Rumor What's going on in Portland?

The point remains: you only trust news when it tells you want to hear or believe.

 

OK, then, paint another picture for me. That's my challenge to you since you're asserting I only trust what I want to hear.

The fact is, the news I read/see/hear, and the stories I'm told (yes, plenty locally, as well), tell me Portland pretty much leads the nation in this type of behavior.

 

....who believe in lizard people. Yep, you are correct.

 

Very good to know you're in the know.

 

QPokerDog

 

Yes, I'd surmise, he leads the forum in queries per day.

 

Just drove through downtown PDX. It is shredded up (they have several streets near the waterfront torn up for work). There’s definitely more homeless here than in the past. No riots. No protests. See several folks out and about enjoying the nice weather. They look like reasonable folks that are probably going to restaurants.

I’ve bashed Portland as it’s not for me these days, but I trust my own eyes more than your lame and biased articles from Fox News.

 

Had breakfast of a sunny sidewalk this morning beautiful day lots of people enjoying it. Tons of new construction and tons of trash everywhere, quite the juxtapose.

 

Gentrification = musical chairs for poor people.

 

Glad you enjoyed the nice day. I had cited a Sandy Mayor. Apparently, he's outside the fray. My bad.

 

Well, I am Norwegian, so, there's that.

 

It doesn't seem to much matter what the reason, Portland is the magnet for this (ongoing) activity...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/r...-over-bidens-immigration-policies/ar-BB1e5LYa

Reported antifa rioters smash windows and vandalize businesses in downtown Portland over Biden's immigration policies

"When these people come through, and we've lost an entire day of business which means that's impacting my team member's wages. This has been going on for nine months," said Jim Rice, who owns Fields Bar and Grill in downtown Portland. "Where are our resources? When do we get enough resources to finally go after and fix this?"

 

Chairs? Nah...musical cardboard boxes or milk crates or grocery carts!

 

Why the city is still letting people protest and smash windows and paint graffiti is beyond me. I work in the Pearl and it's a mess. The city is a mess. As one small business owner in the Pearl told the Oregonian before the planned "protest," "When is it going to stop?"

As you guys know, I am a died-in-the-wool Dem, but something is seriously f'd up in Portland right now.

 

Los Angeles has over 50 blocks of this downtown...it's a global issue but the authorities aren't dealing with property crime effectively. Drove through Eugene this morning and the places they've cleared and cleaned up are trashed again already....it's a public health hazard even if it's only under overpasses and outside the Walmart parking lot

 

Yeah. He is. He’s very disconnected. He believes the election was stolen. He doesn’t believe in COVID and has told his residents to defy COVID restrictions.

I’m not saying that folks don’t see things going on in Portland. But he’s proven himself an unreliable source.