A Western Consensus Is Brewing

There have been murmurs for at least the last ten years about the potential for civil war in the United States.  Polls have shown that roughly half the country believes that future conflict is likely.  The intrusion of unchecked government power into every crevice of our private lives has transformed politics into a high-stakes cage match in which furious citizens fight to survive.  Because government exerts so much control over citizens, winning control of government has become an existential imperative.  Such zero-sum thinking has fractured society and pitted Americans against one another.

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Downtown San Francisco is beyond redemption

The recent announcement that Ian Jacobs, a scion of the famous Toronto-based Reichmann real estate clan, was coming to buy upwards of $900 million of San Francisco real estate, has offered the beleaguered California city a rare moment of hope. Some suggest that we could see a repeat of New York’s recovery from its nadir in the 1970s, during which the Reichmanns made a fortune gobbling up depressed buildings shortly before the city’s resurgence.   

Hell of a bet given the state is woke crazy.

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The Things Allowed to Happen in Baltimore Schools Are Hard to Believe

It has been a few months since I wrote about Baltimore schools and I find that over the past week or so an amazing story has broken there. A teenager who is a convicted rapist has been allowed to return to high school and parents were not told about it. The student in this case is 15-years-old and just last month was convicted of having sex with a minor child last year, a member of his own family.

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Denny’s joins In-N-Out Burger abandoning its sole Oakland store due to crime

Oakland, California, is ceding control of its local commerce to criminals, due to a Soros-backed prosecutor and chronic short staffing at the Oakland PD, which cannot recruit enough new cops to replace retirements and resignations — despite six-figure starting salaries. There’s more going on than that, though. The departure of two prominent restaurant chains from the city reveals a horrifying pattern that the national media entirely miss.

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Iconic San Francisco toy store that inspired ‘Toy Story’ films closing after 86 years over ‘perils and violence’ in city’s downtown

San Francisco’s oldest toy store, which inspired the Pixar classic “Toy Story,” is permanently shutting its doors after nearly a century in business with the city’s widespread crime and violence problem playing a significant factor.

Jeffrey’s Toys broke the news Friday it will be closing up shop at the end of February, marking the end of an iconic 86-year run.

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In-N-Out Burger in Oakland to close doors for good over of out-of-control crime, company says

In-N-Out Burger’s only location in Oakland is closing after the cherished fast-food joint decided it could no longer risk the safety of fed-up workers and patrons in the city plagued by recent crime.

The location will shut its doors in March — despite the burger spot turning a profit — because of the constant crime in the community, In-N-Out Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick said in a sudden announcement over the weekend.

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Chicago Mayor on Increase in Most Violent Crime: ‘Reparations‘ Money Will Help

Brandon Johnson – Loves Looting

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson responded to a question on an uptick in most violent crime categories in the city in 2023 by stating that homicides and shootings have fallen and money “for restoration and reparations” will help address the “cycle of violence” in the city.

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London knife and gun crime surges amid gang warfare

Knife crime in London is rising at its fastest rate in five years with more than 40 incidents reported to the police every day, the Telegraph can disclose.

Warfare between rival drug gangs combined with spiralling street robbery rates are contributing to the surge in violent offences.

Gun crime in the capital is also on the increase with shootings up more than six per cent on the same period in 2022.

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Across America’s cities, voters are driving out progressives

Is sanity finally returning to America’s blue cities? The places that incubated inept policies such as “defund the police” and “sanctuary cities”, but welcomed open-air drug use, are beginning to have second thoughts. In Seattle, Portland and San Francisco (which featured in a recent UnHerd special), lawmakers are looking at ways to curb public drug use — a move that has been symptomatic of a wider pushback against progressive policies.

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Car in Seattle intentionally mows down pedestrian and passengers laugh about on video it as police launch desperate search for depraved motorists

Sickening videos have been released of a series of hit-and-run incidents in which a deranged driver deliberately runs over pedestrians on the streets of Seattle, while the occupants of the car can be heard laughing in the background.

Footage has been released by the Seattle Police Department that shows two separate incidents occurring within a few blocks of one another.

Video shot by surveillance cameras matches that shot from within the vehicle itself, filmed on a cellphone and later posted to social media.

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Addicts and homeless swarm back to San Francisco streets after Gavin Newsom’s cleanup for Chinese President Xi

They call it ‘The Poopie Dance’ and San Franciscans are having to learn it – and quickly.

It involves constantly looking straight ahead to find a clean line between where you are on the street and where you want to go.

Sadly, it’s the reality in parts of the Bay City as the growing homeless population have taken to using the famed streets of San Francisco as one giant open-air toilet.

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First US state to decriminalise hard drugs may be set for swift U-turn

The authorities are leading demands for Oregon to recriminalise heroin and fentanyl after addicts took over the streets of major cities

Oregon, the first US state to decriminalise hard drugs, is set for a U-turn after addicts took over the streets of major cities.

Police chiefs, district attorneys and city officials are leading demands for Oregon to recriminalise heroin and fentanyl, reversing key provisions of the liberal experiment, which was introduced in 2021.

Underpinning the original initiative, known as Measure 110, was the belief that decriminalising hard drugs would make it easier to get addicts into treatment.

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Chicago is so unpleasant migrants are fleeing BACK to Venezuela after being dumped there

Chicago Blacks Protest Migrants

Chicago has become so unpleasant that migrants are fleeing back to Venezuela after being dumped in shelters and refused better paying jobs.

Since August last year, 20,700 migrants have arrived in Chicago from Texas. The Lone Star State’s Governor Greg Abbott sent migrants to Chicago and other Democrat-run cities because of their proud status as ‘sanctuary cities.’ They offer enhanced protection against detention or deportation for undocumented migrants.

Now, Illinois’ harsh winters, lack of migrant infrastructure, and ambivalent support from locals has made many people, who undertook the harsh US-Mexico border journey, actually turn around and go back home.

h/t Mauser

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