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Jan 21 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Did you see this viral video of looted packages & trash stolen from trains in Los Angeles? Have no fear! Gov. @GavinNewsom helped clean it up, and now he's announced a new task force.

Because what California most needs right now is a janitor as governor & and another task force
Clarification: It's a *multi-agency* task force. Gov. @GavinNewsom really means business this time, guys!

losangeles.cbslocal.com/2022/01/20/gov…
Next up: a multi-agency task force on blackouts!

Gavin's been busy! Here he can be seen pretending to paint over graffiti.

Pretending to clean up an encampment

Pretending to know how to use a broom

sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
Pretending to know how to govern

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Jan 23
She thought she was helping a family in need; instead was enabling addiction.

Nancy was being compassionate, but, as one recovering addict asked, “How compassionate is it to let somebody just shoot dope for the rest of their lives?”

⁦@NancyRomm⁩ palomamedia.com/post/the-bad-m…
Government sanctioned drug use sites are being justified as compassionate, but are they getting people into recovery or just enabling addiction?

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/san-francisc…
Didn't Portugal just legalize drugs and de-stigmatize their use?

No

"There are a lot of myths about the Portugal model. We do not normalize"

Portugal arrests people using heroin in public

San Francisco is normalizing & enabling fentanyl use in public

Read 10 tweets
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Jan 22
Many blame trauma for rising addiction, homelessness & drug deaths, but child abuse has declined as all three grew worse.

While addicts are disproportionately victims of trauma, many were also “victimized” in being shielded from the consequences of their destructive behavior.
There are two things going on here

There is, on the one hand, the same increase in coddling, overprotective behavior we see in other domains of life, eg parenting, schooling

There is, on the other, a deeply ideological anti-system (eg socialist, anarchist) ideology at work
Proponents of the former turn into the latter with sufficient training, and then turn around and prey on high-empathy individuals who tend toward coddling/overprotection

In a sense, this is the central dynamic of progressivism, of the rad Left bullying milquetoast liberals
Read 17 tweets
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Jan 22
"It can’t be that mentally ill people sometimes need to be forced to enter in-patient care. That image ... is too brutal for the public. Much better to let the homeless die slower deaths in public, overdosing on the sidewalk." — @NellieBowles @bariweiss

bariweiss.substack.com/p/tgif-three-m…
"It can’t be about drugs, either. It can’t have anything to do with new, stronger meth circulating in homeless encampments. If that were the case, it would mean drug dealers needed to be arrested, and that’s a big no-no....
"Drug dealers are often victims themselves, as San Francisco’s District Attorney said in a town hall. Drug dealers need mindfulness training or meditation apps. Progressive district attorneys argue that jail doesn’t even work anyway."
Read 6 tweets
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Jan 21
The security guard was attacked by the pit bull after he tried to give Narcan to its owner, a man who had OD’d. The guard “sustained serious injuries” SF Library tells me. “The patron was uncooperative & argumentative.” He was cited and released. There will be no consequences.
“People do drugs, watch porn, jerk off,” said an employee of SF Library. “The crazies attack staff. There’s fights. Staff doesn’t feel safe or that management is doing enough to protect them.”
“They don’t call the police because the bums & addicts are gone by the time the cops arrive, if they even do arrive. The main issue for the employees is staff safety.”

The employee asked that their name not be used.
Read 8 tweets
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Jan 21
Since Tuesday, San Francisco's city government has been secretly operating an unauthorized illicit drug consumption site in direct violation of state & federal laws. It is part of a "linkage center" supposedly aimed at getting homeless addicts into rehab.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/san-francisc…
This is a big story. I am breaking it with journalist @lwoodhouse

There is no question that the supervised illicit drug consumption site is illegal & unauthorized.

Spokespersons for the Mayor @LondonBreed & city contractor @UrbanAlchemyUA refused repeated requests to comment.
San Francisco Mayor Breed generated national publicity last month when she announced a sweeping crackdown on open air drug use & drug dealing in the downtown Tenderloin neighborhood. Shortly after, she announced a “linkage center” aimed at connecting street addicts to rehab.
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Jan 20
It’s true the people living in tents are poor & homeless but that’s because addiction/mental illness led them to stop working, stop paying rent, and get evicted

Open drug scenes (“homeless encampments”) exist because radical Left progressives allow, encourage, and subsidize them
In Los Angeles, a homeless activist front group (“Street Watch”) created by the Democratic Socialists of America has been caught paying street addicts to stay on sidewalks & refuse to go into homeless shelters as a strategy to demand more apartment units

latimes.com/california/sto…
After Democratic mayoral candidate @kdeleon tried to get street addicts into shelters, the so-called homeless activists doxxed him, publishing his personal phone number on Twitter, a common tactic by the radical Left

latimes.com/california/sto…
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