An Epidemic of Sleazy Fake News Is Denying Riots,

Portland, Oregon, isn’t only Antifa Central, but it appears to be the first focus for left-wing agitators of every stripe. For weeks now, Antifa and their fellow useful idiots have been laying nightly siege to the Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility there, and it is trying just like the Trump administration has had more than enough. On Tuesday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem visited Portland, and she seems to have told more than a few people, “Enough is enough.”

But that does not stop the standard suspects from emulating that well-known web meme whereby a character is sitting in a chair, a wide-eyed expression on his face, intoning “This is fine, everything is fine” as the room is in flames all around.

Case in level: Oregon’s Democratic (of course) Senator Jeff Merkley, who appeared in a Fox News clip and produced a big outpouring of the stuff I used to shovel out of my uncle’s livestock public sale barn when I used to be a child.

🚨UNHINGED: Dem Senator Jeff Merkley is now claiming the current riots in Portland have been “staged” to justify federal involvement.

“Totally fake!” pic.twitter.com/imsgaXFxFW

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 8, 2025

The Senator said:

And what occurred in Portland a few nights in the past, and it is recorded by Oregon Public Broadcasting, was that they staged a pretend riot. They marched peaceable protestors three blocks, and then had a line across the street. They had skilled videographers behind them. And then they threw down pepper balls, and flash bangs, which sound like gunfire going off, and tear gasoline. And of course, when you put tear gasoline, all people strikes, and it seems like you might have some variety of a riot going on. Totally pretend. This is the first time I do know of, at least in my lifetime, that the federal authorities has faked a riot, in order to attempt to justify, if you’ll, the Insurrection Act being invoked.

Senator. Stop mendacity. A White House press release has already put the lie to your assertion.

Of course, Portland’s own residents — betrayed by their leaders — are sounding the alarm loud and clear, demanding motion while the Fake News turns a blind eye:

• “It’s like a war zone. There are times I’ve had to have a gas mask on inside my own home,” says a resident close to the ICE facility under siege in south Portland. “[Deploying the National Guard] is one thing I support, as far as Trump is concerned, because the city is failing us and I don’t want to feel like I’m collateral damage — and my rights matter, too.”
• “115 days of hell. I only come out during the day. You see all the black-covered Antifa people aren’t here. They come with the night,” says another Portland resident. “In the daytime, it’s all these little old senior people that think they’re changing the world before they pass from this earth.”
• “Yesterday morning, I was broken into again for the tenth time,” says a business proprietor in downtown Portland. “We need help here and something needs to be done, so if [the National Guard] is what we need to do to get our leaders paying attention to what’s happening in Portland, then I think it’s a good thing. We’ve been struggling for a long time — since 2020.”

See for your self. Like this one:

PORTLAND: “I only come out during the day. You see all the black-covered Antifa people aren’t here. They come with the night. In the daytime it’s all these little old senior people that think they’re changing the world before they pass from this earth.”https://t.co/Q0vkcWNpJz

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 8, 2025

And this:

“Yesterday morning, I was broken into again for the TENTH TIME,” says a business proprietor in downtown Portland.

“We need help… If [the National Guard] is what we need to do to get our leaders paying attention to what’s happening in Portland, then I think it’s a good thing.” pic.twitter.com/szUCqqONyv

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 8, 2025

There’s more:

PORTLAND BUSINESS OWNER: “We struggle every day, every week, with the crime and the drugs and just the unsafeness that comes with being here… It’s like our leaders have abandoned public safety.” pic.twitter.com/6VmpjpGv0Y

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 8, 2025

These are the people affected by the legacy media and Democrats’ (but I repeat myself) mendacity about the scenario in Portland. 

Read More: Noem Demolishes Dem Narrative in Visit to Portland ICE Facility – They Won’t Like What She’s Planning

Watch: Oregon Democrat Rep. Sings Along With Portland Seniors in Exploitation of Classic Protest Song

Senator Merkley is mendacity about the faked riot. There are real riots, nightly, taking place in Portland. Regular residents and business homeowners are being hit arduous by these lawless mobs. This is an riot, nothing but, and it is about time it was dealt with – not only in Portland, but wherever a mob assembles in defiance of civil authorities.

It’s time for Senator Merkley in explicit, and Democrats in common, to stop mendacity and admit what the remaining of the nation is already conscious of: Portland is out of control.

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