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I’ve heard the Reagan closing mental institutions argument for years. Reagan was an anti big government States rights politician. His policy was to close the big federal mental institutions because when the Federal Government gets involved it gets fucked up. (Remember One flew over the cuckoo’s nest”?) They were to be replaced by smaller state run institutions but subsidized by the federal government. But notice in every case where there is a homeless crisis it’s in a democrat run city/state.
I disagree, I lived in Portland and it is known for their professional homeless. Homeless by choice. Does the lack of mental institutions hurt, sure but so does the promotion of drug use, actually it and bad families is the primary reason for homelessness.
I lived in SF from 1990 to 2023. The city was wonderful in the 1990's. Italian could still be heard in the Marina and North Beach, European chicks flooded the city in summer, the famous places from mid century were still open...tea time at.the hotels, cafes and restaurants were packed and abundant, patisseries abounded. Etc.
It seems like this is the plan? Maybe it's to crash the commercial real estate market so companies like Blackrock can swoop in and buy it for pennies on the dollar?
The bad shape that CA is in now started with Bad Social Policies and Bad Laws that were enacted long before Newsom was even born. Specifically, the Mass Media in the 1950's & 1960's saturated the nation with a Propaganda Campaign that solicited people to move to CA based on False Promises. The net result is that CA is now too overpopulated and too overdevoped given the natural resources available in the first place. Now that America is in bad economic shape, that Contrived House of Cards called CA is now collapsing. I can assure you that if the Good Lord Jesus were to come down from Heaven to sit in the CA Governor's chair even HE couldn't pull off the Miracle that would fix CA today because there is NO Way to correct problems that started 75 years ago.
California has spent Billions on homelessness and it only gets worse. There is an Economic Racket here. An entire upper class prosper from this Racket.
Did the Mission scene and TL scene.. Been clean for 6 years now.. He's spot on with his description on what happened. I left in 2017 to get clean.. Never looked back.
SF was bad back in the 90s, 2000s and even 2010s - tons of problems but it was never this bad. I am certain that nothing can turn it around this time, not even the most advanced surgery that the state can come up with. We just have to let it go like Detroit and other cities that failed in the past.
you act like this is restricted to SF. It's going on in every major city. Way past time to start taxing the rich and corporations like we used to before that idiot reagan. Trickle down does not work. You have to invest at the lower economic rungs and lift the entire society from there.
No, WE DON"T! We the citizen of SF NEED TO FIGHT BACK! LET'S VOTE OUT THESE SF FAR LEFT POLITICIANS & THEIR POLICIES, THAT IS CAUSING THIS CHAOS IN SF!
Zurich had parks where addicts could cop and fix. With sani wipes dispensed out of a machine. This was profiled on 60 minutes in the 90s Schellenberger is phenomenol.
We haven't hit bottom in SF yet. I expect latter part of 2025. However, it will NEVER come back to the glory days it once had. Tech has moved on, and has found other more affordable cities around the country. Those that haven't left, will when it becomes more and more difficutl to recruit, and let's face it business will only tollerate some much of a tax burden. Even Google will find it hard to keep their HQ in CA.
So what's wrong with filth, random violent street crime, pervasive open lethal drug use and entire districts closed. Some people are so privileged and opinionated
I saw the word “homeless “ the first time in the Washington post ( early 1980’s) and it was used cynically. As a joke . But people took it seriously as if being homeless was not a result of anti social behavior probably by trust fund babies that didn’t realize people actually worked for a living. Mayor Art Agnos institutionalized Homelessness in SF by opening up city hall plaza to anyone who wanted to camp there in defiance to thousands of laws that define urban habitation .
You should see LA after 11pm. SF but 20 times the size and scope. It's everywhere, "From the South Bay to the Valley From the West Side to the East Side.." I Love LA!
Contrary to popular opinion, there are plenty of places in San Francisco that are totally fine. Tahoe is still beautiful as is the Wine country. Santa Barbara is also quite nice.
Taxes come from working people and businesses; when they leave, there is no tax revenue. Unlike our federal government cities cannot print money. Cities like SF can then only look for federal bailouts.
It became "politically incorrect" to criticize any abhorrent behavior. Anyone who stood up against these behaviors was silenced. And of course, the government enabled these behaviors.
Micheal is absolutely right but let’s have some perspective. San Francisco is a rich city full of millionaires. The bad areas have grown and gotten worse. But the vast majority of the 49 mi.² is unchanged. There are more drug addicts there are more homeless but it still represents a tiny fraction of the city the problem is is it’s downTown where tourists go
City went into decline since the hippies and other undesirables took it over in the late 50s and solidified power in 64. In 82, the homeless problem began (besides the bad crime in the 70s) and it never recovered. Last good mayor was Jordan in the early 90s.
No, it wasn't a consequence of Reagan's tax cuts although that didn't help. You said it right at the beginning, I'm startled that you would suddenly disengage from it. "The deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill". It wasn't merely that, it was the irradication of facilities to treat and house the mentally ill and giving the mentally ill full volition of their treatment. The irradication of facilities WAS Reagan. I'm surprised you let him off the hook there. Look it up! We now have less stigma against mental illness but have not moved an inch on creating the proper facilities to treat them. There are 40 beds for 400 patients and no funds are going to address that. One of the major symptoms of all mental illness is the patient doesn't believe they have a mental illness. To give them the power to decide whether to get treatment or not is completely irrational. Mental illnesses don't go away on their own and it is a family disease. One member effects everyone. Left to their own devices they will never seek treatment.
After Reagan we have had how many democrap presidents? Not one has tried to reopen the mental institutions. The left in general would not allow that at this point
For somebody who writes so much and tells people to look things up, you should take your own advice. The Lanterman Petris, Short Act of 1967 was passed by the Democrat controlled assembly and Senate. It was a Democrat law. Yes, Reagan signed it but as governor, it’s his responsibility to sign laws passed by the People’s representatives, unless he feels some overriding reason to veto it. Look it up.
@@slee2819 l didn't blame him for the very narrow circumstances in which people can be forced to get help, l am blaming him for institutions being dismantled and patients kicked to the curb and receiving no care unless they had private insurance. You could only have a mental illness if you had bank. That was his policy both on the state level and federally. Sure, Carter was doing it as well but he at least was pushing for state or federal assistance.
The idea that it's a lack of money or housing springs from the minds of elites who never lacked either. Those of us who have experienced addiction and homelessness know that money given without controls will go first to a hit, then second to a hit, third to a hit, and so on and so on. Good intentions on both the part of the giver and the recipient, but for the recipient, the money will be put to good use after one last really big hit. Well, that last big hit wasn't quite big enough, so just one more really, really big hit.
I've been here since 1975 and watches the city deteriorate. Back then we had moderate politicians who had common sense. As the local politicians got more liberal, crime and filth increased. The city was clean, vibrant, good nite life, exciting during the day. Now it's a rathole. I live north of the GG bridge now and haven't been to the city in at least 5-6 years. We have hardly any crime up here, streets and parks are clean, schools are the best in the state, best place to raise a family.
The rest of the United States puts their vagrants on buses and sends them out to California that doesn't help. Think most of those wind up in LA which is stuck with them. Need new laws so that people can be sent back
California has become a state of human neglect. Politicians, from the state to local to Sacramento authoritarian top down governance, refuse to learn how to create programs that work. Privatizing public human services made the problem worse. Sojourning through human centered social and medical services operate in a fifteenth century European paradigm. Politicians created this. They are neither skilled nor talented enough to work with psychiatrists, social workers, and psychologists educated in humanistic approaches to care. Instead they create laws as obstacles that protect their ignorance and never hold them to account. It is so sad here. My entire adult life I have been forced to provide public health nursing case management services to at risk populations with next to no budget. California believes its own narcissism. It is void of any moral ethics. I look at the Bible belt in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and those states partner and pool their redlurces with sovereign yribes to truly heal and value human lives. California continues to exploit human lives for a new kind of authoritarian enslavement placing semiconductor industries and urbanization over healthy human life mind, body, and spirit. Allof California is becoming a dead sacrifice zone. Laws protecting corporate interests take priority over human healing every election cycle. Authorization governance is failed, ineffective and inhumane.
I remember that Black Tar Heroin documentary that came out in the early 90s. It was like the opposite of a romantic comedy where instead of seeing all the cute spots in SF you saw the ugliest.
ROTFL Google Images: The Embarcadero, Marina District, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, North Beach, Pacific Heights, Alamo Square, Presidio Heights, Castro, Sunset, Haight Ashbury, Potrero Hill You have to be invested in your DOOM LOOP meme....because you have Bakersfield, the Ozark, Appalachia, Mississippi, Alabama....We laugh at you!
Hmmm….drugs and tech…for decades they were the growth darlings of California and dictated politics. Maybe tech has left or is leaving…but not the drugs…
Another podcast riffing on the demise of San Francisco. In your dreams. San Francisco, like Seattle, remains one of the most beautiful cities on the country.
It is so sad as SF was the best of best cities. Where does he live now... Still there? Another prob is how unaffordable it is. Middle class is largely forced out
Other than unskilled manual labor, there are very few job opportunities for the middle class in San Francisco, or many other similar cities. AI is already replacing low-skilled workers, and the influx of illegals takes care of the rest. Housing is very expensive simply because very wealthy people still want to live there, and politics makes it nearly impossible to create more affordable housing.
I am not American. So l was just wodering who is the moron whe decriminalized drugs. In my countyr if your seen shooting up its three years in prison straight away. In America the junkies have way more rights than decent citizens!
What other American cities have been ruined by drug use, homelessness, and the COVID regime?
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"open drug scene" - thanks for the translation into European, "panhandling" is also a geek-term - maybe "identifying dealers"?
I would say San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles I fear is in that same doomloop .
Portland, Seattle
Sounds like the answer is to open the asylums back up. Redirect the cash handouts for these 'homeless' to pay for it.
Escape from New York will eventually be seen as a visionary Documentary and not an entertaining Sci Fi Film.
lol...I was thinking the same thing, crazy times!!!
Great comment, Bravo!
Snake Pliskin baby!!!!😂
@@rootdoc1997 Yeah, great!
predictive programming
Michael Shellenberger is one of the best journalist we have now. So few are willing to speak the truth when the truth is uncomfortable.
If he were more honest he would start with, “Conservatives have been saying this for decades, and I now believe them!”
@@dckatyx9577 Don't forget, he was a left progressive before.
I’ve heard the Reagan closing mental institutions argument for years. Reagan was an anti big government States rights politician. His policy was to close the big federal mental institutions because when the Federal Government gets involved it gets fucked up. (Remember One flew over the cuckoo’s nest”?) They were to be replaced by smaller state run institutions but subsidized by the federal government. But notice in every case where there is a homeless crisis it’s in a democrat run city/state.
All I can say is Reagan closed the mental institutions and it was pretty quick there were people on the streets begging In California
His take on the mental institutions closing played a HUGE part of the homeless problem nation wide.
I rarely hear anyone make this point. Good on him
I disagree, I lived in Portland and it is known for their professional homeless. Homeless by choice.
Does the lack of mental institutions hurt, sure but so does the promotion of drug use, actually it and bad families is the primary reason for homelessness.
@@robertplant2059 Deinstitutionalisation started over 40 years ago, long before Portland descended into liberal madness.
You need to close the mental institution that's running the state
@@robertplant2059 is drug addiction a mental illness 🤔
I lived in SF from 1990 to 2023. The city was wonderful in the 1990's. Italian could still be heard in the Marina and North Beach, European chicks flooded the city in summer, the famous places from mid century were still open...tea time at.the hotels, cafes and restaurants were packed and abundant, patisseries abounded. Etc.
I don't think you finished your post
it the 1990s/early 2000s yes after that women disappeared
@novelaego2404 yes, the young European 🇪🇺 ones did and we were left with either spoiled millennials or dessicated divorcees.
" Chicks " WTF !!!! U cant say that no more !
Visited SF in 2007. It was glorious. I don’t like what I hear and won’t be back.
SF will get worse
Stunning analysis. Thanks for sharing that prediction.
It seems like this is the plan? Maybe it's to crash the commercial real estate market so companies like Blackrock can swoop in and buy it for pennies on the dollar?
@@cfgjr Stunning sarcasm. Your daddy must be proud.
How is that even possible?
@@bigeherb hot race war.
so sad when i went out there between 1985 and 86 it was a great place to go
I lived in SF for years, too windy too cold and way too much crime, now I’m out, finally.
Good bye. You sound like a barrel of laughs at parties…
Truth is rarely a topic at San Francisco cocktail parties.
@@gregorymoats4007sound? You can hear people in here? You may want to seek some kind of help?
Good luck 🤣
@@thomasjohn6041 yes. That wooshing sound you heard was intelligence flying over your head at Mach 1….
no women
Thanks to Gruesome Newsome and London Breed! You've done an outstanding job of doing nothing.
Gruesome and Bleed for president and VP. Let's bring wasteland nationally.
The bad shape that CA is in now started with Bad Social Policies and Bad Laws that were enacted long before Newsom was even born. Specifically, the Mass Media in the 1950's & 1960's saturated the nation with a Propaganda Campaign that solicited people to move to CA based on False Promises. The net result is that CA is now too overpopulated and too overdevoped given the natural resources available in the first place. Now that America is in bad economic shape, that Contrived House of Cards called CA is now collapsing. I can assure you that if the Good Lord Jesus were to come down from Heaven to sit in the CA Governor's chair even HE couldn't pull off the Miracle that would fix CA today because there is NO Way to correct problems that started 75 years ago.
Quite the opposite they have succeeded.
Unfortunately they are enormously successful at destroying social norms.
California has spent Billions on homelessness and it only gets worse. There is an Economic Racket here. An entire upper class prosper from this Racket.
So true.
That's because every state sends the homeless here.
@@07wise Also so true!
Bingo!
Did the Mission scene and TL scene.. Been clean for 6 years now.. He's spot on with his description on what happened. I left in 2017 to get clean.. Never looked back.
SF was bad back in the 90s, 2000s and even 2010s - tons of problems but it was never this bad. I am certain that nothing can turn it around this time, not even the most advanced surgery that the state can come up with. We just have to let it go like Detroit and other cities that failed in the past.
what????🤣
That’s an absurd statement that’s patently false.
you act like this is restricted to SF. It's going on in every major city. Way past time to start taxing the rich and corporations like we used to before that idiot reagan. Trickle down does not work. You have to invest at the lower economic rungs and lift the entire society from there.
I agree. People who think it was "great" in the 90s? Whatever. It's so far gone it's time to just let it go.
No, WE DON"T! We the citizen of SF NEED TO FIGHT BACK! LET'S VOTE OUT THESE SF FAR LEFT POLITICIANS & THEIR POLICIES, THAT IS CAUSING THIS CHAOS IN SF!
Facilitate destructive behavior and it attracks people who are self destructive. Shocking.
Solving the homeless problem would end the grift - what self-serving politician could possibly be in favor of such a thing?
Oh yes they can! Just look at the SF supervisors, that are woke far left & their policies & there's the City's problems!
Best explanation for the “unhoused epidemic” I have heard lately.
Should've been governor
He looks as if he still could be.
The establishment politicians don’t want a solution when they can pander the American dream nonsense that never ends in positive outcomes.
I voted for him
Spending $25 billion that you can’t account for didn’t help either. For every homeless junkie there’s a rich democrat running a program.
“When you go to San Francisco/Be sure to wear a flower in your hair.” Well, those days are gone.
Unless the flower is enriched with Crack and Meth. Then you'll fit right in.
What do we wear in our hair now?
From Hoovervilles to Bidenvilles.
It was great in the 1950s. Mayors were responsive to voters and businesses. Criminals were arrested and sentenced.
And the line of acceptability kept getting pushed further and further away. There's always line that shouldn't be crossed.
California has been captured by foreign interests.
Common denominator…..demoRAT rule
That's why they need foreign wars (to distract).
Didn't Newsom come from SF originally ?
He was mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011. He was a piece of shit even then of course.
Yes and while SF mayor he said he’ll end homelessness lol
Yes, but people here in SF HATE Newscum!
I met him once near the Metreon, told him he is a scumbag, and walked away.
That city is so messed up that even Paul Pelosi gets hammered.
Zurich had parks where addicts could cop and fix. With sani wipes dispensed out of a machine. This was profiled on 60 minutes in the 90s Schellenberger is phenomenol.
We haven't hit bottom in SF yet. I expect latter part of 2025. However, it will NEVER come back to the glory days it once had. Tech has moved on, and has found other more affordable cities around the country. Those that haven't left, will when it becomes more and more difficutl to recruit, and let's face it business will only tollerate some much of a tax burden. Even Google will find it hard to keep their HQ in CA.
Can we just say right was right and left was and is wrong once again?
Ex liberal.
SF attracts homeless. Thats the short answer.
So does NYC
"Sanctuary" cities welcome invaders too. The Joe Briben surge is ruining once great cities.
@Gr8flGrrl at least NyC people party and interact with each other
And elects nothing but Demmycats.
@@novelaego2404 And you think San Franciscans don’t? 😂
So what's wrong with filth, random violent street crime, pervasive open lethal drug use and entire districts closed. Some people are so privileged and opinionated
The twisted vision of one BO and his ilk, realized.
Nobody asks me for money anymore as I walk through the tenderloin every day to and from work.. It used to be constant
Money is worthless
Word travels fast. That's why you must decline from the start.
No need for them to beg. Breed and Newscum simply take more money out of my paycheck to give them "free" drugs, "free" food, "free" housing, etc.
I saw the word “homeless “ the first time in the Washington post ( early 1980’s) and it was used cynically. As a joke . But people took it seriously as if being homeless was not a result of anti social behavior probably by trust fund babies that didn’t realize people actually worked for a living. Mayor Art Agnos institutionalized Homelessness in SF by opening up city hall plaza to anyone who wanted to camp there in defiance to thousands of laws that define urban habitation .
You should see LA after 11pm. SF but 20 times the size and scope. It's everywhere, "From the South Bay to the Valley
From the West Side to the East Side.." I Love LA!
Chickens have come home to roost 👍
Lol. Still has houses selling for over 1.5M all the time. I guess a lot of people still haven't got the memo..😂
Homeless is a multi billion dollar scam
MS speaks truth!
I have never been to California, are there any nice places to visit where there is no danger?
Death Valley is nice, not in the summer though, plenty of great places avoid the major cities though, I am in Los Angeles, I would not recommend.
Contrary to popular opinion, there are plenty of places in San Francisco that are totally fine. Tahoe is still beautiful as is the Wine country. Santa Barbara is also quite nice.
Yosemite national park is one of the most beautiful places on earth.
Ventura and Santa Barbara is safe and wonderful. LA and San Francisco are not. Got it?
Huntington beach
Gavin Grusom
Taxes come from working people and businesses; when they leave, there is no tax revenue. Unlike our federal government cities cannot print money. Cities like SF can then only look for federal bailouts.
Are you smoking crack?
You can actually mute the video and just watch his hands tell the story.
It became "politically incorrect" to criticize any abhorrent behavior. Anyone who stood up against these behaviors was silenced. And of course, the government enabled these behaviors.
Micheal is absolutely right but let’s have some perspective. San Francisco is a rich city full of millionaires. The bad areas have grown and gotten worse. But the vast majority of the 49 mi.² is unchanged. There are more drug addicts there are more homeless but it still represents a tiny fraction of the city the problem is is it’s downTown where tourists go
Who were the leaders of San Francisco since the sixties? Which ethnic minority and religious background?
City went into decline since the hippies and other undesirables took it over in the late 50s and solidified power in 64. In 82, the homeless problem began (besides the bad crime in the 70s) and it never recovered. Last good mayor was Jordan in the early 90s.
No, it wasn't a consequence of Reagan's tax cuts although that didn't help. You said it right at the beginning, I'm startled that you would suddenly disengage from it. "The deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill". It wasn't merely that, it was the irradication of facilities to treat and house the mentally ill and giving the mentally ill full volition of their treatment. The irradication of facilities WAS Reagan. I'm surprised you let him off the hook there. Look it up!
We now have less stigma against mental illness but have not moved an inch on creating the proper facilities to treat them. There are 40 beds for 400 patients and no funds are going to address that. One of the major symptoms of all mental illness is the patient doesn't believe they have a mental illness. To give them the power to decide whether to get treatment or not is completely irrational. Mental illnesses don't go away on their own and it is a family disease. One member effects everyone. Left to their own devices they will never seek treatment.
After Reagan we have had how many democrap presidents? Not one has tried to reopen the mental institutions. The left in general would not allow that at this point
For somebody who writes so much and tells people to look things up, you should take your own advice. The Lanterman Petris, Short Act of 1967 was passed by the Democrat controlled assembly and Senate. It was a Democrat law. Yes, Reagan signed it but as governor, it’s his responsibility to sign laws passed by the People’s representatives, unless he feels some overriding reason to veto it. Look it up.
@@slee2819 l didn't blame him for the very narrow circumstances in which people can be forced to get help, l am blaming him for institutions being dismantled and patients kicked to the curb and receiving no care unless they had private insurance. You could only have a mental illness if you had bank. That was his policy both on the state level and federally. Sure, Carter was doing it as well but he at least was pushing for state or federal assistance.
Blame the ACLU. They fought long and hard against institutionalization of the mentally ill.
O it's president Reagan fault lmfaoo typical leftist. No it's the leftist radical problem and keep in the anus of the country California
The idea that it's a lack of money or housing springs from the minds of elites who never lacked either. Those of us who have experienced addiction and homelessness know that money given without controls will go first to a hit, then second to a hit, third to a hit, and so on and so on. Good intentions on both the part of the giver and the recipient, but for the recipient, the money will be put to good use after one last really big hit. Well, that last big hit wasn't quite big enough, so just one more really, really big hit.
I've been here since 1975 and watches the city deteriorate. Back then we had moderate politicians who had common sense. As the local politicians got more liberal, crime and filth increased. The city was clean, vibrant, good nite life, exciting during the day. Now it's a rathole. I live north of the GG bridge now and haven't been to the city in at least 5-6 years. We have hardly any crime up here, streets and parks are clean, schools are the best in the state, best place to raise a family.
NYC isn't far behind.
its nothing like SF. People party and interact in NYC.
Not going to get any better anytime soon.
Even Snake Plissken won't go back to New York 😂
The rest of the United States puts their vagrants on buses and sends them out to California that doesn't help. Think most of those wind up in LA which is stuck with them. Need new laws so that people can be sent back
Democrat leadership 🥜
San Fransicko
California has become a state of human neglect. Politicians, from the state to local to Sacramento authoritarian top down governance, refuse to learn how to create programs that work. Privatizing public human services made the problem worse. Sojourning through human centered social and medical services operate in a fifteenth century European paradigm. Politicians created this. They are neither skilled nor talented enough to work with psychiatrists, social workers, and psychologists educated in humanistic approaches to care. Instead they create laws as obstacles that protect their ignorance and never hold them to account. It is so sad here. My entire adult life I have been forced to provide public health nursing case management services to at risk populations with next to no budget. California believes its own narcissism. It is void of any moral ethics. I look at the Bible belt in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and those states partner and pool their redlurces with sovereign yribes to truly heal and value human lives. California continues to exploit human lives for a new kind of authoritarian enslavement placing semiconductor industries and urbanization over healthy human life mind, body, and spirit. Allof California is becoming a dead sacrifice zone. Laws protecting corporate interests take priority over human healing every election cycle. Authorization governance is failed, ineffective and inhumane.
Well-said.
Drug dealers may not vote for government subsidies for drug purchases, but the wealthy customers vote.
I remember that Black Tar Heroin documentary that came out in the early 90s. It was like the opposite of a romantic comedy where instead of seeing all the cute spots in SF you saw the ugliest.
ROTFL Google Images: The Embarcadero, Marina District, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, North Beach, Pacific Heights, Alamo Square, Presidio Heights, Castro, Sunset, Haight Ashbury, Potrero Hill
You have to be invested in your DOOM LOOP meme....because you have Bakersfield, the Ozark, Appalachia, Mississippi, Alabama....We laugh at you!
The city rewarded bad behavior. This is not typical of only San Francisco. You see it most large cities.
in that case they have the PERFECT mayor and governor in place
Someone branded SF as a NUTELLA City.
Dirty Harry was set in SF. It's been a shitshow for a long, long time.
Newsom wants the entire country to be like California.😮😮😮😮
Nancy Pelosi’s district
San Francisco is a wasteland? It must have improved quite a bit since I visited then!
Hmmm….drugs and tech…for decades they were the growth darlings of California and dictated politics. Maybe tech has left or is leaving…but not the drugs…
CA is finished. S--t state
Stopped doing business up there long ago. Frisco, the Bay Area, has been a shit hole for decades...
Give your heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ dear friends. There is a reason why they call Him Savior.
But... but.. that’s the price of liberty
Newsom is in year 16 of his 10year plan to end homelessness, yay
Another podcast riffing on the demise of San Francisco. In your dreams.
San Francisco, like Seattle, remains one of the most beautiful cities on the country.
This shows you don't actually hang out in San Francisco
OR you could’ve said it in one sentence. We kept electing far left liberal democrats. You’re welcome.
Yes a wasteland of Sh*t in the street
Are you related to moses
Progressive ?.......degenerative
It's all a wasteland. Asbestos bubbles from burnt buildings are all over the place in this town. Cancer in ten years?
Needle parks in Europe
The bigger they are the harder they fall when they get too big.
Fresno > SF
Singapore has no homeless or drug problems. Ask them why.
It is so sad as SF was the best of best cities. Where does he live now... Still there? Another prob is how unaffordable it is. Middle class is largely forced out
1,500$ per month by state alone
PARTS of SF are a wasteland. Other parts are amazing.
Because Mississippi is in great shape. 😊
At least SF isn’t Baltimore or Oakland.
As someone that has Moved from SF Baltimore seems like heaven or a European city compared to boarded up SF.
This is just an anecdotal analysis.
Alan Schiff (democrat) visited recently and had his car broken into and he had to do an event in tshirt jeans and vest because they stole his suits 😂😂
And no one cares
But it's diverse!
Yeah, but it’s a woke wasteland which is the “tolerant” way to do things today.
Human landfill
Oh yea, lets run thru it again.........................................
Other than unskilled manual labor, there are very few job opportunities for the middle class in San Francisco, or many other similar cities. AI is already replacing low-skilled workers, and the influx of illegals takes care of the rest. Housing is very expensive simply because very wealthy people still want to live there, and politics makes it nearly impossible to create more affordable housing.
I am not American. So l was just wodering who is the moron whe decriminalized drugs. In my countyr if your seen shooting up its three years in prison straight away. In America the junkies have way more rights than decent citizens!
Insane CA…
When the left’s in charge… 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Politicians and their ‘Democrat friendly businesses’ are getting rich from this issue.