[DONSURBER.BLOGSPOT] Bloomberg reported, "Amazon CEO, citing ’rougher’ patch with Seattle, looks to ’burbs."
This is not white flight. Seattle has become coyote ugly crazy and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wants to leave before he has to gnaw off his leg to get out of the trap.
Shades of Boeing and the Seattle Supersonics.
Bloomberg's story said, "The world’s largest online retailer is by far the biggest private employer in Seattle with more than 50,000 workers. That distinction has proved a headache in recent years, with some residents and government officials blaming the company for exacerbating homelessness and traffic."
Seattle has turned Amazon into its whipping boy, blaming the company for problems the city creates.
Jassy spoke at an event hosted by technology news site GeekWire.
He said, "I’d say the last five years, the city council has become less enamored with business or with Amazon. It’s just been rougher."
The city wanted to burden Amazon heavily with taxes. The company and others fought it back, Then the company backed a slate of city council candidates who lost.
It is time to vamoose.
The story said, "The company, which is wrapping up construction of an expanded Seattle headquarters campus, has since shifted its expansion planning toward neighboring cities like Bellevue and Redmond. Bellevue, just east of Seattle, 'is where most of our growth will end up being,' Jassy said. He added that he wouldn’t be surprised if Amazon opened other offices in additional cities in the region."
Jeff Bezos, who no longer runs the business, started Amazon in his garage in Bellevue in 1994, across the lake from Seattle. A return to its roots may be in good order.
Seattle's hostility to business led to Boeing's departure for reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... in 2001. The company was founded in Seattle in 1916. It decided last year to shutter its last factory in Seattle.
50 years ago, real-estate agents Bob McDonald and Jim Youngren put the words, "Will the last person leaving SEATTLE -- Turn out the lights" on a billboard at S 167th Street and Pacific Highway S near Sea-Tac International Airport.
At the time, Boeing was going through a rough patch as it cut employment from 100,800 employees in 1967 to a low of 38,690 in April 1971, when the sign went up. The purpose of the sign was to inject a little humor and therefore hope in a bleak situation. Within 6 months, Boeing had recalled 15,000 laid off workers.
But that was how business cycles work. The goose that lays the golden eggs occasionally takes a few months off.
No, to really kill business, you need a government that is hostile and frankly jealous of success. In 22 short years, the garage business became the top retailer in the country. Seattle is doing everything it can to force Amazon out.
The CEO finally got the hint because when it comes to Democrat policy, there is no such thing as unintended consequences. Seattle wants Amazon out. So be it.
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some residents and government officials blaming the company for exacerbating homelessness and traffic.
Silly me! I thought the job of city officials was to deal with traffic and homelessness and zombies and such.
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...government officials blaming the company for exacerbating homelessness and traffic."
Thank god stuff like that's only in Seattle and not places like NYC, LA, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Detroit, Miami, Newark, etc.
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Then the company backed a slate of city council candidates who lost.
I'm as against Seattle's nutso government as anyone, but doesn't it strike anyone as bad that a megacorp can just run its own candidates in elections so as to alter the government in its favor? It's like something the villains do in a modern comic book.
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Good luck finding a blue city that isn't "coyote ugly crazy".
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#6, developers in California do it all the time.
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You can tell by the suburban sprawl.
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Many US companies that become successful rotate personnel through retirement, pass the baton on to a younger generation who had no part in the painful process of establishing the business in the garage and then growing it into something successful. That next generation usually do just the opposite which is use the company name for promoting liberalism. That goes for the community around the company.
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They probably have had some sort of contingency plan for a while now.
Perhaps link the fulfillment centers to HQ to do HQ work and lease a bundle of other places.
If not, they will be robbed on their way out.
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I'm as against Seattle's nutso government as anyone, but doesn't it strike anyone as bad that a megacorp can just run its own candidates in elections so as to alter the government in its favor?
Interestingly, none of the candidates backed by the megacorp of megacorps won.
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This is *SEATTLE*. Who knows who actually won?
Seattle, and King County have always been the test bed and incubation center for all sorts of election tampering. From ballot harvesting to having 130% voter turnout (50,000 invalid votes? Well we can't take them out now since we don't know how they voted...)
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] US climate envoy John Kerry spoke to French television as Secretary of State Antony Blinken was to meet French President Emmanuel Macron
French government was seething after US announced new security deal with UK and Australia
It resulted in cancellation of multi-billion French submarine contract
France recalled its ambassador to Washington, but he has since returned
Biden 'literally had not been aware of what had transpired,' Kerry said
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I am willing to stipulate for the sake of argument that Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is nominally President of the United States, but can we *please* dispense with the notion that he is anything other than a talking manikin? And not a very good one at that.
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I remember tables being flipped and the ambassador recalled. The only way Kerry's statement could be more damaging is if what he is saying is true.
Of course, back when the dems tilted the game for Biden to win, the 'Burg put this up as a feature for the then nominated.
Did anyone listen to Jen Psaki yesterday say Kerry didn't say what everyone heard him say?
Kerry gets accused of this a lot. Remember back when Barry and McCain were itching for a shooting war with Russia and Iran - well, I think they were looking for a reason to provide air cover for their rebel forces to overthrow Assad - and Kerry accidentally said something to the effect, "Well, if they turn in their chemical weapons.." and Team Assad was like, "Deal!", and all the air went out of the orc drums, even though UK and France had fast tracked and passed war resolutions already and were just waiting on US Formalities?
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Kerry has always stuck his nose in where it does not belong...he could have been charged with treason over his talks with the North Vietnamese while on active duty. Then Iran now the French.
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland ...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the guy Obama nominated for the Supreme Court ... recently instructed the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... to begin investigating parents who confront school board administrators over Critical Race Theory
...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense... indoctrination material. The U.S. Department of Justice issued a memorandum to the FBI instructing them to initiate investigations of any parent attending a local school board meeting who might be viewed as confrontational, intimidating or harassing.
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s daughter is Rebecca Garland. In 2018 Rebecca Garland married Xan Tanner [LINK]. Mr. Xan Tanner is the current co-founder of a controversial education service company called Panorama Education. [LINK and LINK] Panorama Education is the "social learning" resource material provider to school districts and teachers that teach Critical Race Theory.
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Surprise!
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Sick mofos.... bad enough that they're distributing and making bank off of this rat poison.
But for Garland and the FBI to attack the poor desperate parents who resist this garbage is beyond disgusting, it's criminal.
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Thank Cocaine Mitch for keeping this corrupt POS off the SCOTUS
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But for Garland and the FBI to attack the poor desperate parents who resist this garbage is beyond disgusting, it's criminal.
Can you say "conflict of interest"?
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Jeff Sessions recused himself for a lot less than this.
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Doesn't seem like CRT is being too well-received by parents in the schools. Mostly a thing of leftist school teachers unions and the feral government. The audacity of parents wanting their kids to have a good education rather than indoctrination of lefty crap.
[DAILYWIRE] Rodney Scott, the former chief of the United States Border Patrol, said during a Fox News interview on Tuesday evening that the Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us... has been paying contractors millions of dollars a day to not build the border wall along with U.S.-Mexico border, even as the administration faces an illegal immigration crisis.
When asked by Fox News anchor Bret Baier about what actions the Biden administration took on the border wall after they took over in January, Scott responded that they issued a presidential proclamation that put in place 60 day pause on the construction.
"We’re supposed to do an in depth study and then come up with a plan going forward," Scott said. "As Border Patrol did its part, everything, that was done within about two weeks, several briefings later, there really had not been any decisions made, it went well beyond the 60 days. Many of those projects today are just still on hold. So we’re paying contractors, for a while it was almost $5 million a day between DOD and DHS."
"Wait, $5 million a day to not build the wall?" Baier asked.
"To not build a wall," Scott answered.
"There are stacks and stacks of border wall panels, there’s hundreds of miles of fiber optic cabling, there’s hundreds of cameras that were being installed with that, that are just sitting, there’s no action being taken," Scott continued.
"So what do they say when the briefing is well, this really helps us, if we could just plug this in, if we could just finish this thing, what did they say?" Baier asked.
"We’re not building more wall. There’s no conversation," Scott responded. "There’s no there’s no adult dialogue, if you will. It’s just it’s just a black and white decision. The administration said we’re not doing it. So we’re not doing it. That money is just trickling away to those contractors for not doing work each day."
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[BIZPACREVIEW] Fox News’ Tucker Carlson offered up more evidence on Tuesday to support the argument that "Replacement Theory" is a real strategy of the Democratic party. On the network’s "Tucker Carlson Tonight" he began the segment by saying, "We made the point a lot on this show because it’s true that the entire purpose of the Democratic Party’s immigration policy is to change the population of the United States in a way that guarantees they win every election going forward."
"This is effectively electorate packing. It’s an assault on democracy. It devalues your vote," he asserted.
He described the peculiar but now all-too-common tactic of the Left in which they denounce anyone who calls attention to their actions — in this case, anyone who suggests that replacement theory is real — call them the usual, often profanity-laced names, then after a few days they say the quiet part out loud because they just aren’t that good at hiding the ball.
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Move the old residence out, move the new pro-Soviet residents in. Not exactly a new tactic.
[APNEWS] President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... and congressional Democrats’ push for a 10-year, $3.5 trillion package of social and environmental initiatives has reached a turning point, with the president repeatedly conceding that the measure will be considerably smaller and pivotal politicians flashing potential signs of flexibility.
In virtual meetings Monday and Tuesday with small groups of House Democrats, Biden said he reluctantly expected the legislation’s final version to weigh in between $1.9 trillion and $2.3 trillion, a Democrat familiar with the sessions said Tuesday. He told them he didn’t think he could do better than that, the person said, reflecting demands from some of the party’s more conservative politicians.
Biden used those same figures during a Friday meeting in the Capitol with nearly all House Democrats, according to that person and a second Democrat familiar with the gathering. Both Democrats would describe the meetings only on condition of anonymity.
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They've not only got to get the bill passed, but some of the money actually handed out to their voters before the 2022 election. Every day this can be delayed helps.
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[NYPOST] A federal appeals court Tuesday unanimously rejected a suit filed by ex-Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo ...former Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he had about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him when he resigned... to overturn a tax overhaul law approved by former President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... in 2017 that limited federal deductions on state and local taxes.The $1.5 trillion law imposed a $10,000 cap on itemized SALT deductions that taxpayers could write-off on their federal returns, which provided Trump and the then-Republican-led Congress more revenues to pay for other federal tax cuts.
The SALT cap largely affects the wealthiest taxpayers in high tax Democratic states in the Northeast — New York and New Jersey, and Connecticut, as well as Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
The Trump tax reform cut taxes for wealthy Americans and dramatically slashed the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. But many low and moderate income taxpayers also benefited from the Trump-era federal tax cuts.
One study even concluded that New Yorkers overall benefitted from the Trump tax changes, undercutting Cuomo’s claims that it damaged residents.
New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland joined New York in what many experts believed was a long-shot bid to overturn the federal law that limited the SALT deduction. Cuomo and other plaintiffs claimed the law was unconstitutional and trampled on state’s rights and illusory sovereignty.
In a 3-0 decision, the judges for the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in Manhattan disagreed, delivering a stinging defeat to New York and other plaintiff states.
"What really propels the plaintiffs’ view that Congress is constitutionally foreclosed from eliminating or curtailing the SALT deduction is their position that, until 2017, Congress had never done so. We disagree that the Constitution imposes such a constraint on Congress," said Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier.
"They point us to nothing that compels the federal Government to protect taxpayers from the true costs of paying their state and local taxes. We reject the Plaintiff States’ contention that the Constitution mandates the SALT deduction."
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You mean Congress can still pass laws that a Federal appeals court can't overturn on a whim?
Or contrariwise, if they can’t go to simple majority vote for the thing, they won’t be able to pass it.
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BREAKING: President Biden announces that there’s a “real possibility” that Senate Democrats will have to revise the filibuster to a simple majority vote in order to overcome Republican obstructionism on the debt ceiling. RT IF YOU SUPPORT THE IDEA!
[EpochTimes] Sen. Joe Manchin ...Dem senator-for-life from West Virginia. Manchin is one of the approximately one Dem senators who exhibits more integrity than Jello, often even representing his constituents... (D-W.Va.) signaled on Oct. 6 that he won’t support carving out an exception to the filibuster for the federal debt limit, meaning Democrats don’t have enough votes to employ the so-called nuclear option.
"I’ve been very, very clear where I stand on the filibuster. I don’t have to repeat that. I think I’ve been very clear. Nothing’s changed," Manchin told news hounds in Washington.
Some Democrats want to nuke the filibuster to boost the debt ceiling because they’re refusing to use reconciliation to address it, and Republicans oppose their current plans on the limit.
President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan.... said late Oct. 5 that there’s a "real possibility" Democrats in the Senate will invoke the option, which would lower the voting threshold to a simple majority from 60.
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Can they get Willard to go for it?
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Why don't they change the Senate rule to where only Democrats get to vote? Problem solved. Sen. Manchin suddenly becomes just another hayseed from West Virginia.
[NATIONALREVIEW] Amid the border crisis, which escalated last week with the apprehension of over ten thousand Haitian migrants colonists, President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan...... has fallen out of favor with the majority of Hispanic Americans over his handling of immigration policy.Sixty-nine percent of Hispanics disapprove of Biden’s handling of immigration, while only 23 percent approve, according to a new Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday.
As for the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us... ’s handling of deportations of illegal aliens, 41 percent of Hispanic respondents say it is " not aggressive enough" while 20 percent say Biden has been "acting appropriately."
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The problem with these Hispanics is, after they've been here a while, some of them get wise and start voting Republic.
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69% of Hispanics disapprove of Biden'd handling of immigration. How does this bode for the Dems replacement theory? Why do I feel like I'm watching a Wiley Coyote failed scheme? FJB.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DONSURBER.BLOGSPOT] Bloomberg reported, "Amazon CEO, citing ’rougher’ patch with Seattle, looks to ’burbs."
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Kerry and Biden, birds of a feather. 
...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the guy Obama nominated for the 
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed 
Move the old residence out, move the new pro-Soviet residents in. Not exactly a new tactic.
...46th president of the U.S. 
...former Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he had about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him when he resigned...
...Dem senator-for-life from West Virginia. Manchin is one of the approximately one Dem senators who exhibits more integrity than Jello, often even representing his constituents...
...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed 
