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WSJ ^ | 3 Sept 2021 | James Freeman

Posted on 09/03/2021 5:56:48 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Another Portland, Ore., official quits after laboring to defend the indefensible.

Some intolerable events simply cannot be spun, even by the most talented of message massagers.

A recent Journal editorial summed up the mayor’s appalling message to his community: Anarchy is tolerable as long as you’re merely shooting at each other.

Photos obtained by The New York Times show him sitting with about a dozen people — almost all unmasked — testing the limits of the strict new mask rules.

Who can blame them? For more than a year Portland’s mayor has been asking citizens to accept both limits on their liberty and threats to their safety. Perhaps his staff is just tired of defending him.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; antifa; civilunrest; crime; dystopia; oregon; portland
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To: Deaf Smith
Internal CO2 cartridges. Google or DDG "Replica Paintball Pistol."

These idiots are looking to be planted six feet under with that stunt.


21 posted on 09/03/2021 7:58:06 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?”)
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To: Tallguy

“so their MOMS & DADS, schools and employers can take action”


22 posted on 09/03/2021 7:58:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?”)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It depends. The bad guys have been know to paint their weapons in an attempt to make the cops second guess themselves.

I can’t seem to post pics, but look up the story about an arrest in North Carolina and they guy had a glock painted like a nerf gun.


23 posted on 09/03/2021 8:21:24 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Deaf Smith

The CO2 cartridges fit in the magazine well


24 posted on 09/03/2021 8:22:34 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Flank the phookers, especially the provocateurs in the back.
If one were to break every leg in that street, would one be too harsh?
Or simply surround and drown with gasoline.
Perhaps a few aparks would not be unwelcome?


25 posted on 09/03/2021 8:56:51 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuitss)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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26 posted on 09/03/2021 9:01:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

there you go:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9922725/Portland-police-issue-hands-strategy-violent-protests-involving-paintballs-guns-bats.html


27 posted on 09/04/2021 12:14:15 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

—”there you go:”

Thanks.

Looks like a way to have some paintball fun and not pay the $25.00 fee and none of the pesky rules?

But even in the Chicago suburbs if you start smashing windows and heads they will call the cops.


28 posted on 09/04/2021 4:47:34 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Those kids need to run along and play somewhere else


29 posted on 09/04/2021 5:17:50 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; bray; 1malumprohibitum; ...
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
30 posted on 09/04/2021 6:22:54 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Anyone know name of “official “ cited in the ARTICLE?


31 posted on 09/04/2021 2:10:56 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: goodnesswins

—”Anyone know name of “official “ cited in the ARTICLE?”

See reply #5


32 posted on 09/04/2021 2:19:23 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Thanks...Ms. Wisely ain’t so wise, and didn’t last long.


33 posted on 09/04/2021 4:51:09 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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