Homeless in Portland File

Mike Schmidt – Failure with A Smile

If someone failed badly we would want to shy away from it. When people fails like our District Attorney then we have to realize this is a failure we need to really study and in so this will be a really deep dive because we are starting at the very beginning of the pile of excrement. Below is a picture from the website taken yesterday from the election website so we can all walk through this together. I would say this will be fun, but I would be wrong.

A teacher came to Oregon from Louisiana and decided to try his hand in law, and when he found out he was bad at it he continued doing it showing all of his past student that not only was he someone who did not give up but someone who believed someone could do poor work and still skate by. He is a true D.A for the city and the area. He has two kids and a wife and lives in Portland and has been so lost in space he could not see that letting criminals have endangered more then any other D.A up to this point.

I feel bad, he taught children, who looked at him and thought he had some idea about life; only to find out this man is such an abhorrent failure at his job he should be run out of town at first opportunity. Week after week we hear how he is trying to be more socially equitable and focus on lowering recidivism. Well, he did do that, but unfortunately it wasn’t an intelligent way, because hey, if people do not report the crime they cant be charged for it. He tries to show he is so much better while it comes out that he is a sexist.

“Buh you don’t like him because he tried something different and has different politics from you, you are a republican.” – Some internet idiot

I get trying something different, but he has not had one metric that goes his way, not one. As for politics, I was born in Portland and was a Democrat for most of my life before I saw what was going on and had some hard slaps of reality. Lastly, if you are so scared of differences of thought why don’t you take it way back in the history of the democrats and get some pointed hats to wear around. I am sure if the the democrats or the republicans want to do it I will stand here and call it, but unfortunately Portland has had a democratic everything for the past two terms. The County D.A and the governor are also Dems. There are good democrats, there are bad democrats, but Oregon has shit democrats. Oh and he is a sexist as well, so go choke on a salami.

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/07/21/oregon-labor-investigation-finds-evidence-discrimination-multnomah-county-district-attorney-office/

I would be shocked, but first I would have to be surprised and I am more surprised that bean burritos cause gas then holier then thou politicians show they are worthless. Defense attorneys do not want to work with him in fact, so few are there that, according to him cases have to be let go. So people who have been arrested, found dead to rights, just need someone to be charged and they cannot get enough people to do so letting at least a dozen to three dozen cases a month. This is where things like failing to register for a sex offender, for false information to the police, and mind you this does not take into account the blatant political championing for his own side.

https://www.mcda.us/index.php/news/da-mike-schmidt-releases-weekly-cases-impacted-by-public-defense-crisis-3

One of the biggest angering points is that if you are say part of antifa and you stab someone you get probation because he looks at those sorts of politics, but if you oppose his politics then you get max sentence, it has shown up time and again and while it is not illegal, per se, it shows that they are not above skirting lines and morals. Which would be exactly in line and now the questions is that after all of this, sending the police away, having somewhere the defense does not want to be. Letting racial and political leanings dictate punishments, it just shows that we have a problem and the sad fact about it is, that people will still support him, until they are negatively impacted by his policies. With how criminals are being let out and committing more crimes, everyone in Portland should have an axe to grind against him soon at this rate.

Stay strong.

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Called It #Why

90 day plan, called it.

Ted Wheeler and the city failed in their ninety day plan again, all of us are not shocked. I am not shocked, you are not shocked, the violence is still not going down, businesses are still leaving and those remaining cant stay open. Let me dust off something. If you believed it as well please enjoy the following.

You were right, I was right , we were all right. This is not a 90 day fix thing its a fix in decades now because the people in charge of Portland have been unable to do their jobs. Generally, I like to be some what calm. I mean I just did some writing about Slamball. The management of Portland simply put has not been able to make changes where it needs to. Someone can not tell me with everything going on that the city has not been able to do everything they needed to with the resources they have. More buildings are going in collections, News for Reasonable People on Youtube is actually a really good source if you need someone in the Portland area.

When people have to deal with such failures there is only the people in charge to blame and while other time there has been some hope of dealing things in a respectful manner there is something to be said that when such failures are so well known that people outside of the country know of the problems in the city. My home is such a failure that people across oceans know we are badly run. Stuff like this

It should not be normal and this person does it every day seeing different parts of the city that has been overrun in squalor. People who should be punished are walking the streets much like the Japanese consulate who had been attacked by one of the idiots in Portland. People who want to exchange information and knowledge get attacked, if that was not a perfect snapshot of the city, then I wouldn’t know what it was. The problem is now bleeding out into the areas around the city where it seems like there is more coming around form more sexual assault in Beaverton.

https://katu.com/news/local/beaverton-area-man-convicted-on-sexual-abuse-charges-oregon-young-victims-cares-northwest-washington-county-district-attorneys-office

I have a question. When people do not feel the police can help them, when will people start trying to handle business themselves. Remember all the crimes being reported, they are not reported if someone just pulls a gun out and tried to handle business on their own. The 90 day plan is not going to work, because things are so bad that you need to be ready to fight at times. I carry a knife on me whenever I have to go out, and if its in a bad spot there is a way where my longest blade can sit in my bag and still be in reach. 90 day plans are not going to work, the state cannot save the city from five people who fail so hard and are trying to make it so there are twelve city commissioners. You could have a hundred and if they are of the same level the only thing that would differ is how many being paid.

Mike Schmidt is so bad he should be arrested and that is a post for tomorrow because I had a good vibe today and this had to go and ruin it.

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Plans To Bring The City Back

I have been trying to figure out ways to help my city and some people that I play Destiny 2 with have called me kingpin or Senator Armstrong based on if you are a Spiderman fan or one of Metal gear solid that would mean roughly the same. Someone who is hellbent on making something happen whether they are good or bad. Personally, the results have not been there and there is a part that is resting on different problems, trying to clear the way. When no answers come up there is just a couple moves left.

To make a move and slowly establish a foot hole and try to use that time to work for me expanding my reach within the city. People need to have the tools to live, and with the costs rising there has to be an answer. There is always an answer to be found, there is always something to be done in the world to make the goal happen. How much do you want to give up for it is something that often stops, but there has been something that has been coming to remind me even further. To push well past where my body should stop, something I have been getting back.

Things happen to people to make them give up a part of themselves, and in my quest to better myself and my world around me there has been something chained up. Let loose for an odd ego line, something coming back for all that has been done. That will be for something else, but right now there are certain things I will need to look at first. East Portland has been hit the most from the crime, but in doing so means there are spaces cheaper then it has been before. Products need to be manufactured and shipped from that area to bring some positive change.

Releasing products too early without working out problems means less quality, so it is all about finding that perfect balance of quality and timeliness for the sake of the most people. There is no perfect solution and while there is hope that you can give enough so that people and business get the best deal there are other factors in the way. Everything being written has gotten me to think about it and with how some of the laws have passed there may be a place for me to make something happen, but it will take a lot of sweat equity. Things that I have already begun in going to more appointments to see how businesses navigate the unfriendly Portland market. If you see me let me know.

First for the plan, one needs a foothold and that means some things will need to be paid through in the fall. Getting paperwork in order though means all has to be done before it can be sent in. Doing it while my body decides to short circuit and classes keep going while games and projects keep rolling. Even if the progress is small, it does push you forward. Each small move forward is something to make the finish line that much closer. Finding places where the opportunity can be made is important and it does not matter how much you have resource wise to give. There will always be something to be done and you can wish for more resources, but if you can do the shoestring and use the resources as needed then more options can be used.

Anywho, enjoy the summer.

Stay strong.

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Portland Fees and Falls

You know I want to be a blog about things succeeding, about my city doing well, and about things just going in a more positive direction. We cannot have nice things currently thought so here is what is going on in my charlie foxtrot of a home city.

As another piece of evidence on the ever growing mountain of difficulties to start a business in the city we have this little adventure in stupidity. Click the pic to see something KATU 2

Photo by Tabitha Mort on Pexels.com

A city who cannot clear their own sidewalks is asking business to take on fixes financially. That is some of the absolute dumbest shaniganery I have heard in a while. That is where part of this astronomical opening cost comes from, because the city who is being sued for not being ADA compliant because of all the campers on the sidewalk and needs to add ramps as needed from the sidewalk because that is public property.

Building permit costs has been astronomical and even places like Seattle are doing better

“Buh, we should have sales tax then, as that’s how the other cities raise those funds” From some moron probably

If that is the case then this would have been the problem for everyone pre pandemic, but there are very little cases to that, in fact a lot of people once declared Portland as a city easy to do business in. In short unless it changed in the pandemic all this shows is that our city is in a financial crunch and cannot raise funds or allocate funds to things they have done in the past.Also, we have not needed a sales tax in the past and got on for decades so unless people can claim that those in charge are so bad and the financial expanse of need versus resources so massive that they simply cannot I do not want to hear another word about a sales tax. Pound sand in every orifice and call yourself an hourglass, as that will be a more productive hobby.

Also, mind you it is not just this, it is insurance, it is fines, it is costs on top of costs, on top of costs and suddenly we have a downtown sector that looks more like a paintball war zone then an actual business sector. When the city cannot help people when businesses get their stock shoplifted and no cops come to help. It is something the city has had issues with for years, and I have been banging that drum enough that the drum has my phone number for booty calls. We are not in a place where the city can get out of this in months, we are in a place that this city gets out in years from now. That is provided that everyone in the city management, and the county and even the state management can get their head out of the proverbial backside.

Up next on the Portland makes me alcoholic article is that we had homeless people start getting physical with japanese diplomats who were touring the city. This personally gives me a sixth dimensional migraine, because some of my family, the ones I can work with help with that specific group to foster good relations between Portland and Sapporo. A program to have Japanese politicians and diplomats tour Portland to see what we are up to, and see what they want to learn and take back home with them. The only thing they may be learning is that we are turning into a sinkhole at record speeds. No one was harmed, it was light contact, there are plenty of reasons to look in the other direction if you cannot stand the truth. However, here we like shining flashlights where people need to see

“You just don’t like it because you are a republican!”

This reason has come up enough times that now there is no nicety when dealing with it, child in heaven I was born in Portland and was a democrat up until Obama. Those who are a zealot to their own political code without needing to adapt to circumstance has to be bar non, on either side, some of the dumbest people walking the planet today. You cannot be this dumb and think you are doing good work. It does not work that way.

So I am going to go chill out.

Stay Strong

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New Ideas Same Problems

Let us be honest, for most of us in the cities of the world how we buy things is changing. Portland is one of the locations and the biggest problem is how to make something secure to prevent looting. Nothing will ever be one hundred percent proof, but there have been some store models that have caught my attention, for better or for worse so I would like to share that with you today. Big chains and small have been feeling the sting and those who have been claiming everything is right as rain is once again wrong.

One more for me.

Anywho, big chains and small shops feeling the heat and with the issues especially in America there are just a lot of problems, and it is to the point where Walmart is closed down in my city, Walgreens is closing stores, small stores are getting railed by the past decisions of the city, state, and country and it seems that the turnaround is a mirage. One problem at the heart of all of this and something that people need to remember is thievery and destruction of property. A lot of people who support those actions, will say it is the insurance that will pick it up. The problem is the insurance also has a right to see that the business is too risky and stop backing the premium.

I did some research calling for a business location next to Portland state where things like school supplies and some nerd stuff could be sold. I have to get insurance mind you to start a brick and mortar business in the city is because the city will fine me otherwise because it is necessary. Six companies, and full note I did explain after about halfway through I was researching to write on the cost of opportunity in the city and at large, and no one wanted to be quoted and named.

Something that I am not happy with, but I will respect and in doing so I got some very honest tidbits. Insurance looks at the crime rate in the area and in multiple ways for the formulas that determines their risk and if the risk is too high like in some companies idea of the city of Portland or in some areas of it, there will not be a premium offered. In the case of my idea that would mean it could not open and now the store is dead in the water. What was state by three separate agents had been that cities that cannot keep order will have a premium multiple times higher then a similar city who has a better crime rate or a stronger penalty for thievery. After that it would depend how much money is coming in in and if debt is accrued, how easy can it be paid, all simple things that should be no brainers. Something that the majority of them had said throughout my calls had been there is something to be said for things not being reported because the police are already past their limit trying to handle things. Things that had gotten so bad that Fred Meyer has had to have a special alliance with police just to stop thievery that as been plaguing the stores.

Now, business still needs to be done so some stores around the country had been trying to figure out this very important challenge, because in all of these areas there is too much thieving and not enough police. Walgreens is heading to something of a model, currently in Chicago that would only have two aisles of items open to the public. With everything of major value behind a desk in an area that only employees can get to, with some people saying how it is not showing trust to the customers and it is racial profiling.

At New Chicago Walgreens, You Can Only Browse 2 Aisles — The Rest Of The Store Is Locked Away

First of all no it is not. Chicago is not a race first of all, and second of all, if the people have shown on the whole they cannot be trusted then do not be shocked when things change to give better security. On top of all of this when employees take video of the thieves, they are fired, when they try to stop the thieves they are fired, when they stop an effort in anyway they are, you guessed it fired. I can understand that because if an employee does something for the store that can open them up for lawsuits. It is also the paradox of starting a business in these areas that are staying empty, one cannot often file a report or will be able to because police cannot help them, and then people who claim its all political, you all need to get your head examined.

When businesses cannot do business, they will fail, I know I am bringing in my experience and training for some Einstein level formulas here, but it is true. All of this means businesses cannot do business, they cannot earn money, they cannot survive, and it shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago Detroit, Portland, Seattle, New York. No money from business means business cannot open places, means less jobs, means less money those workers can get. What honestly shocks me is that his is very easy to grasp and a lot of people cannot figure out why after shoplifting at a place for months on end, that it would close down. Those losses from shoplifting means that prices will often have to be increased.

Security and keeping everything safe means that moving forward we will have more stores falter and without a way to fight back consider seeing more models of stores adopt the Walgreens setup. It is something that the next generation of business able to handle it well will be able to make money moving forward, but until then it is still a rough ride.

Stay Strong.

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How do we fix it.

Politically, Portland is in a place of trying to keep up with appearances. It has been that way for the longest time and because of it mistakes are being made. Going more in depth no one needs to state that politically the past few election cycles have been painful. While there may not be a complete list of answers in my crystal ball there are enough that, I think, will explain how keeping up with the Joneses has made Portland fall from where it once was, as a city with so much to offer, to a warning.

For those who do not know, or may be seeing this in another country ‘ keeping up with the joneses ‘ is an saying that often describes an entity, in this case a city, keeping up with neighbors like it for the sake of not losing status. Portland may have been feeling it, because for those who do not know Oregon is on the west cast and the major cities of California, Oregon, and Washington have been the guiding force for the state as a whole, which as angered a fair number of people as the Greater Idaho project will show.

Portlandia, the fake corporate image of quirkiness for story line sake had been something that should not have been so strictly adhered to. Poetic, though that in trying to be we completely stole a line from Austin, Texas. Keep Portland weird, should have been ‘Keep Portland Honest’. Nothing is wrong with a little bit of nuance provided it is honest and it is not becoming a toxic trait. Make beer, smoke weed, be safe about it, and no problems will be heard from me. Unfortunate that many of the moments since then to try and keep the ‘quirky vibe’ had been something that has hurt us overall. The biggest backing issue of that is the homeless situation, We did not want to appear like we were mean, because the idea of Portlandia had been ingrained where people are nice, and that is not nice.

Continuing with this keeping up, I would like to make a note that San Francisco and Seattle are both very liberal, and have been that way for quite a while All three of them are aligned politically and all three of them have issues, but unlike Seattle we don’t have the sports trades and the rare streak of sense to save us. San Francisco has the money, but that does not save them, meanwhile Portland has neither. When it makes mistakes that money can help cushion the blow, it cannot do it so much as the other two, and when all three cities started allowing homeless sent to them. When the George Floyd riots were prolonged by all three because politically the riots and they aligned, and that can be verified by all three cutting money to police, rescuing rioters who had committed damage against the cities, and often times even go protest with them. Back in the Portland resistance Ted Wheeler thought it would be a good idea to join the protests with Antifa and BLM. One of those has been a group filled with pedo’s and now a group who has had one hundred million dollars over the past few years to go in reverse.

“Wheeler was protesting against the feds, then, it does not count.”

Yes, yugioh memes. However those who voice said opinion just did. The buildings in question were being damaged by the riots and were targeted and the city did not do anything to help, standing in unity against those with beliefs different from them who currently held the white house. So, because Portland looked to the other two of the three stooge cities and saw what they did, and wanted to do it too they did some stupid whose purity has to be higher then what we have seen before. Jesse and Heisenberg would need to rewrite the laws of science for meth this pure and Portland is creating condensed idiocy because the cool kids are.

It has been that way for a while, and now we need to fix it and stop the stupid lab. This is not something that can be done in months, this will have to be fixed in years and it will need to be done quick. So in no major order some ways to fix it.

First, arrest the county commissioner on all the charges he has allowed to happen because he actively let those with his political beliefs have a free walk or a slap on the wrist for charges others would get years for. Charge him as associate in all those crimes, I doubt he would get charged on one, but that means he would not be able to handle his office fairly and would need to be removed. He may even get charges, some would cheer for that.

Second, you actually clear homeless encampments and if there are drug issues you arrest them and tell them if found again it is going to be years. We have been so soft now that we have to push everything back quickly, and it will seem mean. Deal with it. Keep 110 ( the measure to have small amounts of every drug legal), but if you are found with quantities of hard drugs for dealing its minimum 5 years no deals to go lower, no more bargains.

Third, figure out whether you back the police or not, but do not waffle because either way there will be those hurt. No police, means people handle business themselves and when enough people figure that out, that means if you try to steal a candy bar and get a chest of birdshot, that’s on you. If you let people sleep on your property and the light it on fire, blame rests on your shoulders.

Fourth, remove the homeless camps and rework the mini home parks for veterans needing them and students in the city and the surrounding areas studying to better themselves. They are the ones that can live in those should free up more resources down the line for homeless families trying to get things back together, and if people want to live in their car then they need to do it in a respectful manner at least, which shouldn’t be much of a problem. A lot of people working ot survive, and living out of their car are the people you usually want to help.

Fifth, have homeless who just had a bad turn of luck be easily found and make sure the resources to help them specifically are known and used. Make sure the money is going to the right places and make sure you cheer for the success stories, because that gets other people looking at them, if they had just gotten a degree, or was able to juggle a certificate with their own family caretaker duties and I see that? I may just want them on my team when I have an opening, and can use their services.

Sixth, Cut all the political keeping up with the joneses and remove everyone who has not shown to be responsible in their job positions, and those who are not need to be fined for dereliction to their duty to the state, the city, and its people. If there are any political position where someone has been underhanded or taken money or items for reasons they should not have. It should be an instant, loss of job, loss of benefits and investigation for charges, and if evidence is found then enforce the laws and commit to possible punishment.

Seventh, figure out what this city wants to be, and what the businesses and the people want to be and realize there will always be hardship, but we can strive past it. Not shy away and cry when things don’t go our way.

Stay Strong In Any Case

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What Is The Problem…

When I was out there was a lot. A lot of things that make no sense in the city of Portland. I was going to do two whole posts but I will change that plan, a little bit. Portland is my home, it has been my family when there was no family for me and seeing it go the way it has been has been painful. No one is doing well in the city it seems. It all hurts.

This post, the plan is to go over some of the bigger things and then the next one should be about why is all this happening. First problem is with the crime. Simple enough problem, looking up some people may go to the point and blame the cops, but in this case they do not seem to be the bearers of the lion’s share of the blame. Remember in the past few years the police have had item after item taken away because they were used in the riots and they stopped the riots. They had their budget cut after those riots were filled with people who threw everything from eggs, rocks and fireworks at them. All that right there would be enough to have the police station completely lose their heart.

Also, I know people will bring it up. Yes, not all police are good, but the inverse is true as well, and I have met both. When the police screw up there will be nobody faster then me to call it, but to do that we have to keep track of some laurels, and to my experience, there has been a lot of things that police could have left for and they are staying despite what feels the leadership in the county prosecutors office and in city hall trying to stop them. Those are the sources of leadership for the police as well as the office in charge with charging for crimes. When those two do not do their jobs, when they abdicate their duty for the sake of feelings of the smooth brained then, like a lot of officers have, you will wonder why you are doing it and either walk away from the city, from your badge or both.

When shoplifting gets so bad that businesses run out closing everything including some of the biggest in the country closing down locations, we have a problem. No one feels safe and a good portion of Portlanders, have been clueless to this until it directly hits them. When those people open the business to have everything jacked in the day and the police cannot come, because they are taking care of over doses, murder attempts and shootings then you feel powerless. The police cannot multiply themselves and because of how have been treated you need to pay them a kings ransom for anyone to come in.

Look up “Portland is” on Google, leave it blank, this is what was my results. A pun on the county prosecutor who failed to such a level, that now his name is a slang term for badly run event or time frame. There have been times where I have tried to screw up in my specialties, and it would not have sniffed that level of excellence in failure. Wait, I can hear it now.

“Um, that was clearly taken from a page with your profile signed in, of course it will be anti leadership, it won’t do that on a private page.” sounding like someone trying to breathe through an ocarina.

Unfortunate for that point that this is here too.

For those who still want to complain, take your L, back of the line.

This is not good. If this does not change, we are going to see it get a lot worse, right now with how bad the rest of the country has been and the money of those thinking they can hold their breath before profits plummet on things like land. All of this will be the best it looks for quite a while. Money problems from management and how the markets are trying to sit through it, that is not the sign of a healthy market. It is the sign of a market who need to get enough to cover there needs and they would not get it now otherwise they would have sold already. All of the squalor has gotten so bad that police need to escort firefighters, in some areas to fight a fire because of homeless camps.

Willamette Week reports here https://twitter.com/wweek/status/1677342515031322633

I will say twitter is the prime website for watching dumpster fires. Things have gotten so bad firefighters need to weak Kevlar. Before you ask if that is part of natural kit, no it is not. Kevlar is not great for fighting fires but it handles bullets fairly well. https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/09/portland-firefighters-to-get-bulletproof-vests-as-risks-increase.html

How it feels dealing with the top echelon of failures.

We don’t need a change, we need a lot of them.

Stay strong. Next part is why.

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Portland, Freedom, Bacon, ‘Murica

Happy Freedom Day. For those in the USA and then get some telescopes and wait for the fireworks. For those who are not its when we go bonkers on such things painting the clouds all sorts of colors and lights for a moment, without anyone hurt on purpose. It is a circus of the people and it has shown to be a fool’s errand to ban such things.

https://www.portland.gov/fire/your-safety/fireworks-banned-portland

Portland being dumber then a stack of stones, it has been too long since this happened. No, despite the article there are reasons to follow it. There is a massive fire hazard and then there will be a lot of problems with morons being stupid with them. That is all stuff, that actually makes sense. All the fire investigators will have a problem because there will be a lot of fires due to the homeless population still camping throughout the city of Portland. Hard to charge people with anything when they are released for everything south of murder, and you may only get a slap on the wrist for murder half the time for that.

Firework at night by U.S. Army is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0

It is something sad that people cannot enjoy the celebrations the rest of the country is having, but when you count how the city needs something positive, and how the city is doing something about it that hearing this makes me laugh. This will not be honored and coming out of the city there was more then four shops for fireworks less then four blocs from the city limit. It looks like the rest of the area had a laugh and looked at the rule in about the same light that I did. Granted, my social calendar is something where there is not celebration save for a good meal, a nice bottle of whiskey and a two liter of Coke Zero and getting to work on projects until what’s left of me passes out on my keyboard or standing up whichever happens first.

Honestly, for this one try and be safe, whether in Portland or abroad nothing ruins the day like a moron with a roman candle trying to figure out how they can make a Megaman buster out of it and burning your apartment down. Take precaution. If you are going to use fireworks, do it safely. You could go on the internet and find different events going on in the city. Portland or otherwise, there should be something to look and see what may be in your area, you may find something cool, so while it is funny and stupid to try because a city that size with that many issues there will be people who will get fireworks for the night out of spite to the people in charge. The city is getting to that point that even if they had been charged there may be times and places where trying to enforce it is more trouble then it is worth.

Happy Holidays

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Is there a need to say it?

Might as well at this point.

So, today’s contribution for me being the next oracle of delphi is fresh from the Oregonian. Mind you, this is the biggest paper in the region, and when I was beating the drums that we have problems back when we could have fixed it without major issue a few years ago, there had been some who had called me out for being pessimistic because the Oregonian didn’t talk about it. Go. Read the Opinion from the paper that people said they will come around when this paper does. While you do that please be aware of all the things in the past tense. The tense that things already occurred, the tense that actions have been committed.

The only reason I bring it up that I was right, was because I do not want to hear ow so many people could not have seen it.

https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2023/04/editorial-oregon-is-dealt-a-blow.html

Look at it all, read the article and let it echo especially if you were the kind thinking I as pessimist, because those people with high end college degrees? I was right. The city commissioners who said they know better? I was right. The people who lived in the pearl or in the expensive towers who thought they had a better grasp? I was right. People who thought measure 110 was going to happen and make the city perfect when I thought it would make it right? The only right was me, and all the others who could read to a third grade level and could see what was going on, and not be given nice words or pretty pictures when all of it is fake.

Between blog posts, less then seven days, no less then a business has shuddered a day. A day brings the death toll for a business some with thirty, forty, fifty years and all of them are now shells. Considering there are not enough to replace them means a bit of a problem. No longer helping the community, no longer making it better. Some may think I am being a bit crass, but when you are right, time and time again, and people do not listen, because I am not the only one, this is not some rocket science we are calculating on our fingers here.

I want Portland to be better, I want it to be the city I love again. However, the people who are so lost seem to put their hands up just saying an oops and then walking off like they did the right thing anyway. Well things have been a bit of a riddle, because I do not have the supplies to make any store or anywhere in Portland right now, not enough anyway to make more of a difference. Because one has to remember there is not a lot of help from the police, insurance is going to be higher, and often times one has to defend themselves, their has to be a way, but their needs to be a way to bring about ideas for business that bring back some of the safety of before.

Until the next time.

Stay Strong.

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Have To Say It

Damn it.

Well, we are going to do this.

Donald Trump has been brought in under suspicion of 34 charges of business fraud. A lot of people are cheering that he will finally be caught, but here are my thoughts. I am not a lawyer, but there is a lot of business woven through this so just my thoughts from a loudmouth.

Considering this is based around a time almost a decade ago. They have to prove that he falsified records with the intent to commit or conceal another crime. Here is why I am not holding my breath.

First, this man whether you love him or hate him, has one of the biggest war chests available. Prosecution can’t push out the clock like they can with those with less funds, he can afford and will afford to make his case as easy to fight as possible and from the D.A’s own office it comes down to three main charges.

Now, one thing we need to make clear before going any further is there are thing that may not meet moral standard, but are legal. One is it is not illegal to pay someone if they have an unflattering story about you, that is why often in many settlements it cannot be talked about. Just from the D.A the first of three three major points is not going to hold well.

Going to the third, there was already a special counsel who got in trouble for doing this paying an adult film actress $130,000 now one can have two people be charged for the same thing, but if the payment was handled by counsel, and trump just said to get it paid, then that would most likely be on the counsel and not on Teflon Don. Which leaves the second point.

American Media Inc, they admitted what they did was unlawful that they made false pretenses to take that money, but the issue as it stands is not the payment of the money, but how it was received. That would be a problem on AMI, not Trump.

In short I doubt he gets anything more then a fine, and that is if that.

It is legal to pay for people with negative stories for their silence, it is legal to hide it, it is not moral. What is not moral. That a case this honestly soft would be brought forward. It smacks of a last minute throw at the end of the game, because the state of New York basically just said to the guy who could say is a master of loopholes that they know the rules better then he does. Considering How the State of New York is handling their own businesses I would think will be a calamity. You know what this also does though?

How many republican groups are watching this and are taking notes on how to do this better because some of the states of many democratic presidents can now dredge up the past for the exact same thing, and most likely with more chance for success. Never teach your enemy and right now the class is in for those who have backed Trump to any degree and I can tell you a lot of people are taking notes. Let us not even go into political bias, because when CNN has to do a survey and even most of those people see this as being a political biased then we are taking a turn down some bad moves. For those who are happy to see the political pressure brought down in law then you cannot under any condition complain when the republicans are deciding to start with the D.A of the case.

Never, ever, EVER train your enemies. While you will get first chance at the idea or tactic they will be able to see you bumble through it and they can watch to see mistakes they don’t need to make. That would be making their efforts overall more fruitful.

Back to three major moments. The second is really the only thing that would be the best chances of the three, but remember there are still a lot of questions to answer, like when did Trump specifically do the falsifying of records? Because my thought is he would know just to tell someone to get it done and have them do as they need to do without his knowledge, he is given plausible deniability and if that is the case there could be grounds to see him innocent on all charges. On top of that considering how long it has been since the charges there is a possibility that it may have been too long, we shall see on that.

For any charge, any single charge the case needs to be locked up, air tight, in the ocean, shot with a full drum of ammo and blesses by several preachers, because if there is any crack, any chance it will be looked it with the best eyes money can buy and it will be seen as weakness. If Donald Trump gets out of this without a serious sentence (prison time), then I feel the party behind him will be galvanized enough to push him to a second term. Not the D.A the bad press, or those who hate him with such vitriol will stop it.

In other news, my knights are in the playoffs for the Stanley cup. Small positives.

Stay Strong.

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