And there’s a potential sequel:
https://nypost.com/2020/08/13/seattle-mayor-turns-to-supreme-court-to-stop-ouster-over-protests/

Soon to be playing in Portland? In SF? In LA?

West coast blues?. Could it be the tectonic instability that reinforces the madness.

That is what happens when you believe your own propaganda. As Andrew Klavan has pointed out form his experience if you really want to get an insane person frothing with rage try telling them about reality.

“Riots are not good for your own locality and potential voters.

We need more and bigger riots! Elections don’t matter! Burn it all down!

But you will be outnumbered and killed.

Can’t happen! Burn it all down!”

Insufficiently Sensitive: Likewise Portland, Minneapolis, etc.

This is something I didn’t see coming either. That Democratic mayors and governors would let their major cities burn with nightly riots going on for months.

In comparison the riots after MLK’s assassination in 1968 were mostly over in a week and were mostly by blacks, not by Antifa whites who had already threatened urban violence.

No, not in even in 1968 were Democrats going to let their cities burn this way. Bad for the cities and bad for Democrats to be re-elected. I still think Democrats have miscalculated in terms of the 2020 elections. We shall see.

Indeed, before Monday’s Council meeting the salary cut was announced by the Council as 40%. During the meeting, it got changed somehow, but (no thanks to the Seattle Times) there’s no record of how that was brought about. A subsequent Times article did casually mention the new, minor cut, in a way that obliterated all previous mention of the forty-percenter. In short, some misleading journalism of which any ‘people’s government’ under rigid authoritarian control would be proud.

Politically and journalistically, Seattle is not at all in good hands these days.

https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/08/11/california-blm-organizer-charged-with-5-felonies-following-july-protest/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnh3Ekg3ho8
Chicago Riots Embarrass Democrats Because they have No One to Blame But Black People
70,030 views•Aug 11, 2020

h/t commenter at this LI post:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/08/chicago-black-lives-matter-leader-declares-looting-gucci-and-macys-is-reparations/

Sooo – if Antifa and BLM destroy enough businesses, does that mean we can consider the reparations bill paid in full and close that topic?

Welcome to Seattle! Gateway to the Pacific. I wonder how voters will react in November. There was quite a showing of support for the Chief outside of City Hall this morning.