Once able to lay credible claim to the title ‘America’s most beautiful city’, since the pandemic it has degenerated into the poster child of American inner-city degradation, with iconic neighborhoods like the Tenderloin and South of Market swamped by the tented encampments of the homeless and the attendant rampant drug use, shootings, stabbings, ubiquitous street filth and general lawlessness, while city authorities and police have looked the other way.
Suddenly the squalor has gone – at least for now.
Streets and sidewalks were steam-cleaned, public spaces tarted up, police patrols multiplied. Public defecation ceased, needles no longer littered the streets. Legal impediments previously cited as a block to doing any of this mysteriously evaporated, like San Francisco fog when a strong sun comes up.
There is something hugely comical about all this, something distinctly third world for a city – for a country – which is meant to be one of the most sophisticated, prosperous, and high-tech on the globe.
For decades squalid capitals in developing nations carted off the poor and gave their street fronts a fresh lick of paint before visiting US presidents and other world leaders cast their eyes on them. The communist bloc was a dab hand at doing the same before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. And now San Francisco has joined their ranks.
Comical. But also pathetic.
"NO GROUP IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAS DONE WORSE JOB RUNNING THIS COUNTRY THAN THE NEO-LIBERALS CURRENTLY IN CHARGE. THEY'RE VICIOUS, THEY'RE INTOLERANT, & THEY ARE UTTERLY CORRUPT. BUT, ABOVE ALL, THEY'RE INCOMPETENT."
He will waive time, be given low bail. He will have a trial in December, after the election. He will then plea to the charges and be given 5 years. On his father’s last day in office - and yes I’m calling the Democrats have Joe pull out at the convention and they parachute in Newsom - in 2024 (i haven’t looked at the calendar) Joe will pardon Hunter. Hunter will have never spent a day in prison because the judge will allow him to be home for the holidays with his hookers and drugs family.
Hunter will also never be charged for any violations of the Income Tax code. He will get some deal where all he has to do is pay a penalty. Special Prosecutor Weiss - who I think has been bought off in some way because nothing he’s done so far is what a honest, honorable prosecutor would do - will make sure its a bulletproof settlement agreement that prevents future prosecutions.