We are devolving into communist take over.

first democraps ruined SF, then they ruined NYC and many more to come.

That is for sure.

We are irrelevant, the future does not include us.

@@christophernichols1379 no argument here

Oh it definitely is

you get what you vote for

No doubt. They're are certainly doing this on purpose.

Yes. It is.

Agreed

Yup. Without taking into account how people *really* live and work here

This is what happens when you let the world economic forum and the drug companies hijack your government

Sad thing is these Democrats move out of San Fran and into Republican states. They vote the same way. They are like viruses looking for new hosts.

Vote Blue and this will happen to YOU and your City! Go Woke Go Broke... from as ex Democrat. Thanks Gavin and London Breed!

Well Stated !!!!

Yea it used to be a real beauty, no more. It’s devastating, so much money and work went into it.

Your government wants you 💀

When was it beautiful? I moved here almost 20 years ago, and it was really gross and dirty. My first encounter was a hobo carrying a bloody toddler mattress on bush and sutter . I lived a block away from Cala foods then probably 2006

They want to get rid of cars and develop their 15 minute cities and destroy the middle-class. The Green New Deal.

New World Order!

If they keep voting Democrat it will only get worse. But they will still vote for the morons because they are morons.

Pretty much to same in many other large cities. Retail is gone. I live near a large city and their is no retail left in the downtown area. (one dollar store, which was robbed so many times, its closed now). Maybe a coffee shop somewhere. I remember when going downtown was an exciting time for shopping and eating. Three big department stores, movie theaters, clothing stores, you name it. This is long after the suburban malls had been around awhile. Now they are suffering also, even in the close in suburbs.

@@iworkout6912 Not really. NYC is still thriving. Is it as busy as it was before the pandemic, no. But walk on 8th avenue from Penn Station to Central Park and compare to San Francisco. Times Square is packed once again with tourists.

If you have studied retail economics, which I have, you will understand that there is no return now from the demise of this city ! Even if you offered the user free rent and free cam charges for 2 years, the pro forma is still impossible, why, it will take the user years to move from the red into the black ! Notwithstanding, where will the consumers come from ??? The anchor retailers have all left which the smaller retailers depend on for spill over to the small mom and pop stores as well. The bigger problem is this, how are you going to convince the Bay Area populous to return to a city frought with crime and anger from a city government that turned on its own people... San Francico has died at the hands of liberal democrat`s...

People have always stolen from stores but it used be kids or the occasional drug addict sticking something under their shirt.. but now we have industrial level shop lifting run by organized crime. Watching someone steal an entire shopping cart full of merchandise was unheard of 10 years ago but now it's a daily occurrence.

Just the Democrats having another go at doing what they did in 1860. Splitting the union down partisan lines.

Yes

What do u expect when china n gay people price everyone else out

End times believe or not the world waiting for something big read the Bible

​@@Victorm61767😊yes... they".. need to Google Roman's 10.9.10 ❤

you got it wrong. what you see is what they want.

My heart is broken!

The decline of Democrat run cities will continue until residents make smarter decisions in the voting booth.

@@suppylarue220 Cloward-Piven strategy.

Not a failure. This is intentional

Say it again brother and say it loud for those in the back.

Newsom for president! We can do this to the entire nation.

done on purpose, nobody that slow... this is planning for a near enough future.

When Moscone was elected the handwriting was on the wall, that’s when we sold and left California never to return.

@@MrbfgrayNewsom is a very dangerous person.

Sidewalk deuce dumps...

The new public toilets.

They were brought in by Gavin Newsom for the communist dictator of China’s visit. That’s why they’re all still shiny.

More like $1300 when the city buys them, then 5k a pop to install them.

@@8EnigmaVirus8 You may be a bit low on those estimates.

Who'd your family vote for? lol.

The Party @@jonathantaylor6926

@@jonathantaylor6926not blue

You wouldn’t even believe what happened to my family home

​@@DebbiesWorldI dont believe you, because there is not even one republican that you could vote for years.

LOL

exactly

A lot of loss in general. What a terrible shame. This was the best city in the nation clear up until the late 80s.

Equals more homeless due to NO job to pay rent, WOW, what a tragedy!

And taxes. Only way to make up lost revenue is to charge the ones who haven't yet left more!!

Not to worry, Xiden has rehired all those people as IRA auditors.

Oakland is another sheethole. All from DemocRATS!

that was way back in the days now the rent in San Francisco is just way out of the roof😊

Not sure. Maybe they thought it would result in a better flow of traffic with the dedicated lane. Indeed Poor planning or a lack of studies and surveying beforehand. Would have been better to put in a underground subway but not sure of that would be geologically possible with the hills and threats/hazards of earthquakes.

SF is a major supporter of Agenda 2030 that the UN is trying to jam down our throats. The goal is to have cities with little to no private automobile ownership and people use mass transit to get around.

Haha...failed liberal state is now resorting to conspiracy theory. Get a load of this! The man writes, "I know this is what THEY've intended...end game is?" Who the F is "they"...? You're on the wrong side of the isle with this secret "they", friend. You sound like a kook.

The end game is Communism.

I've asked the same here on the East Coast. After these lowlifes finish robbing all these stores and they close down, then what? We aren't too far behind Cali.

@@roshelltannen9698 All major US cities are not too far behind Cali and Newsom is looking like an eventual candidate for president.

Communism is the end game. One global economy with a few mega moguls running it. The rest of us will "own nothing and like it".

it ain't gonna return. today is a taste of the future.

First, we have to ask ourselves, do we feel lucky?

​@@jamesrecknor6752 Nice! Well do you, PUNK?!

SF Honda moved to Van Ness & Bush St and also added Acura to their dealership a year or so ago.

Honda doesn't have an automotive future.

Thanks for the info!

You did like the others of your kind...ran off and left. Gee, girl you showed 'em! Some of that "girl power". But seriously, why are "former" SFers so happy to brag about being from SF? I would be ashamed, hide that fact. Are you proud of the city you helped make...ah before leaving?

@sailingaeolus Stop. You have no idea what this person’s history is.

​@sailingaeolus I drank the kool-aid myself, back when I was living in the belly of the beast, there... I moved to SF in 1993. I thought it was glorious, and I was so excited to have moved there all by myself, driving 11 hours up the 101 freeway from San Bernadino. In two years I worked my way up from being a housecleaner, to a housekeeper, to a house manager for a very wealthy family, in 1995. They built their dream home on Broadway at Divisadero and moved into it in 1999. At the time, Broadway was called "Millionaire's Row"; now it's "Billionaire's Row." The family had made their millions in the early days of tech -- around 1975 -- and were finally seeing the results of all that hard work They were a wonderful, nice, normal family at the time. They had two boys, and eventually, I became their nanny, too. They respected others, they respected themselves, and they respected their money. It took a long time to build that wealth... Big Tech had started to invade SF around 1994, and by 1999 there were 22 year olds driving BMWs and Mercedes' around town (In a previous post here I said CA is a car culture, and will always be, lol. Even in SF) At that time, I was a registered Democrat. The family I worked for was, as well. Nancy Pelosi lived just down the street on Broadway. Larry Ellison also lived there, as well as the Gettys, and their "nephew" Gavin Newsom visited often. I lived and worked right smack in the middle of what was the richest neighborhood in the country at that time. That area was absolutely *oozing* wealth, money, and power by the year 2000... The stuff of dreams, right? Work hard, and you too can achieve that level of comfort and prestige. What could go wrong... In 2004 the family I worked for held the first-ever fundraiser in NorCal for some guy no one had ever heard of west of the Mississippi: Barack Obama. I was a little puzzled because he was from Illinois. Why were we holding a fundraiser here in CA for an Illinois Senator who was now going to run for the U.S. Senate? Well, that was before I understood what a slush fund was... The entire City was mesmerized by that guy. Obama was young, handsome, and charismatic. I was mesmerized, too. I bought into all of that crap; all of the City's Dem politicians were engaging, smooth-talking, and when you spoke to them they looked you right in the eye while they were lying through their teeth so graciously... My family got caught up in that web. They, too, drank the kool-aid. Many newly minted millionaires did. The Mrs. would go on and on about Rachel Maddow, she listened to Keith Olberman, and they donated such a huge amount to Obama's eventual presidential run that they were invited to the inauguration. I made a copy of the 8x10 gold-printed invite and framed it In 2008 I remember driving in the car with her and she was gushing about the big luncheon she attended the day before about the exciting collaboration between the City of SF and China. Feinstein was at that lunch... Between 2004 and 2009, while I was steeped in the glamour of the super-rich, there was always a niggling feeling that something just wasn't right. They were razing buildings in the City left and right; rents kept climbing higher and higher. The artists and musicians and regular working folks were being pushed out. The rich *were* getting richer while everyone else was falling farther and farther behind. The family I worked for had changed dramatically once they had moved to Broadway. Things were not the same. But I could never, ever put my finger on just what it was. I began to feel that the City was being taken over by the very people "elected" (installed is more like it) to represent it, and the super rich were subsidizing it lock, stock, and barrel, thinking they'd all be immune to the changes, when in fact most of them would eventually be tossed aside if they didn't continue to play the game as written by those who wanted a total takeover of the City. If you didn't cooperate they would ruin you, your business, and your family Living in San Francisco was starting to feel very sour and abnormal to me, and in 2010 I quit my job as house manager and moved north to Marin I'm sorry this is a long-ass reply, but I don't care. I was part of the problem there, and then I woke up. It happens... Most people are good and kind and think the best of everyone. It's not so much they're wearing rose-colored glasses. Most people are incapable of being so corrupt, so greedy, so dark, that it's hard to believe others can be so evil and conniving. That they have a massive agenda that is SO anti-human, so lacking in compassion, that they've had a plan in place to figuratively burn an entire city to the ground for decades... That's what's happening in San Francisco today. God help it...

​@@hamsterdiving7593 Fascinating reply, thanks for the candor and for sharing. I've always been able to "see" the future. Back in the 1990s at SDSU I was warning all "the agenda" would not work out well. Of course that prognosis was not well received. I suppose for me personally there's a sort of "how did you not see this coming" component to it. I lived in Sacramento as a kid in the 1980s. Yes, at one point SF was a very beautiful place. What happened there cannot be easily forgiven.

Excellent comment, and fully worthwhile to read. @@hamsterdiving7593

Unlike others who think the channel has a bias you speak the truth. I live in Southern NJ and go into Philadelphia and NYC frequently. I see a few boarded up stores and businesses but nothing on the level of San Francisco which now looks like an abandoned city. Are there pockets of San Francisco that are still thriving, sure. But amount of retail and business vacancies in San Francisco is staggering. You will see a few holdouts that are still open. How long can they survive when the surrounding businesses are empty. Would you feel safe when no one is around.The business leaders and politicians use the phrase San Francisco is a boom or bust town. I think they are referring to the Gold Rush and the earthquake. Both have no relevance today. The city isn't coming back. I guess it could if you could buy Victorians for $300,000-$450,000 or rent a high rise apartment in a new building for $1500 a month. Real Estate would have to collapse that much to get entrepreneurs, artists and young people just starting out to take a chance and try to rebuild the city with small businesses. The housing and rental market is still too high to get the kind of people needed to get the city populated again.

Homeless depend on stores and general vitality too, more than the rest of us.

​@@Mrbfgraythe homeless just steal from the stores

Governor Gavin Newson and Nancy Pelosi don't care about SF. As long as they live in a mansion and put all the tax dollars in their pockets, they don't care what happen to the city or anyone else. They will only make changes when crimes and drugs enter their high ends neigborhoods. They defunded the police department and gave the power to the criminals and drug dealers!

The cold December weather sends a lot of the street people looking for indoor shelter. Come back in March and they'll be back out there.

Hey, at least Nancy Pelosi can still have her nails done in the one shop that`s open. Where to buy ice cream?

Do you really think if it was republican ran it would be different? Uh no.

@@JarrodHayes-qc2qc The hell it wouldn't. Petty crimes would be prosecuted and the homeless camps on the street would not be allowed. What you see is absolutely the result of liberal progressive policies that make no sense whatsoever.

It's not about the party. It's more about the individual and their ability to effectively manage city and county government. @@JarrodHayes-qc2qc

The decline of Democrat run cities will continue until residents make smarter decisions in the voting booth.

The goal of the MTA is to eliminate all parking in SF.

@saintpreferred9223 Just you writing that sentence, you can hear how absurd that sounds! As if they can really accomplish that...

@@hamsterdiving7593 he is saying they would like to, if they could get there way. The MTA is working in that direction.

​@@m1activealesis551 I know -- I wasn't being critical of them, I was pointing out that when you actually see it *written* , it just sounds so unrealistic. Like writing, "The goal of PGE is to eliminate all electrical usage after 6 pm"

@@saintpreferred9223 the goal of Sacramento is to eliminate most cars.

They killed the city 😢

They don't care they know big daddy Federal Government will bail them out.

Keep voting for democRATS and this is what you get. Destruction and despair.

The decline of Democrat run cities will continue until residents make smarter decisions in the voting booth.

I can't either.

The city still looks beautiful - from across the bay in Belvedere and Tiburon.

Not in your lifetime.

Most older people have left. Most children are not there anymore. Most blacks have moved out. A city in decline right before our eyes. DemcoRATS!

Good analysis of the situation. Public transportation. I saw a guy pull a knife on another older guy over some argument of a seat or something.. At the next stop both got off and the older guy ran with the young guy close behind him with the knife. The older guy ducked into a restaurant, not sure what happened after that as the bus moved on. The bus passengers acted like if was an everyday occurrence. Don't know if the bus driver called the police, but it was all over so quickly. Not getting into race of the guy with the knife, but you can guess.

You should see Chicago, New York and Philadelphia not any better and guess what there all Democrat City's. I live in Indiana and our Democrat City's are in the same shape....... i wonder why??? O yeah crime and no punishment go figure. Its time to vote red and see what happens.

This is sad a once great city is now in ruin and its never going to recover its all going to get worse until its been demolished.

I wanna thank all black peoples for making this possible.

We have the same thing in Chicago, except we aren’t worried about about our’world being on fire!’

@oneaboveallferdarifan2725 there’s a low black population in this city..

Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho, Kim, Castro and Joe join the chat.

I'm loving it (tm).

It`s almost like SF is run by junkies. Just kidding, it`s the people who call themselves "liberals"...

I know a girl from SF that says, "Oh, it's really not THAT bad". The locals are brainwashed zombie Joe voters. How do you think the place got that bad? A well armed, informed, aware community? The fact that you asked that questions and got 24 thumbs up is shocking...like the local have a dang clue. Do you believe speaking to them will help, or you'll get a well informed answer?

Rentals are all stuffed to the brim all around these shut down vandalized tagged closed businesses it’s like NO ONE had a voice!!!

Leo, perhaps you should think of having a partner on these walks, so that you can concentrate on the video and narrations; and your partner could be continuously scanning the area for any possible dangers or problems while you are filming.

@@mikeifyouplease I think Leo is packing.

Yea I have the same thoughts. So bad out anymore I try to just stay home!

It’s not a red/blue thing. It’s an American thing.

Not in my Red City. Its beautiful and booming and people are peaceful and loving and God fearing

I'm noticing nearly all major US cities are slowly but steadily becoming "no go" zones, open air drug markets and unchecked crime.

I live in Seal Beach, California, our police do an excellent job of keeping the blacks and homeless out, so no issues.

Do you expect them to vote red? They are way too sophisticated to do that.

@@Dan-440Too sophisticated and so much smarter 😂🤣😆

Glorious, revolutionary, humanist socialist people's paradise. lol

​​@@Dan-440their Fuhrer Joe Biden painted the curb red rolling out the red carpet for Xi Jinping to takeover San Francisco. All of those vacant buildings will be turned into 0.20 cent an hour sweat shops

@Dan-440 red areas don’t like like this 🤣. Does SF empty their dumpsters in the streets?

Well said!

Great movie with an insane general, depressing ending like gruesome and California 😢

For many people, political beliefs are equivalent to religious beliefs.

Sell it all to China and pocket their sales commission. Win Win for the local democrats. @@TOCC50

Should have voted better.

Plywood and giraffe is the main source of employment I guess. Lots of plywood, and some paint to paint over some of the worst giraffe. Progressives consider it 'art' i say BS.

The apocalyptic quality you mentioned is perhaps more real than you knew- I lived in SF for 12 years, up until mid autumn this year. My weekday morning commute routine involved leaving my front door on foot at about 4:40 am and making my way from south of Market Street to the Bay Area Rapid Transit station at Civic Center. What I encountered every day indeed resembled outtakes from Escape From New York, Mad Max or some zombie horror film. Especially when some deranged street denizens took after me, an occurrence that was anything but rare. I lived like an airport smuggler, valuables secreted in hidden pockets under layers of clothes and in bags with false bottom compartments. No word of a lie. Some sources call these kind of measures "urban survival". They aren't kidding.

@@Al_NERi O M G!!! 😱 You painted such a good picture with you words. I was seeing everything you described and it is chilling to think that you were NOT talking about a movie. Happy to hear that you were able to escape the madness.

Those planters are definitely an eyesore and give the city a bad look

They don't want us around anymore , Just days ago a study came out saying Human Breathing hurts the Climate !

Gavin hasn’t been the mayor of SF for 15 years now.

Thank you very much for sharing. I’m going to look up the Fillmore West. six years is a long time for businesses to survive, and that’s without counting the prior year, where they closed all the left lanes before construction started for almost a whole year

@@LeoMetalTraveler: I like your videos. Keep on doing what you're doing.

Thank you, will do!

Yes, that tour bus at the end of the video was exploring the unusual like what says on the side of the bus , that’s why it’s always worth it to watch until the end of the video for the best part, the cherry on top🍒 @dyarom4575 happy birthdays! 🎄

After watching👀 your video per KZfaq recommendation I watched 👀 "✨🎄The World's Most Spectacular Holiday Lights Display 2023 | London Christmas Lights Tour [4K HDR]" and is like going from Hell 👿to Heaven😇. @@LeoMetalTraveler

Did you vote for democrats? If yes, you destroyed SF

I think both parties are good at it, just shows what kind of incompetent people are getting into office these days. These guys set the bar so, so low.

@@JB-yb4wn There is no city in America trashed like San Francisco run by republicans. This is 100% all democRATS work! All across America.

@@JB-yb4wn What city do Republicans even run? There are cities within red states with R governors but pretty much every American city is run by democrats.

​@@JB-yb4wn voters have no choice between incompetent tweedledee and inexperienced tweedledum

@@pedanticmrpender Hard to do since Republicans make a vast minority of city governments. But Jerry Dyer seems to be doing an excellent job at running Fresno into the ground.

Thank you! Happy holidays

@LeoMetalTraveler Stay safe, brother 🙏

Half of two blocks is one block. 🤔

@@JB-yb4wn its on the corner. entrances on both sides.

@@mcleanblades9234 Now it has zero entrances on any side. Short of a nuclear bomb, you know how hard it is to close a Honda dealership?

I remember hearing like 10 years ago that someone was going to buy that lot for like 20 million…. I bet they wish they sold now or maybe they did and theyre still waiting for a permit😂

thank you and happy holidays

Whoa, friend...! "allowed to happen"? Were not you part of that? Voted for that? Friend, I'm curious why you feel you have no responsibility? Toss your "I ran off so I'm not guilty" in the comment section to heal your conscience? Write us, friend. Tell us how you are not part of all this...before you ran off.

​​@@LeoMetalTravelerI don't see thousands of electric scooters and electric bicycles waiting for users. Please talk about BART & MUNI ridership? Fisherman's wharf? Leo, where do you eat when you are out and about? *(I don't think San Diego is being affected, except Target did drop their lease. They are however building lots of condo towers.)

@@sailingaeolus Yes, “allowed to happen.” There is no jail time for the violence that occurs. Renters, home owners and small businesses get scared and tired of the lawlessness. If you must know, I left after I witnessed a murder outside my window. I know that was enough for me. Think what you will.

@@sailingaeolus And no, I was not part of that. I did not vote for that useless mayor. I never said I was not guilty, not that I am. I worked two jobs in SF, paid my rent and taxes, shopped locally, never looted or damaged property and did not protest. I ran off to protect my life.

That stage will be when voters vote Republican again.

@@Anon1mous No interest in your politics. Just hope someone gets the place back to what it was.

Or it's intentional dismantling.

That theater was huge. I saw "The Joy Luck Club", "The Truman Show", and quite a few others there.

It's FAR more than that Stephanie... far more.

It is a convoluted way to apparently improve traffic flow. Sadly, it did not work in this case. Many cities are implementing bike lane and dedicated bus lanes. In European cities it has been somewhat successful, but just does not seem to work well here. USA relies on auto traffic especially for deliveries. This may have been the result of poor planning, lack of impact studies and surveying.

It used to be called " blockbusting".

NWO is coming a world leadership is coming but first the rapture then the great tribulation

FJB!

You would rather have a 91 count indicted crook in charge? Then you deserve your third world country.

FJB and slippery Newsom....

This was going on and started before Biden was president.

Or ELSE!

I kind of disagree with that because I’m not a native Californian but at the same time I don’t think anybody within a Republican or a Democratic Party has any idea what to do with California because California set no standard. I think California needs a politician that hasn’t grown up in California but it’s still an American because for some reason I don’t think Californians have great experience in anything that’s not to be offensive…. that’s just something that I notice as a Washingtonian who’s been here for almost 20 years and if you’re Republican, why do they keep voting for celebrities ? can I ask …..because Schwarzenegger who didn’t do anything , racist ass Ronald Reagan who basically turned DC into San Francisco I really hated him for that…. It just seems like California politicians just really know how to mess up things.

Taxed, yes, but minimum wage, are you kidding? One of the new laws passed in CA for 2024 is they're raising the minimum wage to $20.00 an hour *$20 dollars.* For *fast food workers* !! It's just getting nuts. And that $20 STILL won't get you an affordable place to live there... San Francisco is a snake eating its own tail...

​@Katsnacks You are correct. Both sides of the aisle have been in bed together for many years, doing deals and lining their own pockets out of greed and power The division between dems and repubs among the general public was orchestrated *by* the politicians themselves. THEY started all the fires to get people riled up and fighting each other, while BTS the politicians quietly stole and laundered all of OUR taxes for themselves, laughing at us all the way to the bank...

@@Katsnacks You forgot Tricky Dick Nixon.

Any time!

Maybe European self-loathing inspired by 50 years of communist indoctrination in schools and a ruling elite that worships His Infernal Master?

That's easy, Democrats!

Demorats.

Democrats

Far leftist brain rot

my bet is on a smart city/15 minute city /PRISON that folks dont release it is a prison.i lived 20 years in the loin/tenderloin and would safely alone Walk day or night anyplace in the loin.i got out 2016 and small town colorado is better

​@@tracyjames291715 minute cities sounds interesting, never heard of it. Tell me more about it being bad like a prison? What problems you think they're gonna push on us?

​@@erictaylor3897it's on the wef website. The most famous is the one planned for the Netherlands and Germany. Supposedly everything you need would be within a 15 min walk. And you get fined if you leave your area.

U and ur family voted for this …enjoy it

@@yihuda7459 Didn't vote for it, but thanks for trying.

Decade? Nope. Won't be fixed in your lifetime.

With the border open...we will never recover.

Equality = all equally impoverished

Happy holidays!