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-Land of the Free
Billionaire Michael Moritz slams Dem-run San Francisco's drug-addled 'zombie zones'
2023-02-10
Everyone is conservative about what they know best, ‘tis said.
[NYPOST] A billionaire venture capitalist and partner at Sequoia Capital
...a China-linked investment company that donated to the execrable Lincoln Project alongside Bain Capital and other left-leaning groups. Partner Michael Moritz personally donated $100,000 two years ago. On the other hand, they heavily backed Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition, so there are some brains there....
has blasted the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
’s seedy, drug-addled downtown — lambasting the city’s Democrat leadership that "bans plastic straws but permits plastic needles."

"It’s a strange city that bans plastic straws but permits plastic needles. Yet that’s San Francisco today," Michael Moritz,
...he’s Sir Michael, KBE back in the olde countrie, possibly as thanks for massive donations to Oxford University, but over here he worked as a journalist before moving into investing. He’s been objecting to the homeless on San Francisco’s streets since 2016 — hopefully the many boards he’s on listen better than San Fran’s politicians...
68, seethed in a fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
op-ed published in the Financial Times on Wednesday.

"Between 2020 and 2022, 1,985 people here have died from drug overdoses compared to 1,143 from Covid-19," he added.

The former journalist-turned-investor said rampant and unchecked drug use has turned the City by the Bay into a "zombie" land.

"Fentanyl, the synthetic drug that is 50 times more powerful than and a fraction of the cost of heroin, has turned many blocks of the city into zombie zones," Moritz wrote.

Moritz provided a lengthy list of the issues plaguing San Francisco, including "the highest commercial office vacancy rates of any big city in the US" and "a public school system whose enrollment has fallen and which has only 55 percent English proficiency and 46 percent maths proficiency."

The venture capitalist also decried the sky-high housing costs that make the city "prohibitively expensive for all but the wealthy."
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Posted by:Fred

#5  ^ " God does not play dice"
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2023-02-10 21:42  

#4  I wonder what Einstein would say about the relativistic effects of shooting smack on a moving train.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-02-10 12:41  

#3  BART is great for distributing the zombies throughout the Bay Area. It is probably worth bringing a couple toilet seat protectors with you if you plan to ride and sit to reduce exposure to various and sundry biological agents. Realistically, the Ukraine labs for perfecting new infections were never needed. They could have just hired some roving collectors with swabs and sample vials on BART.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-02-10 12:17  

#2  The venture capitalist also decried the sky-high housing costs that make the city "prohibitively expensive for all but the wealthy."

By design. And who has run the place since for how many lifetimes?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-02-10 07:54  

#1  He's getting what he paid people to vote for, good and hard. And he doesn't like it now?

Awwwwww....
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-02-10 05:57  

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