Posted on 04/09/2015 5:30:13 AM PDT by Mamzelle
Dear Oregon Freepers--it's been my misfortune to have a particularly obnoxious, arrogant, condescending liberal from Portland become part of a cherished social circle. I have heard so much about "how we do it in Portland" that I started doing research about this area of the country, its politics, and finally its cruelty to the religious.
So. I’m guessing the Gerbils in the store are beside themselves with abject fear.
“Be Brave young Lemmiewinks!”
I grew up there, went to a “the hands of labor should seize the factors of production, but only if they recycle” liberal arts school there (with Monica supplanting Marie Post as our most famous graduate - who can tell me what they have in common?), and promptly left upon graduation. Having lived in New York, overseas, and now in the South, I have some thoughts:
There is no social stigma in being batsh1t crazy.
Your college roommates might bury their own crap in the yard while drinking organic beer.
You are not cool if you won’t bike in the rain.
It rains all the time.
Homeless (shelter challenged) are not to be disparaged, but keep it away from me.
We love black people, but don’t know any.
Everyone tries so hard to be different, that they all look and act the same.
The only successful self made people I know there are in real estate, convincing people to sell their houses to transplants. Most others work in retail or in bike shops, and even live in the storage room.
I just spent a half hour searching for any crowdfunding site for them, with no luck. A gay man started one, ostensibly because he has the smarts to realize how fascist the gay movement looks in this situation, but — amazing! — the funds raised are now going to some "troubled youth" organizations due to some other protest that blocked him from helping them financially. This persecution is revolting on every level, including the offended lesbians' demands for $150,000 for their "emotional suffering." What if a lesbian bakery made them a cake that didn't meet their emotional threshhold? They must be real sweet gals. NOT.
Father God,Author of miracles, help this couple who are standing in testament to You. Help them find a way to support their five children. May their online business prosper, Lord God, until they find a peaceful haven through Your grace and mercy. Repel all further attacks from the Deceiver, Lord,
In Christ's holy name we pray.
Amen.
I have lived in the Pacific NW since 1969. My parents moved here when I was in high school. I attended university here, graduated, went to work, joined the U.S.Navy from here, came back and went to work again.
I do not care how most people live their lives and that seems to be the case with most people here, as liberty is highly valued. But no more as Liberals are intolerant and I draw the line at an assault.
In 1978 I was assaulted by two men while walking in downtown Portland. It was broad daylight, across from Pioneer Square when the two men forced me up against a building, spit on me while screaming “BREEDER SH!T”. Both were small men and seemed frightened rather than hostile. Did I get angry? No, I just wiped the spit off my clothes and kept walking.
This was not the first time I had encountered rudeness from gay men in Portland. Those events have prevented me from working and living there. The rural areas are just fine.
Stay away from Portland, Eugene and Salem. The rest of Oregon is great.
Oh, I forgot. In the early 1980’s, the influx of gay men (see Neil Goldschmidt, “you are all welcome here!”) meant that I could not take a bus downtown to buy a record without seeing some queer catcall me in my early teens, usually while walking down the street jerking off. Sick and disgusting, but I was supposed to accept it as their chosen lifestyle, and not be judgemental. Funny, none were ever arrested for public indecency in front of a child.
Ew.
You ought to go and post this for discussion on the Oregon State board.
I bet you’ll get some reaction.
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Salem??? Just because it’s the Capital dies not make it crazy...Marion county is one of more conservative ones.
Oregon ping
The freedom of association protections implicit to the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments enables me to be discriminating as far as whom I choose to associate or assemble with.
I love Portlandia, I watch it on Netflix. My fave is the episode with all the color coded recycle bins, including matchbox sized ones to sort out tiny stuff like nail clippings.
in 1976 my summer school science class took a “field trip” to Portland to visit a “science” museum. We went down on the train. In the restroom at the train station there was a bum masturbating while watching other guys urinating. I told my teacher about it... he said that was just the way things were in Portland and that we should all be very careful.
Here in Florida we obviously get a whole passel of folks from New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio etc.
Seems nearly every damn one of them thinks every thing is better from the crap hole from which they came.
Course they still move here in droves to escape crappy weather, high tax rates, high crime and still the quote you always here is, “well that’s not the way we do things up (wherever).
LMAO. I have only watched the first episode, so far. The homo organic farm cult leader act was priceless.
Oregon is a hotbed of anti-vaxxers.
Agreed 100%. Liberals must be shunned. They are beyond repair.
We hear that here in NC too. I have asked a couple of them why they are here if it is so much better where they left.
Kelee,
you get em coming and going.
They come down here,
Say it’s too hot, too humid too some other damned thing and move half way back or to N.Carolina.
Or else they move to N.Carolina to begin with and give you the same line,
“well this isn’t how we do things back home>
Good luck with em all.
I love that show!
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