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Portland is only progressive as long as the white homeowners in town aren’t inconvenienced.

The shift in city tactics is a product of changing political winds. Last fall, the Portland city commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty – who had for some residents come to represent a misguided and overly permissive approach to a homelessness epidemic – failed in her re-election attempt. Hardesty oversaw the Portland bureau of transportation, which is tasked with enforcing sidewalk ordinances that might prevent people from camping wherever they want. Hardesty ardently opposed enforcing those ordinances, as her constituency of unhoused people gained political power and legal clout.

Hardesty’s loss came at the hands of a more “law-and-order” Democrat in Rene Gonzalez. His central argument, according to his campaign website: “Taking a hands-off approach to homelessness is not compassionate or progressive; it’s dangerous and inhumane.”

Hardesty was the only effective person on the city council and only just barely lost because of a years-long smear campaign against her by the NIMBY supergroup of local media, the cops, and the Portland Business Alliance. Local news would try to manufacture scandals about every aspect of her life, including her *gasp* modest credit card debt, and at one point the cops even tried to frame her for a hit and run (which luckily failed since she happened to be out of town at the time of the accident).

Yeah, no national (and especially international) media is going to do the work to dig into stuff like that. Or how Portland has basically been enduring a wildcat strike by police for the last 3 years.

The writer of the piece is in Portland.

ruhk wrote:

The writer of the piece is in Portland.

Then they have a bad editor for not digging in even a little into those aspects.

I found another article by him where he bemoans that Portland isn’t as cool as when he moved here but it’s still pretty cool because there’s still plenty of overpriced stuff to do, and that his neighborhood “is thankfully not bad (yet),” which I think explains a lot.

Debt ceiling deal has been reached, apparently. Now the long wait to see who gets f*cked by it.

Rat Boy wrote:

Debt ceiling deal has been reached, apparently. Now the long wait to see who gets f*cked by it.

I'm gonna peg the probability at 100% that the answer is "us".

11-year old boy in Mississippi calls police at his mother's direction when her ex shows up "irate" at 4 am.

Police officer proceeds to shoot... the 11-year old. (He survived. Barely.)

Things that are obvious because this is America: The child is black. The police officer is still employed.

Could be a lot worse. We still need new taxes, and the article does not mention the cut of the entire $80B new staffing allocation for the IRS, but there is a multi-trillion dollar clawback of unspent COVID funds, which, honestly, is gonna hurt Red states more than blue. As in any reasonable deal, neither side gets everything it wants. I think the Dems came out on top here.

If this fails in Congress, McCarthy and the Republicans will own the ruin that's inflicted. And they will pay for it in the next election.

But I'm glad that Biden did not "cave" as people expected him too. It seems like a savvy deal for Dems. (Anytime you expect someone to give up nothing in a negotiation, you're not being realistic.)

Now we get to see if the Freedumb Caucus is up for wearing their economic suicide belts. I'd say 75% chance they stand down and let it go, but I can't imagine what the payoff for them is, and that's worrying to me.

I can't see any reason that this would backfire.

Agent 86 wrote:

I can't see any reason that this would backfire.

Notably most rideshare drivers drive for multiple services. So if my Uber driver pulls up with a Black Wolf sticker on his car, that ride is being rejected.

Robear wrote:

Could be a lot worse. We still need new taxes, and the article does not mention the cut of the entire $80B new staffing allocation for the IRS, but there is a multi-trillion dollar clawback of unspent COVID funds, which, honestly, is gonna hurt Red states more than blue. As in any reasonable deal, neither side gets everything it wants. I think the Dems came out on top here.

If this fails in Congress, McCarthy and the Republicans will own the ruin that's inflicted. And they will pay for it in the next election.

But I'm glad that Biden did not "cave" as people expected him too. It seems like a savvy deal for Dems. (Anytime you expect someone to give up nothing in a negotiation, you're not being realistic.)

Now we get to see if the Freedumb Caucus is up for wearing their economic suicide belts. I'd say 75% chance they stand down and let it go, but I can't imagine what the payoff for them is, and that's worrying to me.

McCarthy probably has at least 4 R votes that would stand with him and vote for his bill. So I don't think they'd be able to entirely blow the country up today.

Depends on the rules committee next. At least one of the R's on the committee will vote against it. We'll see.

Agent 86 wrote:

I can't see any reason that this would backfire.

This discussion seems loaded.

Mixolyde wrote:
Agent 86 wrote:

I can't see any reason that this would backfire.

This discussion seems loaded.

Now don't go off half cocked.

hbi2k wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
Agent 86 wrote:

I can't see any reason that this would backfire.

This discussion seems loaded.

Now don't go off half cocked.

Trigger warning.

CaptainCrowbar wrote:
hbi2k wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
Agent 86 wrote:

I can't see any reason that this would backfire.

This discussion seems loaded.

Now don't go off half cocked.

Trigger warning.

Safety first.

Mixolyde wrote:
CaptainCrowbar wrote:
hbi2k wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
Agent 86 wrote:

I can't see any reason that this would backfire.

This discussion seems loaded.

Now don't go off half cocked.

Trigger warning.

Safety first.

I think the puns have run out of ammo.

Rat Boy wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
CaptainCrowbar wrote:
hbi2k wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
Agent 86 wrote:

I can't see any reason that this would backfire.

This discussion seems loaded.

Now don't go off half cocked.

Trigger warning.

Safety first.

I think the puns have run out of ammo.

Gun.

Hold on, I've got my Big Book of Dad Jokes and I'm rifling through it.

On the upside, this opens the doors to the Bond car market for the ride share industry

Rat Boy wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
CaptainCrowbar wrote:
hbi2k wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
Agent 86 wrote:

I can't see any reason that this would backfire.

This discussion seems loaded.

Now don't go off half cocked.

Trigger warning.

Safety first.

I think the puns have run out of ammo.

Stand your ground! I'm sure someone will take another shot at it.

Rezzy wrote:
Rat Boy wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
CaptainCrowbar wrote:
hbi2k wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
Agent 86 wrote:

I can't see any reason that this would backfire.

This discussion seems loaded.

Now don't go off half cocked.

Trigger warning.

Now the jokes are just clearing the chamber.

Safety first.

I think the puns have run out of ammo.

Stand your ground! I'm sure someone will take another shot at it.

Now the jokes are just clearing the chamber.

This thread has shot itself in the foot.

Has it been long enough to start talking about pun control?

Stengah wrote:

Has it been long enough to start talking about pun control?

Only a good guy with a pun can stop a bad guy with a pun.

Stengah wrote:

Has it been long enough to start talking about pun control?

Not since they invented the individual right to bear arms out of pun cloth.

I tried to help out with pun control, but I'm shooting blanks
I just can't rifle up something with duel meaning...