Does anyone know anyone living in Portland? Update: Wheeler moving

No, they're mostly peaceful protesters.

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I mean hollee shite. Is this fricking real?

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I do not think Andy Ngo has built a single brick of his reputation on lying or exaggerating.


ETA: and knowing how violent and disruptive the deranged, America-hating, white-people-loathing Left... that video looks like a 4 out of 10 on their 'extremism chart'

I hope Trump has the FBI and every other acronym agency running loads of undercover work to put these crazed leftist insurrections down.

One of my sales reps lives in Gresham, which is right outside Portland. He tells me he and his family and friends won't even consider going into Portland for anything.

I was downtown for dinner on Thursday night and it was desolate and sad, but the physical damage honestly isn't noticeable. I walked by the courthouse and it's fine - its like all the damage is superficial and grafitti.

The real damage is economic. Lots of national retailers and local retailers (Bonobos, Apple, Nordstrom, Dr. Air Martens, etc) are boarded up and not open.

Sunday I went to brunch and sat outdoors on the sidewalk. Everybody is very Nazi-ish about wearing your mask and they scold you if you don't have it on. Even outside. Homeless people everywhere staggering around drugged up. Over half of the people you see in downtown Portland now are homeless.

In the condo where Wheeler lives most people aren't actively living there right now. The Pearl is like the Warehouse District in NOLA. Most people who own a condo in this building have the resources and the type of job that allows them to relocate to their parents' house or a house on the coast and work remotely. Businesses in the Pearl are closer to normal than downtown - most business open with reduced staff and hours and VERY reduced customers and sales.

Portland will actually be way better off than NYC in my opinion. People don't move to Portland for the downtown, they move here for tech jobs, Nike jobs, and hiking / nature. The entire east side (65% of the population of "Portland") is fairly normal - just reduced hours and COVID hype. Those are the type of neighbourhoods and people that you saw in "Portlandia". Not much vandalism - just BLM signs in virtually every yard and everybody is the smug urbane trim liberal that you see in the Garden District of NOLA - Prius an Subarus everywhere and super soy.

The downtown was vibrant - think of New Orleans during the Sugar Bowl. It is small and will likely come back within a few years if there are no more large scale riots.

This nonsense has been happening in PDX for years. The voting populace put these weak dicks in office and continually re-elects them. Don't cry for PDX, they're reaping what they've sown.

Sir Winston lives there. He’s probably out in the middle of it.

I have business clients there. They say this is only downtown and in the neighborhoods with poor.

My buddy that lives in Portland sent me this the other day:

Regarding Portland, it’s an overblown media circus. Very political. I’ve not seen one thing going on outside the 2 or 3 blocks were everybody battles the police downtown

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My nephew operates three phone shops in different parts of Portland, including downtown, and none of this has bothered him.

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Because your nephew is probably involved in it.