Pamela Fitzsimmons

The only sane person in Portland, Oregon. Blocked by Nikole Hannah-Jones for exposing her white lies.

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Why do people want to change the world when they can’t even change themselves? There’s much to admire in Elon Musk, but history has shown that some people who have changed the world also damaged it.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked by a room full of Stanford students what single trait separates people who change the world from people who don't. Everyone expected him to say intelligence. Or work ethic. Or vision.

He said pain tolerance.

The room wasn't sure if he was joking. He wasn't. He explained that intelligence is common. Ambition is common. Even good ideas are relatively common. What is genuinely rare is the ability to absorb punishment day after day, year after year, and keep building anyway.

He said most people he's met who are smarter than him quit after the first real failure. Not because they weren't talented. Because the pain of failure exceeded their tolerance for it. They found something easier and redirected their intelligence there.

He said the entire history of SpaceX is just a story about absorbing explosions, literally and financially, and refusing to interpret them as signals to stop.

Nobody writes that on a motivational poster. Nobody puts "pain tolerance" on their LinkedIn profile. But it's the actual filter. Not who can dream the biggest. Who can bleed the longest.

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Here in Portland, Ore., we have a red-lipped batfish on the City Council. Her name is Angelita Morillo.

[TheLizVariant @TheLizVariant]

The red lipped batfish doesn’t actually swim much. Instead, it “walks” across the ocean floor using its fins, and those famous red lips are completely natural… although they still look like someone found a Groupon for lip injections and refused to stop.

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Portland's Community Board for Police Accountability has yet to hear its first police complaint, and already there is dissension.

https://t.co/61bYD6zDAW

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The problems most Oregonians (of all skin colors) face these days are not shared by multi-millionaire professional athletes. But it’s a select group of black multi-millionaires that Oregonian editor Laura Gunderson seeks to protect. @Oregonian

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It’s about time somebody told Laura Gunderson, editor of The Oregonian, to get up off her knees. Don’t apologize when one of your staff tells the truth.

https://t.co/kR6NM9MzlY

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Proud to be blocked by the nanny girls @Oregonian

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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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@RareGem_26 @Hawkesbay69 A thumb isn’t on the outer part of the hand? Actually it is if you compare it to the location of the three middle digits. What doesn’t fit is calling anything AI “slop.” That’s a stupid expression that frightened masses have embraced. AI can be brilliant. Slop is slop.

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@MrAndyNgo So one of them tried to "delete herself." Love your choice of words. And since you don't work for The Oregonian, you won't have to apologize if anyone was offended.

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For the backstory that got me blocked by the brave Oregonian newspaper: https://t.co/eoByeyaXSM

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Gunderson, like her predecessor Therese Bottomly, allows “communities of color” to censor the news. It hurts The O’s credibility and fools no one. As for adhering “to a consistent style that reflects our standards and values,” The O's primary commitment should be to the truth. “Jail Blazers” is part of Blazers’ history.

https://t.co/yC7bZMvnfX

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Where were Oregon’s lawmakers when these people were dying in plain sight?

https://t.co/yjoKxPynbU

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And then read this. Why won’t The O tell the whole story?

https://t.co/VKVb0JuZCd

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Why does The O provide cover for “trans” people who murder? This guy used to be a female named Lynn Benton. It should be part of the story.

https://t.co/RgLizMydmD

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Likewise, this story in The O today ignores the fact that one of the female inmates at Coffee Creek is a man. Read this:

https://t.co/ChacSAv0pT

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Is this to be the future of public schools in Portland, Ore.? Don't ask. It might offend someone.

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@TKovacsIII @MrAndyNgo Look at this story in The Oregonian. It's already debased. No adults in charge.

https://t.co/QuFKBja4BV

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Even the haters on Bluesky won't leave.

[merikuh @merikuh]

@billmaher

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Hey, Portland, Oregon -- You're woke, but you're not awake. Wake up and see what America is to other nationalities.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

They say “America has no culture” and what they mean is that the Constitution and Bill of Rights, English common law, the language itself, Thanksgiving and the 4th of July, the nuclear family, the work ethic, rock n roll, country, plus every innovation that turned this place into the world’s superpower don’t count as real culture.

It’s just “whiteness,” this blank or oppressive thing that exists only to be critiqued and replaced.

And this line has become so dominant, so institutionalized in schools, media, HR departments, and elite culture that it’s now the standard water everybody swims in.
Most people don’t even clock it anymore because it’s treated like obvious truth instead of the radical self-erasure project it actually is.

But this isn’t a good faith argument at all, and it carries clear ulterior motives to justify the erasure of America’s historic core and the people who built it.

Because once you get Americans to accept that their culture is either nonexistent or evil, then mass demographic change, open borders, and tearing down the old traditions suddenly look like moral progress instead of an existential attack on everything that made the country function in the first place.

The reality though is that America has one of the strongest and most distinctive cultures on earth, forged from Western and Christian roots and supercharged by liberty and merit.
And the World Cup visitors are reminding us of exactly that right now.

Germans are going viral saying if you want to hate America watch the news but drive through it and meet the actual people.

Europeans are shocked by how genuinely warm, friendly, and generous Americans are in real life and can’t stop talking about the hospitality and customer service.

Japanese fans are writing poetry about unlimited free chips and salsa, while others are losing it over Texas brisket, ranch dressing on everything, Waffle House at 2 am, Buc-ee’s, the ridiculous size of Walmart, and free drink refills that never end.

These outsiders are cutting straight through the institutionalized narrative and showing us what we’ve been gaslit into taking for granted, and that is an abundant, open, high trust, high energy culture that actually works. Americans built it, they live it every day, and they are not apologizing for it or handing it over.

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Too bad the widow couldn’t sue state legislators, politicians and non-profit groups who think men like Roland Evans-Freke should be allowed to roam free. Even his dad’s money couldn’t cure him. @SaraGelserBlouin @DisabilityRtsOR @ACLU

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