San Francisco： How Civilization Comes Apart ｜ 7⧸31⧸23
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In this episode, I talk about the impact that California has on the rest of the country, and the people that live there, and how they react to it. I also talk about a CNN segment I think is going to be really revealing.
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Hey everybody, how's it going? Thanks for joining me this afternoon. So today I want to talk a
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little bit about the state of San Francisco. I think all of us know that California has an
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outsized influence on the rest of the country. There's of course that famous red hot chili
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pepper song about Californication, right? The idea that it sets the tone for the rest of the nation,
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that its influence spreads across the rest of the nation. And this is of course true because of
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its population, because of its size, its electoral influence, and probably most importantly,
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its cultural influence. California is of course home to Hollywood. It is home to a lot of things
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that kind of form and shape our culture, the way we understand our country. And so the things that
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happen in California have a huge influence on everywhere else. In fact, many people of course
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joke that as people flee California, they tend to take their politics with them and things get worse
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and worse and worse. So we're going to look a little bit about what is happening in California
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today. There's a CNN segment I think that is going to be really revealing. I'm going to kind of
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play through that, walk you guys through that, because what's really interesting is kind of what's
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being displayed. Of course, many of the things that are happening in San Francisco, but I think
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most importantly is the reaction to the people in this situation, how little they seem to be aware
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of what's going on and the consequences of what they've done and why they're being visited on them.
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And kind of the irony that these people will never really change any of their politics due to
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All right, guys. So like I said, I wanted to go ahead and jump into this clip. I'm going to play through
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different pieces of it, and I'm going to be focusing on some of the connections they make
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or they don't make as we go. But I think a lot of people are aware of kind of the state that many
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California regions are in, specifically San Francisco. Of course, the fact that they've decriminalized so
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many things has had a vast impact on that particular city. It's very clear that the lack of law and order,
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the unwillingness to take care of kind of just the very basic ins and outs of civilizational maintenance
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has driven them in a very particular direction. All of these are, of course, implications of
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progressive policies. They're all kind of the eventual fruits that you would expect. But I think it's
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important from time to time to go back and look at the way that these people themselves are
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understanding it. We know that San Francisco is having a rough time, but how do the people there
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understand their problem? Do they see the roots of these things? That's kind of what I want to get
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into. But let's go ahead and roll again. Remember, this is CNN. This is not a regional news outlet.
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Oftentimes, you'll have regional news outlets that are more based, for lack of a better term.
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They're a little more in touch with what's going on. They're not as interested in the
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propaganda. So the fact that this story has made it all the way to CNN, it's not on Fox News. It's
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not, you know, Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity or whoever complaining about how crazy San Francisco
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is. This is on the home base. This is on the mothership, right? These are people who are paid
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to ignore when progressivism kind of goes the wrong way. So if it's made it to CNN, then you know things
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have gotten bad. But let's jump in here real quick. San Francisco businesses fed up with crime.
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One sandwich shop owner is calling for action after he says he was attacked outside his store.
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He says he yelled at a man to stop urinating on his trash can and then was sucker punched.
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His Instagram post about the incident has now gone viral.
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I'm fed up with this goddamn city. It's like, I can't just be outside and just running a business
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without getting punched in the goddamn face. It shouldn't be this way at all. Like, this isn't
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how our city should be. So there's this average guy, right? He's running a store. He just doesn't
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want homeless people peeing outside of his store all day. That's a pretty basic request. If you had
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anything like reasonable law enforcement, they would obviously be out there and punishing people.
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They'd be moving people along for vagrancy. They would make sure that public urination laws were being
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enforced. Those kind of ordinances were being enforced. But of course, that's not happening in
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San Francisco because it's a city of compassion, right? We have to have compassion for all these
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people. They're just living another lifestyle. They all don't have the ability to find, you know,
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housing, those kind of things. Now, obviously, San Francisco is a very expensive city to live in.
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There's a real question as to, you know, what can the average person who's actually working,
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actually trying to do the right thing, you know, bringing in a middle class income or a working
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class income? Are they able to find housing? Those are all reasonable questions. But that's
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not the kind of thing that is happening here. We're talking about people who are living lives
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of destitution due to choices they're making because of drugs, alcohol abuse, other types of
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things that are leading them to go outside. And this guy just wants to operate a store. But of course,
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the compassion for these people of allowing them to go out and kind of defecate in the streets or
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urinate in the streets is affecting his ability to operate a basic business, which means more and more
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people like him don't want to be there anymore. And you can already see his frustration. I want to
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get out of here. I can't deal with this anymore. How can we possibly operate a city this way?
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I'm sure this guy has probably been there for a while. This is probably a place he wants to live.
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San Francisco used to be a beautiful place, well known for its culture, well known for its beautiful
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scenes. And of course, he wants to be part of that, you know, but but he can't he can't be there.
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His business can't operate because the city has chosen these homeless vagrants over him.
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He is a productive member of society as a businessman. This has been involved. Now,
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a lot of people are probably rightly going to say, well, he voted for this. And you might be
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right about, right? That's something to keep in mind. As we look at all of these people,
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a lot of the people who are going to complain about what's happening in their city are all people who
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went along with the policies that led to this. Now, there's a big problem here. And this is my general
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democracy problem, right? A lot of people are just going to say, well, you voted for this,
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and that's how it is. And to some extent, that's true, right? People making bad decisions,
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people supporting bad politicians, and then reaping, you know, kind of what is sown there.
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But you also have to remember that there are conservative people who live in these areas.
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There are people who disagree with the policies that still live in the area because that's their
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home. That's where their parents grew up. They have personal connections to that. They don't
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want to uproot their family. We have to have an understanding that people don't just stay in places
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because they happen to be politically aligned. Unfortunately, we might be in a place or country
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where people start making those decisions 100%. That's kind of where you end up with the great
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sword. But there are many people sticking it out in these areas because they don't want to be
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victims. They don't want to be the people who have to move out. They have to uproot their family.
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They have to destroy their ties to this stuff because they were there. So I don't want to just assume
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that everybody in an era automatic in an area where this stuff is happening automatically supported it.
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But we will see many people who do seem to have that attitude and still don't understand why
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It's not clear what was said before the altercation or whether there's even video of it.
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But San Francisco police have said they are investigating. It comes as some stores are
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locking up everything from coffee to frozen food to try to combat theft. Our Kyung Law visited
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one Walgreens that's hit by shoplifters more than a dozen times a day. It happened three times
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while she was inside. So right here we see this Walgreens is one of the highest theft zones in
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the country. It's one of the stores that is the most victimized by theft, by shrinkage, by
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shoplifting of any of their stores kind of throughout the United States. So obviously, you know,
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she said a dozen times a day there. You have to wonder how any business can possibly stay in business
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when they're having, you know, 12 or more incidents of shoplifting every single day, even while the
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camera crew was there just in that short time that they are visiting the location. There's three
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incidents of shoplifting. Obviously, this is just a completely untenable situation. I'm sure all of
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you guys have seen the you know, this is relatively mild, right? These are relatively mild videos. I'm sure
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many of you have seen like the shoplifting rings that go through a lot of San Francisco. They just clear
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out massive stores. They come in and large was and just take everything. There's a lot of reasons for
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that. One that many people have focused on and is surely a huge factor is that San Francisco, a lot of
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people say that they've legalized shoplifting. That's not exactly right. What they've done is they've
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turned it into a nonviolent misdemeanor. As long as it's under $950, that's a much higher number than
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most places have. And when you make it kind of that casual of a crime, the police don't enforce it. From
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what from what I could tell, it looked like the police just never enforce any of these nonviolent
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misdemeanors has to be an arrest on the side of the store itself. And if any of you have ever dealt in
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retail, if any of you have ever been in these corporate situations, most corporations are very scared to have
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their employees interact with these people. They know there's a much higher chance of a lawsuit that
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will cost them way more money than the theft itself, at least to some extent. If you're getting
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ripped off for $949 12 times a day, eventually that's got to stack up. But for each individual
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incident, they know that, hey, an employee steps in and stops somebody so that the police will come and
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get them. All of a sudden, that guy slips, falls, or has a panic attack or anything, really some kind of
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emotional distress will probably get you some money. And that lawsuit is going to end up costing them way
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more than that specific incident. So any attempt to stop this. So while it is technically not legal, it has
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been de facto legalized, which means these people feel more than happy walking in and out of the store with
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Richie Greenberg walked into his San Francisco Walgreens when he saw in the frozen food section, this.
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Chains, heavy chains that went from padlock to padlock on both sides of the doors. And this was
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bizarre, something I'd never seen before. This is just more icing on the cake, telling us that rampant
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crime is, is, has become a regular part of life. So you've got chains all over these freezers, right?
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The, the people are fed up, they go out, they're, they're tired of having everything stolen. And so
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they're padlocking your basic freezers. Now I want to talk a little bit about high trust society. A lot
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of us grew up in societies that were relatively high trust. You can go down to the corner and things
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aren't secure. There's there, in many ways, there's an honor system. There's some places where a,
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where a gas station attendant or store owner would feel free to kind of walk away from the counter and
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leave a basket or some kind of honor system for people to pay because they're familiar with the
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community, right? They know what's going on. Now, part of what builds a high trust society is,
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of course, this familiarity. And we'll talk about that more here in a little bit. As things scale
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up, high trust societies get harder. And so when you have a small amount of people in your town,
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you go to a nice rural town where there's not a lot of crime. People can be much more casual about
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many things because they don't have to worry about kind of this constant threat of people they don't
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know, coming in, taking things, disappearing into kind of the crowd of the city. As things get
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larger, as you have larger metropolitan areas, that kind of fades away. And so then what you're
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kind of relying on is the morality of the people and their social cooperation, the level of trust
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that they have, the comfort they have with each other, the willingness to see fairness across
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different groups, they, you're counting on the fact that they are willing to continually abide by
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society's rules so that you can kind of operate your society in a very particular way. The less you
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can count on people being willing to kind of operate inside that system, the more you have to put these
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artificial holds. And each one of these kind of artificial speed bumps creates a situation where you
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have less cooperation and therefore less efficiency. So obviously the most efficient thing is I just
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have open freezers because I don't have to worry about people just stealing things and walking
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away. And those open freezers allow people to come up and take what they need. They can peruse,
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they can look at something, put it back. I don't have to worry about that as a shop owner because the
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people inside there are abiding by the rules of a high trust society. And so therefore it's not really
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my problem that I have to run around watching each one of these people and what they do. On top of that,
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that means that my employees have more time to do other things inside the store because it's not their job to
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walk from each different freezer, each different case, unlock each one of these things. That means
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that I have a higher level of efficiency inside of my society, inside of my specific business,
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because I can trust that the people coming into my store are going to abide by a specific type of
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rule. They're going to have a specific type of culture, a different specific type of community that
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allows us to have that trust between each other. But obviously in San Francisco, that is no longer the
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case. They can no longer trust that basic low dollar food items can be left out in the open
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because those who frequent those stores no longer abide by those, uh, uh, those kind of, uh, communal
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morals. Oh, typical that in the 30 minutes we were at this Walgreens,
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we watched three people, including this man, steal. Did that guy pay? Did that guy pay?
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Now, of course, yeah, this guy walks out of here and, uh, that, that shouldn't be surprising at all.
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He just grabbed something off the shelf and walks out. But of course, CNN is protecting his identity,
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right? The guy just committed a crime. It's their job to report the news. Everybody who's on there,
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uh, you know, talking about the crime, all of their faces are out there, but this guy is covered up.
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Now, maybe there's some kind of a liability issue or they, they think maybe, but that's kind of part of it
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too, right? Is the, the laws are there to protect the guilty, not the innocent. At this point,
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the laws are there to protect the, uh, the, the, the thief and not the victim. The people who are
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getting things stolen from them, they're on camera, they're out in the open. They have to worry about
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lawsuits. They have to worry about policy. They have to worry about media blowback. The guy who's
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doing the crime, he doesn't have to worry about any of that stuff up to the point where CNN will blur
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out his identity to make sure that there's no fallout for what he just did. Walgreens says this
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Richmond neighborhood store with aisles of products like mustard locked behind plexiglass has the
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highest theft rate of all their nearly 9,000 U S stores hit more than a dozen times a day.
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So higher highest of all of their 9,000 stores, you see, it's not, you know, you can understand
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medicine, this kind of thing. Maybe that can be used to turn into drugs. They're locking away
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mustard, right? They're locking away $2 containers of mustard. That's how bad their theft is. The
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theft isn't even targeted at items that could be a high dollar value or could be converted directly
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into some kind of, you know, a drug, uh, you know, use for drugs, use, use for these kinds of things
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getting high. It's anything, anything that isn't nailed down has to be kind of, uh, locked behind
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this plexiglass. Now, a lot of people have focused, you'll see these, these stories all the time
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about things like, Oh, food deserts or book deserts or, you know, whatever the, the new term of, uh,
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deserts on the left. And what they're talking about is that all the stores that would service these
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things, all the stores that would provide a, you know, fresh foods or would provide reading materials
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or the kind of things that are, that are kind of good for a community that they need to kind of do well
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and prosper. They all go away, right? They all leave. And this is always treated as some kind of
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evil capitalist thing. You know, people who are, uh, you know, don't, don't want to be in these
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neighborhoods anymore because they don't make enough money or whatever, or they just don't
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hate, you know, they hate people of a specific group. But what we can see is that these deserts
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make themselves, right? Many of these, uh, these retail agencies are leaving is, uh, these retail
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businesses are leaving because of the amount of theft, the amount of violence, the amount of loss that
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they are encountering. This Walgreen is got everything locked down, right? Every bit of it is locked down.
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And you saw how you see how everything is behind plexiglass and they're still getting shoplifted
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12 times a day, 12 times, even though everything is locked down. How can that business maintain
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profitability? You have to have everything locked down. You have to have people, you know, uh, the,
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the people who work there, the employees have to constantly go and unlock everything every time
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that someone wants to purchase anything. And even with all of that additional level of security,
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they still, they still are losing that much product. How are you going to maintain profitability?
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You're not. And if you can't maintain profitability, you're just going to leave. And if everybody leaves
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due to what is happening in an area that it's gone from high trust to low trust, right? Then who's,
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who's going to blame? Is it going to be the, the politicians who created the policies? Is it going
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to be the people who perpetrated the crimes? No, it's going to be the businesses. It's going to be the
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business owners. It's going to be based on, based on some kind of systemic racism or something.
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That'll be the, uh, yeah, that'll be the line here. Maybe not here in San Francisco. That's,
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that populations, uh, you know, uh, still, still pretty pale, I guess in general, but, uh, but this
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is going to be the storylines that kind of come out of why these businesses leave, but we can see
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there doesn't need to be any kind of bias. There's no need to kind of kind of systemic,
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uh, you know, issue here, other than the fact that the people of that city and the politicians
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that are in charge of the city have decided that they no longer want civilization to function.
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And when that happens, people leave and they go to places where that's not happening. It's really
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that simple. When thieves turned to cleaning out ice cream and frozen burritos, workers grew so
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frustrated, they resorted to the chains. They were ordered down by corporate because of the negative
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messaging. So hear that, right? The, the, the employees take it on themselves. This is not an order
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from corporate. It's the employees who are fed up with watching this happen because it's them
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day in and day out. And, and this is something that doesn't get talked about enough. Okay.
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A lot of people will say, well, this is just a corporation and I'm with you. Walgreens is probably,
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I don't, I don't know enough about Walgreens. So I, I'm not going to just, uh, assume everything
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about it, but corporations of that size are usually pretty woke. They're, they're usually very
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progressive. Uh, I would not be surprised at all. If Walgreens supports all of the things that are
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kind of leading up to what's happening here. So I'm not letting Walgreens off the hook here. I'm
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not saying they're the good guys here at all. That's not what I'm saying. And I don't even really
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care that they're losing money or that, you know, that whatever, like they're a massive corporation.
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Again, they're, they're probably not exactly a, you know, right wing. So maybe they're just getting
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what they deserve. That's, that's fine. Whatever. The point is that in a community where this stuff
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is regularly happening, people become demoralized. People lose their sense of self-respect. They lose
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their sense of community. They lose the sense that there's anything fair. The people who are working
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at that Walgreens for what I'm sure is not a huge amount of money have to watch all these people walk
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in and take everything out of that store for free without getting any kind of penalty. And they're
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thinking, what kind of sucker am I to sit here and work and earn money to feed my family, to pay my rent,
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to buy the things I want from a store when I walk into it, right? They're probably there buying things
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that they need from their family, from the store they work at while people who just come in and steal it
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go out with no issue. And that is something that destroys people on a very fundamental level. And so it is
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the employees, not the corporation that go out and buy these chains to lock this up. And if you've ever
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been again in these retail jobs, do you know this? Because I remember that this isn't a new issue. I
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remember I had a bunch of friends who worked at a clothing store when I was in high school, and they
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had theft rings come in all the time. And they knew that they would come in and steal just thousands of
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dollars worth of clothes. And there was nothing they could do that about it. Even the guys who were
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specifically in loss prevention is the corporate speak for it, right? Shrinkage. Even though they
00:22:14.380
were in the job of stopping these people, they had no ability to do anything. They weren't allowed
00:22:19.560
to do anything. They weren't even allowed to stand between them and the door. And all they could do
00:22:23.600
is follow these people around and say, please stop doing that. That's it. That's all they could do.
00:22:28.240
And then they left. And eventually my friends just left that job because it was so demoralized,
00:22:33.420
constantly have to sit there and pretend like nothing was going on. And again, this was not a very
00:22:37.520
particularly liberal area, not a very particularly liberal state. That was just the corporation's
00:22:42.240
policy. And this was decades ago. It's only gotten worse. And of course, when you have cities like San
00:22:46.800
Francisco that are actively forcing these kinds of policies onto businesses, then they make decisions
00:22:51.940
like this. So the employees go out and they try to get chains to stop what's going on here. And it's
00:22:58.400
corporate that says, no, we can't have chains on our freezers because of the message it sends.
00:23:03.740
Well, it doesn't matter what the message is. This is happening. This is what's necessary.
00:23:08.700
Now, maybe they thought that the message was, this is an unsafe place to shop and they don't
00:23:12.260
want to send that message. But people probably could figure that out because you have 12 or more
00:23:16.640
shoplifting incidents a day happening inside your store. And they're probably more worried about the,
00:23:23.580
you know, the message it sends about them not trusting these people who walk in,
00:23:27.660
but they're not going to do anything. They're not going to change the way that they vote. They're not
00:23:31.140
going to change the people they support. They're not going to change their politics,
00:23:34.020
even though they know that this is actively happening. This is actively destroying their
00:23:37.960
ability to do business. None of this impacts the way that large corporations think about what they're
00:23:43.980
doing. That's a dangerous set of incentives because they know the perception that they are fighting back
00:23:49.480
against stuff is against this stuff is worse than just being stolen from constantly. It's an incredibly
00:23:55.440
dangerous way to run a city, a business, or a nation.
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But Walgreens isn't the only retailer impacted in San Francisco.
00:24:39.300
At this store, frozen food is controlled with a cable lock, fake eyelashes locked behind plexiglass,
00:24:46.460
along with lotion and nail polish. At another grocery store, $14 bags of coffee under lock
00:24:58.780
So this is an amazing moment right here. Um, you'll, you'll notice, of course, she's going
00:25:03.060
through all these other stores, not, not just the Walgreens, but all these other stores
00:25:06.960
in the area. All of them have everything locked down. I want you to take a, a, a look at the
00:25:12.320
flags here. Look, look at this row of flags. Um, if you had American flags lined up like
00:25:18.600
this, this, this would probably terrify, uh, San Franciscans. Uh, the liberals would, would
00:25:23.460
be terrified at that, that kind of display of patriotism. But this is, this is not the
00:25:28.260
old flag of America. This is the new flag. Uh, but let, let's hear, uh, what he has to
00:25:33.440
I don't know. I don't understand why coffee. Oh, here she is. Oh, it's become kind of like
00:25:41.600
a police state in San Francisco. I don't know how else to describe it.
00:25:46.960
So the funny thing in here is his, he just doesn't know, right? He just doesn't know what
00:25:51.940
is happening. He, he can't fathom why all of this stuff is locked up. He doesn't, there,
00:25:56.520
there's no, you know, there's no causality. This is my favorite thing that, that there,
00:26:00.840
there was no steps before this. There were no steps before this. There was no
00:26:05.160
slippery slope. There were no kind of, uh, different lines cross. It all just suddenly
00:26:10.260
happened. Right. And, and of course he calls it a police state because everything is
00:26:14.620
locked behind glass, which is funny because of course that's like supposed to be
00:26:17.960
exactly the opposite of what's going on here. Right. They wanted to get rid, rid of
00:26:22.000
police interference. They wanted to get rid of the need for police to step in and all
00:26:25.960
this stuff. It was the policing that was the problem, right? Police, uh, you
00:26:29.260
know, uh, hassling, uh, these disadvantaged communities, the, these different people
00:26:34.160
who are involved in drugs and alcohol, these vagrants, uh, it was because the police were
00:26:39.480
involved with this. That was the problem. And so, uh, they, they all wanted to get rid
00:26:43.820
of the police, defund the police, right? It's all the police that are, that are causing
00:26:47.700
this issue. But now that there are no police enforcing these laws, all of a sudden we have
00:26:52.980
a police state because now it's important for all of us to have these private, uh, you
00:26:59.020
know, intermediaries, all these, now that the public law enforcement is gone, it becomes
00:27:03.320
to each business to start locking everything down and restricting people's access. And
00:27:09.160
so what actually brings this kind of police state feel is not some, you know, jackbooted
00:27:13.960
thug, you know, going through, uh, and stopping people from shoplifting in San Francisco. It's
00:27:20.060
the lack of anyone willing to stop what's going on, the lack of anyone willing to enforce
00:27:25.080
it, right? That that's what actually brings about this issue.
00:27:29.760
It's not part of city life. It's not part of the way people should be living. Right. And
00:27:33.780
that includes folks who are committing the crimes.
00:27:37.340
So it obviously has become a part of city, uh, city life and you have to ask why now it's
00:27:43.440
not that we don't understand what stops crime. That's the funny thing about this. It's the
00:27:49.300
same thing with education, right? We, we know what works. We know what, what works
00:27:55.020
for people. We're familiar. It's not that we don't have the social science or we don't
00:27:58.520
have the data or we don't just have the common sense established after, you know, hundreds
00:28:03.340
or thousands of years of human nature. We know how to stop crime. We know what stops
00:28:08.080
it. We're just choosing not to. And that's, what's really amazing here is, is the, that
00:28:13.560
everything that's happening here is a choice because the people involved here are so heavily
00:28:17.800
invested in progressive ideology. They refuse to make those very basic connections. They
00:28:23.320
refuse to go ahead and acknowledge that you guys have, I'm sure heard of broken windows
00:28:27.960
policing, right? This is famously one of the reasons that Rudy Giuliani was able to clean
00:28:32.440
up, uh, New York. Some people, you know, of course contest that, but it's not just New
00:28:37.100
York. There are many different places where broken windows policing works. We understand
00:28:40.980
that small property crimes lead to magnification of larger crimes, right? And so if you stop
00:28:47.600
enforcing those small laws, then the big things come next. This is just another application
00:28:52.980
of, of what's famously called Chesterton's fence, right? You don't want to take down a
00:28:57.120
GK Chesterton said, you don't want to take out a fence until you know what's on the other
00:29:00.520
side of it, why that fence was established in the first place. And that's kind of just
00:29:04.220
progressivism in a nutshell is we're going to take down every fence just because it's a
00:29:08.880
fence. Not, not because we care about society, not because we care about what that fence
00:29:13.120
might've been holding back, but because every fence can only and ever have been constructed
00:29:17.960
by oppressive white Christian patriarch or blah, blah, blah, whatever, right? These are,
00:29:23.000
these are the only things, the only reason any restriction has ever been placed on society.
00:29:27.700
Otherwise everyone just would live in this kind of amazing utopia. But because we have these fences,
00:29:33.080
because we have these things blocking what we're doing, uh, you know, they have, they have
00:29:36.660
to be dismantled just because they're there. But of course, as this happens, as each one of
00:29:40.740
these fences gets taken down, uh, you start with something small seems insignificant. It's not a
00:29:46.040
big deal. Who really cares if someone gets busted for, for, you know, chewing gum or, or a candy bar
00:29:51.420
or whatever, you know, theft, that's not a big deal. And you go all the way up to $950 and all of a
00:29:55.800
sudden none of your stores can operate. You have massive shoplifting rings going on. You have all,
00:30:00.240
you're enabling a lifestyle vagrancy and, and, uh, and drug use, uh, because you're basically
00:30:04.800
subsidizing all these people because they can just shoplift everything they want to pay for their
00:30:09.280
drugs and to feed themselves, uh, constantly. You've created an ecosystem that could not possibly
00:30:14.820
exist. If you're operating a real society, a high trust society, it can only exist because you've
00:30:20.260
created this artificial kind of metropolis in which people can obtain all this free stuff at the cost
00:30:26.400
of law abiding citizens. And so you, you know, what's, we know what's happening here. We know it
00:30:31.100
works. There's a lot of controversy, uh, with kind of the president of El Salvador right now,
00:30:35.160
right. He'd locked up like all these gangs and he's wildly popular, uh, popular inside his own
00:30:41.620
country. There's no controversy there. There's these gangs, they were murdering everybody that
00:30:46.020
insane murder rate. He incarcerated everybody with a gang tattoo and the murder rate tank,
00:30:51.260
right? A lot of people didn't like that because it violates civil rights, that kind of thing.
00:30:54.820
I'm not endorsing him one way or another. I'm simply saying this is the debate that's happening
00:30:59.320
right now around what he did. A lot of people get very angry about what happened there outside the U S
00:31:03.460
but the people who are living inside of it, they're not angry because they're not getting
00:31:07.400
stabbed anymore. They're not getting shot in random drive-bys. So it's not like we don't
00:31:11.360
understand what need, what could fix the situation. And you don't need anything anywhere near as drastic
00:31:16.660
as El Salvador. You don't even need to violate anyone's rights of any kind. You just need to
00:31:20.940
enforce basic law and order. But of course that enforcement of basic law and law and order is often
00:31:26.840
treated as itself a violation of rights because unfortunately there's disproportionately,
00:31:32.300
you know, groups that do different amount of crime and the enforcement of those laws will
00:31:38.480
disproportionately then fall on groups that are more likely to be committing that crime in the
00:31:43.220
first place. And so it will then be viewed through that lens. This is just a constant problem that
00:31:48.360
anyone working in law enforcement is very aware of. If you talk to anyone in law enforcement,
00:31:53.340
especially after the summer of George Floyd, the 2020 BLM riots, they know that there are just
00:31:59.480
many calls they don't respond to and neighborhoods they don't police because policing them is too
00:32:05.360
dangerous to their career. It's too dangerous because they're going to get sued. They're going
00:32:09.940
to get a news story is going to happen. Something's going to destroy them. And so it's just best to sit
00:32:13.960
in the cruiser and wait for the next call. And so the people who get policed are kind of the law
00:32:18.620
abiding citizens. This is the anarcho tyranny, right? You're only policing the people that you can get
00:32:23.300
their way with policing, which is kind of the law abiding citizens. You terrorize them more while
00:32:29.280
allowing a lot of this low level crime to continue. Our mom of three small business and community
00:32:34.660
advocate says these visible problems in her city are leading to renewed activism driven by residents,
00:32:40.720
like the recall of the city's district attorney last year. I think what we've seen, especially in
00:32:45.940
the past couple of years, is less tolerance, more exasperation. So, I mean, you hear from her,
00:32:55.280
you know, less tolerance, right? More exasperation, more people willing to do things, less focused on,
00:33:00.840
you know, implementing the progressive social agenda, more interested in letting law abiding
00:33:05.720
citizens carry on with their day. She says, look, we worked to get rid of this DA, which we know is a
00:33:11.660
huge part of many of these issues. District attorneys who are unwilling, even when we have
00:33:16.820
these kind of ridiculous ceilings on kind of, or floors rather, on kind of where prosecution will
00:33:23.240
take place, we'll still ignore those prosecutions. We'll still let people off with really light
00:33:27.780
sentences. You know, very liberal DAs, George Soros funded DAs. I don't know if the specific one was
00:33:32.980
George Soros funded, but likelihood is probably pretty good. You know, these are a huge problem
00:33:37.880
throughout the United States and communities have to be willing to take action. And as liberal as the
00:33:43.260
people of San Francisco are, as much as they're bought into much of this kind of progressive
00:33:47.720
claptrap, when it comes to their own hometown and it being devastated, they're willing to kind of put
00:33:55.420
some of that aside, put that ideology aside and kind of take action. You know, there's a couple
00:34:00.080
old jokes that come to mind. Yeah. Neoconservative is a liberal that got mugged. And that's certainly
00:34:05.700
something that's probably happening to some degree in San Francisco. But also, of course,
00:34:09.520
conquest first law, everybody is most conservative about what they know best. You might be progressive
00:34:14.960
on some large grand scale for things far away from you that don't affect you. But close to home,
00:34:20.680
you're conservative because it's actually something you love, something you care about.
00:34:24.760
And more movement to action by everyday San Franciscans to change how their city is run.
00:34:30.420
It's not enough right now, but there is a change. And I think ultimately, we will get there.
00:34:35.420
San Francisco City Supervisor Matt Dorsey, former police spokesman and recovering drug addict,
00:34:40.660
sees the rampant shoplifting as a systemic problem.
00:34:44.420
Yeah, even your city officials are recovering drug addicts. But here we are. Anyway, let's hear this
00:34:53.400
City leaders to an understaffed police force to the fentanyl crisis.
00:34:57.260
When you're seeing that level of retail theft, that tends to be subsistence level
00:35:05.520
So here you hear it, right? Like, even in this situation, as dire as these things can be,
00:35:10.840
as bad a shape as San Francisco can be in, this is about people being hungry. Now,
00:35:15.240
you know, that's what they're saying. It's subsistence level theft. Now, to be clear,
00:35:19.140
I'm sure that many of these people stealing are hungry at some point, but it's because they spent
00:35:24.440
their money on drugs, right? That's the fentanyl. They say it right before that. The fentanyl crisis,
00:35:28.620
people are living on the street. They need money to score drugs, and they're using any money they
00:35:34.340
can score drugs. Probably many of the stolen products that they're stealing are traded for
00:35:39.480
money or for drugs directly. And then they're also stealing the food that they need to eat.
00:35:43.940
And because San Francisco has created the situation where there's basically no penalty
00:35:48.840
for all of this low-grade theft, it subsidizes. It actively subsidizes through these corporations
00:35:56.160
and local businesses these drug habits. These people don't have to figure out what to do. They
00:36:01.240
don't have to get clean. They don't have to go through treatment programs. None of that has to
00:36:06.280
happen because there's this constant stream of easily available income that no one's ever going to
00:36:11.900
stop them. No one's ever going to stop them and make them go to prison, clean themselves up,
00:36:16.520
go through a treatment program. There's never going to be that intervention because there's
00:36:20.500
this constant ability to reach in and get that. But of course, that's not the problem, right?
00:36:25.160
It's all about hunger. It's subsistence-level theft. Now, I'm sure it's not just subsistence-level
00:36:30.320
theft because, again, once you get in the situation, once you're a working person, you're a working
00:36:34.760
class person, you're working in one of these retail stores, and you watch people continuously walk
00:36:41.380
out with everything that you are going to spend your hard-earned money to buy. I mean,
00:36:46.260
how many retail employees are making $950 a day? None of them, right? None of them. Even in San
00:36:53.720
Francisco, they're making $950 a day, but you could steal $949 worth of stuff and not have to worry
00:36:59.200
about actually getting arrested. So what kind of sucker is working for $15 an hour at Walgreens
00:37:05.040
actually having to ring up cash registers and fill freezers and throw freight and go open up each one of
00:37:11.280
these things when you could just steal way more money than you're making out of a store every day
00:37:16.980
and very likely never face any kind of penalty. And so eventually, even good people, even people who
00:37:22.760
would never want to live a life like these people who are subsistence-level theft going on,
00:37:29.420
they would never want to live the kind of life that they're living. They still eventually have to
00:37:32.920
look at what's going on and say, well, what kind of idiot am I that I am putting in this kind of hard
00:37:37.300
work while these people are getting a free pass on everything that they're doing? That's just
00:37:41.920
ridiculous. But of course, they don't notice any of this. You also see someone saying,
00:37:47.740
Oren's making a good place. I'm moving to San Francisco. See you later, boys. Yeah, if you're
00:37:51.440
a pirate, this is certainly the place to be. You could live on $950 a day easy, I guess, in retail
00:37:57.860
theft there if you really wanted to. But yeah, to be clear, he also said, well, our police department
00:38:03.740
is understaffed. Well, why is it understaffed? Well, they've been pushing to defund the police,
00:38:07.800
so that's probably a big part of it. They've also, the people who are in the police are being
00:38:12.260
demoralized. Again, they know that they're being painted as the bad guys. They don't want to interact
00:38:17.360
with the wrong group. They don't want to get caught on social media. They don't want to get
00:38:21.060
destroyed, have their lives destroyed by a kind of a media apparatus that is constantly looking to
00:38:27.020
make them the bad guys and to make the criminal kind of the victim. And they don't want to be
00:38:31.760
involved in getting sued. These are all things that are going to impact your police rates. So, of course,
00:38:37.040
your police are understaffed. They're hungry. There is a level of addiction playing out in many
00:38:42.560
parts of our city. It's happening at levels we really haven't seen in San Francisco. What I'm hearing
00:38:47.840
from my residents and what I'm hearing from San Franciscans is it's time for tough love. We are not
00:38:52.480
doing any addict in this city favors by enabling behavior that is potentially deadly in ways we have never seen.
00:39:02.640
And again, you can kind of see what's going on here. Liberals finally understand kind of the
00:39:09.580
consequences of their policies. They kind of understand where these things naturally lead.
00:39:14.060
And there's some amount of pushback. This is the ratchet turning, right? This is where you get a
00:39:21.620
Reagan. This is where you get a Giuliani. This is where you get somebody to step in and kind of
00:39:26.300
quell the madness for a while to kind of hold back the madness. But at the same time, this is where
00:39:31.600
a lot of this stuff gets locked in because, yeah, you need somebody to kind of step in for a while
00:39:35.940
and kind of put the craziness away for a little bit. But while that happens, a lot of what advanced
00:39:42.880
during that time gets normalized. It looks like there's a conservative backlash. It looks like
00:39:47.300
people are learning their lessons. But what we really see is this is a cycle because, of course,
00:39:51.080
New York went from Giuliani to then a bunch of liberal mayors, increasingly liberal and progressive
00:39:58.120
mayors over time. Their crime rates have gone back up, right? These gains, these kind of stops
00:40:04.380
in the crime rate, these pushbacks in the crime rate eventually catch back up because the lessons
00:40:09.240
are not ultimately learned. And that's the big thing I want to take away from this. That's the big thing I
00:40:14.800
want us to focus on is, yes, some of these people in San Francisco, some of the mayors or the mayors,
00:40:21.400
city councilmen, sheriffs, some of the community activists, they might in a moment, once they're in
00:40:27.860
the worst parts of what's going on, say to themselves, well, this doesn't work and we have to dial
00:40:32.960
this back a little bit. And so there'll be a little bit of backlash, a little bit of course correction.
00:40:37.580
But none of these people are going to fundamentally change the way they vote. They're never going to
00:40:42.440
fundamentally change their politics, even though they're watching their civilization fall apart real
00:40:48.760
time, even though they're having to step over homeless encampments and drug addicts and the feces
00:40:53.660
on the street, people urinating right next to their store. They can't walk into the store and buy anything
00:40:57.880
because everything's locked up. Even though all this stuff is happening, that's not going to change
00:41:04.080
the way they vote. They're never going to make the connection between their political preference,
00:41:09.340
their political orientation and the actual societal decline they're seeing. Think about what he said
00:41:15.540
there. Fentanyl, right? We have a fentanyl epidemic, right? Well, why do you have a fentanyl
00:41:20.560
epidemic? Well, there's a couple of reasons. One is you are literally subsidizing fentanyl use through
00:41:25.820
your unwillingness to enforce basic laws. Not just the theft laws, though that is a huge part of it,
00:41:32.680
but the fact that you're just letting people do this stuff out in public, live on the streets.
00:41:36.100
You are creating a situation where, oh, we're not arresting homeless people. We're not rousing
00:41:43.060
them. We're not bothering them because they could be victims. Well, they could be. Or because you're
00:41:47.600
creating a safe space for people to indulge their worst possible vices, they're actually just indulging
00:41:53.200
them more. This is a possibility that just never seems to kind of exist for the left, never exists
00:41:59.540
for progressives. That allowing people a space in which to do this kind of thing makes more of it,
00:42:06.160
not reduces it and increases the safety. But the other thing is that they're never going to address
00:42:10.900
the fact that fentanyl is coming over the border, right? That so much of this fentanyl is available
00:42:15.940
at the prices it is and is as dangerous and potent as it is because it's coming into the country
00:42:22.140
illegally. But that's not going to stop them. They're not going to close the border. They're not going to
00:42:26.380
stop their support for open borders. They're not going to stop being sanctuary cities. They're not
00:42:30.860
going to stop calling anybody who wants to stop kind of this horrible abuse of Americans through
00:42:37.740
the border. They're not going to stop calling them racists or xenophobes or whatever. They are
00:42:43.760
going to continue to hold all of those political priorities. And then they're going to just complain
00:42:48.380
slowly as each piece of this gets broken down. Now, the richest of the rich don't have to live like
00:42:54.220
this. I'm sure the city councilman there, he's probably not in many of the neighborhoods that
00:42:59.100
are worse affected by this. Nice thing about being a very rich liberal is you can avoid the
00:43:04.500
consequences for a very long time of the very policies you espouse. But again, this is the problem
00:43:10.340
with this high trust society becoming low trust. When you scale up society to large cities, you need to
00:43:18.900
have a shared morality. You need to have a shared culture. You need to have a shared understanding.
00:43:26.140
You need to have high trust between each people so that you don't have to worry about one group
00:43:32.880
making victims of another or a bunch of people who think that they're entitled to corporations,
00:43:39.360
you know, ice cream and eyelashes and and, you know, all this other coffee that they're locking away
00:43:45.660
just so they can subsidize their drug habit. You have to have some kind of basic level of morality
00:43:52.560
and understanding and cultural cohesion, social fabric. If you're going to operate a society at
00:43:58.140
this level, it's easier when you're smaller, when you have smaller groups together, it's easier to
00:44:04.100
operate these things. But as you scale up, you have to have this basic level, because if you don't,
00:44:09.380
then things quickly devolve. And that's what we're seeing here, because there's no shared trust,
00:44:13.340
because there's no shared morality, because there's no shared value, because there's a lot
00:44:17.540
of incentive in breaking down fences, breaking down barriers, destroying, applying civilizational
00:44:23.580
acid, kind of all of these things that would normally stop this cultural and social degradation,
00:44:30.700
civilization comes apart. And that's really what we're seeing in San Francisco. A lot of people ask,
00:44:37.160
how do we turn this around? And the answer is, we might not. As you can see, many people
00:44:43.560
in this video did not understand where this came from, why it was happening. There was one lady,
00:44:49.300
she understood, right? She said, okay, community activists, we got to get together, we got to get
00:44:53.220
rid of this DA, we need tough love, we have to, okay, so there's some level of awareness with some
00:44:58.360
people, but are they going to change what they support? Are they really going to understand the
00:45:02.520
deeper truths encoded in kind of their discovery that crime is bad and kind of slowly destroys the
00:45:08.800
city that them and their family are living in? Are they going to go beyond that surface level of
00:45:13.140
just do something about crime for 10 years until I forget about it, and it all snaps back again? Or
00:45:18.020
are they going to make lasting and permanent changes to the way that they do things? The answer is they
00:45:22.120
probably won't. And again, that's why so many more people are moving with their feet, voting with
00:45:27.400
their feet, than with their ballot at this point, because the tide has just become overwhelming and
00:45:32.140
many places in San Francisco. You're not just going to go run some law and order Republican in San
00:45:36.660
Francisco and then suddenly kind of turn the whole city around. That's just not where they're at.
00:45:41.640
They're going to keep driving deeper in to this ideological black hole because they don't connect
00:45:46.840
their policy with the actual consequences. That said, guys, let's go ahead and move over here to
00:45:53.280
the questions of the people. We got a few stacking up. Let's see, Creeper Weirdo here for $5. Thank you
00:45:59.640
very much. Don't approach the thief. Let them escape and hope you get to see their license plate.
00:46:05.120
Call the police and describe the theft. Corporate answer. Yeah, you're exactly right. That's the most
00:46:09.980
common corporate answer. It's the one I got when I worked in low-level retail jobs. It's the one my
00:46:14.400
friends got when they worked in low-level retail jobs. It never works. It never really deters any of
00:46:20.180
this theft. And at this point, the police don't want to chase after those leads because for all the
00:46:26.140
reasons we already kind of mentioned, because they're going to end up being bad guys. They're
00:46:30.040
going to put themselves... No police officer is going to risk getting... No police officer is going
00:46:36.240
to risk losing their job, getting fired, getting publicly destroyed, just so they can go ahead and
00:46:42.960
bust some guy who picked up $50 in ice cream. That's just not going to happen.
00:46:48.920
Jake Bowen here for $5. Would you consider having Paul Vander Clay on again to talk about what he's up to?
00:46:54.300
The Dying Modern Paradigm and to explain Scott Mannion-esque stuff. Yeah, I know. I love Paul
00:47:00.360
Vander Clay. It's been a while since I've checked in on his channel, though, so I'm not sure exactly
00:47:04.340
what he's up to at the moment, what you're referencing there. But I've had Paul on two times
00:47:08.740
already, and I would love to have him on a third. Actually, I want to ask Paul about community. He said
00:47:13.300
something very interesting to someone I was watching when he was being interviewed. He said,
00:47:18.400
most people don't want community. Most people think they want community, but they're not willing to make
00:47:22.860
the sacrifice, which I think is something very interesting considering what we just watched.
00:47:27.920
Maybe at some point things do get bad enough where people are able to make the sacrifice,
00:47:31.660
but maybe Paul's right and we're not there yet. So yes, I would be happy to have Paul on again.
00:47:36.920
I will most assuredly try to get him on the schedule. Dreadnought here for $5. I love the way
00:47:43.360
that CNN makes it sound like the major problem is locking things up rather than why they have been
00:47:47.940
locked up. Yes, exactly so. Same thing with the guy who says, oh, San Francisco has turned
00:47:51.980
into a police state and I don't understand what happened, right? The main issue is not that people
00:47:55.920
are stealing things. The main issue is not that we have incentivized people to steal things.
00:48:00.260
The main issue is not all the social forces that have driven us to allow all this stuff and create
00:48:05.920
these incentives. The only problem is all of a sudden chains showed up on my freezer or I have to sit
00:48:12.060
around and wait for someone to unlock my coffee and I don't like that. It feels like a police state.
00:48:15.780
Again, it's just a complete disconnection from the consequences of policy, of certain worldviews,
00:48:23.700
of certain understandings of human nature and the actual costs that occur. There's no civilization
00:48:30.340
for the left, societies for the left just sprang out of nowhere. They are the natural state.
00:48:36.900
Everyone would live, you know, this is Rousseau, right? You'd be free, but everywhere you're in
00:48:41.740
chains, man would normally just live in this kind of perfect communist utopia where everyone had what
00:48:47.080
they needed and everything is perfect. And it's only because society twists people and makes them
00:48:52.260
greedy and forces all these systemic inequalities onto them that you actually end up with anything
00:48:59.320
else, except obviously that's not the case. But they can't see that because if they made that
00:49:04.560
connection, that connection is so dangerous. That pattern recognition is so dangerous because if they
00:49:09.400
notice the pattern, if they notice what was happening, they notice why it was happening,
00:49:13.780
they'd have to completely reevaluate the worldview. And many of these people have their position in
00:49:18.880
society staked inside that worldview, right? They're not just ignoring these things because
00:49:24.060
they got the message from school or whatever, or from the media, though that's a big part of it.
00:49:29.040
A lot of these people are kind of worthless, you know, HR reps or something. And if the whole system
00:49:34.680
comes apart, they lose their status as well. So yeah, they're a little miffed that they have to
00:49:39.900
wait for somebody to come unlock their coffee. And they don't like that someone's peeing outside of
00:49:43.680
their apartment, but they'd never be able to afford the coffee or the apartment if they weren't being
00:49:48.100
artificially elevated themselves by the system. And so they are literally incentivized monetarily
00:49:55.300
to ignore these kind of more obvious connections. Creeper Weirdo again for $2. Thank you very much,
00:50:01.700
sir. Yeah. Criminals, why do we need this dread guy? Yeah. I love the new Judge Dredd movie. I call
00:50:08.740
it the new Judge Dredd movie. It's like a decade old at this point. What I mean is it's newer than
00:50:13.240
the Sylvester Stallone movie. But I like both of the Judge Dredd movies. I never read the comic books.
00:50:18.080
I know they were kind of popular comic books. But I do enjoy both of those movies for different
00:50:23.600
reasons. The Arnold Schwarzenegger one, or sorry, the Sylvester Stallone one is obviously incredibly cheesy,
00:50:30.820
which I do love. And then the newer one with Carl Urban is itself pretty good.
00:50:37.460
All right. Evan M here for 10 Canadian. Thank you very much. Sorry about Canada.
00:50:43.480
We supported funding the police when other people had to deal with the rise in... Or sorry,
00:50:49.300
we supported defunding the police when other people had to deal with the rise in crime.
00:50:53.160
But the crime started rising in San Francisco. That was just a step too far. Yes. Again,
00:50:57.980
that complete disconnection from kind of the obvious consequences. They want to shout a slogan
00:51:02.900
in the moment when it makes them feel good, when they see it on TV, when there's this energy in the
00:51:09.120
room, when they're being fed this kind of line about inequality and victimhood and all these things.
00:51:15.420
They want to chant this line. People stop. People talk to them. They say, obviously, this is insane.
00:51:21.300
Obviously, this is going to have huge ramifications. We can't do this. They ignore them because they want to
00:51:25.400
feel like they're the good guy. They're on the right side of history. They're the ones who are
00:51:29.400
going to be seen as tolerant people, the good people. But then when the consequences come,
00:51:34.240
then when the obvious payment comes due, all of a sudden, I don't know what happened. Oh,
00:51:42.500
you can't have this. Blah, blah, blah, blah. And they're a big surprise. And they bring in someone
00:51:46.800
who's quasi-responsible to fix this problem for them. Again, for like five years until they forget
00:51:51.500
the lesson and we start the cycle all over again. It's a vicious cycle that unfortunately is kind of
00:51:58.180
subsidized by our current level of societal safety and societal wealth. But as you can see,
00:52:05.020
eventually that surplus goes away. Eventually, places like San Francisco eat through that incredible
00:52:11.120
wealth, that surplus safety, that decadence that allowed them to kind of pretend like these basic
00:52:17.880
functions of society didn't need to be enforced anymore. And eventually that comes due. Unfortunately,
00:52:22.260
the results are horrific. I don't want to be there when those things happen. I don't want my
00:52:26.320
family to be there. I don't want that to happen to people I know and love. But it seems to some
00:52:31.440
extent like it might be unavoidable. People have to, until those comforts are removed, they simply will
00:52:37.840
not understand the lesson. And you can see that in San Francisco because that's already happening.
00:52:43.060
You already see the victimization. You already see the criminalization.
00:52:46.020
You already see what's going on there. And there's still just people standing around baffled saying,
00:52:50.560
I don't know. I don't know what happened. How did this turn into a police state?
00:52:53.640
It isn't exactly a problem. Peter Mazza here for $10. Thank you, Pete. Looks like that was just a
00:52:59.440
donation. No question. But thank you very much. I really appreciate your support. And Dreadnought here
00:53:05.460
again. A neo-Rusillian man is born free, but everywhere his freezers are in chains. That's a good one,
00:53:12.200
man. I like that. Man is born free, but everywhere his freezers are in chains. You should. I'm going
00:53:19.140
to steal that out. I'm going to steal that, put that on Twitter later. I'll shout you out when I
00:53:24.680
do that. If you've got a Twitter handle, let me know and I'll tag you in it, man. Well done. That's
00:53:28.500
really good. I like that a lot. All right, guys. Well, I'm going to go ahead and wrap this up. But
00:53:33.180
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00:54:32.360
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00:54:37.260
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00:54:41.040
Daryl tells some very tough truths to people on the left, but also to people kind of on the right
00:54:47.760
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00:54:52.340
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