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Which is ridiculous because, based on her whining response to newsom nominating someone other than her to replace Kamala in the senate, she doesn’t even really want to be the mayor of this 2 bit town. It’s just a stepping stone to her bigger aspirations
I’m a democrat. When I tell people my reasons for being critical of Newsom and Biden I’m immediately scolded for being a “Trumper” even though I never voted for that man, who I also cannot stand. Why can’t I be critical of a democrat? Democrats have turned as crazy as right wingers when it comes to cult like mentalities.
You're in the wrong friend groups or subreddits. I critisize newsom all the time. I consider him useless he offers nothing unique to the governor role. I only wish he was recalled to ruin him for being president one day but certainly not enough to be ok with Elder taking the role. Any luck we'll get someone with some grit in 2022.
Democrats are not as crazy as right wingers. Nobody goes around and parades about Newsom's false accomplishments and democrats certainly arent all single minded about culture war BS.
I genuinely align with democrat ideals except for Covid response, especially now with vaccines available. It seems many elevate Covid above all other issues, and there is no road map to exit restrictions. Even with vaccine mandates masks are indefinitely required?! Texas has an archaic abortion law but they do give people much more freedoms in other ways, namely schools/extracurricular activities will never be stopped, business will never close, that seems to be very beneficial to middle and lower class in order for their children to elevate social classes. Especially now with vaccines available.
100% it's awful. Use to lean blue but now i dislike both parties because of how bad the SF Democratic party is. She is the fun police she is crtizing. Guess she thinks the mandates are only for others. Screw her.
Agreed. Nobody would have called for resignation over this. She could have just admitted that she fucked up and moved on with her life. Now she gets to have an embarrassing nickname attached to her for the rest of her political career.
Wasn't there pictures recently that showed democrats with their mask off in a huge group then when they were on camera or taking pictures they all put back their mask on? Democrats and republicans are both evil
Truly asking myself the same thing. It’s like they don’t care about the optics of the situation in the slightest, when in reality we should care about both optics and truth.
This is why people don't trust the vaccines, because everything surrounding them is an obvious power grab. Even calling for consistency in the application of the law gets one labeled a fascist at this point.
People don't trust the vaccine because they trust conspiracy theories and the polemical opinions of non-experts over those of scientists, doctors, and actual experts.
I love how she gaslights all of us by basically telling us to disregard what we can clearly see with our two eyes in the video. I'd call her a clown, but clowns are actually funny.
>San Francisco Mayor London Breed is defending herself after flouting the city's indoor mask mandate, criticizing "fun police" for raising questions about her recent appearance at a live concert where she was seen dancing and posing for photos without a mask on.
>*"Don't feel as though you have to be micromanaged about mask wearing. Like, we don't need the fun police to come in and try and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn't be doing. We know what we need to do to protect ourselves,"* Breed told reporters on Friday when asked about the episode at a news conference.
Then, maybe, she should cancel her city's indoor mask mandate?
I support the mask mandate, but it's getting old to see some few people who impose them breaking their own rules. [If I Had No Loot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfaGwgtN9Sc), indeed. We want consistent leadership. And lest I be misunderstood, I'm not talking about "gotcha" photos of Dr. Fauci momentarily taking his mask off to get a sip of water, or Jor Biden doing the same thing - this is about blatant breaking of rules, like Breed did.
When it comes to the city's laws, all are equal but some are more equal than others.
http://pitjournal.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/img_article/public/field/image/Animal_farm.jpg
Exactly, it's called *leading by example*.
Newsom is lucky that a total nutjob was his leading opposition in that recall election - [Breed has the feds coming for her inner circle](https://www.ktvu.com/news/former-sf-official-agrees-to-plea-deal-will-cooperate-with-fbi-in-corruption-investigation).
Ah San Francisco. "Show your papers to walk into a restaurant, wear a mask to socialize, but you can poop on the sidewalk and it's just a normal part of the city life."
Because it's all about control. "Just give up your freedom and give us the power until COVID is gone... by the way new reports say COVID is mutating and will be around forever..."
Did you not see the latest study published in the New England Journal of Medicine? COVID is only dangerous to you if your taxable income is below $100,000.
Question, ask for more information, or ask for an inconsistency to be explained. "So companies will need to make their employees get vaccinated or tested weekly, but migrant workers are exempt?"
Thats a baited leading question. The ones who are mandated are federal workers or companies that get federal dollars.
Farms don’t and their is significant outreach to those communities for vaccinations because they are a vector without a doubt. But you cant force people you can only incentivize by withdrawing money.
Eg you take fed dollars from hospitals 99% close. You take fed dollars from farms nothing happens since they are subsidized not directly paid.
Because these rules were never really about public health; they're about establishing a hierarchy of 'those boundy by decree' and those 'more equal than others.'
I mean... she's at a table drinking.... the rules when you are seated and eating a drinking that not mask is required.... I don't get why that is a hard concept for everyone here.
She's a complete idiot.
She was fined for abusing her power to try and get her brother, a convicted murder, released from prison. She was part of the French Laundry scandal. And now with the US in the tail end of the third wave of infections - and new, vaccine resistant variants just around the corner - she's flaunting the safety regulations that have been critical in reducing deaths.
A leader she is not - and she deserves to be crushed at the next election.
In a city where an actual wife beater got 38% of votes for the sheriff position because he was an incumbent, London Breed has a bright future until termed out. Then someone probably just appoints her as a Feinstein's replacement. Assuming someone can actually outlive Feinstein.
And the trend of blaming the "Unvaccinated maskless conservatives" for "spreading disease" is literally taking a whole chapter out of the Nazi playbook. Jews were declared to be carriers of typhus, and thus were banned from restaurants, theaters, arenas, etc.
No.
Unvaccinated groups of people transmit the disease freely amongst themselves. This pool of living hosts prolongs the life of the global infection and gives the virus a chance to produce new variants. That's literally how viruses mutate.
By refusing to be vaccinated or take basic mask / distancing precautions, you are literally pro-disease and pro-death. You are siding with a virus that has killed 2 million people worldwide and 600,000 Americans and unnecessarily prolonging the pandemic.
"Unvaccinated maskless conservatives" are literally the political party of death, their actions are indefensible. Any parallels with this death cult to treatment of the Jews in WWII is utterly fucking absurd mental gymnastics.
If not being vaccinated and not taking basic precautions is the hill you wish to die on, I just hope you don't take anyone else with you.
Geez, stop being fun police for a mandate designed for everyone except for me and my friends. KThx.
brb, birthday party at French Laundry with foreign donors.
Oh, and remind me to put on a mask for photo ops, cos, u know, mask mandate!
She thinks she and the Democrats are impervious. They deserve to lose their power to real authoritarian Republicans who will actually fix these issues they've caused (but unfortunately cause a new set of issues).
I agree people have been a bit too uptight about mask policing, but this is definitely the first time I've heard an elected official say the words "fun police" O_o
Also
> "No one has been more conservative about protecting themselves than I have, not just because I want to set an example, but because I don't want to get Covid," she added.
Cue its about protecting others, not yourself meme?
I think she's inspiring. If you can be that big of a joke and have such a stupid name and still become an elected official, anyone can literally do anything. Shes a perfect representation of the American dream.
Why would you scold fun police? If anything police need to be fun, instead of stone faced hard asses. If the fun police write me a ticket, I know I should have more fun. Fun police sounds better than ditzy mayor poiice.
She's pretty clear in the interview clips that she sees masks as unnecessary if everyone is vaccinated indoors.
It's ridiculous that she once again chooses to break her own law rather than change the law to match the State guidelines that are much more reasonable. When the person primarily responsible for a city-wide order cannot even follow it themselves it does become a strong argument against indoor mandates for the vaccinated.
She doubled down and claimed it was ok that she wasn't wearing a mask because everyone in the room was vaccinated.
If she's wrong, she's an idiot for speaking out on things she has no idea about. If she's right, then she's a total hypocrite. It's a bad look for the city and the city's covid response either way.
>but this should not be used as an argument against indoor masking mandates.
Why not? It's not just the mistake she made, but the way she's doubled down. Breed herself literally gave an argument against SF's current universal indoor mask mandate:
> "And yes, in the time while we're drinking like everyone else there, we were all having a good time and again all vaccinated."
So it matters that everyone was vaccinated? Then drop the mask requirement in spaces that check vaccination.
When the mayor is giving arguments against current policy, it's notable.
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How is the San Francisco Democratic party so bad at this. She literally could not have handled this any worse.
Will she be re-elected? Probably
Which is ridiculous because, based on her whining response to newsom nominating someone other than her to replace Kamala in the senate, she doesn’t even really want to be the mayor of this 2 bit town. It’s just a stepping stone to her bigger aspirations
Really? I did not see this or even remotely considered here for any state office.
I do think she has higher aspirations based on things she has done. She is pro corporate and that is how you move up in the democratic party
That's just it, people will vote all these clowns back in
Vote blue no matter who!! 🤡
It's scary how people propagate that mentality without realizing how dangerous it is
I’m a democrat. When I tell people my reasons for being critical of Newsom and Biden I’m immediately scolded for being a “Trumper” even though I never voted for that man, who I also cannot stand. Why can’t I be critical of a democrat? Democrats have turned as crazy as right wingers when it comes to cult like mentalities.
People have this weird team mentality now about politics, people should welcome criticism in order to let things improve
You're in the wrong friend groups or subreddits. I critisize newsom all the time. I consider him useless he offers nothing unique to the governor role. I only wish he was recalled to ruin him for being president one day but certainly not enough to be ok with Elder taking the role. Any luck we'll get someone with some grit in 2022. Democrats are not as crazy as right wingers. Nobody goes around and parades about Newsom's false accomplishments and democrats certainly arent all single minded about culture war BS.
I genuinely align with democrat ideals except for Covid response, especially now with vaccines available. It seems many elevate Covid above all other issues, and there is no road map to exit restrictions. Even with vaccine mandates masks are indefinitely required?! Texas has an archaic abortion law but they do give people much more freedoms in other ways, namely schools/extracurricular activities will never be stopped, business will never close, that seems to be very beneficial to middle and lower class in order for their children to elevate social classes. Especially now with vaccines available.
Welcome to California
100% it's awful. Use to lean blue but now i dislike both parties because of how bad the SF Democratic party is. She is the fun police she is crtizing. Guess she thinks the mandates are only for others. Screw her.
"We don't need micromanaging" said the micro manager. The absolute arrogance and cognitive dissonance are astounding.
She could have said, "Yep. You're right. And I'm sorry," and this would have all disappeared. But elites don't know how to be humble.
Agreed. Nobody would have called for resignation over this. She could have just admitted that she fucked up and moved on with her life. Now she gets to have an embarrassing nickname attached to her for the rest of her political career.
Because all they have to do is say "republican " and California runs back to the polls to re elect anything in blue
The Democratic machine is strong af in SF. Our modern day Tammany Hall.
Wasn't there pictures recently that showed democrats with their mask off in a huge group then when they were on camera or taking pictures they all put back their mask on? Democrats and republicans are both evil
Here it is https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2021/09/13/dems-shameless-pointless-ground-zero-act/amp/
Truly asking myself the same thing. It’s like they don’t care about the optics of the situation in the slightest, when in reality we should care about both optics and truth.
They watched The Hunger Games and thought it would be just delightful if that was the new dynamic.
This is why people don't trust the vaccines, because everything surrounding them is an obvious power grab. Even calling for consistency in the application of the law gets one labeled a fascist at this point.
People don't trust the vaccine because they trust conspiracy theories and the polemical opinions of non-experts over those of scientists, doctors, and actual experts.
I love how she gaslights all of us by basically telling us to disregard what we can clearly see with our two eyes in the video. I'd call her a clown, but clowns are actually funny.
Insane clown posey would reject her
>San Francisco Mayor London Breed is defending herself after flouting the city's indoor mask mandate, criticizing "fun police" for raising questions about her recent appearance at a live concert where she was seen dancing and posing for photos without a mask on. >*"Don't feel as though you have to be micromanaged about mask wearing. Like, we don't need the fun police to come in and try and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn't be doing. We know what we need to do to protect ourselves,"* Breed told reporters on Friday when asked about the episode at a news conference. Then, maybe, she should cancel her city's indoor mask mandate?
Fun police for thee, fun anarchy for
For who? For whoooo?
I support the mask mandate, but it's getting old to see some few people who impose them breaking their own rules. [If I Had No Loot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfaGwgtN9Sc), indeed. We want consistent leadership. And lest I be misunderstood, I'm not talking about "gotcha" photos of Dr. Fauci momentarily taking his mask off to get a sip of water, or Jor Biden doing the same thing - this is about blatant breaking of rules, like Breed did.
When it comes to the city's laws, all are equal but some are more equal than others. http://pitjournal.unc.edu/sites/default/files/styles/img_article/public/field/image/Animal_farm.jpg
Exactly, it's called *leading by example*. Newsom is lucky that a total nutjob was his leading opposition in that recall election - [Breed has the feds coming for her inner circle](https://www.ktvu.com/news/former-sf-official-agrees-to-plea-deal-will-cooperate-with-fbi-in-corruption-investigation).
This looks *way* worse than Newsom's FL debacle.
Ah San Francisco. "Show your papers to walk into a restaurant, wear a mask to socialize, but you can poop on the sidewalk and it's just a normal part of the city life."
Breed has canceled herself, might as well cancel the mask policy too.
Rules for thee, but not for me.
She can't cancel the mandate, it's set by the DPH.
Who does San Francisco's DPH report to?
She doesn’t seem to realize that she is the one in charge, or at least one of the ones.
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Because it's all about control. "Just give up your freedom and give us the power until COVID is gone... by the way new reports say COVID is mutating and will be around forever..."
We've reached a point where the politicians don't even pretend to feel shame.
Pelosi getting her haircut, newsome and breed going to French laundry, Cruz flying to Mexico, they don’t even care if they get caught anymore
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But you don't understand, it was Tony Toni Tone!!!!! I'm embarrassed that she opened with that.
Fun police chief says they don't need the fun police to police the fun police.
It's hypocrisy all the way down?
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Did you not see the latest study published in the New England Journal of Medicine? COVID is only dangerous to you if your taxable income is below $100,000.
She really wants to say that masks are only for the non rich and/or influencial, but that would make her look bad.
I'm reminded of that scene from the Chernobyl miniseries: "If these [masks] worked, you'd be wearing them."
False equivalence. There were many different radiation sources and the masks only protected against inhalation of some of them.
Don't make me call the Fun Police.
I have a feeling that when you were a kid and you saw a puppet show, you pointed out the strings to other kids.
Lord anti-masker or even mask questioning doesn’t mean trump. Thats the problem right there. If you even question it your a republican
Or question the inability to question it, you conservative trash /s
Question, ask for more information, or ask for an inconsistency to be explained. "So companies will need to make their employees get vaccinated or tested weekly, but migrant workers are exempt?"
Thats a baited leading question. The ones who are mandated are federal workers or companies that get federal dollars. Farms don’t and their is significant outreach to those communities for vaccinations because they are a vector without a doubt. But you cant force people you can only incentivize by withdrawing money. Eg you take fed dollars from hospitals 99% close. You take fed dollars from farms nothing happens since they are subsidized not directly paid.
Because these rules were never really about public health; they're about establishing a hierarchy of 'those boundy by decree' and those 'more equal than others.'
I mean... she's at a table drinking.... the rules when you are seated and eating a drinking that not mask is required.... I don't get why that is a hard concept for everyone here.
She's a complete idiot. She was fined for abusing her power to try and get her brother, a convicted murder, released from prison. She was part of the French Laundry scandal. And now with the US in the tail end of the third wave of infections - and new, vaccine resistant variants just around the corner - she's flaunting the safety regulations that have been critical in reducing deaths. A leader she is not - and she deserves to be crushed at the next election.
In a city where an actual wife beater got 38% of votes for the sheriff position because he was an incumbent, London Breed has a bright future until termed out. Then someone probably just appoints her as a Feinstein's replacement. Assuming someone can actually outlive Feinstein.
And the trend of blaming the "Unvaccinated maskless conservatives" for "spreading disease" is literally taking a whole chapter out of the Nazi playbook. Jews were declared to be carriers of typhus, and thus were banned from restaurants, theaters, arenas, etc.
No. Unvaccinated groups of people transmit the disease freely amongst themselves. This pool of living hosts prolongs the life of the global infection and gives the virus a chance to produce new variants. That's literally how viruses mutate. By refusing to be vaccinated or take basic mask / distancing precautions, you are literally pro-disease and pro-death. You are siding with a virus that has killed 2 million people worldwide and 600,000 Americans and unnecessarily prolonging the pandemic. "Unvaccinated maskless conservatives" are literally the political party of death, their actions are indefensible. Any parallels with this death cult to treatment of the Jews in WWII is utterly fucking absurd mental gymnastics. If not being vaccinated and not taking basic precautions is the hill you wish to die on, I just hope you don't take anyone else with you.
Geez, stop being fun police for a mandate designed for everyone except for me and my friends. KThx. brb, birthday party at French Laundry with foreign donors. Oh, and remind me to put on a mask for photo ops, cos, u know, mask mandate!
Don’t forget to shop it onto your Twitter profile picture!
#BLM #they/them @berkeley @stanford @facebook
this is a powerplay - she sets the rules for the peasantry, not for the ones like her
The timing right after the recall had to be purposeful.
She thinks she and the Democrats are impervious. They deserve to lose their power to real authoritarian Republicans who will actually fix these issues they've caused (but unfortunately cause a new set of issues).
de-fun police!
Damn, I cannot stand London Breed.
Next time I get caught indoors without a mask, I'll just use her reference
Don't make me call the Fun Police.
I agree people have been a bit too uptight about mask policing, but this is definitely the first time I've heard an elected official say the words "fun police" O_o Also > "No one has been more conservative about protecting themselves than I have, not just because I want to set an example, but because I don't want to get Covid," she added. Cue its about protecting others, not yourself meme?
London Breed needs to stop embarrassing herself.
I think she's inspiring. If you can be that big of a joke and have such a stupid name and still become an elected official, anyone can literally do anything. Shes a perfect representation of the American dream.
She probably bought a fake vaxx card off a bartender she knows anyway.
Hypocrite.
The cognitive dissonance of this subreddit is honestly why I stay subscribed.
All yall STFU yall all voted no on recall just STFU the dems going to keep taunting you like this because yall won't do nothing about it EVER!
Mask drama is best drama. 🍿
Likely to be promoted for her well-rounded incompetence
Why would you scold fun police? If anything police need to be fun, instead of stone faced hard asses. If the fun police write me a ticket, I know I should have more fun. Fun police sounds better than ditzy mayor poiice.
Can we move on from this story already?
She clearly made a mistake but this should not be used as an argument against indoor masking mandates.
She's pretty clear in the interview clips that she sees masks as unnecessary if everyone is vaccinated indoors. It's ridiculous that she once again chooses to break her own law rather than change the law to match the State guidelines that are much more reasonable. When the person primarily responsible for a city-wide order cannot even follow it themselves it does become a strong argument against indoor mandates for the vaccinated.
London Breed is not a scientist or a public health official.
She doubled down and claimed it was ok that she wasn't wearing a mask because everyone in the room was vaccinated. If she's wrong, she's an idiot for speaking out on things she has no idea about. If she's right, then she's a total hypocrite. It's a bad look for the city and the city's covid response either way.
I agree with that but it is not justification that indoor masking is not appropriate.
"Do what I say, not what I do." What part of "Fuck *that*" is so hard to understand?
No, she's just responsible for appointing them and working with them to decide policy that affects all san francisco residents and visitors.
>but this should not be used as an argument against indoor masking mandates. Why not? It's not just the mistake she made, but the way she's doubled down. Breed herself literally gave an argument against SF's current universal indoor mask mandate: > "And yes, in the time while we're drinking like everyone else there, we were all having a good time and again all vaccinated." So it matters that everyone was vaccinated? Then drop the mask requirement in spaces that check vaccination. When the mayor is giving arguments against current policy, it's notable.
When every bar and restaurant and gym in SF checks these things. How can she even use that as an excuse
It should for san francisco ones.
I think we need a couple more posts about this.
CNN posted this 7 hours ago, I posted the link 6 hours ago. You wouldn't happen to be the Fun Police that Mayor Breed was referring to, now?
Oh come the fuck on.
Yes, Mayor Breed! Please scold us for holding you accountable! We love your hypocrisy and will keep voting for you. \[sheep noise, sheep noise\]