Yes, thank you to all the brave public servants who are risking their lives fighting these fires! I know from experience when I was sent to assist during the 9/11 how dedicated these people are. Thank you for shedding light on these unsung heroes!
"Trump is blaming fish. Musk is blaming diversity. Zuckerberg is now letting disinformation loose on Facebook. These madmen will further contaminate our country with falsehoods. We need the world to understand that CLIMATE CHANGE is the main cause of the fires. Only then can we prevent future disasters like this." However, with the greedy pigs running the show (a la "Animal Farm"), the truth is becoming ever harder for the general public to hear. It is horrifying.
Thank you for this! I am an evacuee of the Palisades fire and miraculously my house survived and I can actually see it in the picture you posted here!! Together we will rebuild! I love LA.
By now I’m quite sure you all realize I’m not a fan of Governor Newsom nor his policies. This is my thoughts on the tragedy that has and continues to unfold in Southern California.
One can feel sorrow and sympathy for the victims while simultaneously lighting a fire (no pun intended) under the asses of a handful of politicians who totally and unequivocally dropped the ball in demonstrably increasing the odds of this entire shit show coming to fruition.
Newsom has had his thumbs up his ass for the duration of his time in office making zero progress in implementing the $7.12 billion in Prop 1 monies raised a decade ago in part to upgrade the reservoirs and water systems necessary to fight Californias by now frequent wild fires. To date none have been built or upgraded in those ten years.
Add to that he cut the states fire fighting budget by $100 million in fiscal 2024.
The Mayor of LA, a DEI hire , cut the cities fire department budget last year by $22 million in the very heart of Californias wildfire region. She also sent surplus firefighting equipment to Ukraine at the behest of her President and his people.
The woman in charge of the LA waterworks Janisse Quinones is paid $750 million a year to manage the cities water infrastructure. She has known about the Pallisade Reservoir being offline for months with no apparent sense of urgency in getting it up and running even though it supplied the cities fire hydrants, (many of which were dry at the time of the fire.)
In 2019 officials from the Trump administration met with Newsom in regards to the need to implement serious forestry management practices in which brush is cleared, fire breaks installed, and controlled burns initiated to reduce the threat of wildfires. Newsome and friends predictably thumbed their noses at the advice because it didn’t jive with their green movements ideology of not cutting a single blade of grass less we upset nature. This is the price paid for that foolhardy policy decision.
Yes we can most definitely feel compassion and sorrow for the people and victims at the very same time we can feel deep hatred for those that screwed around and let those same people down by being criminally negligent.
The whole damn bunch of inept son of a bitches need to be fired and sued into the next century, not overlooked out of some sense of decorum initiated compassion.
Yes, thank you to all the brave public servants who are risking their lives fighting these fires! I know from experience when I was sent to assist during the 9/11 how dedicated these people are. Thank you for shedding light on these unsung heroes!
"Trump is blaming fish. Musk is blaming diversity. Zuckerberg is now letting disinformation loose on Facebook. These madmen will further contaminate our country with falsehoods. We need the world to understand that CLIMATE CHANGE is the main cause of the fires. Only then can we prevent future disasters like this." However, with the greedy pigs running the show (a la "Animal Farm"), the truth is becoming ever harder for the general public to hear. It is horrifying.
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Thank you for this! I am an evacuee of the Palisades fire and miraculously my house survived and I can actually see it in the picture you posted here!! Together we will rebuild! I love LA.
By now I’m quite sure you all realize I’m not a fan of Governor Newsom nor his policies. This is my thoughts on the tragedy that has and continues to unfold in Southern California.
One can feel sorrow and sympathy for the victims while simultaneously lighting a fire (no pun intended) under the asses of a handful of politicians who totally and unequivocally dropped the ball in demonstrably increasing the odds of this entire shit show coming to fruition.
Newsom has had his thumbs up his ass for the duration of his time in office making zero progress in implementing the $7.12 billion in Prop 1 monies raised a decade ago in part to upgrade the reservoirs and water systems necessary to fight Californias by now frequent wild fires. To date none have been built or upgraded in those ten years.
Add to that he cut the states fire fighting budget by $100 million in fiscal 2024.
The Mayor of LA, a DEI hire , cut the cities fire department budget last year by $22 million in the very heart of Californias wildfire region. She also sent surplus firefighting equipment to Ukraine at the behest of her President and his people.
The woman in charge of the LA waterworks Janisse Quinones is paid $750 million a year to manage the cities water infrastructure. She has known about the Pallisade Reservoir being offline for months with no apparent sense of urgency in getting it up and running even though it supplied the cities fire hydrants, (many of which were dry at the time of the fire.)
In 2019 officials from the Trump administration met with Newsom in regards to the need to implement serious forestry management practices in which brush is cleared, fire breaks installed, and controlled burns initiated to reduce the threat of wildfires. Newsome and friends predictably thumbed their noses at the advice because it didn’t jive with their green movements ideology of not cutting a single blade of grass less we upset nature. This is the price paid for that foolhardy policy decision.
Yes we can most definitely feel compassion and sorrow for the people and victims at the very same time we can feel deep hatred for those that screwed around and let those same people down by being criminally negligent.
The whole damn bunch of inept son of a bitches need to be fired and sued into the next century, not overlooked out of some sense of decorum initiated compassion.