Sleepless…, uh, I mean Clueless in Seattle!

Seattle, one of the most liberal cities in America, is on the verge of absolutely falling apart.

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It’s like an episode of “The Walking Dead!”

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The city is being torn apart by those with a brain, and those without a brain.

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According to David Aaro of Fox News, “The leadership in Seattle appeared to be in disarray [Wow! That’s about as nicely as you can describe that situation!] on Friday after the city’s embattled mayor called the protesters who took over an ‘autonomous zone’ in the city ‘patriotic’ while the official who ordered police to flee the nearby precinct has refused to come forward.”

Say what?!

Wow.  These people really do think we’re all as stupid as they are!

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“Despite the slow-moving disaster and protesters calling on Mayor Jenny Durkan and Chief Carmen Best to resign, the mayor resisted the call and raised eyebrows when she joked about considering a ‘Thelma & Louise’ moment in an interview, referring to the 1991 movie about two women on the run from the law.”

Again…, say what?!

They call this an “autonomous zone.”

I would say it’s more like “The Twilight Zone!”

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“At Thursday’s news conference, Best told reporters it wasn’t her decision to leave the precinct, while Durkan also denied responsibility, according to ‘The Stranger,’ a Seattle-based newspaper.”

‘“We were asked to do an operational plan in case we needed to leave,’ Best said. ‘The decision was made. We’re still evaluating about how that change came about but it didn’t come from me.’”

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“Despite the fact that police cannot gain full access to the police station, Durkan tried to downplay the situation on the ground. She claimed that Trump was wrong to call the protesters ‘domestic terrorists.’”

Ha! Ya…, he should’ve included you in that group, Mayor Durkan!

‘“It’s simply not true. Lawfully gathering and expressing first amendment rights, demanding we do better as a society, and providing true equity for communities of color is not terrorism. It’s patriotism,’ she said.”

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We would all agree with that, Ms. Mayor…, but what about the slight matters of looting, burning, vandalism…, oh, and forcibly taking over square blocks of a city, along with a police precinct that you seem to have overlooked?

“Durkan has tweeted that the protest is ‘a peaceful expression of our community’s collective grief and their desire to build a better world.’”

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“KIRO 7 reported, citing police, that demonstrators moved barricades near the police station and threw rocks and ‘improvised explosives’ at officers on several occasions. Best reportedly said that 25 cops were injured since the protests began.”

This is what Durkan describes as, “Lawfully gathering and expressing first amendment rights, demanding we do better as a society, and providing true equity for communities of color?”

These people have all lost their minds.

This situation with Mayor Durkin, and many other of these liberal mayors as well, reminds me of an old “Blondie” cartoon that I cut out of the newspaper at the time and kept.

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The cartoon showed Blondie’s husband, Dagwood Bumstead, at work talking with his boss, Mr. Dithers.  The cartoon went something like this:

Mr. Dithers: C’mon, Bumstead!  Come out and have a drink with me and the boys before you head home.

Dagwood: Okay, Mr. Dithers…, just let me call Blondie first.

Mr. Dithers: Call Blondie first?!  Aren’t you the boss around your house, Bumstead?

Dagwood:  Of course, I am!

Mr. Dithers: Well, why do you have to call then?

Dagwood:  Because, if I don’t call, Blondie won’t let me be the boss anymore.

I know this correlation is a bit of a stretch, but I hope you can see what I’m referring to here.

The point is, Dagwood isn’t really the one “in charge,” and neither is Mayor Durkin.

‘“You [the police officers] fought [Actually they were prohibited from fighting.  It was more like just standing there, like sitting ducks.] for days to protect (The East Precinct). I asked you to stand on that line. Day in and day out, to be pelted with projectiles, to be screamed at, threatened and in some cases hurt. Then to have a change of course [by their beloved mayor] early two weeks in, it seems like an insult [Oh, it was an insult!] to you and our community,’ Best said in a video, according to the station.”

“On Thursday, the crowd continued to occupy the six-block downtown area, named the ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ (CHAZ) because of its location in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.”

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“President Trump told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner in an exclusive interview Thursday that his administration is ‘not going to let Seattle be occupied by anarchists.’”

‘“If there were more toughness, you wouldn’t have the kind of devastation that you had in Minneapolis and in Seattle. I mean, let’s see what’s going on in Seattle,’ Trump told Faulkner. ‘I will tell you, if they don’t straighten that situation out, we’re going to straighten it out.’”

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“It’s clear @realDonaldTrump doesn’t understand what’s happening on five square blocks of our City. Cal Anderson and Capitol Hill has for decades been a place for free speech, community, and self-expression,” Durkan tweeted out in response.

“Durkan has insisted that CHAZ was ‘not a lawless wasteland of anarchist insurrection, but a peaceful expression of the community’s grief following the death of George Floyd in police custody on May 25 in Minneapolis.’”

Just because you say something isn’t what it obviously is doesn’t change the fact that it is what it obviously is, Mayor Durkan.

I hope that makes sense to you…, it makes sense to me.

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“Sleepless in Seattle?” No…, homeless in Seattle.

Did you know that Seattle spends $100,000 “to help” every homeless man, woman and child there!

Yes folks…, it’s true.

$100,000 a person!!!

Seattle and its surrounding suburbs spend ONE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR addressing the homeless situation there!

So what can be the problem you ask?

Well, the simple answer is that Seattle is considered by many to be the most liberal city in the United States.

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When liberals are running the show, NO AMOUNT OF MONEY IS EVER ENOUGH!

Think about it!

If you just gave a homeless family of four $100,000 each, or $400,000 (I was always good at math!), they should be able to live very comfortably.

In fact, more comfortably than most people in this country!

$400,000 a year would allow you a mortgage or rent payment of over $8,000 a month, spending only a quarter of your money for housing!

That would leave this family over $300,000 a year for utilities, food, and anything else they would need.

In other words…, THEY’D BE LIVING PRETTY DAMN GOOD!

Even a single homeless person could afford a mortgage or rent payment of $4,000 a month with over $4,000 left over for other needs.

Again…, a better available budget than most Americans.

SO WHAT THE HELL IS THE PROBLEM HERE!!!

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I know rent in Seattle is expensive, but it isn’t that much!

Oh yeah…, I forgot…, we have liberals in charge here.

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The liberals/democrats don’t really want to solve the problem…, they want to retain their power and their bureaucracy, while punishing and blaming the people who pay for all of their foolishness.

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Ok, granted, many of these homeless people have mental health issues and/or drug addiction problems.

THIS IS STILL MORE THAN ENOUGH MONEY TO HOUSE THEM AND TREAT THEM!!!

With that much money being spent, THERE IS NO EXCUSE WHY THESE PEOPLE HAVE TO LIVE OUT ON THE STREET!

NO EXCUSE!

So where is all of this money going if it’s not going to the help the homeless people up there in Seattle?

You can bet the money is mostly going to an “army” of county administrators, and staff who do their best to make sure that, with whatever money is left, there are enough clean needles to go around for all of the homeless drug users.

If the situation wasn’t so sad and pathetic, it’d be comical.

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Oh…, and did you know that Seattle is in King county there in Washington state?

Yes.  They renamed their county after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. back in 1986.

I doubt that Dr. King knew where the hell Seattle was, nor would he probably care.

I’m sure he appreciated the sentiment, however.

According to Barnini Chakraborty of Fox News, “Seattle residents blame inefficient elected officials for homeless problem, and say they’ve ‘lost faith’ in system.”

Really?!

They just figured all that out now?!

Who do they think elected these buffoons?

We’ve got the clueless electing the brainless up there in Seattle.

Did you also realize that “the richest man in America calls Seattle home?”

These  ultra rich people tend to donate quite a bit of money…, mostly to ease their guilt.

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The “richest man in America” could easily match the billion dollars being spent by taxpayers in Seattle, and double all of the figures we showed could be available for the homeless there.

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Yes…, “the richest man in America call Seattle home, and “so do thousands of others who are forced onto the streets because they are too poor, too addicted or too detached from reality. At night, the city’s homeless sleep wherever they can — in tents crammed in parking garages, in parks or under highway overpasses. Some feel victimized by a society that has moved on without them. Others feel preyed upon by politicians eager to push pet projects and scattered initiatives that make themselves look good but do little else. Sick of stepping over used condoms, broken lighters and needles, residents say they are heartbroken to see the city they’ve loved turn into a dangerous, drug-infested den of filth and human misery.”

Sounds lovely!

“Seattle officials are quick to blame big businesses operating in the area — Starbucks, Microsoft and Amazon — for driving up housing costs.”

Typical liberal move.  Trying to shift the blame onto the business sector.

Damn these big businesses for providing thousands of jobs to the people of our community!

I think I’ve shown that affording the rent in Seattle should not be an issue for these homeless people.

“In an effort to address the homeless crisis, Seattle’s City Council has looked at different ways to raise money. In May 2018, they unanimously approved a $275 tax per employee on Seattle’s largest employers. Pitched as a progressive revenue source aimed at tackling homelessness, the tax was estimated to raise $47 million a year.”

They want to spend more money?!

Like I said earlier…, when democrats are running the show, NO AMOUNT OF MONEY IS EVER GOING TO BE ENOUGH!

“Residents say there is a deep disconnect between them and those in charge and say elected officials are tone-deaf and offer up simple solutions to a complex problem.”

Uh, in my opinion it is just the opposite.

Elected officials are offering up complex and costly solutions to a problem that could be addressed with simpler, common sense, solutions.

 

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Just more examples of liberal policies gone wild.

In the “liberal world…,” in the “socialist wannabe world…,” in the “democrat world…,” words and supposed good intentions are more important than actions…, and definitely more important than effective solutions.

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According to Liam Quinn of Fox News, “Seattle’s homeless crisis has reached such catastrophic levels that a north-side cemetery has become home to drug abuse, drug dealing and prostitution.”

Not to mention a filthy “tent city.”  And it’s a worsening problem.

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“Bikur Cholim Cemetery board member and city council candidate Ari Hoffman detailed the desperate effort to fight the epidemic and placed blame for how bad it has gotten squarely on the local government.  ‘The city council, city elected officials failed our city. They created a haven where it is OK for people to die on the streets through drug use, and to live on the streets people who have a mental illness,’ Hoffman told ‘Fox & Friends.’ ‘They are not offering treatment solutions, and they are failing us.’”

“Hoffman added: ‘Through 2013, the homeless population was relatively stable. And then what happened after that is it grew… because the policies they had enabled drug use behavior. It’s just absolutely tragic that we have people who are living inside of a cemetery, that are dealing drugs outside of a cemetery, and are running prostitution in a cemetery, but you see it on the streets all over Seattle.’”

“Hoffman, who is running for city council, then took aim at “non-performing non-profits” for not doing enough to combat the crisis and revealed what he believes is the first step to turn back the tide.”

‘“You have to wonder where the money goes, the first thing we need to do is audit where all that money is going. There’s plenty of money, the city’s coffers are full, the money is just not being spent appropriately,’ he told ‘Fox & Friends.’ ‘According to Seattle’s own numbers, 78 percent of people want to be off heroin. They don’t want to have addiction problems, they want treatment. Unfortunately there just aren’t enough services – there aren’t enough mental health options for them… we need to make sure those services are available for people on the streets.’”

Hmmm, that’s odd.  People are wondering where all of the money is going that was supposedly designated to go to programs to help people.  How many times have we heard that?  How many times do we find these supposed “do gooders” pilfering the people’s money and misappropriating it?  How many times?!  And then we are forced to listen to how heartless we are when we complain about how much money is spent and how it is spent.  Just sayin’.

Homelessness is on the rise nationwide, and the west coast is leading the country.

Our left coast, ooops…, I mean our west coast states are such overachievers!

Except usually they’re leading the way in all of the wrong directions!

This cemetery, which has been commandeered by all of these homeless people, is littered with used syringes, drug paraphernalia and all kinds of other debris.

God forbid anyone actually wants to come and visit a lost loved one or pay their respects to someone buried there.

What the hell is going on here!?

The whole situation is pathetic, disrespectful and sad.

“Hoffman went on to paint a dire picture of the scene at the historic Bikur Cholim Cemetery.”

‘“They find needles, they find drugs, they find human feces all over the place and they have to clean it all up,” he said. ‘Our grounds-crew has been pricked by needles before, they’ve been assaulted by people they found living there, they’ve found people on the ground overdosed thinking they were dead.’”

Excuse me “blue state know it alls…,” but don’t try and drag the rest of us ignorant deplorables down to your enlightened level of confusion and corruption.

“Federal data released in 2018 found Washington State’s homeless population had risen more than any other state in the country.”

“Seattle, in King County, had a homeless population of 12,112 — the third highest in the country behind Los Angeles and New York City.”

Ahhh, Los Angeles and New York.  Two other proud beacons of progressive sanctuary in our country!

Then of course we have the lovely and extremely liberal city of San Francisco, California.

If you visit, just make sure you watch where you’re walking!

According to Greg Norman for Fox News, “San Francisco’s mayor has created a new program called ‘Poop Patrol’ to clean up the human waste [from the ever growing homeless population] from the infested sidewalks.”

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This program is driven by a smartphone “App” that allows concerned citizens to report offending piles of excrement to the proper authorities!

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Only in a liberal city gone mad!

“The details of the complaints that the San Francisco Department of Public Works has received are unclear, but data shows the number of sightings has increased dramatically since 2011.  That year, 5,547 human feces incidents were reported. The number rose to 28,084 in 2018.”

Now that’s a lot of crap!  And that’s only the crap that was reported!  There’s bound to be twice that much crap lying around in reality!

This is the utopia that democrats want to help spread to a city or town near you!

Stay thirsty my friends…, but don’t drink the liberal Kool-Aide…, or step without looking first…, at least in San Francisco!

 

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