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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme violent leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   157,906 views  1,036 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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781   Ceffer   2023 Oct 5, 11:31am  

Release the deputized criminals, run down prices as victims flee, buy up real estate for cheapsies, reinvigorate law and order, victims return, reap appreciation and profits.

Rinse, repeat.

They only raze with DEWs when various peasants are in the way of redevelopment. DEW contracting has become the new right of way condemnation. Boiled, exploded and powdered people are a small price to pay for inspired planning.

Do they make a blue shade of commercial tin foil?
783   zzyzzx   2023 Oct 6, 10:16am  

Patrick says

https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1709671957577560130



ColumbiaBugle
Lol these are being passed around in Eagle Pass.

“San Francisco Welcomes Immigrants”

“Lax Shoplifting Laws”






Why is it printed in English???
784   HeadSet   2023 Oct 6, 2:20pm  

zzyzzx says

Why is it printed in English???

Correct. The illegals can barely read Spanish, let alone English.
785   Patrick   2023 Oct 6, 5:39pm  

When I was in Mexico City in Feb of this year, I was in line in the main bus station behind some short Indian-looking people who could apparently did not know enough Spanish to ask for a bus ticket.

So there are people in Mexico who don't know Spanish and speak only their Indian language.
786   Patrick   2023 Oct 6, 5:40pm  

https://californiaglobe.com/fr/seven-starbucks-closing-in-sf-is-demise-of-downtown-culture/


Seven (!) Starbucks Closing in SF is Demise of Downtown Culture

Mayor Breed’s disastrous policies mostly to blame...

Mayor London Breed imposed, arguably, the toughest and most prolonged lockdowns for Covid in America, with disastrous results. Barring public gatherings for months longer than necessary has clearly taken its toll. While other cities across the nation survived, even thrived, Breed’s San Francisco gasped for air, and still does. Coupled with her eagerness in 2020 to defund our police department by taking $120 million from their budget, as well as pushing to remove any mandated minimum staff levels of police officers, her decisions created much of the economic disaster we San Franciscans are experiencing today. Add to this, her insane record-high annual city budget of $14.6 Billion when we can’t afford it (and shouldn’t afford, either). Homelessness, tent encampments, mentally ill addicts roaming the streets day and night, often sleeping in Starbucks shops, some bathing in the toilets, if not partaking in their drug of choice. With offices vacant, the customers stopped coming. Tourists were understandably chased away by concerns for safety. Remote workers preferred to be even further remote.
787   Ceffer   2023 Oct 6, 6:21pm  

The freeways are more crowded, not because of job prosperity, but because BART is such a pitty experience with robbers, cars vandalized in the parking lots, filth, etc. that a lot of workers have returned to car commutes rather than risk public transportation.
788   Patrick   2023 Oct 7, 10:22pm  

https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/01/downtown-san-francisco-triple-stabbing/


San Francisco police took a man into custody Sunday following a violent early morning episode on Market Street that sent four people to the hospital.

Police said in a statement that officers responded around 7:45 a.m. to a report of an assault at Market and Stockton streets, followed moments later by a reported stabbing less than a block away near Fourth and Market streets.

Officers arrived at the scene and detained a man suspected of stabbing three people and assaulting another. They said the man, whom they did not identify, remained in police custody on unspecified pending charges.

All four victims were taken to a hospital for treatment. Details on their conditions were not available Sunday afternoon.

On Wednesday, police identified the suspect as Effrim Baker, 60, of San Francisco and said he had been arrested on suspicion of three counts of aggravated assault and attempted homicide, and counts of elder abuse, aggravated assault with a weapon and robbery.
789   Patrick   2023 Oct 9, 12:28pm  

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2023/09/28/viewpoint-bankruptcy-san-francisco.html


Viewpoint: Is San Francisco on the road to bankruptcy?
Hans Hansson

San Francisco, a city once known for its iconic landmarks, vibrant culture, and technological innovation, is facing a looming financial crisis that could lead to bankruptcy.

Tech employers like Yelp and Airbnb that once made San Francisco their home have now either fled the city or closed offices in favor of working remote. This has led to massive reductions in commercial property values —and associated tax bills.

Despite recently increasing its budget by 2 percent for the coming year, the city is grappling with the harsh reality of a potential 50 percent or more reduction in commercial real estate property taxes, and the hits keep on coming. It is a road,map to the roadmap to bankruptcy if we don’t change course.

The city has relied on property taxes as a staple of its revenue stream for many years. A significant portion of the city’s budget depends on a steady inflow of property tax revenue, primarily from commercial real estate. However, the ongoing reassessment process could severely undermine this source of income. Property owners seeking a reassessment may lead to substantial reductions in tax revenues for the city, which won’t materialize for several years.

This delay is a ticking time bomb, with potentially disastrous consequences for the city’s financial stability.

Once the property reassessments are completed, San Francisco will be obligated to reimburse property owners for the excessive property taxes they paid during the reassessment period. This could result in a substantial loss of revenue for the city, creating a financial chasm that might be challenging to bridge. The sudden financial burden of these reimbursements, combined with the reduced property tax revenue, will leave San Francisco in potentially dire straits.

But even bankruptcy might not fully address the city’s mounting fiscal woes. Pensions represent a substantial portion of San Francisco’s annual budget. However, under bankruptcy laws, pensions are typically protected, meaning that even in the face of severe financial distress, the city would still be obligated to fulfill its pension commitments to retirees.

In any case, if San Francisco were to file for bankruptcy, it would mark a grim chapter in the city’s history. Bankruptcy would entail a series of challenging decisions and painful sacrifices. The city’s leadership would have to make tough choices regarding public services, infrastructure, and city employee salaries, all while ensuring that pension obligations are met. These decisions can lead to reduced public services, deteriorating infrastructure, and potentially lower quality of life for residents.

Bankruptcy would of course have broader implications for San Francisco’s reputation and ability to attract investment. Credit ratings might plummet, making it more expensive for the city to borrow money for essential projects. Investors could shy away from a city with financial instability, potentially stalling future economic growth.

San Francisco’s financial situation is precarious, with the potential for bankruptcy looming large on the horizon. The delayed impact of property tax reassessments, coupled with the protection of pensions, presents a significant challenge to the city’s financial stability.

While bankruptcy is not an inevitable outcome, the road ahead is undoubtedly fraught with difficult decisions and potential hardships for residents. San Francisco’s leadership must navigate this treacherous journey carefully, exploring all possible avenues to avert a financial disaster and secure a prosperous future for the city.

Hans Hansson is a San Francisco native and holds over 35 years of experience in San Francisco commercial leasing and sales. He is the founder and president of Starboard CRE, the largest independently-owned commercial real estate firm in San Francisco.


San Francisco will not recover from the devastation that wokeness causes until Columbus is put back in his rightful place on Telegraph Hill.
790   Patrick   2023 Oct 10, 1:22pm  

https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/san-francisco-paying-12k-month-for-homeless-rvs-while-tech-workers-sleep-in-pods/


San Francisco paying $12,000 per month for homeless RVs while tech workers sleep in $700 ‘pods’
By Marjorie Hernandez
Oct. 10, 2023

San Francisco is pouring millions of dollars into an RV park for the homeless, while young people trying to get a break in their careers are reduced to living in 4-feet high by 3.5-feet wide “pod” spaces for $700 a month.

The city opened a “safe parking site” at Candlestick Point in January 2022, which is home to 30 RVs — each of which cost the city $12,000 a month to keep there, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The site, named the Bayview Vehicle Triage Center, has been recommended to be opened for another two years, which will cost the city at least $12.2 million.

Despite living rent-free and having 24/7 security, some residents at the RV park don’t enjoy it.



791   Eric Holder   2023 Oct 10, 1:25pm  

I still don't understand the idiocy of putting tech companies inside the ess-eff. It wasn't even a thing until mid 00s.
792   Patrick   2023 Oct 10, 7:24pm  

Eric Holder says


I still don't understand the idiocy of putting tech companies inside the ess-eff. It wasn't even a thing until mid 00s.


I lived through that era and watched it happen.

The reason tech companies moved to SF is entirely because it's far more beautiful, interesting, and walkable than Silicon Valley. The employees essentially demanded it, and companies which didn't have an office in SF lost employees.

The bloom is off that rose now, and employees are not as interested in stepping in human shit on the way to work as they once were.
793   Patrick   2023 Oct 10, 7:24pm  

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2023/10/10/receiver-gregg-williams-lenders-sue-westfield-mall.html


Westfield mall receiver appointed after lenders sue

Williams wrote in the declaration filing last week that "the most significant issue relating to the Mortgaged Property is security." He aims to retain a third-party security consultant and fully-insured third-party security personnel as well as potentially off-duty and retired San Francisco Police Department officers. Additionally, he described stationing guards and security canines at the property at each entrance and exit, on surrounding sidewalks and the property perimeter to control the flow of people in and out of the building.

"These actions have proven extremely effective in deterring crime at malls, especially in inner city or downtown locations," Williams wrote in the filing. "Based on my experience, I believe these security measures will discourage bad actors from engaging in bad acts, and will provide comfort to customers knowing that security at the Mortgaged Property is in place."


I'm pretty sure that those measures will not help in the slightest until physical force can be used against looters. What are the guards going to do, yell at them?

And if a dog actually bites a looter, the looter will sue and almost certainly win, because it's San Francisco.
794   richwicks   2023 Oct 10, 7:26pm  

Patrick says

San Francisco paying $12,000 per month for homeless RVs while tech workers sleep in $700 ‘pods’


Haha, it's called "a government scam".

Tons of money is poured into the homeless problem, and 99.9% of the money is siphoned off for "administration".
795   Patrick   2023 Oct 10, 7:28pm  

Yes, absolutely.

And if you want a piece of those millions, you better be an ultra-orthodox Democrat who works to keep the current corrupt SF administration in place.
796   Ceffer   2023 Oct 10, 7:32pm  

Patrick says

Viewpoint: Is San Francisco on the road to bankruptcy?

Yes, the Golden Goose will soon die, and they will be Cloward Piven'd. All of the Soros fecal impactions who thought the Zimbabwe farm would keep producing after the urban massacre, will go back to their mud huts.
797   richwicks   2023 Oct 10, 7:33pm  

Eric Holder says


I still don't understand the idiocy of putting tech companies inside the ess-eff. It wasn't even a thing until mid 00s.


I can explain this.

We had to come together to make the Internet, because the Internet didn't exist yet. It was dialup in the 1990's. There was no video, audio BARELY worked on it, we had to come together to create the infrastructure.

This was "Silicon Valley" before that, Apple was here, Atari, it was the tech capital. This place was attractive (at the time), nice weather, really brilliant people, "crazy people" even, I knew quite a few - but being nuts didn't disqualify them from a job - it was "can you do the job?" I knew a kid that had stuffed toys in his cubicle, just because he loved them. He was like 25 - I found it innocent and charming.

This was, for a short time, a complete meritocracy.

But our time is over. The Internet was made, information is democratized if you put in a bit of effort to find it, and our old "Big Tech" companies are corrupt, and sleeping with intelligence agents, being fucked in the asshole.
798   DOGEWontAmountToShit   2023 Oct 10, 7:42pm  

Patrick says

San Francisco will not recover from the devastation that wokeness causes until Columbus is put back in his rightful place on Telegraph Hill.


Want to see SFs future, watch Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

It's pretty accurate. :)



799   Patrick   2023 Oct 12, 6:10pm  

https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/11/san-francisco-mayor-orders-budget-cuts/

Gosh, you think it might have something to do with idiocy like this?



800   Ceffer   2023 Oct 12, 6:38pm  

Patrick says

Gosh, you think it might have something to do with idiocy like this?

It isn't idiocy, it's kickbacks. Nobody is getting kickbacks from tech workers sleeping in pods.
805   Eric Holder   2023 Oct 17, 3:59pm  

Ceffer says

Patrick says


Gosh, you think it might have something to do with idiocy like this?

It isn't idiocy, it's kickbacks. Nobody is getting kickbacks from tech workers sleeping in pods.


Why not?
806   AD   2023 Oct 18, 10:34am  

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/poverty-rates-increased-sharply-in-california-in-2022-here-s-who-was-hurt-the-most/ar-AA1iq1bb

may explain some of the shoplifting behavior though most of it is done by organized thugs

may explain increase in RV camps or new age Hooverviiles

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808   zzyzzx   2023 Oct 18, 11:18am  

ad says

may explain increase in RV camps or new age Hooverviiles


Yeah, all those excess RV's made in the last few years are actually going to be of some use.
809   Patrick   2023 Oct 20, 8:42am  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12651949/San-Francisco-aparment-NEMA-value-vacancy-crime-homeless.html


San Francisco high-rise apartment building NEMA loses half its value - $264MILLION - in the last five years
One of the largest apartment buildings in the Bay Area is facing possible foreclosure
The community around NEMA has dramatically declined as crime, homelessness, drugs and results of the pandemic took over
The 754-unit apartment building went from a value of $543.6million to $279million in the past five years




I know that corner. It's in the middle of the zombie apocalypse right by City Center.
810   DOGEWontAmountToShit   2023 Oct 20, 5:05pm  

Patrick says

I know that corner. It's in the middle of the zombie apocalypse right by City Center.


Like I've always said, parts of California are becoming high tech versions of Detroit.
811   richwicks   2023 Oct 20, 5:33pm  

GasTheYoungTurks says

Patrick says


I know that corner. It's in the middle of the zombie apocalypse right by City Center.


Like I've always said, parts of California are becoming high tech versions of Detroit.


All of Silicon Valley is about to become Detroit.

What technical wonders do you want? You want something smaller than an SD Card? Maybe the size of a head of a pin? Right now, you can only store two SOLID weeks of HD film on a $20 SD Card. Need it smaller?

What? Is the resolution of your monitor and television not high enough? We have 8K, which is more pixels than you have photo-receptors in your eye.

Is your computer too slow? Need us to make a faster CPU? Now that we have photorealism in video games, you want us to improve this somehow?

Now you can talk to anybody on the planet, everybody can stream video now.

What's left to be done?

If we double the speed of your CPU programs instead of running instantaneously, will run twice as fast as instantaneously.

There is ONE last thing left to do, but it's software. We're finished with the hardware. Every person reading this has a computer capable to doing nuclear weapons simulation, no kidding.
814   HeadSet   2023 Oct 21, 7:08am  

richwicks says

Cops just WON'T stop him. A bullet would though real quick.

Nothing stopping you from taking such action. Of course, if either you or the cop did that, you would be locked up forever. This is not the cop's fault; the cop is limited by the rules put out by the people California elected.
815   richwicks   2023 Oct 21, 7:21am  

HeadSet says

richwicks says


Cops just WON'T stop him. A bullet would though real quick.

Nothing stopping you from taking such action. Of course, if either you or the cop did that, you would be locked up forever. This is not the cop's fault; the cop is limited by the rules put out by the people California elected.


Not my kids. If the parents want to allow this, whatever.

Killing a bum? You could hire almost any thug to do that. We are already in an anarchy. Haven't you noticed?

Cops work for the FEDERAL government, not state, not local. They stood by as Kenosha was being burned, what they should have done is arrest the mother fucker that ordered them to stand down. Arrest the fucking DA. IF they answered to the people of the locality, that's what would have happened.

Police have been FEDERALIZED. People wring their hands about the MILITARY firing on the population and holding the population hostage. We're already hostage, by the cops. Cops don't work for you.

I once asked to cops about the Derek Chauvin / George Floyd thing and they were like "well, he shouldn't have kneeled on his back". That's what he was trained to do, by Israeli Defense Forces. Cops get trained by them. We're all Palestinians now.
817   HeadSet   2023 Oct 23, 6:26am  

GasTheYoungTurks says


https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/poverty-rates-increased-sharply-in-california-in-2022-here-s-who-was-hurt-the-most/ar-AA1iq1bb

Thie statement:
“The end of the pandemic-era investments in the Child Tax Credit and other federal policies that help families make ends meet led to a huge increase in poverty in 2022 in California,”

Shows how biased this article is. Not inflation, not anti-business policies, not rampant illegal immigration, but lack of government paid welfare.
819   Patrick   2023 Oct 23, 1:22pm  

https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/21/crocker-galleria-downtown-san-francisco-empty-mall/


Crocker Galleria, Downtown San Francisco’s Other Mall, Is Down to Three Tenants


I used to wander in there now and then when I worked in downtown SF.
820   Ceffer   2023 Oct 23, 1:56pm  

Signed a recall petition for Alameda Soros Fecal Impaction Kommie non-prosecutor. The awakening lurches forward, weak but hopefully gaining momentum. Of course, with elections rigged anyway, is it dead out of the gate without some hangings of local election officials and flame throwers for the voting machines and the no ID voting crap?

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