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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I’m trying to think if there’s a reason I should care.
As long as the people who voted for this stay there to enjoy it.
Exactly, Walt!
They are not.
Massive emigration to my ‘burb of Vancouver across the river and State lines. Real Estate and rents up over 20% since January.
Worse yet, they bring with them their jerk-wad attitudes and anti-MAGA values. It’s beyond toxic here now and getting deeper by the hour.
RUN!
don’t run, 308 the communist lovin bastards.
Oh, but it’s diverse.
and “inclusive” – can’t forget that
Much like Locusts moving to a new food source.
Thanks. That actually explains it!
The stupidity of these fleeing morons who remain anti-Trump is beyond understanding!
Enlightened “Progressives” finding their precious lifestyles threatened by the realities they created, have been running from NYC and Balto and Philly to Florida and Texas for some years now. And as you say, they bring their moronic value systems along, and attempt to “improve” their new home cities by voting out the locals and voting in leftard fools.
I’m beginning to favor implementation of a “path to citizenship” for these trans-border traveling thugs. Mexico limits immigration, for Pete’s sake, to those whom the nation wants within its borders.
There’s another Leftist group that does the same thing. They move to a vibrant welcoming country and then destroy it with anti-police and anti-White litigation and activist politics then move on to another place to destroy.
They have come as far as Florida. Unfortunately, some of them managed to bring their liberal ways with them, failing to recognize / admit what caused Portland to decline so dramatically. We are going to try to help them out as soon as we figure out which way they came in….
Apparently the only remedy to the failures of socialism, seems to be more socialism.
The welfare state is a powerful drug, stronger than heroin. The people in Venezuela are sitting and waiting for the good times to return. The attempted revolution supported by the Trump administration never took off. Free stuff beats hard work, including fighting.
The Co-Vid pandemic has produced in America the phenomenon of high unemployment combined with huge job vacancies. AOC urges people to remain on welfare. She knows her voters.
The new American revolution will not happen until the welfare state collapses (soon). And it will be a doozy.
Its been repeated a lot of times on previous pages, but there is a decent chance that after more than a decade of mail-in voting in Oregon, a majority of the state has simply had their vote usurped by fraud, like the rest of the country.
Outside of Portland (which I would grant you is a lost cause), the state is NOT heavy leftist.
So we can say Oregon is one of the dry run mail in stolen states?
A big YES! I’m 20 miles outside Portland and my neighbors are about 75% conservative. I doubt our gov would have been elected without cheating.
It’s Sundance’s IC/the State. Remember: all the bureaucrats, including the teachers, haven’t missed a day’s pay due to Co-Vid.
While the Uniparty/Corporatism sufficed for a while, the 2020 election made the hoax just too obvious. So now we have the Decepticons threatening to start a new party. The support for Biden or Kamala will be just too small to sell, so a splinter strategy is required.
So true. Super majority in the state houses. Most of the state, in terms of geographical area is MAGA. Eastern Oregon wants to be administered by Idaho.
I cast my vote for Greater Idaho yesterday.
https://www.greateridaho.org/why-greater-idaho-is-the-right-choice-for-eastern-oregon/
I’m waaaay down in the bottom right corner of the state, we want out. The movement makes great sense. I came to Southern Oregon from Washington, and had high hopes for the State of Jefferson movement, but creating a new state is a whole new bag of problematic.
I call it the Oregon Soviet Socialist Republic of the I5 Corridor.
Every major city along I5 in Oregon save for Medford has been over run by them. Mail in voting was the down fall for Oregon not so much due to fraud, but rather the increased number of ill informed voters who were easily duped by the misleading ads and names on some ballot measures. All the lazy idiots suddenly discovered they could vote without having to put down the beer, the bong or turn off the boob tube, get off their lazy asses and go to the polls.
And now we conservatives watch as they keep on just doing what conmunist demoncrats do best: destroy everything good about this state.
Would you care if you had a loved one living there?
They did not vote for this, pls educate yourself on election fraud and Mail in Ballots over 20 plus years of FRAUD.
My mother’s family fled both Portland area and Seattle about two years ago as they saw the jig was up even then (they had two homes). They are very well off people, and my aunt and uncle liquidated and have been living in the water/ at various Yacht clubs on the west coast, on his Yacht until they decide where in Florida to move to.
They are big conservatives. I always wondered why they stayed so long. Uncle loved the natural beauty. They are older, mid-70’s.
I am available for adoption… conservative and and completely housebroken.
Petra, in my previous reply to you, I pointed out that Oregon has only had full mail in voting for twenty years. Portland/Salem/Eugene are the most populous cities and are quite liberal. Also they’ve been quite corrupt for a LOT LONGER than twenty years!
There may be a tipping point, where having just too many government employees voting for their dilettante leftist ideas and ideals makes it impossible to have a functioning capitalist country.
Obama used his “stimulus” program in 2009 to save government jobs at the state and local level. He later laughed at the notion of “shovel-ready” jobs. The # of federal employees making $100K+ skyrocketed under Obama, and during a recession, mind you.
Two insidious problems resulted from Obama’s largesse to the bureaucrats; the federal bureaucracy is now effectively a branch of the Democrat Party. The bias has become monolithic, and Trump found himself up against the “Resistance”: a grandiose name for dirty politics.
The other huge problem is that government employees across the country, at all levels, now regard themselves as immune from the fluctuations of the economy, or world events in general. Notice how facile bureaucrats (Fauci!) are about recommending endless lockdowns and other extreme measures to fight Co-Vid. Surely it won’t hurt them..
I have a sister and her adult children who live in the burbs of Portland. More people than you would suspect voted for exactly what they have. They don’t know the difference between enabling and compassion and have no analytical, or critical thinking skills, or knowledge of history to realize what the future would bring. If you reward something, or don’t demonize it, you’ll get more of it. Human nature…I lived in Portland (and burbs) between 1988-1997 – the glory days! I went back in 2018 and it had been so Californized with traffic and shopping malls, and they were really overdoing the “Love us cuz we’re weird” crap. I couldn’t wait to leave.
Well put, that concept of the “difference between enabling and compassion”. Need to share that message with, oh, for starters, Catholic Charities and the American Methodist Church.
Why would you trust any election in a blue area?
Especially since the mayor – who is also police commissioner – was re-elected after the rioting started.
The mayor is police commissioner because the last real one they had refused to kiss the politicians woke asses.
So the city council just voted to make the mayor police commissioner. And now you see what happens when the politicians run law enforcement.
Oregon citizens are disenfranchised and have been for about 30 years when mailed ballot fraud began. Oregon used to be known for fishermen and loggers.
This May 2021 election I threw my ballot in the garbage.
Oregon is still known for fisherman, loggers – and miners and truckers and nurses and garbage men and plumbers and electricians and welders – people with jobs, raising families and trying to make a living. I’m sorry you didn’t support the Greater Idaho ballot initiative.
Jeff, we are on the coast and did not have the opportunity to vote for Idaho. Our only options were “nonpartisan” democrats
The Greater Idaho idea is great for those who live east of the Cascades. For those who don’t not so much.
Those who live west of the Cascades don’t get to secede from the I5 Corridor Conmunist cities.
Interesting point you make about the mail in voting.
No reason anyone should care except for those faced with defending themselves from the fascists, anarchists, hoodrats and other assorted criminals.
That’s easy to say but the truth is this reality—-the morons will eventually move to different states and start anew with the same old bag of tricks. I know, I’ve seen it happening in my own former red state.
Unfortunately, we are going to enjoy too.
What Opportunity Zones are in Portland and who will own them after this destruction by BLM/Antifa.
Portland Mayor had already set aside areas and massive funds for future rebuild to blacks and minorities only.
Perhaps the whole point was to establish another Chocolate city like Atlanta of Philly and get rid of these lily white cities. Who knows?! At this point, the deep-state do so many fiction novel things that anything you can come up with has a very good chance at being true.
The DS/Elite LITERALLY sit around all day cooking up James Bond villian schemes. It is like they are playing the Sims 24/7, moving us all around like little computer characters. I’m serious.
“Chocolate city” is right. Indian tribes import plane loads of somalis to work the casinos and never send them back so the somalis congregate in Portland/Salem/Eugene and have turned the cities into West Somalia. Scary there even in daytime.
It’s the white, upperclass, indoctrinated (not educated) idiots who have and are causing all the problems.
I don’t think you can hang that on native Americans. It’s the lilywhites with post-grad degrees and severe cases of self-loathing who underwrite these invasions.
I work at an Indian casino and to my knowledge there’s not one Somali there. Lot’s of latinos, native americans, asians and yes a few white folk as well. But no Somalis. You are full of crap.
The casino has held a number of job fairs and still can’t get people to sign up. In fact, they are taking a poll of all employees to see how many would be willing to work overtime in positions like housekeeping, sanitation (cleaning and wiping down games with antibacterial), grounds keeping and other positions they don’t hold already.
I have yet to see a van load or busload of Somalis, let alone a plane load show up for jobs there.
The Somalis were “imported” by Bubba and Obamala. I used to live in Portland during those years.
And one more thing, most of the Somalis I ran into were working or had started their own businesses.
And like every ethnicity, there’s criminals amongst them.
Oh yeah, I’m sure THAT will happen. Not.
If you’re talking about the Opportunity Zones that the Trump Team started around the U.S., I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Ted Wheeler and the City Council there put a kabosh on starting any.
Because….you know….Trump Bad. And they wouldn’t want word to get out that maybe, just maybe, he’s not as bad as the MSM says.
Portland is one sick city. I’d put NOTHING past them.
About 3 minutes in the emcee asks if Portland can “build back better” – says it all, this is the plan to fundamentally reform the United States into just another trinket in the one-world-government.
Portland is the Globalists test city to see what they need to adjust to get the whole U.S. to this point so government came justify their takeover.
It’s very hard to have sympathy for what is to come to those residents though for sure there are many whom have gotten caught up in the undertow of this communist take down.
MAGA – hoping there’s some Wolverines there who can throw some serious sand in that build back better machine. It would be wonderful to see that type of trend setting take root in the heart of the JoeBama game plan.
The majority of the ‘elected’ representatives are from the east coast, Ivy League know-it-alls. Very few are from around here.
Yup, Governor Rugmunchin is from California…
Gov Rugmunchin is in the same mold as Gov Ferry Dust in Washington
Gotta love the spray painted “No More History” on the Oregon historical society.
Just get out the tear gas and night sticks and make short work of these ignorant scum.
As for the comment “people living among the trash”, it’s more like “people are the living trash.”
Welcome to the Progressive World of next Tuesday!
Just get out the tear gas and night sticks
Gonna take more than that. I think the rioters are beyond turning around. Get out the snipers on high buildings. It would only take 1 or 2 for them all to flee.
Flee to where? My home town, most likely. Rats that survive the poison merely relocate.
Another thing about the media. If you ever wondered if the media is simply the propaganda arm of the left or the left is the political action arm of the media, it may be the former.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/12/biden-white-house-edits-administration-quotes-before-letting-reporters-publish-them/
The bigger problem is that the Federal Govt. is backing this madness. Cancel Culture, CRT, etc.
We the normal people are very tolerant by nature, but that only feeds intolerance. Then intolerance becomes the norm. And when that happens, it’s too late.
Nothing new here, this has gone on forever and keeps happening because the whole world has abandoned the study of history as …boooring:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-woke-may-be-leading-us-to-civil-war_3808658.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge
Unless we become more intolerant to intolerance, we are doomed to relearn the lessons of history, and that’s never been pretty. It’s been downright ugly…
Did you catch the phrase “can we… ‘build back better’?” @ 3:15 This is straight from the World Economic Forum and the NWO Global Reset agenda. If you’d like an example – search the WE Forum site for build back better, or one article I found was titled “To Build Back Better We Must Reinvent Capitalism Here’s How”
That’s also a favorite phrase of *president Joebama – when he’s able to complete a phrase, that is.
What a waste of air. 1) Every one of those interviewed is a Democrat, including the reporters. 2) Every one of those had ‘compassion’ for the homeless as the problem festered. 3) More than likely, every one of those supported antifa when rioting ‘against Trump and his nazis’?.
You notice that no one directly mentions the mayor or city council (who they voted for).
It’s the local SeeBS station… Go figure, but it is a start. Of course taking air time to talk about how Portland has become a shithole takes away from important stories about Harry and Mehgan…can’t have too much of that, doncha know…
Let the city rot into ruins. Until the majority of its citizens get up off their butts and actively and persistently demand a change to election laws, force those changes to be implemented, and vote out the Communists and vote in real MAGA Conservatives, they are the architects of their own destruction.
The same is true of my own home town of Baltimore. Nowhere can you see people proudly calling it Charm City anymore; now it’s closer to being Harm City. They have the government for which the majority has repeatedly voted, election after election, despite signs of eventual catastrophic failure being visible over two decades ago.
Don’t care. The people of Portland voted for this so it’s what they want.
The History of Serious Human Epidemics had one thing in common.
Piles of Dead Bodies.
Dead Bodies piled up on the streets.
Do You See Piles of Dead Bodies?
Or Do You See What Should Be?
There is a terrible mess in Portland.
There is a terrible mess in the Democrat Party.
and
There is a terrible mess in the Republican Party.
They have had decades to fix this and establish themselves as a party of firm principles.
They were given an opportunity during the past four years to address this but the few politicians who tried were ostracized.
Draw up a list of those who have called for an balanced budget and to address wasteful spending.
The rest are worthless politicians only interested in holding on to power and enriching themselves.
This is why I hate politics.
Time to crowd fund 1 way bus tickets to Portland give aways?
Born and lived in Portland metro for over 60 years. The population here absolutely voted this $hit in over that timespan. No vote fraud was necessary.
The general population is incredibly stupid and ignorant and has gotten spoon fed the “liberal” bs from the monolithic local media and single newspaper for decades. There’s no talking to them, they are brain dead zombies. 98% of the people outside are wearing masks for God’s sake! Including runners, bicyclists and bikers.
All of you have at least one lunatic relative like this, but just imagine a metro area consisting of 75% of this type of fool.
And for those Vancouverite posters here, it is spreading across the river. You know it is. A year and a half ago there were no tents in Vancouver Washington, now they are all over. And the freeway shoulders are just filled with trash.
Amen!
The I-5 corridor is lost. They burned me out of Ashland last summer. We are into the 3rd generation of Rainbow Children, they are feral. KOMO-TV up in Seattle did what was actually a remarkably frank doco on all of this a year or more back, but the entire I-5 corridor from San Diego all the way to Bellingham is now one big Tent City. Add the current generation of disincentivized, mal-educated, brainwashed, lost children into the mix and we have lost 4 generations of America.
Yes, and every word they say is an attempt to rationalize what they’ve done into the moral high-ground.
They’ have absolutely no ability to accept or even perceive their own flaws – it’s what makes progressive fascism to frightening – they unerringly see themselves as the good guys, regardless of outcome or consequences.
Drug addict Domestic terrorist have ruined the city
Glad to see the local media is on top of this – a year late. They act as if they just stumbled upon this and are shocked. What a bunch of phony morons. I say “fugget about it”. Portland has been Chernobyled!
Does this mean they are now holding their hand out for taxpayer funds to “fix” their self imposed problem.?
If not now, soon. Bet your bitcoin stash on it.
“can we build back better” There’s the problem right there.
That’s the problem. It doesn’t stay there. It spreads all over and becomes a psychosis. And by that time it’s too late.
The trouble is that although a good idea to bring this to a public light, there were too many excuses of why it happened … particularly from the Mayor……… Heck even blaming police for not responding when….. if they do ………..they lose their jobs!
Is Portland over??? of course it is…. simply because if those in business do not support getting robbed……. they will leave.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. …Robert Kennedy
I live in southern Oregon. Don’t go to Portland anymore. Also, we are caught between the people escaping the Bay Area who still want to live close to California and the Portlanders who wants to live more rural. Property taxes going up like skyrockets here.
Ha! My wife keeps checking Zillow and telling me how much more our property is “worth”.
I pay the property taxes, so I’m giving you a knowing nod.
(Josephine County)
Meh, you’re correct – Portland is “exactly” how “they” want it……………….
“They” voted in their ‘leadership’……..
ergo….. I don’t care any more…………………….
“Yup. Took ’em long enough to wake up …” ?♂️
But, really, there’s only so much that anyone could – or, should – expect to do, to rescue individuals from themselves. The “Darwin Awards” website still exists for a reason. ?♂️
Quite frankly – if our forefathers had been as utterly-passive as these people have been, we’d either still be Loyal Subjects, or we’d be speaking German. “The United States of America” was never the product of an accident.
At the 1:20 mark this looks like the professor who was on Tucker Calson a while ago spouting his nonsense.
The breakdown of the USA is generations deep.
Look at the works of Diana West. Here is a video and book.
“American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”
It’s not secret. It’s been a work in progress for approaching 100 years now. Educate ya’ll’s selves on Antonio Gramsci.
Consequences of Portland’s elected officials’ actions. Not sure how they will solve this, but the first step would be a high noon hangin’.
I’m unable to find my sympathy meter at the moment. I believe it is in my freezer for safekeeping, but I’m too lazy to get up from my couch and check.
I’m truly surprised there has not been more bloodshed. I for one will keep the Florida rules in mind whenever I encounter a hostile crowd no matter where I’m at. I will not be Reginald Denny.
I’m surprised no one is marketing a taser designed for the front bumper of one’s car.
You can’t fix stupid. There is no cure. Liberalism is a mental disorder that is irreparable.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” – from ‘1984’ by George Orwell
I live about 80 miles North of Portland. I used to take the family down there at least 2-3 times a yr & I did quite a few Triathlons/Duathlons out near the PDX Airport. A Multi-Sport racing Company out of Vancouver, WA does two events there, 1 in May and 1 in June. They moved their June event over to Vancouver.
A few weeks later I was working out in the Portland Airport Area & took a bike ride along the Columbia River after Work and I found out why they moved the race. The start/finish line is now a Homeless encampment with dilapidated RV’s/Tents/ garbage/needles all over the area.
No one goes to that shit hole City anymore, same with Seattle. The Business’ in these 2 Cities really have to be taking it in the shorts with the CV-19 lockdowns, homeless camps & constant Antifa/BLM rioting.
If only Ted Wheeler were Mayor, all of the garbage and graffiti might disappear and his heart wouldn’t be broken.
All this in Oregon which has a Black population of about 3%! These idiots don’t know what a real ghetto looks like. They should go to Baltimore, Detroit or Philly and riot.
I imagine most of the rioters there or any place are actually white 20 somethings.
And you would be right.
PNW is a very “white bread” area of the country.
Why send the “trash” to other cities? We’re all struggling to stay the course of MAGA…..Detroit doesn’t want more trash….we already have enough.
Couldn’t happen to a nice group of communists.
For any one of them to admit even the tiniest
mistake
is to crack open the entire Pandora’s box. It’s the Raiders of the Lost Ark Opening of the Ark of the Covenant scene, brought to real life.I careless about damn lib city even burn down a complete,
nothing But hole bunch of coward’s,
For people in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington there is tremendous support for splitting off the border counties to join Idaho
The lamenting interviewees probably voted for those insane Dmocrats
These jack holes have watched this fester like a huge zit, and they have done absolutely nothing about ANY of IT. I complained severely about the problem her in Dallas at highway underpasses near my home full of these homeless and they are finally getting the message, fencing it off, though with so many mental and unemployed on the street, and Sleepy Creepy’s destruction of America, how much flipping longer will it take us to patrol our streets in numbers higher than a couple dozen pantifa???
The “Tourism” commercial never gets old.
5 Oregon Counties are voting on Tuesday May 18 about whether they should join Idaho.
The answer is of course: YES.
https://www.eastoregonian.com/opinion/columnists/other-views-why-voting-to-join-idaho-is-the-right-choice-for-eastern-oregon/article_2302f900-a6d4-11eb-8555-0fb4ff6b2dc0.html
https://www.greateridaho.org/why-greater-idaho-is-the-right-choice-for-eastern-oregon/
I voted. I also wrote myself in for an open spot on the local school board. I might get elected with 1 vote.
You gotta start somewhere…
Good for you and Good Luck!!
Rooting for you to WIN!
What are the odds the small business watch guy voted in all the garbage that resulted in his shop being destroyed? If he voted for this mess, he deserves every thing he got. You reap what you sow.
The “Leaders” and Media out there completely ignored and/or LIED about any of the Antifa problems in Portland for years and years.
These goons started shutting down highways, etc. back in 2014- at least.
So yeah, they’ve had a looong time to fix it. But apparently it was/is something that they never wanted to fix.
Id have to go back and check my old log books but I bet Ive brought in and hauled out well over 1000 loads of freight over the years.Portland used to be a nice town.Now I refuse to go there. Let them cannibalize each other.
Though the majority of the Riot Damage was in Opportunity Zones, there was a significant amount that was not. Most of that damage was to Police / Sheriff’s and Law Enforcement Association (Pension) infrastructure.
Reference: https://911nwo.com/?p=9648
The residents of Portland and Seattle are very happy with the way things are. The crime. The chaos. They continue to vote far left. These reports that people are somehow waking up or are unhappy is bunk. Wall off CA/OR/WA. Keep this Marxist crap out of the heartland. On the East coast you’ll soon see the same thing in NJ/NY/CT/MA.
I live in Oregon, and my city looks nothing like Portland.
No protests, no burning, no garbage, a couple homeless here and there.
Portland is what happens when progressive libtards are left to their own devices.
Yes, Portland is Over.
Let it burn.
What’s the old saying…?
You reap what you sow?
How can the Demo / socialist / communist party replace our economic system and our way of life without first destroying the systems that are in place now?? Answer, “THEY CANNOT.” This is the reason for all that has transpired, most notably during the last four or five years. First under Obama, now under Biden. If you believe America is over, YOU ARE CORRECT.