Andrew Schulz says he didn’t believe the media’s portrayal of San Francisco.
Surely a major American city can’t be as filthy and out of control as the updates he sees on his smart phone and elsewhere. Exaggerations often camouflage the truth, and this could be yet another example, the “Flagrant” podcaster figured.
Call it Fake News on Steroids.
And then he visited the California city for himself last month as part of his “The Life” stand-up tour. Schulz posted a clip from that performance this week via his Instagram account.
Suffice it to say the media reports were not exaggerations.
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“I see the way the media tries to paint San Francisco like it’s this crime-infested, drug-riddled dystopia,” he told the crowd. “That’s bulls***.
“I got out here Thursday. I saw a man s*** into a fountain,” he told the San Francisco crowd to mostly laughter.
“We need some laws. We tried to be the ‘cool mom’ of cities. ‘Come to my house to do the Fentanyl.’ It’s terrifying,” he said.
In 2022, voters ousted San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, exhausted by what Politico dubbed his “lenient prosecution” policies.
News reports out of San Francisco remain grim.
Mayor Landon Breed touted declining crime numbers in January, saying in a statement that “our work around public safety is making a difference.”
But police statistics analyzed by The Post show that the city’s previously quieter residential areas are instead being hit hard with burglary — and shopkeepers in those areas told The Post they’re living on edge.
The city remains under strict Democratic rule, embracing the kind of “soft on crime” mien that has bedeviled many U.S. cities.
Schulz noticed. He also knows who to blame.
“Don’t get me wrong. I understand the idea behind the progressive policies. It’s a city that’s going, ‘you know what? We trust our people to be good.’ And we learned you’re not. You’re not,” he said.
“You will steal a toothbrush if it’s not behind bulletproof glass. The toothbrushes [in San Francisco] have more security than the Mona Lisa. There’s a problem,” he added.
Schulz wasn’t done.
“And I’ve been to the Tenderloin [neighborhood]. There’s not a lot of teeth. Who’s stealing these toothbrushes, deodorant and shampoo? The Tenderloin should smell like Sephora. It smells like Nancy Pelosi’s strap-on,” he cracked.
He didn’t stop there regarding San Francisco’s most recognized politician. He riffed on Rep. Pelosi’s good fortune in our capitalist system.
Namely, her stock portfolio.
“It’s amazing [Pelosi] can predict the stock market for three decades and not predict that if you let people steal they’ll do it,” Schulz said.
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