Trump's administration treats Portland like a whipping boy because despite being a rather milquetoast average-liberal town, we have an unearned reputation as an edgy leftist enclave merely from serving as refugee city for the region's LGBTQ+ crowd. I don't know if the administration is aware that outside the Willamette Valley, things get red and MAGA fast. That entire eastern region currently on fire all went to Trump in the 2024 election. They're just letting some of their most dedicated constituency go up in flames, quite literally.

If the federal government isn't going to help then maybe the state should keep the federal taxes

You just let me know Oregon when you have had enough and I am pretty sure many will flock to you.

Of course not... that money is going to the pentagon to prop up yet another losing war. Get with the program.

“Sovreignty has responsibilities, right fellas?” - Unimpressed Canada

“FEMA fucked Katrina, yeah that’s for certain

Nothing to be concerned with

The era of diversion”