Patriot Retort:
I lived in Seattle for about nine months back in the late eighties. I was still a Liberal Democrat back then, and even I thought the people in Seattle were nuts.
Apparently that nuttiness has only gotten worse over the intervening years.
A portion of downtown Seattle has been taken over by radical Leftists and the foolish clown mayor is totally okay with it.
In fact, she thinks they’re patriots.
The police were forced to board up and evacuate their own precinct. A radical socialist city council member unlocked the doors to city hall and let the lunatics overrun what was already an asylum.
911 calls from the overrun area relating to rape, robbery and assault have tripled. MORE
The left is fun by crazy women and beta males.
She is just one of them.
Seattle is run by a wishy-washy confused capitulating appeaser. Today, she’s talking about taking Antifabad back but is worried about the safety of the police…safety from the people whom yesterday she considered patriotic block party-goers.
seems like PDT & Barr are several moves ahead … suprise!
https://twitter.com/informed_news/status/1270438610693525504
& …
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1268573651672104967.html
(a bit of a long, repeating read … but worth it to understand what’s going on)
If Dianny lived here in the late ’80s as a liberal Democrat, then the company she probably kept were a lot of people just like herself — itinerants from other parts of the country who thought they “discovered” Seattle, not recognizing that we were doing just fine up here without their “help.”
To be frank, I’m getting a little sick and tired of hearing about how lunatic Seattle is as though we’ve always been this way. Not true!
We were completely overwhelmed by idiots who came here for tech jobs, looked around and sized up the low cost (beautiful) housing, and decided to stay and suck all the juice out of paradise like a bunch of freaking parasites. Locusts!
They had zero regard for what was here before they got here. They had no clue how to behave.
Seattle was always progressive in the very best sense of the word: we lead the country on recycling, for example, before it was cool — because that’s how you conserve resources. Get it? Conserve. If you tried to get away with being a poser back then (“virtue signalling”, now), you’d be exposed for what you were.
They clogged our streets, our highways, and they were shitty drivers. They disregarded stop signs (which were few to begin with) in our old neighborhoods, THEN they started putting up more stop signs to stop each other!
We didn’t want them here!! We tried to freeze them out, but they just kept coming! So the crybabies actually set up a telephone “help” line so they could whine and cry amongst themselves over how unfriendly we were. Honest to God, they actually had a support line to call for those who felt unwelcome.
If ever there was a group for whom the adage “Fish and company stink after three days” applies, it was (and still is) all those who came to Seattle for our “quality of life” and “home town atmosphere.”
Well, thanks a lot, itinerants. Our quality of life has been completely wiped out and fewer and fewer among us can even call this our home town with any lick of pride in saying so.
Highly doubtful Dianny hung out with the peeps at the Swedish Club, Sons of Norway, The Mountaineers, the Rainier Club, the downtown “Y”, Sloop Tavern, or The Dog House.
We can’t even shop at the Pike Place Market anymore, where we used to go on Saturdays to actually shop for groceries and produce. Parking and produce are too expensive, not to mention too crowded. What used to be a real resource to the city’s residents is now a sorry-assed tourist trap. We used to buy a whole Dungeness crab for $5., now it’s $20./pound — uncleaned!!
I’m done. Thinking of Seattle’s losses just burns a hole in my stomach lining. She’s gone, now. This city is best just fondly and lovingly remembered.
Seattle is a CHAZholle, run by CHAZholes
“To be frank, I’m getting a little sick and tired of hearing about how lunatic Seattle is as though we’ve always been this way. Not true!”
Hmmm… not the impression I got at age eight or nine shortly after we moved to western WA in 1967. I thought very early on that Seattle was a land of arrogant self identified “masterminds” who each thought they knew more than every other person who had ever lived and collectively knew more than all other people who had ever lived on earth combined.
I had never experienced such hubris anywhere we had lived. Montana for seven years and California for one.
The wisdom of the ages was totally lost on a critical mass of them and way too many of those who were not caught up in their Utopian fantasies indulged them.
Portland likewise.
Different perspectives I guess.
@JDHasty — Not my piece of it. Broadbrush it if you must, but I know the Alaska fisherman down in Salmon bay would disagree with you. And so would the Nelsons, Swansons, Svensons, Stevensons, Finnes, Fergusons and their clans out in Snuss Junction.
@JD Hasty — Where in W.WA did you live then?
It couldn’t have been too arrogant in Seattle at that time, the lights had just been turned off and the city was on its heels. Between Boeing’s bust and forced bussing to follow, the city didn’t start to recover until the late ’70s. Under Reagan at the turn of the decade, we started to hit our stride again. Wes Uhlman was elected mayor in ’69 and served until ’78. And that was back when Democrats were normal people who today would be considered center Republican. It was only after Seattle was in full swing again, with lots of extra money, that Royer became mayor and the downhill slide into hell was accelerated with Norm Rice.
Arrogant? I guess the city that staged one of the most spectacular international fairs in the history of those things and who built the 747 has a legitimate reason to crow a little.
1967 – Lyndon Baines and Lady Bird Johnson, Vietnam War, “Guns and Butter,” “Great Society,” Medicare, Welfare, Cold War, deficit spending, hippies, flower power, love children, drugs, peace / love / dope … DEMOCRATS.
Did I mention DEMOCRATS?
And Lyndon Johnson?
Surely, FDR in Hell is correct. That’s where he resides now.
(I’m a ’50’s Seattle baby.)
“Arrogant? I guess the city that staged one of the most spectacular international fairs in the history of those things and who built the 747 has a legitimate reason to crow a little.
Seattle late teens and twenty year olds were beyond insufferable. It was my inclination that their parents had indulged them and turned them into absolute brats.
My mother took us to Seattle Center, and Pioneer Square quite frequently on weekends and I did not like what I was seeing going on there. She thought I was being overly judgemental. I was also quite critical of the leftist infiltration of The Church. Before she passed away a year and a half ago, at the age of 95, she had come around and told me that I was right about much of the social commentary I had made.
She was quite liberal minded most of her life. She damn near ran the car up a tree when I said at age sixteen or seventeen, shortly after he moved from Helena MT to Seattle, that Arch Bishop Hunthausen was a crackpot and quite possibly a heretic.
A move to recall Mayar Durkan of greater CHAZ and its latest entity, Durkanwald, has started.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Great reader thread. Thanks.
@ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ June 12, 2020 at 10:50 pm –
Thanks for those links. Verly interestink.
Can you imagine how much Queen Durkan is being yelled at? She was on the news today looking a little contrite.
Bring in the agents, Mr. President and:
(1) Arrest Queen Durkan and the City Council.*
(2) Shut-down Durkanwald and arrest the instigators.*
(3) Blow anyone’s head CLEAN OFF that resists.✅
* With evidence, of course.
✅ On demand.
This is how Miami police handle their punks:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1271439908863971330
I’ve got PLENTY of room in my unbleached elastic starfish thanks to the HUGE girth of my Petey B if any of ’em want to “pitch their tents!”
I stay away from Seattle. The smug is too thick.
Repeal the 19th Amendment!