It wouldn't be a Republican convention — hell it wouldn't be a day at Fox News — without someone using "San Francisco" as a symbol for all that is wrong with Democrats and the Left. And at this year's Republican National Convention, it was billionaire David Sacks's turn at the podium.
Sacks bought his slot at the RNC, following in the footsteps of fellow venture capitalist Peter Thiel, after throwing a Trump fundraiser at his Pacific Heights home last month and helping to raise $12 million for the campaign. He took to the stage Tuesday night in Milwaukee, introducing himself as a "legal immigrant who worked hard to achieve the American dream." (Sacks was five years old when his doctor father and mother immigrated from South Africa to Tennessee.)
You may recall that when Thiel had his RNC moment back in 2016, he didn't even waste time bashing San Francisco because that wasn't such a thing that year. He did, however, bash trans people and the idea of civil rights for them. But came out as gay to the RNC audience, and then said, "fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline." Oh, but the trans thing isn't a fake culture war?
You can watch Sacks's whole seven-minute speech below, if you care to waste seven minutes. Sacks yammers to a crowd in the convention hall that does not appear to be listening and is milling about, giving the usual schtick about San Francisco being a hellscape and somehow electing Donald Trump, again, will solve that.
"In my hometown of San Francisco, Democrat rule has turned the streets of our beautiful city into a cesspool of crime, homeless encampments and open drug use," Sacks says.
The speech seems to have been written for Sacks, and he's reading from a teleprompter. Sacks also says that "Democrat party bosses" have been gaslighting the American people about Biden's fitness to serve, and "we still don't know which puppet" they will be running in November.
Sacks has made clear on his "All In" podcast that he is primarily concerned with the possibility of going to war with Russia due to the US's support of Ukraine, and that seems to be his number one reason for supporting Trump. (He previously was "all in" for DeSantis.) And he talks about this in the speech as well, saying that the Biden administration has brought us "to the brink of World War 3."
Sacks is apparently friends with JD Vance, and was brought into the Trump fold by Vance earlier this year, as we learned on Monday. And he is among a cabal of rightward-swinging Silicon Valley types, including the Winklevoss twins and Elon Musk, who are now gunning for a Trump victory, likely mostly because they hate paying taxes. But sure, let's talk about Ukraine and immigration.
Musk engaged in some of his own hyperbole about San Francisco's problems Tuesday as he huffed and puffed on Xitter about moving the company to Texas — which was news to his 1,500 employees. He tweeted, regarding the Market Street offices that the company may or may not be vacating, "Have had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building."
Previously: Inflatable Trump Chicken Comes Out of Storage to Protest Fundraiser In SF