Seattle's Socialist Mayor [aka Olive Oyl] Has Problems After Attacking Starbucks

The socialist contempt for businesses is incredible. They believe corporations are the source and summit of all of society's ills, but their hatred of big business doesn't always extend to that business' tax dollars or the revenue businesses generate.

But they'll learn they can't have it both ways. You can't slap a business with one hand and grab its wallet with the other. That's what Seattle's inept socialist Mayor Katie Wilson is trying to do, and it may just drive the business that put Seattle on the map out of the city.

Wilson told voters she wasn't going to buy Starbucks and encouraged them to do the same. Calling for a de facto boycott of one of the city's biggest businesses backfired on her. Now Wilson is trying to do damage control.

Incredible.

Seattle’s lefty Mayor Katie Wilson admitted she was wrong to slam Starbucks and push for a boycott of the mega-coffee chain birthed in the Pacific city.

Wilson, 43, issued a terse mea culpa to the New York Times this week as questions swirl about whether the liberal Northwest city can attract and retain businesses. Starbucks, which recently chose to expand its footprint in Tennessee, is one of them.

The Democratic socialist made waves last fall when she joined a barista union rally as mayor-elect and expressed her disgust with one of Seattle’s most recognizable businesses.

But several months later, Wilson appeared to walk back her statement.

“Those comments were not productive in the sense that they caused more harm than good,” she told former newspaper, the New York Times.

Wilson also told the outlet she’s aware that everything she says could be used as possible anti-business missives, and she needs to have a “multidimensional relationship” with corporations like the coffee giant.

Starbucks has already moved some of its operations to Tennessee, bringing with it 2,000 jobs. Could the headquarters pull out of Seattle entirely?It seems people think it might.

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Seattle's New Socialist Mayor Tells Fleeing Millionaires "Bye" As City Prepares For Vibrant Post-Wealth Utopia

In a bold masterstroke of economic genius, Seattle's freshly minted self-proclaimed socialist mayor Katie Wilson has solved the city's millionaire exodus problem by simply not caring if they leave.

While speaking at a forum at Seattle University earlier this month, the new socialist mayor said, "I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are like super overblown. And the ones that leave, like, bye," she continued, waving her hand and laughing. 

The line drew laughs and applause from the adoring trained seals who presumably do not pay the city's bills, but online it landed about as well as a tax hike on successful people.

"Seattle's Socialist Mayor responds to exodus of wealth from Washington State by saying "BYE" ... then laughing. We're doomed," wrote Brandi Kruse.

Kruse's post has been seen over 4 million times on social media as of Friday morning, which is roughly four million more people than will be left in Seattle once the last productive resident packs up.

Popular conservative account "End Wokeness" also posted on X, writing, "Mayor Wilson seems to welcome the idea of a wealth exodus from Seattle. This is the FA part. FO coming soon.""Enjoy, Seattle," Fox News contributor Guy Benson posted on X.

"What do socialists think happens when the most productive, highest revenue driving members of their tax base leave their jurisdictions?" Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts posted on X.

"Socialists are driven by hate for the rich, not concern for the poor," Manhattan Institute scholar Daniel Di Martino posted on X.

"This is the reaction of a spoiled child whose parents paid her bills up until the point that she became mayor… She has no grasp of reality or economics," comedian Tim Young posted on X. "Seattle is extra cooked."

Discovery Institute Senior Journalism Fellow Jonathan Choe posted on X, "Seattle, you voted for this."

"This clip will live in infamy," the Washington State Republican Party posted on X. "
@MayorofSeattle Katie Wilson is not only unfit to be mayor, she lacks grace and gratitude. Perhaps, she's the one who should leave #Seattle."

Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson will become the city's next mayor after defeating incumbent Bruce Harrell. (Katie Wilson for Seattle)

Wilson shocked many political observers when she was elected Seattle's mayor last year, and many chalked up her victory to her ability to tap into a similar voting bloc that socialist Zohran Mamdani used on his way to becoming New York City's next mayor. Experts call this demographic "people who think other people's money grows on trees and also hate trees because they're not diverse enough."

Earlier this month, Fox News Digital reported on city advocates who say they are struggling to find solutions as homelessness and open-air drug use spread across Seattle’s streets, amid growing concerns about the direction of Wilson's new administration.

"You can just see the foil is like blowing down the sidewalks like autumn leaves," Andrea Suarez, founder and executive director of We Heart Seattle, told Fox News Digital in an interview."Very common to see property damage of our parks and shared spaces. You can see Narcan is used to reverse an overdose, so you'll see cartridges. But at least we're remodeling the bathroom to be gender-neutral. I'm not [kidding] you, that's where our priorities are."

City officials remain confident that once every last millionaire has been waved goodbye with a cheery "like, bye," the remaining citizens will thrive in a glorious, revenue-free socialist paradise where the tents are gender-neutral and the discarded drug paraphernalia forms a beautiful mosaic of progress.

By the way, Starbucks has made a significant move to Nashville, TN. They may move their HQ there too, they've already built a new building there for a headquarters, but we'll see.

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Oregon school principal suspended for comments re: Charlie Kirk's murder, now gets 5 years for child sex images

Buckle up folks, because this one is a doozy straight out of the "You can't make this stuff up" file. We're talking about a former Oregon high school principal, yes, the guy in charge of kids, who got suspended for trash-talking Charlie Kirk after his tragic murder . . .  and then, low and behold, gets nailed for being a straight-up child predator.

This butt-clown, 50-year-old Jeremy P. Williams from Longview, Washington, was the principal at Rainier Junior/Senior High School from 2022 until he "retired" in November 2025. But let's call it what it was: he was already on paid administrative leave, courtesy of the taxpayers, for "making negative comments about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk." Classy dude, right? The guy couldn't even wait for the body to cool before running his mouth.

Then, boom! September 16 rolls around, and he's arrested. 

He was initially hit with 13 charges, but like so many of these creeps do, he cut a deal. In January, he pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Poof! Ten charges vanished into thin air.

Fast-forward to sentencing: Cowlitz County Superior Court Judge Thad Scudder drops the hammer: 61 months (that's five years and one month) in prison. On top of that? He has to register as a sex offender for the next 15 years, plus 36 months of community custody after he gets out. Oh, and he must cough up $3,000 in court fees. 

Now, the pre-sentencing report is where it gets even sicker. 

Williams told authorities he went hunting online for communities to "make connections" by writing erotica featuring children, because apparently his life was falling apart at work and home. That spiraled into straight-up sharing explicit images of minors.

In a February 4 interview, the creep admitted the writing gig made him feel "popular and powerful" because "only he could provide what people online were seeking." His little stories even "won a few competitions." Congrats, champ, you're a champion in the pedo fanfic league.

Then some woman online reached out for role-play and story-writing, and eventually sent him an explicit image of a young girl. Bahdahbing!A mutual sharing of child sex abuse images. Williams even confessed to sharing a video of a six-month-old baby with someone online. Let that sink in. A six-month-old baby. But hey, he made sure to tell authorities he "did not do anything sexual with his students." Well, thank God for small mercies, as if that excuses any of this nightmare.

And the cherry on top? He blamed it all on "religious trauma" from being raised by Christian fundamentalist parents who taught him that if he did anything "bad or had bad thoughts," he'd go to hell.

Listen, I don't care what your childhood was like, plenty of people grow up with tough upbringings and don't end up trading baby rape videos online. This isn't "trauma" excusing evil; this is evil hiding behind excuses.

So there you have it: A principal who celebrated (or at least badmouthed) the death of a conservative icon.. turns out to be a monster preying on the very thing he was supposed to protect--kids. The left loves to scream about "groomers" in schools, but when one of their own gets caught? Crickets. Or worse, he blame religion.

Facts over feelings, people. This guy deserves every single day of that sentence. And pray for the victims whose images he possessed and shared. Because that's the real tragedy here, not his sob story.

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Chinese Spies Busted Snooping on U.S. Navy: Another Day, Another CCP Plot

Well, folks, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is at it again, and this time, they’ve been caught red-handed, pun intended. 

Two Chinese nationals, Yuance Chen and Liren Lai, were nabbed by the FBI for allegedly playing James Bond for Beijing, spying on U.S. Navy personnel and bases while trying to recruit our service members for the CCP’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). Because apparently, the CCP thinks our Navy is just a Craigslist ad for their espionage schemes.

According to a juicy scoop first reported by Fox News, Chen, a Happy Valley, Oregon resident, and Lai, who waltzed into Houston on a tourist visa in April 2025, were arrested last Friday. The Department of Justice (DOJ) says these two were running a covert op for the MSS, China’s main foreign intelligence outfit. Their mission was to gather intel on Navy bases and personnel, recruit potential turncoats, and even orchestrate a shady “dead drop” cash payment. You know, standard spy stuff, straight out of a Tom Clancy novel, minus the charm.

The FBI, with a little help from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS—not the TV show, sadly), swooped in and cuffed the unhappy Chen in Happy Valley and Lai in Houston. 

FBI Director Kash Patel didn’t mince words, telling Fox News Digital, “Today’s arrests reflect the FBI’s unwavering commitment to protecting our national security and safeguarding the integrity of our military.” He added, “The individuals charged were acting on behalf of a hostile foreign intelligence service, part of the Chinese Communist Party’s broader effort to infiltrate and undermine our institutions. Thanks to outstanding coordination with our partners, including NCIS, we disrupted those efforts and sent a clear message: the United States will not tolerate espionage on American soil. Our counterintelligence operations remain focused, vigilant, and relentless.” 

The DOJ’s criminal complaint, filed in the Northern District of California, lays it all bare. The MSS, which apparently moonlights in snooping on civilians when it’s not busy with counterintelligence, recruited Chen through Lai back in 2021. By January 2022, the dynamic duo [aka Frick and Frack] was allegedly in Guangzhou, China, setting up a $10,000 cash-stuffed backpack drop in a Livermore, California day-use locker. Real cloak-and-dagger vibes. They didn’t stop there, either. The pair kept working for the MSS, scoping out Navy personnel who might be tempted to betray their country for a quick buck.

In 2022 and 2023, Chen and Lai took their spy tour to a U.S. Naval installation in Washington State and a Navy recruitment center in San Gabriel, California. At the recruitment center, Chen allegedly played paparazzi, snapping photos of a bulletin board listing Navy recruits’ names, programs, and hometowns—most of which, surprise, were listed as “China.” Those photos, the DOJ claims, were promptly sent to an MSS officer in China. Subtle, guys. Real subtle.

The MSS wasn’t just sitting back sipping tea, or ordering a combo plate either. 

They allegedly gave Chen a playbook: what to say to potential recruits, how much cash the MSS could dangle, preferred Navy job assignments for their targets, and tips to keep Chen from getting caught. 

Spoiler: He got caught. Chen even cozied up to a Navy member on social media, arranging a tour of the USS Abraham Lincoln in San Diego and feeding information about the sailor back to the MSS. Meanwhile, Chen made trips to Guangzhou in April 2024 and March 2025 to huddle with MSS officers and discuss his paycheck for these dirty deeds.

Lai, for his part, claimed he was just an innocent online retailer visiting Houston for a two-week business trip in April 2025. 

Sure, and snakes have hips.

By May 9, Lai was spotted road-tripping from Houston to California and back to Junction, Texas, well past his supposed two-week stay. Nothing screams “tourist” like a multi-state jaunt with a side of espionage soup.

Both Chen and Lai are now staring down charges of acting as unregistered foreign agents, which could land them up to seven years in prison and a $250,000 fine each. 

Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg summed it up nicely: “Hostile foreign intelligence services like the PRC’s Ministry of State Security dedicate years to recruiting individuals and cultivating them as intelligence assets to do their bidding within the United States. Under my leadership, the National Security Division will continue to defend our nation and way of life by rooting out and exposing our adversaries’ clandestine spy networks.” In other words, the CCP’s spy games just got a time-out.

So, there you have it. Another day, another CCP plot to undermine the U.S. military. You’d think they’d get tired of losing at this game, but apparently, Beijing’s got a thing for playing the villain. Stay vigilant, folks. These spies aren’t exactly hiding in plain sight, but they’re trying.

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Seattle Pride getting budget cut as corporate sponsors dwindle due to removal of noggins from nether region

Let's dive into the rainbow-colored dumpster fire that is Seattle Pride’s financial meltdown!

According to reports, Seattle Pride is staring down a $350,000 shortfall, and they’re blaming it on—wait for it—corporations ditching the DEI bandwagon. That’s right, the woke cash cow is drying up, and now the glitter’s hitting the fan!

Seattle, the granola-crunching, Birkenstock-wearing capital of lefty land, is apparently struggling to keep its Pride parade afloat. KOMO News says this mess is “attributed to recent rollbacks in initiatives and political challenges facing the LGBTQIA2S+E=Mc2 community.” 

Translation: Companies are tired of footing the bill for identity politics while losing income, and the alphabet soup is feeling the squeeze. 

Enter Patti Hearn, Seattle Pride’s Executive Director, who’s out here sounding like she’s auditioning for a TED Talk on victimhood. 

Hearn told KOMO, “We have seen shifts in corporate sponsorship as companies assess their budgets and priorities, and some sponsors have not yet renewed their commitments this year.” 

Oh no, Patti, you mean businesses are acting like businesses and not your personal ATM? 

She goes on: “We are still in conversations with many of them — it’s important to us that we partner with organizations that demonstrate genuine and sustained support for the LGBTQIA2S+ community year-round. This is especially imperative as our community faces ongoing political attacks.” 

Eye roll. Political attacks? Or maybe people are just over the corporate virtue-signaling?

But wait, it gets better! Hearn’s got a plan to save Pride: ditch the suits and go full communist! She said, “We know that relying on corporate sponsorships is not the future of Pride. The future is community [communism]. That's why we're leaning into grassroots partnerships and radical mutual aid.” Radical mutual aid? What is this, a Pride parade or a Marxist bake sale? 

Good luck funding your floats with hugs and good vibes, Seattle!

The Seattle Times piles on, quoting Hearn blaming—you guessed it—Trump! “Hearn said the retreat in financial commitments by major corporate sponsors is a sign big-name companies may be following the lead of the Trump administration, which has launched a sweeping campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and the LGBTQ+ community, particularly transgender people.” 

There it is, folks! The Orange Man strikes again, single-handedly tanking Seattle Pride from Mar-a-Lago. Give me a break.

Hearn’s out here whining, “It’s a really rough world for queer people, and this just feels like it’s part of that package.” Rough world? They get a whole Pride Month while veterans get a day!

Try running a business in Biden’s economy, Patti! 

She refuses to name the corporations ghosting her, saying her team is “still in some conversation” with them. Sure, sounds like those Zoom calls are going great. She told The Seattle Times, “Typically, we’d have a lot more companies who’d sign on the dotted line much earlier than the deadline. What we’re seeing is a bit of uncertainty.” 

Uncertainty? Or maybe companies are waking up to the fact that pandering doesn’t pay the bills.

Hearn says this year’s parade is safe, but 2026 might be a different story unless they can scrape together some cash. Her big plan? Beg for donations, chase grants, and throw fundraisers. Sounds like Seattle Pride’s about to become the world’s most fabulous GoFundMe.

So, what’s the takeaway? Woke Inc. is tightening the purse strings, and Seattle Pride’s learning the hard way that you can’t guilt-trip your way to a balanced budget. 

Maybe it’s time to rethink the “radical mutual aid” nonsense and focus on something sustainable. Or, you know, just keep blaming Trump. That’s bound to work. 

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Pramila Jayapal has a laugh over illegal alien raping young girl in NYC

Washington Democrat Rep. Pramila "Frog Eyes" Jayapal had a good chuckle during a tv interview where she discussed several news chyrons that were displayed by various networks during a Biden mumble about illegal immigration. On such chyron came from Fox News and referred to an illegal alien in New York City who violently raped a 13-year-old girl last week.

“There’s a lot of fear mongering,” the far-left Jayapal claimed during an MSNBC segment with homophobic Joy Reid.

Reid read chyrons that the three major cable news networks had on their screens as Biden held a press conference announcing that he was taking executive action to protect hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in the U.S. by basically peeing on the U.S. Constitution.

The chyrons said: 

MNSBC: “Soon Biden Announces Legal Protections For Undocumented Spouses Of U.S. Citizens”
CNN: “Biden Announcing New Protections For Some Undocumented Spouses”
Fox News: “Migrant Arrested For Raping 13-Year-Old NYC Girl”

As Reid read the Fox News chyron, Jayapal chuckled, “Ah, yes!” and blamed Fox News for fear mongering, in spite of the national headlines this particular attack received. 

It isn't so much that Fox was fear mongering, it's more like Jayapal was discounting the problems illegal aliens have been causing across the nation. And worse, the distinct probability that our open borders are allowing terrorists to enter. We have caught some, but we know that we haven't caught all of them.

Last week, a 25-year-old illegal alien from Ecuador was arraigned on multiple charges after being beaten and held for the police to arrive after attacking a 13-year-old girl in Kissena Park in Queens. This is practically in the shadow of Citi Field, home of the NY Mets.

Somehow Jayapal thinks that's nothing to worry about. Certainly not for her, anyway.

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Seattle museum staffers walk off job to protest hateful anti-Semitic exhibit

Twenty-six Seattle museum staffers have walked off the job and shut down the art center in protest of an exhibit "Confronting Hate Together" exhibit. They posit that the exhibit conflates "anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism," which is an accurate assessment.

The workers walked off the job on Wednesday, when the exhibit first opened. They comprise about half the total of Wing Luke Museum workers and this forced the museum to close and they promised to stay on strike until their demands are met.

“Zionism has no place in our communities and being anti-Zionist goes hand in hand with our own liberation as AA/NHPI,” wrote the disgruntled racists, who work at the only pan-Asian art and history museum in the United States. “Our solidarity with Palestine should be reflected in our AA/NHPI institutions.” 

Can I get an Allahu Akbar!

Workers plan to stay off the job until the museum meets their four demands.

The striking workers are attempting to strong-arm their employer to remove language from the exhibit that “attempt[s] to frame Palestinian liberation and anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism,” [which, of course. it is] acknowledge its “limited perspectives,” conduct a community review of it and “center voices and perspectives that align with the museum’s mission and values,” the group wrote on social media.

The exhibit is designed to explore anti-Asian American, Native American and Pacific Islander hate, Black hate and anti-Jewish hate, according to the museum’s website. 

The show was supposed to run from Wednesday through June 30. However, the pro-hate strikers, disguised as anti-hate, virtuous individuals put the caboosh on it.

Part of the display that the striking anti-Semitic staffers are taking issue with is a panel from the Jewish Historical Society that starts off saying, “Today, anti-Semitism is often disguised as anti-Zionism.”

If you don't believe that's true, ask any anti-Zionist how they feel about the, you know, Jews.

The disgruntled workers raised concerns about how the exhibit “conveyed Zionist perspectives,” according to their social media post. 

Nobody in that group wants to hear from the Jews on the matter in spite of the fact that Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish people dating back thousands of years, long before there ever was an Islam.

Can I get an Amen!

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Seattle public schools aim for mediocre to be more "inclusive" in order to lower the bar for all

Seattle Public Schools (SPS) is ditching its program for gifted students in order to make the less gifted kids feel like they're doing just great and don't need to study harder and don't need to feel upset when other kids get honors classes. All this in the name of "inclusiveness" and "equity" for the sake of diversity.

SPS began phasing out its Highly Capable Cohort (HCC) schools and classrooms for advanced learners in the 2021-22 school year, claiming the program did not address racial inequalities, but addressed only the needs of bright students in mainly two-parent households that emphasizes education over hanging out. Of course this does not imply that people from lower socio-economic groups and/or father-less homes cannot succeed scholastically, but there's definitely something to be said for intact family structure as it related to success.

The replacement for HCC will be called the Highly Capable Neighborhood School Model, and will be available in every school by the 2024-25 school year, It will level the playing field so that highly gifted learners and learners without gifts will be learning less, but doing it together. 

Insofar as incentives go for gifted students, what's the point of pushing the intellectual envelope?

Instead of separate classrooms and schools for gifted students, all students will remain together in the same classroom and the teacher will individualize learning plans for each student. The beauty of the program is that it adds to the convenience of the classroom clowns and dummies to steal the lunch money from the higher performing kids and won't have to go looking for them. It's a win-lose situation, so what could go wrong?

The district announced the changes will "address historical inequity" and include "three tiers of service for students depending on individual needs, delivered in a way that honors individual cultures and backgrounds."

And all that jazz.

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SCOTUS rules in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District case re: fired football coach

In a 6-3 decision by the SCOTUS, a major victory for religious liberty was delivered in the Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, which involves a high school football coach who was fired for praying on the football field at the 50 yard line after games were completed.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Donald Trump appointee, authored the decision.

The Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment protect an individual engaging in a personal religious observance from government reprisal; the Constitution neither mandates nor permits the government to suppress such religious expression.

Respect for religious expressions is indispensable to life in a free and diverse Republic. Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a personal religious observance, based on a mistaken view that it has a duty to suppress religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech. The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination. Mr. Kennedy is entitled to summary judgment on his religious exercise and free speech claims.

Joe Kennedy worked at Bremerton School District in Washington as a junior varsity head coach and varsity assistant coach between 2008 to 2015.

His post-game praying was initially done alone, but eventually, other students began joining him of their own free will. This soon angered the secular and atheist community because they find it difficult to tolerate people with different beliefs [see also the SCOTUS decision on Roe v. Wade and the concomitant mostly peaceful riots that ensued, including the torching of a police officer with a homemade flame thrower]. School officials soon got involved and Kennedy was fired.

Religious leaders shared thoughts with the media after the high court released its ruling in the case on Monday morning. [H/T Fox News Digital]

In a message on Monday morning, Rebecca Hatfield, president of 2nd Vote, a faith-based nonprofit in Nashville, TN, said, "The Supreme Court ruling in favor of Coach Kennedy's rights to pray and exercise his right to free speech is a huge victory for our country at a time when religious liberties and free speech have been greatly under attack."

She added, "2nd Vote would like to thank the Supreme Court for correctly interpreting the First Amendment and correcting this injustice to Coach Kennedy. We rejoice whenever liberty reigns in our land."

Meanwhile atheist heads exploded and if they don't change their ways, they can go to hell. 

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Judge Phil Ginn, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary (SES) in Charlotte, NC said, "The Supreme Court ruling in the Coach Joe Kennedy case is a breath of fresh air for both religious freedom and the concept of free speech, both of which are firmly imbedded in our Constitution."

He also said, "It has always been a feckless argument to say that someone might be offended or influenced by religious expression. In the real world, speech is always intended to influence in some manner; therefore, the right to free speech ought to apply to all kinds of speech, not just to that which a majority thinks it should be confined."

Tell that to the Left.

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Man with gun shoots home burglar dead in self defense

SEATTLE -- Jerahme Smith, 31, shot and killed a suspected burglar and fired at another man inside his own home.

Smith was at home with his sister when two intruders kicked in his back door. One brandished a weapon which got Smith to thinking, Hmm, I better do something lest he shoot and kill me and sis. So he got his own gun and shot at the alleged burglars or whatever they planned to do once inside somebody else's house.

"When everything first started, the first thing I had to do was take a few breaths and calm myself down because I knew it could have gone one of two ways," he told Fox News. "I didn’t know who they were, I didn’t know what they had, but the first thing I did--and it’s the honest to God truth--is I took a few breaths to myself. That way I knew I was calm enough to make a proper judgment decision."

The Pierce County Sheriff's Department received a call about a home invasion just before 4:30 a.m. from a homeowner who said he shot at intruders. When deputies arrived, they found an unresponsive [because he was dead] suspect, identified as a 24-year-old unidentified man.

No further information about the dead guy has been released but he was declared deader than a doornail a short time later. The second suspect got away and authorities are searching for him.

"The detectives will finish the investigation and forward the case to the Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office for review," the sheriff's department said in a statement.

Smith said he and his wife and three children were living in the rented home for three years. He maintains he acted in self-defense.

"It kind of goes back to your rights. I have the right to carry and I have the right to protect myself and I have the right to protect my property," he said. "Protect yourself. That doesn’t mean go looking for it, that means just be ready."

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Obviously this is true as it was in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, but the left would rather you allowed miscreants to go miscreanting, if that is a real word.

Nearby residents told the news outlet the area has seen an increase in crime as is all Democrat-run cities across America.

"If it ain’t one thing it’s another," said one man, who declined to give his name nor the brand of chewing tobacco he was a spittin'. "That kind of upsets me that we have this kind of crime going on in the neighborhood. It’s not a good feeling because we don’t know—it could be something happening tomorrow, tonight, you know? Same old thing."

Meanwhile, crime marches on.

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Seattle Police arrest 4 protesters during downtown march

A cozy fire at a mostly peaceful protest in sleepy Seattle

Seattle police arrested at least four mostly peaceful protest march in beautiful downtown Seattle on a Saturday afternoon.

Three of the mostly peaceful people were arrested for obstruction and resisting arrest, about the dumbest thing a person can do. A fourth person was arrested for carrying an illegal fixed blade knife and he didn't bring his lunch with him.

The protesters, much like their IQs, were between 25 and 33 years old.

The three who were arrested allegedly interfered with officers who were trying to arrest another mostly peaceful protester who was wanted for an alleged assault of another individual. Due to the interference by the three anus brains, the alleged assaulter was able to escape, police said. 

The current protest commemorates one year since George Floyd likely died of a drug overdose while being detained by police for allegedly trying to pass a twenty dollar bill to purchase stuff. It also comes after Floyd stuck a gun in the belly of a woman while his other buddies robbed her as her young child looked on. It also comes after Floyd's ninth arrest.

Due to the media pressure, the officer who used a perfectly legal method with his knee on the side of the subject's neck, was convicted of murdering Floyd.

The protests marked the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of his murder last month.

The protesters were booked into the King County Jail, which is no big deal as they will soon be released on their own incompetence.

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“I know for me personally, I’m going to continue to wear a mask in public and I’m going to encourage others to do so,” Lightfoot told Ruhle. “We’ve got to make sure that people are continuing to follow the public health guidance that has gotten us this far, and masks, I think, are a big and important part of that.”

Lightfoot said on Tuesday afternoon that her decision to continue to encourage people to wear masks was not based on distrust of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“But I think their guidance last week regarding masks has people confused…We need clarification,” Lightfoot said. “We still have a long way to go to hit the critical mass (of vaccinations) or herd immunity. I don’t want people to have false confidence.”

“To say, ‘If you’re vaccinated, you don’t have to wear a mask,’ that’s great. But what about all of the other people who are out there that aren’t vaccinated?” Lightfoot added. “There’s no way to know that. So I think for the time being, most people are gonna continue to wear masks outside of their homes.”

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A fifth Black male implicated in possible hate crime in one week

Yet another arrest in a hate crime that occurred five months ago against a Washington state Asian couple is the fifth this week in which a Black male has been implicated in possible hate crimes that have yet to be decided.

According to police, a 15-year-old male is charged with second-degree assault on an Asian couple in Tacoma, which was apparently unprovoked. They haven't released his name due to his age.

Another African-American man, Rashee Woody-Silas, in Charlotte, North Carolina is charged for allegedly violently trashing a convenience store accompanied by a fellow thug, yelling racial slurs at the Asian-American owners.

The attack was captured captured on surveillance video. A store owner described the attack in which "he [the attacker] just walks in the store with a metal pole. No one sees it at first until he starts hitting things with it. …His friend came towards the end, stuck his head through the door and said ‘That’s what you get. That’s what you get you Chinese motherf*****r.’”

In the Big [Rotting] Apple, the NYPD released a photo of another Black man who allegedly committed a crime against an Asian woman and her children on the subway. He spit on the family and shouted anti-Asian slurs, then "knocked the victim's cellular phone out of her hand and proceeded to kick it out of the back door of the subway car, onto the tracks as the train was still moving." He wasn't a nice guy, allegedly.

The same week again in New York, Brandon Elliot, a 38-year-old maniac who had previously stabbed his own mother to death when he was 19, was again arrested in a hate crime in a brutal attack against an Asian woman. 

And on Friday, an African-American man, Noah Green, a follower of the Nation of Islam, allegedly ran over two police officers at the U.S. Capitol, killing one of them, who was white. Okay, it wasn't allegedly--he left his vehicle carrying a knife to attack other officers and was shot and later died. 

It's unknown if the attack targeted cops because of their race or because they were cops.

In the Tacoma arrest of the unidentified teen, videos apparently recorded by at least two attackers shows one of them lunging at and punching the couple while the woman screamed out. In another clip, the person recording the video is bravely cussing and lunging at the Asian man, and using racial slurs.

The Asian man, 56, suffered a broken rib. He had filed a complaint on November 19th, the same day of the attack, but has not received any response from the police, more than four months later. And there is no word as to whether police are still looking for the second scumwafer.

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Seattle: mostly peaceful riots breakout, cops attacked with explosives

The Democratic city of Seattle faced another round of riots Saturday night with more than a baker's dozen of rioters being arrested for a bunch of alleged crimes.

Police "arrested 16 individuals after various acts of property destruction, assault, and vandalism" took place, say the police.  

“A group of protestors [aka Marxist scumwafers] left Cal Anderson Park shortly after 9 PM Saturday heading North. A few members of the group were seen committing acts of vandalism and property damage along the way. The group slowly made their way to the 1600 block of East Olive Way where they shattered windows and threw explosives into a coffee shop.

The police department said that arrests were also made for failure to disperse and rendering criminal assistance after the rioters attacked police officers with what officials said was an “explosive.”

The purpose of the rioting was to protest violence and to serve the memory of those black folks who violently resisted arrest and put the lives of police in danger. Some brave souls were on scene and tweeted:

Antifa rioters in Seattle smashed up a Starbucks and threw an explosive inside tonight. Video by @KatieDaviscourt. #AntifaRiots pic.twitter.com/fvvjafLptv

Antifa black bloc militants in Seattle riot and smash up businesses. They form a shield line to block police. #AntifaRiots pic.twitter.com/IZ0XZFZHfX
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) October 4, 2020

Seattle has been one of the hubs of violent anti-violence protests by Marxist thugs. Most of the violent sentiment has been waged against police and perpetrated by young people with authority issues stemming from their childhoods and spurred on, in some cases, by their college professors who hate America and what it stands for.

It has gotten so bad there that the Department of Justice has designated the city an "anarchist jurisdiction."

In order to determine whether a U.S. city fits the criteria for such a designation, the DOJ released the following criteria:

Whether a jurisdiction forbids the police force from intervening to restore order amid widespread or sustained violence or destruction. 

Whether a jurisdiction has withdrawn law enforcement protection from a geographical area or structure that law enforcement officers are lawfully entitled to access but have been officially prevented from accessing or permitted to access only in exceptional circumstances, except when law enforcement officers are briefly withheld as a tactical decision intended to resolve safely and expeditiously a specific and ongoing unlawful incident posing an imminent threat to the safety of individuals or law enforcement officers. 

Whether a jurisdiction disempowers or defunds police departments. 

Whether a jurisdiction unreasonably refuses to accept offers of law enforcement assistance from the Federal Government. 

Any other related factors the Attorney General deems appropriate.

 Regarding Seattle, the DOJ stated:

For nearly a month, starting in June, the City of Seattle permitted anarchists and activists to seize six square blocks of the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, naming their new enclave the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) and then the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” (CHOP). 

Law enforcement and fire fighters were precluded m entering the territory. The Seattle Police Department was ordered to abandon their precinct within the CHOP.

Person-related crime in the CHOP increased 525% from the same period of time in the same area the year before, including by Mayor Durkan’s own count “two additional homicides, 6 additional robberies, and 16 additional aggravated assaults (to include 2 additional non-fatal shootings).” 

The CHOP was allowed to stand for nearly a month, during which time two teenagers were shot and killed in the zone. 

The Seattle City Council, Mayor Durkan, and Washington Governor Jay Inslee publicly rejected federal involvement in law enforcement activities within the city of Seattle.

So now that the DOJ has called a foul on Seattle, what will happen next, in terms of rectifying the situation, remains to be seen. So far the miscreants who run these cities and states are still unpunished while all that Republicans seem to do is go on Fox News and complain.

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Man attacks veteran over twice his age for not wearing a mask

A man wanted in Alaska on a drug charge and probation violation was arrested Saturday in Washington state and charged with assault for attacking a 72-year-old disabled veteran in a hotel lobby.

The catalyst for the attack was over coronavirus mask-wearing.

Cody P. Hansen, 35, the alleged cowardly attacker was arrested in his home in Spokane, WA on Saturday as police received an anonymous tip. The coward has been charged with second-degree assault over the incident.

Hansen is accused of attacking the disabled veteran in the lobby of the Red Lion Inn and Suites in Kent, WA on July 18th. Surveillance video caught Hansen, who was later identified, approach the disabled man who was sitting in the lobby with has support dog and cane nearby.

The video shows Hansen allegedly punching the man several times, knocking him unconscious and then walking away down the hall. The victim suffered a broken jaw in the assault, Q13 Fox reported.

The victim told the police that he had made a remark to Hansen’s girlfriend, who was not wearing a mask or facial covering in the hotel lobby. He said that Hansen returned later to the lobby and attacked him.

Not surprisingly, Hansen was also wanted in Alaska on a drug charge and probation violation and is being held at the Spokane County Jail. His bail is set at $10,000, which is better than New York where he would have been allowed to walk out of jail and probably never return.

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Seattle: the crocodile is coming for the appeasers

On January 20, 1940 Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the British Admiralty, broadcast a speech on BBC radio from London. He was addressing those nations which had remained neutral during the ongoing war and the New York Times, when it was an actual newspaper, printed it the next day. Part of what Churchill said was:

"Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar ever more loudly, ever more widely."

Seattle has been feeding the crocodile, who are, in this case, the anarchists who have rioted in their liberal and leftist city for nearly two months. Now the crocodile is feeding on them.

The violent rioters torched a construction site at a justice center and attacked a Starbucks, the far-left burnt-tasting coffee chain where baristas are known to spit in the drinks of law enforcement from time-to-time. Don't these anarchists know that Starbucks is on their side, like the guys in the video [below]?

What the non-violent leftists don't understand is that the rioters are actually leftists, per se, they're nihilists and see nothing of value in this country, so they aim to destroy it.

Below the justice center is the Starbucks previously mentioned. It was attacked, severely damaged, and the staff was physically assaulted. This kind of violent behavior has been going on across the country after the anarchists found an excuse to create mayhem when George Floyd was wrongfully killed by a bad cop.

The Seattle Police Department reported that a large group of rioters arrived at the site of the King County Youth Service Center/Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center, near 12th Avenue and Alder Street at around 4 p.m.

“Approximately a dozen people then entered a construction site at the facility, set fire to portable trailers and other equipment, and broke out windows on personal vehicles in the area and court facilities,” the department said. You can go to the link on Ian Miles Cheong's Twitter post below and Michelle Baruchman, and see for yourself.

Antifa arsonists in Seattle have set fire to a construction site. Allies of the working class. pic.twitter.com/hzFQMMBwiR 

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray 

Fire inside the staging site of the youth detention center pic.twitter.com/QNqJsgPRGB  

— Michelle Baruchman ⛰ (@mlbaruchman) July 25, 2020

The Starbucks was completely destroyed with graffiti, smashed windows, and damage inside. Reporters on the ground said that there was smoke coming out of the store, and thought a fire may have been set inside.

The Starbucks sits at the bottom level of an apartment complex. People were shouting for residents above the store to evacuate the building.

Seattle-based conservative radio host Jason Rantz tweeted:

The peaceful protesters destroyed a Starbucks and a fire was supposedly set. It’s attached to an apartment complex. pic.twitter.com/TOHf7tQNsq

— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) July 26, 2020
Some damage done to a Seattle Starbucks. pic.twitter.com/38x54orj6v

— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) July 26, 2020

Human Events Managing Editor Ian Miles Cheong tweeted out a photo from Google Maps that showed the apartment complex on top of the Starbucks. His post:

The Starbucks is on the ground floor of an apartment complex. The media does not show you the full picture because they don't want you to realize Antifa set homes on fire in Seattle. pic.twitter.com/GPM1MnLjZL
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 26, 2020

New York Times reporter Mike Baker tweeted:

Moving through the Capitol Hill, hitting a Starbucks. Smoke is coming out the window and people are now calling for the residents above to evacuate. pic.twitter.com/71Ssie3hai
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) July 25, 2020

He also posted a video of store owners who described being violently attacked by the mostly "peaceful protesters."

“They are still attacking people,” the man told Baker as he pointed toward the rioters. “Like, what’s going on?”

Like, the crocodile is still hungry, silly store owner.

These workers at a bar/restaurant say some in the crowd attacked and punched them after accusing one of them of taking images of the crowd. pic.twitter.com/ETQ4m9VYyr
— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) July 25, 2020

So keep feeding the crocodile with your words of support and grab a box of marshmallows, because you're going to want something normal to roast as they come for you and what you worked so hard to build.

Munch, munch.

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Seattle mayor finally 'gets her head out'--plans to dismantle CHOP due to the 'violent distraction'

It evidently took a double shooting that left one young black man dead and another wounded, along with other incidents of violence, for Seattle's Democrat Mayor Jenny Durkan to remove her head from the recesses of her nether regions. She is finally realizing that the area formerly known as "CHAZ" [Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone--which is about as autonomous as a week-old infant] and now known as "CHOP" [Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone] is not a good look to get her reelected. She is supposedly going to shut the area down before more anti-Trump voters are killed.

“Faced with growing pressure to crack down on an ‘occupied’ protest zone following two weekend shootings, Seattle’s mayor said Monday that officials will move to wind down the blocks-long span of city streets taken over two weeks ago that President Donald Trump asserted is run by ‘anarchists,'” Q13 FOX Seattle reported.

The leftist mayor spoke at a news conference and said that she views the violence as a distraction away from the peaceful protesters who don't believe that black people have racial equality with white people and that cops routinely beat the crap out of black people but wouldn't beat the crap out of white people, because, um, because.

The actual stats prove otherwise.

"She said the city is working with the community to bring the ‘Capitol Hill Occupied Protest’ zone to an end,” Q13 FOX Seattle reports.

This is what 'mostly peaceful protests' look like

But in early June, the low-functioning mayor told the Communist News Network's  Chris "Fredo" Cuomo that the zone could remain up all summer and called it a "summer of love."

Fredo: How long do you think Seattle in those few blocks looks like this?

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D): I don't know. We could have the summer of love! pic.twitter.com/ApIDfMN9RD
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck)

President Donald Trump, never the one to let a good tweeting opportunity go to waste, responded:

Seattle Mayor says, about the anarchists takeover of her city, ‘it is a Summer of Love’. These Liberal Dems don’t have a clue. The terrorists burn and pillage our cities, and they think it is just wonderful, even the death. Must end this Seattle takeover now!

Durkan replied:

Seattle is fine. Don’t be so afraid of democracy. https://t.co/o26PkJnYhA
— Mayor Jenny Durkan (@MayorJenny) June 12, 2020

By "democracy" she is referring to the takeover of public areas, the destruction of property, the tearing down of historic statues, looting and burning of businesses, and the violence. 

So for her, anarchy is democracy.

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Seattles "Kumbayah Summer of Love" Residents Reveal the Real Agenda

They changed the name of CHAZ because it stood for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. The incompetent anarchists who took over the six-block area are anything BUT autonomous as they ask for donations of food, cigarettes, matches, and whatever else they think is coming to them. Now the area has been renamed CHOP or Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone.

Progressive "leaders" such as Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan have declared the riots as “peaceful.” Durkan claims the area has a “block party atmosphere.” She refuses to admit that it's more of a block-throwing atmosphere.

In case you haven't guessed it, the real agenda of these anarchists is a slow, methodical takedown of our way of life because these people believe that America is a terrible place and taking what they want from you is justified.

Some leftists in the media have likened the anarchy to a “street festival," while Durkan, who has proven herself to be a total idiot, recently predicted the occupied zone could very well turn into a “summer of love.” Of course, it isn't very lovable for those whose businesses that are being robbed destroyed or looted and their 911 calls being ignored. Nor is it a summer of love for people who live inside the zone these anarchists have overrun and declared theirs.

Durkan should be removed from office and tried for treason as she gives the anarchists credibility in their overtaking of American soil.

This is not a protest, it is an attempt to take over sovereign American land. It has devolved to where guns are being distributed to vigilante “warlords,” and journalists are being attacked in broad daylight because "Fox."

Anyone who disagrees with the mob are bum-rushed and forced to leave the area. Opposing ideas scare and confuse these communists and there is no First Amendment in the zone.

Seattle police chief Carmen Best told the media that “Our calls for service have more than tripled. These are responses to emergency calls — rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts that have been occurring in the area that we’re not able to get to.”

Things have deteriorated so badly in the area that people who live in the zone, as does Matthew Ploszaj, are saying that they feel like “sitting ducks.”

“We are just sitting ducks all day,” Ploszaj told local KIRO 7. “Now every criminal in the city knows they can come into this area, and they can do anything they want, as long as it isn’t life-threatening. And the police won’t come in to do anything about it.”

He said he called 911 when seeing a burglar break into his building courtyard and steal a bike. He said the police dispatcher told him there is "nothing we can do" unless someone's life is in danger.

Business owners were told that the police "would not" respond to break-ins and confrontations at their businesses. In one case, Russel Kimble's auto shop was broken into and there was a confrontation as police "observed the location from a distance." A safe distance.

People who have left the area and refuse to return don't appear to be returning in the near future thanks to Durkan and other useless and cowardly officials who would rather appear “woke” than do what they have been sworn to uphold.

Anyone who votes for Democratic leadership either for the country or their local representatives deserves what they get. Those who find themselves living under that leadership might consider leaving.

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Seattle anarchists take over, demand mayor resign, create their own country

Hundreds of anarchists stormed Seattle's City Hall on Tuesday night. They demand the mayor resign, the police disband, free college, free healthcare, retrials of all incarcerated black people, the mayor resign, and store owners stop locking their doors at night.

Okay, maybe not the last one, but that's likely to be a future demand.

So far, the nearby police precinct boarded up and removed blockades in the streets to allow protesters to march unimpeded to the Capitol Hill area. The anarchists are proclaiming the area to be a new country, while remaining dependent on the U.S. to provide them with utilities because normal people also live in that neighborhood who aren't involved with Antifa and their nonsense and are innocent victims.

Demonstrators remained peaceful thus far, without reports of violence or injuries, but are demanding Mayor Jenny Durkan to step down if she refuses to defund the city's police department.

Although local elections there are officially nonpartisan, most of the city's elected officials are Democrats and they also hold the majorities in both houses of the Washington State Legislature and are as useless as a garden hose in a forest fire.

The protesters continued to camp out in a self-declared "cop free zone," which has been abandoned by the cops after the Seattle Police Department closed the East Precinct on Monday on the orders of the useless mayor and governor.

Since the senseless killing of George Floyd over two weeks ago by Derek Chauvin, a rogue cop in Minneapolis, demonstrators all over the country and in other parts of the world ironically took to the streets with guns and clubs and bricks and bats, to protest police brutality.

Chauvin is the exception to policing, not the rule. He is like an airline disaster that gets all the attention while all the safe flights never do. He is currently awaiting trial for the killing of Floyd as are the three other cops who stood around doing nothing to stop Chauvin from keeping his knee on Floyd's neck.

After nearly two weeks of clashing with protesters who threw bricks, rocks, bottles of frozen water, and other things that weren't nailed down at police, who responded to the violence with pepper spray and tear gas to break up the anarchists, they were then ordered to play nice and be less aggressive. By giving in to the anarchy, the violence would supposedly end.

Since the police cleared out a few nights ago, the area has remained relatively peaceful, despite the ongoing demonstrations and psychotic demands. Now the cops say they will only respond to the area if there is a 911 call for an emergency.

On Friday, useless Mayor Durkan banned the use of tear gas by police, but protesters are also calling for Paw Patrol to get rid of their cop dog, and for Elmer Fudd to get rid of his shotgun and trade it in for Silly String.

Far-left leftist  Councilcommie Kshama Sawant met with protesters inside City Hall on Tuesday night, although it is usually closed at night.

In response to Tuesday night's protests, Durkan's office said in a statement that she remains committed to making "actual steps on policing" [as opposed to make-believe steps], but she's only pulling our proverbial leg.

"As the person who originally investigated the Seattle Police Department for the unconstitutional use of force, Mayor Durkan believes that SPD can lead the nation on continued reforms and accountability, but knows this week has eroded trust at a time when trust is most crucial," the statement said.

Meanwhile, President Trump has said the mayor better get her city straightened out or he will do the straightening.


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