I didn’t hear that at all in what he said.

Of course. He's invoking the lib shibboleth of Jan6 as what he thinks is your Universal Get Out of Uncomfortable Posts Card. It's a way for board libs to point at 1 day of right wing violence and ignore the literal hundreds of days of left wing violence.

Problem is...argumentatively, that doesn't work.

Some stuff is very easy to get right. Rioting for 100+ days? Making the neighborhood unlivable? Not a one of you would want to live next to the ICE building in Portland and not a one of you would appreciate having to seal up your windows at night because of all the smoke and tear gas. But guess who gets to do that? The people that live there.

But rather than give the 1, super simple, correct answer - "The local authorities are failing miserably at maintaining public order; Gov. Kotek should be moving Heaven and Earth to give those people a break and fix this"...you guys are about dissembling and distracting from the actual issue.

Seriously. It's okay to walk past a pile of liberal sh1t on the carpet and say, "That's a pile of sh1t on the carpet. Let's clean this sh1t up".