Posted on 06/28/2025 5:25:57 AM PDT by Libloather
Take heed, New Yorkers, and learn from San Francisco’s mistakes: The City by the Bay has discovered to its sorrow that charismatic leaders like Zohran Mamdani can dazzle — but their decisions can be disastrous.
Just a few years ago San Franciscans, too, supported magnetic populists, then watched as their neighborhoods fell off a livability cliff.
Regrets, we have more than a few — and many we want to mention.
In 2017 London Breed, a brash and captivating city supervisor from the projects, became acting mayor when the mild-mannered Mayor Ed Lee died.
With big promises of housing creation, downtown revitalization and racial equity — as well as her hard-partying charm — she whipped up the crowds, winning the mayoralty outright in a special election.
But during her tenure, San Francisco went from thriving to diving.
Massive tent encampments took over large swaths of the city thanks to her lax policies, and the financial district and retail centers hollowed out.
“I am the mayor, but I’m a black woman first,” she shouted in a 2020 speech, as violence spiraled nationwide after the death of George Floyd. “I am angry.”
That same day, looters and vandals were running roughshod over Union Square stores and small businesses in Chinatown.
Far-left public defender Chesa Boudin one-upped Breed’s progressive leanings when he joined her in city government.
Boudin thrilled local social-justice activists when he ran for district attorney in 2019, as opposition to President Donald Trump and the Black Lives Matter movement gained steam.
He quickly eliminated cash bail, reduced incarceration and put pressure on law enforcement instead of on criminals.
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Rare is the leftard who learns from mistakes or facts. That’s because the majority of them are shallow, emotional lunatics to their feelings and beliefs however erroneous they are.
‘Cause they are led like sheep by clowns like Pelosi who live in entitled, protected seclusion in the middle of the city. This is why NYC will go the same way.
Unless, UNLESS, EricAdams can re-enter the race. The commie trash had tried to remove him via more corrupt rulings by the SouthernDistrictofNYork’s office. The same pack of arseholes who attacked DJT. That kinda got changed when the DOJ summarily fired all of the occupants of that office.
It is truly sad when someone like EAdams is seen as a potential savior.
We need to build a wall around NY so those that voted for this commie can't escape to saner pastures. They must be FORCED to live with their stupidity.
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“ Let the city burn.
Let the party implode.”
Problem is there are some good people there, it’s part of our nation, and we will get the bill.
“I am the mayor, but I’m a black woman first,”
Black woman mayor results and accomplishments:
“Massive tent encampments took over large swaths of the city thanks to her lax policies, the financial district and retail centers hollowed out, looters and vandals ran roughshod over Union Square stores and small businesses in Chinatown, Honduran cartels and dealers flooded Fog City with fentanyl, and drug tourists arrived, Stripe and PayPal, which contributed heavily to the city’s tax revenues and provided vital jobs, simply packed up and left.”
“Problem is there are some good people there”
They have feet.
Undeniable failure on a massive scale is a precedent worth its weight in gold as a hedge against what is currently ongoing in Texas and elsewhere.
If you’re suggesting the way to change people’s behavior is to coddle them - as opposed to making them lie in their own bed, so-to-speak, and that includes the indifferent republicans who don’t vote or do ANYTHING but complain - I STRONGLY disagree.
It’s all fun and games until the ‘refugees’ move near you overpay for land and start calling people taking care of an apartment building ‘super’ and assuming there is only one place 3 states come together to form a ‘tri-state area’ and start mispronouncing ‘smear’ especially regarding cream cheese. No thankyou!
Socialists are populists according to this article.
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