Subject: Re: Bill Ackman, why he supports trump
You can tell who lives where on this board.
If these guys really and truly lived in their blue downtown cities, they’d know the score. But since most of them live miles away, they talk their programmed talking points as gospel.

https://www.oregonlive.com/bus...

More than 70% of respondents indicated they had been downtown within the last month. Those downtown the least often had the worst impression of the central city, with 89% of poll respondents who hadn’t been downtown at all during that time saying they had a negative impression of it.
But while public perceptions haven’t improved measurably, and downtown foot traffic is off nearly 40% from 2019, there are indications conditions have improved.
Restaurants and shops bustle in downtown’s West End and other parts of the central city. Races and festivals again bring people to Pioneer Courthouse Square and the waterfront.
Portland police data shows reports of assaults, thefts and other crime peaked in the spring of 2023 and then began a remarkable decline. The most recent data indicates downtown incidents have dropped enormously from last summer and are now even below levels recorded in 2019 — albeit with far fewer people downtown now.

Most places - like Portland and Seattle - hit rock bottom in 2023 and are slowly improving thanks to voting out the most insane progressives that we’re running the show.