Ben Barnett

Regular guy trying to have some conversations. Wearer of many hats.

[🪶Native Patriot 🇺🇸 @LaNativePatriot]

I legitimately believed Trump was going to focus on the domestic problems we have.

I live in a State where the Democrats rule. It’s not a “blue” state. It has cities where lefties consolidate & retain power by universal mail in ballots.

No republican has won anything of significance since they started universal mail in ballots in 2011

The small victories we do win…

We vote for $30 tabs, they say no

We vote for using natural gas, they say no

We vote for election security, they write laws to shield chain of custody, ballots, copies of ballots for 25 years

We aren’t even allowed to know how our elections are secure.

[Ben Barnett @BBarnett4785]

@jimmydean197 Please give updates on this one

[Ben Barnett @BBarnett4785]

@pdxneedschange @jimmydean197 Wish I had some sleuthing know how....

[Ben Barnett @BBarnett4785]

@pdxneedschange @jimmydean197 This keeps getting more interesting....

[Ben Barnett @BBarnett4785]

@witepasFilipino Been sitting for 2 weeks..... Happy for you tho

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I’ve watched this probably 100 times at this point.

This one quote by this one juror is radicalizing me in ways I didn’t know were even possible:

“He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously k*lled her children…”

I don’t know where we go from here…

[mandala @mandala_mandy]

CNN: “This is an undocumented immigrant...”

Stephen Miller: “They were here ILLEGALLY?”

CNN: “I want this to be a good-faith discussion...”

Miller: “When you use language designed to obscure the truth, that’s NOT good faith. An ILLEGAL ALIEN is an ILLEGAL ALIEN. They’re not ‘undocumented immigrants’.”

CNN: “Stephen, we’re trying to humanize the debate...”

Miller: “Humanize? Then let’s humanize the Penal Code too. The bank robber becomes a ‘specialist in unscheduled withdrawals’. The con artist turns into an ‘entrepreneur of alternative financial narratives’. The guy who breaks into your house uninvited is just a ‘visitor with pending documentation’. How about that?”

CNN: “That’s a crude analogy.”

Miller: “Crude is pretending federal law vanishes because CNN’s copy desk cooked up a cuddlier euphemism. ‘Undocumented’ sounds like someone who forgot their wallet in an Uber. No. It’s someone who crossed the border without authorization, stayed, and now the press treats the legal statute like it’s a matter of writing style.”

CNN: “But many contribute to the economy...”

Miller: “Ah, the classic argument: crime stops being crime if the person washes dishes or builds roofs. By the same token, the cigarette smuggler ‘contributes’ too, creates jobs in transport. Want us to call him an ‘informal logistics entrepreneur’? Would CNN go for that?”

CNN: “You’re polarizing.”

Miller: “No. I’m rejecting the marketing dictionary. You change the word, then accuse anyone who uses the legal term of being ‘inhumane’. It’s the oldest trick in the book: first soften the vocabulary, then declare moral victory. The United States is tired of this theater. Call it what it is. Or admit the goal was never clarity—it was narrative control.”

[Ben Barnett @BBarnett4785]

@pdxneedschange @jimmydean197 Yeah the bingo hall was what was never open, posted hours were like a few hours 2 days a week... Drive past it multiple times a day/week when I was doing Uber and Lyft. Bingo hall that raises money for helping kids in the community that's never open, totally normal

[Ben Barnett @BBarnett4785]

@WallStreetApes Sirius xm has trouble near 5g towers

[Ben Barnett @BBarnett4785]

@skjultster @OwenBenjamin This

[Portland Moderate. @pdxmoderate]

Wanted: Chief of Staff for an Irrelevant and/or Redundant Government Agency

Seeking a highly qualified professional with a proven record of accomplishing little while consuming extraordinary amounts of public money.
Ideal candidates will demonstrate:

• A distinguished history of bureaucratic nonperformance and institutional irrelevance.

• A proven ability to burn through hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars without producing a corresponding public benefit.

• Extensive relationships with taxpayer-funded nonprofits, consultants, contractors, and other well-positioned grifters.

• Experience being fired, forced out, or otherwise removed from comparable positions—a strong indicator of leadership potential.

• Exceptional talent for generating press releases, studies, task forces, and “strategic initiatives” in lieu of measurable results.

• A demonstrated commitment to expanding the agency’s budget, headcount, and institutional footprint regardless of whether anyone can explain what it actually does.

Compensation: Generous. Paid entirely with other people’s money and accompanied by abundant opportunities for self-enrichment, patronage, and résumé enhancement.

Benefits: Job security until the next scandal, followed by a guaranteed golden parachute and excellent prospects for recycling into another government-adjacent position.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We welcome candidates of all backgrounds, provided they have an unwavering commitment to accomplishing absolutely nothing.

Portland and Oregon has the most expensive government that provides the worst services.

Fucking EXHAUSTING!!

https://t.co/3DQzqRcY8W

[PDX Real @PDXReal1]

This is a highly misleading claim.

For example, in 2025 in Portland, permits were filed for only 2100 new residents, which is historically very, very low. Apartment completions were the around the same amount: 2100 - also very low historically.

Even more striking is that over 900 of the new units were publicly funded affordable units. And around 1/4th of these units were market-rate residences converted to affordable housing. So a large portion didn’t even involve building anything new.

Most of these affordable housing properties are not built by local companies (usually by companies in states such as NY and CA), meaning that almost all of our public money for these projects ends up out of state, which means these property developments don’t help the local economy at all.

So far in 2026, there has been just one new development that hasn’t been publicly financed affordable housing. Read that again: one privately built residential development through the first half of this year has been built citywide!

The national average in urban areas for percentage of publicly funded developments is around 14%. Portland was 44% in 2025. It sounds like it will be considerably higher than 50% in ‘26.

Also, as we’ve covered before, many of these publicly funded properties quickly fall into disrepair due to lack of maintenance and poor management. Many of these properties ask for yearly bailouts from the city in excess of $1 million per year. That’s your tax money being thrown into these money pits.

Obviously, an 11% increase will still leave the city and the state at crippling historically low numbers.

Let’s compare this to Austin, TX, which just recently passed Portland in population. Austin had a relatively high number of publicly financed affordable housing at nearly 22%. Austin built a total of 30k new units in 2025. 15 TIMES the amount Portland built. In other words, Austin built nearly 4x’s the housing as the entire state of Oregon in 2025, including 6500 affordable housing units.

@TinaKotek bragging about an 11% increase in building is not telling you the full story. With all the ridiculous dogma coming from Oregon Democrats about building affordable housing and their Housing First programs, they are failing spectacularly at it.

[Ben Barnett @BBarnett4785]

@LaNativePatriot Black Trains lives matter

[Royce White 🇺🇸 @Highway_30]

Don't tell me how to be a Black woman! Taking hormones are optional. The idea that a Trans woman has to subject herself to BIG PHARMA, is just another way for cis normative people to turn us into a commodity. I’m an ALL NATURAL Black trans lesbian with a penile aesthetic.

Royce White for U.S. Senate MN 2026
WNBA #LetHerPlay

[Ben Barnett @BBarnett4785]

@witepasFilipino Probably a nice down slope breeze too

[Mr Producer @RichSementa]

Bill Maher: Affluent Woke Parents Raised The Radicals Now Running The Dem Party

“I’m just gonna say it, since the far left, the far, far left, is overwhelmingly made up of affluent, ultra woke, white people, you raised your kids wrong. You told your precious brats that every brain fart was genius, and now those brain farts are becoming Democratic Party policy.”

Abolish prisons. No consequences. Clown show.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Thomas Sowell shares some facts about civilization you probably didn't hear in school.

Listen closely.

[NW Beav 🦫 @nORthwestBEAV]

If you do want to blame anybody for Oregon's slow economic growth and poor buisness environment, Tina Kotek is a great place to start. Her and the Oregon democrats took us from a top 10 state for buisness friendliness in 2019 to now 35th overall and 49th for corporations. What a legacy she's left on this state when you combine that with her baby, measure 110 (drug decriminalization) which was an unmitigated disaster.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Commies never needed to beat you in a debate, just needed to make sure the debate never happened on open ground.

Gramsci (Italian Marxist) called it cultural hegemony and the war of position.
The goal is for commies to take the institutions that shape what people believe, such as the schools, the universities, the media, and entertainment.

The purpose is to install the ideology so deep that it stops looking like an opinion and starts feeling like common sense or the natural order of things. People absorb it before they’re old enough to question it, and most of them never even realize an argument took place.

And once those institutions are quietly under control, politics inevitably follows on its own. Their patient and steady capture replace elections and honest persuasion.

But the thing is that people see it.
Gallup measured trust in American media in September 2025 at 28%, the lowest number in the entire 50 year history of the poll, down from 72% in 1976.

For the first time, more Americans say they distrust the media outright than trust it at all. So the institutions are captured, they’re manufacturing consent, but they’re not omnipotent.

And as long as at least some people still distrust, they still have a fighting chance to alter, evade, or abolish these infected institutions.