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December 14, 2023
Good morning. It's Thursday, Dec. 14, and we're covering the San Francisco cleanup, a dumpster fire city, the highest-scoring game in NBA history, and much more. First time reading? Sign up here.
American Fact of the Day!
The first president born in a hospital Jimmy Carter, our 39th president, was the first to be born in a hospital: He was born in 1924. Not all of Carter’s successors were born in hospitals; post-Carter presidents Reagan and H. W. Bush were not. Meanwhile, seven previous presidents, including Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, were born in log cabins, meaning more U.S. presidents have been born in log cabins than hospitals.
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San Francisco Cleaned Up For Xi Visit. Now, Things Are Back to Normal.
If there's anything that indicates a politician or group of politicians isn't taking something seriously, it's when they apply a Band-Aid over a problem when it's noticeable, and then let things go back to the way they were. That's what happened in San Francisco when the city cleaned up their homeless encampments and open-air drug bazaars during the visit of the Chinese dictator Xi.
Now, according to one San Francisco business owner, it's once more business as usual in the city by the Bay.
Less than a month after Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, San Francisco is reverting to a den of homelessness and drugs, according to locals.
"It's recognizable. San Francisco, same as before. Anyone they pushed out of important zones has just slowly crept right back in," Crossfit Golden Gate Gym owner Danielle Rabkin said on "Varney & Co" Tuesday.
Why San Francisco (and other cities) allow it is mind-boggling...
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Did Shohei Ohtani Spurn San Francisco Giants' $700M Offer Because City Is a Dumpster Fire?
Baseball sensation Shohei Ohtani signed a $700 million mega-deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The guaranteed contract is the richest ever signed in any U.S. professional sport.
But the two-way player received an almost identical offer from another Major League team: the San Francisco Giants, yet he turned it down. The eight-time winners of the World Series pulled out all the stops to try to get Ohtani, virtually begging him to come, but to no avail. The question is, why?
Ohtani never said directly that homelessness, poop problem, drugs, or crime were behind his decision, but his camp paid attention to those issues. Posey made it clear that Ohtani never said or did anything to express concerns about San Francisco. But within his camp, “there was some reservation with the state of the city right now.”
Two offseasons ago, similar reservations were a factor that steered former Hiroshima Carp star outfielder Seiya Suzuki away from the Giants to sign with the Chicago Cubs.
The Giants did everything they could to woo Ohtani, including pleading with him in person, attempting to sell him on the proud history of the city and the team, and meeting almost every demand. It's truly pathetic how progressive policies have turned into a dangerous, dirty city where drugged-out zombies roam the streets.
Yes, teams lose out on free agents all the time, it's part of the game, but when athletes don't even want to play for a city because conditions are so bad, you know you've hit rock bottom.
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