The Sad State Of San Francisco | Joe Rogan & Dave Smith

on on that topic of like weak the weakness of modern liberals CU I I was in um like late last year I was in San Diego and I haven't been to I mean I've been to La a couple times but much less than I used to go like when you were out there um and I I haven't been to San Francisco in years but I was in San Diego and it's like you know you've been there it's like a beautiful city downtown and where where we were uh it's a great Comedy Club the American Comedy Company down there no great Club Great Club love that place um and I'm like downtown and uh we going me and my buddy Rob Bernstein uh very funny comedian who uh with me on the trip we're like walking around at the great restaurants really nice little D but then there's just blocks that are taken over by these homeless encampments and right next to him it's like all these young professionals and these nice restaurants in this nice city and I was just thinking about that like how how are all of the men here so weak that they want just kind of like put their foot down and be like hey no we're not going to put up with this like we're not just it's almost like this um like niess has taken over to the point that you can't even defend this cool city that you have here and I'm not saying like bash the homeless people with clubs or anything like that I'm just saying like why are you allowing this to happen and it is like a profound weakness that well we'd feel like bad people if we were to say we don't want junkies covered in [ __ ] right next to our outdoor dining you're like no that would just be reasonable well what they need is a reasonable plan to help these people if you really care if you really care you got to do something like you can't just let them exist everywhere and then in San Francisco the most recent bizarre one is they're going to give them alcohol they're going to give money and alcohol what is it is they are they giving them actual booze or they giving them money to buy booze help me out with this one because it's just so San Francisco San Francisco is amazing I lived there in the 70s I lived there during the Vietnam War when I was a little kid it was incredible it was weird I'm sure like it shaped it shaped the way I view things cuz like if I had grown up in like a very conservative environment with like my sensibilities like my hard work ethic and my belief that you know you get very fortunate in life in like how your your gifted thing like how you get lucky like if you're beautiful for instance if you're a beautiful woman or man you're what a rle of the dice I mean good Lord good Lord did you kill it in the [ __ ] genetic lottery I mean you can't do anything about that you can't earn that you can't go out and get Beauty you know but after that whatever hand you you've given you've been given a lot of it is on you a lot of it is on you yeah yeah yeah terrible things happen to people yeah yeah yeah violence happens crime happens disease happens yes 100% Misfortune happens 100% we're all anyone listening to this right now is lucky you can hear okay there's people that can't hear right but put that aside and there's a factor that we need to take into consideration that factor is discipline that factor is hard work that factor is focus and we should cherish that and we we we shouldn't think of it only as negative because it always people always think it manifests itself in greed and in callous disregard for other people's lives but that's not necessarily true they're not mutually exclusive like you can have discipline and be a kind person and be a compassionate person and be a liberal person but so often liberals in in this country they do not want to take that into consideration that discipline is a factor conservatives always value discipline they value hard work that's why when they want to sell [ __ ] to those people what do they do they show a guy on a farm cracking open a beer a guy who's just been working his [ __ ] ass off for 10 hours a day cracking up here around here it's all just about hard work and the guy just throwing back a cold one you know I mean that's what they're selling you they're selling you hard work they're not selling you you know this poor farmer you know who's born into farming life and it's not Equitable or Fair while there's billionaires out there just make money trading money and it's [ __ ] and we need to distribute wealth and like no no that's not the answer either stupid like that's not the answer but you do need programs to get these people out of homelessness and you can't just encourage them to keep doing it it's bad for them it's bad for you it's bad for the city it's bad for property values it's bad for everything yep I couldn't agree more San Francisco gives actual alcohol we're not talking rubbing alcohol here right they're talking like oh they're so good they're so good they SP but these are the old hippies they're still there they're wearing masks right now while they're listening to this screaming they're they're all lost see the like to to your point it's like uh look it'd be ridiculous if if someone just completely dismissed the first part of what you were saying like that there are some things that fortune luck you know we all didn't get leukemia as little kids and die shot a drive by as little kid and also there are just parts of the world like a lot of what you're saying really applies to like first world Advanced countries you could be in a country that's just a war torn third world country and you're screwed no matter what you do um but so it' be silly to dismiss that but it's also equally ridiculous to dismiss the other aspect to it that like okay there are every person every single person who's successful has con conquered uh self-pity cuz like everybody's had points in their lives where they've just felt really bad for themselves we've all had it we all do it it's a part of human nature that's right but it's also poison and anybody who's successful has learned how to conquer that and not just sit here and feel bad for yourself and to say nope I'm going to take control of this I'm gonna no matter what happened to me that I'm going to not focus on that I'm going to focus on what I can control and the problem is that on on either side if you dismiss one of them you you come to really stupid conclusions 100% [Music]