DEFEND NOT DEFUND

5 Comments on DEFEND NOT DEFUND

1. Defund them and let the big liberal cities burn to the ground.

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2. Dems, Dems, Dems…Circling back to eat your vomit. How did that whole “Abolish ICE” thing work out for you?

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3. @Martin Looter King —

   I don’t mean to pick on you, Martin, because there have been many here who share your sentiment. Heck, even I share your sentiment sometimes. As delightful it would seem to have big, Leftist-run cities suffer the consequences of their bad choices, it’s a little more complex than that. In fact, having them implode or explode would be the final, devastating insult to those of us who used to make up the majority in cities like Seattle, my home (in the same house and neighborhood) for over 40 years.

   In those 40 years I’ve seen all the changes to my beloved city — and my neighborhood.

   Not that long ago Seattle was a backwater among coastal cities. Too much rain, not enough diversity of employment, no high-tech. Then along came Microsoft in the mid-80’s. Bill Gates needed engineers – a lot of engineers and tech people. Those people were in Silicon Valley and southern California. In they came from there an all over the country, bringing with them bags and bags of cash from the sale of their over-priced homes, to buy up what we locals called “McMansions” with “roofscapes.” Their numbers were so large and their neediness so big that surrounding bergs didn’t have the utilities infrastructure in place to build the houses fast enough. It put a huge tax burden on us to provide for them. It was proposed that these new Microsoft millionaires (most of the early Microsoft employees fast became millionaires) pay for their share of the costs of building out the utilities. These new people brought some very strange ideas with them. While they were fleeing the high cost of living in California’s cities and seeking (so they said) the “quality of life” of the beautiful Puget Sound region and its home town “atmosphere”, they couldn’t bear to part with the attitudes and demands which made their former home towns unlivable. Those attitudes can best be described as plain selfishness and carelessness. They were mostly young and they didn’t understand how very special Seattle (and the entire state) was to us. All they saw and knew was that they could afford to buy anything here with cash. They bought all the waterfront properties and then wanted to prohibit anyone from accessing “their” beaches (which is illegal in WA). Then they wanted lots of mass transit for their workers — who drove their new, exotic cars to Redmond. They wanted so much and they spent a lot, but they didn’t care about our history, our sense of place, our forebears, our love affair with this beautiful city on Elliot Bay.

   Too much to say about all this, except that it is more complicated than simply burning Seattle to the ground and starting over. When you aren’t raised somewhere or love a place in a way that goes beyond getting your own needs met, you don’t really care what happens to that place or to its people. That can be said of Seattle, and that can be said of our country. “This land is your land, this land is my land” means something today that it didn’t mean when we were children.

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4. I must say, I was a bit “underwhelmed” w/Bongino’s opening yesterday. Having listened to every witness before him, aside from Pastor Scott (who did a great job), make out like Floyd was the second coming, I was looking forward to Bongino breaking from the weak sister(s) R’s and unload with stats/facts, ya know, the TRUTH. Cops v black/white deaths, black on black stats, facts, percentages, examples.

   Stop pandering to the mob and this nonsense. Heck, at least go down kicking and screaming! It was a nice stroll down memory lane with ya Dan, but this is war!

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5. Nadler moved on quickly. Not interested in what Dan said. Probably wasn’t even listening.