemies.
And I was Trump’s National Security Advisor!
Well, looks like I’m guilty of treason, obstruction, and sedition.
And I’ll be the GOP nominee for president in 2024!
Tweet Goldy
“Don’t raise our taxes because we know best how to invest our money,” say the wealthy business people who routinely piss away millions of dollars a year reliably failing to remove Seattle’s only elected socialist from office!
Tweet David Dayen
“The amount of money Amazon has thrown into a dumpster over the years to try to end Kshama Sawant’s political career equals about 6 seconds of their quarterly profits, which is why they do it. But warehouse workers could do with some of those millions”
@5
Add in that you are a fucking liar all of the time.
@5
You want to be an emperor (or a petty dictator). Why not aspire to one that was both: Caligula
An ancient Roman oracle once prophesied that “Caligula had no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae”. After becoming emperor, Caligula ordered ships to construct the largest pontoon bridge in history, and rode his horse across the Bay of Baiae.
Caligula carried through and produced. You? not so much. Where is that wall you promised?
The only thing you have really done is produce a stain on democracy and getting a bunch of rubes to give you tons of money.
Don’t worry, Carl, the taxpayers will be duly punished for employing this rogue cop when the civil settlement is handed down. As per usual in these cases.
A Michigan man killed his wife by spiking her breakfast cereal with heroin. He collected $120,000 of life insurance, and two weeks after his wife’s death, “another woman moved into the home.”
This didn’t work out quite the way he planned, though. In his new digs, he’s likely to be the “wife.” Doctor Dumbfuck will fill you in with the details.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/man-sentenced-life-killing-wife-heroin-cereal-81679811
In Dec. of last year TFG Trump (CryBaby) FL, repeatedly identified a Georgia election worker by name in social media posts and public interviews and accused the 62-year-old temporary election worker and her daughter of election fraud and “stealing the election” from him.
In January of this year, only days before Trump gathered an armed and violent mob and turned them loose to attack the Congress and attempt to assassinate his own Vice President, a publicist working for rapper Kanye West traveled to Georgia, met with the woman at a police station (at her insistence) and spent two hours warning her about “unseen forces” and threatening her safety.
The next day, Jan 5th, the FBI acting on tips and intelligence from surveillance of “conservative” right wing groups contacted the woman and her daughter and urged them to leave their home. The following day a violent mob stormed into the neighborhood, surrounded the home and attempted to extract the two women. Fortunately they had quietly slipped away over night. This was the same day that a similar mob took over The Capital, attempted to carry out a coup, and desecrated our democracy.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/kanye-west-publicist-pressed-georgia-election-worker-confess-bogus-fraud-charges-2021-12-10/
Republican chaos and violence are now everywhere. They can be touched off in an instant and spread like wildfire to threaten anyone anywhere and at any time thanks to social media smears and the recklessness of modern hot-take media whores combined with the delusional paranoia of the modern “conservative”. The only thing giving any of us any real safety is the fact that they are currently out of power.
And if that changes in 2022, it will be Democrats fault. Not for the bullshit reasons that lying trolls say. Not because of Hillary, or War on Christmas, or $4 gas. It will be very simply because Democrats did not turn out to vote. Every single Democrat needs to have it pounded into their head how dangerous this is. There is nothing secret about any of this. What has happened to people like Ruby Freeman has happened to hundreds of others this year. And it can happen to any one of us now. This is the new Republican normal. It’s no secret. Bomb threats to school board or election board members. Voice mail death threats. Mobs. Vigilantes with ARs. More Tiki Torch marches. More Republican chaos. And now it is spilling into our own communities. Handing the control of the Congress will make it all much worse.
@11 Do stand your ground laws apply to everyone, or only armed racists who troll quiet neighborhoods looking for black kids with candy bars?
Unless I’m mistaken, there’s a thing called the Castle doctrine under which, if someone busts into your, it’s legal to blast them into eternity at the doorstep.
In case of an angry mob of Trumpers, you might want an Oerlikon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8gLeIlvDJg
Speaking of Trumper mobs, you can’t reason with Republicans. Once they make up their minds you’re coming for their freedom to be assholes, their minds snap shut like the steel jaws of a coyote trap, and all you can do to protect yourself is make sure your paws are somewhere else.
Look, you don’t have to be a Catholic. There are alternatives.
https://www.aol.com/news/catholic-diocese-says-gay-trans-233551531.html
Yes, this is bad, but you shouldn’t be surprised; through the ages, the Catholic Church has proved itself capable of far worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition
Now, granted, that was a long time ago. More recently, Church leaders (i.e., popes) merely besmirched the institution by pandering to Hitler.
https://medium.com/exploring-history/hitler-and-the-two-popes-c9968c090d8b
Even more recently is, of course, the sex scandals (i.e., priests getting blown by little boys), which requires no links or attributions, as everyone is aware of it.
Look, don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti-Catholic. Some of my friends are Catholics. I have nothing against Catholics, only their Church and its sordid history of countless and never-ending crimes against humanity, other sins, and mind-boggling hypocrisy, I don’t want to be one, that’s all. I trust my Catholic friends to understand.
12)More like a M-61 Vulcan.
Looks like Congress is holding off forcing the Army to buy more Iron Domes they don’t want. Raytheon is Rafael’s US partner, but won’t be missing out, the competing contractor the Army went with, their system is based around the AIM-9X.
https://www.defensenews.com/land/2021/12/09/congress-drops-army-mandate-to-buy-more-iron-dome-defenses-against-cruise-missiles/
Enjoy your new life in freedom-loving Belarus, asshole.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/585406-man-charged-with-assaulting-police-in-capitol-riot-flees-to
@155 20mm makes a bigger hole.
17)He picked the one country in Europe with a Death Penalty. The procedures make ours look fair. It’s a little like Japan, the execution dates are only announced after the sentence has been carried out, but Japan does have an appeals process free of politics. Belarus, probably like the USSR, especially when his secret police is still called the KGB.
18)The Vulcan is also 20mm, it’s the Gun off our fighter jets. Six barreled Gatling, also used by the Navy, and once again, the Army.
@20 Couldn’t fix that comment. (Has a typo, too.) Edit and delete functions not working.
There’s a story about a Trump mob showing up at a falsely accused election worker’s house on Jan. 6. Two days earlier, Kanye West’s publicist came to her house with an offer: Confess to election fraud in exchange for “legal protection” or “go to jail.” The publicist told her she was “in danger” and had “48 hours” to seek protection. The election worker didn’t accept the deal, and 48 hours later the mob showed up at her house, right on schedule.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/kanye-wests-publicist-pressed-a-georgia-election-worker-to-confess-to-bogus-fraud-charges.html
That bit of amateur “crisis management” (which is how she billed her role) sounds like criminal extortion to me.
21)Glad we didn’t have these people in 2004. I was a pollbook judge for King County Elections at the time.
22,
Now nobody is safe.
Violent Republican chaos can get anyone, anywhere, at any time and for almost any reason.
From 8chan to MTG’s Twitter to Trump’s lips.
And next thing you wake up and your house is surrounded, your kid’s school is in lockdown, and the FBI wants to place you in protective custody.