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"I don't understand. But I don't care, so it works out."
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Originally Posted by berdee
I hope she's okay.
Aw thanks for the concern!
I posted this because I was just laughing. Here come the moms. I thought for sure, and was wrong, that the presence of a bunch of women wearing mom jeans would knock the "cool" out of this and those rioting would go home.
I was wrong. But it was funny, for a time. The very thought. "Mother's here!"
I posted this because I was just laughing. Here come the moms. I thought for sure, and was wrong, that the presence of a bunch of women wearing mom jeans would knock the "cool" out of this and those rioting would go home.
I was wrong. But it was funny, for a time. The very thought. "Mother's here!"
The OP lives!!
I appreciate your integrity in admitting that you misread this situation.
I posted this because I was just laughing. Here come the moms. I thought for sure, and was wrong, that the presence of a bunch of women wearing mom jeans would knock the "cool" out of this and those rioting would go home.
I was wrong. But it was funny, for a time. The very thought. "Mother's here!"
The pictures in Post No. 6, are those not in Portland? Just those shots alone appear to be more than $5,000 in damage, and that's not even including the burned-out car.
I don't know. I don't live there, but my sons do, and they've said nothing about vehicles burning.
That doesn't mean a car wasn't torched, of course, but given the nature of the net and the nature of the conflict, any picture we see could be questioned these days.
I'll take the veracity of my kids' accounts over an internet photo any day of the week.
As I mentioned earlier, they're both in young middle age, with different jobs that take them into the downtown area regularly. One works days, the other works nights, so they get to see what's happening at all hours of the day or night.
Neither of them have ever joined a demonstration in Portland. Not for the lack of demonstrations; Portland has been a very activist city for a long time now. The demonstrations are nothing new for the cops, and nothing new for the kids on the street. They have always run their course before, but the arrival of the Feds really got the city riled up now.
No one who lives there wants the stormtroopers to stay. They are only making things much worse with their presence.
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