one of the best Tim Pool videos ever

The following Tim Pool video now ranks as one of my favorites. In the vid, Pool takes on the sad prospect of bubonic plague raising its ugly head in Los Angeles which, like most large, Democrat-run cities, is steadily falling into ruin.


Pool makes some interesting and quotable points:

• mentally ill homeless people refuse to lodge in free shelters
• but the local govt thinks housing is the primary problem
• science denialism is on both sides of the political aisle
• Dr. Drew Pinksy: "We have a complete breakdown of the basic needs of civilization"
• Dr. Drew: we are one of the only cities in the country without a rodent-control program
• bubonic plague, typhus on the rise
• Nancy Pelosi's home district of San Francisco has an exploding homelessness problem
• homeless population increased by double-digit %ages in San Francisco areas over 2 years
• Tim Pool: "If this is what [Pelosi's] home district looks like, why should we listen to anything she has to say in terms of policy?" [I completely agree. —ed.]
• Megacorps with HQs in California are bulwarks of privilege in the midst of shit, poverty, and disease: "They're living in their ivory towers while their streets are littered with feces."
• is climate change part of the problem?
• Response 1: if yes, then maybe this is Nature's course correction
• Response 2: it probably isn't climate change: NYC has homeless problem but not disease
• Farhad Manjoo blames liberals who've abandoned core values (helping the poor, etc.)
• L.A. has cleaned up one alleyway to keep disease away from the produce district
• disease spread, loss of social cohesion, and science denial (dogmatism)
• article title: "Self-censorship on Campus is Bad for Science"—it's not just the conservatards
• Pool: "students are denying established biology in favor of social justice"
• Another article title: "The Left is Also Guilty of Unscientific Dogma"
• "Everyone denies science in certain ways."
• "Anti-science people... are all over the place... and they're becoming more prominent."
• [The left is] "impeding science while claiming to support it."
• It's not "a partisan thing to say that Democrats do not have a handle on these issues." Pool's point, there, is that Democrats have long had supermajorities in large cities, so the blame for policy failures must objectively fall on them because they're the ones who have been in power for a long time & thus have been in a position to fix these problems.

Pool himself is a liberal/leftist, but it's interesting to observe that many of the above points have been made on sites like Instapundit for years—especially the point about Democrat-run cities that all eventually turn into shitholes.

While not someone I'd immediately think of as an expert in social trends, Fabio—a long-time resident of California (now, he lives mostly in Washington State)—was on Fox News to talk about why he thinks the state is going under: