San Francisco born 🌉 District 11 🙌 tech/finance bro/dad automating away my job, selling covered calls, and writing political poetry to inspire my neighbors.
@jeremotographs
Often the reason they’re unhoused is because they abused their friends and family to the point where nobody would take them in.
So it makes sense that many of these people are violent, so not far-fetched to believe the student was acting in self defense.
Scott Wiener’s recent record:
SB 54: Protect dealers from being reported to ICE.
SB 10: Release cartel dealers without bail.
AB 66: Remove “non-lethal” options from the police.
SB 239: Make it legal to knowingly give someone HIV.
SB 136: Release criminals into our cities sooner.
@shellenberger
It is sad that we built windmills off the beach, torturing sea life, while one nuclear power plant, tucked away somewhere, could replace the output of all those windmills, many times over.
Meet Stephen Pinto-Martin, Supervisor candidate for San Francisco’s D7. He's a veteran, first responder, and organizer; a real contributor to society. As political outsider, he is not beholden to the City Family.
On his website, he presents a vision; a major shift in how SF
Gavin Newsom brands himself “moderate”. Tell me if the claim is backed by his record:
2014: Endorsed Prop 47, decriminalizing theft.
2020: Locked down businesses, while partying.
2020: Compared his recall to “overthrowing the US Government”.
2020: Signed law allowing men in
Let's do the math. In SF, over the last ten years:
- population is down.
- number of housing units is up.
- budget has doubled.
- homeless population is off the charts.
As some of the most heavily-taxed workers on earth, what are we getting for our money?
@bennyjohnson
If we want to restore faith in the system, in-person voting with Real IDs is the foundation.
Voting by mail is convenient, but the costs to the system's integrity are too great.
If a senior citizen is killed, progressives in SF are silent. But if a thief gets killed, they're protesting in the streets.
Why is a violent thief's life more valuable to them than a peaceful citizen?
@CollinRugg
@WesternLensman
@atrupar
It's easy to support "Sanctuary Cities" when the results don't affect you.
But when your kids' school is overflowing with new kids, and resources are strained all around, that's when reality hits.
A new faction is building steam in the San Francisco Bay Area.
They’re not Progressives, because they don’t want violence and chaos.
They’re not Moderates, because they don't support the type of politicians who support Prop 47.
They’re everyone else, who wants the government
San Francisco: tired of the dirt bike gangs taking over our streets?
Here's an idea: shoot 'em with paint ball guns.
They may get away, but let's make it unpleasant to come here.
Any other ideas?
@DeanPreston
Dean is a wealthy landlord, who has done so much to make San Francisco dangerous, there should be a class-action lawsuit, if not criminal charges.
I wonder how many people died, just this year, thanks to Dean's policies of allowing violent drug cartels to run his district? How
San Francisco taxpayers provide “supportive housing” to 12k people.
As a SFUSD parent paying over 20k/year in taxes to SF, I have questions:
❓ What percent of those in supportive housing are able-bodied? What percent is acceptable?
❓ What percent lived in SF for at least a
San Francisco: no matter how much housing we build, not everyone who wants to live in SF will get to.
The demand is global, so living here is a luxury, not a right.
So the question becomes, who gets to live in SF and why?
In San Francisco, the SFPD is 400 officers short, while socialist BOS members are talking tax increases.
Which had me asking: to avoid more taxes, while staffing LE, what can we safely cut? 🤔
Useless NGOs:
💸 Urban Alchemy: hires ex-convicts to replace LE.
💸 HealthRight
Multiple people have told me they're considering moving back to Hong Kong after being in San Francisco happily for decades.
When people would rather take their chances with the CCP than live in SF, you know our current approach, being a crime magnet, is devastating.
In San Francisco, if the owner and tenant have a legal issue, taxpayer-funded NGOs provide the tenant with legal services, while the owner must pay out of pocket.
Which begs the question: if two people have a dispute, is it fair for the government to fund the legal team of one
San Francisco Mayor London Breed's Accomplishments:
Enacted the most aggressive lockdowns in the nation.
Killed a large portion of businesses.
Lost control of the SFPD.
Paid addicts to camp in Downtown.
Allowed Walgreens and other businesses looted daily.
Have you had
Let's get to know San Francisco’s D7 Supervisor Mryna Melgar:
🌹 Advocated disbanding the SFPD.
🌹 Opposes reporting cartel dealers to ICE.
🌹 Opposed Chesa Boudin recall.
🌹 Opposed BOE recalls (won by 70%).
🌹 No experience except government and nonprofits.
🌹 Blocked 495-unit
California, meet Gavin Newsom’s newly appointed US Senator, Laphonza Butler:
🚫 Registered to vote in Maryland (what?).
🚫 Made a career working for NGOs.
🚫 Former President of CA’s largest union.
🚫 Wants identity-based affirmative action.
🚫 Never talks about crime.
🚫 Never
@BrandiKruse
This is not really true, because people can get roommates, if they don’t have serious mental health issues.
So if there are not enough units for everyone to have their own, that does NOT stop people from getting shelter.
If you try to open a business in this zone while being deemed "not Latino enough", Calle 24 with harass, threaten, and protest until you agree to pay "community benefits".
Whoever we elect in 2024 must promise to end this city-sanctioned racism.
SF DSA: “Getting jacked and harassed is part of city life. Suck it up or move to the suburbs”.
Also the DSA: “These slow-moving AVs are driving around without our consent! This is outrageous!!! 🤬😤”
San Francisco: this is my second week taking the M train to my job, and still haven’t once been asked to show proof of payment.
Until we penalize non-payment, don’t ask SF citizens, some of the most heavily taxed citizens in the nation, for any more money.
San Francisco is being sucked dry by people who live off taxpayers, but contribute nothing back except public temper tantrums.
When I see this...I'm thinking...shortfalls in tax revenue might be a good thing: less government spending means more people like this will leave to
I truly believe the noise that the Supervisors and the radicals are making out of the
@garrytan
situation to be so incredibly stupid and a waste, but if that’s the level of nonsense we are going to have, then
@mattdorsey
and other Supes need to file a police report on Lea who
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao fits the DSA plan perfectly:
🌹 Advocates civilianization of police.
🌹 Fired police chief without just cause.
🌹 Pushing DEI for the police.
🌹 Against police working with ICE.
🌹 Banned evictions for non-payment.
🌹 No private sector experience.
🌹
SF is a small city in a gigantic nation. So it’s odd that people seem to think that SF owes anyone the right to live there. If you can afford, great. If not, our nation has plenty of dirt cheap places to live.
Ever heard of Singapore?
Disrespect public property, and the government kicks your ass, sometimes publicly, so citizens don’t have to.
With that approach, crime is virtually nonexistent 😇😇😇
We don’t need to be that extreme, but people need to stop saying that deterrents
Elon says that the ADL pressured advertisers to pull out, and that it cost the company 10% to 50% of its value.
I love that Elon is fighting back 🥰 A healthy society needs elites (not political elites, but truly elite people) willing to challenge authoritarianism.
@DrKnowItAll16
@alx
Based on what we’ve heard from advertisers, ADL seems to be responsible for most of our revenue loss.
Giving them maximum benefit of the doubt, I don’t see any scenario where they’re responsible for less than 10% of the value destruction, so ~$4 billion.
Document discovery of
Meet Connie Chan, incumbent Supervisor for San Francisco’s iconic D1.
Experience: aid for Kamala Harris, then Aaron Peskin.
Accomplishments: blocked a Ferris wheel 🎡
On crime: supported Chesa Boudin.
On taxes: increase to fund a public bank.
On housing: blocked a 495-unit
Good morning San Francisco Progressives 🌇
Want to push the finance and tech bros out of the city? Let's review how ⬇️
How to drive bros out through quality of life destruction:
🚨 Stop enforcing traffic laws.
🚨 Make it a crime to defend your livelihood, driving up costs.
Passage of San Francisco's Prop F means that if you come to San Francisco to live off the money of its citizens, a drug test is required.
Jordan's behavior in this video vividly illustrates why voters want fewer drug tourists coming to SF.
Imagine taxpayers funding more people
The culture wars in SF are so weird. One side wants to crack down on the rampant crime, and the other side thinks all criminals are victims that should be catered-to and coddled.
How much does San Francisco actually spend on the homeless?
The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) spends about $700 million, but the street camping drug scene likely costs taxpayers closer to $3 billion. Let’s explain why.
In addition to the HSH, these
Places where it’s legal to open a 24 hour coffee shop / bookstore (with or w/o a cat) in San Francisco, in green
This isn’t capitalism. It’s state central planning gone horribly wrong
The San Francisco BOS is proposing to streamline the process of opening businesses.
But under the current proposal, the Mission District is still exempt, enabling special interest groups to delay the process of opening by years.
If you’re deemed "not Latino enough", they
This lengthy and costly process (which I have gone through in 2020), subjects merchants like myself to harassment & threats by so-called neighborhood “stakeholders'' who told me I do not belong in the Mission. /6
Aaron Peskin, D3 Supervisor for his 5th non-consecutive term, is thinking about running for Mayor.
For the YIMBYs, let's checkout Peskin's housing highlights:
2014: Opposed the Treasure Island Development project creating 7,000 to 8,000 housing units.
2021: Voted against the