America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
HOW THE BRIBES SUCKING DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR THE RICH DESTROYED AMERICA
Liberalism is a Cancer on America. How Did We Get to This Point?
San Francisco's liberal mayor declared a "state of emergency" to try to deal with the city's "nasty streets."
How did it get so bad?
Journalist Michael Shellenberger's new book, "San Fransicko," argues that it happened because of progressive ideas.
"The town I love is sick," says Shellenberger in my new video.
He came to San Francisco when he was in his 20s to support social justice causes. He still supports those ideas, but "it just went too far."
In 2014, California politicians decided to end mass incarceration.
It's a noble goal. America locks up a higher percentage of its people than any other country. Jails are overcrowded. People in jail are more likely to learn to be better criminals than to be rehabilitated.
So California converted many nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors. People who steal less than $950 worth of items are no longer jailed. Proponents said this would divert money from prisons that could go to mental health and drug treatment programs.
But not jailing people who break laws had nasty unintended consequences.
Shoplifters steal right in front of security guards. Police look the other way. They know if they make an arrest, they'll face hours of paperwork and the person arrested will just return to the street. Cars are broken into 74 times a day.
"None of us want mass incarceration," says Shellenberger, who voted for the law to stop jailing people. "But that was a recipe for disaster."
Because no one is arrested for camping on the street, San Francisco is now filled with tent cities that supposedly house the "homeless." But most campers are the mentally ill and drug users who choose life on the street. They shoot up or light up in public, confident no one will interfere.
In my video, one crack addict said she stays in San Francisco because it is "more lenient." In other cities, she said, she'd be in jail.
Other cities, like Miami, do treat the homeless differently. "They don't let people use drugs in public, and they built sufficient homeless shelters," says Shellenberger.
In San Francisco, new homeless shelters are blocked by progressive activists who argue that everyone deserves an apartment. Yet it costs $700,000 to build one apartment in San Francisco.
A few years ago, I made a video suggesting that the high cost of apartments was a major reason for San Francisco's tent cities. California's excessive regulation discourages new construction, so there's a housing shortage. That keeps rental prices high and leads people to live on the street.
"It's not true," says Shellenberger. "If it were true that expensive places made for homelessness, why don't we see large open-air drug scenes in Carmel? Why don't we see large open drug scenes in many fancy neighborhoods? Homelessness is just a function of whether or not you allow people to camp in public or not."
But if people are homeless, should the government arrest them? The Constitution gives us the right to peaceably assemble.
"People have a right to be outdoors," I tell Shellenberger. "We don't have a right to force them off the street if they aren't directly threatening anybody."
"We should defend those rights because that's part of our freedom," he replies, "but you don't have a right to shoot heroin at the public park." There need to be "consequences for people's behaviors."
After researching his city's problems, Shellenberger decided he could no longer identify as progressive. "Progressivism has become the abdication of personal responsibility."
I think it's always meant that.
But now parts of San Francisco have become such a sewer that even liberal politicians have changed their positions. The mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, recently declared it's time to end the "reign of criminals who are destroying our city!"
Not long ago, when protesters shouted, "Defund the police," Breed cut San Francisco's policing budget by $120 million.
Now she says her town will be "more aggressive with law enforcement ... and less tolerant of all the bulls—-t that has destroyed our city."
Progressive ideas almost always end badly.
Meanwhile, our pols make the rules and don’t follow a single one. We who live here are well aware that Nancy Pelosi gets to insider trade herself to a great fortune, but if one of us did, we’d be jailed. We are all looking at the picture of our overbearing, control-freak Governor, unmasked at a stadium where masks are required of the rest of us. The list goes on, curtailed only by word-count restrictions.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, we’re at the breaking point
After two solid years of COVID restrictions, many of us have reached a breaking point. Witness the mass exodus to other states from sunny California. Who wouldn’t want to get out of here, away from this strangling, prison-like “reality?”
Malaise is now spreading throughout the country, as a direct result of Biden’s mass migration. How do you know that your chosen destination hasn’t been set upon by a horde of unknown, unemployed migrants? This makes moving elsewhere less attractive. You can’t know what you’ll find when you get there, but it might be just as bad—or if clandestine flights continue, will be, soon. Moving to the south of Texas or Arizona is certainly no longer attractive. You must pity the people stuck dealing with the relentless and dangerous influx.
Locally, as of yesterday, I’ve become an Untouchable. I can no longer eat in a restaurant in any of the communities surrounding my home, or legally enter my gym, attend a concert, go to a museum, or do anything that enriches life beyond the bare bones of going shopping for food or goods or taking a walk outdoors. Why? Because I refuse to carry or show a “vaccine passport” or share my “status.”
Locally, life’s miseries keep piling up, beyond the COVID BS. I’m angry, worn down by living in such disharmony. Around here, despite 10% sales tax, sky-high income tax and property taxes, we have terrible schools with an openly CRT curriculum, children masked for no reason, and, if a suit hadn’t just been won against it, they’d be forced to take the jab. In my town, 97% of them already have, with parents oblivious to the potential harm. What’s going to be the long-term result? How much chronic illness and death will it cause? It makes my heart ache to think about it.
On the everyday level, we are surrounded by chronic misery. Leave home, encounter bums, garbage, and tents tucked into every crevice of every filthy, potholed, decaying underpass. I use the word bum purposely. These are not just downtrodden, “homeless” victims of our high property values. They are addicts, the mentally ill, the violent. They’re takers who aren’t motivated to better themselves when the state will pay them to fester, have learned to game the system, and have been enabled to stay pickled on drugs and check out. They take no pride in their own humanity. They beg on every street corner, every highway exit. This despite taking government largesse the rest of us must supply with our high taxes.
Billions are spent “on” the homeless, and from at least some reports, perhaps 60% of that money goes in the pockets of program administrators who handily game the system. We get $350K public toilets that become shooting galleries and “navigation centers” nobody wants to stay in. We enable, and bums flock to our state.
Meanwhile, it seems that everyone in government conspires to make productive citizens’ daily lives more miserable. It may sound petty, complaining about small problems, but when you heap one thing on top of the other, it wears you down. Metering lights (thanks, power-hungry traffic engineers) are a prime example. Last week, I spent 40 minutes stop-start-stop-start every 12 seconds for a long stretch of street, just to get onto the freeway. Ostensibly installed to keep the highway from backing up, metering lights have little obvious good effect but turn a simple trip home from the grocery into slow-drip torture. Commuters have it even worse! Of course, as we sit and waste fuel on this misguided “fix,” all along the verge we have tents and piles of garbage.
Meanwhile, our pols make the rules and don’t follow a single one. We who live here are well aware that Nancy Pelosi gets to insider trade herself to a great fortune, but if one of us did, we’d be jailed. We are all looking at the picture of our overbearing, control-freak Governor, unmasked at a stadium where masks are required of the rest of us. The list goes on, curtailed only by word-count restrictions.
They have ways to keep us in line. Why else the twisted J6 narrative and the prisoners’ plight? It’s a blatant warning to all of us, in this uber-political atmosphere, that unconstitutional imprisonment, without bail or trial, could be anyone’s fate. Watch what you do or say! You could be next!
We are heading precipitously towards becoming a society that is as repressive and over-controlled as any Communist regime. Force everyone to have a digital vaccine card and they have won control. They’ll be able to identify—and eventually weed out—those of us who are “non-compliant.” The gamble, that they can get it done before the midterms...we shall see! Hopefully, although we seem to be losing the battle right now, we can still grind slowly towards winning the war.
WATCH– San Francisco Resident: ‘I’m as Left as They Come’ but ‘Pushed to Middle’ Due to ‘Hands-Off’ Crime Policy
San Franciscans tired of crime in the area told Fox News the situation is terrible and the mayor has a lot of work to do.
Residents such as Madeline said crime has grown worse, the outlet reported Friday.
An individual named Clint said, “I’m as left as they come and I’ve been pushed more to the middle because of this kind of policy. The whole policy for years now has been like just hands-off, let them do whatever they want … It’s terrible. It’s brutal.”
He also likened the area to the city from Batman, noting, “It’s f——- Gotham right now.”
Meanwhile, radical San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin spoke out against Mayor London Breed’s recent policy to expand police funding and declare a “state of emergency” in the crime-ravaged Tenderloin district, Breitbart News reported December 21.
The article continued:
Boudin, the son of a convicted Weather Underground militant, was elected in 2019 on a promise to pursue criminal justice reform, like his predecessor, George Gascón, the George Soros-backed prosecutor who is now D.A. in Los Angeles County.
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Boudin came to office promising not to prosecute so-called “quality-of-life” crimes like public urination — a sharp contrast to the “broken window” policing that many believe helped clean up cities like New York in the 1990s.
In December, drivers in San Francisco were leaving their trunks open to try to fend off potential burglaries as officials reported a 32 percent increase in car break-ins during the last year.
Marilyn, who has been a resident of the city for decades, recently voiced frustration because, on a regular basis, “whether it’s Safeway or Walgreens, I see people stealing even though there’s a police officer at every door.”
An individual named Bill described seeing others stealing as an unnerving experience.
“I think that the shoplifting is pretty bad, and maybe that has something to do with the difference between a felony shoplifting and also a misdemeanor,” he told Fox News.
(CNS News) -- Although Democrats run the House, Senate, and the White House, only 18% of Americans approve of Congress' job performance, according to Gallup.
In the survey of American adults, Gallup asked, "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?"
In response, 18% of the people interviewed said they approve. That number is down five percentage points since December 2021.
(Gallup)
"Americans' approval rating of the job Congress is doing has fallen to 18%, the lowest point in more than a year, as congressional Democrats' efforts to pass spending and voting rights bills have stalled," reported Gallup.
"The latest five-percentage-point decline in congressional approval is largely attributed to a 10-point decline among Democrats whose frustration appears to be mounting with their party's senators and representatives who hold majorities in both houses of Congress," said the survey firm.
Broken down by political party, only 9% of Republicans approve of Congress' job performance; 17% of independents approve; and 26% of Democrats.
(Gallup)
"With the midterm elections less than 10 months away, pressure is mounting on Democratic legislators to deliver for their constituents," said Gallup. "Democrats may be vulnerable as approval of the Democratically controlled 117th Congress is at its lowest point, and recent legislative failures, including the inability to pass social spending, climate change and voting rights bills have frustrated their party's base."
The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) wants the New York legislature to approve an aggressive gerrymander that would leave New York with three Republican and 23 Democrat seats in Congress.
DCCC Chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) wrote an “Interested Parties” memo titled “Preserving and Strengthening Communities of Interest” that urges the legislature to “correct the errors of the past.”
The memo reads:
In New York City and the surrounding areas, the current map does a serviceable job ensuring that communities are linked together and that minority representation is strong – as the New York State constitution requires. Of course, communities have changed over the past decade and the new map should reflect that. Ultimately, although lines may shift or expand, the districts must preserve the ability of minority communities to elect their chosen representatives to Congress.
Ironically, Maloney accused Republicans last June of using gerrymandering to gain political power. “While Republicans clearly think their best way back to power is suppressing and gerrymandering their way to a majority, Democrats are committed to the fight of protecting and expanding voting rights for all Americans,” he said.
Republican New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis called the DCCC’s proposal a “desperate attempt to tilt the scale to give Democrats an advantage.”
The people of the state of New York voted, not once but twice, for non-partisan redistricting. To entertain a map drawn by Nancy Pelosi’s chief campaign operative and head of a DC organization focused on only electing Democrats to Congress is highly inappropriate, defies the will of New York’s voters and is a direct assault on the state constitution. They know they can’t win on policy, merit, or debate so this is a desperate attempt to tilt the scale to give Democrats an advantage.
This year’s redistricting is the first cycle since New York voters adopted a bipartisan redistricting commission in 2014. DCCC communications director Chris Hayden defended Maloney’s advocacy. “The state’s public comment process is critical to a healthy democracy and the only venue for public comment, so as a citizen of the state Congressman Maloney chose to participate in that process,” he told the Washington Times.
Under the proposed map, the only “safe” Republicans would be Reps. Elise Stefanik, Chris Jacobs, and Andrew Garbarino, according to Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman.
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