From April of 2019. Yep, Portland was nuts long before the present insanity.
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From April of 2019. Yep, Portland was nuts long before the present insanity.
All true. I will send this to my son John who lives and loves it there.
Liberals tend towards the outer edges in all of their centrifugal doing and thinking. More should be written on this phenomenon.
Another reason for living in Portland, not generally acknowledged, is the end of days frisson provided by living 50 miles from Mt St.. Helen’s. Here is a video of the 1980 eruption.
Bored, overeducated college grads who can’t find a job (or too proud to work retail) deranged from mask wearing and S.D. Pretty sure that sums up Antifa and BLM.
I do know a well educated Gen X liberal, never married, who was bored with his well-paying, cushy job in our small conservative town. He rejected possibilities in Democrat-controlled Detroit because it was too corrupt, and ended up in Texas. He admires Whitmer and despises Abbott. I am quite sure he will do everything in his power to flip Texas blue.
Although it’s the capital of a blue state, thankfully, Springfield IL is not Portland, Seattle, Chicago or even Madison. I haven’t heard or seen ANY discussion of defunding or abolishing the police-not even out of the local BLM chapter, such as it is. Things look pretty much normal around here aside from maybe half the people wearing masks.
Disclaimer: my opinions are my own. I do not represent any company or corporation, any government entity or agency, any church or religious institution, or any school or academic organization. Sorry –> I have to write that first before I state the following.
Having had to periodically visit cities in Oregon’s liberal progressive Willamette Valley over the past six years prior to the inception of the COVID-19 crisis, I can confirm that the video above is correct. While outside the Willamette Valley Oregon is Republican red, the population within the Willamette Valley dominates: cities like Portland, Salem (the capital), Corvallis (a homeland of OSU) and Eugene control who gets elected to the governorship (currently occupied by bisexual pervert Kate Brown), and the state’s representatives and senators in Washington, DC. OSU in Corvallis was where the term “Flying Spaghetti Monster” was first coined to denigrate the Judeo-Christian belief in God. Indeed, a coworker in Corvallis took great pains to brag to me (whom he knew to be a devout Catholic) that that was where such a term was first used, and he was proud of it of deriding my belief in a “sky god.” Every time I have gone to Corvallis (which is a mini-Portland), I will get accosted in a restaurant or a store by some deranged individual who immediately recognizes an outsider and starts spewing forth vile invective. And the drug and alcohol problem is overwhelming; on walks along the trail beside the Willamette River in the southern part of Corvallis, there are drug needles and empty beer bottles littering the grounds with ramshackle camping tents where the drunken and drugged out homeless live while just a mile or so away sits city hall with its Bernie Sanders slogans and aphorisms about social justice and the common good. There is a great divide between those who have good employment (at OSU and the few other places providing good wages) and the poor which all of the progressive politics in the world cannot and will not help. One day, on a Saturday morning walk downtown, the people from Planned Parenthood were out in force among the local farmers’ market (stands and booths where gentrified hippies sell their wares for two to three times the price at a grocery store). One of the Planned Parenthood women looked at me as though to talk and I shook my finger at her, saying, “Don’t start.” The look on my face was enough to deter her. And there were political booths openly espousing socialism and declaring capitalism evil among a street market whose businesses would be shutdown by enactment of such socialism. The cognitive dissonance was astounding! And the young people are spoiled brats full of hatred for Trump, Republicans, Conservativism and Catholics. As I said elsewhere, the parking lots at local companies are full of cars with Bernie Sanders bumper stickers. But if you travel just five miles away from these hotbeds of Marxist leftism, you’ll see Trump / Pence placards on lawns and those yellow flags flying, saying Don’t Trend on Me. But the drop out hippie retirees from the state of Californication have moved up into the Willamette Valley and destroyed everything good about Oregon. Truly I dread every time I have to travel to that state. I will therefore say one good thing about the COVID-19 crisis: I have not had to go there this year. Deo gratias! If NYC is the anus of the planet, then its arm pit is the Willamette Valley.
PS, I didn’t tell you: when Trump was elected in 2016, that co-worker who ridiculed my Christian faith with his story about the origin of the term the Flying Spaghetti Monster called me up at 2 am in the morning (11 pm his time) to wail and moan how terrible it was that such a mean and hateful man like Trump was elected to the highest office in the land. I listened to him for some time, simply enjoying iustitia divina. Sometimes you can enjoy something without saying a word. Yes, I despise Portland, Salem, Corvallis and Eugene wholly, completely and totally. My advice to all my friends there is simple: flee, and when you come to a place like South Carolina, don’t go voting for the failed politics that you supported in the land from which you came.
He called you at 2:00 am EST? The last time anyone dared call me at that hour was in 1984. He received a curt rebuke and we hung up on each other. Do I take it this man in pathologically self-centered?
(The only time I’ve ever called anyone in the we hours of the morning was during a medical crisis. I wasn’t treated politely by that doctor supposedly ‘on call’ for his partners).
He called you at 2:00 am EST? The last time anyone dared call me at that hour was in 1984. He received a curt rebuke and we hung up on each other. Do I take it this man in pathologically self-centered?
That is what occurred to me Art!
“Do I take it this man is pathologically self-centered?” Yes, but truthfully, I was enjoying myself listening to his crying and tears, and I was already awake rejoicing in Trump’s victory and Hillary’s defeat. 🙂 I guess I am bad too, taking pleasure in someone else’s sorrow, albeit entirely self-made. 😉
He called you at 2:00 am EST?
Anything after 10PM or before 6AM is answered with “if someone is not dying or dead, they are going to be.”
The main advantage of only having cellphones is that I can tell it to not ring outside of select, very trusted numbers, during those hours. (It also has a feature where if you’re called from the same number two or three times in X minutes, it rings anyways, in case of emergencies where they don’t have their programmed in number.)