San Francisco in the 1950s. What do you notice?
This is the society that was stolen from you. pic.twitter.com/1XEvS1FY7B
— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) March 18, 2024
Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times,
Videos from San Francisco posted on social media Aug. 30 show morgue vans loading bodies amid scenes of widespread addiction, with people folded up and contorted in unnatural positions in what many describe as dystopian settings on the streets of downtown.
Posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, repeatedly shared by locals indicated that as many as 18 overdose deaths took place in San Francisco throughout the day, but a spokesperson for the chief medical examiner’s office told The Epoch Times by email Aug. 31 that 13 deaths occurred and are currently under investigation.
“Today, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner initiated examinations on 13 cases received within the past twenty-four hours,” the spokesperson wrote.
“The case and manner of death for these decedents remain under review.”
No toxicology results are yet available, and the examiner’s office had no further comment.
Continue reading “San Francisco Records More Than A Dozen Suspected Overdose Deaths In One Day”
I see these videos and I don’t feel a tiny ounce of pity.
I look at the voting record.
Did you vote Democrat?
Did you march with BLM.
Defund the police?
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Then you literally CREATED the environment for this to happen to you.
Stop crying.— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 7, 2023
In 2019, Chesa Boudin openly campaigned on a hard-left, soft-on-crime platform – and got elected as San Francisco’s chief prosecutor. On Tuesday, San Francisco voters gave him the boot, having discovered that the reality of hard-left governance is much less appealing than the theory and promises.
As The Epoch Times’ Brad Jones details below, unlike California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent recall election, Boudin didn’t face any opponents. On June 7, San Francisco voters were simply asked to answer yes or no to the question, “Shall Chesa Boudin be recalled (removed) from the Office of District Attorney?”
With more than 61.3 percent of the voters selecting “yes,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed must now appoint an interim district attorney until Nov. 8, when a permanent replacement will be elected. The no votes totaled 40,921 (38.7 percent).
Continue reading “San Francisco Ousts Soros-Backed Uber-Progressive DA In Recall Vote”
Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Do you remember this:
Where are the flowers today?
They are in the gutter along with every thing else.
San Francisco, the city I knew, is destroyed.
In place of flowers, there is filth. The streets are overflowing with it. Excrement, hypodermic needles, crime. The city fathers, a collection of white liberals and sexual perverts, have legalized robbery by blacks up to $950 per black per robbery. It is a form of reparations. Store owners, managers, and security guards stand helpless while blacks loot the stores. A large number of San Francisco stores have closed as they are treated by blacks as free distribution centers.
This is a daily occurrence in San Francisco. Overt theft of under under $950 has been decriminalized. If store security people retain a thief, they can be sued. #DemocratCities pic.twitter.com/yQA6pbmBb3
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) June 15, 2021
San Francisco has managed to curb the virus slightly in its city – but at what cost? Those paying sky high taxes to live in the Bay Area may soon be wondering why they are paying to live in a shut down city that state and local government officials have refused to allow to reopen due to a virus with a CDC-predicted infection fatality rate of between 0.00002 and 0.093.
The entire downtown area of the city, once vibrant with business and tourism, is now “empty” according to a new report by AP. Everything from food trucks to local workers used to be sights one would see on a daily basis in San Francisco. Now, the city has been all but abandoned.
Despite spending over $94 million – or around $257k per day this year, San Francisco is still a needle-infested, poo-covered, failed experiment in tolerance that continues to scare major conferences and their tourist dollars away from the city’s $9 billion-a-year industry.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “while progress has been made, the effort remains a losing battle,” despite paying ‘poop patrollers’ nearly $200,000 to manage the town’s fecal fiasco.
Hilariously, while Mayor London Breed participated in a media blitz in response to software giant Oracle’s decision to move their massive annual convention to Las Vegas after two decades in SF, an image of a guy taking a shit in a local Safeway was going viral. Like hepatitis C.
Continue reading “San Francisco Blows $94 Million This Year In Failed War On Human Excrement”
Thanks to high-crime, squalor, relaxed drug laws and an excruciatingly high cost of living, San Francisco has become one of the nation’s most depressing places to live, according to the City-Journal‘s Erica Sandberg.
And it’s not just the shit-covered streets which require highly-compensated “poop patrollers” to try and keep up with the fecal fiasco, or the thousands of used drug needles littering the ground, or the shocking number of aggressive homeless people terrifying tourists; San Francisco is a bastion of property crime – in fact, it’s the worst city in the nation when it comes to burglary, larceny, shoplifting and vandalism, according to the report.
The rate of car break-ins is particularly striking: in 2017 over 30,000 reports were filed, and the current average is 51 per day. Other low-level offenses, including drug dealing, street harassment, encampments, indecent exposure, public intoxication, simple assault, and disorderly conduct are also rampant.
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When compounded with other troubles for which the city is now infamous (human feces, filth, and homelessness, which is up 17 percent since 2017), San Franciscans find themselves surrounded by squalor and disorder. –City-Journal
Continue reading “San Francisco: An Expensive, Shit-Coverd Cesspool Marked By Crime And Depression”
The situation in #Venezuela is only getting worse.
Wait…that's not Venezuela. ? #ampFW pic.twitter.com/QBUAQOBUDE
— FreedomWorks (@FreedomWorks) May 15, 2019
SanFrancisco's homeless problem is awful — partly because government doesn't enforce basic laws. Last year, there were more than 30,000 car break-ins in SF and police made an arrest in less than 2 percent of cases: #SanFrancisco #Homeless pic.twitter.com/GgcI7PerJW
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) May 5, 2019
When it comes to foreigners visiting the US, while the general reaction is overall favorable, it appears that one city tends to draw a reaction of sheer shock if not disgust: San Francisco.
Recall two weeks ago, when discussing his latest “luxury ski trip”, the UK’s Bill Blain said that he hopes his American hosts will forgive him for raising this, “but the squalor we saw in The City was frightful. San Francisco has always been one of favourite US cities, but the degree of homelessness, mental illness and drug abuse we saw on this trip was truly shocking. Walking round SF on a Sunday Morning and we saw sights we couldn’t believe. This must be one of the richest cities in the world – home to 4 of the 10 richest people on the planet according to Wiki. I asked friends about it, and they shrugged it off.. “The City has always attracted the homeless because of the mild weather,”.. “It’s a drug thing”.. “its too difficult”… “you get used to it..” Well, I didn’t.”
Now, it is the turn of another prominent financial strategist to lament the increasingly sordid reality of everyday life in the liberal capital of the West.
Continue reading “Albert Edwards: “I Was Quite Shocked By My Last Visit To San Francisco””
