Comments on: Governor Jay Inslee: useful idiot or mendacious enabler?

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 22:30:26 +0000

Richard – I think individual policemen (unless they are hard-core leftists in the grip of cognitive dissonance to the max) will discontinue any donations to the Democrats.
Union bosses — not necessarily: depends on the degree of personal kick-backs being traded around.
However, if police ARE defunded (Joe and others are waffling), then union coffers won’t have as much to grease palms with even if leaders are so inclined.
And hopefully there would be some push-back from the members.

So: strategic defunding of Democrats for awhile to get their attention, then back to Situation Normal.
Unions per se don’t like conservative Republicans (aka Not-RINOs) because they don’t play the back-scratching game (or not as much, anyway, I hope).

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 23:27:02 +0000

Seattle Times today limited coverage to a small item in the “Local” section,

Which tells you something about their editors. American journalism is dead.

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:19:29 +0000

AesopFan — I don’t think donating to Democrats is very likely anymore — remember that in 2016, the FOP endorsed Trump. I’m sure that cop union funding for the Democrats at the local and state levels this election will be greatly reduced or gone.

By: Ray Van Dune

Ray Van Dune — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 21:58:58 +0000

Seattle Times today limited coverage to a small item in the “Local” section, with no mention of any criminality, residents’ civil rights, etc. The media are actively helping the Mayor and the Governor continue justifying their inaction.

I think Trump is right to hold off and watch things go to hell. Well, by “right”, I mean using the correct strategy, not that is the right thing to do for those trapped in the mess!

By: Eeyore

Eeyore — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 21:56:37 +0000

A few years ago – not so many at that – I’d have called that an obvious fake. But now, who knows. The nation’s actual paper of record is the Babylon Bee.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 21:27:43 +0000

Another CTH commenter cited a tweet from Mike Huckabee, pointing out that there is a basic disconnect to these calls to defund the police.

“If Dems lead the cry to “DEFUND THE POLICE!” why do police union bosses dole out most of their $$ to Dems? Police unions are funding the party that wants to defund police. Huh?” – Huckabee

He links to this Fox news story with information on just who in Congress is being bribed, excuse me, benefiting from donations.
Not just Democrats, by the way.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/police-union-donations-congress

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 21:22:45 +0000

Commenter Dutchman at CTH thinks that the extreme actions of BLM & Antifa are a necessary crisis that has shocked conservatives, independents, classical-liberals in both parties, and even some of the soft left. He puts up a good parable to argue that position.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/10/jim-jordan-delivers-remarks-exposing-the-fraud-behind-defund-the-police-narrative/#comment-8336227

Dutchman says:
June 10, 2020 at 8:57 pm
That “Defund the Police”, Men in womans bathrooms, dressing rooms and sports, post-partum abortions are even requiring someone to argue against, demonstrates how far we have gone off the rails.

A guy is driving alone in a car, across the desert at 2:00 a.m., on a cross country trip, on a two lane highway.

He nods off, and awakens when his right tires go off the asphalt. He recovers, getting his car back on the road, and ‘pushes on’, detirmined to drive straight through to his destination.

Over the next 5 miles, the same thing happens several more times, each time without incident, and each time he continues on.

Then, he REALLY “nods off”, and awakens when his head hits the roof, as he goes over a particularly high ridge.
He brings the car to a stop, and realises that he has driven straight off the riad and into the desert, some 150 feet!

He backs and fills, manages to get turned around and headed back towards the road, without getting stuck.

As he nears the road, he contemplates how he could easily have died, and weighs that possibility, against the “plusses” of getting to his destination a little quicker.

Deciding its “just not worth it”, he resolves to sleep there, and continue on in the morning.

Sometimes, you just HAVE to go “totally off the rails”, and seriously contemplate the result, in order to appreciate the need to change your coarse if action.

Small disruptions, gradual off coarse incidents, aren’t enough. Perhaps these nutjobs, advocating these childish, rediculous and ungodly policies are doing us a favor?

I pray it is so,…

By: parker

parker — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 21:20:06 +0000

I think Trump should stay out the chaos and destruction that has visited Washington state. The state and city governments have created this mess. If they lack the ability to reverse course, ain’t anyone else’s problem.

By: om

om — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 21:02:58 +0000

Kate:

Don’t know about the CHAZ culture except by a secondhand story from my SIL and her husband (both rock climbers) who went building climbing at Volunteer Park once and commented on the alphabet people culture being out and proud there. Their comments included – “Don’t go in the public bathrooms at the park!”

The old REI Seattle store used to be in the CHAZ but moved to a location near I-5 about 15 to 20 years ago. Getting to the CHAZ REI store was in comparison a nightmare driving and parking. Local trivia.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 20:59:00 +0000

One notable black professional speaking out against the anarchy is Dr. Steele, a Civil Rights icon. He is probably too old skul for the current mass of young protesters, but he is putting forth a voice of sanity.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/09/dr-shelby-steele-the-combination-of-white-guilt-and-victim-mentality-is-not-the-solution/