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Richard Bicker's avatar

Brilliant, Steve!

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Gabe's avatar

Very annoying how they can just pretend antifa doesn't exist and ignore hours of footage of them throwing explosive fireworks at police and rioting day in and out. Not to mention Portland has declined considerably, but we're just making things up. I don't know how the public can be so naïve and easily persuaded against the truth. Am I just endowed with superior bullshit detector and an interest in actually knowing the truth or are those that aren't "online" just too trustworthy of traditional media sources?

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7seasjim's avatar

the only decline in portland (assuming you’ve ever been, even once) is the downtown core is a bit more hollowed out after covid. you are fed lies online and gobble them up like a pig. hope that helps.

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Larry, San Francisco's avatar

I tired Kenosha after the Jacob Blake riots. I guess all the fire gutted buildings were just part of a MAGA deception.

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Franco Booth's avatar

Where do these protesters get their money? How do they survive? Who or what directs them? I don’t see much of a plan other than acting out. Not sure Antifa is making the history books.

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7seasjim's avatar

this is all just a series of made up lies. no one is paying them to stand up against fascism. the fact you can’t grasp this is the only issue here.

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Paulus's avatar

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

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The Shadowbanned's avatar

I think the actual rioters are not paid, but the green helmets that are at every riot are part of the National Lawyers Guild, whose funding is public.

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PE Bird's avatar
6hEdited

But the key question is, how do you pronounce Antifa?

Is it Ann-TEE-Fa or AUNTIE-Fa?

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ScarletNumber's avatar

Personally I pronounce it as the former although I don't know if it's correct per se

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Steve Lloyd's avatar

I think perhaps the bad aunties is a reasonable collective term for that rogues gallery

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

There are some photos you can smell as much as you can see.

What a murderer's row of aspiring murderers!

Portland should just cut out the middlemen and turn their govt over to the righteous freedom-loving soldiers of Antifa. They could hire someone like Margaret Brennan to be their press secretary—how can you blame the administration for something if it doesn't exist!??

Portland Antifa is like the mafia for hideous sexually confused drug-addled mutants. Don't talk about this thing of ours to outsiders—and never wash or brush your teeth. It's a code of honor!

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prosa123's avatar

This video is insane. Skip forward to 11:30. A Portland cop is fighting with a white skell for control of his gun while the cop’s partner - a woman - is doing NOTHING to help. At 12:25 she “pounds” on the skell’s back with pathetically weak “punches” that I guarantee the skell didn’t even feel.

While ideally she should be fired with forfeiture of all pension rights I suppose a remedy would be to suspend her without pay for six months while the undergoes, at her own expense, an extremely rigorous full time fitness and strength program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGHcOd7nmb0

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Erik's avatar

The cop asks "and how did that make you feel?"

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Rico Wolverine's avatar

Lived in Portland from 95'-07' & loved it early on to around 02'-microbrew culture, great clubs (of both the music & strip variety), great/walkable downtown w/amazing restaurants & arguably the most perfect weather starting the day after the 4th of July through late Oct. But for my last 5 years there I started to "notice" creeping negative changes. First the annoying as crap "gutter punks"-mostly probably at least decently well off young whiteys grubbing for change & just being douchey in general. Plus, the major influx captured in the show Portlandia of beyond libtard English majors w/BAs from the likes of oppressed colleges like Middlebury Vermont who couldn't find a job in their career at all so they had to suffer as wait staff making the super high min. wage PLUS tips! It got old fast. So glad I fled to the normal Burque in NM just like I did my hometown of Detroit in the early 90s when I was still in my 20s.

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Beemac's avatar

Nancy Rommelman covers Portland when this happens and she lived there for years before moving to NYC. She another night owl .

https://substack.com/@nancyrommelmann

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Kathleen Lowrey's avatar

They are so young and look so, so, so unwell.

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Tim Condon's avatar

Amazing that wapo noticed.

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Steve Lloyd's avatar

Remarkable percentage of youngish people wearing spectacles-they probably can't even see each other at night so it's hardly surprising that an old fellow like Merrick couldn't

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ScarletNumber's avatar

O/T

Considering you live in Los Angeles, what is your sleep schedule like? You seem to blog and tweet late into the night. Do you keep a radically different schedule than Mrs. Sailer? Does she work?

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