Portland begs people to visit in most nauseating poem ever
Staff Report
This jumble of words took up an entire page in the Sunday New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle and other major newspapers.
It’s a farce in three acts. First, someone wrote it. Second, someone thought it was good. Third, someone paid for numerous full page ads that run $50,000 to $200,000 or more a pop.
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Travel Portland admitted that it footed the bill, remarkable considering that the City of Roses, by any other name, smells just as rotten.
The tourism marketing firm even posted a video to go along with it, featuring the usual cast of unusual characters.
The stench from a year of riots, fires, murders, and Antifa tent cities is hard to erase with 23 lines of quirky bravado.
“Some of what you’ve heard about Portland is true. Some is not. What matters most is that we’re true to ourselves.”
Lol. It gets, um, worse.
“We have some of the loudest voices on the West Coast. And yes, passion pushes the volume all the way up. We’ve always been like this. We wouldn’t have it any other way.”
That the city tries to play the Precious Portland card at this point shows its people aren’t playing with a full deck.
Californians targeted by the ad were not impressed.
“What’s the pitch here? Come to Portland, we have faith in our future as our buildings burn?” Cerano Smith said.
“Dear Portland, I’ll take a pass,” Bill J. said.
Hat tip to reader Harold A., a friend of Nancy Pelosi, for sharing.
Sad, really. I visited Portland’s downtown for a conference several years ago. Several good breweries within a good walk’s distance. Not to mention Powell’s book store. Always planned to go back.
But when they embraced homocidal thugs, pyromaniacs and looters I struck the city off my list. For good.
Whoever said this commercial was nauseating knew exactly what they were talking about.
I must have missed the MAGA hat person.
WHY would Travel Portland pay for advertisements inviting MORE penniless druggie freaks to come pitch a tent. Do they really believe that tourists with morals and money want to vacation with violent crazies? Think about exactly what element you are inviting into your city. But then, you have to consider what kind of people run Portland. Then it all makes sense.
Dr Strangelove Major Kong Rides The Bomb 1080p – YouTube
To PC, why not put the original picture of the running ANTIFA guy who set himself on fire by Molotov Cocktail malfunction back up on this page?
It was so much more satisfying an image than views of generalized mayhem. We see those images of mayhem daily. It all looks the same.
Seeing a miscreant getting what he really deserves just makes me feel good all over and brightens my day, in general.
Done.
Well played! Thanks for the memory! LOL
Gomorrah by any other name, is still a hellish stink pit.
Someone somewhere is making a parody of this right now and it is going to be beautiful.
Done.
https://presscalifornia.com/2021/06/25/funny-portlands-nauseatingly-bad-travel-poem-now-with-real-video/
Who would EVER visit this insane dangerous city? Surprised they even let people know there are whites in that dumpster fire.
Portland… Come for the riots, stay for the fentanyl
Ow… Good one.
Too bad they didn’t include “Frying-pan Guy” and his Hit Parade!
HAHA man that was hysterical.
DOING !!! 🙂
The big take-away is that they haven’t yet found a way to screw up that lovely mountain far off in the distance, so there’s that.
Shhhhhhhhsssss. Don’t tempt em.
I think it’s gonna take something belt fed to clean up Portland.
Or something dropped from a B-52.
Dr Strangelove Major Kong Rides The Bomb 1080p – YouTube
No thanks, I’m not going. I don’t support communism with my money. Not a dime. Suffer and dry up like a frozen wart.
“What matters most is that we’re true to ourselves.” That doesn’t speak well of “yourselves”… “We’re a place of dualities that are never polarities.” Was that line chanted while burning down local businesses? “You can speak here. You can be yourself here.” Unless you’re a conservative. In that case, shut up while we beat you up. “We have some of the loudest voices on the West Coast.” The fact that you think that’s a virtue screams more than you might want people to know. “We wouldn’t have it any other way.” Which is why people are staying away. GET A… Read more »
Visitors Bureau top 10 things to do in Portland! 10) Looting and rioting (fun for couples!). Incredible shopping discounts! 9) Sleeping in a tent out under the stars in a homeless encampment. 8) Shooting up fentanyl!7) Getting hooked on fentanyl! The gift that keeps on giving! You’ll be so happy you’ll never want to (or be able to) leave Portland. Yet another happy resident:) 6) Burning down police stations. Really enjoyable and popular local custom. 5) Getting stabbed or shot! Great way to meet locals in a hospital or morgue setting. 4) Getting spit on and called a racist! Tons… Read more »
Puck Fortland!
“I JUST LOVE THE SMELL OF BURNING PANTIFANS AND BLOOMERS IN THE MORNING!”
Who wouldn’t want to be on vacation and have your car surrounded by an Antifa or BLM mob?
Wonder if the purple hair is natural
Definitely want to take a vacation in a city with daily riots.
“You can speak up here. You can be yourself here.”
Hahahaha! Only if you’re a far left lunatic! The voice of a purple-haired, gender-fluid , non-binary whose pronouns may be familiar only to Mork from Ork is welcomed, a straight, white, blue-collar, Christian guy and NRA life member; not so much.
Not Prose, Coffee table notes..
I’m a published writer, with several poems out in the world.
This isn’t poetry.
It isn’t even writing.
If someone were to bring this to a writers group, the consensus would be “you have a future in candle making”.
Please write the sequel!
I disagree with the candle making! That would indicate a certain level of intelligence, planning and ability to create something of value. The “author” of the poem has none of those abilities!
Dear Portland. Your message says; ‘you can be yourself here’. I’m an older, white, male, Army vet, and self-made millionaire. I drive a red Dodge Ram 4×4 with a sticker of the American flag in my rear window. I’m wondering – what is my life expectancy in downtown Portland? Thank you very much.
Thats why OR has CCW’s and open carry..
Please let me know ahead of time if you decide to go. I’d like to get a life insurance policy on you first! I’ll even throw in a free “Trump 2024” flag for your truck.
U-HAUL will actually pay you to drive a rental truck “TO” Portland. They are like “gold” there… normal humans are all fleeing. You didn’t see a single “normal” in that film. Only freaks would see that ad and say: LET’S GO. Nobody wants to visit the west coast. In Boston, we give our bums non-refundable one way bus tickets to LA, SF, or Portland (their choice)… and a new blue tarp to live in… You camp in the city, you get arrested and all your stuff goes right to the dump.
OK! That’s it! We gonna send all our nut jobs on busses to Boston. Please beat the living sh!t out of them!!.
Trying to justify the crime and rioting by way of poem. How nauseating is that bs? oh my freakin’ god.
I’ve always hated ptown, now there aren’t words to accurately describe the disgust. Those in leadership positions that enabled and encouraged this s— should be done away with permanently.
We’re awaiting the response video showing the true Portland.
one of many — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afu5kn6yhwI
The text at the end of the video should be “This was Portland” instead of “
This is Portland“. No way I’m ever going to visit that hellhole…I know..there is like nothing to visit lol.
Come to Portland and Burn. Loot and Murder! Ted Wheeler approved!~
Nothing like the smell of urine, the visual appeal of drug addicts with needles hanging out of their arms and those 300 pound pink haired beauties screaming patriarchy!
I used to live there..25 years to be exact..Back in 94 it was a super fun city to have dinner and walk brew pub to brew pub..Awesome fish places like Jakes then go dancing all night…Never worried about being harassed or looted…You could walk to water park frontage and just watch people having fun..The shopping was out of this world cause so many varieties of places to shop that where Mom an Pop shops..I remember one year they ran out a mink store I was like why? O well this will fade away..It Didn’t it just got worse every year..The… Read more »
Huber’s, Powell’s Books, Multnomah Falls an hour away.
Such a shame.
I’m calling that festering cesspool of leftism Abortland.
It should be removed from the nation’s body and flushed down the Columbia to the Pacific.
never, ever, going to Portland. I don’t need getting my a.. beat by a bunch of ANTIFA THUGS.
sorry, I will never, never, ever visit again. Antifa and Burn, Loot, Murder have destroyed large parts of the city and the homeless have utterly taken over. I used to go for concerts and Saturday Market; after seeing the city decline into a sewer and then personally witnessing an antifa riot my mind was made up. The woke marxist radicals and racists can HAVE it. Liberal utopia. Enjoy. Just don’t move to my state; we have the second amendment where I live.
So after a year of riots, crime, arson, looting and homeless camps, you want white angry republicans to go to your town and bail you out once again. wallow in it.
The video in this article would have been more appropriate if the camera just focused on a pile of human feces, with the voice saying, “yep, this is Portland.”
They really needed to show the b-roll footage from last year. More appropriate than this homage to the Portlandia show.
We normally make a trip up to Camano Island, WA about early July to visit friends and family. Right now, it’s a hard NO. I suppose we could avoid Portland by going along the coast, but, I’m not even sure we’re up for that. I don’t feel like dealing with Seattle, either.
Dear Portland,
Piss off!
I’m pretty sure the white conservative side of Portland’s coin they don’t give a flying f*** about
Let me see. Visit Portland or Colonoscopy? *calls doctor*
LOL
Beautiful comment.
I know people who visit Portland regularly. I think it’s mostly because here if they riot, attack police, burn s… and loot, they will be arrested.
This ad is for those that don’t know Portland. Thankfully I moved out of there over 20 years ago. Wonder how many idiots they’ll reel in.
All the lipstick, gaslighting and Kool-aid in the world will not erase what we witnessed with our own eyes. We saw a city burn, while terrorists wrought havoc, as a leftist city government did nothing.
LOL yeah the visit Portland marketing organization has a long uphill climb to get any tourism back to that town.
Let’s not pretend. Democrats ruined Portland. It’s now a cesspool. Tourists are not safe in Portland. “White” people are not safe in Portland.
For Portland’s tourism marketing department:
Not do you have to find that pony in the pile of poop, you have to make the poor beast carry you up that pile that’s as tall as Mount St. Helens. And, you don’t want to be there when it erupts again. Just saying.
Here’s a poem for your consideration.
Roses are red
Violets are blue.
Our stores are on fire
And the sidewalks are full of poo.
There must be something in the air in Portland. Whenever I have to go their, only for business never pleasure, I can feel my IQ drop by at least 30 points. The best part about visiting Portland is leaving.
Lot of Satanism in the PNW. Something’s attracting them there. Like flies.
Polygamy and “throuples” are all the rage with the millenials too. A former coworker’s kids are involved in such things. “Everyone does it”.
Grew up in WA state in Rochester…very tiny town off of 3 logging roads. Lots of private space, lots of country…ability to hide dark things. You are correct….
Hilarious! This only serves to show how tone-deaf they are in Portland.
Where are all those peaceful rioters?