Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_Will_Late_Night_Roast_Newsom_And_Bass_For_Fires=3F_?= =?UTF-8?Q?Don=E2=80=99tHold_Your_Breath=2E?= Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:13:18 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 309 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:13:21 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a77fe2c1ed57428a51798489ee3598b5"; logging-data="2125160"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/3fu9tCUEKQ33zJaaGRXiFFUEBkPvR0tg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:grfQArjd2VumysseKxTC132D81k= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-CA X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 250113-4, 1/13/2025), Outbound message Bytes: 14655 On 2025-01-13 3:30 PM, moviePig wrote: > On 1/13/2025 3:08 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >> On Jan 13, 2025 at 9:24:37 AM PST, "moviePig" wrote: >> >>> On 1/13/2025 12:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>   On Jan 13, 2025 at 1:30:45 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" >>>> 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. >> >> California has been known for massive wildfires since long before the >> white >> man ever came to North America. The native tribes have stories of >> wildfires >> spanning what is now the entire West Coast, backed up by scientific >> data-- >> tree rings and the like. >> >> They make the wildfires we have now look like campfires in comparison but >> Governor HairGel wants you to believe they're some new phenomenon due to >> 'climate change' because that gives him an excuse to control your life >> and >> take your money. >> >> The L.A. Basin is an arid semi-desert environment. Dry tinder and >> underbrush, >> especially in the fall and winter, is the *normal* state of things >> here. Just >> like years-long droughts are normal here. Wildfires have occurred with >> regularity going back to before European settlers ever arrived. Yes, >> they're >> more frequent now, but that has nothing to do with 'climate change'. It's >> because there are now 14 million people living in the area instead of >> just a >> hundred or so. Back then, the fires were started by lightning strikes, >> not >> people. Now they're caused by stupid people doing stupid shit like >> smoking in >> the hills or the government allowing vagrants whacked out on drugs to >> cook >> their food and meth with open flames in the middle of a powder keg or >> power >> companies negligently failing to maintain their infrastructure. None >> of which >> has jack-all to do with 'climate change'. If you have millions of people >> living in an area with a lot of them doing stupid things, you're going >> to get >> a lot of fires. >> >> Anyone who thinks that if we'd all just install more solar panels and >> ride our >> bikes to work, that the state wouldn't be on fire every winter is >> completely >> delusional. And these idiotic media reporters and politicians who keep >> saying >> that the amount of acreage burned in California (e.g., 2.2 million >> acres in >> 2020) is 'record-breaking' and 'unprecedented' are bald-faced liars. It's >> factually completely untrue. Before the 1800s, California would see >> anywhere >> from 5 to 14 million acres burn EVERY YEAR. That's 12% of the state >> burning >> every year. Before there were any SUVs or 'climate change'. Just as >> there were >> massive droughts in California long before the era of 'climate change'. >> California had a 500-year drought between 800 and 1300 AD. These are >> documented scientific facts, but that undermines the Agenda, so we get >> flat-out lies from politicians claiming this is 'unprecedented', which >> goes >> completely unchallenged by their media lackeys. >> >> Excess timber comes out of a forest in only one of two ways. It's either >> carried out or it burns up. We used to carry it out. It was called >> logging. We >> had healthy forests and a thriving timber economy. Then in the 70s, we >> began >> imposing a shit-ton of environmental laws-- both at the state and federal >> level-- that have made it all but impossible and wildly unprofitable >> to carry >> out that timber and what we've seen over those decades is increasingly >> severe >> forest fires. >> ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========