This is very funny

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1302441549024944131?s=20

Best statement ever in support of President Trump

https://twitter.com/RuthieRedSox/status/1301961630067163139?s=20

Oregonians give the New York Times an earful about Portland

Much to the New York Times's surprise, people who live outside Portland in Oregon aren't big fans of the riot-synonymous city. Here's a quote buried way down the bottom of the piece:

“Portland is a garbage dump,” said Ms. Johnson, the resident of Gresham, a half-hour away. “I don’t want anything to do with it.”

It had to have been a surprise.

The piece was done in the context of an impressive anniversary, at least if you're a rioter - the 100th day solid of riots burning through that city.

The Times headline creates that false declivity it's often famous for - interviewing the mugger and the muggee, with that "two lives intersect" template. Their prim headline in this case is:

100 Days of Protest: A Chasm Grows Between Portland and the Rest of Oregon

Which is a little bit of an understatement. Fact is, the reporter found pretty much no one with anything nice to say about Portland. With Antifa and other allied mob elements taking over the city, turning it into a riot-infested hellhole, mostly from a marching army from someplace else, it quite likely isn't anyone born in Oregon. Heck, even Portlanders born elsewhere don't like it.

“I’m a normal person and I don’t have extremist views,” Ms. Crymer said. “Normal people should be able to feel like they can fly an American flag and not get hunted down for it.”

As you may imagine, gun sales in that state are through the roof:

“There’s panic buying every once in a while but nowhere near like this,” Mr. Coleman said at the entrance of his shop, fortified with steel bars. “There’s such a massive rush, people are taking anything they can get.”

And there was nobody they could find to defend the riots to give that "chasm" claim some heft.

Nobody, and you know they looked.

Which shouldn't surprise anyone. An old hedge fund manager 20 years ago told me to not go looking for FARC supporters in the wilds of Colombia because "nobody, the world over, like guerrillas. Nobody." And when I went to Colombia six years later, in 2007, I asked around, and got an earful – confirming my hedgie pal was right in spades.

Purveyors of civil unrest and property damage and disturbances of peace are despised no matter where they turn up.

Fortunately, the Times report shows that also see this in Oregon, telling the rest of us somehow, somewhere, there are sane people in Oregon. We all know there must be, for who doesn't like to buy Tillamook cheese and Oregon blueberries? Those are nice products, surely they can't be made by leftists. I like to buy my iris rhizomes (those are the little roots you plant to get big iris blossoms in summer) from a nice little farm in Oregon. I'm gratified to hear that nobody like what's going on in Portland from those quarters.

Once upon a time, Oregon was a normal place. Now that it's ground zero for leftist lunacy, one can only hope that normal Oregonians get their bearings, pin the blame where it belongs on the Democrats, and one day throws them all out. It won't happen tomorrow, given the way the urban areas completely render powerless the rural areas - we also see this in California, where tremendous numbers of noncoastal counties always vote red, and are wiped out and treated with contempt by the bluesters.

Same dynamic in Oregon, and we in California commiserate.

One can only wonder what the Times really heard if these quotes from the Oregon normals actually made it to print.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/oregonians_give_the_new_york_times_an_earful_about_portland.html

The Democrat Party’s Riots

They’re getting what they asked for—good and hard.

CNN anchors Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon have the collective brain capacity of rising third graders. OK, fair point—there’s no reason for me to insult our children like that. But the one upside of the tumbleweeds blowing through their minds is that sometimes what the Left is really thinking accidentally rolls out of their mouths. Don Lemon recently called on Joe Biden to make a speech addressing the riots and explaining how when it comes to reforming the police, he and Kamala Harris “will take care of this problem” after being elected. “But guess what: the rioting has to stop.” Lemon then revealed the problem: “Chris, as you know, and I know, it’s showing up in the polling, it’s showing up in focus groups. It is the only thing—it is the only thing right now that is sticking.”

Think about what he’s really saying here. “Rioting is fine—but only if it helps us win. There are plenty of signals that establishment Democrats realize they need to pivot toward the pretense of responsible citizenship and denounce the violent. Now that the events in Kenosha and the mob violence surrounding them are becoming the final straw for potential swing voters, suddenly it’s all “gone too far” and we must consider “muh municipal law and order.” These usefully idiotic clowns and the elites they serve still slap “mostly peaceful” chyrons on their coverage of American neighborhoods going up in flames. Some still think the mob will help them win. But the riots can’t just be put back in the bottle—not because you morons finally blink. Democrats helped open Pandora’s Box this summer. Deep-rooted fear and anger have flown out. There is now no telling where they will roost politically.

BLM and friends are run by very angry, very dangerous extremists who aren’t playing around. They now have hundreds of millions of dollars (at least) at their command. They will not be easily controlled by the brain-dead and/or evil Dems who summoned them. You play with fire, you get burned—as our cities, tragically and needlessly, will continue to do.

The Bill Comes Due

The Left is now very upset that someone showed up with a gun and shot rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin because they are against…violence and lawlessness and civic unrest? Since when?

But the American people will never forget what you did. What you started. Because we will have to put this evil genie back in the bottle. And it will take time and force—violence—in order to do so.

https://americanmind.org/post/the-democrats-riots/