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That fucking place was a beggar, homeless, shithole when I visited it in 2003. Can’t imagine what it is like now.
How you described it was mild compared to the way it was in 2007 when we visited. Mexican border towns are beautiful compared to what we saw then.
My visit to Seattle was interesting. Everyone was rude as shit, we guessed because of our southern accent. There was a riot against the IMF meeting and windows were knocked out of buildings.
Bad food and it rained cats and dogs. Yep, we never went back. No big loss to Humanity IMO.
I can confirm this is also happening in Portland and it is moving out to the suburbs too. Part of it is certainly due to the bleeding-heart liberals offering too much free shit to people. But a big part of the problem is that the US is becoming a third world country.
This is how third-world countries look. Get used to it!
Headed down to Austin this weekend. Will see how bad it is there now.
Houston has it’s share of the ‘downtrodden’ mostly downtown.
San Antonio is right up there with the violent crimes, wonder why it didn’t get a shout out as well?
Actually, most cities are shit holes these days…
Ball-freezing cold has its upside. No skid row in Minneapolis. We had a little tent city of heroin addicts building up but it dissipated by Christmas.
Trapped: It’s clear down here near me in Mcminnville, 45 miles away from PDX. The county just spent many months trying to evict a bunch of squatters that had taken up residence on a property where the owner had died. There was a house and a few barns on it. The barns burned around Christmas and the house was torched on New Years. Mcminnville proper has bums everywhere now, where they were a rarity to see 10 years ago.
All of this is going to break someday and cause a rise in vigilantism. Book it.
https://newsregister.com/article?articleTitle=men-leave-contentious-carlton-property–1551405979–32371–yamhill-carlton
You’re right. America’s already wrapped too tight politically and socially.
It’s not going to take a whole lot to set things off.
That’s fucked up.
So right about the Portland suburbs. The rot is spreading with freaks and welfare recipients invading even the nice areas. I am convinced that those in power of pretty much every big city, town, and even small burg are getting some sort of payoff from those bent on destroying us from within. Nothing else makes sense so you follow the money. Why would anyone want to destroy their own city except for the love of money and power.
G.R.E.E.D
Don’t sell compassion for drug addicts here.
I’ve got none and don’t plan on getting any.
When they started calling bums “homeless” is when it started getting a lot worse.
Democratic socialism is nirvana
This is socialism. Plain and simple. Also, the part of socialism are the town council people laughing at the citizenry. This is what socialism gets you. Oh, and very clueless politicians, that is putting it nicely.
Excellent report (I’m shocked it was on ABC–a promotion to the national desk is now out of the question for this reporter). Seattle and SF are the worst cities for this crisis because out-of-control liberal governments are implementing policies that encourage homelessness, drug use, and crime. Some tough love as in Rhode Island (jail with medical treatment) is clearly required, but the first step is to boot out the mayor and city council. I’m not holding my breath. The politicians merely need to keep handing out freebies to the leeches to stay in power.
To bad. Now they will metasticized and infect other parts of the country.
To bad. Now the disease will spread.
Shitty city policies = homeless problem.
Homeless problem = depressed property values.
Who is paying the city to put shitty policies in place?
Who owns those properties now?
Who is planning on buying up the properties, and then presumably pay the city to put anti-homeless policies in place, driving up property values?
If you’ve never seen the film ‘They Live,’ it’s worth watching.
This is what liberal policy gets you. It doesn’t solve the problem but makes it worse. Freedom is also the freedom to fail and Seattle has it in spades. Hopefully it won’t happen in your area. Seattle was great in 1992 when I decommissioned a ship in Bremerton. But the homeless and drug users were there then (camping around the space needle) as the city let them travel free on the transportation system and live on the streets in Seattle.
I was there in 2004 or 2006 and the homeless had taken over the public library using the free computers. Stench was terrible.
My city is like this now with homeless from Denver and points from all over the compass living here as the police cannot move them on if they are just begging non verbally with signs. Thanks ACLU. Homeless business non profits have abounded which makes the problem worse.
the video is over an hour ,could someone who watched it please summarize it–
Seattle is almost as bad as San Francisco.
There’s the prima facia.
Bunch of middle class folks who voted for liberals bitching about how the homeless bums have turned the place into a shithole.
My brother in law lives in Seattle. He had, up until about 6 months ago, the top rated morning radio show in Seattle. He got married for the 3rd time about 6 months ago. Yep, lost his job about 1 week after getting married. I refused to go and glad I did. Seems I didn’t miss anything. Although he did have, what looked like, a pretty badass wedding.
drove down from Vancouver BC to Seattle (2hours south) 11 years ago to attend a concert. made a day of it and had a great dinner near the venue. The pan handling and homelessness/drug abuse and addicted was everywhere. I would hate to imagine how the lovely city of Seattle looks like today, what a shame from watching this.
The flip side is, come north into Vancouver and we have the same problem. I haven’t gone downtown in years. just no need to and less want to. from what I have been told the city is over run with same problems…. drug markets and open air use is rampant. So i am guessing no city is without this problem, and there lies the crutch. Free shit for the down trodded but zero answers and help.
Obviously the Seattle city government is not spending enough taxpayer dollars to provide idyllic conditions and stuff for the Free-Shit Army. Once they really open their hearts and wallets all will become better.
//SARC OFF//
Deep coal mines for dangerous criminals; work camps for the homeless; assessment, medication and safe warehousing of the mentally ill. Is there no politician currently serving in the U.S.A that has the required skills and insight for simple effective control of the deplorable shituation. Curious too how Democrat politicians seem to like and embrace Shithole City status.
People get the politics they want. The problem isn’t the libtard politicians – it’s the people who vote for them. Seattlites (if that’s the word) have chosen their status. I doubt that Dallas would put up with that shit.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Homeless-Problem-Frustrates-Dallas-City-Council-392507021.html
Keep the panhandling bums and members of the free shit army in Seattle.
If it dies, it dies.
Detroiters weighed in on this topic…
They said ‘don’t move here. We don’t want any homeless scum tarnishing our gem of a city.’
Meanwhile, Chicago’s city council extended an invitation.
There would be a fee to become a citizen of the windy city, but new residents will be given a baseball bat for personal protection, since guns are banned. And if Seattleites change their mind, and want to move back out, there will be an exit tax to leave. Illinois’ state employees retirement funding needs shoring up, see.
All panhandling income received will be subject to a 40% levy. Any tent erected in city parks: 10% property tax, to help fund the Chicago area school systems.
In New Jersey, they laughed about Seattle. Said: tax the rainfall, and problem solved.
In a related decision, Florida’s legislature just approved funding for a wall on it’s northern border, but it will only be built 3 feet high, as most old codgers can’t lift their legs high enough to scale it, and so the wall is expected to be quite effective in keeping out most of the mass of rickety grey panther invaders.
So, you see what happens when States don’t levy an income tax? Mo money, mo money, mo money.
All bets are off, if the U.S. makes ganja legal in all 50 States.
I will never set foot in that city. The polys there have turned a beautiful place into what is now fucken disgrace..
on its face
Entropy – the tendency for disorder to increase, in any process, as a result of the dissipation of internal energy.
Insight – thermodynamics applies to people / cities / societies as much as natural systems.
Understanding – it’s going to take a WHOLE lot of energy, applied by force / direct action, to counteract the decay / degradation / increase in entropy in Seattle (and everywhere else) that has allowed the decay / degradation / increase in entropy to START. Places that have failed to enforce the laws / execute the drug dealers / eliminate repeat criminals have invited their own breakdown.
And it’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better – remediation of entropy takes a while before actions show results. Prepare to defend yourself / your family / your area from the forces of entropy – you will not be ignored, neglected or bypassed when entropy looks for you.
Our local police force is not subtle, mild or gentle – they shot a few people last year when questionable circumstances arose. It’s likely that at least one or two were genuine malfeasances of “color of law”, but the politicians had their backs. I would hate to get shot by trigger-happy policemen over-reacting to something – but I wouldn’t like to live in Seattle right now either.
It’s a conundrum – are freedom and security opposed? or are we just not smart enough to have both?