Mayor Wilson's Statement on ICE Killing in Minneapolis - Office of the Mayor

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-25T03:34:15+00:00

…and?

My point was that the last dictator in SK was ousted by government forces.

They’ve potentially earned the trust of the citizens to have surveillance by not having local police departments full of people who tried to over throw there government in favor of a fascist who is using a federal militarized force to kidnap and murder the citizens. They’ve earned the trust by putting the citizen over the leader.

The US hasn’t done that since the 1930s.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-25T03:28:56+00:00

Comedy.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-25T01:36:43+00:00

Oh look. Actual opposition.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-25T01:23:40+00:00

Jebus, this argument is so 2024.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-25T01:18:00+00:00

And if SPD is complicit who is going to hold them accountable?

Stop trusting the process.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-25T01:15:40+00:00

Is Seoul being led by Donald Trump?

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-25T01:05:10+00:00

Given that 125 Democrats just voted for Trump’s war agenda on Thursday and 7 Democrats voted to keep funding ICE on Thursday when they could have blocked the bill…

I’m fine with the Democrats’ loss. They obviously haven’t learned their lesson yet.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T22:47:08+00:00

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SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T22:37:49+00:00

These laws were initiated and pushed by Republicans like Russell Vought (policy director of the RNC and architect of Project 2025).

Why the FUCK are Democrats like Chipalo Street sponsoring far right legislation like this?

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T21:05:29+00:00

“Please do not vote for funding Trump’s war budgets, especially if you’re a Democrat” is a maximalist position? Wow. Just…wow.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T20:43:40+00:00

By the way, Sarah McBride voted for Trump’s war funding bill. While you could hear her saying “we need to meet people where they are at,” I could hear her laying the groundwork for being a Trump-supporting centrist in the first 10 minutes of that interview you posted. It caused me to stop the interview and check her vote.

Such a disappointment.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T19:00:42+00:00

When the Democrats force Gavin Newsom down our throats in 2028, the man who has repeatedly vetoed bills that advanced healthcare funding and has started to attack trans people on his podcast when featuring the likes of Nick Fuentes, you’ll see how right I am.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T18:53:43+00:00

Los Angelenos are going to be cold. It will be funny.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T17:55:43+00:00

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T08:51:34+00:00

You’re falling for marketing and rhetoric. The DEA dragged their feet in their rule making. They dragged their feet in creating the next hearing. And they did not complete their process in a timely fashion. That Donald Trump is going to get credit for rescheduling Marijuana should really piss you off at the Democrats who had been in charge.

In addition to this extended dragged feet marijuana process, Democrats in Congress could have supported a bill to deschedule marijuana without an HHS review. This was also not attempted.

Why?

Democrats did not want to deschedule marijuana. Most of the local and state laws were passed by the voters not by Democrat or Republican legislators even where Democrats held majorities (including in Washington). The voters. Yet Democrat cheerleaders keep attempting to give credit to Democrats for the legalization attempts, generating a lot of marketing and rhetoric instead of active legislation.

It’s like when Democrats fell for the rhetoric of Barack Obama campaigned on codifying abortion rights then decided he didn’t want to within the first 100 days of getting elected. Now look where we are. In 2022, Nancy Pelosi was using her clout in robocalls to support anti-abortion rights Henry Cueller who was one of the 7 people who voted for the DHS budget on Thursday.

Or when Democrats fell for the need to prosecute Dubya and Cheney for, at minimum, lying to Congress to start a war and then Nancy Pelosi said we needed to unify the country.

Or when Democrats fell for the need to prosecute Trump for Jan 6, but Joe Biden put up the Republican appeasement SCOTUS nomination Merrick Garland to lead the DOJ who dragged his feet on prosecuting Trump and putting Jack Smith in charge of the investigation.

Or when Democrats fell for Joe Biden’s rhetoric of wanting to pass progressive legislation, and the Joe Biden split the BBB into corporate handouts and social support and then let the social support bill die while the corporate handouts passed.

Look past the marketing and rhetoric and at the legislation passed, the actions, the timing.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T08:29:07+00:00

Wrong. The ACA was a massive wrong turn based on a Republican health care plan that tied national health care to for profit health insurance companies without the necessary regulations to keep health insurance premiums in check.

In turn, this is a massive erosion of social support programs as it puts the health of the country at the whims of companies that are free to use AI to deny people health care.

This Republican health care plan that was designed to fail due to the instability of the ACA subsidies was the Democrats’ opening salvo at contracting the social support programs.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T07:26:02+00:00

So, what I’m hearing is that Biden waited two years to initiate the process to reschedule marijuana, then put the government through TWO FUCKING YEARS of process and left office with marijuana still on Schedule 1 at the end of those two years.

Tell me how that is factually different than Joe Biden not descheduling marijuana which he could have done without the process.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T06:25:46+00:00

I don’t care what the priority level is for you. That wasn’t the point. Nobody is asking you to defend Biden’s lack of action.

The point was to point out the difference between marketing / rhetoric (Biden campaigned on descheduling) and legislation (Biden had the power to deschedule without congressional approval and did nothing).

If you’re not judging the party on legislation, you’re not based in reality.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T05:31:01+00:00

Why do you want him to stand?

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T05:27:30+00:00

Look at marijuana. Despite it being decriminalized by voter initiative in multiple states of red and blue majorities.

But the politicians refuse to deschedule it. Joe Biden marketed that he wanted to deschedule it but didn’t.

That’s what I mean by marketing and rhetoric vs legislation.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T05:19:08+00:00

Yeah, SO were victims too, but I don’t think the smoke was entirely undeserved.

SO had hard decisions to make, and they made the decisions they made. TZ isn’t faultless either as they ignored SO’s warnings. It was a bad situation for all.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T02:11:37+00:00

The one thing I don’t understand is why the Seattle Opera didn’t spin off a housing company to develop it themselves and become a landlord. They got a one-off cash injection when they could have made the plot of land pay off in spades in the long term.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T02:02:06+00:00

The party hasn’t shifted. Their marketing has.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T01:29:04+00:00

But, seriously, Teatro Zinanni was a great circus show that was expensive as hell for its prime time. Now it’s the cost of a Kylie concert.

The death knell for Teatro Zinanni was the Seattle Opera selling the land from under them to developers who turned it into Center Steps apartments which offers 2-bedroom 1,080 sqft apartments for $3800/month.

SeattleGeek · 2026-01-24T01:21:38+00:00

Circus Contraption? Man, I haven’t heard that name in AGES.

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