Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff recently said that downtown San Francisco is never going to get back to what it once was. It’s a stunning statement.

We have documented many of the various business closures in the city, mostly due to crime, drugs and the ever-expanding homeless problem.

Marc Benioff is no conservative. He is a San Francisco tech billionaire with very progressive views and yet even he can see the writing on the wall.

The FOX Business Network reports:

San Francisco’s downtown ‘never going back to the way it was,’ Salesforce’s Marc Benioff says

For San Francisco, the three-year exile resulted in empty storefronts with large “going out of business” signs hanging from windows.

Popular shops like Uniqlo, Nordstrom Rack and Anthropologie have left, toiletries like shampoo and toothpaste are locked up at pharmacies, and places like Gucci get hit by armed robbers in broad daylight…

London Breed, the city’s mayor, also announced the city would spend $6 million to upgrade a three-block area near a popular cable car turnaround to help bring back businesses and improve walkability.

Salesforce CEO Benioff, though, suggested a different approach.

He recently said downtown is “never going back to the way it was” in terms of workers commuting to the office every day.

Benioff suggested the mayor convert office space into housing and hire additional police to help visitors feel safe.

“We need to rebalance downtown,” Benioff said.

The idea of hiring police is a good one, but who believes that the far left leaders of the city are going to allow that?

Is the city already too far gone? Look at these short clips:

Video recorded of a street in San Francisco, Calif. close to the Nob Hill area. pic.twitter.com/B8iQTRuWd2

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 11, 2023

This is what happens if you park on the street in the San Francisco area. These tourists reportedly left their car for just 30 minutes. pic.twitter.com/cYG8jHhaEu

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 10, 2023

It’s disgraceful what has been done to San Francisco and other American cities. It has just been allowed to happen.

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Ohio Republican Senator J.D. Vance spoke at the Turning Point USA conference over the weekend and slammed the media for using the war in Ukraine to ditract the American people from the failure of our leaders in Washington.

He pointed out that the average life expectancy of a middle class American is now lower than that of a similar person in western Europe. He also talked about the jobs that have been sent to China and other places.

He is certainly right about the media. Turn on the news on any given night and you will hear all about the war in Ukraine.

Breitbart News has details:

J.D. Vance: Ukraine a Distraction from American Failed Leadership

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) described the current conflict in Ukraine as a media distraction from America’s failed leadership.

Vance made his pronouncement Sunday when speaking at the Turning Point Action conference. He talked about the many problems facing Americans and how leadership seems to have not prioritized them.

“Do you know what the life expectancy is for a middle-class person in America compared to a middle-class person in Western Europe right now? 12 years lower. We have The best healthcare system in the world, at least we used to, and now we have people living 12 years longer in other countries than the United States of America. Why aren’t we focused on that?” he asked…

“Why aren’t we focused on our leadership’s failure that got us here? Why aren’t we focused on the open southern border that’s allowing the cartels to kill our people? Why don’t we focus on the fact that we send our manufacturing to China?” he added.

Watch the video below:

Ukraine is the shiny object that distracts from a generation of bipartisan failure. pic.twitter.com/tSNC37lVy0

— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) July 16, 2023

People across the country are watching the price of everything go up as our cities crumble into crime-ridden hellscapes and all anyone in Washington wants to talk about is sending money and weapons to Ukraine.

Vance is absolutely on point here.

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