Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "News For Reasonable People" channel.

  1. The gall of this woman. The gall of all Democrat politicians.
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  2. I forgot about that. Yes. "We can't operate a business in a town that agrees with us."
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  3. The fact that Wheeler's still mayor tells me all I need to know about Portland's malaise.
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  4.  @MarieAnne.  Petition the politicians? Nah. Vote them out. Recall them. They're feckless and probably malign.
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  5. I love the way progressives re-imagine what they never understood in the first place.
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  6. Get your "Portland Guide to Urban Destruction" now!
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  7. That's sad, but true. I feel sorry for them because it sucks to go through life stupid.
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  8. That's largely why the police exist. Antifa is pushing the citizenry into forming militias (whose first target will be thugs like Antifa).
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  9. "Why'd you leave?" "They legalized theft."
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  10.  @CP-fz4sr  Good luck with that plan. I wouldn't invest in anything in those cities as long as they're being run by malevolent, insane politicians.
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  11. Local government control of police is a tradition fraught with abuse and corruption. The cops are only as good as the politicians, and of course, in our big cities, the top cops, themselves are politicians. The wealthy are automatically given "special rights" under such systems. Their kids get a slap on the wrist for crimes the poor kid down the block gets locked-up for. The local (and state) police run interference for politicians who can't keep it in their pants. Why do you think Bill Clinton was never arrested or humiliated for his many, predatory infidelities? Private policing is also fraught with abuse and corruption, but it doesn't have a blank check and isn't indemnified by the local, city or state government.
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  12. Exactly. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. If you have nowhere else to go, we'll FIND a place for you to go, and, since it's on our dime, you probably won't like it very much."
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  13. I'm pretty sure there are laws against vagrancy, and public parks have rules against camping. Since the Obama administration, Democrat-run places have passed record numbers of rules and ordinances, but pick and choose which ones they enforce. From turning a blind eye to states legalizing marijuana and basically encouraging rioters, down to petty theft and vagrancy. As a libertarian, it's almost like Obama was on the right side of the marijuana thing, but he ignored the law. As long as those laws were on the books, he was obliged, as president, to enforce the prohibition on sale and purchase of marijuana. He should've been sued or impeached for not doing his job. Most of all, he should've gone to bat for the repeal of certain laws, and done it RIGHT. Very bad precedent for our country. Now most of the cities in the country ignore the law when it suits them, or rather, enforce it selectively. On the flip side, your town being only 6,000 says that there's a good chance your local sheriff doesn't waste time going around enforcing lock-downs or vaccine mandates, because they don't carry the force of law (and they're nonsensical).
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  14. I remember the days when contracts were binding.
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  15. They reached critical mass with respect to "The more you help, the worse it gets."
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  16.  @anderander5662  So they use their incompetence to justify more power grabs. Makes me seethe with anger. Gotta watch that.
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  17. The courts are hopelessly politicized. The courts have always been the weak link in the system. Andrew Jackson defied SCOTUS over a century ago, with no problem. Obama and Biden defy the U.S. Constitution on the regular. No repercussions.
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  18. Grand jury, not judge.
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  19. They're buying up property because they're anticipating rampant inflation, which will allow them to make back all their money by selling off a fraction of what they purchased.
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  20.  @jimfarmer7811  Turning a blind eye to widespread irregularities, suspicious outcomes, and lack of oversight in violation of election law does not "certify" an election. If the election was not stolen, then why the ENORMOUS resistance to audits? If you want faith and confidence in elections, then why don't you want anybody to look into it, when there were some VERY unprecedented lapses in chain-of-custody and provenance on mail-in ballots. I'm not against mail-in ballots, but it takes time to set it up and verify that all the votes are coming from bona fide voters. Nations around the world LAUGH at Democrats' arguments against voter ID. Voter ID is something ANY 1st-, 2nd- or even 3rd-world country can manage. But not the USA! LOL! I think the voting "irregularities" disproportionately favored Democrats, so it will disproportionately favor Republicans to have solid audits, overall. But it wouldn't surprise me one bit to learn that more than one Republican has benefited from voting machines over the years, especially the RINOs like McConnell, who's a machine politician from way back beyond the bend. There're enough doubts and obstruction for me to want to outlaw the voting machines and go back to paper ballots. It's not that hard. When 2 different machines give 2 different counts on the same stack of ballots, you can't trust the machine counts. Plain and simple.
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  21.  @isaachassel  The landlord is responding to the market. So are you.
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  22.  @poodlescone9700  They're going to fall from the apex of their rainbow and be impaled on unicorn horns when they reach the ground.
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  23. It raises the barrier to entry significantly. I think it just got a whole lot cheaper and easier to squat somewhere else. But yeah. If they couldn't enforce it, before, what're they going to do to enforce it, now? They could've kept the homeless out with one security guard, before. Maybe the container business generates enough money to make it worthwhile to hire somebody. Up 'til now, it's been "Chase them out when you notice them," but nobody's there all the time.
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  24. The middle class pays all their bills. Their insanity is catching up to them.
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  25.  @NotShowingOff  : It's a mixed bag. Champagne liberals making a LARPer lifestyle. Commie malcontents. Anarchist malcontents. People living off the state teat. Trust fund hippies. Activists. Goons who just want to loot, burn and mess with people...
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  26. That's EXACTLY where it's headed. And blue-city Democrats will vote for it. Eventually the madness must end. The only question is how bad they can make things before the people rebel against it. It's like 19th-Century medicine, where they'd bleed you with a dirty razor. "That didn't work. We probably need to bleed you some more." That's exactly how Democrats approach policy. "All our policies have failed; therefore, we need to throw MORE money at the problem." No self-awareness. No questioning themselves about the wrong-headedness of their policies, and for a very simple reason: They WIN ELECTIONS with their policies.
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  27. Oh, they know. Make no mistake. They messed everything up for petty political gain and "solving" the problems they cause will be for petty political gain. These are greedy and feckless people we're dealing with. They're sociopaths and incapable of shame.
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  28. I CLAIM SQUATTER'S RIGHTS!
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  29. It's a lot easier to stick to 9-to-5 schedule when you're in a cubicle watching the clock. At home, you're more likely to not notice and think more in terms of getting things done than what time it is, or the short dress the hottie 2 cubicles down is wearing. We'll see what happens in education. I think the lock-downers in education are shocking parents out of their complacency. "If we're going online, why use the local school, when there's a better one in the next county or state? There've been online learning management systems (LMSs) available for years, and a lot of parents are discovering that home schooling isn't the near-impossible task it once was. You can shop for education products the same way you shop on Amazon. And you don't need a teaching certificate to ensure that your child is being well-served. Easy to track their progress. And if you don't like how you're being served in math, it's $100 to choose the competing product. I can see the idea of sending your kids to school, where they'll be stuck in a room full of snot-noses spreading whatever bug there is to every family in the district. Plus, those ZOOM sessions give parents an intimate understanding of just what's going on in the classroom; just what's being taught. Going remote has brought parents into the classroom. It's a delightfully ironic twist. institutions do this to protect themselves, but it very well spell their doom! COVID restrictions favor big over small. This is creating a much greater loyalty to small, local businesses, who are being destroyed. It'll get worse before it gets better, and the global supply chain isn't going away any time soon. But there's a trend of "localism" underway. Locally grown foods. Local businesses. Living off the grid (or on the grid, just not using it as much). A growing distaste for the big box stores, etc. Conservatives have been arguing for school choice for a long time (since Reagan, in fact). This could be the tipping point. This may be the point at which society finally rolls over the teacher unions and establishment education interests.
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  30.  @htomc42  If they solve problems their reason for existence evaporates. Government is the biggest non-profit there is.
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  31. It's a generally positive development, in the direction of a greener society. But Green New Deal is an appalling, authoritarian approach. Telecommuting got a nice shot in the arm due to the authoritarian lock-downs. Kind of a silver lining.
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  32. If you can profit on the sale of the old place, you SHOULD, pay it all off and immediately invest in a new place far away from any big city.
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  33. Couldn't destroy a city better if you tried.
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  34. Yes. It's snowballing, now. Portland, Seattle, Chicago, ...
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  35. Reminds me of childhood, when the rich kid down the block had the only regulation football. Had to play by his rules if we wanted to play ball. He was such a bully and such a cheater, even though he had nice stuff, nobody would play with him. We couldn't make him be reasonable, but he couldn't make us play.
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  36. Gazing fondly at the burning hellscape, Ted Wheeler turned off the lights and said "My work here is done," and bowed his head in humility, with a clean conscience.
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  37. COVID-19 is going to be the excuse for bailing-out all the Democrat shit holes.
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  38. we tried to tell them and were called the most hateful things for it. Let reality take its course and educate them.
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  39. "We know exactly how to solve the problem. We're just trying to figure out how to spin it so that the voters don't realize we are the reason things are as bad as they are."
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  40. I'm always dismayed by the slow suicide of all these blue cities, but from a historical perspective, the slide is an avalanche. Virtually overnight. Takes centuries to build and a decade or three to throw away.
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  41. Federal and state officials? This is YOUR problem, St. Louis, not the state of Missouri or Washington, DC. I think the Democrat plan is make their cities disaster areas, so the feds will swoop in and bail them out.
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  42. The only solution - and it's not perfect - is to never give the politicians as much power to "do good" with other people's money. It's never good, and they don't care if it's well-spent. In fact, it's better if it's poorly-spent, because it's easier to skim that way.
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  43.  @25Soupy  First of all, the income tax itself is unconstitutional, at least at the federal level. They pulled some bullshit to push that through. Second, the "only property owners" thing is sort of a good idea, but that's a slippery slope. Squeeze people out of their land, and simultaneously take away their vote? I think a more generic "You gotta put in more than you take out" rule would work. People who take out more than they put in are totally incentivized to vote for more free stuff. It reaches well up into the middle class, as all the boomers want their gold-plated health care, but KNOW they can't afford gold-plated health care. Lots of people I know in my generation are terrified they'll lose everything when/if they need a $100,000 or $250,000 procedure/treatment. ZERO understanding of the fact that if MOST people can't afford that shit, then there's no way the government can make up that difference. We see it all across the world, wherever health care is guaranteed. Denial of service, long lines, cheaper doctors brought in from 3rd-world countries. It's all to keep a promise that can't be kept, by liars who'll tell you anything to get your vote and your obedience. And people fall for it, over and over, throughout history. They say history is a big laboratory. And in the best tradition of science, we run the same old experiments over and over, and sure enough, the destruction is perfectly replicable. But then the "lab report" gets memory-holed by demagogues. "Health care is a right!" The minute they make it a right is the minute the quality and availability of care start nosing downward, and costs go up without restraint. Then when they finally DO admit they need to place limits on it, those limits are set by bureaucrats and pencil necks who crippled YOUR ability to pay and now deny you service, outright.
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  44. Welcome to San Francisco! To save time, just give all your money to the friendly city councilwoman holding the bag. You're insured, right?
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  45. Our medical establishment makes it next to impossible to get pain relief, pushing more people to buy opiates and opioids on the street. And not enforcing the law is not a viable alternative to changing the law, which is what I think they should do. But selective enforcement is endemic to the criminal-justice system, and the result is a culture of lawlessness.
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  46. I think the DOJ has grounds, but I'm not sure it's politically viable at this time. As with other malfeasance in office situations, I think it'll be CIVIL suits that punish the misguided policies and actions by local officials. Every business owner in the vicinity of CHOP has a slam-dunk civil suit against Durkan. Every business owner that was burned out and/or looted by the "mostly peaceful" protests has a strong case, in my opinion. As with Russia Hoax, I think the criminal justice system will not bring us justice. But FOIA filings by Judicial Watch and other organizations and individuals have done more to expose abuse of power than anything done by Democrat/DC-insider infested DOJ. Similarly at the local level. Christopher Steele's lies were exposed by a defamation suit in the UK. No matter how the power elites spun it and ducked prosecution in the USA, Steele admitted he was full of it when somebody named in his dossier sued his ass. Funny how that works.
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  47. I wouldn't want to live there. Even though most of the city isn't as crazy as CHOP/CHAZ, the city leadership can - and WILL - ruin it for everybody, eventually.
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  48.  @kenmows4u338  They'll just make themselves so pathetic there'll be a national campaign to bail them all out federally, and it will happen if Dems are in charge, and if Republicans are in control and say "No," they'll be voted out. That's how the media-industrial complex works.
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  49.  @KOdi766  Actually, kids are staying home longer and longer, generally.
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  50. The poor are encouraged to live single-parent-style by the government bureaucrats. The middle class stopped depending on their children for retirement in the 20th Century, due to prosperity. To poor people BEFORE the welfare state, kids were free labor and a comfortable retirement. To prosperous, middle-class adults, children are an expense that gets in the way of retirement plans, postponing them. But even people who don't need their kids for their retirement still want their kids around, usually. They just don't know it until they're getting closer to the end, and feel isolated. The BIGGEST benefit of traditional families is how much better off the children are than those raised in single-parent settings. The world makes sense and is more secure, during their formative years.
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  51. Same in NYC, but they're still pretending everything's OK. There's just no hiding the boarded-up store fronts.
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  52. 50 years ago, some loon chasing a woman in the subway would've been gang-tackled by 8 passers by. Now, if you defend yourself or others, YOU go to jail, and the criminal walks off, a free man. Insanity. Democrats want their cities to fail, because since tax reform of 2017, they lost their massive federal subsidy. Before Trump, blue cities would tax the rich without mercy, but the rich could write it all off on their federal tax forms. Now, with a hard cap of something like $10,000, which doesn't affect regular working people, there's no more tax write-off for the rich people who pay for everything in cities like New York. Now, the rich people are moving out, and the cities' crooked way of shifting their wasteful spending onto the backs of citizens in the heartland is no more, they NEED direct federal intervention. They need to force/persuade/invite the federal government to come in and establish order over the chaos these Democrats created, seemingly on purpose, because surely no one was so stupid as to believe their "re-imagining law enforcement" was anything but bad.
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  53. Same thing for ivory-tower intellectuals and their socialist delusions.
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  54. Yeah. Nike wants special treatment, instead of a fair playing field.
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  55. A guy like that, with 2 protection orders out against him is the LAST guy you want deciding who gets a housing voucher. Buddies of his? People who can pay him some cash under the table? Women who can pay him under the sheets? A guy with protection orders out on him is the kind who'd use something like that to prey on vulnerable women. Whether he did or not remains to be seen.
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  56. "Go anywhere you want, but you can't sleep here. 30 days in County on your 2nd offense. 6 months on your 3rd offense. 3 years on your 4th. 10 years on your 5th. That oughta get you to retirement.
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  57. You couldn't make this shit up, but it drags on and on and on... Nobody's being held to account.
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  58.  @benjurqunov  It wins for Democrats in the short run, but the people coming in have strong traditional values. Ron DeSantis is Latino heritage. A guy like him could inspire 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants. The stuff the Democrats are pushing - by increasingly oppressive means - go against everything these immigrants believe in. These are strong family-values people, and as soon as they get one whiff of prosperity, or their kid comes home with a pornography assignment for homework, they're never voting Democrat again. We're going to see more and more Latino conservatives. With Charisma. DeSantis, with his nasally twang, is not particularly charismatic. But there are young, liberty-minded firebrands coming up. It's just a matter of time. The Democrats are pulling out all the stops to win, NOW, and defy the majority for years to come. Same with Muslims, of whom Democrats couldn't get enough for the last 10 years. Now, in the UK, you're seeing them protesting LGBTQ indoctrination in local school districts, who QUICKLY capitulate, because they're afraid to tell the Muslims "No."
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  59. Remember you used to have to go to the city to shop the big stores?
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  60. Mid-management loves "conferences" and "workshops." It's basically a paid semi-vacation on the company/taxpayer's dime. I used to go to math conferences, and was always appalled at the drinking and debauchery that went on.
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  61. A bit off-topic, but you're right. Sports is the only thing doing well on tv, so all the networks want a piece of it, which means you have to buy all the services if you want to watch all your games. What it's going to do is turn people off to live sports, too!
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  62.  @williewonka6694  Homeless people will be Portland's biggest and most successful export.
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  63. Democrats are full of compassion, as long as someone else is footing the bill. Republicans hate paying taxes, but are very generous to the disadvantaged. I'm libertarian/Constitutionalist, and I help people, directly. Never got a tax break or anything. I took in a homeless person in the '90s and another in the 2020s. Supported them for a few years, each. Gave one of them a mobile home, so all they needed to pay was lot rent. That's more than any Democrat I know. If every Democrat gave as much as I do, in proportion to their income, there would be no homeless.
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  64. Defund the police, release Antifa thugs without bail, until Antifa camps out outside THEIR homes or places of business.
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  65. This would be so easy to stop. Conclusion? This is what the establishment wants.
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  66. The only thing that made it worthwhile was to teach total idiots a lesson. But they will never make restitution to the people and businesses their foolishness harmed. I'd call it an "honest mistake," but this was willful ignorance. Anyone not part of their insanity could see this coming a mile away. Everyone who WAS a part of "worthwhile test" should be held accountable, but won't.
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  67.  @andrewstrakele6815  Yes. They were stupid.
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  68.  @andrewstrakele6815  The only reason it "required a test" is because Seattle voters live in fantasy land.
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  69. I just wanted to know what the interior of a Lexus looked like.
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  70. That's why they lost their heads over climate change. "I'm melting! Oh, what a world!"
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  71. I think most BIPOC are good honest people who wished there were a stronger police presence and that it was easier to legally buy a gun for self defense in this "defund-the-police" era.
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  72. CHOP and other Occupy events are just big gatherings of children who shit where they eat.
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  73. Doesn't matter if they don't enforce the law. Obama taught Democrats across the country that their fee-fees are more important than the law.
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  74. You hang in there, brother!
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  75. Good opportunity for these companies to trim the dead weight.
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  76. There've always been laws against property theft and vagrancy. For a reason. Portland government has broken the civil contract with the people. Not ALL people. But the people who own and operate the businesses that make a city possible. Until Democrats wake up and smell the coffee, Portland will remain in a death spiral.
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  77. Trump signed new tax law that set a lid on state and local tax deductions to $10,000, so that the rich didn't get their money back from the feds for the ridiculous state and local taxes. It was a subsidy of blue cities by fly-over country that Trump ended. These failures of blue cities are aimed at getting that money back, one way or another. They're already begging for federal help, running their cities into the ground, creating a disaster area for the feds to bail out, basically continuing the subsidy of blue cities by hard-working small towns and farmers.
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  78. Glad you're hanging in there, friend.
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  79. Turning it up to 11 is a "Spinal Tap" reference that's so embedded in the culture that even people who don't know where it came from know what it means. The movie was a parody of rock bands, and that was their spoof on rock bands playing loud. The dial only goes up to "10," so of course Spinal Tap turned up to "11."
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  80. I bet that council member would LOVE to make it a "regional" thing. Anything to suck more resources away from viable communities and throw it at failed communities, who insist on suicidal policies. It's their right to implement whatever policies they wish. But now they're trying to drag everyone else down with them. That's become a Democrat theme the last 10 years or so.
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  81. Sorry, mayor. Talk to your party leaders who insisted on open borders and free stuff for illegals. You thought this was great stuff when your party campaigned on this nonsense in 2020.
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  82. 2015 was when Antifa erupted on my radar. The terror was well under way by 2015.
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  83. Yeah. A bunch of hippy-dippy socialists "re-imagining" society. Part of it is wishful thinking. Part of it is taking delight in seeing capitalism fail. All of it is short-sighted and ignorant, if not malign.
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  84. Yes. "De-fund the police," supposedly on behalf of blacks, was pushed by White Liberal Democrats, against the wishes of 80% of the blacks in the affected communities. This is how white liberals have always operated. Give them a slogan or an "I'm better than black people and they would be helpless without me" virtue signal of EPIC condescension. This is how inferior individuals can cheaply and easily appear to be better than everybody else. Better than the "poor, disadvantaged blacks" and WAY better than any white people who disagree with them about ANYthing. We used to call it "knee-jerk liberalism," but now we call it "woke" or "NPC programming." It's always been the same: If you oppose this expansion of state power, you're an "ist" and a "phobe" and a "bigot" and "lacking in compassion" or "greedy" or "selfish." Nothing but character assassination of anyone who opposes bigger and more patronizing/condescending/intrusive government. Liberals never think about unintended consequences. They just feel good about always being in favor of The Latest Thing, and WISH there were some kind of social credit score, which they KNOW theirs would be much higher than any Republican's, because as Democrats, they just KNOW they have more compassion and higher emotional intelligence.
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  85. A nice unintended consequence of authoritarian lock-downs. Another might be the end of public schools as we know them. LOTS of parents have been red-pilled after seeing what goes on in the schools.
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  86.  @JohnSmith-ux3tt  Among the ones remaining are no doubt the ones who make bank on corruption. They're just chasing the good ones away. What remains are the types who ran concentration camps in an earlier (and possible future) time.
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  87.  @richardrichard5319  In outlying towns and rural areas, local sheriffs didn't enforce unconstitutional mandates.
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  88. As a libertarian (small "l."), I'd rather go at it with conservatives than with so-called liberals. I'm not going to totally fit in with conservatives, but I don't fit in at all with so-called liberals.
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  89. It'll be the Soros's of the world who swoop in and BUY these foreclosed properties at auction. They're behind the wokeness that destroyed those cities and they'll reap huge profits. Just wait until they buy up the properties and then they'll push anti-woke, law-and-order just as hard.
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  90. A business model based on $5 cup of coffee is messed-up to begin with. But people are stupid about coffee. I never understood it. Always considered it a fad. I'd rather drink my own coffee for about ten cents a cup.
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  91. Yes. She values police. And the value she assigns is very low.
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  92. The risks are well-known. Aside from the regulations that make doing business in Commiefornia impossible, mismanagement of public lands by state and federal governments is right up there. Pretty much everything they've done has made wild fires more likely. We don't "meddle" with Nature, except to spend millions of dollars putting out natural fires. Then the brush builds up to such an extent that you get conflagrations that can't be fought. It'd be easy - and profitable - to do forest-fire mitigation before the fact, by clearing out the brush and dead wood, where it's built up to conflagration size. Nothing to do with climate change. Everything to do with so-called environmentalists, who faint at the thought of selective harvests or brush clearing. Environmentalists take joy from seeing it all burn up, apparently.
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  93. Sane people were out-voted BEFORE any of them left. Death spiral is only accelerating, until all the progressives red-pill, and they're the most obstinate people in the world, socialist at heart and therefore economically and historically illiterate. And they're CERTAIN they're the "smart people" and the most "caring people."
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  94.  @reaper_exd7498  2A is to resist government tyranny, if necessary. That's why it's in the U.S. Constitution. The right to defend yourself from random criminals has been law for over 1,000 years. We don't need 2A for self-defense. Gun-grabber logic defies pre- and post-Enlightenment principles. This is literally a war on enlightenment and The Enlightenment. Oh, and the next time somebody tells you that "the militia" is the National Guard, tell them they're misinformed. In the Revolutionary War, the National Guard would've been working for the British. That is definitely not what the framers intended.
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  95. Yes. Antifa. And Antifa with BLM signs.
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  96. Why do the anti-fascists act like brown shirts?
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  97. They should legalize all of it and regulate and license, like they do with alcohol, which is still the world leader in addiction. If you legalize it and sell it for cheaper than black market, the druggies will go to the dispensary. I'd rather the fools were supervised when they nod off. Main thing is not tolerating anybody nodding off in the street. You just bought yourself 30 days in custody for forced de-tox. Next time, 60 days. If you can use and function, more power to you. If you just want some as an anesthetic, that's your business. Until you hurt somebody. Then, no excuses.
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  98. I used Insta-Cart for years, but just found too many shoppers/drivers who were creepy or did a poor job. Loved the good ones! Was afraid to entrust my FOOD to some of the others. Gave it up, even though it's probably a good way to shop more efficiently.
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  99. Wheeler used to infuriate me. Now I just think it's funny that he's still mayor. Portlanders deserve this.
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  100. The pendulum always swings. Dems were hoping it'd wait 'til after the elections.
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  101. Vigilantism will be the response. Then there will be prominent cases of vigilantism gone wrong, and they'll beg the feds to come in. Everything's going according to plan.
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  102. ... until they don't. And they'll go over the top the other way, probably demanding the feds come in and take over.
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  103. Long overdue. Antifa's been doing this for YEARS and gotten off scot free.
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  104. Don't de-criminalize it. Legalize, license and TAX it. Strictly enforce laws protecting persons, property, and public health and safety, including vagrancy ordinances. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here." You can't just let people set up housekeeping on public property. I don't see a problem. The city should invest in local micro-farming. Folks talk about the great re-set, but that's something we could do. We've come a long way in small-plot farming technology, and we can produce restaurant-grade veggies for everyone, locally. It's good to know we CAN ship food anywhere we want, in enormous quantities and good quality, but day-to-day, even if gas prices go back to $2 a gallon, local farms can compete with factory farms far away, because of quality, reliability, virtue-signaling, fuel savings advantages. Why not a synthesis of the two problems into a nice, self-sustaining solution that different towns and cities can experiment with. By experiment, I mean, people deciding they like the small-plot farming life, especially while they're raising their kids. Teach them a love of reading and home-school 'em. Online learning management systems can teach most of most subjects a lot cheaper, and at the pace of the learner. I'd hazard that 70% or more of kids would learn faster than the school curriculum. Socialization? Give them more time and more things to do with their friends withOUT a government employee watching them.
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  105. What's Travel Portland supposed to do? They're trying to make lemonade out of a bag of used needles.
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  106. The people launching "Seattle Restored" are the same people who made its restoration necessary. It's like listening to Dr. Fauci about COVID.
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  107.  @so5502  Yes. It varies from school to school, depending on how indoctrinated the management is, even in Idaho. Schools are islands of far-leftism in every red state, because the management is almost always far-left indoctrinated. The irony is that so-called "far left" is not left at all. It's regressive. Re-branded feudalism. A new form of Puritanism that's irreligious.
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  108. Yes, the election was likely stolen, using COVID as an excuse to flout election law in battleground states. But you really have to dig to find the stories, because Big Tech and legacy media memory-holed all the irregularities.
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  109.  @grog5564  Which is the fish and which is the mammal?
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  110. @Deborah Hearne Christianity's semi-self-correcting, but you join the Church and the State, which has happened MANY times in the past, and they can be just as toxic. The saving grace of Christians is the underlying message from Jesus: If your reason and the dominant dogma are in conflict, use your reason. This is why there are so many off-shoots of Christianity, because as soon as you organize a church, the hierarchy starts setting in, and it becomes political. I think the charge against Jesus was laboring on the Day of Rest. He healed a woman on the Sabbath.
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  111. When you ARE the establishment, you cease being a liberal and become a conservative. Now that the "liberals" are the establishment, they are even less restrained than the reactionaries they replaced, when it comes to weaponizing government agencies to impose their political will.
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  112. Maybe these outdated office buildings can be re-purposed residential...
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  113. I value you, Mayor Durkan. ... like I value the dog shit on the bottom of my shoe.
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  114. Used to be a good gig. I can't imagine wanting to be a cop in NYC in the current climate.
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  115. Given what goes on in Seattle courts, it's kind of fitting...
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  116. "We need to do MORE!" - Progressives "Haven't you done enough?" - Everyone else.
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  117. Woke liberals won't stop mucking-up everything that's worth anything until there's nothing worth anything for them to muck up. "'Tis but a flesh wound! Come back you coward!" - Monty Python's "The Holy Grail." Eventually these cities will be just like the Black Knight, dismembered and bleeding, declaring their invincibility.
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  118. I've been predicting these pleas for federal help since I started watching Portland Antifa in 2015. They WANT the feds to bail them out. This isn't a federal problem, unless there are prosecutions of big-city leaders for malfeasance and corruption.
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  119.  @monkeymonk666  Ask her what she's done to "build back better," and wouldn't it be easier if everything weren't torn down before she started?
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  120. Hang in there, man. Wish the best for you.
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  121. The government's job was never to take care of us. That's where we went wrong. The government's job is to leave the people alone, so they can take care of themselves.
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  122. "Maybe we made a mistake," said no Democrat, ever.
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  123. Sorry, Mayor. Sorry, Chief. "I fell prey to mass hysteria" is not a defense.
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