See that above? Philadelphia is truly a city in chaos. Flash mobs have evolved, and this is like flash mob 2.0. No longer is it crowds doing meet ups and showing up and raising hell and being destructive in department stores or in shopping areas they are doing this with cars and people on the streets. It’s insanity.

There are a lot of things circulating on social media in the form of little videos, either taken by people higher up in high-rises in Philadelphia or drones. I was accused of spreading fake news today by a former state elected official. Literally they said they Googled it, didn’t see anything therefore I must be wrong. Didn’t matter that there was a Philadelphia Police Department Press Conference or articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Or pick a TV station.

This is what I had shared and sorry downloads from Facebook didn’t come with volume:

However, the volume isn’t important it’s the visual of what you’re seeing happening on the streets of Philadelphia. Not random remote neighborhoods, but center city Philadelphia. As in 15th and Market in front of City Hall. Cops and civilians were injured. They literally tried to run cops over. They also had flamethrowers, which is why you saw the street on fire.

But hey, it was just me being mean. It’s just me being mean about Philadelphia then I had another currently elected state official tell me how they didn’t believe this to be true. That this was isolated. Well, honey, when the police are reporting 11 of the same incidents in one night, it’s not isolated.

I did save my screenshots. I like to be factually accurate. These politicians are fortunate I am not posting the screenshots. Well I am posting one. THIS ONE:

I asked this politician why it was my job to do something? I asked why I wasn’t allowed to have my opinion? I asked wasn’t this the job of elected officials and former elected officials to help take care of? And I like the way they peppered this comment with gun control too. Do they really want to have that conversation because this conversation has nothing to do with that conversation.

And then my favorite if I’m not going to do anything personally then why am I complaining? I wasn’t complaining I was stating my opinion, but if somebody doesn’t like your opinion, and they are or were an elected official, then you’re complaining, right? But hey, I’m glad I was able to have this conversation where my opinions don’t matter because when I have seen this person out, they have pretty much tried to avoid even saying hello, and when all you are doing is being polite and saying hello at a function, well that is silly and rude. Actually they are not the only current or former elected official who has done that when they see the evil blogger in the room. I don’t really care, but I do like to point it out, because I find it amusing.

I was born in the city of Philadelphia and I lived there during other tumultuous times. I was born in the mid-1960s and we lived there to the mid-1970s, and trust me there were all sorts of things that people and suburbia thought never happened and it all happened.

Crazy Vietnam era protests, getting jumped by gangs as a kid in Bingham Court of all places in Society Hill, and that really did happen because my best friend at the time got her little glasses smashed in her face because they were trying to steal our bikes. We were little kids. Maybe 5th grade.

Getting mugged with our parents when we were carrying UNICEF boxes going trick-or-treating. That happened too.

Flash forward to today when people I know have been attacked on their own doorsteps on well lit streets in good (and fairly expensive neighborhoods) over the past few years.

And I guess the whole riots and looting of recent past in Philadelphia are just fake news too?

These things are actually happening and this is the reality of Philadelphia and people can do what they want. I choose to stay out of the city as much as possible now. I don’t find it enjoyable any longer, and there’s so many things I used to love about the City of Philadelphia.

The streets are a mess, they have a mayor who wants to destroy Chinatown with the sports arena, there’s crime, there’s all sorts of stuff all over the streets, every single day. There are professional beggars, mentally ill and drug addicted homeless etc.

And remember when the Temple cop that got carjacked and shot outside a newer apartment building at Temple? Was that the building that your kid lived in? It was the building ours lived in.

Have you ever been surrounded by a mob of illegal ATVs on the streets? I was once years ago and trust me, it’s something you will never ever forget. It’s scary.

Did you have an elderly relative harassed by a deranged homeless person sitting on a bench outside her doorman building? I did. I also had a friend riding his bike beaten to a pulp by a gypsy cab driver kind of cab driver because he couldn’t get out of the way fast enough when the cabbie was barreling down the wrong way on a one way street. That didn’t make the news, so does that mean that it didn’t happen? (And it took the police over 2 hours to respond.) And what most don’t realize and wouldn’t realize unless you knew people that live in the city, a lot of times crime is not reported because the police don’t come or can’t come in a timely manner because they are dealing with such a volume of bad things.

Close to this time a year ago when I was having postcancer, reconstruction surgery, when we were driving home from a hospital in Philadelphia, the streets were lit up like it was noon on a bright sunny day. And these were streets that had street lights, but as we’re driving down the street directly above us is a police helicopter with big giant lights on looking for some criminal.  that is definitely another give you pause moment.

So don’t tell me I’m making things up or posting things that didn’t happen, they have happened and they are happening.

A friend of mine, who is also a Democrat said, just ignore the critics on this, they are wearing liberal blinders. I found that a wonderful turn of phrase. And I am floored that with all that we have at stake in this country that you are expected to be exactly the same as everyone else and you can’t point anything out that’s different or point anything out that might be wrong even if it is wrong.

Philadelphia is a hot mess. You don’t have to like my opinions when I share something it doesn’t make me a bad person or wrong.

We can’t just dumb down life. Wake up.