The liberal policies of the Democrats running the state of California and city of Los Angeles have made the fire problem there much worse than it should have been. This is the season of the Santa Ana Winds, and California should have been prepared. The problem begins with the failure to implement solid forestry practices to clear the brush that fuels those fires, something once common but now usually neglected by Democrat politicians.
Who is in charge? The LA fire chief is a DEI hire, a lesbian activist more interested in promoting the DEI agenda than building solid competence in fighting fires. The mayor of Los Angeles is AWOL in Ghana. And what about their resources. That mayor who is over in Africa instead of at home dealing with the fires cut $20 million from Los Angeles fire department's budget this year. The fire department is short staffed because during the Covid distatorship, they fired scores of firefighters who refused the Covid injections and have not offered them their jobs back.
The resovoir that feeds the city's fire hydrants was not filled this year, so fire fighters often find hydrants with no water. This is fire season with the Santa Ana Winds, so those should have been topped up, ready to go. They weren't.
These massive Democrat screwups will likely make this the most expensive fire in American history. Will it break the insurance companies? Or will it drive them out of the California market?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/la-mayor-karen-bass-hangs-her-head-shame/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14267067/Los-Angeles-California-fires-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html
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Big Bob said:
( January 10th, 2025 @ 2:37 pm )
The Pizzagate guy was shot and killed by NC police this morning.
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It just keeps coming out on these feckless California Democrats. That liberal mayor had actually pushed a $23 million budget cut for the fire deparment, but finally agreed to only a $17.6 million cut. She was warned those cuts would lead to risk of disaster from a major fire, and, guess what, it has. The mayor was also warned of major fire danger conditions setting up before she jetted off on her taxpayer paid junket to Africa, but she went anyway.
Governor Newsome deliberately dumped the water in California's resevoirs into the Pacific Ocean back when rainfall had them full because of some obscure environmentalist argument, so the water was not there for the fire hydrants in fire season. The policy blunders are legion in this fiasco from the liberal Democrat politicians. |
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Big Bob: "Like Pizzagate, MAGA and reality just dont mix."
I let all people post here unless it is outright personal slander against real people; but truly, you need to limit this "Village Idiot" approach to debating real issues affecting real people. |
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It stood to reason that LIttle Bobbie would eventually get a far left talking point like that, and regurgitate it here. Look at my first comment on their thread two days ago. Now he has.
Let me explain some REAL climate science to Bobbie. Climate and weather involve a number of alternating climate cycles, some lasting months, some a year or two, and some for centuries. For California one set of cycles that is particularly important are the El Nino / La Nina cycles which rotate and tend to last a year or two, maybe three, and then reverse. An El Nino cycle which includes heavy rainfall just ended and a La Nina cycle with low rainfall and a propensity for higher winds just started earlier this year. California had a lot of rain from El Nino causing lots of brush to grow, followed by the drynees of La Nina that caused it to dry out, setting up a bigger fire danger. Add to that the La Nina propensity for higher winds when the annual and predictable Santa Anna Winds arrived, as they always do this time of year. This had NOTHING to do with CO2 and everything to do with the El Nino / La Nina cycle. The climate alarmist mafia are very predictable. The analogy to the medieval church for their pagan cult is a solid one. Anything bad that happens they want to jump up and blame on the fantasy "manmade climate change". These grifters are making billions off of this scam and they want to keep the gravy train rolling. They rely on low level know-nothing lemmings like Little Bobbie and Greta Thunberg to keep parroting their propaganda. |
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Like Pizzagate, MAGA and reality just dont mix.
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Today's Leftists have proven to be the most ignorant elected leaders in America's history, and locally elected RINOs aren't much better.
Be careful people who you elect because the Self-Governed get the governments they deserve. |
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I'll give it you. the best defense is a good offense. Don't like the effects of climate change? Pretend it doesn't exist and blame anything and everyone you can.
It's brilliant. |
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Those whose incompetence and ideological acts were responsible for this fire disaster SHOULD be blamed, and that type of politician should never be elected again.
I remember Jimmy Carter and his aptly named "Misery Index". I don't miss him or that one bit. |
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