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PORTLAND, Ore. — The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it has identified Portland, Seattle, and New York City as jurisdictions that have permitted violence and destruction of property and that have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities. The declaration comes in response to President Donald Trump's memorandum from Sept. 2, 2020. The memorandum is titled “Memorandum on Reviewing Funding to State and Local Government Recipients That Are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities.” 

The designation may well result in cities losing targeted federal funds.

In its press release, the Department of Justice notes that Portland had more than 100 consecutive nights of protests "marred by vandalism, chaos, and even killing." It said protesters started fires, threw projectiles at law enforcement officers, and destroyed property. The DOJ says several officers were injured.

Yes - I believe we're on day (night) 104 now in Portland. The feds have offered to send in assistance, but the so-called mayor flatly rejected it.

Portland paper Willamette Week provided a platform for Portland rioters charged with crimes who are upset that Andy Ngo posted public records profiling their alleged criminal activity. The article, titled "Portland Protesters Say Their Lives Were Upended by the Posting of Their Mug Shots on a Conservative Twitter Account," was published early Wednesday morning.

Ngo's actions - unlike those of the rioters - are perfectly legal, as the police data are matters of pubic record. That the rioters are upset over the free publicity kind of falls under the heading of "don't do the crimes". One of the rioters, a paralegal of all things, has since lost his employment:

On Aug. 18, three days after Ngo posted the mug shot, Phillip Wenzel's boss at Elizabeth Christy Law Firm sent him a letter that the firm had received 50 threatening or harassing communications since his arrest. "Because you have chosen to engage in activism that has resulted in violence, physical injuries, and negative publicity for [the law firm], there is now a major distraction from the business we are doing, a threat to my ability to gain new business, and a threat to our employees' safety," Christy wrote in an email provided to WW.

Another doesn't appear to have lost her job as yet:

April Epperson, who works at a Northeast Portland public school, is another protester who was arrested for disorderly conduct and interfering with a peace officer on Aug. 24 and was greeted that same day by a Ngo tweet sharing her mug shot and Facebook profile picture with part of the caption reading, "Like others recently arrest[ed], she works with children at an elementary school." Several commenters on the subsequent Twitter thread shared the name of the school.

It's rather unseemly behavior for a school teacher who allegedly teaches 4th grade.

Newsflash: Rioting can be detrimental to your health and job prospects.

 

 

Orange Man Bad

President Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for a second time, sending the Left into yet another of their patented tizzy-fits. The first nomination came because of the normalization of relations between Israel and the UAE; the second because of the peace deal between Serbia and Kosovo.

From Israel-UAE to Serbia-Kosovo, @realDonaldTrump has accomplished more for peace in the last month than President Obama did in 8 years – and Obama was nominated just *weeks* after being sworn in.

The Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood published a nearly 1500-word-long screed Friday calling for the Nobel Peace Prize to be outright canceled. Why? Because #OrangeManBad and because Tybring-Gjedde, whose views on immigration do not coincide with the left’s view on the issue, is allegedly a “troll.”

It didn't seem to bother them that Barry did nothing to merit his award.

 

Not Like He Had A Lot Of Options

Portland police have arrested the 25-year-old man accused of viciously attacking a truck driver who was seen on video being violently beaten, jail records show. Marquise Lee Love turned himself in and was booked in the Multnomah County Detention Center on Friday shortly after 8:30 a.m. local time, according to jail records. He was charged with assault, coercion and rioting, all three of which are felonies, records show.

The PPD knew who he was, and it was just a matter of time before they caught up to him and dragged him in. Even he knew that. His face has been all over the news media.

 

Over 60 Days Now

Black Americans account for only 17 percent of those who say they attended a protest focused on race or racial equality in the last month, while 46 percent of those who said they attended a BLM protest are white. Of the 6 percent of American adults who said they attended a protest or rally in the last month according to the recent Pew Research Center survey, most of the actual marchers were likely to be white, live in an urban area and vote for, or support the Democratic Party, particularly focused on issues related to race or “racial equality”.

Certainly here in Portland, everybody filmed being arrested seems to be white.

 

And Portland Lefties Continue Trashing The Place

As you can see, they're mostly young white punks.

 

Just Another Portland Day

Black conservative reporter stabbed by Antifa after violent night of riots in Portland.

A conservative journalist with The Common Sense Conservative was stabbed in an early morning attack in Portland, Oregon this morning. You can watch it in the first video below. The stabbing followed a night of continued attacks against the Hatfield Courthouse and against random people in Portland.

And they're out there again. It's probably going to require mortar fire to get the SOBs out.

 

Those Toddlin' Towns

Police in Portland, Oregon, declared downtown protests as riots on the Fourth of July for the second time in less than 24 hours.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, 67 people were shot and 13 were killed thus far on the holiday weekend.

I've just been staying home. Spent a little time in the front yard last night watching the fireworks shows, but other than that was mostly in the house. There are just too many nuts running loose these days.

Hope you enjoyed the holiday.

 

Democrat-Run Cities

America is experiencing the best economy in 50 years, lifting every major minority group with record low unemployment, growth, dollar valuation, and accelerating wages. This should turn the tide in America’s cities – but the turn is slow.

Instead, we are witnessing higher homelessness in “sanctuary cities,” and policy stagnation across major impoverished, often unsafe cities – Baltimore to Buffalo, Birmingham to Brownsville.

Oddly, all but a couple of these failing cities are run by Democratics. Who'd have guessed?

 

 

Lockdown, Summer In The City

MAYOR Bill de Blasio said anyone who tries to swim at a NYC beach will be removed from the water if they defy his coronavirus rules. "Anyone tries to get in the water, they’ll be taken right out of the water," the mayor warned reporters on Monday morning.

He reiterated that "no swimming, no lifeguards, no parties, no BBQs" and no sports were allowed on the sand, where social distancing rules would still apply.

"It's a dangerous situation to ever go in the water if there are no lifeguards present," de Blasio noted, saying city officials wanted to avoid a situation where people took buses or subways to the beach.

He said only residents of beach communities would be allowed to go to the beach as "just open space you can walk on" — but everyone else should steer clear of it at this time. "[If] we don’t see the right thing, we’ll have to be stricter," he said, adding that there would be more enforcement if necessary.

Welcome to Democrat-run America.

I miss Aretha.

 

 

Let 'Em Die

In October 2014, Ezekiel Emanuel published an essay in the Atlantic called “Why I Hope to Die at 75.” Because Emanuel is a medical doctor and chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s department of medical ethics and health policy, as well as a chief architect of Obamacare, the article stirred enormous controversy. Emanuel vowed to refuse not only heroic medical interventions once he turned 75, but also antibiotics and vaccinations. His argument: older Americans live too long in a diminished state, raising the question of, as he put it, “whether our consumption is worth our contribution.”

He may well live in a diminished state, along with, say Bernie Sanders, but a heck of a lot of older Americans don't.

I reckon his view would be bad news, if adopted, for the livestock industry.