We deserve what we tolerate

How much more will we tolerate?
We trust people who do what they say they are going to do.

We trust people who care about us as ends, not means to an end.

We trust people who we think have the courage, heart, and brains to do what’s right.

Do we trust our leaders?
Is it really so complicated?
Vast majority want

- Livable & walkable — and safe & clean — cities

- Cheap, clean, and reliable energy

- Good quality & cost-controlled health care, including mental health care, for all

- Everyone does/pays their part; no freeloading

- Freedom
There is a reasonable debate about how to achieve those things

But the reason we don’t have those things isn’t because of those disagreements

The reason we don’t have them is because dogmatic sects have hijacked language & bullied their way into getting & maintaining power
The solution to the crisis in our liberal cities is to stop tolerating all the bulls**t

How?

1. Enforce laws

2. Shelter First, Treatment First, Housing Earned

3. Shut down open drug scenes & violent open drug markets

In other words, do what every *civilized* nation does:
Complaining isn’t enough

We need to build our power

We have the vision and plan

We are finding each other and becoming friends

But we need many more people to step up and take their leadership to the next level

californiapeacecoalition.org
Nobody is coming to save us

Many are fleeing/giving up

Those of us who must, and want to, stay and fight, have only ourselves to rely upon

politico.com/california/sto…
All positive change is two steps forward and one step back

SF made a step backwards

It’s not too late for SF or any other city

But we have to mobilize, and quickly

We are on the front foot

Let’s keep it that way

See you tonight!!!
The in-person event is sold out but they are recording it and will make video and audio files available to us this week!

On-line tickets still available:

commonwealthclub.org/events/2022-01…
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Jan 23
San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed last month said she said would crack down on open drug dealing.

But yesterday two undercover reporters witnessed brazen drug dealing, as well as drug use, at the city's official, and illegal, homeless "Linkage Center."

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/brazen-drug-…
The law allows for reporters to record videos of people in public spaces and the Linkage Center is located in San Francisco’s (public) United Nations Plaza

The article includes photos of the person seen selling drugs and of city contractors observing him inspecting his money.
One of the two brave reporters who reported on San Francisco's illegal, city-funded, supervised drug dealing and drug use site is @JennyGShao

All photos of the illegal activity were pulled from her video.

Please consider following her as thanks for risking her safety.
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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?”

@NancyRommpalomamedia.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
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
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
Jan 21
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…
Read 8 tweets
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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