Posted on 06/02/2024 8:17:22 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Shocking footage has emerged showing a gigantic 'shantytown' that has sprung up in Oakland, as the California city's slide into crime-ravaged squalor continues.
Michael Oxford, the host of CaliBased, posted a video on May 31 of massive temporary houses built along service roads that open up into main roads in Hooverville, Oakland.
The footage showed trash strewn around scores of houses that were built of wood, tarp and other discarded materials.
Particularly shocking was just how large the 'shantytown' is, with a lengthy stretch of road in the Bay Area city covered with the makeshift dwellings.
Oxford could be heard calling the area a 'shantytown' that is 'absolutely mindboggling,' as he remarked how 'insane it is that [city officials] allow this.'
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Yep. Take away liberty and citizens need for law and order, this is the result.
So it takes a UK paper to run pictures of a Democrat City.
A future view of all the Dem Cities.
While Dems Ban stoves and require Electric School Buses.
Wasting away in Favelaville...
Won’t touch this...
Sending to big screen PC - Bump!
Talk about somebody who fell off the face of the Earth.
I’m from Oakland....left the Democrat party in 1985 and the age of 21 when I realized they had no clue how to run a safe city....in spite of their rhetoric. Last year, my son (who lives in Oakland) had a gun put in his face while walking to his car after work (Shook us up pretty bad). Any politician, mayor, police chief that runs on ‘tough on crime’ rhetoric has zero chance of getting elected. The way into leadership i Oakland is to scream about the ‘system’ and blame all the blight on ‘systemic racism’ even though the (mostly minority) Democrats have been running that city for over 60 years. Oakland politicians respond to the worst element in that city because that’s where the votes are. And criminals aren’t interested in safety as it turns out. International Blvd is a war zone. Many parts of West Oakland are war zones. The area around the Oakland Coliseum (where that film was taken) is a war zone. Liberal Politicians will not or cannot fix it and also keep the support of their voters.
I am no expert when it comes to what ails society. But, I do know that it absolutely begins with people feeling safe. Oakland should quadruple its police force and keep it that way until crime comes under control. Social workers and all that other stuff has it’s role in preventing future crime. I think we all understand that. But, Police prevent crime tonight. Democrats just can’t seem to grasp that simple concept.....or don’t want to or simply enjoy watching their city burn. Pick one.
Ironically, most of the rich upper crust people in the east bay live in the suburbs of Oakland. They also vote Democrat even though they don’t dare step foot in Oakland...afraid of having to actually experience the very thing their support for the democrat party has created in Oakland.
I often ask a brain dead well to do liberal to imagine it’s at the end of days...and all society has broken down. Then I ask...would you seek safety with your fellow voters in Oakland or would you head to the central valley and join the Republicans you’ve spent your life mocking and voting against? I always get that pregnant pause as they know they’ve been check mated.
Still, I doubt they will change. They don’t see republicans as the hard-working middle class, tradesmen and heavy workers that they are... the ones who actually do useful work, fix and build all of the stuff that society depends on. No. Dems see the GOP as ignorant long-bearded country folk (think Deliverance) who drink moon-shine, drive flat-bed pick ups with a scared dog in the back hanging on for dear life, and who marry their cousins. It’s a brand the Dems put on us and the Republicans just can’t throw it off...as much as we try. It’s just sad.
Has it spread up to Berkeley yet?
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Shocking
Stunning
The DM in 2 words.
shocking!!!!!!
Looks like South African neighborhoods or most anywhere in the undeveloped world.
How much does the Oakland Homeless Industrial Complex spend to “help” the residents of Bidenville? I can just see the staff of the non-profits using this video to prove that they need more money to “help.”
And, even more important, does Amazon deliver there?
Yes. Oakland is mostly dangerous. And filthy
I Shita-u-not!
Harken back to my posts here in the past month of putting WOMEN in any power position!!!!!
As a SoCal resident I can tell you that this isn't just an Oakland thing; this is a failure of leadership at the state level. Last time I checked, Newscum was a man (and I use the term "man" in the loosest possible sense of the word). You let "male" liberals off far too lightly.
You get what you tolerate.
What you subsidize you get more of.
Are there any that aren’t? Maybe, but I can’t think of one.
Oh! I can be equally as biased about male leaders but being a female myself, I just cringe at the behavior of women seeking power who have nothing to offer except their gender. Kinda like the VP now..That and a giggle at anything and everything.
You folks have your work cut out for you now with the seat of Feinstein it appears going to Schiff!!! I can’t believe I’d even THINK of such a thing but maybe Feinstein wasn’t so bad if Schiff is the alternative.
We lived in CA at the time Feinstein became a US Senator and bailed out of OC and CA 18 years ago...Politics was one of the reasons - retirement the other...seemed the time to say goodbye...At least made the move out of OC before it went for the dems!!
BTW I watched a TV special the other night - “Dodgers and Yankees, An Uncivil War” - 1970’s. Garvey didn’t come out looking too good in that. I had forgotten the scandal surrounding him at that time. Excellent show.
But Schiff or Garvey? Not even a fair question - Garvey, of course.
Someone asked Jerry Brown when he was mayor of Oakland why he traveled with so much security and his answer was, “There’s a lot of crime here.”
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