Category Archives: San Francisco

California: Home of the Worst-Run Cities

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According to Matthew 7:16, Ye shall know them by their fruits. In California, the fruits of moonbats are ruined cities.

From the New York Post:

WalletHub analyzed 148 of the biggest American metropolitan areas, trying to determine how efficiently the local governments run each city.

They developed a “Quality of Services” score based on 36 different metrics across six key areas – Financial Stability, Education, Health, Safety, Economy and Infrastructure & Pollution.

Don’t look in the top 25 for California cities; you won’t find any. Only one is in the top half. But there are six in the bottom 15.

San Francisco is the Mecca of Moonbattery, launching the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, and Gavin Newsom toward power. Unsurprisingly, it ranks dead last for the second year in a row.

California used to be paradise on earth — the American Dream come true. Then came liberalism.

On a tip from abcanc.

Race-Based Waste Resumes in San Francisco

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No wonder identity groups vie so aggressively for cherished “marginalized” status. City Journal reports on a program intended to bestow benefits upon supposedly oppressed blacks in San Francisco:

Known as the Dream Keeper Initiative, the relaunched program will grant $36 million to “community-serving organizations,” including some that have offered “Afri-centric” mental-health services, African ancestry DNA testing, and free doulas for “African American birthing people.”

“Birthing people” is Liberalese for women who really are women.

The reason we pay taxes is so the government can provide crucial services in return, such as police protection. Where liberals have consolidated power, these services are neglected in favor of more selectively beneficial priorities:

The Dream Keeper Initiative was founded by former San Francisco Mayor London Breed in 2021, fulfilling her promise to redirect police funding to “the African American community” in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. In February 2021, Breed announced that the city would divert $120 million from its law-enforcement budgets to fund the program, which would in turn funnel money to a web of left-wing nonprofits.

The idea is for whites to pay more into the government than they get in return, so that blacks can get more than they pay for. Those who do not enjoy being effectively enslaved through taxation on the basis of their race are denounced by liberals as “racists.”

Dream Keeper funded a down-payment-assistance program that made “homeownership dreams real for a growing number of Black people in San Francisco”; a $2.2 million grant to “Black trans-serving organizations” that promised to “improve outcomes for Black transgender people”; and a program that recruited black educators to teach the city’s black students.

Unsurprisingly, the program has been characterized by corruption. Lurie called Breed on this while campaigning against her in 2024. Yet now he has relaunched the program.

As part of the Dream Keeper Initiative, the Homeless Children’s Network has secured lavish funding…

…which will support “Afri-centric, trauma-informed community health and wellness services.” HNC also operates the Ma’at Program, a form of “Afri-centric” therapy named after the “ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, and justice.” This program, also funded by the original Dream Keeper Initiative, employed black therapists to treat black patients purportedly suffering from “trauma brought about by racism and homophobia.”

More extravagantly favored even than blacks are blacks who identify as LGBT:

The Lurie administration also earmarked $450,000 for “The Transgender District Company” to provide “safe-space programming,” “legal name and gender marker clinics,” and an annual “wellness fair connecting participants to affirming care.” The organization, founded by three black trans-identifying women, also hosts an annual “Riot” party to celebrate the “Compton’s Cafeteria Riots” of 1966, during which “transgender and queer” activists clashed with police in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District. Last year’s “Reparations is a Riot!” party featured a lineup of all-black drag queens and listed the City and County of San Francisco and the Mayor’s Office of Housing & Community Development as sponsors.

In no sane world would taxpayers be forced to fund this sick lunacy. Yet if liberals prevail, San Francisco will serve as the template for the rest of the country. The two top candidates for the Democrat presidential nomination are former SF Mayor Gavin Newsom and former SF District Attorney (and before that Mayor Willie Brown concubine) Kamala Harris.

On a tip from R F.

CEO in Homeless–Industrial Complex Charged With Misappropriating Over $1.2 Million in Public Funds

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The homeless–industrial complex is a lucrative sector of the economy. However, liberal establishment grifters are advised that if they are dumb enough they can still get in trouble, even in deep blue California. National Review reports on Gwendolyn Westbrook, former CEO of the United Council of Human Services:

The former CEO of a San Francisco-based homelessness nonprofit was charged Monday with nine felony counts after allegedly misappropriating more than $1.2 million in public funds.

In addition to the $1.2 million,

Court documents show that other large amounts of money are also missing from UCHS accounts.

Westbrook represents the tip of an iceberg:

The state of California spent $24 billion from 2019 to 2024 to address homelessness but officials are unsure exactly how the money was spent, according to a state audit released last year, which found that no systems were in place to track expenditures.

Regarding the return taxpayers get for their money,

Over the five-year period covered by the audit, California’s homeless population grew by 20 percent, from 151,278 in 2019 to 181,399 in 2023.

From the viewpoint of Gavin Newsom et al., this represents success. Spending other people’s money on homelessness results in more homelessness, which facilitates ever greater access by Democrats to other people’s money.

On a tip from Varla.

$5 Million Apiece Handout for Blacks in San Francisco

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The year is off to a great start in San Francisco for those lucky enough to belong to the most privileged and entitled racial group. For the rest of us, not so much.

The New York Post reports:

Mayor Daniel Lurie quietly signed a questionable bill to create a reparations fund for black residents — but acknowledged the city is too broke to pay…

San Fransicko’s deficit is approaching $1 billion. This illustrates why federal taxpayers will be forced to finance California moonbattery if Democrats regain control in DC. Not that “reparations” will be limited to the Land of Fruits and Nuts if that disaster befalls us.

The bill, which was passed unanimously by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors earlier this month, creates a fund to accept private or public money for a controversial reparations plan that calls for cash payouts of $5 million each to eligible black residents, debt forgiveness, 250 years of tax abatements, and income subsidies.

To the chagrin of liberals,

Racial preferences in government programs are banned under the constitution, according to Andrew Quinio, attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation.

No worries. Democrat control will mean packing the Supreme Court with moonbat apparatchiks like Ketanji Brown Jackson, rendering the US Constitution null and void.

On tips from Wiggins and R F.

The Streets of San Francisco

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San Francisco is the Mecca of Moonbattery, launchpad for many a successful Democrat career (e.g., Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Willie Brown, Dianne Feinstein). To get an idea of how leftist rule has worked out for the town, let’s take a drive through:

Considering that Democrats are the party of societal decay, what else would you expect?

Antifa Scum Assaults ICE Agents in San Francisco

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The Democratic Party has demonized ICE agents for enforcing immigration law, which could hinder their plans to achieve total dominance through demographic transformation.

Their last vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, calls ICE a “modern-day Gestapo.” Prominent member of Congress Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) has doubled down on calling ICE a “terrorist force.” Their lunatic rhetoric is amplified by the liberal media, working the party’s Antifa brownshirts into a frenzy.

Consequently, this is what life is like for ICE agents on the streets of San Francisco:

God gave us the brains to invent machine guns but not the sense to know when to use them.