Well, Seattle ... you get what you vote for, retards.
'I Want a Pony': Seattle Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson Shares Her Wish List
http://twitchy.com/gordon-k/2025/11/14/i-want-a-pony-seattle-mayors-wish-list-n2421694
Long time Twitchy favorite Exjon a/k/a Jon Gabriel noticed something about the new Seattle mayor-elect's first speech.
Jon Gabriel (@exjon) ~ “I want a pony.”
Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) ~ Seattle mayor-elect Katie Wilson's socialist wish list: "I want everyone in this great city of ours to have a roof over their head. I want universal child care, free K-8 summer care ... I want social housing, I want much more land & wealth to be stewarded by communities instead of corporations..."
Video ~ http://x.com/i/status/1989097718686667049
This is the irrationally childish mind-set you get when you put someone in charge who has been pampered all their lives and have absolutely no real-world experience. Oh, well ...
What do we notice?
Sure, Wilson wants justice, fairness, happiness and all the good things. And yes, these are all noble things to want, but the expectations are the product of a mind that stopped developing after the third grade. Socialism, especially from the privileged classes, often does not jibe with reality.
"Often does not"? No ... check your history books ... it's "never."
Ima_Pseudonym (@ima_pseudo41406) ~ What a load of hippy BS. All of the substance of the old Coke commercial.
Heh heh heh ... a perfect analogy!
Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) ~ Seattle’s mayor with her wish list:
FugitiveMama (@fugitivemama) ~ As my mom used to say, “How does it feel to ‘want’???"
The Ornery Serf (@lanicolai) ~ Land grab alert.
Yeah, sounds like lil' Katie wants to set up a commune.
J. Beresford Tipton (@TiptonBeresford) ~
Matthew Caskey (@Fishsalot82) ~
Also:
Kang The Enlightened (PB Burgers) (@KangofSeattle) ~ This woman is literally going to drive businesses out of Seattle.
Michael ☘️ (@RealtaDorchaPDX) ~ Right? She sounds like she was running for high school class president. “I promise to make classes shorter and free pizza every Friday!”
All of this leads us to an important question:
(((Road Bear Life))) (@bearshrugged) ~ Is Seattle, at this point in time, simply a city populated by the retarded?
BartonBella (@BartonBella1) ~ Her parents pay most of her bills and her longest job history was volunteering for a non profit to lower public transportation fees ... then, they made her a paid position. She begs for money. That's her profession. Seattle is screwed and they deserve it.
Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) ~ Oh Seattle voters, you poor dumb bastards. Also, Plato was absolutely right about democracy.
If you're curious, you can read about Plato's take here. We think Gardner's take was a bit tongue-in-cheek.
stevemur (@stevemur) ~ Seattle's current budget, without doing any of this, is about $8.5 billion per year. (That includes Seattle City Light, which is part of the city budget; but it's still something people pay for.)
Dividing by 800,000 residents, that's about $10,625 per person -- adult and child -- per year. You can do the math on a household of 5.
That doesn't include any of these items: "Universal" childcare, "Free" K-8 summer care, "Social housing" for thousands, and things like city-run grocery stores, or "Free" transit, which she's also dangled as a possiblity.
These are fantasy ideas; the math doesn't math. Capital has never been more mobile, and there is no reason anyone being taxed heavily to pay for it needs to stay.
Well, if you do stay in Seattle to be taxed into oblivion, then you're just a glutton for punishment.
Parting thought:
Jason Syversen (@JSyversen) ~ The comments in this thread indicate that X users don’t have confidence in her strategy. I’m not sure how we lost the vision from Democratic leaders like JFK who said “ask not what your country can do for you, but you can do for your country.” Now it’s: “how much free/undeserved stuff can I get?”
Government needs to be operated as efficiently and economically as possible to do only what is necessary for everyday citizens to go about their business and TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. Otherwise ... shut the hell up and get the f**k out of our way.
Seems like a good place to leave this.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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