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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Grady Judd will have something to say if it happens in my town.
Libs are stuck on stupid.
They are rats leaving the sinking ship of cities like Los Angeles and then move to Nashville, Austin, etc. and bring their toxic communist politics with them.
Termites.
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It won’t happen in Florida.
A few months ago a handful of these idiots tried disrupting a city council meeting here....it lasted about 30 seconds and the po-po literally THREW ‘em out of city hall and arrested 2......never heard another peep.
Whats MtnClimber doing living in Florida !!
The left loves citing the 14th amendment to support things it never contemplated.
But you never see them providing this section of it:
Section 3
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States,
* shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. *”
About half the senate violates this section of the 14th amendment by giving aid & comfort to our enemies, assuming they are not the actual enemies of our country.
They’d rather drown in filth than admit their way of life, the society they helped create is corrupt and going to eventually consume them if not corrected
The only mountain I saw in Florida was made of garbage. Impressive, in its own right, but still garbage. The view from the summit was breath-taking, which is to say, I didn’t want to breathe. Carcasses of dogs, cows....gulls wheeling in the air...
If 230 ft ASL excites you, look me up in pasco
“Whats MtnClimber doing living in Florida”
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Enjoying a peaceful existence free of antifa jackasses I would imagine.......that’s what I’m doing.
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Isn’t it funny that there is NONE of that here in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho? Why is that?
But Spokane 35 miles west has a lot of it.
Does Pasco have a giant heap of trash?
When residents are in denial it’s how democrats get elected ignoring the facts and hoping for a Utopia is a fools deram.
Why doesn’t Trump show videos of these places? Like the Fentanyl Zombie videos. Bombed out strip malls, homeless all over downtown sidewalks?
Hey, have you climbed Mt. Dora? I have.
I think it was Sheriff Ivey who very clearly said if you lay a hand on the officers, throw something at them, assault them ... they will kill you "graveyard dead".
In my neck of the woods here in southern Sarasota County I am enjoying very much the absence of vagrants, beggars, tents, squalor, and filth.
That Californians are willing to put up with third world conditions in their formerly nice towns because Trump bad and abortion and illegals good ... boggles the mind.
The part I found kind of funny in the story here is that he was reported as discriminating against the leftist wacko Lyft driver who was actually harassing him
I love the reasoning of these loonies. If you don’t agree with them, you are harassing them.
So maybe Pres. Trump should pull all Federal Forces out of Blue cities and states and after they melt down offer to come in and restore order. Of course if State, Local and Federal Employees have armed security why would they change.
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