Aseahawkfan wrote:You and I are in Washington State. I don't doubt that c-bob sees the worst of the Republican crazy where he's at in the Red South. I have no doubt we see the worst of the Dem crazy in the Blue Pac Northwest. From what I understand Oregon is even crazier than Washington State, but I don't go there so wouldn't know.
I live in Benton County, which isn't as much MAGA as other areas of eastern Washington. Trump got 58% of the vote in 2020. Grant County, where Hawktalk lives, Trump had 66% of the vote. Oregon lines up pretty much like Washington does, with the Portland-Willamette Valley being decidedly liberal, the eastern half of the state being staunch conservative.
Since I've been retired, I don't get out as much as I used to, but my sense is that although there are still a lot of MAGA supporters, they're not the bat chit crazies like those that stormed the Capitol. Hawktalk is probably in a better position to judge than I am, but that's the sense I get.
Aseahawkfan wrote:I work in Seattle. I didn't realize how crazy these people were until I started working here because I live in the suburbs. The people in the suburbs are moderate Dems or some mix of moderate Trumper to moderate Republican. In Seattle you see the looney Dems. Almost the entire Seattle City Council is populated by left leaning Dems all the way to crazy Sawant and the Mayor who called a takeover of six city blocks and a police precinct the "Summer of Love" and did next to nothing to protect businesses or people in Seattle during the protests. I don't have a problem with peaceful protesting, but it reached a point where it was no longer peaceful protesting and was a group of vandals destroying property and robbing stuff. The Mayor did not much. Lots of scumbag thievery and property damage that I saw with my own eyes, not on Fox news or some conservative news station. I was watching this stuff happen in real time, so it could not be hidden by the liberal media or exaggerated by the conservative media. I was there. I watched Nordstrom's big window destroyed multiple times. I watched the Starbucks by work repair its window three times before they gave up. I saw the graffiti on the plywood covered windows. Terrible tolerance for rotten behavior.
Seattle is a cesspool and their city council is a good example of how radical many in the Democratic party have become. Same with Portland, Eugene, and all the other large cities on the west coast. Those folks are every bit as crazy as the Trump followers, but since they aren't the 2nd amendment folks like the MAGA people, they're not nearly as dangerous. They also don't get the media attention as the CNN's and MSNBC's would like to ignore or trivialize the degree of radicalization the Dems are experiencing.
Aseahawkfan wrote:Some of these weird laws are just ridiculous too. They just keep taxing the crap out of us. Paper straws, taxes on sweet drinks, taxes on food delivery, expensive parking, and small percentage based taxes added on to your paycheck for things I wouldn't even use. It's super tiresome.
Yeah, I get tired of hearing this hypocritical
"follow the science" rhetoric we get from liberals. Early in the pandemic, at the exact same time when they were shutting down my former employer's facility when just one employee tested positive for Covid and forced them to do a hugely expensive sanitation costing tens of thousands of dollars even though there was very little evidence that the disease spread through contact surfaces, our Dem Governor signs into law a grocery sack ban of which their preferred alternative was a thousand times more unsanitary and subject to the spreading of disease.
"Follow the science" only applies if it doesn't conflict with one of their political objectives, like the environment.
Aseahawkfan wrote:I was working out at a gym with a cop. After getting to know him a bit, I asked him why don't you guys clean this up more. He said they've been told to overlook small drug transactions or low level thievery. They're short-staffed and they don't want to pursue criminals doing property crime because it's not worth the hassle if anything goes wrong. It's safer for them to take a report from a car or house break in after the fact, than to interact with a criminal while a crime is in progress. Being a cop right now sounds like a real lame situation.
Not sure how Washington State was taken over by what seems like 60s hippies and socialists, but that seems to be what happened. They don't seem to have standards for behavior beyond the common liberal avoidance of being a racist or sexist. But as far as not being a drug addict or a thief or having rotten manners or having respect for other's property, no concern whatsoever. No standards of behavior expected of citizens. Just constant excuses for garbage behavior.
It did not used to be this way when I was young. I'm really not sure when it flipped and changed.
The Democrats reaction to the BLM riots is a great example of the lunacy that has gripped the Democratic party and why I don't trust their core to govern the country. It's no wonder that the country is so divided.