The Auron MacIntyre Show - San Francisco： How Civilization Comes Apart ｜ 7⧸31⧸23

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00:00:17.020 Hey everybody, how's it going? Thanks for joining me this afternoon. So today I want to talk a

00:00:23.040 little bit about the state of San Francisco. I think all of us know that California has an

00:00:29.960 outsized influence on the rest of the country. There's of course that famous red hot chili

00:00:35.160 pepper song about Californication, right? The idea that it sets the tone for the rest of the nation,

00:00:40.260 that its influence spreads across the rest of the nation. And this is of course true because of

00:00:46.040 its population, because of its size, its electoral influence, and probably most importantly,

00:00:52.400 its cultural influence. California is of course home to Hollywood. It is home to a lot of things

00:00:59.200 that kind of form and shape our culture, the way we understand our country. And so the things that

00:01:05.200 happen in California have a huge influence on everywhere else. In fact, many people of course

00:01:11.380 joke that as people flee California, they tend to take their politics with them and things get worse

00:01:16.960 and worse and worse. So we're going to look a little bit about what is happening in California

00:01:22.700 today. There's a CNN segment I think that is going to be really revealing. I'm going to kind of

00:01:27.560 play through that, walk you guys through that, because what's really interesting is kind of what's

00:01:32.080 being displayed. Of course, many of the things that are happening in San Francisco, but I think

00:01:36.220 most importantly is the reaction to the people in this situation, how little they seem to be aware

00:01:41.900 of what's going on and the consequences of what they've done and why they're being visited on them.

00:01:47.080 And kind of the irony that these people will never really change any of their politics due to

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00:03:25.420 All right, guys. So like I said, I wanted to go ahead and jump into this clip. I'm going to play through

00:03:31.360 different pieces of it, and I'm going to be focusing on some of the connections they make

00:03:35.760 or they don't make as we go. But I think a lot of people are aware of kind of the state that many

00:03:41.200 California regions are in, specifically San Francisco. Of course, the fact that they've decriminalized so

00:03:47.560 many things has had a vast impact on that particular city. It's very clear that the lack of law and order,

00:03:55.240 the unwillingness to take care of kind of just the very basic ins and outs of civilizational maintenance

00:04:01.240 has driven them in a very particular direction. All of these are, of course, implications of

00:04:06.260 progressive policies. They're all kind of the eventual fruits that you would expect. But I think it's

00:04:11.380 important from time to time to go back and look at the way that these people themselves are

00:04:15.760 understanding it. We know that San Francisco is having a rough time, but how do the people there

00:04:20.940 understand their problem? Do they see the roots of these things? That's kind of what I want to get

00:04:25.140 into. But let's go ahead and roll again. Remember, this is CNN. This is not a regional news outlet.

00:04:30.880 Oftentimes, you'll have regional news outlets that are more based, for lack of a better term.

00:04:37.240 They're a little more in touch with what's going on. They're not as interested in the

00:04:40.660 propaganda. So the fact that this story has made it all the way to CNN, it's not on Fox News. It's

00:04:46.020 not, you know, Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity or whoever complaining about how crazy San Francisco

00:04:52.240 is. This is on the home base. This is on the mothership, right? These are people who are paid

00:04:56.980 to ignore when progressivism kind of goes the wrong way. So if it's made it to CNN, then you know things

00:05:03.560 have gotten bad. But let's jump in here real quick. San Francisco businesses fed up with crime.

00:05:08.380 One sandwich shop owner is calling for action after he says he was attacked outside his store.

00:05:13.340 He says he yelled at a man to stop urinating on his trash can and then was sucker punched.

00:05:17.280 His Instagram post about the incident has now gone viral. 1.00

00:05:22.040 I'm fed up with this goddamn city. It's like, I can't just be outside and just running a business 0.99

00:05:29.200 without getting punched in the goddamn face. It shouldn't be this way at all. Like, this isn't 0.99

00:05:33.260 how our city should be. So there's this average guy, right? He's running a store. He just doesn't

00:05:40.860 want homeless people peeing outside of his store all day. That's a pretty basic request. If you had

00:05:46.740 anything like reasonable law enforcement, they would obviously be out there and punishing people.

00:05:54.220 They'd be moving people along for vagrancy. They would make sure that public urination laws were being 0.79

00:06:00.220 enforced. Those kind of ordinances were being enforced. But of course, that's not happening in

00:06:04.840 San Francisco because it's a city of compassion, right? We have to have compassion for all these

00:06:08.600 people. They're just living another lifestyle. They all don't have the ability to find, you know,

00:06:14.120 housing, those kind of things. Now, obviously, San Francisco is a very expensive city to live in.

00:06:18.380 There's a real question as to, you know, what can the average person who's actually working,

00:06:23.280 actually trying to do the right thing, you know, bringing in a middle class income or a working

00:06:28.080 class income? Are they able to find housing? Those are all reasonable questions. But that's

00:06:32.820 not the kind of thing that is happening here. We're talking about people who are living lives

00:06:36.600 of destitution due to choices they're making because of drugs, alcohol abuse, other types of

00:06:42.060 things that are leading them to go outside. And this guy just wants to operate a store. But of course,

00:06:46.200 the compassion for these people of allowing them to go out and kind of defecate in the streets or

00:06:51.460 urinate in the streets is affecting his ability to operate a basic business, which means more and more

00:06:56.500 people like him don't want to be there anymore. And you can already see his frustration. I want to

00:07:00.600 get out of here. I can't deal with this anymore. How can we possibly operate a city this way?

00:07:04.920 I'm sure this guy has probably been there for a while. This is probably a place he wants to live.

00:07:08.600 San Francisco used to be a beautiful place, well known for its culture, well known for its beautiful

00:07:14.040 scenes. And of course, he wants to be part of that, you know, but but he can't he can't be there.

00:07:18.880 His business can't operate because the city has chosen these homeless vagrants over him. 1.00

00:07:24.960 He is a productive member of society as a businessman. This has been involved. Now,

00:07:29.540 a lot of people are probably rightly going to say, well, he voted for this. And you might be

00:07:33.640 right about, right? That's something to keep in mind. As we look at all of these people,

00:07:37.680 a lot of the people who are going to complain about what's happening in their city are all people who

00:07:42.620 went along with the policies that led to this. Now, there's a big problem here. And this is my general

00:07:49.000 democracy problem, right? A lot of people are just going to say, well, you voted for this,

00:07:52.660 and that's how it is. And to some extent, that's true, right? People making bad decisions,

00:07:56.840 people supporting bad politicians, and then reaping, you know, kind of what is sown there.

00:08:01.360 But you also have to remember that there are conservative people who live in these areas.

00:08:04.560 There are people who disagree with the policies that still live in the area because that's their

00:08:08.980 home. That's where their parents grew up. They have personal connections to that. They don't

00:08:13.520 want to uproot their family. We have to have an understanding that people don't just stay in places

00:08:18.220 because they happen to be politically aligned. Unfortunately, we might be in a place or country

00:08:23.080 where people start making those decisions 100%. That's kind of where you end up with the great

00:08:26.840 sword. But there are many people sticking it out in these areas because they don't want to be

00:08:31.780 victims. They don't want to be the people who have to move out. They have to uproot their family.

00:08:36.420 They have to destroy their ties to this stuff because they were there. So I don't want to just assume

00:08:40.600 that everybody in an era automatic in an area where this stuff is happening automatically supported it.

00:08:46.080 But we will see many people who do seem to have that attitude and still don't understand why

00:08:50.700 they're in this predicament.

00:08:52.140 It's not clear what was said before the altercation or whether there's even video of it.

00:08:55.980 But San Francisco police have said they are investigating. It comes as some stores are

00:09:00.060 locking up everything from coffee to frozen food to try to combat theft. Our Kyung Law visited

00:09:05.580 one Walgreens that's hit by shoplifters more than a dozen times a day. It happened three times

00:09:11.200 while she was inside. So right here we see this Walgreens is one of the highest theft zones in

00:09:17.560 the country. It's one of the stores that is the most victimized by theft, by shrinkage, by

00:09:24.320 shoplifting of any of their stores kind of throughout the United States. So obviously, you know,

00:09:30.440 she said a dozen times a day there. You have to wonder how any business can possibly stay in business 0.91

00:09:36.020 when they're having, you know, 12 or more incidents of shoplifting every single day, even while the

00:09:41.320 camera crew was there just in that short time that they are visiting the location. There's three

00:09:46.740 incidents of shoplifting. Obviously, this is just a completely untenable situation. I'm sure all of

00:09:51.860 you guys have seen the you know, this is relatively mild, right? These are relatively mild videos. I'm sure

00:09:57.660 many of you have seen like the shoplifting rings that go through a lot of San Francisco. They just clear

00:10:02.600 out massive stores. They come in and large was and just take everything. There's a lot of reasons for

00:10:08.600 that. One that many people have focused on and is surely a huge factor is that San Francisco, a lot of

00:10:14.340 people say that they've legalized shoplifting. That's not exactly right. What they've done is they've

00:10:18.580 turned it into a nonviolent misdemeanor. As long as it's under $950, that's a much higher number than

00:10:25.900 most places have. And when you make it kind of that casual of a crime, the police don't enforce it. From

00:10:32.880 what from what I could tell, it looked like the police just never enforce any of these nonviolent

00:10:38.080 misdemeanors has to be an arrest on the side of the store itself. And if any of you have ever dealt in

00:10:44.220 retail, if any of you have ever been in these corporate situations, most corporations are very scared to have

00:10:50.380 their employees interact with these people. They know there's a much higher chance of a lawsuit that

00:10:55.820 will cost them way more money than the theft itself, at least to some extent. If you're getting

00:11:00.900 ripped off for $949 12 times a day, eventually that's got to stack up. But for each individual

00:11:07.560 incident, they know that, hey, an employee steps in and stops somebody so that the police will come and

00:11:12.580 get them. All of a sudden, that guy slips, falls, or has a panic attack or anything, really some kind of

00:11:19.880 emotional distress will probably get you some money. And that lawsuit is going to end up costing them way

00:11:24.240 more than that specific incident. So any attempt to stop this. So while it is technically not legal, it has

00:11:30.660 been de facto legalized, which means these people feel more than happy walking in and out of the store with

00:11:35.800 whatever they want at any moment.

00:11:41.200 Richie Greenberg walked into his San Francisco Walgreens when he saw in the frozen food section, this.

00:11:47.860 Chains, heavy chains that went from padlock to padlock on both sides of the doors. And this was

00:11:54.980 bizarre, something I'd never seen before. This is just more icing on the cake, telling us that rampant

00:12:03.340 crime is, is, has become a regular part of life. So you've got chains all over these freezers, right?

00:12:10.080 The, the people are fed up, they go out, they're, they're tired of having everything stolen. And so

00:12:15.520 they're padlocking your basic freezers. Now I want to talk a little bit about high trust society. A lot

00:12:21.180 of us grew up in societies that were relatively high trust. You can go down to the corner and things

00:12:27.420 aren't secure. There's there, in many ways, there's an honor system. There's some places where a,

00:12:31.940 where a gas station attendant or store owner would feel free to kind of walk away from the counter and

00:12:38.340 leave a basket or some kind of honor system for people to pay because they're familiar with the

00:12:44.000 community, right? They know what's going on. Now, part of what builds a high trust society is,

00:12:48.380 of course, this familiarity. And we'll talk about that more here in a little bit. As things scale

00:12:53.540 up, high trust societies get harder. And so when you have a small amount of people in your town,

00:12:58.720 you go to a nice rural town where there's not a lot of crime. People can be much more casual about

00:13:03.380 many things because they don't have to worry about kind of this constant threat of people they don't

00:13:07.800 know, coming in, taking things, disappearing into kind of the crowd of the city. As things get

00:13:14.040 larger, as you have larger metropolitan areas, that kind of fades away. And so then what you're

00:13:19.860 kind of relying on is the morality of the people and their social cooperation, the level of trust

00:13:27.260 that they have, the comfort they have with each other, the willingness to see fairness across

00:13:32.040 different groups, they, you're counting on the fact that they are willing to continually abide by

00:13:36.920 society's rules so that you can kind of operate your society in a very particular way. The less you

00:13:43.860 can count on people being willing to kind of operate inside that system, the more you have to put these

00:13:49.600 artificial holds. And each one of these kind of artificial speed bumps creates a situation where you

00:13:56.040 have less cooperation and therefore less efficiency. So obviously the most efficient thing is I just

00:14:02.040 have open freezers because I don't have to worry about people just stealing things and walking

00:14:05.860 away. And those open freezers allow people to come up and take what they need. They can peruse,

00:14:10.580 they can look at something, put it back. I don't have to worry about that as a shop owner because the

00:14:14.160 people inside there are abiding by the rules of a high trust society. And so therefore it's not really

00:14:19.120 my problem that I have to run around watching each one of these people and what they do. On top of that,

00:14:23.920 that means that my employees have more time to do other things inside the store because it's not their job to

00:14:29.420 walk from each different freezer, each different case, unlock each one of these things. That means

00:14:34.800 that I have a higher level of efficiency inside of my society, inside of my specific business,

00:14:40.820 because I can trust that the people coming into my store are going to abide by a specific type of

00:14:47.060 rule. They're going to have a specific type of culture, a different specific type of community that

00:14:52.740 allows us to have that trust between each other. But obviously in San Francisco, that is no longer the

00:14:58.940 case. They can no longer trust that basic low dollar food items can be left out in the open

00:15:04.620 because those who frequent those stores no longer abide by those, uh, uh, those kind of, uh, communal

00:15:12.220 morals. Oh, typical that in the 30 minutes we were at this Walgreens,

00:15:17.320 we watched three people, including this man, steal. Did that guy pay? Did that guy pay?

00:15:27.860 He didn't pay.

00:15:31.320 Now, of course, yeah, this guy walks out of here and, uh, that, that shouldn't be surprising at all.

00:15:35.420 He just grabbed something off the shelf and walks out. But of course, CNN is protecting his identity,

00:15:39.400 right? The guy just committed a crime. It's their job to report the news. Everybody who's on there,

00:15:46.000 uh, you know, talking about the crime, all of their faces are out there, but this guy is covered up.

00:15:50.980 Now, maybe there's some kind of a liability issue or they, they think maybe, but that's kind of part of it

00:15:56.280 too, right? Is the, the laws are there to protect the guilty, not the innocent. At this point,

00:16:01.560 the laws are there to protect the, uh, the, the, the thief and not the victim. The people who are

00:16:07.420 getting things stolen from them, they're on camera, they're out in the open. They have to worry about

00:16:11.200 lawsuits. They have to worry about policy. They have to worry about media blowback. The guy who's

00:16:15.680 doing the crime, he doesn't have to worry about any of that stuff up to the point where CNN will blur

00:16:20.120 out his identity to make sure that there's no fallout for what he just did. Walgreens says this

00:16:25.140 Richmond neighborhood store with aisles of products like mustard locked behind plexiglass has the

00:16:31.560 highest theft rate of all their nearly 9,000 U S stores hit more than a dozen times a day.

00:16:38.200 So higher highest of all of their 9,000 stores, you see, it's not, you know, you can understand

00:16:42.580 medicine, this kind of thing. Maybe that can be used to turn into drugs. They're locking away

00:16:46.240 mustard, right? They're locking away $2 containers of mustard. That's how bad their theft is. The

00:16:51.860 theft isn't even targeted at items that could be a high dollar value or could be converted directly

00:16:56.960 into some kind of, you know, a drug, uh, you know, use for drugs, use, use for these kinds of things

00:17:02.320 getting high. It's anything, anything that isn't nailed down has to be kind of, uh, locked behind

00:17:08.100 this plexiglass. Now, a lot of people have focused, you'll see these, these stories all the time

00:17:13.740 about things like, Oh, food deserts or book deserts or, you know, whatever the, the new term of, uh,

00:17:19.520 deserts on the left. And what they're talking about is that all the stores that would service these

00:17:24.080 things, all the stores that would provide a, you know, fresh foods or would provide reading materials

00:17:29.080 or the kind of things that are, that are kind of good for a community that they need to kind of do well

00:17:33.800 and prosper. They all go away, right? They all leave. And this is always treated as some kind of

00:17:39.660 evil capitalist thing. You know, people who are, uh, you know, don't, don't want to be in these

00:17:44.320 neighborhoods anymore because they don't make enough money or whatever, or they just don't

00:17:47.560 hate, you know, they hate people of a specific group. But what we can see is that these deserts

00:17:51.620 make themselves, right? Many of these, uh, these retail agencies are leaving is, uh, these retail

00:17:57.620 businesses are leaving because of the amount of theft, the amount of violence, the amount of loss that

00:18:02.920 they are encountering. This Walgreen is got everything locked down, right? Every bit of it is locked down.

00:18:09.360 And you saw how you see how everything is behind plexiglass and they're still getting shoplifted

00:18:14.140 12 times a day, 12 times, even though everything is locked down. How can that business maintain

00:18:20.060 profitability? You have to have everything locked down. You have to have people, you know, uh, the,

00:18:25.440 the people who work there, the employees have to constantly go and unlock everything every time

00:18:30.140 that someone wants to purchase anything. And even with all of that additional level of security,

00:18:34.820 they still, they still are losing that much product. How are you going to maintain profitability?

00:18:40.500 You're not. And if you can't maintain profitability, you're just going to leave. And if everybody leaves

00:18:45.040 due to what is happening in an area that it's gone from high trust to low trust, right? Then who's,

00:18:52.400 who's going to blame? Is it going to be the, the politicians who created the policies? Is it going

00:18:57.640 to be the people who perpetrated the crimes? No, it's going to be the businesses. It's going to be the

00:19:02.060 business owners. It's going to be based on, based on some kind of systemic racism or something.

00:19:06.460 That'll be the, uh, yeah, that'll be the line here. Maybe not here in San Francisco. That's,

00:19:10.720 that populations, uh, you know, uh, still, still pretty pale, I guess in general, but, uh, but this

00:19:16.440 is going to be the storylines that kind of come out of why these businesses leave, but we can see

00:19:22.180 there doesn't need to be any kind of bias. There's no need to kind of kind of systemic,

00:19:26.200 uh, you know, issue here, other than the fact that the people of that city and the politicians

00:19:31.640 that are in charge of the city have decided that they no longer want civilization to function.

00:19:36.620 And when that happens, people leave and they go to places where that's not happening. It's really

00:19:41.280 that simple. When thieves turned to cleaning out ice cream and frozen burritos, workers grew so

00:19:46.320 frustrated, they resorted to the chains. They were ordered down by corporate because of the negative

00:19:51.740 messaging. So hear that, right? The, the, the employees take it on themselves. This is not an order

00:19:59.160 from corporate. It's the employees who are fed up with watching this happen because it's them

00:20:04.480 day in and day out. And, and this is something that doesn't get talked about enough. Okay.

00:20:09.440 A lot of people will say, well, this is just a corporation and I'm with you. Walgreens is probably,

00:20:13.600 I don't, I don't know enough about Walgreens. So I, I'm not going to just, uh, assume everything

00:20:17.900 about it, but corporations of that size are usually pretty woke. They're, they're usually very

00:20:23.720 progressive. Uh, I would not be surprised at all. If Walgreens supports all of the things that are

00:20:29.640 kind of leading up to what's happening here. So I'm not letting Walgreens off the hook here. I'm

00:20:34.040 not saying they're the good guys here at all. That's not what I'm saying. And I don't even really

00:20:37.620 care that they're losing money or that, you know, that whatever, like they're a massive corporation.

00:20:42.800 Again, they're, they're probably not exactly a, you know, right wing. So maybe they're just getting

00:20:47.880 what they deserve. That's, that's fine. Whatever. The point is that in a community where this stuff

00:20:53.500 is regularly happening, people become demoralized. People lose their sense of self-respect. They lose

00:21:00.740 their sense of community. They lose the sense that there's anything fair. The people who are working

00:21:05.800 at that Walgreens for what I'm sure is not a huge amount of money have to watch all these people walk

00:21:11.500 in and take everything out of that store for free without getting any kind of penalty. And they're

00:21:17.840 thinking, what kind of sucker am I to sit here and work and earn money to feed my family, to pay my rent, 0.98

00:21:25.080 to buy the things I want from a store when I walk into it, right? They're probably there buying things 0.98

00:21:31.160 that they need from their family, from the store they work at while people who just come in and steal it

00:21:35.620 go out with no issue. And that is something that destroys people on a very fundamental level. And so it is

00:21:42.180 the employees, not the corporation that go out and buy these chains to lock this up. And if you've ever

00:21:47.840 been again in these retail jobs, do you know this? Because I remember that this isn't a new issue. I

00:21:53.060 remember I had a bunch of friends who worked at a clothing store when I was in high school, and they

00:21:58.440 had theft rings come in all the time. And they knew that they would come in and steal just thousands of

00:22:04.900 dollars worth of clothes. And there was nothing they could do that about it. Even the guys who were

00:22:08.920 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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00:24:31.540 But Walgreens isn't the only retailer impacted in San Francisco.

00:24:36.960 You have to ask an employee for help.

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

00:24:54.360 and key. What is this?

00:24:56.700 Um, hi.

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 0.90

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

00:25:32.360 say here. Cause it's quite funny.

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, 0.73

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

00:34:51.540 again. It's a systemic issue.

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

00:35:02.800 retail theft. People who are hungry.

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 0.96

00:37:05.040 actually having to ring up cash registers and fill freezers and throw freight and go open up each one of 0.99

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 0.99

00:37:37.300 work while these people are getting a free pass on everything that they're doing? That's just 0.99

00:37:41.920 ridiculous. But of course, they don't notice any of this. You also see someone saying, 0.98

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, 0.83

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, 1.00

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

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - July 31, 2023

San Francisco： How Civilization Comes Apart ｜ 7⧸31⧸23

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