I took a brief look at this story yesterday and it seems that they resigned from the Riot Squad, but not the PD. idk
Portland is a creaking wreckage.
There are cultural schisms in the Pacific nothwest like earthquake fault lines; plenty of old time fishing and logging and farming people around who have been buried under a thunderdome of tech donations to the radical left, all down the narrow corridor of the west coast.
This could be the second coming of Mount St. Helens led by Antifa, instead of lava.
People are not impervious to reality forever. If they are brought to complete ruin by leftist politics, then some will move away from leftist politics. Eventually, enough will for Thermidor to set in.
As in the 1960s and 70s, when proverbially enough liberal intelligentsia had had their typewriters stolen to acknowledge that the crime problem they had denied for so long was actually real.
I have a sister that lives just outside portland and I went to visit her a few weeks ago. Its hilarious seeing how clean and nice Oregon is, until the very second you get to Portland, where everything is covered in graffiti, trash and homeless people literally everywhere, and the occasional completely run down, boarded up building just sitting there.
That's actually half the problem. People in Beaverton or Oregon City are trying to act like Portland doesn't have problems, because it hasn't arrived in their neighborhoods.
You could redraw state lines. One state would be basically be Seattle, Portland, and maybe Eugene. The other would be the rest of Oregon and Washington. However, the balance of power would have to swing substantially toward states (and away from the federal government) to make it more attractive than having four reliably Democrat senators.
I took a brief look at this story yesterday and it seems that they resigned from the Riot Squad, but not the PD. idk
Portland is a creaking wreckage.
There are cultural schisms in the Pacific nothwest like earthquake fault lines; plenty of old time fishing and logging and farming people around who have been buried under a thunderdome of tech donations to the radical left, all down the narrow corridor of the west coast.
This could be the second coming of Mount St. Helens led by Antifa, instead of lava.
That's what I gathered too. The headline is a bit over-the top.
People are not impervious to reality forever. If they are brought to complete ruin by leftist politics, then some will move away from leftist politics. Eventually, enough will for Thermidor to set in.
As in the 1960s and 70s, when proverbially enough liberal intelligentsia had had their typewriters stolen to acknowledge that the crime problem they had denied for so long was actually real.
I have a sister that lives just outside portland and I went to visit her a few weeks ago. Its hilarious seeing how clean and nice Oregon is, until the very second you get to Portland, where everything is covered in graffiti, trash and homeless people literally everywhere, and the occasional completely run down, boarded up building just sitting there.
That's actually half the problem. People in Beaverton or Oregon City are trying to act like Portland doesn't have problems, because it hasn't arrived in their neighborhoods.
You could redraw state lines. One state would be basically be Seattle, Portland, and maybe Eugene. The other would be the rest of Oregon and Washington. However, the balance of power would have to swing substantially toward states (and away from the federal government) to make it more attractive than having four reliably Democrat senators.