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Has there ever been a better Showcase Jurisdiction for the left? San Fran comes to mind.

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San Fran has swung back to the middle, comparatively speaking. Can't really hold them to same idiot standard as NYC anymore.

$122B and so much of the city is broken. I was there years ago and so many locals were complaining about the subway and how it was a disaster of lines being down due to delay maintenance.

Theyre running so deep in the red because they haven't been maintaining the infrastructure. They've been diverting funds to social programs and pet projects.

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I think NYC has had a little issue with that garbage collecting recently

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Perhaps that's why she wants the dogs outside?
Maybe more donkeys are next?

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Has there ever been a better Showcase Jurisdiction for the left? San Fran comes to mind.

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San Fran has swung back to the middle, comparatively speaking. Can't really hold them to same idiot standard as NYC anymore.

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I would agree. Was there a few months ago. Walked around, went to a baseball game, etc. I see more homeless in Texas cities than I saw that day. Not sure where they put them all, but it was not what I expected.

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Fdsa said:

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Has there ever been a better Showcase Jurisdiction for the left? San Fran comes to mind.

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San Fran has swung back to the middle, comparatively speaking. Can't really hold them to same idiot standard as NYC anymore.

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I would agree. Was there a few months ago. Walked around, went to a baseball game, etc. I see more homeless in Texas cities than I saw that day. Not sure where they put them all, but it was not what I expected.

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Did a missions trip to Hawaii two summers ago. Worked with the homeless. 60-70% of them in the beach area we were working were from the mainland. California to be more precise. I think somewhat CA got a lot of 1-way tickets.

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Fdsa said:

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Has there ever been a better Showcase Jurisdiction for the left? San Fran comes to mind.

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San Fran has swung back to the middle, comparatively speaking. Can't really hold them to same idiot standard as NYC anymore.

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I would agree. Was there a few months ago. Walked around, went to a baseball game, etc. I see more homeless in Texas cities than I saw that day. Not sure where they put them all, but it was not what I expected.

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Their current mayor is a moderate by their standards. The locals finally revolted against the former Mayor's Marxist idiocy and elected a guy to bring back policing and relative sanity to the city. They are obviously still very much Democrats, but they are smart enough to stop doing the really stupid *****

Won't be able to do that in other left wing cities though. SFO is primarily a white and Asian city so they have demographic advantages that other bigger cities do not have.

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He's contemplating a 10% increase in property taxes.

Just what does he think that will do to rents in NYC?

Moron.

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He thinks he can freeze rents, increase property taxes and then the landlords eat it. But this is exactly how slums get created.

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Well, if you want government to take over private property, a good way to do it is to have landlords get behind on their taxes. "You owe more in taxes than you can pay? Well, we have a plan for that ..."

one month into his disaster he has gone from

"rent freeze"

to middle class rental hikes.

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This guy is such a joke. He's a child.

Of course, anyone with a functioning frontal cortex knew it, but damn. He ain't even 60 days in.

I'm really going to enjoy watching those whining morons in NYC cry for the next 4 years.

Of course, they are so stupid they may vote for more of the same next time because, "he just didn't do it right. He didn't do enough of it"

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I don't think so.

every successful middle class to upper middle class will be thinking about moving out of NYC

and the "wealthy" are absolutely going to be moving out of NYC in the next 4 years.

Palantir just fled DENVER for Miami- you can bet that multi-millionaires are also going to be heading south to Fort Lauderdale.

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YouBet said:

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Has there ever been a better Showcase Jurisdiction for the left? San Fran comes to mind.

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San Fran has swung back to the middle, comparatively speaking. Can't really hold them to same idiot standard as NYC anymore.

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I would agree. Was there a few months ago. Walked around, went to a baseball game, etc. I see more homeless in Texas cities than I saw that day. Not sure where they put them all, but it was not what I expected.

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Their current mayor is a moderate by their standards. The locals finally revolted against the former Mayor's Marxist idiocy and elected a guy to bring back policing and relative sanity to the city. They are obviously still very much Democrats, but they are smart enough to stop doing the really stupid *****

Won't be able to do that in other left wing cities though. SFO is primarily a white and Asian city so they have demographic advantages that other bigger cities do not have.

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It's amazing what people will learn if you let them get a taste of their poor choices. Another reason I'm a strong proponent of voting for your beliefs rather than settling in the hopes of avoiding the big bad opponents from gaining power. If your guy wins, excellent. If not, the big bad opponent gains power and causes all sorts of trouble that hopefully snaps their idiot voters back to reality.

The idiot leftists likely won't learn from their mistakes, but the complicit center/left voters might abandon ship.

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BUDGET CUTS: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani aims to cancel 5,000 NYPD officer hires and proposes a cut to the department's budget to address the city's deficit. https://t.co/PRmpodkVU6

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 18, 2026

yeah, this will end well.

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Don't defund the police, just cut it to the bone so it is non-effective. Don't use that free subway or bus, danger lurks.

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BUDGET CUTS: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani aims to cancel 5,000 NYPD officer hires and proposes a cut to the department's budget to address the city's deficit. https://t.co/PRmpodkVU6

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 18, 2026

yeah, this will end well.

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What could possibly go wrong?

These Marxist idiots haven't learned one thing about defunding police, even after watching the disaster after the George Floyd era.

Or maybe they have and are trying to overload/crater the system. Cloward-Piven strategy at work.

Maybe this is his plan, to wind up taking properties from broke owners to then run them as city housing?

IMO @jpodhoretz has the correct take -- this is a step towards property confiscation via foreclosure on tax liens or having property owners deed the properties to the cit in lieu of foreclosure.

He wants to create an inventory of city-owned housing without having to pay to… https://t.co/7j4pJyxq3D

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) February 18, 2026

Nah, I don't think the communists around him think that far ahead.

Well someone is thinking that when they put in the law that the city and NGOs have first right of refusal on real estate sales.

Should a national travel advisory / ban be placed on NYC for safety reasons?

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Should a national travel advisory / ban be placed on NYC for safety reasons?

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Last place I'd spend a nickel.
Wonder how all the actors and Broadway folks are doing?
lol- their choice is NYC or California?

I won't be surprised if someone tries to take him out by this time next year.

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I won't be surprised if someone tries to take him out by this time next year.

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Highly unlikely that something that good would happen to someone that bad.

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Well someone is thinking that when they put in the law that the city and NGOs have first right of refusal on real estate sales.

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Yep, I think this is just the second part of their housing confiscation plan. It's straight up communist strategy.

1. Pass law forcing owners to sell to government.
2. Immediately raise costs forcing owners to sell to government.

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Should a national travel advisory / ban be placed on NYC for safety reasons?

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Last place I'd spend a nickel.
Wonder how all the actors and Broadway folks are doing?
lol- their choice is NYC or California?

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I agree with your overall sentiment. But a lot of films are being produced and filmed outside of the traditional NY and LA studios. Atlanta (for example) has been an option for a lot of film productions over the last 5-10 years.

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I agree with your overall sentiment. But a lot of films are being produced and filmed outside of the traditional NY and LA studios. Atlanta (for example) has been an option for a lot of film productions over the last 5-10 years.

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Not only Georgia, but Austin and Nashville too. A lot of actors are leaving CA and NY for Nashville these days.

That new law seems like a slam dunk infringement of the 4th Amendment but with our justice system today, I'm not sure it would turn out that way.

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That new law seems like a slam dunk infringement of the 4th Amendment but with our justice system today, I'm not sure it would turn out that way.

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Yeah, I don't think NYC would pay much attention to it even if ruled against.

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I won't be surprised if someone tries to take him out by this time next year.

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Isn't he married?

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BUDGET CUTS: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani aims to cancel 5,000 NYPD officer hires and proposes a cut to the department's budget to address the city's deficit. https://t.co/PRmpodkVU6

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 18, 2026

yeah, this will end well.

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So no new hires...
Those that can take their retirement. Some early career guys that don't get promoted waive their years in service and start over somewhere else.
Plenty of others get hired elsewhere with their yard of service credited.

Complete department wide experience loss that takes decades to retrain. Family legacies break their lines and don't return to the city.

but they now have $10 million to pay for DEI Training!!

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So no new hires...
Those that can take their retirement. Some early career guys that don't get promoted waive their years in service and start over somewhere else.
Plenty of others get hired elsewhere with their yard of service credited.

Complete department wide experience loss that takes decades to retrain. Family legacies break their lines and don't return to the city.

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That's the way that works. Can't come back a few years from now claiming those unintended consequences.

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HPD, Harris County Sheriff's, Montgomery Sheriff's and a few others have hired officers from New York. Stories I have heard, former NYPD officers have also gone to Florida, Tennessee and parts of Georgia. NY is about to FAFO and they don't even care.

Their loss, I enjoy working with the boys from New York. Taught this old head a few thing or two.

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My apologies, mods. Unacceptable oversight on my part.

Edited to comply with TA guidelines.

Mamdani wants to slash NYC library budgets by $30M - despite calling similar cuts by Adams 'cruel' https://t.co/R68M7dT4Th pic.twitter.com/ObRnvUaYZO

— New York Post (@nypost) February 20, 2026

Say one thing during the campaign, then flip. Typical.