I live about 15 miles outside Portland and have to drive I5 up to WA every couple of weeks. I have been driving this now for about five years and it gets worse each time. What you are not showing is the amount of graffiti. Some very derogatory on every single overpass, wall, bridge, sidewalk and signs. I'm not talking about art. The only thing that isn't destroyed yet is the sky and that's probably next. I could go on and on about the riots, homeless. restrictions and crime but that would be entire books. Stay away from this city as far as you can get. There are several nice cities in Oregon but this isn't it. What blows my mind is they keep electing the same officials with the same policies over again.
Its honestly because no one worth voting for is dumb enough to want to be in a position of power in oregon. Anyone who isn't for all the terrible policies stands no chance of getting voted in. Look at the mayoral election this last year, the only person willing to run against Wheeler was somehow 10x worse. The people of Portland quite literally get what they ask for, and this is it.
The only reason why Teddy got back in office is because there was nobody good running he was the better of the two evils I suppose but they're all corrupt
You get what you tolerate. The sad thing is that people will still vote for the same terrible “leadership” and expect a different result. How’s all that compassion and progressivism working for you Portland?
@@rulistening7777 and you know who fault that is everyone that fucking voted democrats and voted for sleepy joe i go tell u this north Carolina has homless people but its not that bad and it wasnt like that with trump in office
Yep!!! All Democrat controlled!!! These are Sanctuary Cities, brought to you by Obama and all his little democrat cronies!! I lived in SoCal when he did this!! We booked it out of California in 2015 and came back to our roots!! I’ve been back to California 3 times since moving, each time I’m more sickened than the time before!! It’s unrecognizable!!!! The oh so tolerant LEFT!!! LOL YEAH RIGHT!!! The Tolerant Left on the East Coast only kept the buss loads of what , 50-100 Illegals in their town 24 hours!!! Then they put them on a bus and sent them elsewhere!!! Those Illegals are Humans, but we cannot take them in!!! They could stay in their own Ciuntries, and fight like we did, to make this Country great, or, they come here, and very quickly turn OUR COUNTRY into the Country they just fled… WHO DOES THAT HELP??? WHAT DOES THAT SOLVE?? NO ONE and NOTHING!!! If you really care that much, then you travel to their Countries and show them a better way!!! But leave this Country AS it was meant to be!!! We have our own Homeless Adults and children to take care of!! We have our Elderly and the Mentally ill to care for!! And we have HOMELESS VETS!!! Until that situation is fixed, we have NO business trying to take on people from other Countries!! You see how it’s going!! Now we have Biden sending money to Ukraine and all over, like it’s Monopoly money!!! We must get the Democratic disaster out of the WH, and close our Borders!!! And deal with those that have committed Treason against this Country, the way the Law was written!!! And President Trump is NOT the one who has committed thise crimes or any crimes!!! He is the one who was righting the wrongs!!! This is just unacceptable!!! God help us!!!🙏🙏🙏
@@Empathicveteranif you want to say that, sure, but I’m pretty sure it’s 90% the police being hamstrung and criminals not being prosecuted, which is about as liberal an idea as it gets. Look at the blue cities and the cesspools of humanity they foster there.
The sad part is I have heard stories of People trying to clean up this mess on their own And get in trouble for not having the proper permission to do so. If you ever going to turn the blind eye to something one would think it would be To the people using their own resources To clean up the mess that you refuse to.
Watching this country I love being torn apart is killing me. I grew up in the days of Mlk, riots and hippies. We rose together and rebuilt. We must do it again.
Me too! It's like I woke up in a third world country, not supposed best country in the world. It's scary I feel for the young ones and what they have to do just to go to school. My hs got rough in the 70's with racial riots all the time in Chicago. I ended up quitting in my senior year. I went back got my ged and some college but to little to late.
So sad that city officials have failed MISERABLY to help these people. Rent is completely outrageous & even one job you cannot afford to pay rent. Where I live you must pay W/S/G on top of rent & even pay $97.00 a month to park your car in covered parking. They make it extremely hard on your average person to survive. It's heartbreaking & unbelievable.
Kate Brown did us zero favors. Portland needs to bring back the stand & lay (I think that’s what it was called) statute. I’ve been homeless. If u don’t set standards,there won’t be any. There’s no incentive to get clean or housed. All meals, tents, tarps, medical, blankets etc is supplied. They only have to find a shower if wanted & pay for their drugs. They aren’t even made to clean up after themselves. The city has to go through & pick up their trash & literal shit. Why? It’s not the city’s shit. Yes there are those with mental illness & drug addiction. But if they aren’t willing to adhere to rules or try to stay clean, why does the city have to continue supporting them? They’re adults & it’s not the city’s responsibility to feed & clothe them. The city is here to help citizens in hard times. Not to support you so you can do whatever you want forever. Tough love is needed. The choices we make are ours & so is the responsibility of dealing with the outcome of said choices.
@@TheAdaptiveNet that's stupid. How are you going to hold BILLIONAIRES financially accountable if they just keep all of their money in a swiss bank account? By the way the rich pay about 60 percent of the taxes in the united states.
We need to help out country before and other,I had a man at my house today doing AC work he has a real good job work 5 days a week and is homeless we need to do something about all this it's not just one city state it's the whole country
Wow, and I thought Ohio was bad, it's not nearly this bad. Probably a lot of these people lost jobs because of Covid and can't get anything new. Hopefully awareness will help, thanks for sharing Doug!
“If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?” ― Maya Angelou, Even the Stars Look Lonesome
I just joined! I saw a different but almost the same video about Portland! It was a longer video! My heart goes out to all these people who live like this, because they have been thrown away!
You know Hollywood's been making movies back in the '80s and '90s a people living like that don't you people realize that they're telling the future this is what's going to happen if our government doesn't start doing its job to where people can live in a freaking house or apartment instead of living like that luckily enough they have travel trailers or motorhomes or fifth wheels to live in because them tents are cold how are they going to live in a tent in the winter time I lived in a travel trailer in the winter time it's still cold in them damn things you got to keep the propane running 24 hours a day when it's in the winter time so they need to start thinking about that now
For some reason the Democrat Party promotes the influx of drugs into our country along with the illegal immigrants all all the time not being able to take care of our own homeless people. I am not able to make sense of how the Democrat Party benefits unless but they seem to continue to benefit. What's happening right now at the southern border is going to make drug influx even worse, far Worse. And drugs use causes mental condition causes you to lose everything and causes homelessness.
what in the heck. I was born and raised in Oregon. I moved away close to 10 years ago. 5 years ago, I visited family and it was already starting to turn like this.... but this....this just proves what liberalism is doing to a state I used to love.
I understand people are homeless and have to live in tents and cars whatever they can find but clean up after yourself there is no reason for all the trash to be laying everywhere.
Hey Doug, new Sub from AWP. Thanks again for all you guys do! In response to your videos, I highly recommend checking out the works by Dr. Gabor Mate. He gives amazing, crystal clear insight into what brings a person to drugs and homelessness. So sorry to see you guys are experiencing this Doug. We're on a similar trajectory here in New Orleans. I'm on a 10-year journey to put resources and programs in place to stop the bleeding and change to the trajectory of our destiny. Wishing y'all all the best. ~One Love~
Complacency from city officials, influxes of people from California looking for cheaper housing, said housing increasing the rent. Not to mention all of the constant riots that destroy small businesses and only allow corporate juggernauts to survive and thrive. And thats only on the top of my head.
@@masonpallanes7258 I didn’t realise there had been rioting in Portland, it’s horrendous, I don’t understand why they have protests about things then damage the areas they live in, all it’s doing is hurting innocent hard working people resulting in this destruction that people are having to live in, Thank you for the reply 💕
@@debbiew.7716 I’m not sure what antifa is, but I’ve saw some protests on BLM and it’s been the same on those protests it ends up in riots, why do they think rioting is going to move the situation into better circumstances for themselves, from what I can see it’s only making the whole situation worse, Thank you for your Reply Debbie, I think the whole world has been going bonkers since last year
Crazy days. And with increased drug trafficking from Mexico and South and Central America the mentally ill, homeless and just plain lazy will increase. We have family members in this category and it takes a lot of energy and resources to keep them off the streets & out of jail. In our state you aren't allowed to live in unsanitary conditions or on the street in a tent or vehicle.
I live about 15 miles outside Portland and have to drive I5 up to WA every couple of weeks. I have been driving this now for about five years and it gets worse each time. What you are not showing is the amount of graffiti. Some very derogatory on every single overpass, wall, bridge, sidewalk and signs. I'm not talking about art. The only thing that isn't destroyed yet is the sky and that's probably next. I could go on and on about the riots, homeless. restrictions and crime but that would be entire books. Stay away from this city as far as you can get. There are several nice cities in Oregon but this isn't it. What blows my mind is they keep electing the same officials with the same policies over again.
Its honestly because no one worth voting for is dumb enough to want to be in a position of power in oregon. Anyone who isn't for all the terrible policies stands no chance of getting voted in. Look at the mayoral election this last year, the only person willing to run against Wheeler was somehow 10x worse. The people of Portland quite literally get what they ask for, and this is it.
Look at cities that have long since died like Detroit and still voting in the culprits.
You can't fix stupid.
The only reason why Teddy got back in office is because there was nobody good running he was the better of the two evils I suppose but they're all corrupt
@@marisolis41 I agree.
You get what you tolerate. The sad thing is that people will still vote for the same terrible “leadership” and expect a different result. How’s all that compassion and progressivism working for you Portland?
It's not just Portland.
It's the entire I-5 corridor.
San Diego California to Bellingham Washington.
@@rulistening7777 and you know who fault that is everyone that fucking voted democrats and voted for sleepy joe i go tell u this north Carolina has homless people but its not that bad and it wasnt like that with trump in office
Yep!!! All Democrat controlled!!! These are Sanctuary Cities, brought to you by Obama and all his little democrat cronies!! I lived in SoCal when he did this!! We booked it out of California in 2015 and came back to our roots!! I’ve been back to California 3 times since moving, each time I’m more sickened than the time before!! It’s unrecognizable!!!! The oh so tolerant LEFT!!! LOL YEAH RIGHT!!! The Tolerant Left on the East Coast only kept the buss loads of what , 50-100 Illegals in their town 24 hours!!! Then they put them on a bus and sent them elsewhere!!! Those Illegals are Humans, but we cannot take them in!!! They could stay in their own Ciuntries, and fight like we did, to make this Country great, or, they come here, and very quickly turn OUR COUNTRY into the Country they just fled… WHO DOES THAT HELP??? WHAT DOES THAT SOLVE?? NO ONE and NOTHING!!! If you really care that much, then you travel to their Countries and show them a better way!!! But leave this Country AS it was meant to be!!! We have our own Homeless Adults and children to take care of!! We have our Elderly and the Mentally ill to care for!! And we have HOMELESS VETS!!! Until that situation is fixed, we have NO business trying to take on people from other Countries!! You see how it’s going!! Now we have Biden sending money to Ukraine and all over, like it’s Monopoly money!!! We must get the Democratic disaster out of the WH, and close our Borders!!! And deal with those that have committed Treason against this Country, the way the Law was written!!! And President Trump is NOT the one who has committed thise crimes or any crimes!!! He is the one who was righting the wrongs!!! This is just unacceptable!!! God help us!!!🙏🙏🙏
What's crazy is those voters actually believe everything is going well! I seriously think it's about brain cells and development. Flicking schools!
You know i finally really appreciate the freezing weather in Wisconsin. Those people would never do that in deadly winters.
I didn’t think about that!!! 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
what happened?.... liberals and drugs happened
There's blame on both side.
@@Empathicveteranif you want to say that, sure, but I’m pretty sure it’s 90% the police being hamstrung and criminals not being prosecuted, which is about as liberal an idea as it gets. Look at the blue cities and the cesspools of humanity they foster there.
"What happened to Portland?" is a rhetorical question right? We all know the answer.
Pretty much
The sad part is I have heard stories of People trying to clean up this mess on their own And get in trouble for not having the proper permission to do so. If you ever going to turn the blind eye to something one would think it would be To the people using their own resources To clean up the mess that you refuse to.
Watching this country I love being torn apart is killing me. I grew up in the days of Mlk, riots and hippies. We rose together and rebuilt. We must do it again.
Me too! It's like I woke up in a third world country, not supposed best country in the world. It's scary I feel for the young ones and what they have to do just to go to school. My hs got rough in the 70's with racial riots all the time in Chicago. I ended up quitting in my senior year. I went back got my ged and some college but to little to late.
Democrats that's what happened
So sad that city officials have failed MISERABLY to help these people. Rent is completely outrageous & even one job you cannot afford to pay rent. Where I live you must pay W/S/G on top of rent & even pay $97.00 a month to park your car in covered parking. They make it extremely hard on your average person to survive. It's heartbreaking & unbelievable.
It's been in my city of Chicago for years but not this bad. Police can't police ! that's terrible what has happened to to Portland.
Kate Brown did us zero favors. Portland needs to bring back the stand & lay (I think that’s what it was called) statute. I’ve been homeless. If u don’t set standards,there won’t be any. There’s no incentive to get clean or housed. All meals, tents, tarps, medical, blankets etc is supplied. They only have to find a shower if wanted & pay for their drugs. They aren’t even made to clean up after themselves. The city has to go through & pick up their trash & literal shit. Why? It’s not the city’s shit. Yes there are those with mental illness & drug addiction. But if they aren’t willing to adhere to rules or try to stay clean, why does the city have to continue supporting them? They’re adults & it’s not the city’s responsibility to feed & clothe them. The city is here to help citizens in hard times. Not to support you so you can do whatever you want forever. Tough love is needed. The choices we make are ours & so is the responsibility of dealing with the outcome of said choices.
Absolutely horrible but this is what the people voted for
Or they never voted at all and this is the result of being politically complacent.
No more billionaires until the homeless get homes. This abuse and neglect of the poor is just feudalism on steroids.
@@TheAdaptiveNet that's stupid. How are you going to hold BILLIONAIRES financially accountable if they just keep all of their money in a swiss bank account? By the way the rich pay about 60 percent of the taxes in the united states.
We need to help out country before and other,I had a man at my house today doing AC work he has a real good job work 5 days a week and is homeless we need to do something about all this it's not just one city state it's the whole country
Don't blame me. I didn't vote for CORNPOP! 🤢🤮
It's like an episode of The Walking Dead, so sad what has come of the country since 2020.
I live In salem and its getting super bad here to. Vote red we need change...
Wow, and I thought Ohio was bad, it's not nearly this bad. Probably a lot of these people lost jobs because of Covid and can't get anything new. Hopefully awareness will help, thanks for sharing Doug!
What happened to Oregon ?
Answer:
Kate Brown. And her ilk.
“If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?”
― Maya Angelou, Even the Stars Look Lonesome
Sadly this has happened to a fair amount of Cities. This was something I saw regularly when I drove a semi.
I'm so sorry Doug, it is just so sad. Portland will come again. If not, relocate to my neck of the woods. Generally, it is good here and safe.
That is an eye opener. I don’t see that where I live.
Really? Cuz if you're near the city you'll see stuff like this all over.
@@masonpallanes7258 I’m in Minnesota.
@@beckyallen3195 my bad XD
This is so sad . And to think how many vets and kids live in this sad world God help them all
That easy answer. DEMOCRATS HAPPENED.
Hey, that’s starting to look like Salem, OR. Crazy.
How sad.
apocalypse has started
I just joined! I saw a different but almost the same video about Portland! It was a longer video! My heart goes out to all these people who live like this, because they have been thrown away!
I’m speechless. I honestly have nothing but that. 🤯😡🤬😔😟😕
Looks like Afghanistan after a missile attack.
Fairly certain the warlords in Somalia ran Mogadishu better than the Democrats ran Portland....
Oh my gosh! You would NEVER see this on the news! 💔
That’s the whole west coast
Democratic run states are all headed in this ditect
Liberalism. I'm afraid the same thing will happen to all of the country. And I think you should be too.
It’s so sad to see how my hometown has changed for the worse. Can’t wait to leave
People just don't care anymore. Makes me sad
One word ………..L I B E R A L S
You know Hollywood's been making movies back in the '80s and '90s a people living like that don't you people realize that they're telling the future this is what's going to happen if our government doesn't start doing its job to where people can live in a freaking house or apartment instead of living like that luckily enough they have travel trailers or motorhomes or fifth wheels to live in because them tents are cold how are they going to live in a tent in the winter time I lived in a travel trailer in the winter time it's still cold in them damn things you got to keep the propane running 24 hours a day when it's in the winter time so they need to start thinking about that now
Inept city officials sit around while the druggies ruin the cities
For some reason the Democrat Party promotes the influx of drugs into our country along with the illegal immigrants all all the time not being able to take care of our own homeless people. I am not able to make sense of how the Democrat Party benefits unless but they seem to continue to benefit.
What's happening right now at the southern border is going to make drug influx even worse, far Worse. And drugs use causes mental condition causes you to lose everything and causes homelessness.
what in the heck. I was born and raised in Oregon. I moved away close to 10 years ago. 5 years ago, I visited family and it was already starting to turn like this.... but this....this just proves what liberalism is doing to a state I used to love.
We're all only as human as we choose to be...
Kate Brown. That's what happened
Looks like Sacramento's Roseville Road! By an underpass and next to a golf course!
I feel like it can be spiritual too
You get what you vote for. Again. And again. And again.
I was born & raised SW Portland......
This is the city of roses.
So sad
Progressives happened.
Joe Biden
Democratic policies
I try not to go out much, when I do, it makes me sick. It used to be so beautiful here. Those days are gone I'm afraid.
This is heartbreaking, but we all need to pull together and help each other. Reality is hard to swallow 💔💔💔💔😭😭
Oh look, it's California, but with less buildings in the background. Way to go *blue" wave.
THIS IS SO SAD !!
This is the results of who you vote for. Portland always wanted to be edgy...enjoy
So sad!!
Democrats
Beginning to look like San Francisco and Los Angeles. 😞😞
It's way worse than sf & la. At least you know not to walk through skid row but in Portland it's everywhere and the locals encourage it.
Eventually the whole west coast will look like this.
Wow so sad 🥺🥺🥺
Wow
It looks post apocalyptic
Democrats is what happened to Portland
I understand people are homeless and have to live in tents and cars whatever they can find but clean up after yourself there is no reason for all the trash to be laying everywhere.
Yeah, where is their garbage service?
Your complete lack of empathy, understanding, and compassion is astounding.
There is Facebook groups exactly like this video for people to find there stolen cars/trucks.
Wow
Hey Doug, new Sub from AWP. Thanks again for all you guys do!
In response to your videos, I highly recommend checking out the works by Dr. Gabor Mate. He gives amazing, crystal clear insight into what brings a person to drugs and homelessness. So sorry to see you guys are experiencing this Doug. We're on a similar trajectory here in New Orleans. I'm on a 10-year journey to put resources and programs in place to stop the bleeding and change to the trajectory of our destiny. Wishing y'all all the best. ~One Love~
So what you’re saying is Portland Oregon is one gigantic trailer park.... so what else is new?
vote dem thats what happend
Is that homeless people or a dump.
Sad!!!
Democrats. Democrats is what happened
What I don’t understand why is this happening
I can not believe all the abandoned cars and trailer unreal
They aren’t abandoned. People live in them.
What has caused all this Doug ? 💞
Complacency from city officials, influxes of people from California looking for cheaper housing, said housing increasing the rent. Not to mention all of the constant riots that destroy small businesses and only allow corporate juggernauts to survive and thrive. And thats only on the top of my head.
@@masonpallanes7258 I didn’t realise there had been rioting in Portland, it’s horrendous, I don’t understand why they have protests about things then damage the areas they live in, all it’s doing is hurting innocent hard working people resulting in this destruction that people are having to live in, Thank you for the reply 💕
@@clairemckinstray5175 as far as I can tell they haven't stopped since the last administration.
Antifa and BLM started it. Then weak leaders. Democrats. Call it what it is.
@@debbiew.7716 I’m not sure what antifa is, but I’ve saw some protests on BLM and it’s been the same on those protests it ends up in riots, why do they think rioting is going to move the situation into better circumstances for themselves, from what I can see it’s only making the whole situation worse, Thank you for your Reply Debbie, I think the whole world has been going bonkers since last year
Hi I am new here
wow :(
Crazy days. And with increased drug trafficking from Mexico and South and Central America the mentally ill, homeless and just plain lazy will increase. We have family members in this category and it takes a lot of energy and resources to keep them off the streets & out of jail. In our state you aren't allowed to live in unsanitary conditions or on the street in a tent or vehicle.
OMG 🤬
wtf
FUND COMMUNITY ACTION GROUPS
They get attacked by antifa. We had a couple of cleanup crews that were attacked simply for cleaning up homeless encampments.
@@masonpallanes7258 Yes, but remember Biden said Antifa is just an idea.
@@debbiew.7716 So did Ted wheeler, even after they torched his condo.
It's called Democrats
This is liberal leadership... Ugh.