Andrew Schulz says he didn’t consider the media’s portrayal of San Francisco.
Absolutely a significant American metropolis can’t be as filthy and uncontrolled because the updates he sees on his good telephone and elsewhere. Exaggerations typically camouflage the reality, and this might be yet one more instance, the “Flagrant” podcaster figured.
Name it Faux Information on Steroids.
After which he visited the California metropolis for himself final month as a part of his “The Life” stand-up tour. Schulz posted a clip from that efficiency this week by way of his Instagram account.
Suffice it to say the media experiences weren’t exaggerations.
“I see the best way the media tries to color San Francisco prefer it’s this crime-infested, drug-riddled dystopia,” he advised the group. “That’s bulls***.
“I received out right here Thursday. I noticed a person s*** right into a fountain,” he advised the San Francisco crowd to largely laughter.
“We’d like some legal guidelines. We tried to be the ‘cool mother’ of cities. ‘Come to my home to do the Fentanyl.’ It’s terrifying,” he mentioned.
In 2022, voters ousted San Francisco District Lawyer Chesa Boudin, exhausted by what Politico dubbed his “lenient prosecution” insurance policies.
Information experiences out of San Francisco stay grim.
Mayor Landon Breed touted declining crime numbers in January, saying in a press release that “our work round public security is making a distinction.”
However police statistics analyzed by The Put up present that town’s beforehand quieter residential areas are as a substitute being hit laborious with housebreaking — and shopkeepers in these areas advised The Put up they’re dwelling on edge.
Town stays beneath strict Democratic rule, embracing the form of “smooth on crime” mien that has bedeviled many U.S. cities.
Schulz seen. He additionally is aware of who accountable.
“Don’t get me incorrect. I perceive the thought behind the progressive insurance policies. It’s a metropolis that’s going, ‘you already know what? We belief our individuals to be good.’ And we discovered you’re not. You’re not,” he mentioned.
“You’ll steal a toothbrush if it’s not behind bulletproof glass. The toothbrushes [in San Francisco] have extra safety than the Mona Lisa. There’s an issue,” he added.
Schulz wasn’t carried out.
“And I’ve been to the Tenderloin [neighborhood]. There’s not numerous tooth. Who’s stealing these toothbrushes, deodorant and shampoo? The Tenderloin ought to scent like Sephora. It smells like Nancy Pelosi’s strap-on,” he cracked.
He didn’t cease there relating to San Francisco’s most acknowledged politician. He riffed on Rep. Pelosi’s success in our capitalist system.
Particularly, her inventory portfolio.
“It’s wonderful [Pelosi] can predict the inventory marketplace for three a long time and never predict that when you let individuals steal they’ll do it,” Schulz mentioned.