Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler admits de-escalation efforts failed as Antifa violence escalated, costing the city’s future, yet still avoids decisive action. Schaffer highlights unchecked chaos—massive street communes, attacks on police—since Biden’s 2021 presidency, despite Democratic wins, framing it as an "insurgency" with extremists rejecting compromise. The episode underscores how progressive governance enables lawlessness, leaving cities vulnerable to radical takeovers. [Automatically generated summary]
But we know that tides have changed and we're in a new year of rioting when the mayor of Portland himself, the worst person possibly in Oregon, very close to it, besides that homeless guy who plays a flute and throws his own bags of pea at police regularly, I would say that he even admitted that Antifa is real for the first time, a Democrat lawmaker, and that things have gotten out of control in the city of Portland and that they're going to have to escalate their response to it.
Listen to this.
This is a massive change of direction.
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My good faith efforts at de-escalation have been met with ongoing violence and even scorn from radical Antifa and anarchists.
In response, it will be necessary to use additional tools and to push the limits of the tools we already have to bring the criminal destruction and violence to an end.
Lawlessness and anarchy come at great expense to the future of our community.
It's time to push back harder against those who are set on destroying our community and to take more risks in fighting lawlessness.
I mean, and it's not just this, I'm not expecting Ted William to see this.
I mean, he's seen my clips.
He's seen Andy No's clips.
He's seen George Ventura, Richie McGinnis, Shelby Talcott, Drew, Kaitlin.
I mean, BG.
I mean, these people, we've been out there and we've shown them this is a problem from the start.
Antifa and civil unrest isn't something you can just stop once the preferred candidate you want gets into office.
And now we're seeing that with massive communes and takeovers happening in the streets of the Pacific Northwest, once one of the beautiful centers of this country is now seeing their fact that while they allowed violence to fester because it benefited the Democrat ticket, once Biden's in office, he's left them in the dust.
Now they have no ability to overcome these things.
And this is the importance about why we can't tolerate extremism.
We cannot tolerate extremism in our country is because extremists don't tolerate us.
And while the Democrats thought they could play with fire, in fact, let people literally play with fire on the streets of their cities, our cities, taxpayer cities, now we're finding out, oh, crap, we totally forgot that you can't control people who are extreme.
Take the entire last couple decades in the Middle East.
It looks like you can't fight an insurgency.
And so now we have an insurgency on our streets thanks to these no good, useless leaders who have failed us as a country.