Posted on 11/02/2023 5:39:38 PM PDT by Libloather
An abandoned tower looms 18-stories into the sky. Zombie-like bodies with blank stares shake and stumble about aimlessly as a corpse lies on the cold, blood-stained pavement. Dangerous criminals wielding weapons indiscriminately shoot firearms and swing knives and machetes. Deadly potions are passed around, and sharp needles poke up from the ground. Armed guards patrol the premises as surveillance cameras watch every move.
This morbid scene isn’t the backdrop of a Halloween haunted house. It’s a real life scary situation outside of the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco.
The conditions are so frightening, federal employees have been warned to stay away indefinitely.
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The exact opposite is occurring. The plaza is a dangerous, open-air drug market, with addicts shooting up, snorting, and smoking drugs in plain view. Overdosing is “a commonplace horror,” with nearly 150 suspected overdoses - including more than 30 deaths - on the block surrounding the Federal Building reported in the first half of this year. Those who do dare to enter the premises are being escorted into the building. And a protective fence has been put up outside the building whose namesake with an office inside calls it “immoral” to build barriers to protect our nation’s border.
According to its designer, the building was set up to represent “the way government should be and how the workplace should be.” Ironically, the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building is instead a symbol of the way government doesn’t work, with offices and workplaces largely empty due to misguided policies of the federal, state, and city governments.
“The building has long been a locus of some of the city’s most intractable problems,” reports The San Franscisco Chronicle. Security around the building has long been a concern of employees and neighbors. “Almost since day one, they’ve complained that...
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Good grief that is an ugly building
Fitting. She’s an ugly person.
It is a metaphor for collectivism. Like Jon Un’s fancy pyramid hotel in Pyongyang.
On reading this article, it reminded me of how flies gather around feces.
more than 30 deathsAnd no liability for it, of course.
Zombie-like bodies with blank stares shake & stumble about aimlessly, criminals wield weapons & shoot firearms.
This isn’t the backdrop of a Halloween haunted house. It's the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco.
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— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) October 25, 2023
“According to its designer, the building was set up to represent “the way government should be and how the workplace should be.”
Whenever an architect says that, the alarm bells should go off. San Francisco is graced with many many beautiful buildings, but also many soulless architectural atrocities. I agree with you: This one looks like a dumpster
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