Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "There won't be an honest mea culpa, just like there won't be a mea culpa once California and its many deep blue local jurisdictions start retreating on their "progressive" crime and education policies. And then 20 years after this inevitable retreat the process of "progress and reform will start once again- an endless cycle of dreamy and destructive utopianism."
AP The Associated Press @AP: "BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued an executive order for the removal of homeless encampments in the state."
KTLA on X - "The family of a man who was stabbed to death by a homeless man while he was charging his electric car outside the Downey City library has filed a claim against the city seeking $40 million in damages. Details:"
SLC Fatigue on X - "Los Angeles is so bad that you will get stabbed charging your car at the city library by a homeless man, and when an ambulance comes to save you, ANOTHER homeless man steals the ambulance while they’re tending to you at the scene leaving you no way to get to the hospital, and you die. Sounds like South Africa…"
Karen Hanretty on X - "From KTLA: A state audit found that California invested a staggering $24 billion over the past five fiscal years to address homelessness... Yet, as this spending has increased, so has California’s homeless population."
Daniel Friedman on X - "California has 187,000 homeless people, so the state spent $128,000 on each of them in the last five years. This is enough to pay the entire rent for a market rate 1 bedroom apartment over that period for each homeless person, but they’re still living in tents in city parks because most of the money is actually being funneled to wasteful NGOs and government workers who are paid $200k salaries and don’t do anything."
Clearly, if the US "taxed" "billionaires", it could end homelessness
Josh Koehn on X - "Former head of a San Francisco homelessness nonprofit charged with 9 felonies. This comes 3-plus years after Gwendolyn Westbrook admitted to me in an interview that roughly 20 of her friends & family had taken up housing designed to go to SF’s neediest."
constans on X - "SF spends $1 billion/yr on homeless services, and the homeless remain a big problem. It’s not lack of money. It’s both poor policies and the non-profit corruption. The head of this non-profit embezzled money for herself and gave out affordable housing units to friends and family"
Damn Donald Trump!
Official Lies, Bubonic Plague, And California's Homeless Challenge - "According to California Governor (and former San Francisco Mayor) Gavin Newsom, the “vast majority” of San Francisco’s homeless people “also come in from… Texas.” To him, that’s “just an interesting fact;” to PolitiFact, it’s “Pants on Fire” inaccurate. PolitiFact goes as far as calling it “ridiculous.” The tiniest factual nugget for Newsom’s fib was contained in data from a city program that hands out bus tickets to the homeless so they can travel to family or friends who have agreed to care for them. Of 12,268 tickets issued over 14 years through last year, 827 were to Texas—that’s 6.7% of the total—though the highest for any destination not in California. It makes sense that Texas would be the most popular state other than California—as the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual interstate migration report shows that Texas has been the No. 1 state for people moving out of California for more than a decade. That Newsom, San Francisco’s mayor from 2004 to 2011, would want to blame a state 1,200 miles away for the growing ranks of homeless in the state’s fourth-largest city—and every other urban area in California—is both understandable and troubling. Understandable, because Newsom, first elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at the age of 29, has been in public office for 22 consecutive years with direct responsibility for the myriad of policies that bear on the homeless population... in addition to the deplorable plight faced by California’s growing homeless population, estimated by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development to number almost 130,000 last year, the unsanitary conditions they foster are now becoming a public health risk at large. The trash, used needles, and human waste littering California’s cities have led to increased numbers of rats and—along with them—fleas and deadly diseases. There were 13 reported cases of typhus in California in 2008, spiking to 167 in 2018, while hepatitis A, tuberculosis, and staph has been spreading aggressively in San Francisco and other California cities. A new public health threat may be on the verge of making a deadly appearance: bubonic plague—known in the Middle Ages as the “Black Death”—it was responsible killing about 60% of the population of Eurasia in the mid-1300s. The mix of conditions that have caused alarm is, so far, unique to California, though progressive environmental philosophy may extend its reach. The reason is the state’s growing discomfort with modern chemistry paired with the California trial bar’s love of industrial chemical dollars, in this case, second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs). For the past five years, L.A.’s Department of Recreation and Parks has forgone the use of SGARs, acting on proposed restrictions from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Lawmakers in Sacramento have proposed banning SGARs entirely, making it even more difficult to cull California’s burgeoning disease-borne rodent population. Returning to the U.S. Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) 2018 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, the federal government estimates that California—with 12% of the nation’s population—accounts for 30% of the nation’s homeless and 49% of all unsheltered individuals. California’s homeless rate is 2-1/2 times the national rate... It’s not just the unhealthy living conditions among the drug addicted and frequently mentally ill homeless. Law enforcement personnel also spend a significant share of time interacting with the homeless. One Los Angeles area police officer noted that “About 60% of our calls every day are about transients and problems that they cause.” While in jails across the nation, large shares of inmates are homeless or may also be suffering from a mental health crisis."
From 2019. This doesn't stop left wingers blaming red states for sending California homeless people
San Francisco Policy of Hospitalizing Mentally Ill Homeless Is Humane | National Review - "The rapid decline of San Francisco is emblematic of the corrosion now typical in California’s once-glorious cities. Needles, human waste, and litter are ubiquitous on the city’s streets. San Francisco’s homeless population has exploded; some estimate that as many as 10,000 people live on the street, a census larger than the entire population of almost 85 percent of American townships. City residents have been disturbed by the size and behavior of the homeless population, some of whom, according to the Associated Press, have made a habit of “dashing into traffic or screaming at strangers... Some municipal leaders are trying to change the culture of disregard that has long characterized California’s urban governance. On Tuesday, San Francisco officials took the bold (and rather brave) step of defying vocal advocacy groups and expanding the city’s involuntary-commitment policies for the state’s most severely mentally ill... California’s incoherent commitment policies for persons with severe mental illness deserve much of the blame for the state’s homelessness crisis, though it has become increasingly unfashionable to say so. Data from California’s Department of State Hospitals reveals that in fiscal year 2017–18, there were more than 5,700 patients forensically committed to state mental institutions. This number, by way of comparison, was more than 45 times larger than the number of civil commitments (125) that occurred in the same time period; it was likewise the official policy of each of the state’s six public mental hospitals to refuse admissions to any voluntary patients. It was, in essence, the practice of the state of California to look on helplessly as the gravely ill deteriorated to the point of criminality... Every non-vulnerable citizen in the state of California is subject to the bureaucratic creep of Governor Newsom’s Brave New World, but the seriously mentally ill sit around in their own filth because the state has discovered Millian objections to involuntarily treating the schizophrenic with delusions of grandeur. It is utterly lunatic... Heaven forfend that urine-drenched souls talking to themselves on the streets of San Francisco be treated in therapeutic “facilities”! One would think that, after seeing the outcome — an explosion in homelessness and incarceration among the most seriously mentally ill — of our 50-year experiment of doggedly pursuing and funding “community” solutions, opponents of institutionalization would add at least a little nuance to their moral certainty. There will always be a tension between a bona fide concern for civil liberties and treating the gravely ill anosognosiac patient. But author and industry critic D. J. Jaffe puts it well when he states that it is folly to “believe that being psychotic, delusional, and hallucinating is a ‘right’ to be protected rather than an illness to be treated.” To force a delusional person who is disconnected from reality to reach a point of no return (“a grave danger to themselves or others”) before granting them the treatment they cannot know they need is to use the vocabulary of civil rights to justify abject cruelty.”
From 2019
T Wolf ๐ on X - "$322 million spent to house 1,200 people of which 40% left the housing and another 10% died of drug overdose. This is the current "evidence based" homeless strategy in Los Angeles."
Clearly, the problem is they didn't spend enough money
Meme - Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes: "This is a children’s playground in Oakland, California. Kamala Harris’ hometown It is now completely overrun with a homeless encampment, trash and needles This is what Gavin Newsom and Democrats have done to California you don’t see reported on the news"
Damn Trump!
San Francisco slammed for $5M a year program to give free alcohol to the homeless: 'This isn't working' - "A program that offers free booze to the homeless alcoholics that roam San Francisco caught flak this week when a tech CEO questioned the logic of feeding the addictions of the city’s street dwellers. Adam Nathan, founder and CEO of the small business AI marketing tool Blaze and the chair of the Salvation Army San Francisco Metro Advisory Board, posted a thread on X slamming the program after watching a string of unhoused drunks line up for their shots, stating it “just doesn’t feel right.” “Did you know San Francisco spends $2 million a year on a “Managed Alcohol Program?” It provides free Alcohol to people struggling with chronic alcoholism who are mostly homeless,” Nathan wrote on the social media site. His estimate was actually just 40% of the total cost — the four-year-old “managed alcohol program” actually costs the city $5 million a year, the San Francisco Chronicle reported... The program started with 10 beds and has now grown to 20, the Chronicle reported. Over the four years, it’s served 65 clients total, the report said, with the goal of keeping the participants out of the ER and reducing calls to cops... Nathan told the outlet that locals are not adequately informed about the program because San Francisco’s health department is worried over how “the program will be perceived by the public, and that to me was validated by the reaction to what I tweeted.”... He said the city’s health department “is not helping people get better, it’s about keeping people sick,” and added, “We are living in the upside down.”"
Mark Fabela on X - "Before asking taxpayers for another dollar, maybe start by defunding the homeless beer-concierge services, trimming the 17 layers of middle management, and shutting down the feel-good programs no one audits."
Giant Pride-colored SF rock mistakenly slammed as anti-homeless measure - "Izakaya Sushi Ran, a Japanese restaurant on Market Street in the Castro, painted the giant rock that sits in its sidewalk alcove rainbow colors in observation of LGBTQ Pride. The restaurant even dubbed itself “home of the rainbow rock” on its Instagram account, so proud was it of the colorful accoutrement. But not everyone appreciated the display. Last week, the Coalition On Homelessness circulated a picture of the installation on Twitter along with the sarcastic observation, “When you wanna look inclusive but hate homeless people.” The tweet, which has since been deleted, gathered ire around the internet. However, this observation turned out to be much ado about nothing, as the Coalition later conceded in a series of tweets that the large stone is, in fact, part of the restaurant’s Zen-inspired aesthetic. The rock has been sitting on the sidewalk for years, and only started attracting new attention thanks to its multi-hued paint job."
Luckily it wasn't a "white" restaurant, or aesthetic wouldn't be a valid reason to have the rock
Sara Foster on X - "We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank god drug addicts are getting their drug kits. @MayorOfLA @GavinNewsom RESIGN. Your far left policies have ruined our state. And also our party."
๐ฆ๐ต๐ผ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ on X - "Los Angeles has had a Democrat Mayor for 23 years a Democrat majority in the state assembly for 24 years and a Democrat Governor for 13 years. What’s it going to take for the state to wake up?"
Meme - "The Montreal Star. Thu, Nov 24, 1938. Page 1. California Fires Beyond Control"
Damn climate change!
Meme - Biden spraying foreign aid: "As much as they need!"
LA Mayor (Black Woman) spraying rainbow DEI: "Endless funding!"
LA Fire Department in middle of fire: *short of water*
Meme - "Alright team it's almost fire season. I need some resilience ideas"
"Controlled burns?"
"working hydrants?"
"How about making the firefighters gay?"
*employee of the year&
Meme - Firetruck: "FIRE DOESN'T DISCRIMINATE"
*Pride flag fire hydrant intact while houses in background burn*
Meme - "No water, but look how pretty it is. *Pride flag fire hydrant while houses in background burn*"
Meme - *Dog on fire*
*Firefighter dog with blue hair, Ukraine and ??? badge, with melting cone and burning Pride flag*
"This is fine"
Meme - *Devastated landscape*
Didn't Extinguish It"
Meme - "According to Muslims
Allah at Gaza *weak doge*
Allah at California *strong doge*"
Meme - *Newsom (Elmo with Cocaine and Apple)*
Apple: Forest Mgmt
Cocaine: "Gay shit & illegals"
Meme *Man pouring lighter fluid in burning forest (i.e. arson)
Pointing soyjaks: "Climate change!"
Hayden on X - "Genuine question, for all the anti-abundance folks, why do you think Los Angeles has only issued four housing permits if it’s not red tape and process?"
Wall Street Apes on X - "California Democrats continue to shut down family farms, now expanding to more counties “Now there's a fight going on in Point Reyes. They just shut down a dozen farms. They really doubled down on those farmers — They put a gag order on them so they couldn't even ask the community to stand up for them” “They can't even have cows or anything. They've got to move off the property. — Our local RCD even came up with money to upgrade the ranches if needed. And the environmental group said, no. They wanted to take the land over. And so they forced these farmers to sign an agreement that are pushing them all out.” “So we're going to lose half of our dairies in Marin county and a bunch of the beef ranches that provide local food.”"
Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: ""Real antiracism has never been tried.""
"Why is San Francisco the state's worst county for black student achievement?"
Time to blame Republicans again!
Paul D. Thacker on X - "GOLD STAR FOR THIS GENIUS! She said, "Yeah, Democrats are assholes." And I thought, if the cashier in South San Francisco at 10 at night believes that Democrats are assholes because the shampoo is locked up and my stuff got stolen out of the trunk, then we have a problem."
Has California learned anything from Trump's rise? - "Following resounding losses by Democrats in the November election, party leaders such as Gov. Gavin Newsom have sought to align themselves with the burgeoning “abundance” movement, which contends that blue states will only win back voters if they can prove their ability to govern effectively — including by providing access to basic goods, such as high-quality public education and widely available housing. How’s that effort going in California? In short — not well. If you pay attention to California politics, you likely heard about the death this week of SB677, a bill to make it easier to split single-family-home lots for duplexes or fourplexes, and the near killing of SB79, which would allow multifamily housing up to seven stories near major transit stops — both from state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco. The bills’ primary assailant was state Sen. Aisha Wahab, D-Fremont, chair of the Senate Housing Committee, who has leaned on the tired refrain that efforts to streamline new housing production are “giveaways for developers,” partly because they reduce the ability of local governments to weigh in on projects. Wahab’s insistence on fighting for California’s failed status quo on housing, even as American democracy sinks around us, rightly drew outrage. But for an even bleaker example of how state leaders are failing to rise to the urgency of the moment, Californians should consider the response to AB1121 from Assembly Member Blanca Rubio, D-Baldwin Park (Los Angeles County). The seemingly uncontroversial bill would require California teachers in transitional kindergarten through fifth grade to be trained in the “science of reading,” which emphasizes the importance of foundational literacy skills, including phonics — or sounding out words. It would also require schools to adopt an evidence-based reading curriculum in transitional kindergarten through eighth grade. Backed by decades of interdisciplinary research, this approach has proven to be particularly effective in teaching young kids how to read — regardless of their mother language. California schools and teachers currently have a fair amount of leeway in the curriculum they use, and the state doesn’t track those materials or how effective they are. But a review of more than 300 of the state’s largest school districts conducted by the California Reading Coalition found that fewer than 2% use programs aligned with the science of reading. The results speak for themselves. Nearly 60% of our third graders didn’t meet state standards for English language arts and literacy in the 2023-24 school year. Meanwhile, poverty-stricken red states such as Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama have surged ahead of California in childhood literacy after adopting mandatory foundational literacy teaching and training. That California childhood literacy rates have fallen significantly beneath those of the poorest state in the nation should be considered a stain on the progressive values this state claims to stand for. Yet last year, California Democrats silently killed a bipartisan bill to mandate the science of reading, refusing to even discuss the topic publicly. Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Hollister, and Assembly Member Al Muratsuchi, D-Rolling Hills Estates (Los Angeles County), who leads the Assembly Education Committee (and is running for state superintendent of public instruction next year) tabled the bill without a hearing amid fierce opposition from influential interest groups — including the California Teachers Association and Californians Together, which advocates for English language learners. Yes, you read that correctly — ensuring California kids receive the most effective reading lessons didn’t even merit a discussion among Democrats in the face of union opposition. Rubio’s bill faced similar hurdles this year. Most enraging is that the state’s English language arts framework already underscores that foundational reading skills “should be given high priority” among other strategies in early literacy instruction. State law also requires teacher candidates to demonstrate their fluency in evidence-based foundational reading methods to receive their credential. Meanwhile, literacy rates at some of California’s lowest-performing schools improved significantly after adopting this curriculum."
Left wingers hate the "rich" more than they love the poor, and they don't love children's education - they love more and more money for teachers' unions
Time to continue to mock red states, even if they are pulling ahead of California
Bill Melugin on X - "NEW: California Democrat state senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas has introduced SB560, a bill that would decriminalize welfare fraud below an amount of $25,000. It would also prohibit prosecutions for attempted welfare fraud and would prohibit someone from being charged w/ perjury if they are subject to prosecution for welfare fraud. Smallwood-Cuevas represents a large chunk of Los Angeles County, including Mar Vista, West LA, Baldwin Hills, Ladera Heights, Century City, Playa Vista, and part of downtown LA. SB560 is scheduled for a hearing next Monday on May 5th."
The fraud is the point
Hayden on X - "It took NINETEEN years to plan, approve, and build 1,100 housing units (550 affordable) on a parking lot in San Francisco, and apparently it's a hot take for thinking this should take quicker to happen."
Wall Street Apes on X - "EXPOSED ๐จ Gavin Newsom is NOT ending health care for illegal migrants, he’s EXPANDING IT California State Rep Carl DeMaio “My office just released actual budget data proving Gavin Newsom is LYING when he says he is CUTTING free health care to illegal immigrants” Reporter “Republican Assemblyman Carl DeMaio says the headlines you're reading are not telling the full story. He claims Newsom is acting like he's freezing or capping the free health care in an effort to save money. But DeMaio says that's not actually what's happening. California State Rep Carl DeMaio “Gavin Newsom this year spent $9.5 billion on free health care for illegal immigrants. Now he says he's going to cut that back, but guess what? His budget INCREASES the cost of free health care for illegal immigrants to $12.1 billion. The liberal media in California is gaslighting the voters along with Gavin Newsom by not telling them the truth. So I reached out to Governor Gavin Newsom's office to ask specifically about those numbers. They then pushed me off to the finance office” “As I'm giving this live report, I just got an email from the finance office essentially confirming those numbers that you just heard now from Carl DeMaio. They said in this Fiscal More than $10 billion was spent on health care for medical they expect next year to be $12.1 billion.”"
