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The bullshit that has destroyed San Francisco is bad government.

• https://www.zerohedge.com, By Joe Eskenazi

The bullshit that has destroyed our city is bad government

Last week, a stone-faced and emotional Mayor London Breed stood before a phalanx of cameras and denounced the longstanding conditions of filth, misery and overt dope-dealing and drug use in the Tenderloin. 

The mayor spoke at the decibel level and using the vocabulary you might expect her to use behind closed doors or on the other end of an irate phone call, not at a press conference that would, soon, be touted as a national bellwether regarding a change of attitude toward crime and policing — even in "liberal San Francisco." 

Breed called for a police crackdown in the Tenderloin, and called for street drug-users to be offered a choice between treatment and incarceration. 

San Franciscans, she summed up, need to be "less tolerant of all the bullshit that has destroyed our city.

One day later, the city announced its first two-year budget surplus since 1998. Yes, the wealth disparities in San Francisco are either comical or obscene, depending on how you look at it, but this would indicate the mayor should probably redefine what she means by both "destroyed" and "our city." 

And, three days after that, the mayor and everyone who was anyone wended their way through the rubble and twisted wreckage to attend the new Matrix premiere at The Castro Theater. Like periodic crackdowns on the longstanding filth, misery and overt dope-dealing and drug use in the Tenderloin, it appears the Matrix is back. 


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