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How progressive politics turned Kamala Harris’s birthplace into a post-apocalyptic nightmare
Yahoo News ^ | 26 October 2024 | Toby HArnden

Posted on 10/27/2024 11:23:58 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Oakland, birthplace of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and the city where she launched her ill-fated presidential campaign in 2019, now resembles a post-apocalyptic nightmare, its streets piled high with trash, burned-out vehicles and homeless encampments.

Driving through its streets is a surreal and potentially dangerous experience. Many businesses have closed down and are boarded up. Those still operating are covered in graffiti, even on their windows, and many refuse to allow customers inside for fear of being robbed.

Critics of Ms Harris, who began her legal career as a prosecutor in Oakland, across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco, argue that the city is a stark example of the results of extreme Left-wing policies, some of which she embraced when she ran in the 2020 presidential race.

This time around, Ms Harris has distanced herself from movements such as “defund the police”, which she praised four years ago.

Former president Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, has branded Ms Harris a “communist”, rejecting her claims that she was tough on crime as a prosecutor and as California’s attorney general.

Meanwhile, Oakland criminals are becoming more brazen by the day, emboldened by the knowledge that the average police response time after a 911 emergency call is 48 minutes. Their latest method of break-and-enter theft is “ram and rob”—smashing a car through a storefront before jumping out to loot.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; california; dystopia; newsomfornia; oakland
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1 posted on 10/27/2024 11:23:58 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

The place is so bad they lost two sports teams in two years.


2 posted on 10/27/2024 11:25:46 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Rummyfan

All democrat run cities eventually become hell holes that anyone who can moves out of...


3 posted on 10/27/2024 11:26:10 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: Rummyfan

Oakland was a much safer place when the Hells Angels were headquartered there.


4 posted on 10/27/2024 11:26:17 AM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: Rummyfan
Joy!


5 posted on 10/27/2024 11:29:26 AM PDT by gw-ington (My Preferred Pronouns: kommieLa, tampon, tim, potato46, barry, soetoro, soros, stolen, election.)
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To: Rummyfan

I wonder how may YBMB “bean pies” she had growing up?


6 posted on 10/27/2024 11:31:26 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Rummyfan

Hmmmm, one wonders what could possibly be the cause.
And Captain Obvious smiles.
But always remember that Trump is a Nazi...according to our ‘superiors’.


7 posted on 10/27/2024 11:34:25 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Rummyfan

Its kind of an inverse shrine to corrupt, bloated woke American government and marxism


8 posted on 10/27/2024 11:36:24 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Rummyfan

Most lefties live nowhere near the problems which their boneheaded policies create.


9 posted on 10/27/2024 11:36:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Da Coyote

Trump is a Nazi. Bush was a Nazi. MAGA rallies are Nazi rallies. Soon everybody’s going to be a Nazi.


10 posted on 10/27/2024 11:38:28 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: BenLurkin
Most lefties live nowhere near the problems which their boneheaded policies create.

The real fly over country for lefty elites

11 posted on 10/27/2024 11:39:23 AM PDT by llevrok (Say NO to a fourth Obama term!)
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To: wjcsux
"Oakland was a much safer place when the Hells Angels were headquartered there."

Yup, For the most part they didn't bother "civilians" nor "smash and grab" and mainly tussled with other outlaw bikers. They pretty much wanted to be left alone to have their wild parties in the boondocks. Yes, they committed crimes, but nothing like we're seeing now. They're pretty much a legitimate enterprise now and rarely start fights unless the Mongols, Vagos, and other 1%ers want to make a name for themselves.

I once talked to Sonny Barger (past president) when I had long hair and riding, and he said he's glad things have mellowed out. I read he died in 2022. Wonder who owns his motorcycle repair shop in Cave Creek, AZ.

12 posted on 10/27/2024 11:44:16 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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...Oakland criminals are becoming more brazen by the day, emboldened by the knowledge that the average police response time after a 911 emergency call is 48 minutes.
Their latest method of break-and-enter theft is “ram and rob”—smashing a car through a storefront before jumping out to loot.

Comming to YOUR city soon if this commie bimbo is elected...

13 posted on 10/27/2024 11:44:35 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat fraud: They vote the people who don't show up to vote. Everything else is red herring...)
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14 posted on 10/27/2024 11:49:50 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: PGR88

Obviously.


15 posted on 10/27/2024 11:51:38 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Rummyfan

This? From Yahoo news? Wow


16 posted on 10/27/2024 11:51:49 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: BenLurkin

Which shows their hypocrisy and double standards.


17 posted on 10/27/2024 11:52:51 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: A Navy Vet

My brother owned a motorcycle apparel shop in Bakersfield, Ca. They’d come in once in awhile and they always had a booth at all the vendor things. They were always nice and polite to me. They even invited me to see their new ‘clubhouse’. They had a small shop in there where they sold things. They were perfect gentlemen to me.


18 posted on 10/27/2024 11:52:57 AM PDT by sheana
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Former Vatican ambassador to US calls Harris ‘an infernal monster who obeys Satan’
msn ^
Posted on 10/27/2024, 11:00:14 AM by algore

A controversial former Roman Catholic archbishop who was excommunicated earlier this year has told American Catholics there is “no question” they have to vote for former President Donald Trump — because Vice President Kamala Harris is “an infernal monster who obeys Satan.”

Carlo Maria Vigano, who served as the Vatican’s ambassador to the US from 2011 until 2016, penned a fiery open letter to American Catholics in which he said this November they must “choose between two radically opposed ways of conceiving the government of your Nation.”

“The choice is between a conservative President, who is paying with his very life for his fight against the deep state, and an infernal monster who obeys Satan,”

“For a Catholic, there can be no question: voting for Kamala Harris is morally inadmissible and constitutes a very grave sin. Nor is it morally possible to abstain, because in this war declaring oneself neutral means allying oneself with the enemy,” he said.

He continued that voting for Trump “means firmly distancing ourselves from an anti-Catholic, anti-Christian and anti-human vision of society. It means stopping those who want to create a hellish dystopia that is even worse than the one announced by George Orwell.”

Vigano was excommunicated from the Catholic Church in July for his outspoken criticism of Pope Francis and modern church reforms made at the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.

His letter contains references to the “deep state,” calling the 2020 presidential election “the fraud of 2020” and suggesting that the world governments engineered climate change to “to make the global warming fraud credible.”

The former Archbishop of Ulpiana also touched on hot cultural issues in the United States like “woke” ideology and sexually explicit material being taught in public schools, which he called “dens of indoctrination and corruption from kindergarten onwards.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com …

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/former-vatican-ambassador-to-us-calls-harris-an-infernal-monster-who-obeys-satan/ar-AA1sUOX0


19 posted on 10/27/2024 11:59:32 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of so-called experts! America has the most . aristocrats in history!)
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