IS NYC AS FILTHY AS FEINSTEIN, PELOSI, KAMALA HARRIS' MELTDOWN S.F.???
IMAGES OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA
MEX OCCUPATION:
Your neighborhood will be next to fall to LA RAZA!
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Nolte: San Francisco Whole Foods Made 568 Emergency Calls Before Closing
Over 13 months, the recently shuttered Whole Foods in Democrat-run San Francisco made 568 emergency calls, reports the far-left New York Times.
In other words, there were 568 emergency calls in fewer than 400 days—an average of more than one emergency call per day.
Can you imagine?
Last month, Breitbart News reported on the closing of this Whole Foods store only a year or so after it opened. We knew then that the Democrat-run city’s ongoing collapse was the cause. San Francisco’s elected Democrats have allowed violent crime, property crime, drug addiction, and vagrancy to destroy the City by the Bay. Also chasing away retailers is the Democrat party’s decision to all but legalize shoplifting. If that’s not bad enough, on top of the massive shoplifting losses, an overall sense of lawlessness attracts the worst kind of people.
Well, now we know working at this Whole Foods must have been something of a nightmare, a terrifying nightmare where bodily harm was a daily threat:
[T]he store was soon confronted head-on with many of the problems plaguing the area. People threatened employees with guns, knives and sticks. They flung food, screamed, fought and tried to defecate on the floor, according to records of 568 emergency calls over 13 months, many depicting scenes of mayhem.
“Male w/machete is back,” the report on one 911 call states. “Another security guard was just assaulted,” another says. A man with a four-inch knife attacked several security guards, then sprayed store employees with foam from a fire extinguisher, according to a third.
This Whole Foods, a “giant flagship store,” was, according to the Times, “supposed to cater to tech workers and other professionals, part of a long-term redevelopment plan downtown.” Then the reality of life in a Democrat-run city hit the store, and the location “fell victim to a grinding decline in the city’s center that began with the pandemic and could continue for years as companies vacate offices because of remote work.”
Those San Francisco merchants trying to hold out told the Times they worry “about a domino effect of commercial failures if office workers are permanently absent for about half of the week, while people using drugs, going through mental crises or living on the street remain more visible than ever.”
Yes, as the article points out, Frisco has gone through booms and busts. This time, it’s different. Very different. Those previous downturns were economic busts—the tech collapse in 2000, earthquakes… This bust is self-inflicted. San Francisco Democrats have all but legalized property crime, while violent crime is rarely punished, if at all.
California is also a sanctuary state flooded with illegal aliens and fentanyl, which contributes to the state’s addiction crisis, which in turn contributes to crime, vagrancy, and homelessness.
So, this isn’t some outside force knocking Frisco on its heels. Everything destroying the city is coming from inside the house… Democrats are passing terrible laws, enacting terrible policies, brutalizing productive citizens with insanely high taxes and ridiculous regulations, and refusing to build enough homes to 1) decrease the cost of housing and 2) alleviate homelessness.
Cities ravaged from the inside like this rarely recover, and when they do, it’s because they come to their senses and elect a Republican like Rudy Giuliani.
The only way these cities will be saved is if Democrats—politicians and voters—admit they were wrong. And as we have seen for decades in places like Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, New Orleans, Oakland, Cleveland, St. Louis, and Memphis (I could go on), that will never happen.
Democrats would rather watch their city implode, and their voters live in hell than do the right thing.
For those tired of living like this, MAGA Land awaits… We’ve already created everything the left says they want: racial harmony; clean and safe air, water, and streets; no mass shootings or homeless crises; fewer per capita hate crimes than Democrat-run cities… Life is good in MAGA Land. Y’all want to destroy your cities; feel free. We don’t live there.
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New York City is starting to smell like dirty bong water, disgusting even the tourists
Not many people smoke pot. But for those who do, the City of New York and other urban areas have given them license to stink up the joint with their pot exhalations, forcing the majority to inhale their secondhand smoke in a way that cigarette smokers can only envy.
Puff, puff, puff...
According to mrcTV:
The stench of marijuana in New York City has gotten so bad that it’s alienating tourists, yet the city’s mayor, Democrat Eric Adams, is actually encouraging more of it – and even liberals are getting annoyed.
“Tourists are taken aback by the smell in Times Square,” so much so that a local business alliance has launched a campaign to discourage pot-smoking in the public arena, Spectrum News NY1 reports:
“After the legalization of recreational marijuana, the smell of weed in public places is rampant. Some complaints sparked a new campaign from the Times Square Alliance to put up signs that read ‘Let’s be Blunt: No Smoking in the Plazas.’”
“New York Smells Like a Declining City,” a recent Wall Street Journal piece says, noting that “The stench of weed is ubiquitous, and the mayor is encouraging the ‘industry.’”
On Thursday, the leftist magazine “The Atlantic” ran an OpEd titled, “I Don’t Want to See You Get High,” complaining about the stench of pot and the inconsideration for others exhibited by its users:
“Smelling cannabis has become an inescapable feature of living in (or visiting) the city, an emblem of life in New York akin to sipping a crème at a café table in Paris or strolling through Rome eating a gelato.”
Seems secondhand smoke is O.K., so long as it comes from a reefer or the hot side of a roach clip. And as if New York City didn't have enough problems with unenforced crime, illegals demanding free housing, and bums in tent hovels sleeping on the sidewalk, the whole place smells like a whiff of dirty bong water. That's your quality of life there, and too bad if the babies inhale it, too, which they will.
Now the tourists are noticing -- meaning, they don't want to spend several thousand dollars on air flights, pricey meals, and overpriced hotels only to steep themselves in the smell of vagrant encampments as their "experience." There are a lot of nice places they can go to these days, few of which will force them to inhale someone else's secondhand stench. To go to New York and come back smelling like an ashtray full of roach clips is asking a lot. It might even bring trouble for these tourists when they reenter their home countries and must pass through customs. Imagine returning home as a tourist from Singapore where they just hanged a guy for trafficking two pounds of pot.
The bottom line here is that the failure to enforce pot laws and the decriminalization of marijuana use inevitably leads to public consumption and a lot of bums whose lives revolve around pot-smoking as a lifestyle choice, camping out on the streets. The link between homeless encampments and pot smoking is very strong. The failure to clear those encampments or enforce any laws against petty crime means lots more pot stench to breathe in.
The other issue is that excessive pot-smoking is linked to a lot of crime. Medical studies have shown that pot-smoking in young men with genetic vulnerabilities, is connected to the emergence of schizophrenia. Many schizophreniacs commit hard, impulsive violent crimes. Virtually all mass shooters are prodigious pot consumers. Pot consumption is a part of this whole dysfunctional picture.
While most Americans don't want to see casual marijuana users imprisoned for consuming the illegal substance, the free-for-all legalization of it, with forced inhaling of secondhand smoke throughout the major cities, is problematic on the other extreme, too.
In the article, there are people quoted as saying they want laws against public consumption of pot. Good luck with that one, given that many of the arrestees would be homeless or minorities, and their activist lobbies would be yelling to the rooftops about the discrimination of it all.
And why should anyone expect this microcrime of secondhand smoke to be enforced when subway fare-jumping, vandalism, purse-snatching, shoplifting, and other crimes are not? Good luck with that one, too. New York doesn't even have enough cops to enforce the major crimes let alone the quality of life crimes like pot stench.
A wholesale blanket ban on pot would probably be the best solution given the chaos of the city but don't count on that to happen any time soon. It will need to get much, much worse for anyone to wake up and smell the problem.
Hat tip: Issues & Insights
Image: Pixabay / Pixabay License
'Harm Reduction': California Democrats Kill Legislation to Crack Down on Fentanyl Dealers
Progressive California lawmakers bent to political pressure and revived a handful of bills this week to crack down on fentanyl dealers—only to turn around and kill or weaken most of the measures.
With overdose deaths accelerating in California, the State Assembly public safety committee on Thursday blocked two of the bills, which would have strengthened punishments for dealers who kill or seriously injure someone with fentanyl or are caught with enough of the synthetic drug to kill thousands of people. The panel also loosened a proposed ban on dealers carrying guns before punting the bill along with a measure to increase penalties for fentanyl trafficking on social media.
"Despite all the talk, the extremist legislators who opposed these bills guaranteed that innocent Californians will continue to die, victims of drug dealers profiting off poisoning our communities," Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher said in a statement after the hearing. "These bills were not criminalizing addiction, returning to the ‘war on drugs,’ or any other lie told by the pro-fentanyl lobbyists. They were reasonable, bipartisan proposals to save lives."
California Democrats, who dominate the state legislature and government, signaled once again on Thursday that they remain committed to a years-long progressive push to roll back criminal penalties for drug-related crimes. That’s despite public pressure to do something about the fentanyl epidemic, which has killed more people in California than in any other state.
The Assembly's public safety committee only agreed to even debate the bills targeting fentanyl dealers after Republican lawmakers last week threatened to force a floor vote on the measures.
On Tuesday, the California Senate public safety committee—which like its Assembly counterpart is stacked with progressives—voted down for the second time a bipartisan bill that would have let law enforcement advise fentanyl dealers that their pills can be deadly. If those dealers sold fentanyl again and killed someone, they could have then faced second-degree murder charges. A similar law for drunk drivers has been on the books for years.
During Thursday's hearing in the Assembly, Democrats were often on defense against allegations that they simply oppose action to address the fentanyl crisis. Several progressive lawmakers unfavorably likened the bills on offer to the war on drugs and touted "harm reduction" programs as a superior alternative to jailing fentanyl dealers.
"We are doing something," said assemblywoman Mia Bonta (D.), the wife of California attorney general Rob Bonta, citing California’s $61 billion investment in harm reduction programs, including widespread distribution of overdose medication and test strips that can detect the presence of fentanyl in other drugs. "Not enough, but we have been doing something."
Public safety committee chair Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D.) pointed to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new directive for California police officers to start coordinating crackdowns on fentanyl traffickers. Newsom, who has not weighed in on the fentanyl legislation, left the state just ahead of the hearings.
Assemblyman Jim Patterson, the only Republican to present a bill to the committee, criticized Democrats’ harm reduction approach as inadequate.
"The reality is that we have dealers in Fresno with 2,000 pills, that the worst you can do is a misdemeanor," he told the panel. "They’re out in two days. If we really cared about the addicts, wouldn’t we also care that their dealers are out on the street, churning more and more?"
The committee did advance three relatively incremental measures against fentanyl dealers: one to boost their sentences to match those of cocaine and heroin sellers; another to push law enforcement cooperation against them; and a third to launch a task force to study fentanyl trafficking.
Jones-Sawyer promised a follow-up hearing in May to look at a "holistic" strategy that includes more money for treatment, education, and overdose medication.
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WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT AMERICA WOULD END UP BEING OCCUPIED BY A NARCO STATE LIKE MEXICO???
“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-american-border-with-narcomex.html
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH
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With Biden in office, America’s southern border has vanished entirely.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/is-joe-bidens-open-borders-destroying.html
Under Mayorkas, deaths due to drug overdoses topped 100,000 for the first time ever, the vast majority from fentanyl, imported from China and Mexico across our southern border.”
Eight hard questions for the Democrats
Progressive California lawmakers bent to political pressure and revived a handful of bills this week to crack down on fentanyl dealers—only to turn around and kill or weaken most of the measures.
With overdose deaths accelerating in California, the State Assembly public safety committee on Thursday blocked two of the bills, which would have strengthened punishments for dealers who kill or seriously injure someone with fentanyl or are caught with enough of the synthetic drug to kill thousands of people. The panel also loosened a proposed ban on dealers carrying guns before punting the bill along with a measure to increase penalties for fentanyl trafficking on social media.
"Despite all the talk, the extremist legislators who opposed these bills guaranteed that innocent Californians will continue to die, victims of drug dealers profiting off poisoning our communities," Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher said in a statement after the hearing. "These bills were not criminalizing addiction, returning to the ‘war on drugs,’ or any other lie told by the pro-fentanyl lobbyists. They were reasonable, bipartisan proposals to save lives."
California Democrats, who dominate the state legislature and government, signaled once again on Thursday that they remain committed to a years-long progressive push to roll back criminal penalties for drug-related crimes. That’s despite public pressure to do something about the fentanyl epidemic, which has killed more people in California than in any other state.
The Assembly's public safety committee only agreed to even debate the bills targeting fentanyl dealers after Republican lawmakers last week threatened to force a floor vote on the measures.
On Tuesday, the California Senate public safety committee—which like its Assembly counterpart is stacked with progressives—voted down for the second time a bipartisan bill that would have let law enforcement advise fentanyl dealers that their pills can be deadly. If those dealers sold fentanyl again and killed someone, they could have then faced second-degree murder charges. A similar law for drunk drivers has been on the books for years.
During Thursday's hearing in the Assembly, Democrats were often on defense against allegations that they simply oppose action to address the fentanyl crisis. Several progressive lawmakers unfavorably likened the bills on offer to the war on drugs and touted "harm reduction" programs as a superior alternative to jailing fentanyl dealers.
"We are doing something," said assemblywoman Mia Bonta (D.), the wife of California attorney general Rob Bonta, citing California’s $61 billion investment in harm reduction programs, including widespread distribution of overdose medication and test strips that can detect the presence of fentanyl in other drugs. "Not enough, but we have been doing something."
Public safety committee chair Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D.) pointed to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new directive for California police officers to start coordinating crackdowns on fentanyl traffickers. Newsom, who has not weighed in on the fentanyl legislation, left the state just ahead of the hearings.
Assemblyman Jim Patterson, the only Republican to present a bill to the committee, criticized Democrats’ harm reduction approach as inadequate.
"The reality is that we have dealers in Fresno with 2,000 pills, that the worst you can do is a misdemeanor," he told the panel. "They’re out in two days. If we really cared about the addicts, wouldn’t we also care that their dealers are out on the street, churning more and more?"
The committee did advance three relatively incremental measures against fentanyl dealers: one to boost their sentences to match those of cocaine and heroin sellers; another to push law enforcement cooperation against them; and a third to launch a task force to study fentanyl trafficking.
Jones-Sawyer promised a follow-up hearing in May to look at a "holistic" strategy that includes more money for treatment, education, and overdose medication.
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