Seattle Doubles Down on Woke
Problem: We don’t have enough people officers to staff Seattle PD. Everyone quit because of woke leadership, which creates a hostile work environment. Those who remain are just putting in the time to collect a pension, or they’re people no other department will take (freaks, misfits, and the dregs of the profession). Example: Other departments don’t want IV drug users, the mentally ill, morbidly obese, or trannies working at their departments. They’re assured of a career at Seatle PD.
Answer: Let’s hire illegal aliens. They’ll take the jobs. Do they need to speak English (or an approximation of English)? Why would they? So long as they know how to follow orders (or be deported), they’ll do a great job!
(more here) You may argue that it’s unconstitutional to hire illegal aliens (defacto felons by their status) to police America’s crumbling democrat-run cities, but when is the last time that democrats cared about the law unless it was being weaponized against political adversaries?
SEATTLE, WA – Seattle is joining the growing list of left-wing cities that have decided to turn to illegal aliens to fill the ever-increasing void in the ranks of their police departments, following cities such as Los Angeles. This is due to severe understaffing that has gutted many large city departments in primarily blue cities.
In April, KTTH’s Jason Rantz reported that the Seattle PD’s staffing is at levels not seen in 67 years. As of December 31, 2023, the department had only 424 police officers working, the last date for which data was available. The Seattle PD confirmed that number to Rantz in an email.
Bullet Points:
** Israeli-Hamas War – What is obscured and buried in this story is that, whereas Israel has agreed to the terms of the cease-fire, HAMAS HAS REJECTED THE CEASEFIRE proposal and made other demands. That being said, the idea that Israel should not prosecute this war until Hamas is destroyed shows exceptional and fatal shortsightedness. As sad as the present conflict is, leaving Hamas intact to perpetrate more attacks on Israelis in the future is NOT an intelligent option and NOT a real solution. This evil must be destroyed in the manner in which Nazi Germany was destroyed.
** You don’t have to respect anyone’s beliefs. It’s good manners to acknowledge them. We get into trouble when we buy off on respecting idiots and their absurdities.
** It’s summer, so it’s time to send yourself to boating camp before you venture out onto the water.
** I knew that Barack and his husband, Big Mike, were queer, but Pedo Joe has always been a pedophile – thus his name. Somebody gave him a Bud Light… wow.
** The potted plant – wandering. At least he didn’t squat and push one out into his diaper for the camera. That’s an improvement.
** And this is why I was thrilled to be gone. A chest full of valor and a couple of Purple Hearts is a clear sign of dangerous, toxic masculinity.
** Books and films (update): I have been in some Hollywood circles (old circles with people I’ve known) since the beginning of the year, and I recently told them that I wouldn’t do business with them. There’s not enough whiskey in Texas, if you catch my meaning. There are some people I’d speak with, but not these people. When I wrote screenplays over twenty years ago, I had a frontman who dealt with the Hollywood pukes on my behalf. I don’t have him anymore, and it’s simply not worth the heartache. As I mentioned to Al Kirk in a blog comment a few days ago, AI is changing everything. The business is changing with theaters dying. Because the big, quick money from big studio productions is not there the way it was, and the wolves circle projects. I don’t want to have to cripple some Hollywood person to prove a point. So I’m out. I’ll sell movie rights to anything I’ve written, but it’s a cash-and-carry thing. Dealing with them in terms of how they massacre the story in a script is something I won’t be a part of. Speak to my agent, who will cut the deal (and himself in) and leave me alone.
** It’s no longer called “fast food.” We now refer to it as “good food quickly.” Maybe that’s why the workers now make $20/hr in some states.
** Buy the Book – Operation Pineapple Express: In April 2021, an urgent call was placed from a Special Forces operator serving overseas. The message was clear: Get Nezam out of Afghanistan now. Nezam was part of the Afghan National Army’s first group of American-trained commandos; he passed through Fort Bragg’s legendary Q course and served alongside the US Special Forces for over a decade. But Afghanistan’s government and army were on the edge of collapse, and Nezam was receiving threatening texts from the Taliban. The message reached Nezam’s former commanding officer, retired Lt. Col. Scott Mann, who couldn’t face the idea of losing another soldier in the long War on Terror. Immediately, he sends out an SOS to a group of Afghan vets (Navy SEALs, Green Berets, CIA officers, USAID advisors). They all answer the call for one last mission.
Operating out of basements and garages, Task Force Pineapple organizes an escape route for Nezam and gets him into hiding in Taliban-controlled Kabul. After many tense days, he braves the enemy checkpoints and the crowds of thousands blocking the airport gates. He finally makes it through the wire and into the American-held airport thanks to the frantic efforts of the Pineapple Express, a relentless Congressional aide, and a US embassy official. Nezam is safe, but calls are coming in from all directions requesting help for other Afghan soldiers, interpreters, and at-risk women and children. Task Force Pineapple widens its scope—and ends up rescuing 500 more Afghans from Kabul in the three chaotic days before the ISIS-K suicide bombing. Operation Pineapple Express is a thrilling, suspenseful tale of service and loyalty amidst the chaos of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
** There is a counterpoint between the Russians and the United States over Ukraine. Now that USGOV has green-lighted strikes on Russian home territory, why wouldn’t they do the same thing? I doubt that they will at this point. Black Rock stands to make a lot of money in Ukraine, and they seem to be pulling the Brandon Puppets’ strings.
** Pedo Joe is asking European leaders why they didn’t arrest the conservative candidates before the recent landslide elections.
** (Bee) MIAMI, FL — In the wake of the sighting of a Russian naval flotilla not far from the coast of Florida, President Biden, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, has swiftly and competently reacted to the situation to defend his top security priority: all of the Florida Pride murals.
According to National Security sources, the Russian task force, which includes a nuclear submarine and a frigate, could pose a threat to US sovereignty. Still, more importantly, they might splash water – or even leave tire tracks – on gay pride murals. The National Guard and the Coast Guard have been ordered to dispatch troops to keep a 24-hour watch on all Pride murals within a 250-mile radius of the Russian ships.
“Rest assured, Americans,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in an emergency press conference. “President Biden is doing everything within his power to make sure that American assets are protected and secure in the face of Russian saber-rattling – especially the most precious national symbol of all: our pride murals!”
President Biden later confirmed the decision in a brief speech. “You know them warships in Mexico, Jack? They’re dog-faced, lying pony soldiers! REPEAT THE LINE. We’ll make sure that they can’t take any of their malarkey against our Gaza Pride folx!”
From Frank (h/t) Everyone wants to be a Redneck
Engineering America
(The Regime is based on a Lie) An alleged moral necessity underlies this open political defiance. It is assumed that the current environment is saturated with racism. It must be re-engineered with DEI policies: racial preferences in admissions and hiring, mandatory diversity training, and a race-centered curriculum. Peace, harmony, achievement, and opportunity will reign in workplaces and on campuses after a generation or so of such policies.
It starts in the ivory tower but can hardly be expected to end there. These assumptions—that the present social order is “systemically racist;” that said racism can only be eliminated by the imposition of group outcome equality, supplanting the American idea of equal opportunity—require a whole-of-society approach, a top-to-bottom reorganization. This is the animating ideology of what Tom Klingenstein has called the “group quota regime.”
This ideology—what many Americans now recognize as “wokeism”—has effectively taken over all of the major power centers across our society: not just the universities but the media, the government, the Big Tech giants, the mass media, and more. It is the animating creed of what Glenn Ellmers and Ted Richards recently identified as an “emerging totalitarianism.” Adherence is compulsory: consider the professions of faith now required of professors or the constantly rising phenomenon of “cancellation.” However, those who object to its ascendancy should focus more on its foundations in academia. Those foundations are surprisingly shaky even on their terms and may present opportunities for regime critics. (more)
Identify the Aircraft
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Hint: This aircraft was designed well but built only in limited numbers (819 aircraft in total). The larger number of Kawasaki Ki-21 bombers and the superior capabilities of the Mitsubishi Ki-67 bomber overshadowed it. This aircraft arose out of a 1938 requirement to replace the Ki-21 heavy bomber, and it first flew in August 1939 with two Nakajima Ha-5 KAI radial engines (950 horsepower each).
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Two photos to work from – The aircraft began flying for one country and is now in US Army inventory.
Identify the Armor
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Parting Shot
It’s a British meme, but there are universal applications.
End
Identify the Aircraft:
1 Heinkel He 177 Greif
2. Nakajima Ki-49 Helen
3. Bombardier Global 6500 in Rapcon-X ISR configuration.
Identify the Armor:
4. Sd.Kfz. 231 6 rad
Seen elsewhere: Let’s Get Biden To Quit, short form is LGBTQ.
I finally knew more than one of the aircraft! The armored car not so much.
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There is much more story to the USArmy using a Bombardier Global 6500 in Rapcon-X-ISR than just its picture. Maybe even a new LL short story.
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Hopefully you’ll sell a few movie rights and pocket a few shekels. From your description of the people and process for screenplays it sounds like dealing with people who ran out of cash so they bet their own mother in a craps game held behind a dumpster in an alley.
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I’ll buy “Operation Pineapple Express” later today. Looks interesting.
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1. Heinkel He 177 Greif (Griffin)
2. Nakajima Ki-49
3. Bombardier Global 6500 Rapcon-X ISR.
4. SdKfz 231 Schwerer Panzerspahwagen (6-rad) Rheinmetall 20mm
Today is flag day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyZ9b4My6NU&t=587s
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Indeed it is.
Seattle PD
I lived in King County for 18 years. It sickens me to see what was once a fine place fall apart. The center of the woke cancer is the University of Washington along with Seattle University IMO.
My oldest son is now out of Seattle and living in a group home in Renton. So far Renton has dodged much of the Seattle rot. When I was selling cars there, the Renton PD had around 50 sworn officers. Their parking lot was exposed and many wanted $2,000 “beaters” for commuting. I was always happy to accommodate them. In turn, they would bring my miscreant sons home instead of jailing them and I would ignore the occasional bumps and bruises. Peace officers at their finest.
Presidential Election. I’m starting to see occasional “news” stories from the American Mainstream Maggots (h/t BZ) on who the (P)regressives might pick if PedoJoe decides not to run. Not that he gets to decide but his handlers might not be able to keep him functioning long enough to make it to January 2025.
Functioning indeed. I wonder PedoJoe’s handlers will try to run someone else for V.P. on the ticket. Plan being to get Joe back in, then he “goes away” and V.P. is in.
Plausable.
The democrats don’t want the odious whore as president than anymore than anyone else does. Sure, she makes an adequate puppet, but things internationally are slipping and even the Wall Street mandarins who run Pedo Joe’s regime see that. They would only slip worse with the Ho as a figurehead and it would be bad for business.
The greater Sea-Tac area didn’t “fall apart”, it was deliberately destroyed.
Now the same people are working on the rest of the State. My sister, niece, great-niece/nephews
live out in Yakima, and it’s sad to see what Washington is becoming.
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-Kle.
“These assumptions—that the present social order is “systemically racist;” that said racism can only be eliminated by the imposition of group outcome equality, “… substitute more racism for “group outcome equality”
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My wife and I have often said that we thought this was all over with by the time the civil rights law was passed in the late ’60s, certainly by the mid -70s. Here in a small southern city mixed racial couples don’t even get a second glance. Everywhere we go is integrated.
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Who would have guessed that MLK’s society where people are judged not by the color of their skin but the content of their character would fail because there’s no money in it for the race hustlers? There’s no money in people getting along. The Reverend Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and all would have to get real jobs so that ain’t gonna happen.
I don’t think that many people in the mainstream care about race at all. During Obama’s Regime (the Obamanation), the racial divide was raised – for profit and power. The losers are the people in the inner cities who Obama ignored completely. Because it was never about race, it’s about power and money.
They use race as a hammer to flatten anything they demand control over…MLK would have blasted them for their reprehensible mentality that reversed nearly all the gains. Me (and my pals), never saw color, we saw character, what we were taught…otherwise we’d were grounded for being an idiot until we learned our lesson.
Who would have guessed that MLK’s society where people are judged not by the color of their skin but the content of their character would fail because there’s no money in it for the race hustlers? There’s no money in people getting along.
Meritocracy is contrary to what Desmond Morris found to be great ape instincts for society, which is Communism; meritocracy is a human intellectual construct contrary to human instinct; meritocracy has to be kept in power by active enforcement — by which faction exactly? Why do humans believe the animal homo sapiens sapiens are a blank slate, possessing no genetically-coded instinct, who can be (government-)educated into New Soviet Man or New Libertarian Man or Whatever? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Ape
“Israeli-Hamas War”
” The U.N. Security Council on Monday overwhelmingly approved its first resolution endorsing a cease-fire plan aimed at ending the eight-month war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.”
https://apnews.com/article/un-us-security-council-israel-hamas-ceasefire-834734f606a5245cc46a2487a70ae3fa
Current members of “The U.N. Security Council”
Permanent members
China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, and United States. These members have veto power over any “substantive” resolution.
Non-permanent members
Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South Korea, and Switzerland.
Countries with embassies in Jerusalem:
Guatemala
Honduras
Kosovo
Papua New Guinea
United States
BTW:
is there any other country whose capital has been divided by the U.N. to acommodate two implacable enemies?
Israel needs to end Hamas for all time. Failure to do so will lead to the cancer continuing and nothing will have been gained. The UN be damned.
+1000
AMEN!
AMEN! X2
Concur vehemently with above.
– Kle.
Over at Peter’s place–
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/06/so-much-for-pride-month.html
Yes.
“people officers” – Huh? What’s a people officer? These idiots can’t even use proper language anymore, all designed to create a language nebula to confuse. Sort of like: Hunter now being found guilty and is [an actual] felon for his cheat, won;t be stated as such, instead the Chatty-Types will “reword” him as a “justice involved person”. [One can argue whether the form question he lied to was legit because The Fed’s have no authority to require personal information for any purchase, including firearms…but that’s another argument for another day…and the form is the form installed by Hunter’s own team.]
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Israeli-Hamas War – Prager says, “If Hamas laid down their weapons peace would ensue, if Israel laid down theirs weapons Hamas would eradicate the entire nation.” The IDF needs to smoke all of these evil cranks until there are no more…anyone saying the opposite is either galactically stupid or mentally ill…sometimes those two intertwine.
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Speed Demon Wheelbarrowing: When the trucking company dumped the dirt at the end of your 1/2 mile driveway and you told them you wanted it out back in the corner.
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Entertaining Idiots and Absurdities- Funny, my brothers, cousin, and I have usually been the ones (often in meetings, but moreso now when I dealing with certain types, always on the Lib/Left side of zero) who stop proceedings then ask: “Is it just me or does anyone else find this [X] entirely STUPID?
—Be the one who asks the basic questions when observing foolishness…then watch what happens next. Might lose a few people, but lucky for you they shouldn’t be at your campfire anyway call it a “mentality unfriending” in order to maintain some semblance of sanity. SISU MAGA ™
I once asked our CEO to explain his grand plan, that I didn’t understand what it was but knew he had to have one because there was no way he could have assembled such a large crew of screwballs by accident. In my defense, alcohol may have been involved…….
Questioning stupidity has cost me a couple jobs.
Silly me, I thought I was paid to think.
I still haven’t learned otherwise.
WWW & Ed_B, Honesty in the face of possibly losing your job is what Jesus requires of us…professionally stated of course, no need to be offensive…unless they aren’t listening and you need to get their attention…if they don’t want your expertise then no need to be working there. I’ve walked out of a few Quarterly meetings once I started hearing the “efficiency” bravo sierra, like the CEO read it in a book…which was always a precursor to layoffs. Did help I was contract and could leave whenever I wanted, had my own concern and heard the same rhetoric over and over in Boulder tech…right before layoffs because the seed money was misspent on fancy trinkets instead of product.
Well….there goes Seattle…..
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No Engineer in their right mind would approve of what’s going on.
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When the police show up and you need to explain the problem, you’d best habla. We’re well beyond Ebonics. Seattle residents might also want to brush up on their Swahili.
MrsPaulM knows some Swahili…found out around one of our first neighbor campfires (picture me with my mouth hanging further open than normal when I stare at her…like, huh). Maybe she can help them out up there as she was in Redmond in the 80’s working with all the original tech start ups. Let me go ask her. (If I don’t comment tomorrow you’ll know it didn’t go well)
You could move to Seattle and open a business that translates for citizens who want to report something to the police.
Good concept…save for the “move to Seattle” part. Mbaya sana na wajinga
Fortunately, the DEI thing is also utterly risible. Quite unlike, say, irregular cavalry.
Regarding your stories, you might consider only selling your stories to the conservative film studios that are now out there. Please don’t sell them to anything affiliated with Disney.
Just look what leftist Hollyweird has done to Tom Clancy’s works lately. I wouldn’t wish that treatment on any decent authors’ works.
The conservative studios that are forming in Las Vegas might be a place to go. I would need to find an agent there in town to rep them. I have contacts.
I picked up a kindle copy of Operation Pineapple Express, interesting read…
Well that’s it exactly. There’s a Russkie flotilla off Cuba and we’re putting teens in gaol for the sheer effrontery of making skid marks on trannie crosswalks.
FFS springs to mind, but who knows, maybe our nation’s youth will rise up and fight and die for the holy trannies.
A bit unicorn battalion Ukraine, when you think on it.