BY JASON RANTZ
AM 770 KTTH host
The Seattle City Council seems to be on the verge of enacting Stay Out of Drug Area (SODA) orders, with one public commenter taking a highly unconventional and cringey approach to show support for the measure — by singing his testimony.
SODA orders would allow judges to ban individuals charged with drug-related offenses from specific areas as a condition of their pre-trial release. These potential zones would cover neighborhoods like downtown and north Seattle around Aurora Avenue, which are plagued by chronic drug-related issues. Proponents argue that SODA orders target hotspots for crime, while critics claim we should focus on providing drug treatment—though that Progressive strategy has long been embraced with dismal results: skyrocketing crime and overdose deaths.
The highlight (or lowlight, depending on your tolerance for public embarrassment) of a Sept. 10 council meeting was the man who decided to serenade the council with his support. His singing performance was so bizarre and uncomfortable that it felt like it could derail not just the SODA legislation in Seattle, but faith in public discourse and governance altogether (the council may not survive this). Good luck sitting through it without wincing. h/t illustr8r
The video’s on Fecebook and I won’t do Meta, but I bet I can accurately characterize this guy’s meaning:
Look-at-me! Look-at-me! Look-at-me! Fuck you! Look-at-me!
It seems he has achieved his 15 minutes of
fameinfamy.So cringeworthy it made Kamala dance to it like Elaine Benes while Tampon Tim wuz pointing and puttin on his spastic moves!
Cringeworthy Я Them!
^ But the singing wasn’t good for Tim to break into his world-famous nancing moves.
Does nancing mean that tampon timmy is a nancy boy? I didn’t watch, my cringe factor is full to the brim and hopefully will be gone permanently after the election.
could have hired barry man-love instead, he ‘wrote the songs…’ you know
It’s actually better and less stupid than anything the actual council members might say.
Not gonna work. A person has to be on drugs to want to go into downtown Seattle. Nice try.
Thirty years and longer ago I would park my car down by the waterfront to save money while attending Seattle Mariners games and not pay for parking at the Kingdome. I never had a problem, now if I did that, I’d be taking my life into my hands. And there is no way in hell that I will walk thru Pioneer Square even during broad daylight. Nowadays, my daughter and I take the light rail from our nearby hotel or even in the suburbs for $6 round trip and save the hassle and having to pay $30-$40 to park in the parking garage by T-Mobile Park, I still miss calling it Safeco Field. I hated the Kingdome, indoor baseball sucked.
And one of the biggest cathartic moments in downtown Seattle’s history was when they imploded the Kingdome in the late 90’s to make room for and build Safeco Field.
@Geoff
Mr Illustr8r paid $63 for 3 hours to park in a garage on the waterfront last week. We used to park under the viaduct and walk all over Seattle. No problem. Now, no way.
I hope that $63 was well spent. I’m a cheapskate and used to park as far away as possible from Downtown Spokane and not have to for parking. It was still free to park if you were willing to walk a few blocks to get to downtown. Or I’d park on the other side of Riverfront Park and walk thru the park to go to downtown. I’d even walk from my house to the main library downtown which is less than a half hr. walk at times, anything to save a buck. And my wife was just as bad, she’d park her Jeep Wrangler at the far end of the parking lot at malls and at Wally World just to keep away from the door ding gnomes just to keep her Jeep away from inconsiderate assholes and walk a little bit to do her shopping.