Mayor Durkan of Seattle is surprised when the crocodile comes up to her door, opens its mouth, and shows its teeth
Be Mayor Durkan fool, be she knave, or be she both?
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant joined a large group of protesters outside the CHOP zone who marched to [Seattle Mayor] Durkan’s house on Sunday afternoon.
You mean, they didn’t respect her property or her privacy?
Of course, perhaps they came to thank her for having been so kind ever since the protests and riots and arson and takeovers began. That would only be fitting.
But no, because:
Durkan said last week that police will begin returning to the East Precinct in the CHOP, although a timeline wasn’t provided.
Ah, so she told them that some day – some fine day – she might actually move to take back the parts of the city that they had commandeered and trashed. How dare she! Who does she think she is, the mayor? Durkan issued this statement:
Seattle has a long tradition of peaceful protest and advocacy for progressive change, and Mayor Durkan strongly supports those rights. Mayor Durkan will continue to listen to leaders in Seattle’s Black community. She is working hard to translate the calls for change into real, tangible systemic changes to policing and all the other systems needed for strong and healthy communities. She has prioritized these as Mayor, with investments in housing, education, youth opportunity, and economic equity. She proposes investing an additional $100 million into the Black community.
Mayor Durkan and her family are in the state program to keep their address confidential because of the death threats mostly related to her work as Seattle’s U.S. Attorney under President Obama. Instead of working to make true change, Councilmember Sawant continues to choose political stunts. Tonight she did so without regard for the safety of the Mayor and her family. The Mayor was not even home – she was working at City Hall. Seattle can and should peacefully demonstrate but should not put families and children at risk.”
Especially the mayor’s family and children. The families and children who happen to live in the Capitol Hill zone, for example? Not so much.
And Mayor Durkan was supposedly protected from this sort of thing, her address kept a secret. I guess it didn’t work, and perhaps Councilmember Sawant was the one to reveal it? How can they be so mean to Mayor Durkan, after all she’s done for them, and all she’s promised to do – like sinking another $100 million into the Black community?
I became curious to learn about Councilmember Sawant, and found her Wiki page quite edifying:
Kshama Sawant , born October 17, 1973), is a socialist politician and economist who serves on the Seattle City Council. She is a member of Socialist Alternative. A former software engineer, Sawant became an economics instructor in Seattle after immigrating to the United States from her native India. She ran unsuccessfully for the Washington House of Representatives before winning her seat on the Seattle City Council. She was the first socialist to win a citywide election in Seattle since Anna Louise Strong was elected to the school board in 1916.
Ah, a socialist. Who would have thought it?
Her Wiki page also says that although she was originally a software engineer, “After moving to the United States, she was shocked by the level of poverty and decided to abandon software engineering. She pursued studies in economics because of what she described as her own ‘questions of economic inequality’.”
Sawant was raised in Mumbai (you may remember it as Bombay). And yet it was when she moved to the US that she was shocked, shocked by the level of poverty and economic inequality? When I read that, I started to wonder if perhaps there was something I wasn’t remembering about Mumbai and its own poverty and economic inequality. But no – poverty and economic inequality, they name is Mumbai (from 2018):
Mumbai is a city of imbalance. With an estimated wealth of $950 billion, the city is the 12th richest in the world, ranking ahead of major urban centers like Paris and Toronto. Much of this prosperity is due to the combination of a large billionaire population and the presence of India’s oldest, and most prominent, stock exchange.
At the same time, more than half of the city’s population lives in slums, or areas of extreme poverty that often lack access to clean water, electricity, and public transportation. With an estimated 6.5 million people residing in these conditions, Mumbai has the largest slum population of any city in the world.
And in an added little bit of strangeness, Sawant is married to a man (also a socialist) named Calvin Priest. That’s quite an evocative name. Sawant also was the member of the City Council who let the “protestors” into City Hall a while back.
By the way, although these people call themselves “socialists,” I think that is a euphemism and/or a scmokescreen. To most Americans, that word may conjure up the arrangement in a country like Sweden (which isn’t even socialist these days, but that’s not the point). In other words, a mostly-democratic welfare state. But I see no indication that that’s what Sawant and the others have in mind. They are as ruthless as Bolsheviks or Robespierre, and they will do whatever they need to do if they deem it necessary and they ever have the power.
I remember when Ms. Sawant was first elected to the Seattle city council. She called on the workers at Boeing to ‘seize the means of production.’ And begin cranking out intercity buses instead of airliners.
She may have a degree in economics, but so does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes. Doesn’t seem to mean much nowadays.
It is so sad for the Durkin that the mob didn’t respect her personal space. Just like the Aunty Fay “peaceful” protestors didn’t respect the Mayor of Olympia’s (WA) home (they gave it a customized paint job) about two weeks ago. The Mayor of Olympia (Cheryl Selby) was shocked and found their artistic expression unacceptable in civilized society. Olympia WA is the location of Evergreen College, a bastion of free speech and acceptance of diverse political and social viewpoints (not); it’s the college where Bret Weinstein used to teach.
https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/06/16/olympia-wa-mayor-learns-the-hard-way-that-kneeling-with-protesters-is-not-enough-as-attacks-turn-personal/
The crocodile is never satiated.
Especially the mayor’s family and children.
Wikipedia: Jenny Durkan.
A 5,000 sq. ft. mansion: sounds like what a half century ago was known as “limousine liberals.” If a Republican politician similarly didn’t disclose financial assets of a partner, rest assured that Democrats would be screaming bloody murder.
Limousine liberals reminds me of another flash in the past, also from a half century ago:Annotation Tuesday! Tom Wolfe and radical chic. Tom Wolfe provides running commentary on Radical Chic, courtesy of being interviewed.
Hard to keep track of what ideas to believe innduring this Revolution.
A line from Evita; song A New Argentina; comes to mind…
“…Sometimes it’s very difficult to keep momentum if It’s you that you are following…”
Durkan identifies as a lesbian. She and her partner Dana Garvey have two sons.
Jesus ! Talk about pathology. Very little research done of children of gay couples, especially lesbians with sons. No funding and not PC. I feel so sorry for those kids.
Durkan and Sawant – Perfect together !
1. Kshama Sawant will no matter the circumstances advocate for a tax on Amazon. And apparently she and Durkan have a grudge match going.
2. A former boss of mine, who was born and raised there, said that everyone calls it “Bombay” and only the national politicians call it “Mumbai”. (My guess is due to official Hindutva, and I would guess the same is true of Calcutta/Kolkata.)
3. 99% of the $100 million “invested” in the black community will end up in the same place as the $1 billion “invested” every year in the homeless community: the fat bank accounts of non-profits and the people who run them.
She must have slept thru class if she studied economics, a subject not exactly amenable to socialism.
I don’t want to take anything away from Seattle, where leftist politics run rampant, but I read somewhere that 1/3 of the Microsoft employees are culturally Indian which implies that there are a large number of Indians in Seattle. I wonder to what extent they voted for her because her place of origin instead of her political views. Wikipedia says that her party “is a Trotskyist political party in the United States” so I don’t know how that is classified as Socialist.
Trump is correct in leaving the Seattle pustule to fester and burst on its own.
And NYC is within an hour of making the biggest mistake ever — removing $1B from its police budget (and likely turning the funds over to the mayor’s wife to squander).
And BLM protester shot a driver in Provo, Ut.
LET ALL THE POISONS COME OUT!
Andy,
Seattle as a whole is only 0.3% subcontinental Indian as of 2010. A very large number of them work in tech, and honestly my feeling from living here for 20 years is that the rest of them run restaurants.
Sawant’s council district is centered on Capitol Hill (location of the CHOP) and the surrounding residential neighborhoods, which has an even smaller percentage of all-category Asians than the rest of Seattle.
I think it’s pretty clear that Sawant got elected because she’s a communist pretending to be a socialist, not because of her ethnicity.
Calvin Priest?
????
Give that name to a kid and he’s guaranteed to be a mess. Predestined to a split personality. (Remember Milton’s “New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large?”)
I can’t take Sawant seriously on anything, after learning that she grew up in Bombay and thinks the level of poverty in the US is shocking. I have seen Bombay. I have seen the slums. You can’t avoid seeing the slums if you fly in and out of the international airport. She’s a fraud.
Eeyore: “Predestined to a split personality.” I laughed out loud!
Edward,
Interesting heads-up on the shooting.
Until now, I have not thought that violence would be widespread, and that most of it would be intra-left-wing rat fight violence, or property damage in leftist cities.
But it looks as though the radicals are trolling for violence and are determined to provoke it. Yes, they are determined, some of them, to kill.
I don’t care how pacifistic or aged you are. When masked men stop your car, and then shoot through the windows, you are not left with much of a selection when it comes to responses.
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/6/30/21308526/gunman-shot-driver-then-hid-weapon-continued-protest-provo-police-say-blm
It’s pretty rich for Americans to be lectured on poverty and racism by a person from India, home of the caste system.
Bryan Lovely
1. Kshama Sawant ……. And apparently she and Durkan have a grudge match going.
That appears to be an understatement.Seattle Mayor Moves to Expel Wacky Socialist Councilwoman Who Led Protest to Her House.
Thrilla in Manila, Rumble in the Jungle… Could that be a Death Rattle in Seattle?
Indian immigrant Caste out of Seattle City Council 🙂
Not yet, but apparently pending……
It’s time to sit back and get the popcorn out. I am reminded of “I hope they both lose.” Truman on Hitler invading USSR. Henry the K in Iran Iraq in 1980.
This was something i brought up with someone years ago… if the movement targets X and your X what makes you think it will leave you alone for supporting X?
it hates wealthy, so why did the wealthy support it? did they think they could buy their way out of the revolutionary outcome? has anyone in history, other than leaving the location, actually done so?
news? why does news support this? doesnt news know what its like to be a reporter or run a news service in places like they support? do they think that after the revolution, the news gets a hall pass to the bathroom and doesnt have to be changed?
and the big thing on the march to Durkins house… the couple with the firearms, that the news been ranting about should be punished, are in that gated community with Durkin. Yes, thats right, she is sooooo wealthy being a US attorney as she likes to say, she lives in that community. see note on wealthy above…
and what about these protestors? too useful too much idiots? do they really have it so bad in the US that they think they would have it better in a USCPP? or USSA? As I have pointed out here before, they will not be seen by the new regime (if that happens) as hero’s. The Latvian rifle men who were heroes of the land, were eventually removed. Now, there is no such heroes, the people who come to power see them as traitors to their own society. not to be trusted. because the minute the fortunes of reality shine on them, they will turn on a dime faster against the new reality
boy are the feminist ladies who supported a communist movement (taken over a long time ago and well documented) going to be real upset when not only cant men earn and be marryable, but they cant either.
then what about the elder dems? do they really think their social security checks will keep coming as the new order gets screwed in like a lightbulb? welfare too? wic?
they still havent figured out the defund the police is a tax raising ratchet.
you take a billion from A, give it to B… when the people scream for relief
you tell them you have to raise taxes to put the money back to A
taking it away from B is not possible. and without the ratchet game, it would not have been possible to take it from A to give to B either.
Thanks for playing!
is about all they will get…
this above set of points also goes to things like medical research, grants for school, and more… what the heck is rattling around in their heads? i wouldnt want to disparage marbles by saying that… rocks are quite nice too…
A 5,000 sq. ft. mansion: sounds like what a half century ago was known as “limousine liberals.”
yup.. the Red Millionaire was the first.. Willi Munzenberg
but we wont discuss the man who Goebbels learned from
the man who gave the left their haughty attitude
the man who said:
never let them know these ideas are not their own
The mayor is not a naive or a fool, she’s just a stupid brainwashed running dog lackey.
Artfldgr
Are you confusing the Seattle march on the Mayor’s house with the St. Louis march on the Mayor’s house? The St. Louis march featured an attorney couple defending their mansion rehab with guns pointed at the trespassing protesters. Keep moving!’ Moment lawyer couple brandish an AR-15 and a handgun at protesters marching past their mansion in an upscale St. Louis neighborhood. BTW, the rehab they did on that mansion is impressive- took a lot of money.
I have not seen any articles about the gated community and mansion owner pointing gun at protesters in Seattle.
The political; scene in Seattle is a pip. Never a dull moment. They have had some awful mayors over the years, but keep on electing more progressives who keep raising taxes, laying on more regulations, failing to deal with homelessness, and failing the black community.
In spite of that, with Amazon, other high tech companies, the cruise industry, and Boeing the city has done well economically. I remember well the 1970s when there was a billboard on I-5 saying, “Will the last person to Leave Seattle please turn out the lights.”
One of the local talk radio hosts, Todd Herman, comments at length on the irrational things being done by the various players. He calls Sawant, “Kshama I Wanna” (your money). Amazon is moving to Bellevue, Boeing is on hard times, the cruise lines aren’t going to be sailing this summer, and a lot of businesses are closing or leaving due to the pandemic, high taxes, and/or regulations. Is Seattle about to experience another run like the 1970s? It couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of progs.
Mayor Durkan seemed to want to keep a lid on the protests at first. But at some point she suddenly pulled the police off the streets and surrendered the Capitol Hill area. Very strange. My reading is that she got orders from higher up to let CHAZ/CHOP happen. I doubt it was from the Guv. He’s too dense to be involved with such tactics and strategy. I think the orders came from the DNC or maybe from the big man himself. O yes.
Anyway, it will be fun to watch the mayor and Kshama I Wanna have a cat fight. May take the spotlight off of CHOP for a minute. If this weren’t so dad-gummed tragic, it would make for good political theater.
Gringo – well, someone marched somewhere.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
https://babylonbee.com/news/controversial-video-of-trump-and-melania-brandishing-guns-as-reporters-near-white-house
“A mostly peaceful group of reporters”
Bwahahahahaha! It is really hard for satire to outpace reality these days but the Babylon Bee is giving it all they’ve got.
“…orders from higher up…”
Of this there can be no doubt.
Coordinated brilliantly (with the MSCM providing covering barrages) as, along with their admiration and support for Antifa and BLM, they chirp—from the West Coast to the East—that it’s all “Trump’s (and his supporters’) fault”.
She is discovering that you get more of what you reward.
Mayor Durkan has finally had enough and is closing the CHOP by force:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-police-clearing-chop-protest-zone/
And as I said before:
So is it my understanding that Mayor Durkan finally gave the order to clear out CHOP one day after her home was visited by protesters? After leaving 500 residents in the CHOP area in misery for three weeks? What selfishness and uncaring for others, and dereliction of her civic duty.
Freeman,
Welcome to Seattle.
The mayor no doubt tried to be a knave but was too dumb to carry it off.
Are you confusing the Seattle march on the Mayor’s house with the St. Louis march on the Mayor’s house?
definitely… thanks for the fix