In reply to Thomas Douting.

Thomas — 

Do us a favor: Go around the corner and see if it’s raining.

JE

San Francisco wasn’t always like this. The many problems in SF, recognized, even made fun of, around the country, is the result of years and years of leftist policies. Look what they have wrought. But Mission Local wants more of them.

The ACLU, long an admirable organization which supported civil liberties, is now little more than a leftist advocacy group.

“Progressive” is just another word for Marxist.

In reply to two beers.

Don’t forget “McCarthyite” when referring to our dear Speaker Emeritus. She recently called on the FBI to investigate organizations calling for a ceasefire in Gaza explaining this kind of speech is pro-Putin. So bad; so sorry for the Dems that it’s come to this.

In reply to Sharon.

Opposing Prop E is not pro-crime. It’s pro-police accountability.

In reply to two beers.

With the rump progressives, the truth shall get ye banned and blocked, cancelled and excommunicated. If we’re going with Christ quotes, “Physician, heal thyself” is more apt.

“[…] the state of progressive leadership — and the cohesiveness of progressivism as a movement — is in tatters in San Francisco.”

I think it can easily be argued that the state of progressivism is in tatters everywhere. Why is debatable, but I think eschewing ubiquitous right-wing framing is a first remedial step..

“But that doesn’t mean this city’s most left-leaning voters are going to sit this mayoral election out.”

Yup, and they’ll once again vote almost uniformly for insider-trading, warmongering fan of ethnic cleansing, Nancy Pelosi.

These articles pondering the feeble state of the city’s left are much appreciated by some of us, while no doubt making others uneasy (“afflict the comfortable”): a sign of good journalism,

Breed is a single black woman born and raised in the projects who is running a “law-and-order” campaign which would have made Nixon proud. Prop E is the first step, maybe not the first, in dismantling police reforms designed to hold the police transparent and accountable. The reforms came after reports from the DA, Grand Jury and DOJ reviews and were widely hailed at the time (even the SFPD released a reform-minded report). To Mr. Safai: it’s doesn’t matter if you change the chief. The question is whether he or she will have the power and the intestinal fortitude to take on the POA. Until the POA is busted, it’s all a public relations stunt. A racist publicity stunt at that.

The support for Prop E, which is a free pass for the police to do what they want without adult supervision from the Police Commission, is demoralizing in what should still be a progressive city, where we know better than to let SFPD run rampant without accountability.

“[…] hailing from the right side of this city’s local political spectrum.”

Thank you, Joe. I wouldn’t be surprised if you get pushback from that side for the accurate description, but may the truth set them free.

If he is separating himself from the pack by being more pro-crime than the others, that’s helpful. I’d really rather not see more of London Breed, but there’s no point in replacing her with somebody worse. We did the pro-crime thing already and we haven’t recovered from it yet.