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Dispatch from the Seattle CHOP Shop and War Zone
Of course, it was too good to be true. Mayor Jenny Durkan announced that the occupiers were closing down the miserable CHOP zone, and the Seattle Police would be moving back into their desecrated East Precinct building. The City sent their forces up to start removing the barriers they installed, and, lo and behold, some diehard denizens of the zone refused to leave.
Protesters laid down in front of the bulldozers, and the mayor’s office announced that the Police would not be returning to their building today; those protesters had their list of Demands. In another part of Capitol Hill, the (former?) employees of the Trader Joe’s store, which shut down in the face of the Black Lives Matter protests, issued their List of Demands of Corporate, before they would return to work at the reopened store. They are upset that Trader Joe’s management is not sufficiently yielding to their demands, including supporting BLM, giving everyone their jobs back with no penalty, and redefining “safety.”
Also, today, the announcement came that the Capitol Hill Farmers Market would be reopening this weekend, with restrictions.
The restrictions sound pretty onerous to me and would make me think twice about bothering to go to the market. The public-health powers-that-be seem to be doing everything they can to curtail “society,” making each person view every other person as dangerous.
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I wonder if Jenny Durkan will figure out that the CHOPpers can make her dance anytime they like before the voters do.
And you just know they picture themselves like that Tienanmen Square guy. How satisfying would it be to see that bulldozer just scoop them up.
They are likely to vote her back in. They first picked her for her virtues.
De-escalation is overrated.
Really sorry for Seattle residents of this neighborhood. No doubt this district houses some of the Mayor’s staunchest voters. If she really wanted them out she would have sent a large police force in to drag protestors away. Clearly she is stupid or simply doesn’t care.
Neither is true. She is on their side, and probably wishes she could join them at the barricades.
Ugh! “Demands”! What is it with these jackasses and their infernal demands?? Have they never considered requesting, suggesting, cajoling, persuading, wheedling, negotiating, asking, positing, appealing, importuning, or petitioning? I’ve had it with the [CoC] demands!
They’re just living out that they are no more than spoiled
childrenbrats.Yeah, but then they’d have to jump through all sorts of regulatory hoops before they could dump the toxic waste.
Antifa tried to take over Portland’s North Precinct and set up an autonomous zone last night, and failed.
The children are so reluctant to leave at the end of CHAZ summer camp.
This is what happens when reporters write the captions. That’s a backhoe, not a bulldozer.
When they do that sort of thing, Rachael Corrie comes to mind.
Front end loader backhoe.
Every backhoe I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen lots) had a bucket on the front. They’re still just called backhoes. The bucket on the front is taken for granted. They use it to help stabilize them when they’re digging.
If some of these children would learn a trade like how to operate said backhoe, they wouldn’t have time for all this nonsense. Also, they needed to have their tails whipped when they were toddlers. This is what happens when you don’t punish your children.
I’m so glad my friend’s son has moved away from Seattle.
They’re lucky I’m not driving . . .
The company I work for pays crane operators $45/hr.
And and Update for today.
Seattle offers Social Services to CHOP “protesters” as questions about Zone’s future mount. [scare-quotes mine]
Oh whatEVER.
Lol. I assume you’d instantly know the difference between eye liner and mascara.
Oh c’mon, even I knew that
I raised two sons. A bulldozer’s blade is taller than a front loading back hoes’ bucket.
That phrase I just used, “front loading back hoe’s bucket” sounds vaguely perverted. No COC violation is intended.
I don’t see that Soylent Green passing an FDA inspection…
Alright fine, I take it back, ho’.
Not really. But a bulldozer’s blade can be tilted. Most front end loader buckets can’t.
It’s hard to fine grade with a front end loader. I’ve seen skilled operators do it, but it’s much easier with a bulldozer.
The scoops! The scoops!
Webster, you are invited to do your own post on the various types of heavy construction equipment.