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Mayor Durkan Meets Karma
The woman who let 30,000 residents suffer the robbery, assault, rape, and murder of CHOP is now outraged. That a lefty councilwoman led CHOPers to the mayor’s house with its double plus secret address (she was a US attorney) to share with her a fraction of the torment and abuse that she pronounced as “the Summer of Love”. From the Blaze:
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan expressed outrage after Black Lives Matter protesters showed up at her home Sunday afternoon, despite her previous support and defense of the “CHOP” encampment.
Protesters targeted her home after Durkan announced last week that the city would no longer support the Capitol Hill Organized Protest encampment and would seek to remove the concrete barriers that helped define the autonomous zone. But the CHOP remains intact.
Durkan released a statement expressing her anger at the protest. She was especially upset that Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant had joined the protesters at her home.
“Mayor Durkan and her family are in the state program to keep their address confidential because of the death threats mostly related to her work as Seattle’s U.S. Attorney under President Obama. Instead of working to make true change, Councilmember Sawant continues to choose political stunts,” read the statement from her office.
“Tonight she did so without regard for the safety of the Mayor and her family. The Mayor was not even home — she was working at City Hall. Seattle can and should peacefully demonstrate but should not put families and children at risk,” the statement concluded.
The whole kit and caboodle should move in with her and leave Capital Hill alone. In fact, this would make an awesome trend if all the rioters across the nation would converge on the residences of the politicians that are enabling them, leaving Americans to live their lives in peace and prosperity.
Hat tip to Bryan Preston at PJ Media.
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Karma? I thought it was Karen?
Bought the album when I was a kid. When I was writing that I checked YouTube for a video, but Gil used it to promote the Black Panthers and Malcolm X and Angela Davis so I pitched that idea. Which is funny because, when he speaks to the song in interview the values he speaks to are spiritual not Marxist. Still like the song, though.
“Yeeted?”
Their idea of appeasement seems to rest on the premise that giving people what they want will solve a problem. Has that approach ever worked for young children? Puppies?
The reason they choose this route is because they know no other, and for the most part haven’t had to build anything themselves, make payroll, truly lead something, where they themselves are held accountable for the outcomes. Absent that kind of similar responsibility training, meaning real life, politicians, especially local ones elected under the broad progressive blanket, are truly just taking up space.
They won’t fix anything. Because they can’t. They don’t know how. And their first job is protecting their re-election chances. Everything else is a lower priority, so inevitably they serve themselves first.
@randywebster
One meaning is when someone shoots or gets shot.
In other news, I saw that Hannity interview with the father of the deceased. It is always sad watching someone in pain like that. I think what’s striking is that it took him a week before he was even allowed to see his son, and no Seattle public officials have reached out to him about this, including the mayor. It seems like the behavior of Seattle leadership has been nothing less than ethical malpractice. They are basically lucky they aren’t Trump or Republicans otherwise national news outlets might hold them to some scrutiny.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/horace-lorenzo-anderson-father-chop-shooting-victim
They are never held to account and never will be
Susan in Seattle (View Comment):
As much as I dislike the mayor, I can only hope she is successful in getting the scourge of our city council removed.
Seattle city council has been crooked for as long as I can remember, like when they replaced the electric trolley buses in the 70s with diesel ones and got kickbacks. BLM is by definition a racist entity. Protesters are being played by the elite, a smokescreen to distract the 99% from how the 1% is getting richer. Fanning the flames of racial discord is but another tool to distort reality.
Susan in Seattle (View Comment):
As much as I dislike the mayor, I can only hope she is successful in getting the scourge of our city council removed.
back around 1990, when I had the Applemania joke/costume store/singing telegram company below the SE corner of first and pike, there was a hearing about the needle exchange program. At that time I lived downtown and commented based on my experience of walking past drug deals going down on the sidewalk in broad daylight. I complemented the health benefit, just wanted to mind my own business, but you never know what sort of situation could be stumbled into. The ACT UP crowd was in vocal attendance and kicked into such a ruckus. the moderator broke her gavel trying to regain order, then adjourned the meeting.
A day or so later, I had a phone call from councilman Sam Smith, I may have worked as a volunteer for his campaign printing yard signs around 1968, or some other candidate that happened to be black. He was chill, a pleasure to talk to, can’t help but wonder what he would have to say about the recent craziness. Thought it was bad back then, downtown has become even more of a riff raff rodeo, the well intentioned initiatives have made it a misfit magnet
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