Just the other day, The Atlantic wrote up a bizarre take on the Portland protesters encamped outside of the ICE facility and likened it to Burning Man.

Isaac Stanley-Becker took to the streets of Portland to highlight some of the people of the pitched tents outside of the ICE facility. In all honesty, it’s comical and tragic at the same time.

In the days since Donald Trump directed his ‘Secretary of War’ to marshal troops against ‘domestic terrorists’ in Portland, Oregon, encouraging the use of ‘full force’ in a city he likened to a “war zone,” I have been hanging around the demonstration that the president wants to crush. What I’ve found is an atmosphere that is more like a carnival than combat.”-Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic

Here we go with the Summer of Love vibes. Furry costumes. Communal living. Chicken suits. Sidewalk chalk. Exhibit #1: Andy, with the “cropped, caramel-colored hair and rounded stumps for teeth:

I was like, ‘Oh, hell yeah! Occupation against deportation! Let it begin, bitches!’ We do not want to see the right to exist as a minority or marginalized person taken away, when shit pops, Portland is right there in solidarity.”-Andy

Talking of solidarity while chomping on a sausage pizza with his nubby teeth. Only in Portland.

Then, there’s the man on the electric scooter, parading through the crowd of tent-dwellers:

Good job showing those flaccid fascists who’s boss!”

They’re making history.

Exhibit 2: Kefiyeh-donning “Griffin”:

They’ll be like, ‘Oh, these people are weird.’ I’m like, ‘Now you’re weird, too, because you’re in Portland.’ And then maybe they can do some sanitation work like they did in D.C., just going around and helping us pick up cans and plastic bags and shit.”

“Griffin” was referring to the National Guard when he eluded to “doing sanitation”. Because these clowns don’t know how to do it themselves. They’ve lived in mom’s basement too long to figure out that when you leave trash in the room, it piles up. They have no concept that what they are doing in the city of Portland is contributing to making it one, huge trash pile. But, you get what you vote for. Keith Wilson and Tina Kotek love the trash piles.

Exhibit 3: Chicken suit-donning Jack Dickinson, tent-encampment tour guide extraordinaire:

Our reality is beyond satire at this point. So meeting it with absurdity. I guess that’s the idea.”-Jack Dickinson

Portland’s reality has become beyond satire at this point. It gradually degraded after the hit show, Portlandia. Dickinson is a former elementary school teacher. I suppose parents should be thankful he’s not throwing out his brand of woke in the classroom. As far as the chicken suit goes? It probably has nothing to do with “absurdity” and everything to do with an excuse to wear a chicken costume on the daily. But, obviously, he’s an anti-fascist:

Obviously, I’m anti-fascist, but I do sometimes find myself hesitating to use the label.”-Jack Dickinson

An anti-fascist in a chicken suit who also partook in the “No Kings” protests.

By nightfall, the party happens:

By nightfall, the proportion of people clad in all black, with ski masks or sunglasses, had grown. Some wore the First Aid symbol and rushed to help a man writhing on the ground after being sprayed with mace. A man who identified himself as an Air Force veteran, his face covered with a camouflage cloth, was bellowing into a megaphone, calling for an armed populace and for the ‘feds to hang.’ A Donna Summer hit was pulsating from loudspeakers, keeping the beat for screams of protest: ‘Ooh, I feel love, I feel love, I feel love, I feel love, I feel love.’ A gray-haired man was burning a miniature American flag while a kid in a tank top hoisted a billowing Soviet banner skyward.”-Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic

Then there’s the delusional trans-female (read: MAN) who thinks he’s a woman by the name of “Rose” (Exhibit 4), who shouts at the ICE agents:

You all must be terrified of the consequences of your own f#cking actions coming home to roost and wrecking your entire lives.”

Then, (Exhibit 5) there’s this guy:

Not so tough anymore, huh? pic.twitter.com/jXmxrKIvvY

— M_G (@MG555MG555) October 2, 2025

Now, we’re sure there are plenty of childless, cat ladies in these crowds as well, so the following observation is, by no means, a disrespect to all men because, we know good men still exist. But, in all seriousness, what in the mouth-breathing, fresh hell is this? Look at these guys. All men. Camping out in tents and cots while other men (and women) are actually at work inside the ICE facility. They spend their days humiliating and harassing these Americans because they hate Donald Trump so much.

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— Tempting Fate (@TemptingFate_) October 2, 2025

Rose City Antifa in a nutshell. The social justice “warriors” of our time. The kids that grew up getting trophies just because. The kids that never had to clean their rooms because Mom did it for them. The FOMO is real for them and they flock to Portland for their 15 minutes of social media fame. The self-important, sanctimonious, “fearless” men in chicken suits.

This is what The Atlantic is calling the next “Burning Man”.

The effecting social change. One chicken suit and sausage pizza at a time. If this is the case, I’d say mankind is beyond chargrilled, it’s freaking torched.

Cluck. Cluck.

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