Video of Leftist Going Nuts in Conservatives' Meeting Is One of Worst We've Seen So Far
Portland, Oregon, brings the crazy like it does the organic kombucha and the hipster gentrification. So, when a protester decided to interrupt a College Republicans meeting at Portland State University, it was a sight to behold. Unless you wanted to maintain some semblance of faith in #TheResistance, that is.
According to The College Fix, the event Tuesday featured conservative blogger Michael Strickland, a man who was convicted for unholstering his gun at a Black Lives Matter event several years prior. He didn’t get to do much speaking, as you’ll see in a moment.
Quillette editor Andy Ngo, a freelance journalist who’s also a fixture at many of Portland’s finer crazy protests, was also at the event earlier this week.
He captured some unforgettable video of the protester, who apparently was either engaged in next-level performance art or really enjoying some Schedule I substances.
(WARNING: Video has graphic language.)
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The footage begins with the protester ringing a cowbell while seated in the back of the room.
He kept ringing the bell as he rose and made his way to the front, drowning out the speaker with nonstop clanging.
The man proceeded to interrupt Strickland by shouting whenever he tried to speak, like a bratty child. Then came an attempt at a filibuster.
“Can I just speak forever? Yeah, I can!” the protester said. (And that’s actually true, for reasons we’ll get to later.) “And I don’t need water, I can just keep going,” he said as Strickland drank water.
When Strickland offered him water, his response was to decline, saying, “You seem like the kind of guy who carries typhus in his fingertips.” I’m not even sure what that’s supposed to mean, unless it’s just mad libs. (Typhus, by the way, is spread by insect bites.)
The protester seemed obsessed with attacks on LGBT individuals; he kept talking about “people riding around in trucks, they’ve been rolling up on trans people, gay people.”
The man claimed that the last time Strickland was on campus, “quite a few trans people got assaulted by people that came to your speech,” all in an oddly theatrical voice and draped in some kind of flag.
“I don’t think I’ve ever spoken on campus before,” Strickland responded.
“Oh, have you not?” the protester continued. “Weird. That’s so weird. I wonder what gave me that source. Oh, yep — I just f—ing made it up.”
Not for the first (or last) time, I’m sure.
Then came more cowbell. And that seemed to be how the evening went.
So, you may be asking, where were the police? Well, they can be seen in the video, and Ngo said campus officers were there but they “just stood & watched.”
He tweeted that Portland State “has no policies in place to deal w/disruptions at student-organized events. Police will only intervene when there is violence or property destruction.”
One anarchist antifa disruptor with a bell was able to shut down the Michael Strickland @Portland_State College Republicans speech as soon as the event began. Campus police & admin were there but just stood & watched. They said they couldn’t do anything about the disrupter. pic.twitter.com/fSpuEjm8aQ
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 6, 2019
The person who shut down the College Republicans Portland State event then went to the front and blocked the projector so that the speaker couldn’t play a video. This continued for more than an hour while police watched. pic.twitter.com/eF3YNraWQ4
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 6, 2019
Speaker attempted to give his speech to live stream but the disruptor followed & continued ringing bell. @Portland_State has no policies in place to deal w/disruptions at student-organized events. Police will only intervene when there is violence or property destruction. pic.twitter.com/fgcJBPnAU7
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 6, 2019
In other words, the protester was free to interrupt the event as much as he wanted and there was nothing that could be done about it.
One wonders whether this would be a policy that would be maintained were this a College Democrats meeting, but that’s merely a hypothetical.
This is all very funny and sad — unless, of course, you’re the event organizers at Portland State, in which case you’d be furious. The rest of us, however, can see the finest the left has to offer.
This is just a mere disrupter with nothing to say who seems to have learned the most from Bruce Dickinson: More cowbell.
In short, if he ever decides to go to Washington, D.C., he’ll fit right in.
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