AlphaMikeFoxtrot

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Bailed out by the stimulus bill, of course. Most major insurance carriers are publicly traded, and many others are privately held by financial firms. Portland's NBA arena is sponsored by an insurance company that recently sued the government for stiffing them on a reimbursement and won.

If anything the riots give them a chance to cash out from insurance money rather than slow suffocation by the shut down. The latter is a much bigger concern for small businesses, and nationwide.

Portland's problem is wages are way behind cost of living, meaning career-wise most people make some sort of sacrifice to be here. Lots of frustrated people that tell others back home they are "living the dream". I could get twice as much home in Minneapolis with wages being similar, possibly better in MSP. Edit: I didn't really answer the liberal slide. My belief is the more people you have in an area, the more organization you need. Keep an honest check on government overreach, but I also love riding a train to work. Hopefully that doesn't make me a *gasp* socialist!

I feel for the folks grinding it out in the food carts that lost their clientele to the pandemic, believe me. Hopefully rent contracts were renegotiated.

Get used to it. It's not like this hasn't happened in our lifetimes. Did you feel that way when Koreatown got destroyed in the 90s? Race riots were a staple of the Midwest in my parents' childhood. But hey, my 401k is up!

Eugene would be a great place to get an education if outdoor recreation is of interest.

If you live in Boise, Colorado Springs, Tuscon, I'll give you that you live somewhere better. Maybe a few others, none of which are likely to include wherever you're at. Portland's best years are behind it, having "arrived" as a destination. But the only people affected by the protests/riots are literally ivory tower liberals living in high rises in the Pearl or South waterfront.

Even though the mods shot down your "theory", you still believe it to be true, no matter how preposterous it sounds. A good reminder of how there are so many of your fellow QAnon freakshows.

Glad to have you aboard, although the taxing to recoup previous enforcement costs is stupid and will not happen. First off, there is no God. Second, a brief psychoanalysis of our posts would show between the two of us, one is high risk for abusing women. Hint: I am not the high risk. For you to go from using degrading language about a woman to accusing others of "oppression" would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.

If he's married, I pity the poor woman.

As has happened probably a dozen times now, you refuse to answer a question from me. If you want to hammer Kamala (not sexually of course, you wouldnt know what to do) on her marijuana convictions, and are supportive of legalization, criticize away. Otherwise, you're just a lonely incel projecting your frustrations with an entire gender upon her in your psychotic rants.

Unless you are unequivocally in full support of the federal legalization of marijuana, as well as expunging all records relating to it, you are the one lacking in footing. I sure as hell want to see that, so I have the right to criticize her record. Do you?

Sorry, but you've disqualified yourself from opining on her. Got nobody to blame but yourself. Where you go one you go all

So you're saying that she would be the "law and order" candidate?

Didnt realize I was on the clock. Some people have actual things to do with their lives.

I have no qualms with them being locked up. Pulling back from the militarization of police will subject us to lousy people feeling empowered, and I cannot emphasize this enough, on both sides. The kidnapping plot was anti-cop right wingers feeling precisely that.

Being a vet doesn't excuse anything for anyone involved in the protests. Play with fire, get burned.

Hmmm. Sure enough. Didn't hear about that or notice it when I scouted out downtown a few months ago. EDIT: right after riots started in April/May I went to my office to grab stuff and noticed the statue was TP'd, which is harmless. It's right by the police station that's ground zero so not a surprise it's been vandalized. Disappointing though. There's a herd of elk that live near my beach house and I walk by them with my surfboard all the time. Beautiful creatures.

This is a hockey forum! Get that ish outta here

Yeah. It's right by my office; the statue is on a ~8 ft platform in the middle of the road and the lanes part around it.

Trump trash toppled and stole an iconic statue downtown too. Sad.

Ask the Portuguese how full on legalization of all drugs is going. Hint: far better than anyone expected.

Boogaloo boys I believe, which are anti-cop/govt right wingers and similar to the Bundy crew from Eastern Oregon.