The city of Portlands budget hole in 2027 will be $250M+… business...
Portland Moderate.@pdxmoderate
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Oct 31, 2026
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The city of Portlands budget hole in 2027 will be $250M+… business license taxes in free fall, reduced real property taxes and highest reduction in single family home asking price of any major city in America, hotels selling at 90% discounts…
All brought to you by 40 years of shitty democrat (communist) policy and final nails in coffin of rank choice voting at 25% + 1 allowing DSA cosplay communist kids into office who have zero business acumen, leadership ability or common sense.
The economic chain reaction isn’t complicated: When people stop feeling safe, foot traffic suffers. When foot traffic suffers, businesses struggle. When businesses struggle, property values and tax revenues come under pressure. Public safety and effective behavioral-health services are not luxuries. They are foundations of a functioning urban economy.
Yet Portland’s leaders have too often treated enforcement, treatment, and accountability as though they conflict with compassion. They don’t.
People experiencing addiction and mental illness deserve real help, and everyone else deserves safe streets. A serious government must deliver both.
You cannot repair a damaged reputation with another task force, another slogan, or another tax increase. You repair it by restoring order, providing effective treatment, protecting commerce, and measuring results instead of celebrating intentions.
Compassion without results is an empty promise. Policy without accountability is an expensive failure. And a city that refuses to govern effectively should not be surprised when investors, businesses, workers, and visitors decide to take their money elsewhere.
@MayorKWilson
@portlanddsa
@mitch4portland
@pnwpolicyangel
@kanalforpdx
@candaceforpdx
@jamiedunphy
@TeacherTiff4PDX
portland.gov/mayor/keith-wi…
All brought to you by 40 years of shitty democrat (communist) policy and final nails in coffin of rank choice voting at 25% + 1 allowing DSA cosplay communist kids into office who have zero business acumen, leadership ability or common sense.
The economic chain reaction isn’t complicated: When people stop feeling safe, foot traffic suffers. When foot traffic suffers, businesses struggle. When businesses struggle, property values and tax revenues come under pressure. Public safety and effective behavioral-health services are not luxuries. They are foundations of a functioning urban economy.
Yet Portland’s leaders have too often treated enforcement, treatment, and accountability as though they conflict with compassion. They don’t.
People experiencing addiction and mental illness deserve real help, and everyone else deserves safe streets. A serious government must deliver both.
You cannot repair a damaged reputation with another task force, another slogan, or another tax increase. You repair it by restoring order, providing effective treatment, protecting commerce, and measuring results instead of celebrating intentions.
Compassion without results is an empty promise. Policy without accountability is an expensive failure. And a city that refuses to govern effectively should not be surprised when investors, businesses, workers, and visitors decide to take their money elsewhere.
@MayorKWilson
@portlanddsa
@mitch4portland
@pnwpolicyangel
@kanalforpdx
@candaceforpdx
@jamiedunphy
@TeacherTiff4PDX
portland.gov/mayor/keith-wi…
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At some point, you have to stop calling it a coincidence.
You have to call it what it is: the bill coming due.
Portland didn’t stumble into this mess. It was dragged here by years of political cowardice, ideological posturing, incompetent management, and leaders who repeatedly chose excuses over accountability.
Gov. Kotek. Mayor Wilson. The City Council.
These people didn't inherit a perfectly functioning city and accidentally scratch the paint.
They helped create the conditions we’re living with now.
And every time the consequences arrive, the response is the same pathetic routine: clutch pearls, issue a statement, blame someone else, demand more empathy, and pretend the latest disaster materialized out of thin air.
It didn't.
You built this.
Portland has become a city where disorder gets rationalized, failure gets defended, dissent gets demonized, and accountability gets treated like an optional feature.
Common sense has become politically offensive.
Enforcing standards is controversial.
Expecting people to behave like functioning adults is apparently “extreme.”
Meanwhile, ordinary residents are expected to step over the consequences of failed policy and politely applaud the people responsible.
No.
The experiment has failed.
And the people who spent years insisting everything was fine don't get to suddenly cosplay as firefighters after pouring gasoline on the building.
The activist fringe doesn't get to define reality for everyone else.
The professional outrage machine doesn't get to substitute emotion for competence.
And politicians don't get to hide behind compassion while refusing to confront behavior that destroys neighborhoods, businesses, public spaces, and people's sense of safety.
Empathy without accountability isn't leadership. It's surrender.
Crime doesn't care about your political slogans.
Disorder doesn't care about your intentions.
Broken systems don't magically repair themselves because someone held a press conference and used the word “community” twelve times.
At some point, outcomes matter.
And Portland's outcomes are becoming impossible to defend.
This isn't bad luck.
It isn't a coincidence.
It isn't one unfortunate incident.
It is what happens when bad decisions compound for years and the people making them face no meaningful consequences.
Failure became policy. Excuses became culture. Accountability became optional.
And now we're supposed to pretend this happened by accident?
Please.
The clown show isn't an unfortunate side effect of Portland politics.
The clown show IS Portland politics.
The same people who created the dysfunction cannot be trusted to fix it.
Portland doesn't need another slogan.
It doesn't need another task force.
It doesn't need another lecture about compassion from people who have apparently forgotten that law-abiding residents deserve compassion too.
It needs competent leadership.
It needs consequences.
It needs standards.
It needs order.
And above all, it needs the political courage to admit that the experiment failed and change course.
I've had enough.
The circus has had the city long enough.
Time to take the keys away.
You have to call it what it is: the bill coming due.
Portland didn’t stumble into this mess. It was dragged here by years of political cowardice, ideological posturing, incompetent management, and leaders who repeatedly chose excuses over accountability.
Gov. Kotek. Mayor Wilson. The City Council.
These people didn't inherit a perfectly functioning city and accidentally scratch the paint.
They helped create the conditions we’re living with now.
And every time the consequences arrive, the response is the same pathetic routine: clutch pearls, issue a statement, blame someone else, demand more empathy, and pretend the latest disaster materialized out of thin air.
It didn't.
You built this.
Portland has become a city where disorder gets rationalized, failure gets defended, dissent gets demonized, and accountability gets treated like an optional feature.
Common sense has become politically offensive.
Enforcing standards is controversial.
Expecting people to behave like functioning adults is apparently “extreme.”
Meanwhile, ordinary residents are expected to step over the consequences of failed policy and politely applaud the people responsible.
No.
The experiment has failed.
And the people who spent years insisting everything was fine don't get to suddenly cosplay as firefighters after pouring gasoline on the building.
The activist fringe doesn't get to define reality for everyone else.
The professional outrage machine doesn't get to substitute emotion for competence.
And politicians don't get to hide behind compassion while refusing to confront behavior that destroys neighborhoods, businesses, public spaces, and people's sense of safety.
Empathy without accountability isn't leadership. It's surrender.
Crime doesn't care about your political slogans.
Disorder doesn't care about your intentions.
Broken systems don't magically repair themselves because someone held a press conference and used the word “community” twelve times.
At some point, outcomes matter.
And Portland's outcomes are becoming impossible to defend.
This isn't bad luck.
It isn't a coincidence.
It isn't one unfortunate incident.
It is what happens when bad decisions compound for years and the people making them face no meaningful consequences.
Failure became policy. Excuses became culture. Accountability became optional.
And now we're supposed to pretend this happened by accident?
Please.
The clown show isn't an unfortunate side effect of Portland politics.
The clown show IS Portland politics.
The same people who created the dysfunction cannot be trusted to fix it.
Portland doesn't need another slogan.
It doesn't need another task force.
It doesn't need another lecture about compassion from people who have apparently forgotten that law-abiding residents deserve compassion too.
It needs competent leadership.
It needs consequences.
It needs standards.
It needs order.
And above all, it needs the political courage to admit that the experiment failed and change course.
I've had enough.
The circus has had the city long enough.
Time to take the keys away.