Seattle’s New Socialist Mayor Goes Full
Communist, Says She Won’t Allow Private
Grocery Stores To Close
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Posted By: Christopher L,
11/13/2025 1:53:04 PM
Democratic Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson declared that she will not allow private grocery stores to close in a resurfaced video from September. Wilson said during her mayoral run that corporate grocery chains should not be allowed to only sell food to those who can afford it and expressed support for a “public option,” meaning that government-run grocery stores would be established.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 11/13/2025 1:56:46 PM (No. 2029411)
The Democrats don't want just any kings or queens, they want the the kings and queens they select.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Peregrine 11/13/2025 2:04:25 PM (No. 2029415)
Ayan Rand's book," Atlas Shrugged" should be required for every high school student.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
daisey 11/13/2025 2:12:34 PM (No. 2029418)
#2-that’s assuming they know how to read. A great number are not able to read at grade level.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mossley 11/13/2025 2:22:51 PM (No. 2029420)
The lawsuits from the grocery stores will be fast and furious when she oversteps her legal authority trying to do this. I hope the city has the cash reserves to pay ... oh, wait. It's Seattle. Of course it doesn't.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 11/13/2025 2:27:43 PM (No. 2029421)
Stores better close now then, no time to work and find alternate solutions.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
thefield 11/13/2025 2:28:30 PM (No. 2029422)
Just how do stop a person to close the door lock it ,and eslk away?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
thefield 11/13/2025 2:29:51 PM (No. 2029423)
Typing bad today. It should read walk.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hazymac 11/13/2025 2:32:21 PM (No. 2029425)
Good luck, socialist mayor. Stupid stupid stupid.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
EQKimball 11/13/2025 2:49:00 PM (No. 2029429)
She either has not heard of the Interstate Commerce Clause, Const. Art. I, Sec. 8, or is counting on low info voters to think her idea is cool, except when the checker asks them, "Can you really afford steak?"
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Mushroom 11/13/2025 2:54:16 PM (No. 2029430)
2-3 , It would be a MUCH shorter book if Dagny could keep her legs closed.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
marbles 11/13/2025 3:05:50 PM (No. 2029432)
Being in business is business, not a charity.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hershey 11/13/2025 3:11:31 PM (No. 2029434)
Well, ya get what ya voted for....hope you appreciate communism folks...maybe when Kaliforniastan breaks off with the San Andreas Fault, it will take you with it...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
HerbVA 11/13/2025 3:43:37 PM (No. 2029444)
Sure she won’t. Good luck with that.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mc squared 11/13/2025 3:48:23 PM (No. 2029447)
#2: They need to be able to read first.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Christopher L 11/13/2025 3:49:35 PM (No. 2029448)
#9 - Why would the checker even ask if they can afford steak? They are using Food Stamps.
#10 - That made me laugh out loud.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mc squared 11/13/2025 3:50:18 PM (No. 2029449)
: Let me see..Where has this worked before?
FtA"Democratic Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson declared that she will not allow private grocery stores to close in a resurfaced video from September.Wilson has promised to appoint members to her cabinet who are black, Indigenous, Hispanic, “Latinx,” LGBTQ, and Asian all in the name of “equity,” according to her website."
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 11/13/2025 4:00:31 PM (No. 2029454)
Heil Wilson!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/13/2025 4:11:43 PM (No. 2029459)
At no time in thousands of years of world history has anybody "deserved" food that they did not hunt, grow or buy. Why now, all of a sudden do people "deserve" everything?
FTA: "Together, we can build a Seattle where fresh food is for everyone" The average grocery store makes a 1-2 percent profit. Messing with that dynamic in any way produces a store that can not remain open and operate. Does anyone in Seattle realize how stupid this is? Anyone? Buehler?
The majority of high school students would look at the thickness of "Atlas Shrugged" and wouldn't make it past the title page.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
sw penn 11/13/2025 4:16:21 PM (No. 2029461)
Next up in the news...
Bread lines for you!
And bread lines for you!
And bread lines for you!
Oops, sorry, no bread for you today.
Try earlier tomorrow...
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Tennman 11/13/2025 4:21:32 PM (No. 2029464)
Or maybe they leave the store open with no merchandise and only 1 or 2 employees? I bristle at this "food desert" thinking. These are created by the area, not the company. Business exists where it can profit.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
paral04 11/13/2025 4:30:52 PM (No. 2029471)
The private stores will just close or mysteriously burn down/ She is a flaming radical and will make Seattle even worse than it is already.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Venturer 11/13/2025 4:40:44 PM (No. 2029479)
Turn these lefties loose so they can fail now, better than waiting for when there are too many of them.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 11/13/2025 5:36:38 PM (No. 2029498)
Katie has spoken. So shall it be done.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 11/13/2025 5:45:48 PM (No. 2029500)
LOL!
What a moron. She has absolutely no ability or authority to stop a grocery store from closing. It's a private business, beyond her evil cluthes.
She is proving that she is extremely stupid.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Newtsche 11/13/2025 6:20:27 PM (No. 2029517)
"..not be allowed to only sell food to those who can afford it..."
One of the stupidest things I've ever read.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/13/2025 6:48:29 PM (No. 2029531)
I thik atue as a lot to learn. She may try thme doomed to lose state stores ut I don't believe she can stop corporate and privately owned grocery stores from closing.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 11/13/2025 6:56:09 PM (No. 2029533)
"Directive 10-289"
In the name of the general welfare, to protect the people's security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that:
Point Two. All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/13/2025 6:56:53 PM (No. 2029534)
I'll trry again She may try those doomed to lose State stores but I don't believe she can keep commercial stores from closing.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 11/13/2025 7:15:01 PM (No. 2029536)
I was reading about how she ''won''. The final 3 ''ballot dumps'' from mail-in ballots pushed her to victory by a 1/2 percent.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
padiva 11/13/2025 8:20:32 PM (No. 2029553)
In the meantime, these city grocery stores will just 'sell' basic foods- no quick foods, no soda, no candy, limited salted snacks, no expensive meat or fish, a smattering of economical fruits and vegetables.
Also, as these stores prepare to close, they will shrink that sales floor to a controllable minimum by moving shelves/etc so customers have limited space to roam.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
djmed 11/13/2025 11:14:44 PM (No. 2029581)
Do I understand she’s had limited work experience?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Clinger 11/14/2025 5:55:14 AM (No. 2029609)
So slavery is cool again
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
mifla 11/14/2025 5:58:06 AM (No. 2029611)
Yet another politician with no work experience telling the private sector how to do their job.
She is in for an awakening.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 11/14/2025 6:41:21 AM (No. 2029629)
She can't stop a business from pulling out of her town. She is dreaming. She also talks like an idiot.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/14/2025 7:36:08 AM (No. 2029663)
I'm beginning to think that people born to rich parents turn out to be clueless idiots. We have many examples to cite.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 11/14/2025 8:42:42 AM (No. 2029689)
Reply to #2. It used to be, at least when I was in high school. But, I digress. That was before the creation of the Department of Non-Education's creation
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 11/14/2025 8:46:29 AM (No. 2029690)
Now how is Miss Communist going to stop that? Dress up as a furry and throw a hissie fit in front of the store?
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Kate318 11/14/2025 9:45:39 AM (No. 2029710)
As usual, the dems have taken the wrong message from the Mamdani win. They are like toddlers with new toys.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
bighambone 11/14/2025 9:55:28 AM (No. 2029712)
When you put together a lot of the political and social programs for which the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats have been advocating, like all people deserve “free” food from government grocery stores, “free” government housing, pushing forward any person or minority group that the Democrats can recognize in accordance with “equity” and Democrat identity politics. Including reestablishing “open borders” to bring as many so-called Third World origin aliens as possible into the USA, with the covert assistance of leftist foreign governments who are happy to send their unwanted poor, uneducated and unskilled population groups either legally or illegally to the USA, who the Democrats will seek to grant an amnesty in unlimited numbers that they call “comprehensive immigration reform” and put on “a path to citizenship” while registering as many as possible as leftist Democrat supporters and future voters. With the ultimate political motive of transforming the USA into a minority-majority country, with the future US political agenda run by a vast coalition of both domestic and foreign origin minority groups allied to the leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats, as they go about transforming the current USA into some form of socialist utopia.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 11/14/2025 10:34:05 AM (No. 2029730)
Bulldoze your store in the dead of night.
Leave a note as did Ellis Wyatt:
"I am leaving it as I found it. Take over. It’s yours.”
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
NotaBene 11/14/2025 11:14:41 AM (No. 2029757)
No problem, we can send in the Mexican street food carts that infect Los Angeles.
Oh, I forget that most Seattle people moved there because the population is White and Indian and not Mexican/Black.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Catahoula 11/14/2025 2:06:47 PM (No. 2029803)
So. Seattle is turning commie. Wowzer. Been like this for many years. The commies in three neighboring counties, taking a three time vote count to eliminate a candidate who won all the elections for that time only to find the the dems in the area would not accept the results and disqualified the candidate. Not to say more, I personally think these counties ought to meet up with the US Department of Justice.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 11/14/2025 3:42:56 PM (No. 2029839)
You would think Seattle had a larger population:
Seattle's population was approximately 737,015 in 2020, with a diverse demographic makeup: about 59.9% White, 17% Asian, 6.5% Black or African American, and 8.2% Hispanic. The city has a median age of around 35 years and a growing Latino population, with nearly 20% of residents born outside the United States.
So, out of this population she's going to find all the candidates she desires?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Pepperpot59 11/14/2025 5:10:00 PM (No. 2029886)
Where do the Democrats find this endless supply of blithering idiots?
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 11/14/2025 6:09:16 PM (No. 2029908)
OP - more people would read "Atlas Shrugged" if Ayn Rand had hired (and listened to) a good editor. Good story, but waaaaay to long. Reading it is one, long slog.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
MickTurn 11/14/2025 7:23:07 PM (No. 2029951)
If I had any business in a Leftist run Hell Hole, I would close up shop, sell the properties, and get the Hades OUT OF DODGE...Taking ALL my money with me. Let these losers try to stop me!
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Msquared112 11/14/2025 9:02:01 PM (No. 2029981)
She can try. What sane grocery store owner would want the city government to tell him how much profit he/she can make? What business owner would stay where he cannot advance in life? Give it a shot, Katie. Go ahead — FAFO.
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Ayn Rand tried to warn us of what the future could hold. In her novel "Atlas Shrugged," Rand describes Presidential directive Directive 10-289. The directive stated ; "All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty [ of law ]." In other words it was illegal to go out of business. Sound far fetched now?