Jeff 🅱ez🅱os watching the Seattle city council votes roll in:

All glory to Space Empress Kshama

All hail!

@piecesolvingapuzzle​ Orion was polling ahead by about 8% on election night, but only a small amount of votes cast were actually counted then and those were overwhelmingly early and by-mail votes, aka rich people.  Now that they’re actually tallying election day’s ballots (aka poor people), Kshama has had a strong majority in every batch of votes counted, and as of the most recent reports is ahead by about 1000.

It’s basically playing out the same way it did in 2013.

“Militant socialist Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant has become, for the second time in six yeas, the "comeback kid" of city politics.

Sawant, who trailed challenger Egan Orion by eight points on election night, has wiped out a 2,000-vote deficit and pulled ahead by 513 votes in District 3, according to the 4 p.m. vote count by King County Elections. She has risen to 50.45% of the vote and is likely to increase the lead in a later release of returns.”

THE COMEBACK KID

I can’t believe I forgot to mention this in the run up to election day like some kinda brain genius, but check out how Egan “my baby must have an Aryan skull shape” Orion told on hisself in this attack ad:

First of all, that big Amazon smile should tell you everything you need to know about what kinda “““local”““ funding we’re lookin at.

Second of all, the red dot in Florida?  I’m a part of that dot.  And while Jeff Bezos was able to just idly drop a few million on the election like it was bus fare, a lot of us decided to skip lunch a few days so that we could kick Kshama our last $20.  And here we are.

In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies magnified a thousandfold . . .

I’m in the red dot from NY!

It still amazes me how some people in the US seem to see socialism as the “Russian Danger“ when nowadays socialist parties are basically from the center, a bit to the left.

It also makes me wonder if there’s actually, a leftist party

Yeah, it's called Socialist Alternative. It's the North American section of the Committee for a Workers' International. We just ran a candidate in Seattle.

Oh that's great! Almost everything I see in US politics is about the Democrats or Republicans

That's how come we're fighting to build a party for the working class independent from corporate control. If u want you can check us out at https://www.socialistalternative.org/ and http://worldsocialist.net/ =D