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When Portland Died-A city crumbles under a wave of anarchy and crime
Frontpagemagazine ^ | August 7, 2023 | Michael A. Letts

Posted on 08/07/2023 7:07:15 AM PDT by SJackson

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Substitute your favorite urban metropolis for Portland.
1 posted on 08/07/2023 7:07:15 AM PDT by SJackson
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The worst part is, the people who voted for this s___t simply pack up and move to another city to turn it into a wasteland.


2 posted on 08/07/2023 7:09:18 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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I’ll say it again. We need a national holiday just for cops.


3 posted on 08/07/2023 7:10:24 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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Need a new TV Show....Idiots of Portland. (It is very sad...I once lived in Portland)


4 posted on 08/07/2023 7:10:51 AM PDT by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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To: SJackson

Going for a weekend next month for a wedding. Can’t wait.


5 posted on 08/07/2023 7:11:24 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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6 posted on 08/07/2023 7:12:18 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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"...[Portland] has now fallen into hard times, mainly due to rising crime within the communities."

How's that for hard-hitting analysis? Just peel the onion one layer and you will find a City Council filled with radical socialists, communists and other assorted far-left wingers who radically cut police funding. That, combined with very attractive ultra-liberal policies that attract bums and druggies and decriminalization of dope made Portland the perfect toxic stew to create a totally lawless city.

I am constantly amazed that citizens and city politicians are so brain-dead that they cannot forecast the outcomes of their misguided policies. Every normal person who can connect Cause and Effect saw this coming.

Will the pendulum EVER swing back to law and order, getting rid of Soros DAs, the police busting heads, mass arrests, making drugs illegal, building prisons, tough sentences and long incarcerations?

7 posted on 08/07/2023 7:14:49 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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This crap is why I don’t want to hear anything about Trump’s personality or anything else. We need a leader at the top and fast.


8 posted on 08/07/2023 7:15:22 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: SJackson

Vigilantism may be just around the corner.


9 posted on 08/07/2023 7:16:10 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

... and when you point this out to other Democrat/Communists who have moved into your town they become highly offended ... especially when you tell them to leave their Democrat/Communist Party “values” behind so as not to destroy their new home.


10 posted on 08/07/2023 7:18:08 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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Americans are getting what they deserve. Good and hard.


11 posted on 08/07/2023 7:18:20 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I never understood that sentiment — especially after the COVID fiasco when those cops dutifully obeyed orders from their Nazi leaders to enforce totalitarian lockdowns and mandates.


12 posted on 08/07/2023 7:22:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”)
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Americans are getting what they deserve. Good and hard.

And the parasites invading our country are loving it.

13 posted on 08/07/2023 7:27:24 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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Why is this a FED problem?

If the local and state gov refuse to do anything to fix it? then why is the up to the feds?

As the saying goes, “You get the gov you deserve and vote for.”

If the voters keep voting for these people. This is obviously the way they WANT portland to be.


14 posted on 08/07/2023 7:27:48 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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*We need a national holiday just for cops.*

*I never understood that sentiment — especially after the COVID fiasco when those cops dutifully obeyed orders from their Nazi leaders to enforce totalitarian lockdowns and mandates.*

It’s simple. The people need to appreciate the cops more. Those who stand on the sidelines while the SHTF are the problem.


15 posted on 08/07/2023 7:30:02 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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Keep voting Democrat!

Unfortunately, when it's time to pay the Piper, these people move to a red state and continue to vote blue.

16 posted on 08/07/2023 7:34:57 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: SJackson
In Portland, this didn’t start with George Floyd.
17 posted on 08/07/2023 7:36:44 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: 17th Miss Regt

> Vigilantism may be just around the corner. <

And that’s when the city will crack down. On the vigilantes, that is.
Remember that Sikh worker who recently beat a thief in Stockton, California?
He’s now under police investigation for possible assault charges.

I’ll bet you a dollar that when he called about shoplifters in the past, the cops were too busy to show up. But they will certainly find the time to arrest him.


18 posted on 08/07/2023 7:40:50 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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"I am constantly amazed that citizens and city politicians are so brain-dead that they cannot forecast the outcomes of their misguided policies."

I don't think the politicians are the least bit surprised. I think it is their intention.

19 posted on 08/07/2023 7:43:48 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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This is a fluffy look at Portland or substitute Seattle, both are the same. The author skips over the real problem, communists, by calling Portland “the pinnacle artistic community” nonsense.

Portland and Seattle are not artistic communities, they’re filthy hotbeds of radical communist agitprop’s. No amount of flowery spin can illustrate it any other way.

Trustafarian’s rule the downtown core of dystopian Portland, Seattle too. Their rhetoric attracts the attention of every undereducated angry Godless mentally deficient reprobate, and stupid aging hippie Hipsters too, worldwide to come to their utopia.

I for one think we should sequester these cities and encourage more communistic migration to both Portland and Seattle and let them enjoy their dystopian utopia while most of Oregon, Washington and the rest of the sane world can watch, wonder and be thankful they are there and we are not. Of course, there should be no way out if you commit to those places.


20 posted on 08/07/2023 7:53:35 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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