Took this picture today.

I always assumed Portland and all of PNW was super gay, super liberal, and super vaccinated. I mean come on: in 2020 they were in the headlines for Antifa firebombing the federal buildings, and their partner city up north set up Chaz zones in a "summer of love." The PNW is compromised of gay crunchy commie hippies. or so I thought.

Walking around downtown Portland, yes, it's pretty gay. Everything's openly LGBTQ flags and gay dudes strutting around in short shorts. That's fine. I really don't care. What I am surprised by is after talking to a very liberal, very Trump hating friend, she shared how much PNW is openly not super progressive, including fighting the vaccines.

She works in the medical field, and while yes, majority of them succumbed to the medical field demands and got vaxxed, many of them wore pins to work that said things like, "forced against my will" or "they made me do it." They all hated it, and even had Facebook groups complaining of the fact. Apparently crunchy people are generally wary of what they put in their bodies, including untested vaccines.

Then, driving around all mountain towns in Washington state, I saw so many Trump signs and flags in the rural areas, and MAGA hats on older women walking in groups around the mercantile stores and coffee shops. Openly lesbian mercantile stores have women customers wearing MAGA hats. A site to behold.

And lastly, just so many Trump signs around the Portland greater area, including the town north of the river, Vancouver. It was wonderful.

I'm not saying Trump will flip either state, but I am saying I'm pleasantly surprised to see, in notoriously very militantly anti-Trump states, there is now open support and pride for the MAGA movement.

Who knew?

Took this picture today.

I always assumed Portland and all of PNW was super gay, super liberal, and super vaccinated. They were in the headlines for Antica firebombing the federal buildings in 2020, and their partner up north set up Chaz zones in a "summer of love "

And yes, waking downtown Portland, it's pretty gay. Everything's openly LGBTQ flags and gay dudes strutting around in short shorts. That's fine. What I am surprised by is after talking to a very liberal, very Trump hating friend, she shared how much PNW fought the vaccines.

She works in the medical field, and while yes, majority of them succumbed to the medical field demands and got vaxxed, many of them wore pins to work that said things like, "forced against my will" or "they made me do it."

Then, driving around all mountain towns in Washington state, I saw so many Trump signs in the rural areas, and MAGA hats on older women walking in groups around the mercantile stores and coffee shops.

And lastly, just so many Trump signs around the Portland greater area, including the town north of the river, Vancouver. I'm not saying Trump will flip either state, but I am saying I'm pleasantly surprised to see, in notoriously very militantly anti-Trump states, there is now open support and pride for the MAGA movement.

Who knew?