portland problems

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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Beat or Be Beaten

I was on Twitch chilling on another person’s channel(Unceasingdragon), and they were a disabled streamer working out. The topic came to what disability is and how sometimes there are gifts if you can find them. Despite everything in the world seemingly going wrong and it feeling like the world is against you, there was something that we all agreed on, and that is you got two choices, sit and suffer or be the one to beat it. No matter how it is, there is something simple, and it is something I agree with.

When you are dealt a bad hand but have no way out, you learn to adapt, try to overcome, and sometimes fail. Outside of stopping to try, though, there is little that cannot say more progress cannot be made, and from that, all you need is effort and a little luck to make sure things fall in your favor. Sometimes it may take some time to fall in your favor, and sometimes it may feel like hell just to get out of bed in the morning, but you have to do what you must do.

Note: This came a week late due to being end of semester projects. After the death of Queen Elizabeth, I thought it was a good idea to let it wait until the following Monday, and then I had muscle spasm, so here it is

Now, I have been told that there are programs for people who are disabled to get help for example. That is true, it just takes, on average, six years, and you need to deal with some judges so stupid that if you had faith in people at all to read at a fourth-grade level, it is gone now. In short, for most, help ain’t coming, so you got to do the thing.

Minus the game, gun, armor, health, ai friend, and that makes it more difficult. Now, on top of all this, I have begun discussing being a villain. Some people are wondering what that is, and all of it boils down to this.

A villain is an antagonist to a hero. In a time where everyone is the hero of their own story, sometimes people take trying to be the hero for people too far and pervert what it means. When bad heroes exist, there should be an answer; in it, we find the villains, and one thing I can say about current goings on. Oh boy, we have a lot of bad heroes, so maybe it’s time to have some good villains. Being a villain does not mean you have to be evil. It is one of the meanings, but it does not have to be the one you pick. In fact, the one I use for this is simply being an antagonist to a hero. Being a villain, you can have some losses and come back where heroes may have to fight every time, and we all know in this world, sometimes a tactical retreat is a good option.

So coming soon, I will write on that subject and hopefully bring some positives to this blog. Goodness knows we can use it.

Stay strong

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