Joe Rogan and Michael Shellenberger Discuss How and When San Francisco Became A Shithole
So how San Francisco become the homeless, crime, drug and feces-plagued wonderland that it is today? Michael Shellenberger (an author and journalists who has argued for technological solutions to environmental problems) discusses with Joe Rogan how it came to its current state.
Some takeaways:
San Francisco has always been friendly to illegal drugs, and in the 1800s it was the last city to shut down opium dens.
The movement (well-intention) to treat pain with opioids.
When that was restricted in 2010, a lot of opioid addicts switched to heroin.
After that came fentanyl, which is much easier to overdose on than heroin.
Meth was (is?) a separate epidemic.
Occupy brought a lot of tents into the homeless community in 2011. “The activists just gave the tends to the homeless.”
“Women are rapped in those camps, mentally ill people are taken advantage of, people overdose and die, people are killed when you can’t make payments on their drugs, drug dealers stabs you with a machete. These are really violent, dangerous, terrible places. You get hepatitis from all the feces.”
“Progressives have badly misled people into thinking this is a problem of high rents.”
“The idea that all black people are victims is a racist idea.”
My parents met in San Francisco when my dad was stationed at the Presidio and my mother was taking classes there during the summer. My dad was from Texas and mom was from California. Thirty years later, I proposed to my wife there. I wanted to pop the question to her in the Japanese Tea Gardens but never found the right moment. Instead I proposed to her in a restaurant in Chinatown with everyone in the place watching. San Francisco has always had a special place in my heart.
But San Francisco is a beautiful city ruined by garbage politics of liberals.
My parents met in San Francisco when my dad was stationed at the Presidio and my mother was taking classes there during the summer. My dad was from Texas and mom was from California. Thirty years later, I proposed to my wife there. I wanted to pop the question to her in the Japanese Tea Gardens but never found the right moment. Instead I proposed to her in a restaurant in Chinatown with everyone in the place watching. San Francisco has always had a special place in my heart.
But San Francisco is a beautiful city ruined by garbage politics of liberals.
Beware Austin! This is where you’re headed.