Michelle Tandler 🎗's Threads

Sep 3 • 7 tweets • 3 min read

This should be concerning for all New Yorkers.

Meanwhile the New York Times says this... 🤔

Aug 25 • 10 tweets • 2 min read

I hung out in Brooklyn yesterday and had a realization.

Most of the Mamdani supporters will leave NYC without facing the consequences.

They are young renters who will get married and move to the burbs.

Working-class New Yorkers will absorb the fallout. Almost everybody I meet in Brooklyn is from a middle-class family somewhere else.

Connecticut, Long Island, New Jersey, the Midwest -- they come to Brooklyn to live out their New York fantasy, date, drink matcha, etc.

They aren't "New Yorkers."

Aug 17 • 19 tweets • 6 min read

NYC is already a Socialist city.

That's why Mamdani is slated to win.

~40% of the city's residents live in a rent-stabilized apartment.

600,000 people work for the city, and another 600k for non-profits (most city funded).

These ppl rely on the gov to live here.

Nearly half of New Yorkers rely on the Gov to set their rent.

Over 20% of New Yorkers work for the gov or a gov-funded non-profit.

As Tablet put it so well, there are hundreds of thousands of little Zohran Mamdanis driving this election.

tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

Jul 10 • 14 tweets • 6 min read

The biggest risk of a Mamdani mayorship?

Mass exodus from the NYPD.

This occurred in SF under the radical left DA, Chesa Boudin.

When police aren't supported, they quit, retire early, or never join in the first place.

Here's what Mamdani has said about the NYPD. 🧵

Mamdani’s view of the police appears to be that they are evil.

He calls them racist, anti-queer, and violent (“a major threat to public safety”), often framing officers as oppressors rather than public servants.

Jul 8 • 9 tweets • 4 min read

31% of NYC is white.

Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly expressed hostile views toward white people.

In a city this diverse, leadership should bridge divides, not inflame them.

Here’s a thread of his own words. 🧵

He writes often about the "rich, white establishment" and "old white men"

Jun 1 • 16 tweets • 3 min read

Last night I was stood up for the first time.

No apology -- no explanation.

It got me thinking: maybe the loneliness epidemic isn't about screen time, but rather the slow erosion of basic social norms.

Showing up on time, responding to texts, treating others with dignity... I must say, I was rather shocked by what happened.

This guy had been messaging me for weeks.

"Give me a chance!" he had asked, when I shared my concern that he was too young for me.

He asked for my Saturday night. I said yes.

Apr 10 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

I've been in San Francisco for the past week and haven't seen a single woman wearing a skirt or dress during the day.

What is this about...?

Rejection of traditional femininity? Gender-neutral clothing for tech jobs?
Something else?

Curious for your thoughts. It's almost like there is a uniform here:

Jeans or yoga pants, sweatshirt, sneakers.

Sometimes I joke that the women in San Francisco look like men and the men look like boys...

To be honest, I find the uniformity of it a bit creepy.

Apr 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

I've been driving around San Francisco the past two hours and the drug encampments are simply *gone*.

Mission street is spotless. So is Polk. I am in shock at how quickly things have turned around...

What was the previous administration doing..?! Should I move back to San Francisco..?

Seems so much more functional now that the Moderates are back in charge!

Nov 17, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

I was at a dinner recently and someone shared a story about two men on the train giving up their seat for a woman. The men then started discussing their support for Trump.

"Ha!" Someone across the table proclaimed.

"A chivalrous Trump supporter! What an oxymoron!"

I felt my blood boil a bit. Should I say something? I decided to say something. "You know," I replied, "a lot of people believe Conservative men are actually more chivalrous than Democrat men."

The table looked at me in shock.

"How?!" The original speaker asked.

And I then began to explain how there are more to women's rights than just the right to get an abortion.

Jun 4, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

I have long believed that the power balance in San Francisco politics would not flip Moderate until there is a significant loss in residential real estate.

This is now underway.

Residential values are down 17% from the peak, compared to 3% nationwide.

hoover.org/research/san-f… Median sale prices in San Francisco have dropped $220,000 from a year ago.

Think about that for a moment... The average San Francisco homebuyer from last year is facing a loss of a quarter of a million dollars.

That is a life-changing loss for most.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

May 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

The writers guild is striking outside ABC.

I asked the woman at the table what they were asking for and she said she didn't know. Told me to check the website.

She works for the Union.

She gave me this paper. Still unclear what they are asking for.

Apr 21, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read

I just analyzed drug overdose deaths in San Francisco before & during the operation of our safe injection site from January to November of 2022.

In 7 out of 11 months it was open, *more* people died than during the same month the previous year.

For those who would like to double-check my analysis -- here is the Google Spreadsheet.

I entered the data manually from the PDFs posted on this site:

sf.gov/departments/ci…

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Apr 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

The San Francisco homeless population created $20 million worth of damage to hotels during pandemic.

*This is why people in SF are scared*

It isn’t about homicides. It’s about untreated mentally ill people high on meth who can be quite destructive when not supervised.

https://twitter.com/NickBergSF/status/1648891889733738497

Our local papers keep pushing the “crime is down” narrative.

With all due respect, *nobody* cares if homicides are lower now than in 1990.

What they are about is how they feel walking to the local park with their toddler.

Apr 11, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

Leftist Twitter proved yesterday that they are more outraged by my asking a philosophical question about the death penalty than the actual crimes going on in San Francisco.

*Noted*. I saw hundreds of these yesterday.

As a reminder, I was asking a theoretical question. I studied philosophy in college.

I was asking about the morality of the death penalty. I do not advocate for it.

These people, however...

Apr 11, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read

I walk around San Francisco 6 miles a day and speak with homeless people often.

Most will die from an overdose soon if we don’t make changes to our policies.

Today I was absolutely eviscerated by the hard left.

But it did not hurt.

I know what I am fighting for is saving… This is not about politics. This is about results. Facts do not care about your feelings.

You may *feel* that it's wrong to put a drug dealer in jail. It isn't. It's saving lives.

We should treat drug dealers like people who shoot a gun into a crowded room.

Apr 11, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read

"Harm reduction" activism + understaffed police force = stores closing --> neighborhoods without grocery stores What happens to low income families in neighborhoods without grocery stores?

Where are they supposed to get produce...?

Kids who eat junk food early in life are at higher risk of diabetes and other obesity-related issues down the road.

Which leads to an early death...

Apr 9, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read

Imagine this scenario:

It's 12:30am and your dog woke you up because it needs to go to the bathroom.

You walk outside and sleepily shuffle down the street in your slippers.

Suddenly you spot a man, half naked with a comforter draped over him, stumbling out of the park… This was me last night.

And, this is me most nights.

At night, weird men who are clearly not mentally sound are wandering around my apartment.

Mar 17, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read

A severely drug-addicted woman in San Francisco just lost both her feet b/c she did not want to go to the hospital.

She still is "not ready" for treatment.

For San Francisco's leadership to say "oh well, it's her choice" is a dereliction of duty, and morally wrong.

https://twitter.com/war24182236/status/1636732451912572936

This woman (who looks to be in her 30s) is crippled for life.

Can you imagine anything more horrific than waking up to find both your feet gone? She is now wheelchair-bound.

This was her before the amputation.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1636725234744311809

Mar 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

Is the 🤡 emoji considered conservative or "right-wing"? Chat GPT:

Mar 16, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read

Currently trending on r/sanfrancisco.

Some interesting responses... 😬

Mar 9, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read

Despite representing <5% of San Francisco's population, Black people account for 37% of our homeless & 25% of overdoses.

Thousands of homes & businesses have signs up saying "Black Lives Matter" -- but few people seem to care about the overdose deaths.

Why is that?

According to the Washington Post database, seven unarmed black people were shot & killed by police last year in the United States.

Meanwhile, in San Francisco *alone* ~155 Black people died of an overdose.

Why is nobody saying their names...?

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