Proud to be a boomer and these cities didn't start looking like this until the left took them over. Yes, we boomers remember when our cities were beautiful and now they are not.
Vote stupid ways, win stupid prizes. This could not have happened without the collusion of the mayor, city council, and district attorney. They should be recalled and sent packing in humiliation at very least. Sedition charges would be appropriate.
Yes many politicians and medical establishments (including so called non profits) are taking money from the poor and disabled and leaving them on the streets to die.
This is what democratic governance looks like...I live here and it's far worse than this video shows. Human shit piles and drug needles in the streets, most places smell like urin...it's bad.
I cannot believe this is an American city! This has gone 100 percent into a really shocking direction. How could of people vote for people who would allow this! I will never for the life of me. Somehow they had to get in by voter fraud. That’s just completely nutts to think people would except this!
I moved here 25 years ago, and it was the most beautiful city I had ever seen,...... now destroyed.....so very sad.....and ...why .....how does it help anyone to destroy portland???
I don't feel anything for Portland or Seattle. They use to be nice places to visit - like San Francisco but not any more. This is the Democrat party on steroids. Where there's no law, there's no justice. Your leaders in those cities are still in charge and calling the shots. They have no remorse for the cities they rule and they feel the same way about the United States. Trump must win and he WILL do something about the leaders of these cities/States that destroy their cities for those who are law abiding citizens. I despise them, and not a nickel to fix it should be given.
The governor, mayor, and attorney general actually went to court to get an injunction against the police to stop them from using any non-lethal forms of deterrent against the “protestors” (anarchists)
I went to Portland years ago and marveled how clean and well-preserved the cool old architecture and buildings were, it reminded me of what Detroit once was and _could have been_ if Detroit had not been destroyed by blight.... way to go Portland... now ya look like Detroit.
@@tudfrey yep... right there with you! .....and I was very soured when Trump *_pardoned_* Kwame Kilpatrick.... we actually had one behind bars, doing time for political crimes that contributed to the ongoing demise of wayne county and *_Trump pardoned him_*
The violent destructive people are being paid to do what you see in the video. One woman arrested for torching a police car had been arrested in 11 other states for similar behavior. She was not a resident of any of the states in which she was arrested. I saw news video of a guy smashing a storefront window, he did not make entry. Once the crowd started in he moved to the next storefront, that's his job.
This video brings tears to my eyes. I’m in Seattle and I would imagine that it looks similar. It is so heartbreaking knowing how Portland used to look. I believe, like another poster that the mayors and governors in both states are responsible for not stopping this when it started. Our Seattle mayor said that we will look back on this “as the summer of love”. Thank you so much for sowing the video.
Disgusting & the mayor and governor city council need to prosecuted & charges against them all looks like Minnesota looks like NYC & quite a few other Democratic cities that allow BLM and Antifa to take control of your cities & call this Justice & righteous because capitalism sucks
It’s a shame Gov. Brown allowed this to happen and I’m sure she will expect the tax payers of Oregon to pick up the cost of rebuilding this city. VOTE HER OUT!!!
Vote her out? You have no idea how politics work. She is half way through her second term. She can’t run again. There have been two attempts to recall her. They could not come close to getting the signatures they needed. Like trump. We just have to wait till the election.
Michael Macfarlane your right I don’t. Thanks for schooling me. I was just saying. Can’t understand why she’s been in this position so long. Thanks for not being too harsh with me.
Sad to see beautiful Portland go down into the dumps. I used to love going downtown. Now it’s just filled with a bunch of uncivilized people who claim they know what’s best for the whole state of Oregon. Shame on the mayor and governor!!!
Jesusiheart you’re right Portland was a destination city for many. It feels like overnight we lost Portland. It was/is so exhausting to watch what happened here night after night and our Governor and our Mayor turned a blind eye for TOO LONG! I agree with you 100%
Mary Proctor Mary, we didn’t all vote Democrat..that’s not quiet the way it works. We don’t all get in office who we want. I vote Red and so do many others. No city regardless of who is voted in should be desecrated to the degree this once beautiful city is at. Do you have any idea how hard it was to live through this and feel powerless! I see so many comments on here which line up with yours. Do people honestly believe everyone voted Democrat? Please!
Trevonious95 hey, guess what I vote Red..I know lots who vote Red..and we didn’t win. What happened to Portland is so infuriating. Personally, I feel our mayor and governor should be held accountable. They turned a blind eye to this city and it’s citizens night after night! I was so happy when the Feds got her and Brown boo hooing because she didn’t get her way! She demanded our policers stand down but in the end she needed them..how ironic for our idiot governor. So yea, Democrats are in there to my dismay but regardless of Red or Blue their lack of doing their due diligence should land both their asses’ in jail as far as I’m concerned. They are responsible for allowing the desecration of a once beautiful city..
WAS is the key. I moved there 13 years ago. It was a little run down but it was clean! In past 5 years more and more trash, needles, feces. All this and a significant increase in price of housing. As it gets more expensive to live there, the worse it gets ????
@@meonimoon7849 Time flies. Portland stated going down hill about the time you moved here. That show Portlandia brought in a bunch of weirdos and the fact that it's a sanctuary city with a mild climate invited druggies, and drifters to camp on the streets.
🤦♀️ It’s because this is a false, strategically edited depiction of what my still very beautiful and compassionate city looks like. But you know, after reading all the comments left by right wing nut jobs who claim to have left or be on their way out of Portland, or those who are now less likely come at all, I’m starting to appreciate a benefit of this video that I initially overlooked 👏
@@caitlinbrown5803 are you serious? This is actually what it looks like. I live close to Portland and it’s horrible. Bums, graffiti, broken glass, defaced statues, boarded up windows and more. “Compassionate city” bitch please. This city is awful and no one is doing anything about it. 7 MONTHS where it wasn’t a good place to be and you call that compassion. Jesus, people like you are the reason no one understands the severity of what happened. People here are not “right wing nut jobs” they’re serious here. You know why San Diego is doing so well? It’s the only major city on the west coast that’s run by republicans. Every left wing city I’ve been to has a huge bum problem soo saying right wing nut jobs is basically the dumbest thing ever. I’m done now but Jesus Christ I hate the government of Portland Kate brown is an absolute piece of trash who shouldn’t run the city
Austin, TX is headed this direction. I lived downtown and it was wonderful until they passed a homeless camping ordinance just like in Portland. BLM attacked downtown last summer. Meanwhile home prices are up 200% from Californians moving here. I predict downtown Austin will never recover.
You take away the homeless and this looks like my hometown with a population of 4000 people. It wasn't violence or protesting that ruined our town but all can be blamed on "Progress"....meaning, they tore-apart our beautiful quaint park to run a highway right straight thru. Plus, they stuck a Burger King smack in the middle of town.....our town is very small. Add to that our main street is pretty much gone due to the small family stores closing. The malls did that and now all you need is tumble-weed blowing down the street. On any given day you might see three people walking down main street. The above could be said for hundreds of towns in the U.S. Pretty sad, indeed.
We were there in the beginning of last August and it did start looking pretty yucky compared to the years before, but that was you know during the riots in between a cleanup night. Where we were in the hotel we stayed at 9.0 so I was shocked to see all the graffiti and all the nonsense around it. There was this lovely club connected to it that was for private members and a nice little park and homeless people everywhere. I was like wow! I have visited the city since like 2006 and I’ve never seen it look so terrible! Black lives matter those supporting defunding the police got exactly what they wanted a mass exodus of officers saying fuck it we’re done. That is so sad because officers are there to protect and serve and most of them do exactly that! When somebody tries to rob you or kill you you’re going to call 911 for their expertise and assistance but who are they going to call now? where’s the hazmat team’s detectives what is the president doing, nothing! I remember the mayor being pissed off at President Trump for providing the cops with federal aid and other stuff to help with the riots. He was mad! What a dip shit! Joe’s doing nada as usual.
I grew up in Portland. Born and raised graduated high school in 99 left shortly after. As a kid I remember running in the starlight parade , as a teenager I remember staying overnight downtown on a city block in anticipation for the rose festival parade with family and friends ( that was a true block party) I have memories of visiting the Saturday market under the burnside bridge I have memory of oaks park and omsi as a kid. Senior all night party on the spirit of Portland- I have great memories of Portland but it’s been 20 years since I’ve lived there. Things have definitely changed for the worse
🌺🌿🇺🇸 I too lived in Portland and loved it so much. But the nice people got pushed around by the "progressives" and took the peoples niceness as weakness. Leaders cannot be seen as weak because criminals have now formed MOBS.....AND NO ONE IS SAFE ANYWHERE IN PORTLAND....I moved out last year and hate what's happening there. My old SE neighborhood has clusters of homeless camps and the stores are closing due to crazy high taxes(30k for the corner store who cried to me that she can't make it anymore and is closing), garbage, theft, cracked out people wandering around. So so heartbreaking for the people who remember the pretty nice city we had before. All lives matter.🌺🌿🌞🌿🌺
Yet pig losi is and has been holding up the stimulus package since July because she wants us to pay off the Democrat states poorly run economic policies and ensuing debt by including it in the stimulus package. I say let her stick the Democrat debt where her sun doesnt shine
June Burgess Agreed 100%. Their party is true comEs with their one side news, censorship, threats, etc. As an immigrant that was so proud to be an American I can’t believe what makes people wanting to move here is disappearing...FREEDOM
I don’t understand why people on the left coast keep voting in these liberal socialist politicians. Can someone from the state of Oregon that has some common sense please answer my question.
It’s still cleaner than most cities. All destruction has been the feds fault. This is not what the city looks like too, this is an edited to just show the bad parts
I grew up in Portland during the late 70s through the late 90s the homeless problem was more visible during the 90s and i moved to Texas in 2000 the unfiltered footage from this video is shocking but i am not surprised with the way city officials and state goverment has handled the problem. Where i now live this would never be tolerated Texas has aggressive protocols in place and that is why anarchists don't thrive here. God bless Texas!
@World today General Too late. Austin is a lost cause... it's now a San Francisco wanna' be.
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I bet there's a lot that doesn't thrive in Texas. Like tolerance, maybe. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." - US Constitution, First Amendment There seem to be many Trump supporters that think the US was founded on Judeo-Christian principals. My mother-in -law for one. I showed her this text from the Constitution and she was about to burst a blood vessel. The founders were setting up a free country based on pluralism, and that truth just fries the Religious Fascists. I don't get what the big problem is. Getting along with neighbors is a lot more fun than bing scared of them. But I guess Austin, Texas just really bugs some of the people in this thread. Too bad..... I bet those musicians and coffee shop owners and gay clothing shops aren't trying hard to keep other texans from driving pickups with gun racks and such. But tolerance is a fairly liberal idea. Too bad the Founders were so liberal. But they were.
@ No...The Governor turned down help from the Federal Government it could have been corrected immediately but your Governor turned it down He is responsible for this. American knows.
@ So what's your answer? Let the rioters own the streets? More looting? Fires? Intimidation of ordinary people? The Mayor of Portland has told his own police force to stand down. When rioters are arrested, the local DA just lets them go within hours so they can be arrested again within the week. Follow Andy Ngo. He posts the names of those arrested. You'll get to know them. All Marxist agitators. They all advocate tearing the system down. I've a feeling that you're a left wing socialist yourself. Spamming the comment section with the same comments is a pretty good tip off.
Mr. Soros did, and hadn't judge Kimba Wood stopped Michael Milkin some 30 years ago, he seemed to have the same ambitions with LA gangs back in the day.
I grew up in Portland and, although I have not lived there in several years, still consider Portland my hometown. I have been wondering just how it looks now so thank you for posting this video. Watching this brought tears to my eyes. Portland was such a beautiful city with a beautiful downtown area. I don’t even recognize it anymore. So sad. So sad.
@@markman63 You literally just called me, my wife, my son-in-law and my brother criminals, since we all own small businesses. I'd suggest that you don't know any of us, but I have a feeling your mind is made up and you don't want information or facts. You should move to Portland, they would welcome you there. It's working out very well for them.
You have more than a homeless problem. I suspect heroin and meth and ignorant college students destroying their own environment for undetermined causes.
@@erinmiley2255, you are right, Portland State University is in the down town area of Portland. You can find heroin, meth and ignorant college students destroying down town Portland, all right at Pioneer square park down town.
@@moshpitsandbongrips6998 No...it's not. Also, in that riot on Capitol hill, not one business was looted or burned to the ground. The only reason that Washington looks like a war zone is because the Democrats have fabricated an insurrection, out of one riot, and put up razor wire and barricades and there are armed soldiers everywhere. Once again, Democrat policies and an over reaction to one single incident.
The mayor and entire council of this city should be arrested and admitted into a facility for the criminally insane. There are no words for this scale of elected government malfeasance.
Jon Achaval? Arrested? For what? The same thing would have happened no matter who was in office. This is a systemic nationwide problem. No simple answers. The Portland Police and the Sheriffs dept are on board with the mayor. People have the right to gather and protest. I know what you are going to say. They do not have the right to loot, vandalize or riot. You are right. I agree. The problem is that there is more than just the protesters downtown. The people that participate and vandalize, number in the dozens to maybe a hundred. The daytime protesters have numbered in the thousands and usually go home long before the BS starts. Most of the arrested have been arrested long after midnight. If you commit a crime you should have to pay the consequences. I agree with that. Lumping all the activities downtown to into one big pile will not solve anything. Many are there for the right reasons and protest peacefully. I see the bigger problem downtown as all of the homeless camps popping up everywhere. The homeless have been here for years but the numbers I see recently are 10 times that. Where are all of them coming from? I was downtown yesterday and I saw at least 3 homeless people sobbing uncontrollably. Two were just standing on the corner crying. One woman in her 50's with a walker with wheels was asking us for help, but she was sobbing so hard we could not understand her. We walked her to the corner where there is a center to deal with homelessness. Things are bad people. Blaming does no good.
@@johnkilty1419 A lot of homeless people have said that they moved to Portland because they feel safe here. In other places in the country they have been attacked, robbed, and forcibly moved and the police do nothing about it. We're a victim of our own kindness.
Who in their right minds would want to open a buisness there, who in their right minds would want to wander the streets to spend their hard earned money there, the place is totally economicaly destroyed.
I'm sure that's why they're so desperate for a Joe Biden presidency. They want federal dollars to prop up the Marxist cities to make them look like they're successful.
I lived in Portland and the surrounding area from late 1982 until the fall of 2011. Just before I left I could sense that bad things were on the horizon, but nothing like what has transpired. To say I am heartbroken by the current state of the city is a huge understatement. I hope Portland manages to find its way back to being the lovely and quirky city it always was. Right now I don't see any reason to ever return.
Not all of us vote in these idiots. Remember, Oregon has more to it than Portland. Living 2 hours south of Portland, I can only sit and watch as this once great and beautiful city are destroyed. Most of the state does not vote as Portland does. However, with the mammoth city that it is, the voters there skew our elections. Sad, certainly, but not the fault of all of Oregon. Portland Voters need to wake the hell up and get these monsters out of our places of leadership at every level.
AJ B I’m from Portland and your spot on there. I genuinely thought that nobody who isn’t on the radical left lives in this state but I guess I’m wrong. The people here are outright crazy, I mean an antifa member is the most likely candidate for our next mayor. We’re filled with idiots here and they never learn.
other mirth: Do not assume the findings of an FBI Director are always right and cannot be wrong, because Christopher Wray IS wrong, when it comes to Antifa. He is at odds with President Trump and other top officials that state Antifa is definitely a well organized and violent organization. They are domestic terrorists!
other mirth so who is responsible for all of this destruction??? An ideology did this??? You are wrong, brainwashed idiots getting paid by George SOROS and his Open Society NGO’s did this... and AP News is Communist Propaganda. Wake the FU!!!!!
I grew up in Portland and have fond memories there. Like San Fran, homelessness has been part of the landscape but this takes everything to a whole new level. Just sad what politicians will do to tow the party line. Make no mistake, very few if any of these people committing the destruction and violence in Portland are actually from Portland. They are organized and funded and being welcomed by the state and city governments.
No. Just No. Antifa is a local collective, made up of people who live in the Portland metro area. The Antifa in Seattle or other cities are not the Antifa here. They organize and fund themselves. At a local level. ever so grassroots. and 90% of what got broken got broken during the initial actual riot with the thousands of angry people completely out of control, when the looting happened. months ago, way back when in the long long ago.You need to stop talking trash. governments don't fund attacks against themselves. Have you been eating Q pills? Or drinking the Quelade? Cause that stuff will make you crazy stupid.
@@geoengineeringdebacle3984 "Make no mistake, very few if any of these people committing the destruction and violence in Portland are actually from Portland. They are organized and funded and being welcomed by the state and city governments." Currently, and for some time Antifa are the only people acting in this area. the only other source of damage would be the original riots at the time of George Floyds death in May - as you speak in the present tense, logic dictates you refer to current actors, ergo Antifa. also I am far from a leftist, do not support Antifa, have been a registered Republican since I turned 18, and have been described by people as being slightly to the right of Darth Vader. My issue here isn't political and I did not hurl any insults at you. It has to do with facts on the ground and people spreading rumor and innuendo. Which I take as Trash Talk and Sauceless.
I work with a Somolian girl. She was one of the Obama refugees. She came here for a better life (learned English & became a citizen as well) She said they're going back be cause the United States is headed down a path of destruction that she saw happen in Somolia.
You know that if a someone from Somalia compares a place unfavorably to their own country, then that place is in a world of hurt. We have a fair number of Somali refugees here in Helsinki, and very, very few of them would even considered moving back to Somalia under any circumstances, despite the prejudice that they have to put up with here. (Finland is considered the most racist country in Europe, but nonetheless considered one of the happiest countries in the world. I'm not sure how they measure such things with accuracy, but that's what the statistics say, in any case.) I grew up in Portland, and to say that I'm sad about what's happened there would be the understatement of the year, if not the decade.
Ernie Buchinski Okay, no, this is anti-Americanism. This is an attention grabbing anecdote, but you know the US has a higher standard of living than Finland - no GODDAMN QUESTION Somalia. That is just nonsensical to even entertain a comparison. I think there is a point to be learned by the casual leftist young people I see, who claim to love America, but support causes that will destroy it.
Getting what they voted for..... hard to feel sorry for anyone that brings this on themselves. And in most cases they will continue to re-elect the same people that allowed this to happen.
Mike Norris I agree, I have no sympathy for people who continue to vote for this idiocy. Let them live in poverty it is the new social order that they support.
@@scotttild ....but notice the actions of the Democratic leaders of cities like this.....purposely doing nothing....purposely hand-cuffing the police....purposely letting BLM and other anarchists to close off roads and to do anything they want.... purposely being against Federal laws that deal with ILLEGAL immigrants, yeah, it is the Dems, and the people did vote for them.
@@scotttild I think you have a point there. Why didn't the Feds step in and stop this nonsense they did in Montgomery Alabama under Eisenhower over school integration.
@@johnkilty1419 Give me a break!!! Reading your posted reply to "Dino Larson" where you state and I quote "yes, portions of downtown (Portland) have been beat up" and "I was there yesterday looking at a project we were supposed to start today"--- after watching video of Portlands Mayor, especially the video of him abandoning his condo in the downtown area as those people he was supporting were setting it on fire, you know as in arson but what YOU refer to it as vandalizing and then posting an immature comment here I am left with the conclusion YOU are NOT from Portland. That you are a lying cheating thief. You should watch Fox or Fox Business News where you actually can see the truth unlike main stream media that you obviously cater too.
What an ignorant dumb comment. Tell me, when have you been to any of those places ? Do you have relatives there ? You equate modern with good ? Can you guess how many refugees America created since 1991 ? You couldn't even come to within a million of the true count.
@@raystanczak4277 If someone has truly and in good faith fell upon hard times yes ofcourse! BUT......I have little to no empathy on people who simply choose not to work or have not the ambition to better themselves and absolutely no compassion whatsoever for the drug abuser's AT ALL!
@@bssmith4181 Just so you know, addiction is considered a disease. And if you had everyone working who could, we’d still have a large homeless population. You ever applied for a job with no car, no shower, no phone, and living in a tent? When JFK closed down the inhumane warehouses where we kept the mentally ill, with the intention of converting to community care, Reagan didn’t allocate the funds and the mentally ill began to appear on our streets. I watched what was predictable happen. Blaming the homeless hasn’t worked because they can’t allocate funding for their own care. That’s our job, and the job of politicians.
@@raystanczak4277 Im not pro trump or pro biden , I hate them both BUT i gotta say that people who treat homeless people badly are DISGUSTING. Capitalism is TRASH and disgusting. Homeless people are ALSO HUMANS !
This absolutely breaks my heart. I grew up in Forest Grove ((25 miles West), and going to "the City" meant coming here. Portland was one of the most beautiful cities you could imagine. Now, this. I left Oregon 18 years ago for a number of reasons, but I had a bad feeling about how things were headed. Dammit, I hate when I'm right sometimes.
Debra Kaiser Yeah, and notice the news is kinda not covering it now very much. Democrats found out anarchy wasn’t polling very well so they pivoted on that and just like they did on slavery and the KKK ! Vote early and often !
Roger Meets Oxygen So a 3 block radius of destruction is acceptable to you ? In order to accomplish what, indulge miscreants having a temper tantrum ? Maybe you’d be ok donating 1/ 3 of your possessions to assuage your white guilt ? Start there and leave innocent businesses out of it big guy !
@@charleyfolkes stawman fallacy. Attacking a position I don't hold & never stated. However I do think that acting like this is all of Portland is the issue here. It's a straight up lie. This is propaganda for a specific political reason.
Almost moved to downtown Portland just before Covid hit. Sooooo glad we didn’t. Shame, we work in the tech industry- would have brought our taxes and purchasing power to the city. But now we’re staying far away. Probably won’t return for several years. Imagine zero tourists from US or international for a very long time. A depression is coming for them unless they make it safe for business, tourism, and regular hardworking people. Truly disturbing how people can think these policies and protests will bring anything good to anyone.
Juliana Morse: We already have enough tech and yoga here. Glad you chose to stay away. This post is far from what the majority of Portland is going through. Most of Portland is fine and undamaged. This post is trying to convince you that this is all of downtown. He is lying to get you to follow him.
The politicians in Oregon are like those parents that let their kids do what ever they want . And defend them by saying “they are just expressing themselves” , I remember when I broke my Neighbors window my mom beat my a$$ .
I remember as a kid, my brother and I were with my friends and they broke some bottles and my mother came in dragged us in side and she was peeved and said "What am I hearing about you two breaking bottles? We told her we werent breaking bottled. But some older kids say we were and she told that we should walked away when our friends started breaking bottles and she let us have it.
I grew up in portland and spent most my 20s living on off west burnside/23rd. This is what most of the city center looks like. Nobody want to go there anymore, local businesses are all boarded or permanently closed, and used needles and mentality unstable homeless roam everywhere. It's not a happy and safe city anymore. I grew up with pride about where I'm from, now when I travel I tell people I live somewhere else. So much has changed in this once beautiful city in the past 4 years and it truly saddens me.
@@jodyguilbeaux8225 Pretty sure you’re not. Maybe you’re elitist, but there’s no mention of race in your statement. Those folks could set their country up like this one if they chose to. They didn’t. That’s not a racial comment. It’s a comment on bad choices.
Excepting that California is actively petitioning to impeach ( "recall" actually ) their Governor and will reach the proper signatures to do so VERY SOON.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard PNW locals blame everything on California. It’s juvenile. Grow up and own your own problems. There are plenty you grew at home yourselves.
They are asking for a handout now. I would tell them ... you did this now live with it. The professors helped! ... maybe they should be made to fix it! I would never send my kids to college!!!! ... I know a girl that was sweet until she went to college there. Now she is a radical left-winger. She has no morals and talks like a sailor! ... she was not raised like that. She hates America from what I hear. How many more are out there???
@@carterbentonjr399 Currently taxpayers are paying for part of trump's reelection campaign as well as his lawsuit against sexual harassment so yes considering that 99% of the protests were peaceful then yes id rather pay for the damage done to big democratic cities then my president's reelection campaign and legal bills
@@nikkoneal5480 sure. Then you'll be paying for the democratic cities to rebuild, and Joe Bidens extortion case, and hunters crack addiction and Kamalas green new deal. Gtfo. Every politician is dirty and you want to elect one that has been screwing up the US for 50 years. Was your nick name Stevie Wonder? Because you are blind if you thing Biden/Harris is going to make ANYTHING better?
As a Portlander, I'm extremely happy to see Apple and all the other massive companies not earning any money right now. People are being forced to spend their money at smaller, more local businesses.
@@DJAlicorn WRONG. People are purchasing the same stuff on the internet, it HURTS *LOCAL WORKERS* NOT THE BIG COMPANIES not having the stores open! My friend works at that Apple store!
@@DJAlicorn apple is still making plenty of money off of Portland without their store being open. The money NOT being made there no longer employs actual, real, people who live in Portland. I'm sure everyone is now pouring their money into Portland made cellphones and laptops though...
OCTHCTV As a fellow Portlander I only disagree with this because it seems everyone has happily switched to Amazon. Everyone I know mindlessly buys whatever they want from them, and a less talked about issue, but because of the record high unemployment rate they are scooping up the jobless left and right for work. Amazon can employ more people and deliver products at a cheaper price with no interaction. At some point soon Amazon will completely ruin the potential for local businesses to exist period. Other big businesses in Portland reopening would slow that process.
@Esmour Mayne He wasn't a Vietnam veteran. He was in the Navy in world war 2 and he was relieved of his command on two ships due to incompetent leadership.
As a native inner city portlander, whom still lives here, I was really hoping this video would be inaccurate. What a bummer. I love my city, it is dearly missed. The video is spot on. Thanks for making it.
@Gary Tesla it hasn't had a negative effect , it's the other drugs out here on the downtown streets I have seen heroin overdoses and people doing meth like it's not an issue.The homeless tents are everywhere spilling into the streets .so not only can you not walk on the sidewalk safely you have to drive around there trash and tents hang off into the streets,so much trash everywhere and it's getting worse daily.
@Gary Tesla I don't really know I don't follow media love me that nor do I see the difference in any drug think they are all the same but what I do know is what I see ever single morning and through out my work day , it's sad , heartbreaking and they need to figure something for the homeless with mental health issue chances of you getting attacked by one is highly ,I have to carry a taser everyday cause they have tried to come at me with object s and that's just walking to and from my truck
@Gary Tesla are you trolling? Or do you not see the stats of what marijuana does to help cancer patients, medically. On the recreational side, marijuana has helped the economy by state and the only violence connected to marijuana are tweekers, junkies and gang bangers robbing the shops so they can sell ot to get more tweek or H. Marijuana's customers are everyday people. You are a poison for spitting out such opinions instead of the facts. Do you drink? Smoke cigarettes? Do you work for the pharmaceutical industry?
@Gary Tesla Mr. Tesla. I dont smoke marijuana. Used to in high school, but decided it's not for me. I like to drink and smoke. I find those two poisons to be 1000× worse than a wonderful natural resource like marijuana and hemp. If you want to find true evil and a real killer, look no further than the corporate pharmaceutical industry. To your dismay, there will be a time, perhaps when we are still alive even, that not only marijuana will be deemed legal, but so will the wonderful natural depression killer and heavy drug dependant killer, psilocybin mushrooms. Its going to be glorious. Trump 2020.
Thank you for filming this. Having spent years there and Portland when it was considered the cleanest major city in the U.S. to seeing now that the current Portland Mayor has allowed it to mirror the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, another crap hole in the U.S. is just great.
I’ve run marathons all over the United States. NYC, Las Vegas, San Diego, Chicago, DC, Atlanta, Nashville, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Pittsburg, Hartford, etc. You can get a good look at a city in 26.2 miles. Without a doubt, Portland was by far the cleanest city at the time I had ever visited. I have remarked many times on how clean that city was. It’s sad.
I really cant believe what is happening here. Portland used to be so chill. I've lived in the beaverton and Yamhill area all my life. I don't see why we are letting the 0.05% of the the population bully us and have their way with out city. most of my friends on FaceBook don't speak up, and I think I know why. Cancel Culture!! My company even has a new policy that you can't say anything political if it offends someone. Not hard to do in portland. Hence my new name. I think it's going to take all of us using our voice at once and coming together in unity and saying " This is not OK, and it needs to stop!" Would anyone actually ever vote for Kate Brown or Ted Wheeler after this? Well..... Maybe Atifa members. LOL
Nah the voice of portland is why it is this way.. everyones all gay and colorful and sympathetic to drug users and all coool and nice.. yall are what causes this.. you all think orange mans bad because he's not all cool qnd capitalism ohhh noo capitalism nope not here...we don't even need the police here that's how cool we are...
@@morningsunrise2729 Yepp don't even get me started on the females here guarenteed they are causing mostly all of this. Have been seeing it since 3rd grade when all the nice moms got dodgeball banned for us cute little kids so we could stay all safe and healthy wow bless their hearts they even made us stop doing P.E cause you know no one should have to run so hard to where they sweat cause that's too harsh for our little childrens to endure
I just ran over this video. I am shocked. Lived in Portland 20 years ago for a few years. I am German and glad that my country would not allow thias. I guess you know what I am talking about.
Portland has been hijacked by a horde of socially programmed, self-righteous wanna-bees. We live just south and have seen many businesses close because of these morons.
Keep Kate Brown and others (check out what the previous Governor of Oregon got away with) and this is the wasteland you asked for. I left Oregon in 2015. Thank God.
LULUBELLE Karin - Very immature to generalize a whole population. I did not vote for Kate brown and don’t deserve what the liberals have done to this state. Very smug to say you left- good for you. Sometimes people can’t move because they’re caretaking family etc. So much lack of compassion- just seeing a lot of smug blaming.
Don’t know why TH-cam pop this to me. I used to live in Portland downtown area for a year in 2010. And I can’t stop tears in my eyes when I am watching this video......
caroline: NOO! I'm loving this!! Socialism creates shitholes. And the Demmunists have created a half-dozen notable examples in recent months... for all to see!! (they called us names when we tried to tell them before)
The USA have been a third world country for decades, just dressed up in a pretty suit... Not realizing there's truck sized holes in it though. And right-wing morons failing to look forward won't help you.
@@Menugius A lot of so called "right-wing morons" help their fellow man &woman out when they can,the Left has cheered this shit-storm on.I see lots of people of color pass other people of color in the street and not give a crap about their "brothers&sisters" .Where are all the monies of BLM going...? In their own pockets,and into cars and BS.and signs and bullets into a Black father in New York,another round into a little girl,whose parrents got stuck in a BLM.blockade! Mr.T.holding up a sign because he was for Pres.Trump.- the list goes on...David Dorn.No,Black Lives Don't Matter To BLM.Those broads hate Christians,God,Jews,and Black fathers+the family as God put it.Practising Voo Doo's going to call down a bunch of demons ( though I think most of Antifactuals,and Bolshevik LiarsMatter are already nice and possessed !) Have fun playing with Lucifer,he wants your soul,God wants you to live!
@@lorenheard2561 What the fuck are you even talking about, did you drink paint or what? Do you ever listen to yourself? Nothing of what you say makes sense or is anywhere close to a possible reality - and half of it isn't even intelligible. What the heck? I am not american, I live in germany. But what I can tell you is that you are the laughing stock of the entire world. You can present yourself on the outside however you wish with all that glitter, glamour and military - we all know you're crumbling away on the inside. Your president is a retarded, racist, senile, sexually deranged moron who doesn't take care of anyone but himself. Your legal system is antiquated, unfair and actually produces criminals instead of reducing them. Your country doesn't even give people chances to thrive as you don't have any kind of social state. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link and your chain consists of nothing but broken ones. You know who would be good for you? Sanders. He's not communist in the slightest, he is socialist. And what is socialism about? Correct: Coming together as a society and taking care of the weakest ones to thrive together and not be slowed down by those who are being left behind.
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This is so sad. I used to live in Portland but moved to a different area. I take my kids there a lot and they love it... it was always one of my favorite cities. My daughter recently asked when we were going to go back and I told her that we couldn't because its just not the same as it used to be right now... but we will when things turn around. I used to be a supporter of the BLM movement but I no longer am.. I still support equality and the end of racism... but I hate the actual MOVEMENT and no longer support it. They screwed themselves over and pushed so many supporters away with this behavior and outcome. Oregon needs a new leader. We will never see Portland turn around with out a republican leader.... and that is coming from someone that doesn't consider themselves a republican.... I truly think this is the only way to fix what has happened to Portland. Seeing the state of Oregon/Portland is pushing me quickly out of the democratic party. It's an embarrassment.. and they think it's something to be praised, but they are out of control toddlers.
Jackie Tea I would like to hear more of your thoughts on this. I spent my entire 20’s there and bragged about it to my partner for the last eight years. We took a trip there two weeks ago and I just can’t believe the state it’s in.
I always took my kids to the Downtown area in the 90s to 2019, my daughter learned so much there from Sur La Tab cooking, to gardening in the public gardens and she would bring these skills to Michigan. Now she helps run "indigenous Gardens" showing everyone how to grow and preserve their own food. I will miss the Portland I grew up with.... RIP
@@jenhalpin Yeah, my parents took me there when I was a kid all the time and I fell in love with it. It's what made me fall in love with cities in general. I always told my Mom I wanted to live there... so when I was 21 I finally did... (I'm 35 now). I spent a lot of a time downtown... loved the waterfront, shopping, and Saturday Market. I always went to First Thursday art walk etc. It was great. Last time I was there (Around Christmas 2019... because I used to love it there at Christmas time)... I got this horrible feeling. It was like grieving sort of? I went to some of my favorite places that I used to go and I was shocked at what it turned into. I didn't want to let go of the memories I used to have. I almost felt a deep state of sadness, and wanted to avoid going back to avoid that feeling again. I wanted to preserve what I remember it to be. Macy's was gone... where I used to take my kids to see Santa. Lloyd Center was dead and there were no stores left... There were tents everywhere and my kids didn't understand. There were no restaurants or shops... garbage everywhere!! I am really hoping something can be done to turn the city around. It's SOOO sad to me.
I was born and raised in Portland and over the years the homelessness and tents have gotten very bad, not only downtown but everywhere in the city, you will see a camp sight driving to or from anywhere. Portland simply doesn’t have the resources to fix the problem.
@@dieselcowboy777 I never said he didn't do anything good. But for everything one thing he did right, he did ten things wrong. He is a criminal and a conman and never should have been in office.
@@dieselcowboy777 trump destroyed plenty of jobs when he did little to nothing about the pandemic which shut down much of America causing millions to lose their jobs and careers.
Oh my gosh!! My Son and I lived at 222 Pine St., a 5th story apt, next to Saturday Market...in 1996-7....it was sooo beautiful then...this video broke my heart...made me teary to see the literal desecration/annihilation of Portland.😥😥 Thanks for sharing.
@@annamaric1905 if that's true, then why wasn't the rest of America burning, I will tell you what most already know, it was allowed to happen. It should be kept as a reminder, and a message to business owner's
I totally agree with you, but the vote ballots is coming, unfortunately there 6 people and all of them democrats, BLM and antifa representatives. Not even one is good.
Teresa W. The constitution says all men( and women ) are created equal. The Republican Party wants to make gay marriage illegal. How is that all Men are created equal ? I do not care about all of your other concerns. Republicans do not uphold the constitution!
Thank you for taking the time to show us what's really going on there, I feel bad that you live so close to that dump. It's sad because the people that did that, are probably living in a better some place else. But thanks for the update.
I've lived on the outskirts of Portland my whole life. Downtown Portland is definitely in a bad way right now. The best word I can come up with to describe how it feels downtown is... Godless. It's an unnerving feeling, but it feels void of God down there, as if He has been pushed out, and is not welcome there. It's sad. I hope my hometown can recover. It can be a beautiful place, but it needs help.
I wonder if a downtown Portland 2022 video would look different. I live in Seattle and we were nearly that far gone in 2020. Thank goodness there have been improvements and serious work on our downtown since then. There still is more work to do and planning to insure that this does not happen again.
It's bullshit. You're literally seeing a few square blocks or selected areas. Portland is 145 square miles with a population of 750,000. Of course it looks bad and there's definitely some blight in certain parts. Especially if you ONLY SEE those parts. But again, you are literally seeing maybe 0.006 % of Portland in this video. Right Wing Propaganda at it's finest.
@@virago1776-h4g No I am not suggesting that what is shown is Ok. Not in the least. I fucking hate it. But this too shall pass and painting all of Portland as some kind of dystopian fueled nightmare is unfair.
@@Raiderhays37 I understand but it will not end until authorities put a stop to it. They should have never let it reach the proportions it did. I sincerely feel for the people there.
lol just so you know, this doesn't represent what the last 37 years of portland have looked like. Your comment is strange, and hateful. Like a lot of comments on these types of videos.
@@BlueGuitarMusic I've lived in the Portland metro all my life, as have my parents and grandparents. All of us were horrified that this happened in Portland, but none of us were really surprised at all. There hasn't been visible anarchy until now, but Portland has been moving in a dangerous social and governmental direction for years now, and there's no point in denying that. I don't think anyone meant to be hateful, we're just sad that this is what's been done to our hometown, and we're upset that everyone just let it happen.
@@BlueGuitarMusic What is a city, supposed to look like? Certainly not this. I could talk about blue's guitar all day, as I have seen just about anybody who's anybody. But seriously man, do you think this is a civil place to be? I don't think I want to spend the money for a visit. I'll try going back to like clarksdale Mississippi first.
NEY YORK IS WORSE...ANOTHER DEMOCRAP RUN CITY/STATE......DONT GO TO DC....ANOTHER DEMOCRAP RUN CITY...WHO VOTES THESE FOOLS IN OFFICE..OHHH YEA..BIG TECK
I am as well. My family came here in a covered wagon. My parents and grandfather graduated from UofO. I graduated from PSU. I can't believe what a mess it is.
Max, if you’re sick of the violence and Fascism, VOTE BIDEN/Harris and our Country will finally have a REAL PRESIDENT instead of FOREVER IMPEACHED TRAITOR TRUMP! Biden / Harris will end the division and hate and then Americans will UNITE AND DESTROY THE VIRUS! And Americans will have their just bs and economy back up and running. But if you are ok with the NEVER-ENDING CRISIS TRAITOR TRUMP has caused if you’re sick of the WORST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN US HISTORY AND WORST ECONOMY IN US HISTORY, Trump will only deliver more disaster, more deaths, more riots and more TRAITOR TRUMP TREASON! Biden/Harris will make certain the orange rapist pays for his felonies and treason! Belongs in PRISON!
I see poverty and graffiti, which implies desperation and hopelessness. Looks like Portland needs to take a hard look at who they voted in and perhaps vote them out.
We do,but like the rest of the demacrat boting states,this one too,has taken to CHEATING,LYING,AND A HARD FALL OF GOVERNMENT STEALING. ALLOWING CRIMINALS TO DO WHAT THEY WANT!!
@@stevdarshaki4378 The people in this thread are against speech when it disagrees with them. They are afraid of art and expression and think the homeless are something they need to "clean up". I'm proud of Portland and that there's always been a small but strong subculture here of true resistance to authoritarianism. I wish it were as consequential as the trumpian propaganda machine claims it is. Maybe someday.
You get what you vote for! This has nothing to do with the President and everything to do with local politicians
Proud to be a boomer and these cities didn't start looking like this until the left took them over. Yes, we boomers remember when our cities were beautiful and now they are not.
Yes every American city controlled by democrats looks like this.
Rich Davis not the city’s I’ve lived in
Rich Davis every major US city is also Democrat. Get a job, loser.
@@richdavis3536 You do realize when you kids use the term boomers we embrace it and just smile.
Vote stupid ways, win stupid prizes. This could not have happened without the collusion of the mayor, city council, and district attorney. They should be recalled and sent packing in humiliation at very least. Sedition charges would be appropriate.
Yes many politicians and medical establishments (including so called non profits) are taking money from the poor and disabled and leaving them on the streets to die.
@@thedudeabides1953 drug rehab & jobs!
@@TheCalifornio you don't even make sense. Might wanna get professional help for that Trump Derangement Syndrome...
Truth
@@AleadaA jails make a great drug rehab
My wife and I escaped, and will NEVER go back.
@@KevinJohnson-sm4jc Harris bails them out and pays them
The closest thing like that to me is Dallas the city. I do not go there unless I have to. So trashy and dirty like the low life's that did that.
Same. It's now a sh*thole.
We did too.
try fighting instead of "escaping".......you are only encouraging evil!
Governor and Mayor must be so proud of their city
I WOULD RESIGN AND NOT COLLECT A PAYCHECK
"Bbbbuuutt...Donald Trump... slavery...white people...not out fault".
They should be ARRESTED
Agree
This is what democratic governance looks like...I live here and it's far worse than this video shows. Human shit piles and drug needles in the streets, most places smell like urin...it's bad.
Trouble trusting the media? That's called sanity.
No that's called ""he's not stupid"" AMERICA WAKE THE HELL UP
Sandra Floyd SPOT ON!
IT`S INSANE TO TRUST TODAYS MEDIA
I cannot believe this is an American city! This has gone 100 percent into a really shocking direction. How could of people vote for people who would allow this! I will never for the life of me. Somehow they had to get in by voter fraud. That’s just completely nutts to think people would except this!
CNN and MSNBC could be making money off CCP and other countries to report shit? I don’t trust either station.
I moved here 25 years ago, and it was the most beautiful city I had ever seen,...... now destroyed.....so very sad.....and ...why .....how does it help anyone to destroy portland???
That's Socialism for you.
It helps the communists enslave you
It is hate and mob mentality. Frustration with their own lives and lashing out at everyone else.
the DEMONdnc's TERRORISTS are Burning the West Coast!!!
I don't feel anything for Portland or Seattle. They use to be nice places to visit - like San Francisco but not any more. This is the Democrat party on steroids. Where there's no law, there's no justice. Your leaders in those cities are still in charge and calling the shots. They have no remorse for the cities they rule and they feel the same way about the United States. Trump must win and he WILL do something about the leaders of these cities/States that destroy their cities for those who are law abiding citizens. I despise them, and not a nickel to fix it should be given.
The mayor and governor are responsible and should be prosecuted.
I couldn't agree with you more!
The governor, mayor, and attorney general actually went to court to get an injunction against the police to stop them from using any non-lethal forms of deterrent against the “protestors” (anarchists)
Maxedwell and that is why they should be prosecuted. They have a duty to protect all of the citizens not some. Just so frustrating all of this.
Sad to see same images from all major democrap run cities ,and yet they want us to believe, people still vote democrap.
the DEMONdnc's TERRORISTS are Burning the West Coast!!!
I went to Portland years ago and marveled how clean and well-preserved the cool old architecture and buildings were, it reminded me of what Detroit once was and _could have been_ if Detroit had not been destroyed by blight.... way to go Portland... now ya look like Detroit.
Literally exactly what I was thinking.
Detroit, run by dems sicne the 60's. Massive S..t hole. I live in MI I know first hand.
@@tudfrey yep... right there with you! .....and I was very soured when Trump *_pardoned_* Kwame Kilpatrick.... we actually had one behind bars, doing time for political crimes that contributed to the ongoing demise of wayne county and *_Trump pardoned him_*
@@inTruthbyGrace Very sad news, I did not know Trump pardoned him. That sucks.
@@inTruthbyGrace I live in Mi...I havent heard of this.
Every politician in Portland along with the Governor & Oregon States Attorney should be sitting in a Federal prison for what they allowed.
100% right! They absolutely should be behind bars!!!
Disgusting the state politicians allowed this to happen. They should be in prison.
The violent destructive people are being paid to do what you see in the video.
One woman arrested for torching a police car had been arrested in 11 other states for similar behavior.
She was not a resident of any of the states in which she was arrested.
I saw news video of a guy smashing a storefront window, he did not make entry. Once the crowd started in he moved to the next storefront, that's his job.
Shut up
Curtfj
Vote all liberal democrats out of office!
This video brings tears to my eyes. I’m in Seattle and I would imagine that it looks similar. It is so heartbreaking knowing how Portland used to look. I believe, like another poster that the mayors and governors in both states are responsible for not stopping this when it started. Our Seattle mayor said that we will look back on this “as the summer of love”. Thank you so much for sowing the video.
Ask yourself one question...WHO put those POS in office? The voters...live with it!
Our mayor needs replaced.
And this video is a month old.
Disgusting & the mayor and governor city council need to prosecuted & charges against them all looks like Minnesota looks like NYC & quite a few other Democratic cities that allow BLM and Antifa to take control of your cities & call this Justice & righteous because capitalism sucks
The summer of love in the 60s turned into a homeless meth frenzy and didn't end well.
It’s a shame Gov. Brown allowed this to happen and I’m sure she will expect the tax payers of Oregon to pick up the cost of rebuilding this city. VOTE HER OUT!!!
Vote her out? You have no idea how politics work. She is half way through her second term. She can’t run again. There have been two attempts to recall her. They could not come close to getting the signatures they needed. Like trump. We just have to wait till the election.
Michael Macfarlane your right I don’t. Thanks for schooling me. I was just saying. Can’t understand why she’s been in this position so long. Thanks for not being too harsh with me.
Elections have consequences - the SANE people didn't get out to vote . And now the INSANE are running the Assimulm !!!!
i believe all voting in Oregon is FAKE vote by mail CHEAT...that is y there are nothing but democrats.....
@@kcbrutality5271 I ran for office there and they didn't even put me in the voters pamphlet. Extreme elections office fraud is an understatement.
Looks like george SOROS had something to do with this
Sad to see beautiful Portland go down into the dumps. I used to love going downtown. Now it’s just filled with a bunch of uncivilized people who claim they know what’s best for the whole state of Oregon. Shame on the mayor and governor!!!
Keep voting Democrat and keep getting what you see
Haha democrats.. They're all so woke and nice and coool tho?
Jesusiheart you’re right Portland was a destination city for many. It feels like overnight we lost Portland. It was/is so exhausting to watch what happened here night after night and our Governor and our Mayor turned a blind eye for TOO LONG!
I agree with you 100%
Mary Proctor Mary, we didn’t all vote Democrat..that’s not quiet the way it works. We don’t all get in office who we want. I vote Red and so do many others. No city regardless of who is voted in should be desecrated to the degree this once beautiful city is at. Do you have any idea how hard it was to live through this and feel powerless! I see so many comments on here which line up with yours. Do people honestly believe everyone voted Democrat? Please!
Trevonious95 hey, guess what I vote Red..I know lots who vote Red..and we didn’t win. What happened to Portland is so infuriating. Personally, I feel our mayor and governor should be held accountable. They turned a blind eye to this city and it’s citizens night after night! I was so happy when the Feds got her and Brown boo hooing because she didn’t get her way! She demanded our policers stand down but in the end she needed them..how ironic for our idiot governor. So yea, Democrats are in there to my dismay but regardless of Red or Blue their lack of doing their due diligence should land both their asses’ in jail as far as I’m concerned.
They are responsible for allowing the desecration of a once beautiful city..
Damn brother, Portland was one of our most beautiful cities.
Kinda
There’s always been a lot of Homeless people and trash and drugies but the buildings were nice
WAS is the key. I moved there 13 years ago. It was a little run down but it was clean! In past 5 years more and more trash, needles, feces. All this and a significant increase in price of housing.
As it gets more expensive to live there, the worse it gets ????
@@meonimoon7849 Time flies. Portland stated going down hill about the time you moved here. That show Portlandia brought in a bunch of weirdos and the fact that it's a sanctuary city with a mild climate invited druggies, and drifters to camp on the streets.
@@DD-uw5xg oh I know my friend . I know.
Never saw this on cnn or msnbc.
Because they approve of it.
🤦♀️ It’s because this is a false, strategically edited depiction of what my still very beautiful and compassionate city looks like. But you know, after reading all the comments left by right wing nut jobs who claim to have left or be on their way out of Portland, or those who are now less likely come at all, I’m starting to appreciate a benefit of this video that I initially overlooked 👏
@@caitlinbrown5803 are you serious? This is actually what it looks like. I live close to Portland and it’s horrible. Bums, graffiti, broken glass, defaced statues, boarded up windows and more. “Compassionate city” bitch please. This city is awful and no one is doing anything about it. 7 MONTHS where it wasn’t a good place to be and you call that compassion. Jesus, people like you are the reason no one understands the severity of what happened. People here are not “right wing nut jobs” they’re serious here. You know why San Diego is doing so well? It’s the only major city on the west coast that’s run by republicans. Every left wing city I’ve been to has a huge bum problem soo saying right wing nut jobs is basically the dumbest thing ever. I’m done now but Jesus Christ I hate the government of Portland Kate brown is an absolute piece of trash who shouldn’t run the city
i hope they can all escape
Tony Hiner - According to leftists media it was "peaceful protesting".
Thank you for the real video. Hope more people watch this and realize their city could be like this soon. Everyone take care and be safe.
WONT SEE THIS ON CNN NATIONAL ENQUIRER
Austin, TX is headed this direction. I lived downtown and it was wonderful until they passed a homeless camping ordinance just like in Portland. BLM attacked downtown last summer. Meanwhile home prices are up 200% from Californians moving here. I predict downtown Austin will never recover.
@@ironuckles
Sorry to hear, that is terrible. Hope things do get better at some point.
You take away the homeless and this looks like my hometown with a population of 4000 people. It wasn't violence or protesting that ruined our town but all can be blamed on "Progress"....meaning, they tore-apart our beautiful quaint park to run a highway right straight thru. Plus, they stuck a Burger King smack in the middle of town.....our town is very small. Add to that our main street is pretty much gone due to the small family stores closing. The malls did that and now all you need is tumble-weed blowing down the street. On any given day you might see three people walking down main street. The above could be said for hundreds of towns in the U.S. Pretty sad, indeed.
Guess that utopia “summer of love” wasn’t such a good idea. Vote these people out of power, the law exists for a reason.
Ain’t no damn laws out here
The laws are made for & by the rich!
@@jonathanhadley2555 get a job.....
@@vidajordan9803 What type of reply is that Stick to the story
Frogs Pond W.T.F You dont think that the laws are not made for & by the rich! The Ruling Elite will always be calling the shots
Kate Brown, Ted Wheeler, and Mike Schmidt. The 3 stooges.
Oddly enough all 3 are 🌈 Did you Know Biden picked Jussie Smolletts aunt for his VP.... Pretty sure we also know who runs the media
There is now an Antifa supporter running against Wheeler. Heaven help Portland Oregon!
God I want Kate brown flushed down soon.
Ok but what about the childish right wing too?
Don’t forget inslee too🤣
Judging from the video, Portland looks like a slum.
It is believe me
Mostly peaceful slum
@Ron Pelli Please dont move, stay there...PLEASE!
That's the whole idea.
We were there in the beginning of last August and it did start looking pretty yucky compared to the years before, but that was you know during the riots in between a cleanup night. Where we were in the hotel we stayed at 9.0 so I was shocked to see all the graffiti and all the nonsense around it. There was this lovely club connected to it that was for private members and a nice little park and homeless people everywhere. I was like wow! I have visited the city since like 2006 and I’ve never seen it look so terrible! Black lives matter those supporting defunding the police got exactly what they wanted a mass exodus of officers saying fuck it we’re done. That is so sad because officers are there to protect and serve and most of them do exactly that! When somebody tries to rob you or kill you you’re going to call 911 for their expertise and assistance but who are they going to call now? where’s the hazmat team’s detectives what is the president doing, nothing! I remember the mayor being pissed off at President Trump for providing the cops with federal aid and other stuff to help with the riots. He was mad! What a dip shit! Joe’s doing nada as usual.
Just remember, this is a liberal progressive city.
They ruin everything there is not one liberal run state or area that succeeded for more than 30 years
All conservative run states have been good for over 30 years
@Gautam shut up
I grew up in Portland. Born and raised graduated high school in 99 left shortly after. As a kid I remember running in the starlight parade , as a teenager I remember staying overnight downtown on a city block in anticipation for the rose festival parade with family and friends ( that was a true block party) I have memories of visiting the Saturday market under the burnside bridge I have memory of oaks park and omsi as a kid. Senior all night party on the spirit of Portland- I have great memories of Portland but it’s been 20 years since I’ve lived there. Things have definitely changed for the worse
your own version of growing up fresh prince of bel air?
🌺🌿🇺🇸 I too lived in Portland and loved it so much. But the nice people got pushed around by the "progressives" and took the peoples niceness as weakness. Leaders cannot be seen as weak because criminals have now formed MOBS.....AND NO ONE IS SAFE ANYWHERE IN PORTLAND....I moved out last year and hate what's happening there. My old SE neighborhood has clusters of homeless camps and the stores are closing due to crazy high taxes(30k for the corner store who cried to me that she can't make it anymore and is closing), garbage, theft, cracked out people wandering around. So so heartbreaking for the people who remember the pretty nice city we had before. All lives matter.🌺🌿🌞🌿🌺
That's got to be heartbreaking!
StealthAZ: Sadly, I have never been to Portland. I might have liked to have gone. Not now.
@@NomadOfTheWoods8 : Parents.
STATES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES ... Shame on them!!!
Right, you get what you ask 4. Democrats run citys. Shame shame.
Yet pig losi is and has been holding up the stimulus package since July because she wants us to pay off the Democrat states poorly run economic policies and ensuing debt by including it in the stimulus package. I say let her stick the Democrat debt where her sun doesnt shine
June Burgess Agreed 100%. Their party is true comEs with their one side news, censorship, threats, etc. As an immigrant that was so proud to be an American I can’t believe what makes people wanting to move here is disappearing...FREEDOM
It happens all the time when the Left govern cities , states, and nations.
USA wake up !
And PEOPLE make up the community! IDIOTS fouling their own nest.
Sad and devastating. This is what peaceful protests look like. Looks like the summer of love has turned in a hellish Fall.
It was a summer of total selfishness.
Huh? This video doesn't feature a protest.
From a "Summer of Love" to a "Forlorn Fall"
JMK total lawlessness!!!!
seattleite no. It show the aftermath of RIOTS!!! NOT peaceful protests!!!!!
The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland.
Why do you call it the dream of the 90's.
@@Hammett175 it’s from the show portlandia
@@antiracismactivist841 ah
Portland use to be an amazing clean city 10 years ago. The septic city council and mayors have destroyed it.
I don’t understand why people on the left coast keep voting in these liberal socialist politicians. Can someone from the state of Oregon that has some common sense please answer my question.
It’s still cleaner than most cities. All destruction has been the feds fault. This is not what the city looks like too, this is an edited to just show the bad parts
@Collin Overby , you are a truly ignorant fool.
I guess you don't believe in voting rights. Big surprise.
@Collin Overby lmmfao! Holy shit! 🤣😂🤣😂
I grew up in Portland during the late 70s through the late 90s the homeless problem was more visible during the 90s and i moved to Texas in 2000 the unfiltered footage from this video is shocking but i am not surprised with the way city officials and state goverment has handled the problem. Where i now live this would never be tolerated Texas has aggressive protocols in place and that is why anarchists don't thrive here. God bless Texas!
@World today General Too late. Austin is a lost cause... it's now a San Francisco wanna' be.
I bet there's a lot that doesn't thrive in Texas. Like tolerance, maybe.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." - US Constitution, First Amendment
There seem to be many Trump supporters that think the US was founded on Judeo-Christian principals. My mother-in -law for one. I showed her this text from the Constitution and she was about to burst a blood vessel. The founders were setting up a free country based on pluralism, and that truth just fries the Religious Fascists. I don't get what the big problem is. Getting along with neighbors is a lot more fun than bing scared of them. But I guess Austin, Texas just really bugs some of the people in this thread. Too bad..... I bet those musicians and coffee shop owners and gay clothing shops aren't trying hard to keep other texans from driving pickups with gun racks and such.
But tolerance is a fairly liberal idea. Too bad the Founders were so liberal. But they were.
@ communist hopefully
I left Minnesota for Texas
@ you might want to consider taking a reading comprehension course from skillshare.
The governor and mayor of Portland allowed this
Supported this
@ No...The Governor turned down help from the Federal Government it could have been corrected immediately but your Governor turned it down
He is responsible for this. American knows.
@ Feds were going to put a stop to the Rioting Dumbass. America is sick of this Unlawful burning down of businesses, what part don't you understand?
@
So what's your answer? Let the rioters own the streets? More looting? Fires? Intimidation of ordinary people?
The Mayor of Portland has told his own police force to stand down. When rioters are arrested, the local DA just lets them go within hours so they can be arrested again within the week. Follow Andy Ngo. He posts the names of those arrested. You'll get to know them. All Marxist agitators. They all advocate tearing the system down.
I've a feeling that you're a left wing socialist yourself. Spamming the comment section with the same comments is a pretty good tip off.
Jack Haveman SPOT ON!
Mr. Soros did, and hadn't judge Kimba Wood stopped Michael Milkin some 30 years ago, he seemed to have the same ambitions with LA gangs back in the day.
I grew up in Portland and, although I have not lived there in several years, still consider Portland my hometown. I have been wondering just how it looks now so thank you for posting this video. Watching this brought tears to my eyes. Portland was such a beautiful city with a beautiful downtown area. I don’t even recognize it anymore. So sad. So sad.
"A hallmark of a Communist system is that criminals are ignored and the law abiding made the enemy"- A.S.
I'm copying that quote. So true.
@@aveccoeur3874 Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
@@johmquinn7353 thank you. : )
A hallmark of capitalism is that criminals own everything and the law abiding are paying for it.
@@markman63 You literally just called me, my wife, my son-in-law and my brother criminals, since we all own small businesses. I'd suggest that you don't know any of us, but I have a feeling your mind is made up and you don't want information or facts. You should move to Portland, they would welcome you there. It's working out very well for them.
I live in Portland, at least you showed the homeless problem we have.
You have more than a homeless problem. I suspect heroin and meth and ignorant college students destroying their own environment for undetermined causes.
Homeless, the cops let live on the side of the street
@@erinmiley2255 Also, that state is considered the worst for child sex trafficking, prostitution, and other deplorable atrocities.
That's all of America
@@erinmiley2255, you are right, Portland State University is in the down town area of Portland. You can find heroin, meth and ignorant college students destroying down town Portland, all right at Pioneer square park down town.
The Mayor and Guvonor need to go to Prison for crimes AGAINST Humanity 😞
Prosecuted, in this society we don't hand out sentences b4 indictments and successful prosecution.
Suggested Title: "This is what a Democrat-Run City looks like"
Bruh this is just human nature. The republicans rioted at capitol hill
@@moshpitsandbongrips6998 oh yah bc that compares to the billions worth of damage the rioters did everywhere else
@@moshpitsandbongrips6998
No...it's not. Also, in that riot on Capitol hill, not one business was looted or burned to the ground. The only reason that Washington looks like a war zone is because the Democrats have fabricated an insurrection, out of one riot, and put up razor wire and barricades and there are armed soldiers everywhere.
Once again, Democrat policies and an over reaction to one single incident.
@@JackHaveman52 ok boomer.
@@Andyhoffman98
Ooooh......good one. Hard to outsmart that dig.
The mayor and entire council of this city should be arrested and admitted into a facility for the criminally insane. There are no words for this scale of elected government malfeasance.
I could not have expressed your sentiments any better , touché 👍🏻
Jon Achaval? Arrested? For what? The same thing would have happened no matter who was in office. This is a systemic nationwide problem. No simple answers. The Portland Police and the Sheriffs dept are on board with the mayor. People have the right to gather and protest. I know what you are going to say. They do not have the right to loot, vandalize or riot. You are right. I agree. The problem is that there is more than just the protesters downtown. The people that participate and vandalize, number in the dozens to maybe a hundred. The daytime protesters have numbered in the thousands and usually go home long before the BS starts. Most of the arrested have been arrested long after midnight. If you commit a crime you should have to pay the consequences. I agree with that. Lumping all the activities downtown to into one big pile will not solve anything. Many are there for the right reasons and protest peacefully. I see the bigger problem downtown as all of the homeless camps popping up everywhere. The homeless have been here for years but the numbers I see recently are 10 times that. Where are all of them coming from? I was downtown yesterday and I saw at least 3 homeless people sobbing uncontrollably. Two were just standing on the corner crying. One woman in her 50's with a walker with wheels was asking us for help, but she was sobbing so hard we could not understand her. We walked her to the corner where there is a center to deal with homelessness. Things are bad people. Blaming does no good.
Yesyou right Jon
Where did you get your psychology degree, Jon?
@@johnkilty1419 A lot of homeless people have said that they moved to Portland because they feel safe here. In other places in the country they have been attacked, robbed, and forcibly moved and the police do nothing about it. We're a victim of our own kindness.
Just started video, and I’ma guess it’s a shithole.
Update 5 minutes later: yup, it’s a shithole..
Who in their right minds would want to open a buisness there, who in their right minds would want to wander the streets to spend their hard earned money there, the place is totally economicaly destroyed.
I'm sure that's why they're so desperate for a Joe Biden presidency. They want federal dollars to prop up the Marxist cities to make them look like they're successful.
@solomon kane That's what I've been thinking. The Portland mayor was in big and cozy with developers before this.
@@danven1256 damn that’s crazy!! So fucking true!
I guess you're unaware we're 8 months into a pandemic. Yes, many businesses were hit hard. Homelessness has increased. Hello?
BINGO!
I lived in Portland and the surrounding area from late 1982 until the fall of 2011. Just before I left I could sense that bad things were on the horizon, but nothing like what has transpired. To say I am heartbroken by the current state of the city is a huge understatement. I hope Portland manages to find its way back to being the lovely and quirky city it always was. Right now I don't see any reason to ever return.
Elections have consequences. Imagine that.
Not all of us vote in these idiots. Remember, Oregon has more to it than Portland. Living 2 hours south of Portland, I can only sit and watch as this once great and beautiful city are destroyed. Most of the state does not vote as Portland does. However, with the mammoth city that it is, the voters there skew our elections. Sad, certainly, but not the fault of all of Oregon. Portland Voters need to wake the hell up and get these monsters out of our places of leadership at every level.
AJ B I’m from Portland and your spot on there. I genuinely thought that nobody who isn’t on the radical left lives in this state but I guess I’m wrong. The people here are outright crazy, I mean an antifa member is the most likely candidate for our next mayor. We’re filled with idiots here and they never learn.
CL Sutton lawlessness doesn’t not have to be a consequence ...that is a nasty choice
other mirth: Do not assume the findings of an FBI Director are always right and cannot be wrong, because Christopher Wray IS wrong, when it comes to Antifa. He is at odds with President Trump and other top officials that state Antifa is definitely a well organized and violent organization. They are domestic terrorists!
other mirth so who is responsible for all of this destruction??? An ideology did this??? You are wrong, brainwashed idiots getting paid by George SOROS and his Open Society NGO’s did this... and AP News is Communist Propaganda. Wake the FU!!!!!
I grew up in Portland and have fond memories there. Like San Fran, homelessness has been part of the landscape but this takes everything to a whole new level. Just sad what politicians will do to tow the party line. Make no mistake, very few if any of these people committing the destruction and violence in Portland are actually from Portland. They are organized and funded and being welcomed by the state and city governments.
No. Just No. Antifa is a local collective, made up of people who live in the Portland metro area. The Antifa in Seattle or other cities are not the Antifa here. They organize and fund themselves. At a local level. ever so grassroots. and 90% of what got broken got broken during the initial actual riot with the thousands of angry people completely out of control, when the looting happened. months ago, way back when in the long long ago.You need to stop talking trash. governments don't fund attacks against themselves. Have you been eating Q pills? Or drinking the Quelade? Cause that stuff will make you crazy stupid.
james reagh, who said anything about Antifa or being funded by the government? Oops!
@@geoengineeringdebacle3984 It's ironic how someone tells you to "stop talking trash" while hurling insults. That's the leftist mindset.
@@geoengineeringdebacle3984 "Make no mistake, very few if any of these people committing the destruction and violence in Portland are actually from Portland. They are organized and funded and being welcomed by the state and city governments." Currently, and for some time Antifa are the only people acting in this area. the only other source of damage would be the original riots at the time of George Floyds death in May - as you speak in the present tense, logic dictates you refer to current actors, ergo Antifa. also I am far from a leftist, do not support Antifa, have been a registered Republican since I turned 18, and have been described by people as being slightly to the right of Darth Vader. My issue here isn't political and I did not hurl any insults at you. It has to do with facts on the ground and people spreading rumor and innuendo. Which I take as Trash Talk and Sauceless.
Why do they keep letting the crowd jail out to burn loot and murder without prosecution IF they were not backing it?
I work with a Somolian girl. She was one of the Obama refugees. She came here for a better life (learned English & became a citizen as well) She said they're going back be cause the United States is headed down a path of destruction that she saw happen in Somolia.
You know that if a someone from Somalia compares a place unfavorably to their own country, then that place is in a world of hurt. We have a fair number of Somali refugees here in Helsinki, and very, very few of them would even considered moving back to Somalia under any circumstances, despite the prejudice that they have to put up with here. (Finland is considered the most racist country in Europe, but nonetheless considered one of the happiest countries in the world. I'm not sure how they measure such things with accuracy, but that's what the statistics say, in any case.) I grew up in Portland, and to say that I'm sad about what's happened there would be the understatement of the year, if not the decade.
Is her name Ilhan Omar?
Sable Ann ....good, and I hope she stays the phuck out too....
So sad to see.. It LL be same everywhere very soon
Ernie Buchinski Okay, no, this is anti-Americanism. This is an attention grabbing anecdote, but you know the US has a higher standard of living than Finland - no GODDAMN QUESTION Somalia. That is just nonsensical to even entertain a comparison. I think there is a point to be learned by the casual leftist young people I see, who claim to love America, but support causes that will destroy it.
The governor and let's no forget Ted Wheeler's summer of love, and better yet let us give a big thumbs up to everyone who voted them in!!
When the lunatics run the asylum...
But yet these people keep voting for the same people california as well
@@ebonymcclaughry3732 Most of them came from California.
@@ultramagnus638 exactly
When lunatics run the “asylum” that is the systemically racist U.S. status quo, yes, ultimately this is what you get.
Getting what they voted for..... hard to feel sorry for anyone that brings this on themselves. And in most cases they will continue to re-elect the same people that allowed this to happen.
Exactly Mike, the people they voted for have no interest in stopping this crap- I've been to third world countries that look better than ths.
Mike Norris I agree, I have no sympathy for people who continue to vote for this idiocy. Let them live in poverty it is the new social order that they support.
@@scotttild ....but notice the actions of the Democratic leaders of cities like this.....purposely doing nothing....purposely hand-cuffing the police....purposely letting BLM and other anarchists to close off roads and to do anything they want.... purposely being against Federal laws that deal with ILLEGAL immigrants, yeah, it is the Dems, and the people did vote for them.
Vote Democrat,
they'll help you with food, health care, education and Prison.
Vote Republican and
take responsibility.
@@scotttild I think you have a point there. Why didn't the Feds step in and stop this nonsense they did in Montgomery Alabama under Eisenhower over school integration.
In his speech to the United States Nikita Khrushchev stated the communism would take over your country from within...he was spot on.
U do know this is not cod?
you don't know what communism is. Those protesters would be in jail day one!
Trump seems to love himself some communists. Putin, Kim. His pals.
@@johnkilty1419 Give me a break!!! Reading your posted reply to "Dino Larson" where you state and I quote "yes, portions of downtown (Portland) have been beat up" and "I was there yesterday looking at a project we were supposed to start today"--- after watching video of Portlands Mayor, especially the video of him abandoning his condo in the downtown area as those people he was supporting were setting it on fire, you know as in arson but what YOU refer to it as vandalizing and then posting an immature comment here I am left with the conclusion YOU are NOT from Portland. That you are a lying cheating thief.
You should watch Fox or Fox Business News where you actually can see the truth unlike main stream media that you obviously cater too.
Right, and in the 60's tbe John Birch Society tried so hard to warn us of this but it fell on deaf ears.
So progressive they time machined it back to the great depression days.
Our country is starting to look like Venezuela, Peru and Cuba every day...
Nah it’s just these shit hole democratic cities bud
Peru is not a decadent country.... or communist you got it wrong...
What an ignorant dumb comment. Tell me, when have you been to any of those places ? Do you have relatives there ? You equate modern with good ? Can you guess how many refugees America created since 1991 ? You couldn't even come to within a million of the true count.
@@henrygarciga go cry
"Our" country? You're a Latino and had no part in historically building this country...
As for the homeless: Feeding stray cats has never been a good idea and that absolutely includes ANY type of drug enablement!!!
Spot on. This has been allowed yo go on for too long.
BS smith They’re human beings. Do you even see them that way anymore?
@@raystanczak4277 If someone has truly and in good faith fell upon hard times yes ofcourse!
BUT......I have little to no empathy on people who simply choose not to work or have not the ambition to better themselves and absolutely no compassion whatsoever for the drug abuser's AT ALL!
@@bssmith4181 Just so you know, addiction is considered a disease. And if you had everyone working who could, we’d still have a large homeless population. You ever applied for a job with no car, no shower, no phone, and living in a tent?
When JFK closed down the inhumane warehouses where we kept the mentally ill, with the intention of converting to community care, Reagan didn’t allocate the funds and the mentally ill began to appear on our streets.
I watched what was predictable happen. Blaming the homeless hasn’t worked because they can’t allocate funding for their own care. That’s our job, and the job of politicians.
@@raystanczak4277 Im not pro trump or pro biden , I hate them both BUT i gotta say that people who treat homeless people badly are DISGUSTING. Capitalism is TRASH and disgusting. Homeless people are ALSO HUMANS !
This absolutely breaks my heart. I grew up in Forest Grove ((25 miles West), and going to "the City" meant coming here. Portland was one of the most beautiful cities you could imagine. Now, this.
I left Oregon 18 years ago for a number of reasons, but I had a bad feeling about how things were headed. Dammit, I hate when I'm right sometimes.
We left in 2009 and will never go back. They are allowing this to happen so I feel no sadness for them.
You sure know how to pick the right music for the subject. I love Portland, but I’m glad I’m in Portugal now. Thanks.
Thank you for this! I'm so tired of people saying it's only a 3 block area...which is an absolute lie. It's a mess everywhere...I live here.
He only showed a three block area.
Debra Kaiser
Yeah, and notice the news is kinda not covering it now very much.
Democrats found out anarchy wasn’t polling very well so they pivoted on that and just like they did on slavery and the KKK !
Vote early and often !
SMDH look up the buildings. Look up the street locations. He's only showing you roughly a 3 block radius from different angles.
Roger Meets Oxygen
So a 3 block radius of destruction is acceptable to you ?
In order to accomplish what, indulge miscreants having a temper tantrum ?
Maybe you’d be ok donating 1/ 3 of your possessions to assuage your white guilt ?
Start there and leave innocent businesses out of it big guy !
@@charleyfolkes stawman fallacy. Attacking a position I don't hold & never stated. However I do think that acting like this is all of Portland is the issue here. It's a straight up lie.
This is propaganda for a specific political reason.
Almost moved to downtown Portland just before Covid hit. Sooooo glad we didn’t. Shame, we work in the tech industry- would have brought our taxes and purchasing power to the city. But now we’re staying far away. Probably won’t return for several years. Imagine zero tourists from US or international for a very long time. A depression is coming for them unless they make it safe for business, tourism, and regular hardworking people. Truly disturbing how people can think these policies and protests will bring anything good to anyone.
Sometimes you just get lucky. This city likely will go bankrupt.
it's not what they want, weaken the value of property so it's easier to buy out for the N.W.O agenda
stay away
@Truth it seams more is going this way, but republican party I hope..
Juliana Morse: We already have enough tech and yoga here. Glad you chose to stay away. This post is far from what the majority of Portland is going through. Most of Portland is fine and undamaged. This post is trying to convince you that this is all of downtown. He is lying to get you to follow him.
The politicians in Oregon are like those parents that let their kids do what ever they want . And defend them by saying “they are just expressing themselves” , I remember when I broke my Neighbors window my mom beat my a$$ .
And, she most likely had to pay for the window too...
I BROKE A WINDOW IN AN ABADONED HOUSE AND GOT MINE HANDED TO ME
Right Jim, and you are a better person for that.
And you probably never did that again.
I remember as a kid, my brother and I were with my friends and they broke some bottles and my mother came in dragged us in side and she was peeved and said "What am I hearing about you two breaking bottles? We told her we werent breaking bottled. But some older kids say we were and she told that we should walked away when our friends started breaking bottles and she let us have it.
I grew up in portland and spent most my 20s living on off west burnside/23rd. This is what most of the city center looks like. Nobody want to go there anymore, local businesses are all boarded or permanently closed, and used needles and mentality unstable homeless roam everywhere. It's not a happy and safe city anymore. I grew up with pride about where I'm from, now when I travel I tell people I live somewhere else. So much has changed in this once beautiful city in the past 4 years and it truly saddens me.
It a progressive city. Enjoy my friends!
Can you show me a conservative city that’s doing better??
Progressing to shit lol
@Bill Grossman name one so we can compare
@Bill Grossman Bill you find one yet? I’m waiting
@Bill Grossman What about now Bill? Have you found one?
Who could've predicted this? Anyone with a brain!
When you go to Portland don't forget: a cross, holy water, a gun and a hazmat suit.
Why would you GO to Portland?
@@jt9427 Only with an army, to reconquer it.
Or you could just stay in your suburb.
Won't be going
@@rickygarriott4842 There-I’ve solved your problem for you. You’re welcome.
Unfuckinbelievable, this is “our” country.
Not my country. Antifas country. This is what they wanted. Let them enjoy it.
When they say “as California goes, so goes the country” they weren’t kidding.
@@jodyguilbeaux8225 Pretty sure you’re not. Maybe you’re elitist, but there’s no mention of race in your statement. Those folks could set their country up like this one if they chose to.
They didn’t.
That’s not a racial comment. It’s a comment on bad choices.
California is the tip of the spear . Coming to a city near you.
Excepting that California is actively petitioning to impeach ( "recall" actually ) their Governor and will reach the proper signatures to do so VERY SOON.
Not sure Silicon Valley caused this but true they are often big progressive Dems.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard PNW locals blame everything on California. It’s juvenile. Grow up and own your own problems. There are plenty you grew at home yourselves.
Who's going to pay for the clean-up and restoration of all this destruction? Certainly NOT the riff-raff that caused it.
And this is social justice?
They are asking for a handout now. I would tell them ... you did this now live with it. The professors helped! ... maybe they should be made to fix it! I would never send my kids to college!!!! ... I know a girl that was sweet until she went to college there. Now she is a radical left-winger. She has no morals and talks like a sailor! ... she was not raised like that. She hates America from what I hear. How many more are out there???
@@mrs.crabtree527 All of them
VOTE TRUMP/PENCE 2020 because if Biden wins we the tax payers have to pay for the damage that the dems allowed Antifa and BLM committed.
@@carterbentonjr399 Currently taxpayers are paying for part of trump's reelection campaign as well as his lawsuit against sexual harassment so yes considering that 99% of the protests were peaceful then yes id rather pay for the damage done to big democratic cities then my president's reelection campaign and legal bills
@@nikkoneal5480 sure. Then you'll be paying for the democratic cities to rebuild, and Joe Bidens extortion case, and hunters crack addiction and Kamalas green new deal. Gtfo. Every politician is dirty and you want to elect one that has been screwing up the US for 50 years. Was your nick name Stevie Wonder? Because you are blind if you thing Biden/Harris is going to make ANYTHING better?
I thought you were showing Los Angeles for a moment there.
Looks like San Francisco to me!
It looks like any big city that has been run by leftists including L.A.
Bang-up job Oregonians - you've destroyed your own home in the fight for...what were you fighting for again?
Law abiding citizens need to vote out the shameful
authorities, take back their city from these thugs, and get back to being a great American city.
Law abiding citizens need to convict these racist police.
Portland is now doing the exact opposite. They are getting rid of Wheeler because he isn't radical enough. They are going for Sarah Iannarone.
Anthony Jagers she’s an avowed radical. She was at an event wearing a skirt with Che Guevara and Chairman Moa. CHAIRMAN MOA WHHHAAAATTT LMAO
@@Mr.Rogers91 Well they're voting for her.
Good luck with that. You got the other candidate rockin a communist skirt
So the one building everyone should be happy was boarded up was the Church of Scientology
As a Portlander, I'm extremely happy to see Apple and all the other massive companies not earning any money right now. People are being forced to spend their money at smaller, more local businesses.
@@DJAlicorn WRONG. People are purchasing the same stuff on the internet, it HURTS *LOCAL WORKERS* NOT THE BIG COMPANIES not having the stores open! My friend works at that Apple store!
@@DJAlicorn apple is still making plenty of money off of Portland without their store being open. The money NOT being made there no longer employs actual, real, people who live in Portland. I'm sure everyone is now pouring their money into Portland made cellphones and laptops though...
OCTHCTV As a fellow Portlander I only disagree with this because it seems everyone has happily switched to Amazon. Everyone I know mindlessly buys whatever they want from them, and a less talked about issue, but because of the record high unemployment rate they are scooping up the jobless left and right for work. Amazon can employ more people and deliver products at a cheaper price with no interaction. At some point soon Amazon will completely ruin the potential for local businesses to exist period. Other big businesses in Portland reopening would slow that process.
@Esmour Mayne He wasn't a Vietnam veteran. He was in the Navy in world war 2 and he was relieved of his command on two ships due to incompetent leadership.
As a native inner city portlander, whom still lives here, I was really hoping this video would be inaccurate. What a bummer. I love my city, it is dearly missed. The video is spot on. Thanks for making it.
Now you can drive 50 miles for your prescription. And food. Keep up the good work. See how well this plays in 2022.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy"
Now THAT was funny! :)
Except for Seattle, Chicago, NYC, San Fran, LA, and every other leftist controlled cities and states. It's imperative, TRUMP 2020, or else.
This is a psy op on the American population directed by foreign/meta national entities and their domestic bitches.
I work downtown and it looks like a huge dump site down here and it's like a complete ghost town ,it's heart breaking and scary to come down here
@Gary Tesla it hasn't had a negative effect , it's the other drugs out here on the downtown streets I have seen heroin overdoses and people doing meth like it's not an issue.The homeless tents are everywhere spilling into the streets .so not only can you not walk on the sidewalk safely you have to drive around there trash and tents hang off into the streets,so much trash everywhere and it's getting worse daily.
@Gary Tesla I don't really know I don't follow media love me that nor do I see the difference in any drug think they are all the same but what I do know is what I see ever single morning and through out my work day , it's sad , heartbreaking and they need to figure something for the homeless with mental health issue chances of you getting attacked by one is highly ,I have to carry a taser everyday cause they have tried to come at me with object s and that's just walking to and from my truck
@Gary Tesla smoke weed bro. You gta chill out
@Gary Tesla are you trolling? Or do you not see the stats of what marijuana does to help cancer patients, medically. On the recreational side, marijuana has helped the economy by state and the only violence connected to marijuana are tweekers, junkies and gang bangers robbing the shops so they can sell ot to get more tweek or H. Marijuana's customers are everyday people. You are a poison for spitting out such opinions instead of the facts. Do you drink? Smoke cigarettes? Do you work for the pharmaceutical industry?
@Gary Tesla Mr. Tesla. I dont smoke marijuana. Used to in high school, but decided it's not for me. I like to drink and smoke. I find those two poisons to be 1000× worse than a wonderful natural resource like marijuana and hemp. If you want to find true evil and a real killer, look no further than the corporate pharmaceutical industry. To your dismay, there will be a time, perhaps when we are still alive even, that not only marijuana will be deemed legal, but so will the wonderful natural depression killer and heavy drug dependant killer, psilocybin mushrooms. Its going to be glorious. Trump 2020.
Thank you for filming this. Having spent years there and Portland when it was considered the cleanest major city in the U.S. to seeing now that the current Portland Mayor has allowed it to mirror the Tenderloin District of San Francisco, another crap hole in the U.S. is just great.
I’ve run marathons all over the United States. NYC, Las Vegas, San Diego, Chicago, DC, Atlanta, Nashville, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Pittsburg, Hartford, etc. You can get a good look at a city in 26.2 miles. Without a doubt, Portland was by far the cleanest city at the time I had ever visited. I have remarked many times on how clean that city was.
It’s sad.
I really cant believe what is happening here. Portland used to be so chill. I've lived in the beaverton and Yamhill area all my life. I don't see why we are letting the 0.05% of the the population bully us and have their way with out city. most of my friends on FaceBook don't speak up, and I think I know why. Cancel Culture!! My company even has a new policy that you can't say anything political if it offends someone. Not hard to do in portland. Hence my new name. I think it's going to take all of us using our voice at once and coming together in unity and saying " This is not OK, and it needs to stop!" Would anyone actually ever vote for Kate Brown or Ted Wheeler after this? Well..... Maybe Atifa members. LOL
Cry me a river! Thats progress, you don`t see it?
cheers from germany (same progress here)
Nah the voice of portland is why it is this way.. everyones all gay and colorful and sympathetic to drug users and all coool and nice.. yall are what causes this.. you all think orange mans bad because he's not all cool qnd capitalism ohhh noo capitalism nope not here...we don't even need the police here that's how cool we are...
Well, there is a woman who is full blown antifa running for mayor against wheeler so either way Portland is doom for good.
@@morningsunrise2729 Yepp don't even get me started on the females here guarenteed they are causing mostly all of this. Have been seeing it since 3rd grade when all the nice moms got dodgeball banned for us cute little kids so we could stay all safe and healthy wow bless their hearts they even made us stop doing P.E cause you know no one should have to run so hard to where they sweat cause that's too harsh for our little childrens to endure
Disgusting, disgraceful, sad, heart breaking. A mayor and a governor who don't take care of Portland. Punish criminals.
I just ran over this video. I am shocked. Lived in Portland 20 years ago for a few years.
I am German and glad that my country would not allow thias. I guess you know what I am talking about.
Portland has been hijacked by a horde of socially programmed, self-righteous wanna-bees. We live just south and have seen many businesses close because of these morons.
What a Liberal wasteland! Enjoy it bc the Feds aren’t paying to help your Leftist run Gov’t.
Keep Kate Brown and others (check out what the previous Governor of Oregon got away with) and this is the wasteland you asked for. I left Oregon in 2015. Thank God.
LULUBELLE Karin - Very immature to generalize a whole population. I did not vote for Kate brown and don’t deserve what the liberals have done to this state. Very smug to say you left- good for you. Sometimes people can’t move because they’re caretaking family etc. So much lack of compassion- just seeing a lot of smug blaming.
"Rise Up" graffiti & a homeless person sleeping under it, says it all.
These politicians outta be ashamed of themselves.
Exactly!
They aren't. They are too busy stealing & feathering they're own nests.
Behold! The Democrat Utopia! Ain't it great? 🙄
Don’t know why TH-cam pop this to me. I used to live in Portland downtown area for a year in 2010. And I can’t stop tears in my eyes when I am watching this video......
Awesome keep it up. Before you know it y’all will have nothing left ‼️
I just feel kicking Mayor's ass right now. Solid.
I'll help you
caroline: NOO! I'm loving this!! Socialism creates shitholes. And the Demmunists have created a half-dozen notable examples in recent months... for all to see!! (they called us names when we tried to tell them before)
No point he would enjoy that !!!!
Wheeler will be leaving office..just like he left the city.
Mayor can do something but he doesn’t have that much power. You need to kick Oregon’s governor ass
This is how all the large cities will look like if they don’t already
I'm thinking of taking pictures here in manhattan, nyc. It's starting.
Love to see the demise of Portland. You got what you elected. Enjoy!
Ty good job starting to look like a 3rd world country in sooo many area’s, pretty sad
My sentiments exactly, I'm predicting most of the U S will be this way in about 20 years.
The USA have been a third world country for decades, just dressed up in a pretty suit... Not realizing there's truck sized holes in it though. And right-wing morons failing to look forward won't help you.
@@Menugius A lot of so called "right-wing morons" help their fellow man &woman out when they can,the Left has cheered this shit-storm on.I see lots of people of color pass other people of color in the street and not give a crap about their "brothers&sisters" .Where are all the monies of BLM going...? In their own pockets,and into cars and BS.and signs and bullets into a Black father in New York,another round into a little girl,whose parrents got stuck in a BLM.blockade! Mr.T.holding up a sign because he was for Pres.Trump.- the list goes on...David Dorn.No,Black Lives Don't Matter To BLM.Those broads hate Christians,God,Jews,and Black fathers+the family as God put it.Practising Voo Doo's going to call down a bunch of demons ( though I think most of Antifactuals,and Bolshevik LiarsMatter are already nice and possessed !) Have fun playing with Lucifer,he wants your soul,God wants you to live!
@@lorenheard2561 What the fuck are you even talking about, did you drink paint or what? Do you ever listen to yourself? Nothing of what you say makes sense or is anywhere close to a possible reality - and half of it isn't even intelligible. What the heck?
I am not american, I live in germany. But what I can tell you is that you are the laughing stock of the entire world. You can present yourself on the outside however you wish with all that glitter, glamour and military - we all know you're crumbling away on the inside. Your president is a retarded, racist, senile, sexually deranged moron who doesn't take care of anyone but himself. Your legal system is antiquated, unfair and actually produces criminals instead of reducing them. Your country doesn't even give people chances to thrive as you don't have any kind of social state. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link and your chain consists of nothing but broken ones. You know who would be good for you? Sanders. He's not communist in the slightest, he is socialist. And what is socialism about? Correct: Coming together as a society and taking care of the weakest ones to thrive together and not be slowed down by those who are being left behind.
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This is so sad. I used to live in Portland but moved to a different area. I take my kids there a lot and they love it... it was always one of my favorite cities. My daughter recently asked when we were going to go back and I told her that we couldn't because its just not the same as it used to be right now... but we will when things turn around. I used to be a supporter of the BLM movement but I no longer am.. I still support equality and the end of racism... but I hate the actual MOVEMENT and no longer support it. They screwed themselves over and pushed so many supporters away with this behavior and outcome. Oregon needs a new leader. We will never see Portland turn around with out a republican leader.... and that is coming from someone that doesn't consider themselves a republican.... I truly think this is the only way to fix what has happened to Portland. Seeing the state of Oregon/Portland is pushing me quickly out of the democratic party. It's an embarrassment.. and they think it's something to be praised, but they are out of control toddlers.
Jackie Tea I would like to hear more of your thoughts on this. I spent my entire 20’s there and bragged about it to my partner for the last eight years. We took a trip there two weeks ago and I just can’t believe the state it’s in.
@SirRawLee TheWalrus *you're
I always took my kids to the Downtown area in the 90s to 2019, my daughter learned so much there from Sur La Tab cooking, to gardening in the public gardens and she would bring these skills to Michigan. Now she helps run "indigenous Gardens" showing everyone how to grow and preserve their own food. I will miss the Portland I grew up with.... RIP
@SirRawLee TheWalrus Great come back... that really added to the conversation.
@@jenhalpin Yeah, my parents took me there when I was a kid all the time and I fell in love with it. It's what made me fall in love with cities in general. I always told my Mom I wanted to live there... so when I was 21 I finally did... (I'm 35 now). I spent a lot of a time downtown... loved the waterfront, shopping, and Saturday Market. I always went to First Thursday art walk etc. It was great. Last time I was there (Around Christmas 2019... because I used to love it there at Christmas time)... I got this horrible feeling. It was like grieving sort of? I went to some of my favorite places that I used to go and I was shocked at what it turned into. I didn't want to let go of the memories I used to have. I almost felt a deep state of sadness, and wanted to avoid going back to avoid that feeling again. I wanted to preserve what I remember it to be. Macy's was gone... where I used to take my kids to see Santa. Lloyd Center was dead and there were no stores left... There were tents everywhere and my kids didn't understand. There were no restaurants or shops... garbage everywhere!! I am really hoping something can be done to turn the city around. It's SOOO sad to me.
How SAD!! I lived there in the early 90s. It used to be the most beautiful city!! This video made me cry.
Democrats made you cry. They continue to destroy.
@@nickhammer6408
*I often wonder HOW a government can "be down" with it's own destruction....*
@@gblueslover8807 they are the ones in power. They would never realize the extent of the damage they cause.
@@nickhammer6408
I would guess then, that their minds block what their own👀eyes are witnessing.🤔
@Bill Grossman
Nope, they can't run ANYTHING. They can only RUIN everything.
I was born and raised in Portland and over the years the homelessness and tents have gotten very bad, not only downtown but everywhere in the city, you will see a camp sight driving to or from anywhere. Portland simply doesn’t have the resources to fix the problem.
It’s not resources, it’s mindsets. Don’t confuse the two. There are less well off cities in America that are better off.
People of Oregon voted in Kate Brown and Ted Wheeler, so I hope you like your city as it is. This is what Marxism looks like.
This is what the radical right wing does when they dont like something. Or you can call it trumpism.
@@jameswadsworth7960 trump created jobs not destroyed jobs
@@dieselcowboy777 I never said he didn't do anything good. But for everything one thing he did right, he did ten things wrong. He is a criminal and a conman and never should have been in office.
@@dieselcowboy777 trump destroyed plenty of jobs when he did little to nothing about the pandemic which shut down much of America causing millions to lose their jobs and careers.
@@jameswadsworth7960 no that was the democrats plan to destroy jobs with the pandemic not trumps fault
I recently went downtown to see for myself...I saw this too.
It thought I'd left Saigon this literally gave me a unwanted flashback
Mike, God Bless You! Thank you for your Service! Especially since all of you have suffered so violently!
Oh my gosh!! My Son and I lived at 222 Pine St., a 5th story apt, next to Saturday Market...in 1996-7....it was sooo beautiful then...this video broke my heart...made me teary to see the literal desecration/annihilation of Portland.😥😥 Thanks for sharing.
And it should be left that way, as an example of what a peaceful protest looks like.
Left that way??
The destruction in America affects All American citizens !!
Amen to that.
A monument to stupidity.
Progressive politicians, this is your legacy.
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no???
@@annamaric1905 if that's true, then why wasn't the rest of America burning, I will tell you what most already know, it was allowed to happen. It should be kept as a reminder, and a message to business owner's
I hope everyone learned how destructive the politicians can be to let this happen! Next time vote conservative!
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I totally agree with you, but the vote ballots is coming, unfortunately there 6 people and all of them democrats, BLM and antifa representatives. Not even one is good.
Never vote republican.
They do not believe that “all men are created equal “ part of the constitution
Michael Macfarlane you are so wrong. Open your eyes. #WalkAway. Just look at Portland, what has the leadership done for the people there?
Teresa W. The constitution says all men( and women ) are created equal.
The Republican Party wants to make gay marriage illegal. How is that all
Men are created equal ?
I do not care about all of your other concerns. Republicans do not uphold the constitution!
It's sad to see a beautiful city a city I used to live in being destroyed like this
Thank you for taking the time to show us what's really going on there, I feel bad that you live so close to that dump. It's sad because the people that did that, are probably living in a better some place else. But thanks for the update.
Congratulations this is what your representatives wanted! Next move is yours
Sold house, moving to WV
The residents of Portland DESERVE EVERY BIT OF THIS
Wait, let me guess...this city is ruled by democrats!
IF YOU VOTED DEMOCRAP..YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTED FOR
It's actually fine -- the rest of the city looks beautiful as always.
@@MarshallSteeves Yeah, I have this gaping cancer on my arm but the rest of my body looks fine!
@@jonothandoeser Not the same.
I've lived on the outskirts of Portland my whole life. Downtown Portland is definitely in a bad way right now. The best word I can come up with to describe how it feels downtown is... Godless. It's an unnerving feeling, but it feels void of God down there, as if He has been pushed out, and is not welcome there. It's sad. I hope my hometown can recover. It can be a beautiful place, but it needs help.
God hasn't been pushed out, the church of Scientology was shown in the video. 3:02
Pray that God opens their eyes, he is coming soon.
You said it exactly...GODLESS!!!
I wonder if a downtown Portland 2022 video would look different. I live in Seattle and we were nearly that far gone in 2020. Thank goodness there have been improvements and serious work on our downtown since then. There still is more work to do and planning to insure that this does not happen again.
It looks a little like a post apocalypse movie set!
But it's real.
It's bullshit. You're literally seeing a few square blocks or selected areas. Portland is 145 square miles with a population of 750,000. Of course it looks bad and there's definitely some blight in certain parts. Especially if you ONLY SEE those parts. But again, you are literally seeing maybe 0.006 % of Portland in this video. Right Wing Propaganda at it's finest.
@@Raiderhays37 Are you suggesting that a few square blocks of destroyed business and riot created blight are ok, that it doesn't matter?
@@virago1776-h4g No I am not suggesting that what is shown is Ok. Not in the least. I fucking hate it. But this too shall pass and painting all of Portland as some kind of dystopian fueled nightmare is unfair.
@@Raiderhays37 I understand but it will not end until authorities put a stop to it. They should have never let it reach the proportions it did. I sincerely feel for the people there.
I was born and raised in Portland. I still find seeing this shocking. I've never regretted moving my family to Vancouver 37 years ago...
lol just so you know, this doesn't represent what the last 37 years of portland have looked like.
Your comment is strange, and hateful. Like a lot of comments on these types of videos.
@@BlueGuitarMusic I've lived in the Portland metro all my life, as have my parents and grandparents. All of us were horrified that this happened in Portland, but none of us were really surprised at all. There hasn't been visible anarchy until now, but Portland has been moving in a dangerous social and governmental direction for years now, and there's no point in denying that. I don't think anyone meant to be hateful, we're just sad that this is what's been done to our hometown, and we're upset that everyone just let it happen.
that was a great move, good foresight.
I was born an raised in ptown , 18 years of it then I moved to Hawaii.
@@BlueGuitarMusic
What is a city, supposed to look like? Certainly not this.
I could talk about blue's guitar all day, as I have seen just about anybody who's anybody. But seriously man, do you think this is a civil place to be? I don't think I want to spend the money for a visit. I'll try going back to like clarksdale Mississippi first.
Reminds me of Seattle. Never would I thought I'd move from Seattle to NY because it was safer...BOY
And how's NY workin out for ya?
NEY YORK IS WORSE...ANOTHER DEMOCRAP RUN CITY/STATE......DONT GO TO DC....ANOTHER DEMOCRAP RUN CITY...WHO VOTES THESE FOOLS IN OFFICE..OHHH YEA..BIG TECK
The mayor is a disgrace to let this happen and then expect the American people bail him out.
I have lived in Portland my whole life.... Used to love it. Now it's sad.
Bye. Hope you like a deep red state. Mississippi is great. 🤣🤣
Did you call the police? Did you insist that the National Gaurd be called in? Carolyn McQueen, what did you do...or not do?
I live In Hermiston, OR and never thought it would come down to this.
I am 5th-generation Oregonian and I cannot BELIEVE what has happened to my beloved home state.
Counting new people age 10 and under we are 6th generation. Breaks my heart.
I'm a 4th generation Oregonian, and I hate what has happened. Kate Brown has not supported this fall, but legalized it.
I am as well. My family came here in a covered wagon. My parents and grandfather graduated from UofO. I graduated from PSU. I can't believe what a mess it is.
i live in portland. heres my take on the state of the city >>>> bittube.tv/post/4947cd90-4119-4ea6-b545-3ffbea8d3595
Max, if you’re sick of the violence and Fascism, VOTE BIDEN/Harris and our Country will finally have a REAL PRESIDENT instead of FOREVER IMPEACHED TRAITOR TRUMP!
Biden / Harris will end the division and hate and then Americans will UNITE AND DESTROY THE VIRUS!
And Americans will have their just bs and economy back up and running.
But if you are ok with the NEVER-ENDING CRISIS TRAITOR TRUMP has caused if you’re sick of the WORST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN US HISTORY AND WORST ECONOMY IN US HISTORY, Trump will only deliver more disaster, more deaths, more riots and more TRAITOR TRUMP TREASON!
Biden/Harris will make certain the orange rapist pays for his felonies and treason! Belongs in PRISON!
I see poverty and graffiti, which implies desperation and hopelessness. Looks like Portland needs to take a hard look at who they voted in and perhaps vote them out.
Yes
We do,but like the rest of the demacrat boting states,this one too,has taken to CHEATING,LYING,AND A HARD FALL OF GOVERNMENT STEALING. ALLOWING CRIMINALS TO DO WHAT THEY WANT!!
graffiti does not equal desperation. it’s art and expression.
It doesn’t matter. The vote would be rigged anyway.
@@stevdarshaki4378 The people in this thread are against speech when it disagrees with them. They are afraid of art and expression and think the homeless are something they need to "clean up". I'm proud of Portland and that there's always been a small but strong subculture here of true resistance to authoritarianism. I wish it were as consequential as the trumpian propaganda machine claims it is. Maybe someday.
Kate Brown and Ted Wheeler created this mess and are so selfish they can’t seem to admit they ruined Portland.