Seattle recently elected a socialist barista as mayor, and it's going about as well as you would expect. Instead of focusing on governing, taxes, or cleaning up the city, Mayor Katie Wilson moved to classify the investigation of Somali fraudsters as "hate crimes," vowed to unilaterally ban grocery stores from leaving her city, and proposed a tax on companies with empty office buildings in Seattle.
Her first big address as mayor was the State of the City address. Her staff sent out invitations with no date, so those had to be re-sent (on the taxpayer's dime, of course). And when Wilson was giving her address, it was clear she was grossly unprepared.
AMATEUR HOUR
— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) February 18, 2026
After her team sent invites for her State of the City address with no date & had to resend, Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson came out completely unprepared for her first big address
This is what happens when you elect someone who never had a real job pic.twitter.com/t2QzkgG1vZ
She spent most of the start of the speech playing with her microphone, telling the audience, "I don't think I've ever talked for as long as I'm going to talk, so we'll see how it goes."
Then we're not sure if she was directing someone with a teleprompter or what, but Wilson asked someone in the crowd to move, it seems.
Like most socialists, Wilson is wealthy, and her parents, who live in New York, have been paying her bills while she works as a barista. Perhaps "white privilege" is a real thing.
All her granola eating, homemade clothes wearing, lesbian fangirls will clap like madmen anyway.
— Misneach PRACTICINGCatholic StinkStankStunk (@Elonech2) February 18, 2026
Probably. Socialists don't want competency or substance, after all.
The problem with Communists being in positions of power is that deep down they never thought they'd get this far. https://t.co/Kjssl6jFdC
— Oscar Von Reuenthal (@OscarVReuenthal) February 18, 2026
And they find themselves shocked when they do.
Feminist leadership is a living nightmare. https://t.co/It5cLTvLaE
— Theo Jordan (@Theo_TJ_Jordan) February 18, 2026
Yes, it is.
You get the government you vote for, and sometimes that's not a good thing. Seattle, like NYC, is going to learn the hard way that electing socialists creates nothing but chaos.
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