It took the arrival of a Chinese dictator for San Francisco to finally clean the filth off the streets — at least temporarily.
Sure, they had to erect cages around the sidewalks to keep them clear until President Xi Jinping leaves California, but better to be seen as a prison than a pigpen.
It’s all theater, of course.
The Chinese and other Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders know that after the facelift, San Francisco will revert to a feces-encrusted slum, as the zombies are released from wherever they have been hidden.
Everyone has seen the videos of addicts bent double in suspended animation or zonked out on the ground among the used needles and human excrement.
TikTok algorithms make sure those videos are seen.
Ahead of Xi’s visit, Chinese media outlets had great sport trashing San Francisco as “garbage city,” “ruined city,” “fallen city” and a “total failure.”
Apart from being an avoidable tragedy, America’s deadly drug crisis makes us an international laughingstock, the marker of a civilization on the fast track to hell.
You would think the American president might be embarrassed about that fact. But, far from it, Joe Biden thinks it’s funny, too.
At a glittering fundraiser in downtown San Francisco Tuesday night, Biden began his speech by thanking Mayor London Breed for “welcoming us to your city. It kind of sparkles right now.”
The White House press office transcript indicates that “laughter and applause” greeted his droll observation.
Yes, the papering over of San Francisco’s squalor is a source of mirth for the high-dollar Biden donors who live there — or at least in California.
Real estate magnate Clint Reilly and his wife, Janet, who own the Biden fanzine The San Francisco Examiner, former Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg and former Mayor Willie Brown, Kamala Harris’ old squeeze, reportedly paid as much as $200,000 apiece for the pleasure of seeing Biden speak that night.
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