BREAKING NEWS - The LA fires are an epitaph for Democrat misrule.
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It seems unfair to blame politicians for natural disasters. Yet try saying that today to the people of Los Angeles. For more than a decade, the Democratic figures who run the state of California have bleated on about the perils of global warming and the failure of their Republican opponents to prevent a climate catastrophe. Yet now LA County is ablaze, five people are dead, 130,000 have been ordered to evacuate their homes, and it’s increasingly clear that the Democrats have spent years stubbornly, almost vindictively neglecting to protect citizens from severe weather.
LA Mayor Karen Bass swanned off on a diplomatic junket to Ghana and only reappeared on Wednesday afternoon, to be greeted by a TV reporter as she stepped off the plane. Would she apologise for her absence? Why had she cut her fire department’s budget by $20 million in spite of warnings from fire chiefs that their teams would be unable to cope with an emergency? Would she resign? Nope, no comment.
Last month, Bass had promised: “We are making significant investments... to ensure our city continues to weather the impacts of climate change and maintain access to critical life services of water and power.”
Yet power outages are now happening across Southern California and severe water shortages have made it almost impossible for firefighters to stop the burning. Californians, who pay the highest rate of taxation in the US and whose state shares 850 miles of coastline with the Pacific Ocean, are understandably asking why the response to the fires has been on a par with a landlocked developing country.
Across America, too, voters are seeing the unfolding horror as a fitting epitaph to the Biden presidency, which spent far too much time and resources pursuing politically correct causes at the expense of competent or even sane governance. Democrats are supposed to make government work, yet their wasteful incompetence has turned California from one of America’s best states into arguably its worst.
Official Californian programmes focused on reducing the number of white male firefighters, as if anybody cares about the skin or sex of the person with the hose when their house is immolating. The Californian governor, Gavin Newsom, regularly touted as the next Democratic presidential nominee, has often tried to present himself as more pragmatic than his peers. In 2019, he promised to revamp the state’s emergency response systems. Yet he then slashed some $150 million from the state’s wildfire prevention budget, even as he kept some 90 per cent of the state’s $50 billion climate budget.
“Gavin Newscum [sic] should resign,” declared Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform yesterday. “This is all his fault!!!” The President-elect’s critics immediately accused him of playing politics with tragedy. Yet Trump, thanks to his extensive experience with real estate and golf courses, actually has quite a sophisticated understanding of land management. For a long time, he has raised the alarm over the shortcomings of California fire management systems, only to be dismissed by Democrats as a raving fool.
In his first term as president, Trump demanded that Newsom stop listening to the concerns of environmentalists and conduct more controlled burns and forest sweeps to remove deadwood, measures that could have prevented much of the carnage now taking place. He’s also regularly criticised California for redirecting much of its abundant water supply into the Pacific Ocean in order to protect “a tiny little fish”, the smelt. Ecologists and media fact-checkers are currently debating the veracity of that claim. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is burning like hell and the fire hydrants are empty.
California remains solidly Democratic, yet the state government’s myopic obsession with climate change has impoverished its residents in all sorts of other ways. The home of Silicon Valley – the most powerful driver of wealth on the planet – fails to teach basic literacy to a majority of its children. Today, the so-called Sunshine State has one America’s highest rates of unemployment, shocking amounts of dire poverty and huge net outmigration as more economically mobile residents flee to better ruled states, such as Republican-controlled Florida.
Donald Trump believes that, by the end of his second term, Californians will embrace his America First agenda. That may be wishful thinking. It’s increasingly evident, however, that under the control of Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom and the climate change lobby, California came last.
LA Mayor Karen Bass swanned off on a diplomatic junket to Ghana and only reappeared on Wednesday afternoon, to be greeted by a TV reporter as she stepped off the plane. Would she apologise for her absence? Why had she cut her fire department’s budget by $20 million in spite of warnings from fire chiefs that their teams would be unable to cope with an emergency? Would she resign? Nope, no comment.
Last month, Bass had promised: “We are making significant investments... to ensure our city continues to weather the impacts of climate change and maintain access to critical life services of water and power.”
Yet power outages are now happening across Southern California and severe water shortages have made it almost impossible for firefighters to stop the burning. Californians, who pay the highest rate of taxation in the US and whose state shares 850 miles of coastline with the Pacific Ocean, are understandably asking why the response to the fires has been on a par with a landlocked developing country.
Across America, too, voters are seeing the unfolding horror as a fitting epitaph to the Biden presidency, which spent far too much time and resources pursuing politically correct causes at the expense of competent or even sane governance. Democrats are supposed to make government work, yet their wasteful incompetence has turned California from one of America’s best states into arguably its worst.
Official Californian programmes focused on reducing the number of white male firefighters, as if anybody cares about the skin or sex of the person with the hose when their house is immolating. The Californian governor, Gavin Newsom, regularly touted as the next Democratic presidential nominee, has often tried to present himself as more pragmatic than his peers. In 2019, he promised to revamp the state’s emergency response systems. Yet he then slashed some $150 million from the state’s wildfire prevention budget, even as he kept some 90 per cent of the state’s $50 billion climate budget.
“Gavin Newscum [sic] should resign,” declared Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform yesterday. “This is all his fault!!!” The President-elect’s critics immediately accused him of playing politics with tragedy. Yet Trump, thanks to his extensive experience with real estate and golf courses, actually has quite a sophisticated understanding of land management. For a long time, he has raised the alarm over the shortcomings of California fire management systems, only to be dismissed by Democrats as a raving fool.
In his first term as president, Trump demanded that Newsom stop listening to the concerns of environmentalists and conduct more controlled burns and forest sweeps to remove deadwood, measures that could have prevented much of the carnage now taking place. He’s also regularly criticised California for redirecting much of its abundant water supply into the Pacific Ocean in order to protect “a tiny little fish”, the smelt. Ecologists and media fact-checkers are currently debating the veracity of that claim. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is burning like hell and the fire hydrants are empty.
California remains solidly Democratic, yet the state government’s myopic obsession with climate change has impoverished its residents in all sorts of other ways. The home of Silicon Valley – the most powerful driver of wealth on the planet – fails to teach basic literacy to a majority of its children. Today, the so-called Sunshine State has one America’s highest rates of unemployment, shocking amounts of dire poverty and huge net outmigration as more economically mobile residents flee to better ruled states, such as Republican-controlled Florida.
Donald Trump believes that, by the end of his second term, Californians will embrace his America First agenda. That may be wishful thinking. It’s increasingly evident, however, that under the control of Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom and the climate change lobby, California came last.
