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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> Newsgroups: alt.news-media,rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Spin Cycle: Wildfires Rage, And Politicians Fan The Blame Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:50:39 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 125 Message-ID: <vm41rg$20rb8$2@dont-email.me> References: <vm300t$1p9bq$2@dont-email.me> <vm3l8c$1vnrq$1@dont-email.me> <vm3trd$20rb8$1@dont-email.me> <vm3uqf$20t9u$4@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:50:41 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a77fe2c1ed57428a51798489ee3598b5"; logging-data="2125160"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19fSy0YUOyMZzc/6inBCjBAOqKx/6uT+Jg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:YW1Iz9fYp+Pfv4YgQ4O50m667oI= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 250113-4, 1/13/2025), Outbound message Content-Language: en-CA In-Reply-To: <vm3uqf$20t9u$4@dont-email.me> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean On 2025-01-13 3:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > On Jan 13, 2025 at 12:42:20 PM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> > wrote: > >> On 2025-01-13 1:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >> >>> On Jan 13, 2025 at 1:30:42 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Newsom also claimed that he still had complete confidence in the leadership >>>> in place - including L.A.'s Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, who was on a >>>> taxpayer-funded trip to Africa when the fires >>>> began. >>> >>> For that alone, Newsom should be removed from office as well. If he really >>> does have confidence in Bass, that shows his judgment is severely >>> compromised. >>> >>> Other than Bass, let's meet the people in charge of L.A.'s fire response. >>> Bizarrely, all of them are lesbians named Kristine. What do you suppose the >>> odds are that in a profession dominated by men due to the sheer physicality >>> of >>> its requirements, that the top three officials in the LAFD would turn out to >>> be lesbian women? Kinda suggests that promotions in LAFD aren't based on >>> merit >>> and ability but rather on the gender and the sexual practices of the >>> candidates, does it not? >>> >>> Kristina Crowley - First LGBTQ Fire Chief LAFD. >>> Salary: $439,722 >>> >>> Kristina Kepner - First Lesbian Assistant Chief LAFD. >>> Salary: $264,468 >>> >>> Kristine Larson - First black lesbian Equity Bureau Chief LAFD. >>> Salary: $399,000 >>> >>> And here's Larson responding to a question about whether she'd be capable of >>> carrying a grown man out of a burning building. She says if she can't, then >>> it's the victim's fault for ending up in a burning building in the first >>> place. Seriously. >>> >>> >>> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1877458187600719873/vid/avc1/720x720/RTD4R-YNN_uBrXB0.mp4?tag=16 >>> >> As horrific as her statement is, the even more horrific thing is that >> the people who hired these tokens got elected in free and fair >> democratic elections. If this isn't a wake-up call for EVERY L.A. and >> California voter, then they are all brain dead. >> >> I'm hoping that these disastrous fires act like the Truckers Convoy did >> in this country: as an illustration that Californians are governed by >> horrible people and need a dramatic change in direction. >> >> But you're going to need something else to really accomplish change: a >> credible alternative. > > That's the problem. Every time we get rid of one of these malefactors, they're > replaced by another one just as bad, if not worse. > > Jerry Brown, the Cryptkeeper, was a bald-headed lunatic and when we were > finally rid of him, who did we get? Gavin Newsom. And after he terms out and > has to leave, the Democrats are all abuzz about Kamala Harris taking his > place. > I've heard a bit of that. Sheer lunacy! I'm sure SHE would love to be governor but it's discouraging to imagine significant numbers of people voting for her. I feel sure that most of the votes she got in November were from the fools who let the media convince them that Trump was a threat to democracy; there couldn't have been LARGE numbers of people that actual thought she'd do a good job. > In L.A., we had the buffoon Antonio Villaraigosa (real name: Tony Villar), who > was then replaced by Yoga Pants Garcetti, and now Karen Bass. What's really > depressing is that I actually look back fondly on the Villar era. He was an > empty suit, but at least he kept the city clean and we didn't have trash > mountains and vagrant encampments and out of control crime. It was Garcetti > that started the destruction of the city in earnest (with a lot of help from > Gascon) and Bass has only accelerated it. > >> Trudeau's vote share declined after his first term >> in office but the alternatives, particularly the leader of the >> Conservative Party at the time failed to inspire sufficient confidence >> to win. Andrew Scheer led the Conservatives in 2019 but failed to >> resonate sufficiently with voters. He was replaced by Erin O'Toole, who >> got virtually identical results in the 2021 election. It was only when >> the dynamic Pierre Poilievre became leader a couple of years ago that >> people really started to believe in the Conservatives as being a truly >> credible alternative. >> >> California needs their own Pierre Poilievre. I'm not close enough to the >> situation to know if you have anyone like that on hand. > > We had Larry Elder last time around, who I've heard is going to run again for > governor. He'd make a great governor, but good luck getting California voters > to elect him. They're all suffering from Helsinki Syndrome. > > (Since he's a black man and a conservative, rather than celebrate Elder's > 'diversity' as they would normally do, the L.A. Times dubbed him 'the black > face of white supremacy'. Seriously. They actually did that.) > > I read a few of Elder's columns back during the recall process and thought he was a pretty sensible guy and very positive in outlook as well. It's really unfortunate that the elites have decided to characterize him as a white supremacist. I don't know if some PR genius could "rehabilitate" Elder; if not, you might have to look for someone entirely different or even just a "stand-in" (someone who would appear to be the candidate but that would be strongly guided by Elder and like-minded people once in office). I'm convinced that Biden was a "stand-in": he was too cognitively impaired to actually lead the country, even when he was first sworn in. I think Trudeau was likely a "stand-in" too: he's too dim to have a well-thought out ideology and is probably fed his ideas and lines by Katie Telford in the Prime Minister's Office (effectively, his chief of staff). Telford had the same role here in Ontario for our past premier Dalton McGuinty and his successor, Kathleen Wynne (Doug Ford's immediate predecessors) and did similar harm to Ontario as she then did to the country as a whole. Who Telford gets HER ideas from may well be Chairman Xi. -- Rhino