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San Francisco's slide into hell under extreme leftism


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2021 Apr 15, 9:51pm   123,316 views  959 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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526   AD   2023 Apr 29, 8:15pm  

RWSGFY says

San Diego? Weird, because it has hordes of bums almost rivaling these of SF's.


I'm thinking tourism is such a boom in San Diego that it recovered, and likely has more tourism to compensate for a drop in some downtown businesses allowing work from home (in other states).

But I don't read or hear as much bad news about homelessness in San Diego as I do in Los Angeles or San Francisco.

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528   WookieMan   2023 Apr 30, 12:46pm  

ad says

RWSGFY says


San Diego? Weird, because it has hordes of bums almost rivaling these of SF's.


I'm thinking tourism is such a boom in San Diego that it recovered, and likely has more tourism to compensate for a drop in some downtown businesses allowing work from home (in other states).

But I don't read or hear as much bad news about homelessness in San Diego as I do in Los Angeles or San Francisco.

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Last time I was there about 5 years ago it was off putting, but not overwhelming with the homelessness. You see it, but in no ways was it ever aggressive. The city was clean and there weren't tents all over the place that I could see or areas I went to. My city experience was amongst black and Mexicans carrying guns and selling drugs on the corner on the South and West sides of Chicago. Homeless people were a very minor annoyance.

It's a long weekend, things could change, but officially booked for San Diego 8/24-8/28. Sat. 8/26 we're golfing Torrey Pines, so I'm out for anything that day. Sunday might be my only free day. I could extend to 8/30, but new job may interfere with that. We'll see. There's time and hotel is booked through the 30th through the wife's work.
529   Patrick   2023 May 2, 8:03pm  

https://www.bizjournals.com/


Nordstrom closing downtown San Francisco department store

The Westfield San Francisco Centre, located downtown at 865 Market St., where Nordstrom is closing its 300,000-square-foot department store.

Alex Barreira

Retail giant Nordstrom plans to close its 312,000-square-foot department store at the Westfield San Francisco Centre in August, citing changing dynamics downtown, the company told the Business Times exclusively.

The Seattle company will also close its 45,496-square-foot Nordstrom Rack store across the street at 901 Market St. on July 1, ending a 35-year presence in downtown San Francisco. The closures come as both leases approach the end of their current terms with the option for renewal.

"Decisions like this are never easy, and this one has been especially difficult," wrote Jamie Nordstrom, the company's chief stores officer, in a message to impacted employees. "But as many of you know, the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully."


It was the profoundly stupid, suicidal compliance with the the fraudulent plandemic that caused this. And San Francisco was at the forefront of that lunacy. It deserves to sink into the mire until sanity returns. You will know things have started to take a turn for the better when Columbus is reinstated in his rightful place on Telegraph Hill.
530   Patrick   2023 May 4, 3:42pm  

https://www.leefang.com/p/police-tell-san-francisco-homeowner?publication_id=1239256&post_id=119188625&isFreemail=true


Police Tell San Francisco Homeowner To Hire Private Security After Suffering 8 Break-Ins

The rise in property crime has rattled neighborhoods across the city. ...

The last incident, a brazen intrusion by a man who entered the house by breaking into the front door, happened in broad daylight last Saturday morning. He appeared to be armed, though he fled once confronted by a worker, and left the scene in a white BMW driven by someone who accompanied him to the house.

In another incident in March, intruders arrived with two vehicles and ransacked the home, breaking windows and a downstairs door. They fled with construction tools, equipment, and appliances, including a washer and dryer.

Police have told Cook that they simply won’t investigate these types of crimes, according to Cook. After repeatedly calling the San Francisco Police Department to report the thefts with little to show for his efforts, an officer told Cook after Saturday’s break-in that he would have better luck hiring private security guards.
531   Ceffer   2023 May 4, 3:51pm  

Two masked individuals (innominates??) stab a man to death in an apartment complex in the middle of Pleasanton. Yeah, it's habbening, the thug bicycle surveillance crews are out and about, and local blogs are increasingly violence, burglary and crime reports.
https://patch.com/california/pleasanton/man-stabbed-death-pleasanton-2-suspects-large
532   EBGuy   2023 May 4, 4:56pm  

It does seem like we may be entering the vigilantism stage of lawlessness. The subway chokehold death in NYC seems like a Bernard Goetz type moment.
Meanwhile in Baghdad by the Bay...
SF Walgreens Security Guard Freed From Jail; DA Won’t Pursue Murder Charge in Shooting
Days after a man was shot and killed at a Downtown San Francisco Walgreens, the private security guard arrested on suspicion of murder in the case has been released from jail and the district attorney said she would not pursue a murder charge against the guard.
Security guard Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony, 33, was arrested and booked on suspicion of murder Friday for allegedly shooting and killing Banko Brown, 24, on Thursday evening. Police have said the incident involved shoplifting.
534   richwicks   2023 May 4, 10:06pm  

AmericanKulak says

Nordstrom closing SF Locations.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/after-nordstrom-closures-s-f-stop-retail-exodus-18074794.php


The headline is hilarious:


After Nordstrom store closures, what can San Francisco do to stop the retail exodus?


To stop the exodus, enforce the law.

Like it's such a difficult hard to grasp solution to a complex mysterious problem.
535   Patrick   2023 May 8, 1:19pm  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/transportation-monday-may-8-2023?publication_id=463409&post_id=120047644&isFreemail=true


You might remember Brooke Jenkins, San Fransisco’s replacement District Attorney, after woke S.F. citizens recalled Jenkins’ useless Soros-funded predecessor, Chesa Boudin (if that’s his real name).

Jenkins seems to have gotten the message.

Michael Anthony, 33, is a security guard at a downtown San Fransisco Walgreens. On April 27th, officers responded to a report of a shooting at his Walgreens and found a victim, later identified as Banko Brown, who had been shot and killed.

Brown was a homeless “trans man” (a biological woman) of color. Security guard Anthony was briefly arrested for homicide. ...

In a statement last Monday, District Attorney Jenkins said that charges were dropped because prosecutors could not prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the guard was guilty of a crime after they reviewed statements from witnesses and the guard, along with video footage of the April 27 episode at a store on Market Street. ...

What we do know about the video is that it apparently shows that homeless Banko — I know you’re going to find this hard to believe — probably assaulted Mr. Anthony after being stopped for shoplifting. But Ms. Jenkins said in a statement, “This was a shoplifting that, really, based on the facts, turned into and escalated into a robbery, and the armed security guard did, ultimately, end up using lethal force. The evidence clearly shows that the suspect believed he was in mortal danger and acted in self-defense.”

Ms. Jenkins called the Brown’s killing a “tragedy,” but said, “We cannot bring forward charges when there is credible evidence of reasonable self-defense. Doing so would be unethical and create false hope for a successful prosecution.”

What we don’t know is whether Banko was hopped up on free, City-provided testosterone. I’d give it even odds.


A tiny bit of good news out of SF.
536   Patrick   2023 May 8, 1:22pm  

richwicks says

The headline is hilarious:

After Nordstrom store closures, what can San Francisco do to stop the retail exodus?

To stop the exodus, enforce the law.

Like it's such a difficult hard to grasp solution to a complex mysterious problem.


https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/transportation-monday-may-8-2023?publication_id=463409&post_id=120047644&isFreemail=true


In an email last Tuesday, Nordstrom’s chief retail officer explained to employees that “the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.”

Haha, the “dynamics” of downtown, that’s a good one. He means like the exciting “dynamic” situation when a homeless lunatic like Banko Brown suddenly and unexpectedly assaults you in broad daylight for no reason.

The Westfield mall’s owner was more blunt and less politically correct. His statement said the Nordstroms’ closure “underscores the deteriorating situation in Downtown San Francisco.” It explained, without mincing words, “a growing number of retailers and businesses are leaving the area due to the unsafe conditions for customers, retailers, and employees, coupled with the fact that these significant issues are preventing an economic recovery of the area.” ...

Meanwhile, billionaires like Peter Thiel are complaining that Florida’s booming real estate is too expensive. What could the difference be?
537   Ceffer   2023 May 8, 1:26pm  

Gee, the SF prosecutor underestimates the kangaroo court potential of LibbyFuck retards in the jury pool. Or, after being mugged and car raped a few times, have they also turned a bit?

Saw one of my wife's old friends after a few years recently. She was previously typical lily livered simp over homeless that they were just poor, unfortunate people who deserved support and a second chance, and that I was such a cruel and heartless person not to have compassion for them and give them money.

All that is over. She now declares them drug addicts who won't yield to organized living or any shelter that forces them to stay sober or not smoke, no more sympathy for the devil. Talk about a 180 degree turn, I was shocked, but maybe it bodes well that the toxicity of wokeness can be reversed in some people.
538   EBGuy   2023 May 12, 2:34pm  

Spiraling in San Francisco’s Doom Loop
What it’s like to live in a city that no longer believes its problems can be fixed.
Meanwhile, the Blick security guard kept texting me videos. He needed someone to see what he was seeing out there, on his patch of Market Street, between Fifth and Sixth. Did I know how the black markets worked? Had I walked down Market Street at night? Did I know that some of the street addicts were rotting, literally: their decomposing flesh attracting flies. The Anthropologie, where he used to work, announced it would close. “What it really feels like living in San Francisco is that you’re lying to yourself,” he said. “Oh, I live in San Francisco. It’s so nice. When you walk by the junkies you’re like, They don’t exist. they don’t exist. You’re lying to yourself.”
A week later, a security guard, working at a Walgreens a block from Blick, shot and killed a 24-year-old. He would tell Jonah Owen Lamb at the San Francisco Standard, “It’s a lot to deal with. It’s a lot of pressure. A person can only take so much … When you are limited to certain options, something will happen … Who has my back? Nobody?”
539   B.A.C.A.H.   2023 May 12, 3:56pm  

While RomeSan Francisco burns Nero plays the fiddle mayor London Breed goes on an official (city-paid) trip to Haifa Israel.
540   Patrick   2023 May 14, 8:02pm  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12083175/Dave-Chappelle-slams-San-Francisco-half-Glee-half-zombie-movie-surprise-gig.html


'What the f* happened to this place?' Dave Chappelle slams San Francisco as 'half Glee, half zombie movie' at surprise gig - as he recalls homeless person DEFECATING outside Indian restaurant he was about to eat in

Dave Chappelle, 49, slammed the city's rampant homeless crisis on Thursday
The comedian put on a surprise performance at the Masonic Auditorium
He said San Francisco was now the Tenderloin - which is a district of San Francisco notorious for its crime, homelessness and drug problems


They suppressed all mention of the insane violent leftist (but I repeat myself) who tried to kill Dave on stage last year.

Why did they omit that?
542   Ceffer   2023 May 15, 11:12am  

Patrick says


https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/05/15/let-the-blue-cities-die-n2623218

Wall the blue cities off as abscesses of Globalist pus. Starving them economically and returning them to mud hut nature they desire, like Detroit, seems to be the path. All the rich kids will bail out after their armchair bolshevism has run its course, leaving the pinheads to parasitize and consume one another with warlords.

These cities were created by reasonably enlightened visionaries and capable technocrats as functioning social machines, only to degenerate now into seized, derelict Zimbabwe farms, occupied by Visigoths without forebrains who have no knowledge, technical expertise, foresight or capability of keeping the sophisticated operations functional.

The Visigoths harvest a few grifting golden eggs while strangling the golden goose, and then, after the patient is close to death, try to entice the expertise back to run things again and keep the grift bounties rolling in.

The thing about smart and capable people is that they can go anywhere and rebuild a viable system, as long as they have the safeguards in place to keep the Hun out. The invasion of the Hun is a planned event, orchestrated by Switzerland, the Vatican and the City of London, believing they will retain overweening power over the grunting spear shakers by elevating them. That is why the Globalists want to reduce the collective intelligence, because they fear the natively intelligent in the populace.
543   richwicks   2023 May 15, 11:22am  

Ceffer says

That is why the Globalists want to reduce the collective intelligence, because they fear the natively intelligent in the populace.


But the result of this will be a worse world, for everybody, not just the poor.

That's what so stupid about this.

We can exist at like maybe modern levels of technology indefinitely, but it will become an increasingly more dangerous, and more difficult to control, world. The whole west is on the verge of revolution.

Just 20 years ago, we had propaganda, but we didn't need anything like censorship to keep the ball rolling. It turned out it didn't matter we are lied into wars, everybody knows now that we are. It didn't matter our corporate news media lied to us as a matter of course.

People complain about kids being marxist idiots and woke morons. That will NOT last. People grow out of this, and they are doing it faster than my generation did (X) or the boomers did. It took me to about 30 to start questioning everything, a 25 year old is at that spot generally. I know it's terrible to expose kids to the truth too early, but I wish I was exposed to it earlier.
544   HeadSet   2023 May 15, 11:42am  

richwicks says

I know it's terrible to expose kids to the truth too early, but I wish I was exposed to it earlier.

Are you sure you were not exposed? Or just not ready to accept it yet.
545   richwicks   2023 May 15, 12:02pm  

HeadSet says


Are you sure you were not exposed? Or just not ready to accept it yet.


When I was 20, there was nobody to point out "yeah, the media just lies". My first taste of it was at 23, and then it was only about Israel, but once you figure out that "the very complex situation in Israel" was a really simple land dispute and that only 1/2 of the conflict was ever explained, I could dip my toe into the water about what else I was misinformed about. I was so pissed off to find that out.

It's REALLY difficult to realize that everything is on television and in print is a lie when nobody around you agrees with you. Maybe X wasn't good, but you can trust NPR, PBS, the Economist, etc etc - no you can't. Took me to 30 to realize everything is propaganda, but I still held onto the idea that people were just making "mistakes". I didn't recognize it was all overt lies until I was around 35 or so, and it's not just news, it's EVERYTHING.

Do you know why there's laugh tracks in late night funny man shows? It's to force social conformance. It's an Asch conformity test. You don't want to be the one that disagrees and be laughed at and ridiculed. When is the last time you watched a late night show? Nothing is funny in it, but the audience still laughs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSkFyNVtNh8

Is any of that even slightly amusing? The audience is part of the performance. How many people realize that?

10% of the population might realize television is complete propaganda, that's a big step up from 1990 which I think was less than 1%.
546   AmericanKulak   2023 May 15, 12:04pm  

Funny you should mention Social Conformance via Late Nite (Un)funny Men.

Just saw this minutes ago:

547   richwicks   2023 May 15, 12:11pm  

AmericanKulak says


Funny you should mention Social Conformance via Late Nite (Un)funny Men.

Just saw this minutes ago:




I don't know if the timing is strictly necessary, but the repetition and and derision certainly is.

You ever notice that when there's disagreement in an interview, it becomes yelling and rudeness? It's to teach people to treat people they disagree like this, and not to listen to even consider the may have a valid and possibly correct opinion. Sean Hannity used to do this all the time, I don't know about now, I've not seen him in over 15 years.

I know how it's controlled at this point. Our media is basically just a bunch of assholes to incite violence. There's no nuanced discussion at all. Tucker Carlson is no different, go watch a segment of his, and turn off the sound, and just watch his facial cues:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9eN19qkZRk

He often squints his eyes to indicate disgust at a concept or an idea. Rachael Maddow is no different. I only consume information by reading or listening at this point (well for the most part), I know I can be manipulated even when I know the mechanisms of the manipulation.

On the View for example, audience is queued to clap and cheer. That's a sign that lights up. Nothing is authentic about it. People turn in to be a PART of that audience, not to listen to these women really.

I hate television. People ape behavior from it all the time.
549   Ceffer   2023 May 15, 12:24pm  

AmericanKulak says


Funny you should mention Social Conformance via Late Nite (Un)funny Men.

Absence makes the heart grow scornier. When you are on hiatus from the hypnotist propagandists for a while and then watch them, they can fill you with peak revulsion, they are so contemptible. I realize that my Santa Cruz liberal friend does this to me, as pointed out in the Oliver article, a reflex derisive laughter, but then he will listen afterward. The article points out the programming of the derisive laughter element, a form of brainwashing feedback. Interesting.
550   richwicks   2023 May 15, 12:31pm  

Ceffer says

Absence makes the heart grow scornier. When you are on hiatus from the hypnotist propagandists for a while and then watch them, they can fill you with peak revulsion, they are so contemptible. I realize that my Santa Cruz liberal friend does this to me, as pointed out in the Oliver article, a reflex derisive laughter, but then he will listen afterward.


Can you make a bet with him not to watch any television, either on television or the Internet, and to stay away from all printed forms of news, and radio, for one month?

I guarantee he will be a changed person in a month. Here's what he will feel at first, depressed, alone, unguided, and in withdrawal. I bet he can't do it.
551   Patrick   2023 May 15, 8:27pm  

https://sfstandard.com/community/crime-homelessness-and-commercial-vacancies-sjs-doom-loop-mirrors-sf/


Crime, Homelessness and Commercial Vacancies: SJ’s Doom Loop Mirrors SF


I wonder if they will ever figure out that it is Democrat policies which are killing them.
556   Patrick   2023 May 21, 4:03pm  

https://spectator.org/san-francisco-does-detroit/


San Francisco Does Detroit

Nordstrom’s closure marks the beginning of the end for the City by the Bay.

May 6, 2023

I left San Francisco just in time — at the end of 2016.

Sure, I saw the occasional junkie shooting up in public when I still worked in the city. And yes, I saw men use the sidewalk at the intersection of Fifth and Market streets as a toilet.

But I never saw swarms of shoplifters emptying pharmacy shelves. If I needed new shoes, I could pop over to Nordstrom at the Westfield San Francisco Centre at Fifth and Market.

Market Street is an obstacle course of used free needles and damaged souls.

The number of friends who had stopped going into the city entirely — and switched to shopping in suburban malls — was unsettling, but tourists could help fill the gap.

This week, sadly, Nordstrom announced that it won’t renew its lease at the Westfield Centre.

The chief stores officer, Jamie Nordstrom, explained in a statement that “the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.”

That’s corporate-speak for: Our customers are afraid to go there.

I had almost gotten used to dodging panhandlers and homeless people as I went to and from work.

In 2015, I started writing about how much the city smelled. “Stench and the City” became a recurring theme.

Then-Mayor Ed Lee blamed the drought for the sour smells. ...

If a foreign power — or Republicans — had done to the City by the Bay what the ruling class has allowed to occur, voters would be outraged. Instead, they save their ire for Donald Trump, for all the good that does.

That liberal sense of moral superiority will be the death of the Special City. Years from now, when downtown feels like Detroit, San Franciscans will look at the closure of Nordstrom’s downtown store as the day the music died.
557   Ceffer   2023 May 26, 11:35pm  

This is fine.
558   HeadSet   2023 May 27, 9:15am  

Ironic that "Banana Republic" is leaving downtown SF.
559   RayAmerica   2023 May 28, 11:55am  

Another San Francisco Retailer Closes-Old Navy to Shut Down Flagship Location After Almost 30 Years

“Since our Market Street store opened in the 1990s, the way we leverage flagship locations has changed,” the company announced. “As a result, we have taken the difficult decision to close our Market Street store when the lease expires, and we are already working to identify new locations in downtown San Francisco that will better serve the needs of the business and our customers.”

Old Navy’s closure comes on the heels of many other downtown San Francisco retailers shuttering their doors.

Williams Sonoma, Nordstrom, and Saks Off 5th have all announced store closings in San Francisco in the month of May.

As did Coco Republic, an upscale home furnishing provider that is leaving its three-story storefront at 55 Stockton Street after opening last fall.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/another-san-francisco-retailer-closes-old-navy-shut/
560   1337irr   2023 May 29, 10:15am  

I drove by a BART passenger car on I-35 going northbound on a semi. It's just more proof that California is moving to Texas.
562   RC2006   2023 May 29, 11:29am  

Population of SF and LA.




563   1337irr   2023 May 29, 11:36am  

What are you all thoughts on renting in downtown SF?
564   richwicks   2023 May 29, 7:59pm  

1337irr says

What are you all thoughts on renting in downtown SF?


Renting OUT to people? Down. It's no longer the "cool city". It's the city of shit now.

Renting yourself? Well, probably cheap, but I'd recommend a security door.

Local government is doing what governments back in NY used to do - ruin an area, deprive it of police, make it a shithole, and when everybody gives up, buy it on the cheap, then re-introduce police and "tough on crime", housing prices go up, make a shitload of money. I've seen this is many areas. It's a scam.

SF won't be a shithole forever, but it stops only when enough people fold their cards, when they give up and move. It depends on how stubborn the population is. Gentrification is sort of artificial. Governments purposely destroy an area so the mafia (which is the government and wealthy investors who control the government) can profit. This is why you're severely punished for protecting yourself against a criminal, but the criminal is not. They are purposely creating criminality to drive out the population and sell low.
565   Patrick   2023 May 31, 8:46am  




Pelosi's district.

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