By Selwyn Duke

When visiting certain places, you’re only allowed to witness what the authorities want you to see. One of these places is North Korea.

Another is San Francisco — that is, if the visitor happens to be Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.

After all, the City by the Bay — known in recent times for homeless encampments, drug use, feces and needles on the sidewalks, and crime — looked like it had gotten a full treatment by the Cat in the Hat and Felix Unger when Xi rolled into town for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit this week. It was so clean, in fact, that California’s governor, hard-left Gavin Newsom, was asked about the transformation and confirmed that, yes, while cleanliness may not be next to godliness in today’s San Francisco, cleanliness is next to a godless pseudo-communist there (video below).

What’s more, reports hold that not only did Xi’s route look like a Chinese thoroughfare, lined with communist flags and American flags absent, but even the Left’s cherished rainbow flag was missing.

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