Anonymous ID: 7cbe25 Dec. 25, 2019, 9:57 p.m. No.7622605   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2611 >>2629 >>2632 >>2664 >>2692 >>2772 >>2896 >>2899

 

The Trump Effect?

 

NBA’s Ratings Crash Ahead of Christmas Showcase

 

TV ratings for the National Basketball Association are taking a tumble as we approach Christmas week, even as the sports media tries to explain it all away.

 

Pro basketball viewership on ESPN, TNT, and NBA TV is down double digits as of December 6th. with a dip of at least 14 percent over last season, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

 

 

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2019/12/24/nbas-ratings-crash-ahead-christmas-showcase/

Anonymous ID: 7cbe25 Dec. 25, 2019, 10:19 p.m. No.7622707   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2727 >>2772 >>2896 >>2899

Dems also laundering tax money using the homeless.

 

San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless

 

Failure to enforce basic standards of public behavior has made one of America’s great cities increasingly unlivable.

By: Heather Mac Donald

 

Everyone’s on drugs here . . . and stealing,” an ex-felon named Shaku explains as he rips open a blue Popsicle wrapper with his teeth. Shaku is standing in an encampment of tents, trash, and bicycles, across from San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church. Another encampment-dweller lights a green crack pipe and passes it around. A few paces down the street, a gaunt man swipes a credit card through a series of parking meters to see if it has been reported stolen yet.

 

For the last three decades, San Francisco has conducted a real-life experiment in what happens when a society stops enforcing bourgeois norms of behavior. The city has done so in the name of compassion toward the homeless. The results have been the opposite: street squalor and misery have increased, even as government expenditures have ballooned. Yet the principles that have guided the city’s homelessness policy remain inviolate: homelessness is a housing problem; it is involuntary; and its persistence is the result of inadequate public spending. These propositions are readily disproved by talking to people living on the streets.

 

Shaku’s assessment of drug use among the homeless is widely shared. Asked if she does drugs, a formerly homeless woman, just placed in a city-subsidized single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotel, responds incredulously: “Is that a trick question?” ……………..

 

https://www.city-journal.org/san-francisco-homelessness