Elon Musk would love you to know that he’s so scared of people that use medicine that he needs President Donald Trump to ship lively obligation troops to San Francisco to cease the “drug zombie apocalypse.”
Setting apart for the second that navy troops aren’t truly a technique to clear up San Francisco’s entrenched problems with homelessness and substance use problems, that is wealthy coming from Musk, who’s just about himself a one-man drug zombie apocalypse. As Musk’s time on the faux Division of Authorities Effectivity got here to an finish, The New York Instances found out it was maybe lastly time to run some tales about how the one that had mainly held the reins of presidency as shadow president for months was truly zonked out of his gourd the entire time.
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Not that we actually wanted the Instances to be taught this, as the remainder of us noticed him present as much as CPAC, wielding a chainsaw whereas protecting his sun shades on, which it’s a must to admit appears extra like a drug zombie apocalypse than no matter Musk is sad about concerning San Francisco. Or who might neglect his farewell press convention from the Oval Workplace, full with jaws snapping and eyes rolling, a tour de pressure of disassociation? Or smoking weed stay on Joe Rogan’s present?
Okay, positive, however that’s Musk. The individuals struggling on the streets of San Francisco aren’t Musk, so that they’ve gotta go.
Musk’s name for San Francisco to be occupied by the navy comes on the heels of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff saying that the Nationwide Guard might assist scale back crime: “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it.”
Marc, the remainder of us aren’t all for having lively obligation navy carry out civilian legislation enforcement duties on account of how that violates the Posse Comitatus Act. The navy shouldn’t be allowed to be a roving police pressure. You don’t truly need the navy to be a roving police pressure, we guarantee you. That kind of factor doesn’t have a tendency to finish up nicely for anybody.
And, once more, the half the place it’s unlawful, not that these masters-of-the-universe varieties care.
Additionally, these dudes don’t even go right here. Benioff lives in Hawaii and may’t even say what number of days he spends in San Francisco annually. Musk just lately, and really showily, offered off lots of his California actual property holdings and moved to Texas, for freedom.
These guys aren’t truly eager about addressing problems with homelessness and dependancy. They’re eager about hurting individuals, and man, have they got the administration to make that occur.
Even with out the spectre of armed troops attacking unhoused San Franciscans, the administration has already made positive to hurt them and everybody else equally located. Companies and funding for psychological well being and substance use remedy simply took one other hit from this administration, which has used the shutdown to put off much more staff on the Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Companies Administration. They’ve additionally slashed funding for drug remedy and prevention to the bone.
If there have been a real curiosity in exhibiting care to unhoused individuals in San Francisco scuffling with substance use dysfunction, these issues could be funded. As a substitute, these Silicon Valley varieties simply can’t comprise their bloodlust. They need boots on the bottom and boots on the neck of these struggling, and it’s gross.
