Comments by "Im Caj" (@KratostheThird) on "Greater Idaho is actually happening??" video.

  1. I feel your pain. Eastern Washington isn’t backwards as city folks claim it to be.
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  2. There was a time when the regions could at least compromise, especially when it came to gun laws, taxes, how towns should initiate their plans and so on. Then a certain president took control in 2009 and things like race became hot topics again. The cost of living was steadily rising. I was in So California back in 2005 and I can definitely say it was much better back then, especially Orange County. Now the western side of Washington State is going crazy, because of the ex-plants from Cali and the bureaucrats in Puget Sound who want to destroy everything. I hate it so much, because as much as I love the Pacific Northwest for its scenery, the liberals are destroying it.
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  3. Sadly part of my family lives there and when I visited one of the public schools, it was filled with all the nonsense that was taking over in the last decade. Seattle was much better in the 90’s, and I speak as somebody who was a big Kurt Cobain fan and saw those Seattle bands. All of that culture is gone and now replaced with that corporate slop.
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  4. Illinois is held hostage. One of my friends lives in Michigan in the northern part and all the people there hate what the cities located in the southern part are doing.
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  5. The eastern half has an arid climate, but I enjoy many of the people who are in that area. Seattle is depleting our resources. Those of us in red counties west of the Cascades feel this too.
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  6. One of the problems is you absolutely cannot hope to live in these big cities until you think a certain way, and land some job that is going to guarantee you $80,000 - 100,000 in gross pay. Vancouver is insanity. Been there many times back in the 90's and early 2000's. Back then it was far more bearable. Everything just... fit better, for lack of a better term. Seattle and Portland have also joined in the insanity by voting for the same policies. If you go to some of these small towns and visit the bars and the local restaurants, you would swear you went back in time to 1980s/1990s America. Big cities all favor their cookie cutter brutalist McDonalds style architecture, while rural towns still hold homes that are 1970s - 1990s in looks and standards. It's absolutely crazy.
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  7.  @ladycrystalr-u.s.a  I offer you my condolences. SF is insane.
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  8. Idaho doesn’t allow any cannabis. Pot farms would have to be burned. Eastern WA also gets paid higher wages than Idaho, but Idaho has red policies that aren’t crippling their state like Washington has.
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  9. @ Point taken. If I felt your points were aggressive and you were being rude I wouldn’t have commented. Yes, I agree with your points. What’s a bit sad to me is Portland is no longer the city I remember. The new architecture and new groups of people are undesirable. I get a more wholesome feel being in small towns in Oregon. There’s a small town here in Washington that has had the same restaurants for 40 - 50 years. The old cohort retired so there’s younger people working at them, but the decor and keeping the customers satisfied have been left untouched. This town even built a restaurant next to the river that has an early 20th century style. It took them over a decade to get the funding necessary to build it. Cities like Portland now regard me as not progressive enough, despite being a former Democrat and left leaning person my whole life.
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  10. @ According to data I looked at, it’s cities on the northwest end of Texas that are Red. You never hear about them. Austin, San Antonio, Dallas and Houston are the big cities. But even though they’re blue, they can’t be as bad as Portland, or worse San Francisco.
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  11. The fires was 100% intentional. That mayor decided to spend time in Africa, and the LA Fire Department had the audacity to hire based on diversity. That’s not even saying that fire department cut its funding. Then when the fires happened, people found they didn’t have enough water from the fire hydrants. An absolute travesty.
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  12. I’m 40 years old and I remember going to Portland when I was in high school and college. This was back from 1999 to about 2006 or so. Most of the homeless were concentrated in Burnside, Portland. I rode my mountain bike on the I-205 bridge back in 2007. Maybe you would find one or two homeless people then, but it wasn’t common. I’d ride to Jansen Beach and go to CompUSA, among other stores. Today downtown Portland is just a place to start chaos. Police won’t respond to most 911 calls. Food carts had to close and move elsewhere because the vandalism was too much. Race relations were also much better 20 years ago. Portland’s bars had a great diversity of people, you went in and had some fun.
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  13. I hate to say it, but you’re 100% correct. I spoke to an 80 year old woman the other day and she told me California started losing its way, back in the 1960’s and 1970’s. She worked as a high school teacher in the 1970’s and by that point, many kids couldn’t do basic Math, English or had an understand of life skills. California approved of a new Math program in the 1960’s which resulted in an entire generation of kids who couldn’t pass Math courses. Oregon, according to her, was its own thing. She lives in Washington State and she is absolutely disgusted with all three states on the West Coast. She was a left leaning individual, but never went into extremism.
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  14. I feel you. Puget Sound has gone off the rails.
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  15. I have come to the same conclusion. When I used Facebook a few years ago I saw lots of angry people in the comments, usually regarding our cities and the governor seemingly being out of touch. Seattle has gotten crazy. Used to be better 30 years ago.
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  16. Is this the upper part that connects with Minnesota?
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  17. Been to eastern Washington many times. Feels more sane in contrast to west Washington, specifically Puget Sound.
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  18. @ I agree also. I love Oregon's scenery. It's sad how politics ruined it.
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  19. @ The west coast was much better back then.
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  20. Better to just move to your state than to see this get proposed. None of the cities will support this
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  21. Portland and Salem are cesspools. I’ve been to both cities many times.
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  22. They destroy everything. And I’ve also noticed things becoming more derelict.
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  23. Yes, but blue is all concentrated on Portland and Salem. I don’t know how Eugene is anymore, haven’t been there in years.
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  24. I’ve been to both cities. They are nothing like they were 25 - 30 years ago.
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  25. Idaho doesn’t want them, period. The real problem is east Washington and east Oregon are being controlled by the big cities, trying to dictate policies for everything.
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  26. @ Idaho is more hardcore Conservative. East Washington and East Oregon are in contrast soft conservatives. Overall I'm a left leaning individual, but I do not stand for leftist tyranny, which is what leftists have become at this point. I also do not stand for hyper religious ideology and neither do I stand for white nationalism, both far right positions that completely disregard me as a Mixed individual who advocates for free religion.
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  27.  @odinthebiker8240  I was in Oregon a lot back then. The cost of living was much better. We were living in the Tech Boom. The Internet was a huge sensation that gave us a new way to communicate. Corporations now run the internet and things have gotten so bad I am considering moving off the internet. Your rural communities and farm life 30 years ago all wanted to live peacefully and privately. It’s the same today. The difference is you have blue cities trying to control everything, as well as an Oregon governor who is completely out of touch. Failed leadership is why you folks are suffering. But I suggest you read up on Idaho policies before you even consider pushing for this.
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  28.  @odinthebiker8240  “There is no shared identity or culture anymore”. This is what angers me the most. Say what you will about 1990’s America, but we shared a lot of things back then. 1980’s America was a decade of bliss. Computers were optional, not necessary for life but they were there for the nerds to use. If I met you in person we’d likely be talking for hours. And I can see in your comment that you’re not advocating for violence. But unfortunately the powers that be have taken too much. Look at what Amazon has done to ebooks just now, editing them at will even after you bought them. I was handed insults just for saying people should keep their old books. Absolutely insane.
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  29. Another problem is how high density areas keep lecturing the rural conservative areas. It's not even a matter of federal politics at this point. It can be someone in his 70s who loves old John Wayne movies, and the progressive is saying his conservative politics are outdated and the man needs to be left behind, since he passed away over 40 years ago. High density areas are run by people who don't care about the tried and true, just try to stick with whatever is thrown at the wall.
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  30. I saw kids taking that drug that has run amok in recent years in Vancouver. You know what it is, but I can’t say it because YT has a tendency to delete my comments if I do.
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  31.  @tinalaursen8993  I went to one of the casinos, and it had a shady vibe to it.
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  32.  @tinalaursen8993  In Canada they are required by law to show actual visuals of what can happen to regular cigarette smokers. Doesn’t stop people from buying them though.
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  33. Upstate NY is seeing gentrification in places which drives up prices and the areas that got hit with the Rust Belt aren’t doing much better. Sadly it’s a state held hostage by those in Albany and NYC. It’s the east coast equivalent of Portland and Salem.
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  34.  @Jakereviewsall  They’re now installing light rail, but even with this, the traffic is unbearable. Somehow Seattle managed to surpass Los Angeles in traffic congestion. All of the Puget Sound area lives in a bubble, and any conservative voice is silenced.
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  35. Generational failure.
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  36.  @benallen2942  I don't have a problem with Dems as much as I have a problem with sheer corruption in these cities. I have been to all of the blue controlled cities on the West Coast. Every single one of them, from Vancouver, British Columbia down to San Diego, California all suffer from the same policies and symptoms. This includes brutalist architecture. Gentrification affecting certain neighborhoods. Small businesses being displaced by large businesses (Starbucks, Walmart). Heavy handed red tape which makes owning a small business a literal nightmare. The list goes on.
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  37. I lived in a red area in west Washington. The people there weren’t as crazy as those in Seattle, which is full of migrants and others who are insane.
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  38. Somebody is a Yakuza fan. Anyway, I agree with your opinion. MA used to be a great state, full of conservative minded people. Boston is now a blue city that takes resources and bleeds the people dry.
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  39. I used to love Sacramento.
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  40. I offer you our deepest condolences.
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  41. Comparing Portland and those on the west side to the east side of Oregon is looking at two entirely different cultures.
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  42. I was in San Francisco, and I felt like I was in a horror movie. The decay and decline of the culture there breaks my heart.
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  43. Live and Let Live was the 90’s perspective, especially for Gen Xers.
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  44. It’s over. Better to let the system collapse so the rebuild can take place.
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  45. ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠ @threeriversforge1997  We have a generation of young adults (Gen Z) who just sit on their computers all day doing nothing. We have power given to a very select few which is why this madness continues. Conservatives in the modern day are more like 80’s - 90’s Democrats. Most of the old folks died off. So is conservatism the wrong approach here? Amazon now has the ability to rewrite digital books you bought and paid for. Most online services just sell your data to advertisers. I voted with my wallet and no longer support them. So please tell me why Republicans/Conservatives are wrong.
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  46. The far left is destroying states. Left leaning people are generally sane.
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  47.  @jdarst100  Because they are more conservative and the state government doesn’t care about them.
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  48. Red cities are mostly in Texas and Florida. Everywhere else, including Illinois and California, it's all blue.
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  49. Not just Washington. British Columbia. Oregon. California. They’re all in on it.
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  50. I’ve been to both. Southern Oregon is more traditional. Portland and Salem both have homeless, high crime, and cost of living is insane.
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  51. Longview, Kelso, Castle Rock, Kalama. You notice how the towns in Cowlitz look more intact and traditional than those in Clark? They’re destroying Clark with those disgusting brutalist style buildings.
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  52. ^ Trumper.
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  53. Let me guess, you’re in upstate NY?
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  54. Old school Democrats = 1980’s/1990’s. They were/still are anti illegals. Crazy, I know.
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  55. I’ve been in an abusive relationship. It’s not fun, at all.
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  56. You’re in east Washington, right?
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  57. Arnold was a poor Republican governor in terms of taking action, but at least he wasn’t trying to destroy Cali.
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  58. Bend is also liberal, but the areas surrounding it are conservative, especially if you drive further to the east.
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  59. Consolidation of power.
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  60. It’s crazy. You Oregon people have my sympathies.
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  61. That’s because they’re either 1) Too scared to talk actual politics, or 2) Too blind to know anything.
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  62. Can you blame young people voting Red? Look at what Dems did to the public schools. Look at the stuff they were trying to do last year in the elections. It was insanity, and still is.
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  63. Same. I lived in California and Oregon (Portland). The homeless and insane cost of living was just too much.
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  64. Before leftists ruined them.
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  65. I loved eastern Washington. Went to coworker friends weddings over there. People were nice. This was back in 2011 - 2013 though.
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  66.  @aprilwine132  Can’t blame you. It’s crazy there.
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  67. @ Commiefornia
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  68. Evil cannot create, it can only corrupt what good forces have made.
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  69. East Washington is more based. But I’ve been to Spokane and it’s full of drug addicts, criminals and a less than ideal police force.
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  70. Prior to 2010, it was fine.
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  71. @ I've been tracking this stuff for years now. And I've already moved out.
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  72. @ Hood River was great. I used to visit the bars in the Portland area.
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  73. Same here in Washington State. Communfornians came to various towns and ruined them.
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  74. I don’t blame you.
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  75. Trust me, I love the scenery of Oregon, and have been to Pendelton as well as other small towns/cities out in the eastern part. It's just unfortunate that you have politicians in Portland and Salem determining what is best for conservatives living in the state.s
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  76.  @BipTunia_Microtonal_Cats  Pendleton is hardly mentioned. I’ve been to Portland, Salem, Eugene many times. Oregon could be a better place but the politicians ruined it. Here in Washington State we pay a firm sales tax, but no state income tax. If I had to pay California prices with their garbage policies I would be priced out of my apartment complex. This is no different than Seattle and Olympia trying to determine laws in eastern Washington. There are a couple Red counties in the western part of the state that don’t like deep Blue policies. The best thing you can do is live with what you got. Move somewhere else if things aren’t working out.
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  77. East Washington was always more conservative.
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  78. This is what I've been saying for a long time. Don't trust any billionaire. Don't blindly trust people with a D or R next to their name. The world leaders are puppet masters meant to drag us down and into misery.
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  79. Cities are liberal. Rural and small towns are conservative. It’s the same thing in Illinois. Many areas are very conservative, except for the cities and capital that get all the attention.
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  80. That governor destroyed Sacramento. I went to the airport there and they’ve changed around a lot of things. Oh, and let’s not forget all the foreigners hired that pesky White people don’t have a chance in getting those jobs.
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  81. Good idea.
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  82. Denver actually used to be a good city.
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  83.  @stevenwest3191  Right now the media is in a frenzy about you know who and the richest man in the world. I’m no supporters of either, but did people honestly think that woman was going to be much better? She was humiliating every time a camera was pointed at her face. She knew nothing.
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  84. They used to be better. Now I just see decay.
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  85.  @JanJacobs-xf1ob  This is what I tend to hear.
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  86.  @CharliesHopechest  I feel you. That’s why we have this divide.
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  87. Didn’t used to be like this, but liberals stepped up their game and this is what we get.
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  88. Which is a good reason why things are so messed up there. And I speak as a native Californian.
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  89. Idaho bans cannibis and has harsh penalties for those who use it.
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  90. Eastern Washington and Eastern Washington. Western Washington and Western Oregon are both controlled by insane leftists.
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  91. @ Can you be our US President?
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  92. Red states hate outsiders in general.
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  93. It’s all about clicks and views.
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  94. I just want Portland and Salem to be livable again. I was lucky to see both cities back in the 90’s and early 2000’s.
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  95. It was fine before they started interfering with farm communities and rural towns.
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  96. Portland, Salem, Eugene. Wouldn’t surprise me if Bend was also in on this nonsense.
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  97. What’s the deal with the American flag, cross, and Jolly Roger?
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  98. I’ve been to East Washington. Used to have friends out there, including a coworker my dad worked with. They were happy people with conservative values.
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  99. Cowlitz County is Red.
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  100. Don’t forget about tampon Tim.
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  101. Policies is what makes them insufferable.
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  102. Nobody did. You guys need to realize a lot of content on YT is sensationalist garbage, meant to grab views and money.
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  103. And vice versa.
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  104. The problem is these cities have no idea what farming communities and rural areas are like. These blue leftists all think these small towns are full of hicks. They hate traditional white people. In times past there used to be more of a balance, but nowadays it’s simply partisan politics that are occupied by extremists. Many of these small towns and rural areas don’t have as many ‘rednecks’ and uneducated people as these city dwellers think. East Washington still makes more money than those in Idaho, but they are hampered by blue policies.
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  105.  @albertinsinger7443  It’s not just countries. Look at some of the Red states and counties in America. They are hard on things like cannabis, and wages are lower on average. But they’re not pricing people out of existence quite as bad as the blue states and counties. I live in a Red county and everybody here is tired of blue cities and governors determining everything for us. Blue is now inherently communist. The blues from 30 years ago either became leftists, or moved to the Right. “You will own nothing and be happy” is exactly what’s going on here. Look up the man who coined that phrase. Him and his organization are pure evil.
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  106. All by design.
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  107. Spokane at least is more reasonable than Seattle.
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  108. I used to follow Fox 12 News Oregon on Facebook. During the pandemic the then Oregon Governor spoke on things, and every post in that group was met with a deluge of negative comments. All Oregonians who were tired of the nonsense. And being someone who was in Portland from 2002 to 2007, I can’t help but agree.
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  109. I don’t want eastern Oregon to be filled with city liberals. They would completely destroy what makes that area appealing to begin with.
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  110. Might as well add Wyoming, Texas, Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana and South Carolina to that list.
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  111.  @johnbruenn8755  I remember Portland back in the late 80’s. Better place back then.
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  112. Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego. Shall I continue?
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  113. Washington is already bad enough. Puget Sound is trying to control everything.
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  114. I still regard the Pacific Northwest as beautiful. It's the people who have made it rotten, and we all know that means politicians.
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  115. @ Everything was different 30 years ago. Times have changed. America didn't have a polarized society the way it does now.
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  116. @ 1940’s if you consider the Hollywood Ten. But in terms of modernity, it’s been since the 1960’s.
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  117. The left wants control of the farmlands. Look who is buying up all the farms.
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  118. The drug that starts with F is rampant in the coastal cities.
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  119. All by design.
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  120. They all suck.
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  121. It’s been happening for decades. But as recently as 2007, Portland was a much better place. Not anymore.
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  122. It ain't Tacoma and Seattle.
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  123.  @juryrigged9712  Thing is, I used to like Seattle.
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  124. The old model did work, but socialism ruined it.
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  125. Because they control the cities. Red towns scattered throughout are more down to earth and humble.
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  126. People in East Washington are angry over this. The Walla Walla area, the areas surrounding Spokane, and the areas bordering Idaho and Oregon. Much of the funding is going towards Puget Sound as they construct more high rises. Even with the light rail system, Puget Sound has some of the worst traffic in the country.
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  127. I’ve been to eastern Washington many times. Been to coworker weddings over there. Seattle and eastern Washington with its more arid climate are looking at two entirely different cultures.
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  128. My condolences. I used to love Oregon. Mount Hood, the small towns not far from Klamath Falls. The Pacific Northwest climate. Etc etc.
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  129. I feel you. Here in Washington State we have counties even in western Washington that are Red, whom are completely ignored. All of the Blue counties here have land bought up by very rich people, destroying not only the scenery but also a way of life.
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  130. The problem is city people think rural is full of Red people. In other words, rednecks.
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  131. You guys ban pot. Red states are hard on pot users.
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  132. Things were more balanced 25 years ago. Today, partisan politics dictates how the Left and Right think.
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  133. Tim controls it, and you already know what he was trying to do last year.
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  134. I have, and it's gotten really bad. Migrants and housing have become unbearable.
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  135. Dems are all following the same script.
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  136. Same with Portland, Oregon.
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  137. I thought those were warts on your face.
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  138. Liberals got brainwashed.
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  139.  @occamsrazor9183  Yes, but the thing is, those large areas used to be nicer. Not anymore.
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  140. There’s a section of blue cities between you and those in Nor Cal.
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  141. They will pay for it in the end
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  142. Idaho will be Idaho. They are more far right than eastern Washington and eastern Oregon.
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  143. Montana is very conservative. I’m guessing you’re inside of a city which is where most Democrats migrate to after they leave a blue state.
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  144. I visited Seattle last year. I actually loved the Kurt Cobain era where Grunge put Seattle on the map as a center of rock music in the 90's. Those days are long gone now. To make up for traffic being one of the worst in the entire country, Seattle is forcefully pushing for their light rail program to expand to more areas. This is done at the taxpayers expense. Also, illegals have dominated the roads and now they're in their light rail stations, begging or asking for free stuff. Also, Seattle is pushing for cashless everywhere. I visited T Mobile Park last year, and found they no longer take cash. Everything is credit.
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  145. Californianfication is a real cancer.
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  146. Conquer & divide is the tactic of the perplexed.
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  147. Look at the brutalist style architecture. Guess who is building them? The name is in your own comment.
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  148. The problem is the people running these cities want nothing to do with you. I've been to Portland, it's become unbearable with the crime and the vast amount of homeless.
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  149. @ I am more apt to just let things run their course. Unfortunately I'm always the one that gets told otherwise. The problem is cognitive dissonance. MAGA conservatives are more far right than Bush Jr conservatives were twenty years ago.
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  150. @ Exactly, and that's what happened at the end of 2024.
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  151. Just for their stances on pot, this would be a ridiculous decision.
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  152. Sounds like California in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s.
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  153. My condolences. California was for a long time Republican, partially due to the Dust Bowl, with many poor Midwest families fleeing to Cali for a better chance at life. Turns out it was a good decision, as Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath described. SF is just insane. I absolutely loved SF in the 80's and early 90's. Lots of culture, various ethnic groups, much cleaner streets, and of course the trolley. Everything has been taken away or altered and when I went there two years ago I just couldn't believe my eyes. I moved out of Cali, but I hope for the best people like you can advocate for positive changes.
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  154. The Democratic South wanted their slaves to continue doing work. They were the slave masters of the 19th century. Louis Armstrong was a famous jazz musician who escaped the Jim Crow south. They are also responsible for the group that begins with K.
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  155. Their policies are proof of that.
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  156. As a Washingtonian, I agree.
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  157. Gavin is destroying the state.
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  158. It wasn’t like this 30 years ago. But that was then, and this is now.
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  159.  @odinthebiker8240  You want to know what’s funny? My nerves and stress ease up when I’m in more traditional towns and locales, which eastern Oregon contains. When I’m in cities like Portland, my stress level elevates. I don’t know what it is. Blue controlled cities do this to me. Could be the terrible looking brutalist style buildings I see.
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  160.  @odinthebiker8240  I believe in you man. Trust me, those of us in Red counties absolutely abhor what is going on.
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  161. What I’ve been saying for years.
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  162. Campgrounds are now places to make drugs and sell them. Scenic areas are starting to look more trashed.
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  163. It’s like a mini Wyoming, which is why you never hear anything from that state.
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  164. America is falling.
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  165. I remember when they weren’t so insane.
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  166. Outsiders feel Oregon is entirely blue but having been there hundreds of times, there are many conservatives. The actual truth is hidden and requires actual research.
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  167. The population spike certainly explains it.
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  168.  @tinalaursen8993  I know, but we can’t name them because YT will delete our comments.
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  169. @ They’re making people sick on purpose.
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  170.  @jimedick9496  It’s the same here in Washington. Puget Sound is full of entitled rich people. Insane cost of living. No real opportunities if you’re not interested in certain career paths.
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  171.  @jimedick9496  Yes, I love the scenery, known the PNW for decades. Someone older than me said Oregon used to be purple, during the 80’s when I was in elementary school. I’ve been to eastern Washington also, industry and farmland are valued there. Those in Puget Sound just take resources without giving anything in return.
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