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TexasTowelie

(112,056 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 03:25 AM Jan 2019

Wait, Nancy Pelosi is responsible for 'disgusting' San Francisco streets?

A battle over a partial federal shutdown veered into a debate about San Francisco’s street-cleaning efforts Sunday when an offhand jab by President Donald Trump on Twitter sparked an outpouring of online mockery.

In a flurry of early-morning Twitter posts on Sunday, Trump attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., over the shutdown involving his demand for $5.7 billion to fund a border wall with Mexico.

“Nancy Pelosi has behaved so irrationally & has gone so far to the left that she has now officially become a Radical Democrat,” reads one post by the president. “She is so petrified of the ‘lefties’ in her party that she has lost control…And by the way, clean up the streets in San Francisco, they are disgusting!”

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Meanwhile, Pelosi, responding on Twitter to Trump’s tweet, stuck to the shutdown dispute and did not address the president’s comments regarding San Francisco.

“@realDonaldTrump, 800,000 Americans are going without pay. Re-open the government, let workers get their paychecks and then we can discuss how we can come together to protect the border,” Pelosi wrote.

Read more: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/01/21/wait-nancy-pelosi-is-responsible-for-disgusting-san-francisco-streets/

There are plenty of comments that question why Trump made the comment about San Francisco.

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Wait, Nancy Pelosi is responsible for 'disgusting' San Francisco streets? (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2019 OP
The streets aren't that bad. They just need to be raked now and then. dameatball Jan 2019 #1
The streets do get bad RandySF Jan 2019 #2
But when they talk about "San Francisco" they don't mean the neighborhoods that make up most of the deurbano Jan 2019 #3

RandySF

(58,654 posts)
2. The streets do get bad
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 04:10 AM
Jan 2019

San Francisco is a party town and tourist destination, so it's not unusual for streets to look bad in the mornings, especially on the weekends.

deurbano

(2,894 posts)
3. But when they talk about "San Francisco" they don't mean the neighborhoods that make up most of the
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 04:21 AM
Jan 2019

city. For example, our streets in the SW part of the city near Stonestown and SF State stay pretty clean.

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