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2022-10-24 -Great Cultural Revolution

Portland mayor admits that squalor and crime have turned the city into a 'vortex of misery'

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

The Mayor of Portland, Oregon on Friday announced plans to ban unsanctioned homeless camps as he called the situation 'a vortex of misery'

Mayor Ted Wheeler
...Poindextrous lefty Dem mayor of Portland, Oregon. Allowed a year and a half of Antifa/BLM riots to destroy downtown sections of his city while playing catch and release with the perpetrators and hamstringing his police. He got reelected in the course of all that because the alternative was worse. He has yet to accomplish anything of substance, unless destroying a fairly pleasant city counts...
described Portland's homeless crisis 'nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe'

The city currently has more than 700 homeless encampments across the city within less than 150 square miles

Wheeler says he hopes to build 20,000 new affordable housing units in the next 10 years

More than 3,000 individuals experiencing homelessness reside in the Oregon city, a stark rise from less than three years ago when the number was around 2,000

Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [19 views ] Top

#1 He hopes to build WTF over the next 10 years? He intends to rule for quite some time.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-10-24 00:06|| 2022-10-24 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 ...and he promptly gets removed from office by outraged residents.

Remember, this was the man who Portlanders denounced as a fascist. They had torchlight protests outside his home.

Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-10-24 01:36|| 2022-10-24 01:36|| Front Page Top

Posted by Dron66046 2022-10-24 03:23|| 2022-10-24 03:23|| Front Page Top

#4 …a fascist. They had torchlight protests outside his home.

Surely that was Antifa/BLM/Black Bloc anarcho-communists rather than the voting normies.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-10-24 04:11|| 2022-10-24 04:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Housing is not the problem. You think that druggies, alchies, and the mentally ill can handle maintaining housing? Were they mentally ill before or after abusing substances? When you can't face the truth, you can not solve the problem.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-10-24 07:48|| 2022-10-24 07:48|| Front Page Top

#6 The normies are antifa. This is Portland. There is no effective right-wing opposition. There are two kinds of politics: far left and far, far, far left.

Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-10-24 08:16|| 2022-10-24 08:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Isn't he the Mayor who begged forgiveness from BLM / Antifa literally on his knees and was roundly rejected?

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-10-24 08:37|| 2022-10-24 08:37|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Yep. Wheeler is also Police Commissioner. He owns this disaster 100%.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-10-24 10:19|| 2022-10-24 10:19|| Front Page Top

#9 He’s the Duke of ~~New York~~ Portland , A number one, Mr Big.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-10-24 11:26|| 2022-10-24 11:26|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-24 11:29|| 2022-10-24 11:29|| Front Page Top

#11 But it's all Trump's fault, right? Or is it Putin?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-10-24 11:57|| 2022-10-24 11:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Sounds like another Jimmy Carter -- a showcase of the Peter Principle.

Posted by magpie 2022-10-24 12:47|| 2022-10-24 12:47|| Front Page Top

#13 When I was there in 1990 it was a great place tolive. Other than the taxes.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-10-24 13:18|| 2022-10-24 13:18|| Front Page Top

#14 The last time I visited Portland it was 106 degrees, I just kept driving until I got to the coastline where it was 75.

Posted by Gromble Dribble4342 2022-10-24 15:54|| 2022-10-24 15:54|| Front Page Top

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