Last night (11/5/19) I went & filmed outside the "Rescue America" Dinesh D'Souza/Brian Straka event at the Melody Event Center in Portland, OR (dineshdsouza.com/news/join-dsou…). Thread:
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(2) I missed my chance to say hi to Andy Ngo.
I mean this 100% sincerely, Andy: you're looking good, dude. I hope it's obvious I'm no fan of your work & wish you'd taken a different trajectory in life, but wrt physical self-improvement, well done 👍👍
I mean this 100% sincerely, Andy: you're looking good, dude. I hope it's obvious I'm no fan of your work & wish you'd taken a different trajectory in life, but wrt physical self-improvement, well done 👍👍
(3) Haley Adams, Drakken Saer, & Alyssa Vinsonhaler tried to...befriend me?
Haley: "We have a cult in Portland and we want to help you...Join our cult. I cast a spell on you. MAGA!"
Sorry, not interested.
Haley: "We have a cult in Portland and we want to help you...Join our cult. I cast a spell on you. MAGA!"
Sorry, not interested.
(4) Here's "trans activist" Alyssa Vinsonhaler being interviewed by a guy I didn't realize was from The Blaze on trans issues. Who is he?
He asks for her opinion on "Nick J. Fuentes people."
"This is immorality, degeneracy...this is not conservative values. What do you think?"
He asks for her opinion on "Nick J. Fuentes people."
"This is immorality, degeneracy...this is not conservative values. What do you think?"
(5) Con't from 4. Blaze guy: "I actually am a trans activist too." Says he legally his ID changed to nonbinary in CA.
"I am nonbinary & I am a trans activist...I tell people I'm a gay black woman only to make a point is that your identity...I can be whatever I want in 2019."
"I am nonbinary & I am a trans activist...I tell people I'm a gay black woman only to make a point is that your identity...I can be whatever I want in 2019."
(6) Con't from 4. Blaze guy: "You saying & promoting people to accept you—do you feel like you are promoting your lifestyle or your choices...are you promoting being transgender or promoting tolerance?"
Called me "transphobic & gay" when I asked if he was an attack helicopter 🤷♂️
Called me "transphobic & gay" when I asked if he was an attack helicopter 🤷♂️
(7) For the record, if Blaze guy was actually trans, I'd of course respect that, not misgender him, ask if he was an attack helicopter, etc., but I have little respect for people who think being trans is a joke. Alyssa apparently didn't feel the same way, was fine w/ his antics.
(8) Blaze guy: "Are there people, technically, even tho that there's debates intellectually where fascism lies on the spectrum, on the right & groups that are fascist? Of course! Are there straight-up communists & communism responsible for 100 million deaths...?"
I flubbed my Q.
I flubbed my Q.
(9) Here's Drakken Saer ("the QAnon person") explaining her chest tattoo. "I do have Baphomet on my chest, though. I'd be happy to explain it to you...you may know that Baphomet is a Thelemic deity of balance."
(10) Drunk live-streaming Portland Andy:
(11) More Portland Andy:
(12) More Portland Andy:
(13) CK Ferrache was there, complimented on her antifa glamor shots from Ngo's speaking event the other day 😉 "Oh, I know who you are..."
She didn't know who I was, though. Context:
She didn't know who I was, though. Context:
(14) More Portland Andy:
(15) More Portland Andy:
(16) More Portland Andy:
(17) Last part of this Portland Andy encounter:
(18) Here's Blaze guy again (name? sry if not w/ Blaze): "Who has the evidence that [Andy Ngo is] getting kill lists, legitimate kill lists? What is this? I want to know...the actual evidence that he's getting kill lists?"
Refuses to look it up on phone.
Refuses to look it up on phone.
(19) He also claims in the video above that he's "not even with anybody," "just asking questions." Curious if that's true. Where'd the footage end up?
I forget if it was him or someone else who was demanding to know who I worked for, where I was publishing to. No one. Twitter 🤷♂️
I forget if it was him or someone else who was demanding to know who I worked for, where I was publishing to. No one. Twitter 🤷♂️
(20) Outside the venue, Patriot Prayer members wear masks, dance in the streets.
Haley Adams: "This is my street! Whose streets? Haley's streets! Antifa for Trump!"
Guy in the Punisher shirt at the end was photographing when Ngo spoke on 11/2:
Haley Adams: "This is my street! Whose streets? Haley's streets! Antifa for Trump!"
Guy in the Punisher shirt at the end was photographing when Ngo spoke on 11/2:
(21) Sorry, not sure if they classify themselves as Patriot Prayer members, "Antifa4Trump," "Portland's Liberation," or what now.
Saer, wrapping her QAnon flag around her head like a headscarf: "Stop attacking my culture! It's my culture! Stop!"
Haley Adams echoes the request.
Saer, wrapping her QAnon flag around her head like a headscarf: "Stop attacking my culture! It's my culture! Stop!"
Haley Adams echoes the request.
(22) Some discussion with Mackenzie Lewis (pls correct me if I ever mis-ID someone), seen here wearing a bandanna with which he can cover his face.
Listen to the audio for a brief discussion of Ngo in the background from folks who are hardly fans. Not going to ID the speakers.
Listen to the audio for a brief discussion of Ngo in the background from folks who are hardly fans. Not going to ID the speakers.
(23) Still don't know who this guy () is, but here he talks a bit about himself.
(24) Guy from (23) is Brandon Brown. Blaze guy is Elijah Schaffer. See:
(25) Brandon Brown:
(26) Obligatory "Stacy's Mom" moment
Check out all the guys guarding/filming in front of the Melody Center.
Check out all the guys guarding/filming in front of the Melody Center.
(27) Civil individual Elijah Schaffer (see ) asks me, "What show is this for? Yo, yo, yo, what show is this for?"
I'm flattered anyone thinks I'm any sort of professional.
"If you want to be a civil individual & I'm asking you just a decent question..."
I'm flattered anyone thinks I'm any sort of professional.
"If you want to be a civil individual & I'm asking you just a decent question..."
(28) Elijah Schaffer, to/about me: "I already knew about his story before he talked to me...about the whole Reddit thing. I heard about that & I knew you didn't do anything, so I was glad that was you. I didn't know who you were, so that was good."
OK 🤷♂️
OK 🤷♂️
(29) Yet more Portland Andy: "Why is there some boy walking behind me? Am I in fucking Thailand? No! Boy! Get away from me! Don't walk behind me! I'm not in Thailand, bro!"
"You make me nervous. I've been in Thailand. It makes me weird when little boys walk behind me."
"You make me nervous. I've been in Thailand. It makes me weird when little boys walk behind me."
(30) Portland Andy kept calling a woman a "dumb bitch."
"I don't know if she's a woman or that's a boy. How would I know? The last girl I said was a girl they said it was a boy. So how the hell would I know?"
Why does it matter so much? So he can get the gendered insults right?
"I don't know if she's a woman or that's a boy. How would I know? The last girl I said was a girl they said it was a boy. So how the hell would I know?"
Why does it matter so much? So he can get the gendered insults right?
(31) Can't find/don't have it on video, but Portland Andy kept talking about my eyebrows. Apparently they look plucked, which is news to me, & this means I am a woman, which is also news to me. This was my first encounter with him in person. Not sure if he's always like this.
(32) Here, trans activist @ElijahSchaffer, a black non-binary lesbian who uses he/him pronouns, corrects himself: "All right, they, they, they...if they/them are gonna do it...I'll always listen to all pronouns...I made the mistake too one time & it sucks, but it just happens."
(33) I want to make it perfectly clear I'm mocking Elijah Schaffer there, not trans people. He's obviously being facetious. See
(34) Brandon Straka came to the window, opened it up for a minute. The building was flanked by 3%er types & there were cop cars parked on either end of the street. Great footage 🙄
(35) Saer (? pretty sure): "All right. Multicultural Nazis assemble!"
(36) A view of the security on one side of the street on which the event was taking place (Melody Center in SE Portland, OR):
See also:
(37) Sorry these are just low-quality video stills, but I wanted to post them to emphasize that the "anti-antifascist" crowd decries masks, encourages demasking of protesters, pushes for bans on covering faces at protests, etc. while...showing up in masks. Some of them, at least.
(38) This was a nice moment I wish I'd gotten an actual picture of. Someone brought bubbles.
