Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant has been stuck in the background during much of the recent campaign, since she wasn’t on the ballot. Other than occasionally railing against the police, she was forced to let other lefties (like newly elected 7th District Congresswoman-for-Life Pramila Jayapal) take the stage.
And that doesn’t sit well with our Socialist savior Sawant.
So, she seized the opportunity that Donald Trump’s election brought, to yesterday urge people to take to the streets and screw up downtown traffic even worse than it usually is during rush hour. And that they did.
So much for heeding the call for unity coming from President Barack Obama and presidential runner-up Hillary Clinton earlier in the day.
But just marching around, and forcing the police department that she dislikes so much to rack up significant overtime bills, was not enough for Sawant. Additionally, she laid down a marker for next January – calling on the marchers to “shut down @realDonaldTrump‘s Inauguration Day.”
Just a thought, but perhaps Sawant’s brigade could get an early start, by starting their march to the “other” Washington now, so they can get there by Inauguration Day, next January 20.
With Sawant leading the way.
Maybe it would keep her out of trouble – or at least keep the Seattle Police Department’s overtime bills down.
Proof you can’t fix crazy!
Or stupid.
Funny how conservative voters never seem to riot, er, protest or shut down major traffic corridors when Liberals like Obama or Clinton are elected. I suppose most of them are too busy WORKING to waste their time screwing up other people’s lives.
Funny how liberals never traffic in eliminationist rhetoric, or fantasize about killing our political opponents. Maybe because we’ve proper respect for human rights and the rule of law?
Where was this threat? I don’t recall reading about it…probably because I was watching a Trump voter being beat up by five Clinton supporters (while being recorded by a sixth).
I didn’t claim he made a threat; I did note he fantasizes about killing political opponents. And he’s very clear on that:
We do need to stop tolerating the dangerously mental illness that is liberalism, treat it like the disease it is. You would not let a rabid animal in your house, you would shoot it to protect your family. So then why are these rabid animals allowed to destroy a once great Republic?
Do try to read harder next time.
I am trying to read “harder”, but I still don’t see who you are talking about. I assume it’s our next President, but can’t be sure, because I missed that comment from him.
I did hear that he was wanting to prosecute Clinton, though. Didn’t sound much like “killing” to me.
“…but I still don’t see who you are talking about.”
Commenter Swed., above, who has made multiple statements in this very thread about how his political opponents should be killed. I just quoted one of them.
Oh…okay. I hadn’t read his post. We weren’t talking about the same thing, this time. I guess I’ve been too wrapped up in the Presidential election results.
Read harder? Tensor you really are off your meds! You’re a much better Troll when you are on your meds… Time to get back on that horse Super Troll.
Tensor is insane. I had to read the comment twice to make sure it wasn’t intended as sarcasm.
So, if a young relative of yours goes off to college and experiments with new political ideas, you’d be fine with Swed. calling her a rabid animal and saying she should be shot?
Progs are the ones beating up fellow citizens, blocking highways, and burning cars, attacking police, inciting riots, writing books and plays comparing their political opponents to Hitler, and advocating shooting the president elect, firing all Trump-voting employees.
The only people invoking Hitler here are you and Swed.
Actually you can fix stupid, works for dogs. Keep them from breeding.
Liberals are regressives, not progressives, take anything they say and invert 180 degrees.
Liberals are the useful idiots that destroy a country from the inside and are always the first executed after a revolution, see Hitler, Stalin as examples. They never seem to learn. It comes down to this, if their own people cannot trust them why should the conquerors. Sawant is a useful idiot and if she actually gets what she thinks she want she will quickly be stood up against a wall by the next regime. History repeats, over and over and OVER. What is sad is how many seem to be blissfully unaware of history.
Could you be less American in your desire to see your adversaries stand against a wall, and call your government a regime. What despot do you admire? Which Dictator do you support? Just asking????
The government that enforces Laws against subversion, treason, theft, robbery, Arson, rioting, you know the little stuff. This POS should have been in prison decades ago in India and never allowed in to the States.
Since she came to this country at a young age, worked, studied, and became a naturalized citizen, I don’t see your claim that she should have been imprisoned in India decades ago. She is only 4 decades old and left her native country at 20. I think you are a little off here, especially since 56% of the citizens voted for her.
And having recently fled from the Soviet Democrapsy of Seattle 56% means the voters did not know what this POS really is. America needs to deport terrorists to their old stomping grounds and make return impossible. We have enough toxic waste here as it is. And anything Seattle voters go for is usually broken, twisted or pathetic, see the city council as an example.
That 56% was her re-election, so your theory that they didn’t know who she really is, doesn’t hold water. Sorry. And how far back do we go in your deportation plan, 1980, 1990,2000. Advocating for the deportation of naturalized citizens because of their nationality is stupid. Why don’t you just self deport.
I lived in seattle, I know how stupid and broken the natives are. it is a socialist cesspool. I would deport any liberal, socialist under the age of 120.
I moved out of the cesspool and moved to a far better place. Liberalism is a dangerous mental disorder, she is typical of the diseased minds that inhabit that hole.
Behold the modern right wing in America: openly fantasizing about how their political opponents should be lined up and shot gets not a whisper of protest from their fellows — nor from the moderators of this site, who love lecturing the rest of us on responsibility.
It’s going to be a long four years.
Actually, not all members of the so-called “modern right wing in America” support any platform that even approaches the garbage Swed has laid out for this audience. Far from it. Most of us simply read posts like his and just shake our collective heads. He is right on one of his positions however… stupid (and fascist) can be cured. The cure for both extremes, liberal socialism and fascism can be cured by strong leadership. I, like so many of America’s right wing, believe this leadership will come from President-elect Donald Trump.
I hate to admit it, but I do agree with Oberztrumbanfuhrer Swed on one point. Seattle (Republic of) is a cesspool of socialist “reformers” and “progressives” who truly believe that supporting publicly funded heroine shooting galleries, transit plans that will never come to satisfactory fruition, spending taxpayer dollars to paint crosswalks in rainbow colors, buying (and now selling) bicycle transportation “solutions”, etc. is for the common good. Remarkable.
You are correct tensor, it is going to be a long four years. It will take at least that long to swamp out the effluvium left over from the eight year reign of Mr. Obama an his cronies. Unfortunately, Mr. Trump can only work on a national level and his efforts will alas be largely ignored here in the Seattle oblast. Ignored, at least until federal funding dries up as a result of your liberal comrads refusal to drop Seattle as a sanctuary city.
Enjoy the ride but you had better buckle your seat belt. It’s gonna be a bumpy flight!
Thank you, Oberztrumbanfuhrer, nice. Love it.
Agreed, we need to clean up the Cess Pool that is DC and all the sanctuary cities, they are illegal and a breeding ground for crime. I love your oblique poke at “Gun Free Zones” AKA Target Rich Environment’s for whatever mayhem a Democrat sociopath that has stolen a gun to run amouck. All the shootings in the last 10 years were liberal democrats on psycho meds or just off meds. More proof that liberalism is a dangerous mental disorder. We do need to stop tolerating the dangerously mental illness that is liberalism, treat it like the disease it is. You would not let a rabid animal in your house, you would shoot it to protect your family. So then why are these rabid animals allowed to destroy a once great Republic?
Funny, never had a bunch of Christian, Conservative Gun owners run Amouck and trash a city, they are peaceful, clean up after themselves and are courteous to the Police. So I am the bad guy for being tired of the dangerously mentally ill burning and destroying my country in an attempt to enforce their sick socialist disease. Really?
Swed.’s next comment, below, shows he’s really been deterred from his hate-filled, eliminationist rhetoric by your oh-so-careful head-shaking.
The only “cesspool” around here is the one you guys have made of the comment threads at Shift. Do you intend to clean up your act?
When the blog is liberal free, yes. abusing liberals should be a sport.
You are the classic Saul Alinskyite liberal, everyone you disagree with is HATE FILLED Yadda, Yadda, Yadda. Same old crap without anything but emoting and whining. Yes, she should be arrested and tried for her crimes but the corrupt judges and pathetic cops in Seattle would never touch a screeching harpie like that even she robbed a bank. I suspect she has enough dirt on the judges, (similar to Judge Little the pedo that shot himself in chambers) that getting her to trial is unlikely. So, yes as with most if not all socialists and liberals she is a criminal, the likely hood of punishment for her crimes is small. These criminals use the laws of the United States to destroy the USA, and the saddest part is we let them.
E6 Sandman must be so proud of the company he keeps.
Wow, somebody needs to make sure tensor is getting his meds.
No kidding. Nurse Ratchett needs to be called.
I wonder if a dart gun is classified as a fire arm, fill darts with a bit of Valium, Lithium and Librium, touch of Scotch, shot to the tookas, they can sleep it off and not annoy the rest of us.
Abusing progs is a sport, and my punch card is full for the next season.
The problem with abusing Regressives (and NO they are NOT progressive) is they are humorless, cannot learn from history and are mostly deeply pathetic.
Though I do enjoy poking fun at them from time to time, they are sad and probably be medicated to keep them from hurting themselves.
They are as history shows useful idiots and will be the first executed by the regime they help to get in to power. See Stalin and Hitler for their immediate destruction of the socialists and regressives. Once they serve their purpose they are completely expendable. The sad part is they never learn.
Continued proof that liberalism is a dangerous mental disorder.
Criminal acts, for example Incitement to Riot must be punished.
This POS is toxic and must spend time for the crimes she commits in the quest for her sick and poisonous socialist dystopia.
Criminal acts, for example Incitement to Riot must be punished.
And we have laws, police, and courts for that now. If you believe she (or anyone else) has committed this (or any other) crime, then you as a citizen have the civic duty to report it to the appropriate authorities.
But that’s not what you’re doing here. As VM Cox noted, your’re hoping some unspecified future “regime” will perform an extra-judicial execution. That’s outside the bounds of legitimate American political debate, and we’re calling on you to stop advocating such violence.
A minor detail.
18 U.S.C. § 2331
“Domestic terrorism” means activities with the following three characteristics:
Involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a
government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping;
and Occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.
No one called for that. I call on you to learn reading comprehension.
And would you ever talk to your neighbor in such grandiose language?
No one called for that. I call on you to learn reading comprehension.
Since you completely missed it the first time, Swed. made a very clear follow-up statement:
“We do need to stop tolerating the dangerously mental illness that is liberalism, treat it like the disease it is. You would not let a rabid animal in your house, you would shoot it to protect your family. So then why are these rabid animals allowed to destroy a once great Republic?”
Has he made his desire to kill his political enemies clear enough for you yet?
It’s intentional. Paint it into a corner where we can’t hear it mewling.
A blissfully long four years.
Read again, or just accept that you missed the point on the “firing squad” commenter.
I got the point. Swed. is advocating a firing squad for anyone who disagrees with him — including elected officials, since he has no respect for our democracy, either.
While it would be better if we could all agree that advocacy of violence against citizens should not be part of our political discourse, it’s clear you don’t support even such a minimal standard of decency. Enjoy defending such rhetorical garbage for the next few years.
Look me in the eye, tensor, and hear me. You and your kind are going to swept into a corner and into the dustheap of history. Your tenacious willingness to support murderers and those calling for violence will move you to this corner of irrelevance. Closer and closer you inch every time you clutch your pearls and claim high dudgeon because….
We know what we see. You will flail your arms and wail to your friends that the rug merchants and doubleplus ungood crimespeak is intolerable and must be destroyed.
We play to win. You lost the presidency. Your kind has lost most of the states because your ideas are authoritarian and destructive. You are wrong, intentionally so.
Tensor, are you there? Tensor, are you listening?
“… those calling for violence…”
Glad to read you oppose such rhetoric; please go tell Swed. you don’t approve of his words here.
So because there is disagreement, you want to deport the opposition.
Well done Socialist Sawant voter.
Actually, I don’t know what you are talking about. Where did I say anything about deporting the opposition. Secondly, Swed is advocating firing squads and that doesn’t bother you a bit. I am not a socialist sawant voter, since I live elsewhere in the State of Washington. I know one thing for sure, this is a pretty silly conversation all the way around… Out
Look up “hyperbole” in the dictionary. It could be very helpful here.
Could you be any stupider? Sawant, if she gets her Socialist wish, is likely to be shot by a firing squad by the next regime. It was an attempt to show that Sawant’s wailing over Trump is disingenuous at best.
You lady are a whack job and Seattle you are allowing her to incite violence and mayhem.
18 U.S.C. § 2331
“Domestic terrorism” means activities with the following three characteristics:
Involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a
government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping;
and Occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.