“If the city continues its average pace of 69 deaths per month, it will close out the year with a total of 830 deaths. That’s 28% higher than last year’s total, and 14% higher than the previous peak of 726 deaths in 2020.”
Dinner With the Dictator
As reported by the White House, at 5:20 pm on Nov. 15 at Filoli Historic House & Garden in Woodside, Mr. Biden said, “First, I am pleased to announce that after many years of being on hold, we are restarting cooperation between the United States and the PRC on counternarcotics.” Meaning fentanyl.
“So, today, with this new understanding, we’re taking action to significantly reduce the flow of precursor chemicals and pill presses from China to the Western Hemisphere. It’s going to save lives,” according to Mr. Biden.
Notice the location is not San Francisco proper. Woodside is an exclusive community halfway between the City on the Bay and Silicon Valley—that is, between the two nodes of the world technology industry. Everything else in the world, including China’s factories, revolves around this area.
Does that sound like your town? Which probably is ravaged by fentanyl overdose deaths, deindustrialization from factories sent to Communist China, and an emerging one-party system similar to the one ruled by Mr. Xi and his Chinese Communist Party?
What are the chances of any Biden-Xi agreement stopping fentanyl from killing our people? I give it zero. Mr. Biden also said: “I’ve been meeting with President Xi since both of us were vice president over 10 years ago. Our meetings have always been candid and straightforward. We haven’t always agreed, but they’ve been straightforward. And today, built on the groundwork we laid over the past several months of high-level diplomacy between our teams, we’ve made some important progress, I believe.”
OK, then why over the past decade hasn’t he stopped the poison coming into our country and poisoning our people? As the San Francisco overdose numbers show, it’s just getting worse.
Protests Greet Summiteers
Some people protested this obscene summit, albeit in many cases for the wrong reasons. Yet I found nothing as of the morning of Nov. 16 on the protests in the New York Times, the main news source for America’s elite. Only this in the so-called Newspaper of Record on Woodside: “Biden and Xi Meet at a Backdrop for Hollywood and Tech-Titan Weddings: The meeting took place at a giant 20th-century estate built by a family that made its fortune in the gold rush.”“There were dozens of protesters demonstrating for their people, who they believe are suffering under President Xi.”
- The Chronicle: “A human blockade and a punch to the face: APEC protest turns violent in downtown S.F.”
- ABC7 San Francisco: “Protesters confront APEC summit attendees, try to shut down San Francisco event.”
- Reuters: “Protesters gather in San Francisco during APEC summit.”
- USA Today: “Protesters in San Francisco attempted to shut down APEC summit: ‘We can have a better society.’”
Gov. Newsom: Standing in the Shadows
In a story I wrote for The Epoch Times last week headlined, “Watch What Gov. Newsom Does at APEC Summit in San Francisco,” I said, “My guess is he will play down his position and defer at every moment to Mr. Biden. He will try to stay in the background.”
“‘It’s a real honor to welcome all my leaders to the United States,’ said Biden, whose remarks were preceded by speeches from San Francisco Mayor London Breed, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Biden called Newsom ‘one hell of a governor,’ adding that one day the California statesman could have the job ‘I’m looking for.’ Biden also thanked Breed and then recounted his meeting earlier in the day with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who was not present at the evening reception.”
Conclusion: Summit Does Nothing for Americans
If Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Mr. Biden and Mr. Newsom partied down with Gwen Stefani and tech billionaires while America is decaying before our eyes. These people have no idea what’s going out on out in the real world, including on the streets of Orange County where I live.I know families still grieving from love ones who died from overdoses of the fentanyl Mr. Xi helped ship over to America. You probably know some victims, too.
Both Mr. Biden and Mr. Newsom have not eased California’s ludicrously high housing prices, the result of anti-market policies. That makes it nearly impossible for young people to get a start in life, get hitched, and start having kids. The federal budget debt of $34 trillion is choking future investment. The country is wracked with ethnic divisions made worse by the CRT, DEI, and other policies pushed by the two leaders.
California also is close to achieving the Communist Chinese model of a one-party state, as the Republican Party continues to wither. Is that the next step for politics in all of America?
