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Rampant Crime, Public Drug Use, Vagrancy Are Part of 'Basic City Life,' Democrats Argue
WFB ^ | 22 Mar 2023 | Andrew Stiles

Posted on 03/24/2023 5:23:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Counterpoint: No, they're not

What's happening: Democrats are beginning to lash out at people who think crime is bad by insisting that having your car burglarized and riding the subway next to a fentanyl-smoking vagrant are "basic city life experiences."

Wait, seriously? Yes. John Hamasaki, a former San Francisco police commissioner and the failed Democratic Party-endorsed candidate for district attorney following the successful recall of Chesa Boudin, recently lashed out at a tech CEO who lamented that two of his colleagues will be "scarred forever" after having their laptops and passports stolen from their parked car.

"Is this what the suburbs do to you?" Hamasaki wrote on Twitter. "Shelter you from basic city life experiences so that when they happen you are broken to the core?"

Wow, that's deranged. Yes, it is. The same day Hamasaki posted his dumb tweet, a mob of teens took part in a massive brawl at a popular shopping mall—one of several "incidents of mob violence among school-age kids" resulting in "physical injuries" at the location. In other words, just another basic city life experience.

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1 posted on 03/24/2023 5:23:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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Do Democrats even care about crime? Not really. (See: San Francisco.) The Democrats in charge of Los Angeles, for example, have allowed the city's metro system to be overrun by fentanyl-addicted vagrants. Some liberal experts are adamant that enforcing the law "isn't a solution," which is even more bizarre given their insistence that more people use public transportation to save the planet or whatever.
2 posted on 03/24/2023 5:25:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: Rummyfan

Punishing crime is racist. I thought they already determined that.


3 posted on 03/24/2023 5:26:05 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Rummyfan

uh yeah

it is part of basic city life UNDER DEMOCRAT RULE!


4 posted on 03/24/2023 5:26:08 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Rummyfan

The silver lining is that the City States are inflicted with cancerous rot that can’t be remedied. The emerging fact is that there is simply no longer a need for the cities.

Rotting cities is good for America in the long run


5 posted on 03/24/2023 5:27:14 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: Rummyfan

Democrats ARE the criminals behind all of these


6 posted on 03/24/2023 5:27:58 AM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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To: Rummyfan

“That’s life in the big city.”

A common saying from childhood.


7 posted on 03/24/2023 5:29:53 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (/s)
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To: Rummyfan

Bet this idiot doesn’t live in the middle of the cesspool his lefty thug buds created.


8 posted on 03/24/2023 5:29:53 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Rummyfan

no longer just soft on crime

dems are pro-crime


9 posted on 03/24/2023 5:30:01 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Rummyfan

Those that want crime and criminals controlled are called racists and homophobes or worse


10 posted on 03/24/2023 5:30:22 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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Hey, San Francisco needs to get with the program! Enjoy life just like they do in Baltimore!

Good Morning, Baltimore!

11 posted on 03/24/2023 5:30:54 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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My people are from the Bronx via Ireland then up to Westchester and beyond. Visiting Manhattan with my great aunt in the 1970s she cried looking at the state of disrepair in Grand Central Station. Surrounded by vagrancy, terrible odor, I said, that’s normal, no? She said no. It’s not. They actually used to shine the brass railings the platform stairways.

Later, Giuliani tried. They hated him and his rules.


12 posted on 03/24/2023 5:30:55 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Rummyfan

The soft bigotry of low expectations. -Limbaugh


13 posted on 03/24/2023 5:30:59 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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To: Rummyfan
Fear - New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones

New York's alright,
New York's alright,
New York's alright,
if you like saxophones!

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New York's alright if you like tuberculosis!
New York's alright if you like art and jazz!
New York's alright if you're a homosexual!

New york's alright,
New York's alright,
New York's alright,
if you like saxophones!

New York's alright if you like drunks in your doorway!
New York's alright if you wanna freeze to death!
New York's alright if you wanna get mugged or murdered!
New York's alright if you like saxophones!

New York's alright,
New York's alright,
New York's alright,
if you like saxophones!

14 posted on 03/24/2023 5:31:41 AM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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--- "...Rampant Crime, Public Drug Use, Vagrancy Are Part of 'Basic City Life,' Democrats Argue"

This is merely a different facet of the same theme, as a post "next door" shows.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4140472/posts

Democrats. Socialists. Authortarians.

15 posted on 03/24/2023 5:42:05 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: bert
The silver lining is that the City States are inflicted with cancerous rot that can’t be remedied. The emerging fact is that there is simply no longer a need for the cities.

The problem is that cancers spread. When the thugs in the cities determine that the stores and people in suburbs are richer targets, guess where they will take their lawlessness.

16 posted on 03/24/2023 5:45:08 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Credited to Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush.


17 posted on 03/24/2023 5:49:28 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: joshua c

It’s the obsmian new normal


18 posted on 03/24/2023 5:59:23 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: joshua c

Obamian


19 posted on 03/24/2023 6:00:44 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Rummyfan

Nonsense. Accepting this statement at face value is playing into their hand.

What Dems are - they are tired of having legitimate criticisms thrown into their faces, regarding the results of their own idiotic policies, combined with the fact that they have no clue as to any solution (well, any solution that wouldn’t turn them into their opposition).


20 posted on 03/24/2023 6:05:04 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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