Yes, I know.

Making fun of San Francisco’s government types is shooting fish in a barrel, but I do have a point here. Patience, Kemosabe.

By now every sentient being in the galaxy is aware that San Francisco, one of the great cities in the world, is literally a sh!thole. One of the most beautiful settings in the world, the city itself is falling apart due to government mismanagement that challenges the human mind to comprehend.

It’s as if teenagers were given access to unlimited wealth without the inconvenience of adult supervision, working their hardest to prove that full brain development doesn’t occur until the mid-20s.

While everybody is laser-focused on the reparations insanity, I was struck by a different example of San Francisco’s clownish elite.

The background: after the terrorist sympathizer Chesa Boudin was booted as San Francisco’s District Attorney a special election was held pitting 3 candidates against each other. It was a relatively close race, and the 2nd leading vote-getter was a former San Francisco police commissioner named John Hamasaki. He resigned in order to run for District Attorney.

Hamasaki lost, having gotten 46% of the vote in San Francisco’s complicated election process. A very respectable showing, and an indication that he will be back to run for office again. He has a strong base, and in addition to his experience as a police commissioner, he was president of the Asian American Bar Association.

In a normal world, a former police commissioner would support the reduction in crime, but in San Francisco that would be too much to ask. Hamasaki seems to believe that people complaining about crime are a bunch of whiners.

Responding to a tech entrepreneur who held a meeting with out-of-towners whose items were stolen, Hamasaki piped up, apropos of nothing, with some advice: get out of the city. Crime is part of life here, suckers, and we like it that way.

Interesting. Would getting your car window broken and some stuff stolen leave you “scarred forever”?

Is this what the suburbs do to you? Shelter you from basic city life experiences so that when they happen you are broken to the core? https://t.co/OcHD4qJwtm

— John Hamasaki (@HamasakiLaw) March 19, 2023

Again, not to say it doesn’t suck. But maybe city life just isn’t for you. It’s not the suburbs. There is crime.

I’m grateful most of it is property crime instead of violent crime. But I’ve always felt safe in San Francisco, even after being on the wrong side of violent crime.

— John Hamasaki (@HamasakiLaw) March 19, 2023

It’s really a pretty stunning position if you think about it. Even San Franciscans are tired of crime and homelessness, yet a former police commissioner and recent candidate for District Attorney’s position on rampant crime is: suck it up, whiner.

You would think that after the disaster of Chesa Boudin’s reign as District Attorney, San Franciscans would have smartened up a bit. Yet 46% of the voters decided that a District Attorney whose attitude about a crime is “toughen up” would be a good thing.

It’s not just Hamasake; it’s the corruption of the government from top to bottom.

On Friday I wrote about San Francisco’s Hillary Ronin, who represents the Mission District in the city’s version of the City Council (the Board of Supervisors). An advocate of defunding the police, she is now begging for more of them in her district. Jazz wrote about a CNN crew being robbed while doing a story on…crime in the city.

Suck it up. We have reparations to pay.