Guest Post by Alex Berenson
There are no children here
San Francisco might be the most beautiful place in the world.
If you’ve ever been here, I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. The bay, surrounded by hills on all sides. The bridges and container ships and ferries and cable cars. The brightly painted townhouses and crazily curving streets. The people are pretty too, wind-kissed women striding the streets.
So why does the city feel like it’s dying?
I’m not even talking about the homeless crisis on the streets around the Civic Center and the Castro and the Mission District. I spent the day walking the city’s northeastern quadrant, neighborhoods that so far have resisted the tent encampments and open-air drug markets and sidewalks littered with needles and human feces to the south.
The day was bright and breezy, a perfect San Francisco spring afternoon.
And the streets were practically empty, aside from a few blocks in Chinatown, as lifeless as they were beautiful. The city felt like the backdrop for a dystopian sci-fi movie, with ads promoting brands that don’t seem to exist anywhere else and strangely outfitted self-driving cars popping up surprisingly often.
Adimab? What’s an Adimab?
Most disconcerting of all, I’m not sure I saw a single child. I must have, but I can’t remember any. I certainly didn’t hear any, didn’t hear them yelling or running or laughing. I would have noticed, they would have stood out.
San Francisco has been desperately short on children for decades. As a percentage of its population, it has fewer kids than almost any other major American city. Barely 1 in 8 of its residents are under 18.
San Francisco is expensive and difficult, but Manhattan is also expensive and difficult, and Manhattan has far more kids. No, for whatever reason, the pretty girls and boys here seem particularly unable to pair off and take the final step into adulthood.
Before the pandemic, the lack of kids was less noticeable because San Francisco was growing overall. But from mid-2020 through mid-2021, the city’s population fell almost 7 percent, a huge shift. Only Manhattan had a bigger drop. (Yet home prices in both are higher now than they were two years ago despite the outflow – a disconnect from reality driven by easy money.)
The missing children reminded me that San Francisco had imposed some of the strictest pandemic restrictions anywhere in the United States and held on to them longer than almost anywhere else. It kept its schools closed longer too.
I don’t think that’s a coincidence. Cities are their residents, and no American city has more narcissism and beauty and fear than San Francisco. It – its wealthy residents, anyway – live in a present too perfect to make room for the future.
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The solution to all of these community crises are simple. Bring back conservative white men, women, and our allies to positions of leadership and the rebirth will be on.
In SF’s case, the solution is one which no man or woman has any control over: the San Andreas fault line.
Having studied volcanology and plate tectonics — some of which in Hawaii — it is most interesting that the San Andreas fault line runs directly across (underneath) the Bay; that’s why SF is liable at any time to have a catastrophic (8 or greater on the Richter Scale — the one in 1989 was only 6.8 and nearly destroyed the Ambassador Norton [aka Oakland Bay] bridge, just imagine what an 8.2 would do) earthquake.
I was there in 1990 just months after the quake, and there were still wide areas of the city, especially around Fisherman’s Wharf, under repair, as well as the entire top level of the two-leveled Bay bridge closed because it had collapsed. Yet even back then, around the Civic Center and Castro it was a junkie playground, with homeless sleeping on the steps and guarding their shopping carts full of detritus. Burnt-out hippies offered to sell me crack in broad daylight, while standing at the entrance to a store. Faggots loudly sashayed down streets in groups, purses held in the crooks of their arms, some wearing leather like Freddie Mercury clones. This must have been Weimar before Hitler took over, I thought.
So it looks like to me that God Himself has a plan for SF. Look what happened to Sodom. God hates sodomy.
San Fran has been dead for some time. I am not a fan of cities, but the author is right, San Francisco had a certain feel about it, perhaps because it wasn’t flat and was built around a bay. You don’t go to a city like NY, Dallas, Chicago, etc and get the same vibe.
My last trip to San Francisco (for work) would be my last ever. Too many things to list that were just so wrong about that place. The amount of bums has increased dramatically and they are now walking among the masses instead of camping out like it always has been. I had one smelly son-of-a-bitch follow me and beg for money. I had to tell the fucker I would knock him out if he didn’t get away from me. I went to visit the San Fran mint and there was a bum pissing off the steps to the building. Another time I witnessed a bum taking a shit in broad daylight. The people just walk by as if its normal. It seems everywhere you walk you get a whiff of marijuana smoke and most of the people are high as fuck. It is probably the most expensive city I have ever been to. I could keep going. Yea, fuck San Francisco.
I stopped going in the early 70s. The homo vibe was over whelming even back then and the outdoor fag sex I ran across too frequently kabooshed the place for me.
I am too young to remember that. Thing is in the 70s that was the epicenter of faggotry. While there is still a large population of fags there, you wouldn’t really know it since it has been “accepted” all over as “normal behavior”. The place has a serious homeless problem now and they refuse to battle any crime that occurs. A lady I attended a conference with while I was there had her purse stolen from here in broad daylight at an intersection filled with people.
The new Ricearoni jingle:
San Franshitko, the California treat!
I am glad I visited most of these cities before they became progressive sh**holes.
Me too.
TN P, You must be be at least 90 years old!
You could avoid the bad areas of NYC and SF and many other cities as few as 30 years ago. Now the cancer has spread to every corner.
In 1968 Manhattan was awesome. Kids could walk around at night. Bet no one would think of trying that today. Democrats are an actual plague on civilization.
and a curse.
Not quite.
First visited SF in ’76 on a business trip Had a couple of days to see the sights and fell in love with the city. Last trip was in ’14 for another business trip and did not want to venture much further than the hotel. First trip to NYC was ’93 and we had a great time in Manhattan. Last trip was ’07 and it was a good time for all of us. Walking the streets of Manhattan at 0200 and never once felt uncomfortable. Chicago in the early 80’s was also a fun trip. Last trip in ’14 and the only reason I would consider going back is a very good friend lives in the burbs.
It seems like most of the big cities have gone downhill rapidly since the Magic Negro was installed as potus.
Just think how bad things would be if we hadn’t had a Magic Negro as potus.
He saved us from ourselves!
Tangential, I know, but I’m glad I spent time in Paris in 1970.
Too bad I didn’t have any money!
Ask Nancy, It’s for the children. The guy doesn’t even mention that Nancy and the Party are doing their very best to maintain the highest standard of living, at least for “It – its wealthy residents, anyway – live in a present too perfect to make room for the future.”
You know, it’s all for the children.
Because they’re all homosexuals.
It’s the grooming.
There’s been too many genders out there for a long time. They’ve got no earthly idea how to pair off except for their latest “gig”.
SF has always attracted the homo’s. It has just gotten much worse the past dozen years.
Been to San Fran three times. First time flew there then rented a car for some job interviews in Sacramento. This shortly after there had been a major earthquake. With the failed bridge structures and all the construction the place scared the dog out of me driving out of there.
Second time visited relatives in Sacramento. Took the family to San Fran. You could not go anywhere without a panhandler following you around, down on the wharf I guess it was, China Town, whatever. I’ve never been to NY City and don’t care to go there. I figured San Fran was close enough to being NY without ever desiring to go to NY. My kids were 8 and 10 years old. I recall walking across the Golden Gate bridge passing two guys holding hands. My kids looked at the wife and I like how weird is this? And , drivers around there were some the of the most obscene , hateful, road raged drivers I recalled at the time while DFW is pretty much like that now.
Third time was a connecting flight out of DFW, Oregon bound. About an 1-1/2 hr layover, I had heard of and seen pics of people that were tattooed every inch of their body head to toe and reconfigured to look like lizards and lions and tigers and such never believing people did stuff like that until personally witnessing such while waiting for my connecting flight. Then on the flight out this guy sitting next to me I thought would maybe kill me had we met on the streets of San Fran like he hated older white guys or something. Never again I know that.
As airports go, SFO isn’t all that bad. Just don’t go downtown!
San Fransicko; homage to that particularly bizarre synthesis of Globohomo, hyper-finance “crapitalism” and technocracy.
And what a pity; 50 years ago the place was a world-class gorgeous gem , maybe even Auntie’s most favourite city to visit (little Joe’s on Broadway and the Canton for eats) in North America , the left-over hippies didn’t defecate in the street and homos only defiled
mostly the Castro district.
Sodom and Gomorrah didn’t have anything on the place: The hand of God is going to shake the whole perverted place into the ocean and soon.
Ha! we used to call it Sam Crams Crisco
As a resident of a West Coast Shithole, I feel we are providing a service to the rest of America. Whenever you hear some Progressive politician running for office and offering ideas and policies that sound good, you need to visit San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, or LA to view the results of the “good” ideas of the Progressive politicians.
You will then return home to your heartland town and vote for the guy with the Bible.
Guys beating Bibles gave us the horrors of Prohibition too. Better to do more than scratch the surface, though your point on these places being examples to hold up certainly rings true.
They certainly didn’t castrate kids, sexually groom kids, or be pro infanticide. I’ll gladly stand with the prohibitionists if that’s the choice.
When its completely dead, it might be worth visiting.
We spent a few days there this past July. Took a road trip to California and were supposed to meat some friends from Argentina in SF. Their trip got cancelled because people there govt was still being stupid about Covid.
Anyway, one afternoon we had a picnic in Alamo Square Park. I would guess there were a couple hundred people there. It took me a few minutes to realize that my daughter was the only child in sight. It was just sad.
Turns out there was a playground behind a hill where maybe 8-10 kids were playing…still, in any other park around the country on a pleasant summer afternoon there would have been 50-60 kids running around.
Yes, there is much wrong with San Francisco, but shouldn’t we be glad that they’re not reproducing?
Meh. Children. Who needs them?
Cannot imagine my life without them. None of mine have tattoos either.
Read some of my other comments from this morning.
In his memoir, US Grant said in the 1840’s SF was the weirdest place he had seen before or since.
I have fond memories of the place, grew up just south of there in the suburbs.
It was a different world in the ’50s.
Now I live FAR from any city, takes a 45 minute drive to get groceries.
The People’s Republic of Seattle is San Francisco North — just on a slightly smaller scale … with all of the same issues and problems … and with the same political party being behind it …
The Club will turn any place they want to pick up real estate for next to nothing into a shitehole with the tools in their toolbox. Drug attics, lowlifes, ghetto rats can destroy any location within a short amount of time. The decent people move out, the LE’s turn a blind eye and judges do nothing. People lose their investment and once nice home or business so the club can tear it down and rebuild at lofty prices minus the bums and drug attics all replaced by limos and folks dressed in finery. Real estate has always been the big money maker for the club, now they are no longer willing to wait for the properties to go the way of the traditional ghetto.