AlphaMikeFoxtrot

I was responding to a post about crime in Portland. Also, LOL at you being afraid of anarchists with a leaf blower.

Having grown up in Minneapolis, I was far more shocked by what happened there. Lake and Hiawatha was my light rail stop at one point. Spent a few hours surfing that weekend and came back to find 200+ messages from group chats with friends back home. Portland is desensitized to it after all the white trash rallies to rile up Antifa over the last few years, which took place exactly where !@#$ is going down right now. Minneapolis doesn't have to worry about junkies setting up shop since the weather is miserable for so much of the year. As for policies, you're being vague so I'm not sure to what you refer. Allowing protesters to assemble? Not shipping the homeless away for others to deal with? Allowing Somalians to form a resettlement community?

As a Portland resident, I can tell you that most crime is perpetrated by transient addicts (usually Vets, former high school football players, or other roles at high risk for injuries that result in a painkiller prescription) whose drug use elsewhere resulted in the local law enforcement taking the lazy route and putting them on a bus to Portland rather than rehabilitate them in their community. Because Portland doesn't ship them off when they run afoul of police here, they are here to stay until a friend or family member says it's okay to send the person to stay with them. There are some losers and scumbags among the locals, but most junkies and criminals are non-natives. As a healthy white male over 6 feet with a confident stride, I'm not afraid of anything happening to me anywhere in the city. Couldn't say the same thing in many post-industrial rust belt cities in this country, or in most of the countries I've visited. I wouldn't leave my bike unlocked or valuables visible in my car, but when I've done those things accidentally nothing happened. The Antifa crowd is really just anarchists that are too stupid to realize they allowed their enemies to label them and use their actions for fear mongering. Tons of white trash come from just over the river in Vancouver WA to provoke them, and they fall for it every time. The narrative that Portland is a shithole is bogus. There are some tent cities and parts of downtown that are trashed, but it's better to localize it and tolerate it (a la Hamsterdam) than try to fight it everywhere. Only a few parts are affected. I'm going into my office downtown this week for the first time in a while after spending the quarantine at my beach house, I'll share pictures of what it looks like since my building is in the thick of it. From what I've seen and heard it's a few storefronts and parks that got destroyed, but not nearly as widespread as portrayed. TLDR: Portland crime isn't Antifa, it's junkies from out of town that end up here. Don't let fascist propagandists tell you otherwise

Are you saying BLM, a group opposed to the omni-present militarization of our police force, is fascist? Mind-blown.gif

....Do you know what delusions of grandeur means? He isn't deluded into thinking he is a public figure or super hero. Stick to words with fewer syllables and reposting fascist propaganda.

Tax your house? Yes, it's called Georgian economics. It's almost universally accepted as the best approach to taxation. Tax your inheritance? I doubt you have anywhere near the amount worth taxing coming to you. Tax your gas? How else do we pay for the our decaying infrastructure? Bridges are in bad shape all over the country. No Police? Kamala is a cop in attorney clothing. No Free Press? Republicans are the ones crying fake news while falling for silly conspiracy theories (and electing freakshows that espouse them). Tax your 401k? Do you mean IRA? 401k is tax-deferred. No zoning laws? You mean like Houston has no zoning laws resulting in sprawl filling in flood plains? Sweet post bro.

To his credit, he didn't announce it:

That's true, but they should wait until they are committed to one of them. Especially in hockey, where there is an alternative to the college route.

"I'm trusting the path God has for me, which is why I'm decommitting from the University of Notre Dame and opening up my recruiting to schools notorious for paying recruits under the table"

Top 10? What a waste of time to announce. This isn't football or basketball, there are only 62 choices. Next we'll see the incredibly tacky posts from prospects announcing they every time they received an offer, complete with "#blessed".

Mike Babcock joining Vermont as a volunteer advisor to the coaches. Nice placeholder gig.

Chairman Mao would be proud.

Don't worry, I don't. Life is too short to watch cable news. Although responding to a criticism of Fox with "but CNN" is partisan whataboutism.

You were just mocking someone for not knowing the details of a news outlet interview, so this take is certainly a surprise.

Don't pretend like you're not ready to die on the hill of defending Fox News.

Scroll up, look at the post you quoted and then look at your response. I'm not digging for the back and forth for days between you lovebirds.

One interviewer performing a single interview doesn't equal an entire network. NDSU educated, I take it?

Portland was mentioned since its downtown is the current focus of media, much like Hiawatha and Lake in Minneapolis was when this all started, and Capitol Hill in Seattle was more recently. Plenty of fresh clips in Portland on everyone's mind right now. You're ranting about crime due to illegal immigration and are not sure why Hispanics were mentioned? Please. Are there people in this country illegally causing trouble? Yes, without a doubt. But making blanket statements about all illegal immigrants based on the actions of a few is a terrible approach. Many of the criminals among them are filling the demand for street drugs that was created by painkillers being over-prescribed. Attack the root of the problem and the branches go with it.

Nobody expects you to admit you're wrong, but if you're not going to address the point that was made, why reply? You stated something that is unsubstantiated nonsense and then can't defend it.

Trump is a symptom of a bigger problem. The same morons will still be here when he is out of office and SDNY locks him up.

There is a substantial undocumented/illegal immigrant population working on nearby farms in Portland due the urban growth boundary resulting in land zoned for farming close to the city and suburbs. Hillsboro and Beaverton have numerous dual language schools catering to these families. If what you say is even remotely true, you should be able to find a picture or video of Hispanic people participating in the unrest/protests/riots there to validate your claim. If not....well ..... maybe you're painfully wrong and just parroting what some fascist talking head says else rather than speaking from knowledge and experience.

Miller or Moore will play forward like Poolman and Wolanin did as freshmen.

Lucia said they are welcome in the CCHA. Pretty much a done deal at that point. Arena is the big question. They could possibly use Tria for games and one of the others in the area for practice.

Never heard of him, but cursory Google search depicts him as respectable.

Yes, Dan Crenshaw comes to mind in that regard.