I'm reading "Why is Trump backing off San Francisco? These results. Democrat Daniel Lurie is using technology to make the city safe again" (WaPo).
"By the time Lurie ran for mayor, voters had already begun to reconsider their role as guinea pigs in a progressive social experiment. In March 2024, San Franciscans passed Proposition E, a kitchen-sink ballot initiative that gave flexibility to the city’s police department. It eased restrictions on the use of drones and facial recognition for law enforcement, more or less overriding the city’s 2019 ordinance. The proposition also reduced paperwork and allowed the police department to adopt new technology without prior approval from the board of supervisors.... [D]rones... have become a core tool of law enforcement.... Drones are now used as first responders, arriving at crime scenes before beat cops, allowing law enforcement to secure and surveil the area by providing real-time video.... The city has learned hard lessons. Chaos isn’t compassion, and technology isn’t totalitarian...."
ADDED: Elsewhere in The Washington Post today, there's "A $20,000 model trash can is a showcase of city dysfunction/Why can’t San Francisco’s officials competently replace its trash cans?" It does concede: "Politically, the city has self-corrected a bit, as voters replaced the mayor, district attorney and school board with reformist challengers. But why can’t the city’s government get anything done?"
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2019 was "The COVID era"?
Good to know.
John Henry
Nice, but it's likely that eventually Dan Goldman's cousin will find some way to screw up the city more than it's already screwed up.
Never forget - De-Fund the Police was a scam to empty the ranks and re-fill the ranks with Walzian-type democratic-Soviet-style lockstep adherence to loyalist politicized law-fare. (D)
and corruption that aided the Democrat party.
They turned Burlington, VT from a nice place to a place where nobody wants to go, those who say "It's not as bad as people say" didn't know it before, IMHO. And the population of the state is shrinking. But not to worry, the Democrats are in complete control of everything in overwhelming numbers, so I am sure that things will eventually get better.
Sounds like a Trump statement: "The city has learned hard lessons. Chaos isn’t compassion, and technology isn’t totalitarian....""
Why does WaPo identify this guy as a democrat in the headline?
The secret formula that is used when state government becomes Progressive One Party Rule, is that the list of sheep to be shorn is a long one, longer than the sheep imagine. Sure, the businesses with corporate headquarters might leave first, then the billionaires, then the millionaires, by decreasing decimal points. The ones who can leave are generally also above average intelligence and can see the outlines of the game. Finally, the only the base remains, and there's still plenty of wool to go around. It becomes a piecemeal game, a game of marginal returns.
It's only in the final stages, where 90% of the kleptocratic wealth is safely captured and stowed out of reach, that the citizens who cannot afford to migrate start to recognize that niggling feeling that's been lurking at the edge of their subconsciousness is really desperation.
There's still a lot of wool left in California.
Leaned in, fell over, hit their head, face first.
Knee-jerk regulations are in their blood, and empty symbolism too. In the 1980s Dianne Feinstein got her start there. Following the 1978 Harvey Milk assassination, SF violated state law to ban handguns. In 1982 they melted 15 handguns into a steel cross and gave it to the Pope.
Anti-tech feel good solutions with no impact. It's what they do.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/09/09/Pope-given-cross-made-of-guns/4928400392000/
I doubt that the city has learned this. More likely is that the advertising campaign against it wasn't funded as much as before, so voters didn't get as riled up to vote against their own interests this time. It's not so much what they know or don't know, but rather what they are told.
WaPo attempts to rehabilitate Democratics through demonstration of hope and change in reaction to formerly monotonic processes under Democratic administrations.
Aggie at 1112. Well said!
"In 1982 they melted 15 handguns into a steel cross and gave it to the Pope."
The Pope was shot in 1981, and ever since (45 years), every Pope has hidden behind bullet proof glass. Trump is shot and doesn't even wear vest. Who is the true believer in the hand of God, and what does he believe?
Meanwhile, many early proponents of bodycams are now roundly opposed to them...because reasons.
"...President Donald Trump vowed revenge when the Republican supermajority in the Indiana state Senate embarrassed him in December, voting down Trump’s demands to redraw the state’s congressional maps to help the party win two more seats.
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Those senators said at the time they were following the will of their constituents. But after millions of dollars in advertising and outsized attention on ordinarily low-key state legislative primary races, Tuesday served as a reminder that all politics, no matter how local, can be nationalized...." (CNN)
Now isn't that interesting, juxtaposed with the San Francisco story. Most people would naturally conclude that Indiana voters reacted to the intentional RINO squandering of political power and voted the offenders out. But CNN has disenfranchised the voter's resolve and represented it as an extension of Trump's will, exacting 'revenge'. The voters are just following orders.
The rejected pols are reacting as if this was an extreme emotional over-reaction on the part of voters - thus proving their natural contempt of them, to begin with, as if voters are incapable of acting on their own interests intellectually, unemotionally. One of the RINOs had the gall to say that it wasn't very Christian of them, voting him out that way.
What party made it legal to steal up to $999.00 of stuff?
Of course, the WaPo headline presents this as some sort of setback for Trump. Doesn't seem like that, though.
Aggie: Behold the power of Mike Pence!
Local city stores closed - like Walgreens and Target - and the people who shop there - including the elderly - lost their stores.
But the degenerate democrat base a-holes got to steal stuff.
and the big wig commie Pelois-o-soros-o-crats like that. Punitive Chaos and pain are a large part of long term communist plan.
“By the time Lurie ran for mayor, voters had already begun to reconsider their role as guinea pigs in a progressive social experiment.”
I wish all these “laboratories of democracy” would try their experiments on rats first.
Its like turning wilson and kelling upside down was wrong
bagoh20 said...
["In 1982 they melted 15 handguns into a steel cross and gave it to the Pope."]
"The Pope was shot in 1981, and ever since (45 years), every Pope has hidden behind bullet proof glass. Trump is shot and doesn't even wear vest. Who is the true believer in the hand of God, and what does he believe?"
To be fair, Trump does travel in a protective vehicle, with the marque of "The Beast."
Other headline we won't read.
Democrats destroy everything they touch - so they can get credit later for ending some of their own destructive protocols, their own destructive laws, and the democrat's purposeful misery and corruption. Media happy to help.
Everyone --- > cheer for the democrats.
San Francisco brought Dirty Harry out of retirement.
Can't argue with Trump's logic!!! Least the big cities are become piles of.... you-know-what..
They have a long way to go.
"Here’s how you can sell your food stamps to buy fentanyl in San Francisco.
My friends and I from SF10x did some investigative journalism."
https://x.com/PabloPeniche/status/2051401704395227410
SF is the way it is because you have a big mass of morons who don't really care and let the City Government be run a bunch of wealthy leftwing crazies. I don't know what it is about middle-class Professionals and business people, they seem to think crime is a good thing or at least something you should tolerate. Maybe its that they just hate the police and love the idea of some white conservative getting raped, robbed, or murdered.
In any case, those with Much Money are insulated. They don't care and they never have. Crime is for little people.
Well the smarter ones left, but it took a while
David Marcus on X: "Super wealthy people are hilarious." / X https://share.google/gntg7GztzkgG4UxaA
San Francisco is populated by about 35% Asians and 15% Hispanics. While not as high profile as the gay, hippie, and ultra wealthy populations, they shape everday politics. I suspect some of the dysfunction follows from forcing square peg ideologies in round holes. Or...everyone forcing incompatible stuff into many different and random holes at once.
"Idolatry of innovators.....all this rocket stuff, I'm so impressed..." she said, in a completely unimpressed way.....
The white wimmins is talkin' an' you best lissen.
Modern Progressivism makes me shake my head sometimes, the culture of fence turtles.
Maybe some laws aren't just tools of oppression. Maybe some of them originated through experience - usually sad experience - of what happens in society when everyone does entirely whatever they want without regard to any norms or impact to others.
Just maybe.
boatbuilder said..."Of course, the WaPo headline presents this as some sort of setback for Trump. Doesn't seem like that, though."
Yes, very telling.
"If states are the laboratories of democracy, cities had becomes its meth labs."
Nonsense metaphor, leading to tense inconsistency, there being no sense to it in any tense.
" Nick Fuentes Joins the DEMOCRATS — Triggering a Hasan Piker Nightmare for Liberals!"
well.
Aaron Peskin, the city supervisor who sponsored the bill, said the city had an 'outsize responsibility to regulate the excesses of technology' because San Francisco was viewed as the headquarters of U.S. innovation.
Being an area known for technology seems like a reason to embrace new technology rather than ban it.
"If states are the laboratories of democracy, cities had become its meth labs."
No "s". The tense is still awkward, but the meaning is there. "Meth labs" are apparently this years "on steroids."
I thought "Laboratories of Democracy" went back to La Follette, his state, and its university, but the internet traces the phrase back to Brandeis a dozen years after La Follette passed away.
San Francisco and an archipelago of college towns across the country are ground zero for wokeness. Is that really going to change? Ever?
More fun to come in Ca. Gas water heaters banned for replacement 2027, gas furnace banned for replacement 2029.
New gasoline powered auto sales banned 2035.
Re water heaters and furnaces, good time to be electrician making big bucks converting.
So....they're admitting they have a problem now?
Full Moon - China's Xi smiles.
The corrupt insane left want to ban natural gas. Which burns clean.
The corrupt left abide by Chinese communist benefactors, grift and blackmail. The left want to eliminate water storage, by removing dams. Xi smiles.
I hope elite white leftists stop using municipal water.
In other similar news, the EU has recently tightened its border screening and has increased deportations of unwanted immigrants. You can ask Google Gemini for more details.
Trump has influenced the policies of left-leaning politicians both here and abroad.
I've always said if the left and or Democrats just adopted all of the practical common sense policies put forward by Donald Trump, the Republicans would never win another election. I'm not holding my breath.
Can you imagine the permitting nightmare following a great earthquake either in the Bay area or the Los Angeles basin?
For LA alone, Google Gemini predicts approximately 300,000 buildings will need to be reconstructed and over 120,000 families will need to be relocated temporarily.
The dems allowed $999.00 in theft in CA - and have never apologized.
Such humble servants. er I mean - assholes.
San Francisco's last Republican mayor was George Christopher and he left office in 1964. The Democrats own The City's decline one hundred percent.
Any place in America governed by Democrats is destined for decline and eventual disaster.
Trashing your own backyard, and the voters still support you. That's some amazing meth.
Jordan around 1994, fmr police chieg
They want to destroy, they profit from it
And somehow they just can't find a way to use technology to ensure that the voting process is secure, reliable and auditable.
You'd almost think that they don't want it to be.
"I wish all these “laboratories of democracy” would try their experiments on rats first."
You have to use Democrats, there are things rats won't do.
If the vote count were auditable - the dems would lose.
“This disaster was an idealogical choice.”
What bothers me the most about lefties is that they think there are do overs. Yes, of course, I’m glad things are improving. But the businesses that were ruined, the hard lives that people had to live because of the choices liberals made. There are no do overs for them.
I was going to make the comment that no NFL players had been shot in SF in nearly 2 years (alluding to August 24 shooting of Ricky Pearsal) but thought I'd Google it first. Turns out some Defensive Lineman got shot just a few months ago. Got hoisted on my own attempted sarcasm.
Democratics are running ideological deficits. Deja vu.
You can re-fund or even refund the police. None of it will make any difference unless you change the laws, such as The dems allowed $999.00 in theft in CA or bail reform, or change out the DA's and Judge's prosecuting the criminals. Because failure to make those other changes means policing efforts of futile.
If you click the link (to the LA Times) you'll get this opening paragraph:
Gerald Kowalczyk tried to buy a hamburger with credit cards he found on the floor. Then, while presumed innocent, he spent months in a California jail — not because a judge determined he was dangerous, not because he threatened anyone, but because the court set bail at $75,000 for a man who couldn’t afford it, then simply denied bail altogether, in defiance of the law. Last week, the California Supreme Court unanimously said no more. The court held that pretrial liberty is the norm; incarceration before conviction for any crime is the rare, carefully limited exception. If courts choose to condition freedom on a monetary payment it “must” be “an amount that is reasonable.”
Please tell us how many credit cards you have found just laying on the floor.
I went through the WaPo story. The words "court", "trial", "judge", "prosecutor", "attorney" do not appear in the article.
The police can arrest Gerald Kowalczyk over and over, but if the California Supreme Court says Gerald must remain free because Gerald can't afford the crime; then Gerald will be free to continue committing crimes.
SF runs itself.
The swells just dwell on the opera opening.
Whats up doc
They still have a long way to recover from the fentanyl crises but San Francisco is on the mend. Still plenty of problems but you see improvements every day. It is inspiring to have such a great Mayor. They are lucky to have him.
A significant amount of housing in Bay Area and particularly SF is sold to reasonably wealthy retirees. There's no better place to be if you have the money. Great climate, great cultural institutions, great restaurants etc.
Hopefully after the Trump era is over people come back to visit the City by the Bay.
"Please tell us how many credit cards you have found just laying on the floor."
A few years ago, I found a couple in a wallet at the park. I didn't try to buy a hamburger with them, though- I figured out who the owner was and returned them.
Am I doing it wrong?
"For LA alone, Google Gemini predicts approximately 300,000 buildings will need to be reconstructed and over 120,000 families will need to be relocated temporarily.
"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Because there is no way that could be done in L.A. in less than a century.
"Because there is no way that could be done in L.A. in less than a century."
Under Democrat "leadership". I bet most anybody else could get it done quicker.
When Trump was ramping up the Nat Guard interventions to the failed cities he specifically mentioned San Fran would be excluded after a wonderful phone call to the cities leadership.
…so is this story news or leftie propaganda?
Never trust a Democrat when it comes to building things.
The California bullet train (LA to SF nonstop) was sold to the voters in 2008 at a cost of $30-40 billion, to be operational around 2020.
The reality: The first operational segment (roughly Merced to Bakersfield) is projected for around 2032–2033 at a cost of about $126 billion. The current estimated cost for the version approved by voters is $231 billion. There is no firm completion date although there is an estimate of 2038-2040.
Approximately $15 billion has already been spent.
Bullet train you say?
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine, bona fide
Electrified, six-car monorail
What'd I say?
Monorail
What's it called?
Monorail
That's right! Monorail
Monorail
Monorail
Monorail
I hear those things are awfully loud
It glides as softly as a cloud
Is there a chance the track could bend?
Not on your life, my Hindu friend
What about us brain-dead slobs?
You'll be given cushy jobs
Were you sent here by the Devil?
No, good sir, I'm on the level
The ring came off my pudding can
Take my pen knife, my good man
I swear it's Springfield's only choice
Throw up your hands and raise your voice
Monorail
What's it called?
Monorail
Once again
Monorail
But Main Street's still all cracked and broken
Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken
Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
Mono, d'oh!
"... San Fran would be excluded after a wonderful phone call to the cities leadership."
Trump said: "Don't make me come over there."
“It turned out that all we really needed was a new President.”
"It turned out that all we really needed was a new President.”
Is that what lit the fire under their collective Asses (pun intended).
Well, Tim. Let's look at other states run by democrats.
"Please tell us how many credit cards you have found just laying on the floor."
I found a small purse and car keys at the gym last year. It had the young lady's drivers license in a transparent pocket on the outside. I'm sure it had cash and cards inside.
I was able to track her down and return it.
Are you guys suggesting there is maybe more to the charges than just finding a credit card laying in the ground, such as what is subsequently done with the found credit card? It is like the crime isn’t finding a card, but perhaps just buying a burger. Maybe if you had bought a burger while in the process of returning the card. Used your own money or took out a payment plan on the burger using the found card as proof of credit?
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