gonna be an interesting election season if the libs start to realize that the council president & mayor up for reelection are more closely aligned with the Trump admin (on big tech, civil liberties, zoning, workers rights, police non-accountability, etc) than the national Democratic platform - ThreadSky

bretthamil.bsky.social • 5 days ago

gonna be an interesting election season if the libs start to realize that the council president & mayor up for reelection are more closely aligned with the Trump admin (on big tech, civil liberties, zoning, workers rights, police non-accountability, etc) than the national Democratic platform

Reposted from Mike Baker

Interesting comments here from Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, saying that Trump "surrounds himself by some of the smartest innovators around."

He mentions Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Elon Musk.

h/t @ericacbarnett.bsky.social: publicola.com/2025/02/27/s...

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dwoboyle.bsky.social•5 days ago

The problem is a lot of the regular voting body is just waiting to go mask off and are just as idiotic as folks like Harrell, Saka, Durkin, etc.

bretthamil.bsky.social•5 days ago

masks off was 2023. now that Trump is in the white house the lib charade can continue

bretthamil.bsky.social•5 days ago

also to the clip above: Bruce was a VP of CenturyLink (then US West). there is NO QUESTION he is more aligned with Project 2025 & Brendan Carr on telecom issues (he's demonstrated this by quashing municipal broadband at every opportunity over the past decade). Comcast & CenturyLink are major donors!

bretthamil.bsky.social•5 days ago

p.s. I'm *loving* the Harrell camp's spin of "he was making a joke/being sarcastic." Comedy is hard, bro!

mileshedgehog.bsky.social•1 day ago

He IS a joke

crichton.bsky.social•5 days ago

I mean I do believe he was being sarcastic after viewing the speech, but why play with fire like that? We need leaders to say what they mean, especially if they're terrible at landing jokes

didabrown.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah I'm fairly certain he was trying to make a joke here, but MAN is his delivery bad. He's not nearly as funny as he thinks he is. (Another thing he has in common with Musk)

2am.coffee•5 days ago

I mean it worked for Trump, no? "He won't REALLY do Proj 2025, he's just joking!" "He won't ACTUALLY do the stuff he campaigned on, thats BIden's lies!" etc

chimmysthoughts.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's going to be a wild election season for sure. A lot of voters are going to be confronted with how conservative they are.

I don't think the majority will realize it, but one can hope, and maybe enough will that we can actually get some to the left of center in.

trashstratum.com•5 days ago

Don't forget our illustrious City Attorney!

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