Whither Fascism?

I was vigorously, incessantly told that Trump was New Orange-Flavored Hitler and that he was a fascist who would end democracy.

At least I heard that all through the election.

Since then, I've seen Biden smiling at the once-Hitlerian Trump and his whore wife making Do-Me eyes at him.

So what gives?

Please don't tell me they were lying this whole time!

My heart just couldn't take it!

Where did all the fascism talk go?
By Byron York

WHERE DID ALL THE FASCISM TALK GO? On Monday, the journalist Glenn Greenwald asked on X, "Is there a single person in DC or media acting as if Literal Adolf Hitler is about to assume power in 2 weeks in order to end American democracy, install fascism, and create a white supremacist dictatorship? Is it possible those who said this for years never believed it?"
You can answer that for yourself. But the fact is, the Donald Trump transition is turning out to be quite ... normal. The president-elect is busy hammering out policy proposals and staffing his administration. Democrats are, of course, criticizing Trump and promising to give some of his nominees a hard time in confirmation hearings. But that is the sort of thing one always sees in transitions from one party to the other. What is absent is the kind of ugly, fevered, frenzied, over-the-top rhetoric about Trump that characterized the campaign.
Remember? Vice President Kamala Harris called Trump a fascist. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called Trump a fascist. Media talkers such as Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski called Trump a fascist. Journalists and academics called Trump a fascist. (Sample headlines from the New Yorker: "What Does It Mean that Donald Trump Is a Fascist?" and the Atlantic: "Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.") For a while, it seemed like everyone on the Left with a podcast, TV show, or X account called Trump a fascist.
Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden became the focus of nearly nonstop discussion about fascism and Nazism. In the run-up to the event, it was entirely commonplace for media commentators to compare the rally to the infamous Nazi rally held at the Garden in 1939. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate Trump defeated in 2016, told CNN that Trump would be "actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939."

...

Maybe that is why the talk seemed to disappear so quickly after the election. When Trump won not only the electoral vote but the popular vote as well, many looked back on the fascist moment of just a week earlier and asked, "What was that all about?"
It was about defeating Trump, of course, and when it didn't work, it became an embarrassment, certainly for the most fervent fascism talkers....
Such turnabouts were why Greenwald could look around and note that nobody in Washington is acting as if all those dire predictions have come true. Instead, it's mostly business as usual. Politicians and media figures are debating whether there should be one big bill or two. Whether tariffs should apply to this or that product. What border security measure would be most effective. No one is acting as if "Literal Adolf Hitler is about to assume power in 2 weeks in order to end American democracy, install fascism, and create a white supremacist dictatorship."

This thread by Drew Holden shows the real fascist threat: constant lying and censoring by a Regime media only interested in advancing the interests of the Regime.

And below the headline the details are even worse. @nytimes went from concerns being tied to these misleading videos in late June to saying Biden “has increasingly appeared confused or listless,” for MONTHS, in early July.

Where was NYT in that window?? pic.twitter.com/26Nn5nb6YB
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) January 7, 2025

This you, dawg? https://t.co/w4xgLbATQS pic.twitter.com/kIaCBI0mxS
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 7, 2025

There's an entire genre of elite liberal journalism that essentially consists of repeating something that was a "right-wing conspiracy theory" six months ago, and passing it off as a brave, unique and original insight.

Lockdowns, the lab leak theory, defund the police—now this. pic.twitter.com/3qTjhzxhiX
— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) January 7, 2025

This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department. pic.twitter.com/x8c0tH5MKC
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 8, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:30 PM

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1 That last picture looks like the cast of a new sitcom Firedikes

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 06:31 PM (KQk9m)

2 Rookie

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 08, 2025 06:31 PM (4V85Q)

3 Oh the diversity. Burn baby burn.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with festive little caps and interpretive dance. at January 08, 2025 06:32 PM (4V85Q)

4 Yo!

Posted by: L - When do we finally hit the bottom? at January 08, 2025 06:33 PM (NFX2v)

5 The last picture is gross when you look at the burning areas.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 08, 2025 06:35 PM (yruun)

6 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 2h
This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

https://tinyurl.com/ms2jnxba
photo; don't know what the black one is.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 06:35 PM (iMpf5)

7 and his whore wife making Do-Me eyes at him.

I think Jill pleasures herself to pics ot the Donald. Can you blame her? I mean, he is a billionaire. That's an aphrodisiac, people.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 08, 2025 06:35 PM (0Htd1)

8 Yeesh.

What's that thing on the right side of the bottom pic?

What is xhe?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2025 06:37 PM (iJfKG)

9 If the LAFD team had any honor, they would resign.

As should the mayor of LA for cutting millions of dollars from the LAFD budget.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2025 06:37 PM (u82oZ)

10 And Trump’s voters were smeared as racist brown shirts.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 08, 2025 06:37 PM (UAHkZ)

11 This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

==

The Dream Team !

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2025 06:37 PM (g47mK)

12 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 5h
The Biden admin cancelled controlled burns in California which even New York Times admits are crucial to wildfire management.

MAZE @mazemoore 4h Replying to @libsoftiktok
But he promised it would be different with Biden as President.

MAZE @mazemoore 4h
April, 2021. Gavin Newsom explains that wildfire preparedness will be better now that Biden is in office instead of Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/4fnpuxbz
35 seconds; press conference LOUD.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 06:38 PM (iMpf5)

13 How ya doing?

Posted by: Elon Musk at January 08, 2025 06:38 PM (u82oZ)

14 >>This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2025 06:38 PM (qUMgz)

15 6 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 2h
This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

https://tinyurl.com/ms2jnxba

Really instills confidence.....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 06:38 PM (VE6XX)

16 nerdygirl

Posted by: Elon Musk at January 08, 2025 06:38 PM (u82oZ)

17 Any of that crew actually ever carry someone out of a burning building?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2025 06:39 PM (iJfKG)

18
The entire scam of the left would crumble if enough people found out what Fascism actually is.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 06:39 PM (krQz2)

19 Is 'Neroes' feminine? Asking for a linguist friend.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 06:39 PM (XeU6L)

20 LA Fire Department Softball Team are the world Champs, I assume?

Jesus.

Looks like the East German Female Bobsled Team.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 06:40 PM (oLK8+)

21 In a real communist regime, there would be a lot of new management inhabitants of Siberia from LA and CA.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2025 06:40 PM (u82oZ)

22 Thus, the left has got TOO MUCH riding on the misrepresentation of fascism.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 06:40 PM (krQz2)

23 Is 'Neroes' feminine? Asking for a linguist friend.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 06:39 PM (XeU6L)

Neroines?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 08, 2025 06:40 PM (VNX3d)

24 And all the while, The Pretenders were right there. Kicking ass.

I love me some Pretenders, and they were definitely better than Blondie but she was fun and really easy on the eyes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 06:40 PM (2VST1)

25 naturalfake

themselves.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2025 06:40 PM (u82oZ)

26 6 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 2h
This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

https://tinyurl.com/ms2jnxba

Decent-looking chick on the left. Who are the two dudes?

Posted by: Dr. T at January 08, 2025 06:41 PM (jGGMD)

27 The last picture is gross when you look at the burning areas.

Doesn't bother me at all. None of it does. They picked. The people that live there picked. Even those outnumbered politically picked, because the conveniences and the weather were more important to them.

The biggest tragedy, in all this, is that once SoCal is burned out ... the refugees will be amongst the rest of us. I say send them all to NYC, Boston, and Chicago. Or New Jersey / Philly.

Posted by: Taking Notice at January 08, 2025 06:41 PM (7dP0W)

28 "This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department". Is the fat one a man or a woman. I can't tell.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 08, 2025 06:41 PM (0Htd1)

29
Can we cut the shit pretending "controlled burns" will prevent these fake "wild fires?"

95% of the time it is ARSON. Only THEN do these fires go "wild."

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 08, 2025 06:41 PM (kjnCv)

30 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 2h
Biden just hijacked a California wildfire briefing to announce that he's a great-grandfather.

He always makes it about himself.

Can’t wait to have a real President on January 20th.

https://tinyurl.com/35xn6ce8
35 seconds; BTW, Ace, your eyes are so beautiful; then Biden took no questions.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 06:41 PM (iMpf5)

31 And yeah sometimes you see an image and just shake your head at the sheer DEI of it all. Clearly, these are the finest possible choices for fire department leadership. Not some grizzled old firefighter with burns on his face, no it has to be some chunky women of varied racial backgrounds.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 06:41 PM (2VST1)

32 >>This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

It kind of seems a fair trade on one level - Male queers take over top positions in women's sports, and female queers take the leadership roles in uniformed professions...

What a crazy world we live in.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2025 06:42 PM (qUMgz)

33 Just saw on Lotus Eaters NYC schools have already sent word to teachers what to do if INS shows up for students. Lock them out and call in lawyers paid for by a non profit....

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 06:42 PM (KQk9m)

34 >>Decent-looking chick on the left.

You need to get your eyeglass prescription checked, Homie.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 06:42 PM (oLK8+)

35 Well, in defense of the Frumster, the people who follow him are singularly uninformed anyway. So, yeah, he can get away with pretending he's dispensing new and revelatory information.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 08, 2025 06:42 PM (tT6L1)

36 Taking Notice

LA to where? Greenland is out, as seal is not sushi.

Austin? Nyah.
I got it: Hong Kong.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2025 06:43 PM (u82oZ)

37 It's easier- and more correct- if you think of them as intelligence assets putting out coordinated propaganda for the enemy.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2025 06:43 PM (OkFiN)

38 Controlled burns getting rid of some of the fuel certainly helps.

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 06:43 PM (KQk9m)

39 Any of that crew actually ever carry someone out of a burning building?

Posted by: naturalfake
-------

I want to see them in full ~~fireman's~~ fireperson's battlerattle. Coats, helments, air tank, axe, climbing a ladder. Maybe humping a roll of hose.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 06:44 PM (XeU6L)

40 It's simple; Constitutionalism is Fascism, because they believe the Constitution is slavery and icky. Elect someone who promises to make the Gov't behave according to Constitutional norms is therefore fascism.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 06:44 PM (ynpvh)

41 > What's that thing on the right side of the bottom pic?

Built like a tombstone.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2025 06:44 PM (Odg76)

42 L.A.'s finest, without a doubt.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2025 06:44 PM (g8Ew8)

43 1 That last picture looks like the cast of a new sitcom Firedikes
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 06:31 PM (KQk9m)
'Gonna set your flag on fire, talking bout hey now!'

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2025 06:44 PM (LHPAg)

44 36 Taking Notice

LA to where? Greenland is out, as seal is not sushi.

Austin? Nyah.
I got it: Hong Kong.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2025 06:43 PM (u82oZ)

I'm sure there are plenty of Kalifornians that would blow a seal...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 06:44 PM (ynpvh)

45 Decent-looking chick on the left. Who are the two dudes?

==

the chick was known as James a year ago

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2025 06:44 PM (g47mK)

46 >>Can we cut the shit pretending "controlled burns" will prevent these fake "wild fires?"

The USFS would like you to know that the word 'Controlled', when used in this context, does not mean controlled at all.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 06:44 PM (oLK8+)

47 >> This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Squad 51, where are you?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 08, 2025 06:44 PM (w6EFb)

48 LAFD leadership has changed since Emergency! TV show.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2025 06:44 PM (63Dwl)

49 Hitler didn’t come close to getting 50% of the vote. He took power by overt and covert threat and force.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 06:45 PM (D6PGr)

50 16 nerdygirl
Posted by: Elon Musk

You thought they f**ked you because of your looks?
The late Joan Rivers' joke about Donald Trump and Marla Maples was that Marla named her child "Meal Ticket".

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 08, 2025 06:45 PM (0Htd1)

51 I think the one on the right played football in HS

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 06:45 PM (KQk9m)

52 LA to where? Greenland is out, as seal is not sushi.

Austin? Nyah.
I got it: Hong Kong.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2025 06:43 PM (u82oZ)

You've solved it. If Trump wants Greenland ? Send the SoCal refugees. Then I'll support it.

To paraphrase Tommy Franks ... "Better to settle them there, than settle them here".

Posted by: Taking Notice at January 08, 2025 06:45 PM (7dP0W)

53 The last picture is gross when you look at the burning areas.

You shouldn't look at their burning areas.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2025 06:45 PM (OkFiN)

54 Bertram Cabot

Julie London. Sigh.

Well, I never saw the show, but she could fly me to the moon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2025 06:46 PM (u82oZ)

55 In fairness, they appear more feminine than Admiral Levine, though less so than Sammy the Freak.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 06:46 PM (XeU6L)

56
Looks like The View's Idiot-of-Color sunny hostil's gay criminal "husband" has been Indicted.

Womp, Womp.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 08, 2025 06:46 PM (kjnCv)

57 Can you scissor hard enough to start a Bush Fire?

Asking for a Municipal Fire Department Leadership Squad.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 06:46 PM (oLK8+)

58 You need to get your eyeglass prescription checked, Homie.
Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 06:42 PM (oLK8+)

Or maybe cut back on the day drinking.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 08, 2025 06:46 PM (pohLc)

59 43 1 That last picture looks like the cast of a new sitcom Firedikes
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 06:31 PM (KQk9m)
'Gonna set your flag on fire, talking bout hey now!'

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2025 06:44 PM (LHPAg)

I thought flag burning was good (if US flag) but bad if LBGTBBQ flag...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 06:47 PM (ynpvh)

60 “Ma’am, Pacific Palisades is on fi-“

“She! [Clap] On! [Clap] Huh! [Clap] Break! [Clap]”

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at January 08, 2025 06:47 PM (VM2yO)

61 32 >>This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

It kind of seems a fair trade on one level - Male queers take over top positions in women's sports, and female queers take the leadership roles in uniformed professions...

What a crazy world we live in.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2025 06:42 PM (qUMgz)

I used to think 'well...this is just for the cameras....the real 'leaders' just don't get the titles or attention anymore, just have to do the work'. But judging from the last 24 hours - no...these are the people in charge

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 06:47 PM (QGaXH)

62 Approaching 100% of the Demonrats who toss the word "fascist" couldn't compare and contrast the economic policies of fascism and communism.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 08, 2025 06:47 PM (a3Q+t)

63 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 5h
LA Mayor Karen Bass cut $17.6 million in funding from the Fire Dept. She’s in Africa on a taxpayer funded trip and has a DEI hire running the Fire Dept.

Meanwhile her city is burning to the ground.

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 54m
LA Mayor Karen Bass refuses to answer and freezes when a reporter asks her if she regrets cutting the Fire Department’s budget by nearly $20 million and being in Africa during a devastating wildfire.

https://tinyurl.com/ycytys6n
2:41 minutes; a British Sky News reporter [an Irishman actually I think but still a foreigner and not domestic]

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 06:47 PM (iMpf5)

64 Can we cut the shit pretending "controlled burns" will prevent these fake "wild fires?"

95% of the time it is ARSON. Only THEN do these fires go "wild."

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 08, 2025 06:41 PM (kjnCv)
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It's about the fuel. No fuel, ignition doesn't do anything.

If you remove the built up fuel, either through controlled burns or logging, or reclaiming fallen timber, arson just can't have as much impact because there isn't as much fuel.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 06:48 PM (ZOv7s)

65 They also could be the front court of a WNBA team

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 06:48 PM (KQk9m)

66 Suppose the electorate was given a choice between "path A" and "path B." With regards to, say, wildfire mitigation. But "Path A" which would be useful is declared "racist" or some other leftist trigger word that gets panties all in a wad. While "Path B" is just lip service and grift... but makes people's panties less... wadded.

I bet there a lot of wadded up panties in LA right about now.

So... anyway

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2025 06:48 PM (Q4IgG)

67 What are those three people's names?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 08, 2025 06:48 PM (dg+HA)

68 Are the LA firefighters really ugly lesbians or really ugly trannies? I honestly can’t tell.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 08, 2025 06:48 PM (BqIHC)

69 'They'll have the Fish Tacos.'

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 06:49 PM (oLK8+)

70 There may be smiles in that picture, but there are no happy bushes.

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at January 08, 2025 06:49 PM (a3Q+t)

71 57 Can you scissor hard enough to start a Bush Fire?

Asking for a Municipal Fire Department Leadership Squad.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 06:46 PM (oLK8+)

::: types, deletes :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 06:49 PM (ynpvh)

72 >>What are those three people's names?

Sneezy, Fisty and Doc

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 06:49 PM (oLK8+)

73 >>I think Jill pleasures herself to pics of the Donald.

While wearing her fishnets, garter belt and nipples out peek a boo bra.

Posted by: Aviator at January 08, 2025 06:50 PM (HQ9Sl)

74 CA has some prime timber for logging. Good luck getting a logging permit. And good luck not getting your workers seriously injured because environazis have spiked trees.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 08, 2025 06:50 PM (tT6L1)

75 All those self-insured homes going up in flames.
They chose to build or live there.

Why am I paying anything to alleviate a foreseen hazard.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2025 06:50 PM (u82oZ)

76 The big scam is that the idea that the Right is "fascist" is Stalin regurgitated.

It's how Stalin was able to network and justify his dictatorship. He was just holding back fascism.

It's all bullshit.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 06:50 PM (krQz2)

77
That LGBTQXYZ--'s Fire chief's top priority for the LAFD was diversity, and "taking care of our own" or some shit I heard on the radio this afternoon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 08, 2025 06:50 PM (w6EFb)

78 It's about the fuel. No fuel, ignition doesn't do anything.

If you remove the built up fuel, either through controlled burns or logging, or reclaiming fallen timber, arson just can't have as much impact because there isn't as much fuel.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
-----------------------
Man O brother.

In these cities they need regular programs to reduce fuel load -- cutting back overgrowth, clearing up any yard debris, limiting flammable growth, laws on type of roofs allowed, etc. They don't do that.

You know why Japanese gardens are so sparse? One reason is because of fire risk in Japan. It is in their culture not to allow too much fuel to accumulate. Not so for CA.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2025 06:50 PM (qUMgz)

79 Is the LA mayor back from Ghana yet?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 06:50 PM (2VST1)

80 More like L.A. Fat Dykes, amirite?
(Raises hand expectantly)

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 08, 2025 06:50 PM (amTrm)

81 Did y'all see the video of Adam Carolla describing how his application for the Fire Department went? At the age of 19, with a HS diploma in his pocket and a 1.7GPA he tried to apply for a firefighter position. They told him that because he wasn't black, hispanic, or a woman, he'd be put on the waitlist. He then got a job as a basic laborer in construction. Seven years later, he was allowed to take the entrance exam. While in line to take the exam, he talked with a black woman who was also in line. He asked when she got put on the wait list. She replied, "Wednesday."

http://tiny.cc/rzq4001

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2025 06:50 PM (Odg76)

82 >>This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Flaming hot.

Posted by: dantesed at January 08, 2025 06:51 PM (Oy/m2)

83 With the winds that the LA area had every sane person knew that some firebugs, terrorists, or illegals were going to start some fires.

Happens every time we get Santa Ana winds. But less fuels would have helped limit the damage tremendously.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 08, 2025 06:51 PM (17s+e)

84 This is why the media is trying to push "Trump threatens to invade Greenland and Panama" bs because that makes him just like Hitler!

See? They told you!

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2025 06:51 PM (QfvaV)

85 Aviator

15 yard penalty. Loss of down. Unsportsmanlike visualizations.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2025 06:51 PM (u82oZ)

86 They also could be the front court of a WNBA team
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 06:48 PM (KQk9m)

You sure they aren't the cheerleading squad?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 08, 2025 06:51 PM (VNX3d)

87 You’d think with literal Hitler only days from taking over there would be millions of people desperately fleeing the country. The Canadian and Mexican border should be overwhelmed right now with Americans fleeing.

Right?

Weirdly this is not happening.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 08, 2025 06:51 PM (BqIHC)

88 Suppose the electorate was given a choice between "path A" and "path B." With regards to, say, wildfire mitigation. But "Path A" which would be useful is declared "racist" or some other leftist trigger word that gets panties all in a wad. While "Path B" is just lip service and grift... but makes people's panties less... wadded.

Suppose Conservatives just be less well meaning. Mind their own business, and quite trying to butt into places where otherwise free people make stupid - sometimes deadly - decisions.

Then we'd all just step back, and let these fires take their course. And quit wringing our hands about it.

Posted by: Taking Notes at January 08, 2025 06:51 PM (7dP0W)

89 Power companies not clearing ROW's is fucking insane.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2025 06:51 PM (dR6yv)

90 Hitler didn’t come close to getting 50% of the vote. He took power by overt and covert threat and force.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 06:45 PM (D6PGr)
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Hitler became chancellor because the other factions figured they could control him. Schleicher pushed Hitler because he figured he would fail or be controllable.

They were wrong. The Reichtag fire produced the Enabling Act and that was that.

That's what so annoying. Hitler didn't have some long, winding road to power and a slow, gradual erosion of civil liberties. Within 90 days of getting the big chair, the deal was done.

Nothing subtle about it, either. Retards who know no history acting like they do.

"You know how liked dogs? Hitler liked dogs."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 06:52 PM (ZOv7s)

91 You know why Japanese gardens are so sparse? One reason is because of fire risk in Japan. It is in their culture not to allow too much fuel to accumulate. Not so for CA.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2025 06:50 PM (qUMgz)

California should be grateful that only the results of stupidity are flammable, and not stupidity itself.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 08, 2025 06:52 PM (pohLc)

92 82 >>This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Flaming hot.

Posted by: dantesed at January 08, 2025 06:51 PM (Oy/m2)

Too cheesy for me.

Posted by: chester cheetah at January 08, 2025 06:52 PM (ynpvh)

93 I don't see why the Mayor needs to have a taxpayer funded trip to Ghana and gutting the
Fire dept budget/or whatever it was was a really bad idea, but she can't be psychic to know not to be out of town when huge fires start.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2025 06:52 PM (dmiLF)

94 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 1h
U.S. President Joe Biden: I have directed the Department of Defense to rapidly provide additional firefighting personnel and capabilities to the region being impacted by the Southern California wildfires.

We also continue to work closely with the National Guard.

My thanks to the California National Guard and the Nevada National Guard for readying Airborne Firefighting Systems.

Ten Navy helicopters with water delivery buckets are on their way.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 06:52 PM (iMpf5)

95 Can you scissor hard enough to start a Bush Fire?

Asking for a Municipal Fire Department Leadership Squad.

Posted by: garrett
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Golf Clap

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 08, 2025 06:53 PM (17s+e)

96 You’d think with literal Hitler only days from taking over there would be millions of people desperately fleeing the country. The Canadian and Mexican border should be overwhelmed right now with Americans fleeing.

Right?

Weirdly this is not happening.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 08, 2025 06:51 PM (BqIHC)
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Antifa brigades would be mobilizing, but it's really cold and snowy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 06:53 PM (ZOv7s)

97 The big scam is that the idea that the Right is "fascist" is Stalin regurgitated.

Yeah I mean, lefty nutjobs have been calling anyone to the right of Mao a fascist, it was mocked on shows like Young Ones in the past. They were in the letter columns of alternative newspapers you got for free outside record store.

Now its mainstream, its coming from the mouths of leaders in the DNC, from news broadcasters. Very odd.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 06:53 PM (2VST1)

98 One area that historically building codes and regulations were justified was for fire protection.

If your joists are weak and the floor sags -- that is your problem and the gov. has no business making codes telling you how to build a home. If your house catches fire, that is everyone's problem since fires spread.

But in CA, they spend all their time telling you how many blacks you need to have laying tile in your home, and no time forcing people to reduce fuel load.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2025 06:53 PM (qUMgz)

99 This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department

I am guessing LA is national champs in Fire Department softball.

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2025 06:54 PM (QfvaV)

100
My thanks to the California National Guard and the Nevada National Guard for readying Airborne Firefighting Systems.

Ten Navy helicopters with water delivery buckets are on their way.
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 06:52 PM (iMpf5)

A day late and a dollar short

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 06:54 PM (VE6XX)

101
If we can rename Mt. McKinley to Mt. Denali, why can't we rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 06:54 PM (dxSpM)

102 63 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 54m
LA Mayor Karen Bass refuses to answer and freezes when a reporter asks her if she regrets cutting the Fire Department’s budget by nearly $20 million and being in Africa during a devastating wildfire.

https://tinyurl.com/ycytys6n
2:41 minutes; a British Sky News reporter [an Irishman actually I think but still a foreigner and not domestic]
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 06:47 PM (iMpf5)

In fairness, I don't think anybody could have seen this coming, and it flared up fast. I've lived here over 40 years, fire season, while 'constant', typically peaks late summer thru fall. But...we've been extremely dry this year.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 06:54 PM (QGaXH)

103 Suppose the electorate was given a choice between "path A" and "path B." With regards to, say, wildfire mitigation. But "Path A" which would be useful is declared "racist" or some other leftist trigger word that gets panties all in a wad. While "Path B" is just lip service and grift... but makes people's panties less... wadded.
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Libs have shown over and over that thinking is too much of a burden for them to bear. They don't want to think. They want positions to push, causes to get behind.

Calling something "racist" just steers the cattle in the direction where they can just push and not think about it.

This is not saying that every traditional or conservative wants to think, but by definition, in reverence for what is, and in their opinion "works", there is much more a guttural fidelity to the returns on the effort.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 06:55 PM (krQz2)

104 Seriously, I know the one on the left is Kristin Crowley.
What are the names of the other two?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 08, 2025 06:55 PM (dg+HA)

105 The notion of controlled burns means you dont conduct them during Santa Ana winds.

And yes, that was a controlled burn. Zing!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at January 08, 2025 06:55 PM (wBaIH)

106 It's me donna

Most people understand maintenance.

CA understands action after the event.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2025 06:55 PM (u82oZ)

107 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 1h
"City of Santa Monica is issuing an Evacuation ORDER for areas of the city north of Montana Ave between 11th St/PCH (SAN-Q1388-B). Existing Evacuation Orders north of San Vicente remain in effect. Immediate threat to life. LEAVE NOW. Evacuation Warning has been issued for north of Wilshire between 10th St/PCH."

https://tinyurl.com/35c4fbr3
map

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 06:55 PM (iMpf5)

108 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
·
Follow
In 2014, Californians overwhelmingly voted to spend billions on water storage and reservoirs.

Gavin Newsom still hasn’t built it.

Now no water is coming out of the fire hydrants.
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Don't worry, Gavin has a "ten-year plan" for that!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2025 06:56 PM (RIvkX)

109 You know why Japanese gardens are so sparse? One reason is because of fire risk in Japan. It is in their culture not to allow too much fuel to accumulate. Not so for CA.

myself am, quite literally, sitting this place right currently south for osaka, waiting to the board bus the to train to kobe to enter home.

yours statement can don't be more wrong. Manicured trees. Wood siding. Those am don't worrying around fire.
the
shit people repeated, confidently without knowledge, amazes my

Posted by: Taking Notes at January 08, 2025 06:56 PM (7dP0W)

110
The cure to preventing future fires is obvious. Oxygen should be banned.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 06:56 PM (dxSpM)

111 Coastal Southern CA is basically a desert and frequently have long term droughts.

To help during those times they built a billionaire dollar desalination plant but never used it and sold off the parts during a time they weren’t in a drought.

They’ve been dumb for a long time.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 06:56 PM (D6PGr)

112 Ten Navy helicopters with water delivery buckets are on their way.
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 06:52 PM (iMpf5)
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Ten? Oh, well, then that's it then. Problem solved. Nine would be too few, 11 too many. Ten is just right.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 06:56 PM (ZOv7s)

113 >>I want to see them in full fireman's fireperson's battlerattle. Coats, helments, air tank, axe, climbing a ladder. Maybe humping a roll of hose.

They don't look like humping hose is in their wheelhouse.

Posted by: Aviator at January 08, 2025 06:57 PM (HQ9Sl)

114 If we can rename Mt. McKinley to Mt. Denali, why can't we rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America?

I'd rather they didn't rename either. I mean, it is North and South America, so the Gulf of America makes sense but I don't like changing long established stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 06:57 PM (2VST1)

115 106 It's me donna

Most people understand maintenance.

CA understands action after the event.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2025 06:55 PM (u82oZ)

Gov't is not in the business of fixing problems, as that would put them out of a job...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 06:57 PM (ynpvh)

116 114 If we can rename Mt. McKinley to Mt. Denali, why can't we rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America?

I'd rather they didn't rename either. I mean, it is North and South America, so the Gulf of America makes sense but I don't like changing long established stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 06:57 PM (2VST1)

How about Hurricane Gulf?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 06:58 PM (ynpvh)

117 Joe Biden is kind of the Scourge of God 2.0.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 06:58 PM (ZOv7s)

118 All the house along PCH will never be rebuilt because of environazis and regulations. Those people are looking at total losses due to proggism.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 08, 2025 06:58 PM (17s+e)

119 Rescue 911LGBTQ+

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2025 06:58 PM (c+GDc)

120 113 >>I want to see them in full fireman's fireperson's battlerattle. Coats, helments, air tank, axe, climbing a ladder. Maybe humping a roll of hose.

They don't look like humping hose is in their wheelhouse.

Posted by: Aviator at January 08, 2025 06:57 PM (HQ9Sl)

hoses don't do well when scissored...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 06:59 PM (ynpvh)

121 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 54m
BREAKING: At least 5 people confirmed dead from Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna.

...with more bodies expected to be found, per Los Angeles County Sheriff.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 06:59 PM (iMpf5)

122
Franklin's aphorism that "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other" has not taken root in California.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 06:59 PM (dxSpM)

123 The cure to preventing future fires is obvious. Oxygen should be banned.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 06:56 PM (dxSpM)
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Not oxygen, oxygen thieves.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 06:59 PM (ZOv7s)

124 Unsportsmanlike visualizations.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2025 06:51 PM

On the other hand, we've always appreciated your unwavering and full-throated support.

Posted by: Lena D., Trigglypuff, Stacey, and The View panelists at January 08, 2025 06:59 PM (a3Q+t)

125 Meme:
Best snowplow name:

CTRL-SALT-DELETE

Posted by: Ciampino - too bad MS at January 08, 2025 06:59 PM (i0xsb)

126 >> All the house along PCH will never be rebuilt because of environazis and regulations. Those people are looking at total losses due to proggism.

At least, not until the condemned properties are sold off the Venture Capital Firms.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 06:59 PM (oLK8+)

127 All the house along PCH will never be rebuilt because of environazis and regulations. Those people are looking at total losses due to proggism.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 08, 2025 06:58 PM (17s+e)
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When all the wildfire insurance had been canceled, it's a great time for a purge of existing homes.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 06:59 PM (krQz2)

128 121 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 54m
BREAKING: At least 5 people confirmed dead from Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna.

...with more bodies expected to be found, per Los Angeles County Sheriff.
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 06:59 PM (iMpf5)

I knew that one was gonna be bad.. People there had farm animals

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 07:00 PM (VE6XX)

129 It's not possible to overstate how deeply rooted the fear and respect of fire is ingrained into Japanese culture. Especially for the first couple of thousand years of modern Japanese civilization, the safety of one's house and family was directly related to the fire-prevention habits of everyone else nearby, because if one house caught fire, it would spread to all houses in the area. (Until recently... until maybe 30 or 40 years ago... the vast majority of Japanese buildings were made mostly of wood.) If you made a mistake, thousands would pay, and vice-versa. Despite this ingrained caution, mass conflagrations were apparently common, so the fear was well founded.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 07:00 PM (D6PGr)

130 In fairness, I don't think anybody could have seen this coming, and it flared up fast. I've lived here over 40 years, fire season, while 'constant', typically peaks late summer thru fall. But...we've been extremely dry this year.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 06:54 PM (QGaXH)

Dry? It can't be that southern CA is a desert. It can't be that.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2025 07:00 PM (g8Ew8)

131 The cure to preventing future fires is obvious. Oxygen should be banned.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 06:56 PM (dxSpM)
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Common sense oxygen reform.

Or you like burning kids!

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 07:00 PM (krQz2)

132 The internet is pretty cool.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 07:00 PM (D6PGr)

133 >> The cure to preventing future fires is obvious.

I was told by a representative from the Federal Government that ONLY I could prevent Forest Fires.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 07:00 PM (oLK8+)

134 The rename the Gulf of Mexico thing is a troll of Mexico. I say troll but not annoy for the purpose of annoying troll.

It's kind of a shot across the bow, we are the big dog here and you need to get your shit straightened out.

Does it work? Ask ex-Prime Minister Trudeau (yeah I know he hasn't quit yet)

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2025 07:01 PM (QfvaV)

135 129 It's not possible to overstate how deeply rooted the fear and respect of fire is ingrained into Japanese culture. Especially for the first couple of thousand years of modern Japanese civilization, the safety of one's house and family was directly related to the fire-prevention habits of everyone else nearby, because if one house caught fire, it would spread to all houses in the area. (Until recently... until maybe 30 or 40 years ago... the vast majority of Japanese buildings were made mostly of wood.) If you made a mistake, thousands would pay, and vice-versa. Despite this ingrained caution, mass conflagrations were apparently common, so the fear was well founded.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 07:00 PM (D6PGr)

Yes, wood and paper...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 07:01 PM (ynpvh)

136 I am, quite literally, sitting here right now south of Osaka, waiting to board the bus to the train to Kobe to come home.

Your statement could not be more wrong. Manicured trees. Wood siding. They are not worried about fire.

The shit people repeat, confidently without knowledge, amazes me.
Posted by: Taking Notes at January 08, 2025 06:56 PM (7dP0W)
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Lots of deadfall wood around? Uncleared brush?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 07:01 PM (ZOv7s)

137 93 I don't see why the Mayor needs to have a taxpayer funded trip to Ghana and gutting the
Fire dept budget/or whatever it was was a really bad idea, but she can't be psychic to know not to be out of town when huge fires start.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2025 06:52 PM (dmiLF)

An African country is a fine place to start if you want to see somewhere that’s run better than LA.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at January 08, 2025 07:01 PM (tsszd)

138 Your statement could not be more wrong. Manicured trees. Wood siding. They are not worried about fire.

The shit people repeat, confidently without knowledge, amazes me.
Posted by: Taking Notes

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Two nights ago it was windy in my town *in Japan* and the fire trucks were driving around reminding people to mind their stoves because of high risk of fire. They do this whenever it is windy.

The Japanese are very diligent about fire. In one city I lived in in Tokyo, the Obachans would train regularly using a fire cart in case of disaster where trucks could not get through.

Keeping a clear yard is very important in japan, and it is more than just appearance.

Maybe in Osaka it is wetter and they do not care. I don't know, Osaka-jin are all weird. But in Tokyo they clear weeds, prune trees, etc. to keep fuel load down.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (qUMgz)

139 I was told by a representative from the Federal Government that ONLY I could prevent Forest Fires.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 07:00 PM (oLK8+)

Umm, dude. I think you are going to be in trouble

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (QfvaV)

140 17 Any of that crew actually ever carry someone out of a burning building?

Posted by: naturalfake

No only carry out they have done is at the donut shoppe or Chicken Delight.

Posted by: Baker's Dozen at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (G5+As)

141 Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at January 08, 2025 07:01 PM (tsszd)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (dmiLF)

142 I see the problem now:

This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

https://pic.twitter.com/x8c0tH5MKC

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 8, 2025

I wonder if they pass the physical?

Posted by: Ciampino - too well fed at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (i0xsb)

143 Rest assured, when Vance runs in four years, he too will be a fascist way worse than Hitler

Posted by: Don Black. Message: good status light at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (AOsQT)

144 While I won't say that people voted for this type of LAFD, enough of them did so that the donks could cheat their way to control.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (17s+e)

145 It's not possible to overstate how deeply rooted the fear and respect of fire is ingrained into Japanese culture.

myself am looking outward I hotel window, right currently, the upon creeping plant kind for shit running upon multi-story buildings.

it is don't possibrue to over-state folks this would do over-state to what those "know" around places those've don't visited on quite a several anytime

Posted by: Taking Notes at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (7dP0W)

146 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 4h
🚨#BREAKING: Governor Newsom has ordered the mobilization of California’s National Guard to assist firefighters in battling wildfires across Los Angeles County.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (iMpf5)

147 Don't worry, Gavin has a "ten-year plan" for that!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2025 06:56 PM (RIvkX)
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But somehow he has a plan to run for President in 4 years.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (krQz2)

148 Has anyone noticed Fens new hash?

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2025 07:03 PM (QfvaV)

149 >This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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hmm
the guys in Backdraft]/i] looked different

Posted by: Don Black. Message: good status light at January 08, 2025 07:04 PM (AOsQT)

150 148 Has anyone noticed Fens new hash?

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2025 07:03 PM (QfvaV)

::: looks it up, types, deletes :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 07:04 PM (ynpvh)

151 Rest assured, when Vance runs in four years, he too will be a fascist way worse than Hitler

Posted by: Don Black. Message: good status light at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (AOsQT)
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Now Vance! Vance! He's going to end democracy.

We were off by one. It's Vance.

He's going to fuck couches and end democracy--and he's all out of couches.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 07:04 PM (krQz2)

152 I was told by a representative from the Federal Government that ONLY I could prevent Forest Fires.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 07:00 PM (oLK8+)

Quick - send the California legislature to talk the fires to death!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 08, 2025 07:05 PM (VNX3d)

153

Posted by: Don Black. Message: good status light at January 08, 2025 07:05 PM (AOsQT)

154 Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2025 07:03

Is it supposed to mean something?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2025 07:05 PM (dmiLF)

155 Rest assured, when Vance runs in four years, he too will be a fascist way worse than Hitler
Posted by: Don Black. Message: good status light at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (AOsQT)
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Trump will be respectable and restrained, not at all like the Nazi Vance!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 07:05 PM (ZOv7s)

156
They also could be the front court of a WNBA team

They look more like WNFL.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2025 07:05 PM (63Dwl)

157 see the problem now:

This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

https://pic.twitter.com/x8c0tH5MKC

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 8, 2025

I wonder if they pass the physical?

Posted by: Ciampino - too well fed
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Of course they did just like the men but the physical testing had been lowered so that they could pass it.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 08, 2025 07:05 PM (17s+e)

158 112 Ten Navy helicopters with water delivery buckets are on their way.
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 06:52 PM (iMpf5)
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Ten? Oh, well, then that's it then. Problem solved. Nine would be too few, 11 too many. Ten is just right.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 06:56 PM (ZOv7s)

12 is right out....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 07:05 PM (QGaXH)

159 Maybe in Osaka it is wetter and they do not care. I don't know, Osaka-jin are all weird. But in Tokyo they clear weeds, prune trees, etc. to keep fuel load down.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Japan is on the northern tip of a yearly monsoon. They get a shitfuck of rain. The comparison to CA is dumbfucking awful.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2025 07:06 PM (IG4Id)

160 Lots of deadfall wood around? Uncleared brush?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 07:01 PM (ZOv7s)
The
entire fucking island is individual more than grow together city. Have to that high enough construction. and it concrete and other buildings the everyone way outward the to horizon.

prevent people grown ornamental trees on their homes. conditionally to those the take room and that more than enough window. Its don't that accelerate fear for fire this place.

that accelerate fear for unemployment. Due to then yours assin isthe street

Posted by: Taking Notes at January 08, 2025 07:06 PM (7dP0W)

161 They look well fed.
Clam chowder?

Posted by: torabora at January 08, 2025 07:06 PM (EvSXk)

162 >>>This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.

I'd gladly follow those leaders into a burning...uh, no, just no.

Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2025 07:06 PM (aBgBM)

163 Any of that crew actually ever carry someone out of a burning building?

Posted by: naturalfake

No only carry out they have done is at the donut shoppe or Chicken Delight.
Posted by: Baker's Dozen at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (G5+As)

Trump Jr and Musk ridiculed Biden again and pointed out that the pizza delivery guy who rescued 4 kids from a house fire should have gotten the Medal of Freedom instead of the undeserving who did. ( pretty amazing rescue caught on camera)

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 07:06 PM (D6PGr)

164 You're a Hitler and you're a Hitler and you're a Hitler
----Oprah

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 08, 2025 07:06 PM (kTd/k)

165 My mom called Trump a fascist. I stumped her by asking her to define one.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2025 07:06 PM (vFG9F)

166 Rest assured, when Vance runs in four years, he too will be a fascist way worse than Hitler

And Bill Maher will admit that Trump wasn't THAT bad and they exaggerated but THIS TIME its really true!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:06 PM (2VST1)

167 Vance is going to make the Oval Office Worse that Hiroshima!

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 07:06 PM (krQz2)

168 >Has anyone noticed Fens new hash?

Posted by: blaster
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has anyone noticed mine? I'm kinda butthurt

(new modem)

Posted by: Don Black. Message: good status light at January 08, 2025 07:07 PM (AOsQT)

169 That is an interesting hash, going to need pictures....

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:07 PM (KQk9m)

170 168 >Has anyone noticed Fens new hash?

Posted by: blaster
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has anyone noticed mine? I'm kinda butthurt

(new modem)

Posted by: Don Black. Message: good status light at January 08, 2025 07:07 PM (AOsQT)

AOS quartet?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 07:07 PM (ynpvh)

171 >>I am guessing LA is national champs in Fire Department softball.

Posted by: blaster

Probably do pretty well in shot put too.

Posted by: Aviator at January 08, 2025 07:08 PM (HQ9Sl)

172 But in Tokyo they clear weeds, prune trees, etc. to keep fuel load down.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

This is over that foots for fucking snowed right currently the in northern halfs the for island. Again - that the is kind for shit thats don't differently than "keep yours hands in ten and two".

only opinionated shit without facts. You are've always only achieved to japan, take you are. Don't, you are a take don't

Posted by: Taking Notes at January 08, 2025 07:08 PM (7dP0W)

173 It is not possible to over-state folks that will over-state what they "know" about places they've not visited in quite some time.
Posted by: Taking Notes

The problem Mr Dunning Kreuger, I mean, Taking Notes, is that on the internet you never know if the person on the other keyboard is a cat.
Or someone who owns a home in Japan and has lived here for many years.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2025 07:08 PM (qUMgz)

174 >This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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how many 'females' in that photo?

Posted by: Don Black. Message: good status light at January 08, 2025 07:08 PM (AOsQT)

175 Is it supposed to mean something?

Look up MILF on a computer that is not related to work that you can erase the history from.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:08 PM (2VST1)

176 169 That is an interesting hash, going to need pictures....

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:07 PM (KQk9m)

::: types deletes again :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 07:09 PM (ynpvh)

177 LOL

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:09 PM (KQk9m)

178 >>My mom called Trump a fascist. I stumped her by asking her to define one.

Ask any leftist who uses the word incessantly. None of them know what it means.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2025 07:09 PM (LkLld)

179 AOS quartet?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 07:07 PM (ynpvh)

AOS cutie!

Come on that is one to wear with pride!

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2025 07:09 PM (QfvaV)

180 Posted by: Taking Notes at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (7dP0W)

Someone living in Japan just told you the same. But keep digging that same condescending hole you alway dig.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 07:09 PM (D6PGr)

181
AOS quartet?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 07:07 PM (ynpvh)

________

Out: Grosse Fuge

In: Gross Fudge

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 07:10 PM (dxSpM)

182 175 Is it supposed to mean something?

Look up MILF on a computer that is not related to work that you can erase the history from.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:08 PM (2VST1)

and the d can be diminutive...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 07:10 PM (ynpvh)

183 Hey, that's the Fire Queef.

They starred in that movie about firefighters and an arsonist: Backcrack.

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 08, 2025 07:10 PM (NMT5x)

184 Ask any leftist who uses the word incessantly. None of them know what it means.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2025 07:09 PM (LkLld)

It means anyone they disagree with.

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2025 07:10 PM (QfvaV)

185 on the internet you never know if the person on the other keyboard is a cat.

Yeah I catch myself about to get into a debate with someone online then stop and think "is this an adult? Someone who lives in a basement and kills small animals for fun? A bum in a library?" We have no idea who the other person is or whether they are worthy of any attention at all.

But if they are human, everyone deserves respect, something I have forgotten too often in my life.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:11 PM (2VST1)

186 148 Has anyone noticed Fens new hash?
Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2025 07:03 PM (QfvaV)

Can you dig it?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 07:11 PM (QGaXH)

187
I am looking out my hotel window, right now, at the creeping plant kind of shit running up multi-story buildings.

It is not possible to over-state folks that will over-state what they "know" about places they've not visited in quite some time.
Posted by: Taking Notes at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (7dP0W)

How many times has Osaka burned up? How many times has Tokyo burned? Differences might be regional. Just like here in the US.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2025 07:11 PM (g8Ew8)

188 My mom called Trump a fascist. I stumped her by asking her to define one.

Ask any leftist who uses the word incessantly. None of them know what it means.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2025 07:09 PM (LkLld)
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Ask them who conceived fascism.

If they can't tell you it comes from the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, they can't tell you much.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 07:11 PM (krQz2)

189 173- thank you, Bob. I laughed .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2025 07:11 PM (eMdFp)

190 A fascist is someone out of line with my values
Obama probably

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:11 PM (KQk9m)

191 >Ask any leftist who uses the word incessantly. None of them know what it means.

Posted by: JackStraw

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they know it's really really bad...

Posted by: Don Black. Message: good status light at January 08, 2025 07:11 PM (AOsQT)

192 Japan is on the northern tip of a yearly monsoon. They get a shitfuck of rain. The comparison to CA is dumbfucking awful.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

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Japan has a dry season. Actually, two since the summers are very dry with a rainy season (the remnants of the monsoon) in between. Not as bad as CA (I lived in San Jose area a while) but dry enough that all your plants will dry up and die. Last year no one had figs because it didn't rain for a couple months and they died on the trees. It has to be pretty dry so that trees can't find enough water.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2025 07:12 PM (qUMgz)

193 McCain was Hitler. So was Romney. And of course Cheney and Dubya. Then they became rabid Trump haters and are now revered by the left.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 08, 2025 07:12 PM (BqIHC)

194 Ask any leftist who uses the word incessantly. None of them know what it means.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2025 07:09 PM (LkLld)

It means anyone they disagree with.
Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2025 07:10 PM (QfvaV)
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I think it means power exercised in a way they don't like.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 07:12 PM (krQz2)

195 188 My mom called Trump a fascist. I stumped her by asking her to define one.

Ask any leftist who uses the word incessantly. None of them know what it means.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2025 07:09 PM (LkLld)
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Ask them who conceived fascism.

If they can't tell you it comes from the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, they can't tell you much.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 07:11 PM (krQz2)

OH, that's why they hate Joos.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 07:12 PM (ynpvh)

196 Ask any leftist who uses the word incessantly. None of them know what it means.

Its like the term "gaslighting" used all the time for pretty much any disagreement, trolling, or troublemaking. Its lost all meaning. People memorize terms and useage without understanding the definition. Its like picking up grenades to throw at enemies, letters go flying everywhere.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:12 PM (2VST1)

197 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:11 PM (2VST1)

If you didn’t catch it, bob lives in Japan.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 07:12 PM (D6PGr)

198
The leadership team ain't about fighting fires.

Still, any one of them could kick my ass in an unfair fight.

Posted by: Auspex at January 08, 2025 07:12 PM (j4U/Z)

199 REI to can 500 employees. Cancels all REI outings via their Trip Club.

I guess they figure there will be no more Sierra forests after the fire reckoning.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 08, 2025 07:12 PM (/U5Yz)

200 Guys Republicans are seizing again can pouncing be far behind?

Republicans are seizing on the catastrophic wildfires that tore through the Los Angeles area early Wednesday, blaming Democratic policies for the deadly, wind-fueled conflagrations that forced tens of thousands to flee their homes.

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:13 PM (KQk9m)

201 I was told by a representative from the Federal Government that ONLY I could prevent Forest Fires.

Posted by: garrett
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A shirtless bear pointing his finger at you, and growling that, implied that he might rip your lungs out if you got uppity.

He was discarded in favor of Woodsy the clown Owl.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 07:13 PM (XeU6L)

202 From Politico ofc but soon to be everywhere

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:13 PM (KQk9m)

203 That picture of the "Leadership Team" for the fire department is truly, truly sad. I know a handful of fire fighters who have been uniform in telling me how difficult it is to even *sit* for the Captain's exam. Apparently it involves studying and memorizing the "specs" for more than 35 different fire trucks (since the trucks in any force have been assembled over a couple of decades, and vary by brand, make, water capacity, hose capacity, gas mileage, etc) and a host of other very detailed topics. Its grueling to study for, and very difficult to achieve the Captain level.

Now, look at that picture again. Ask yourself whether you believe any of those 3 ever achieved the rank of Captain?

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2025 07:13 PM (azSra)

204 Remember the debacle in NYC when Letitia James (?) went to hand out medals or something to the NYFD? The FD boss was a woman too right?

Posted by: Ciampino - too well fed - sex indeterminate at January 08, 2025 07:13 PM (i0xsb)

205 FTR , I'm a retired investor living on a pension.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: good status light at January 08, 2025 07:14 PM (AOsQT)

206
you never know if the person on the other keyboard is a cat.
Or someone who owns a home in Japan and has lived here for many years.

Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2025 07:14 PM (63Dwl)

207
But if they are human, everyone deserves respect, something I have forgotten too often in my life.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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This is a very good point, and a very good sentiment.
I am incognito now, but still I want to say it is good to see you around again, CRT

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2025 07:14 PM (qUMgz)

208 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:14 PM (Zz0t1)

209 If you didn’t catch it, bob lives in Japan.

Expensive. I guess you can make good money teaching English, though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:14 PM (2VST1)

210 I don’t think anyone was comparing Japan to California. They were speaking of Preparations to prevent fires,

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 07:14 PM (D6PGr)

211 Jm J Acosta talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:14 PM (Zz0t1)

212 152 Quick - send the California legislature to talk the fires to death!

not certain more hot air will help with the fires

Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2025 07:14 PM (v3pYe)

213
Tokyo fire history:

https://tinyurl.com/25qvjhes

It's a long one.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 08, 2025 07:15 PM (w6EFb)

214 >>A shirtless bear pointing his finger at you, and growling that, implied that he might rip your lungs out if you got uppity.

I always thought that it was a lot of pressure to put on a young garrett.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 07:15 PM (oLK8+)

215 Breaking911 @Breaking911 4h
WATCH: Actor James Woods sobs after losing home in wildfire, says niece offered her piggy bank to help rebuild😢

"One day you're swimming in the pool, and the next day it's all gone."

https://tinyurl.com/45m2sdh2
1:49 minutes; Allergy Alert

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 07:15 PM (iMpf5)

216 Republicans are seizing on the catastrophic wildfires that tore through the Los Angeles area early Wednesday, blaming Democratic policies for the deadly, wind-fueled conflagrations that forced tens of thousands to flee their homes.
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:13 PM (KQk9m)
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Wait. You guys seized?

Damn, I pounced.

I never get it right. I think I need a new decoder ring.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 07:15 PM (krQz2)

217 You know where there are fires every summer? All over the western US. Well you probably don’t. Because the news media pays no attention to those fires if they’re not in SoCal. Those fires don’t affect Hollywood mansions in Malibu so whatevs. Boooooooring.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 08, 2025 07:15 PM (BqIHC)

218 Japan has a dry season. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Japan is not a desert region. Why is this so fucking hard to understand?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2025 07:15 PM (IG4Id)

219 I am incognito now, but still I want to say it is good to see you around again, CRT

*waves at the guy in the mask*

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:15 PM (2VST1)

220 Someone living in Japan just told you the same. But keep digging that same condescending hole you alway dig.

And myself life the in moon. Myself with able to said it - doese meaning myself will it.

those no "rake and prune and clearly" that damn thing on tokyo - due to this simply ise this highly shit this to burn. Japan is appreciation nothing you are've ever see. Its appreciation nothing myself've ever sight.

those no needed to create "fire-breaks" due to those've make them of 75 years. Streets and concrete the segmenting entire joint. And it exceedingly does rain this place constantly. Individual chosen for umbrella is that fashion statement.

or listened to bob. That person always only achieved this place. Welcome bob, only walked us through, real quicken, with a method you are a bought yours daily ticket the in jr line on tokyo. Myself'll waited

Posted by: Taking Notes at January 08, 2025 07:15 PM (7dP0W)

221 201 A shirtless bear pointing his finger at you, and growling that, implied that he might rip your lungs out if you got uppity.

He was discarded in favor of Woodsy the clown Owl.

who then went on to sell glasses

Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2025 07:16 PM (v3pYe)

222 Seizing should come after the pouncing tbh

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:16 PM (KQk9m)

223 187
I am looking out my hotel window, right now, at the creeping plant kind of shit running up multi-story buildings.

It is not possible to over-state folks that will over-state what they "know" about places they've not visited in quite some time.
Posted by: Taking Notes at January 08, 2025 07:02 PM (7dP0W)

How many times has Osaka burned up? How many times has Tokyo burned? Differences might be regional. Just like here in the US.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2025 07:11 PM (g8Ew

Judging from the Godzilla movies - the whole place is one giant piece of cardboard...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 07:16 PM (QGaXH)

224 How many times has Osaka burned up? How many times has Tokyo burned? Differences might be regional. Just like here in the US.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2025 07:11 PM (g8Ew

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The Great Kanto earthquake wrecked Tokyo in 1923 because the cooking fires spread out of control.

I think Japan has pretty good fire precautions, and would never tolerate Californian laxness.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 07:16 PM (ZOv7s)

225 213
Tokyo fire history:

https://tinyurl.com/25qvjhes

It's a long one.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 08, 2025 07:15 PM (w6EFb)

I seem to recall reading about a few in the 1940's...before the big bangs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 07:16 PM (ynpvh)

226 Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2025 07:14 PM (63Dwl)
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Cats from Japan sing?

*shakes head*

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 07:16 PM (krQz2)

227 Actor James Woods sobs after losing home in wildfire, says niece offered her piggy bank to help rebuild

He used the money he got from producing Oppenheimer (name removed by the studio to avoid controversy because he's conservative) to renovate his home... which is now ashes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:17 PM (2VST1)

228 Republicans are seizing on the catastrophic wildfires that tore through the Los Angeles area early Wednesday, blaming Democratic policies for the deadly, wind-fueled conflagrations that forced tens of thousands to flee their homes.
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:13 PM (KQk9m)
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Is this the wording MSM is going with? Because I don't think it quite conveys what they think it does. If anything, it's stating publicly what's obviously true.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 08, 2025 07:17 PM (tT6L1)

229 dmiLF

Heh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2025 07:17 PM (dR6yv)

230
The penalty for arson under Shogun rule was burning at the stake.

Hmmmm.....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 08, 2025 07:17 PM (w6EFb)

231 Judging from the Godzilla movies - the whole place is one giant piece of cardboard...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 07:16 PM (QGaXH)
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The JSDF uses tanks and aircraft made of plastic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 07:17 PM (ZOv7s)

232 I am incognito now, but still I want to say it is good to see you around again, CRT

*waves at the guy in the mask*
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:15 PM (2VST1)
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Who was that masked man?

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 07:17 PM (krQz2)

233 Japan has a dry season. Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Japan is not a desert region. Why is this so fucking hard to understand?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2025 07:15 PM (IG4Id)

Who is comparing geographical California to Japan?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 07:18 PM (D6PGr)

234 I certainly hope the dude suing CNN wins and gets hundreds of millions of dollars from that piece of dog shit 'media' corporation. F*ck them in the fartclam with a barbed mace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:18 PM (Zz0t1)

235
It's Capitalist and Colonialist to dedicate public funds to the preservation of Bourgeoisie dwelling places built on stolen land.

Posted by: Auspex at January 08, 2025 07:18 PM (j4U/Z)

236 Diversity
Equity
Incineration

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2025 07:18 PM (QPjUO)

237 217 You know where there are fires every summer? All over the western US. Well you probably don’t. Because the news media pays no attention to those fires if they’re not in SoCal. Those fires don’t affect Hollywood mansions in Malibu so whatevs. Boooooooring.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

I must say, the Coconino NF and other AZ forest have been managed well over the last few years. Selective logging and ground clutter piled up and burnt.

Here in the PNW, the national forests are left un-managed. Fucking idiots.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 08, 2025 07:19 PM (/U5Yz)

238 >>Japan has a dry season.

Don't let them fool you.

It's just Chinese 5 Spice with some Bonito Flakes in there.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 07:19 PM (oLK8+)

239 Its a bit early to assign blame for the fire, who knows what started it at this point. I mean if i were a gambling man I'd put heavy odds on arson or a homeless camp that got out of control, but we don't know.

What we DO know is that decades of mismanagement and DEI hiring, incompetence, and outright corruption have rendered the state incapable of properly handling a disaster like this.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:19 PM (2VST1)

240 In the Godzilla movies I was always impressed by the size of the JSDF . Besides all the fighter planes, tanks and multiple rocket launchers, missile launchers they had those Mazer cannon....

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:19 PM (KQk9m)

241 187 How many times has Osaka burned up? How many times has Tokyo burned?

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: godzilla at January 08, 2025 07:19 PM (v3pYe)

242 Banzai trees are the little ones that try to kill you in the Emperor's name.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 07:19 PM (iMpf5)

243 The A Listers can thank God they have such nice weather to be homeless in. Plus In-and-Out Burger!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at January 08, 2025 07:19 PM (wBaIH)

244 James Wood: "This has been the kind of thing that tribunals are for."

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 07:19 PM (W/lyH)

245 My pitch for "Emergency! 2025":

A kickboxing lesbian woman of color and a transexual furry are paramedics who save lives and make TikTok videos in modern day LA, while facing challenges like dealing with peanut allergies in the firehouse kitchen, Lume shortages, and a lack of EV charging stations.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2025 07:19 PM (vFG9F)

246 Seize Them! Seize Them!

Posted by: The Wicked Witch of the West at January 08, 2025 07:19 PM (i0F8b)

247 240 In the Godzilla movies I was always impressed by the size of the JSDF . Besides all the fighter planes, tanks and multiple rocket launchers, missile launchers they had those Mazer cannon....

and the freeze cannon. and the orbital black hole gun.

Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2025 07:20 PM (v3pYe)

248 Who is comparing geographical California to Japan?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

This bitch:

You know why Japanese gardens are so sparse? One reason is because of fire risk in Japan. It is in their culture not to allow too much fuel to accumulate. Not so for CA.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2025 07:20 PM (IG4Id)

249 Who was that masked man?

I dunno but every time he rides off I can hear the William Tell overture

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:20 PM (2VST1)

250 It's only a matter of time before Colorado burns up. There is so much dead timber standing in place, because enviro-weenies hate loggers.

You can look at mountainsides here and see huge gray swathes of nothing but beetle-killed trees.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT DENMARK at January 08, 2025 07:20 PM (AOsQT)

251 >>Posted by: fd at January 08, 2025 07:19 PM (vFG9F)

I would watch that.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 07:21 PM (oLK8+)

252 fd, where do I send the Kickstarter money?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 08, 2025 07:21 PM (0wWvl)

253 Yo James Woods. It’s a house. Wood and bricks. You can buy a new one or rebuild the old one. You’ll get insurance money. Most likely you’ll come out ahead too since typically people way over inside contents of a home.

As long as nobody was hurt, eh, it’s just stuff.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 08, 2025 07:21 PM (BqIHC)

254 California does zero land management, squanders all of it's resources and does everything it can to destroy everything the state is known for. Such a beautiful environment has been DESTROYED by the left.

They vote for this continuously. It's really hard to feel sorry for them. Yes, there are conservatives there being horribly effected by this mismanagement of the environment, but the ONLY way the government learns a lesson is if a majority of the people leave. They can't get tax money from vacant lots.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:21 PM (Zz0t1)

255 How much of this thread was taken up by: "YOU KNOW NOTHING OF JAPAN!" ?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 07:21 PM (ZOv7s)

256 Diversity
Equity
Incineration
Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2025 07:18 PM (QPjUO)

Stealing that.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 07:21 PM (W/lyH)

257 226 Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2025 07:14 PM (63Dwl)
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Cats from Japan sing?

well, that's what it sounds like...

Posted by: yoko at January 08, 2025 07:21 PM (v3pYe)

258 The real difference between Japan and CA is there is a meritocracy in Japanese governmental service, and ignorant, power-crazed assholes in CA government service.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 08, 2025 07:22 PM (u82oZ)

259 Next Gavin Newsom will equip all California fire departments with electric fire trucks

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:22 PM (KQk9m)

260 205 FTR , I'm a retired investor living on a pension.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: good status light at January 08, 2025 07:14 PM (AOsQT)

Me too ...

Posted by: Hyman Roth at January 08, 2025 07:22 PM (TTAGa)

261 Breaking911 @Breaking911 4h
WATCH: Actor James Woods sobs after losing home in wildfire, says niece offered her piggy bank to help rebuild😢

"One day you're swimming in the pool, and the next day it's all gone."

-------

Yes, I know what it's like Mr. Woods. It sucks.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2025 07:22 PM (g8Ew8)

262 The A Listers can thank God they have such nice weather to be homeless in. Plus In-and-Out Burger!
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at January 08, 2025 07:19 PM (wBaIH)
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With all the trees burnt down, the mudslides this year will be spectacular.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 07:23 PM (ZOv7s)

263 They can't get tax money from vacant lots.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:21 PM (Zz0t1)
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The government of NC is surely trying to do so.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 08, 2025 07:23 PM (tT6L1)

264 Oregon burns bad every damned year now because they won't do any clearing. There's always been fires, but dang its bad lately. They have to spend the money on other things like... um... honestly I am not sure what. Building homes for illegals? They sure as hell aren't working on the roads.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:23 PM (2VST1)

265 They have those weapons that they can point at you and make you shit yourself. Sound waves, I believe.

I always wondered what would happen if you pointed one at Godzilla.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:23 PM (Zz0t1)

266 Lax on
Lax off

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 07:23 PM (iMpf5)

267 I think TN had a stroke.

Sorry, no hard feelings. Life is too short to argue on the internet.

Yes, I do live in Japan and I need to get to work right now but I have a deadline looming and so I am procrastinating.

TN, glad you could visit and I hope you enjoyed the place. Don't let this bother you. Japan has had a lot of fires and my neighbors have explained this to me so I believe it. Who knows, maybe I am wrong.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2025 07:23 PM (qUMgz)

268 174 >This is the leadership team at the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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how many 'females' in that photo?

forty-two!

Posted by: deep thought at January 08, 2025 07:24 PM (v3pYe)

269 Current wildfires map U.S/Canada, click upper right corner to remove menu overlay

t.ly/FPCg4

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 07:24 PM (XeU6L)

270 >>The A Listers can thank God they have such nice weather to be homeless in. Plus In-and-Out Burger!

The important thing is that tiny fractions of your community feel represented in Civil Works!

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 07:24 PM (oLK8+)

271 My pitch for "Emergency! 2025":

A kickboxing lesbian woman of color and a transexual furry are paramedics who save lives and make TikTok videos in modern day LA, while facing challenges like dealing with peanut allergies in the firehouse kitchen, Lume shortages, and a lack of EV charging stations.
Posted by: fd at January 08, 2025 07:19 PM (vFG9F)

Let's not forget the drive-by shootings of the firehouse, fire trucks hit by driverless cars, and the evil of matches and disposable lighters.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 08, 2025 07:24 PM (VNX3d)

272 How much of this thread was taken up by: "YOU KNOW NOTHING OF JAPAN!" ?

I know they can use the hand like a knife.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:24 PM (2VST1)

273 Next Gavin Newsom will equip all California fire departments with electric fire trucks
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:22 PM (KQk9m)

A firetruck with no water is just a truck. An electric firetruck is soon to be a firestarter truck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:24 PM (Zz0t1)

274 I always wondered what would happen if you pointed one at Godzilla.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:23 PM (Zz0t1)
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Radioactive mudslide?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 08, 2025 07:24 PM (tT6L1)

275 265 They have those weapons that they can point at you and make you shit yourself. Sound waves, I believe.

I always wondered what would happen if you pointed one at Godzilla.

you're gonna need a bigger litter box

Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2025 07:25 PM (v3pYe)

276 247 240 In the Godzilla movies I was always impressed by the size of the JSDF . Besides all the fighter planes, tanks and multiple rocket launchers, missile launchers they had those Mazer cannon....

and the freeze cannon. and the orbital black hole gun.
Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2025 07:20 PM (v3pYe)

I think the original Godzilla movie starred Raymond Burr as an american newsman working or on assignment in Tokyo. He survives and goes on to become a successful lawyer in Los Angeles with a heart-throb assistant who was the stuff of many a boyhood dream....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 07:25 PM (QGaXH)

277 They have those weapons that they can point at you and make you shit yourself. Sound waves, I believe.
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Ah. The Brown Note

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 07:25 PM (XeU6L)

278 I know they can use the hand like a knife.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:24 PM (2VST1)
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But you can't use it to cut a tomato!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 07:25 PM (ZOv7s)

279 Who is comparing geographical California to Japan?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

This bitch:

You know why Japanese gardens are so sparse? One reason is because of fire risk in Japan. It is in their culture not to allow too much fuel to accumulate. Not so for CA.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2025 07:20 PM (IG4Id)

He’s comparing precautions taken where he lives . And actually the point you’re making that California is obviously different ( I assume more fire prone) makes his point that the precautions taken should be more than what they do where he lives in Japan. I don’t understand the conflict you have with his posts. But I don’t understand a lot of conflicts on the internet.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 07:25 PM (D6PGr)

280 They can't get tax money from vacant lots.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:21 PM (Zz0t1)
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They're going to lay the groundwork to get MASSIVE government "emergency funding" to rebuild. Which will disappear quicker than a high-speed rail project.

Naturally, WE will be the ones paying for it one way or another.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2025 07:25 PM (BpYfr)

281 Some nasty former college professor said about Woods "karma". Deleted and her former employer University of Missouri said it was offensive.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2025 07:25 PM (c+GDc)

282 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 40m
A member of the Japanese yakuza criminal underworld pleaded guilty to handling nuclear material sourced from Myanmar and seeking to sell it to fund an illicit arms deal, US authorities said Wednesday.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 07:26 PM (iMpf5)

283 234 I certainly hope the dude suing CNN wins and gets hundreds of millions of dollars from that piece of dog shit 'media' corporation. F*ck them in the fartclam with a barbed mace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:18 PM (Zz0t1)

https://youtu.be/LCZMhs_xpjc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 07:26 PM (ynpvh)

284 I think the original Godzilla movie starred Raymond Burr as an american newsman working or on assignment in Tokyo. He survives and goes on to become a successful lawyer in Los Angeles with a heart-throb assistant who was the stuff of many a boyhood dream....

That's the American version, all of his scenes were added for the US release and were not in the Japanese version at all but I get the joke...

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:26 PM (KQk9m)

285 You know why Japanese gardens are so sparse? One reason is because of fire risk in Japan. It is in their culture not to allow too much fuel to accumulate. Not so for CA.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
Posted by: weft cut-loop

I am not comparing the climates, but there are some similarities. I am only saying that Japan has fire risk and takes steps. Maybe they are obsolete (fires in Japan are less common than USA now) and unnecessary, but I do think that CA would benefit from fuel load reduction. Is that crazy? Who knows- I may be a cat.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2025 07:26 PM (qUMgz)

286 93 I don't see why the Mayor needs to have a taxpayer funded trip to Ghana and gutting the
Fire dept budget/or whatever it was was a really bad idea, but she can't be psychic to know not to be out of town when huge fires start.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2025 06:52 PM (dmiLF)

FJB took a taxpayer-funded trip to SoCal this week so he could see his first great-grandchild, today, shortly after the baby was born. A boy. Joe's public business reason (excuse) for the trip was to dedicate yet another new national monument area quite a ways SE of LA.

The mother is Naomi Biden, daughter of the smartest person FJB's ever met, the suddenly not-felon felon, Hunter.

Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2025 07:26 PM (aBgBM)

287
Radioactive mudslide?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 08, 2025 07:24 PM (tT6L1)

Heh.

Nice.....Well played.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:26 PM (Zz0t1)

288 Life is too short to argue on the internet.
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No, it isn't!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 07:26 PM (iMpf5)

289 Yo James Woods. It’s a house. Wood and bricks. You can buy a new one or rebuild the old one. You’ll get insurance money.

Probably no insurance. About five months ago all the major insurance companies pulled out of Cali because its too expensive to do business there. Literally millions without fire insurance on their homes. Yeah he's rich and can rebuild but he's lost everything and that sucks no matter how rich you are.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:26 PM (2VST1)

290 I think the original Godzilla movie starred Raymond Burr as an american newsman working or on assignment in Tokyo. He survives and goes on to become a successful lawyer in Los Angeles with a heart-throb assistant who was the stuff of many a boyhood dream....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 07:25 PM (QGaXH)
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Wait, but wasn't he gay?

Godzilla Minus One was brilliant.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 07:26 PM (ZOv7s)

291 276 I think the original Godzilla movie starred Raymond Burr as an american newsman working or on assignment in Tokyo.

the *american* release of the original godzilla movie. he wasn't in the original japanese version.

Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2025 07:27 PM (v3pYe)

292 I know they can use the hand like a knife.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I've heard the USMC has gotten rid of the knife hand.

Too bad.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2025 07:27 PM (WXNFJ)

293 State Farm Canceled Hundreds of Pacific Palisades Homeowners’ Policies Right Before Devastating Wildfire Struck

Hmmmm

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 08, 2025 07:27 PM (/U5Yz)

294 But I don’t understand a lot of conflicts on the internet.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Are you able to understand that CA and Japan don't share the same climate and geography? And that maybe the comparisons are useless if not masterbatory?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2025 07:28 PM (IG4Id)

295 Yes, I know what it's like Mr. Woods. It sucks.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 08, 2025 07:22 PM (g8Ew

He just made it clear on Ingraham that his house is nothing compared to the five lives lost. But his anger towards the political leadership from the governor down to the local fire chief (see picture above) was obvious. He made excellent points. No brush clearing, no water, no preparation.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 07:28 PM (W/lyH)

296 260 205 FTR , I'm a retired investor living on a pension.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: good status light at January 08, 2025 07:14 PM (AOsQT)

Me too ...
Posted by: Hyman Roth at January 08, 2025 07:22 PM (TTAGa)

As am I but I don't call myself 'retired'. I prefer 'self-employed' or 'independent man of means'. "King of the road' works too.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 07:28 PM (QGaXH)

297 Forget Greenland and Canada, let's trade Kali for Japan. Better porn, and fewer natural disasters*

*Not counting tsunamis, earthquakes and Mothra attacks

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov, now, where does a war hero get some lubrication around here? at January 08, 2025 07:28 PM (wBaIH)

298 Probably no insurance. About five months ago all the major insurance companies pulled out of Cali because its too expensive to do business there. Literally millions without fire insurance on their homes. Yeah he's rich and can rebuild but he's lost everything and that sucks no matter how rich you are.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:26 PM (2VST1)

Owning a high end home with no insurance is nuts. I’d sell and move if I were in that scenario.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 08, 2025 07:28 PM (BqIHC)

299 I am sorry if I come off as a troll. I really thought I was making a salient point.

I have to go cough up a hairball now.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at January 08, 2025 07:29 PM (qUMgz)

300 Raymond Burr was all over late 40's early 50's movies as the villain. Made a complete break from that type cast.

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:29 PM (KQk9m)

301 Then he got shot and ended up as the wheelchair private eye.

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2025 07:29 PM (i0F8b)

302 >>> Maybe that is why the talk seemed to disappear so quickly after the election. When Trump won not only the electoral vote but the popular vote as well, many looked back on the fascist moment of just a week earlier and asked, "What was that all about?"

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If that stupid "electoral vote compact" was implemented Trump would have received all but 4 electoral votes.
534 Trump to 4 Harris.
The progtards know by their own fantasy metric Trump crushed them.
Hope one of his speech writers catches on and has Trump hammer that factoid like a screen door in a hurricane.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2025 07:29 PM (/lPRQ)

303 281 Some nasty former college professor said about Woods "karma". Deleted and her former employer University of Missouri said it was offensive.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2025 07:25 PM (c+GDc)

His dogma will get run over by karma...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 07:29 PM (ynpvh)

304 Probably no insurance. About five months ago all the major insurance companies pulled out of Cali because its too expensive to do business there. Literally millions without fire insurance on their homes. Yeah he's rich and can rebuild but he's lost everything and that sucks no matter how rich you are.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:26 PM (2VST1)
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What an opportune time for "Our Democratic Institutions" to purge California of houses.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 07:29 PM (krQz2)

305 They have those weapons that they can point at you and make you shit yourself. Sound waves, I believe.
I always wondered what would happen if you pointed one at Godzilla.

It's not fun.

Posted by: Zombie Mothra at January 08, 2025 07:29 PM (mH6SG)

306 They're going to lay the groundwork to get MASSIVE government "emergency funding" to rebuild. Which will disappear quicker than a high-speed rail project.

Naturally, WE will be the ones paying for it one way or another.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2025 07:25 PM (BpYfr)

They better do it quick. I don't think Trump is on board with bailing them out from their rampant supidity.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:29 PM (Zz0t1)

307 FTR , I'm a retired investor living on a pension.
Posted by: Don Black

Heh.
-- Both old Jewish and Italian men

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2025 07:30 PM (WXNFJ)

308 the *american* release of the original godzilla movie. he wasn't in the original japanese version.
Posted by: anachronda at January 08, 2025 07:27 PM (v3pYe)
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Hence the difference between Godzilla and Gojira.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 08, 2025 07:30 PM (ZOv7s)

309 but she can't be psychic to know not to be out of town when huge fires start.

LOL yeah its no grand conspiracy, although I have no doubt that very wealthy people will capitalize on this to buy primo land at the cheap.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:30 PM (2VST1)

310 But I don’t understand a lot of conflicts on the internet.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Are you able to understand that CA and Japan don't share the same climate and geography? And that maybe the comparisons are useless if not masterbatory?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2025 07:28 PM (IG4Id)

He’s not comparing geography. He’s comparing fire prevention between CA and Japan.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 07:30 PM (D6PGr)

311 whats with the pic of the crop top diesel dykes? ace must really hate us.

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it but not today. at January 08, 2025 07:30 PM (89Sog)

312 They're going to lay the groundwork to get MASSIVE government "emergency funding" to rebuild. Which will disappear quicker than a high-speed rail project.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2025 07:25 PM (BpYfr)

Hey, cocaine and little boys don’t pay for themselves.

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at January 08, 2025 07:30 PM (kz0KT)

313 Let's at least get our minds off this a bit

Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2025 07:31 PM (fwDg9)

314 on the internet you never know if the person on the other keyboard is a cat.

Yeah I catch myself about to get into a debate with someone online then stop and think "is this an adult? Someone who lives in a basement and kills small animals for fun? A bum in a library?" We have no idea who the other person is or whether they are worthy of any attention at all.

But if they are human, everyone deserves respect, something I have forgotten too often in my life.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I identify as a late Boomer, with troll-ish sarcastic a-hole tendencies. I try not be be negative here as you lot help keep me from being totally black pilled and joining ace's favorite prey group.

So please ignore me when i get to caustic. I'm working on being more humorous.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 08, 2025 07:31 PM (MsrgL)

315 The US version did coin the name Godzilla which still more people know and King of the Monsters

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:31 PM (KQk9m)

316 I flirted with the idea of buying a home in Florida. Use it as a vacay home and Airbnb it when I’m not. But then I thought hurricanes are a thing and it’s not a matter of if but when. And getting insurance there is getting tricky too.

So fuck it, not worth the aggregation. If I want a few weeks on the beach, I’ll rent. Nice and easy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 08, 2025 07:31 PM (BqIHC)

317 >> whats with the pic of the crop top diesel dykes? ace must really hate us.

I think Ace is looking to sponsor a Roller Derby Team.

Posted by: garrett at January 08, 2025 07:31 PM (oLK8+)

318 Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2025 07:26 PM (aBgBM)

Yes( I'm sure politicians take taxpayer funded trips for no legitimate reason. Apparently Kamala is going on one , and it's not as if Biden can't go on some trip without taxpayer funding. Even if he was coherent he couldn't claim poverty,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2025 07:32 PM (5G8qI)

319 Some nasty former college professor said about Woods "karma". Deleted and her former employer University of Missouri said it was offensive.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2025 07:25 PM (c+GDc)

If it's karma for Woods, what is it for all the leftist shittards that lost everything in the very same fire?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:32 PM (Zz0t1)

320 Raymond Burr was all over late 40's early 50's movies as the villain. Made a complete break from that type cast.
Posted by: steevy

And was a murder in 'Rear Window'. It always kills me that 'Dave' from Alvin and the Chipmunks fame was in that film as well.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2025 07:32 PM (WXNFJ)

321 Rant: It's not just "stuff." We only have one finite life on this planet. We spend part of our irreplaceable life accumulating stuff which makes our life easier. Starting over means one has to once again spend that which is irreplaceable to replace what one once had.

Which, by the way, is why I think doing away with restitution was evil. Why should I be expected to pay for the accommodations for a criminal and also pay to replace my stuff?

/rant

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 08, 2025 07:32 PM (tT6L1)

322 He’s not comparing geography. He’s comparing fire prevention between CA and Japan.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Right, because prevention has nothing whatsoever to do with geography...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2025 07:32 PM (IG4Id)

323 302>> That was the 1st thing I thought when I saw the results the next day, CA’s EC votes would have gone to Trump and the left would have just died. I really wish it would have happened.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 08, 2025 07:32 PM (b4o9z)

324 Raymond Burr was all over late 40's early 50's movies as the villain. Made a complete break from that type cast.

Dude played a great villain, he just looks menacing and has that amazing voice. He did a ton of radio work as big time heroes before his TV career, too.

Reminds me of Gunsmoke. The voice of Marshall Dillon on the radio show (WAY better than the TV show) was William Conrad because of that amazing voice. Great job as the character. But he was big even back then and when the TV show came out they wouldn't cast him as Dillon even though he really tried.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:34 PM (2VST1)

325 Café nood

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 07:35 PM (iMpf5)

326 New Orange-Flavored Hitler

The escort staff got insulted by all the Nippon Steel in the C-suite is a National Security Threat crap and left so the troops are stuck in the mall revolving door.

https://youtu.be/D0WnZyxp_Wo

Posted by: DaveA at January 08, 2025 07:35 PM (FhXTo)

327 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 08, 2025 07:34 PM (2VST1)

Queer as a three dollar bill.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 08, 2025 07:35 PM (D6PGr)

328 Rant: It's not just "stuff." We only have one finite life on this planet. We spend part of our irreplaceable life accumulating stuff which makes our life easier. Starting over means one has to once again spend that which is irreplaceable to replace what one once had.

—

Eh. Last time I moved about 5 years ago I threw out a fuck ton of useless shit I had accumulated during the previous 10 years I lived at the old place.

It’s almost all just “stuff”. Don’t let the thing you own, own you,

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 08, 2025 07:35 PM (BqIHC)

329 It's like Germany in the second half of 1945. You could hardly find a Nazi. Everybody was Austrian and were in the resistance and smuggled food to the Jews.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 08, 2025 07:35 PM (L/fGl)

330 William Conrad because of that amazing voice. Great job as the character. But he was big even back then and when the TV show came out they wouldn't cast him as Dillon even though he really tried.
Yeah he was simply too fat.

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 07:36 PM (KQk9m)

331 Why is it so hard to believe Japan takes fires seriously and it’s something California would be well advised to follow?

It doesn’t mean Japan is like California. This is a weird thing to fight about. lol.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 08, 2025 07:37 PM (BqIHC)

332 Gavin Newsome and Karen Bass will suffer the voters wrath and win their elections by a little less than a landslide.

It's the California Way.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2025 07:37 PM (XV/Pl)

333 But I don’t understand a lot of conflicts on the internet.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

45% of fights here are between people who are in violent agreement with each other.

Posted by: .....we are not! at January 08, 2025 07:38 PM (DgGvY)

334 Gavin Newsome and Karen Bass will suffer the voters wrath and win their elections by a little less than a landslide.

It's the California Way.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2025 07:37 PM (XV/Pl)

This is the incredibly unfortunate truth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:38 PM (Zz0t1)

335 They can't get tax money from vacant lots.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 08, 2025 07:21 PM (Zz0t1)
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They're going to lay the groundwork to get MASSIVE government "emergency funding" to rebuild. Which will disappear quicker than a high-speed rail project.

Naturally, WE will be the ones paying for it one way or another.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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That's happening here now. And, gov. buyouts of property.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 07:39 PM (XeU6L)

336 Any of that crew actually ever carry someone out of a burning building?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2025 06:39 PM (iJfKG)

I don't think they can even ride a firetruck around a block.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2025 07:43 PM (n7h9X)

337

The dark night of fascism is always descending in America and yet lands only in Europe

Posted by: Miklos recalls words at January 08, 2025 07:44 PM (xesY+)

338 Just saw on Lotus Eaters NYC schools have already sent word to teachers what to do if INS shows up for students. Lock them out and call in lawyers paid for by a non profit....
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 06:42 PM (KQk9m)

I don't think anyone is playing that game. Border Tsar will just start arresting people. We have those J6 prison cells ready and waiting.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 08, 2025 07:46 PM (n7h9X)

339 That's happening here now. And, gov. buyouts of property.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I hope you and yours are well.

And am happy that Old Papa never built on that lot in Connestee Falls that he bought about 1972

Posted by: Lowlander Miklos at January 08, 2025 07:47 PM (xesY+)

340 182
and the d can be diminutive...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 07:10 PM (ynpvh)
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It could also be democrat. Aaaargh!

Posted by: Ciampino - considerably considerate at January 08, 2025 07:51 PM (i0xsb)

341 At Chez Miklos, the Cafe is always open

Posted by: Miklos with Fritz Feld *POP* at January 08, 2025 08:00 PM (xesY+)

342 Byron York is dead to me. He lost me after all the anti-Trump columns the first time around. He joins Peggy Noonan, Ann Coulter, Jonah Goldberg, Rich Lowry and the others.

Posted by: Dad of Six at January 08, 2025 09:12 PM (Falcp)

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