Die Equally Intentionally.
It’s always what we’re not talking about anymore that matters, no drones, no west north Carolina fema failure…the spotlight moved as far away as possible from east coast and Biden’s pardons to LA. Maui fires was 2023 so CA stepped up…
Since Gavin Newsome became Governor, spent $24B to end homelessness. It increased by 40%...gone. money just gone. Now fires: every year they have fires but this was bad and preventable.
24 dead, incinerated 12k homes, cost $250B, says the media. And that nothing could be done because climate change. Nonsense, on New Years eve they had a Lachman fire and would have seen those empty reservoirs.
Here’s the timeline: On January 2 the National Weather Service warned of ‘extreme fire risk”, on January 3 Los Angeles held briefing the day Mayor Karen flew to Ghana. Newsome did not call guard until Friday.
Newsome & Bass could have done a very human intervention thing like mobilize firefighters before the fires began and filled the reservoir after record rains. Santa Ynez #2 in state has been empty over a year. Everyone knew. That is right near the Palisades fire, we call it Pali. Instead they flushed it into the ocean to save the little fish, delta smelt.
100 fire engines were in the shop so Canada and Mexico had to send troops and planes before even the national guard arrived.
Young people quit becoming firefighters, and despite catastrophic fires every 10 to 20 years in that region they let homeless addcits, they light meth with fires that become arson, sleep outside while they defunded fire like they did police. The number of calls has tripled over last 30 years, but staffing declined by 1/3. Money went to social workers instead and homeless, but like I said that money disappeared somewhere while homelessness is worse.
Bass wanted $25M cut from city budget, she got only $17M cut, Gavin’s budget was for $100M less for fire year over year. Can't blame Republicans that don't exist in California anyway, for those decisions.
The fire chief warned that lack of funding was creating staffing problems, and then of course she only hires lesbian women for all the top jobs as part of her own DEI agenda, and the gal in charge of water, $750k/year, highest paid official in CA came from PG&E, which went bankrupt for taking the blame for powerlines causing the last catastrophic fires. Talk about failing up…but the fire hydrants are piped into the same water system as drinking water so water pressure and ability to water gardens has suffured for years.
Also, the smart meters everyone loves so much, part of the 'Green New Deal", they are hooked to cooper throughout the house and go from whatever room temperature is to 2000 Degrees in a second and is to blame for a lot of houses that burned up, allegedly, while their neighbors not hooked up are still standing.
Next will be heavy rain and mud slides they aren’t prepared for either, and of course State Farm just last year cancelled insurance policies in the area because government said they were charging too much so like with all price controls they said forget it, it isn't worth it and left the state. Like a good neighbor they aren't there.
It’s also a sanctuary state, and Gavin and the legislature, while fires are still burning mind you, under 20% contained and threatening Brentwood, they passed a $50M slush fund to protect illegals from Trump. Its’ the large homeless illegal population that sets these outdoor fires, usually meth addicts they won’t arrest and get help for, so last count 66 people were arrested for arson and the mug shots all look Hispanic to me. These are the people they let out on no bail or have 50 arrest wrap sheets and still get let out by weak judges and the old DA Garcon but the new Republican seems to actually be prosecuting so there’s hope. Bass and Newsome must go however if CA is ever going to recover. They released the suspect arrested for looting former California Senator, Vice President and President for United States Kamala Harris' house...nobody is safe.
Mel Gibson, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Paris Hilton, actors Sir Anthony Hopkins, Billy Crystal, John Goodman and Anna Faris, dozens. Interesting thing about billy Crystal, he and Whoopie Goldberg and Robin Williams, rest his soul, did that whole Comic Relief to raise money for homeless back in the day, but it was actually bad because it made it about poverty and it’s sometimes that, but mostly drug addiction and again, all that money raised disappeared once liberal politicians got their hands on it.
As fires raged, Bass, a social worker and former physician assistant, a lover of Fidel Castro's Cuba, was in Ghana for the swearing in of the first women vice president, at a cocktail party…so her Marxist female ideology was more important than saving her city. As of 2023, the Los Angeles Mayor earned a salary of $304,434. And the water gal $750,000
I like to note, the average life guard, like the ones on Bay Watch, remember that? 118 of them earn $300-510k a year, can retire at 55 on 79% of their pay. They won’t tell you how many there are but CA Parks operates the largest in the world, 600+ so it ain’t nothing. That’s why no money for cops, firemen, sorry firepeople or water….and remember, during Covid they arrested surfers out there alone so even those high salary guys got paid to do nothing when beaches closed.
The billionaire that ran against Bass, republican real estate developer, ironically his Pali mall is still standing because he ordered private fire and water to save his stuff. Too bad everyone couldn’t do that.
Oh, and one final thing, the mayor’s deputy for public safety, Brian Williams, was on leave because the FBI raided his home in connection with a bomb threat he made against city hall, can’t write this stuff in a movie…too ridiculous to be believable. And Rachel Malarich, chief LA office of forest management says her goal is tree equity and equitable access to trees. So she’s likley out of a job no longer needed since the trees are all burned. I posted the salaries on my twitter @heartlandjournal. It’s criminal how much wasted on idiots.
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