Literally.

According to intrepid local journalist Jonathan Choe:

Massive explosion at the notorious Mercer St. encampment in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood Monday afternoon. It’s right across the street from Google, Novo Nordisk, and several apartment buildings in one of the busiest parts of the city.

Neighbors have been begging city and state leaders to remove this blight for months after a murder, open air drug use, and other problems at the camp. Will this be the last straw for Mayor Bruce Harrell?

He’s always had the ability to go in and take control from WSDOT under emergency circumstances. Harrell moved in and cleared another problematic WSDOT encampment in downtown Seattle last month after a similar explosion.

Governor Jay Inslee has already spent millions of dollars this year to remove camps on state right of ways with very little to show for it. The current plan is clearly failing.

#BREAKING: Massive explosion at the notorious Mercer St. encampment in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood Monday afternoon. It’s right across the street from Google(@Google,) Novo Nordisk(@novonordiskus,) and several apartment buildings in one of the busiest parts of the… pic.twitter.com/1i18aXzHQf

— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) August 15, 2023

As long as corporate media continues to pretend like everything’s okay in Democrat-run cities, the carnage will continue. Their  policies are failing, and unfortunately it seems to be by design. Sound off about this on The Liberty Daily Substack.

It didn’t work. Their efforts were wasted as the city was clearly in shambles despite their best efforts and social media had fun at their expense. One particular viral video epitomized the situation perfectly.

As fans walked near the stadium during All-Star Week, a fentanyl deal was caught on camera spilling his murderous pills. Some people took the polite but extremely dangerous course of trying to help him pick them up. Watch:

PERFECT WAY TO END MLB ALL-STAR WEEK: If you haven’t seen this amazing clip. An alleged fentanyl dealer spills all his pills in front of baseball fans in Seattle. #Seattle @MLB
Courtesy: @seattlesubmissions #AllStarGame #MLB #AllStar @MayorofSeattle @GovInslee @kcexec… pic.twitter.com/SrvURIKbXZ

— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) July 13, 2023

It’s hard to tell what’s worse: A drug dealer spilling his lethal drugs in broad daylight or the fact that most people didn’t seem to care. As bad as they expect things to be in Seattle, it’s actually even worse.

Curse-laden flyers were circulating among the people on the street calling for an “RV Park-In” starting Monday and into the day of the big game on Tuesday.

The flyer reads, “When the tailgaters and rich a–holes show up for the big game they’re going to find exactly what the city worked so hard to prevent: US!”

The Seattle homeless community announced that they will be going to war during the MLB All-Star game.

Homeless vagrants plan to occupy the parking lots of tailgate areas in defiance of the city removing their encampments before the game.

“Let’s f*ck their day up.” pic.twitter.com/mes7Z1LLCi

— Katie Daviscourt (@KatieDaviscourt) July 6, 2023

Seattle has battled homelessness with massive infusions of taxpayer dollars in recent years, but the radical leftist policies they’ve initiated have failed miserably. Instead, they continuously play a shell game, shuffling people off the streets and out of tents. Those living in RVs are moved around to different parking lots to keep them invisible from publicity.

The RVers’ plan is actually a good one that aligns with city ordinances. Vehicles must be parked in the same area for 72 hours before being compelled to move.

As the flyer notes, “We show up inside of 72 hours, they can’t really complain that we’re there. And when all is said and done, you’ll get first shot at newly opened parking, right now. All major SoDo no parking zones expire until July 11.”

There will even be snacks and coffee made available.

As with all major Democrat-run cities, Seattle spends huge budgets to hide problems rather than address them

Katie Daviscourt from Rebel News has been posting about it.

Note: a lot of these women are being sex trafficked, and the prostitution brings an increase in crime to the community.

But Seattle doesn’t care! Instead, they informally legalized it.

— Katie Daviscourt (@KatieDaviscourt) January 21, 2023

She’s absolutely correct. With the “informally legalized” prostitution rampant, so too are other crimes, including assaults and murders. Drugs are on the rise, but they’re essentially legal in the radical progressive city as well.

Discovery Institute’s Jonathan Choe went around asking prostitutes in Seattle if they needed help:

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: #Seattle's sex trafficking scene is overshadowed by the homeless crisis, drug epidemic,+other crimes. I've been documenting for months. Adding to @KatieDaviscourt's coverage today. These young women need help. @D5Juarez @GovInslee @MayorofSeattle @kcexec pic.twitter.com/wwwgpLP1dF

— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) January 22, 2023

He wasn’t done:

LINED UP FOR BLOCKS: These young women are waiting around side streets along Aurora Ave N. Neighbors+biz owners in D5 have been complaining for years. Why is this allowed? Sadly, this has become an accepted part of #Seattle culture. Watch how it works. @D5Juarez @MayorofSeattle pic.twitter.com/VQ7y2x7s1c

— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) January 22, 2023

Why is this happening? Choe explained:

WOKE CITY COUNCIL: In case you’re wondering why #Seattle is the way it is on this issue. https://t.co/glWVjNkOSH

— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) January 22, 2023

Unfortunately, this isn’t just a Seattle problem. “Woke” cities led by radical Democrats across the country are starting to see the same problems. Until this is addressed with a bright spotlight of attention, it’s only going to get worse.

According to his report on a show he did April 13, 2021, he had an adverse reaction to his second dose of the Moderna Covid jab and had to take a rare sick day. During the show, he expressed his desire to be vaccinated based on his age and the fact that he believed there was a “tiny, tiny” chance of having adverse reactions to the jabs.

“I went in positive I wasn’t going to get sick and then it just kicked my butt,” he said referring to his experience with the second dose. “So, Sunday night I’m sick. It’s kind of everything I’d heard about the second dose of the Moderna which is what I got. I’m sick. And I’m still planning on working on Monday.

“So I got to bed, I sleep about eight hours which is really good for me. And I wake up at 7:30 yesterday morning, right, to do show prep. And then, I’m sitting downstairs with my laptop on my chest and doing show prep and I discovered that I’m falling asleep every three minutes while trying to do show prep. I could not stay awake. And I thought, well maybe I can’t do the show today.”

He then explained how he had a 33-hour stretch where he slept 26 hours.

As reported by the Seattle Times:

Dori Monson, the Puget Sound region’s longtime conservative radio host from “the mean streets of Ballard,” died Saturday night at a Seattle hospital, according to KIRO Newsradio. He was 61.

Monson hosted his highly rated three-hour show each weekday, and for many years had been a part of the Seahawks radio broadcast team and local sports.

KIRO Newsradio described him as a “longtime watchdog of government and social issues” and said the station is working to create on-air tributes. A written statement from Bonneville International, which owns KIRO-FM, said Monson suffered a “cardiac event” at home Thursday and was hospitalized.

Despite being at least double-jabbed himself, Monson adamantly opposed vaccine mandates and became one of Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s most vocal critics on his handling of the pandemic.

This election, she’s actually in a tight race against Republican nurse and entrepreneur Tiffany Smiley. The political newcomer came out of nowhere to challenge the radical leftist who is attempting to enter her fourth decade in power. It helps Smiley that Democrat policies have turned Seattle and much of Washington into cesspools of horrible policies and decimated economic conditions.

The three aforementioned corporate heavyweights, all of whom are known to use their clout to quash anyone who represents the best interests of the people instead of the elitists’ desires, have gone after Smiley with petty complaints that they would never level against Murray if she did the same thing. In fact, she HAS done the same thing. More on that in the article below from WSJ. First, let’s look at one of the campaign ads they corporate juggernauts want quashed:

Tiffany Smiley, a Republican candidate for US Senate for Washington state, received cease & desist letters from @Starbucks & the @seattletimes for this political ad where she stands in front of a Starbucks & features headlines from the liberal newspaper. pic.twitter.com/Meo86tfco5

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) October 1, 2022

Now, let’s look at the WSJ report on what Smiley has been going through in her quest to help Washington citizens and disseminate the truth that the corporate giants want buried…

Corporate Dirty Pool in Washington’s Senate Race

Tiffany Smiley, Patty Murray’s rival, gets nastygrams from Starbucks, the Seattle Times and the Seahawks.

How worried are Democrats about Washington Sen. Patty Murray’s re-election? Bothered enough that Seattle’s corporate heavyweights are playing dirty pool on her behalf.

After coasting for five terms, the progressive Ms. Murray is facing a surprisingly spirited challenge from Tiffany Smiley, a nurse and entrepreneur. The Republican is pummeling Ms. Murray from every direction and laying out her own detailed reform agenda. While the RealClearPolitics average has Ms. Murray winning by 8 points, one recent poll put Ms. Smiley within 2. It’s close enough that Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently transferred $500,000 of his own campaign cash to Ms. Murray’s campaign.

And close enough that a trio of titans—Starbucks, the Seattle Times and the Seattle Seahawks—are actively attempting to sabotage the Smiley campaign, albeit in a distinctly underhanded fashion. Their targets are two effective Smiley campaign ads.

In “Game Day,” the Republican is in a kitchen preparing to watch a football game, hitting Ms. Murray and Democrats for the spiraling cost of food. In “Cup of Coffee,” she stands in front of a derelict building. Barely visible at the top, and seen backward, is the store’s faded Starbucks sign. Ms. Smiley hits Ms. Murray for rising crime, while the ad flashes two Seattle Times headlines, one of which reads: “Starbucks to Close 5 Seattle Stores Over Safety Concerns.”

“Game Day” hit the airwaves Sept 1. Five days later, according to documents I obtained, the Smiley campaign received a terse email from the Seahawks claiming a trademark violation. The ad briefly shows Ms. Smiley’s husband, Scotty—a retired U.S. Army Ranger who was blinded by shrapnel in Iraq—expressing alarm that “even beer” prices are rising. You only see his shoulders above a tall couch—and if you get a magnifying glass you might make out a letter or two from the word “Seahawks.” The letter insisted the Smiley campaign “immediately cease” its “unauthorized commercial use.” Nothing like your local sports franchise dumping cease-and-desist orders on wounded veterans.

“Cup of Coffee” went live on Sept. 20. The next day, the Seattle Times sent an email to the “Jane Smiley” campaign—apparently without running it past its fact-checking desk—accusing it of “unauthorized use of The Seattle Times logo and two headlines” in violation of the paper’s “copyright and trademark.” It demanded the campaign remove any references to the paper not only in its own ad, but in an NBC News article about the ad’s launch.

Two days later, Starbucks sent a certified letter saying the campaign was appropriating its intellectual property, and complaining it might “create an unfounded association in the minds of consumers between Starbucks and your campaign.” It insisted the campaign either pull the ad or alter it to strip both the (barely visible, backward) sign and the Seattle Times headline referencing Starbucks.

One such letter may be the product of an overzealous lawyer, but three in a row looks like more than a coincidence. One might even wonder if some Murray staffer was putting bugs in Seattle business leaders’ ears. And while corporate political-action committees routinely play politics by making donations, it’s something else for individual companies to go to bat for a candidate via behind-the-scenes threats based on tenuous legal claims. These letters were bound to cost the Smiley campaign money and headaches and might have pushed it off the airwaves.

The campaign didn’t roll over. It made a painless accommodation to the “Game Day” ad, blurring the jersey colors to obscure anything distinct. In a legal letter sent Thursday to Starbucks, the campaign rebutted the company’s infringement claims, running through political speech protections and noting that no reasonable person would ever think a factual ad about shuttered Starbucks stores amounted to a coffee-chain endorsement. It suggested Starbucks focus on its own problems, like its recent union woes.

The Seattle Times also received a letter refuting its claims, but it got something in addition. The Smiley campaign on Thursday filed a Federal Election Commission complaint, charging the paper with providing the Murray campaign a prohibited in-kind contribution. It turns out that Ms. Murray has also used a Seattle Times headline in her ads. Her “First 2016 Ad” sports the newspaper’s logo under the headline: “Patty Murray’s and Paul Ryan’s Teamwork Is a Model for Congress.” It seems the Times has a different legal standard for candidates it endorses.

As the FEC complaint notes, the Smiley campaign would have to spend an estimated $5,000 to remove and update the ad—“costs that Patty Murray does not have to accrue.” It cites FEC regulations that provide “if a corporation makes its resources available for free, it must do so for all candidates.”

Don’t expect the Seattle corporate set to do anything on behalf of Ms. Smiley soon. But it shouldn’t be too much to ask that they do their politicking straight—and out in the open.

Corporate juggernauts in Seattle are so indebted to Patty Murray and Democrat policies that keep them enriched that they’ll do anything money can buy to stop Tiffany Smiley. The truth can wake Washingtonians up, so the elites want it kept under wraps.

What makes it worse is that this is in Seattle where abortion will be completely legal.

AOC gave the order today in front of the Supreme Court.

“TAKE TO THE STREETS!”

So did Maxine Waters.

And just like that Antifa came out of retirement attacking innocent women.

Tell me about women’s rights again. https://t.co/05jKok2T9r

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) June 25, 2022

Important note: The violence we’re seeing from Antifa, Jane’s Revenge, and other Soros-funded domestic terrorist groups is only loosely based on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. They’re using it as the excuse to destabilize America ahead of whatever sort of collapse we have coming. Whether it’s an economic collapse, food crisis, or total societal collapse, this is all part of the globalist elite’s plan to force “Build Back Better” or, as they prefer to call it, “The Great Reset.”

Roe v. Wade being overturned is not the source of the rage. It has been artificially ramped up in order to achieve the globalist elite’s goals. That’s not to say the domestic terrorists aren’t truly enraged. They are suffering from a strong delusion. We need to recognize it for what it is so we can address it properly. This is demonic.