On Saturday, San Francisco voters elected a new District Attorney, Chesa Boudin, who “<a href="https://www.chesaboudin.com/issues">wants</a> to free criminals but prosecute police and ICE agents for doing their jobs,” as townhall.com noted.
As Bronson Stocking of <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2019/11/10/radical-son-of-cop-killing-terrorists-wins-san-fransisco-da-race-n2556228">townhall.com noted</a>, Boudin comes by his antipathy for police quite naturally; a Yale graduate, he is the son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, Weather Underground terrorists who were convicted for their participation in the murder of two Nyack, New York policemen and a security guard when they helped rob a Brinks armored security car in 1981. Boudin was convicted of felony murder and released on parole in 2003. She went on to become an adjunct professor at Columbia University and the <a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/research-scientists/kathy-boudin/">co-director and co-founder</a> of the Center for Justice there. Gilbert was also convicted of felony murder for the incident; he is still in prison.
Stocking noted, “After his parents killed the cops, Boudin was sent to live with two other terrorists, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Dohrn <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/women-on-fbis-most-wanted-list/4/">declared</a> war on the United States and was on the FBI&#8217;s Most Wanted list. Ayers <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/bill-ayers/">bombed</a> the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol building, and the New York City Police Department before he and Dohrn became fugitives and went into hiding. The pair eventually came out of hiding and settled in as university professors.”
Chesa Boudin <a href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/sf-public-defender-running-for-da-calls-for-unit-to-protect-immigrants-from-deportation/">stated last June</a> that if he were elected district attorney he would create a unit to help illegal immigrants charged with crimes from being deported. He said, “This isn’t about trying to privilege immigrants. It’s about helping to protect our immigrant communities from being punished by the federal government for something that we’ve already punished them for.”
Boudin called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) racist, snapping, “There are lots of situations in San Francisco where ICE is making arrests. We know it’s racist, we know it’s targeting immigrants, and unfortunately right now no one in the DA’s office has the resources or the mandate to investigate those interactions.”
Columnist <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/10/30/radical_spawn_chesa_boudin_nations_most_toxic_da_candidate_141616.html">Michelle Malkin</a> wrote of Boudin:
<blockquote>While American veterans beg for money on San Francisco&#8217;s feces-clogged street corners, Boudin will instead subsidize &#8220;universal legal representation&#8221; for illegal immigrants facing deportation. While American angel families are denied standing in American courts to sue the sanctuary outlaws whose policies enabled criminals in this country illegally to injure, rape or murder their loved ones, Boudin will &#8220;help every single immigrant victim of every crime obtain a U-Visa.&#8221;</blockquote>
Bernard Goldberg, in his book “<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9iLHTFOQLGwC&amp;pg=PA75&amp;lpg=PA75&amp;dq=sad+that+my+parents+have+to+suffer+what+they+have+to+suffer+on+a+daily+basis&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=zllexNHMqL&amp;sig=ACfU3U2AvUeY4SffPCTOPy8Eo9oHRi0J4Q&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi9296ItOLlAhUIPa0">Arrogance: Rescuing America From The Media Elite</a>,” quoted Chesa Boudin bemoaning his parents’ incarceration, complaining to The New York Times, “My parents were dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world. I’m dedicated to the same thing … I’m sad that that my parents have to suffer what they have to suffer on a daily basis, that millions of other people have to suffer as well.”
Goldberg continued, “While we hear much about Chesa Boudin’s suffering and hardships, and about the suffering and hardships of the poor around the world, neither the Times nor our Ivy-League educated Rhodes scholar tells us anything about the suffering of other children much closer to home —the nine children left behind by the policemen and the guard who were murdered, in cold blood, with the help of Chesa Boudin’s parents. On this the Times and young Mr Boudin are silent. They say not a word.”

Chesa Boudin and His Mother Kathy

SHOCKER: San Francisco Elects Radical D.A. Whose Parents Were American Terrorists

San Francisco

Socialist Bernie Sanders just endorsed the bleeding-heart candidate for San Francisco District Attorney who makes President Obama&#8217;s Attorney General, Eric Holder, look like Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Meet Chesa Boudin. He&#8217;s the Bay Area public defender and former shill/translator for the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez who plans to turn the craphole of San Francisco into an even bigger sanctuary for the homeless, drug abusers, illegal immigrants, gangsters, vandals, thieves, recidivist criminals and cop-haters than it is already. Boudin leads a spooky field of left-lefter-leftists running for DA on the Nov. 5 ballot.
The cornerstone of Boudin&#8217;s campaign is sabotaging immigration enforcement. He has called for prosecution and imprisonment of ICE and police officers for doing their jobs and vowed to create an &#8220;immigrant defense unit&#8221; within the DA&#8217;s office to &#8220;stand up to Trump on immigration.&#8221;
While American veterans beg for money on San Francisco&#8217;s feces-clogged street corners, Boudin will instead subsidize &#8220;universal legal representation&#8221; for illegal immigrants facing deportation.
While American angel families are denied standing in American courts to sue the sanctuary outlaws whose policies enabled criminals in this country illegally to injure, rape or murder their loved ones, Boudin will &#8220;help every single immigrant victim of every crime obtain a U-Visa.&#8221;
Boudin&#8217;s campaign tagline claims he wants to build a criminal justice system &#8220;for everyone, not just the wealthy and well-connected.&#8221; The chutzpah. It burns.
Well-connected? Boudin has been endorsed by a who&#8217;s who of far-left celebrities, from Sanders to Hamas-linked &#8220;Women&#8217;s March&#8221; co-founder Linda Sarsour to Black Lives Matter hate crime hoax propagandist Shaun King to radical Chicago DA and Jussie Smollett fixer Kim Foxx to Black Panther Party commie revolutionary Angela Davis.
Wealthy? Boudin is the top fundraiser in the San Francisco DA&#8217;s race, raking in more than $623,000 in donations this year — a significant chunk from out-of-state academics, entertainment industry executives, and East Coast lawyers in New York and D.C. I discovered from Boudin&#8217;s most recent campaign finance disclosures that one of his top donors is Chloe Cockburn. She is a prominent partner of globalist billionaire George Soros&#8217; Democracy Alliance. Cockburn moderated a crucial 2017 summit with Soros and other deep-pocketed liberal philanthropists to strategize on taking over local and state offices to reclaim &#8220;our progressive future.&#8221; Other bigwig Boudin donors hail from the Soros-allied Tides Foundation and Soros-funded Brennan Center for Justice.
What makes Boudin especially toxic is his family tree. Boudin is the militant offspring of spoiled-rich radicals Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, members of the violent Weather Underground terrorist group, which bombed government buildings and corporate headquarters, aided convicted felons in jailbreaks and participated in a 1981 Brink&#8217;s armored car holdup in Nyack, New York, with the Black Liberation Army. That crime took the lives of three innocent Americans — police officers Edward O&#8217;Grady and Waverly Brown and private security guard Peter Paige.
Kathy Boudin was an 11-year fugitive from justice after an accidental homemade bomb explosion at her New York City townhouse resulted in three other deaths. At the time of her arrest in Nyack, Boudin gave police one of many false identities she had used to evade the law. She was paroled in 2003 after convincing parole board members that she acted nobly out of &#8220;white guilt&#8221; to protest racism against blacks. (Reality check: Officer Waverly Brown was a black, working-class military veteran.) Gilbert remains in prison. Their story was glorified and romanticized by Robert Redford in the 2013 movie, &#8220;The Company You Keep.&#8221;
After Kathy Boudin dropped off toddler Chesa at a babysitter&#8217;s house so she could help perpetrate the bloody $1.6 million Brink&#8217;s heist, this privileged elitist was adopted by another pair of America-hating domestic agitators, unrepentant Weathermen colleagues Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Ayers celebrated bombing the Pentagon in his radical memoir, &#8220;Fugitive Days,&#8221; taught at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and mentored Barack Obama. Dohrn declared war on &#8220;AmeriKKKa,&#8221; helped stage the &#8220;Days of Rage&#8221; in Chicago, when Weathermen blew up a memorial statue to police officers and rioted violently, leaving 75 policemen wounded and one permanently injured in a wheelchair, and then spent years as a fugitive from justice before settling into a comfy post as former director of the Legal Clinic&#8217;s Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University.
Steeped in Marxist ideology and self-pity, Boudin moaned to The New York Times that he was &#8220;sad that my parents have to suffer what they have to suffer on a daily basis&#8221; because they were &#8220;dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world.&#8221; No compassion for the families of the officers his parents helped murder, but the Yale grad and Rhodes Scholar did earn praise for his crusades against &#8220;urban misery in Bolivia, homelessness in Santiago and illiteracy in Guatemala.&#8221;
Now Boudin wants to avenge his cop-killing parents by imposing &#8220;restorative justice&#8221; and &#8220;decarceration&#8221; policies that will incentivize violent crime and endanger lives in San Francisco and beyond. If you think California is on fire now, just wait until this red diaper baby takes control of the prosecutorial wheel.
Michelle Malkin &#8216;s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

Chesa Boudin.

MALKIN: Radical Spawn Chesa Boudin: Nation&#8217;s Most Toxic DA Candidate

Chesa Boudin

President Trump on Saturday took aim at House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over the dismal state of her home district, San Francisco.
Trump said the California Democrat ought to spend less time trying to impeach him, and more time fixing the city.
&#8220;I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary &amp; environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions of dollars – and all she works on is impeachment,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.
&#8220;&#8230;.We should all work together to clean up these hazardous waste and homeless sites before the whole city rots away. Very bad and dangerous conditions, also severely impacting the Pacific Ocean and water supply. Pelosi must work on this mess and turn her District around!&#8221;
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I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary &amp; environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions of dollars &#8211; and all she works on is Impeachment&#8230;..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1188054936942198784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;.We should all work together to clean up these hazardous waste and homeless sites before the whole city rots away. Very bad and dangerous conditions, also severely impacting the Pacific Ocean and water supply. Pelosi must work on this mess and turn her District around!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1188054937839775744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
Trump has hammered lawmakers from various parts of the country over the ghastly state of their major cities, including New York City, Los Angeles, and Baltimore.
In July, Trump ripped former Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who represented Baltimore before passing away this month.
&#8220;Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men &amp; women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men &amp; women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA&#8230;&#8230;
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155073964634517505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;&#8230;Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there. Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately! &#8230; As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient &amp; well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous &amp; filthy place,&#8221; Trump wrote.
During an interview with Fox News from Osaka, Japan, Trump said some U.S. cities run by Democrats are in bad shape.
“You can’t have what’s happening – where police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat,” he said in July. “I mean, they’re getting actually very sick, where people are getting sick – where the people living there are living in hell, too. Although some of them have mental problems, where they don’t even know they’re living that way. In fact perhaps they like living that way. &#8230; And you have people that work in those cities. They work in office buildings, and to get into the building, they have to walk through a scene that nobody would have believed possible three years ago.”
Trump also talked about Pelosi&#8217;s city. “I own property in San Francisco &#8230; it was so beautiful,” he said. “And now areas that you used to think as being, you know, really something very special, you take a look at what’s going on with San Francisco, it’s terrible. So we’re looking at it very seriously,” he said, adding that his administration might “intercede” to “get that whole thing cleaned up.”
San Francisco is literally overflowing with poo. “Since 2008, over 23,800 cases of human waste were reported in the heart of San Francisco. There were 13 reports of human feces in front of City Hall; 17 events at the U.S. Marshals office; and 67 reports at the Tenderloin police station on Eddy Street,” <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/04/15/mapping-san-franciscos-human-waste-challenge-132562-case-reports-since-2008/#365c0b8b5ea5">Forbes</a> reported.
“I will say there is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed told <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/SF-Mayor-Theres-more-feces-on-the-sidewalks-than-Ive-ever-seen-488156431.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NBC News</a> last year. “That is a huge problem and we are not just talking about from dogs – we’re talking about from humans.”

NANCY PELOSI

Trump Blasts Pelosi For Letting San Francisco &#8216;Rot Away&#8217; While She Pursues Impeachment

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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) slammed the city of San Francisco on Friday for blacklisting nearly two dozen states over pro-life legislation that those states have enacted.
&#8220;Progressive cancel culture is dumb,&#8221; Sasse said in a <a href="https://www.sasse.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/10/sasse-statement-on-san-francisco-s-nebraska-ban">press release</a>. &#8220;Most Nebraskans, like a whole bunch of Californians, are pro-life and want to reflect our pro-science, pro-woman, pro-baby beliefs with common-sense laws. Folks in San Francisco are free to disagree, but it&#8217;s childish to try to shut down a big cultural debate.&#8221;
&#8220;Pro-lifers aren&#8217;t out to silence the other side – we believe in persuasion,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;San Francisco progressives can throw a tantrum – Nebraskans will continue to act like grownups.&#8221;
Sasse&#8217;s remarks were in reference to an announcement by San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Vallie Brown, who authored <a href="https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3975467&amp;GUID=43DE4694-F5B2-4D0E-8AED-9D97BB52F794">the ordinance</a>, which not only restricts travel to the U.S. states that prohibit abortion prior to the viability of a fetus, but also declares the city&#8217;s decision to refrain from entering into any new contracts with companies that are headquartered in any of the blacklisted states, reported <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-16/san-francisco-blacklists-22-states-for-restrictive-abortion-laws">The Los Angeles Times</a>. Accordingly, nearly half the states in America are included on the blacklist.
&#8220;Every day in this country, women&#8217;s reproductive rights are threatened, and we have to fight back. Just as we restricted spending with states that have laws that discriminate against LGBTQ people, we are standing up against states that put women&#8217;s health at risk and that are actively working to limit reproductive freedoms,&#8221; Breed said in a statement on Wednesday. &#8220;By limiting travel and contracting with certain states, we are sending a clear message to states that disregard the right to abortion.&#8221;
The aforementioned states include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. However, California has already blacklisted nine of those same states over their LGBTQ stance, according to The Times.
All of these 22 states have prohibited abortions after at least 24 weeks. Five of them have proposed or enacted legislation to ban abortion based on the presence of a heartbeat, which occurs at approximately six weeks.
&#8220;Although tax revenue from San Francisco alone may not be sufficient to encourage states to rethink their laws, if other cities and states follow San Francisco&#8217;s lead, the financial pressure might be enough to prompt policy changes,&#8221; Breed&#8217;s office continued in a statement.
Sasse has been a staunch defender of the sanctity of life. In February, the Nebraska senator introduced legislation that, if enacted, would require medical care and legal protections to infants who survived attempted abortions. Sasse&#8217;s bill failed largely along party lines, with only three Democrats – Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Doug Jones (D-AL) – <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00027">voting for</a> the anti-infanticide legislation.
&#8220;The Democrats are also out of step with our fundamental American conviction that all men are created equal – all men and women and babies,&#8221; Sasse said while on the Senate floor in June. &#8220;Instead, they are increasingly committed to the proposition that some people are less than human, and are therefore disposable.&#8221;

Sen. Jeff Sessions Testifies At His Senate Confirmation Hearing To Become Country&#8217;s Attorney General

&#8216;Progressive Cancel Culture Is Dumb&#8217;: Ben Sasse Goes Off On San Francisco&#8217;s Travel Ban

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Nebraska

A group of residents in San Francisco have come up with a novel solution to inhibit homeless people from camping on their residential street: placing roughly 25 boulders on the sidewalk.
Clinton Park in the city&#8217;s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/environment/cities">Mission Dolores neighborhood</a> has been plagued by homeless people; one resident told <a href="http://www.ktvu.com/homeless/boulders-placed-on-san-francisco-sidewalk-to-keep-homeless-residents-away">KTVU</a>, &#8220;They&#8217;ll shoot up and stay overnight. A bunch of my neighbors, we all chipped in a few hundred dollars and I guess this is what they came up with.&#8221; Another resident added, &#8220;Since the rocks, it has helped,&#8221; neighbor Ernesto Jerez told KTVU. &#8220;It&#8217;s something. We&#8217;ve got to do something. I feel like there is nothing being done.&#8221;
Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition On Homelessness, argued to KTVU, &#8220;There&#8217;s actually a name for it. It&#8217;s called anti-homeless architecture.”
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/homeless-crisis-san-francisco-neighborhood-boulder-sidewalk">Fox News</a> noted, “Similar landscaping measures have been implemented in other parts of the city. The California Department of Transportation has put rocks in an open space off Bayshore Boulevard to deter encampments, while the Eureka Valley-Harvey Milk Branch of the San Francisco Public Library – in the same neighborhood – has made design choices that are perceived as anti-homeless, according to KTVU.”
On Wednesday, radio host Mike Slater <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/mike-slater-san-francisco-homeless-crisis-boulders">told </a>Fox &amp; Friends:
<blockquote>We’ve got people taking matters into their own hands is what we have because the governments of California refuse to do anything about this problem. They refused to do anything for decades, and the things that they are doing just make it worse; they make it worse for everyone: business owners, for families, and for homeless people. And so this is the one point, if I may, that I want to get across, especially to our progressive friends: It is not compassionate to let people sleep on the street, it is not compassionate for people who are mentally ill or addicted to spiral darker into their addiction and illness on the street. Critics of this say that it is inhumane to put these boulders out on the street; I say it’s inhumane to let people sleep on the street. We can’t allow this anymore; people need help, and people are taking last resorts; they’re doing anything they can because the government’s not doing anything.</blockquote>
Slater noted: “The government does this too; the Ninth Circuit Court of appeals building in San Francisco has metal spikes and metal bars over flat surfaces. Oakland’s city hall has spikes; this isn’t like an evil citizen thing to do. And these are good people who are doing this; these aren’t &#8216;evil conservatives&#8217; in San Francisco who are setting these boulders up.”
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-will-spend-more-70-million-year-just-emily-zanotti">reported</a> last May:
<blockquote><a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Cleaning-up-SF-s-Tenderloin-costs-a-lot-of-13808447.php?psid=2g32E">The San Francisco Chronicle reports</a> that the city has spent more than $70 million cleaning feces and drug paraphernalia from streets and sidewalks this fiscal year, but it&#8217;s nowhere near what is needed to make San Francisco&#8217;s streets safe for pedestrians. The city says crews are operating constantly, trying to get the &#8220;poop problem&#8221; that plagues San Francisco&#8217;s streets under control, but even as the city finds new and innovative ways for residents to report and avoid piles of feces on public sidewalks, the poop problem, they say, keeps growing.</blockquote>

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San Francisco Residents Discover Heavy Solution For Homeless Problem

Homelessness

On Wednesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about President Trump’s recent California fundraisers and how Trump is using Hollywood leftists for his strategic advantage. Video and partial transcript below: 
President Trump got a great deal on his two- or three-day swing through California. He was just in Beverly Hills, and I think the total he&#8217;s taking out of that state is 15 million bucks. The big takeaway here for the Left, for the chattering class, is that 15 million bucks didn&#8217;t come from nowhere. We talk about California as though it&#8217;s just monolithic, completely leftist, there isn&#8217;t a conservative anywhere. I mean, I make jokes about it, too. But there are [conservatives there].
I mean, we used to have a group out in Los Angeles called “Friends of Abe,” and &#8220;Friends of Abe&#8221; was friends of Abraham Lincoln. It was all the secret conservatives in Hollywood. There were a lot of us. The Obama administration tried to get a list of our members. Everyone wanted to know who they were, because if you asked anybody in the industry they&#8217;d say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know any conservatives out here, I don&#8217;t need any conservatives in Hollywood.&#8221; And yet there were a lot. They just were afraid of speaking up because the Left is so vindictive in California.
I suppose this is what we mean by the phrase, &#8220;the silent majority.&#8221; Republicans — conservatives have been relying on that silent majority since Nixon, since Reagan, and all the way up through Trump. There are different names for them: The forgotten Americans, the great men and women of the middle of the country. Whatever, they&#8217;re out there. They&#8217;re even in California. I think what Trump is seeing here is [that] he doesn&#8217;t need to win California for California to help him win in 2020. You know it&#8217;s true.
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Hillary Clinton won California in a landslide. Trump got four and a half million votes there, four and a half million people voted for President Trump in 2016. That was the harder election to vote for Trump, because we didn&#8217;t know what he was going to do. We didn&#8217;t know how he was going to behave. He&#8217;s exceeded pretty much everybody&#8217;s expectations. We were told the economy was going to collapse, we were told we&#8217;re going to go to World War III, we were told all the terrible things would happen if Trump got elected. Instead, pretty much everything has improved. The economy&#8217;s great, we have record-low unemployment, relative peace abroad, re-negotiated trade deals. Things are looking pretty good.
How many votes is he going to get in 2020 [in California]? Enough to win? Almost certainly not, but it could galvanize some support for him. Four and a half million votes in 2016. He also raised $333 million in California in 2016. That&#8217;s a lot of money. What this tells you is there are Trump supporters in California. I probably know most of them personally, but there are [some], there actually are.
This isn&#8217;t even a Left/Right thing. Trump made a central pillar, of his fundraising swing through California, how the cities are deteriorating — Los Angeles and San Francisco. I live in L.A., [and it&#8217;s] falling apart. Homelessness is up 16% in just one year in L.A. San Francisco is falling apart, there are drugs all over the street, they&#8217;re decriminalizing the homeless behaviors there as well. There&#8217;s public defecation on the streets in San Francisco.
You don&#8217;t need to be some rock-ribbed Reaganite Republican to say this isn&#8217;t good, maybe we don&#8217;t want this, maybe we want the state to move in another direction. So I think Trump is very smart to bring this up — to talk about this. He was talking about L.A. homelessness; obviously the president of the United States is probably not going to fix a municipal problem like L.A. homelessness, but it&#8217;s a symbol for the rot that comes as a result of these leftist policies.
More importantly even than that, &#8230; the reason why Trump probably should swing back through Hollywood next time he gets a chance is just for the rest of the country. He gets to use Hollywood as a foil for him and for his policies. That liberal, vindictive Hollywood can be the foil. It&#8217;s like the anti-Trump. I mean, we saw just a few weeks ago the stars of &#8220;Will and Grace,&#8221; Eric McCormack and Debra Messing, who Trump then nicknamed Deborah &#8220;The Mess&#8221; Messing in his very Trumpian way. They came out and they called for the public naming of any Trump supporters in Hollywood.
We&#8217;re talking about McCarthyite blacklists. I even hesitate to use the term McCarthyite to describe what they were doing, because at least Joe McCarthy was going after communists, at least Joe McCarthy was going after enemies of America. Those two, Will and Grace, were going after people who support the president and saying — they said explicitly — we want you to name their names so we know who not to work with. We want you to name their names so we know who to blacklist, to ruin their reputations, ruin their careers, take away their livelihood. That is a bad look.
I mean, there was even some pushback from liberal Hollywood about that, and Trump gets to come out there and &#8230; trigger them [and] whip them up into [a] frenzy, and then show the rest of the country. So you have genuinely a choice, not an echo. You know Hollywood has widespread reach. They are exporters of culture, and so Will and Grace going out and calling for a blacklist, maybe it won&#8217;t change votes in California — it&#8217;s almost certainly not going to flip California to become some Republican state — but, that sort of vindictive leftism is not going to play in Peoria &#8230;
Every election is about a choice, if [you] have to choose between Trump who&#8217;s given us a pretty good economy — you know he&#8217;s got some mean tweets, but whatever, they&#8217;re pretty funny — and relative peace, and he actually seems pretty normal and [you] get to choose between that or these lunatics out there in Hollywood, who [are you] going to pick? Obviously, you&#8217;re going to pick President Trump.
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KNOWLES: How Trump Will Use California To Win In 2020

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Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Wednesday evening as he flew back to the White House from California, President Trump, disturbed at the environmental degradation of San Francisco, warned that the Environmental Protection Agency will be “putting out a notice” of violations in San Francisco.
Trump stated, &#8220;It&#8217;s a terrible situation that&#8217;s in Los Angeles and in San Francisco. And we&#8217;re going to be giving San Francisco — they&#8217;re in total violation — we&#8217;re going to be giving them a notice very soon,&#8221; adding, &#8220;They have to clean it up. We can&#8217;t have our cities going to hell,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7480161/Trump-warns-hell-punish-San-Francisco-EPA-violations-homeless-population-waste.html">The Daily Mail</a>, which noted, &#8220;… tens of thousands of hypodermic needles are collected every month from the streets of San Francisco. In August 2018 alone the city&#8217;s Public Health Department&#8217;s needle recovery program retrieved 164,264 needles through a disposal program and street cleanups.&#8221;
Speaking to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/us/politics/trump-san-francisco-homeless.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email">The New York Times</a> Wednesday evening, San Francisco Mayor London Breed fired back, &#8220;To be clear, San Francisco has a combined sewer system, one of the best and most effective in the country, that ensures that all debris that flow into storm drains are filtered out at the city’s wastewater treatment plants. No debris flow out into the bay or the ocean.&#8221; She sniped, &#8220;In San Francisco we are focused on advancing solutions to meet the challenges on our streets, not throwing off ridiculous assertions as we board an airplane to leave the state.&#8221;
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) chimed in that Trump was &#8220;right that homelessness is a big problem in California. But how he explains the situation is wrong and raises significant concerns that his so-called solutions will only make matters worse.&#8221;
But House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) countered, &#8220;When he’s talking about homelessness and solving that problem, and affordability, that goes across party lines. Drive around — every community, even in Bakersfield — homelessness is the No. 1 issue.&#8221;
On Wednesday, President Trump tweeted, &#8220;The Trump Administration is revoking California’s Federal Waiver on emissions in order to produce far less expensive cars for the consumer, while at the same time making the cars substantially SAFER. This will lead to more production because of this pricing and safety advantage, and also due to the fact that older, highly polluting cars, will be replaced by new, extremely environmentally friendly cars.&#8221;
Prior to that, on Tuesday Trump tweeted, &#8220;We have people living in our … best highways, our best streets, our best entrances to buildings &#8230; where people in those buildings pay tremendous taxes, where they went to those locations because of the prestige. In many cases, they came from other countries and they moved to Los Angeles or they moved to San Francisco because of the prestige of the city, and all of a sudden they have tents. Hundreds and hundreds of tents and people living at the entrance to their office building. And they want to leave. And the people of San Francisco are fed up, and the people of Los Angeles are fed up.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-map-shows-human-poop-complaints">Fox News</a> reported last April, &#8220;A <a href="https://www.openthebooks.com/map/?Map=32504&amp;MapType=Pin&amp;Zip=94103">new map</a> pinpointing the locations where human feces are reported to have been found in the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/west/california">California</a> city since 2011 shows San Francisco has a staggering problem with the stinky stuff. Nearly every city block has had a poop sighting in recent years as the city grapples with homelessness, according to data compiled by Open The Books.&#8221;
In May, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Cleaning-up-SF-s-Tenderloin-costs-a-lot-of-13808447.php?psid=2g32E">The San Francisco Chronicle reported</a> that the city had spent more than $70 million cleaning feces and drug paraphernalia from streets and sidewalks this fiscal year, but it didn&#8217;t suffice to make San Francisco&#8217;s streets safe for pedestrians.

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Trump Targets San Francisco: EPA Will Be ‘Putting Out A Notice Of Violations’

Environmentalism

As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51366/cliff-san-francisco-board-supervisors-names-nra-hank-berrien">reported</a> yesterday, the comically leftist Board of Supervisors for the city of San Francisco took it upon itself to deem the nation&#8217;s oldest continually operating civil rights organization a &#8220;domestic terrorist organization.&#8221; That organization, of course, would be the <a href="https://home.nra.org">National Rifle Association</a> (NRA) — a group originally founded in 1871, following the nadir of the Civil War, to help promote rifle marksmanship. At the time the NRA was founded during Reconstruction, white supremacists in the South were still engaged in a systemic and conscientious effort to deprive blacks of their Second Amendment rights — rights which had only recently been secured for free blacks via the Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1868 and overruled the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court decision of 1857. As then-Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit wrote in <a href="http://keepandbeararms.com/silveira/enbanc.asp">a 2003 dissent</a> from a denial to rehear a case en banc:
<blockquote>Disarmament was the tool of choice for subjugating both slaves and free blacks in the South. In Florida, patrols searched blacks’ homes for weapons, confiscated those found and punished their owners without judicial process. See Robert J. Cottrol &amp; Raymond T. Diamond, The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration, 80 Geo. L.J. 309, 338 (1991). In the North, by contrast, blacks exercised their right to bear arms to defend against racial mob violence. Id. at 341-42.</blockquote>
Put another way, at the time the NRA was founded, its mission to promote rifle marksmanship was inextricably linked with its activism in helping promote the inalienable right to self-defense for the nation&#8217;s most vulnerable population — a population unconscionably subjected en masse to chattel slavery during the first seven-plus decades of the American republic, and whose abolition had just torn a beleaguered nation asunder and resulted in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51234/hammer-washington-post-contributor-compares-pleas-josh-hammer">deaths of over 600,000</a>.
Indeed, to this day, the NRA, in addition to its much-ballyhooed pro-Second Amendment lobbying presence in the nation&#8217;s capital and in state capitals across the country, <a href="https://firearmtraining.nra.org">helps train</a> and <a href="https://gunsafetyrules.nra.org">educate the public</a> in terms of gun safety, competency, and ownership responsibility. Anyone who has ever visited a firing range has likely seen advertised the presence of a &#8220;<a href="https://www.nrainstructors.org">NRA-certified instructor</a>.&#8221; In terms of national firearms training certifications, there is likely no more universally recognized or prestigious honor. The NRA remains the gold standard certifier for the noble business of assisting Americans in the exercise of one of their cherished, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment">textually enumerated</a> constitutional rights.
Alas, the radical Jacobins on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors do not care about any of these niceties. As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Hank Berrien reported, the Board&#8217;s farcical resolution concludes: &#8220;RESOLVED, That the City and County of San Francisco intends to declare the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist organization … the City and County of San Francisco should take every reasonable step to assess the financial and contractual relationships our vendors and contractors have with this domestic terrorist organization … the City and County of San Francisco should take every reasonable step to limit those entities who do business with the City and County of San Francisco from doing business with this domestic terrorist organization … the City and County of San Francisco should encourage all other jurisdictions, including other cities, states, and the federal government, to adopt similar positions.&#8221;
It is nearly impossible to describe how reckless this stunt is. Planned Parenthood, the nation&#8217;s largest abortion mill, is systemically engaged all across the country in the shameless promotion and enactment of taxpayer-funded prenatal infanticide. If anything, that <a href="https://time.com/4081760/margaret-sanger-history-eugenics/">eugenicist</a>-inspired genocidal organizational history might theoretically lead a conservative city, such as Oklahoma City or Wichita, to declare in a resolution that Planned Parenthood is a &#8220;domestic terrorist organization.&#8221; But the careful reader will note that, to date, that has never happened. And it is shameful for the woke white liberal denizens of San Francisco to disingenuously defame a decorated, longstanding civil rights group — one founded in the aftermath of the Civil War to, in part, secure the newly enshrined constitutional rights of black freedmen — with such a label.
Our collective rhetoric comprising the national discourse is dangerously overheated in this country. As I <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/50303/hammer-our-national-discourse-dangerously-josh-hammer">lamented</a> last month, &#8220;Our markedly polarized polity — divided like never before between the monolithically anti-Trump bi-coastal clerisy and the deigned rubes and yokels of the American heartland — feels like it is at a breaking point.&#8221; Via such a disdainful, divisive, and utterly dishonest resolution, the uppity white leftists of San Francisco — the very embodiment of that &#8220;bi-coastal clerisy&#8221; that looks scornfully upon the gun-owning &#8220;yokels of the American heartland&#8221; — have done their small part to only further tear apart our nation&#8217;s social fabric. We conservatives, who are <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17662/stop-alinskyization-american-right-josh-hammer">less cynical and morally superior to our leftist brethren</a>, have a general responsibility to refrain from engaging in such unscrupulous tit-for-tat crossfire. At the same time, conservatives can only be expected to unilaterally disarm so much. With each grievous blow leftists deal to our polity&#8217;s sense of unity and camaraderie, the closer we inch toward a <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/06/igniting-civil-war/">dark outcome that all parties should surely wish to avoid</a>.
At a bare minimum, in the year 2019, is it too much to ask that everyone refrain from labeling as &#8220;domestic terrorist organizations&#8221; those groups founded to secure for a free citizenry one of their constitutionally enumerated rights?

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HAMMER: San Francisco Has Beclowned Itself By Labeling The NRA A ‘Domestic Terrorist Organization’

Guns

Leftism

National Rifle Association (NRA)

Second Amendment

Terrorism

Recently, a prominent restauranteur in San Francisco <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51100/prominent-san-fran-restaurant-owner-bernie-was-paul-bois">accused</a> socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) of being a rude old crank. On Tuesday, that characterization appeared to show itself when he told a crying baby to &#8220;keep it down&#8221; while he spoke at a New Hampshire town hall event.
&#8220;A squealing baby tested Bernie Sanders&#8217; cool during a town hall event on Tuesday in New Hampshire,&#8221; <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-climate-change-abortion-birth-control-julian-castro-aoc-family-cycle">reports</a> Fox News. &#8220;The Democratic presidential candidate was about to answer a health care question from an audience member when the little one broke out into a shrill cry.&#8221;
At first, Sanders proceeded to answer the question from the audience member until the squealing cries became too much to bear.
&#8220;Thank you very much, because it’s not easy getting up in front of a TV camera to talk about this. Did I hear you correctly say you have to cut your pills in half?&#8221; Sanders asked the audience member before turning his head towards the crying baby. &#8220;If we could keep that down a little bit? OK. Thanks.&#8221;
Trump campaign officials shared the video on Wednesday and trolled his campaign. &#8220;Sanders not feeling the Bern for kids in the audience yesterday,&#8221; tweeted campaign official Zach Parkinson.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Sanders not feeling the Bern for kids in the audience yesterday&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/GmXpyp96tB">pic.twitter.com/GmXpyp96tB</a>
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/AZachParkinson/status/1169272900643409922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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During the 2016 campaign, President Donald Trump had a similar moment when an audience member&#8217;s baby began to cry. Trump used it to humorous effect, although the media tried to paint him as being insensitive — claiming he literally kicked a baby out of a campaign rally. Even left-leaning Snopes had to <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-crying-baby/">rate this claim</a> &#8220;False&#8221; at the time:
<blockquote>Trump, however, didn’t actually kick the squalling child out of his rally.
Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/08/02/no-donald-trump-did-not-eject-a-baby.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote</a> that he was sitting near the baby during the rally, and that while Trump really did make the comments captured in the above-displayed video, the incident was mischaracterized and Trump never actually ordered the tot be removed from the room.
According to Dale, Trump said “Don’t worry about that baby” when the infant first started crying, and when the child cried again, the mother quickly left the room to avoid interrupting the candidate. Trump noticed the woman leaving and called after her, “You can get the baby out of here.” But the woman and the child both returned to their seats later in the rally.</blockquote>
Bernie&#8217;s apparent &#8220;baby gaffe&#8221; comes shortly after San Francisco restaurateur John Konstin described Bernie as being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51100/prominent-san-fran-restaurant-owner-bernie-was-paul-bois">both rude and cranky</a> when visiting his establishment, John&#8217;s Grill, during a campaign stop.
&#8220;Dems in town for DNC packed in John&#8217;s Grill, the 111-year old bistro that&#8217;s become a go-to for pols in San Francisco,&#8221; reported POLITICO at the time. &#8220;Owner John Konstin tells POLITICO he hosted a full house, including a big party with Secretary of State Alex Padilla and Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, all led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was &#8216;pure class.'&#8221;
While the others were indeed &#8220;pure class,&#8221; Sanders, as it seems, was pure crank by refusing to shake hands and being fairly rude to the staff.
&#8220;It was all very nice, except for cranky Bernie,&#8221; Konstin told Politico. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t want to shake hands, he didn&#8217;t want a picture. He wasn&#8217;t nice to any of the staff.&#8221;

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WATCH: Bernie Tells Crying Baby To ‘Keep That Down A Little Bit’

2020 Election

Bernie Sanders

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, eager to join far-leftists around the country who harbor a virulent hatred for the National Rifle Association, passed a resolution that calls the National Rifle Association a &#8220;domestic terrorist organization.&#8221; Not satisfied with that, the board also called on the federal government to name the NRA a terrorist organization, as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-francisco-board-brands-nra-a-domestic-terrorist-organization">Fox News</a> reports.
The <a href="https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&amp;amp;ID=7568748&amp;amp;GUID=DF64490F-D8BC-4BF7-A43D-287F02BECCCA">resolution</a> starts by citing the Declaration of Independence&#8217;s statement that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are unalienable rights before seguing to the Constitution stating that the United States was founded to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and promote the general welfare.
The resolution turns to the Department of Justice defining terrorist activity as &#8220;The use of any &#8230; explosive, firearm, or other weapon or dangerous device, with intent to endanger, directly or indirectly, the safety of one or more individuals or to cause substantial damage to property.&#8221; The resolution states that the DOJ &#8220;includes any individual or member of an organization commits an act that the actor knows, or reasonably should know, affords material support, including communications, funds, weapons, or training to any individual has committed or plans to commit a terrorist act.&#8221;
Then, the attack on the NRA: &#8220;The National Rifle Association musters its considerable wealth and organizational strength to promote gun ownership and incite gun owners to acts of violence, and the National Rifle Association spreads propaganda that misinforms and aims to deceive the public about the dangers of gun violence, and the leadership of National Rifle Association promotes extremist positions, in defiance of the views of a majority of its membership and the public, and undermine the general welfare, and the National Rifle Association through its advocacy has armed those individuals who would and have committed acts of terrorism.&#8221;
The resolution opines, &#8220;All countries have violent and hateful people, but only in America do we give them ready access to assault weapons and large-capacity magazines thanks, in large part, to the National Rifle Association&#8217;s influence.&#8221;
Then, the critical statement:
<blockquote>RESOLVED, That the City and County of San Francisco intends to declare the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist organization … the City and County of San Francisco should take every reasonable step to assess the financial and contractual relationships our vendors and contractors have with this domestic terrorist organization … the City and County of San Francisco should take every reasonable step to limit those entities who do business with the City and County of San Francisco from doing business with this domestic terrorist organization … the City and County of San Francisco should encourage all other jurisdictions, including other cities, states, and the federal government, to adopt similar positions.</blockquote>
According to <a href="http://www.ktvu.com/news/ktvu-local-news/san-francisco-board-of-supervisors-designates-nra-domestic-terrorist-organization">KTVU</a>, the NRA fired back with a statement: &#8220;This ludicrous stunt by the Board of Supervisors is an effort to distract from the real problems facing San Francisco, such as rampant homelessness, drug abuse and skyrocketing petty crime, to name a few. The NRA will continue working to protect the constitutional rights of all freedom-loving Americans.&#8221;

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OFF THE CLIFF: San Francisco Board Of Supervisors Names NRA A Terrorist Organization

Barack Obama

Amid the city&#8217;s interconnected and rapidlly escalating crime and homelessness crises, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has determined that one of the ways it can help inspire the city&#8217;s expanding criminal population to good behavior is to simply play some games with language.
In a non-binding resolution passed last month and which has gained the support of the district attorney, the city presents the grim statistic that now one-fifth, one out of every five, residents of the city has a criminal record. In response to this alarming criminal reality, the board has introduced its new &#8220;person first&#8221; terminology, in which old terms the city fears might encourage &#8220;negative predispositions&#8221; and &#8220;unfounded assumptions&#8221; have been swapped out for more positive and &#8220;stigma&#8221;-free language.
In the resolution, the city spells out its new terms for the old,&#8221;attitudinal barrier&#8221;-creating phrases: A &#8220;convicted felon&#8221; or &#8220;convict&#8221; or &#8220;felon&#8221; that has been released from jail should now be called a &#8220;formerly incarcerated person,&#8221; or a &#8220;justice-involved&#8221; person, or even a &#8220;returning resident,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/SF-Board-of-Supervisors-sanitizes-language-of-14292255.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reports.
Rather than acknowledge that someone is &#8220;on parole,&#8221; the city will now describe that person as simply &#8220;under supervision.&#8221; ​People who were once called &#8220;substance abusers&#8221; or &#8220;drug addicts&#8221; are now to be called people &#8220;with a history of substance use.&#8221;
And a &#8220;juvenile delinquent&#8221; is now to be referred to as either a &#8220;young person with justice system involvement&#8221; or a &#8220;young person impacted by the juvenile justice system.&#8221;
The resolution insists that the old terms &#8220;only serve to obstruct and separate people from society and make the institutionalization of racism and supremacy appear normal.&#8221;
While one might note that the language fails to specify what the person is &#8220;returning&#8221; from, leaves out exactly how the person is &#8220;involved&#8221; in &#8220;justice,&#8221; employs a child-like phrase for parolees, and makes a young criminal sound like a victim of the system, the progressive city&#8217;s board of supervisors feels that the new terms will help prevent the spreading of &#8220;inaccurate information.&#8221;
&#8220;Inaccurate information, unfounded assumptions, generalizations and other negative predispositions associated with justice-involved individuals create societal stigmas, attitudinal barriers and continued negative stereotypes,&#8221; the resolution states. The old terms, said one of the members who voted for the resolution, serve as a &#8220;scarlet letter&#8221; and thus prevent peole from becoming &#8220;contributing citizens.&#8221;
The resolution has been met with widespread blowback, including from the Chronicle, which provides this mocking response:
<blockquote>The language resolution makes no mention of terms for victims of crime, but using the new terminology someone whose car has been broken into could well be: “A person who has come in contact with a returning resident who was involved with the justice system and who is currently under supervision with a history of substance use.”
In other words, someone whose car was broken into by a recently released offender, on parole with a drug problem.</blockquote>
The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51054/knowles-san-francisco-just-solved-all-its-problems-daily-wire">Michael Knowles</a> had a similar reaction on his podcast Friday. In reference to the new politically correct term &#8220;justice-involved&#8221; individuals, Knowles said:
<blockquote>This is my favorite PC jargon of all because it is actually the opposite of the truth. Criminals are not justice-involved persons. Criminals, by definition, are injustice-involved persons. They are committing injustices, not justices. It would be like San Francisco referring to their their epidemic of drug and feces infested streets as &#8220;sanitation-involved sidewalks.&#8221; Doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense. But this is what PC does. You know, instead of solving the problem instead of grappling with reality, these politicians in San Francisco think that they can just change the name because it&#8217;s a lot easier.</blockquote>
The <a href="https://freebeacon.com/blog/san-francisco-crime/">Washington Free Beacon</a> also underscored the problematic nature of the PC resolution in part by noting the city&#8217;s apparent trouble with prioritizing issues:
<blockquote>San Francisco is a city in decline. The cartoonish wealth of Silicon Valley surrounds an urban landscape beset by rampant homelessness and the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/The-Scanner-San-Francisco-ranks-No-1-in-13267113.php">highest property-crime rate in the country</a>. Also, <a href="https://www.apnews.com/bf7275bba3dd425ca79dc4f1af47202a">poop</a>.
Local officials are doing everything in their power to confront the city&#8217;s challenges, for example, by targeting a &#8220;racist&#8221; <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/racist-george-washington/">mural of George Washington</a> at a high school bearing the founding father&#8217;s name. They are intent on doing something about all the crime as well, just not in the traditional way that most cities confront crime.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50785/update-after-viral-video-violent-attack-san-fran-james-barrett">UPDATE: After Viral Video Of Violent Attack, San Fran Judge Issues New Order On Homeless Suspect</a>

Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco

San Francisco’s New PC Terms For Criminals Met With Mockery

Crime

Political Correctness

Forget the real problems plaguing San Francisco, like rampant feces, urine, and drug needles inundating its streets, and the fact that the city is reputedly the nation’s leader in property crime; the city’s Board of Supervisors is proposing <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-francisco-board-adopts-new-language-for-criminals-turning-convicted-felon-into-justice-involved-person">softening the language</a> referring to criminals. The Board of Supervisors is championing new “person first” language guidelines; convicted felon or offender released from jail will be called a “formerly incarcerated person,” or a “justice-involved” person or a “returning resident,” according to the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/SF-Board-of-Supervisors-sanitizes-language-of-14292255.php">San Francisco Chronicle.</a>
The Chronicle added:
<blockquote>Parolees and people on criminal probation will be referred to as a “person on parole,” or “person under supervision.” A juvenile “delinquent” will become a “young person with justice system involvement,” or a “young person impacted by the juvenile justice system.” And drug addicts or substance abusers will become “a person with a history of substance use.”</blockquote>
Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer proposed the guidelines. Supervisor Matt Haney told the Chronicle, “We don’t want people to be forever labeled for the worst things that they have done.” He added, “We want them ultimately to become contributing citizens, and referring to them as felons is like a scarlet letter that they can never get away from.”
The guidelines state that the previous words used to describe criminals “only serve to obstruct and separate people from society and make the institutionalization of racism and supremacy appear normal … Inaccurate information, unfounded assumptions, generalizations and other negative predispositions associated with justice-involved individuals create societal stigmas, attitudinal barriers and continued negative stereotypes.”
Police spokesman David Stevenson said the department has apprised its members of the resolution; he asserted that they “are researching possible impacts on operations and communications.”
The <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/The-Scanner-San-Francisco-ranks-No-1-in-13267113.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reported in October 2018:
<blockquote><a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s">FBI data released last week</a> show the city had the highest per-capita rate of property crimes among the 20 most populous U.S. cities in 2017, tallying 6,168 crimes per 100,000 people. That’s about 148 burglaries, larcenies, car thefts and arsons per day. San Francisco’s property crimes spiked from the previous year, shooting up from about 47,000 in 2016 to 54,000 in 2017.</blockquote>
The City-Journal echoed in May 2019:
<blockquote>San Francisco is the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/The-Scanner-San-Francisco-ranks-No-1-in-13267113.php">nation’s leader in property crime</a>. Burglary, larceny, shoplifting, and vandalism are included under this ugly umbrella. The rate of car break-ins is particularly striking: in 2017 over <a href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-vehicle-break-ins-at-record-levels-police-try-12464043.php">30,000 reports</a> were filed, and the <a href="https://projects.sfchronicle.com/trackers/sf-car-breakins/">current average is 51 per day</a>. Other low-level offenses, including drug dealing, street harassment, encampments, indecent exposure, public intoxication, simple assault, and disorderly conduct are also rampant.</blockquote>
Susan Dyer Reynolds, editor-in-chief of the Marina Times, told the City-Journal, “A lot of people are ready to leave because the crimes are causing depression.” She added that so-called “<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/embarcadero-homeless-shelter">Navigation centers</a>” for the homeless “are not sober facilities, and people steal and break into cars to feed their habits. Crime will go up. We know this.”

Golden Gate Bridge in fog

San Francisco Wants To Soften Language For Criminals To Protect Their Feelings

On Tuesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles discusses why plastic bans are inconvenient for people and actually harmful for the environment. Video and partial transcript below: 
[San Francisco&#8217;s] plastic water bottle ban is incredibly stupid, and it&#8217;s not just stupid because it won&#8217;t have that much of an impact. It&#8217;s stupid because the purpose isn&#8217;t to help the environment; the purpose is just to harm you. Like all of these other regulations and bans, it&#8217;s not about the environment — it&#8217;s about inconveniencing you. Here&#8217;s how you know by the way. In San Francisco Airport now, the ban is only affecting water bottles. But you know you go into the store at the airport or any deli or any convenience store, they don&#8217;t just sell water bottles. They sell soda bottles, ice tea bottles, Gatorade juice drinks, all these different kinds of drinks. All of those are fine at San Francisco airport. The only one you can&#8217;t get is a water bottle.
Why is it? Because travel dehydrates you. I&#8217;ve learned this the hard way. One time I flew to New York for a bachelor party. So I was already a little dehydrated. I get on the airplane, I forgot that travel dehydrates you. I felt like I was in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Men lose up to half a gallon of water from their bodies during a ten-hour flight. It&#8217;s a lot of water. And and you are also not allowed to bring any liquid past security in airports. So what are you supposed to do now? You&#8217;re supposed to suffer. That&#8217;s it. I guess you could bring — I don&#8217;t know a metallic water bottle or a reusable water bottle that&#8217;s empty through security and then go to the one water fountain, somewhere in the airport, or you can go into the airport bathroom and fill up your water bottle. Doesn&#8217;t that sound delicious? Doesn&#8217;t that sound really appetizing? Or you can suffer. And that&#8217;s what they want you to do — they want you to suffer. The whole point of this is [for] inconvenience.
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You saw this with the plastic grocery bag ban. So three years ago in California — other states have followed suit — but in 2016 in California, they banned single-use plastic grocery bags. New York followed California this past March. And when they did that, New York&#8217;s Governor Andrew Cuomo declared that the ban would &#8220;reduce litter in our communities, protect our water and create a cleaner and greener New York for all.&#8221; So that&#8217;s what happened, right? That&#8217;s obviously what happened. No, actually, of course not — plastic pollution got significantly worse.
We haven&#8217;t seen the effect in New York yet because it just happened — but in California the ban actually caused more plastic pollution. How did it do that? How do we know that? There was a <a href="https://theconversation.com/plastic-bag-bans-can-backfire-if-consumers-just-use-other-plastics-instead-110571">study</a> out of the University of Sydney that showed that the ban on the single-use, a little thin nothing plastic grocery bag, led to a massive increase in the sale of thicker more environmentally damaging plastic garbage bags. You know, the kind you line your garbage with at home. How does that work? What is the relationship between grocery bags and garbage bags that none of these economists or none of these regulators or none of these environmental activists could have thought of? Well, you know from your own use.
Back in the good old days when we had plastic grocery bags, you would go [and] get all your groceries, and then you&#8217;d save your plastic grocery bags, Right? And if you&#8217;re anything like my family, you&#8217;d save like three hundred of them — you&#8217;d never use as many as you actually got. So you just have them in a pantry somewhere, but you would use them. You would slowly use them, and the way you would use them is to line your small little trash bins. And that was very easy, it was actually an organic way to recycle. Because you got these bags, you don&#8217;t want to go out and buy new garbage bags, there&#8217;s no reason to do that. So you figure okay, make use with that, throw your trash away, put that in the trash, throw it out. You&#8217;re good to go. Now that you can&#8217;t do that — now that those bags don&#8217;t exist — people have to line their trash bins somehow. So they&#8217;re going out there buying much more environmentally damaging bags.
Ok, well at least it&#8217;s better as far as the grocery bags themselves are concerned. Right? Wrong. Another <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/life-cycle-assessment-of-supermarket-carrierbags-a-review-of-the-bags-available-in-2006">study</a> showed that paper bags, which is what replaced the single-use plastic bags, are actually worse for the environment than the single-use plastic bags. How do we know that? Britain&#8217;s environmental agencies showed in 2011 that far back eight years ago that you would have to reuse a paper bag a paper grocery bag three times if you wanted to bring its environmental impact down to the level of a single-use plastic bag. Now do you ever reuse paper bags? No, nobody does. You just throw them out. Ironically, you do reuse the environmentally pretty-fine plastic bags, but you don&#8217;t reuse the paperback, so they&#8217;re actually much worse for the environment. Why is that? It takes a lot more energy to make the paper bags. You have to create the pulp, you have to manufacture the paper bag, and all of that energy and all of that time you could have just made that single-use very thin plastic bag from oil.
Ok then, Michael, you conservative, you anti-environmentalist. Then forget the plastic bags. Forget the paper bags. I know! I know the way that we can save the environment, right? This is what all the activists tell you. At the grocery store checkout, what they tell you, you can buy one of those reusable cotton bags. You ever see that, all those are great bags, right? That&#8217;s the best. That&#8217;s when you really want to protect the planet from global warming, you buy those bags. All the most liberal people you know have those bags. They bring them back and forth. That&#8217;s better for the environment, right? No, that&#8217;s the worst for the environment of all.
A headline from courts came out just this past April <a href="https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotton-totes-might-be-worse-than-plastic/">quote</a>, “Your cotton tote is pretty much the worst replacement for a plastic bag.” Don&#8217;t take my word for it. Listen to the scientists 2013 study from Denmark&#8217;s Ministry of Environment and Food, [which] found that cotton shopping bags need to be reused — how many times you want to guess? So if you want, if you want to bring the paper bag down to the environmental impact level of a plastic bag, you have to reuse it three times. Yeah, [how] many times you got to reuse a cotton shopping bag? Twenty thousand times. I&#8217;m not going to go to the grocery store twenty thousand times in my life.
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San Francisco To Ban Non-Recyclable Plastic Bags

KNOWLES: Banning Plastic Is Stupid, For Us And The Environment

Michael Knowles

On Tuesday, the ban on selling many single-use plastic water bottles at San Francisco International Airport went into effect. The ban was implemented based on a 2014 ordinance that bans selling disposable plastic bottles on city-owned property; the airport is owned by the city.
As <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/san-francisco-airport-bans-single-use-plastic-bottles-66618437854?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma">NBC News</a> reports, 58 million passengers go through SF International each year; 10,000 single use bottles are sold there every day, amounting to four million every year.
“Travelers lugged empty canisters through security. They refilled them at the airport’s more than 100 ‘hydration stations,’ the water dispensers mounted outside most bathrooms. The fountains had no lines early Tuesday morning,” the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/SFO-s-plastic-water-bottle-ban-draws-mixed-14363474.php">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reported on Wednesday.
SFO spokesman Doug Yakel had boasted to the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/travel/article/No-fly-zone-SFO-bans-sale-of-plastic-water-14274754.php">Chronicle</a>, “We’re the first airport that we’re aware of to implement this change, we’re on the leading edge for the industry, and we want to push the boundaries of sustainability initiatives.”
Interestingly, although buying plastic water bottles is a no-go, plastic bottles containing soda, juices and flavored water are still available. <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFO-plastic-water-bottle-ban-no-waste-airport-14363779.php">SFgate.com</a> also noted that there is a loophole in the ban; it is still permissible to sell plastic water bottles larger than one liter; the <a href="https://www.flysfo.com/plastic-free-faqs">SFO website</a> states, “This policy covers drinking water in a sealed box, bag, can, bottle or other container intended mainly for single-service use and having a capacity of 1 liter or less.” The airport intends to transfer zero waste to landfills by 2021.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/sf-airport-water-bottle-ban-trnd/index.html">CNN</a> noted, “Americans eat, drink and breathe between 74,000 and 121,000 microplastic particles each year, depending on their age and sex, according to a <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.9b01517">recent study</a> published in the journal Environmental Science &amp; Technology. If bottled water (and not tap) is our only source of hydration, annual plastic particle intake via drinking water is estimated to be approximately 75,000 for boys, 127,000 for men, 64,000 for girls and 93,000 for women, the researchers noted.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/33496/san-francisco-considers-banning-plastic-straws-paul-bois">The Daily Wire</a> reported in July 2018, “the SF Board of Supervisors took up a proposal to ban plastic straws … the proposed ban would also prevent vendors from using takeout containers made with fluorinated chemicals.” <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/san-francisco-plastic-straw-ban/2018/07/24/id/873372/">Newsmax</a> reported, “The legislation prohibits eateries from using plastic anti-splashers, stirrers and other plastic items that environmentalists say are too small to be recycled properly.&#8221; It continues, &#8220;Retailers would no longer be able to sell the items starting July 2019. In addition, food and drink vendors would be allowed to dispense cutlery, napkins, condiments and lids only on request or through self-serve stations.”
The <a href="https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/san-francisco-bans-plastic-straws">Heartland Institute</a> noted in September 2018, “The ordinance also prohibits restaurants from offering napkins and utensils with takeout or delivery orders unless customers specifically request them or take them from a self-serve station. Businesses violating the ban face fines ranging from $100 to $500 per incident, depending on the number of violations, beginning January 1, 2020. The ban was adopted on July 31 and takes effect July 1, 2019.”
Kerry Jackson, a research fellow at the Pacific Research Institute’s Center for California Reform, noted, “One percent of the plastic found in the ocean comes from California, meaning California can do whatever it wants to do, but it’s not going to change anything. Plastic straws are not dangerous to anybody, and they can be disposed of properly, which most people do.
On July 1, 2019, the ban went into effect.

Aquafina Water Bottles

San Francisco At It Again: Airport Bans Single-Use Water Bottles

In another alarming development in the escalating homeless crisis in San Francisco, a judge let a homeless man shown violently attacking a young woman in security video back onto the streets within just 72 hours of the shocking incident. In response, the victim released the surveillance footage of the assault on Twitter and directed her post to California&#8217;s progressive Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom. The disturbing sequence of events has prompted a response from both Newsom and San Francisco Mayor London Breed — one rather vague and one quite specific.
The incident took place early Sunday morning outside the Watermak apartment complex where Paneez Kosarian lives. Kosarian was allegedly approached by Austin James Vincent, a 25-year-old homeless man, who began to say at first strange, then increasingly threatening things.
&#8220;Kosarian was attempting to get into the building, which is located near Beale and Bryant Streets by the Embarcadero, when Vincent refused to let her inside without him and told her everyone is a robot and he is the last human on earth,&#8221; San Francisco&#8217;s <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/newsom-breed-comment-on-the-release-of-homeless-man-involved-in-sf-attack/">KRON 4</a> reports. When he allegedly asked her to hand over her wallet and cell phone, which she refused, she tried to get into the door of her apartment complex. That&#8217;s when she says he assaulted her — an attack caught on security cameras.
&#8220;Arrested at the scene, Vincent was arraigned on Tuesday after entering a plea of not guilty to charges of false imprisonment, attempted robbery and two counts of battery and was released,&#8221; the outlet reports.
HotAir&#8217;s <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/08/15/homeless-man-attacked-woman-entering-apartment-building-judge-put-back-streets/">John Sexton</a> notes that police were reportedly called about Vincent before the alleged assault, but, since it was just a loitering call, didn&#8217;t consider it a priority. Officers arrived about a half-hour after the attack.
Despite the seriousnes of the charges, and the available evidence, the suspect was released within less than 72 hours by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Christine Van Aken, who simply asked him to &#8220;report to a caseworker on condition of his release,&#8221; KRON 4 notes.
That prompted Kosarian to take action. On Wednesday, she posted video evidence of the terrifying assault and made sure to direct the post to Newsom.
&#8220;[Gov. Newsom,] Please watch this video of me getting attacked at my front door less than 72-hrs ago,&#8221; she wrote in the post that included video of the violent assault. &#8220;The man who attacked me was released this morning because the judge, Christine Van Aken believes that this man is not a danger to our community. PLEASE SAVE OUR CITY!!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a> Please watch this video of me getting attacked at my front door less than 72-hrs ago. The man who attacked me was released this morning because the judge, Christine Van Aken believes that this man is not a danger to our community. PLEASE SAVE OUR CITY!! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/savesf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#savesf</a> <a href="https://t.co/XGzmtSLQpP">pic.twitter.com/XGzmtSLQpP</a>
— Paneez Kosarianfard (@paneezkosarian) <a href="https://twitter.com/paneezkosarian/status/1161829236761489409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Kosarian also called for answers from former Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and demanded that Newsom &#8220;recall&#8221; judge Van Aken. &#8220;I need answers!! [Gov. Brown and Gov. Newsom] recall judge Christine Van Aken, she is not fit for this job and is putting all of our lives in danger. What are you waiting for? Please, you have to do something.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">I need answers!! <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryBrownGov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JerryBrownGov</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a> recall judge Christine Van Aken, she is not fit for this job and is putting all of our lives in danger. What are you waiting for? Please, you have to do something. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/recallchristinevanaken?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#recallchristinevanaken</a>
— Paneez Kosarianfard (@paneezkosarian) <a href="https://twitter.com/paneezkosarian/status/1162004544999395329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In comments reported by KRON 4, both Newsom and Breed responded to the situation during an an event Thursday focused on affordable housing for teachers and public safety workers.
Newsom kept his comments rather vague, saying only that the alleged attack was &#8220;a very serious issue&#8221; and that it &#8220;goes to the core&#8221; of people&#8217;s safety concerns. &#8220;It goes to the core of people wanting to live in a city as spectacular as [San Francisco] — and that foundation is safety,&#8221; he said.
Breed, on the other hand, specifically called out Judge Van Aken and declared Vincent a clear &#8220;danger to society.&#8221; &#8220;I think it&#8217;s really unfortunate what happened,&#8221; said the mayor. &#8220;I think the judge, unfortunately, made a huge mistake. [The homeless] person is a danger to society.&#8221;
UPDATE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50785/update-after-viral-video-violent-attack-san-fran-james-barrett">After Viral Video Of Violent Attack, San Fran Judge Issues New Order On Homeless Suspect</a>

Gavin Newsom

WATCH: San Fran Judge Releases Homeless Man Charged With Violent Attack On Woman, So She Posts Video Of Attack

Jerry Brown

He&#8217;s a worm-can opener.
Two weekends ago, President Trump blasted four Democratic lawmakers of Congress for their &#8220;progressive&#8221; policies, suggesting they &#8220;go back&#8221; to where they came from (turned out three are native-born Americans and the fourth is an American citizen).
This past weekend, between rounds of golf at his swanky club outside the nation&#8217;s capital, Trump opened another can of worms, this time blasting a Maryland Democrat for the dismal state of the city of Baltimore.
&#8220;So sad that Elijah Cummings has been able to do so little for the people of Baltimore. Statistically, Baltimore ranks last in almost every major category. Cummings has done nothing but milk Baltimore dry, but the public is getting wise to the bad job that he is doing!&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter Saturday.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">So sad that Elijah Cummings has been able to do so little for the people of Baltimore. Statistically, Baltimore ranks last in almost every major category. Cummings has done nothing but milk Baltimore dry, but the public is getting wise to the bad job that he is doing!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155320921068056576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Just as with the other worm can, Trump&#8217;s comments prompted cries of racism.
But radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said Trump was spot on in his comments, noting, however, that such charges against cities run by Democrats are never supposed to be uttered.
&#8220;What he&#8217;s saying here is the absolute truth, but it&#8217;s not supposed to be said about any place where the Democrats are in charge,&#8221; Limbaugh said Monday on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends.&#8221;
&#8220;Wherever you find this decadent decay, you&#8217;re going to find Democrats having run the operation for decades,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The Democrats get to claim they are compassionate and that they care, but they never do anything that actually improves the quality of the lives of their constituents. Their constituents are as unhappy today as they were 50 years ago,&#8221; Limbaugh said.
Trump took aim at longtime Maryland lawmaker Rep. Elijah Cummings after he was a &#8220;brutal bully&#8221; during House hearings on the U.S.-Mexico border, in which he repeatedly berated Border Patrol officials.
&#8220;[T]here is nothing wrong with bringing out the very obvious fact that Congressman Elijah Cummings has done a very poor job for his district and the City of Baltimore,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday. &#8220;Just take &#8230; a look, the facts speak far louder than words! The Democrats always play the Race Card, when in fact they have done so little for our Nation’s great African American people. Now, lowest unemployment in U.S. history, and only getting better. Elijah Cummings has failed badly!&#8221;
Trump also blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, another city mired in problems, from rampant drug use on city streets to an explosion of homeless defecating everywhere.
&#8220;Speaking of failing badly, has anyone seen what is happening to Nancy Pelosi’s district in San Francisco. It is not even recognizeable lately. Something must be done before it is too late. The Dems should stop wasting time on the Witch Hunt Hoax and start focusing on our Country!&#8221; Trump wrote.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Speaking of failing badly, has anyone seen what is happening to Nancy Pelosi’s district in San Francisco. It is not even recognizeable lately. Something must be done before it is too late. The Dems should stop wasting time on the Witch Hunt Hoax and start focusing on our Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155442764940812290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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On Monday, Trump mixed all the worms together, bringing the four female lawmakers in &#8220;The Squad&#8221; — Reps. Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts — into the mix with Cummings.
&#8220;If the Democrats are going to defend the Radical Left &#8216;Squad&#8217; and King Elijah’s Baltimore Fail, it will be a long road to 2020. The good news for the Dems is that they have the Fake News Media in their pocket!&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.
In a final blast, Trump noted that Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont socialist running for president, said much the same thing in 2015. &#8220;Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you’re in a wealthy nation,&#8221; Sanders said, The <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-sanders-baltimore-20151207-story.html">Baltimore Sun</a> reported. &#8220;You would think that you were in a Third World country.&#8221;
Said Trump: &#8220;Crazy Bernie Sanders recently equated the City of Baltimore to a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY! Based on that statement, I assume that Bernie must now be labeled a Racist, just as a Republican would if he used that term and standard! The fact is, Baltimore can be brought back, maybe [&#8230;] even to new heights of success and glory, but not with King Elijah and that crew. When the leaders of Baltimore want to see the City rise again, I am in a very beautiful oval shaped office waiting for your call!&#8221;

Limbaugh: Trump Speaking ‘Absolute Truth’ That&#8217;s ‘Not Supposed To Be Said’ About Democrat-Run Cities

Baltimore

Democratic Party

Elijah Cummings

Rush Limbaugh

Seattle&#8217;s mayor recently authorized a crackdown on homeless encampments within the city but seems to be keeping the actual execution of the pilot program quiet, so that the city&#8217;s social justice warriors don&#8217;t catch on.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/06/ilhan-omar-is-unlike-anyone-who-has-served-congress-this-is-her-complicated-american-story/?utm_term=.4a8d7d94518f">The Seattle Times reports</a> that, unlike other cities facing a homelessness crisis (which may be a thinly disguised addiction crisis), Seattle is trying to make headway against the temporary encampments clogging its city sidewalks, and cleaning up what amounts to both a security and hygiene threat to the city&#8217;s residents.
&#8220;Seattle removed 75% more homeless encampments in the first four months of this year than during the same period in 2018, even with this February’s record snowstorm slowing clean-ups,&#8221; the Times says, adding that most of the encampments being removed are &#8220;small encampments,&#8221; which don&#8217;t fall under a Seattle city provision requiring that city officials give &#8220;residents&#8221; 72-hour notice before booting them.
&#8220;The increase in removals,&#8221; the Times reports, &#8220;has been driven partly by a change in emphasis from time-consuming cleanups of sprawling camps to swift cleanups of smaller camps judged to be obstructions, hazards or persistently troublesome.&#8221;
The plan allows Seattle to remove encampments quickly — before they become legendary hazards — and the plan runs deliberately afoul of protective measures put into place by activists on behalf of those sleeping rough.
In Seattle, established camps — those over a certain size and of a certain duration — have to be given 72 hours notice of eviction, and those living in the camps must be provided with an alternate form of shelter. As the Times points out, that&#8217;s quite an ask of city officials, especially if they can&#8217;t immediately contact every resident of a tent city and every owner of an RV or car parked in a parking lot encampment.
Needless to say, the plan doesn&#8217;t sit well with the city&#8217;s more liberal residents, but Seattle&#8217;s mayor, Jenny Durkan, seems to believe this is the only way to address homelessness in a serious way.
“I think it was clear on the campaign trail what the philosophy was going to be,” she told local media. “I still believe strongly that leaving people in place, in inhumane and unsafe conditions, is not a strategy the city can have.”
The plan stands in stark contrast to plans in other cities struggling with chronic homelessness, like Los Angeles and San Francisco. Instead of focusing on breaking up encampments and handling the mental illness and addiction issues that often underlie homelessness, those cities have taken Seattle&#8217;s former approach to the problem: throwing money at cleaning programs that maintain a certain level of hygiene in the camps while paying for an ever-increasing number of temporary shelters and service providers.
Seattle found itself spending $90 million per year on the problem, but that pales in comparison to what San Francisco spent just last year: a whopping $241 million. Some estimates, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Businesses-must-contribute-more-to-city-s-13178743.php">according to the San Francisco Chronicle</a>, put city spending at something like $40,000 per homeless individual.
Recently, a group calculated the cost to &#8220;end homelessness&#8221; in San Francisco, and came up with an incredible number — $12.7 billion — if San Francisco continues on its current trajectory of simply providing alternate housing for those sleeping on the streets and maintaining a full force of workers to keep encampments contained and city streets clear of hypodermic needles, filth, and feces.

Seattle Has Been Quietly Dismantling Homeless Encampments In Order To Clean Up The City

Seattle

In an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that was conducted in Japan, President Trump ripped the Democratic politicians that run major cities in America for soaring homelessness that plagues their cities, asserting, “This is the liberal establishment; this is what I’m fighting.” He pointed out that many of the cities Carlson cited for becoming repositories for urine on the street and needles from junkies are sanctuary cities, adding, “They’re run by very liberal people and the states are run by very liberal people … Do they really think this is okay? Because it’s not. It’s destroying their city and it’s destroying a whole way of life.” Trump said bluntly, “We may intercede.”
The exchange began with Carlson noting, “You come to where we are now, Osaka, or Tokyo, and the cities are clean; there’s no graffiti; there’s no one going to the bathroom on the street; you don’t see junkies … ”
Trump replied, “It’s very nice, isn’t it.”
Carlson pointed out, “It’s very different from our cities.”
Trump agreed, “Yup. Some of our cities.”
Carlson repeated, “Some of our cities. But New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles; they’ve got a major problem with filth.”
Trump said, “It’s very sad. It’s very sad.”
Carlson then prompted Trump, asking, “Why is that?”
Trump answered:
<blockquote>It&#8217;s a phenomenon that started two years ago; it’s disgraceful; I’m gonna maybe — and I’m looking at it very seriously— we’re doing some other things, as you probably notice, like some of the very important things we’re doing now; where but we’re looking at it very seriously because you can’t do that. You can’t have what’s happening, where police officers are getting sick just by walking the beat, I mean. They’re getting actually very sick, where people are getting sick; people living there are living in hell, too, although some of them have mental problems where they don’t even know they’re living that way, in fact, perhaps they like living that way. They can’ do that. They cannot ruin our cities.
And you have people who work in those cities; they work in office buildings and to get into the building they have to walk though a scene that nobody would have believed possible three years ago. This is the liberal establishment; this is what I’m fighting. I don’t know if they’re afraid of votes; I don’t know if they really believe that this should be taking place, but it’s a terrible thing that’s taking place and we may be — you know, I had a situation when I first became president, we had certain areas in Washington, D.C. where that was starting to happen. And I ended it very quickly. I said, “You can’t do that. When we have leaders of the world coming in to see the president of the United States and they’re riding down a highway, they can’t be looking at that.”
I really believe that it hurts our country. They can’t be looking at scenes like you see in Los Angeles and San Francisco. San Francisco, I own property in San Francisco so I don’t care except it was so beautiful. And now areas that you used to think as being, really something very special, you take a look at what’s going on with San Francisco and it’s terrible. So we’re looking at it very seriously. We may intercede. We may do something to get that whole thing cleaned up. It’s inappropriate. Now, we have to take the people and do something; we have to do something. And, you know, we’re really not very equipped as a government to be doing that kind of work; that’s not really the kind of work that the government probably should be doing — we’ve never had this in our lives before in our country, and it’s not only those few cities; it’s a couple of other cities</blockquote>
Carlson interjected, “No, it’s a lot.”
Trump concluded: “At the same time, most of our cities are doing great; but if you look at some of these; they’re usually sanctuary cities; they’re run by very liberal people and the states are run by very liberal people. But the thing that nobody can figure out is, are these governors or mayors, do they really think this is a positive? Do they really think this is okay? Because it’s not. It’s destroying their city and it’s destroying a whole way of life. And it’s not our country; it’s not what our country’s all about.”
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Tucker Carlson

Having solved all of its other problems, San Francisco, California, became the first city to officially ban the use and sale of e-cigarettes and vape pens inside city limits.
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/25/health/san-francisco-e-cigarette-ban-sales-bn/index.html">CNN reports</a> that the city&#8217;s Board of Supervisors voted in favor of the ordinance Tuesday afternoon, ending questions over whether San Francisco would take the leap, ahead of every other major American city, and take aim at e-cigarette users alongside traditional smokers.
The ban is primarily a ban on sales, and reads: &#8220;no person shall sell or distribute an electronic cigarette to a person in San Francisco.&#8221; E-cigarette sales are off limits inside San Francisco city limits, and that language applies both to brick-and-mortar retailers and to online shops, which cannot ship to recipients at a San Francisco address (though that provision seems oddly difficult to police).
There is a catch, though. The city will reconsider its ban on e-cigarettes if one is approved for use by the Federal Food and Drug Administration. So far, CNN reports, the FDA has passed.
Unfortunately for San Francisco residents who might want to avoid vapers and e-cig users altogether, the ban does not apply to actually using vapes or e-cigarettes. If you can obtain an electronic device and are over the age of 21, San Francisco will not prosecute you for vaping in public unless you run afoul of the city&#8217;s smoking ban, which limits the use of all forms of cigarettes in most public places.
The city&#8217;s mayor says the purpose of the ban is to keep e-cigarettes out of the hands of middle- and high-schoolers, since the long-term effects of vaping are currently unknown.
&#8220;There is so much we don&#8217;t know about the health impacts of these products, but we do know that e-cigarette companies are targeting our kids in their advertising and getting them hooked on addictive nicotine products,&#8221; San Francisco Mayor London Breed said in a statement Tuesday, announcing that she will sign the e-cig ban. &#8220;We need to take action to protect the health of San Francisco&#8217;s youth and prevent the next generation of San Franciscans from becoming addicted to these products.&#8221;
The mayor also referenced the 1990s tobacco lawsuits, claiming that the new law was an effort to stop the long-term harm of ingesting nicotine from an e-cigarette before such harm became so substantial, it resulted in class action litigation.
Oddly enough, while San Francisco may not want e-cigarette stores and vape pens staining the city&#8217;s stellar reputation for cleanliness and class, they are more than happy to take money from e-cigarette manufacturers. Although the new law prevents the manufacture, distribution, and sale of e-cigs, <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/25/735714009/san-francisco-poised-to-ban-sales-of-e-cigarettes">NPR reports that San Francisco</a> just inked a deal with one of the nation&#8217;s largest e-cig manufacturers and sellers, Juul Labs, to lease space from the city on the city&#8217;s Pier 70.
The city promises, however, that they won&#8217;t ink any further land deals with e-cig manufacturers. It won&#8217;t, however, stand in the way when Juul moves from its current home to a 28-story office building in downtown San Francisco later this year, and certainly won&#8217;t return Juul&#8217;s property taxes or any of the money they make on the estimated $300 million sale.
San Francisco&#8217;s city board did not rule on any legislation, Tuesday, dealing with the city&#8217;s ongoing homelessness crisis, which is now threatening to spill over into the San Francisco Bay as the city&#8217;s transient population reaches critical capacity. The health and safety issues posed by the 70,000+ homeless people currently sleeping rough on San Francisco&#8217;s streets are being dealt with, the city says, but after they ban e-cigarettes.

San Francisco Set To Become First U.S. City To Ban E-Cigarettes

San Francisco Becomes The First City To Officially Ban E-Cigarettes

Several activist groups in Southern California have asked one of the nation&#8217;s most progressive prosecutors to consider launching a campaign against Los Angeles County&#8217;s incumbent district attorney, Jackie Lacey, who is up for re-election next year.
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-george-gascon-jackie-lacey-los-angeles-district-attorney-20190621-story.html">announced</a> on Friday that he is contemplating joining the race and returning to L.A., where he served as a police officer many years ago.
&#8220;This is a big decision for me and it is one I will ultimately be making in consultation with my family, but I am both proud and humbled that so many Angelenos have encouraged me to bring a data-driven vision of public safety and racial equity back to my hometown of Los Angeles,&#8221; Gascón said in a statement.
The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-george-gascon-jackie-lacey-los-angeles-district-attorney-20190621-story.html">reports</a> that &#8220;a number of social justice advocacy groups critical of Lacey&#8221; have approached Gascón, including representatives from the Real Justice political action committee, which was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/33248/shaun-kings-pac-targets-nations-largest-sheriffs-jeffrey-cawood">co-founded</a> by nationally-known black liberation activist Shaun King. The PAC attempted to elect several reform-minded prosecutors throughout California last year.
District Attorney Gascón met directly with Patrisse Cullors, the California director of Real Justice PAC who is also the <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/pressroom/the-black-lives-matter-global-network-celebrates-the-leadership-of-two-co-founders-as-they-transition-to-focus-on-other-impactful-projects/">Black Lives Matter Global Network&#8217;s co-founder and key strategist</a>. Cullors told The New York Times that Gascón has &#8220;been very clear that he wants to end mass incarceration in Los Angeles&#8221; during their meetings, adding, &#8220;he wants to hold law enforcement accountable.&#8221;
As Gascón weighs his decision, he has also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/jackie-lacey-george-gascon-district-attorney.html">visited</a> with members of Black Lives Matter&#8217;s L.A. chapter and other affiliated organizations.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/jackie-lacey-george-gascon-district-attorney.html">According</a> to the NY Times: &#8220;Groups that have successfully supported reform-minded prosecutors pushing to end mass incarceration in places like Philadelphia, Chicago and Texas have zeroed in on Los Angeles as the ultimate prize for their movement because of its size &#8211; it has the biggest jail system and the largest prosecutors office in the country.&#8221;
Since becoming the first African-American woman elected as L.A.&#8217;s top law enforcement official in 2012, Lacey has been the frequent target of a local anti-cop coalition which includes Black Lives Matter and the ACLU. Lacey&#8217;s critics have <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-cullors-criminal-justice-reform-lacey-20190227-story.html">scrutinized</a> her record of opposing progressive criminal justice reform policies, along with her unwillingness to prosecute police who have engaged in officer-involved shootings. Black Lives Matter members have <a href="https://www.dailynews.com/2018/10/25/black-lives-matter-la-protesters-ask-where-is-da-jackie-lacey-on-police-violence/">protested</a> in front of Lacey&#8217;s house, <a href="https://lasentinel.net/after-district-attorney-fails-to-schedule-promised-community-meeting-black-lives-matter-los-angeles-starts-weekly-protest.html">organized</a> recurring demonstrations outside of her office, and <a href="https://twitter.com/BeverlyNBCLA/status/1100990959712579589">vowed</a> to &#8220;disrupt her wherever she goes&#8221; on the campaign trail.
Lacey has also been criticized for her handling of the cases of two gay black men found dead inside the West Hollywood apartment of a white, high-profile Democratic donor 18 months apart. The coroner determined that both deaths resulted from drug overdoses. However, Black Lives Matter allies <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44235/progressives-leading-arrest-ed-buck-drive-seek-jeffrey-cawood">are currently leading a drive</a> demanding Lacey prosecute Ed Buck for murder, speculating that he administered the lethal doses of crystal methamphetamine that killed both men at his home. Several conservative social media influencers have <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1116168086309101568">echoed</a> those unsubstantiated claims as detectives continue to investigate the deaths.
&#8220;When any allegation is considered for possible criminal prosecution, the issue is whether there is clear evidence that a crime has occurred and whether that is sufficient to convince a jury of 12 people of a defendant&#8217;s guilt,&#8221; Lacey <a href="https://www.losangelesblade.com/2019/03/12/breaking-la-district-attorney-lacy-speaks-out-about-ed-buck/">explained</a> earlier this year. &#8220;Prosecutors cannot ethically file charges without such facts in hand.&#8221;
Gascón was born in pre-communist Cuba and arrived in America after <a href="http://www.sfweekly.com/news/beyond-the-law-district-attorney-george-gascons-threat-to-san-franciscos-business-as-usual/">fleeing</a> the Fidel Castro regime with his family as a teenager. They eventually settled in Los Angeles, where he would spend more than 20 years with the LAPD.
Last year, Gascón <a href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/district-attorney-george-gascon-declines-to-run-for-re-election/">announced</a> that he would not seek a third-term as D.A. in San Francisco, citing the failing health of his elderly mother who resides in the L.A. area. He had the support of progressive billionaire George Soros, who, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/SF-DA-Gasc-n-faces-formidable-challenge-for-seat-13236836.php">according</a> to the San Francisco Chronicle, had planned to hold multiple fundraisers for Gascón&#8217;s re-election effort. California voters approved a controversial criminal justice reform ballot initiative in 2014 that was <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-california-reforms-crime-20181220-story.html">co-authored</a> by Gascón and <a href="http://graphics.latimes.com/prop-47-finance/">backed</a> by Soros&#8217; international grantmaking network, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)">along with</a> its lobbying arm. The referendum, called Proposition 47, reclassified several felonies to misdemeanors.
Follow Jeffrey Cawood on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffreycawood">@JeffreyCawood</a>.

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