WHAT IF YOU PLANNED A DEMONSTRATION

and nobody showed up. Or only two or three hundred instead of the boasted of thousands. That's what happened to the so called "Proud Boys" planned demonstration Saturday in Portland, Oregon.

The governor declared a state of emergency. In the end nothing really happened. The wing nuts gathered at Delta Park. I wonder if the group had a permit to use the the park under the corona virus guidelines. The group was projecting a turn out of 10,000. Still weren't wearing masks but the turnout was more in the damp squib neighborhoord. Two or three people got shoved. Nobody was arrested.

As the small group began dispursing they were met by this. Don't know if he was actually a fire fighter.  But he was out there.

One spokesman was quoted saying that they would be monitoring the ballot drop boxes to "protect" them. Or do you mean try to intimidate folks dropping off ballots. Oregon ballots go out on the thirteenth of next month. Arrived by the fifteenth at least. In theory folks could be dropping off ballots from the day after until election day. Better bring some comfortable chairs and a sack lunch. One of the drop boxes in Springfield was in the parking area below the City Hall/library. Don't know what the city would make of folks camping out in the parking lot.

Actually their little whatever it was lasted about an hour and a half. I don't want to downplay the potential for violence from these haters. I'll be curious to see how they spin this in the next few days because almost no one was there to offer them convenient targets.

Well there it is. Glad it turned out the way it did.