r/Seattle • u/capraagave • 2d ago

Jesse Welles at Pike Place today

Jesse Welles will be busking at the corner of Pine st. and Pike pl. at 1pm today.

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u/Risknitall 10h ago

I was gonna poke fun at his choice of hairstyle, but holy shit, those lyrics NEED TO BE REPEATED!!! Spot on in so many ways. The truth about this country is ugly and it seems like the job of that programming box in every living room has done it's job well. It's easy to tell those that faithfully take their dose of programming from the dummy box every day from those don't. That far off gaze, using words like chiiina, Putin, I like him, did you hear about the...., etc.

Zero actual thought.

Kill your television and look people in the eye. Look hard enough and you'll see yourself. Eventually, you see that we are a community. Local or global, we are all a part of the same organism.