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Lots on today here. The Chronicle finally admitted today a brisk exodus is underway after over a year of denying it. They are simps for the establishment so if they admit that, then the party line is changing. I will be joining them out the door.

But IMO as a Bay Area dweller, anyone who thinks SF will really reform is surely fooling themselves. It would be hard to put the genie in the bottle again even if people did wake up. And most still live in rich woke person cloud fantasy land.

I'll pop some popcorn and wait for hot takes from that Boudin supporter who likes to show up here. Rough day for him I'll wager.

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she's lying, get her out of there

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Congratulations on the successful advocacy by the way. You have been part of this movement away from defunding the police and towards more spending on public safety and it looks like your efforts are paying off. Let’s hope that it works to reduce violent crime!

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Thank you for you advocacy on behalf of thousands of homeless addicts, troubled souls and the people who love them. You have made a difference!

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Honestly this is an old game.

Since 1965 we’ve been doing this;

1. Protests (paid for) for Civil Rights, social Justice.

2. The Left conflates crime with Civil Rights in the Progressive and minority spokespersons public mind.

3. Crime and riots explode.

4. Property values especially in otherwise prime location real estate areas plummets.

5. “Law and order is restored”.

6. “Community Policing” thump thump smack smack and Section 8 vouchers offer carrot and stick to relocate (jail works too).

7. Developers who were financing Radical Chic and Social Justice yesterday buy gutted real estate for pennies. Usually with tax breaks 😂.

See The Pritzkers, Chicago.

Its not arson for the insurance money, its Social Justice!

8. Gentrification on shall we say a lighter note (of skin tone) happens and its a “Renaissance”!!

9. Repeat every generation.

10. This never gets old.

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She's one of the problem people. No Black Female politician is worth anything, Maxine Waters, Lightfoot, Stacey Abrams, Breed, kamala Harris, Sheila Jackson,Bowser, Cantrell, Bottoms, T. Jones, Omar, Cori Bush, etc etc. Not ONE is a decent human being and all are communist. You are guaranteed to have a cesspool city if you have a black female mayor, and its sad, there are so many black females that are intelligent and decent, why are the pukes always picked by Democrats.

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The recall against the DA, which was always unlikely, is even more of a remote chance now. The Progressives have already endorsered the DA and the moderates are going to sit this one out. Scott Wiener, one of the most influential moderates, has already condemned it.

A campaign funded mostly by out of state Conservatives and a few libertarian VCs and very little grass roots support was always going to be a long shot anyway.

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I’m 58 years old and live in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. In 1982, my generation elected a State Governor with those same progressives’ ideas. Now I’m reading in American’s newspapers about Los Angeles and San Francisco. I must warn you that only such "progressive" ideas that are actually "communist" ideas lead to the destruction of the cities, as we have seen in the city of Rio de Janeiro during the last 35 years. The companies and industries that used to be here moved to the city of São Paulo. Good luck to Americans with the progressives/communists

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Unbelievable. These people allow - even WELCOME - drugs and homelessness into their communities while fostering chaos and lawlessness; now, with midterm elections a year away, the dutiful Democrat reverses course and suddenly becomes an advocate on behalf of Law and Order - at least with regard to high-end retail. What a hypocrite. What a phony. Doesn't say much for the San Francisco electorate, does it?

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Arrest the DA. He’s an enabler of criminal activity in San Francisco. He must go.

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From nuclear to the homeless, you are a reporting treasure.

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I guess the vultures from BlackRock told her to change the perception or they will not invest in the now defunct most valuable real estate in the world.

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So what criminal charges will be placed on government officials as high as it goes ?

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Elextions are around the corner. So you believe this????

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Defund the police and trash-talk the police, and then crime goes WAY up - odd, who woulda thunk it?

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"It's time for the reign of criminals to end"

Yes the reign of Democrat politicians that enable this and the enabler of prosecutorial misconduct , George Soros.

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