Monday's Marvelous Absurdities: Oakland Goes Back in Time, CIA Congo Redux, Another Fauci Lie Exposed

Welp, looks like city officials in Oakland, CA (pretty much all Democrats, of course) have achieved a new level of absurdity with their latest approach to “solve” the homeless problem their own policies have created.

The answer? Eliminate traffic lights. No, I’m not making that up. Watch:

For those who prefer to read, here’s an excerpt from a story at the New York Post:

A California city removed the traffic lights from a four-way intersection as the city grapples with thefts attributed to a massive homeless encampment nearby. 

Oakland has been experiencing high crime and theft, including people stealing copper wires and the city’s infrastructure, according to locals who spoke to CBS News.

The city attempted to thwart criminals tampering with its electrical boxes by placing cement barriers over them – to no avail.

Now, the city has taken to removing the traffic lights at a busy intersection and replacing them with stop signs. 

“It’s just telling us that the city is giving up on us,” said Tam Le, owner of Le’s Auto Body & Engine Repair, nearby the intersection, told CBS News. “If you really want to fix the stop sign, I think you really have to clean up this homeless encampment.” 

The lights had been working on and off for months due to criminals tampering with the electricity and stealing the wires, the report said.

One local, Mason Young, said it was becoming extremely dangerous to drive through the intersection, and noted an accident that recently occurred there. 

“We gotta stop just putting band-aids on things. Although, a band-aid is better than bleeding out,” Young said. 

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So, what this really amounts to is just another effort by woke idiot Democrats to continue avoiding arresting and prosecuting criminals. With city officials having cut the police force and its budget to the bone, the Oakland PD lacks the resources now to properly police this criminal problem.

Obviously, the sensible thing to do would be to beef up the police presence in the area and clean out the homeless encampments nearby. But doing that would upset some of the Democrat party’s favored voting constituencies and is therefore out of the question. Thus, the decision is made to eliminate the traffic lights and the electronics and copper required to make them function.