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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme violent leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   159,332 views  1,039 comments

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https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2021/04/19/chesa-boudins-dangerous-san-francisco/

‘Hey, where are you?” Hannah Ege texted her husband, Sheria Musyoka. He’d left on a morning jog and had been gone for an hour and a half. Hannah was home, taking care of their three-year-old son. She began to freak out. She called and texted and called again. He never answered.

Speeding and drunk — at just shy of eight in the morning — Jerry Lyons barreled through a red light at an intersection in a stolen Ford Explorer. Lyons struck and killed Musyoka, a 26-year-old Dartmouth grad who had moved to San Francisco only ten days earlier with his wife and their son. After clipping Musyoka, Lyons collided with another car, causing an eight-car pileup that sent several other people to the hospital.

The San Francisco police arrested Lyons on multiple charges that morning in February, but this was not the first time he’d been arrested for drunk driving in a stolen car. On December 3, he had been arrested for driving under the influence, driving a stolen vehicle, and driving without a license. Before that, he’d been released from prison after serving time for a grand-theft conviction; in fact, Lyons had been arrested at least seven times in the Bay Area since his release from prison, and his rap sheet goes back a decade. Still, San Francisco’s district attorney, Chesa Boudin, delayed pressing charges against Lyons until a toxicology report confirmed that he had been inebriated, which, more than a month and a half later in January, it did. Lyons then had 14 days to turn himself in to the DA’s office. On the 13th day, he killed Musyoka. While COVID-era difficulties might have accounted for the medical examiner’s slow speed in returning test results, a different DA could have chosen to move forward sooner — taking necessary precautions — and charged Lyons with a DUI based on observable factors alone, such as the results of Lyons’s field sobriety test, his erratic driving in a stolen vehicle, and close scrutiny of his behavior.

Hannah Ege expressed her grief and pain to a local TV news station, railing at the district attorney’s reluctance to lock up repeat offenders. Whom does she blame for her husband’s death? “The DA,” she said. “This freak accident was no freak accident. It was someone who was out in the public who should not have been out in public.”

The Lyons mayhem is not an isolated case in the city by the bay. On New Year’s Eve, a parolee on the run from a robbery — also in a stolen car — sped through a red light, striking and killing two women, 60-year-old Elizabeth Platt and 27-year-old Hanako Abe, who were in the crosswalk. The driver, Troy McAlister, had been released twice by the district attorney in the previous year: the first time because Boudin refuses to pursue three-strike cases, of which McAlister’s was one; the second — as recently as December 20, when the SFPD arrested McAlister for driving a stolen car — because Boudin kicked the case to the state parole officers, who did nothing.

Welcome to San Francisco’s latest idiocy, a new experiment in governance where everything is allowed but nothing is permitted. A paradox, you might say, but take a walk down Market Street, down that great avenue in a great city in a great nation, and note the desolation of the empty streets, the used needles tossed on the sidewalks, and the boarded-up windows on storefronts. Consider that, at various unpredictable times in the last year, it has been illegal — for the sake of public safety during COVID — to run a mom-and-pop corner shop or to serve food at sidewalk cafés. Reflect for a moment that, since time immemorial, it has been illegal to build any new housing, because of the most onerous and confusing zoning laws in the known universe. Mark Zuckerberg can apparently influence national elections by tweaking algorithms, but he is powerless before the planning commission when it comes to building apartments for his employees. The city has banned plastic straws, plastic bags, and McDonald’s Happy Meals with toys. And yet, all the while, drug dealers sell their wares — COVID or no COVID — openly and freely at all hours of the day and night, users shoot up or pop fentanyl in public and defecate on the street, robbers pillage cars and homes with the ease of Visigoth raiders, and the district attorney frees repeat offenders who go on to sow disorder, pain, devastation, and grief. A profound melancholy hangs in the air of this city, punctuated only by the shrieks of a junkie dreaming of demons or by the rat-tat-tat-bam of the occasional firework. (Or was that a gun?) ...

How did it come to this? On January 8, 2020, Mayor London Breed swore in Chesa Boudin as the new district attorney of San Francisco in front of a packed house at the Herbst Theater. Boudin won the election by a nose in a runoff, with oily promises to feel the pain of all parties to a crime, both victims and perpetrators. He made pledges to enact “restorative justice” and prison reform through “decarceration.” U.S. Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor recorded a congratulatory video message, which was played at the swearing-in ceremony for Boudin and the crowd. “Chesa, you have undertaken a remarkable challenge today,” the justice said. “The hope you reflect is a great beacon to many.”

The task before Boudin was already monumental. Before he assumed his office, San Francisco ranked No. 1 in the nation in property crime. On average, thieves broke 60 car windows per day, with impunity. In 2014, California voters approved Proposition 47, a reform measure that reduced many felonies to ticketed misdemeanors, such as theft of less than $950 and hard-drug possession. There were more drug addicts on the streets than there were students in the schools. Tent encampments of homeless people had sprouted in every nook and alley and under every highway overpass. Commuters faced a daily gauntlet in the form of an appalling humanitarian crisis in the streets.

But Boudin immediately refused to take any responsibility for these issues. Among his first acts was to fire seven veteran prosecutors who were not on board with his radical views. (Over 30 prosecutors have left during his tenure because they don’t want to work for him.) Next, Boudin abolished the cash-bail system, so offenders are able to walk free after arrest. He rarely brings a case to trial: Out of the 6,333 cases to land on his desk since taking office, he has gone to trial only 23 times. This is one-tenth the rate of his predecessor, George Gascón, who was hardly tough on crime. Since the killing of George Floyd, there has been a shortage of cops, as officers retire in record numbers. San Francisco has also moved to defund the police, with plans to shift $120 million in law-enforcement funding to restorative-justice programs, housing support, and a guaranteed-income pilot, among other ideas.

To where does Boudin’s “great beacon” point? Over the last year, there have been more deaths from drug overdoses in San Francisco than from COVID-19. Walgreens has closed ten of its drugstores in the city because its shelves were being pillaged freely by shoplifters. According to SFPD’s CompStat, compared with last year, arson has increased 52 percent, motor-vehicle theft is up 21 percent, and burglaries have seen a 59 percent increase. One largely Asian neighborhood, the Richmond district, has reported a 342 percent spike in burglaries this year compared with last. Admittedly, some numbers are down, such as those for larceny and robbery. But police attribute these declines to the pandemic, since there are fewer opportunities for would-be criminals to commit such crimes as people shelter in place. One neighborhood association sent a letter in February to Boudin and Mayor Breed, begging them to restore public safety. The association also posted it on the Internet. “Our neighborhood can’t wait another day,” they wrote. “Our homes are repeatedly broken into and robbed. Our merchants suffer unsustainable losses from theft and smashed windows. Employees are threatened with guns. Residents are robbed at gunpoint on our own streets. The sound of gunshots is no longer unusual.” ...

Now, what rough beast slouches its way towards San Francisco? With a district attorney who won’t prosecute crimes, how long will it be until an anxious Google engineer defends himself from being harassed by a madman? Will envious arsonists light the Salesforce Tower on fire as a jacked-up mob courses through the streets burning and looting the Painted Ladies?

A desperate sun struggles through the fog. There may be one ray of hope. The city has recently approved the effort to recall Chesa Boudin from office. Locals could begin downloading signature-gathering petitions on March 12. If 10 percent of registered voters sign the petition, all voters may get the chance to vote the bum out. But even if they do, it will remain tragic for Musyoka, Platt, Abe, and others like them that the day did not come soon enough.



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306   Onvacation   2022 Jul 9, 3:49pm  

"City officials told the Craines that the couple can build a cover for the carpad, or a garage, if they want to continue to park there."

But they need an environmental impact report, a permit, and permission from a majority of the homeless living in the Tenderloin
307   Onvacation   2022 Jul 9, 3:50pm  

I once got a ticket in SF for not curbing my wheels.
308   Patrick   2022 Jul 10, 5:54pm  

Me too. And the street was so flat that you'd really have to look to see a slope at all.
311   Eric Holder   2022 Jul 21, 11:51am  

Onvacation says

I once got a ticket in SF for not curbing my wheels.


I once got a ticket in SF after leaving the parking spot with meter still not expired. They got around the requirement to prove that the car was still parked at the spot when the ticked was issued by writing "vehicle too high to read VIN". The fucking truck is bone stock and not lifted a single inch.
312   Eric Holder   2022 Jul 21, 11:56am  

Patrick says

https://abcnews.go.com/US/couple-fined-1500-parking-driveway/story?id=86181089



Couple fined $1,500 for parking in own driveway


They should deal in fentanyl and meth. Then the San Francisco police won't bother them.


They should put one of these huge Coleman tents on that spot, make it look like hobos live in it and park the car inside.
314   1337irr   2022 Jul 21, 6:22pm  

Eric Holder says

Onvacation says


I once got a ticket in SF for not curbing my wheels.


I once got a ticket in SF after leaving the parking spot with meter still not expired. They got around the requirement to prove that the car was still parked at the spot when the ticked was issued by writing "vehicle too high to read VIN". The fucking truck is bone stock and not lifted a single inch.

I always get a lawyer and fight tickets. It's worth the costs.
315   mell   2022 Jul 21, 6:42pm  

1337irr says


Eric Holder says


Onvacation says


I once got a ticket in SF for not curbing my wheels.


I once got a ticket in SF after leaving the parking spot with meter still not expired. They got around the requirement to prove that the car was still parked at the spot when the ticked was issued by writing "vehicle too high to read VIN". The fucking truck is bone stock and not lifted a single inch.


I always get a lawyer and fight tickets. It's worth the costs.


That works well in many counties even in the bay area. However I'm 99% sure in SF judges do not look at any evidence or paperwork, unless the case gets media attention they rubberstamp everyone guilty as the corrupt city is always on the verge of BK so they take all the money they can possibly get. SF is a lawless commie dictatorship
316   Patrick   2022 Jul 22, 12:00pm  

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1550250060910305280?cxt=HHwWgICxmfCNzIMrAAAA


San Francisco restaurant owner says he has to clean off graffiti every day only to find his business covered in graffiti again the next day. The city then fines him for having graffiti.

Welcome to California.


Has video.
317   richwicks   2022 Jul 22, 12:52pm  

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1550250060910305280?cxt=HHwWgICxmfCNzIMrAAAA



San Francisco restaurant owner says he has to clean off graffiti every day only to find his business covered in graffiti again the next day. The city then fines him for having graffiti.

Welcome to California.


Has video.


He's fined for something he's not responsible for?

We're going to get to the point that "killin" is the only solution. Clown world is so interesting.
318   Patrick   2022 Jul 26, 7:50am  

https://notthebee.com/article/san-francisco-has-spent-500000-trying-to-figure-out-which-3000-per-unit-trash-can-to-distribute-throughout-the-city


San Fran has spent $500,000 to figure out which $3,000 trash can to use in the city. Vote on which one is the most colossal waste of money.
319   Patrick   2022 Jul 30, 5:27pm  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/cost-decarceration-criminal-justice-reform/


One of the most frustrating aspects of America’s necessary and important criminal justice reform debate is the cavalier attitude with which (usually, though not always) well-off advocates living in posh suburban enclaves or luxury city high-rises push policies whose downside risks will be borne by a tiny slice of our most vulnerable citizens, who live in places most of those advocates wouldn’t dare walk through by themselves on a summer night.

... while emptying prisons and cutting back on policing may not change a whole lot in neighborhoods like DC’s Georgetown, New York’s Scarsdale or LA’s Beverly Hills, they could wreak havoc in Brooklyn’s Brownsville, Chicago’s Austin or Baltimore’s Belair-Edison neighborhoods. Yet the troubling disparities illustrated by the drastically unequal distribution of violent crime in America are largely ignored by activists and the media.

In fact, those who do call for more attention to be given to the violence in America’s most dangerous neighborhoods in cities like Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans, Philadelphia and St. Louis are often chastised for doing so. We’re often accused of fearmongering and distracting from the fact that nationally crime is quite low, relative to modern peaks.
320   Hugh_Mongous   2022 Jul 30, 5:50pm  

mell says

1337irr says



Eric Holder says



Onvacation says



I once got a ticket in SF for not curbing my wheels.


I once got a ticket in SF after leaving the parking spot with meter still not expired. They got around the requirement to prove that the car was still parked at the spot when the ticked was issued by writing "vehicle too high to read VIN". The fucking truck is bone stock and not lifted a single inch.



I always get a lawyer and fight tickets. It's worth the costs.



That works well in many counties even in the bay area. However I'm 99% sure in SF judges do not look at any evidence or paperwork, unless the case gets media attention they rubberstamp everyone guilty as...


Parking tickets do not go in front of the judge in SF. All you get is "administrative review" with SFMTA "hearing officer".
321   Patrick   2022 Jul 31, 1:29pm  

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2022/07/27/prologis-ceo-hamid-moghadam-armed-robbery-crime.html


Jul 27, 2022, 5:00pm PDT
Prologis CEO Hamid Moghadam feels no one is safe in the company’s hometown of San Francisco after he was robbed at gunpoint by several men.

The June 26 incident, until now not publicly reported, highlights rising concerns over crime and other challenges facing the Bay Area and adds to worries more residents and companies will opt to leave the region.

In a wide-ranging interview this week, Moghadam shared with me how the experience has made him more vocal in urging San Francisco’s leadership to make public safety their top priority. Moghadam founded Prologis (NYSE: PLD), the world's largest industrial landlord, in the city in 1983.

The robbery occurred as he pulled his car up in front of his house in tony Pacific Heights, a neighborhood that is home to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and other luminaries. ...

The possibility of the company’s departure also came up in the letter he sent shortly after the robbery to San Francisco Mayor London Breed, the city’s Board of Supervisors and Gov. Gavin Newsom about his robbery and urging them to place a higher priority on public safety.

“I recognize we live in an urban environment, but the level of crime, including violent behavior, has become absolutely unacceptable,” Moghadam wrote. “Obviously, the majority of voters feel this way, which is why they voted to recall our district attorney.
“Ten years ago, we acquired a larger company that was headquartered in Denver, but I insisted we keep our headquarters in San Francisco. Today, I am not sure I would make the same decision,” Moghadam wrote. “It is now difficult for me to tell potential candidates that they should move to San Francisco. We pay some of the highest taxes, local and state, in the nation yet we have no sense of security. Protecting public safety should be the government’s top priority — that is the foundation to a successful city.
“I am deeply concerned that our city may be so far down the path toward decline that we may never recover — or at least not for a long, long time,” Moghadam wrote. ...

“If you're paying so much for housing and paying such high level of taxes, you expect some basic government services, like public safety and being able to walk down the street without being accosted by homeless people or having to walk over human excrement to get to your office, which I do every day,” Moghadam said. “When a community develops a reputation for being unsafe or just a really awful environment to go to a meeting, it loses business and it’s hard to bring back.”

“You walk around the streets of San Francisco and it looks literally like a third world country. It’s just terrible,” said Moghadam, who the Business Times honored last year with its Most Admired CEO Lifetime Achievement Award. “We're spending a ton of money, so it’s not a money issue.”

Prior to the robbery, Moghadam said his involvement with civic issues focused on slowing the migration of businesses out of San Francisco, specifically citing the loss of Charles Schwab headquarters to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The Bay Area also saw Tesla, McKesson and Oracle move their headquarters to Texas in recent years.


It would be wonderful if Pelosi also gets to experience the direct result of her Democrat soft-on-crime policies in her exclusive neighborhood.
322   1337irr   2022 Jul 31, 1:42pm  

mell says

1337irr says



Eric Holder says



Onvacation says



I once got a ticket in SF for not curbing my wheels.


I once got a ticket in SF after leaving the parking spot with meter still not expired. They got around the requirement to prove that the car was still parked at the spot when the ticked was issued by writing "vehicle too high to read VIN". The fucking truck is bone stock and not lifted a single inch.



I always get a lawyer and fight tickets. It's worth the costs.



That works well in many counties even in the bay area. However I'm 99% sure in SF judges do not look at any evidence or paperwork, unless the case gets media attention they rubberstamp everyone guilty as...

I want a story of a corrupt SF judge...mell, please! Story time!
323   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2022 Jul 31, 1:43pm  

A negative opinion of violent crime is racis'.
324   Onvacation   2022 Jul 31, 2:44pm  

Hugh_Mongous says

Parking tickets do not go in front of the judge in SF. All you get is "administrative review" with SFMTA "hearing officer".

I just paid the fine. $50 in 2002 money as I recall.

My tires weren't curbed but my (girlfriend's) car wasn't going anywhere.
325   Patrick   2022 Aug 1, 4:09pm  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11070473/Seattle-businesses-install-1-ton-concrete-blocks-streets-prevent-homeless-people-camping-out.html


Seattle business owners are installing 1-ton concrete blocks on city streets to prevent some of the 13,300 homeless people in the Dem-led city from camping out on the sidewalks
One-ton concrete blocks have been installed on Seattle's sideways in a bid to stop RVs and homeless tents being put up
The blocks are so heavy that they can't be moved without specialized equipment - making them burdensome for the city to remove
Despite it being illegal to place ecology blocks, sidewalks or parking spaces, anonymous residents continue to plant them in the city

... But now, parents say they have had to resort to conducting 'sweeps' of public parks to make sure there are no needles on the ground before allowing their kids to play on swing sets as the encampments continue to grow.

'How do we get to a place where we think that's normal and a part of life in Seattle?' one resident asked Fox News.


Well, you got to that ugly place just like San Francisco did: by voting for violent leftists.
326   Patrick   2022 Aug 17, 11:28am  

https://notthebee.com/article/thief-leaves-notes-on-cars-asking-for-donations-because-they-dont-want-to-steal-anymore


When San Francisco resident Marcia Saephan found her car broken into, she also found a flyer on the windshield from the thief.

The flyer says,

I don't want to STEAL anymore! But I still have to bills to pay. Can you help me please?

After that the thief listed ways that victims could send them money: Cash App, Bitcoin, and PayPal.



327   Patrick   2022 Aug 19, 8:57pm  

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/downtown-areas-in-san-francisco-portland-are-more-deserted-compared-to-2019-report


The downtown areas of San Francisco; Cleveland; and Portland, Oregon, have all had slow recoveries from pre-pandemic levels of activity, according to a new study.

The once-popular neighborhoods have seen a sharp decline in recent years, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley found using GPS location data from 18 million cellphones, then comparing activity from before 2019 to activity from March through May of this year.

San Francisco only has 31% of the activity downtown compared to its pre-pandemic levels, putting the city in last place of the 62 cities measured, the study found.


One has to ask why San Francisco is dead last.
330   Patrick   2022 Aug 25, 7:24pm  

https://sanmateocountynews.com/2022/08/25/doj-public-corruption-in-san-francisco/


Department of Justice’s probe into public corruption in the city and county of San Francisco.

August 25, 2022 Judge William Orrick Sentenced Mohammed Nuru to 7 years in Prison.

Mohammed Nuru in January pleaded guilty to what federal prosecutors described as “a staggering amount of public corruption” during his time leading the city’s Department of Public Works. Federal prosecutors said that over a 12-year period, Nuru accepted more than $1 million in money, international trips, jewelry, restaurant meals and other goods and services from city contractors and developers in exchange for preferential treatment and confidential information about city business.
331   Patrick   2022 Aug 26, 5:17pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/san-francisco-business-owners-revolt-wont-pay-taxes-until-city-cleans-up-crime-and-homelessness/

Lol, those very same people almost certainly voted for the lefties who caused those problems!
332   HeadSet   2022 Aug 27, 9:11am  

Patrick says

https://slaynews.com/news/san-francisco-business-owners-revolt-wont-pay-taxes-until-city-cleans-up-crime-and-homelessness/

Lol, those very same people almost certainly voted for the lefties who caused those problems!

The Castro Merchants Association sent a letter to San Francisco city officials telling them they plan to stop paying taxes if San Francisco doesn’t do more to address burglaries, vandalism, people with behavioral health problems, and the homeless camping wherever they want.

Police resources will not be used to address these issues but will instead be used to arrest owners and shut down businesses of those who do not pay the taxes.
333   Ceffer   2022 Aug 27, 9:53am  

HeadSet says

he Castro Merchants Association sent a letter to San Francisco city officials telling them they plan to stop paying taxes if San Francisco doesn’t do more to address burglaries, vandalism, people with behavioral health problems, and the homeless camping wherever they want.

LOL! The lockstep fag unions, with public gay sex and naked guys walking around on the streets. Can't get more LibbyFuck and KommieKunt than that, reliable useful idiots and subversives. Don't the Globalists have enough fiat printing press money to continue to bribe them?

Hoes stop hoeing when the money stops flowing.
334   GNL   2022 Aug 27, 9:56am  

Patrick says



The most astounding thing is that both the naked guy and the one who attacked him are wearing masks.

For their safety, you know.

I think this is Westfield Mall in SF.

https://nitter.net/pmarca/status/1508647586701344771#m

How can this video be embedded in a comment section of another website?
335   Patrick   2022 Aug 27, 5:19pm  

@GNL If the other site allows video tags, you can do it like this:



If you don't want to type all that, you can do a "view source" in the browser, search for sf_hell, and copy that video tag as text to paste into the other site.
336   Patrick   2022 Aug 27, 5:22pm  

@GNL On second thought, that won't work because I've configured nginx not to serve images or videos unless the referring domain is patrick.net.

The reason is that being a free video or image sharing host is a pure drain on my bandwidth with no benefit to this site because no one will even know it's from this site.

You could right-click and download the video, and then upload if the other site allows that.

Or you could just put a link to patrick.net on the other site. That's what would help this site the most.
337   Patrick   2022 Sep 3, 5:47pm  

https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/anarcho-tyranny-for-the-usa


A man wakes up in San Francisco, has breakfast, showers, and gets ready for work. As he opens his front door he discovers a fresh deuce on the stoop of his seven-million-dollar row home. In a previous time, he would have noticed it earlier in the morning when he went to fetch the San Francisco Chronicle and The New York Times or Wall Street Journal newspapers.

Today he stumbles past the yellow greasy and red foul-smelling excrement (a sign of poor diet or intestinal bleeding) on his way to see if his Range Rover is still where he left it the previous night. He notices the depositor of the morning gift two stoops down curled up in an unwashed mess, his pants around his ankles and his buttcheeks smeared with evidence of his offering. Completely out in heroin dreamland, the perp’s right hand limply grasps a clear and orange syringe with black etched lettering along the side that reads: Courtesy of the law-abiding tax-paying citizens of San Francisco.

Last year this man paid $59,000 to the state of California for the privilege of this morning’s experience, and another $122,000 to the federal government which is in the process of funding thousands more armed IRS enforcers to make sure this man or any other working citizen doesn’t get any funny ideas about keeping one dollar more than they’re allowed from the fruits of their own labor, by a government that offers them nothing in return and openly detests them. ...

This man will again soon vote for the people responsible for this soft anarcho-tyranny that blesses his days and exploits his labor earnings while refusing to provide a modicum of protection of property or liberty. This man like millions of others in failing Democrat-controlled urban hellscapes is not a fast learner.
338   Patrick   2022 Sep 6, 9:38pm  

I made a rare trip to San Francisco yesterday because it was much cooler up there. Two nice finds:

1. a trash can had "Pedo Biden" written on it
2. this wall art of someone being led around by a policeman pulling on his mask like a leash:



So there are perhaps a few sane people in San Francisco.
340   Patrick   2022 Sep 9, 3:16pm  

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/ShellenbergerMD/status/1568237548274864128


Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD
8h
San Francisco right now


341   Patrick   2022 Sep 9, 3:18pm  

This may have been posted before, but it's worth reposting:

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/ShellenbergerMD/status/1568239179703947266#m

343   Ceffer   2022 Sep 9, 3:27pm  

Early to pass out, early to rise, means the first wake homeless guy gets to beat up sleeping homeless and steal their stashes, hangover booze, and ciggies.
344   Patrick   2022 Sep 13, 9:41am  

https://archive.ph/2022.09.13-025938/https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/san-francisco-verge-economic-reckoning


The social implosion along with the draconian CA covid mandates caused hundreds of thousands of people to flee the state. Progressives moved out of the major cities as well, but only about one hour away on average. The top destinations for people leaving San Francisco were Sacramento, Stockton and San Diego according to U-Haul statistics. The rumors of conservative states like Texas being overtaken by CA leftists are greatly exaggerated, but the stats do show that CA residents are indeed moving away from the big cities in large numbers and expanding into 2nd tier cities and smaller towns close by.

San Francisco saw a 6.8% population decline from 2020 to 2021. Sales tax revenues dropped by 50% from 2019 to 2020 and city officials do not expect a recovery until 2025.

The effects of the exodus along with political mismanagement by Democrats is leading to a complete implosion of California's major cities. The mainstream media and the state's PR spin teams are fond of citing their global financial standings, but what they have been hiding is the steady decline in major population centers and the fact that places like San Francisco are built on foundations of economic sand. ...

The real damage is in commercial real estate. Mass office vacancies in San Francisco have not been repaired and the city's downtown recovery has ranked dead-last out of 60 US metropolitan areas. Commercial property value losses are now estimated to average around 40%. In some cases, bids for office space in downtown San Francisco are coming in at 60%-70% less than they would have in 2019.

The region's core financial support comes from the wealth activity in the city's center, and now it's crumbling because no businesses want to operate there (nor can many of them afford to operate there due to taxation). The amazing thing is, they did it to themselves.

Impractical and destructive green tech and carbon laws, totalitarian covid lockdowns and mandates, extremely high taxes and endless bureaucratic red tape have all incrementally sabotaged the cities of the Golden State. And, the worst of it began the moment business interests decided to stop caring about profits and growth and instead felt the need to virtue signal their political loyalties and push leftist propaganda. This emboldened far-left factions within the cities and gave them a free pass to implement whatever insane policies they wanted. Thus, the golden goose has been destroyed.

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