I recently traveled by car to Baltimore to seek medical testing at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.
I was shocked to see the many empty and boarded-up buildings between the Inner Harbor area, the athletic arenas for baseball, and football and the Johns Hopkins Medical campus.
The city is gripped in an opioid crisis worse than America’s. Locals say overly liberal drug laws have sparked a catastrophe
“Hailey, are you okay? You have to communicate with me,” says Larry.
“Yes, I feel fine,” she replies.
“Okay, hold still.”
Eyes wide and hands trembling, Larry, 32, flicks the syringe’s needle before crouching over his friend and injecting a mixture of fentanyl and benzodiazepines into a prominent vein in her neck.
Car theft and drugs just two of the categories putting Canada on the world stage.
In most crime-infested blue cities, officials make at least the pretense of caring about law and order. Sometimes they even take temporary or sporadic action in response to particularly egregious events, hoping to placate the public until the next blow-up.
PRAY FOR OAKLAND 🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/xuSfTUnWuq
— BAY AREA STATE OF MIND (@YayAreaNews) July 6, 2024
Checking in on California and we find that civilization continues to unravel at an alarming rate, but nowhere is that more obvious than taking a look at the Bay Area. Here’s the latest, from an item out at a local outlet:
Thirteen senior citizens reported being brutally attacked and robbed in just one week in an Oakland community. But according to leaders at one senior living facility in the city, they say the number is much higher and closer to an astounding 30.
I was at a gathering recently for my aunt and uncle’s 50th wedding anniversary. The party also served as a farewell: my cousin and his family were moving the next day from the GTA to Alberta.
They told us of the job opportunities, and of the six-bedroom house with ample parking and yard space they were able to afford on their southern Ontario budget.
You get used to such news, after a while.
The California governor paints a rosy picture of a state that is failing badly.
Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom gave a 28-minute pre-recorded State of the State address and ominously opined that the state’s values and status as “a beacon of hope” are “under assault.”
A beacon of hope?
These guys were tackling random people for every 1k followers they got on IG but one of the people upped a gun on them 💀 pic.twitter.com/5fobNiNu97
— BAY AREA STATE OF MIND (@YayAreaNews) July 4, 2024
San Francisco just took home WalletHub’s “worst-run” city in America title for the second year in a row—which is hardly surprising, considering this is the place where you download a “poop map” before braving the city sidewalks, open-air drug markets and dirty tents fill the formerly clean Tenderloin district, and a walking tour with a sardonic sales pitch sold out weeks in advance—participants were promised an intimate experience with the urban decay of the “progressive” city, and offered the chance to “get close and personal with the Doom and Squalor of downtown San Francisco.”
Give Toronto city council credit for its stunning honesty.
Elected officials often at least pretend to be listening to the people and doing what is best for the community. When change was in the wind, they would “listen to the people” and “meet with stakeholders” and hire an outrageously compensated consultant or three to tell them what they wanted to hear. Then they would go ahead and do what they wanted to do in the first place.
The wackos on council with Chairman Chow sent a message: We despise Canada, its heritage and White people.
That’s what this whole exercise was about.
They will run Toronto into the ground.
Toronto once reliably lost about 20,000 more people to other cities in Canada than it lured in from around the country. But in 2017, that number doubled to 40,000. And then it doubled again. In the past two years, 220,000 more Canadians have abandoned Ontario’s capital than arrived.
The majority of these Toronto expats have moved to other areas within Ontario including Oshawa, Hamilton, the Niagara Region and London, according to Statistics Canada’s domestic migration data. They’re also calling Calgary, Edmonton and Halifax home.
It’s a trend that’s worrying Toronto officials and economists who fear the city’s middle class is disappearing.
WHITE FLIGHT
I believe “Middle Class” should be read as “White Flight” for the purposes of this article .
Toronto is clearly on the downside and this article confirms what I have suspected was occurring, the city is being hollowed out.
Toronto’s demise is being accelerated by mass immigration from incompatible cultures which in turn causes overburdened services and housing unaffordability contributing to the city’s declining quality of life.
The city has long been both magnet and dumping ground for Trudeau’s destructive immigration policy which has imposed an unwanted cultural shift alienating to longtime residents.
TO’s situation is exasperated by its bizarre leftist government which is more concerned with celebrating perversion and insulting Canada’s heritage than actually fixing what’s wrong with this incipient dumpster fire.
I won’t mention the rising crime rate or the many imported ethnic and religious conflicts being played out in our streets because that would be racist.
But that won’t stop city hall from raising taxes and offering less and less in return every year.
People see the writing on the wall, they see the ghettoization of Toronto neighborhoods and the GTA in general.
They see that indoctrination has replaced education in the city’s schools.
They know the city becomes less safe with each passing day and they know they are not welcome in multicultural Toronto.
Chow’s election may come to be regarded as the watershed moment signaling the beginning of Toronto’s irreversible decline.
Viva diversity.
Leftists have always been loud and ostentatious about how they’re all about compassion.
So residents of San Francisco, living in a blue city with few cops and little law enforcement, could probably be forgiven for thinking that as crime victims, they could count on at least some compassion after another round of violent crimes.
Don’t be silly. In San Francisco, victims of major crimes get tickets.
A San Francisco convenience market gets robbed and vandalized and the first thing the city does is serve the owners with a violation notice telling him he has 90 days to fix the damage pic.twitter.com/aCNj975h97
— Sacramento Insider (@sacinsidr) June 27, 2024
Bay Area and state government have been a target-rich environment for decades.
On June 20, the FBI raided the home of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, carting away boxes of material. The purpose of the raid wasn’t clear, but it may have had something to do with Oakland’s recycler, California Waste Solutions, whose offices were also searched, along with the homes of CWS owners David and Andy Duong.
On June 24, Mayor Thao proclaimed her innocence and blamed the raid on “right-wing forces.” In a city home to the Black Panther Museum, and with UC Berkeley close at hand, that claim had locals wondering whom Oakland’s Democrat mayor had in mind. The raid on the mayor’s home wasn’t the FBI’s first Bay Area bust, and the state has been a target-rich environment for decades.
Portland appeared to be living the liberal dream. Set beneath the snow-capped Mount Hood, beside the Columbia river, the thriving West Coast city was home to big business like Nike and Adidas, and famed for its art, food and youthful left-wing culture.
In the summer of 2020, when much of America rose up in protest against the killing of George Floyd, the city reacted with three big changes. The police force was defunded to the tune of $15 million. The top prosecutor adopted the prevailing philosophy of refusing to press charges for low-level crime. And in 2021, Oregon decriminalised most drug possession, becoming the first state in the US to do so.
Too much tolerance is destroying the peace
I have always felt a white-hot hatred for those Harley clowns, in their clown costumes, who gratuitously rev their stone-age V-twin engines as you sit outdoors trying to have a conversation. The only proper response, I believe, would be for some good Samaritan with a baseball bat to walk up and test the efficacy of those little Nazi hats they call helmets.
The new thing is modern V8 muscle cars (Chargers, Challengers, Mustangs and Camaros) with exhaust cut-outs. They are deafening, and they are everywhere where I live in San Jose (which is not one of the genteel areas). They are also illegal, of course, but we no longer enforce laws in California. Nor, apparently, in New York. For those not satisfied with inflicting low-level hearing loss, a special Platinum Asshole feature is available on the aftermarket. It alters the engine’s spark and fuel map to deliberately induce explosive backfires that sound like a 12-gauge shotgun at close range.
Grand Theft Auto: Oakland, California pic.twitter.com/HTgQjk0XKF
— BAY AREA STATE OF MIND (@YayAreaNews) June 22, 2024
Grand Theft Auto: Oakland, California pic.twitter.com/TvoQQwxGRA
— BAY AREA STATE OF MIND (@YayAreaNews) June 25, 2024
TORONTO — A fourth teen accused in the fatal stabbing of a Toronto homeless man has pleaded guilty.
The girl, who was 14 at the time of the incident, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of 59-year-old Kenneth Lee.
Police have alleged that Lee, who was living in the city’s shelter system, died after he was swarmed and stabbed by a group of girls in December 2022.
The same dishonest corporate media that want you to believe Joe Biden didn’t freeze up and had to be helped off the stage by a former president has spent an insane amount of time and energy this week reporting on Donald Trump’s thoughts on Milwaukee.
