We congratulate Carmen Best on her new position working for Academi as Chair of BLM & Antifa Studies. Then we discuss reforming the King County Sheriff’s office via the ballot.
2020’s best Halloween costume
Carmen Best cashes in
Sheriffs Gone Wild on the Mechanical Freak
South Seattle Emerald’s coverage of the King County Sheriff’s office
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Colin and Brian sit down for a New Yorker style Zoom roundtable discussion of the latest local and national headlines in politics. We also congratulate Carmen Best on her new job as a pundit for one of the many trash local news stations in town and read another column about homelessness from the Seattle Times. All that and more, this week!
We invite fellow crank Ben Karpelman (@snocialism) onto the show to discuss Boeing moving 787 assembly to South Carolina and talk Boeing news generally. Ben then informs us of Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin’s brilliant plan for the thousands of workers who are going to be laid off by Boeing.
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Read this article on how the 787 MAX disaster happened
Find out more about the protest against police violence and the Snohomish Sheriff's Dept here
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Greg and Brian are joined by Brynn (@GabeTheCat1) and Ben (@BenUdashen), hosts of the new podcast, Red Diaper Baby, to talk about how children should be taken away from their parents and raised by communist nannies.
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It’s 1944, all the party bosses know two things: Franklin Delano Roosevelt is going to win a 4th term and he most likely won’t live through it. At the party convention, the VP pick is going to be the next president. On one side is Henry Wallace, current VP and a lefty populist who’s popularity rivals Roosevelt’s, and on the other is Harry Truman, a largely marginal senator described by everyone who ever met him as “unremarkable.” Seattle DSA Vice Chair and friend of the show, Justin Roll joins the freak to discuss the scheming, pandemonium, and backroom deals that followed. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes, and early release of episodes of Mechanical Freak Presents. patreon.com/seattlesucks
A bibliography for this episode can be found here on the Mechanical Freak.
Greg, Brian, and Colin discuss the recent City Council vote overriding Mayor Durkan’s veto, Andrew Lewis’ part in that vote, and Durkan’s political prospects, before catching up with the latest developments in automated home security from Amazon’s Ring.
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Greg, Brian, and Colin discuss the latest bit of supremely Good News before diving into life in an anarchist jurisdiction, the looming budget vote and Andrew Lewis’ partner, OPA’s findings on violence against protestors, a police shooting in Redmond, and Mike McGinn in the Atlantic addressing “police pullback.”
Colin is back for good as we talk with special guest Alycia Ramirez about her recent column in the South Seattle Emerald on police propaganda and their willing enablers in the media. We also talk SPD’s latest atrocities and their efforts at winning hearts and minds.
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Greg, Brian, and Colin are reunited for the 100th (public) episode to talk about domestication during the pandemic, the promising start of the Seattle Public School District’s online learning program (powered by Microsoft Teams), code bootcamp child soldiers, flatlines and brain implants, Loren Culp’s tepid gubernatorial platform, and The State of Things (sorry, it’s still bad).
Greg reads a very special letter to the show from a Bothell listener. With Brian back from his bomb shelter in the mountains outside of Boise, Greg catches him up with all the awful news from when he was gone.
Seattle Times article on SPD’s overtime scheme
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There are fire tornadoes, arctic blazes, and inland hurricanes. Now another sign of the end-times has been revealed, the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC). Greg and Brian talk about all the fun they had tuning into the DNC and each make a case for which boomer protest anthem is the best.
Charles Mudede’s article on Boeing
Our interview with Charles Mudede on EP 79 - Meeting Nobody is Easy
Billy Porter and Stephen Stills performing “For What It’s Worth” at the DNC
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In part two of this two part interview, Brian continues his talk with China historian Matthew Van Duyn about America’s strange cultural relationship with China. We discuss the US’s diplomatic history with China and get to the bottom of the Facebook group “Libertarian Guys with Asian Wives.” Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes, and early release of episodes of Mechanical Freak Presents. patreon.com/seattlesucks
Do you want to know more? Part one of this interview can be found here and our previous interview with Matthew about China & Covid 19 can be found here. A bibliography for this episode can be found here on the Mechanical Freak.
Greg and Brian speculate about which party convention Best will be speaking at while discussing the pro-cop woke take to her retirement. Then Greg spills the tea about his life as a College Democrat in the wake of the attempted honey-potting of Alex Morse. We’re podcasting locally and complaining nationally.