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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Compromised News Network blasted for "journalistic malfeasance" for Taylor Lorenz fawning over an alleged murderer

In spite of the fact that we all saw Luigi Mangione on a CCTV camera shoot Brian Thompson in the back, something only a would do, there is a handful of people who see him as some sort of hero for killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. 

But the Left has lost all sense of morality in the service of virtue signaling, and the media is complicit in this trend. 

Media watchdogs are flabbergasted that CNN, [aka the Communist News Network; aka Compromised News Network] has given a platform to Leftist lunatic Taylor Lorenz, the ex-Washington Post "reporter" who got all moist and heated discussing the murdering coward in an interview special "The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper." The piece was labeled "MisinfoNation: Extreme America," and focused on extremism's rise across the country.

The host of this leftist lunacy, Donie O’Sullivan, largely focused on far-Right figures but lumped in supporters of Mangione, who has emerged as a folk hero among the far-Left after he was arrested for the murder of Mr. Thompson, with some viewing it as retribution for the health insurance industry.

Sure, killing this man, the husband of Paulette Thompson and the father of two sons, ages 16 and 19, deserved to die because he headed an insurance company whose policies were not aligned with what Leftists believe they should be. In fact, if insurance companies aligned with the ideology of the Left, there would be no insurance policies because like any business in America, they are designed to make a profit. This is not to say that changes can be made to help those who need it most, but to kill a person for this is evil, and Taylor Lorenz deserves to lose all credibility as a human being.

During the macabre CNN primetime special Lorenz showed herself to be one of Mangione’s most outspoken supporters and actually expressed "joy," yes, joy, that this scumbag murderer brought attention to issues involving the healthcare industry, and she defended her stance.

"It’s hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone stanning a murderer when this is the United States of America, as if we don’t lionize criminals," Lorenz told O’Sullivan.

"As if we don’t star murderers of all sorts. And we give them Netflix shows. There’s a huge disconnect between the narratives and angles a certain mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels, and you see that in moments like this," Lorenz continued before touting an audience boost for her Substack publication due to her sympathetic writings about Mangione.

Lorenz then tried to explain why the alleged murder appeals to women [especially Leftist women, especially her].

"Here’s this man who’s a revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart, he’s a person who seems like he’s this morally good man, which is hard to find," Lorenz said, prompting laughter from the CNN reporter.

Fox News contributor Joe Concha couldn't believe what he saw on the segment aired on CNN.

"The executives who greenlit this idea to give a lunatic like Taylor Lorenz a platform in primetime should be fired," Concha told Fox News Digital.

"As should the host who nodded along, and laughed in agreement when she complimented a cold-blooded murderer and coward like Luigi Mangione," Concha continued. "And the fact that he’s getting any praise for this, and the fact that CNN platformed somebody who appears to support him, is journalistic malfeasance."

Tim Young of Heritage Foundation Media called the clown show "morally repugnant."

"It would make sense that a morally repugnant person would support another morally repugnant person. It also makes sense that a morally repugnant network would support not only Lorenz, but air her opinion that Mangione is morally good," Young told Fox News Digital.

"This is the modern left -- if they disagree with your opinion, they want you eliminated from society by any means necessary," Young continued. "As much as I and other conservative critics of media and the left dislike opinions and actions, I could never imagine wishing physical harm on them. It’s low, it’s disgusting, and it has no place in American society."

I could go on but you get the drift. Taylor Lorenz is an execrable attention-whore and CNN is the house where people like her have an anti-American platform.

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