December 29, 2019

Decaying city.



Dan Scavino is the Assistant to the President and Director of Social Media at the White House.

111 comments:

rcocean said...

Hilarious. But SF loves to wallow in its filth. Its full of smart, rich people who like to walk in shit.

traditionalguy said...

The war for the west coast has begun.

Mary Beth said...

I was watching some old episodes of "Monk" yesterday and started thinking about how that character would react to the idea of "poop maps" for San Francisco. They would have had to set the show in another city because he would never have left his apartment.

robother said...

Although there is hope: I read the other day that SF dogs are now being trained to put human poop in bags.

wildswan said...

traditionalguy said...
The war for the west coast has begun.

I think you're right. And ... why not? Trump turns California Republican again. Oh my, what an election night.

Beasts of England said...

It’s been a while since I’ve been to San Francisco, but my older daughter went two years ago for the first time. She was mortified. And to be honest, I thought she may have been overreacting - until she sent me some photos. Sad!!

rcocean said...

war for the west coast? LOL! Trump will lose the west coast by a landslide. It turned blue because of the immigration, and its never going back.

gilbar said...

Trump turns California Republican again.

I'd LOVE to think that could happen, but; since in California, you can now vote without being:
* a citizen
* a registered voter
* a resident
* alive
* an actual human being

I'm pretty sure that the democrats will have a lock
and in Orange county, with 156% of the vote counted... Democrats will in a landslide!!

Michael K said...

Babylon Bee has reported that dogs in SFO are staring to use plastic bags to pick up human poop.

John henry said...

Nancy d'Alessadro Pelosi and her I'll are doing for sf what her family stiffs for Baltimore.

She learned from the very best. At corruption.

John Henry

J. Farmer said...

One of the reply tweets says that San Francisco has "become a hellscape of poverty dotted by areas of extreme wealth hidden behind walls." That is a pretty concise description of the general in America. San Francisco is only a microcosm of what we can expect America to look like after immigration and globalization have really done their jobs.

Narayanan said...

Blogger rcocean said...
war for the west coast? LOL! Trump will lose the west coast by a landslide. It turned blue because of the immigration, and its never going back
_____&&&&&+++++
Do illegals actually vote or do Ds just Harvest!?

tcrosse said...

The people who own the place seem to like it just as it is. Otherwise they have the power and the wherewithal to change it.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

Mary Beth.....LOL about Monk

I used to live in SF and it always had its areas of 'decay' and filth. However, the last time I was there, about a year ago, I was shocked at the areas that previously lived in or frequented that were nice or just OK which were like a slum in the worst parts of India.

Filth. Garbage. People wandering around in stupors or just laying on the side of the streets and in doorways. Probably decaying themselves. The once pretty and vibrant city was like an open sewer, a rotting corpse. Disgusting and frightening too.

I will never go back again for any reason.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

It’s the “Crazy Nancy Pelosi” that’s significant, even historic. That’s the POTUS publicly addressing the Speaker of the House! Pure dismissive contempt. I bet Nancy is absolutely shitting herself with fury, ‘cause if Trump is comfortable addressing her in that manner then surely those millions of cousin-pokin’, banjo-strokin’ Deplorables are also laughing at her, and worse, laughing at her Office.

There’s a new political paradigm abornin’ in American politics. One where overreach doesn’t just result in electoral disfavor but genuinely delegitimizes the overreacher with those they seek to control. And it’s a very stupid politician who continues to push it, as I guess the Virginia Democrats will learn soon enough.

traditionalguy said...

I recall reporting here 3 years ago about how horrible the streets of SF had become. And several commenters who had not been there for several years jumped my case. It once had been a near perfect place. But now it has become a dangerous nuisance hostile to middle class Americans tourists.

Wince said...

Chapter 11. The Nine Situations: Sun Tzu said: The art of war recognizes nine varieties of ground: (1) Dispersive ground; (2) facile ground; (3) contentious ground; (4) open ground; (5) ground of intersecting highways; (6) serious ground; (7) difficult ground; (8) hemmed-in ground; (9) desperate ground.

3. When he has penetrated into hostile territory, but to no great distance, it is facile ground...

7. When an army has penetrated into the heart of a hostile country, leaving a number of fortified cities in its rear, it is serious ground.

On facile ground, halt not... On serious ground, gather in plunder.

Seeing Red said...

Remember, these are the people who care and berate those who don’t.

rcocean said...

"Do illegals actually vote or do Ds just Harvest!?"

They do both. And its all immigration. Immigrants from Africa and South America don't vote Republican - they quickly follow the nation-wide pattern of voting 2-1 D. East Asians and some wealthier Hindus vote more Republican than other groups but they're still voting 60-40 D. People also forget, you don't have to speak English to Vote. Millions vote using a ballot in spanish or some other language.

rcocean said...

I get tired of these "Big City X is doing badly", whether its St. Louis, SF, Detroit or Baltimore. All these places are run by D's. They have plenty of $$, (even Detroit gets huge sums of $$) and their voters could change things, if they wished. But they don't want to. They vote the same type of Liberal Pols in, year after year. NO MATTER WHAT.

Conclusion: They like their cities they way they are. And if they don't care, neither do I.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Right, so the barren, de-industrialized meth labs of red-state America are tourist paradises.

Pelosi is not the mayor of S.F. He did this before with Cummings. Trump and his devotees seem to lack a basic understanding of how basic government structures actually work.

Keep in mind that Trump's so-called efforts to reindustrialize America haven't actually brought back the hollowed out flyover towns that voted for him. They have however led to booming manufacturing economies in high-end niche markets that are clustered in places like, you guessed it, San Francisco.

Trump doesn't have a clue what he's talking about and I'm still trying to figure out what your relentless intentions to uncritically republish nearly all his BS propaganda here says about you.

Seeing Red said...

On Dec. 17, 2017, the Detroit Public Schools Community District sent the staff of its Office of Strategy to a six-day conference in Los Angeles at a cost of $286,596.

Under a spending transparency requirement lawmakers added to the school aid act in 2009, school districts must publish such expenses on their websites.

Other travel expense reports from the Detroit school district mention $250,000 in spending for staffers to attend a May 2019 conference in Italy and $240,000 for a six-day conference in Los Angeles in December 2018.


I think Chicago is worse, but Chicago hasn’t declared bankruptcy yet and lost 1/2 its population.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

I get tired of these "Big City X is doing badly", whether its St. Louis, SF, Detroit or Baltimore. All these places are run by D's.

There is no reason for any big city to ever vote for a robber-baron. Like you said, they already have the money, they have huge labor markets, they have much better educated populations - so the Republican message of "Vote for this wealthy, self-interested money-grubber to run your city so that he can enrich himself off it while throwing a bit of the scraps down your way" just will never sell there. Only rubes, sell-outs and sociopaths can be sold that message, much as it is the Republican mantra.

BUMBLE BEE said...

Can you imagine Michael Douglas and Karl Malden being filmed doing a foot pursuit in San Fran?

Big Mike said...

"Vote for this wealthy, self-interested money-grubber to run your city so that he can enrich himself off it while throwing a bit of the scraps down your way" just will never sell there.

Huh? This message is already "selling there" every time a Democrat is elected.

John henry said...

I have no idea whether pdjt can win California but it will be great fun to see him try. I suspect it is one of those really hard but not impossible things.

Even more fun to see the Brooke demmies spend money they don't have to defend it.

Money they won't be able to spend in other, closer states.

2020 is going to be a great year.

Is it to soon to start a Trump 2024 movement?

John Henry

bagoh20 said...
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bagoh20 said...

Many of the replies over there are suggesting that California poverty problems are no different than any other part of the country. That's just bullshit. First, California has had unparalleled advantages of climate, and natural resources, and has always attracted a lot of money, investment, and human capital becuase it's California and just pulls it in on mythology alone. Second, they collect far more tax revenue than any other state by far.

Despite these enormous advantages that once built it into an amazing success, and which are still present there, it is now declining rapidly and has the highest poverty in the country, with homelessness growing in 2019 faster than all other states combined. Other states don't have either California's inherent advantages, nor it's level of dysfunction. It can only be attributed to bad management, bad decision, bad politicians, and bad votes. It's entirely self-inflicted.

I left 3 years ago and just recently sold all my assets there. Everyone I talk to from my business dealings in real estate, banking, accounting, and regular people tell me the same thing: "You got out just in time." I did extremely well there for over 30 years, but it's not the place it once was, and it's all attributable to politics if you ask me.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Huh? This message is already "selling there" every time a Democrat is elected.

That's only true if you think that cutting services and smashing organized labor is something that Democrats do. It's not. It's a Republican money-grubbing robber baron franchise. It's basically their entire brand. Oh, and also defunding education and poisoning the air and water - as famous Republican governor mayor of Michigan Rick Snyder did to the entire city of Flint.

No Democrat would ever poison your kids so that he could appoint a crony to run your city on the premise of cutting your state's funds was the way to balance your budget. And he wouldn't use the state's funds to pay for his own legal defense after doing so, as Republican Rick Snyder also quite famously did.

Now you've got the biggest Republican of them all defrauding student tuitions like Betsy DeVos did and removing your clean environmental protections as Scott Pruitt did. Betsy DeVos is in contempt of court for not correcting this. Pruitt was removed after proving how high he could jack up the "office perks" expenses. Republicans in action.

Trump ran a fake university until it was shut down. A court had to "re-educate" him and his daughter on how to legally operate charities once it was found out that he was using his as a profitable shell company.

And he thinks windmills cause cancer.

All just in it for themselves and to screw everyone else over. Like I said, it's the Republican reason for being. Not a Democrat thing.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

It seems pretty obvious that the only real problem CA has with homelessness is that they're still doing the Republican sprawl and anti-public transport thing. If they started building vertically to relieve the housing inventory and implementing public transport which helps with higher populations once they start getting large enough to need high rises, multi-story units and other things that are commonplace in medium to large cities, then the homelessness problem has no reason to remain as acute. There's no "Democratic" practice that made these problems what they are to them.

TJM said...

Ann,

I think The President of Toilet Paper, might be an insane asylum escapee and it may be advisable to report this situation to the proper authorities

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

TJM said...
Ann,

I think The President of Toilet Paper, might be an insane asylum escapee and it may be advisable to report this situation to the proper authorities


Relying on ad hominem attacks, avoiding the message, and tattling - three more Republican specialities I forgot to mention.

How do you identify the partisan? The partisan is the one who feels threatened every time the resolution to a problem is identified and he can't deal with the fact that it doesn't somehow just help his party or whatever it's up to.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Anyway, have a good day justifying Trump's ignorant nonsense and the glee he expresses over an incredible American city's problems as just another way to help his campaign and quest for power. People have to have priorities in life and mine isn't to just help his machine and his crumbling party, so I leave that operation to the other, "sane" commenters. Enjoy.

TJM said...

President Toilet,

Engaging in projection much? The modern day Dem engages in vicious ad hominem non-stop. Self awareness is not their strong suit either

Narayanan said...

On facile ground, halt not... On serious ground, gather in plunder
_____&&&&&+++++
Silicon valley?

Just asking.

Seeing Red said...

Can you imagine Michael Douglas and Karl Malden being filmed doing a foot pursuit in San Fran?


Bwaaaaaaa they’d be OJ’g. Every poop pile is a suitcase.

Seeing Red said...

Wine caves?

Iman said...

“ And to be honest, I thought she may have been overreacting - until she sent me some photos. Sad!!”

She must’ve chanced upon that Folsom Street Fair...

Iman said...

Shorter President toilet paper shoe:

You can pry the poop out of my cold, dead, stubby sausage fingers...

narciso said...

the troll, tests my commitment to collosians 4, san angeles was never this fetid in demolition man, in fact that was the rebel's domain, denis leary's edgar friendly,

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

The modern day Dem engages in vicious ad hominem non-stop. Self awareness is not their strong suit either

Well awareness in general apparently is. And they're aware that vicious ad hominem non-stop is basically the only trick in Trump's tool box. They're also aware that he's told thousands of lies during the last three years alone. Are these facts of which Republicans are not "self-aware?" Or are they just hiding their "self-awareness" of them and how much it discredits them and their efforts to pretend that their hero worship of him makes them some type of party with clean hands?

In any event, I addressed San Francisco, housing, and the reason cities are drawn to Republicans like roses to Pee Pee Le Pew. They don't want to be poisoned, left uneducated, their labor base insulted or services cut all for the sake of enriching the latest charlatan to run into town. I've told you about Rick Snyder and Betsy DeVos and Scott Pruitt. So Trump's War on Cities is a sham. Talk about seeking to project and distract. I guess being impeached wasn't the psychological benefit to him he kept telling you it was.

So what else is there left for you to say, now that you've proclaimed your good faith in being here for some other reason than to sneer, deride, defame or play partisan jockey horse?

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...
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narciso said...

he has the aroma of semanticleo, aka dana ward, a Nazgul that haunted a number of blogs for a good long spell,

Gk1 said...

Its pretty bad. I see this daily in the city. I deal with property managers in the financial district and SOMA and they have resigned themselves to larger and larger security costs to keep crazys and mentally disturbed people from getting inside the building and causing mayhem. The more recent daunting problem is how to protect tenants and employees once they leave the building and try to make it to a garage or BART without stepping in vomit or shit. Decline is a choice, I guess.

dustbunny said...

Every time it is suggested to build vertically in SF the citizens and democratic politicians who run the city howl in horror at the very idea as it would spoil the pretty look of the city. It seems they would rather step around piles of shit.

narciso said...

probably so,


https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1211130409356058624.html

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Although I can understand some reluctance to drastically alter the look of the city, if all the corps moving into it don't figure out a way around the problem - whether no longer moving in or working out better incentives for a massive project of vertical/multi-unit construction in certain districts or close nearby - then these companies are going to have to reap what they sow and take the blame.

Michael K said...

People have to have priorities in life and mine isn't to just help his machine and his crumbling party, so I leave that operation to the other, "sane" commenters. Enjoy.

Trolling is your priority. Avoiding you is ours.

narciso said...

that's a curious artefact, collected from city records.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

Doin' the San Francisco Tiptoe,
Try not to step in the poop!
Doin' the San Francisco Tiptoe,
Hey! Someone dropped a deuce on your stoop!

Oh, down in Ol' Frisco-town,
The Tiptoe's quite a hit!
Cause the Streets of San Francisco,
Are covered in shit!

A rag-time song by NorthOfTheOneOhOne (c) 2019

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Trolling is your priority. Avoiding you is ours.

Never having an answer to anything but always wanting everyone to think you do is yours.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Why? Fake impeachment over non-crimes is the opioid of choice for Maddow worshipers.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

remember - progressives care about the poor. with your tax dollars.
As long as Biden, Clinton and Pelosi family children GET PAID FIRST.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Biden family international money laundering IS NOT A CRIME.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.

except: D's and their needy children.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Impressive hysterics over the falsehoods, conspiracy theories and typical Trumpian troll tactics displayed by April Apple, everybody!

Next thing you know she'll go straight on over into Alex Jones territory and start waxing hysterically over chemtrails and hermaphrodite frogs.

You can do it, April.

YoungHegelian said...

"There are a lot of rotting penises in the decaying city. It's my job to make sure there aren't more of them. My name's Friday & I carry a badge."

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

remember - progressives care about the poor. with your tax dollars.
As long as Biden, Clinton and Pelosi family children GET PAID FIRST.


Hahahahaha. A booster of the Royal Trump Family said this. LOL!!!

narciso said...

heh, young Hegelian, in altered carbon set sometime in the 24th century, the supersoldier turned private eye, is investigated the death of a magnate.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

All Private Server Million dollar family international money grubbing and international tax payer money laundering by the D is a "conspiracy theory!

I saw it on Maddow and CNN.

narciso said...

dana ward, was either a anarchist activist, or a one time reporter, he was known for through this offal in long strains of text,

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Hunter Biden owns massive home in swanky Hollywood Hills, court docs reveal.

LOL - cuz he's a star!

Big Mike said...

Is it to soon to start a Trump 2024 movement?

John Henry


It's against the Constitution unless you mean Donald Jr., Eric, or Ivanka. Ivanka would give the feminists the First Woman President, but they won't like it.

narciso said...

apropos of nothing, got started on this series,

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07C759MN9/altverscom-20

san Francisco is probably closer to Corinth, with Ephesus more like Nashville I guess,

narciso said...

like in max headroom, Europe is perhaps 15 minutes ahead of even san Francisco,


https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/12/europe-2019-another-year-of-failed-multiculturalism/

Vet66 said...

San Fran. big shots are waiting for the system of pressurized faults to reach maximum fault stress on the Garlock fault zone in appropriately named Garlock Fault in Death Valley to do their house cleaning for them. A true national emergency that will light off the San Andreas fault leaving a smoking carcass of a state to simmer in their own big city fecal petri dish. I submit that another big city quake will do the silicon valley "movement" long overdue to the Haight District and the makers of the TV series "Will and Grace" renamed to "Poop While Running which will be difficult in the hills of Northern California. Sorry Eastwood, Dirty Harry will be recast in a different character....

narciso said...

in other metropoles,


https://babalublog.com/2019/12/29/bolivia-says-spain-attempted-to-help-fugitive-aide-of-ousted-president-evo-morales-escape-the-country/

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

Shithole City

Michael K said...

remember - progressives care about the poor. with your tax dollars.
As long as Biden, Clinton and Pelosi family children GET PAID FIRST.

Hahahahaha. A booster of the Royal Trump Family said this. LOL!!!


Says the guy who supports parasites like the Bidens and hates the guy who made his own money.

The failures in life always out themselves.

Crazy World said...

100% agree cracker emcee 11:51! It is so refreshing and appropriate.

FullMoon said...

Geneva Towers To Tumble / Troubled S.F. public housing ...

FullMoon said...

What? No leftists commenters have blamed Reagan yet?

Bay Area Guy said...

The voters in SF are getting exactly what they vote for. You have a wacky Leftwing Mayor, London Breed. Totally clueless. You have an active communist as DA, who wants to decriminalize crime. The parasites run the city. Let's see what happens....

Sam L. said...

Well, you KNOW, when he's right, he's right!

narciso said...

san Francisco, is a dystopia, probably even too crazy for norman spinrad, like if the crew of 'wild in the streets' had settled into power, 50 years later,

Bob Smith said...

What you need to remember is a vote is cast in the name of every one of those street crazies you just saw. And I know people who are proud of doing that.

FullMoon said...

Amazing how politicians in The City overlook the obvious solution to sidewalk shit. Simply put a bounty on it. BTP (by the pound) . Already recycle centers everywhere.

Naturally, some sort of preventative measures need to be taken in order to keep Santa Cruz County turds and other imports from polluting the supply. Some sort of instant DNA test.

Cheaper than what it costs the city now. Added benefit of inspiring homeless to become independent businessmen/women.

Of course, as this becomes successful, government will regulate it out of existence by requiring licenses, permits, regulatory classes for secondary license, special handling and various other independence stifling measures.

Also simple but maybe less efficient, require production of bag-o-shit when getting free needle at the exchange.

Seeing Red said...

San Franshithole

Bob Smith said...

While I’m at it, I’ve seen human degradation on this scale about a ten minute walk from the Place du Voges in Paris. So SF isn’t alone in trading a disregard for the human condition for votes.

TJM said...

President Toilet Paper,

You would fit in nicely in San Fran. FYI, they changed the name of the tune from "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" to "I Lost My Mind in San Francisco!"

TJM said...

Bob Smith,

That's because French libtards run Paris. I love Paris and it breaks my heart at what is happening there.

Paul said...

Pelosi go back to California?? Hahahaha.. no, why would she want to go back to that sh*thole state? She likes it better in the East.. till it becomes another California.

FullMoon said...

SF gonna be handing out free paper bags and toilet paper. A politically connected relative with no experience in the paper business will get the contract. Bidenesque.

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

I left my shart In San Franshithole

FullMoon said...

No homeless, druggies, or turds here:
Nancy Pelosis modest abode

gilbar said...

FullMoon said...
Amazing how politicians in The City overlook the obvious solution to sidewalk shit. Simply put a bounty on it. BTP (by the pound) .


NOPE; not gonna happen; according to California law, your shit scoopers would have to be EMPLOYEES (not gig workers, or independent contractors); with:
Health Care
Social Security
Workers Comp
etc

TJM said...

Full Moon,

We should be yelling: Nancy tear down that wall!!!

jeremyabrams said...

Every turd on the street in San Francisco is worth 100 Trump bumper stickers.

madAsHell said...

Crazy Nancy!!

It's like watching professional wrestling. Trump is calling out the villains, and we know when to boo and hiss.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Says the guy who supports parasites like the Bidens and hates the guy who made his own money.

Not sure what I ever supported Biden for other than the ceremonial trophy sinecure of VP and surely you can't be talking about Don Trump when you reference "making own money," because Don never made a cent. His dad trust-funded him with a series of shell companies paying out at least $300k annually by the time he was a toddler, he went bankrupt five times, and his name-brand vanity operation grew slower than the growth rate of the U.S. economy the whole time. If you were an investor, you would have lost money by putting it in King Orange, since no investor would be dumb enough to have invested in something with that poor a return and expected to have kept his clients or reputation.

But I do realize that flyover rubes who are impressed with image and bling have convinced themselves that they have "the inside deal" on assessing value and worth while the actual bailing bankrollers of Chronic Bankrupt Trump must not know. They've been that way since the 19th century when the term "snake oil salesman" made it into the American lexicon. A sucker born every minute.

Getting back to Biden, though - he was long known as one of the poorest senators in the chamber, eschewing private transport and taking the train to work each day from up the 95. While long-winded and not my exact type politically, he's justifiably admired and well-known around the entire industrial Mid-Atlantic as a stand-up salt-of-the-earth guy who always knew where he stood and never sold anybody out. (Contrast that to Trump's cheap skating of his contractors, the cities that host his rallies, and basically anyone else to whom he's ever owed a bill. He actually thinks it a virtue to not keep his word).

But go ahead and use that reptile as a contrast for going after the character of a guy who lost a wife and son to a car accident in his thirties, being left to raise two young sons on his own - one of whom won a Bronze Star and rose to become an attorney general, before tragically dying of cancer at age 46 - all in the service of pushing some cockamamie, debunked propaganda originating straight from the Kremlin. Look at what that says about you.

It says that not only do you hate facts, you will smear anyone's character, push any lie, and disregard any common sense you can find, as long as ordered to do so by the orange invertebrate whose character, honesty and achievements nobody unrelated who knew him ever praised or even defended. It shows just how little he and your party actually have to stand behind. And you as well.

FullMoon said...

Why Students Drop-out of Medical School

1. Unprepared or Overconfident: No matter who you are, medical school comes with a steep learning curve. You can never be fully prepared for medical school but simply being prepared is good enough. Being underprepared or overconfident can be dangerous.

TJM said...

President Toilet Paper,

ObozoCare probably covers mental illness - seek help. No one here is buying your bizarro-world. Do you keep coming back to get your jollies?

Anonymous said...

PTPSPPC: Hook, line and sinker.

Ken B said...

“The war for the west coast has begun.”
You sound like the French generals in 1940, not realizing the war has already been lost.

Anonymous said...

To the long-winded dimwit above: Hook, line and sinker.

Earnest Prole said...

To fully grasp San Francisco you must understand the majority of its citizens live in idyllic upper-middle-class isolation from this squalor.

Ken B said...

This is what threads look like with moderation on? Wow.
This fact illustrates the point I want to make about San Francisco. Most of us think SF looks worse than before, but to a lot of people it looks better. This is what a lot of people *want*. There are a lot of reasons. Epater le bourgeois is one, nostalgie de la boue is one, feeling nonjudgmental is one, rejecting anything middle class and white is one. There are others. What’s certain is that this condition is actively desired by many people with the power to make it happen.

FullMoon said...

3. Burned Bridges: Be very careful with what you say and how you treat others

Ken B said...

FullMoon:”What? No leftists commenters have blamed Reagan yet?”

No. They see nothing blameworthy.

walter said...

Nick,
Maybe you'll prefer his less verbose take last time Biden came up:
President Toilet Paper Shoe's Perfect Phone Call said...
Awwwww.... so you and your flock of semi-simpletons are still interested in all this stuff? How cute. That's so adorable!
Excuse me while I go watch my cat lick his balls.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

No one here is buying your bizarro-world. Do you keep coming back to get your jollies?

I don't identify with the kind of cowardice that believes unpopularity (esp. in a small forum) is a reason for lying and shutting out the truth. Maybe you can explain to me why I should.

Either way, I appreciate the concession. No defense at all or issue to take with the content of the comment that was made, apparently. I guess if I had that much contempt for someone who could actually stand behind their words, I'd be frustrated too.

But that wouldn't be me.

walter said...

But still, it's heartening to see PTPSSSTHKDRTGH bolstering an elder when it suits him.

FullMoon said...

PP said"
Excuse me while I go watch my cat lick his balls.


Seems unconventional.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Is there a book of reasons for why people drop out of their San Francisco contractor jobs to become full-time internet commenters?

LOL.

But two things remain just as funny as ever: The "I've got your back, doc!" piggybacking onto some crotchety retired guy and the ridiculous assumptions about other commenters. Just the other day I was called a mixed-race POC or something thereabouts - I guess because that's all the commenter could come up with. Too funny.

Marc in Eugene said...

Altered Carbon is a decent novel although I see that I haven't read the others in the series in spite of the fact that they're on the Kindle; that the civil power has made an accommodation with Catholics so that they can die 'natural deaths' is a clever plot element. The novel should give the socialists nightmares.

narciso said...

He would end up defending someone with two coked up offspring, the first wS observed on tape by radar magazine.

Narayanan said...

gilbar said
NOPE; not gonna happen; according to California law, your shit scoopers would have to be EMPLOYEES (not gig workers, or independent contractors)
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H visas in the next D administration.

Until then 35 scoops per annum allowed.

walter said...

Bob Smith,
Years ago I had the displeasure of sharing a metro stint in Paris with a pooper scooper.
I don't know if he was paid as grandly as the recent SF variant.

Anonymous said...

OK, here is the 2019 commenters of the Year. Attend.

Narciso. Love you Bro, but use some capitalizing and punctuation. Geez.

Bruce Hayden. Always valuable. Thank you for paragraphing.

Dr K. oops...Mike K. Love this guy. Sunning himself in AZ. Stay with us Dr K

Buwaya...a sage

Mockturtle...pondering

Dust Bunny...diggin this gal

BleachBit...hmmmmm

Others...I'm diggin' the others.

PROVE ME WRONG

Chris N said...

I just walked through/near Pioneer Square in Seattle today, and similar problems. Urine, feces, open drug abuse. Tents. Free bus rides. Doorways colonized. At least a decade of steady increase. Most of these people aren’t violent, most of the time but it’s in no way sustainable. Many of America’s crazies make their way to the city. Nearly always some combination of mental illness, drugs/alcohol and available services. Pretty sad. Incentives matter.

The politics of the city.... is absolutely insane. Imagine a religious cult. Maybe such people and ideas are closer to some kind of failure and reform because they are clearly unable to respond to so many aspects of reality at once.

Will Seattle and San Francisco not be run by Progressives....probably not anytime soon, but who knows for sure?

TJM said...

Sounds like President Toilet Paper would fit right in in Seattle