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Saturday, January 11, 2025

Gov. Gavin Newsom penned a letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, inviting him to California to see the devastation left by the fires in Los Angeles County firsthand.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom invites Trump to visit the state to see the crisis firsthand, emphasizing the need for leaders to focus on helping displaced Americans rather than peddling lies and disinformation.

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-- MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) January 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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Make him use a ramp.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-10 07:55 PM | Reply

No wonder. In September alone CA potential exposure was at $458 BILLION. The FAIR program only has $700 MILLION cash on hand to pay claims. There is no money.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-10 07:55 PM | Reply

Will he bring a rake?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-10 07:56 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,"

Count Trump out.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-10 08:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,"

Count Trump out.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-10 08:04 PM | Reply

Count Jeff out too.

#5 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-10 08:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Fake ass ----- bitch

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-11 12:11 AM | Reply

... "In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines," the letter said. ...

100% agreement with that statement.

#7 | Posted by lamplighter at 2025-01-11 12:27 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

They must be out of paper towels.

#8 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-01-11 09:05 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump has not politized this fiasco. He's only criticized those in charge who have failed in their jobs to prevent and mitigate this tragedy. It's only a coincidence that everyone at fault belongs to a single party (D).

#9 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-11 04:28 PM | Reply | Funny: 4

That pathetic magat James Woods lied about his home being destroyed by the fire. What a scumbag.

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-11 04:33 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Trump has not politized this fiasco.
#9 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Politicized.

You really are poorly educated.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-11 04:36 PM | Reply

Trump hasn't politicized the LA fires???

He called for "Newscums" resignation. You're a dumb mofo, visitor.

#12 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-11 04:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

- dumb mofo

Proud dumb mofo.

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-11 04:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Trump also LIED and politicized the LA fires by claiming that Newsom was protecting fish instead of people.

www.npr.org

#14 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-11 04:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Criticizing the man in charge is not politicizing. Did Trump blame all Democrats and the Democrat party or just the specific persons that failed miserably in their jobs?

#15 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-11 05:00 PM | Reply

calling him by a nickname is politicizing.

Also, read the link. Trump is politicizing and lying about Newsoms environmental record.

#16 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-11 05:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Trump in 2020: "It'll start getting cooler. You just watch."

Nostradotard is one clueless felonious rapist.

#17 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-11 05:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

www.nbcnews.com

President-elect Donald Trump has used the devastating Los Angeles wildfires to revisit a policy disagreement with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, pushing a series of complaints that experts say are false or misleading.

#18 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-11 05:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Trump, meanwhile, has insisted that California water policies under Newsom are responsible for the wildfires, claiming they better serve the endangered Delta smelt fish than the state's residents.

www.thedailybeast.com

#19 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-11 05:15 PM | Reply

- false or misleading.

Those are the only kinds of facts Visitor craves... the lies from the tongue of his King of the Billionaires Boy Club (a Musk Enterprise).

#20 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-11 05:47 PM | Reply

Deplorable Trumping MAGAts have to lie constantly in order to protect Trump.

#21 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-11 06:05 PM | Reply

VISITOR wrote, " prevent and mitigate this tragedy" How does anybody fight 100 mile per hour winds in December with 90 degree tempetures ripping down canyon hills onto houses? Thoughts and prayers?

#22 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2025-01-11 06:27 PM | Reply

- Thoughts and prayers?

Trump could have done that. - Visitornado

#23 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-11 06:44 PM | Reply

A fire needs fuel. Firefighters need adequate equipment and water. Trump calls out negligence and incompetence where he sees it, that doesn't make it political.

#24 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-11 06:51 PM | Reply

You need a brain.

#25 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-01-11 07:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Trump is unable to provide thoughts and prayers.

One requires a brain the other a soul.

#26 | Posted by Tor at 2025-01-11 07:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

- that doesn't make it political.

Trump's not interested in managing the narrative in political media?

Get the brain. Quick!

#27 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-11 07:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump is the epitome of negligence and incompetence. Full stop His response to COVID-19 proves that.

#28 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-11 07:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The people who politicized Katrina need to sit this out.

#29 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-12 04:01 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The people who politicized Katrina need to sit this out.

#29 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Why? There was plenty of things to criticize about Katrina.

#30 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-12 01:43 PM | Reply

Trump calls out negligence and incompetence where he sees it, that doesn't make it political.

#24 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

A criminally negligent and incompetent narcissist calling out negligence and incompetence in others? What a joke you people have become.

And doing that by making false and misleading claims and spreading more disinformation?

Yeah. Not very helpful. Not helpful at all.

#31 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-12 01:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trump is no help for LA.

Trump is not part of any solution

Unfortunately, I don't think Biden is/was either.

#32 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-12 01:50 PM | Reply

Unfortunately, I don't think Biden is/was either.

#32 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Biden cannot personally prevent wildfires. Neither can Trumpy.

But Biden can and is cooperating with Newsom and is helping California with resources for fighting the fires and the promise of and aid for recovery in any way he can. Biden also was working on the underlying cause which is extreme climate change. What will Trumpy do about that besides lying and spreading misinformation and denying it is a problem?

What will Trumpy do after Jan 20th? We will see. But if his current statements are any clue then I bet it involves a lot of denial blaming and name calling and maybe even a little blackmail.

#33 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-12 02:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

- What will Trumpy do

Thoughts and paper towels.

Well, paper towels maybe.

#34 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-12 02:56 PM | Reply

Well, paper towels maybe.

#34 | POSTED BY CORKY

And lectures on how PG&E should run its wildfire mitigation programs and how we should learn to rake better. From someone who has never managed a forest or used a rake in his life. To folks with degrees and some who have spent their entire careers in wildfire and forest management.

#35 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-12 03:08 PM | Reply

I thought we wanted to TrumpProof california?

Now Newsom is inviting him?

Seems strange.

Biden also was working on the underlying cause which is extreme climate change.

How? What exactly has he done? EV Chargers? Where? Internet for rural areas? Where?

What exactly has the man done?

The fires actually added 15yrs worth of california CO2 production to the atmosphere, also toxic pollutants.

What will Trumpy do about that besides lying and spreading misinformation and denying it is a problem?

How has California done anything about the problem? Wildfires are the #1 producer of CO2 in CA, yet CA does little to prevent them, even regulatory industry gets in the way..
In fact CA spends 10x times the money on migrant benefits, than wildfire prevention.

How Well-Intentioned Policies Fueled L.A.'s Fires
www.theatlantic.com

#36 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-12 03:09 PM | Reply

CO2 emission of US.

2022: 4,853,780,240 tons, which was 13.39% of the world's CO2 emissions
2021: 4,768,873,440 tons, which was 13.15% of the world's CO2 emissions
2020: 4,466,731,420 tons, which was 12.32% of the world's CO2 emissions
2019: 4,966,970,260 tons, which was 13.70% of the world's CO2 emissions

Nothing has changed.

#37 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-12 03:11 PM | Reply


To folks with degrees and some who have spent their entire careers in wildfire and forest management.
#35 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY

Even they claim regulatory burden is why wildfires are out of control.

#38 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-12 03:12 PM | Reply

-Biden also was working on the underlying cause which is extreme climate change.

theconversation.com

LOL

Yeah ... ... worked hard ... ..for oil companies.

#39 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-12 03:21 PM | Reply

MAGA ---------- spew out lies nonstop.

olgalautman.substack.com

#40 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-12 03:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Substack, you and Gal, same source. Weird.

#41 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-01-12 03:41 PM | Reply

Oh yeah I have my own substack that cancels you substack

easy-peasy.ai

#42 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-12 03:59 PM | Reply

A disgusting heifer who echoes dotard. Weird.

#43 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-12 04:20 PM | Reply

Visitor:
how can you write the obvious crap you write and not break out laughing?

#44 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-01-12 08:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Re 36 - 38

So much hateful garbage. So little time.

2019: 4,966,970,260 tons ...

2022: 4,853,780,240 tons ...

And (if those figures are accurate)you think that means "nothing has changed"?

Something had to change if carbon production went down and not up.

#45 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-12 08:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Even they claim regulatory burden is why wildfires are out of control.

#38 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Your cherry picking hindsight is 2020.

#46 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-12 08:18 PM | Reply

Yeah ... ... worked hard ... ..for oil companies.

#39 | POSTED BY EBERLY

He worked hard for America. Trumpy will work hard for the oil companies and himself.

You are about to see the difference.

Biden has no choice but to help oil companies. His policies have been a mixed bag. And while I don't agree with everything Biden has done he did not do it for himself or to own the maga maroons. He did it for America.

Because America still runs on oil.

But like Carter he saw this was unsustainable into the future and tried to set into motion policies that will help curb greenhouse gas emissions and dampen demand for that oil.

He also agreed to things like the massive ConocoPhillips' Willow Project in the Arctic that guarantees future drilling on public lands.

Why would he do that?

Because America still runs on oil.

#47 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-12 08:28 PM | Reply

"He also agreed to things like the massive ConocoPhillips' Willow Project in the Arctic that guarantees future drilling on public lands.

Why would he do that?"

Look, like a child, you can rationalize WHY Biden did anything

I'm talking facts ... ... things he actually did.

You're trying to frame those actions by assigning virtue or evil.

It's fun to watch from my position on the fence.

#48 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-12 09:28 PM | Reply

-America still runs on oil.

LOL

#49 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-12 09:29 PM | Reply

"Look, like a child, you can rationalize WHY Biden did anything"

Look, like a typical maga maroon, you apparently want to characterize everything Biden has done is evil and stupid and done for selfish reasons.

No. That is Trumpy you are describing. The two are very very different individuals with very different world views.

What I am saying is that the world still runs on oil and to pretend it doesn't is denying reality. And you can't solve the energy crisis by living off the grid in the woods and ignoring it and hope someone else solves it someday. And you can't solve our energy problems by pretending they don't exist and everything is just fine if we just drill more oil.

And we all (should) know by now the problems that being reliant on fossil fuels has caused. So that means we should start working together and transitioning to cleaner energy sources. Any American that cares about Americas future would start doing what they can to move us to cleaner energy sources as quickly and as painlessly as possible. This is actually a national security issue. This is obviously what Biden and many democratic presidents all the way back to Jimmy Carter have tried to do. To make America more energy independent.

To pretend otherwise is just being a maga "drill baby drill" fool.

#50 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-13 09:19 AM | Reply

"typical maga maroon"

Geeez....why don't you just call me a ------ while you're at it.

If you can't argue just plonk me. That would be more dignified that this tripe.

#51 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-13 09:37 AM | Reply

"Geeez....why don't you just call me a ------ while you're at it."

Why would I do that? You are acting like an insensitive ignorant maga maroon.

Not an intelligent sensitive homosexual.

...

If you can't argue just plonk me. That would be more dignified that this tripe.

#51 | POSTED BY EBERLY

I gave you an argument. And your brilliant response is that it is "tripe".

And I will plonk you when I can no longer enjoy rubbing your nose in your own crap.

#52 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-13 10:49 AM | Reply

-Not an intelligent sensitive homosexual.

I literally spit my coffee out on that one.

#53 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-13 10:58 AM | Reply

-I gave you an argument.

---------. I am guilty of forgetting you're irrelevant. This is a good reminder of that.

#54 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-13 10:59 AM | Reply

"I am guilty of forgetting you're irrelevant."

You are guilty of forgetting we are ALL irrelevant here. And you take yourself way too seriously.

#55 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-13 11:01 AM | Reply

55

I'm not making that choice for you.

but you act like you take yourself extremely seriously.

You're eager to defend the indefensible and anybody who dares disagree you resort to calling them a "maga maroon".

again, call me a ------ or a racist. It's what you have to use when you're literally out of anything else.

#56 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-13 11:09 AM | Reply

again, call me a ------ or a racist. It's what you have to use when you're literally out of anything else.

Posted by eberly at 2025-01-13 11:09 AM | Reply

You called me gay. What gives??

OOPSIE DAISY HONEY

LMFAO

#57 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-13 11:15 AM | Reply

anybody who dares disagree you resort to calling them a "maga maroon".

I call people who act like maga maroons maga maroons.

"again, call me a ------ or a racist."

No thanks.

Deplorable would be a much more accurate description.

I told you why Biden could not just go after oil companies but he had to learn to work with them and keep the oil flowing while at the same time trying to reduce our dependence on it but you don't wanna discuss that. You wanna discuss what is a good name for how deplorable you are.

Fine I can do that and "deplorable" works just fine as a description for your behavior.

#58 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-13 11:22 AM | Reply

#58 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-13 11:22 AM | Reply | Flag: irrelevant

#59 | Posted by eberly at 2025-01-13 11:24 AM | Reply

Re 59

Yes. I forgot to add. No matter what you or I say here today.

It's irrelevant.

And that includes you and your deplorable posts.

#60 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-13 11:26 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

all trump does is insult, lie, and politicize everything. its his oxygen.

visitor doubles down on not owning a dictionary.

#61 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-13 07:09 PM | Reply

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