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Portland voters SLAM homelessness as 'out-of-control disaster' and back forced drug treatment and street tent bans, in stunning rebuke to city's officials
Daily Mail ^ | 5/31/23 | James Reinl

Posted on 05/31/2023 4:16:38 PM PDT by Libloather

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To: Zathras

The only movie I can recall set in Portland was Mr. Brooks where Kevin Costner plays a well off serial killer businessman in the lead role. He tries to prevent his daughter from following him in his unusual hobby and thus you are supposed to sympathize with the lead character who also happens to be a serial killer. In a way I suppose it sums up Portland. I felt I needed a shower after it was over.


21 posted on 05/31/2023 5:45:11 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Libloather

Took their leftists asses long enough.


22 posted on 05/31/2023 5:57:26 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
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To: Libloather
"'My goal is to have enough shelter, housing, and treatment access available so
that we can fully eliminate unsanctioned, unsheltered camping in Portland,
' Wheeler said.."

So, in other words, nothing's going to change.

23 posted on 05/31/2023 5:57:30 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Flâneur@Large)
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To: ponygirl

That wasn’t chicken...


24 posted on 05/31/2023 6:02:27 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: No name given
What about the muzzy “refugees”?!

What about them?

They're not sleeping on the streets.

If Portland's homeless population looks anything like San Diego's, we're talking mostly able-bodied men (with a minority of women and elderly), both black and white, who are severely psychotic and drug-addicted.

25 posted on 05/31/2023 6:11:22 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: Libloather

“’My goal is to have enough shelter, housing, and treatment access available so that we can fully eliminate unsanctioned, unsheltered camping in Portland,’ Wheeler said in a statement ahead of the talks.”

Wheeler is a moron: they’ll NEVER have enough free shelter, housing, and treatment access because they’ll simply attract an unlimited number of vagabonds ... it’s pretty much like feeding pigeons: the more you feed them, the more pigeons you’ll get ...


26 posted on 05/31/2023 6:58:36 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: Libloather

Sadly I have to travel to Portland on business on a regular basis and can confirm that these filthy animals are everywhere.


27 posted on 05/31/2023 7:32:12 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Libloather

More like a stunning rebuke to themselves for electing the people they did. They probably don’t even realize they were (are?) the cause of the problem.

Better late than never, I guess.


28 posted on 05/31/2023 7:36:33 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Libloather

I only hope those leaving Portland stay the hell away from Texas.


29 posted on 05/31/2023 7:40:21 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Libloather

They’ll vote blue.
They always do.


30 posted on 05/31/2023 8:04:21 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: rellic
since you didn’t mark this as sarcasm

There is always one in every crowd not matter how obvious you make it. The quote answers the question - "progressives."

31 posted on 05/31/2023 8:05:11 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Drew68

If Portland’s homeless population looks anything like San Diego’s, we’re talking mostly able-bodied men (with a minority of women and elderly), both black and white, who are severely psychotic and drug-addicted.

****************

You nailed it.

The demographics are the same from British Columbia to San Diego.
These types of kooks & crazies are a “dime a dozen” on the West Coast.


32 posted on 05/31/2023 8:07:25 PM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: catnipman

>>it’s pretty much like feeding pigeons: the more you feed them, the more pigeons you’ll get ...<<

I call it the “stray cat problem.” My BIL (now dead) couldn’t resist a stray cat. There were upwards if a hundred of them in and around his car repair business at the time of his death. His affinity for giving shelter, food, and unrestricted access to rampant procreation, untreated disease, and daily cat fights that looked like an Antifa protest, was well-known and tolerated by the locals - especially those who didn’t live near the mess. The cats, themselves, were not unlike the denizens of human homeless encampments - sickly, disfigured by disease and injury. Malnourished beings with rheumy eyes, open sores, and pandemic-level diseases. It was the disease that kept this population from growing exponentially. The environment in and around his business was very much like one sees in these human vagrant encampments. The amount of animal waste, trash, rotting food and garbage was staggering. The resident rats, crows and seagulls attended to the disposal of the dead and dying, but even they couldn’t keep ahead of the filthy landscape. Animal shelter workers would trap, sterilize, and release these strays back to this location as time and charity donations allowed. It rewarded the humans with a fine sense of compassionate good-works but, in truth, it only served to perpetuate the miserable existence of these pathetic animals. When my BIL died, the cats were trapped en masse and most were euthanized. Only a scant few were able to be rehabilitated sufficiently to become barn cats for local farmers willing to take them. The point is, this was a Hellish existence of the cats’ own making - aided and abetted by humans with a misguided sense of what compassionate treatment looked like. I don’t see a nickel’s worth of difference between these stray cats and the human “homeless” population infesting our cities today. Do you?


33 posted on 05/31/2023 8:14:34 PM PDT by torqemada (BIDEN IS NOT MY PRESIDENT #RESIST)
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To: Libloather

If they keep voting for Democrats...


34 posted on 05/31/2023 10:47:55 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: AndyJackson

My apologies, but we interact with so many idiots
one can never be certain.
I saw it as sarcasm immediately, buy usually we mark it as
such for the slower people.


35 posted on 05/31/2023 11:27:15 PM PDT by rellic
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

And who is going to buy up the real-estate at a bargain price as people and businesses leave?

Foreigners, mostly.


36 posted on 06/01/2023 1:35:46 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: crusty old prospector

...But they have street smarts. Which is just “so cool’ to spoiled, entitled prog white women.

There’s a reason it’s called street smarts. Because it belongs on the street. I bet some of the homeless talk about having home smarts.


37 posted on 06/01/2023 2:28:38 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: joma89

And they will vote Solid Democrat in the next election, and the next...


38 posted on 06/01/2023 5:44:15 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Eat the Rich)
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39 posted on 06/02/2023 7:01:39 AM PDT by Twotone
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