Sunday, January 12, 2025

Wildfires expose incompetence and corruption in California

As a new wave of fire and high winds threaten Los Angeles, the media is reporting that California's elected leaders are not to blame and that right-wing influencers and Donald Trump are spreading misinformation and politicizing a tragedy. Racial and gender quotas through DEI aren't to blame. No, Mayor Karen Bass didn't cut the Fire Department's budget. No, Gavin Newsom didn't cut CalFire's wildfire prevention budget. And no, there wasn't any way to prevent these fires or the fire hydrant water from running out. Climate change made the disaster inevitable due to "whiplashing" rain levels. They're all lies

Comments

Good grief, an X blurb from Michael Shellenberger, CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship & Free Speech.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-12 10:42 PM

Jeff is the reason fact checkers are necessary.

#2 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-01-13 10:17 AM

Jeff is the reason fact checkers are necessary.

#2 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-01-13 10:17 AM | Reply

Jeff's still miffed RCADE banned him for repeating COVID-19 lies when he was told to quit. He's desperate to pwn the liberals is why.

#3 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-13 10:20 AM

"RCADE banned him for repeating COVID-19 lies when he was told to quit"

Is this true, BELLRINGER?

Can you tell me why? It's for my book.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-13 10:23 AM

"repeating COVID-19 lies"

specifically, I believe it was posting from certain websites. RCADE didn't want certain websites referenced regarding COVID regardless of the content.

#5 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-13 10:29 AM

POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Wildfires obliterated hundreds of square miles in Texas. I got to see some of that.

Can I fault the MAGA government here for incompetence and corruption? If not, why not?

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-13 10:30 AM

" Jeff is the reason fact checkers are necessary.

#2 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2025-01-13 10:17 AM | FLAG: | "

Current fact checkers are left wing propagandists.

Meta's fact checkers were paid. Facebook was a platform that occasionally warranted fact checking. How objective do you think fact-checkers' were when they were covering a source of revenue for them?

Regardless, per usual, you don't address the isssue at hand but instead make it personal.

I'm discovering that a large swath of the lefties on this site seem incapable of having an actual discussion.

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-13 12:13 PM

How objective do you think fact-checkers' were when they were covering a source of revenue for them?

So fact checkers that do it for free are more objective? come on. People need to be compensated for their hard work, and moderating the internet is an impossible task.

#8 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-13 12:16 PM

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#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-13 12:24 PM

I'm discovering that a large swath of the lefties on this site seem incapable of having an actual discussion.

#7 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Look who we have to work with.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-13 12:37 PM

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#8 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE AT 2025-01-13 12:16 PM | FLAG: "

The problem wasn't limited to the fact-checkers who hi had at best a checkered history. The bigger problem was and remains the censorship and erasure that resulted from the fact-checks.

#11 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-13 12:55 PM

So fact checkers that do it for free are more objective? come on.

I don't believe that's whats he said, this is why I suspect most of what you post, you don't read and understand what people are saying.

What he wants is that they are paid, but not by fact checking content which paints a negative narrative over their employer.

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-13 01:06 PM

On topic, IDK about corruption, but $750K for a position in the government seems a bit much. How difficult could this position be over say governor?

But this I thought was fascinating, the DWP was a big salary department.
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#13 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-13 01:08 PM

I'll let bellringer answer. You can't even do it right for yourself.

#14 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-13 01:14 PM

So idk what this is, but certainly its part of the issue:
- An illegal immigrant was arrested by citizens lighting xmas trees in the trash on fire, not the police.
- He was already on probation, meaning he had already been arrested before the LA Fires, by the police.
- During the LA fires, he was caught near a fire, with a blowtorch.
- He's not being charged by the police with arson due to lack of "probable cause".
- He won't be deported because of California's sanctuary laws, and most likely will just be released back into the city.
- Yesterday, Gavin Newsom committed close to $50m of taxpayer money to protect illegal immigrants from deportation.

People here claiming drone pilots should be executed.

What about an arsonist, whats the rational to let him loose out on the streets AGAIN?

#15 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-13 04:15 PM


I'll let bellringer answer. You can't even do it right for yourself.
#14 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

You can't even read a budget Alex, you cut and past narrative generators.

#16 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-13 04:16 PM

I'm sure the budget would have solved everything.

We could have build giant walls around the hills and mountains in order to prevent 70 mile per hour winds from fueling and spreading the fires.

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-13 05:27 PM

"Wildfires expose incompetence and corruption in California"

ah yes...sit back and watch the houses burn....and blame it all on trump.....

and think about how .............."diversity is our strength"..

BBWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#18 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-14 03:07 PM

POSTED BY SHRIMPdick

Shut the ---- up ------.

May you receive the karma you deserve.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-14 03:12 PM

---- you Jeff, you gutless coward.
---- you.

You're a ------- dead man, you ------- loser.

#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-14 09:49 PM

Seriously, now is the time to take up arms and eliminate the MAGATs.

The only good MAGAT is a DEAD MAGAT.

#21 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-14 09:50 PM

You're a ------- dead man, you ------- loser.

#20 | Posted by

Seriously, now is the time to take up arms and eliminate the MAGATs.

The only good MAGAT is a DEAD MAGAT.

#21 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I'll send you my address on email...

make sure your medical insurance is paid up.

but you wouldn't.....internet cowboys are alway chicken shvt f /g coward punk --- bitches...

#22 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-15 10:06 AM

May you receive the karma you deserve.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack

thanks..

..my karma is doing quite well.

will be even better when the brain dead ------ is finally out of the white house

and we return to normalcy.

#23 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-15 10:12 AM

we return to normalcy.

#23 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

Obama's coming back?

#24 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-15 10:17 AM

.my karma is doing quite well.

#23 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

Look behind you.

#25 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-15 10:18 AM

Mass graves visible from space were normal for Putin's portly DNA receptacle.

#26 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-15 10:21 AM

Oh look, the word filter was put to work. Funny you can --- the words, but the implied intention of the words stands as long as the posts do.

#27 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-01-15 10:25 AM

#23 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

Look behind you.

#25 | Posted by Zed

I don't know what that means.

#28 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-15 10:38 AM

#23 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

Look behind you.

#25 | Posted by Zed

AHAHAHAHAAA

hardly.

who do you think let the freaks out of their holes?

#29 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-15 10:39 AM

#29 is reply to "obama's coming back"

--obviously.

#30 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-15 10:46 AM

Look behind you.

#25 | Posted by Zed

I don't know what that means.

#28 | Posted by shrimptacodan

must be because that's some sort of lesbian secret code

ha ha !!

#31 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-15 10:59 AM

must be because that's some sort of lesbian secret cod

#31 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

Ask your wife.

#32 | Posted by Zed at 2025-01-15 11:23 AM

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