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On 2025-01-13 12:24 PM, moviePig wrote:
> On 1/13/2025 12:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> On Jan 13, 2025 at 1:30:45 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We know L.A. Mayor Karen Bass cut $17.6 million from the city's fire
>>> department budget. The progressive mayor wasn't even in L.A. when the 
>>> fires
>>> broke out. She was in Ghana on a political junket.
>>
>> She might have been forgiven for being out of town if it had been just 
>> a bad
>> coincidence, but the National Weather Service had been issuing 
>> warnings of
>> "extreme fire danger" to city officials for several days *prior* to her
>> departure and she decided to leave anyway. Absolute dereliction of 
>> duty. If
>> there's a legal mechanism in California for the governor to remove a 
>> mayor,
>> Newsom should absolutely do so, but he won't because he has too much 
>> himself
>> to answer for in this mess.
>>
>>> The optics couldn't get much worse. Remember how SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and
>>> late-night comedians mocked Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas when he was out of 
>>> state
>>> in Cancun during a deadly cold weather front in 2021?  It's hard to 
>>> forget
>>> given the nonstop jokes on the subject.
>>
>> But notice neither the media nor the late-night jokesters had anything 
>> to say
>> when, in the middle of a winter weather emergency in California, with
>> thousands of citizens trapped in their homes under 10+ feet of snow 
>> (that he
>> and his bald-headed lunatic of a predecessor assured us would never be 
>> seen
>> again due to 'climate change'), Newsom suddenly vanished. He could not be
>> located anywhere.
>>
>> But never fear. It turns out he was just in Baja California, Mexico. 
>> Newsom
>> was frolicking on the beach in Cabo San Lucas while hundreds of people 
>> were
>> snowed in with no food or power in the mountains during a winter snow
>> emergency.
>>
>> Other than the choice of Mexican resort destination, it's exactly the 
>> same
>> thing that Cruz did. But with Newsom it was actually worse. As a 
>> matter of
>> executive function, it happens to be worse to abandon your 
>> constituents in the
>> middle of a weather crisis when you are the governor as opposed to a 
>> senator
>> who-- unlike a governor-- has no authority or ability to direct 
>> personnel and
>> manage resources.
>>
>> So Cruz couldn't have actually done anything to help had he stayed but 
>> Newsom
>> very much could have. Yet Cruz is the one who is vilified by the media 
>> while
>> Newsom's failure was all but ignored.
>>
>>> Another possible source of comedy? HBO's REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER. The
>>> long-running host has shown a knack for truth-telling regardless of 
>>> party
>>> affiliation. He's been a thorn in the Left's side for several years, 
>>> mocking
>>> progressives for their extreme culture war positions and woke overreach.
>>>
>>> He's based in L.A. and might skewer pols who have made the problem
>>> exponentially worse. He's also a Climate Change alarmist and might 
>>> focus on
>>> that angle, even if there's no evidence climate change played a role 
>>> in the
>>> catastrophe.
>>
>> Of course it didn't. There's only so many ways these fires get 
>> started. Either
>> nature starts them-- almost always via lightning strikes-- or humans 
>> start
>> them. Sometimes it's because humans don't maintain the power lines and 
>> they
>> fall over during high winds and spark fires, or they're caused by human
>> negligence (a tossed cigarette butt) or arson.
>>
>> There was no lightning when these fires started and they've ruled out 
>> downed
>> power lines. That leaves only one option left: someone started the fires,
>> either accidentally or on purpose. It was not fucking 'climate change'.
> 
> Afaik, 'climate change' doesn't start fires, it continues them.

What does that even mean? How does ANYTHING "continue" a fire?
> 
> Meanwhile, though, Mayor Bass did campaign-pledge no overseas trips...
> 
> 
So she's a liar. Colour me shocked.

-- 
Rhino