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Originally posted by Beancooker:
The capital Olympia is just as bad and is actually the leader of all the issues. It’s just not as noticed because of the smaller population.

When ppl talk about Seattle, I include the whole enchilada, from Seattle south to Tacoma, all the way to Olympia - pockets of decent areas but lots of shit.

Downtown Olympia used to be a fun place to go for dinner, walk around and get a couple of drinks back in 2010. Last time I spent a week in Lacey, I think I went to Olympia once for Greek. Food was great but not worth going back, trying to park, walking through shit, and getting hassled by the bums and tweakers.

This time I didn't even bother going on that job, when it used to be one of my first choices.

Yeah it's pretty bad. I don't know anyone who goes up there unless it's work related, M's or seahawks or they are cruising / taking the train. Bums literally shit in the street. Right in front of you if you stand still long enough. The freeways and streets have tweaker trolls in tents everywhere. When I first moved here it was not bad, hippie, but not bad. Now it's just ridiculous.

I would like to see the lunacy lead to a call to reverse themselves but my realistic side says I'm just gone from this state when I retire. It's too expensive here anyways but on top who wants to pay alot to live in a trashcan pretending to be a toilet?

Referencing data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, CBS News composed a list of the top ten most impoverished cities in the United States. The ubiquity of Democratic governance is heightened in this context, as nine out of the ten poorest cities are run by Democrats, including Seattle.

Of the ten major U.S. cities with the highest levels of unemployment, nine are run by Democrats. The Bureau of Labor Statistics identifies Detroit, Fresno, and Las Vegas as the cities with the most unemployment, listing Detroit as number one with an unemployment rate of 24.8 percent. At this point, it is important to note that Detroit is listed in the top three for prevalence of violent crime, level of poverty, and rate of unemployment. It is also worth noting that Detroit’s last Republican mayor was Louis Miriani in 1957.

For fifty years, the Democratic Party has monolithically presided over the economic and social decline of once thriving cities, yet nonetheless claims to care more about the most economically and socially disenfranchised members of American society. Whether this failure is a result of ineffective policies or a genuine disinterest in making progress remains unclear. What is clear, however, is that many of us have happily drunk the Democratic Kool-Aid without taking a second to see if we are being deceived by those filling the glasses.

Let Seattle join Detroit.

Love when liberal ideas come to full blossom.

Dori Monson radio show-Socialist Alternative explained. One of many factors of the “dying of Seattle” :


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjqQRQjkVg

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Originally posted by Anubismp:
I would like to see the lunacy lead to a call to reverse themselves but my realistic side says I'm just gone from this state when I retire. It's too expensive here anyways but on top who wants to pay alot to live in a trashcan pretending to be a toilet?

It is a shame to see yet another once vibrant city turn into a shit-hole.

I do know that the Arby dude needs to be skinned alive, doused with gasoline and set on fire, along with everyone in the criminal justice system and those responsible for the politically driven policies that enabled the repeated release of this animal upon society.

As far as the lack of any action or political will to prosecute and incarcerate the drug-dealing scum, I would guess that a goodly sum of the cartel drug money coming up through our southern border is making its way somehow into the pockets of Seattles no good POS politicians. No drug dealers to make the sales, then no drug money to line their pockets with. Can't have that now, can we?!

I also feel sorry for the Police who feel so helpless / useless in their efforts to do a good job. Their situation also brings better clarity to what happened in Portland OR when we saw the police watching and doing nothing while mobs clogged intersections and harrassed and attacked drivers. They probably knew that their efforts to enforce the law would be for naught.

Sad and pathetic situation all around.

How many leftists are well-meaning dolts and how many are conscious that their actions/policies are bringing about the anarchy they seek that, in their minds, will allow them to seize complete control of the country and turn it into their socialist/totalitarian paradise?



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Similar problems in Alaska with the passage of SB91. Criminals are no longer jailed, given a citation to appear in court. Many crimes have been made a civil matter rather than criminal. The result? Crime rates here have skyrocketed and people are pissed! Hoping our recently elected governor makes good on campaign promises and reverses the trend.

Well, at least Seattle has an effective city gov't that really listens to its citizens.

Love the comment from the citizen in the clip - ^ ^ ^

"All animals are created equal, some are just more equal than others"...

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Originally posted by Dzozer:
Love the comment from the citizen in the clip - ^ ^ ^

"All animals are created equal, some are just more equal than others"...

And they’ll all be re-elected. Or others just like them.

Thanks for posting this. I just forwarded this to my wife who loves to go to Seattle and can't understand why I loathe the place.

Every year she tries to talk me into going and I keep telling her why I'm not fired up about it. I think the last time we went was about 2 years ago.

Tony.

Bartell Drugs says it will not open any more stores in downtown Seattle after violent assaults on employees.

SEATTLE -- The CEO of Bartell Drugs Kathi Lentzsch has been in her role for about year.

She moved from San Francisco to take the job in Seattle, and frankly she says she is surprised over the number of incidents and the violence she is seeing in Seattle.

Surveillance videos inside Bartell Drugs have captured countless shoplifting cases. In one incident, video shows a man in one aisle quickly running off with up to $700 worth of skincare products.

Lentzsch says many times the criminals are bold and many of them are repeat offenders.

“They will stand in front of our staff with a basket full of products and tell them we know you can’t come after us and walk out the door,” Lentzsch said.

It’s costing the company a lot, but the CEO didn’t sit down with Q13 News to talk about shoplifting.

“We've had too many cases of employees ending up in the hospital or with very serious issues,” Lentzsch said.

Multiple employees have been rushed to the hospital because of violent assaults.

Sometimes it’s shoplifting that escalates to assaults or just unprovoked attacks. The situation is concerning enough that the company is rethinking their future in the downtown core of Seattle.

In one case, cameras captured a pharmacist stumbling back with a broken nose. The company says he asked a shoplifter if he could help them pay for the items he had witnessed the suspect stealing.

“We have an individual who had two surgeries in December from being assaulted,” Lentzsch said.

Most of the times there is nothing employees can do but just pick up the pieces, like the time a man lashed out and trashed the store. He appeared to be going through a psychotic episode.

“My heart goes out to my store team, they are tough and yet compassionate and try to do the best they can,” Lentzsch said.

The company says they have off duty police officers at two of their downtown Seattle branches.

In one of those branches a woman tried to come after an employee despite a police officer standing in front of the worker. It took multiple officers to subdue the woman.

“Where we would like help is the violent offenders, it was startling to me how different the city had become,” Lentzsch said.

The company would like to hire more off-duty officers, but it's already costing hundreds of thousands of dollars to have officers in just two of the branches.

“Frankly we are losing money in some of those stores because of the cost of putting after hour policemen,” Lentzsch said.

She worries about the livelihood of the existing chains in Seattle, and for the time being the company has decided not to open any more stores in the downtown core.

Lentzsch says for things to get better, city leaders and community members have to work together.

She wants to be at the table to talk solutions and she hopes city leaders are actively working on new ways to tackle the problem right now.

She doesn’t blame any one entity for the complicated situation. She says mental illness, drug addiction and homelessness all play a role in the uptick in violence.

The CEO also says police officers are doing the best they can and that the problem is bigger than them. The company says they do not call 911 over shoplifting cases, only when there is a disruption or a dangerous situation. The company also says employees are told not to physically engage with shoplifters for their safety.

Lentzsch says this is not a Bartell Drug problem because her competitors are facing the same issue and so are many other businesses across Seattle.

https://q13fox.com/2019/03/25/...saults-on-employees/

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Originally posted by Jimineer:

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Originally posted by Dzozer:
Love the comment from the citizen in the clip - ^ ^ ^

"All animals are created equal, some are just more equal than others"...

And they’ll all be re-elected. Or others just like them.

I was just going to post this exact clip. sicking how that citizen was treated.

WTF is wrong with local officials these days?

Denver is seriously considering the same madness.

https://denverite.com/2019/03/...ot-right-to-survive/

Here’s the language you’ll see on the ballot:

Shall the voters of the City and County of Denver adopt a measure that secures and enforces basic rights for all people within the jurisdiction of the City and County of Denver, including the right to rest and shelter oneself from the elements in a non-obstructive manner in outdoor public spaces, to eat, share, accept or give away food in any public space where food is not prohibited, to occupy one’s own legally parked vehicle or occupy a legally parked vehicle belonging to another, with the owner’s permission, and to have a right and expectation of privacy and safety of or in one’s person or property?


YES
https://www.denverrighttosurvive.org

NO
https://www.togetherdenver.com

Former resident of the Pac NW (30 years). That news special by KOMO is excellent.

I felt disgusted, angry and sad, watching it.

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Originally posted by tanner:
Denver is seriously considering the same madness.

https://denverite.com/2019/03/...ot-right-to-survive/

Here’s the language you’ll see on the ballot:

Shall the voters of the City and County of Denver adopt a measure that secures and enforces basic rights for all people within the jurisdiction of the City and County of Denver, including the right to rest and shelter oneself from the elements in a non-obstructive manner in outdoor public spaces, to eat, share, accept or give away food in any public space where food is not prohibited, to occupy one’s own legally parked vehicle or occupy a legally parked vehicle belonging to another, with the owner’s permission, and to have a right and expectation of privacy and safety of or in one’s person or property?


YES
https://www.denverrighttosurvive.org

NO
https://www.togetherdenver.com

And the voters there will ultimately vote with their bleeding hearts instead of their brains.

Yay (for now).

https://patch.com/colorado/den...19-voters-head-polls

Right to Survive" and Magic Mushrooms shot down by voters

In the Denver election, two citizen initiated ordinances also decided whether to repeal the Denver public camping ban, passed in 2012, and whether to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms. In early voting, results showed that both initiatives were being shot down by voters.

Votes against Initiative 300 the "Right to Survive," were counted at 80,844 while "yes" votes were only tallied at 14,916.

Voters also showed an early thumbs-down for the decriminalizing of "magic mushrooms" in intiated ordinance 301. "No" votes were 51,285 in early counts, while "yes" votes were 42,703.

Democrats are the equivalent of modern day locusts.when they show up, consume & leave bare what once thrived.