This morning, around 8a.m. I got on the 36 line heading downtown. On the way, passing DocuSign Tower, I saw a tall, large man dressed in something reminiscent of Jack the Pumpkin King's outfit, while also sporting a Jason Vorhees hockey mask as he pushed an overstuffed shopping cart around.
I reached the end of the line at Pike street and on exiting I immediately saw a likely homeless man passed out with needles around him.
I went on to enter Target - and I say this with no exaggeration - I had to immediately dodge a man with an armful of merchandise being chased by loss prevention as I crossed the threshold into the store.
Then I went to Pike Place Market, and in a stairwell ran into a woman publicly urinating upright, wearing a prosthetic that allowed her to aim her flow like a penis. I remember it in detail despite immediately averting my eyes because it was so shocking and unusual.
While riding the 36 back home, at the 5th and South Jackson stop, I saw a young man freebase black tar heroin at the bus stop.
Seattle Bingo in less than two hours.
Edit: My first sticky! Woooooooooooo!
No wonder leftists living in these cities have been content quarantining, now called self-isolating, for the last 20 months. Doesnt explain it though where i live in a town if 5,000 and virtually no crime. Our junkies tend to live with their parents.
The needle and the damage done. I was an addict for a while. Love what Trump did prioritizing getting people off of opiates.
God bless and never stop trying to keep your body clean and healthy. Sending love and strength your way ♥ 💪 thanks for the inspiration as I have my own issues to deal with.
He understood because of his brother’s addiction. He did a lot of very good things. Just wish others knew about them.
I was on heroin for roughly 10 years, moved from Jersey to Washington in with my cousin trying to get clean, which eventually worked. I would never move back now that I'm in Arkansas, but Washington did have great recovery for those seeking it.
Perc 30s are rampant...
I wish I never had knee surgeries and felt how good those were.
Stay strong.
It was the needle, and the spoon
🎶The needle and the damage done. 🎶
Neil Young reference.
🎶A little part of it in everyone.🎶
🎶 Every junkie’s like a setting Sun…🎶
"I sing the song because I loved the man... I know that some of you don't understand. Gone, gone, the damage done."
We have all lost someone to drugs when you get old the number becomes staggering. When I first heard Neil Young sing the Needle and the Damage done a childhood friend had just lost a battle to drugs. "Gone gone... the damage done..."
only now it's about seeing your clot shot damaged friends and family suffer.
That's as fucking sad as anything I've heard today.
https://youtu.be/49M10VIXPk4
Dont need him around anyhow
i fear it's too late...and the damage is done
Foreigner reference.
The needle and the spoon, because a southern man don't need him around anyhow
I always thought a feud between bands was fuckin gay.
I like the rapper feuds, both parties end up shot.
It is part of their culture, gun and knife fights.
Many times KEK³
Hahaha, I spit some beer
It was a pretty low key feud. I was at a Neil Young show probably 20ish years ago, and some of Lynyrd Skynyrd were there, I think Rossington and Collins.
Thus why Ronnie, Allen and Gary came out on top
I prefer the lime and the coconut.
And atrip to the moon, gonna take you away
And a trip to the moon
ana trip to the moon
The Space Needle literally needs to be changed to a syringe for accuracy.
Paid for by Pfizer
The space syringe?
Seattle's Space Syringe.
https://patriots.win/p/140c9Wq3ct/seattle-needle-/c/
My hero! Lolz, totally saved that to "Funny AF" folder. Hahahaha!
Quick work!
Outstanding!
yes
They should cropdust the fucking shithole with Narcan. Absolutely.
Also those cities tend to be divided along income lines pretty starkly.
This is called the Mexican and South American model of society.
Yep. Zero social mobility. 99% of people trapped in grinding poverty with no hope of pulling themselves out.
Well, actually, in Latin America they can always just walk to America for the four star treatment.
Where can we walk when shit gets really bad here? Maybe try to boat and walk to Poland and Russia? We really, really need to fix our shit ASAP.
Who is John Galt?
We really just need to organize and fix our shit my friend. Poland takes EU money. They won't be able to hold out forever. Russia literally has Putin and that's pretty much it. No praising Putin, but he seems to not actively hate the citizens of Russia like our elites hate us.
It didn't take Dem Cities very long to spiral into complete spiritless, evil degeneracy and hedonism.
No wonder all leftists suffer from at least 1 mental illness.
yeah, leftism
Now do Portland!
I don't live in Portland, but I assume it's not much different.
It's practically the same place. I don't live in Portland but near enough. I stay the hell away from Oregon in general but avoid downtown Ptown at all costs these days. Last time I was in Seattle this very clearly homeless maybe early 20's woman started yelling my wife's name as we walked past. Clearly no idea who she was and completely random event but fucking made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck... Haven't and won't go back to Seattle until it burns to the ground and gets a complete overhaul
Mostly peaceful reeducation.
one would hope red pilling
You might be surprised at how dense some of these people can be. I remember a story on the old t_d by some woman who said that when she was younger, she suppressed her instincts so well that she parked her car in a spot surrounded by a bunch of black dudes, and then was beaten and I think raped too. Afterwards, she blamed herself for it, because she was part of the society that kept the black man down.
She said it took her 20 years to undo the brainwashing. That's as good as forever in most cases.
Just damn.
Another prime example of why every girl and grown woman needs to read The Gift of Fear....
Even when I lived there in 2009 it was absolute shithole. Funny how fine the line is from "quirky, weird and charismatic" to "degenerate, piss-smelling 3rd world country"
My normal experiences:
Seeing junkies nodding off everywhere or screaming at passerby or nothing in particular.
Ripped up porno mags everywhere. I mean everywhere. Strewn across the sidewalk.
Seeing syringes everywhere, but especially in playgrounds
Fucking weirdo degenerate faggots who ran out on their wives and kids to pursue an "alternative lifestyle"
Homeless shitting whenever, wherever
It was like that in 2000s whe I lived there. Pike place market had a needle exchange nearby on Bell. It’s by design. How else can the mayor’s buddies make a buck with their “non profits”?
The shitlibs love it too because it creates an atmosphere of dread and desperation that matches what they feel inwardly, and it affirms to them that the “capitalist system” is failing.
I rolled around belltown for almost 2 years, not once ever did I feel safe. I mean you have to be a leftie to live like that, have zero situational awareness that is.
[email protected], Seattle, back in the 00s when I lived there , was pretty much dead at 9pm every night. There was absolutely nothing to do there that wasn’t focused on sitting in some dank pioneer square bar or doing hardcore street drugs in peepeePoopoo alley by pike place market.
Feeling unsafe is normal for them.
Syringes in playgrounds we're afraid to visit because we don't want to be assaulted. We can't even go to city parks.
What’s he say now?
Then they can reap what they sowed.
thats really sad
oh he has a good year this year man. i prayed for him
So what happened to them after that. Did he change his mind, did you ask him about it did he talk to you about it
It's disgusting. I once lived in Portland but now it is a leftist hellhole. I was there last summer briefly and driving south on the I-205 looked like a scene from the movie Elysium or Mogadishu. Tent cities all along the highway and zombies lying on the ground. A once beautiful city reduced to a 3rd world shit hole thanks to "compassionate" leftism.
I lived there in the 80s and early 90s and it used to be a spotless, beautiful city that I measured all others against. Fond memories of the Saturday Market running during the summer and the amusement park rides along the waterfront... Powell’s Books was a regular haunt for $0.50 paperbacks and then sitting in Pioneer Square drinking a Coffee People brew waiting for friends. I’ve seen a few videos in the last couple of years and can’t even recognize it anymore.
It’s really a shame since my kids ask about where I grew up and I’m not even willing to bring them. The city I grew up in no longer exists.
"The city I grew up in no longer exists."
The town I grew up in no longer exists.
The country I grew up in no longer exists.
Anyone see a pattern here?
Shhh, stop noticing things!
You know it never hit me like that reading the third line until I read them altogether. Feelsbadman.jpg
I back and forth between "The country I grew up in no longer exists" with "the country I grew up in was all a lie and never existed."
Most days...it's all the same in the end.
Aye
"the body I won olympic gold medals in no longer exists" -Bruce Jenner
Same, but Austin, TX.
City is a piss smelling, homeless crawling, dangerous shithole. Yet the city core & suburbs are exorbitantly expensive. Peak clown city.
Amen, brother.
My dad and I drove through Oregon and P.Town back in the 80's. It was a beautiful city then and remember it well.
It's exactly how NYC was before and after Giuliani, except in a good way. Totally different city.
Sounds like Minneapolis. Especially the Mogadishu part.
Baltimore too.
And Denver
The first time I was in Denver was Labor Day weekend 2014. Went back that same weekend every year until 2020 and literally witnessed its yearly descent.
I feel like I’m in a movie the way this reads. Like the scene in world war z the soldiers in North Korea scream out their hometowns. “Boys I gotta be honest, nowhere back home is doing well” kinda haunting really.
Yup
Is it possible she was the younger sister of a former friend? Or is the age difference too big?
Nope, we live 200 miles away ish and wife didn't know her whatsoever. I mean stranger things happen but honestly it was just odd coincidence I believe. Freaked us both out though
Demon possessed. No joke. I absolutely believe it.
She started following us screaming her name. She didn't go too far but I thought I was gonna have a shoot a bitch... just weird
*probably around 12 years or so at that time give or take. Pretty large gap but not impossible I guess
It’s not. Literal shanty towns made of used shipping pallets.
Portland has had street kids for years. This crap in Seattle has exploded in the last ten years.
Well they keep supplying the homeless. People hop off buses into the city to be taken care of.
Pretty much.
It's one thing to say "We'll give you a helping hand, but not a hand out." And a different thing to say "Free food, no questions asked for the homeless. No need to even attempt to get clean."
They used to go somewhere else in the winter. Not anymore.
It's not..I spent a long time there many years ago. Doesn't sound much different
Great post!
I used to live in Portland, can’t remember a specific day, but I do remember on 2 occasions seeing people taking a shit in the middle of the road with cars honking at them. I got yelled at daily by crazy people who smelled like pee and poo and who often had pee and poo visible.
And of the 4 days of my work week I had to take the bus (could only afford parking on Saturday) I managed to step in pee multiple times and even sat in pee once.
And the one day a week I could avoid the pee mobile and afford parking at work, would often result in a protest where all the roads were shutdown, conveniently surrounding my work, AFTER I arrived for my 6-2 shift, so I would be held prisoner at work until 4 or 5 as I heard people chant about whatever bullshit.
most of my my neighbors don't have a house and they pee and shit all over my yard
but deer, rabbits, squirrels, coons etc don't make much of a mess
They changed the seats on Minneapolis light rail from fabric (dumb idea) to plastic. Hmm...wonder why.
Blacks. They destroy everything they touch. It’s in their DNA.
SF HAIGHT AND ASH BERRY enters the game
Asbury. Not that it really matters.
Now do [large blue run city].
Maybe it was the new guy and he hadn't yet learned to not give a fuck.
This. I toured loss prevention at Target when I worked there in college. (circa 2010) They are told to monitor, stalk, but never apprehend the thief. When I worked at The Fresh Market we noticed a customer who always stole, and the managers would not let the staff near her and would let her walk out with hundreds of dollars of product stuffed in her ugly cardigan. We wanted to call her out and stop her but they wouldn't let us.
Really? I thought Target had the most aggressive Loss Prevention. There's many videos on YT of them tackling people in the parking lot.
I worked at target. This is absolutely not how it was done at my store. They were fucking aggressive at stopping shoplifters.
I think it depends on the manager. They do an analysis with their lawyers to figure out the cost savings of better loss prevention, versus the cost of potential lawsuits of getting aggressive.
I was in a smaller military base city. I'm convinced it was to avoid lawsuits. We didn't have armed security, but they were supposed to be the people checking at the door in my store.
The theft wasn't so bad, so if you sent a plainclothes to follow them and watch them, they usually put shit back on their own. I think they did this because it reduced harassment lawsuits in the parking lot and deterred weak-willed thieves. It also allowed them to determine if front end staff or overnight stockers stole items in volume, which I think was their main focus when I worked there. They have "Loss" AKA lost profit from petty theft already factored into their pricing structure.
Regular staff were not allowed to pursue, only security and LP agents. I never saw either chase someone out of the store.
pre-Covid I used to work near that target. They often did stop and reclaim. Given the location you have to. Don’t know about these days.
I think they were trying to determine who could and could not easily be litigated. Staff that stole were found out and fired immediately. Customers? Not our problem. WTF moment for me.
LOL KEK
That's exactly what shocked me. Not that someone was shoplifting, but that they were actually being chased, because I'd never seen LP at that Target before. Only seen it at Ross up till now. I guess corporate finally decided to throw the store a bone, but it's obviously not having an impact.
I haven't seen anyone chased in SF past the front door, but smaller stores still yell at the bums, and chase them out, so they can steal less. The bigger chains just don't bother, or close down.
When I was at Kmart they had tunnels built into the walls with peepholes. LP would roam around back there and keep an eye on repeat thiefs or suspect employees
many stores- like Walmart- will fire them of they chase a thief
The number of times loss prevention has tackled a shoplifter in my home city causing both fire department and police to show up is hilarious and sad at the same time. Police get called to arrest the person/charge them- but suddenly they have respiratory distress. So police call out fire rescue, which then offers the rescue ride but it’s roughly an 800$ bill - and police still get to process them after hospital. Suddenly they can breath fine- and police take them away.
This is a Walmart I’m talking about of all places.
Never heard of "loss prevention" so seems oddly specific to be made up, so I choose to believe it.
Well known term to people in retail.
Known to the retail world as LP. They're usually behind the undercover secret shoppers looking for thieves. Target still uses them, GameStop has an LP division, as do most of the big box or specialty retailers.
I thought Seattle was just allowing people to come and go with whatever as they please though, so it still surprises me that LP would be doing anything right now.
Still, I believe this story. I live close to Seattle and I've seen LP running after people on more than a few occasions.
Costco still has/had undercover, too. From what I recall, they got paid more, too, because of the shit they have to deal with. I haven't been in a Costco in a while, because there's no real deals there anymore (I sat down over the summer and compared prices, and Safeway was hands down cheaper), so I don't know if they still have people running out the front door, like they used to.
Costco has fallen into the category of "Get Woke, Go Broke". I stopped shopping there as well, the prices aren't what they used to be, and here in WA state they run the stores like tyrants.
Even when for a brief time the mask ordinates loosened up, Costco was a "no mask, no entry" store.
These stores have to realize at some point that they're not losing money because of the pandemic, it's because the people have had enough.
Vote with your dollar.
Didn't we use to call that "security"?
Pretty sure that term is bigoted somehow, now.
“Security” now refers to the people who violently throw out people who refuse to wear a mask or provide proof of vax status.
They're solely focused on theft. I heard the term loss prevention as early as 2004 at my first job.
It's been LP for decades, and focuses not just on security, but how stores are designed, how cashflow works at every stage, even how training is done, all kinds of things. Anything that can cause Loss, through theft, laziness, bad process design, etc
I don't live in the US, nor do I live in an English speaking country.
Property values must just be collapsing...
Portland is hot on the heels of Seattle if not worse in some regards. Home prices are rapidly increasing to this day. No idea as to why? Inflation? People are fucking stupid? No idea
Forgein investors and Black Rock/ Zillow
I think Zillow is unloading all their shit but BlackRock is still buying.
Chinese are buying it up
I wonder how long we see bribery of public officials to be more aggressive, or just outright hiring Chinese triad to clean out the homeless and other gangbangers.
As we know the bribery certainly is already in place. Give it a few years…maybe a silver lining?
Yep, they couldn't hire enough contractors to fix up the dumps they bought at inflated prices with their buying algos.
Ding ding ding
I have a house for sale (went up yesterday) very near Portland. One day on market and I've already had an offer $25k over asking price. I honestly think I will get a better one over the weekend though. Just fucking crazy
Long story short, it was on market a month or two ago and we found some issues upon inspection that needed remedied and it took me a bit to get subs on board. At that time it went for $60k over asking. Little better time to sell a house than right before Christmas but either way... wow
Shoulda waited , probably get even more for it..lol. I sold my house last year too in 1 day
It's because the Chinese people want to have property in another country so they can get an exit visa when things go south in China. Canada and US are prime targets to stash a house and a second source of income (Usually hotels).
Given that Xi is basically a Nazi, genocide and all, financial bubbles popping in Real Estate, and a ton of other problems.
Chinese investors have bought almost all the hotels where I am and converting them all into apartments.
I wonder if it's because of the COVID lockdowns, and lack of demand due to lack of travelers.
Not a bad idea if you have the money.
Home prices go up in Leftist run cities because of zoning. They decrease the supply intentionally.
Then complain about high rents. Enact rent control. Rentals convert to owner occupied, and then complain that there are no rentals.
Yup, coming soon to every metropolitan area in the country.
Agenda 21 says hello as well.
Exactly this. Make it very expensive and difficult to build anything other than mutli-family. Real homes on lots become premium properties.
Someone knows her Econ.
That, and I used to live in a liberal city, so I know these things...
Slum lords are a real thing, and it's part of big city politics. Same playbook, over and over.
Foreign investors. When you flee the CCP, a -50% roi to get out is a good deal.
No wonder Fraiser was cancelled. He moved to miami
ARe yOu ShItTiNg mE wITh ALl ThAt fReE eNrIcHMenT!?!?
Sadly they aren’t. The tech bro money keeps the shit hole afloat. And prices outside the city are skyrocketing as people flee the city.
I live in the "suburbs" (if you will) of Portland on the WA side. My home value has now doubled and then some since I bought it new in 2013.
That's because our money only goes half as far as it used to because they printed 2x as much as there should be
Hey I've got an idea - let's raise minimum wage!
Same here, northwest just Outside The Perimeter (285 loop) in Atlanta. My house is a shit hole compared to negbors and people are still cold calling me to sell. Mine is worth about 100k more than I bought it in 2014
Got an offer 9n mine unsolicited via text a couple of weeks ago. Probably off the list now after sending an Eat Shit, Hitler gas button and Kyle Rittenhouse memes...
In my suburb I bought a decade ago at 183k, I could easily sell it for 400k within a week. Shit is stupid.
its true.
skyrocketing OUTSIDE the city is expected.... prices in town should be in a free fall.
They aren’t though. Look at Zillow.
agree...
either the problem is NOT as bad as shown in our media -
or those moving in don't know what is going on.
Neither. This is why.
https://communities.win/c/TheDonald/p/140cE4PrsP/new-twatter-ceo-is-an-h1b/c/
Because tech bros make stupid-money. don’t mind lockdowns, and have been conditioned to accept the modern shithole city as “normal”
No. Home prices are way up. I think the average is about $750K, last I heard.
They are higher than ever
Crime can not be as bad as some let on....
If it was, Seattle would be losing tons of population - and you would not be able to 'give away a home'
I witness a crime here about once a day. 100% of the time at grocery stores. 100% of the time driving through it
I am from Boston, a very leftist city, but for some reason we don't get that kind of craziness. I often wonder why. I think it's because there are so many overwhelmingly educated, elitist people here who will spew SJW crap all day but are smart enough not to want those policies in their own neighborhoods
It gets cold there
cold kills homeless and addict and makes joggers too lazy to go steal.
i lived in a cold big city before and 90% of these ppl would last a year and die. literally, the cold kills them. most people dont want to know that.
Yeah it 100% kills them, they become numb to their body’s natural warning and self preservation instincts due to being completely zonked out on whatever drugs.
As far as the “joggers”, us white people are better suited to cold climates as that’s the type of climate we evolved in, one of these adaptations being our low melanin to better absorb UV light, though I’m sure there’s many more unknown advantageous adaptations to better handle cold weather.
I just find this kind of stuff interesting. It’s not racist to talk about it IMO, it’s just acknowledging facts of reality. Not saying it makes us “better”, just different. Black people have advantages over us for living in hot climates. No need to pretend biology doesn’t exist.
The US army did a study and found that blacks are far more vulnerable to frostbite than whites. I recall a story about some Haitian “refugees” fleeing to Canada that literally lost their fingers to the cold.
Blacks also suffer from chronic Vitamin D deficiency because they obviously can’t absorb as much sunlight due to the melanin content of their skin as they would closer to the equator. They simply do not belong in this climate.
Chicago gets cold AF and joggers flourish there…
Do they, though?
Yes, they reproduce at a far faster rate than they kill each other
Boston is shit. Went to stay at the Encore and from the airport to Encore looked like Africa. I did venture out to that street where they have all those high end shops. It was OK and I liked the park across the street. All in all I will not go back.
Just went a few months ago. The churches on that street I am talking about we're flying gay and blm flags.
If you stayed at Encore, you weren't in Boston. You were in an outside slum called Everett, known for high levels of crime and poverty. Next time stay in Seaport or Back Bay or even Downtown or Financial District. Seems like you didn't see much of the actual city.
It's around, I used to work in the south end and the junkies would wander into the neighborhood filled with queens and mom's getting coffee. It would make me giggle slightly because 'not in my backyard'
I mean, the south end used to be pretty rough until all the rich yuppies took over.
Totally
My point is, it's inevitable when you have homeless shelters two blocks down the road
That's because jabbing yourself in the neck with a needle in that weather probably kills you in the winter
I work in Seattle, I'm a delivery driver in the city. This guy isn't lying. Im a recovering heroine addict, almost five years clean and it breaks my heart. Liberals here think they are being tolerant and showing the homeless love, they are not. They are allowing these people to wallow in their mental health & addictions. The homeless aren't perfect and the majority of them I have lost sympathy for because theyre young to middle aged adults who CHOOSE that lifestyle over a "normal" one. Others are just lost. I saw this guy, early twenties, in the middle of first Ave with shoelace around his arm, dancing in a circle, while at the same time trying to find a vein. I literally could see the brown liquid in the syringe & that was the first time I came face to face with the drug since getting clean. It wrecked me because I remember being that much of a junkie & to think that if I was in a place like Seattle at the height of my addiction, I'd be dead today. They incentive criminal/drug behavior, they do nothing to sway it. It hits home. I moved here thinking I was liberal to find out im a bleeding heart conservative. I have nothing in common with these people anymore.
This was precisely my experience.
It’s not hard to be a “conservative” when you have common sense lol
I have to live in every major blue city part of the year for work and I can tell you guys it's never been as bad as it is right now. They'll talk about the 1980s and early 90s like it's a fair comparison, but it isn't. Crime doesn't stay in just the one bad neighborhood -- it's all over the cities. You really can't buy your way away from this problem in any meaningful sense because the laws are just not enforced.
I'm old enough to have experienced NYC in the 70's. How people behave is worse - mostly - but we don't have the burnt down blocks of buildings and stripped cars and trash everywhere.
Yet.
Crime in LA/SF has been slowly boiling hotter for years, before this current insanity started - muggings in SF were getting regular, especially to tourists, right before covid hit, joggers were snatching phones and cameras daily.
It can still get a lot worse. It's bad, don't get me wrong, but it can sink even lower, and the further it goes down, the faster it will get worse.
It's a good thing "elected" officials are no longer accountable to voters... at least human voters that actually exist.
I will never spend time in Seattle anymore. You have to have a covid passport to eat at a restaurant, for some reason the shithole king county doesn’t get much attention on this site though.
ppl dont wanna know most cities are quite tyranical and that its not just CA or NYC.
Atlanta is becoming a shithole fast!
Last time I was out there, shit smeared all over walls, multiple block sidewalks with homeless, junkies on the I-75 off-ramps, even across the street from the GA Capitol building.
Sad what Atlanta has become, used to love their nightlife, now it’s scary to be out there at night, and wouldn’t dare to be out there by myself anymore.
This week is my first ever visit to Atlanta. You have any strip club recommendations for me?
Ahaha
Some have gotten ehh now a days, but Follies in Chamblee, Magic City if you’re into “hip-hop”, Pink Pony, Onyx, and if you’re into questionables, the Clermont lounge
Good luck!
Thanks man!
Same. Hoping Snohomish county doesn't got the same way.
I visited Seattle and Pike Market a few years ago.
I specifically remember eating at a restaurant there and a gay couple sat near us. One of them started talking about how ignorant and uninformed Trump supporters were. The conversation later morphed into them discussing how aliens walked among us, and something about reptilians.
The irony. Absolute degenerate idiots.
You should livestream your day.
Its sad that I know exactly the thing you’re referring.
Rom. 16:19 Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I am full of joy over you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.
I feel for you knowing about things that you rather had not known.
A she-wee
Lots of discussion about it on hiking/camping boards.
Haha, ikr?
you can buy them at Pee-er One Imports
Leftism: "This isn't even my final form"
Lots of demonic activity in those bastions of degeneracy.
I walked out of my house this morning and saw the two does that live in my yard along with the youngin's they gave birth to last spring
as I drove down the gravel road, I saw more of the local wildlife and one of my neighbors cutting up some firewood
i went to the local store. it is a little convenience store run by a couple and their two sons. they bust their asses making that place work and it is really an amazing little store. they have an awesome beer selection.
the owners are totally based. they love their country, support Trump and even put their own "I did that" sticker on their cash register. the mom goes to school board meetings and is a major fighter against CRT
we always take time to chat about what a fuck Biden is, how we wish Trump would hurry and get back and other things that are going on. if there are other customers, they join in as well
it is everything that MAGAs in a nutshell
then it is back up the mountain to my COVID free, mandate free, BLM free, peaceful neighborhood filled with salt of the earth people and their beautiful families
the only homeless I ever see is the occasional squirrel who's nest got blown down in a windstorm.
you should come visit America. It's a cool place
If I were a college-age kid today, but knowing what I know about the degenerating big cities, I would qualify myself for work that can be done remotely. Soon as Starlink gets totally online, a fellow can live the homesteading dream far from the madding crowd and still pull in a good income stream.
I left a city of nearly 1 million people (30% joggers) and now live in a city of less than 300,000 at most. Not perfect but so much better!!
You should take the public transit. You get to see the city's bleeding wound in 3D.
They will never figure out how to create affordable housing, fix homelessness, and help poverty. But hey, they were able to remove bicycle helmets because "tHeY aRe RaCiStS!"
I use it exclusively. I see it all.
I'd get out as soon as possible. We left 3 years ago and was the best decision in our life. Wish you luck fren.
Society should be ordered around the responsible, law-abiding, tax-paying citizens - not ordered around the dregs. Sorry not sorry.
We don't have to put up with this crap. This country belongs to us. We pay for it.
It’s in our Constitution
All this is true. Spent last 20 years working in that cesspool a couple blocks away from pike place mkt. Its unbelievable some of the stuff I experienced. I dont care what anyone says. I saw with my own eyes it was once they legalized weed the tents all showed up overnight like mushrooms after a rain storm. Then it was like "we cant enforce anything now so lets just legalize everything now". Then it was just a matter of time. Let this be a cautionary tale for those on the fence about legalization. It opens the flood gates on this shit.
I think if I want to grow a plant for my own use I shouldn't be hit with a felony, personally. I don't like these dispensaries, but it's no one's right to tell me what I can grow and consume.
that's what happened in Portland
weed attracted teenaged runaways like shit attracts flies and it went steadily downhill from there
That target is honestly the most unsafe place I've ever been. I did an in store pickup and was waiting for 5 minutes but I saw at least 5 people walking out who obviously didn't pay and the staff didn't even care. The parking garage smells like shit and piss. Upon exiting the garage, some crackhead was knocking on each cars window demanding money. Apparently 1st through 3rd are out of SPD's jurisdiction lol
I genuinely believe they should close it at this point. It's enabling the vagrancy and crime in the area. I saw some people shuffling around inside like they were literally straight out of the Walking Dead.
If people were walking out without paying, I imagine at some point it will close down.
They are pulling the plug on places like that.
I'm just surprised that so many freaks are up before noon.
Traffic noise gets really loud at morning rush hour. It wakes up the homeless.
Being outside all day, they typically fall into a more natural sleep cycle, mostly following the sunset/sunrise. They also tend to go to sleep relatively early before it gets too cold. That’s the one and only thing that I’m jealous of homeless people.
Streetlamps and all the other artificial lights fuck up their rhythms. The gloom also makes daytime sleep easy and common. I see it every day.
The thought crossed my mind as well.
It's sad to think of such a beautiful city going to absolute shit. I used to love Seattle.
Um...it's basically all big cities in blue states these days. Many used to be beautiful with a few quirks....now they are intolerable
Red states too. Big cities are cancer, without exception.
I know they're all going to shit, but I always thought Seattle was particularly beautiful. Most big cities I've been to in America were all pretty hideous.
It's a fucking enriched society you absolute bigot how dare you steal my childhood
That sucks. I remember the fish market. Went to the Gorge for a Dave Matthews show and the day before we stayed in Seattle and did Pikes Place and had a great time. The area was super cool. I remember a really cool magic shop there. Too bad. I could not imagine the place with that kind of filth.
When was that? '98?
2001 - 3 day show :) It was one of the best shows I've ever been of many.
Damn!!!!
Wow, and this is Emerald City Comic Con weekend. They usually make an effort to clean up Pike Place & Pike Street by the convention center during that event!
Guess you get the people too crazy to be allowed to stay in California.
Yeah, they get the ones who'd rather be homeless where it rains 6 months straight than in sunny CA.
That’s the perk of being in SF or LA, we get only the cream of the crop homeless here.
If we had law and order the left would lose every election.
I say this with no exaggeration. Get the fuck out of Seattle.
Oh My God, that must be Hell on Earth because I can't fathom that in my beautiful red state. I live about 45 minutes from Knoxville Tn and I'm going to tell you right now you won't see shit like that here!! I mean you will see people down & out but people here try to help them!!! The people here are kind hearted and will help anyone in need but we don't take any shit either🤨 Tennessee is one of those places that is like "fuck around and find out". Seriously, the people in blue states in for a rude Awakening if they think they can act retarded here...just sayin..
I hate working in Seattle. Smells like piss and shit everywhere you go. Faggot Crosswalks, gay ass Starbucks coffee on every corner, every other cuck ass business has a BLM or fag flag on it. I stay the fuck out of Seattle.
I used to take the bus from 3rd and Pine to the University District, about 30 years ago. 3rd and Pine was one of the sketchiest parts of downtown back then. I'd often catch the bus after the latest ferry of the night had dropped me off (coming from Bremerton), so probably 1030 - 11pm when you would expect most of the shitbags to be out and about. Aside from a few homeless people, it wasn't much different than any other city street and I never felt like I was in any kind of danger. Occasionally someone would try to bum some money off me but not in any kind of menacing fashion. There were actually more panhandlers at the time hanging outside the Safeway in the University District.
Now, I wouldn't ever be in that part of downtown at that hour, and probably avoid it during the day. It's a terrible shame what has happened to the city of Seattle. Although it was always a liberal city, it seemed more libertarian liberal when I was growing up and certainly not this marxist version of liberal that we have today.
I've recently started to think that the turning point may have been when the music scene exploded in the early 90s. Suddenly everyone wanted to live in Seattle because it was so cool and alternative (which was pretty overblown), so all the trendy hipsters started to want to live there and started moving in.
I haven't lived up there for quite a number of years but I visit fairly often. I don't think I'd be too worried to be down there but my nieces were living downtown and, while not so bad that they immediately moved away, they both had a fair number of unpleasant interactions with the street shitters. That was unheard of when I lived there.
I drove my daughter around UW about a year ago and was showing her where I lived. The route I used to walk to school was loaded with encampments and filth. It's sad to see and could easily be cleaned up if anyone on the city council cared about the city.
I suspect the residents will eventually get fed up with it and demand some action.
I love it too, though I'd live in a suburb or rural area for sure. I guess if I was working at Amazon, I might be interested in living in a high rise near south lake union but I like land too much and would rather live out in the Snoqualmie area and work in Redmond.
I have an opportunity to come back to a job that's opening up at Whidbey Island within the next couple years and am considering it, but will probably wait until my older daughter is in college. Hopefully she will get into UW so we can follow her up there.
Despite its flaws, Seattle is a great place. If conservatives abandon it, it will only get worse.
Fuck man I gotta go to Seattle in exactly a week for work. Luckily my new company houses us off of Denny way and provides us with a shuttle to pier 91. My old company housed us in queen anne and it was just junkies begging for change every few yards, a few threatened to kill me, I often would have to scream out of the window for some basket case screaming from the bus stop at 2am to shut the fuck up. I had one of my local friends take me down Aurora, that was an experience.
Wenatchee is pretty good if I do say so myself. Here on work from Alabama. It's nice to be out of the shithole that is Birmingham and the metro area with an overabundance of 13/52s.
Birmingham blew my mind with it's homeless, and that was around 8 years ago.
This sounds about right. I've been avoiding the downtown area for years. Unfortunately, this same activity has spread all over. Green Lake and Ballard are unusable.
Hopefully next year that supposed new "law and order" city attorney will keep her promises.
I live about 20 minutes outside of Seattle, and my city hired some of the Seattle police that wanted out. They keep our area pretty clean and safe, but it's still a challenge since we are still in King county, where drugs are basically legal.
Hahaha, I lived in Seattle for a year, about a decade ago and it wasn't quuuuuuuite as bad as it is now, but OPs story sounds entirely plausible.
Seattle was a great place to live until 2015ish, then it rapidily went to shit.
WA constition is fairly solid, good gun laws, no income tax, etc. Fucking Inslee has been doing his best to undermine it.
Yeah it sucks, it's SOOOOOO beautiful up there. To me, its perfect. My favorite natural environment. Even the city is (was) so cool. I lived it there.
But yeah....the people. Different story. And it wasn't even the people from Seattle or Washington. It was the weirdos that converged on it from LA, Chi, Detroit, NY, and SF etc.
I moved up there a pretty hardcore libtard socialist, or so I thought haha...and I moved back the polar opposite.
My work might be taking me up ro Montana fortunately, but I always think of heading back to maybe the Spokane side of things.
Oh for fuck's sake, the rabbit hole you went down today, is related to the rabbit hole I went down today.
Here's the rabbit hole I went down.
So I'm at this trade show and there's this booth with a bunch of prints from some artist that paints Star Wars, Marvel, and other movies characters... sitting on the toilet. The girl working the booth was really sketchy and I overheard her saying, "we can't tell you who the artists are, they are anonymous... I can't even tell you if I painted any of these." So I get home and start searching, and pretty quickly found their website. Of course it turns out they're a collection of batshit crazy leftist women named "Bucket" and "Gadget".
...and of course, due to the nature of their... "art"... right there in the image search was a bunch of ads and pictures of women pissing out of a funnel. The "portable urinal for women".
FUCK YOU, CLOWN WORLD.
Last time I was in Seattle ~2018 or so, we were walking into a gourmet restaurant and a homeless girl pulled down her sweatpants and sprayed piss all over the sidewalk in dramatic fashion. People around me were like meh, see it all the time.
Went to Seattle yesterday and could not sit in a Burger Joint because I wasn't vaxxed. No tip Drove down 4th st through Downtown. Urban Campers everywhere. Shops closed and boarded up. I used to work in downtown IT. I am so glad I retired. The only reason I went was to get stuff at Archie McPhee's for the grandkids.
"Campers" lol, you mean junkies?
The unbelievable part is that the shoplifter was being chased.
I was thinking the same thing
City of the Walking Dead. Glad I left.
We're living in the modern dark ages.
🎵Today was a good day....Didn't even have to use my A.K.....
All of that obviously makes you a RACIST WHITE MALE... whatever gender / color you are...
BIGOT.
2021: Where noticing things is racist.
If you showed this world to Americans in the 1950's they would think we are living in some post-apocalyptic nightmare.
My husband saw a man taking a poop next to the Court House in Minneapolis.
That's got to be on the BINGO card.
https://weheartseattle.org/
Hey fren, this my be hippy dippy, but I’ve been hearing these people on Dori Monson’s show, it’s at least a small key chain light in a giant shitstorm. Big fucking red pill too, Seattle keeps trying to shut them down since they actually are making a huge difference (can’t have that!)
Maybe see how you can help if your interested.
I've heard of that charity. They recently helped resolve an issue with an individual affectionately known as "Lawnmower man"(bike chopping noises) into housing.
Before that, I'd only seen them referenced in my lefty neighborhood FB group; they were labeled as a hate group and posters referring to them would be banned. I left the group not long after that.
Wow, yeah that’s beyond what I thought, I knew they’d come down hard on anyone interfering with their plans, but calling a hate group is really crazy. The little I know about them is they started by just getting together and picking up garbage, the lady in charge seems super cool, they moved into getting homeless people in shelter and most effectively recruiting them into helping other homeless people into shelters, a strategy like that can really be effective. I’ll kick em a few bucks myself just after hearing a few interviews. Sorry to shill, but the message made me happy, figured worth a share.
Shitty-attle has been awful for years. Now it's just hell.
Sounds like the only thing you missed was getting hit upside the head by a flying Alaskan salmon wrapped in freezer paper.
The word hobo isn't used enough
The Left: "WHAT LARGE CITY DOESN'T HAVE THOSE PROBLEMS??"
It wouldn't be so bad if the leftists were forced to stay in the hell holes they create, but they are moving to red states like where I live to bring the chaos and carnage here as well.