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ANDY NGO REPORTS: Portland business owner who promoted Antifa riots closes taproom, cites business decline in the city
The Post Millenial ^ | September 11, 2023 | Andy Ngo & Katie Daviscourt

Posted on 09/13/2023 8:44:03 AM PDT by Twotone

A leftist Portland, Ore. business owner who advocated for the city's destruction during the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 and 2021 announced he is closing his taproom after suffering significant financial losses since that time.

Nat West, the owner of Reverend Nat's Hard Cider on Southeast 35th and Division Street, who identifies as he/him on social media, is permanently shuttering the doors to his taproom. The taproom's beverages are a former staple in the progressive city now struggling with surging crime, homicides and business closures following the 2020–21 riots.

The shuttering of West's taproom is ironic given his strong advocacy and promotion of property destruction and vandalism in Portland.

"Please smash all my windows if it will be a step toward change," West said in an Twitter (now X) post in April 2021, nearly a year after the deadly riots started in Portland. For more than 120 days straight in Portland, far-left extremists carried out acts of insurrection against the local and federal governments through firebombings, explosive attacks, looting, arson, gun violence and rampant property destruction.

The owner of Reverend Nat's Hard Cider repeatedly expressed support for far-left political violence in Portland, Ore.

In response to an individual criticizing rioters for smashing up the Oregon Historical Society in October 2020 at an Antifa direct action, West suggested the museum deserved it.

(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: andyngo; antifa; domesticterrorist; natwest; oregon; portland; schadenfraudealert; schadenfreude

1 posted on 09/13/2023 8:44:03 AM PDT by Twotone
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2 posted on 09/13/2023 8:45:02 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

3 posted on 09/13/2023 8:45:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Twotone

Picked up Andy’s “Unmasked” yesterday. VERRRRRRRY Interesting. Thanks Andy.


4 posted on 09/13/2023 8:45:14 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: Twotone

Reverend Gnat. Never heard of the boy.


5 posted on 09/13/2023 8:46:34 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: Twotone

Bawahaha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
So sorry, NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


6 posted on 09/13/2023 8:47:38 AM PDT by bantam
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To: Twotone
who identifies as he/him

I’d suggest he change his pronouns to the more apt “dumb/ass”.

7 posted on 09/13/2023 8:50:39 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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Some folks just learning they can’t virtue signal their way out of this societal wreckage.


8 posted on 09/13/2023 8:50:51 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Twotone

> who identifies as he/him on social media <

Aw, Mr. Ngo. It’s a minor point, but why do we need to know that? Don’t play that game.


9 posted on 09/13/2023 8:52:29 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Please smash all my windows?

MUST BE A RENTER-—NOT THE BUILDING OWNER.


10 posted on 09/13/2023 8:53:07 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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I’d hate to see Cider Riot follow suit. This probably just helps them by eliminating market competition.
11 posted on 09/13/2023 9:00:59 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Twotone

I remember perusing his website a few years ago on how to make hard cider. Didnt let on his politics at that time IIRC.


13 posted on 09/13/2023 9:07:52 AM PDT by funwithfood
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To: Twotone

Huh, whoda thunk it?


14 posted on 09/13/2023 9:36:44 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Sicon

LOL!


15 posted on 09/13/2023 9:37:51 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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West suggested the museum deserved it
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I can suggest that West deserved it.


16 posted on 09/13/2023 9:41:23 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: Twotone

TFB. Sign up for government assistance and sit around till you die.


17 posted on 09/13/2023 9:52:48 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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Please smash all my windows if it will be a step toward change.

It was. It changed the windows from whole to broken. If this isn't a perfect metaphor for Antifa "wisdom" I've yet to hear better.

West continues to advertise his beverage consulting side business...

Yeah, that'll work. Who best to ask about running a beverage business than one who went broke doing it? I hear the Bud Light marketing team is hiring...

18 posted on 09/13/2023 9:59:54 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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...business owner who advocated for the city's destruction during the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 and 2021 announced he is closing his taproom after suffering significant financial losses

Proving that leftists are not only evil, they're stupid.
19 posted on 09/13/2023 10:13:47 AM PDT by Signalman
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The owner promoted Antifa?

Must have served a lot of Bud Light.

20 posted on 09/13/2023 4:23:36 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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