Posted on 10/05/2025 8:20:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It was the perfect coda to my visit to Portland, Oregon, when my phone lit up as I sat at the airport.
Lyft was letting me know that my driver, who had spent 20 minutes lecturing me about how President Trump has laundered money for Russia for decades and that Antifa doesn’t exist, had registered a complaint claiming I had discriminated against him — presumably because I disagreed with his hectoring screed.
The most amazing thing about Portland isn’t actually how far left-wing it is. Everyone has seen episodes or clips from the TV show "Portlandia." It’s how sure the people there are that everything is fine, that occasionally walking past dead bodies on the sidewalk is a normal American experience.
And how sure they seem to be that not only is anyone calling themselves a Trump supporter wrong, but immoral.
Tara Faul is a Portland-based photographer who has done excellent work documenting (and often feeding) the homeless addicts in her woebegone hometown. I was struck by something she posted on X while I was there.
"At a Portland concert last night, I heard a guy give the ‘every city is like that, bro’ to an out-of-town couple who had a rough experience in our city," she began, adding, "The wife was like, ‘No, I work in downtown Detroit, and it’s not like that.’ I was there this year and agree. It’s much cleaner."
Portland's sidewalks are teeming with the tents of homeless drug addicts, but many of the citizens seem indifferent. (Fox News)
This perfectly summed up the feeling I had, that the people in Portland are rather like a frog in boiling water. Even as the temperature rises, they cannot seem to feel the change.
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Where Pasco doesnt have sinkholes we have some of the big FL hills
With a large homeless population, politicians can secure big kickback$ by giving big $$$ to the right non-profits.
Another example of how democrats ruin everything they touch. Now in addition to the legal/justice system, politics, education etc, they have ruined Lyft.
Yep, Mt. Trashmore
In blue state cities maybe although we are gaining ground on our enemies: but not in red state cities. Not happening here in Miami.
Marxist/Leninists run WA state. I am stuck here, and in my city of deep red Republicans, and a great Sheriff, the policy of WA state keeps the vagrant/drug addicted on the streets. We had on person right outide our fence doing the Fen-bend. Wet her pants, and still there after the Police warned her to leave. Was there for over an hour. This, in a city of 8,000, halfway between Portlandia, and Skeadattle.
Marxist/Leninists run WA state. I am stuck here, and in my city of deep red Republicans, and a great Sheriff, the policy of WA state keeps the vagrant/drug addicted on the streets. We had on person right outide our fence doing the Fen-bend. Wet her pants, and still there after the Police warned her to leave. Was there for over an hour. This, in a city of 8,000, halfway between Portlandia, and Skeadattle.
We call it the Fen-bend. A jackknifed Zombie who refuses to fall.
FL has no natural features above 300’ msl
Is there a mountain? Seems to be a relative term. I had a cousin from the Ozarks ask the name of the mountain we were climbing in Oregon. I laughed. At 600 feet, it’s just a hill.
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