The socialist bubble that people know as Portland, Oregon, has collapsed into a lawless and chaotic society devoid of order and social compact. Anarchy runs the streets as Antifa and violent left-wing groups have been allowed to destroy the city without any consequence.
Portland politicians have enabled the collapse of the social order, and the Animal Farm lawlessness has forced businesses and citizens to escape in order to survive. Now the local media are starting to ask the bigger questions, yet they continue to ignore the obvious answers. The city is a violent crisis and complete mess because the city leadership allows the violent crisis and mess to exist. Yes, it really is that simple.
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The smart have moved to Galt’s Gulch
I’m in Galt’s Gulch, Texas and these retarded ideological maniacs are flooding in here too. We are all proper ****ed.
The Dumbasspora is real!
Convert them. They might have no idea how they caused their own pain that ultimately pushed them out. Convert them!
Cognitive dissonance is powerful. They don’t even see their contribution, just move to pollute a well-functuoning red state and start again.
They are sick and don’t know it. They spread what they know, unless a kind-hearted person can see into their struggle–and convert them.
It begins with spiritual understanding. Without it this is the end result. Because this community runs itself it will kill itself.
‘Convert them’ to what? Soylent green? That’s not legal yet, is it?
I cant shed a tear for what those people voted for.
Oregon is mail in voting. Fraud everywhere. No republicans have won for a long time.
Portland city was already hard leftwing long before unrestricted mail-in voting was implemented.
It is exactly what the voters selected in every election for the past 30 years by failing to understand the trajectory of their increasingly radical progressive government.
But that’s typical of most DemocRAT sh-thole cities. Progressive “socialism” fails horribly everywhere it’s been tried but people are too arrogant and lazy to read history and learn from it.
I would suspect that Oregon is like Michigan. Michigan doesn’t have a law supporting AG so that is why the election problem hasn’t been solved in Michigan.
Soros knew what he was doing in getting anti American AGs in place in many States.
Organizing from the grass roots may be the only current option but I would guess that no real reform will take place until each State ensures that they have a pro American in place at the AG level.
“Soros knew what he was doing in getting anti American AGs in place in many States.”
Exactly! I and several other Treepers were trying to warn others about the relatively “quiet” push by DemocRATs back in 2015-2018 to win key positions of authority in many states across the continent.
The Leftists were targeting swing states and red states that had narrow margins in recent elections. Most of the Dem ocrat candidates were marketed as “moderates” and had campaigns that advertised seemingly traditional American values. However once elected they have been anything BUT conservative.
This largely successful effort has been kept out of the national news media but several alert Conservative journalists and bloggers were posting alerts frequently. I think that in the deliberately-created “noise” surrounding President Trump’s candidacy and presidency, people simply did not pay attention to who was gaining tactical ground in their own state governments.
The people who live there have NO VOTE, NO VOICE.
Oregon has had ‘mail in voting’ for over 20 plus years.
IT’s all FRAUD.
I’d place bets, that’s all about to change.
Look up Dr. Douglas G Frank on YouTube. Every state is compromised, I think they just choose which levers to pull to deliver the needed results. It starts with highly inflated voter rolls (like from motor voter) to create a buffer for fake ballots to be dropped without the number votes exceeding the number of registered voters. He shows in detail how they figure out the needed demographics of the fake voters so that you don’t have a big spike of 45 year old male voters register and vote. It’s spread out carefully across each county in a way that mimics the census data.
This might go a long ways to explain why they are so rabid about controlling the whole census process itself.
Did they vote for this or did Demonrats steal it?
We have no idea how Portlanders vote. The demo, uh, communist party controls the voting (COUNTING) process. Walk down the sidewalk, look into Multnomah County Elections. It’ll make ya puke.
Me either. When they start killing this vermin and hauling them off, this lawlessness will stop. It’s not complicated
Did they vote for this, or was it stolen. I believe the name was Dino Rossi. Several stolen elections some years ago
He was in Washington, not Oregon and was “defeated” by Governor Gregiore.
Lord of the Flies is alive and well,… and rules in Portland.
Without a doubt, the children are in charge. Err … the COC’s are in-charge … the children of color. They’re bulletproof in Portland.
Congrats! Portland! Baltimore, Chicago, and Minneapolis ain’t got nothin on you!
History will repeat itself……
They voted for this crap time and time again and then act surprised by the results. That is a pandemic of stupid!
Irrational insanity is the new normal !
Wokestanies are stupid spoiled children in adult bodies.
Same in other blue cities/states. They don’t see the connection!
So long as the violence, mayhem, and destruction remains in the civic center … the well-heeled intelligentsia in the Rose Garden Neighborhoods will cheer-on the status quo … and keep voting for Democraps with impressive *cough* *cough* educational credentials
The fault of this mess lies with the people of Portland. The majority of the population silently support this terrorism. Let them fail and allow the city collapse.
And let not the rest of us be forced to bail out these Dem-run cities with our tax dollars. Oh, wait….
“forced to bail out these Dem-run cities”
I read the bail out was in the last covid relief bill.
If we followed your thought then we would let the whole country collapse except for a few red States then where would we be. We have to take this cancer call communism by the throat and utterly destroy them and take back our country.
Fix it there or prepare for the influx of blue state refugees.
Unfortunately we have the theater of “majority rule” to fight against. Manipulated or not, the majority in Portland are fing morons.
And ‘let the whole country collapse except for a few red states’ is exactly what we may have to do. As long as the collapsing areas are bailed out repeatedly they’re not going to change.
You cannot explain cause and effect to people who don’t believe in ‘sex.’ Reality will have to do the teaching regardless of what she charges for the lessons.
No, majority does not support Portland’s downfall. The majority has ZERO power in Portland. The communist party controls the media, education, legal system, every level of government, and is making headway into the churches. We’re screwed. One party state.
This is the faulty thinking that is allowing the communists to take down our way of life. The majority DOES have power, they just refuse to exercise it.
I am visiting Guatemala. There is a hard mask mandate here with a $2000 fine. That is in dollars. If the fine isn’t paid within a certain time, it goes to a felony and you are incarcerated. There is largely compliance in Guatemala City.
But the Cachiquel Indians in the mountains have figured out they are the majority, and the majority rules if it knows it and chooses to exercise their power. While Guatemala City is largely compliant, the Cachiquels have put up a big middle finger and said “fine, arrest us all”. And hell will freeze over before they will take the vaccine.
We Americans have much more power than we think. The majority of the majority would rather just go along to get along while they wait for someone else to make the sacrifice.
The majority in Portland could stop this if they really wanted to. Ok, so the elections were rigged. But where are the counter protests? If it is a majority and they stood up and said NO MORE, they could send the Antifa soy boys running for the hills.
If the majority actually wanted the Portland shirt to stop it would take about ten of them about a week to stop in permanently.
I don’t see the evidence that anyone there really wants it to stop.
Leftists don’t rule in a vacuum. They rule thru the cooperation of the ruled, their purchasing and taxes. If they knew anything whatsoever, they’d leave. They don’t, giving tacit approval to the state of affairs. Where are the overflow city council meetings, demanding resignations? Crickets.
There’s something wrong with your analysis. If the ‘majority does not support’ then why is it happening? Are the majority not voting?
Isn’t that, like, the majority’s fault?
It’s almost as though Caracas is a nicer city than Portland …
As Dennis Prager likes to say, the Democrat Party is the party of destruction. Of course, he goes on to also rightly say, the Republican Party is the party of stupid. Latest example being Kevin McCarthy.
Prager also calls it the party of chaos.
Ineptocracy: A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Sounds about right.
“Ineptocracy” is the best word to describe this.
To be fair, there is a significant overlap with kakistocracy and I would expect it to be virtually synonymous in describing most of them.
Kleptcracy, really. The government is not inept, this is intentional. Theft, corruption and greed.
Embrace the power of ‘and.’ They are incompetent AND criminals.
Do I smell fresh popcorn?
My brother, who lives in Portland, is a liberal who claims that Republicans are destroying the country. He says this despite the flames across Democrat controlled cities through last year, and the riots that continue in his own city. Somehow, the leftist media has so brainwashed him with their propaganda, that he cannot see what is at his own feet. Propaganda is a powerful tool, capable of completely closing the minds of otherwise sane people.
Like my liberal sister in Seattle. She sees nothing wrong with what happened with them occupying parts of downtown. And oh by the way all of the people in tents trashing every part of the downtown area is okay because “well they need to live somewhere”.
Their train of thought is easily manipulated when they read nothing by the NY Times.
Curious how it came about that you & Gen Sens both have lib siblings.
Obviously, your parents taught you well.
It is me and my husband against my entire liberal family. Hard to even get together anymore without somebody erupting! They see no problem that big tech is banning conservatives and limiting our 1st amendments and that is the last straw for me.
Thanks!
I remember when liberals used to champion freedom of speech.
Very sad time in America.
Next November should be uplifting.
Hang in there!
I never remember a time when liberals championed free speech. It has always been that liberals are only accepting of their own kind and creed. They shun everyone else.
I guess I was thinking of liberals like Alan Dershowitz.
I have always thought Dersh as a mixed breed
I grew up in the ’70s in a clueless liberal town. I can remember when liberals “said” they championed free speech, but I can’t remember actual evidence that they did so. However, I remember a lot of time being shut down and shut out. From a tender age, they trained me to keep quiet.
That’s back when they were actually “liberal.” Now, they’re leftists.
The ‘liberal’ label was stolen by progressives, starting back around Wilson.
They did that because back then progressives were known to be communists.
Remember when Hillary said she was a progressive of the old kind of progressive? Yep, she meant communist.
I have one too. Trump could do no right, Biden can do no wrong in my older brother’s eyes.
It’s great to be open mined as long as you aren’t so open minded that your flipping brain falls out. SMDH.
Or the Seattle Slimes.
Well that and progressives NEVER, EVER take responsibilty for their messes. Ever.
What I found out works when I have one of my dumbed down brainwashed relatives spew the Dem lies is to break out in laughter. Do not have to say a word after that.
My 50 year old nephew suffered a near fatal brain injury. Once back on his feet he turned NeverTrump and soon had his once very profitable franchise taken back. That tells you there is a correlation in brain damage and left politics.
A lot of people learn what they are told…. whether it is accurate or not.
With liberals, they’ve been told Sh*t tastes good…. and that’s what they believe.
I have a friend who’s exactly the same. He’s intelligent and educated… however… he’s a liberal. Watches exclusively CNN which appears to be his sole reference.
Probably more ‘credentialed’ than ‘educated.’
Yes, without functioning critical thought processes, a person cannot be considered educated. Trained, indoctrinated, cowed, etc. perhaps, but not educated.
He doesn’t sound very inteeligent to me, watching CNN as his sole source.
No offense to you. Every family has at least one, mine included, but your brother is a Fing moron
Mine is too! Watches tv all day and lives on state benefits. Funny, that.
The left shames and abuses their own so badly that your brother is literally in pain from the cognitive dissonance. When he wakes up to how awful the party is, he’ll feel enormous liberation from their clutches–the truth will literally set him free.
“Now the local media are starting to ask the bigger questions, yet they continue to ignore the obvious answers.”
I loved this question from the TV anchor: “Can we reclaim and build back better?”. The answer is in the question for the ideology of the originators of the slogan, likely unknown to the guy who’s supposed to be enlightening us with the news, is the very ideology behind and promoting the chaos.
For progressives, being ambivalent, not having answers, is a sign of intelligence. Asking questions is virtuous; answering them, taking a stand, is to put oneself above others. “Who am I to say?” is the mantra. Of course, by their inaction they are taking sides, and it’s always the left side. The rank and file lefty actually doesn’t have answers; the movers and shakers do, but they like to appear superior and above the fray and pretend not to know.
Paul Ashley: It is now standard operating procedure for the “journalists” to ask “questions” in which they embed ideological messages as “truth.” As you cite, “Can we reclaim and build back better?” Or, the other day, when the “journalist” asked the Energy Secretary, if the Colonial Pipeline shutdown will help move the nation toward JoeBama’s 2035 goal for green energy.
That was supremely stupid. Without diesel and gas how the heck do the wokesters think they will eat? Tractors aren’t pulled by mules any more and food gets to Aldi by TRUCK. These people are idiots. Pure, unadulterated idiots. There is not a scrap of common sense in them.
Not to mention a 747 having to run on solar, or batteries, and what about plastics and fertilizers and hundreds of other essential products ?
Quiet part out loud. Obviously this pipeline thing just happens to serve the Xiden green commie adgenda. Shocker.
To Mayor Wheeler: how can you “reclaim” anything other than kaka if you have bent so far over that your head is lodged in your *ss?
Part one of the KOIN news video was good. So far not one mention of Antifa or BLM but maybe in Part 2 they will mention those two terrorist groups when they report on the ‘protests’.
They have that roll waiting to release before the Apocalypse. Seriously, they’re not going to provoke BLAMtifa into coming anywhere near studio and employees and valuable assets.
“has forced businesses and citizens to escape in order to survive”
To red states which will turn them blue.
Leftist politics is truly self reinforcing no matter how bad it makes things. The worse it gets, the more leftist the response. This is a reflection of the leftist impulse to ever more extreme beliefs across the board whether in biology, economics, or law.
As bad as the major of Portland is, when faced with re-election, his primary threat was from an outright communist. That was the way the voters in Portland reacted to the mayhem wrought by their politics. Not correction but amplification.
I lived in Portland from 1967 to 1971. It was a beautiful city then- clean and safe. I worked my first job at Florsheim Shoes in Lloyd Center as a shoeshine boy.
I had to ride the city bus all the way downtown to get to the north side where I went to Benson Poly HS. I remember the White Stag sign very well.
You couldn’t pay me to go back now.
Two words: Reed College.
Back in those days they had politicians that would do this:
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/vortex_i/
From coast to coast, the country is different. We’ve become a nation of vulgar, entitled degenerates, held together by a declining group of authentic patriots and the God fearing.
Fun to watch from a distance.
I no longer care what happens to these leftist enclave cities.
Nice academic experiment ? clowns.
The solution is staring the local citizenry in the face but they are to big of pussies to take the step.
I have more respect for a thief than I do a coward. Especially a coward who does nothing to protect their family.
At least a thief shows some motivation.
“I no longer care what happens to these leftist enclave cities.”
That’s ok. Wait ’til it comes to your community and you might reconsider.
Portland did not used to be a leftist enclave city. Minneapolis did not used to be a leftist enclave city. Denver did not used to be a leftist enclave city. Somewhere along the line “used to be” turned into “became”.
Sneering superiority at the destruction that keeps growing is eventually going to not be real useful.
Amen
Much better said than I could have ever typed out; thank you Sharon!
“Wait ’til it comes to your community and you might reconsider.”
When it comes to my city I will have nothing to reconsider.
I am very saddened by what is happening to these blue liberal cities.
But when I am told “we” must “do something” I wonder what I am suppose to do about Portland.
I live in a small mountain top rural area in Colorado, far far away from Portland Oregon and I will not take responsibility for the destruction of Portland at the hands of these crackpot Antifa and BLM weirdos.
I do not know if the citizens of Portland voted for this or if it is a matter of voter fraud over the years, all I know is I did not cause this and I can not clean this mess up.
So while I have sympathy for the innocent being harmed I will not waste any tears over what is happening there or in Minneapolis or Atlanta or any of the other long time blue liberal enclaves.
We are told that we will reconsider our opinions when it comes to our communities.
I am sure this is not meant to be some kind of threat to try and make us fell some kind of useless anger or make us feel like jerks because we are not sympathetic enough to the people being hurt.
When we see that there is something concrete that is more than emotional feelings that can be done to really help solve these problems then I am pretty sure many of these Treepers who are more than fed up with all of the messes being made around will be glad to pitch in and do something.
Sharon,
Minneapolis was not an enclave for liberals and leftist thought? Since when? BS. That state even has Socialist Halls dating back 100+ years.
I do remember when Portland was a conservative place. I just can’t seem to remember that time period. Must of happened so fast I missed it. Remind me when that was? Was it in the last 5 decades?
You aren’t special, I constantly harp on the destruction of Colorado by all the clowns moving to the area from the Portland shithole, as well as the upper North East, and the upper mid-west college towns. That does not even take into account all the California “Conservatives” that moved to Colorado and elected Hickenlooper and Polis.
The statement you are up in arms about, is the exact same thing I say to the Denver residents who complain about the homeless tent cities on the Capital grounds and the BLM stupidity that is allowed in Metro Denver.
But I can state for a fact that if these
meth addict trans rejectsclowns were tearing our town apart, there would not be much left of those lowlifes within a couple days. (In fact some of us have been hoping for some entertainment since this CCP covid stupidity started.) They have their little one day parties in the park and slink home.Why don’t you pull up what happened when pAntifaBLM tried to disrupt a town north of the Denver Metroplex.
Ya, they haven’t tried that crap since. Hint: the town is Berthoud.
Why should I care more about fixing your community, than you do? I will say it again, I don’t care. Your community, you fix it. As for us, we don’t need outside help. We don’t want outside help. We will take care of ours, thank you.
YOU are in charge of your destiny. Not me.
You haven’t seen my sneering superiority, yet.
I stand by my comment.
I don’t live in Portland.
The video shows what it looks like to someone who just arrived at the airport and is headed toward downtown Portland. One thing it shows is graffiti all along the way. If I didn’t know it, I would have though I was riding the train in France or Italy back in the late 80s or 90s. It was a shock to see buildings, walls, trains coated with disrespect.
Then about the time Obama came into office, the graffiti started showing itself on the train cars here. Now the overpasses. Local leaders have a responsibility…
Graffiti got me harassed at school outside NY thirty years ago. I said it’s a sign of disrespect, it’s vandalism, shouting where you eat. Well apparently a tagger overheard this. He and his friends called it “art” and became incredibly hostile. Funny they art all over other people’s property. Those”artists” are thugs, and nobody wants to stand up to them.
Who owns Portland?
Not the voters. Not the voters in OR. They are somewhat responsible but no one voted for this dumpster fire. Voting has probably been rigged for awhile in many states.
Someone or a group owns and runs Portland. Groups like Antifa exist because they want them too. The unseen use these groups as negotiating tools. ( See Iran using Hamas against Israel)
Powerful people/groups use third parties to get their way. This is not new.
What do the owners of Portland want? Or the groups controlling the riots want from Portland?
State Troopers should arrest them all and interrogate including the Mayor. End it.
and it should be noted that most of the churches are complicit
Portland funded the tent city used for protestors.
Portland was in on creating chaos to remove Trump.
Portland awaits the Trillion dollars infrastructure coin to rebuild.
Portland was in on the steal.
Portland mayor is incompetent.
I can just imagine what will be done with our taxpayer funds coming from the feds. They’ll disappear into various NGO bank accounts and never be heard from again.
Pardon my hard heart, I have no sympathy for Portlanders. Blue on blue is how I perceive it. Reap what you sow and all that.
NOPE, you’re incorrect.
Those who reside in Oregon have no say in their vote ie voice.
Hope you’re never in a situation that you didn’t ask for, whilst someone else says’ tough’ YOU DESERVE IT!
Guess it time to bow out again from TCT
Maybe it is the press, maybe it isn’t, but I haven’t seen a single person from Portland interviewed that was against what was going on there, other than a couple of business owners that were going broke, but still “supported” BLM.
And more than one commenter on this group has said they have a relative in Portland that defends what is going on there.
Doesn’t seem like there are nearly enough people in Portland that are against what is going on, whether the voting was fair or not.
So when people say Portland deserves it, they are referring to the overwhelming majority that seem to support what is going on there.
I’ve seen the occasional conservative protest from outside groups in Portland, but the populace doesn’t seem to support them.
Duh! This is going to happen across America in many different ways. From gas to inflation to crime and so on, it has to get pretty bad before anything changes, if you’re a leftist communist lying radical no showering democrat.
I lived in Bend, OR, in the late ’70s. It was a great place then. Made a few trips to Portland when flying back east to visit family.
Would never go back now. I’ve read that even Bend is now “woke”.
Yes. I live in Bend. We are starting to see homelessness everywhere and they are allowed to plant a tent almost anywhere and accumulate their trash. Luckily I live in the outskirts of Bend so I don’t see it all the time. The city council are mostly California transplants.
I laughed when the TV dude asked if Portland was just going to “pull up tent” and give up, not even seeing the irony that pulling up literal tents is one action that needs to be taken.
The people of Portland voted in this progressive (term the mayor used) liberal government. They willing allowed all of this to happen and now they seem surprised, and wonder how this happened.
This video needs to stay up for all to see, under joeboma Hussein this could be any other city in America next, or they may try anyways.
The RNC/GOP have not tried to even put up an electable candidate. They have conceded too much territory to the marxist. They have not taken advantage of opportunities when they show up. They fight with their tail between their leg. It’s almost seems like the RNC and the DNC have some type of compact that keeps the Oregon republican party in the minority.
During these times there’s not a voice of opposition coming from the Oregon RNC to the mask mandates, the shut downs, the school closures, the derogation of portland, the tent encampments, the graffiti, or any of the societal problems that the dems have brought on. The RNC have not sold any type of ideas that they could do better.
The people DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS.
Pls educate yourself on the truth.
Thank you.
Sorry but the publicly elected officials have allowed every bit of this to take place. President Trump was willing to bring it to a halt, and the mayor, and his council of cronies said NO. Now you have the end result, and it speaks volumes.
Willing to be educated. Can you point me to the conservative opposition rallies in Portland, and other signs of people that would have elected a conservative government if their vote counted.?
Would be kinda dangerous… this poor old Bernie Bro got a concussion from Antifa when he strayed from Party Line:
https://thefishportland.com/content/all/sanders-supporter-with-american-flag-beaten-up-by-antifa
This video is the poster child of what joeboma wants our country to be.
NOT MY CITY!
But it’s going to be all better. By July or so.
Ya see, they have a plan.
It was announced two nights ago.
Peace Teams are being formed.
The Peace Teams (made up of volunteers) will attend seven two-hour training sessions.
In those sessions, they will learnt.
They will learn how to fix riots and protests that escalate to murder and mayhem and burning things.
They will wear blue vests. Yes. They will.
They will attend protests and riots to help manage things, prevent escalation, doncha know.
They will help the police by responding to domestic violence calls.
The blue-vested peace teams will bring order back to the city of roses.
So it will all be all right.
So they said on the news two nights ago.
And once again, I had a great LOL session right in my living room.
My dog looked at me with concern.
But it’s gonna be all right.
Nothing worse than having ignorant, arrogant, over-educated FOOLS in charge of stuff.
When I was growing up on the prairie in NE Montana, we had the normal number of fools in the community.
However, all of those first and second generation farmers who were products of one-room-schools (that ended at the 8th grade) knew better than to put them in charge. Of ANYTHING.
I say let it burn.
we lived for 5 years just off 92nd and Foster(88th and Cora) Video shows what 120th and Foster looks like currently. My first house was right off of i84 at 52nd and Irving, look at all the graffiti going down i84. my third home was in St. Johns only a few miles away from the area shown at 8:30 on the video near Delta Park.
I am so glad we got out when we did, but sad for family and friends who are unwilling or unable to make the move.
I’m so glad you were able to get out, carterzest. My son and his wife live in Oregon City so are much closer to it than I am, and both their jobs expose them to the heart of the situation. He is very well prepared for whatever may happen next, as is his wife. We are prepared to implement extraction for me if that becomes advisable.
The commenters who mock those who are in Oregon reveal more about themselves than anything else. Most Oregonians are independent individuals and, politically, right of center by quite a bit. Pretty much like the non-metropolican residents of Minnesota, Colorado, and New York, etc.
you made that much popcorn?
I saw a headline, didn’t read the article, in Daily Mail…… Phoenix, San Antonio, and two other cities ( sorry, can’t remember the cities) where the wealthy DemoCommieFascists are moving to…… leaving California, New York, Oregon, Illinois
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Is Portland over. Can we reclaim and build back better. I hate to tell him but what he’s seeing is the definition of build back better. And if they don’t crack down, it’s just gonna get even BETTER.
Once the inner city of Portland is completely destroyed Antifa/BLM will then turn to the suburbs for riots, assaults, arson, looting, mayhem and nightly chaos! Just a wild guess.
Always been the plan. The left HATES suburbs. Probably destroying cities to push relocation to suburbs with homeless/illegal alien tents on lawns.
I noticed how mild mannered all the people interviewed were, even the news guy addressed the issues with seeming sensitivity . Especially, the two men whose income depends on a flourishing city, the guy selling commercial space and the other trying to get sports conferences booked. Maybe they both were just ‘numb’ from financial pain.
It would have been nice to have seen some ‘fire in the belly’.
I think they are deeply infected with an instinctive desire to not make their prison guards mad.
One of the many laughs I got watching that video (between sad sighs) was the bit about luring a women’s sports championship. Heck, the ideology that controls Oregon is destroying women’s sports. Soon there won’t be an event to lure.
Portland is the lowest crummiest shi thole in America today. And they earned it the hard way. The place will never recover
Have you actually been to Baltimore?
That is a pretty low bar, when you gotta compare yourself to Baltimore to get your “sneering superiority” on.
True willthesuevi.
Especially since Baltimore has been working on their self destruction for several decades longer than Portland.
Portland has done a dandy job of catching up with Baltimore though.
In just a few years Portland is becoming what Baltimore took decades to achieve.
I’m shedding tears, TEARS of F**cking joy.
Portland can rot for all I care and to those who hated Trump so much and voted for JoeBama..
GO F**K YOURSELVES!
Amen and pass the popcorn.
Many are heading to your neck of the woods as we speak, planning on doing that to you. Stay vigilant.
Let them get what they deserve for voting Communist. It’s what they want.
I spent 24 hours in Portland 2 months ago rescuing my Sister. It is truly Mad Max town. That place is destroyed
Oregon is where it is because they have rigged elections. Period. People are sick of their leadership, but the machine and laws which the overlords have shoved into the system, chose who their leaders will be. Oregon has to recall their DA, Governor AG and basically, everyone else that the puppetmasters put in place.
#OregonPatriots
#PerpetuallyRiggedElections
Oregonians need to go drag the “leadership” out of office by the hair of the head and DARE them to return. Fumigate and choose new leaders from among themselves then reform voting and get busy returning the Rose City to its former glory. Oh, and how about passing legislation that any “leader” who permits anarchy to destroy any location is PERSONALLY responsible criminally and financially for the destruction.
At around the 3 minute mark when I heard “can we reclaim and build back better? “, I almost crushed my phone!
No, Jobama is not the solution. Daddy government caused this intentionally.
That’s because the news didn’t understand that you just can’t “Build Back Better”, you have to “Build Back Better” BETTER!
I caught that, too. The silly news dude probably doesn’t even know the origin of that slogan.
This did NOT happen overnight. I lived there from 2000 to 2017. I worked downtown in 2000; coming from a midwestern city I was shocked at how lenient the city was to “homeless” people. Any time mere suggestions were made by business owners to have the police move the homeless along (using the “sit/lie” ordinance), the business people were shouted down (in 2009 the U. S. District Court ruled the law was unconstitutional). In one instance a business owner asking people to move away from his door was met with a skateboard to the head. I never looked into details, but I had read others who said that the temperate climate plus generous handouts is what contributed greatly to the “homeless” population. I would hazard that a great majority of the homeless are not from Oregon.
The graffiti and trash along the highways is what really got to me. Occupy Wall Street seemed to be what really lit the downhill slide. Downtown green spaces were slowly taken over by campsites and eventually any green space including along the highways. The drive in to and around downtown was always pretty as the city planted rose bushes everywhere. Now it’s all blighted just like you see in this video.
Feeding wildlife is illegal in National Parks. Wild animals stay healthier when you do not feed them. Animals that are fed lose not only their natural fear of humans, but also their ability to forage on their own. And, once they learn to beg, they can become aggressive in seeking food from humans, more likely to get injured by vehicles, and become seriously ill.
True! LOL!
And now the comrade governor in Oregon is trying to tie vaccinations to reopening. We have only 2,500 dead over 15 months by the Rona and she continues to keep her boot on our necks. She wants 70% vaccinated.
I don’t think she’s “trying to”–I think she did.
A couple of days ago I got a self-promoting shiny piece of documentation from the county commissioners of my county–Marion County (OR).
I was amused to discover that, by their own report about the % of vaccinations as of April 18, they are nowhere NEAR any high volume/majority numbers of people who have accepted the jab.
Here is their report, broken down by age:
80 and older 66%
70-79 65%
60-69 43%
50-59 26%
40-49 22%
30-39 18%
20-29 13%
15-19 4%
Only the group over age 70 exceeds 50%!
She’s going to have to get a more damaging boot (which I’m sure she’s perfectly willing to do…..) if she’s going to get more of these GROUPS to 70%.
They act like “almost everyone has gotten the vaccination except stubborn and ignorant people, and we insist that they must get it…..”
Well. Whoopsie. Looks like once we get below age 70, most people have NOT gotten the jab and probably have no intention of getting it. I’m 77, and I’m in that group.
I’m looking forward to the hysterical ones beginning to wear their blue award bracelets, so I’ll know who to stay away from.
SMH
So much has been revealed about so many over this last year+, and most of it has absolutely nothing to do with covid.
This dystopian nightmare is brought to you by progressive liberal leaders. The city of Portlandio will continue to decay as long as these people are in charge. Where is build back better Xiden? This is a national disgrace. Maybe China can make a deal with Portland and for the use of their port for a navy base put the city in their belt and road initiative.
A Democrat utopia!
Video should have included night life scenes of residents roasting marshmellows and weenies around the blaze of burning buildings.
I live in Vancouver, WA a couple miles north of Portland. The housing market has went crazy with those escaping the chaos. The Vancouver PD has mostly kept a lid on the terrorists. There are a few signs for BLM, but they are the same yards that have/had Joebama signs.
Let it burn….
^Why would you wish ill will on innocent people, living in a city filled with election FRAUD?
This is the type of comment that truly breaks my heart.
It’s not what Patriots are about.
Sad to read such a cruel remark / thought
Journalists who cannot comprehend anarchy and personal and business property destruction has negative effects including law abiding citizens moving out of the area?
The competence here is rather telling, no?
I’m sure the good people in Portland are eager to share their story, previously ignored by mainstream press. I hope they can turn it around for the other productive, good people who just want to live in a safe and thriving community.
But what will they DO about it? We all know damn well they will simply throw more tax payer money and more government at the problem and expect that to fix it. Liberals never learn from their mistakes.
Democrats are evil.
A final thought on this mess; it’s be nice to see people here pray for anyone who resides in Oregon.
Instead of making snide comments that ‘They deserve what they voted for’ ( they have no voice, as Oregon is MAIL IN voting, ie FRAUD)
That’s the type of comment you’d see from a woke liberal.
What on earth has happened to this site and those that comment here?
I don’t remember it being so mean spirited and unkind.
I’ve been here for a very long time, mainly as a reader; when comments were thoughtful and thought provoking.
Hello Petra! As I mentioned above, I lived in Portland (2000 to 2017), and it’s quite an eye opening experience. I cannot speak for anyone else, of course, but the folks in Portland and Salem do vote these people into office (Portland and Salem being liberal and the largest population centers. The folks in eastern Oregon and other rural areas tend to be conservative.). Mail in voting probably is a way of committing vote fraud; however, Oregon has had full mail in voting only since 2000 and Portland/Salem have been quite corrupt cities for much longer than twenty years.
On the one hand, I had tears in my eyes watching that video. On the other hand, I remind myself – they do vote these people into office – eventually. If you watch closely, you can see how the liberal stranglehold is wrought: often whoever the incumbent is will leave office and another liberal is appointed to serve out the term. When election time comes, that person is now voted into office. See Governor (Kitzhaber/Brown) or Secretary of State (Kroger/Rosenblum) for good examples.
Thanks, Petra,
I pray daily for my family living and working in Portland. Part of my prayer is that they wake up from the Marxist – BLM – Antifa Progressive Socialism culture that envelopes them.
a proposed platform for Republicans running against the Dems in any jurisdiction
1 a return to tight voting rules so that every legal registered voter can vote, no illegal or fraudulent vote should be counted r go unpunished, and no vote harvesting.
2 stop coddling the homeless with free needles and “tolerance” if they’re squatting on and blighting other people’s property. Gather them up, get the addicts thru rehab, let them choose to go to jail or attend job training / responsible living camps in rural areas
3 provide law enforcement in the city, follow Rudy’s formula for turning New York around by mobilizing neighborhoods to clean up and not tolerate petty crime, graffiti, loitering, littering
4 set a goal of cutting public employment by half or more, through technology
5 make it much easier for small businesses to thrive and create jobs and positive attractions for the public
6 root out the Marxism, especially Critical Race Theory from public schools, replacing it with the 1776 Project
7 encourage churches to reject Liberation Theology, another Marxist soohistry
8 challenge the meaning of “Progressive,” toward WHAT, exactly?
9 above all, stress the core values of a constitutional republic of limited powers subject to checks and balances, dedicated to ensuring a rules-based order, preserving the blessings of Liberty, including free enterprise in free markets, subject only to sensible rules, to best serve the public’s needs
10 root out predatory “Kapitalists” seeking to achieve personal wealth by destroying others, e.g., George Soros and his predatory hedge funds
11 root out the CCP’s vast inroads into every aspect of our lives
12 a halt to MMT at the Fed, which should be merged into the US Treasury, cancelling all the US debt they’ve bought by printing money, in the many trillions.
Did you hear what the newscaster said? Can we reclaim and BUILD BACK BETTER??? When you hear those last 3 words, think Klaus Schwab, Agenda 2030, the Great Reset. If that is Portland’s goal, then let’s hope that Portland IS truly ‘over’.
Oh dear, at 3:10 the narrator asked, “…or can we Build Back Better?” He talked as though this mayhem just “happened” and that it was not part of a plan. Until one can see the chess pieces being moved around in order to achieve a certain outcome then that person will keep electing the same people who cause the problems.
Why not issue a hazmat suit to all of those “essential” government workers, teachers, and school employees and have them go out and start picking up trash, scrubbing paint from their buildings and freeways, and sweeping up the debris? I think that everyone is waiting for government to clean up the mess when it is their government that planned and encouraged this mess.
Once Portland gets past the hand-wringing phase of their actions then perhaps they can clean up the mess that they created. But why bother when in a few months the PTB will allow riots, mayhem, and homelessness return?
If this is the fate of every American city, residents will welcome an invasion.
The CCP knows this.
Democrats are the party of chaos.
Republicans are the party of stoopid.
California has this figured out….
SAN DIEGO — In what was lauded as the single biggest investment any state has ever made to address homelessness, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday announced a $12-billion proposal to create affordable housing, increase mental health services and fund other programs to get people off the street.
Newsom made the announcement at the Kearny Vista Apartments, one of two former San Diego hotels that were purchased and converted into housing with funding from the state’s Project Homekey program introduced by the governor last year.
The new ghettoes. Great just what everybody was hoping for. I’m glad I don’t live near any of that stupidity.