Casey Cain and Jose Betancourt are graffiti taggers “accused of causing more than $300,000 in damage around the city.” The street name of the former is “Eager”, and the latter is “Satan”. They were captured by police last week on Capitol Hill. They are, according to KIRO, members of “a group called the ‘Big Time Mob’ or ‘BTM’ — a graffiti crew that tags in Seattle and Portland. But few practices in this world are more urban than graffiti. It’s all over New York City. It defines Berlin. It can even be found in Beijing. But here we arrest people for doing exactly what a city should do. But we are cursed with a class of people who have no idea or clear understanding of it the fact that those above them, the rich, have limited their only path to financial stability to property ownership. This is the middle class. They have turned this limitation into a religion. This is why they, more than any other group in a city , even the rich, are obsessed with the otherwise normal business of tagging and what have you.
Increasing confidence for another accumulating snow next week in Seattle! Still a wide range from 0 to almost 25 inches in the NBM 4.1 members. ❄️#WAwx pic.twitter.com/da37OiqU17
— Trent Davis (@TstormTrent) 15 December 2022
Get ready to be cold. And this cold comes from the north. And according to Seattle Timescan make our area “a little more similar [Santa Land] The North Pole.” Temperatures can drop into the 20s (so cold). It can even snow (25 inches!). This season rewards the long and hot and awful days of summer.
The new trains are coming to Amtrack Casades line in 2026 will not have the speed of bullets. They will run as fast as the ones we already have. But, Seattle Times is quick to point out that the trains, which “include two new locomotives and eight new train sets” will have an “evergreen and mocha” color scheme and graphics of Mount Hood and Mount Rainier…” I can see the real Hood and Rainier any day .What I can’t see, what I long to see in the Pacific Northwest is a bullet train.
While our mayor goes after graffiti artists and taggershis counterpart in New York City, Mayor Adams, goes after the rats (a more honorable pursuit, in my opinion):
It is not difficult to guess why a mall you’ve probably never heard of, Northlake Mall, is in the news today.
OK, let’s get to the biggest story of the day (mall shootings are old fashioned in the US). And, yes, it involves the former president. Yesterday he announced on Truth Social that he would be making a “big announcement” today. Speculation erupted. Was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in the spotlight? Would he name his VP, possibly Kari Lake, who is pulling a Trump at this very moment? Not at all.
Forbes:
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled a “limited edition collection” of NFT trading cards featuring cartoon-like images of himself depicted as a superhero, Hollywood actor and more…
If I told you I’m not impressed with this “big” revelation, I would lie to you. I didn’t see it coming, this new low. I had no idea until today how low the former president could go – as if the latest low was not enough. And this is where we have to understand (even appreciate) the brilliance of this NFT move. Trump impresses the GOP base not by doing something smart, but by doing the opposite, doing something incredibly (even overwhelmingly) stupid. His is a force that is purely negative. It is a politics of the alternate universe; but, unlike antimatter, it is not annihilated in the positive world. It grows in it. And the worse it gets, the more he grows. Why? Because anyone in their right mind wouldn’t buy into any of this nonsense. But those who are devoted to him will – in total awareness of how stupid the superhero NFT trading card scam is, and therefore aware of how much it will be mocked by the left and its imagined medium of mass communication, FAKE NEWS – love these superhero NFTs I bite. The more he is mocked, the more NFTs they will buy. Trump is not unaware of this.
But the idea is that they should not be professionals. They must look bad. Trumpers only trust what is bad.
good lord, the former president is selling $99 nfts of amateurish photoshops of himself. I usually try to avoid giving Trump Discourse, but this is one of the most horrifying things I’ve *ever* seen pic.twitter.com/gksGImKdxu
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) 15 December 2022
As cold as Seattle next week:
Donald Trump just surprised everyone with his big announcement.
— Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) 15 December 2022
Can I tell you a story? It involves trading cards, but real. As a boy I collected Star Wars card, which came with a stick of red gum whose taste was not memorable. I spent every penny I could get from my parents on these cards. My little life was consumed by the desire to own the rare cards (Han Solo firing laser? Luke Skywalker in a fast moving car?). How I wanted the rare cards; and I wrapped the ones I collected in reddish rubber bands. But why am I telling you all this? Because the lesson this experience taught me is how artificial scarcity is in a capitalist society. The only thing that made one card more valuable than another was its rarity. A conceptual approach can only lead to the understanding of how the class system works in a society that has capital as its subject.
Let’s end the PM with a classic from Freestyle Fellowship“Innercity Boundaries”, a track that realized Rakim’s ambition to elevate rap to a state of jazz blasting.
