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How looting turned the most upscale part of San Francisco into a ghost town
NY Post ^ | 4 Dec 2021 | Michael Shellenberger

Posted on 12/06/2021 7:58:40 AM PST by Rummyfan

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To: Rummyfan

Maybe the fact that their District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s father and mother were sent to prison for killing security guards during an armed holdup might have something to do with their problem.


81 posted on 12/06/2021 12:05:04 PM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: crz

Yeah...actually I just hope it gets hit, not because the a-holes are ‘snooty’, but because they believe their money insulates them from the society they helped to create (by voting D).


82 posted on 12/06/2021 12:15:33 PM PST by LibertyWoman (Guard with jealous attention the public Liberty. Patrick Henry)
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To: Rummyfan

Usually at this time of year, San Francisco’s luxury stores are decked with holiday garlands. Instead, they’re boarded up after widespread “flash mob” looting turned Union Square — the city’s most fashionable shopping district — into an area resembling a blighted neighborhood in Detroit.

“It’s a ghost town,” said Michelle Tandler, a San Francisco native and high-tech entrepreneur, whose photos of the stores barricaded in plywood went viral on social media this week. “Every store has a security guard. People are going to lose their jobs. And these things have a ripple effect.”

Two weeks ago, San Francisco was the first of several progressive cities hit by smash-and-grab mobs of thieves, sometimes as many as 80 in a group. Video from the San Francisco looting of Louis Vuitton shows criminals walking casually out of the store, goods in hand. Other cities hit include Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis.

“This is traumatizing for our associates and is unacceptable,” said Best Buy CEO Corie Barry four days before yet another outlet was ransacked on Black Friday in a Minnesota mall. “We are doing everything we can to try to create as safe as possible environment.”


Victor Davis Hanson: Third-Worldizing America
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, op-ed via Townhall.com,

It’s called Third Worldization! It’s the utter breakdown of the law, and the ability of the rich within such a feudal society to find ways to avoid the violent chaos.

Neistat was right in identifying a pandemic of crime in Los Angeles as Third Worldization. In a recent online exchange, YouTuber, Casey Neistat vented his anger after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd world s***hole of a city.”

The predictable role of the smug, indifferent Third World rich, who master ignoring – and navigating around – the misery of others in their midst. In a medieval-type society of two rather than three classes, the rich in walled estates rarely worry that much about thievery. Crime is written off as an intramural problem of the poor, especially when the middle class is in decline or nonexistent.

Such impoverishment pales in comparison to the encampments of present-day Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento, or San Francisco. Tens of thousands live on sidewalks and in open view use them to defecate, urinate, inject drugs, and dispose of refuse.

Violent crime is soaring in America. Two things are different about America’s new criminality.

• One is the virtual impunity of it. Thieves now brazenly swarm a store, ransack, steal, and flee with the merchandise without worry of arrest.

• • Second, the Left often justifies crime as a sort of righteous payback against a supposedly exploitative system.

So, the architect of the so-called 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, preened of the riotous destruction of property during the summer of 2020: “Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”

Third Worldization reflects the asymmetry of law enforcement. Ideology and money, not the law, adjudicate who gets arrested and tried, and who does not.

The above statements excerpted from: Victor Davis Hanson’s: “Third-Worldizing America
Nation & State” ^ | 12-4-2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

https://www.nationandstate.com/2021/12/04/victor-davis-hanson-third-worldizing-america/

Fox News: California city/Walnut Creek boosts security budget by $2 million after ‘criminal mob’ ransacks after Nordstrom’s @ Walnut Creek was rocked by a smash-and-grab mob last month!

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-walnut-creek-security-police-2-million


It’s the leniency of politicians like California Governor Gavin Newsom/Gruesome which is ultimately responsible for the descent into barbarism and this organized looting/piracy with masses of looters.

This organized massed looting is similar to a problem our forefathers had at one time. It was called piracy. They shot or hung pirates and then sank their ships with the pirates on board.

That worked for about 3+ centuries until George SoreA$$’s Elites’ took over our blue states, cities, mayors, local and state attorney generals, governors and often, the local police chiefs.

This has allowed George SoreA$$’s elites and his well funded BLMers to have free reign over many blue cities and states and now, the plundering of the Nordstrom’s in Walnut Creek.

Forget It, Jakes/Janes! Relax! It’s Now, Not Even Your City/Town/County nor State, any more!

George SoreA$$’s elites control everything now from your schools to the stores where you send your kids and try to buy things.

Even, If you didn’t vote for this, it doesn’t matter!

Your votes were probably not counted nor have been counted for decades, if ever!


83 posted on 12/06/2021 12:20:14 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Want to make America great again. Stop talking about government reform. Thanks: precisionshootistst)
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To: frank ballenger
’Is this space reserved for a commissioned Hunter mural?’

Outstanding. Thanks for that.

84 posted on 12/06/2021 1:08:54 PM PST by Radix (Politicians; the Law and the Profits. )
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To: Rummyfan

Eases the supply-chain problems, no?


85 posted on 12/06/2021 1:35:08 PM PST by dangus
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To: BobL

I dunno. If you want to consider the difficulty of hacking through it, think what spending a day ripping OSB does to your saw versus the same day ripping same-thickness plywood.

That glue they use to bind OSB together is freakin HARD.


86 posted on 12/06/2021 1:43:01 PM PST by HKMk23 (The right of freedom of religion shall not be derogated even if the life of the nation is at stake.)
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To: HKMk23

“That glue they use to bind OSB together is freakin HARD.”

Can’t say I’ve spent a day ripping both...or ever ripping OSB, for that matter, but I believe it - looks nasty!


87 posted on 12/06/2021 2:21:09 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Democrat utopia. It is painful. And it will get worse.”

Stupid should hurt a lot.


88 posted on 12/06/2021 2:22:33 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: Chode

If the Left could, they would. And it would be wonderful if they did.

They love to talk about how us conservatives and everyone not like them wouldn’t survive without them, let them step up and prove it.


89 posted on 12/06/2021 3:33:20 PM PST by qaz123
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To: qaz123

100%


90 posted on 12/06/2021 4:16:16 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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