Posted on 09/05/2020 4:30:44 PM PDT by karpov
SANDY, Ore. — Trucks carrying bales of hay, horse paddocks and Christmas tree farms — drive a few miles out of Portland and the suburbs quickly give way to rural Oregon.
Barely a half-hour from the Portland streets where racial justice protesters on Saturday were marking 100 consecutive days of tempestuous, sometimes violent, demonstrations, there are plenty of communities where people dismiss the protesters as lawless hooligans.
“Portland is an island in Oregon,” said Stan Pulliam, the mayor of Sandy, a more conservative town of 10,000 people about 30 miles southeast of Portland that feeds off the economic dynamism of Oregon’s largest city but also strives to be separate from it. “We are scared to death that what’s happening in Portland will ever come out to where we live.”
The rural-urban divide is a reality writ large across much of the nation, a crucial dynamic as the Nov. 3 election approaches. But the proximity of left and right in Oregon, both moderates and extremists, has created a dynamic of fear, mistrust and anger that feeds the conflicts in the streets in ways that it has not in other states.
At Rapid Fire Arms, a gun shop along the main road in Sandy, the owner, Brian Coleman, has sold 4.5 million rounds of ammunition since March, when the arrival of the pandemic drove up sales. Demand for guns and ammunition soared even further, he said, when the protests in Portland turned violent in the weeks after George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis.
“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.”
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As usual, it only takes two sentences for the SLIME to make a false premise. “racial justice protesters” Nonsense.
These thugs try any of their shiite east of the Cascades they will be hurt - bad.
Does Portland have a curfew in place? Why NOT?
then....the Mayor needs to be “ARRESTED”
I’m a bookkeeper’s son
I don’t want to shoot no one
Well I crossed my old man back in Oregon
Don’t take me alive
Got a case of dynamite
I could hold out here all night
Yes I crossed my old man back in Oregon
Don’t take me alive
Steely Dan
Sure.
Fitting.
Just heard that song today.
L
The Royal Scam, best SD album.
Strange; Hillary’s manservant, John Podesta, said earlier this week that Oregon will secede if Trump wins.
Promise?
Anybody from Oregon? Are these riots moving the needle in Trump’s direction.
Podesta said that? Maybe Portland and Eugene...but the rest? Baaaaawwwaaaahhhh
I’m from Oregon. ..there are a lot of independent and unaffiliated voters in Oregon.....which to me means, yes, moving needle more toward Trump..but that’s just my humble opinion
Podesta said that California, Oregon and Washington States would all secede. Maybe he hasn’t met the people in rural Oregon or Spokane.
Why don’t these mayors think about what they are saying. the Sandy mayor said:
“We are scared to death that what’s happening in Portland will ever come out to where we live.”
Scared to death of the Bolsheviks? The Bolsheviks hear that and they say, “Hey, we got easy pickings over in Sandy, did you hear what their mayor said? We’ve got the green light, they’re scared to death of us. Let’s get over there and ransack the place.”
If only BLM/ANTIFA would occupy Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, leftists would be all for sending in the troops to clear them out.
/s
A lot of love for Trump, but the numbers aren’t likely enough.
Oregon residents need to sign on with the Greater Idaho project.
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