Mechanical Freak

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!

Read about Seattle’s hatred of the homeless in Mechanical Freak here and here

Listen to our interview with Dae Shik Kim and Guy Oron about their reporting on SPD’s sweeps of homeless encampments during the pandemic

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.

Follow Ben on Twitter @snocialism, read his article Everett’s plan for unemployed aerospace workers, and read his blog on Everett politics

Read our article on Boeing’s fights with labor on Mechanical Freak

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. https://www.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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