Saul Spady

President Cre8ive Empowerment, Founder Quality of Life Coalition - Let’s make King County the best place to live in the 🌎

[HawkMania @hawkmania4]

Listen to how loud the stadium got on team USA's second goal, but can you spot a former #Seahawks 👀

H/T: SEATTLESUBMISSIONS

Video credit: @saulspady

[Saul Spady @saulspady]

🇺🇸vs 🇮🇷 Day 3 Update– The Interceptor Clock Is Ticking and 4 US Service Members have died in service to another Middle East war…

We’re three days in and the real question right now is inventory of defensive interceptors.

How many interceptors do we actually have on our two aircraft carrier fleets in theater — and how fast are we burning through them?

This war, at least in its current phase, is about pursuit of air dominance.

Iran reportedly has 3,000+ ballistic missiles. Their rate of fire hasn’t meaningfully slowed which means we aren’t eliminating launch silos at a rapid enough pace.

Every time one of those missiles launches, we face a decision:
•Intercept it with a $1M–$10M missile
•Or risk an American asset, base, or ally

Aircraft carriers carry layered defenses — SM-2, SM-6, ESSM, CIWS — but they are not infinite. These systems are built for sustained conflict… but not endless saturation.

If we’re expending interceptors at a high rate ie 3-7 per iranian missle, we may have only 4–5 days of heavy defensive capacity before resupply becomes a real operational constraint.

And here’s the hard truth: If we cannot establish sustained ownership of Iranian airspace — meaning suppression of launch systems and targeting infrastructure — then we are playing defense in a war of volume.

That’s dangerous. This is a race:
•Can we degrade their launch capacity faster than we deplete our interceptors?
•Can we secure air superiority before inventory forces a strategic pause?

If not, American bases and naval assets could become vulnerable.

Which means we’re staring at two likely paths:
1.A short-term ceasefire to reset supply lines in 4 days OR
2.Pulling in regional allies to accelerate strike capacity

There is a real possibility this becomes a logistics war — an American speciality, but not a guaranteed victory.

We’ll track this daily. Comment your thoughts. #iranisrael #war #middleeast #news #themoreyouknow

[Nike @Nike]

Sweet sweet victory.

[Dave “Softy” Mahler @Softykjr]

If you want the Seahawks to wear these in the Super Bowl, sign the petition..aka repost. 10k reposts and it's a 90% chance it happens

[Jason Rantz on Seattle Red @jasonrantz]

Seahawks fans ready to shake Lumen Field in massive NFC Championship showdown: @saulspady https://t.co/fSO6JBSQJL

[Saul Spady @saulspady]

This article was written two weeks ago, but considering Maduro’s capture today I thought it was worth releasing this morning.

The political situation in America has continued to spiral right out of a shut down into an absolute banger of a season finale for Donald Trump: The President: Season 4. We almost guessed it earlier this year, it is an escalation of war from our President of Peace with yes you absolutely guessed not Greenland (count me disappointed).

It turns out Venezuela is on the chopping block because we have propped up this dictator that America and everyone else has allowed for too long and President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are on the prowl and who’s got some hoorah AMERICA. We can’t beat them at the World Cup (coming soon to the the USA in 2026) so we’re gonna play some Navy and capture a foreign leader on his own soil…. How’s Ukraine looking now Russia?!?

As we close out this year with some big twist and turns not including, but possibly, but maybe, but probably not The absolutely certain but no, it will never totally release of the Epstein list. A law passed almost unanimously by the House and Senate and mysteriously signed, but never signed by President Donald Trump.

We will get the truth but don’t be distracted by… 25% of the United States Navy primed and ready for WAR almost the exact same day that we get to learn what is on this list that everybody has wanted to, but not wanted to, but definitely interested in, would like to be elected on, but wouldn’t like to release once in office list enclose… phew we all should be on the absolute edge of our seats.

I apologize as my joke seems real, when I first introduced this concept to you that we are on a multi season production of reality TV titled Donald Trump‘s the presidency apprentice edition (one season per quarter: past finales have been Musk firing, Iran bombing, MTG firing and government Shutdown (for the good of your health insurance). It’s built to an absolute banger of a season 4 that has had some crazy and wacky moments but wow, season one to four I’ve bought in friends to my own joke. I could’ve never expected some of what we’ve seen from tariffs to not the list…

I hope we can all just sit down buckle up and get ready for what is going to be an absolutely wild ride. We’re not invading Greenland, but I really actually think when you have 25% of the worlds biggest Navy outside of a country that can barely put together missiles and has one of the most bonkers dictator on earth doing daily Reality TV shows himself about how he wants peace and happiness, and love in the world that you know something’s gonna give by New Year’s and it’s definitely not that thing no one, but everyone is talking about.

Have a great day, everybody and enjoy your holidays if you can… this isn’t just late stage capitalism and I’m just a humble commentator (I mean comedian).

#Venezuela #Maduro #Iran #DonaldTrump #YearOfTheHorse

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

This is awesome: NFL films asked coaches to guess which current head coach has more rushing yards than Bo Jackson...

The reactions were PRICELESS 😭😭

[Saul Spady @saulspady]

This is 100% a t-shirt I need :)

[Athlete Logos Apparel @athletelogos]

@paulmoyer21 🫶

[Saul Spady @saulspady]

@Schneider_CM Was an amazing game! Cried for all the fans they have waited a lifetime

[Saul Spady @saulspady]

@TheRealMcCoy @AndersHirst I’d love to join! Mariners for life

[Saul Spady @saulspady]

@KarlyBri There is crying in baseball as a mariners fan 100%

[Saul Spady @saulspady]

@BBOYWORTHING @JomboyMedia Yep… there is 100% crying as a life long mariners fan

[Saul Spady @saulspady]

Seattle’s Going Detroit.

And the legacy Democrat’s are losing because they have no plan

As you vote before Tuesday’s primary I want you to take a hard look at what’s happening around us.

Seattle is staring into the same economic abyss that swallowed Detroit in decline from 1980-2014.

It didn’t happen at once. Detroit bled out slowly:
• Automation gutted car manufacturing over a decade
• Middle class families left
• Revenues tanked and growth stopped
• City/State leadership doubled down on more taxes while the streets fell apart and the exodus began.

Now look around Seattle, seem familiar? We code, and the Emerald City may be just as vulnerable as Motor City to economic collapse in the face of automation.

AI is catching up. Last month, AI nearly beat the best human coder in a global competition - humanity won for the last time, in the final hour. A year ago, we won by a mile; next year the AI probably wins.

When AI can code better than our friends what happens to 30–40% of our region’s high paying software jobs? You know, the jobs that pay for our schools, transit, and social safety net?

Now layer that with what our local leaders are doing:
• WA just passed a $9 billion tax hike—with no new programs, just treading water to fill rising revenue gaps
• King County raised sales tax, filling a leaky bucket as revenue’s dip and growth slows across the county
• Seattle’s coming after business with another B&O increase… because you guessed it. Not enough revenue from old taxes to pay current needs

Why are we even raising taxes in the first place?

Decades of more money into Housing First programs that aren’t working.

The result? More tents. More fentanyl. More taxpayers moving to Bellevue if we’re lucky or out of state taking the dollars out of WA forever.

It’s Simple: Housing First has failed.
The public knows it. You know it. I know it. Yet no one at City Hall or in Olympia wants to admit it.

We’ve spent billions. Built fewer than 10,000 public housing units—costing nearly $1 million each. DOUBLING our state budget since 2015.

The result? Over 16,000 people are still outside in King County, many addicted, untreated, and left to die in public view + we are 300,000 units behind in King County.

In fact, we have taxed developers to allow government to build insanely expensive public development that willl not solve the problem… no wonder we’ve slowed growth to a halt in the PNW.

Don’t worry , while the ship sinks and graffiti expands Democratic Socialists are out there pitching a plan. Sure, it’s a bad plan (tax everyone, build even more public housing + no accountability for those on the street). Like I said, bad plan…

What do establishment Democrats offer? More Bureaucracy. Blaming Trump + blank checks to public housing nonprofits that can’t explain what they actually fix with their investment...

Democrats need a new identity badly.

Let’s stop letting the Democratic Socialists pretend they’re the only bold ones. They’re not bold.

They are misguided anti-growth Democrats who’ve mistaken ever growing graffiti, tents and addiction for progress.

What we need are Pro-Growth Cascade Democrats

A party that understands:
• You don’t solve addiction by handing someone a key to a million dollar unit they’ll leave within a week
• You don’t build housing by declaring a tax, permitting and zoning war on the only people who know how to build said housing affordably
• And you don’t revive a city by letting people slowly rot on the sidewalk in the throes of hyper addiction 2.0

[Jonathan Choe @choeshow]

NEW: Wednesday afternoon, tents started creeping back into Seattle's Cal Anderson Park after the latest city sweep. And the drug addicts have also scattered to nearby side streets making matters worse for neighbors. This crew is also younger, more aggressive, and entitled.
One guy in his 20's told me he believes the city will provide more resources if they all cluster together in Capitol Hill.
Seattle City Council candidate(@savagecitizens) wants to end the enabling and just introduced a new city-wide camping ban. She now needs to gather 25K signatures for it to qualify for the November ballot.
Meanwhile, Mayor Bruce Harrell(@MayorofSeattle) has clearly lost control of the homeless drug crisis in his city. Tents and drugs dens are re-populating everywhere. @DiscoveryCWP

[Jason Rantz on Seattle Red @jasonrantz]

Exclusive: Seattle council candidate files for city-wide public camping ban https://t.co/s41n6VO8wR

[Saul Spady @saulspady]

Welcome to Term 2 of The Celebrity Apprentice: President Edition

It’s something I almost put my finger on during my 16 months covering Trump as a morning talk radio host in 2019—but I just didn’t find the words.

We are living inside a reality TV show format for the presidency.

Before you fully panic, hear me out. It’s a narrative delivery style, not policy. Okay—now you can panic 😉

As a Chapman University film grad, we learned that reality TV is more nimble than narrative storytelling—and has a lot more economic upside for the network. First and foremost: you can produce four seasons a year, not one.

Now imagine we’re placed smack in the center of Season 2. If you don’t believe me, let me remind you of Season 1:

TERM 2, SEASON 1: The first 90 days

The first 90 days were a whirlwind of competent and incompetent appointments, Doge creation, Elon Musk as “the real President,” and the absolute gutting of U.S. aid and the Deptartment of Education. It ended with a shocking, made-for-TV firing of @elonmusk when he went off the party message and created a third party after the deficit increasing Big Beautiful Bill passed. Honestly, an almost perfect narrative finale.

The “Will He TACO Iran?” special was… well, bombastic. It involved a 10-day distraction war from the brewing battle in Season 2.

The Epstei—
Wait. You can’t write that Saul.

TERM 2, Season 2: The Trade War Continues

Now we’re onto Season 2. The theme was supposed to be trade deals—but we’ve been upended by an empty Epstein promise that Trump ironically never thought would be remembered, buried under the swirl of chaos and change he has brought.

Now we’re receiving a Noah’s Ark–level flood the zone strategy to get us back on topic—from Trump and Epstein to what Season 2 was supposed to be about:
• Trade deals (yes, Japan and more—get ready for the European Grand Finale)
• “Obama in jail” – why not?
• Yesterday we discussed paying down the debt and sending rebates to Americans…honestly not a bad idea with the tariffs. But don’t fool yourself—it’s our money paying down the debt. Tariffs are as always a tax. (Still curious
• Oh, and did you hear? Ghislaine Maxwell got partial immunity…

Nothing to see here.
No list to be found.
Definitely no years-long relationships to be covered up…

So what’s on tomorrow’s show of Term 2: The Apprentice – Celebrity President Edition?

We might be invading Greenland… Or maybe it’s a very special firing episode?

Pete Hegseth has been extra incompetent lately… When in doubt? Fire a celebrity cabinet contestant to distract the audience.

And for what it’s worth—I actually enjoy the public cabinet meetings. I hope all future presidents adopt that tactic. (Maybe just choose a slightly more competent team…)

Unless, of course, the real conspiracy theory is this: Choose an incompetent team to make the firings more fun. Think Love Island cast but the federal cabinet.

Didn’t we all enjoy Elon getting booted from the White House?

Or maybe I’ve just watched too much…

[Ari Hoffman @thehoffather]

“This is about triage, not tents. We have to direct people to shelter & to do that, we need a public camping ban.”

In a push to solve King County’s homelessness & addiction crisis, a bipartisan citizens’ initiative has been filed to ban public camping & mandate shelter.

[Saul Spady @saulspady]

As a founder of the Quality of Life coalition I’m proud to lead this movement learn more at https://t.co/V3Jd6zHexw

[Jason Rantz on Seattle Red @jasonrantz]

Rantz: Citizens group launches ordinance to ban homeless encampments in King County https://t.co/h2vV4te5sd

[Jason Rantz on Seattle Red @jasonrantz]

Rantz: Citizens group launches ordinance to ban homeless encampments in King County https://t.co/h2vV4te5sd

[Saul Spady @saulspady]

Let’s Talk Israel vs Iran or (There’s Much Ado About Fordow)

Alright, before the comment thread blows up—this is for friends who are curious about the very real possibility of U.S. military action against Iran in the next 48 hours and why it could happen.

As of 10:30 PM last night, two B-2 stealth bombers left base and are now en route to the Middle East. Officially, they’re on a “training mission.” Realistically? We might be watching the opening act of US military action against Iran.

WHAT’S HAPPENING?
If your head’s been under a rock the past five days, here’s the SparkNotes:

Israel—after years of warning that Iran was nearing nuclear weapons capability—launched a massive preemptive strike, crippling Iranian air defense systems and taking unprecedented control of Iranian airspace. The goal? Dismantle Iran’s war machine and nuclear infrastructure before it’s too late.

WHAT THE FORDOW?
Get used to hearing this name.

Fordow is Iran’s most secure nuclear facility—dug deep underground, fortified beyond most bunker systems. It’s where they’ve reportedly stored highly enriched uranium and maintained working centrifuges—enough material, perhaps, for a few nuclear warheads.

SOOOO… the Bunker Buster?

Israel doesn’t have the firepower to destroy Fordo alone. To do it right, they need help—from the U.S., a B-2 bomber, and a 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bomb capable of penetrating 200 feet of reinforced rock and concrete.

Whether you agreed with Israel’s first strike, not finishing the job now is a massive strategic risk. Leaving Fordow intact would be like defusing half a bomb and walking away.

The Drawback?
Well, peace just left the group chat.
•Russia (think: Shahed drones) is aligned with Iran.
•China (think: Iranian oil) has economic and strategic interests.
If the U.S. joins the offensive, some fear this becomes the spark for World War 3.

My Take?

Expect saber-rattling, escalation talk, and likely limited U.S. involvement. But don’t rule out airstrikes by the aforementioned B-2.

At this point, Israel’s air dominance makes “finishing the job” more feasible than ever. Agree or disagree with the path that got us here, I believe the right choice now is to eliminate Fordow and ensure Iran doesn’t respond with a nuclear option.

Let’s hope whatever action taken is decisive.