{"id":74412,"date":"2020-06-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74412"},"modified":"2021-03-02T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:00:09","slug":"if-youre-not-a-cynic-youre-not-paying-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74412","title":{"rendered":"If You&#8217;re Not A Cynic, You&#8217;re Not Paying Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the wake of &#8211; or perhaps as a next chapter of the George Floyd riots, &#8220;Anti&#8221;-Fa are setting up an &#8220;Autonomous&#8221; enclave in Seattle.   They are extorting businesses in that enclave for protection money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And unlike Minneapolis, where President Trump steamrollered Governor Walz into sending a more-than-token National Guard force with threats of invoking the Insurrection Act and units of combat-veteran regular military to East Lake Street, the President is silent on Seattle.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People &#8211; including fellow Trump-skeptic Mike Cernovich &#8211; are asking questions (language NSFW, but who pays attention to that these days?):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Streets are lawless, Seattle literally has a no-go zone, and Trump is doing fuck-all as per usual. <br><br>Soy boys will say, \u201cWhat should he do?\u201d<br><br>Note that actual hitters think Trump looks weak, a complete joke.<\/p>&mdash; Cernovich (@Cernovich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cernovich\/status\/1270935729149894656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m a cynic, but it seems simple to me:  nobody is calling Washington a swing state.  Their electoral votes are off the table &#8211; at least until the parts of Washington outside the Seattle\/Tacoma metro area secede and join Idaho.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s why Trump &#8220;doesn&#8217;t care&#8221; about Seattle.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or Pelosi, for that matter.   Nothing&#8217;s moving Washington out of the &#8220;hard blue&#8221; column any time soon  &#8211; least of all an insurrenction led by the children of her biggest donors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minnesota?  It&#8217;s at least hypothetically in play, especially if suburban and exurban Republicans, alarmed by the collapse of the Twin Cities, and bolstered by the President&#8217;s strong alternative, turn out in apocalyptic numbers.  As they will have to to stave off a complete Democrat majority at the Capitol.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And <em>that&#8217;s <\/em>why everyone &#8211; not just Trump &#8211; is letting Seattle turn into Beirut on the Sound.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of &#8211; or perhaps as a next chapter of the George Floyd riots, &#8220;Anti&#8221;-Fa are setting up an &#8220;Autonomous&#8221; enclave in Seattle. They are extorting businesses in that enclave for protection money. 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