Washington – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com American exceptionalism isn't dead. It just needs to be embraced. Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:38:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://americanconservativemovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-America-First-Favicon-32x32.png Washington – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com 32 32 135597105 The Kids Aren’t Alright: Local Washington Police Report 350% Increase in Juvenile Fights https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-kids-arent-alright-local-washington-police-report-350-increase-in-juvenile-fights/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-kids-arent-alright-local-washington-police-report-350-increase-in-juvenile-fights/#respond Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:38:14 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-kids-arent-alright-local-washington-police-report-350-increase-in-juvenile-fights/ (Zero Hedge)—New data coming out of the Issaquah Police Department in Washington have revealed a 350% increase in fights among juveniles since the start of August this year, compared to last year.

The data, highlighted by KOMO News, was driven by “juveniles in middle school”, according to the report.

Between August 1 and October 15, Issaquah police received 18 reports of juvenile fights, up from 4 during the same period in 2023.

Officers noted these incidents occurred in public settings and reported a pattern of increased fights at the start of the school year, with most reports coming from adult witnesses, parents, or students.

Police reported that 72% of juvenile fights occurred between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., often near school properties or within a few blocks of Issaquah schools.

The KOMO News report obtained an Oct. 3 memo from Issaquah Middle School Principal Mark Jergens-Zmuda, addressing the rise in student fights, some recorded by bystanders.

“School safety is paramount, and some measures have been put in place. Ensuring a safe and supportive school environment is our top priority,” the memo said.

To address the issue, the school held assemblies on expectations, safety, and conflict resolution. Jergens-Zmuda also reminded parents of school rules, including requiring students to stay seated for the first 15 minutes of lunch and banning gatherings on a nearby hill after school, where several fights had occurred.

The school district responded in a statement:

“Schools across the country have student altercations, and our district does as well… we take every instance of student altercations seriously, and investigate them in accordance with Washington state law as well as Issaquah School District policies and regulations. Student privacy laws do not allow us to share specific information about individual instances of altercations, the students involved, or discipline. As always, we are working with students, staff and families to support our students. We appreciate the partnership of our staff, families and community members.”

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A “Great Swarm” of Earthquakes Off the Washington Coast Is Raising Concerns That the Cascadia Subduction Zone Could Blow https://americanconservativemovement.com/a-great-swarm-of-earthquakes-off-the-washington-coast-is-raising-concerns-that-the-cascadia-subduction-zone-could-blow/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/a-great-swarm-of-earthquakes-off-the-washington-coast-is-raising-concerns-that-the-cascadia-subduction-zone-could-blow/#respond Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:17:39 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=201922 (End of the American Dream)—An area off the coast of Washington state is being shaken by hundreds and hundreds of earthquakes.  So is this an indication of potential trouble for the Cascadia Subduction Zone?  At this point, there is so much that we don’t know.  Scientists are telling us that the quakes are centered around a large underwater volcano.  The underwater volcano does not pose a threat at all, but if an enormous earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone were to trigger a giant tsunami that slams into the west coast, that would be a historic disaster of epic proportions.

The frequency of the earthquakes that we are witnessing off the coast of Washington is extremely alarming.

It is being reported that earlier this month there were “as many as 200 in a single hour”

Scientists have detected a ‘great swarm’ of earthquakes off the coast of Washington clocking as many as 200 in a single hour during one day.

That is a lot of quakes!

According to one of the experts that has been monitoring this area, there were over 2,000 earthquakes in a single day…

“It’s about 10 times as active as it normally is,” said Jesse Hutchinson, a junior staff scientist with ONC, an ocean observation facility based at the University of Victoria.

He said more than 2,000 earthquakes had been detected in one day.

Why haven’t we heard more about this?

If I was living on the west coast, I would definitely want this to be in the news.

We are being told that this “great swarm” of earthquakes potentially means that a “magmatic rupture” is imminent…

The ‘great swarm’ of earthquakes followed multiple days of increasingly frequent quakes, according to Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), which is collecting the data for researchers to study.

The spike indicated a possible ‘impending magmatic rupture,’ the research group reported.

A magmatic rupture, which occurs when the Earth’s crust splits open for some reason and spills molten rock out, is a natural phenomena that can form new ocean floor, according to Zoe Krauss, a marine seismology PhD candidate at the University of Washington.

A “magmatic rupture” would not be a problem.

But what happens if this area continues to shake violently and eventually an extremely large earthquake is triggered along the Cascadia Subduction Zone?

As Popular Mechanics has accurately observed, that would create the sort of disaster that very few people would want to see…

In this case, there are two opposing forces: the North American Plate, an enormous tectonic plate that carries the entire continental United States on its back, versus the 90,000-square-mile Juan de Fuca Plate, located in the ocean off Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. For the past 200 million years, these two have been squaring off in an epic wrestling match in an area known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, or CSZ. Trust us, nobody wants to see the end of this round. Yet only a few people seem truly bothered: seismologists, emergency management professionals, and those who have experienced earthquakes before.

It’s certain that the Northwest will experience a devastating earthquake again, says Chris Goldfinger, an oceanographer at Oregon State University and one of the world’s leading experts on subduction zone earthquakes. “We have no idea of the timing and how urgent it is,” Goldfinger tells Pop Mech. “People tend to ignore it in that case.” The majority of the public, as well as most governments in the Northwest, aren’t yet pushing to implement the extensive infrastructure changes and early-warning communications systems needed to save tens of thousands of lives.

Such an earthquake could potentially create a colossal tsunami that is hundreds of feet high.

A tsunami of that magnitude would cause destruction on a scale that most of us cannot even imagine right now.

In 2015, the former head of FEMA’s Region X was quoted by the New Yorker as saying that “everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast”

If the entire zone gives way at once, an event that seismologists call a full-margin rupture, the magnitude will be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2. That’s the very big one.

…By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”

In the Pacific Northwest, everything west of Interstate 5 covers some hundred and forty thousand square miles, including Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, Salem (the capital city of Oregon), Olympia (the capital of Washington), and some seven million people.

It would be the greatest natural disaster in the entire recorded history of our nation up to that point.

Sadly, it is inevitable that great natural disasters will come.  Our planet is becoming so unstable, and we are seeing very strange things happen all over the globe.

For example, very long and very deep cracks in the ground have started to appear in Libya

Unusually large and deep earth cracks have suddenly appeared in an agricultural region south of Tripoli, causing alarm among the local population. In response, the Libyan government has initiated an investigation and dispatched a specialized geological team from the Ministry of Local Governance to conduct thorough surveys of the affected areas, particularly focusing on agricultural lands.

Parallelly, the Libyan Ministry of Environment and their Environmental Affairs Monitoring Department in “Al-Sbeea” are taking the lead in overseeing and documenting the ground cracks. This concerted effort aims to compile a detailed report, which will serve as a critical tool in understanding the origins, implications, and potential risks posed by the fissures.

And we have reached a stage where we are constantly witnessing unusual shaking all over the globe.

Just yesterday, a magnitude 3.8 earthquake rattled a very large area in northern Israel

Residents of northern and central Israel reported feeling an earthquake on Wednesday, Israeli media reported.

The Geological Institute reported that the earthquake felt by northern residents had a magnitude of 3.8 on the Richter scale, and occurred at a depth of approximately 17 km.

There were reports that the earthquake was felt in Tiberias, the Jordan Valley, Karmiel, Haifa, and the Hadera area. Some felt the earthquake even further south in areas such as Rehovot and Modi’in.

Today, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake that shook the Fukushima prefecture in Japan made lots of headlines

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 hit eastern Japan early on Friday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

The epicentre of the earthquake was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, where strong tremors were recorded, the agency said, adding that a tsunami warning had not been issued.

As I discuss in my latest book entitled “Chaos”, I believe that we are entering the most tumultuous period in all of human history.

And natural disasters will be a big part of that.

If I was living on the west coast, I would be watching what is happening very closely.

Because one of these days disaster will finally strike, and large numbers of people living along the coast will needlessly die.

Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can check out his new Substack newsletter right here.

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Desperate Democrats: Costco Karen Disrupts Voter Registration Drive in Washington https://americanconservativemovement.com/desperate-democrats-costco-karen-disrupts-voter-registration-drive-in-washington/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/desperate-democrats-costco-karen-disrupts-voter-registration-drive-in-washington/#respond Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:50:32 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=199488 (Based Underground)—Democrats know they’re in trouble. The nation is crumbling under policies coming from the White House and blue states are getting worse everyday. But instead of acknowledging the errors in their worldview, they’re resorting to harassment and intimidation tactics to try to retain power.

It’s not just politicians. Citizen “activists” are engaging in hideous behavior to try to prevent Republican efforts. In Washington state, one desperate Democrats went full “Karen-mode” in a Costco to disrupt a voter registration drive.

As patriotic journalist Brandi Kruse noted, these actions are illegal:

HAPPENING NOW: This woman just crossed out a page of voter signatures at the Issaquah Costco, which is a gross misdemeanor. This comes amid Democrat-backed effort to harass and intimidate Let’s Go WA signature gatherers (black marks mine to protect voter info).

The signature gatherer tells me he chased the woman as she ran inside and hid behind a Costco employee. He admits that he shouted at her. Costco called Issaquah police … on the signature gatherers.

The signature gatherers decided to pack up and leave. @IssaquahPolice spoke to them briefly (could not hear conversation). Not clear whether Costco will help police identify the woman who crossed out signatures.

In a twist of fate, yours truly happened to be shopping at Costco while this went down. An employee came up to me and asked me to stop journalism-ing on their property – but not before saying incidents like this are why they don’t like having signature collectors there. HOWEVER:

The law on this is tricky. While Costco is private property, it has allowed similar activity in the past. In fact, in 2010 Costco used its stores as signature gathering hubs to get the liquor initiative passed. https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/costco-collecting-signatures-for-wash-liquor-initiative/281-332684435

So while Costco was certainly justified in calling @IssaquahPolice to help them sort out this ordeal, surely they also care about helping identify the woman who was attempting to disenfranchise Washington voters? End

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that Democrats are so concerned that their policies are being exposed that they’re willing to do anything to prevent the losses coming in 2024. They’d rather see the nation burn under their watch than succeed under Republican control.

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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Will Not Seek Fourth Term in 2024 https://americanconservativemovement.com/washington-gov-jay-inslee-will-not-seek-fourth-term-in-2024/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/washington-gov-jay-inslee-will-not-seek-fourth-term-in-2024/#comments Tue, 02 May 2023 11:28:09 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=192266 Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is ready “to pass the torch” as he announced on Monday that he will not be running for re-election in 2024.

“Today I announced I will not be running for a fourth term. We’ve made Washington a beacon for progress, and now it’s time to pass the torch,” the Democrat said in his announcement.

Inslee was elected governor in 2012 and has served for three consecutive terms. He calls his longevity in office “my greatest honor.”

Inslee began his career in politics as a state legislator, serving in the Washington State House from 1989–1993. He was then elected as a U.S. Representative in the 1st (1999–2012) and 4th Congressional Districts (1993–1995).

Inslee has since achieved many political milestones as the governor of Washington, such as the Democrat’s climate change initiatives to reduce carbon emissions, achieving the lowest COVID death rate in the country, and most recently, introducing further restrictions in an effort to curb gun violence.

“Our last decade of Washington’s storied history is one of growth and innovation. I am proud to have played a role in our state’s leadership on many fronts. We’ve passed the nation’s best climate policies, the most successful family leave benefits, the best college scholarship programs, a fair legal justice system, and the most protective actions against gun violence. We’ve shown that diversity is a strength worth fighting for. This has been ten years of dynamic success,” Inslee said in a statement.

Earlier this month, Inslee became the first governor of the United States to ban AR-15s, AK-47s, and similar semi-automatic rifles, which has been a controversial issue among politicians and Americans amid increasingly violent use of guns.

“Today, we’re standing on the right side of history by taking action on gun violence to improve the health, safety, and lives of Washingtonians,” Inslee said at the time, before signing the bill into law.

“No one needs an AR-15 to protect your family,” Inslee added about the new law. “You only need it to kill other families.”

Inslee has faced criticism for certain policy actions during his terms as Washington governor.

“HB 1240 clearly violates our state and federal constitutions, which is why it will end up in court immediately,” Sen. Lynda Wilson of Vancouver said of the semi-automatic rifle ban in a statement.

Despite the criticism, Inslee is proud of the accomplishments he has achieved that he believes has improved the lives of the people he has served during his reign.

“As governor, I have seen my role as inspiring our state ever forward and ever higher. I’m gratified to be able to say that this approach has worked to improve Washingtonians’ lives in many ways and in many places,” Inslee said in a statement.

Inslee’s list of accomplishments includes passing the Clean Energy Transformation Act to transition 100 percent to zero-carbon energy by 2045, improving equity across Washington’s legal justice system through prioritizing more diverse judicial appointments, and pushing back on Republican efforts to roll back abortion access and gender-related care by strengthening legal protections for providers and patients and expanding access, among many others listed by the governor’s office.

Possible candidates for Washinton’s next governor include Democrats Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz, according to the Seattle Times, along with former Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, who might consider a run for the position, according to The Dispatch.

Inslee is committed to continuing to improve Washington and make positive impacts during the remainder of his term until a new governor is elected into office. His term ends on Jan. 13, 2025.

“Now is the time to intensely focus on all we can accomplish in the next year and a half, and I intend to do just that. I look forward to continued partnership with legislators and community leaders to address Washington’s homelessness crisis, speed our efforts to expand behavioral health services, continue our fight against climate change, and continue making Washington a beacon of progress for all,” Inslee concluded in his statement.

Article cross-posted from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times. Image by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons,

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Washington Legislature Passes Bill Allowing Young Children to Have Genital Mutilation Surgery Without Parental Consent https://americanconservativemovement.com/washington-legislature-passes-bill-allowing-young-children-to-have-genital-mutilation-surgery-without-parental-consent/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/washington-legislature-passes-bill-allowing-young-children-to-have-genital-mutilation-surgery-without-parental-consent/#respond Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:42:00 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=191720 In a sane world, shelters that house children would only keep children away from parents if they were being abused. But this is no longer a sane world, especially in Democrat hellholes like Washington state. There, the legislature just passed a bill that would force shelters to hide runaway children from parents who don’t want them to “transition.”

In other words, any parent who doesn’t want their child to engage in genital mutilation is treated the same as those committing actual child abuse. And any child that wants to mutilate their bodies simply need to run away and the state will aid and abet them in their permanent decision.

According to Rebel News journalist Katie Daviscourt:

Washington state passes Senate Bill 5599, gender affirming care for minors. This bill grants minors the right to transition genders, stripping parents of their ability to consent. It will now be a crime if a parent doesn’t allow their 6-year-old to change genders.

IT GETS WORSE: If a child seeking a gender transition runs away from home—and the state knows their whereabouts—the state is not legally bound to disclose to the parents where their child is. The state know owns your kids.

The Post Millennial covered the story when it initially passed the Senate last month:

Democrats in the Washington state Senate passed a bill Wednesday night that critics say encourages minors to run away from home to receive “gender-affirming” care and “maternity services” without parental consent and at taxpayer expense.

Senate Bill 5599, sponsored by far-left Democratic state senator Marko Liias would allow shelters or host homes to provide housing for runaway minors without being required to notify their parents if they have a “compelling reason” to keep the information a secret.

According to the legislation, a “compelling reason” means “the youth is in the host home or seeking placement in a host home to receive protected health care services.”

The bill does not require proof of abuse in the household nor even an allegation of abuse. As a result, merely seeking “protected health care services” is enough of a reason to keep the runaway’s location hidden from parents and clears the way for children between the ages of 13 and 18 to stay at these facilities without their parents’ knowledge for an indefinite time while seeking services related to gender dysphoria and gender transitioning.

Many parts of America are becoming havens for pure evil. This is the direction the radical left wants for the entire country. Democrats are making us worse than Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Washington State’s Demonic Democrats Harm Kids and Make Streets Even Less Safe With One Insane Law https://americanconservativemovement.com/washington-states-demonic-democrats-harm-kids-and-make-streets-even-less-safe-with-one-insane-law/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/washington-states-demonic-democrats-harm-kids-and-make-streets-even-less-safe-with-one-insane-law/#respond Mon, 06 Mar 2023 23:54:31 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=190935 There’s a play the modern iteration of the Democrat Party continues to use. It’s a version of the Hegelian Dialectic in which they create a problem with their policies, then offer policy solutions to the problems their previous policies created. Few pockets of Democrat lawmakers do this better than the radical leftists in Washington state.

As Jason Rantz from MyNorthwest pointed out in a recent article, the “solution” Democrats are offering to fix the drug problem they created will actually make the drug problem even worse.

As he noted in the article, SB 5536 attempts to solve their massive drug problem by giving addicts, including children, a safer place to engage in their crimes. Government agencies will even provide the materials these addicts need in order to remain addicted.

On first glance, the law seems to be heading in the right direction by at least reversing their decriminalization of personal drug use:

After the Washington state supreme court declared our felony drug possession law unconstitutional, Democrats advanced a temporary bill legalizing personal possession of all drugs. It’s directly led to a historic fatal overdose crisis. They’ve now offered a “fix” with SB 5536. It would make drug possession a gross misdemeanor with a potential maximum jail sentence of 364 days, a $5,000 fine, or both. If the addict gets treatment as part of a diversion program, they would not serve jail time.

Unfortunately, buried in the bill is something that gives it all the hallmarks of the demonic Democrats. Why try to solve a problem when you can make it worse? According to Rantz:

SB 5536 creates Health Engagement Hubs, enabling drug addicts to continue using.

The Hubs may be mobile or standalone structures and must provide opioid treatment options for addicts. But they must also provide “harm reduction services and supplies.” Harm reduction is a radical strategy that gives addicts tools to continue using their drug of choice. The supplies that will be passed out include clean syringes, crack pipes, and other “smoking equipment,” which typically includes steel wool to serve as a pipe filter, and rubber bands to wrap around the pipe’s mouthpiece to prevent burns.

By law, these Hubs must be “open to youth as well as adults.” This means that minors can access drug tools that keep them addicted.

Also buried in the bill is the creation of a “safe supply work group.”

The group is meant to “evaluate potential models for safe supply services and make recommendations on the inclusion of a safe supply framework in the Washington state substance use recovery services plan to provide a regulated, tested supply of controlled substances to individuals at risk of drug overdose.” In other words, move over drug cartels! The government could become the state’s largest illicit drug dealer.

As annoyed as I get with the current iteration of the Republican Party, their feckless endeavors are better than the pure destruction that follows Democrat policies. Will Washington ever wake up?

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ANOTHER Blue State Senate Race Moved From “Leans Democrat” to “Toss Up” a Week Before Election Day https://americanconservativemovement.com/another-blue-state-senate-race-moved-from-leans-democrat-to-toss-up-a-week-before-election-day/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/another-blue-state-senate-race-moved-from-leans-democrat-to-toss-up-a-week-before-election-day/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:11:03 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=184130 A Republican has not won a U.S. Senate race in the state of Washington since the 20th century. But if Real Clear Politics is to be believed, that may be changing as their latest analysis has moved the tight race between incumbent Democrat Patty Murray and upstart MAGA patriot Tiffany Smiley to “Toss Up.”

According to Brandi Kruse:

Real Clear Politics just moved Washington state’s Senate race from “Leans D” to “Toss up.”

Republicans will need to net +1 in order to take back control of the Senate. Their prospects are very good; of the seven states listed as toss ups, only two are currently red. Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and New Hampshire all have Democrats that are vulnerable to losing those seats on November 8.

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Here’s the Ad for Republican Tiffany Smiley That Woke Corporate Heavyweights in Seattle Don’t Want You to See https://americanconservativemovement.com/heres-the-ad-for-republican-tiffany-smiley-that-woke-corporate-heavyweights-in-seattle-dont-want-you-to-see/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/heres-the-ad-for-republican-tiffany-smiley-that-woke-corporate-heavyweights-in-seattle-dont-want-you-to-see/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2022 05:14:10 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=182154 Senator Patty Murray has always coasted to victory in past elections. As a Democrat in leftist Washington, she has powerful friends among the state’s corporate juggernauts, including Starbucks, The Seattle Times, and the Seattle Seahawks.

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:

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.

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How Many Washington State Teachers Should Be Arrested for Violating This Law? https://americanconservativemovement.com/how-many-washington-state-teachers-should-be-arrested-for-violating-this-law/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/how-many-washington-state-teachers-should-be-arrested-for-violating-this-law/#respond Tue, 12 Jul 2022 03:25:31 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=175739

It’s no secret that our public education system, including preschool all the way up through college, is rife with total wokeness. Schools have become indoctrination centers for anti-American ideologies like Neo-Marxism, Critical Race Theory, and LGBTQIA+ Supremacy.

In at least one state, this is illegal, though you wouldn’t know that by visiting a public school. Democrat-dominated Washington state has a law on the books in their Revised Code of Washington State that would compel teachers to instruct on ideas such as patriotism. Instead, the exact opposite is true because nobody is enforcing the law.

It’s old. Originally written in the 19th century and most recently revised in the 1960s, RCW 28A.405.030 is not being enforced. Instead, our children are being taught false premises, fake history, and anything other than the education they’re supposed to be getting. Here’s how the law reads:

Must teach morality and patriotism.

It shall be the duty of all teachers to endeavor to impress on the minds of their pupils the principles of morality, truth, justice, temperance, humanity and patriotism; to teach them to avoid idleness, profanity and falsehood; to instruct them in the principles of free government, and to train them up to the true comprehension of the rights, duty and dignity of American citizenship.

This isn’t a law without teeth. There are two possible repercussions for those who do not teach the principles listed in the law. Teachers can be fired. They and administrators familiar with their activities can even be arrested and charged with a misdemeanor. This isn’t happening, of course, since the schools haven’t been drained of 90%+ of their teachers, administrators, or school board members.

It’s obviously a challenging law to enforce because it’s subjective whether someone is teaching patriotism sufficiently, but one thing is not as subjective. Considering the ANTI-American and ANTI-patriotic sentiment that is currently being taught to our kids, it should be easy to isolate the worst offenders. If they don’t want to teach the principles listed and only want to focus on educating our children, I’m okay with that. Parents should be the ones teaching principles. But if they want to teach kids to hate America, change genders, or make everything about race, I’m not okay with that at all.

Am I calling for teachers to be arrested? Maybe. In the past I might have called the law an overreach that went against a teacher’s perceived role as educator of such things as math, reading, and history. But in today’s post-truth society, the limits of leftism have been put to the test so it may not be a bad idea to enforce this law to put an end to the indoctrination that’s currently happening.

Call me radical, but we’re facing leftist radicals so sometimes it behooves us to get aggressive. The law’s already on the books. It’s long past time to get our education system fixed, as I discussed in the latest episode of America First Report. You can watch it on BitChute.

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Vaxx-Nanny Senator Patty Murray Invokes Bodily Control and the Responses Write Themselves https://americanconservativemovement.com/vaxx-nanny-senator-patty-murray-invokes-bodily-control-and-the-responses-write-themselves/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/vaxx-nanny-senator-patty-murray-invokes-bodily-control-and-the-responses-write-themselves/#respond Wed, 06 Jul 2022 04:00:18 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=175169 Massive hypocrisy has been standard operating procedure for the Democrat Party for many years, especially among politicians who serve in blue states. U.S. Senator Patty Murray is among the most egregious perpetrators of unadulterated hypocrisy and she put it on display recently on Twitter.

The topic, of course, was abortion. The tactic, of course, was “right to control their body.” And the responses from those who instantly recognized her hypocrisy were golden.

“All patients – regardless of where they’re from or how much money they have – have the right to control their body, their life, and their future. RT if you agree.”

Her request for Retweets was not well-answered as fewer than 200 people did so. Here are some of the responses, and while some rightly pointed out she invoked “life” and “future” while pushing to murder as many preborn babies as possible, the lion’s share of responses focused on the fact that she has been one of the most outspoken vaxx-nannies in Washington. That’s a great feat considering how unhinged Washington Democrat politicians have been during the age of Covid.

https://twitter.com/FhHarald/status/1544462092761120768

The saddest part is that people like Patty Murray will never recognize their own hypocrisy. They think that bodily autonomy only works for murdering babies, but people should have zero rights when it comes to the “vaccines.”

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