Something's in the air. And oleaginous Gov having Newsom has caught a whiff of it and likes the smell. It's called "clean and safe streets."

Now, it is a little strange that the Randall Flagg clone has suddenly been moved by some impulse to dive into the homeless problem. It's not like he hasn't made the issue a centerpiece of his campaigns, like, forever and truly been the most successful politician in America at covering his streets with tents, needles, the addicts to go with them, poop, and garbage so deep the rats are grossed out.

Homelessness IS @GavinNewsom’s number one priority. That’s how he’s been so successful at increasing the number of homeless on our streets!

— Tony D Ⓚ Ⓒ🥩 (@photony) July 25, 2024

People are just cynical enough to wonder if it doesn't have to do with the recent SCOTUS decision untying homeless clean-up efforts and annotating a former California AG, senator, and now US VP as the Democratic nominee for president.

Newsom wasn't so hep before Sunday. He spoke not a word about it and the SCOTUS decision's been out for a while. Within two days of Kamala's coronation...the streets must be swept of human refuse?

WE MUST ACT WITH URGENCY

The timing is...peculiar, n'est-ce pas?

California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order Thursday for the removal of homeless encampments in his state.

Newsom’s order would direct state agencies on how to remove the thousands of tents and makeshift shelters across the state that line freeways, clutter shopping center parking lots and fill city parks. The order makes clear that the decision to remove the encampments remains in the hands of local authorities.

The guidance comes after a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this summer allowing cities to enforce bans on sleeping outside in public spaces. The case was the most significant on the issue to come before the high court in decades and comes as cities across the country have wrestled with the politically complicated issue of how to deal with a rising number of people without a permanent place to live and public frustration over related health and safety issues.

“We must act with urgency to address dangerous encampments,” Newsom said in a statement.

Things are definitely shaking in San Francisco. London Breed was already making noises about sweeping homeless camps off city streets, but her motives are pretty obvious - she's in a dogfight to keep her mayor's seat this fall. She's got to do something, even if it runs contrary to her progressive impulses or she's out of a schweet gig.

Now she has SCOTUS cover when the howls start, as does Newsom. Especially when they start talking about "cutting off the opportunities." What? The handouts, etc? 

Yowsahs.

In a Mayoral election debate last week, San Francisco Mayor London Breed vowed to combat homelessness in the city soon. Specifically, she noted that she will be targeting homeless encampments beginning in August.

“The problem is not going to be solved by building permanent supportive housing or shelter alone; we have to start cutting off the opportunities that exist in San Francisco,” said Breed last Thursday. “Effective August, we are going to be very aggressive and assertive in moving encampments, which may even include criminal penalties. We have had to move from a compassionate city to a city of accountability. Citations, penalties and criminal penalties. We now have the ability to enforce the law.”

While Breed’s action follow years of stop and go actions against the homeless in the city, her announcement on Thursday was in response to two major things. The first was her main opponent in the race: Former Mayor Mark Farrell. Farrell currently holds a slight lead in Mayoral polls, with all polls showing him ahead to some degree in a final Farrell v. Breed decision. Farrell, as well as Levi Strauss heir and fellow candidate David Lurie, have been particularly in favor of removing encampments. Breed, meanwhile, has been more pausing about this issue, saying that the number of encampments has gone down and that camping on the streets is already prohibited. Despite that, Farrell’s bullish approach has helped him leap up in the polls, causing Breed to give chase.

The second are the courts. In a one-two punch in the last month, the Supreme Court ruled in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson that cities could more easily take down homeless encampments, with an Appellate Court order restricting homeless encampment sweeps being thrown out. With San Francisco now having the green light to ramp up their encampment sweeps, Breed waited until the debate last week to announce the new crackdown.

NYT: Newsom to order local officials to remove homeless encampments

100% an order from Kamala Harris's office to prevent her from being tied to the disaster that is San Francisco

These monsters let people suffer for years, only taking action when their power became threatened pic.twitter.com/tHpKiCnZ1H

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) July 25, 2024

This is 100% political, trying to spruce up Kamala's CA origin story. The place is a dumpster fire, and her policies as AG helped make it that way, so again, the situation calls for the application of more lipstick.

As for "Newsom couldn't do anything until the SCOTUS decision!" what a load of hooey.

You could eat off the streets when they held the Asian-Pacific Economic Conference in San Francisco last November, and Xi Jinping got the red carpet treatment. 

Well isn’t this special?

Gavin Newsom and London Breed, Mayor of San Francisco, went to great trouble to clean up the trash (and excrement) on San Francisco’s streets, and somehow move along the homeless folks who were doing the trashing.

Newsom admitted they did this to “impress the neighbors,” meaning that the residents of San Francisco may not be good enough to live in a clean and safe city, but when foreigners like Xi Jinping come to visit for the APEC summit the city needs to look nice and tidy.

Newsom didn't give two hoots about homeless advocates or homeless rights when he booted the addicts and hosed down all those city blocks to kiss Xi's Winnie Poo asterisk. He doesn't give two hoots now.

It's all party politics.

Remember when Xi Jinping visited San Francisco and the city magically disappeared all the homeless people, drug addicts, and human feces on the sidewalks within 48 hours?

They’re doing the same thing now that Kamala is running.

Newsom doesn’t care about people. Only politics. pic.twitter.com/G4rGUKYudM

— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) July 25, 2024

As someone pointed out in comments on X, if Newsom actually wanted to "solve" homelessness in any of the 20 years he's been running on it, he'd also deprive himself and his minions of the greatest money laundering operation they have going out there. Billions have been poured into the untraceable black homeless hole.

Who'd want to "solve" that? Certainly not the NGO's and CA state agencies who get paid so handsomely to look for solution and provide assistance to the ever burgeoning population of "needy."

The only thing scarier than this montage of Gavin Newsom vowing to solve homelessness over the past 20 years is realizing that the $24 BILLION he evaporated is just from the last 5 years…

Today, he rejected a bill that would audit how he spends money on the homeless. pic.twitter.com/PnMs9seWqv

— BAY AREA STATE OF MIND (@YayAreaNews) July 16, 2024

I hope Harris appreciates what Gavin's pretending to do for her if she survives the trials ahead intact and makes it to the DNC as the presumptive nominee.

Honestly. He seems so sincere this time.

I bet he really means it.