Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig 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 22:38:08 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 324 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:38:10 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="aba6a48377cd73675c32171419d36bc9"; logging-data="2389485"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX182gkW4V/ExOzILnUxk0Wp7fiqMLkxEz/Y=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:unPcoabzML6wCwfP9o38d6+Yv24= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 15154 On 1/13/2025 5:13 PM, Rhino wrote: > 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 ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========