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A tale of two cities:
Portland, OR population: 641k
Milwaukee, WI population: 659k
Portland annual budget: $7.1 billion
Milwaukee annual budget: $1.9 billion
Multnomah County annual budget: $3.5 billion
Milwaukee County annual budget: $1.4 billion
Portland Metro annual…
All the people in Portland who say it is no big deal or even good that Walmart, REI, and now Target stores have closed in the city have no idea the impact such closures mean to the community in terms of access to goods, loss of tax revenue, increased unemployment, and the vacated…
Saturday, a 17-year-old parked her car while thrifting in the area. A trans female in a tent threw a stick at her and called her transphobic. She ignored him and continued to her destination. When she came back to her car this is what it looked like. The person, Vivian Shemansky…
Mike Schmidt said this week he would prosecute those who entered the PSU library with breaking and entering, but this morning recanted. Sources say Portland Police were set to clean out the PSU library this morning.
@damikeschmidt
informed the police he would not prosecute…
Attached is a list of fees charged by local governments to currently develop one single family home in Portland: $165k. I similar property in the same area in 2017: $38k.
When we discuss greed in property development, isn’t it interesting they never speak about the government?
Fun fact about Oregon:
Minor in possession of alcohol or marijuana is a violation that carries a minimum fine of $265 and a maximum fine of $1000
Person in possession of heroin, meth, or fentanyl: minimum fine of $45, maximum fine of $100.
Oregon’s First Lady was given an office, two staffers, security & access to private meetings - all without legislature approval. An ethics violation has been filed.
#tinakotek
#oregonlife
#oregongovernor
#orpol
@MrAndyNgo
This is the just the beginning. There will be more of these for sure. Some of the most violent anarchists in Portland identify as trans/non-binary. It’s an identitarian cult: trans/communist/anarchist. Many of them are horribly misogynistic.
Why do I always feel that leftist opinions are exactly the same opinions that a 14-year-old goth kid would have:
-ACAB
-Drugs are cool
-Graffiti is art
-“Why do I have to work? Everything should be free!”
-I feel so depressed/oppressed/colonized
And the government takes place…
I travel about 3 to 4 times per year, so when people who never leave Portland say, “it’s like this everywhere” I know that statement is a lie. The psychosis on the streets of Portland is singularly staggering.
I just called the Secretary of State elections office and they said only 53.1% of the ballots have been counted. The woman I spoke to said it is ridiculous that the media has already called Kotek and Measure 114. It’s not over folks.
I was in Old Town this morning with
@kevinvdahlgren
. This is Aaron, who has been in Portland for 60 days. He says the city of Billings, Montana offered him a handful of sanctuary cities to relocate to - he chose Portland - and they bought him a one-way bus ticket.
We interviewed Damian, US Marine veteran who recently bought a house for his wife and young child. He works 60-80 hours/week. The block that he lives on has been almost entirely taken over by a RV/abandoned car drug encampment.
Today, leftist fascists assaulted women who held a public forum speaking about women’s rights. A group of mostly masked males pepper sprayed, punched, and shoved the women who showed up to the event. There was no police response and no arrests.
Not only did the men pepper spray and knock Cass down, breaking her glasses, they also attacked an elderly female passerby who had nothing to do with WDI USA's event:
As if Oregon needed any more insane laws enacted, HB 3501 or the "Right to Rest Act" might be the most insane one yet. Not only does the bill decriminalize camping in public places, but allows homeless people to sue individuals who ask them to move along.
This idiot is actually running for city council.
Yes, Portland, this is what you get when you don’t understand what you were voting for when you voted for the new city council system coupled with ranked choice voting. This moron could get 25% of the vote and end up yelling about…
No one in Portland is stealing tomatoes from grocery stores because they need them to survive. Thieves are targeting baby formula and cell phones so they can resell them for booze and drug money.
Let me run a scenario:
1) Cartels become interested in Portland and Oregon because of its lax drug and crime laws and its low police numbers with even lower morale.
2) They invest $billions in Oregon on multiple levels.
3) They donate to campaigns of candidates who would be…
Protesters in Portland have been trying to interfere with journalists all day. Attacking cameras etc. What did they tell the reporter to do? LIE ABOUT IT. Cuz it’s peaceful ya know? They didn’t know they were live. Second video the cover up.
#protesters
@MrAndyNgo
@CollinRugg
So Multnomah County is suing oil companies and coal producers because of the heat dome that occurred two summers ago. Does this mean we can sue the county for creating the ecological and livability disaster they have created on Portland’s streets with their horrible policies?
So…the owners of La Mota gave Shemia Fagan $45k to get her elected, gave her a job that would pay her $150k/year once she was elected, and then had her produce a study that would influence the state to pass less strict cannabis industry laws, in which the owners of La Mota were…
Meeting last night about a proposed safe rest village in Tigard didn’t go very well for the city council or the mayor. The meeting place was packed out the door with residents demanding that they don’t turn Tigard into another Portland.
This is a particularly delicious post. This person, who is in my neighborhood, along with a group of 20 or so virtual signaling leftists, would attack me for speaking out about the homeless crisis 7 years ago. He and his group called me a liar and every -ist or -phobe term in the…
Imagine being a high school senior this year at a PPS school. This has been your last four years:
2020: out of school for 1/3 of the school year
2021: required to wear masks when you were allowed back to school
2022: masking until March, then regular classes
2023: teacher’s…
One has to wonder how these people who become governor in the state of Oregon get elected at all. Kotek hasn’t even been in office for a year, and she is already the lowest approval rating, yet she won the election by over 3% of the vote.
Just to keep tally:
Not to be allowed:
Gas leaf blowers
Straws
Plastic bags
Flavored cigarettes
To be allowed:
Fentanyl
Meth
Human trafficking
Releasing dangerous criminals again and again
Violations of the ADA lawsuit
I guess it’s time to get a gas leaf blower.
Yesterday I spoke with
@KOINNews
about the health & environmental impacts of gas-powered leaf blowers on our residents & frontline workers. City bureaus have already transitioned to electric or battery-powered leaf blowers & the next logical step is to introduce a citywide ban.
Portlanders are the second highest taxed citizens in the United States only to New York City. In NYC an individual who earns $25 million a year is at the same tax bracket as individual in Portland who earns $125k annually. Isn’t it time you started paying attention to your local…
Man witnesses a homeless man brandishing a knife chase a tourist walking down the street in downtown Portland. The police show up, but don’t get out of their cars to arrest the man who they know by name (Steven). The police claim there is nothing they can do about him.
Multnomah County commissioners are voting on a 6-8% fee increase for restaurants and other similar businesses today. This is crazy considering the number of restaurants that have been closing over the last 3+ years with many of them taking on large added expenses already for…
Can we just finally say it? Aren’t we done with
@DAMikeSchmidt
and his lax policies and utter incompetence? He releases the largest fentanyl distributor in Portland after he gets caught with 11 million doses of fentanyl, and now, they can’t locate him.
This took place adjacent to the city’s largest needle exchange off of 82nd and SE Ash. The man, Gavin, is a regular at the exchange. He has been taken to the hospital multiple times in the last year, and has been narcaned more times than anyone can count.
Earlier today a group of activists with Jewish Voices for Peace(JVP) Portland advocated for a ceasefire in Gaza by holding a 'die-in' at Senator Ron Wyden's house.
Found out today that
@IamTravisNelson
, House Rep, district 44, doesn’t actually work as a nurse. He actually has a high paid, $100k+/year job at OEA, Oregon’s public union for teachers, which is currently on strike for PPS. Apparently, he uses a different last name for this…
Hey, just so everyone knows, Nik Blosser, Deborah Kafoury’s husband, was a VP at PGE for Public Affairs. He formerly worked for the Biden Administration. Through his Presidency at Renew Oregon, he lobbied for the Oregon Legislature to “aggressively adopt green energy plans.” In…
Earlier this week it was announced that Mike Schmidt received $213K from Working Families of Oregon. Yesterday, the Oregonian broke the news that that money came from George Soros.
Watching these petulant children scream at city council today just shows how completely ineffectual these radicals are. All they can do is scream and threaten. A good percentage of them work within the Homeless Industrial Complex...in other words, the people who have been paid…
@MarinaMedvin
We are becoming like China in our indifference to human lives because the system punishes those who try to help victims and allows perpetrators to roam freely to do whatever they want.
It is pretty interesting that Sisters of the Road, an organization that is listed as a food aid and homeless services organization, spent $170k of their $1.1M budget in 2022 for lobbying. Why would an organization need to spend a huge percentage of their contributions and grants…
Things that have multiplied since Measure 110 passed:
1) Fentanyl and meth use
2) Overdoses
3) Murders
4) homeless deaths
5) RV and tent fires
6) Urban Blight
7) “Narcaning”
8) Middle and business class flight
9) Homeless Industrial Complex
Anything else?
A couple hours ago, there were at least a half dozen deaths/dead bodies found that were OD related (all within an hour), including one in Old Town, one downtown around 4th and Washington, one near a hotel on Sandy Blvd, and one on 96th and SE Division. It’s very probable that a…
Oregon Board of Education eliminates requirements on writing, reading, and math on students. One has to wonder what students are required to learn by going to public schools, perhaps gender and race theory?
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Did you know that 37 states and Washington DC have banned teacher’s strikes? It’s time for Oregon to do the same so the union can’t hold students hostage to labor strikes.
Don’t drive your car, they say. Take public transportation, they say. Even better: take the Max! What could happen?
Well, someone could jump you and chew off part of your face. Someone could stab you, you could get fentanyl blown in your face, you could get screamed at by a…
I might be crazy, but it seems like further restricting access to downtown Portland, a place no one wants to go to anyway, might not be the best policy for downtown businesses or it’s residents.
@MrAndyNgo
@ryantcarson
@ArtSchoolJock
Always fun to see a guy act like a tough guy on-line, only to see him try to play patty cake with a dude trying to kill him with a knife.
The Oregon Law Center, the entity that is suing the city of Portland over its camping ban, which has yet to be enforced, gets nearly 2/3’s of its funding from taxpayer funds. In other words, they are using Portland taxpayer funds to sue the city for attempting to fix the city’s…
This morning, PAT members use the Antifa tactic of blocking traffic during a strike protest. Probably not the best way to get working class community members on their side by blocking people from going to work.
An Oregon Audit found $426 million unaccounted for at the Oregon Housing and Community Services. This has inched past negligence and incompetence and is fast approaching criminal.
🚨 Oregon Lost Track of $426 million in Federal funds for Emergency Rental Assistance. 🧵
“In the 43-page audit released Thursday, the Oregon Audits Division revealed that Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) couldn’t definitively say where the millions designated to…
This happened last night in Sellwood while we were having dinner outside with a group of friends. Our car was parked a half a block away on a busy street in broad daylight, but we didn’t even hear it happen. We found out about it, when quite randomly a follower who is also a…
Breaking News:
The US Supreme Court will hear Martin v. Boise - a decision that tied local city government plans and policy to deal with the right for homeless to camp on public property in the Ninth Circuit. If SCOTUS overturns Boise - which is likely - local judges will no…
I don’t know what to say about this. You don’t have a contingency plan in place for warming shelters? With all the $millions paid by taxpayers, you don’t have an emergency process involving warming shelters where they are properly staffed? What, was everyone in the county too…
I just quote-posted three different Oregon Democrat politician posts that were nearly identical about how they are going to “protect democracy.” They have no such interests. Their interests are Power. They realize that their failed policies are very unpopular, so they figure the…
The middle class in Portland and similar cities are leaving because they work their ass off to afford either a mortgage or rent and face the constant pressures of higher taxes and food prices, violence and alarming criminality, all the while, they see a certain group living
For all of their talk about “climate justice” and helping the homeless, the leadership in this state failed miserably in being ready for an event, that I’m positive, they would identify as being proof of climate change. Instead they:
1) Were woefully unprepared to to deal with…
So, let me get this straight: the new Secretary of State, who is unelected and selected by Gov. Kotek, decides there is nothing wrong, unethical, or corrupt about the OLCC pot audit that was responsible for the former Secretary of State’s, Shemia Fagan, resignation. The audit was…
Just to keep track, Portland:
Cars, straws, oil, capitalism, and fireworks? BAD
Tents, toxic waste, graffiti, open air drug markets and public hard drug use, and communism? GOOD
All fireworks are banned in Portland.
Fireworks during the Fourth of July are a tradition, but more fires are reported on this day than on any other of the year in the United States. Fireworks cause nearly half of them.
@PDXFire
#FireworksBan
#FourthofJuly
In a constant occurrence in Portland, a woman steals items from a Fred Meyer. When an employee confronts her, the thief cusses her out and calls her a c-word. The license plate shown is actually registered to a red pickup truck.
In this article, I really couldn’t really get much past the picture of Governor Kotek playing pickleball with the owners of super shady, potentially cartel connected, La Mota.
#portlandstreetresponse
pulling up to a intersection, giving a baggy to a senior man who is panhandling. They didn’t exit their new sprinter van, speak to him about this unique situation, or work to connect him to shelter or life changing services. Why is that?
@CommissionerRG
Coming your way Metro is proposing a vehicle mileage tax (VMT) to include installing tracking software on your automobile, they are calling it VMT. It was proposed yesterday at Gerritt Rosenthal an elected metro council representative. This is another avenue for ODOT and their…
I’ve got my order in for a full cow of privately raised beef. Fuck all you all. I’ll get my privately raised beef at a fraction of the cost and eat all the meat I want. 🖕
Americans will soon be advised to eat less meat in an initiative by the United Nations to meet the constraints of the Paris Climate Accords, Bloomberg reported.
Pretty hilarious watching all the usual moronic leftists blaming Fagan’s corruption on her salary. Now they are all looking into the “important work of raising salaries of elected officials.”
These people are beyond cringe.
The best (i.e. funniest) part of this article is when the PSU researcher tries to give every reason for Portland’s loss of population other than the actual reasons: just how dangerous it is to live in the city due to mass homelessness and violence.
Happy 2024 everyone.
My first statement of the new year is this:
The political elites, along with the Homeless Advocacy Cartel are using the homeless, the drug addicted, and the trafficked as chattel in order to launder $billions of taxpayer money through advocacy programs…
Tina Kotek already has a substantially negative rating: 43% view her negatively, while 33% vie her positively. This falls in line with Kate Brown, who was by far the US’s least favorite governor. Why do people keep voting for people like this?
This is what is wrong with Housing First. You can’t pay peoples’ rent forever. Getting people into housing doesn’t get them sober, and it doesn’t help them being able to better manage their lives. It’s a temporary bandage, and that’s it.
The level of corruption within the Portland Latino nonprofit network and their connection to RICO level fraud and connection to Mexican cartel money and influence is one of the driving forces behind Portland’s destruction is palpable.
More to come.
Just in case you thought all those teachers out there picketing was about showing their solidarity, the fact is they get $120/day to do so from the OEA. This is from a teacher’s FB group. Needless to say, they are not happy this got out!
WW releases the first story about the serial killer who was one of the individuals Kate Brown released early on clemency, a story we have been talking about for weeks. Although the police claimed the death of the six women weren’t related,
Early this morning, Oregon Democrats are going to release what their “fix” is to Measure 110, which will make possession of narcotics a Class C misdemeanor, which won’t do anything differently to our current system. The correct course would be to make it a Class A misdemeanor.…
Antifa member who had been involved in direct actions in Portland from 2018-2020, was found guilty of murdering his infant son. The 2nd degree murder charge was pled down by the DA’s office to a manslaughter charge and gave him a sentence of 150 months.
The Portland Korean Church in downtown Portland was engulfed in flames, lit on fire by squatters. Neighbors had been sounding the alarm for months about the danger, and this was not the first fire at the church.
As PPS announces that kids won’t return to school until after Thanksgiving, here is an example of a follower who shows that 43% of his property tax goes towards education.
WOW (a thread): Dharma Mirza, a tri-chair of the panel in charge of distributing Oregon's Measure 110's drug treatment dollars, blasted efforts to reform/repeal M110 as "misinformation," "dangerous," and informed by "unabashedly racist and ableist rhetoric." (1/6)
#orpol
#orleg
Red Sauce Pizza, which made the news because their delivery vehicle was stolen (also, the black box in the bed of the truck was stolen 3 months earlier), is, in fact, an anti-police company that supported defunding the police two years ago.
Electricity is increasing this month statewide in the state of Oregon after 2 non-elected PUC bureaucrats approved the increase. (These positions are appointed by the Governor). PGE is a whopping 18% And Pacific Power 11%, but expected to increase again this month. And the…
The person who died in the police involved shooting at Mall 205 yesterday has been identified as Tyrone Johnson II.
Johnson was charged and convicted of two serious felonies for armed robbery and Assault II for which he served 6 1/2 years in prison. He got out of prison in…
@Jenniferhochsc2
@realChrisBrunet
I feel bad for these students who have to take classes from you. Do you remind them every day that they are just peasants and not “Ivy League material?”