John Ellenberger

Gamer, Designer, Developer

[The Kino Corner @thekinocorner]

I won't apologize for interviewing Armie. He's a great actor and a super nice guy.

I also won't apologize for interviewing Uwe. We've been friends for 3 years now. Loyalty to friends means something to me.

I'm not gonna throw either under the bus.

[uwe boll @BollFILMS]

Citizen Vigilante and Donald Trump

[John Ellenberger @darkludus]

@JohnStossel @elonmusk @npovmedia @AshleyRindsberg Years ago I donated to Wikipedia every time they had a donation drive. I thought having an impartial digital record of truth, beholden to no business or ideology was a noble endeavor.

Then the site veered to the left and I saw how they spent their funds. I stopped donating.

[PsyopAnime @PsyopAnime]

according to @cenkuygur grooming gangs don't exist

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

People seem to be misinterpreting why Seattle is fucked. Seattle is not fucked because they over-regulate big business or because of the “millionaire’s tax.” They’re fucked because they overregulate small and mid-sized businesses which caused a massive localized inflationary spiral that is forcing out big businesses because labor costs are too high

Seattle massively over regulated the service sector by imposing gargantuan minimum wages on restaurants and delivery apps + implementing a zillion other regulations that caused service sector costs to soar. Seattle’s housing prices are actually *declining* but their inflation rate has been 1-1.5 points higher than the national average despite reduced housing costs. This is caused mainly by food service prices rising at 7% a year due to Seattle’s minimum wage policies and excessive service sector regulations. Inflation in Seattle is now 5% and nominal wage growth is 3%, meaning real wages fell 2% in the last twelve months

High local inflation forced big companies to pay artificially high wages because highly paid corporate workers expect wages to keep up with living costs. On top of that, Seattle has a payroll tax that almost exclusively applies to huge companies. Those big companies are therefore paying insane wages to do business in Seattle, whereas if they relocated, they could pay people the same real wages relative to local cost of living and save tens of millions a year in corporate labor costs alone

But here’s the thing: Because Seattle overregulated their small and midsize businesses, those businesses are now operating on razor thin margins and are reliant on highly paid corporate workers who can pay exorbitant prices in order to stay in business. So when a corporate office relocates out of Seattle, all of the local restaurants collapse because they no longer have a customer base who can afford the prices they have to charge due to Seattle’s regulatory environment

What this means is that as corporations cut payroll in Seattle the entire city’s service sector is imploding, which has resulted in localized stagflation. Their whole labor market is quickly evaporating and now they have 5.5% unemployment, 5% inflation, and -2% real wage growth.

None of this has anything to do with the “millionaire’s tax” because the companies are leaving before the people do. Why would companies care about a tax on ultra high incomes that doesn’t impact their cost of doing business?

[We Heart Seattle @weheartseattle]

🚨 Over 100 milk jugs full of urine at Discovery Park, one of Seattle’s most beautiful parks.

A man battling severe untreated mental illness lives alone in a tent here, refusing every service offered.

We Heart Seattle was cleaning up and thought we’d seen it all. This one hurts. We have real sympathy for his struggle, but our parks belong to everyone.
When is someone considered “gravely disabled”? When is vandalism of public spaces actually enforced?
What do we do? 💔@SeattleParks @SeattleCouncil @MayorofSeattle

[Dan Madesclaire @Vitality_apEX]

@ropz @flameZcsgo @zywoo 3 nerds being happy to discover the outside world
#proudcaptain

[John Ellenberger @darkludus]

@AsianDigest These sick fucks

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

INSANE. Seattle's Socialist Mayor responds to exodus of wealth from Washington state by saying "BYE" ... then laughing. We're doomed.

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

NEW: Seattle's Lewis Park is a crime magnet and drug hell hole.
Late Saturday evening, a dad reached out to me and said he was looking for his daughter named "Candace." For privacy reasons, I am not putting out her photo. At least for now.
But I was told she was last seen with drug addicts in this Beacon Hill park. So I decided to go in and look.
The moment I walked in, a group of Honduran drug dealers offered me fentanyl. It was one of the riskier missions I've been on since it was pitch black.
The area is very narrow and the escape routes are minimal in the event I am attacked.
I couldn't stay long since I was immediately outed. The dealers referred to me as "Chino" and the addicts called me "YouTube" due to my social media reporting on the street crisis.
Bottom line, this place must be shut down!
Mayor Katie Wilson needs to take action immediately.
@MayorofSeattle|@SeattlePD|@SeaCityAttorney|@DiscoveryCWP

[Pat Frost @patfros65511313]

How is this woman still working at @KingCountyWA when she siphoned off $812K to her family members for an anti-racism programs?

@KCCouncil and @GirmayZahilay why are you wasting money on fraud?

https://t.co/U5mNjnItKo

[Sandeep Kaushik @skaushik100]

In the Seattle Times today, this is the other shoe I was saying was going to drop about King County's handling of human services contracts: an employee oveseeing a $10M anti-racism program called "Liberation and Healing from Systemic Racism" apparently funneled more than $800K of the money to her daughter and other relatives, and allegedly pressured contractors to hire her daughter. The County was warned as early as 2020 that ethics violations were occurring but failed to take action for years.

[PNW Conservative @PNWConservative]

Seattle Mayor Kommissar Katie Wilson…

…Earlier this year: “I’m proud to say loud and clear that I am not buying Starbucks and you should not either!”

@Starbucks: Bye! ✌️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@glennbeck @rebeccaperrotto No

Yes

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Your Name

Yes, a several times. Kyoto. teamLab.

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Ok 😀

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@GrageDustin IF THEY ARENT INVOLVED IN THE FRAUD THEY WOULD VOTE FOR IT TO BE EXPOSED!

THIS IS CRAZY! Might as well investigate each and every single one of them.

Is this them admitting they are involved in the fraud???

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

LMAOOOOOOOO

[Vijay @VijayInWA]

Governor Ferguson will sign his party's unconstitutional income tax into law tomorrow morning, ending over a century of Washington state tradition.

But why did the Governor wait until the last possible moment to sign a law which he supported so enthusiastically?

It is a cynical maneuver to undermine Washingtonians who oppose this unconstitutional tax from running a voter initiative against it.

Over 300,000 signatures for an initiative need to be collected by July for it to be placed on the ballot, but signatures cannot be collected against a law that doesn't exist. So by waiting to sign his new income tax the Governor is literally trying to undermine the Democratic process, making the window to collect signatures as small as possible.

On a weekend when thousands of people were chanting "No Kings" perhaps it would be wiser to look at the King closer to home.

[John Ellenberger @darkludus]

@PNWConservative One of my friend said she voted for her. I asked Why?! My friend knew nothing about her. She “just didn’t like Harrell”. My friend was appalled when I told her details about Katie Wilson.

I think people assume that if they are on the ballot, they are competent, valid options.