Politics Is this really going on in Portland everyday?

Discussion in 'Blazers OT Forum' started by santeesioux, Oct 8, 2018.

  1. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

    Joined:
    Feb 15, 2010
    Messages:
    50,346
    Likes Received:
    22,531
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Wish the Hoop Fam drove through that intersection.
     
    THE HCP likes this.
  2. CupWizier

    CupWizier Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Sep 21, 2009
    Messages:
    11,265
    Likes Received:
    7,664
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    retired
    Ha, well the guy I ran over maybe didn't deserve it or maybe he did for being a drunk idiot, but after he took me to court and lost my insurance company took him to court and he had to pay for the damages to my car. :bgrin:
     
  3. hoopsjock

    hoopsjock Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 31, 2018
    Messages:
    16,302
    Likes Received:
    26,280
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Business Owner
    Location:
    North Plains
    If they were simply directing cars away from their demonstration then fine. Explain that to the cars in a civil manner. They lose any respect from me when they try to start fights with innocent people just trying to figure out where to go.
     
    Hoopguru, Orion Bailey and Lanny like this.
  4. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

    Joined:
    Sep 16, 2008
    Messages:
    70,074
    Likes Received:
    58,056
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    N.E.P.
    I was out of town bro.
     
    EL PRESIDENTE likes this.
  5. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

    Joined:
    Feb 15, 2010
    Messages:
    50,346
    Likes Received:
    22,531
    Trophy Points:
    113
    I know, I was at the same Hoop Fam Reunion.
     
    THE HCP likes this.
  6. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

    Joined:
    Sep 15, 2008
    Messages:
    26,638
    Likes Received:
    16,951
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupation:
    Elec. & Computer Engineer OSU Computer Science PSU
    Location:
    Lake Oswego, OR
    How could anyone argue with this.
     
  7. calvin natt

    calvin natt Confeve

    Joined:
    Jun 30, 2017
    Messages:
    7,520
    Likes Received:
    10,458
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Portland Suburb
    Police doing a helluva job. How the FUCK are these people allowed to DIRECT TRAFFIC and yell and threaten people driving their cars?
     
  8. Orion Bailey

    Orion Bailey Forum Troll

    Joined:
    Jan 27, 2015
    Messages:
    26,285
    Likes Received:
    21,507
    Trophy Points:
    113
    I moved because eventually I would knock one of these guys out and I would get killed.

    At the end of the video the guy hits the truck in the back and the lady directing traffic even said.. "oooohh., dammit". They KNOW what they are doing is wrong and they still do it!!!!

    I want to ask the mayor who I send my bill to cause my time is expensive. I swear if I truly ever get caught up in something like that and lose serious time,. I will be on the mayors doorstep asking him where to send the invoice to.

    When is enough enough and we are allowed to take back our streets??????


    And for anyone who wants to say protesting is legal, I'm all for protesting. But there are good ways and bad ways. Anyone who thinks this is a good way is living in a bubble....
     
    Strenuus and calvin natt like this.
  9. bodyman5000 and 1

    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

    Joined:
    Sep 29, 2013
    Messages:
    19,582
    Likes Received:
    13,216
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Las Vegas
    I'd probably attack one of them if I didn't just run one over. So glad I don't live there.

    Can't even dox them and get them fired from the job they don't have.
     
    Orion Bailey likes this.
  10. Orion Bailey

    Orion Bailey Forum Troll

    Joined:
    Jan 27, 2015
    Messages:
    26,285
    Likes Received:
    21,507
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Its a real mess. There is no easy answer but if they continue doing this, they will push good people to the brink and it will become chaos and possibly civil war.
     
    Propagandist and Hoopguru like this.
  11. BrianFromWA

    BrianFromWA Editor in Chief Staff Member Editor in Chief

    Joined:
    Sep 9, 2008
    Messages:
    26,073
    Likes Received:
    9,027
    Trophy Points:
    113
    I don't know the CCW laws in Portland, but this probably doesn't fly in FL...

    I'm a bit surprised, in a good way, that we're 30 posts in and I haven't seen "cucks" used once...
     
  12. BrianFromWA

    BrianFromWA Editor in Chief Staff Member Editor in Chief

    Joined:
    Sep 9, 2008
    Messages:
    26,073
    Likes Received:
    9,027
    Trophy Points:
    113
    I don't quite agree. To have a war, you have to have 2 sides with staying power.

    I don't think that even the most hard-core Antifa dudes in that video are going to keep coming after one of them gets killed.
     
  13. calvin natt

    calvin natt Confeve

    Joined:
    Jun 30, 2017
    Messages:
    7,520
    Likes Received:
    10,458
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Location:
    Portland Suburb

    Totally agree. It’s infuriating. Driving to the airport this morning and just looking at the tents all over the place drives me nuts too. No, i am not saying it’s an easy solution out there and no we can’t just lock everyone up but dammit let’s go. Who runs this place? We have .001% of the population living in tents and doing what they want and we all just drive around them like “shhh don’t wake up the people in the tents they’re sleeping”. I’m sick of it. Same with the protestors. It’s simple. You break a law you get arrested. Last I checked we aren’t allowed to just stand in streets hitting cars with bats.
     
  14. Orion Bailey

    Orion Bailey Forum Troll

    Joined:
    Jan 27, 2015
    Messages:
    26,285
    Likes Received:
    21,507
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Great point.
     
  15. Hoopguru

    Hoopguru Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Sep 16, 2014
    Messages:
    21,735
    Likes Received:
    17,941
    Trophy Points:
    113
    This Anifa group are nothing but a bunch of cowards! Mob dirt bags!
    If Portland tolerates this group they are being held honstage the extreme left mayor won’t do a damn thing to stop them.
     
  16. BrianFromWA

    BrianFromWA Editor in Chief Staff Member Editor in Chief

    Joined:
    Sep 9, 2008
    Messages:
    26,073
    Likes Received:
    9,027
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Legit question, as I haven't been there for either but I've been "aggressively panhandled" the last couple of times I've been back...

    Did the Occupy movement get like this? Or was it just needles and rapes and garbage and feces, but they left you alone?
     
  17. Propagandist

    Propagandist Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Sep 22, 2017
    Messages:
    3,875
    Likes Received:
    7,243
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Interesting take from overseas: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45442596

    I wonder the impression it's having on my kids. I try to keep it real basic: money and bad luck and mental illness and drugs/alcohol. But in reality, I think it is changing a lot of us. I used to be much more compassionate, much much more. But the garbage has gotten to me. Fucking needles on the playgrounds. People smoking meth all over. Gross.

    Protests can't be destructive. If they are destructive they become riots. Singing songs and chanting with signs because you believe strongly in something=fine; organized marches=totally fine. Touching anyone or anything with bad intent, fucking with my commute=fuck that. Taunting, feigning violence, holding a bat, calling strangers crazy things=bizarro and fucked. The video above still bothers me.
     
  18. Cippy91

    Cippy91 Habitual Line Stepper

    Joined:
    Jul 7, 2014
    Messages:
    9,667
    Likes Received:
    7,049
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Remember these people call themselves antifa yet they do some of the most fascist shit I ever saw. Directing traffic? trying to control people and tell them what to do? who are these losers?
     
  19. Cippy91

    Cippy91 Habitual Line Stepper

    Joined:
    Jul 7, 2014
    Messages:
    9,667
    Likes Received:
    7,049
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Occupy was the same shit. I just think they have gotten more aggressive over time. They still incited shit at the occupy movement though when all that was going on. It's only gotten worse
     
  20. BrianFromWA

    BrianFromWA Editor in Chief Staff Member Editor in Chief

    Joined:
    Sep 9, 2008
    Messages:
    26,073
    Likes Received:
    9,027
    Trophy Points:
    113
    In your opinion, what's the "punishment" or "correction" for that behavior? Most normal people would say that's bad. But is it "jail time" bad? "Community Service and Fine" bad? "Police Beatdown to disperse?" These people didn't just make a mistake, they're somehow messed up in the head thinking this is cool. Even the girl that was out there trying to be "polite" was not calling out the bad behavior.

    Overseas, there are different ways to deal militarily with this stuff. I'm partially glad I don't have to (get to) here, and I'm not trained for it like cops are, but you can't let this stuff go free. That reminded me of Tombstone where Curly Bill's gang was running roughshod over the town and the sheriffs didn't want to do anything to disturb them. Took the OK corral and the posses to figure it all out.
     

Share This Page