Leaving Portland
Quillette,
by
Michael J. Totten
Original Article
Posted By: humboldt,
3/14/2021 3:07:05 PM
Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged through the Pearl District, a renovated SoHo-like neighborhood adjacent to downtown packed with art galleries, loft apartments, bookstores, and restaurants. CORRECTION*
*Author corrected. Please post carefully and proofread before submitting.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
cThree 3/14/2021 3:11:25 PM (No. 723751)
The writer is Michael J. Totten.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 3/14/2021 3:19:01 PM (No. 723758)
"Each individual Portland riot was a minor kerfuffle compared to the Capitol riot on January 6th of this year. " That is simply not even close to the truth. Riots here were much larger, more violent, and destructive than liberals like to believe, much closer to a real insurrection than what I've read about the Capitol kerfuffle. I would leave here in a heartbeat, but all my kids and my granddaughter live here. They still think it's a great place.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
cThree 3/14/2021 3:20:18 PM (No. 723762)
And yes the scathing comments are much more informed than this pile of mush by Mr. Totten.
Scan the article, pore over the comments.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 3/14/2021 3:26:25 PM (No. 723768)
The author is one of the left-wing morons that ruined Portland. I’ll bet he voted for every one of the Democraps who ran for office. He can leave if he wants to - I just don’t want him moving to a red state, because he’ll STILL vote the same way he always did.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 3/14/2021 3:42:52 PM (No. 723777)
I guess we don't believe our lying eyes. Totten grudgingly admits that Wheeler is basically incompetent and "Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt deserves his own share of the blame." Totten can't get himself to admit that the unrelenting rioting and failure to truly crack down hard on these rioters is why Portland is the mess it is. It's the old "Milk and Cookies" regimen that liberals think will work. The truth is that the Totten family is leaving because Portland is unlivable under bleeding-heart liberal leadership, but he can't admit it. He's almost saying it's Trump's fault. What else is new?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Daisy Mae 3/14/2021 4:07:06 PM (No. 723788)
This article is a white wash, of the 'ROSE CITY', that has become the 'FUNGUS CITY'. The city, along with Salem is a cesspool of Communist Extremism. When I say Extremism, I mean just that, more extreme than the Soviet Union, more extreme than Cuba, more extreme than Venezuelan. When I lived there it was quiet and beautiful. That is long gone, never to return.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
dmzrn 3/14/2021 4:21:13 PM (No. 723797)
Until they go after the movers behind BLM and Antifa, and designate them as DOMESTIC TERRORISTS, nothing will change.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Michaelus 3/14/2021 4:54:10 PM (No. 723809)
For nearly 50 years they have been saying that the 1967 Detroit riots were small, isolated, not a big deal blah blah blah. Detroit disappeared in the years after those "protests". Baltimore may never come back from the Obama inspire Freddie Gray riots. Minneapolis? LOL. Portland was a fine place. It was much nicer when there were drunk bums instead of anarchist transsexual "homeless" personages on God only knows what drugs. The people of Portland gave the city to the nuts. Oh well.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
humboldt 3/14/2021 5:48:17 PM (No. 723851)
I posted this article and originally read it because I am very familiar with Totten's gripping eye-witness accounts of destruction in major war zones such as Syria. He is certainly no "left-wing moron". The question is that given his war eye-witnessbackground, how could he write such an uninformed and biased article about the destruction of a place he is so familiar with?. I think the answer is that while his previous war zone eyewitness accounts were extremely vivid in recounting the destruction and damage witnessed, he never dealt with underlying causes, which requires a very different set of skills that he clearly doesn't have.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Donna M 3/14/2021 8:42:06 PM (No. 723932)
Dear boy is a cuck on full display.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TXknitter 3/14/2021 10:14:29 PM (No. 723965)
We lived on the Northern Oregon Coast for six years in mid-90’s. We visited about four years ago and the rot which infected Portland had obviously spread. From Astoria south to Seaside and then to Tillamook County, it was far from the place it used to be. I am not sure how to describe the deterioration without being impolite, so I will say ‘nuff said.
Liberal hippyness that was once harmless has now turned deadly and ugly.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LoneVoice 3/15/2021 7:34:48 AM (No. 724171)
FTA:
"Suburban moderates and rural conservatives take note: Portlanders aren’t as different from you as you think they are."
I've been there. The above statement is an absolute lie!
Portlanders are proud of being extremist evil left wing weirdos.
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A fascinating, albeit long article, on the destruction of one of America's nicest cities by a famous world war correspondents, which nevertheless suffers from a blindness created by a liberal mindset. Most informative are the scathing following comments that expose this poisonous mindset and explore the real reasons for the disaster.