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lostand confused says

"Portland is where people in their twenties go to retire.

These are the folk that are going to raise the next generation of kids

https://nypost.com/2023/01/06/117-year-old-church-burns-down-in-latest-portland-mayhem/

Arson attack destroys 117-year-old church in latest symbol of Portland mayhem

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/89e0a4a0-aaf1-38db-aa66-7afe31926f89/walmart-to-close-2-portland.html

Patrick says

https://nypost.com/2023/01/06/117-year-old-church-burns-down-in-latest-portland-mayhem/

Arson attack destroys 117-year-old church in latest symbol of Portland mayhem

I think it hasn't been destroyed and can be rebuilt.




And I think the guy that did it, and it's obviously a guy (not a transwoman, no operations) is just mentally ill. I's a pity to see anything like that destroyed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11807717/Portland-business-owners-say-theyre-fleeing-city-en-masse-crime.html

'It's a hollowed out shell': Portland business owners say they're fleeing crime-ridden Dem-led city en masse after it turned from the 'crown jewel of the West Coast' into criminal-run city

Business owners are fleeing Portland in droves amid a pronounced rise in crime and homelessness, officials in the Democratic stronghold have revealed.

Public data shows that since the pandemic, more than 2,600 downtown businesses have filed changes of address with the U.S. Postal Service to leave their downtown ZIP codes.

Several big-name employers, from Unitus Community Credit Union to Umpqua Bank, have been among the mass exodus, carried out by owners who have taken issue with the rising crime levels and homelessness - and the city's failure to address it.

Once hailed as the 'crown jewel of the West Coast' for its trendy art and food scenes, The City of Roses has been in peril since 2020, largely due to efforts to defund police and lax bail reform laws that leave little to no deterrent for increasingly brazen criminals.

Local leaders are now sharing their strategies for solving the crime and livability issues, as they threaten to spill over into bordering counties, where the court of public opinion is generally more conservative.

If Portland is so bad people leave en-mass, why haven't there been any recalls of politicians? Chicago just voted out their idiot.

https://notthebee.com/article/portland-fred-meyer-store-fires-black-security-guard-after-antifa-dubs-him-white-supremacist

Portland Fred Meyer Store Fires Black Security Guard After Antifa Dubs Him White Supremacist Extremist

Yes, that is an official statement by the Kroger chain Fred Meyer saying it had fired one of its security guards over allegations of "discrimination."

The security guard was called a "white supremacist" by Antifa activists online because, even though he is black, he supports powerful white men and their evil white supremacist colonialist ways. One of these included organizing a rally in 2015 to show that the Confederate flag is not a racist symbol.

Power to the people, comrades!

Journalist Andy Ngo has the receipts on those complaining about the guard. Here's the lady from the second tweet above:




Portland, Ore. grocery store @fred_meyer/@kroger fired a black security guard named Andrew Duncomb after Antifa members made false accusations on social media that he is a "white supremacist." Duncomb was stabbed by one of their comrades in 2020 while live streaming their riot. That criminal case is still ongoing. The suspect in the stabbing is David Hampe, who has a prior conviction for possessing child sex abuse content. Fred Meyer, you owe Andrew & all Portlanders an apology for this appalling treatment of someone these extremists want dead.

Here's the convicted pedophile who allegedly stabbed the guard...

Why is anyone listening to that mentally ill woman?

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Why is anyone listening to that mentally ill woman?

The majority of our society is mentally ill.

The situation we're in is that we have a government we can't confirm that we've elected, that has bombed 7 nations over the last 20 years and lied about why they're doing it, which lied about Ukraine's CIA coup and is pushing toward WWIII, which just attempted to poison the entire US population for a minor disease with an experimental gene therapy that drug companies have been working on for 30 years, and 4 supposedly found a solution at the same time.

The MAJORITY of society are not "OMG! We have to do something about it" - the MAJORITY of society is "so what? This doesn't really effect me"..

Yeah, but you can buy heroin and inject openly on the streets, since all drugs are legal now. Try to look on the bright side.

richwicks says

the MAJORITY of society is "so what? This doesn't really effect me"..

I have found that the majority just do not believe it.

HeadSet says

I have found that the majority just do not believe it.

It's the 'Pollyanna Heinousness Effect'. If something operates at a certain threshold level of heinousness and evil, many people will react with instant absolute denial so that their Pollyanna world view is not tarnished. Satanists learned this a long time ago. Most people REFUSE TO BELIEVE what is killing them, making killing them that much easier.

https://slaynews.com/news/rei-close-portland-store-soaring-crime-rates/

Popular outdoor recreation retailer REI is closing its store in Portland, Oregon, due to the city’s soaring crime rates.

The company announced on Monday that it is shuttering the Pearl District store located in downtown Portland due to increasing local crime.

REI also revealed that it has suffered retail loss from store sales at the location.

In an email sent to members, the company expressed its sadness over the decision but explained that the Portland location experienced its highest number of break-ins and thefts despite actions to provide extra security.

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Get ready posh and white liberal suburbs of Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, etc.

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https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/oregon-bill-homeless-camp-sweeps-illegal/283-637ab1aa-e152-4b8a-a678-e2faba73e425

PORTLAND, Ore. — There’s a relentless rhythm on the streets of any sufficiently large city in Oregon that’s become increasingly routine for everyone, regardless of where they sleep. Homeless people set up camp, then the city posts it for removal. Most of the time, the homeless people move to another location and the cycle repeats.

A proposed Oregon bill aimed to reverse that routine and even allow homeless people to sue for $1,000 if they are harassed or told to move. The legislation, House Bill 3501, is called the “Right to Rest Act” and it’s been introduced in Oregon before.

Patrick says

A proposed Oregon bill aimed to reverse that routine and even allow homeless people to sue for $1,000 if they are harassed or told to move. The legislation, House Bill 3501, is called the “Right to Rest Act” and it’s been introduced in Oregon before.

It's KommieKunt confiscation of public and private property by the deputized rabble, and another abdication of the nominal government job of keeping the population safe. Another psychotic Kommie law that has to wend its way through the courts to being declared unconstitutional.

These abdications will eventually lead to tax evasion and tax protest. It's the Kommies killing the tax base that lays their golden eggs, but they want primitive culture, anyway. These people have no literacy and are stupid. Soros smiles.

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/12/11/oregon-governors-plan-to-revive-portland-more-cops-and-outlaw-public-drug-use-n598365

So it has gradually dawned on the geniuses in charge that the city/state took some wrong turns back in 2020 and may need to dig itself out by actually changing things. Back in August, Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon announced she was forming a task force designed to help revive the city of Portland by carefully studying the problem and making recommendations.

Gov. Tina Kotek announced Wednesday she is launching a task force focused on bolstering the economic future of Portland’s central city, which continues to reel from converging crises…

The move comes as Portland’s urban core remains among the nation’s slowest to recover in the aftermath of the pandemic amid blocks of empty offices and storefronts as well as pervasive homelessness, open drug use and public safety concerns.

Today, Gov. Kotek announced she’ll be acting on the list of recommendations she got from the task force, which include adding more police officers and outlawing public drug use.

What? That's racist!

(Hey, it doesn't have to make sense, because wokeness never does.)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12866483/portland-residents-leave-city-police-homelessness-crime-robot.html

Over half of Portland residents want to leave city after defunding police led to sprawling homelessness and spikes in crime - as business is forced to turn to ROBOT cop to patrol its property
Majority of Portland voters would consider leaving the city if given the opportunity, a poll found
The shocking results come after defunding the police led to increases in crime and homelessness

People I talk to who have told me they escaped Portland because the mayor they voted for is too liberal and the place is to crazy for them also tell me their voting habits have not changed and make no connection and that they will still vote liberal in their new towns because everything there is fine. They are incapable of anything.

I mean think about it. Portland, Austin, and Seattle are all liberal shit holes because of the people who left California and moved there because they thought California was becoming unlivable. And they voted the same liberal way in these new cities. Then they will move from there and do it all over again never making the connection THEY ARE the problem.

I think the ultimate solution is for those people to escape their own resentments.

At Safeway in Tri Valley, I saw a woman across from the store entrance posing as a homeless, with her homeless junk spread around her and the usual signage of dire need. When I came out of the store, she was loading her 'homeless' stuff and her sign into a big stretch SUV. So, she was just a member of a beggar's ring and they probably took her and others from place to place to drop them off for a while before any authorities showed up to stop them.

It's like the flower vendors who deal drugs in Santa Cruz. A big white van picks them up and drops them off at their locations with an illegal tending the 'store'. Their guy by the park where I live is always nervous as a cat, almost always on the phone, and never responds if you pass and say hello. When the crazy gay guy lived across the street, I saw him down there buying drugs, but he was so crazy, he totally flummoxed the vendor by doing it in an obvious way while carrying on, it was kind of funny.

Oregon is just a weird state overall from my experience as a midwesterner visiting. Has that reputation as being weird. I substitute it with being stupid and of low education. I love the Mt. Hood area, but still it's weird. I have a favorite mountain and it's Mt. Hood if anyone has a mountain fetish. I just feel like the people living there are disconnected from reality.

For fucks sake I got chased down about to pump my own gas last time I was there. I totally forgot you need someone for that.... Again, stupid. Thinking of it now, do they have to plug your Tesla in for you? Serious question. That would suck to have to talk to a moron for 20-30 minutes versus 3 for an ICE fill up. Never understood why they do that. Canada was the only other place I experience the gas station attendant.

WookieMan says

Canada was the only other place I experience the gas station attendant.

New Joisey, although I think they recently abolished the practice. Last time I gassed up there, the fucking attendant used my credit card number to charge shit at Home Depot.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

WookieMan says

Canada was the only other place I experience the gas station attendant.

New Joisey, although I think they recently abolished the practice. Last time I gassed up there, the fucking attendant used my credit card number to charge shit at Home Depot.

Dick. It's a waste of money when the guy or gal could be doing something more productive when I'm fully capable of pumping my own gas. Guy didn't even check the oil like they did in Canada when I was a kid.

I'm a generous tipper, but I have no clue about the etiquette on gas pumping. I didn't give him anything. Whatever. I'm not tipping 3-5 seconds of effort. Now if he washed my windows, checked the oil (rental car so who gives a fuck) and did other basics I'd give a buck or two I suppose. I just don't get the practice. Jobs obviously, but it just raised the price of fuel which is still taxed. It's the definition of retardation.

Once a hipster paradise that prompted cable satire Portlandia, which told of residents obsessing about barista-made coffee and bike share schemes, this liberal north east coast city now looks more like a nightmare dystopia.

That is because two years ago Portland decriminalised all drugs — including heroin, cocaine, crystal meth and Fentanyl, under what was known as Measure 110.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25197431/

ad says

Once a hipster paradise that prompted cable satire Portlandia, which told of residents obsessing about barista-made coffee and bike share schemes, this liberal north east coast city now looks more like a nightmare dystopia.

That is because two years ago Portland decriminalised all drugs — including heroin, cocaine, crystal meth and Fentanyl, under what was known as Measure 110.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25197431/

I'm old enough to remember "conservatives"
of p.net arguing for ending any and all restrictions on hard drugs.

RWSGFY says

I'm old enough to remember "conservatives"
of p.net arguing for ending any and all restrictions on hard drugs.

sounds more like left wing anarchist ... leans more toward anarcho tyranny...

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WookieMan says

Now if he washed my windows, checked the oil (rental car so who gives a fuck) and did other basics I'd give a buck or two I suppose. I just don't get the practice. Jobs obviously, but it just raised the price of fuel which is still taxed. It's the definition of retardation.

They have people to pump gas because their are some really stupid people that have trouble with something as simple as pumping gas. They also want to stop the the guys topping off their rental car on the way to the airport...


... who aren't used to the quality of Oregon Cannabis.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/fiery-lessons-tuesday-may-7-2024

Oh, Portland. This morning’s top story comes from the Times of Israel, since U.S. media found the story too obscure to publish. The Times’ headline yesterday read, “Portland pro-Palestinian group claims it torched 17 cop cars.” First off, torching a fleet of cop cars is NOT domestic terrorism. That label is reserved for Christians protesting abortion clinics. And sane people:




As the image above shows, apparently Portland’s anarchistic Antifa groups have their own website and a blog. Portlanders, try to follow me here, but you can use the website to find the criminals.

Anyway, according to the manifesto claiming responsibility, Antifa, who was so very active during the 2020 Summer of Protest supporting black folks, has unfolded a different section of its utility knives, and now supports radical religious jihadi muslims in Palestine. Not everyday Palestinians, mind you. They like the terrorist ones. Not only that, they claimed their attack supported native Americans and black folks and students and even anarchical heroes of history. Here’s what the “Rose City Brigade” said in its statement:

On May Day we torched some PPB cars at their training facility. We cut through a fence, set ten fires and are happy it grew to burn fifteen cars!
Our attack was preemptive. We knew the occupation at Portland State U. would be swept violently and wanted to attack the police before.
Above all we did it for the Palestinian martyrs! We did it for the Haymarket Martyrs (ed. note: the Haymarket Martyrs are eight bombmaking anarchists arrested in Chicago in 1886). We did it for all the Black and Indigenous rebels murdered by slavers and settlers.
We did it for all the brutalized student protesters.

Makes sense. I mean, if you’re going to burn up a whole fleet of police cars, you might as well pile in as many different groups as you can. Portland’s anarchists did, stretching all the way back to 1886 to find comrades to share in the sweet anti-cop glory.

The putatively untraceable May 2nd website post (no arrests have been made) went on to provide a lengthy list of suggestions for student protestors, about how to make their pro-Palestine protests even more violent. “If the cops come,” the Rose City Anarchists encouraged students, “don't just resist arrest, fight them!” It relied on simple logic: “They will hate you and beat you if you're peaceful or violent, and it is time to be violent!”

As a lawyer, I should pause at this point to suggest students should consider ignoring Antifa’s advice, and cooperating when confronted with tense, anxious law enforcement officers authorized to use deadly force to uphold the law. Especially when you act violent. ...

It’s been a week since the preemptive po-po burning. Local Fox-12 reported this weekend that cleanup efforts were underway after three days of mostly-peaceful protests at Portland State University, its library, and nearby businesses. The protests are now over. They’ve re-opened Portland U.’s campus. Except for the library. Which wants to let the protestors know it is very sorry and please don’t occupy it again.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/deadly-force-wednesday-may-22-2024

In even more good news from the most unlikely places, and further evidence of the conservative counter-revolution, behold a story from the most unlikely place of all: Portland! ...

Yesterday, voters in Multnomah County — a hyper-liberal county that has not picked a Republican presidential candidate since 1960 — considered whether to replace their woke, anti-law-and-order incumbent district attorney, Mike Schmidt, whose over-funded campaign benefited from multiple millions from malignant Soros NGOs. His challenger is veteran prosecutor Nathan Vasquez, who was a Republican until just recently, when he changed his registration to unaffiliated in order to run.

According to Politico, Portland’s DA race is a stinky microcosm of national politics, the unsightly rotting fruit of democrat excess. A short four years ago, overjoyed liberals applauded the success of Soros’s national plan to capture local district attorneys and sheriffs for pennies on the political dollar. Having their hands firmly on the law-enforcement wheel in many areas, democrats promptly drove their local economies right off the hipster road into the fire swamp of anarchy.

It’s all connected; high crime doesn’t just make people anxious, it also makes for a terrible economy and nowhere to shop. Only democrats think you can stop prosecuting criminals (of a certain melanin content) and expect everything to shine with social success. It didn’t work. In Soros-DA jurisdictions, crime rates have exploded, as unprosecuted criminals not only commit more crimes, but they also commit crimes more often and more daringly because they feel emboldened. ...

Even in Portland, most Americans who vote liberal still want to live like conservatives. Congratulations, Portland! You’re hauling yourself off rock bottom. Keep it going.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/portland-police-wish-there-were-some-kind-of-organized-armed-force-that-could-fight-back-against-antifa