it would be cool if it took out the tv broadcast capability.
Separately, just saw JPM estimates $50B in losses so far.
Los Angeles On Fire
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Separately, just saw JPM estimates $50B in losses so far.
Over the next few weeks you’re going to hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there’s nothing that could have been done to prevent the fires from destroying Los Angeles.
Those will be lies. They could have prevented them. Governor Newsom cut the funding for preventing forest fires and failed to build sufficient water resources for fighting fires. Mayor Karen Bass cut $17.5 million in funding for the Los Angeles Fire Department and then went to Ghana even though she knew of the risk of catastrophic fires.
It’s true that California, in general, and Los Angeles, in particular, are fiery places. It’s true that the Santa Ana winds made the fires worse.
But Newsom and Bass have known about those hazards for all of their careers and failed to deal with them. Their rank incompetence and lack of leadership are shocking and scandalous.
It’s hard to overstate how badly they screwed up water management. LA firefighters haven’t had the water they needed. Newsom hasn’t built the new water reservoirs that Los Angeles needed. And Newsom even cut the budget for water infrastructure projects last year.
Why is that? Part of the reason is that they were focused on other things. Making the fire department more racially diverse. Climate change. Homelessness.
And the reason they were focused on those things is because those are what the radical Left that controls the Democratic party wanted them to focus on.
Year after year, they do nothing while focusing on things like trans and Trump and climate and ignoring the things that really matter to the people of California.
The Democrats in California aren’t like Democrats in other states. They are radicals. I would know, since when I was a young radical I moved to California for that reason.
As many of us get older, we become more moderate. We become more practical. We understand firefighters and police officers are necessary. We are reminded of the importance of things like safe streets and hard work and good schools.
But more than that, I saw the consequences of radical progressive policies on the environment, homelessness, crime, education, water, and everything else. Violent criminals, in particular, are devouring Los Angeles, Oakland, and the rest of California.
The people who control the Democratic Party in California worship books about Los Angeles, like City of Quartz by the Marxist author Mike Davis. In that book, Davis claims that the problem in Los Angeles is that too much money goes to things like firefighting to protect wealthy neighborhoods.
They did the same thing on crime and homelessness. They failed to provide adequate funding to the police. They weakened the laws that allowed for burglaries and robberies. They subsidized homelessness, attracting homeless people from around the United States to camp illegally and start fires.
Over half of the fires in places like Los Angeles and Oakland are caused by the homeless committing arson, often out of some petty revenge.
We don’t know what started all of the fires, but at least one started within the housing subdivision. Others may have started in the interface between housing and wildlands. Or it could have been started by the homeless.
Whatever the case, California and LA didn’t invest enough in preventing fires because they were distracted by radical Left causes.
When Rick Caruso ran for Mayor against Karen Bass, he called for increasing the fire department’s budget.
A big part of the reason he lost is simply because he was white. I watched focus groups in 2022 and the most racist people were white liberals in Los Angeles. When they discussed the mayoral race, the white people overwhelmingly said they couldn’t vote for a white man and had to vote for a black woman because she was black.
The Latino men and women in separate focus groups were much less racist. They wanted to know about their policies.
It was the radical Left that invented the racist idea that white people alive today should feel guilty about things white people did in the past. Racist white guilt led people in Los Angeles and California to vote against a guy who would have prevented those fires.
And so, over the next few weeks, when you hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there’s nothing they could have done to prevent the fires from destroying Los Angeles, don’t believe them.
It’s time for California to grow up and move beyond the juvenile Leftism that has destroyed the state and destroyed Los Angeles. We can’t trust our leaders to run anything. It’s not just incompetence. It’s that they really don’t care.
It’s time for Californians to demand new leaders — ones who aren’t beholden to the radicals who control the Democratic Party. .
What would be good about locals not being able to get updates from TV?
The person you posted is a moron/liar and so are you for reposting this shit.
That assertion is wrong. The city was in the process of negotiating a new contract with the fire department at the time the budget was being crafted, so additional funding for the department was set aside in a separate fund until that deal was finalized in November. In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle, according to Blumenfield’s office, although overall concerns about the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years.
But then, you've never given a shit whether or not the garbage you post is factual.
the fact that they otherwise wouldn't be able to see reruns of 3's Company.
the kids stream everything today anyway. who watches broadcast local news?
You fvcking dolts love a good conspiracy
Ha, I didnt even look at that, I noticed the playboy mansion. I didn't even read it.
This is what i saw:
Protect that mansion at all costs
As far as I know NBC, ABC and CBS don't show 3's Company.
Who will watch it? Anyone trying to keep track of evacuations in the area. Broadband infrastructure may burn up but anyone can access OTA feeds.
But keep being glib, I'm sure it's funny from NoVa.
It's definitely needed around these parts!
Edit to add that that was the perfect meme to use as well haha
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You would be incorrect. My cousin was out there last year, doing controlled burn with them. That’s his job in FL.
They were joined by many others from different parts of the country to help with the controlled burn.
But I wouldn’t expect someone of your IQ to comprehend such a concept.
They were joined by many others from different parts of the country to help with the controlled burn.
But I wouldn’t expect someone of your IQ to comprehend such a concept.
You wonder why you contend for WPOTY? Really? Let that sink in. Worst. Worst.
As I have often said, anyone with half a brain can take a virtually unlimited number of completely unrelated data points and weave them into a plausibly coherent conspiracy theory. I suspect that this could be expressed in some integral calculus formula, but it's been way too long since I took integral calculus to take a crack at it.
(For a classic book exemplifying this, check out Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.)
wait....people are taking you seriously on this?Ha, I didnt even look at that, I noticed the playboy mansion. I didn't even read it.
This is what i saw:
Joe, I have to hand it to you, the ability to completely ignore the stupidity of building a giant concrete heat reflector, aka huge city, at the end of a desert is the perfect justification for climate change... as emphasized by heating... meanwhile at roughly the exact same north/south Dallas is getting crushed with snow... but that's different.
Climate change is real, and the assholes that are changing it the most are the assholes putting the silver in the clouds so we get more rainfall.
Climate change is real, and the assholes that are changing it the most are the assholes putting the silver in the clouds so we get more rainfall.
You got snubbed on POTY this year fwiw. If you weren't a lefty you didn't make the cut.
No, I think most people are smart enough to realize my single track mind saw "boobs" (PBM) and hit send.
i just assumed there wasn't a "second" to the nomination, which I humbly appreciated
Everyone around you burnt to the ground and it appears nothing touched them.
So what’s your solution? China, India and Russia aren’t slowing down any time soon. Taxing your neighbors pick up truck sure as hell isn’t gonna do it and there is no viable “ clean energy” alternative yet.
LOL at this post. If something bad happens in Iowa, you would be the first one on here complaining about the lack of planning or public safety infrastructure.
It is amazing how people's reaction are based on if the state is on their "team"
Lmao. Sure thing Fluffer Joe: Pharma Hoe.
The only thing ‘sciencey’ you post is statements claiming you’ve already posted the science. But you don’t. Because you’re a liar.
Stick to posting emotional, shrieking rants from all the Karens you follow on BlueSky. They supply all the ‘science’ you can handle. 😩
You are such a loser. You certainly don't care is anything you post is factual. Just a pathetic human being you are
Coincidence? I think not. And again with teh boobs.Imagine being one of these people:
Everyone around you burnt to the ground and it appears nothing touched them.
(Time to acquire that back yard for the pool that you always wanted.)
Thanks for your valuable contribution.
Scintillating as ever.
Actually, China is adopting renewables faster than any country on Earth.
Simply requiring CO2 taxes/tariffs on products made with fossil fuels would further incentivize both to change much much faster.
In case you were unaware, those "Cap And Trade" options were Republican proposals back in the 1990s....
So you have no "alternate" theories.
You're way out of your element on this science topic as well.
BAU
I love when North Florida/South Ga people feel superior over west coast wildfires. "We do controlled burns here cause we're smart". We practically live in a freaking rainforest here also. Minor difference.
For comparison, Tallahassee gets 60 inches of rain per year. Los Angeles gets 14. Stuff here doesn't burn easily.
You should see the "controlled" burn methods here also. Start a bunch of fires and leave. Try that in dry areas of the country.
My wife's cousin lost his house. His kid's school gone.
The funny thing is, the leftist ilk of shut-in morons posting here under the delusion they are somehow "liberal elites," believe the climate/weather can be fixed/channeled/"saved" if we spend enough money, however, there was absolutely nothing that could be done about the little old LA fires despite the massive competence and leadership of all comrades involved. Just try to wrap your head around that level of bat shit crazy! But Trump......
