@amuse on X - "CRIME: The fact that California DAs don’t think looting should be a felony except during emergencies IS the problem. Looting should never be considered acceptable."
Governor Newsom on X - "Today, I signed an executive order prohibiting greedy land developers from ripping off LA wildfire victims with unsolicited, undervalued offers to buy their destroyed property. Make no mistake — this is a prosecutable crime."
Ben Shapiro on X - "Homeowner: Oh no, my house burned down!
Developer: Hey, I'll offer you $2M for your torched piece of land that won't be livable for years.
Newsom: STOP THAT RIGHT NOW YOU GREEDY LAND DEVELOPER WITH YOUR UNSOLICITED OFFER TO PAY THIS FIRE VICTIM MONEY"
Newsom, California Dems Reach $50M Deal To Fight Trump As L.A. Burns - "As some of the most destructive fires in Los Angeles County history continue to rage, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democrat-controlled state legislature on Sunday agreed to set aside $50 million to fight the Trump administration and defend illegal immigrants."
Brilliant! They can blame Trump for distracting them and thus making the wildfires worse, and their credulous base will lap it up
“Disgraceful”: Adult Star Slammed For Offering LA Firefighters A Date Night For Their Heroic Efforts - "Richelle Ryan, who initially went viral for her support of Donald Trump, spoke up in a recent interview about her desire to be a “sugar mama” to all the brave first responders handling the disasters."
Meme - Donald J. Trump: "The actual irony... A home owner consents to pay property taxes that will go to the fire department. The funds are diverted to illegal immigrants because LA is a Sanctuary City. An illegal immigrant comes and sets your house on fire and the fire department doesn't have the resources to put it out. The home owner paid for their own destruction. On top of that, the government is so inept that the insurance companies won't insure houses here anymore, so the home owner is left with nothing."
Michael Shellenberger on X - "California is the richest state with the highest taxes and yet it cut funding for firefighting, which led directly to L.A.'s catastrophic fires. Why? Because Newsom & Bass diverted billions from preventing and fighting catastrophic fires to migrants, homeless, and climate."
Libs of TikTok on X - "If you want to understand how evil California Democrat leadership is: Elon Musk send starlink to Los Angeles, and Gavin Newscum and Karen Bass attacked him. Bass refused Elon’s help for her burning city because it came from someone who supports Trump. Democrats put politics over their constituents’ wellbeing during a wildfire. Just evil."
Avery Warwick on X - "I interviewed a Los Angeles firefighter with 20+ years of service. The truths I found are harrowing. @GavinNewsom ordered the removal of @elonmusk from the command post, and ordered the Cal Fire firefighters to return all donated startlinks. The firefighters ran out of water in the palisades. The fire department was not consulted on the draining of the palisades reservoir. There were insufficient hydrants in the palisades..too far apart, and the incorrect diameter for sufficient water flow. “We could have saved more homes if we had more water”"
Daily Mail Online on X - "Julia Roberts says 'f*** you' to looters as $10M homes continue to be robbed during LA fires"
Matt Walsh on X - "I thought looting was the language of the unheard?"
Meme - Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree: "Heart breaks for this Palisades neighborhood. Fuck Trump."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Joe Biden is currently President of the United States. Donald Trump is currently a private citizen."
Meme - Martina Navratilova: "When did you ever hear a democrat say well, we will give them aid only if they do this and that since it's a red state- I will tell you when- NEVER! The republicans are disgraceful."
Doug Powers @ThePowersThatBe: "Who wants to tell her? (Screen capped because she has me blocked)
Yeah, nobody's ever heard of a Democrat doing anything like that!"
"FEMA employee fired for telling workers to ignore homes of Trump supporters during hurricane relief efforts"
Meme - Martina Navratilova @Martina: "And you need to go somewhere else. Fema has never been political"
"Ahead of FEMA chief's testimony to Congress, fired worker tells CNN she was following protocol when skipping Trump homes"
Laura Powell on X - "Last year, State Farm canceled 1,600 policies in Pacific Palisades because the state would not allow them to raise premiums enough to cover their exposure. The affected homeowners would then likely have to rely on the state-run FAIR Plan, an expensive last-resort insurance program. But the FAIR Plan reportedly only had a surplus of $200 million as of April 2024 and was likely to become insolvent if a catastrophic event occurred. Governor Newsom goes around posturing about politics instead of trying to solve urgent problems. Our state government takes billions of dollars from hard-working Californians and provides barely anything in return. An unconscionable failure.
What happens when the FAIR Plan becomes insolvent? The insurers who haven’t already left the state are required to bail the program out. The loss will be passed on as a surcharge to all the homeowners in the state. Living in California is about to get even more unaffordable."
California Was Already in Home-Insurance Crisis Before Los Angeles Infernos - WSJ - "California is the biggest home-insurance market in the U.S. but also one of the toughest for companies to navigate. The state accounted for eight of the 10 costliest U.S. wildfires through last year, after adjusting for inflation, according to Aon. Despite those risks, its consumer-friendly laws for decades kept home-insurance rates relatively low, compared with the national average, industry data show. Leading insurers have pulled back from the state, leaving many in the path of the fires with only bare-bones insurance provided by a state-sponsored insurer of last resort—or worse, no insurance at all. Even before the fires were sparked, millions of homeowners in the Golden State, especially those in the path of the L.A. infernos, faced double-digit insurance-rate increases, nonrenewals or a dearth of any available private coverage. Leading insurers, including State Farm and Allstate, have stopped selling new home-insurance policies in the state, saying rate increases approved by regulators were insufficient to cover their losses, including from the devastating wildfires of 2017 and 2018."
Left wingers like to mock people with homes in floodplains and say insurers shouldn't insure those houses. But when the shoe is on the other foot...
Thread by @cremieuxrecueil on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) handicaps energy developers and subjects them to a stifling bureaucratic process that is preventing them from building the energy infrastructure America needs to get and stay ahead of its geopolitical rivals. 🧵
NEPA means review. If you want to build something, the environmental impact has to be assessed. You need an environmental impact statement, and it can take a long time to deal with those. So long, in fact, that many projects just shut down. These projects are not one-offs either. In fact, most solar and pipeline projects get hit by environmental impact statements, and large portions of them are canceled after putting up with the delays.
Often when we talk about the government impeding progress, we talk about invisible graveyards. For example, in the 1980s, it was alleged that the FDA created an invisible graveyard of gay men who couldn't get sufficient medical treatment for HIV as a result of agency decisions.
With NEPA, it's harder to see what the regulations cause us to miss out on because the graves aren't usually so literal. But we have something very close: wildfires. I'm sure some of you will remember when the sky over San Francisco turned an eerie red. Destructive wildfires are unfortunately common in the U.S., but they don't have to be Sadly, when the Forest Service applies to treat more forest to prevent wildfires, they have to undergo NEPA review, delaying their ability to do their jobs. Result? Flammable, overgrown woods.
The irony of the "National Environmental Policy Act" is that it is killing the environment. Entrepreneurs and the government alike want to do things to make the U.S. a greener, safer, and less polluted place, but NEPA has made that process arduous and often impossible. Like the Jones Act, NEPA must be fixed."
Matthew Zeitlin on X - "an actual interesting issue re: fires is how our existing environmental laws, namely NEPA and the Clean Air Act, make it harder to prescribed burns because of their default setting against doing anything/specifically doing combustion"
Thread by @tahrajirari on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Yup. When the Forest Service identifies high-risk forests needing prescribed burns, it takes an average of 4.7 YEARS just to get through environmental reviews. For complex projects, it's 7.2 years - longer than many fire cycles. When environmental lawsuits get involved, prescribed burns take avg. 9.4 years vs 6.8 years without litigation. Meanwhile, 80M acres need urgent treatment. The system meant to protect forests is watching them burn while waiting on paperwork.
tl;dr: NEPA and excessive environmental review will burn us down if we do not act to streamline permitting and review periods."
Damn climate change! Damn Trump! Clearly the solution is even more environmental regulation
Clay Travis on X - "California governor Gavin Newsom is asked why the fire hydrants have no water. Says he doesn’t know, local people will have to figure it out. California “leadership” is a disgrace:"
Thread by @AndrewKerrNC on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "NEW: Gavin Newsom disbanded a highly trained team of certified firefighters in early 2024 — a move that left his National Guard incapable of sending a complete firefighting force to Los Angeles until 10 days after the fires broke out. This story is wild, read this🧵to the end
First, some background. The California State Guard is an all-volunteer militia force that reports directly to Newsom, its commander in chief. In 2020, the State Guard launched Team Blaze. It was an on-call strike force staffed entirely with certified volunteer firefighters, all at virtually no cost to the state. Team Blaze was effective. It battled the 2021 Dixie Fire, the largest single-source wildfire in California state history. The team also performed search-and-rescue missions during that fire. Team Blaze came at virtually no cost to California. Its certified volunteer firefighters attended regular trainings at their own expense. An outside charity procured much of the team's firefighting equipment at no cost to the state. California only paid Team Blaze when it was activated to fight a fire.
But in 2023, the Newsom administration barred Team Blaze from receiving free firefighting equipment from its charitable benefactor. You read that right: the Newsom administration in 2023 deemed it illegal for an outside charity to provide free firefighting equipment to the certified volunteer firefighters under Newsom's command. More on this later in the thread. In 2024, the Newsom administration shut down Team Blaze. Team Blaze had to return its equipment to the state, most its firefighters quit, and those that remained were transferred to serve as reserves for another unit called Task Force Rattlesnake. Task Force Rattlesnake maintains a standing force of "hotshot" Type I handcrews trained to carry out the most dangerous wildfire duties. Type I handcrews put out wildfires where they stand, but they count on the support of Type II handcrews working behind them to prevent the fires from spreading further. Team Blaze maintained a standing force of Type II handcrews. And when the Newsom admin disbanded Team Blaze, the California National Guard was left with no standing force of Type II handcrews. They simply didn't exist when the flames broke out in Los Angeles on Jan. 7.
As Los Angeles burned, the California National Guard sent 200 soldiers to Camp Roberts—situated 220 miles north of the burning city—to be trained how to perform the duties of a Type II handcrew. Those 200 soldiers didn't arrive in Los Angeles until Jan. 17 — some 10 days after the fires broke out. The California National Guard posted these facts in a now-deleted Facebook post on Jan. 17. But that's okay, because the @FreeBeacon saved the video before the Newsom administration deleted it. You can watch it here.
The founder of Team Blaze, former State Guard commanding general Jay Coggan, said the unit could have been on the ground in Los Angeles within hours of the fire's outbreak if it hadn't been disbanded in 2024. "Our people were already trained to do this," Coggan said. "They could have done a lot. Not only could they have responded quickly, they could have made the regular firefighters more mobile. They could have brought water up to some of the houses and the hills. They could have rescued people. There’s a lot they could have done." Team Blaze's days were numbered after Newsom appointed Major Gen. Matt Beevers to serve as acting Adjutant General of the California National Guard in August 2022. Beevers was no fan of Coggan, allegedly referring to him as a "kike lawyer" during a private June 2022 conversation I reported last year. Beevers cut a critical line of funding for Team Blaze in January 2023, issuing a ruling prohibiting it from accepting "gifts" from the California State Guard Foundation. The foundation was a charity run by Coggan that provided firefighting equipment for the force and covered the training costs for its volunteers — no strings attached and all at no cost to the state. That Beevers ruling can be read in full below. The "gifts" from Coggan's charity include a $13,600 payment in December 2022 to cover the cost to train Team Blaze firefighters to operate its five firefighting engines. Here's the invoice for that charitable "gift." To Beevers, "gifts" such as these were illegal. The Cal. National Guard told me last year that the State Guard, and by extension Team Blaze, "had previously accepted funds illegally" from Coggan's charity. "This practice was stopped by Major General Beevers," they said.
Let that sink in: The Newsom administration is proud that it barred a charity from providing free firefighting training and equipment to the certified volunteer firefighting force that Newsom once commanded. Beevers, in his January 2023 ruling, said the State Guard and Team Blaze could only convey contributions through a separate fund he controlled. But not long after, the Beevers-controlled fund refused to accept a $137,680 contribution from Coggan’s charity to finance a scheduled training for members of Team Blaze and the State Guard. Details on that training and what it aimed to accomplish in the screenshots below. This training was supposed to improve California's "ability to respond to State emergencies." But it had to be cancelled after Beevers and the Newsom administration refused to accept the funds. Coggan explained why he had to cancel this training in the letter below.
Now, the Newsom admin says Team Blaze was ineffective because it had "little to no funding for equipment and maintenance." That's because Beevers and the admin deemed it illegal for Team Blaze to receive free financial assistance from its charitable benefactor. Coggan, who retired from the State Guard in May 2023 after Beevers blocked his charity from providing free firefighting equipment to Team Blaze, said he could have had a standing force of 1,000 firefighters by now if he had support from the Newsom administration."
Maria Shriver on X - "Totally unacceptable. People have lost their homes, their businesses, their livelihoods in California—and conditions are being put on whether or not they will get help? People in California need help now. As in, immediately."
Sigal Chattah on X - "Actually, it is acceptable @mariashriver . When Obama conditioned federal funding for schools, including lunch for students, only to states and counties that followed his protocols of allowing non-gender bathrooms, I don’t recall you expressing such indignation. He prioritized bathrooms over feeding school children. Sit down ma’am."
Left wingers claim only monsters aren't for giving students free meals at school. But of course, if you oppose any part of the left wing agenda, you're a monster
Kevin Dalton on X - "Karen Bass: I’ve done everything to expedite the rebuilding of LA
Trump: I heard 18 months to clear debris
Karen Bass: No no no no no
Trump: That’s what they’re telling me
Karen Bass: No way & you can hold me to that
Public Works Director: Debris removal will take 18 months
To be clear, Karen Bass was in the same meeting with the Public Works Director when he said debris would not be removed for 18 months. This meeting took place hours before the roundtable with Trump and wildfire victims. Bass sat there and lied to their faces."
Meme - Karen Bass @KarenBassLA: "Ted Cruz fleeing Texas in the middle of a deadly crisis is part of a larger pattern of the GOP abandoning folks in crisis. We need to build a movement to kick them all out."
California Globe: "LA Mayor Karen Bass Heavily Criticized for Delayed Return From Trip to Ghana with Historic Wildfires Spreading. Bass didn't fly back until wildfires began reaching historic destruction levels."
Autism Capital 🧩 on X: - "🚨 The LA Water Chief who is paid $750,000 a year: “What attracted me most to the role was social equity. It’s important for me that everything we do is with an equity lens and social justice and writing the wrongs that we’ve done in the past.”"
@amuse on X - "LESBIANS: The chances a fire department would have 1 lesbian are .08%. 3? .00097% The LAFD is run by 3:
Kristina Crowley Lesbian Fire Chief Salary: $439K
Kristina Kepner Lesbian Assist Chief Salary: $264K
Kristine Larson Lesbian Equity Chief Salary: $399K
h/t @charliekirk11"
Retired professor blasted by university for 'offensive' remark about California wildfires - "The University of Missouri condemned a retired professor on Wednesday for a “deeply offensive” remark regarding the ongoing California wildfires... Karen Piper has been a professor of English and an adjunct professor of Geography at the University of Missouri since 1996. Her LinkedIn profile lists her as still active at the school. Piper took to X Tuesday with a barb directed at actor James Woods, an outspoken conservative. The fires, she wrote, are the direct consequences of his own actions. “James Woods' house is burning down,” she wrote. “It's karma calling.” Woods has blamed California leaders for the blaze, claiming they are incompetent."
As left wingers always accuse the right in their usual projection, the cruelty is the point and they lack empathy
So much for literature making people empathetic
TaraBull on X - "BREAKING: Elon Musk calls LA Mayor Karen Bass a COMMUNIST after she decides to hire an outside consultant to rebuild the Pacific Palisades 'in a more equitable and environmentally sustainable way' without authorization from the property owners. Seems like more money laundering"a>
End Wokeness on X - "BREAKING: Mayor Karen Bass fires the first female, LGBTQ+ fire chief of Los Angeles"
Meme - Victor Shi @Victorshi2020: "For fact's sake: There was NO $17 million cut to the Los Angeles Fire Department budget this year. In fact, there was a $50 million INCREASE in the Los Angeles Fire Department. Cold, hard facts. Full stop. Period. To those who spread misinformation: issue corrections. Now." - 1/9/25
ABC11 EyewitnessNews @ABC11_WTVD: "Los Angeles cut $17.5M from fire department budget months before deadly fires" - 1/9/25
Alex Jones on X - "VIDEO: Watch The New LA Fire Chief & DEI Hire Confess That Her Main Mission Is Not Responding To Disasters But Hiring Women / LGBTQIA+"
Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 on X - "L.A. Fire Department Assistant Chief Kristine Larson: “You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it’s a medical call or a fire call, that looks like you. It gives that person a little bit more ease knowing that somebody might understand their situation better… ‘Is she strong enough to do this?’ or ‘You couldn’t carry my husband out of a fire.’ Which, my response is, he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.”"
Meme - "CLIMATE CHANGE IS CAUSING MASSIVE FIRES"
"THE FIRES ARE EASILY PREVENTABLE"
"I DON'T WANT A SOLUTION. I WANT TO BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE"
Meme - Spitfire @DogRightGirl: "They didn't fill the reservoirs. They cut $17million from the fire budget. They sent supplies to Ukraine. They fired firefighters for not getting the jab. The didn't comply with brush clearing. They halted prescribed burns. They let storm water wash out to sea. But yes, this is all caused my "climate change'"
"Caused by climate change"
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