Ep. 1261 - Our Cities Don’t Have To Be Crime-Infested Wastelands. The Solution Is Simple.
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When he was the mayor of San Francisco in 2008, Gavin Newsom announced a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness in the city. That was a big challenge, and that s why it would take a decade longer than it took us to land the first men on the moon.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, San Francisco has been a dystopian wasteland filled with
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homeless drug addicts for many years, yet with the communist leader of China coming
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to town and has managed to make itself look clean and presentable, this proves that these
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problems are easy to solve if only our leaders had the will to solve them.
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Also, Tim Scott ends his presidential campaign, which comes as news to millions of people
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who didn't know that he had a presidential campaign.
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Vivek Ramaswamy announces his plan to fire 50% of the federal government workforce.
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When he was the mayor of San Francisco in 2008, Gavin Newsom announced a 10-year plan to end
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And that's why it would take a decade longer than it took us to land the first men on the
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But after 10 years, Newsom insisted the residents of San Francisco would finally be able to enjoy
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their city without hordes of junkies and prostitutes and mentally ill vagrants wandering around
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We believe fundamentally that food solves hunger, that shelters solve sleep, and that housing
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And if we're going to solve the problem of those that are out on the streets that we
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define as homeless, we better solve the housing problem if we're going to have an impact.
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And that's why we established this framework, what we call a 10-year plan to end chronic
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Now, in case you missed the logic there, here it is one more time.
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Food solves hunger, shelter solves sleep, and housing solves homelessness.
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I'm surprised they didn't also point out that dry land solves drowning, and breathing solves
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suffocation, and not having cancer solves cancer.
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Now, at the time, people living in San Francisco thought that this platform made sense.
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They didn't think it was a bunch of meaningless platitudes.
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They also didn't ask what it means for shelter to solve sleep on second thought.
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Does he think that people with houses don't sleep?
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And, you know, give the guy 10 years, they said.
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Pretty soon, everybody will have homes, and nobody will be sleeping or something.
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But predictably enough, Gavin Newsom's 10-year plan turned out a lot like Greta Thunberg's
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It never materialized, and everybody involved knew that it would never materialize.
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Not that Newsom stuck around for 10 years to find out.
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He became lieutenant governor of California just three years after announcing his big 10-year
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And then he moved up to governor in 2019, and through it all, in the hands of Newsom and
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his deputies, the problem of homelessness in San Francisco and in California at large
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And year after year, the residents of San Francisco have heard excuse after excuse for this failure.
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The excuses kept changing, but one thing remained constant, which is that it was never the fault
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Now, lately, politicians in the city have settled on a new excuse.
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They're blaming federal courts for the homelessness crisis.
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Here's San Francisco Mayor London Breed, for example, just a couple of months ago, offering
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Let's not let a one judge impact our ability to do what all San Franciscans want.
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Today, the fight over homeless sweeps intensifies as an impassioned Mayor London Breed pleads for
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the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to lift an injunction that temporarily blocks the city
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So London Breed blames a federal judge for the homelessness problem in the city, and people
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More than a decade after Newsom promised to end homelessness, people are cheering for a
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mayor who's coming up with excuses for why her party completely failed to do that.
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The problem, Breed says, is a judge who issued some injunction within the past year, and
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that's why the plan to end homelessness didn't work over the past 15 years.
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And by the way, the government is the only place where it works this way, right?
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It's the only place where you can go to your boss with an excuse for why you utterly failed
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to do what you were paid to do, and then get a standing ovation.
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Doesn't really work like that in most places in the private sector.
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Now, to be fair to London Breed, though, a judge did recently issue an injunction against
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the city, preventing them from removing homeless encampments unless they had shelter beds to
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The Ninth Circuit later clarified that the city can remove homeless encampments as long
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as the homeless people decline an offer of housing.
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But all this legal wrangling is just the latest excuse that people in San Francisco have
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heard when they ask why homelessness is still completely out of control.
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Last year, for example, Newsom blamed the economy and COVID for why his plan to end homelessness
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He said, quote, we're dealing with unprecedented economic contraction, the worst in our lifetime
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Now, a few years before that, in 2012, Newsom attacked people who pointed out that homelessness
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was getting worse, saying that they were just being cynical and playing politics.
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Then speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Newsom defended his 10-year plan, saying that Michelangelo
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taught him that it's better to set a high bar and fail than to set a low bar and meet
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Now, of course, Michelangelo was talking about artistic pursuits, we can assume, where that
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But with politicians, you'd much rather they set out to do simple things and then actually
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do those simple things rather than claim they're going to do a big thing and instead do nothing
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If you live in California, the message is pretty clear.
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Homelessness is just something you have to deal with.
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No 10-year plan, no matter how well-funded it is, can possibly solve it.
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The best you could hope for is helping a few thousand homeless people as hordes more homeless
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And if you disagree, Gavin Newsom will tell you that you're part of the problem.
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And that's all why it's been so interesting to watch what's been happening in San Francisco
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Now, this week, San Francisco is hosting the APEC Summit, which will attract business leaders,
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tourists, and nearly two dozen heads of state, including Joe Biden and Chinese President
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Now, in response, and they're all coming to the city, to San Francisco.
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In response, for the first time in a generation, virtually overnight, the city of San Francisco
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Homeless encampments have been forcibly moved out of sight.
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The place looks presentable again, even livable, if you can believe it.
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And residents of the city are completely stunned.
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They had no idea that anything like this was possible.
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The summit is expected to bring in $53 million, filling hotel rooms, bringing big business.
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And the city did tidy up for Dreamforce, but this cleanup is much more extensive.
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While San Francisco is in the spotlight for the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference, city leaders
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Tourism is our business here in San Francisco, and we need to focus on making sure that the
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Caltrans repaving major roadways like the Harrison Street off-ramp from the I-80.
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BART doubling down by deep-cleaning their stations overnight more often.
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The city had gotten a little bit dingy over time.
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Scrubbing and power washing is happening all over the city.
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It's noticeable how clear the streets look, and how few homeless encampments there are on
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Having been a long-time resident in the Bay Area, you just naturally start to wonder of
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Public Works is installing decorative crosswalks in North Beach and Chinatown, and the Webster
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Street pedestrian bridge in Japantown was recently repainted.
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The Yerba Buena Gardens at the Moscone Center are decked out with new colorful landscaping
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and murals, paid for by the Clean California Grant, just in time for the 20,000 high-profile
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CEOs and heads of state coming into town next week.
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Some people say this should be how it's always done.
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What about the people who are here year-round, you know, and like local, hardworking, working
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Why exactly doesn't the city of San Francisco do this all the time?
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If they can do it at all, then it seems like, well, they can do it.
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Later in that news report, the news station makes it clear that the city isn't spending
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All the funds are coming out of existing budgets.
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So again, they could easily be doing this all the time.
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Another local resident in the Soma neighborhood had the same question.
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He told the New York Post, quote, they've cleared out the tents on Howard Street, which
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tells me the city had the capability to do this all along.
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Mark Benioff, the founder of Salesforce, echoed that sentiment, quote, San Francisco has been
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incredibly clean, beautiful, and safe for the last three days.
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And it's great that the city is able to put its best foot forward for this major event
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that brings in 40,000 people from around the world and $80 million to the economy.
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It is important to ask why the city cannot be this clean and safe every single day.
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Benioff has an especially good reason to ask that question, since he poured roughly $8 million
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into Prop C in California, which taxed individuals and businesses to promote homelessness services,
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When you hand left-wing nonprofits money to fix any issue, whether it's homelessness or
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something more important like microaggressions in the workplace or whatever, you don't actually
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Instead, you give them incentives to prolong the problem so they can bilk more money from
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Instead of dumping money into homelessness services and nonprofits, all that was needed
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San Francisco Chronicle obtained emails from city officials that demonstrate how easy this
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Christopher McDaniels, the city's superintendent of street environmental services, wrote an email
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back in September explaining that every street needs to be completely cleared.
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For the event, he wrote, quote, with APEC coming, I'm concerned about historical encampments
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McDaniels boss added, quote, we need to stay on top of the growing encampments.
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Within days, according to the Post, quote, certain areas, including the notorious intersections
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of Van Ness Avenue and California Street, Hyde and Eddy Street, Taylor and Ella Streets
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Now, reading all this, it's hard not to laugh a little bit.
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When you think about the fact that San Francisco's bureaucrats managed to make the city look
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presentable for the leader of communist China, you know, it's kind of like if your wife is
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a slob most of the time, but then makes a point of like doing her hair and putting on
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makeup whenever the pool boy comes to clean the pool, kind of shows you where her affections
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You might want to be a little concerned about that.
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And San Francisco has revealed itself in the same way.
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It also kind of makes you wonder how San Francisco might look if Xi Jinping ran it instead of
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Does anyone seriously doubt that it would look a lot better than it does under London
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But the most important point is that this proves, okay, this is a microcosm that proves what I've
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been saying for a long time, which is that these are simple problems to fix and the government
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Homelessness, crime, all the stuff that makes our cities into unlivable wastelands, it can
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And in this case, it took just a couple of emails from some mid-level bureaucrats and it
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Now, of course, these bureaucrats have not solved chronic homelessness, quote unquote.
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They've not prevented people from losing their homes or doing drugs or developing mental
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illness, but they have moved these people out of sight and they've used force to do it.
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They have cleaned up the city, at least parts of it, which means that it can be done.
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For now, at least, San Francisco is doing what is necessary.
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And this is a very good indication that, as it turns out, our cities, again, do not have
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They do not have to be third-world wastelands with zombified drug addicts walking around and
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If San Francisco can make at least parts of itself look clean and livable in order to
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impress China, it can make the whole of itself clean and livable for the sake of its citizens
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But the vast majority of the time, San Francisco doesn't care to do that.
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Our elites who run the entire country don't care to do that for the sake of their own
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You know, the left likes to say, one of their favorite little mantras is that poverty is
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And if you live in a city where there are, again, zombie drug addicts wandering around looking
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like the walking dead and it's making the city unlivable, that is a policy choice.
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It only happens if it's allowed to happen, or perhaps in our case, made to happen.
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Who would have thought that, you know, after years of giving drug addicts taxpayer-funded
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needles and devaluing the currency and outsourcing manufacturing to China, we'd end up with even more
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Who would have thought that suspending the enforcement of pretty much every misdemeanor
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would lead to more misdemeanors, like public urination and public drug use and worse crimes
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Now, for more than a decade, Democrat solutions to this rapidly growing crisis has been to throw
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more money at the problem and give themselves more power in the process.
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Certainly, this approach has worked out well for Gavin Newsom, but it hasn't worked out for
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the people living in San Francisco. It tells you a lot that the city's leaders, like so
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many political figures all over the country, felt no incentive at any point to make their
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own community better and more prosperous and more beautiful just for the sake of their own
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people. They don't care about their own people. The welfare of their own people simply doesn't
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motivate them. But when Xi Jinping and an army of CEOs are in town, then our leaders will spring
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into action. Now, those are some people that politicians really want to impress.
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What's happening in San Francisco right now is the end of plausible deniability for all of these
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bureaucrats and elected officials. It's now beyond any doubt that they are the reason for the managed
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decline we are witnessing in major cities all over the country. This managed decline is deliberate.
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But by the same token, it's reversible. And it can be reversed very quickly. El Salvador fixed its
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violent crime problem in a few weeks. Now we learn that San Francisco has always had the ability to
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end its homelessness epidemic in a matter of days. And when APEC is over and the floodgates reopen in
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Soma and the homeless druggies pour back in, that will be obvious to everyone. Maybe even the people who
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have the misfortune of living in San Francisco, as oblivious as they all tend to be. Now let's get to
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by the Daily Wire. Senator Tim Scott officially ended his Republican presidential campaign on Sunday
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night after failing to gain traction with GOP primary voters. Scott made the announcement during
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an interview with former Representative Trey Gowdy on Fox News. Quote, when I go back to Iowa, it will not be
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as a presidential candidate. I'm suspending my campaign. I think the voters who are the most
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remarkable people on the planet have been really clear that they're telling me, not now, Tim.
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Well, yeah, we're also telling you not ever. That's not now, not ever, Tim, is what we're
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actually saying. Scott said, Romans 8.28 is such an important scripture. It says that all things work
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for the greater good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose. I think the message
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is clear for me right now. I am indeed suspending my campaign. I'm going to recommend the voters
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study each candidate and their candidacies and, frankly, their past and make the best decision
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for the future of the country. The best way for me to be helpful is to not weigh in on who they
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should endorse. Tim Scott then said, quote, I'm going home to spend more time with my girlfriend
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who is totally real, you guys. Stop saying she isn't real. She's real, okay? So that was the full
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statement. He said all of that. Now, I have to say, with all due respect to Tim Scott's dearly
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departed campaign, may it rest in peace. I am happy about this, and I'm happy for a number of reasons,
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mainly because it means that I personally will be free from the absolutely inhumane barrage of emails
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that I've been getting from his campaign for like five months now. Now, just to be clear, I have never
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signed up for a Tim Scott email list. I would never do something like that, I promise you, but I was
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signed up for it somehow. And this is not an exaggeration. I actually went and checked.
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Just since September, I have received 150 emails from Tim Scott's campaign. Since September, 150
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since September. And that's in spite of the fact that I have been actively unsubscribing from his
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list. But you know how it works, like you get on one of these lists, and then next thing you know,
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you're on 50 of them. And so I've probably unsubscribed from 10 or 15 of the lists,
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and I still got 150. If I hadn't unsubscribed from those, it'd be more like 300 emails, okay?
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And it shows you too that what should really already be obvious to you, which is that most
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people in politics, and there's a reason I'm complaining about the emails. I mean, the main
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reason is just to complain. But the second reason is to make the point that most people in politics
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really have no clue what they're doing. And the whole Tim Scott campaign is proof of that.
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I mean, you would have to be delusional and incompetent to think that Tim Scott ever had a
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chance. He never did. This whole thing was doomed from the start. There was no, there's no universe.
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Okay, even if we live in a multiverse with a billion universes and a billion different versions
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of this reality, in none of those realities is Tim Scott president. That's how not president he is,
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okay? And in spite of that, so you go into it, this is like the longest of long shot campaigns.
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What's the plan? Okay, if you're going in with a long shot campaign,
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you think you got to go in with something big and bold and innovative to give yourself a chance to
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set yourself apart from the rest. And so what did the campaign consist of? Just sending a bunch of
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emails and having Tim Scott appear on Fox News 600 times. 600 emails, 600 Fox News appearances,
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and presto chango, you're president. That was supposed to be the plan.
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Is that how it worked out? No, of course not. Did it achieve anything at all? Did it move the needle
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even slightly? No, of course it didn't. You got the people working on, and all these people will
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get jobs again in politics. Like they worked on this campaign, they did nothing, absolutely nothing.
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There was, except millions of dollars wasted to achieve nothing at all, and everybody involved
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will still have jobs. Now listen, I've admitted before, I would make a terrible politician,
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I would make a terrible campaign manager, and yet I would still be better. I'd be wildly
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significantly better than 99% of the people in Washington right now. Simply knowing things like
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Tim Scott can't be president, sending people a thousand emails a day won't help you win,
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it'll just annoy them. Knowing those two things alone makes me and you smarter and more competent
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than almost everybody working in Washington right now. Now, with any of these campaigns,
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you know, there are people that speculate, well, you have these long shot candidates that are in
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there because they have something else, you know, they got ulterior motive, they want to be in the
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cabinet, they want to be VP. I think you'd be doing Tim Scott and his team a favor to assume that he was
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really just running for vice president, he's running to be in Trump's cabinet. I don't think that's what
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he was doing. He says he doesn't want to be, he doesn't want that, and I actually believe him.
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No, he really thought he could win. Same for Mike Pence. These guys really thought they could be
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president, and their donors thought it too. And presumably, at least some of their staff were
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under the same delusion. And these are the kinds of people who are running this country. No common
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sense. No insight at all into the minds of average Americans. Totally delusional, incompetent.
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And these are the people that are running the country. Which brings us to the next topic,
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I think, very neatly. Vivek Ramaswamy posted this over the weekend. This tweet, he says,
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on day one, instantly fire 50% of federal bureaucrats. Here's how. If your social security
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number ends in an odd number, you're fired. That downsizes government by half. Absolutely nothing
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will break as a result. It doesn't violate civil services rules because mass layoffs are exempt.
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Shut it down. Then he continued to elaborate. This avoids civil service protections. No bureaucrat
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can claim their firings were politically motivated. Further firings can be executed with a chisel,
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but step one needs to be an unrestrained chainsaw, or else it just won't happen.
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Now, this plan's getting a reaction from people online. And first, let me just say
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that the idea that we should just fire 50% of federal bureaucrats is totally outrageous and insane.
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And I agree with a lot of what Ramaswamy says, but this is just nonsense. 50%? It should be 90%.
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But I guess 50% is a good start. So as a start, I love the idea. Lots of people have bristled at it,
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as you might imagine, including plenty of alleged conservatives are upset about this.
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You know, the people who have been talking about shrinking the size of government for decades,
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and then someone comes along and says, all right, let's do it, guys. And those same people say,
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no, no, no, wait. It's not like that. I mean, okay, well, what way do you want to do it? Oh,
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not at all. That's the way. The way I want to do this thing is to not do it. That was my preferred
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strategy. And this is what you have to understand. Every Republican for my entire life has run on a
00:25:43.520
plan, and before my life began, has run on a plan to cut the size of government and reduce spending
00:25:50.520
and all the rest of it. And none of them have done it. Okay? None of them have even tried to do it.
00:25:57.360
That's not even like they've made an attempt. None of them have even cut the size of government
00:26:01.400
or cut spending by like 0.5%. Instead, they've all increased it. Every single one.
00:26:10.760
None of them have reduced the size of the behemoth federal bureaucracy. They've really just added to
00:26:15.880
it. And that's because at this point, actually cutting this thing down, really making a dent would
00:26:23.240
require a drastic action like this. And so if you support a candidate who is not suggesting seemingly
00:26:33.700
drastic extreme measures, then that is someone who is not actually going to do this at all,
00:26:38.740
because that's the only way to do it. This thing, the federal bureaucracy is so big and so unwieldy and
00:26:46.220
so outrageously enormous that you can't help to achieve anything by making surgical cuts with a
00:26:53.980
scalpel. And again, even that, no Republican president has done. But that wouldn't be enough
00:27:01.380
because whatever little lump you cut off will just grow back before dinner time.
00:27:07.360
That's how huge this thing is. It's a huge self-replicating organism. And if you're not
00:27:13.180
taking a chainsaw to this thing, an unrestrained chainsaw, as Vivek Ramaswamy says, then you aren't
00:27:19.120
doing anything. Do you know, since we're on the subject, do you know how many people work
00:27:24.860
for the federal government? Right now, the federal government has close to 3 million employees.
00:27:32.960
And that is just the civilian workforce, okay? So that's not everybody who works for the,
00:27:37.240
that's not even close to everybody who works for the federal government. But
00:27:39.340
the civilian workforce is close to 3 million employees. So if you cut half of them,
00:27:47.920
you would still have over a million people on the payroll. You would still have more people than work
00:27:55.220
for Google, Apple, Facebook combined times two, if you cut half. You'd still have enough people to
00:28:03.800
fill like 14 NFL stadiums. Isn't that enough? How could that not be enough? I mean, can we get by?
00:28:11.060
Can we get by with 14 NFL stadiums full of people running the government?
00:28:20.620
There are so many, and here's the other fact. Not only can you and should you cut half of the federal
00:28:28.100
workforce, but if you did, none of us would notice a difference. I'm telling you right now,
00:28:34.120
if they were just to cut 50% and not tell us, no one, you would never know. You would never know.
00:28:42.100
They could come back 10 years later and say, oh, by the way, you know, we cut 50% of the workforce
00:28:45.660
10 years ago. You say, oh, really? Like your life, if it changes at all, it would be for the better.
00:28:50.600
But really, there'd just be no difference. You would never notice. Okay. If you don't work in
00:29:00.020
the government, not that I have, but I'm telling you, you have no idea how useless most of these
00:29:08.040
people are. Not all of them, but most of them. There are so many, I mean, thousands and thousands
00:29:16.440
of federal jobs that serve no purpose other than just for their own sake. And they help no one,
00:29:25.160
they do nothing. It is redundancy on top of redundancy on top of redundancy. We have entire
00:29:31.820
agencies, entire departments, entire bureaucracies within the greater bureaucracy that could be wiped
00:29:41.620
off the face of the planet tomorrow. And you would never know. Now, I read somewhere that
00:29:50.180
the bureaucracy that ran the Roman empire had like 20 or 30,000 employees, which was a lot at the time.
00:30:01.340
By comparison though, that's only a little more than currently run the city of Boston.
00:30:07.580
Okay. 30,000 to run an empire, the biggest empire on the globe at the time. And now we need 30,000 to
00:30:20.260
run Boston and not run it well, by the way. We have 3 million people running our country. And that does
00:30:27.860
not include the millions upon millions collectively who work for states and cities across the country.
00:30:34.680
So that's not all the government workers. It's not even close. Altogether, okay. City, federal,
00:30:41.540
state, government, altogether, only civilians. That's something like 20 million. Okay. It's
00:30:52.360
actually more than that, but about 20 million. And that means that like one out of every 15 people
00:31:00.580
in the country works for the government at some level, one out of every 15, I'm doing a lot of
00:31:06.580
math here. This is getting pretty dangerous and I'm going to get a fact check, but I'm pretty confident
00:31:10.340
in these numbers. The point is it's a lot. Okay. It is just, it is a lot way. It's so much that the
00:31:17.280
saying a lot doesn't even come close to covering it. And these people are not working for free,
00:31:25.940
by the way, just so you know, this is billions of dollars. I mean, billions and billions of dollars
00:31:31.760
that we are spending just on the payroll for all these people. Most of whom their jobs could not
00:31:39.600
exist and it would only make your life better. If you noticed at all, it would only be for the better.
00:31:44.140
So yeah, should we go in and cut 50%? Yes, absolutely. And if that seems extreme to you,
00:31:53.740
exactly. Because that's the situation that we're in. If it seems, if that's, if you bristle at that,
00:31:59.120
then it only shows that you don't understand. You do not understand how bad it is and just how much
00:32:06.840
you are being scammed. Like most of these jobs, I say they serve no purpose. That's not exactly true.
00:32:12.740
You know, most of these purpose, most of these jobs serve the purpose of giving jobs so that other
00:32:17.860
people in government can give jobs to their friends and family and everything else. It's just,
00:32:22.040
it's a giant nepotism program that you are funding. Like you can barely afford to buy groceries at the
00:32:31.420
grocery store for your family. And you are funding this massive welfare scheme for federal bureaucrats.
00:32:39.420
Um, and once you understand that and you hear 50% being cut, your only reaction is mine, which is
00:32:48.500
like, that's not enough. I mean, I'll take it, but that's only, that's just a start, you know, 50%,
00:32:53.580
then let's cut another 50 and let's keep going. And I think every other candidate in the race right now
00:33:00.220
should, should, should be asked, do you support that plan? And if you don't, why, what is your plan?
00:33:05.020
Okay. Do you have a plan for getting rid of 50% of these bureaucrats? Because if you don't,
00:33:09.760
you better come up with one. All right. Um, here's an update on a story that we covered last week.
00:33:18.160
Redux has this update. We talked about the story of the, um, mayor of a town in, uh, in, um,
00:33:25.020
uh, Alabama, I believe. Yeah. Who, uh, committed suicide last week after it was revealed that he,
00:33:35.540
uh, was dressing up like a woman and posting like fetish content online and posting other very
00:33:40.820
objectionable things. And this was revealed. And then he committed suicide. And of course,
00:33:44.360
trans activists are blaming conservatives and mourning the death of this, uh, poor man, this
00:33:49.260
martyr. Um, but here's an update on that story. Multiple women have come forward to reveal that
00:33:54.880
they were victimized by the now deceased Smith station mayor, uh, Bubba Copeland after discovering
00:34:00.460
that he had shared their names and photos to pornography sites without their knowledge.
00:34:05.020
Copeland took his own life last week after a damning expo, uh, expose was released by the 1819
00:34:10.280
project, unraveling the sick details of his secret transgender double life. One that included
00:34:16.680
penning erotic fantasies of murdering a local woman. Despite having demonstrated a number of
00:34:22.160
predatory behaviors, Copeland suicide has been portrayed sympathetically by major media outlets
00:34:25.920
resulting in an outpouring of support, a makeshift memorial dedicated to the former mayor and pastor
00:34:30.820
was set up outside of first Baptist church on Sunday in Alabama, causing the women targeted by
00:34:36.220
his perverse behavior to struggle with a mix of emotions. One of Copeland's constituents,
00:34:41.060
Amy Summerlin spoke with a WTVM and report published November 8th and explained that she has become aware
00:34:47.440
that the now deceased mayor had shared her photo to at least nine porn sites. The victim's surname,
00:34:53.580
Summerlin, was also one that Copeland had adopted for his feminine alter ego going by Brittany Summerlin
00:34:59.120
on a number of sites. Okay, so, and you could go to Redux and read this full report. I don't know,
00:35:06.020
I can't even stomach reading the whole thing, but, uh, you get the idea that this guy was assuming the
00:35:12.780
names of his female constituents and adopting that in this, uh, fetish role-playing, uh, trans thing
00:35:19.340
he was doing. And not only that, he was also posting, as we talked about last week, he was posting,
00:35:25.040
uh, these short stories he had written where he, uh, fantasized about murdering, uh, women and assuming
00:35:35.700
their identity. And the woman he was fantasizing about murdering is an actual woman who was a constituent
00:35:40.520
of his. So we knew about that. And now we also find out that he was apparently, according to the
00:35:45.800
report, uh, taking photos of local women and posting them to porn sites without their knowledge. So
00:35:51.600
what, what that goes to show is, uh, is, you know, first of all, none of this is surprising,
00:36:00.340
but as I'm, you know, have explained so many times in particular for, for grown men
00:36:08.660
who start identifying as quote unquote trans, it is almost always, uh, a sexual fetish. It's a sexual
00:36:16.360
role-playing thing. And, and one that, uh, when they start doing it publicly, they want you to
00:36:22.100
participate in, in it with them. They're demanding that you participate in it, but that's, but that's
00:36:26.900
what the whole thing is, right? So most of these trans activists out there are out there calling for
00:36:30.680
trans rights. The right that they want is the right to force you to participate in their sexual role-play
00:36:37.220
fetish, right? And I, and I was very clear with this guy. Um, and on top of that, according to
00:36:44.820
everything we were reading, I mean, this guy was a, he was a deviant, degenerate pervert. I mean, doing
00:36:53.160
things like posting a woman's photograph to a porn site, like in any other context, everybody would
00:36:58.640
agree that you're just an, you're a total scumbag at a minimum for doing that. And you take the trans
00:37:06.120
stuff out of it. If this was a politician who was doing that, take trans out, and then they
00:37:12.600
committed suicide, everybody would be saying, Oh, this is a person who's finally a cowardly way out
00:37:18.340
because they're finally being held accountable for their actions. So we're not, we're not weeping
00:37:22.500
over that. This is this, that's a horrible crime to commit against somebody, but you add the trans
00:37:31.660
thing. And, and suddenly this person is a victim. And I also, look, I, I almost, uh, I wanted to,
00:37:37.580
I thought at the time and didn't say it out loud because it's, uh, you know, you do have to be
00:37:41.500
careful about speculating too much in situations like this, but it did certainly occur to me that,
00:37:46.600
um, after this came out and the man chose to take his own life, you know, you had to wonder
00:37:52.680
how much of that was shame over what we'd already found out and how much of it was,
00:37:58.540
he was worried about what else we might find out now. You know, uh, if they start looking at the
00:38:05.000
hard drive, what else are they going to find on it? And now we've already found out that,
00:38:09.640
uh, he was posting these photos of women without their consent.
00:38:15.840
What else is there? I would not be surprised if it turns out that there's more. Um, and as more
00:38:22.200
comes out about this guy, I mean, never forget the fact that he was, uh, he, he was posthumously
00:38:28.220
canonized by trans activists who ordered us to weep over his death and even blamed conservatives
00:38:33.260
for it. All right. One other thing, this is from Fox business. It says, while many workers
00:38:41.280
worry about AI replacing their jobs, one company announced it's hiring the first humanoid robot
00:38:46.900
CEO. Micah is a research project from Hanson Robotics and a Polish rum company, Diktador,
00:38:53.840
dictator who customized the CEO to represent. So the company's actual name is dictator and
00:39:01.500
they've, they're hiring a CEO to run the, I mean, a robot to run the company. So they're
00:39:05.240
just like, they're just trying to be the bad guys from a dystopian sci-fi movie. Um, in a company
00:39:12.160
video, Micah said that with advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms,
00:39:16.200
I can swiftly and accurately make a data driven. I can make a data driven data driven. What? That
00:39:23.320
doesn't make sense. However, Fox business reporter, uh, Lawrence Simonati noted that there's a
00:39:28.460
significant delay in the time it takes Micah to process and respond to your question. Oh,
00:39:35.180
so just like a real boss. This, this is like, this is like a real boss. Hanson Robotics CEO,
00:39:39.780
David Hanson, who played a key role in employing Micah at Diktador and then emphasized the importance
00:39:46.920
of humanizing artificial intelligence. Inside edition, I think also had a report on this robot
00:39:52.940
CEO. Let's, uh, watch that. Are robot CEOs, the future of the workplace? Hello, I'm Mika,
00:40:00.880
the world's first experimental AI CEO at Diktador. Mika is the newest employee and experimental CEO
00:40:07.880
of a company in Poland. My decision-making process relies on extensive data analysis and aligning
00:40:13.840
with the company's strategic objectives. It's devoid of personal bias, ensuring unbiased and
00:40:20.460
strategic choices that prioritize the organization's best interests. Day-to-day tasks for Mika at the
00:40:26.940
liquor company include choosing artists to design the brand's bottles. I meticulously research,
00:40:33.260
conduct background checks, and verify potential client lists, providing well-reasoned.
00:40:37.880
decisions to the board. A bonus about the robot employee, she never uses vacation days.
00:40:44.420
Well, as a robot CEO, I don't really have weekends. I'm always on, 24-7, ready to make
00:40:51.300
executive decisions and stir up some- Where to even begin? Uh, first of all, of course,
00:40:56.340
so it's a robot CEO, uh, but of course they're going to make her female and non-white. So that,
00:41:02.160
that, uh, obviously, and, but the robot CEO is not really a CEO. It's just some talking mannequin
00:41:07.340
that hangs around the office, creeping everybody out. Um, and they go on to talk about it. It doesn't
00:41:13.660
actually, the CEO doesn't make hiring and firing decisions. Like it's not actually a CEO. But the
00:41:17.460
fact that we're even symbolically heading in that direction, I think is a bad sign. And that's,
00:41:22.480
that's the thing about this AI stuff, that it's kind of amazing in a certain way, because we've,
00:41:26.940
we've all grown up watching, as I said, these dystopian sci-fi movies about robots killing
00:41:33.060
everybody. And now we're, we're trying to make that happen. We've got people who are fully
00:41:38.580
trying to become the villains in all of those movies. So we all know how this plays out and
00:41:46.140
we're just going to do it, I guess. And even leaving the movies aside, even if we assume that AI will
00:41:52.420
never become sentient and enslave mankind, it's still pretty self-evident. I think that it's,
00:41:58.860
it's a bad thing for robots to replace people and, and eventually make us all irrelevant and
00:42:04.540
unnecessary. Like that, that's a bad trend. I think this is clearly a process that will harm people
00:42:11.740
much more than help them. I think everyone kind of knows that. And yet we're doing it. We are
00:42:18.120
marching headfirst into a future that is obviously going to be bleak. Companies run by robots and
00:42:25.020
staffed by robots is not good. I mean, everyone knows that isn't good, but we're doing it. We're
00:42:32.500
doing, we are doing the thing, even though we know it's all, it's like if we're, imagine we're all
00:42:37.380
in a big bus and there's a rickety bridge up ahead and there are signs that say, danger,
00:42:44.980
do not enter. And we've already heard lots of bad stories about this bridge and how dangerous it is.
00:42:50.940
And, and we don't even have to cross the bridge. Like there's other paths that we could take
00:42:54.800
and everybody on the bus, including the people driving it, know that that bridge, they're all
00:42:59.100
looking at the bridge. Like that looks bad. We shouldn't cross it. And yet we're heading towards
00:43:02.460
the bridge anyway. We're just going to cross it. We all know how it will end, but we're going to do it
00:43:07.400
anyway. That's what makes our impending robot apocalypse so frustrating is how it's,
00:43:14.980
I don't know. It's like maybe, uh, what is the, the ghostbusters choose the, uh, choose your
00:43:21.020
destructors is kind of like, I guess we're just decided, well, something's got to end human
00:43:24.320
civilization. I guess we're going to do this. It's got to be something. Maybe that's the argument.
00:43:30.620
Might not be a bad argument. Actually, I have to think more about it. Uh, let's get to what's
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comments here, John, this is all, uh, we talked on Thursday about the story of the, uh,
00:44:27.540
American and Panama because American and Panamanian, uh, dual citizenship. Anyway,
00:44:32.920
stuck in traffic, climate protesters had shut down the road and, uh, he ended up shooting and
00:44:39.780
killing two of them. Talked about that. And some, uh, some people shockingly disagree with my
00:44:44.740
perspective on that story. John says, I guess Matt Walsh rationalizing actual violence against people
00:44:50.320
he doesn't like isn't a totally unforeseen plot twist, but it's one I didn't expect to see quite this
00:44:55.020
soon. I guess people who kill people are just fed up from now on. Blake says, we've now made it to
00:45:01.240
the point where Matt Walsh is openly calling for violence against peaceful activists. And, uh, the
00:45:06.080
last one says, Matt, very disappointed about your segment today about the man who murdered those
00:45:09.380
protesters. You're stooping to the left level and encouraging violence. You're better than that.
00:45:14.180
Um, okay. I'm not encouraging violent. I think this should be obvious from everything that I said.
00:45:20.940
And here's the thing. If you're going to listen to a segment, but then not actually listen to the
00:45:26.000
words that I'm using in the segment, then it's probably better not to listen at all. I don't
00:45:30.640
know what you are listening to because the whole segment is just, it's, it consists of words that
00:45:34.520
I'm saying. So I don't know how, and in that segment, I think I said multiple times, of course,
00:45:40.020
I don't condone this. I don't encourage it. I don't want to see it. I don't see anyone get killed.
00:45:44.000
Um, so it's not about encouraging violence. I don't encourage the violence against anyone.
00:45:51.220
I want less violence. I'd like to have no violence if that was possible. It's not, but
00:45:54.800
that's what I would prefer. If I could snap my fingers and make that happen, I would. Um,
00:46:00.240
but if you don't want violence, then you need to deal with reality. And the reality is that people
00:46:10.800
are fed up. Now, I don't know the thing about this guy specifically, but, um, it's, it would
00:46:19.740
appear to be symptomatic of a larger trend and whatever the case with that particular guy in
00:46:26.760
that particular case, it is true that, that people are, they're fed up. I don't know what,
00:46:32.200
how else to put it. And, uh, living in a, in a, in a world where you see some people who could just
00:46:39.640
act with impunity, shutting down roads, you know, the, the shutting down roads and protesting in the
00:46:45.100
street thing that climate activists always do. Um, it's not the worst thing that people do.
00:46:50.960
There's plenty of things that happen in our cities every day is a lot worse than that,
00:46:54.060
but it's just, it, it, it gets a lot of attention because it's so,
00:47:00.300
it, there's something particularly egregious about it that you're, it's the sense of entitlement
00:47:07.680
that it takes to shut down a road that people are trying to drive. They're just trying to go
00:47:12.140
to work. That's all they want to do. They want to get home and you are imposing yourself on all of
00:47:18.520
these people, no matter what your cause is, you know, if you had a good, it doesn't matter.
00:47:25.120
So you have no right to impose yourself on all these people. You're stopping everybody in their
00:47:30.780
tracks and say, Hey, everybody, listen to me. No, we don't. Why should we have to listen to you?
00:47:34.080
Why are you that important? You're not get the hell out of the road. And so even though it's not
00:47:41.020
the worst thing that people are doing as we watch the managed decline of our civilization,
00:47:46.720
uh, it is, it feels like just kind of like the last straw for a lot of people,
00:47:51.860
especially on the roads, right? As I said, people are already stressed out.
00:47:55.700
Road rage incidents happen all the time. Um, and we understand why those incidents happen.
00:48:02.420
Doesn't mean we condone them. Doesn't mean we would act that way, but like we understand
00:48:05.960
intellectually. It's not, we're not confused by that. People are on road, the road, they're
00:48:10.780
stressed out. The tempers flare. They lash out. You're already driving a, you know, this, this big
00:48:15.620
hunk of metal, 70 miles an hour. Um, and it's a bad combination. And then you take that. So you,
00:48:21.480
you, you take your protest, you start, you drop it right into that environment. It's a really bad idea.
00:48:27.500
Um, and so the best thing that the, that our leaders can do is start enforcing the law.
00:48:37.120
Start, uh, if you don't enforce the law and if you don't impose law in order,
00:48:41.860
then eventually people start taking matters into their own hands.
00:48:46.500
Pointing that out is not me saying I want people to, I think it's good. I don't think anything about
00:48:50.580
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For our daily cancellation, we begin with a recent article in the Washington post discussing
00:49:32.820
as the headline announces quote, how psychedelic therapy might help with climate change anxiety.
00:49:38.200
Now the piece is written by a mental health professional named Emily Willow, who starts by
00:49:42.000
describing a recent session with an eco anxious client. She writes, as our weekly therapy session
00:49:47.880
drew to a close, my patient, a young woman in her early twenties approaching college graduation
00:49:51.820
said that she had been feeling a lack of motivation, but that it felt different from her usual depressive
00:49:56.600
symptoms. A worrisome climate change report had recently been published and she felt paralyzed by
00:50:01.280
uncertainty of what the world is going to look like. She asked, quote, how can I decide where I want to
00:50:05.960
go? Will it even be safe to live in California when I'm older? Many of us are feeling a sense of
00:50:10.120
powerlessness and despair over climate change and its harmful effects. As a psychiatrist,
00:50:14.600
I've noticed a growing trend among patients in my private practice suffering from what mental
00:50:18.620
health professionals are calling eco anxiety and climate grief. Yes, climate grief, it's called
00:50:26.020
apparently. The article then goes on to claim that tripping on hallucinogens will somehow make you less
00:50:30.520
delusionally terrified of an ecological apocalypse. Because of course, if you're having trouble being
00:50:35.480
reasonable and keeping things in perspective, the best thing to do is take LSD. Now that's what
00:50:41.920
they always recommend for people to help them stay calm and collected. It's why airline pilots are
00:50:45.700
encouraged to drop acid 20 minutes before takeoff. I think I read that once in the FAA handbook.
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Anyway, I'm not interested in spending any time on the idea that hallucinatory drugs will help you be
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less anxious about unreasonable things. That's the kind of idea that you would have to already be on drugs
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to believe in the first place. So it's a moot point. Instead, I want to talk about this underlying
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concept of climate anxiety, which has been getting a lot of press lately. It's an epidemic on the rise,
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we're told. Recently, PBS did an explainer on the topic. Watch.
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Recently, I've been spending a lot of time reading about climate change, and it's got me feeling anxious,
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a little tense, a little tense, a bit frustrated, and I'm definitely worried about the future.
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And it looks like I'm not alone. People on social media are sharing their anxious feelings
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and fears about climate change. So much so, there's a name for this. It's called eco-anxiety,
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or climate anxiety. Okay, so this isn't isolated, and it's much larger than I thought.
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So before we go forward, let's practice some mindfulness. Come on, y'all, let's take a deep
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breath. Come on, deep yoke breath, fill up those lungs, and another. I do have good news. In response
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to the growing trend of eco-anxiety, clinicians and psychologists are ushering in new techniques
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to help their clients deal with this issue. We're going to make it through, y'all. One more breath.
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The science of eco-therapy, or climate-aware therapy, is evolving, and there's plenty to learn.
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Now, I just want to pause here to give us a moment to reflect on the phrase,
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the science of climate-aware therapy, which is like saying, the science of leprechaun research.
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Now, it's already a massive stretch to claim that any form of mental therapy is scientific,
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but the claim becomes even more dubious as you begin adding sub-genres, like gender-affirming
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therapy, climate-aware therapy, and so on. So this is already a load of nonsense, but let's keep
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watching. Eco-anxiety is a relatively new term. Eco-anxiety has been defined by the American
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Psychological Association as the chronic fear of environmental doom. That's Britt Ray. She's an
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expert at the intersection of climate change and mental health. Britt, what are some ways someone
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might experience climate anxiety? It can become so intense that it's debilitating, it can impair
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people's functioning, and then it really does need clinical intervention or support, but it can also
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trap us in a pit of fear and hopelessness if we aren't careful and get us carried away in kind of
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a despairing narrative about the future being written off. Even though someone might be dealing with these
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symptoms, it might be hard for a therapist to pinpoint the best course of action because eco-anxiety
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is not in the DSM-5, the manual that health professionals use to diagnose mental health disorders.
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Well, don't worry about that because that will change. Climate anxiety is another way for
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psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies to make money, another profitable mental health-related
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grift, and so it will surely be legitimized in the next edition of the DSM. That is, after all,
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the DSM's primary function these days. But what can be done about climate anxiety? I mean, that's
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really the question. What can we do about all this? How can it be treated? Well, let's find out.
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The key here to unlocking strategies to deal with your own climate anxiety might have less to do with
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your individual effort to deter climate change, such as lowering your own greenhouse gas emissions,
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and more to do with building a climate crisis plan. There is a recent article in the leading
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scientific journal Nature that said an important thing that individuals can do to address their
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climate anxiety is really focus on small aspects that they can control. A lot of anxiety is provoked
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by the unknown and feeling like you can't control a situation. Here's what a climate action plan might
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look like. If you're in a flood zone, consider using personal storage bins that are watertight,
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or moving personal items to a higher level on the shelf. For more info on finding out if you live
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in a flood zone, check out the description below. Those concerned about drought might want to learn
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more about urban gardening or drought-resistant forms of agriculture that you can do at home.
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Now, above all, find yourself a community that is preparing to deal with the next catastrophic event,
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because global warming is happening. Take action and join in on the effort.
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There you go. If you're scared about a global catastrophe wiping out all of mankind,
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one way to cope is to put your belongings in plastic storage bins or start gardening. Maybe take
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the LSD before you go gardening just to make it more interesting. Now, it's worth considering just how
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limp and superficial this advice is and how inappropriate the whole tone of that video was.
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If you actually buy the claim that the world is coming to an end because of climate change,
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which the people who made the video supposedly do. So in one breath, they tell us that the end of the
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world is at hand. And in the next breath, they record a smiley, cheerful video assuring us that
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plastic storage bins will help us through it. So there seems to be a disconnect here. And this is
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the kind of disconnect that's very common among climate alarmists. It's why part of me has a hard time
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believing that anyone in the world is actually this stressed out about climate change. I mean,
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I've never met anybody like this. I've never encountered in the wild, a person who was
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actually wracked with grief and fear because of the environment. I've never had this conversation
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ever with anyone where they bring up, you know, I'm really troubled right now because of the,
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um, because of the climate. That's never, I've never had that come. Now, granted, if anyone did
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have that worry, they probably wouldn't share it with me, but, um, still I've never encountered that.
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And, and just for me personally, it's a form of anxiety that I just can't relate to in the slightest.
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I, I, I have, I, you know, I can't wrap my head around it. I have anxiety about a lot of things,
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but I've never spent even one second of my life worrying about the climate.
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So if I were to compile a ranking of like the top 500 things I've ever been distressed about in my
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life, climate change, you wouldn't make the list. They wouldn't even make it down near the bottom
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with the most obscure things I've briefly worried about in the past, like brain eating amoebas and
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leprosy. It's just not something that makes it onto my psychological carousel of stuff to worry about.
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That's why I find it hard to fathom those people who are legitimately afflicted by this so-called
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climate anxiety. But in the end, I do believe that such people exist because the constant
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apocalyptic hysteria from the media is, is, is designed to have this effect on people. And
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inevitably it will have this effect on some people. So if you are one of those people
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who's, uh, dealing with climate anxiety, I have two things to say to you. Here is some
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eco anxiety counseling that might actually help you. And I am trying to help you. I'm not being flippant.
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I really am. So the first thing to realize is that you don't need to worry about climate change,
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not because the climate isn't changing, but because climates always change. It's what they
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do. I assure you it's how they're designed. Nature is in a constant state of flux, changing all the
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time. There's no reason to worry about this fact. It gets hotter, it gets colder, it rains, it's sunny.
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This is the way the climate works. You probably don't have to worry about a climate apocalypse.
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That's not to say that there will never be a climate apocalypse of a sort. I mean,
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there will be eventually the earth will become uninhabitable. Look to our neighbor of Venus
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in the solar system and you'll get an idea of what the earth will be like one day. Average
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temperatures of 800 degrees Fahrenheit, clouds of sulfuric acid covering the planet, unbreathable,
00:58:39.240
toxic air, just absolute hell. That will be the earth's fate, but probably not for another two or
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three billion years. And you probably won't be around when that happens. Now, in the meantime,
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you have more pressing concerns. There are thousands of other things more likely to kill
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you and one of them eventually will kill you. You'll probably get terminal cancer one day or
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die of a heart attack or in a car accident. Who knows? Maybe you'll be murdered tomorrow.
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Something terrible will happen to you eventually and it will have nothing to do with climate change.
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I'm not sure if this will make you any less anxious, but at least it should make you anxious
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about more reasonable things. That's all I'm saying. Second point, even if a climate apocalypse was on
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the immediate horizon, even if we really were barreling towards an Armageddon caused by our SUVs
00:59:29.000
and air conditioning units, there wouldn't be anything we could do about it at this point.
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And especially if that involves turning off our air conditionings, then we're definitely...
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I mean, if you tell me that the way to save the world is to turn off my air conditioning and not use
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air conditioning in the summer, then I guess the world's just going to end because we're not doing
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that. So we're screwed anyway, is what I'm saying, by that logic. We're living on borrowed time,
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simply waiting for Mother Nature to exact her vengeance. And if that's the case, then why worry?
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Forget the plastic storage bins. Just live your life until the ice caps melt and you're washed away
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into the sea. There's nothing you can do to stop it. Your fate is already sealed. That may not be a
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comforting thought, but it is what it is. No point in wasting time wallowing in anxiety over it.
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Now, fortunately, this is not the case. You will not drown because of climate change.
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You might still drown. I mean, you could die that way. Maybe you'll slip and hit your head and fall
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into a hotel pool or something. But it won't be because of climate change. And either way,
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there's nothing to worry about. You'll die from something else sooner rather than later. You are
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under a death sentence. In 50 or 60 years, you'll probably be dead. In 100 years, there won't be anyone
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left to even visit your grave as you are decomposing in the ground. So cheer up is what I'm saying.
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And also, I'm saying that climate anxiety is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today.
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Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.