Wildfires Devastate Huge Swaths of Los Angeles While Mayor Karen Bass Parties in Africa

Mayor Karen Bass has been on an mission-critical taxpayer-funded junket to Ghana while her city burns.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass went on a junket to Ghana as part of a Biden administration delegation to President John Dramani's inauguration despite indications that fire season was about to begin.
Bass is reportedly on her way back as of Wednesday morning and "should return to the city within hours," according to Newsweek.

Obviously she cut the budget of the fire department. As I said, we'll find out all these cuts were required to pay for illegal aliens' shelter and health care.

lm The Police LA
@FilmThePoliceLA
Karen Bass cut fire dept funding by $17.6M.
That was her 2nd biggest cut.

There are reports that fire hydrants are empty, so firemen can't spray down the fires. Apparently California passed a ballot initiative ten years ago mandating the building of additional reservoirs and aquifers so that the state would have ready reserves of water. But of course they were never built. Building reservoirs would apparently impact the very important snail darter, or was it the delta smelt? Not sure which critical fish was threatened.

Not only didn't they build more reservoirs, they refused to fill the inadequate number they currently have.

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
#BREAKING: Los Angeles fire hydrants are OUT OF WATER because the county REFUSED to refill reservoirs, per Rick Caruso
"You can't fight a fire without water!"
The Mayor did ZERO prep despite the advanced warning of winds and fire risk.
This is EXACTLY what happened on Maui!

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
California fails to manage brush and refuses to follow through with new reservoir builds so it can protect a tiny fish and wildfires happen, almost always started by humans.
Libs: "This is climate change."

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way. He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn't work!), but didn't care about the people of California. Now the ultimate price is being paid. I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean, fresh water to FLOW INTO CALIFORNIA! He is the blame for this. On top of it all, no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes. A true disaster!
Jan 08, 2025, 11:40 AM

Power lines are sparking against trees. The power company doesn't pick up the line when citizens attempt to report the danger.

An ugly leftist woman -- is there any other kind? -- celebrated the burning of James Woods' home, apparently unaware that most of Los Angeles is even more leftwing than she is and their homes burned too.

Someone posted this highly informative instructional meme to her.

Obviously the mayor and fire chief are DEI hires who have prioritized moar DEI over doing their actual jobs.

It's just a sea of female Persons of Color and diverse lesbians as far as you can see.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti wanted to increase diversity within LA Fire Departments and Police Departments:
"This mega recruitment event is one of Garcetti's many efforts to bring many women into traditionally male dominated police and firefighter jobs.
Female recruitment in… pic.twitter.com/3G1fzPzf7F
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) January 8, 2025

It's like The Terminator:

Total destruction in Malibu. These were beachfront homes on Pacific Coast Highway. #palisadesfire pic.twitter.com/DhQnJMmoUW
— Liz Kreutz (@LizKreutzNews) January 8, 2025

This is what’s left of the Pacific Palisades. The mall survived. Most everything else is gone. Homes, apartment complexes… businesses. pic.twitter.com/Vfz721V48J
— Jonathan Vigliotti 🐋 (@JonVigliotti) January 8, 2025

This is horrifying and heartbreaking.

Two men escape from home as fire barrels towards them at the Palisades fire pic.twitter.com/ZnooGK3llJ
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 8, 2025

THIS. IS. HORRIFYING.

PLEASE PRAY FOR THESE POOR PEOPLE 🙏 pic.twitter.com/2B0U6wqOAj
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 8, 2025

That's an evacuation of nursing home patients.

Posted by: Ace at 12:00 PM

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1 1st?

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 08, 2025 12:01 PM (GD2xa)

2 Not first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 08, 2025 12:01 PM (Rcnd3)

3 Sorry James Woods lost his house but now he can get the hell out of that shithole.

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 12:02 PM (KQk9m)

4 We hired the best, most qualified lesbian in the country to be LA's fire chief!

Posted by: Karen B.! at January 08, 2025 12:02 PM (uxCna)

5 I read the headline as the Mayor is a Karen.

And this mayor who is a Karen is going to a Bass Party. What's a Bass Party? And are they better in Africa than in North America?

So many pertinent questions.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 08, 2025 12:02 PM (GD2xa)

6 This is pretty much self inflicted, you get what you vote for.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 08, 2025 12:03 PM (Rcnd3)

7 4 We hired the best, most qualified lesbian in the country to be LA's fire chief!
Posted by: Karen B.! at January 08, 2025 12:02 PM (uxCna)

If she can carry off the mustache she must be qualified.

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2025 12:03 PM (xhfG9)

8 I'm surprised that Los Angeles hasn't sent social workers to the fire, to try to talk it out and reach a peaceful settlement.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (VNX3d)

9 I feel bad.. No one deserves this.. Don't care if they're Liberal

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (VE6XX)

10 Welcome to the Third World

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (ik3nH)

11 It's almost entirely self inflicted. Going back to Jerry Brown the need for more water has been ignored, the need to clear brush and prepare against fires has been ignored. But hey they have a massive subsidized homeless population!

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (KQk9m)

12 Time to buy stock in Home Depot.
And short the insurance companies.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (W/lyH)

13 apparently unaware that most of Los Angeles is even more leftwing than she is and their homes burned too.

This ignores the parable of the frog and the scorpion. I doubt she cares that people on her side were also affected. As long as one conservative is hurt, it’s a Good Fire.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 08, 2025 12:05 PM (EXyHK)

14 How the heck are those palm trees in the bottom video not burned up?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 08, 2025 12:05 PM (Rcnd3)

15 The fire chief is a flaming homosexual.

Posted by: Vlad at January 08, 2025 12:05 PM (YdlQW)

16 I bet a lot of the places don't have insurance either. I don't have insurance, they cancelled me after I've been with the same company for over thirty years.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 12:05 PM (O1OkY)

17 Them Ghana Presidential Parties ain't gonna celebrate themselfs, h8ter!

Makuna matata, y'all!

Posted by: Karen Bass at January 08, 2025 12:06 PM (xRkJw)

18 I had earthquake on my bingo card, but God decides how to destroy Sodom and LA, and fire seems to be His method.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 08, 2025 12:06 PM (dGCAG)

19 I wonder if that burned-out landscape included downtown Pacific Palisades?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2025 12:06 PM (ZlOcj)

20 #BREAKING: Los Angeles fire hydrants are OUT OF WATER because the county REFUSED to refill reservoirs, per Rick Caruso

Yep - what happened on Maui was the there had been a fire earlier in the day that drained the local water tank, and the water company had to get State permission to do an emergency refill of the water tank, due to Native Hawaiian claims to the creek that the water was drawn from.

It was a Sunday, and a bureaucrat in Honolulu denied permission to refill the tank.

Posted by: Karen B.! at January 08, 2025 12:06 PM (uxCna)

21 I feel bad.. No one deserves this.. Don't care if they're Liberal
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (VE6XX)

Agree Donna.
Time for politics later. Right now this is an American problem.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 12:06 PM (W/lyH)

22 12 Time to buy stock in Home Depot.
And short the insurance companies.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (W/lyH)

Fire is my worst fear for my home other than a devastating earthquake because my insurance company cancelled my policy.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 12:06 PM (O1OkY)

23 Time to buy stock in Home Depot.
And short the insurance companies.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM

Pretty much no one there has any insurance because the insurance companies pulled out of that market years ago because of stuff like this.

I guarantee you that LA and california are going to be screaming for the fed to come in and give them $$$$$ to rebuild.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 08, 2025 12:06 PM (Rcnd3)

24 Actor James Woods lost the home he and his wife just finished remodeling last month.

He is one gracious, classy human being:

@RealJamesWoods

We renovated a home after COVID and just finished last month. To all the lovely people offering their care and love, I'll say this.

There is no possession as priceless as friends and good neighbors during a tragedy. I can't believe the blessings we enjoy, and I am humbly grateful.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:07 PM (4tmpE)

25 16 I bet a lot of the places don't have insurance either. I don't have insurance, they cancelled me after I've been with the same company for over thirty years.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 12:05 PM (O1OkY

We were cancelled too.. I'm in NorCal and we've seen Our share of fires.. Had to scramble to find coverage and it's costing us double.

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:07 PM (VE6XX)

26 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
A tragedy that may have been avoided

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2025 12:07 PM (A3bNj)

27 15 The fire chief is a flaming homosexual.
Posted by: Vlad

Who could kick my ass, no contest.

Gotta have "Bull" as her nickname.

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

28 Welcome to the Third World
Posted by: ... at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (ik3nH)

That must be why the mayor is in Africa - seeking lessons in ruling over Third World hellholes, without cutting the graft.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 08, 2025 12:07 PM (VNX3d)

29 The power company doesn't pick up the line when citizens attempt to report the danger.

Note that in LA, the power company is a city department.

Posted by: Karen B.! at January 08, 2025 12:07 PM (uxCna)

30 Well, at least that got rid of that terrible DA.

Baby steps, I guess.

Maybe rich people having their homes burned down will finally get the people of LA to realize that...Democrats are just bad at governance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

31 How the heck are those palm trees in the bottom video not burned up?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 08, 2025 12:05 PM (Rcnd3)

It's LA, maybe they've had work done, and are mostly fake? Does botox burn?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 08, 2025 12:08 PM (dGCAG)

32 "Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass went on a junket to Ghana as part of a Biden administration delegation to President John Dramani's inauguration despite indications that fire season was about to begin."

I just realized "fire season" sounds like something from a sci-fi horror story.

Posted by: eleven at January 08, 2025 12:08 PM (fV+MH)

33 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way. He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn’t work!), but didn’t care about the people of California. Now the ultimate price is being paid. I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean, fresh water to FLOW INTO CALIFORNIA! He is the blame for this. On top of it all, no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes. A true disaster!
Jan 08, 2025, 11:40 AM
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New-scum or news-cum???

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 12:08 PM (iMpf5)

34 25 16 I bet a lot of the places don't have insurance either. I don't have insurance, they cancelled me after I've been with the same company for over thirty years.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 12:05 PM (O1OkY

We were cancelled too.. I'm in NorCal and we've seen Our share of fires.. Had to scramble to find coverage and it's costing us double.
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:07 PM (VE6XX)

I'm having a hell of a time finding any help with the insurance.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 12:08 PM (O1OkY)

35 Climate change denier and all around bigot James Woods' house burned downand he's being soundly laughed at and taunted on Twitter.

@MrRaceBannon James Woods house is on fire. If only he’d raked his backyard

@samstein The swift devastation of the #PalisadesFire is horrible. And then it dawns on you that Trump, set to take office in 13 days, has threatened publicly to cut wildfire aid to the state.

@cg_evie But isn’t that what MAGA voted for? James Woods is tweeting his home is gone. But it’s hella confusing because he voted for the wildfire aid to be cut. Well, I did my part 🗳️💙, so I’m sipping tea 🫖 and simply observing the BS. But I digress. They voted for this.

I'm sorry for the loss of wildlife homes. Woods can go fuck himself.

True to form. Doubling down on denying climate change and blaming Democrats. Get used to it, because this is what we'll be hearing for the next four years when things go to hell.

G.O.P. needs to stop lying about climate change for the sake of their own children, even if they care not about other people and their children. climate change is the reality.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2025 12:09 PM (JCZqz)

36 I was watching the news last night and they were just letting the houses burn.. I wondered why they weren't fighting them... Now I know....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:09 PM (VE6XX)

37 How the heck are those palm trees in the bottom video not burned up?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 08, 2025 12:05 PM (Rcnd3)

Fox showed a home completely destroyed, but the garden in front of the house wasn't even touched. There were gorgeous tomatoes still on the vines, and fruit trees.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:09 PM (4tmpE)

38 Ya know, women cannot lift nearly as much weight as men can, despite claiming GRRRRL POWER. Those fire hoses are not lightweight to begin with; full of water they are extremely heavy.

No matter how much they "will" things to be, the sad fact is that "Reality always bats second"....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at January 08, 2025 12:09 PM (SRRAx)

39 Hopefully Trump will offer the victims of the fires a short-term $700 loan with low interest to help them recover.

Posted by: Vlad at January 08, 2025 12:09 PM (YdlQW)

40 The stupidity, it burns.

Literally.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2025 12:10 PM (UbLDC)

41 I guarantee you that LA and california are going to be screaming for the fed to come in and give them $$$$$ to rebuild.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 08, 2025 12:06 PM (Rcnd3)

Sorry, no money. It's all in Ukraine.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 08, 2025 12:10 PM (dGCAG)

42 Those videos posted on X were devastating. It looked damned near like the aftermath from a nuclear bomb.

But they'll blame it on the "climate change" boogeyman, the bastards....

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2025 12:10 PM (wtvvX)

43 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2025 12:09 PM (JCZqz)

Disgusting

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:10 PM (VE6XX)

44 I guarantee you that LA and california are going to be screaming for the fed to come in and give them $$$$$ to rebuild.

Trump is Literally Hitler, and we are going to do everything to resist him!

Also, could you send us ten billion dollars?

Posted by: Governor Brylcreem! at January 08, 2025 12:10 PM (uxCna)

45 Great.
Now my home hazard insurance in Florida is going to up.because programs in Califotnia cannot even get water right. ... Water is something that Roman's mastered 2,000 years ago.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2025 12:10 PM (j9ldc)

46 I think the fire/fires were set

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

47 Los Angeles County has declared Thursday, Jan. 9, as the official Day of Mourning in honor of late former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.

Priorities!

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 08, 2025 12:11 PM (szMU5)

48 This is horrific.

Posted by: Uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at January 08, 2025 12:11 PM (gxokI)

49 Hopefully Trump will offer the victims of the fires a short-term $700 loan with low interest to help them recover.
Posted by: Vlad

The Federal Gov will offer them pennies on the dollar for their land, and not permit them to rebuild.

Maybe they could all move to our 51st state, Greenland. Not many wildfires there, I'll betcha. And not much global warming there, but there are people who think the glaciers are spontaneously melting.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 08, 2025 12:11 PM (vcOmj)

50 And where the hell is the National Guard?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 08, 2025 12:11 PM (uxCna)

51 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2025 12:09 PM (JCZqz)

"They" voted for this? "They've" already taken office?

Posted by: BignJames at January 08, 2025 12:11 PM (Yj6Os)

52 A guy Scott Adams linked for a longish X thread:
🔥 CEO Branding Expert @Ceo_Branding 9h

From Virtue Signaling to Disaster: The Unseen Consequences of Performative Policy

I don’t tweet this lightly…..

Wildfires in California show the dangers of virtue signaling when it overrides practical policy.

Decades ago, restrictions on clearing dead brush and controlled burns were meant to protect ecosystems—a noble intention.

But the refusal to adapt these policies to current realities has led to catastrophic fires, threatening lives, homes, and habitats.

What’s the Lesson? [whole thesis at the link]
======
https://tinyurl.com/4uvujm88

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 12:11 PM (iMpf5)

53 The thing to watch is who buys up those properties, especially those of the less affluent but more long term residents in the older areas.
My bet is state or state connected money.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 08, 2025 12:11 PM (4780s)

54 CA got enough water two years ago to last them a decade, had proper water storage been built.

Naturally, they decided it wasn't necessary 10 years ago.

Desalination has been on the books for decades and cannot get approved because of the Coastal Commission, a bunch of left wing power mad unelected bureaucrats.

Yay CA.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 08, 2025 12:12 PM (tT6L1)

55 Hopefully Trump will offer the victims of the fires a short-term $700 loan with low interest to help them recover.
Posted by: Vlad at January 08, 2025

***
And skip any homes that still display Harris-Walz signs. . . . (j/k)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2025 12:12 PM (J2vNu)

56 LA voted for this, very sadly for them. Both the County and City failed to do even basic things to protect citizens, and the state government actively stopped efforts to protect against fires. They explicitly want these fires to occur.

It's like voters cannot connect the dots between their value-signaling votes and the reality those votes create.

Just so weird.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2025 12:12 PM (h0OR+)

57 If every citizen in LA County lost their residence to this fire there would still be 0 chance a GOP Mayor and County council would be elected next cycle.

Fire, give me more they say!

Posted by: Brad at January 08, 2025 12:12 PM (oOc/o)

58 Since the people impacted this time are wealthy and connected, will this be a "take one for the team?" Or will politicians actually be held responsible?

From poor forestation to not not building the storage and water reservoirs voted for in 2014, this is a colossal failure on the part of California government.

Posted by: Ann at January 08, 2025 12:12 PM (4neFu)

59 I guarantee you that LA and california are going to be screaming for the fed to come in and give them $$$$$ to rebuild.

Trump is Literally Hitler, and we are going to do everything to resist him!

Also, could you send us ten billion dollars?
Posted by: Governor Brylcreem! at January 08, 2025 12:10 PM (uxCna)

No, but we could release the Diddy baby oil stocks.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 08, 2025 12:12 PM (VNX3d)

60 It is very frustrating that this stuff continues to happen. Obviously that part of the country is very fire prone. Can get very dry and have very high winds. That's nobodies fault.

But this childish idea that we shouldn't do everything reasonably possible to try to mitigate this periodic devastation because of reasons really speaks to a basic flaw in our system.

This is a different take on the tragedy of the commons scenario.

If enough idiots are convinced that in the name of "protecting the environment" we can't take any steps to stop massive wildfires and the resulting devastation ... what can we do about it? I guess just keep sending our thoughts and prayers?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:12 PM (uCjyK)

61 36 I was watching the news last night and they were just letting the houses burn.. I wondered why they weren't fighting them... Now I know....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:09 PM (VE6XX)

I have my own fire hoses and hydrants. I have reservoirs I can access with huge long hoses and I have a pump right next to my pool with hoses ready to go. I"m not waiting for help.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 12:12 PM (O1OkY)

62 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 08, 2025 12:09 PM (JCZqz)

Disgusting
Posted by: It's me donna

Seconded

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (t/2Uw)

63 Los Angeles County has declared Thursday, Jan. 9, as the official Day of Mourning in honor of late former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.

Priorities!
Posted by: Mark1971 at January 08, 2025 12:11 PM (szMU5)

It's already a federal holiday.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (dGCAG)

64 I think the fire/fires were set
Posted by: It's me donna

It's all the homeless people, building campfires on streetcorners.
That's the real problem, plus climate change.

Ignore those Santa Ana winds roaring up the valley.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (vcOmj)

65 Please don't forget there are still people in the mountains of NC with no running water or electricity and they are still living in tents -- in the freezing cold. Many areas up there had entire families swept away by mud slides and floods.

And Biden has completely forgotten them. Over 200 people dead.

We need to pray for everyone suffering from these fires, hurricanes, and tornadoes.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (4tmpE)

66 We hired the best, most qualified lesbian in the country to be LA's fire chief!
Posted by: Karen B.! at January 08, 2025 12:02 PM (uxCna)

And I am going to lay down a prediction that no consequences whatever will be inflicted on her. Perhaps a symbolic 'leave of absence,' or, more probably, a tearful 'press conference' where she declares that no-one who hasn't been a chief knows how hard the job is and that this is all being blown out of proportion by right-wing media and homophobic racists.

Anyone care to bet against me?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (Q0kLU)

67 Having lived in West LA for four years, I know the Palisades area well. One of the most absolutely beautiful spots around. A shame that it all went up in smoke, over what is basically a man-made disaster.

CA is probably the most naturally blessed state in the union. What liberals did to mismanage a paradise on Earth is unforgivable

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (39/z9)

68 I guarantee you that LA and california are going to be screaming for the fed to come in and give them $$$$$ to rebuild.

They're handling WNC so well....

Posted by: BignJames at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (Yj6Os)

69
Quick! Find a Republican to blame!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (dxSpM)

70 I thought LA got water from Nevada from the Hoover Dam or something like that.

I've never been to California so I don't know what their reservoirs are supposed to be.

Posted by: dantesed at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (Oy/m2)

71 Someone mentioned Maui, and the similarities between the build up to the fire there and in LA. Cui Bono? If all these wealthy/desirable locations are burnt to the ground, and insurance won't cover the rebuild, who benefits from swooping in and buying the properties at a literal fire sale?

Posted by: Moki at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (wLjpr)

72 When the rains come, it's gonna be a real mess.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (W/lyH)

73 Reaping the fiery fruits of leftist reality denial

Posted by: crabgrass farmer at January 08, 2025 12:14 PM (CTUih)

74 Fire is very cleansing.

Sorry, not sorry. You fuckers (mostly) voted for DEI and incompetence and have decided that climate change is more serious than safety and security.

Maybe this will
Be a wake up call. Doubtful, as the stupid runs deep in Californication.

Posted by: Czech Chick at January 08, 2025 12:14 PM (fpVC1)

75 Schlichter keeps asking why the National guard hasn't been called out. He said he was called up for a fire in the last and had a unit ready in hours.
This morning they were calling for volunteers so why hasn't this been done?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:14 PM (t/2Uw)

76 How the heck are those palm trees in the bottom video not burned up?
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Tough skin, high leaves, and high winds. The fire blows by before getting established.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 08, 2025 12:14 PM (4780s)

77 FEMA - "If you see a Trump sign, don't bother knocking on the door." NC residents abandoned by their government.

Democrat pols in California to their supporters "Uh oh".

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2025 12:14 PM (rj6Yv)

78 #52 Addendum:

Scott Adams retweeted
🔥 CEO Branding Expert @Ceo_Branding 8h
@MilaLovesJoe just posted the below!

The takeaway is the moment insurance companies cancelled their policies that should have been a key signal to policy makers to make a change!

And as @OnomyAlex replied to this thread “The road to hell is paved with good intentions....

and taxes.”

The virtue signaling reached its breaking point here.

What are your thoughts?

What do you think of Gavin Newsom’s leadership?

https://tinyurl.com/4jw5cw7d
screencap of her whole reply

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 12:14 PM (iMpf5)

79 This is horrible. Anyway....

Posted by: pudinhead at January 08, 2025 12:14 PM (jFCkp)

80 46 I think the fire/fires were set
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

Same. Whenever it's hot and the Santa Ana's are blowing I expect the firebugs or deranged homeless people are going to start fires.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 12:14 PM (O1OkY)

81 I guarantee you that LA and california are going to be screaming for the fed to come in and give them $$$$$ to rebuild.

So... there was an incentive to keep the hydrants empty?

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2025 12:15 PM (CFrOc)

82 11 It's almost entirely self inflicted. Going back to Jerry Brown the need for more water has been ignored, the need to clear brush and prepare against fires has been ignored. But hey they have a massive subsidized homeless population!
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (KQk9m)

Yeah. But not just ignored. These needs were actively demonized.

Posted by: front toward enemy at January 08, 2025 12:15 PM (TIizU)

83
The mayor says billions in aid is coming from Wakanda.

Climate terrorists outlaw brush clearing and reservoir filling then blame climate change for fires. This isn't stupidity but enemy action.

Posted by: Auspex at January 08, 2025 12:15 PM (j4U/Z)

84 My friend like to complain (mostly correctly) that Florida homes (read:hurricanes) are to blame for HIS increase in home insurance in the mountains of Colorado. Now he can add the homes in Southern California to his list of "who to blame". These big US Home Insurance companies are not going to take the financial hit - they'll pass it on to their customers...as annual rate increases...if they're even willing to sell you Home Insurance in the first place...(some companies have vacated Florida...) Question...what do you think home Mortgage Companies are going to do...if their Mortgagee can no longer even buy home insurance...Hmmm...new home sales in certain parts of our Country....

Posted by: pete at January 08, 2025 12:15 PM (0Ctrb)

85 "Decades ago, restrictions on clearing dead brush and controlled burns were meant to protect ecosystems—a noble intention."

Stupidity isn't "noble." So sick of hearing about the good intentions of the Left. The intentions behind everything they do is self-aggrandizement.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2025 12:15 PM (ZlOcj)

86 The solution to these wild fires is a carbon tax on energy producers.

It's always the solution.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2025 12:15 PM (d45JM)

87 The thing to watch is who buys up those properties, especially those of the less affluent but more long term residents in the older areas.
My bet is state or state connected money.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 08, 2025 12:11 PM (4780s)

Blackrock called, as did Berkshire Hathaway. They said they're here to help. As usual.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 08, 2025 12:16 PM (dGCAG)

88 9 I feel bad.. No one deserves this.. Don't care if they're Liberal
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (VE6XX)

Me, too.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2025 12:16 PM (VnUSN)

89 Given the choice between developer Rick Caruso and Karen 'venceremos brigade' Bass, LA voters chose Bass.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 08, 2025 12:16 PM (rJ48h)

90 "How to fuck up a State in only 40 years!!!"

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2025 12:16 PM (wtvvX)

91 remember when Ted Cruz was raked over the coals for travelling to Cancun during Covid?

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 08, 2025 12:17 PM (V6W16)

92 When Adam Schiff comes to the White House door asking for a massive bailout, what will the new tenant have to say about that?

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2025 12:17 PM (rj6Yv)

93 It's important to maintain ties with Ghana, whose leading export is Idris Elba.

Posted by: Wally at January 08, 2025 12:17 PM (tmkgC)

94 71 Someone mentioned Maui, and the similarities between the build up to the fire there and in LA. Cui Bono? If all these wealthy/desirable locations are burnt to the ground, and insurance won't cover the rebuild, who benefits from swooping in and buying the properties at a literal fire sale?
Posted by: Moki at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (wLjpr)

Parts of Maui still have not rebuilt... crazy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 08, 2025 12:17 PM (QAkQ3)

95 see the updates -- couple of more vids added at the end. They evacuated a nursing home, pushing all the patients out in wheelchairs as the sky filled with smoke and flame.

Posted by: ace at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (KRtlO)

96
Desalination has been on the books for decades and cannot get approved because of the Coastal Commission, a bunch of left wing power mad unelected bureaucrats.

Yay CA.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 08, 2025 12:12 PM (tT6L1)

I know. Santa Barbara was going to build one in the 90s and then it rained so nevermind, I guess.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (O1OkY)

97 >I feel bad.. No one deserves this.. Don't care if they're Liberal
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (VE6XX)

Deserves got nothing to do with it. They're reaping the consequences of their voting, as it should be. It rarely happens to these types.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (zYMU7)

98 Stupidity isn't "noble." So sick of hearing about the good intentions of the Left. The intentions behind everything they do is self-aggrandizement.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2025 12:15 PM (ZlOcj)

It's been known for decades this was a bad idea, that dead trees don't care about virtue signaling.

They just... burn.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (dGCAG)

99 Is Ghana home to the dancing pallbearers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (63Dwl)

100 81 I guarantee you that LA and california are going to be screaming for the fed to come in and give them $$$$$ to rebuild.

So... there was an incentive to keep the hydrants empty?
Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2025 12:15 PM (CFrOc)

We see what you do here.

Posted by: Residents of hurricaine afflicted north Carolina casting a stink eye at the feds at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (d45JM)

101 New-scum or news-cum???

Both work fine.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (4780s)

102 56 LA voted for this, very sadly for them. Both the County and City failed to do even basic things to protect citizens, and the state government actively stopped efforts to protect against fires. They explicitly want these fires to occur.

It's like voters cannot connect the dots between their value-signaling votes and the reality those votes create.

Just so weird.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2025 12:12 PM (h0OR+)

LA had the chance to elect a billionaire who committed to build a thriving business in that city over decades, rather than an incompetent machine politician cut from the same mold as the last few lib machine politicians who ran that city, but chose not to. Do they regret their choice yet?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (39/z9)

103

JUST GOT AN E-MAIL"

"DEAR ONE, PLEASE SEND $5,000 US VIA WESTERN UNION TO COVER ALL MODALITIES.

AND REMAIN BLESSED!

KAREN MUGU BASS!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (x0n13)

104 CaliFA, CaliFO

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (wtvvX)

105 Wonder how those crowing about James Woods losing his home feel about Mark Hamill being evacuated with his home about to be burned down ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:19 PM (VE6XX)

106 84 My friend like to complain (mostly correctly) that Florida homes (read:hurricanes) are to blame for HIS increase in home insurance in the mountains of Colorado. Now he can add the homes in Southern California to his list of "who to blame". These big US Home Insurance companies are not going to take the financial hit - they'll pass it on to their customers...as annual rate increases...if they're even willing to sell you Home Insurance in the first place...(some companies have vacated Florida...) Question...what do you think home Mortgage Companies are going to do...if their Mortgagee can no longer even buy home insurance...Hmmm...new home sales in certain parts of our Country....
Posted by: pete at January 08, 2025 12:15 PM (0Ctrb)

I think California wouldn't allow the rate increase the insurance companies proposed so now I don't have any insurance. Thanks California.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 12:19 PM (O1OkY)

107 James Woods @RealJamesWoods
To all the wonderful people who’ve reached out to us, thank you for being so concerned. Just letting you know that we were able to evacuate successfully. I do not know at this moment if our home is still standing, but sadly houses on our little street are not.

https://tinyurl.com/4rccsvys
photo; I don't know if of his house or others'.

James Woods @RealJamesWoods
All the smoke detectors are going off in our house and transmitting to our iPhones.

I couldn’t believe our lovely little home in the hills held on this long. It feels like losing a loved one.

Lucifer @LucifersTweetz
The irony of James Woods, known for his skepticism about climate change, losing his home to the very wildfires linked to climate change impacts in California, is striking.

James Woods @RealJamesWoods
This fire is not from “climate change,” you ignorant asshole. It’s because liberal idiots like you elect liberal idiots like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass. One doesn’t understand the first thing about fire management and the other can’t fill the water reservoirs.
#INSTABLOCK

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 12:19 PM (iMpf5)

108 hmm.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2025 12:19 PM (X3ZfT)

109 The good news of the day is that the first rails have been laid in the billion dollar boondoggle known as High Speed Rail. (Sarc in case you didn't get it)
CA priorities.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:19 PM (t/2Uw)

110 We lived in a rented home in San Bernardino when I was a young child and my dad was in the Air Force.

I remember every single year, the hills above the town would catch fire.

Every. Single. Year.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:20 PM (4tmpE)

111 All the leaves are brown All the leaves are brown
And the sky is gray And the sky is gray
I've been for a walk I've been for a walk
On a winter's day On a winter's day
I'd be safe and warm I'd be safe and warm
If I was in LA. If I was in LA

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2025 12:20 PM (IG4Id)

112 After fire season is rain season. Then mudslide season. Bad time for an earthquade.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2025 12:20 PM (U7Cio)

113 Pasadena is under an evacuation order.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2025 12:20 PM (TKm8p)

114 But this childish idea that we shouldn't do everything reasonably possible to try to mitigate this periodic devastation because of reasons really speaks to a basic flaw in our system.
=====
What you're pointing out is that we continue to elect "leaders" who have no real interest in solving actual *problems*, but who instead are only keenly interested in acting out their marxist agenda.

That's why so many times the only proper response is "Gooder and Harder". Californians LITERALLY voted for these things to happen.

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2025 12:20 PM (azSra)

115
Decades ago, restrictions on clearing dead brush and controlled burns were meant to protect ecosystems—a noble intention.

__________

A thousand years ago, dead brush accumulated and wasn't cleared except by having gigantic fires that consumed everything in their path. Nothing is different, except that people are living in the way of those fires.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 12:20 PM (dxSpM)

116 Anyone care to bet against me?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (Q0kLU)

Yes. I bet they will blame this on climate change (and indirectly on republicans and/or donald trump) and the lesbian fire chief will be hailed as a hero.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (uCjyK)

117 Bruh we gotta get outta here but let me get you running on a sick cell phone video!

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (th/4a)

118 104 CaliFA, CaliFO
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (wtvvX)

LOL

Posted by: m at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (VnUSN)

119 And this mayor who is a Karen is going to a Bass Party. What's a Bass Party? And are they better in Africa than in North America?

So many pertinent questions.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 08, 2025 12:02 PM

Ain't no party like a Bass party!

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (4p0Xq)

120 112 After fire season is rain season. Then mudslide season. Bad time for an earthquade.
Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2025 12:20 PM (U7Cio)

And then we have BLM/Antifa riot season!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (x0n13)

121 There are still thousands of Hurricane Helene survivors living in temporary shelters. Forgotten and ignored by Dems.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (rj6Yv)

122 Wonder how those crowing about James Woods losing his home feel about Mark Hamill being evacuated with his home about to be burned down ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:19 PM (VE6XX)

A lot of them are probably shocked he couldn't use the Force to put out the fires.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (VNX3d)

123 A thousand years ago, dead brush accumulated and wasn't cleared except by having gigantic fires that consumed everything in their path. Nothing is different, except that people are living in the way of those fires.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 12:20 PM (dxSpM)

Correct. This is how it works in nature.

Except back then, fires could burn / smolder for years at a time.

If we want to go back to those days, it makes sense to evacuate California first.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (uCjyK)

124 The good news is CA has a returning top public executive, Kammie, who knows what's she's doing. Shit will get straightened out Ricki tiki.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (jFCkp)

125 Yes. I bet they will blame this on climate change (and indirectly on republicans and/or donald trump) and the lesbian fire chief will be hailed as a hero.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (uCjyK)

So far they have blamed it on climate change.. I assume your other predictions will come true too...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (VE6XX)

126 119 And this mayor who is a Karen is going to a Bass Party. What's a Bass Party? And are they better in Africa than in North America?

So many pertinent questions.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 08, 2025 12:02 PM

Ain't no party like a Bass party!
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (4p0Xq)

"Bass-o-Matic!"

Dan Aykroyd SNL classic sketch.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (x0n13)

127 see the updates -- couple of more vids added at the end. They evacuated a nursing home, pushing all the patients out in wheelchairs as the sky filled with smoke and flame.
Posted by: ace at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (KRtlO)

That's odd. I thought the best way to keep the elderly safe was to put MORE of them in nursing homes, locking them in together.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (dGCAG)

128 California refused to allow insurance companies to raise rates so many left the state. Many homeowners have no insurance because of this.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (t/2Uw)

129 This year rainy and mudslide seasons will be one gigantic mess.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (UbLDC)

130 Deserves got nothing to do with it. They're reaping the consequences of their voting, as it should be. It rarely happens to these types.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (zYMU7)

William Munny agrees.

Posted by: front toward enemy at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (TIizU)

131 Wonder how those crowing about James Woods losing his home feel about Mark Hamill being evacuated with his home about to be burned down ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:19 PM (VE6XX)

Mark Hamill is completely insane and looks like a hobo. He'll fit in fine living on the streets of LA.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (4tmpE)

132 "You can't fight a fire without water!"

----------------

I blame Climate Change.

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the ~~Panama~~ America Canal! at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (lmsSh)

133 They call the Santa Ana the "devil's wind." Growing up in LA, I always hated it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (ZlOcj)

134 A lot of them are probably shocked he couldn't use the Force to put out the fires.
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He lost his light saber.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (jFCkp)

135 Greg Price
@greg_price11
Mayor Karen Bass (currently attending an African President's inauguration) cut the budget for Los Angeles' fire department by $17.6M last year.

It was the second largest cut to any department in the entire city.
11:02 AM · Jan 8, 2025

Please note: There was a chart covering 13 departments which I was unable to copy and include in Greg Price's twitter comment, above. It is worth a look.

Posted by: L - When do we finally hit the bottom? at January 08, 2025 12:23 PM (NFX2v)

136
Forgotten and ignored by Dems.
Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (rj6Yv)

_________

They didn't vote correctly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 12:23 PM (dxSpM)

137
Well, they FA.

Now, they're FO

Good and hard bros and brosettes, good and hard!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2025 12:23 PM (xG4kz)

138 William Munny agrees.
---------------
Great movie.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 08, 2025 12:23 PM (jFCkp)

139 That's odd. I thought the best way to keep the elderly safe was to put MORE of them in nursing homes, locking them in together.
Posted by: BurtTC

Your real name is Cuomo, isn't it, Gov. Cuomo?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2025 12:23 PM (IG4Id)

140 131 Wonder how those crowing about James Woods losing his home feel about Mark Hamill being evacuated with his home about to be burned down ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:19 PM (VE6XX)

Mark Hamill is completely insane and looks like a hobo. He'll fit in fine living on the streets of LA.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (4tmpE)

So sad for hamil. He seemed like such a nice guy.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (d45JM)

141 Libs: "This is climate change."

--------------

There it is -- found 10 seconds after my prior comment.

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the ~~Panama~~ America Canal! at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (lmsSh)

142 That's why so many times the only proper response is "Gooder and Harder". Californians LITERALLY voted for these things to happen.
Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2025 12:20 PM (azSra)

I'm not so harsh on the people who live there. Most have no idea what they're actually voting for. And very few people on the planet deserve to have their houses / lives destroyed by a likely completely-avoidable forest fire.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (uCjyK)

143 And this mayor who is a Karen is going to a Bass Party. What's a Bass Party? And are they better in Africa than in North America?

So many pertinent questions.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 08, 2025 12:02 PM

Ain't no party like a Bass party!
Posted by: Minnfidel at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (4p0Xq)

It ain't a party until Big Mouth Billy Bass starts singing!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (VNX3d)

144 "Decades ago, restrictions on clearing dead brush and controlled burns were meant to protect ecosystems—a noble intention."
***********
Fire was always an important part of those ecosystems.

Posted by: Cosda at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (u7WtD)

145 There are still thousands of Hurricane Helene survivors living in temporary shelters. Forgotten and ignored by Dems.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (rj6Yv)

Yes.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (4tmpE)

146 A thousand years ago, dead brush accumulated and wasn't cleared except by having gigantic fires that consumed everything in their path. Nothing is different, except that people are living in the way of those fires.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 12:20 PM (dxSpM)

The difference is, we have the ability to clear that brush today, and we don't because of idiot governors and environmentalism.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (dGCAG)

147 Los Angeles County has declared Thursday, Jan. 9, as the official Day of Mourning in honor of late former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.
Priorities!
Posted by: Mark1971 at January 08, 2025 12:11 PM (szMU5)
~~~~~

It's now a federal holiday. My mail carrier just told me there will be no mail Thursday because it's been declared a day of mourning. P.O. will be closed.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (3ImbR)

148 "Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass went on a junket to Ghana as part of a Biden administration delegation to President John Dramani's inauguration despite indications that fire season was about to begin."

I just realized "fire season" sounds like something from a sci-fi horror story.
Posted by: eleven
====

Shouldn't it be "dry season"?

Calling it the fire season indicates acceptance of fires like there is nothing that can be done to mitigate potential for fire during the dry season....

Oh well, crackhead homeless light fires... what can you do.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (j9ldc)

149 Lucifer @LucifersTweetz
The irony of James Woods, known for his skepticism about climate change, losing his home to the very wildfires linked to climate change impacts in California, is striking.

-
I guess Ron White was right. You can't fix stupid.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (L/fGl)

150 Wow... just looked... Older brothers old house is gone.... Luckily he moved to El Cajon out in the hills a few years ago...

Smack dab in the middle of another fire area.

/Facepalm

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (QAkQ3)

151 Mayor Karen Bass orders firefighters to smother the flames with their own bodies

"Sacrifices must be made to maintain the integrity of Los Angeles" she stated to reporters, "and this means all members of the fire department and emergency units must give their all, the city demands it"

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2025 12:25 PM (D7oie)

152 The last video says it's a nursing home being evacuated in Pasadena. Is that right, or did she mean Pacific Palisades? Are there fires all the way over in Pasadena too?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2025 12:25 PM (O0Ro+)

153 When Adam Schiff comes to the White House door asking for a massive bailout, what will the new tenant have to say about that?

He'll open the federal checkbook.

Because "we're all Americans and we're in this together," or whatever pablum will be messaged out in order to bail out these worthless leftist parasites.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 08, 2025 12:25 PM (Q0kLU)

154 Nobody walks in LA!

I can't remember who the band is for that song.

Posted by: dantesed at January 08, 2025 12:25 PM (Oy/m2)

155 So far they have blamed it on climate change..
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (VE6XX)

Leftism is a perpetual motion machine of idiocy, dysfunction and disaster.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 08, 2025 12:25 PM (ZlOcj)

156 This is pretty much self inflicted, you get what you vote for.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 08, 2025 12:03 PM (Rcnd3)

i know a lot of them voted for this, but with everything we've been discovering about cheating and election rigging by democrats, are we REALLY sure they did vote for this?

obviously, they didn't fight it enough if they didn't.

but prayers for all those affected, whether or not they deserve them...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at January 08, 2025 12:25 PM (nXhwP)

157 VDH's next writing is going to be lit!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 12:25 PM (W/lyH)

158 Los Angeles Scanner @LosAngeles_Scan 45m
LA fire chief reporting 2 deaths from the Eaton Fire.

Los Angeles Scanner @LosAngeles_Scan 43m
1,000+ structures have been destroyed in the Palisades Fire.

Los Angeles Scanner @LosAngeles_Scan 22m
Palisades fire now at 5,000+ acres.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 12:25 PM (iMpf5)

159
Wonder how those crowing about James Woods losing his home feel about Mark Hamill being evacuated with his home about to be burned down ?

Did he not live on a desert planet?

He'll be fine, brah, he'll be fine.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (xG4kz)

160 128 California refused to allow insurance companies to raise rates so many left the state. Many homeowners have no insurance because of this.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (t/2Uw)

That's unfortunate. I'm sure Newsome has a plan to help out the folks who lost their homes.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (d45JM)

161 I feel terrible having 555,000 ft^3 of water passing by be every second and it’s just flowing into the Gulf of America. Water we got. Shitloads of it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (D6YSl)

162 Your real name is Cuomo, isn't it, Gov. Cuomo?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2025 12:23 PM (IG4Id)

What gave it away, my nipple clamps?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (dGCAG)

163 Read a story the other day that the snail darter which was used as an excuse to not build a reservoir and instead let rain runoff go into the ocean, does not exist. It was made up by environmentalists to get this result. The is a direct link between virulent environmental nut jobs and what has happened to California. From energy to water management they have decimated property and farming. VDH often rails about this.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (t/2Uw)

164 OK, your houses were lost but we have a Rainbow of Diversity ™ with our firefighters. And at the end of the day, that's all that matters!

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (lXoJ5)

165 Lucifer @LucifersTweetz
The irony of James Woods, known for his skepticism about climate change, losing his home to the very wildfires linked to climate change impacts in California, is striking.

James Woods @RealJamesWoods
This fire is not from “climate change,” you ignorant asshole. It’s because liberal idiots like you elect liberal idiots like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass. One doesn’t understand the first thing about fire management and the other can’t fill the water reservoirs.
#INSTABLOCK
Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025

***
The arrogance and stupidity of someone like "Lucifer" (appropriate name) posting such cold-hearted nonsense to someone who has just lost his home is what is striking.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (J2vNu)

166 ASL interp on the LA press conference is rocking the diabetes.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (IG4Id)

167 My co-worker has a kid with a family who lives out near Pasadena. They texted her a photo from very early this morning of the view of the fire from their front porch shortly before they evacuated.

Totally jarring and sad.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (wtvvX)

168 They did the same Federal holiday thing when Nixon died in ‘94.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (TKm8p)

169 Time to buy stock in Home Depot.
And short the insurance companies.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (W/lyH)

James Woods said there's no insurance available in his neighborhood for 4 years now.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (2ocoG)

170 >>>I can't remember who the band is for that song.

MISSING PERSONS!

I listen to Missing Persons regularly, despite never loving them when I was young.

Posted by: ace at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (KRtlO)

171 CA has been ruled via Dem supermajority death grip for decades, Trump hasn't been in office for four years, but of course to DU it's all Cheeto Hitler's fault, LOL.

Must be nice, to have endless supplies of copium like that.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (zYMU7)

172 152 The last video says it's a nursing home being evacuated in Pasadena. Is that right, or did she mean Pacific Palisades? Are there fires all the way over in Pasadena too?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2025 12:25 PM (O0Ro+)

Yes, there is another fire in the hills by Pasadena.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (O1OkY)

173 Yes. I bet they will blame this on climate change (and indirectly on republicans and/or donald trump) and the lesbian fire chief will be hailed as a hero.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (uCjyK)

With respect, I think we're both on the same page. The carpet muncher will face absolutely no consequences and the fire will be blamed on anything other than its actual cause.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (Q0kLU)

174 Mark Hamill is completely insane and looks like a hobo. He'll fit in fine living on the streets of LA.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:22 PM (4tmpE)

So sad for hamil. He seemed like such a nice guy.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (d45JM)

You should read him on X (although I think he left and went to every progs' safe place on Bluesky).

The guy is certifiable in his spittle-flecked rantings about Trump and MAGA.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (4tmpE)

175 I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean, fresh water to FLOW INTO CALIFORNIA!

--------------

Another reason to buy Greenland: imagine hundreds of Sikorsky S-64 Skycranes delivering large chunks of glacial ice ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the ~~Panama~~ America Canal! at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (lmsSh)

176 154 Nobody walks in LA!

I can't remember who the band is for that song.
Posted by: dantesed

Missing Persons.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (lXoJ5)

177 Most have no idea what they're actually voting for.
=====
I'm betting many of them would quite willingly assert they've voted to keep abortion legal, to be friendly to those poor immigrants, and to keep hostility off the internet. Those were their priorities.

Not actual...*functioning* administration of a city, state, or nation.

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (azSra)

178 Destination Unknown is my fave

Posted by: ace at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (KRtlO)

179 If she's off in Africa,

You're not paying a mayor to mind your city.
You're paying for her future career in politics.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (krQz2)

180
The difference is, we have the ability to clear that brush today, and we don't because of idiot governors and environmentalism.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (dGCAG)

__________

Everyone wants to live in pristine, untouched nature until pristine, untouched nature tries to kill you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (dxSpM)

181 170 >>>I can't remember who the band is for that song.

MISSING PERSONS!

I listen to Missing Persons regularly, despite never loving them when I was young.
Posted by: ace at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (KRtlO)

Lady Gaga was definitely inspired by Dale Bozzio.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (O1OkY)

182 Some times people have to become very uncomfortable with their situation before they're willing to do some much needed introspection. The unfortunate thing here is that many affected by the wildfires (yet again) will not equate what's going on with bad policy decisions made by people they put into positions of authority (again.)

*shrugs*

Anyway....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2025 12:28 PM (Q4IgG)

183 Pasadena is under an evacuation order.
Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2025 12:20 PM (TKm8p)

The evac line is five blocks from my buddy's house. He just left about an hour ago.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 12:28 PM (W/lyH)

184
Maybe if Bass was on scene the fire would already be on the outskirts of St. Louis.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2025 12:28 PM (x0n13)

185 I'm betting many of them would quite willingly assert they've voted to keep abortion legal, to be friendly to those poor immigrants, and to keep hostility off the internet. Those were their priorities.

Not actual...*functioning* administration of a city, state, or nation.
Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (azSra)
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That's what they take for granted.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:28 PM (krQz2)

186 That’s gotta suck.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 08, 2025 12:28 PM (tWzNG)

187 That mall will be stripped clean in 24 hours.

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2025 12:28 PM (LHPAg)

188 There's a big water reservoir, already filled, just to the west. It's called the Pacific Ocean. Build desalination plants. "They cost too much to run". Self contained nuke power plants. "We can't have that, we saw the movie and those things will kill you". And furthermore "We gots a railroad to build and maybe we should import some more chinks and micks".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2025 12:28 PM (gm9Sb)

189 120 112 After fire season is rain season. Then mudslide season. Bad time for an earthquade.
Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2025 12:20 PM (U7Cio)

And then we have BLM/Antifa riot season!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (x0n13)

All this during the funerals for McCain and Carter ... sad.

Posted by: browndog digging hole at January 08, 2025 12:29 PM (TTAGa)

190 LA had the chance to elect a billionaire who committed to build a thriving business in that city over decades, rather than an incompetent machine politician cut from the same mold as the last few lib machine politicians who ran that city, but chose not to. Do they regret their choice yet?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 08, 2025 12:18 PM (39/z9)

No. When do I get my burn bail out check?

Posted by: LA Moochers at January 08, 2025 12:29 PM (lX1hk)

191 From last night:

R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: Right now nearly 100 people in a senior center are being evacuated as they are rushed across the roadways due to the extreme fire making its way.
📌#Pasadena | #Californa
Watch heartbreaking and shocking footage being broadcast live as a new wildfire breaks out in Pasadena. Nearly 100 people in medical beds and wheelchairs at a senior center are being evacuated and rushed across the roadways, with flames dangerously close. Officials are urgently blaring their sirens and horns, telling people to evacuate immediately, as this is a life-and-death situation due to the high winds and rapidly spreading fire. The chaos on the roads is overwhelming, as residents scramble to escape the deadly flames that are quickly engulfing the area.

Breaking911 @Breaking911
Hell unleashed in Eaton near Pasadena as wildfire forces mandatory evacuations

https://tinyurl.com/ms2pms6e
54 seconds; local news report; Altadena.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 12:29 PM (iMpf5)

192 169 Time to buy stock in Home Depot.
And short the insurance companies.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (W/lyH)

James Woods said there's no insurance available in his neighborhood for 4 years now.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (2ocoG)

I've been without insurance for about 2 years now.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 12:29 PM (O1OkY)

193 That's unfortunate. I'm sure Newsome has a plan to help out the folks who lost their homes.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (d45JM)

Fortunatel under Prop 13 there has to be at least one wall standing to rebuild or it is considered new construction and the property taxes can be increased at the decision of the state. So there will be more tax revenues to help those unfortunate victims of unexpected wild fires.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2025 12:29 PM (D7oie)

194 177 Most have no idea what they're actually voting for.
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I'm betting many of them would quite willingly assert they've voted to keep abortion legal, to be friendly to those poor immigrants, and to keep hostility off the internet. Those were their priorities.

Not actual...*functioning* administration of a city, state, or nation.
Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (azSra)

I bet 30 percent of the vote in LA is bought from ballot harvestors.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2025 12:29 PM (d45JM)

195 With respect, I think we're both on the same page. The carpet muncher will face absolutely no consequences and the fire will be blamed on anything other than its actual cause.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (Q0kLU)

Sorry, must have misread your comment.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:29 PM (uCjyK)

196 If she's off in Africa,

You're not paying a mayor to mind your city.
You're paying for her future career in politics.
Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (krQz2)

She's off blessing the rains in Africa.

Not in LA.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 08, 2025 12:29 PM (VNX3d)

197 152 Huck, as I posted above, Pasadena is now under an evacuation order.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2025 12:29 PM (TKm8p)

198 Some times people have to become very uncomfortable with their situation before they're willing to do some much needed introspection. The unfortunate thing here is that many affected by the wildfires (yet again) will not equate what's going on with bad policy decisions made by people they put into positions of authority (again.)

*shrugs*

Anyway....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2025 12:28 PM (Q4IgG)
---
That's why I said earlier, there are only two times to escape from a blue spiral.

1. Before the crash
2. After the crash, if you survive.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:29 PM (krQz2)

199 ‘ Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions ’

Yeah. These are some people worthy of our attention and concern.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (jbnUc)

200 Read a story the other day that the snail darter which was used as an excuse to not build a reservoir and instead let rain runoff go into the ocean, does not exist. It was made up by environmentalists to get this result.

I read that same story. Infuriating. Trump needs to destroy Cali's whole parallel-to-federal environmental apparatus, starting with CARB.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (2ocoG)

201 You know what this country needs? Newsom for pres in 2028!

*runs away with scissors*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (4tmpE)

202
Then: Wreckers, kulaks, counterrevolutionary elements, foreign spies

Now: Wreckers, kulaks, counterrevolutionary elements, foreign spies, climate change

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (dxSpM)

203 MISSING PERSONS!

I listen to Missing Persons regularly, despite never loving them when I was young.

Posted by: ace at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (KRtlO)

Professor of Rock has a new interview up today with Dale Bozzio. She is a fucking wreck.

https://youtu.be/rnv_I6jPgBo

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (szMU5)

204 That's an evacuation of nursing home patients.

--------------

Those who survived Gruesome Newscum's attempt to kill them in 2020.

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the ~~Panama~~ America Canal! at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (lmsSh)

205
Desalination has been on the books for decades and cannot get approved because of the Coastal Commission, a bunch of left wing power mad unelected bureaucrats.

Yay CA.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 08, 2025 12:12 PM (tT6L1)

Santa Barbara's desal plant has been going through a cycle of clownbuggery for 30 years. It began construction during a drought year, and went online just before the drought broke with record rains. The water bill was more than from tapping the rain runoff so they shut down the plant, and they pulled a bunch of the equipment to resell on the used market to supplement the annual city budget. Worked fine for a few years, until the next drought year.

The bill for rebuilding the plant was more than for the original construction. Since then, they've repeated this cycle at least two or three times, and it's never stayed operational for more than a few months at a time.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (y9nCu)

206 The Burning Times.

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (i0F8b)

207 Bass pulled in the lead two weeks after the election when a batch of votes from the SEIU arrived.
Not suspicious at all.
It always always works in the Ds favor. Always.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (t/2Uw)

208
Oh shit. There 's a fire very near my friend in Monrovia (near Pasadena).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (x0n13)

209
"Sacrifices must be made to maintain the integrity of Los Angeles" she stated to reporters, "and this means all members of the fire department and emergency units must give their all, the city demands it"
Posted by: Kindltot

One obviously cannot use hobos -- with their high resin content, they'd go up faster than fatwood!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (xG4kz)

210 All I know is Trump’s election is certified then right away . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (L/fGl)

211 Calling it the fire season indicates acceptance of fires like there is nothing that can be done to mitigate potential for fire during the dry season....

Oh well, crackhead homeless light fires... what can you do.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2025 12:24 PM (j9ldc)

In California, if it isn't raining it's fire season.

Posted by: front toward enemy at January 08, 2025 12:31 PM (TIizU)

212 Another leftist proggie man made disaster in Kalifornia.

Oh also the environmental proggies destroyed a hydro electric dam, the only reliableish alternative power source... along with all of the water reserves. This ladies and gentlemen is what the far left, standard democrat, policies are and it ain't good.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 08, 2025 12:31 PM (17s+e)

213 What does a 3/4 inch sheet of plywood cost these days?

Posted by: pudinhead at January 08, 2025 12:31 PM (jFCkp)

214 Kennedy on Outnumbered said she doesn't know if her house is still standing. Her neighbor's house is gone.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:31 PM (4tmpE)

215 Los Angeles County has declared Thursday, Jan. 9, as the official Day of Mourning in honor of late former President Jimmy Carter, who passed away on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.

Priorities!
Posted by: Mark1971

NATIONAL Day of Morning

Like a bonus holiday.
We are doing brats on the grill I don't care if it is 20 below zero, nothing is getting the way of this celebration.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2025 12:31 PM (j9ldc)

216 And then we have BLM/Antifa riot season!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2025 12:21 PM (x0n13)
All this during the funerals for McCain and Carter ... sad.
Posted by: browndog digging hole at January 08, 2025 12:29 PM (TTAGa)

Remember all those fires breaking out simultaneously in the Northwest in 2020 that were natural and clearly caused by incompetence not actual malice or arson?

Yeah, I expect waves of those this summer too.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2025 12:32 PM (D7oie)

217 214 Kennedy on Outnumbered said she doesn't know if her house is still standing. Her neighbor's house is gone.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:31 PM (4tmpE)

Terrible

Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:32 PM (VE6XX)

218
Next up on the demons list: price gouging

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 12:32 PM (dxSpM)

219 Oh shit. There 's a fire very near my friend in Monrovia (near Pasadena).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (x0n13)

Prayers up, JJ.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:32 PM (4tmpE)

220 193 That's unfortunate. I'm sure Newsome has a plan to help out the folks who lost their homes.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (d45JM)

Fortunatel under Prop 13 there has to be at least one wall standing to rebuild or it is considered new construction and the property taxes can be increased at the decision of the state. So there will be more tax revenues to help those unfortunate victims of unexpected wild fires.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 08, 2025 12:29 PM (D7oie)harvesters.

Perfect plan. I'm sure those who get dispensation to rebuild instead of new construction won't be politically manipulated. All is well in CA.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2025 12:33 PM (d45JM)

221 FEMA will be right on it. Unlike Fl and NC, these are their people.

Posted by: TC at January 08, 2025 12:33 PM (cHOHf)

222 Professor of Rock has a new interview up today with Dale Bozzio. She is a fucking wreck.

https://youtu.be/rnv_I6jPgBo
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Damn, she looks like a tranny now.

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2025 12:33 PM (azSra)

223 Another leftist proggie man made disaster in Kalifornia.

Danger at January 08, 2025 12:31 PM (17s+e)
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Well Trump ruined it all by recommending the measure that would have actually helped prevent this.

Damn him.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:33 PM (krQz2)

224 The White House, December 30, 2024

Executive Order Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on January 9, 2025

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

In part,
Section 1. All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed on January 9, 2025, as a mark of respect for James Earl Carter, Jr., the thirty-ninth President of the United States.

Sec. 2. The heads of executive departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on January 9, 2025, for reasons of national security, defense, or other public need.

Sec. 3. January 9, 2025, shall be considered as falling within the scope of Executive Order 11582 of February 11, 1971, and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and other similar statutes insofar as they relate to the pay and leave of employees of the United States.
...

Posted by: L - When do we finally hit the bottom? at January 08, 2025 12:33 PM (NFX2v)

225 I'm betting many of them would quite willingly assert they've voted to keep abortion legal, to be friendly to those poor immigrants, and to keep hostility off the internet. Those were their priorities.

Not actual...*functioning* administration of a city, state, or nation.
Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2025 12:27 PM (azSra)

Right. I have a lot more grace for people than I think most posters here do.

We need to wrap our heads around the fact that all of us have propaganda being pumped in to our heads 24/7. Some people are less equipped to try to fight it off then maybe we are.

These voters (many of whom are foreign born, or children of foreign born parents) only real exposure to politics is the overwhelming propaganda they see on late night TV and social media.

They have no idea on what is going on in the world around them that doesn't involve a Real Housewife.

It's sad, and it's not really their faults.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:33 PM (uCjyK)

226 From previous thread:

219 206 Pasadena under evacuation orders. A little old lady seen trying to save her pretty little flower bed of white gardenias. And her brand new bright red super stock car.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2025 12:02 PM (gm9Sb)

Evacuation orders were as far south as Colorado Blvd so no terrorizing last night....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 12:33 PM (QGaXH)

227 AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 19m
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say 70,000 people are under evacuation orders in LA area as wildfires threaten at least 28,000 structures.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 12:34 PM (iMpf5)

228 I used to make jokes about defunding the fire department, because of the obvious absurdity of the suggestion. I never imagined that it might actually happen.

Argumentum ad absurdum doesn't register with Progressives.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 12:34 PM (XeU6L)

229 Progressive ,legislation.

In effort to "solve" village's healthcare woes, Italian mayor bans citizens from getting sick

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 08, 2025 12:34 PM (L/fGl)

230 I first saw California in 1965 on a cross country camping trip and visit to my Uncle.
Damn, it was a beautiful place then. Paradise, almost.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 08, 2025 12:34 PM (4780s)

231

Yet one more example that the Democrats hate the American people.

They consider their jobs to be nothing more than an opportunity to suck their own dicks or flick their beans with self-righteous smugness.

Historic First Woman Mayor to Be Responsible for Burning Down Her Own City!!!

Even Nero couldn't claim that! Grrrrls Rule!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2025 12:35 PM (iJfKG)

232 187 That mall will be stripped clean in 24 hours.
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AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_ 1h
At least 2 people arrested in connection with looting in Los Angeles, California wildfires, sheriff says.

Posted by: andycanuck (iMpf5) at January 08, 2025 12:35 PM (iMpf5)

233 208
Oh shit. There 's a fire very near my friend in Monrovia (near Pasadena).
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

🙏

Posted by: L - When do we finally hit the bottom? at January 08, 2025 12:35 PM (NFX2v)

234 I propose for California that once the current fire is contained, all available personnel will engage in burning down overgrown brush. Anyone who protests will be added to the brush pile.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2025 12:35 PM (lXoJ5)

235
Has anyone blamed corporate greed yet?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 12:35 PM (dxSpM)

236 I keep a bug-out list of everything important to pack up and take with me in the event of a hurricane evacuation.

When a sudden fire or tornado (or earthquake) happens, you don't have that luxury.

I feel for people losing family photos, keepsakes, etc.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:36 PM (4tmpE)

237 Karen fiddled while LA burns.

Posted by: XTC at January 08, 2025 12:36 PM (UnA8+)

238 Larry Elder needs to run again, after New Scum is recalled.

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2025 12:36 PM (g47mK)

239 You know what this country needs? Newsom for pres in 2028!7

*runs away with scissors*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (4tmpE)

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Gruesome Newscum/Nina Skankowicz 2028 -- Disco Inferno!

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the ~~Panama~~ America Canal! at January 08, 2025 12:36 PM (lmsSh)

240 It's sad, and it's not really their faults.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:33 PM (uCjyK)
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No, it is.

I don't blame them.

But it is their fault, because it's their lookout. And they are floating on ideology.

Good times let you float, until enough people floating creates bad times.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:36 PM (krQz2)

241 230 I first saw California in 1965 on a cross country camping trip and visit to my Uncle.
Damn, it was a beautiful place then. Paradise, almost.
----------------
Yep. It was a real wonderland. I was there in 1960. Drove cross country - saw all sorts of things.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 08, 2025 12:36 PM (jFCkp)

242 219 Two guys, one in a Stingray, one in an XKE, escaping the fire...

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2025 12:37 PM (gm9Sb)

243 Has anyone blamed corporate greed yet?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 12:35 PM (dxSpM)
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No word from Kamala yet.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:37 PM (krQz2)

244
Not to worry, Los Angelenos!

Ozempic Orpah and Tom Hanky Panky will come to your rescue just as they did for the denizens of Maui in 2023!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2025 12:37 PM (xG4kz)

245 $Billions in federal disaster relief flowing into politically connected pockets.

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2025 12:37 PM (i0F8b)

246 My old house InCali is under mandatory evacuation orders!

Posted by: InZona at January 08, 2025 12:37 PM (L/uqf)

247 Imma a guessing this was caused by Russian Collusion.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 08, 2025 12:38 PM (jFCkp)

248 The girls pass the same physical tests as the men..... after they downgraded them for the girls to be able to pass. My money sys that not a single girl could pass the physical tests of just 15 years ago, much less 20= years ago.

That is a stupid far left proggie talking point.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 08, 2025 12:38 PM (17s+e)

249 236 I keep a bug-out list of everything important to pack up and take with me in the event of a hurricane evacuation.

When a sudden fire or tornado (or earthquake) happens, you don't have that luxury.

I feel for people losing family photos, keepsakes, etc.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:36 PM (4tmpE)

My big fear is not being able to find my cat in time of a situation like this. She hides in places we can't find in times of storms and strange workmen in the house.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2025 12:38 PM (d45JM)

250 Bass pulled in the lead two weeks after the election when a batch of votes from the SEIU arrived.
Not suspicious at all.
It always always works in the Ds favor. Always.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (t/2Uw)

Thanks for that, and a reminder to those who keep blaming the real live voters of CA - the cheat is big and spectacular.

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2025 12:38 PM (g47mK)

251 Larry Elder needs to run again, after New Scum is recalled.

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2025 12:36 PM (g47mK)
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But the white supremacy!

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:38 PM (krQz2)

252 While I'm willing to joke about the stupidity in their government, I hope and pray that everyone there survives and can recover.

Their leaders, however, deserve to be fired, stripped of their funds, and left on the streets. They might feel comfortable in Puerto Rico.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 08, 2025 12:38 PM (VNX3d)

253 Santa Barbara's desal plant has been going through a cycle of clownbuggery for 30 years. It began construction during a drought year, and went online just before the drought broke with record rains. The water bill was more than from tapping the rain runoff so they shut down the plant, and they pulled a bunch of the equipment to resell on the used market to supplement the annual city budget. Worked fine for a few years, until the next drought year.

The bill for rebuilding the plant was more than for the original construction. Since then, they've repeated this cycle at least two or three times, and it's never stayed operational for more than a few months at a time.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 08, 2025

***
And here I thought Lousy-ana was stupid and corrupt. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2025 12:38 PM (J2vNu)

254 You know what's really good?

Juror #2.

Mucho better than Cry Macho.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

255 Where is Jay lenos garage?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2025 12:39 PM (d45JM)

256 Prediction The government (pick one) will be buying up property. It's happening here.

My contempt for California doesn't displace my fears and concern for the people suffering this.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 12:39 PM (XeU6L)

257 Speaking of (un)natural disasters . . .

Matt Van Swol@matt_vanswol
#BREAKING: Buncombe County NC has officially confirmed this afternoon that it will NOT be waiving or reducing property taxes for homes that no longer exist due to Hurricane Helene.
Property taxes are due by midnight tonight [i.e., last night].

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We're from the government and we're here to fuck you, pay me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 08, 2025 12:39 PM (L/fGl)

258 25 16 I bet a lot of the places don't have insurance either. I don't have insurance, they cancelled me after I've been with the same company for over thirty years.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 12:05 PM (O1OkY

We were cancelled too.. I'm in NorCal and we've seen Our share of fires.. Had to scramble to find coverage and it's costing us double.
Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:07 PM (VE6XX)

My HO insurance is with the Auto Club. So far it's been reasonable but a pretty big increase in premiums this past year for both auto and home.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 12:39 PM (QGaXH)

259 imagine hundreds of Sikorsky S-64 Skycranes delivering large chunks of glacial ice

Stan Freberg would put a giant maraschino cherry on top.
"There -- try that on television."

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 08, 2025 12:39 PM (zdLoL)

260 236 I keep a bug-out list of everything important to pack up and take with me in the event of a hurricane evacuation.

When a sudden fire or tornado (or earthquake) happens, you don't have that luxury.

I feel for people losing family photos, keepsakes, etc.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 08, 2025 12:36 PM (4tmpE)

I need to come up with a list, myself.

A few years ago, the building next door to where I was (at the time) caught fire and I had to scramble to get things out into my car in case it jumped to the one I was in (thankfully, it didn't).

Posted by: XTC at January 08, 2025 12:39 PM (UnA8+)

261 CA wildfire victims better not get one penny more than the victims of the North Carolina flooding.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 08, 2025 12:39 PM (gaKF9)

262 235. 235
Has anyone blamed corporate greed yet?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Climate change.

>NBC News, Jan. 7, 2025, Four fires grow, forcing more than 80,000 evacuations around L.A.
The Palisades Fire has already burned through almost 3,000 acres, while two other fires have destroyed a further 1,500 acres. Tens of thousands have been evacuated.

"Climate change has increased the risk of such events, Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, said in a YouTube address."

Posted by: L - When do we finally hit the bottom? at January 08, 2025 12:39 PM (NFX2v)

263 Climate change!!!

Posted by: newscum at January 08, 2025 12:39 PM (c6hLR)

264 Posted by: It's me donna at January 08, 2025 12:04 PM (VE6XX)

Thank you, Donna

And Diogenes as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2025 12:40 PM (hP9t8)

265 As the son of a US naval officer who jumped into the drink after his ship was bombed by Japs at Pearl Harbor and who 23 years later commanded the squadron that was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin said:

"I see your hair is burning. Hills are filled with fire. If they say I never loved you, you know they are a liar."

Posted by: occam's brassiere at January 08, 2025 12:40 PM (pXeye)

266 125 So far they have blamed it on climate change..

i have an alibi

Posted by: emmanuel goldstein at January 08, 2025 12:40 PM (v3pYe)

267 There's a big water reservoir, already filled, just to the west. It's called the Pacific Ocean.

You would think a fleet of ninety helicopters, doing drop after drop would have some effect, but there's probably an injunction against saltwater, because it would damage the plants.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2025 12:40 PM (zMQny)

268 MISSING PERSONS!

I listen to Missing Persons regularly, despite never loving them when I was young.

Posted by: ace at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (KRtlO)

Professor of Rock has a new interview up today with Dale Bozzio. She is a fucking wreck.

Well, to be fair.

Nobody walks in L.A.

They're all running from the fire!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2025 12:40 PM (iJfKG)

269 244 Ozempic Orpah
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 08, 2025 12:37 PM (xG4kz)

Polka time!

Posted by: m at January 08, 2025 12:40 PM (VnUSN)

270 I listen to Missing Persons regularly, despite never loving them when I was young.
Posted by: ace at January 08, 2025 12:26 PM (KRtlO)

Do you hear me? Do you care?

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2025 12:40 PM (Ad6AF)

271 Sooo... speaking of silly calif laws... Heat went out in the house here in Central Calif last Friday. 28 year old unit and they no longer make the control board needed to fix... so... replace.

Well, under new Regs can't get a good working Gas Heat unit... and it turns out that on Jan 1 they went to a new refrigerant... that is FLAMABLE... so new units have to install a bunch of 'check' circuits to monitor that... which has not really been large scale tested yet as its all so new.

Talk about bad timing... and progressive 'progress'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 08, 2025 12:40 PM (QAkQ3)

272 due to huge lawsuits against the local Sandy Eggo power company, when there is fire danger due to winds, they cut off power to those power lines. Does it suck? Yes. Is it understandable? Yes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 12:40 PM (ynpvh)

273 It's sad, and it's not really their faults.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes

YES IT IS.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 08, 2025 12:41 PM (17s+e)

274 My HO insurance is with the Auto Club. So far it's been reasonable but a pretty big increase in premiums this past year for both auto and home.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 12:39 PM (QGaXH)

All car insurance in NY went up pretty dramatically this year (as far as I can tell. I called around for various quotes, and asked a lot of friends / families). No word on why -- but I suspect that it might be because a lot of our new new yorkers are driving around without drivers licenses in unregistered, uninspected vehicles without car insurance.

Probably playing out this way across the US.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:41 PM (uCjyK)

275 273 It's sad, and it's not really their faults.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes

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Willful ignorance is understandable, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:41 PM (GBKbO)

276
"Climate change has increased the risk of such events, Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, said in a YouTube address."
Posted by: L - When do we finally hit the bottom? at January 08, 2025 12:39 PM (NFX2v)

Can someone ask this dipshit how not clearing brush and storing water is the fault of climate change?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2025 12:41 PM (d45JM)

277 Does Ghana have really deep ties to Los Angeles? Or was this just a taxpayer-funded vacation that the mayor thought she'd never have to answer for (and probably never will)?

Posted by: pookysgirl knows the likely answer at January 08, 2025 12:41 PM (dtlDP)

278 A poster this morning said areas such as Pacific Palisades etc had voted overwhelmingly for the right leaning mayoral candidate who would have put in fire prevention regulations that made sense, but was outvoted by east La and the usual suspects.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 08, 2025 12:42 PM (VvvJo)

279 The worst part about all of this is that the powers that be that created the circumstances for this disaster will learn NOTHING from this experience.

They will immediately go back to implementing even more disastrous policies in the future.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2025 12:42 PM (BpYfr)

280 People actually abandoned their cars to run away on foot. I can't imagine how terrifying it would have to be to do that after leaving everything you own to burn to the ground.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:42 PM (t/2Uw)

281 Where is Jay lenos garage?

Burbank next to the airport.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 12:42 PM (2ocoG)

282 Feels just like old times!

Posted by: La Brea Tar Pits at January 08, 2025 12:42 PM (w9Wax)

283 I feel for people losing family photos, keepsakes, etc.

Posted by: Jane D'oh
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Down in SC (very close to you), every time a hurricane loomed I gathered the family photos together in a spot where they would be the first to go into the car.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 12:42 PM (XeU6L)

284 Does Ghana have really deep ties to Los Angeles? Or was this just a taxpayer-funded vacation that the mayor thought she'd never have to answer for (and probably never will)?

Posted by: pookysgirl knows the likely answer at January 08, 2025 12:41 PM (dtlDP)
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Virtue signaling and resume padding, at the taxpayers' expense.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:42 PM (krQz2)

285 Mark Hamill is completely insane and looks like a hobo. He'll fit in fine living on the streets of LA.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

He's near the coast, so maybe he'll find some giant alien manatee he can suckle on.

Posted by: Movie Moron at January 08, 2025 12:42 PM (JCZqz)

286 "Climate change has increased the risk of such events, Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, said in a YouTube address."

Belief in and fealty to climate change, maybe. Just like belief in covid got you vaccinated.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2025 12:43 PM (zMQny)

287 Two guys, one in a Stingray, one in an XKE, escaping the fire...
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2025

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They're gonna have to rename that spot Fire Break Curve. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2025 12:43 PM (J2vNu)

288 250 Bass pulled in the lead two weeks after the election when a batch of votes from the SEIU arrived.
Not suspicious at all.
It always always works in the Ds favor. Always.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:30 PM (t/2Uw)

Thanks for that, and a reminder to those who keep blaming the real live voters of CA - the cheat is big and spectacular.
Posted by: runner at January 08, 2025 12:38 PM (g47mK)

I am of the opinion that if California was forced to clear the voter rolls, start over with required in-person registration with a certified birth-certificate or naturalization papers, go back to same-day in-person voting, no more after the fact 'harvesting', no ranked-choice voting, and no more motor-voter, we'd probably swing back red.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 12:43 PM (QGaXH)

289 People actually abandoned their cars to run away on foot. I can't imagine how terrifying it would have to be to do that after leaving everything you own to burn to the ground.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:42 PM (t/2Uw)
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Which is why people who wanted to fight the fire had to use bulldozers to move cars.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:43 PM (krQz2)

290 You know what's really good?

Juror #2.

Mucho better than Cry Macho.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

It the kind of movie Eastwood has always directed well...the slow burn character study.

Weird, since his starring roles were all about the action and violence.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2025 12:43 PM (iJfKG)

291 I live near the fire, but fortunately we're not burning. There is a huge black cloud over Los Angeles. It's like the end of the world.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at January 08, 2025 12:44 PM (uWF4x)

292 >We need to wrap our heads around the fact that all of us have propaganda being pumped in to our heads 24/7. Some people are less equipped to try to fight it off then maybe we are.

Fair enough, but the only way to break that spell, unfortunately, is for the giant cock of reality to slap them in the face. Otherwise, they go on pretending, forever, that they're just voting for the nice people, and to help migrants, teh gays, the downtrodden, blah, blah, blah.

Actions and consequences must be connected in order to right this ship. Sucks to be them, but it's the only way we don't all go down.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 08, 2025 12:44 PM (WRCD/)

293 >>It's sad, and it's not really their faults.

On a human level I feel bad for anyone who loses everything in a devastating event like this. Its life altering in so many ways.

But I reject the idea that people who choose to follow the left and smear us as Nazis and white supremacists bare no responsibility for their situation. They were given a brain and the ability to reason just like we were but somehow we managed to figure out the truth and had the courage to stand up to the years of smears, lies, career damage and many other harms and they did not. Because it was hard to fight the popular narrative.

We obviously aren't any of the smears the left has claimed we are for years. All you have to do is look and listen. They chose not too do either. That's on them. I don't remember seeing many of them flocking to help the people in NC who also lost everything. I do remember them mocking those people for ignoring climate change and getting what they deserve.

I feel bad for their loss but I do not forgive them for choosing their path.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2025 12:44 PM (LkLld)

294 154 Nobody walks in LA!

I can't remember who the band is for that song.
Posted by: dantesed

We've got the best public transportation system in the world!

Posted by: Eddie Valiant at January 08, 2025 12:44 PM (JCZqz)

295 I love how the experts refuse to accept that lots of CA was a desert and that Santa Anna winds cannot be dealt with after they start blowing at 70 miles per hour.

Fuck the smelt, or any other creature the dumbasses want to protect, get water storage, tree management, and homeless waste and debris off the streets.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 08, 2025 12:44 PM (gaKF9)

296 285 Mark Hamill is completely insane and looks like a hobo. He'll fit in fine living on the streets of LA.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

He's near the coast, so maybe he'll find some giant alien manatee he can suckle on.

Posted by: Movie Moron at January 08, 2025 12:42 PM (JCZqz)

If Mark Hamil shits in the streets, does it make a sound? Will one of his hands be clapping?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 12:44 PM (ynpvh)

297 "Lady Gaga was definitely inspired by Dale Bozzio.
Posted by: CaliGirl"

Huh. Who was in turn inspired by Frank Zappa.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2025 12:44 PM (vFG9F)

298 CA is probably the most naturally blessed state in the union. What liberals did to mismanage a paradise on Earth is unforgivable
*************
As a former SoCa resident, I couldn't agree with you more.
Tragic and maddening at the same time.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at January 08, 2025 12:44 PM (IQ6Gq)

299 Does Ghana have really deep ties to Los Angeles? Or was this just a taxpayer-funded vacation that the mayor thought she'd never have to answer for (and probably never will)?
Posted by: pookysgirl knows the likely answer at January 08, 2025

***
Accra is now "Sister City" to Pasadena.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 08, 2025 12:45 PM (J2vNu)

300 Historic First Woman Mayor to Be Responsible for Burning Down Her Own City!!!

Even Nero couldn't claim that! Grrrrls Rule!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2025 12:35 PM (iJfKG)

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She's a shoe-in to be the next Governor of Califzuela.

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the ~~Panama~~ America Canal! at January 08, 2025 12:45 PM (ylaYD)

301 I feel for people losing family photos, keepsakes, etc.

Posted by: Jane D'oh
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And yet, people in NC are getting kicked out of hotels with no response by FEMA.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:45 PM (krQz2)

302 290 It the kind of movie Eastwood has always directed well...the slow burn character study.

Weird, since his starring roles were all about the action and violence.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2025 12:43 PM (iJfKG)

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I see it also as a refutation of 12 Angry Men.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

303 And furthermore "We gots a railroad to build and maybe we should import some more chinks and micks".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2025 12:28 PM (gm9Sb)

Is that what they're calling Guatemalans and Venezuelans now?
Obviously not wetbacks as there's no water to be had.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 08, 2025 12:45 PM (FCbAQ)

304 Well, under new Regs can't get a good working Gas Heat unit... and it turns out that on Jan 1 they went to a new refrigerant... that is FLAMABLE... so new units have to install a bunch of 'check' circuits to monitor that... which has not really been large scale tested yet as its all so new.

Commercial refrigeration (like your grocer's freezer case) has used actual propane as a refrigerant for decades so I would think they'd have all that sorted out by now. Hank Hill approves.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 12:45 PM (2ocoG)

305 Historic First Woman Mayor to Be Responsible for Burning Down Her Own City!!!

Even Nero couldn't claim that! Grrrrls Rule!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2025 12:35 PM (iJfKG)
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Another glass ceiling shatters.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:45 PM (krQz2)

306 286 "Climate change has increased the risk of such events, Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, said in a YouTube address."

Belief in and fealty to climate change, maybe. Just like belief in covid got you vaccinated.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2025 12:43 PM (zMQny)

How close to the beach does Daniel Swain live? He lives in Kalifornia, so must be okay with those "risks"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 08, 2025 12:45 PM (ynpvh)

307 2023 - Cal State agency officials mandated that (green card) goat herders be paid hourly - which made contracting those services prohibitively expensive to clear suburban chaparral grass/bush land.

Posted by: 13times at January 08, 2025 12:46 PM (foA4n)

308 "Climate change has increased the risk of such events, Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, said in a YouTube address."

Decades of one-party rule and implementation of repeatedly failed policies has guaranteed ineffective responses to these events, Doof, a freelance political scientist, said on a smart military blog.

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2025 12:47 PM (Ad6AF)

309 I can't imagine how terrifying

Happened to a friend of mine in an Oakland Hills fire. Just made it out with absolutely nothing but his car and the clothes he was wearing. There's always a bottleneck getting out. I can understand the terror.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2025 12:47 PM (zMQny)

310 280 People actually abandoned their cars to run away on foot. I can't imagine how terrifying it would have to be to do that after leaving everything you own to burn to the ground.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:42 PM (t/2Uw)

This is at least the second time for this happening. There was a town in the sierra's a few years ago where people couldn't get out and there were like 80 deaths.

The problem in Pac Palisades is the road emptied onto PCH with a stop light so cars were backed up. No police/traffic control to keep things moving, of course. Apparently two civilian guys took it upon themselves to start directing traffic but it was too late.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 12:47 PM (QGaXH)

311 3 Sorry James Woods lost his house but now he can get the hell out of that shithole.
Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 12:02 PM (KQk9m)

why would you rebuild in what now looks like a volcanic crater?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2025 12:47 PM (wyMQY)

312 YES IT IS.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 08, 2025 12:41 PM (17s+e)

Is it though? We're talking about people who may not even speak english as a first language, who were either "educated" in a foreign country or in CA public schools, who are subjected to a level of propaganda that was unheard of even in the most repressive regimes 30 years ago.

Think about what their social media algorithms look like.

Of course most people are going to fall for it. That's why propaganda / marketing is so successful. It usually psychology to convince people of something.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:47 PM (uCjyK)

313 286 "Climate change has increased the risk of such events, Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, said in a YouTube address."

The volcano erupted because the gods are angry at the wicked people.

Posted by: davidt at January 08, 2025 12:47 PM (i0F8b)

314 Biden is supposed to visit a fire station in Santa Monica sometime today.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 08, 2025 12:47 PM (rJ48h)

315 I feel bad for their loss but I do not forgive them for choosing their path.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2025 12:44 PM (LkLld)

I am a few notches beyond toward "you get what you fucking deserve" for painting the racial targets on the backs on my kids.

Too bad they did not DIAFF.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 08, 2025 12:48 PM (i24o9)

316 Karen Bass and Newsome will become so unpopular that they will win their next elections by slightly less than a landslide.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2025 12:48 PM (Ky9/9)

317 But I reject the idea that people who choose to follow the left and smear us as Nazis and white supremacists bare no responsibility for their situation. They were given a brain and the ability to reason just like we were but somehow we managed to figure out the truth and had the courage to stand up to the years of smears, lies, career damage and many other harms and they did not.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2025 12:44 PM (LkLld)
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Exactly. Sleepwalking is not an excuse.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:48 PM (krQz2)

318 >>>Wildfires Devastate Huge Swaths of Los Angeles

"Devastate" is a good verb choice:

mid 17th century:
from Latin devastat- ‘laid waste’,
from the verb devastare,
from de- ‘thoroughly’ + vastare ‘lay waste’.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2025 12:48 PM (VnUSN)

319 CA is probably the most naturally blessed state in the union. What liberals did to mismanage a paradise on Earth is unforgivable

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (39/z9)

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"You call someplace ~~Paradise~~ Golden State ...
Kiss it Goodbye."

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the ~~Panama~~ America Canal! at January 08, 2025 12:48 PM (ylaYD)

320 As sympathetic as I am with the people caught up in this, haven't wildfires been a CA staple for, well, forever?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 12:48 PM (XeU6L)

321 293
I couldn’t have said it better.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 08, 2025 12:49 PM (jbnUc)

322 I see it also as a refutation of 12 Angry Men.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

Hey there, TJM! I watched that Killer Joe movie you suggested when I mentioned my affinity for Gina Gershon several weeks ago.

It was, um --- interesting. And memorable.

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2025 12:49 PM (Ad6AF)

323 Karen Bass and Newsome will become so unpopular that they will win their next elections by slightly less than a landslide.

They have plenty of Buicks in Cali, even though GM barely makes any now. Yuuuuge room for ballot boxes.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 12:49 PM (2ocoG)

324 Sorry James Woods lost his house but now he can get the hell out of that shithole.

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 12:02 PM (KQk9m)
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Oprah's probably buying...

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (krQz2)

325 Biden is supposed to visit a fire station in Santa Monica sometime today.
Posted by: mr tmz
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Gee, all he did here was a flyover.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (XeU6L)

326 "Climate change has increased the risk of such events, Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, said in a YouTube address."

Idiots like this ensure there will be more fires in the future.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (W/lyH)

327 322 Hey there, TJM! I watched that Killer Joe movie you suggested when I mentioned my affinity for Gina Gershon several weeks ago.

It was, um --- interesting. And memorable.
Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2025 12:49 PM (Ad6AF)

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A judicious use of a chicken wing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

328 Biden is supposed to visit a fire station in Santa Monica sometime today.

That's definitely going to help. They'll pull everyone off of the actual fires to pose with the brain-dead zombie.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (2ocoG)

329 Sikorsky S-64 Skycranes

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Weird ass WWI, that's right, WWI helicopter.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5cE6U_Ij35c

Go to 7:45.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (L/fGl)

330 320 As sympathetic as I am with the people caught up in this, haven't wildfires been a CA staple for, well, forever?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 12:48 PM (XeU6L)

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100%. But what is shitty about these recent fires is the utter mismanagement from local government which could have greatly reduced the impact of expected fires.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (gaKF9)

331
FEMA will come!

Posted by: Dems at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (XeU6L)

332 Has anyone come forward with a cause for these fires?

other than climate change/global warming

I presume the winds, un-managed forests and powerlines are the leading culprits. Again.

Has anyone told the yahoos living out there that the whole forest doesn't have to be cut down to mitigate the fire danger? That clearing a proper right of way for the power transmission lines won't kill all the *insert favorite animal here*?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (Q4IgG)

333 Believe it or not, FJB is in the LA area right now. He's been staying in Thermal, CA, for the past couple days. He's returning to DC this evening. Maybe he'll go to Pacific Pallisades soon to comfort and grieve with some of his burned-out fat-cat white-as-rice donors. Nah, no way. Not enough POC there to provide good background while he stumbles-around telling everyone the lie that his house was burned to cinders way back when, and he knows exactly what being burned out and your wife and cat almost burned alive feels like.

Twelve days. Twelve too many. FJB.

Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (aBgBM)

334 A judicious use of a chicken wing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)
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Ain't no thang.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:51 PM (krQz2)

335 If I remember correctly, access roads which were maintained by utility companies in CA are no longer accessible due to government policy.

Also, I see no one on the left wants to admit that it wasn't wise to spend 20 billion on a train when water storage is always a pressing issue in CA.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 08, 2025 12:51 PM (tT6L1)

336 By blaming it on climate change they take no responsibility. Nothing can be done. All the money in the world won't change anything unless population is reduced and more of the planet is given back to nature.
Oh. Wait....

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:51 PM (t/2Uw)

337 I am of the opinion that if California was forced to clear the voter rolls, start over with required in-person registration with a certified birth-certificate or naturalization papers, go back to same-day in-person voting, no more after the fact 'harvesting', no ranked-choice voting, and no more motor-voter, we'd probably swing back red.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 12:43 PM (QGaXH)

Nearly 30% of California residents are foreign born. Add in their kids, and probably close to 50% of Californians were either not born in the US, or are kids of people not born in the US.

I don't think that state is swinging red any time soon.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:51 PM (uCjyK)

338 "People actually abandoned their cars to run away on foot."
Same thing happened in Maui, but there was an ocean to jump into.
In the Paradise CA fire, a local recorded many burned vehicles with skeletons inside.
A car can be a trap.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 08, 2025 12:51 PM (c6hLR)

339 As sympathetic as I am with the people caught up in this, haven't wildfires been a CA staple for, well, forever?

Yup, and CA used to be very good at preventing and fighting them. Then the environmental movement happened.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 12:51 PM (2ocoG)

340 336 By blaming it on climate change they take no responsibility. Nothing can be done. All the money in the world won't change anything unless population is reduced and more of the planet is given back to nature.
Oh. Wait....
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:51 PM (t/2Uw)

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The only solution is to nuke China.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

341 Has anyone come forward with a cause for these fires?

other than climate change/global warming

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Orangeman is bad.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:51 PM (krQz2)

342 I am of the opinion that if California was forced to clear the voter rolls, start over with required in-person registration with a certified birth-certificate or naturalization papers, go back to same-day in-person voting, no more after the fact 'harvesting', no ranked-choice voting, and no more motor-voter, we'd probably swing back red.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 12:43 PM (QGaXH)

Only one way to find out ! But yes, I think so too.

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2025 12:52 PM (g47mK)

343 When has the left ever actually cared about the suffering of people? These emergencies allow them to grant themselves more power. They see it as a win-win.

Posted by: steevy at January 08, 2025 12:52 PM (KQk9m)

344 Glad Ace informed us it was nursing home patients--thought it was Congress.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2025 12:52 PM (y2f7I)

345 But I reject the idea that people who choose to follow the left and smear us as Nazis and white supremacists bare no responsibility for their situation. They were given a brain and the ability to reason just like we were but somehow we managed to figure out the truth and had the courage to stand up to the years of smears, lies, career damage and many other harms and they did not. Because it was hard to fight the popular narrative.

Meh. I don't think it's reasonable to blame it on politics.

I voted Republican and still wound up with Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Dubya, Cheney and a bunch of other corrupt thugs that have in essence allowed our country to burn down, if not literally, then metaphorically.

Maybe you think I've "got it coming" too, when they flood my town with immigrants.

Posted by: Vlad at January 08, 2025 12:52 PM (YdlQW)

346 but tomorrow, the weather will be beautiful.

Posted by: cmeat at January 08, 2025 12:52 PM (6+aIJ)

347 Has anyone come forward with a cause for these fires?

I saw a story the other day that homeless, possibly illegals, had been seen setting fires.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 12:52 PM (2ocoG)

348 It's not The Terminator it's Chinatown, and Karen Bass is Noah Cross. He/she who controls water controls life.

Posted by: Lex at January 08, 2025 12:52 PM (fMN7A)

349 I feel bad for their loss but I do not forgive them for choosing their path.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2025 12:44 PM (LkLld)

There are a number of strong conservatives, like James Woods and Kurt Schlichter, who are on our side but who nevertheless have continued to live in LA. The best that can be said is that they decided to run the risks - James has lost that bet.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2025 12:52 PM (wyMQY)

350 Californians LITERALLY voted for these things to happen.
Posted by: Crusader

I'm not sure why you have such faith in electoral boards that have already been proven to be largely fraudulent.

Sure, a whole bunch of them did, because there are a lot of dumb leftists in Cali. And whole bunch of them didn't because apparently there are just as many non-leftists there.

And their votes don't matter because California is so heavily frauded that the dumb leftists will win regardless of what people actually voted for.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 08, 2025 12:52 PM (hB7mE)

351 Democrats will just blame global warming and use this to get more power and money to "fight it."

Posted by: 29Victor at January 08, 2025 12:53 PM (TL7UX)

352 Bonchie @bonchieredstate
California fails to manage brush and refuses to follow through with new reservoir builds so it can protect a tiny fish and wildfires happen, almost always started by humans.

And this is why I laugh. Kalifornians repeatedly voted for this.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2025 12:53 PM (jPu3+)

353 Hard to feel sympathy for those people. In fact, I don't.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 08, 2025 12:53 PM (pohLc)

354 342 I am of the opinion that if California was forced to clear the voter rolls, start over with required in-person registration with a certified birth-certificate or naturalization papers, go back to same-day in-person voting, no more after the fact 'harvesting', no ranked-choice voting, and no more motor-voter, we'd probably swing back red.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 08, 2025 12:43 PM (QGaXH)

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I dunno about red, but it would definitely swing right and pretty hard.

I can't wait for Newsom's lawyers to argue that the federal government has no authority to tell states how to run elections in one breath and then to scream about how Alabama is disenfranchising blacks, or something, and SCOTUS should do something about it in the next.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

355 >> Wildfires Devastate Huge Swaths of Los Angeles While Mayor Karen Bass Parties in Africa

Anyway…

You don’t get the government you deserve. You get the government you voted for.

S’mores futures are up.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 08, 2025 12:53 PM (8fzl3)

356 Has anyone told the yahoos living out there that the whole forest doesn't have to be cut down to mitigate the fire danger? That clearing a proper right of way for the power transmission lines won't kill all the *insert favorite animal here*?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (Q4IgG)
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Years ago, the forestry service in CA was given the job of keeping power lines clear of brush in CA. A job they were not remotely qualified to do. Nor, if memory serves, did they have the manpower.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 08, 2025 12:53 PM (tT6L1)

357 347 Has anyone come forward with a cause for these fires?

I saw a story the other day that homeless, possibly illegals, had been seen setting fires.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 12:52 PM (2ocoG)

One post I saw says that two of them were lit, several miles apart, at the exact same time. That sounds highly suspicious.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2025 12:53 PM (wyMQY)

358 All car insurance in NY went up pretty dramatically this year (as far as I can tell. I called around for various quotes, and asked a lot of friends / families). No word on why -- but I suspect that it might be because a lot of our new new yorkers are driving around without drivers licenses in unregistered, uninspected vehicles without car insurance.

Probably playing out this way across the US.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Every state that has legalized marijuana has seen accident rates skyrocket. If you use dope, don't drive seems to be beyond a lot of people in society. Add in inflation, perpetually illegal and unsafe drivers, covid brain changes--secular change with aggressive and unsafe driving habits for some, the increasing difficulty of repairing cars smashed in accidents, electric car foibles, escalating medical care costs, etc. it is a wonder you can have car insurance at all.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2025 12:53 PM (ctrM5)

359 Has anyone come forward with a cause for these fires?

I saw a story the other day that homeless, possibly illegals, had been seen setting fires.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 12:52 PM (2ocoG)
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Based on where they calculate the fire originated, I read that it could have been somebody hiking in the hills, smoking.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:54 PM (krQz2)

360 KTLA is broadcasting this storm live. Hellscape now in Altadena.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 08, 2025 12:54 PM (rJ48h)

361 Biden is supposed to visit a fire station in Santa Monica sometime today.
Posted by: mr tmz

FIREMAN: Hey Chief. Who's the old codger who keeps ringing the bell?
CHIEF: Not sure. The deputy assistant deputy mayor, who apparently is in charge now, said he was important.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 12:54 PM (W/lyH)

362 "Desalination has been on the books for decades and cannot get approved because of the Coastal Commission, a bunch of left wing power mad unelected bureaucrats."

As with Muslims and Indians, they only promote their own (and demote or fire The Other) ... so they can take over whole institutions.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2025 12:54 PM (Cus5s)

363
Has anyone come forward with a cause for these fires?

__________

Christian Nationalist cookout.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 12:54 PM (dxSpM)

364 What can I say? You get exactly the government you vote for.

Posted by: El Mariachi at January 08, 2025 12:54 PM (nLFEI)

365
CALIFORNIA - The Deva-State!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 08, 2025 12:55 PM (iJfKG)

366 Spotted owl, fairy shrimp, darter snail, red-bellied salamander ect. etc., were used to stifle all sorts of public projects.

This past summer Newsom was bragging about planting a family of beaver downstream from Yosemite claiming doing so reduces drought conditions and makes rural tribal land "wildfire resilient"

Posted by: 13times at January 08, 2025 12:55 PM (2AvvS)

367 @samstein The swift devastation of the #PalisadesFire is horrible. And then it dawns on you that Trump, set to take office in 13 days, has threatened publicly to cut wildfire aid to the state.
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They seem to be doing a bang up job without Trump.

Posted by: ... at January 08, 2025 12:55 PM (ik3nH)

368 100%. But what is shitty about these recent fires is the utter mismanagement from local government which could have greatly reduced the impact of expected fires.
Posted by: Seems Legit
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Why, it's almost as if management driven by socio-politcal ideology is preferred to fundamental good practices.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 12:55 PM (XeU6L)

369
The Arc of History bends toward a crispy LA.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:55 PM (krQz2)

370 Keep complaining and they will think you are an endangered species. You will live in a zoo for people that hate animals.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 08, 2025 12:55 PM (J8LnB)

371 363
Has anyone come forward with a cause for these fires?

__________

Christian Nationalist cookout.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 08, 2025 12:54 PM (dxSpM)

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They wouldn't have done it had they praised Gaia and acknowledged that they were on stolen land first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

372 A judicious use of a chicken wing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

Community note:
It was a leg, not a wing.

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2025 12:55 PM (Ad6AF)

373 100%. But what is shitty about these recent fires is the utter mismanagement from local government which could have greatly reduced the impact of expected fires.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (gaKF9)

Fires never used to be this large because reasonable land management practices were followed, and dry brush wasn't allowed to build up to firebomb levels.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2025 12:55 PM (wyMQY)

374 Meh. I don't think it's reasonable to blame it on politics.

I voted Republican and still wound up with Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Dubya, Cheney and a bunch of other corrupt thugs that have in essence allowed our country to burn down, if not literally, then metaphorically.

Maybe you think I've "got it coming" too, when they flood my town with immigrants.
Posted by: Vlad at January 08, 2025 12:52 PM (YdlQW)

Exactly.

There are much bigger forces at play here than just simple electoral politics.

McCain said he wanted to "build the danged wall" when he was campaigning, and a lot of people voted for him, then he tried to pass mass amnesty.

Like most things in life .. it's nuanced.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:56 PM (uCjyK)

375 I hope none of these people are fleeing to free states. Nobody wants you.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 08, 2025 12:56 PM (8fzl3)

376 One post I saw says that two of them were lit, several miles apart, at the exact same time. That sounds highly suspicious.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was Chy-nuh.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 12:56 PM (2ocoG)

377 372 A judicious use of a chicken wing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

Community note:
It was a leg, not a wing.
Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2025 12:55 PM (Ad6AF)

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I'm never going to financially recover from this...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

378 We need to wrap our heads around the fact that all of us have propaganda being pumped in to our heads 24/7. Some people are less equipped to try to fight it off then maybe we are.

These voters (many of whom are foreign born, or children of foreign born parents) only real exposure to politics is the overwhelming propaganda they see on late night TV and social media.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:33 PM (uCjyK)

You make a good case for eliminating the Department of Education and strict immigration requirements. You make a poor case for enforced sympathy through shaming.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 08, 2025 12:57 PM (i24o9)

379 Years ago, the forestry service in CA was given the job of keeping power lines clear of brush in CA. A job they were not remotely qualified to do. Nor, if memory serves, did they have the manpower.
Posted by: blake

Forestry Service - not qualified to cut brush.

😂😂😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2025 12:57 PM (jPu3+)

380 Here's another example:

A lot of us voted for McCain for president. McCain of course being heavily involved in the CIA, he went on to publicly and proudly fund, arm and train "anti assad rebels" who we now call "ISIS".

There have been many ISIS terrorist attacks worldwide since McCain gave them weapons.

Do we all have it coming to us because we voted for him?*

(*I know it's an imperfect analogy since McCain lost the presidential election, and this happened after McCain lost, but you get my point)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:57 PM (uCjyK)

381 We camped next to a guy that worked at the Cal Forestry as spotting and marking forest area to be cleared. He said he would drive into an area and on the way out some dead tree had fallen and blocked the dirt road. Yet with all his recommendations of clearing he said none was cleared.

This is 85% a man made disaster, 15% a once every 200 year very localized wind storm.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 08, 2025 12:57 PM (17s+e)

382 One post I saw says that two of them were lit, several miles apart, at the exact same time. That sounds highly suspicious.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was Chy-nuh.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 12:56 PM (2ocoG)

Chinese bomb balloon...just like the japs 80 years ago.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 12:58 PM (W/lyH)

383 330 320 As sympathetic as I am with the people caught up in this, haven't wildfires been a CA staple for, well, forever?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 12:48 PM (XeU6L)

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100%. But what is shitty about these recent fires is the utter mismanagement from local government which could have greatly reduced the impact of expected fires.
Posted by: Seems Legit at January 08, 2025 12:50 PM (gaKF9)

Yet CA residents keeps voting Dem.

The lesson for all of us - all US citizens - is that the government is not, and can not, be the solution to any problem. They ARE the problem. They can't be trusted.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2025 12:58 PM (N39Ws)

384 Years ago, the forestry service in CA was given the job of keeping power lines clear of brush in CA. A job they were not remotely qualified to do. Nor, if memory serves, did they have the manpower.

Posted by: blake
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Manpower is such a sexist word!

Let's talk about that first.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:58 PM (krQz2)

385 "Devastate" is a good verb choice:

mid 17th century:
from Latin devastat- ‘laid waste’,
from the verb devastare,
from de- ‘thoroughly’ + vastare ‘lay waste’.

Posted by: m at January 08, 2025 12:48 PM (VnUSN)

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Not to be confused with *Declasse":

from de- ‘thoroughly’ + classe ‘lay in waste‘ (as in San Francisco).

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Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the ~~Panama~~ America Canal! at January 08, 2025 12:58 PM (ylaYD)

386 Gosh. I was thinking about a USMC friend's rental in Laguna Beach. Right on the west side of PCH, view of the drink from the rickety deck. Friend had a chance to buy it and turned it down. "This guy is fuckin nuts. I'll move into base housing before I give this asshole $20K!" Early 70s. we were young. we were stupid.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 08, 2025 12:58 PM (gm9Sb)

387 One Cal journalist claimed one fire started in a hobo encampment located in Pacific Palisades Park - that's a state administered park. 100% certain it's not properly maintained with fire breaks etc.

Posted by: 13times at January 08, 2025 12:58 PM (eiWVw)

388 >> Meh. I don't think it's reasonable to blame it on politics.

That’s not even a good non sequitur.
Politics are what staffed those fore department positions with unqualified people. It’s the reason they haven’t clean the forest floors. It’s the reason they don’t fill the reservoirs.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 08, 2025 12:58 PM (8fzl3)

389 I can't wait for Newsom's lawyers to argue that the federal government has no authority to tell states how to run elections in one breath and then to scream about how Alabama is disenfranchising blacks, or something, and SCOTUS should do something about it in the next.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I never expect leftists to employ anything other than Heads I win, Tails you Lose type arguments.
Bad rhetoric disguised as principled reasoning.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2025 12:58 PM (ctrM5)

390 289 People actually abandoned their cars to run away on foot. I can't imagine how terrifying it would have to be to do that after leaving everything you own to burn to the ground.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 12:42 PM (t/2Uw)
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Which is why people who wanted to fight the fire had to use bulldozers to move cars.
Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 12:43 PM (krQz2)

i realized that once the person in front of the line abandoned their car and ran away, everybody else had to as well.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2025 12:59 PM (wyMQY)

391 California burns down every year. Predictable. Yet they do nothing to prevent or mitigate. Fukkem.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 08, 2025 12:59 PM (pohLc)

392 389 I never expect leftists to employ anything other than Heads I win, Tails you Lose type arguments.
Bad rhetoric disguised as principled reasoning.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2025 12:58 PM (ctrM5)

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It's all just fun and games until a woman who doesn't know what a woman is gets onto SCOTUS.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)

393 Hard to feel sympathy for those people. In fact, I don't.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 08, 2025 12:53 PM (pohLc)

And that is OK.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 08, 2025 12:59 PM (i24o9)

394 You make a good case for eliminating the Department of Education and strict immigration requirements. You make a poor case for enforced sympathy through shaming.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 08, 2025 12:57 PM (i24o9)

Both would be good starts. Especially immigration, that is definitely my pet issue and the issue I am closest to in my professional life. But the big thing that needs to happen is to stop the non-stop propaganda from legacy media and big tech.

I don't know how that happens though. Too much intertwined interests among Big Government / Big Tech / Media / Intelligence Agencies / Big Business / Big NGO.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 01:00 PM (uCjyK)

395 Idaho is full.

That is all.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2025 01:00 PM (DY9ls)

396 Yet CA residents keeps voting Dem.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
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Cheat by Mail system of voting makes it more likely that CA ballots keep voting Dem. Individual voter preferences probably have little to do with actual results in that case.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2025 01:00 PM (ctrM5)

397 It's sad, and it's not really their faults.
Posted by: Harry Parateste
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And you, Harry, have a really poor opinion of your fellow man. Smells rather elitist.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 08, 2025 01:01 PM (4780s)

398 Maybe because I live in hicksville, but around here, the power companies keep their lines cleared of brush and trees.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 08, 2025 01:01 PM (pohLc)

399 Adam Carolla, whose home is in Malibu and who had to flee this fire, just said "well, Malibu & Palisades voted for this."

I felt the same way in CO. I watched everything going to hell, including my own living situation, and just shrugged, too. You get what you ask for.

So I left. I hope he can finish his planned move to NV ASAP.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2025 01:01 PM (BI5O2)

400 >>Meh. I don't think it's reasonable to blame it on politics.

>>I voted Republican and still wound up with Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Dubya, Cheney and a bunch of other corrupt thugs that have in essence allowed our country to burn down, if not literally, then metaphorically.

>>Maybe you think I've "got it coming" too, when they flood my town with immigrants.

I never said they had it coming to them. Don't put words in my mouth. I said I have sympathy for anyone who loses everything.

What I said was I don't agree that leftists who have spent years slandering us as ignorant racists and listening to fake science instead of basic common sense and years of well known land management practices don't bear responsibility for their situation.

It was trendy for them to follow the climate science bullshit just like it was trendy for them to call us murderers for not wearing masks and becoming human pincushions for vaccines. The people I really feel sorry for are the people who think like us but whose voices aren't heard who pay the same price like James Woods. Like your situation with immigrants they didn't deserve this.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2025 01:01 PM (LkLld)

401 337
‘ 50% of Californians were either not born in the US, or are kids of people not born in the US.

I don't think that state is swinging red any time soon.’

Correct. They gleefully vote for democrats and say ‘Fuck those people’ about the people that the democrats hurt. This time the consequences are for them.
I have worked with plenty of people of international origins and I agree with you that they don’t know the significance of the side they’re taking.
But they should. It affects their own future.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 08, 2025 01:01 PM (jbnUc)

402 Do we all have it coming to us because we voted for him?*

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:57 PM (uCjyK)

Did we learn our lesson? Some of us did.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 08, 2025 01:02 PM (i24o9)

403 I never expect leftists to employ anything other than Heads I win, Tails you Lose type arguments.
Bad rhetoric disguised as principled reasoning.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2025 12:58 PM (ctrM5)

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To find one that can put together a sentence that makes sense and is not chained from scraps of jargon is hard enough.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 01:02 PM (krQz2)

404 399 I felt the same way in CO. I watched everything going to hell, including my own living situation, and just shrugged, too. You get what you ask for.

So I left. I hope he can finish his planned move to NV ASAP.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2025 01:01 PM (BI5O2)

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'Member when people thought that all those fleeing to FL were going to turn it blue?

I 'member...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 01:02 PM (GBKbO)

405 That aftermath video of Pacific Palisades looks straight out of the Earthquake movie set.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 08, 2025 01:02 PM (qBdHI)

406 Yet CA residents keeps voting Dem.

Yeah, and Biden really did get 81 million votes in 2020. What CA residents voted for is basically unknown because their elections are so fucked. A law just went into effect there that it's illegal to have an ID on you to vote.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

407 Yet CA residents keeps voting Dem.

The lesson for all of us - all US citizens - is that the government is not, and can not, be the solution to any problem. They ARE the problem. They can't be trusted.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2025 12:58 PM (N39Ws)

The Newsome Recall election proved to me we have no way to vote our way out of this crap. 62% supposedly voted to retain him...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 08, 2025 01:04 PM (QAkQ3)

408 Has Biden issued another billion for Ukraine?

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2025 01:04 PM (NpAcC)

409 406 Yet CA residents keeps voting Dem.

Yeah, and Biden really did get 81 million votes in 2020. What CA residents voted for is basically unknown because their elections are so fucked. A law just went into effect there that it's illegal to have an ID on you to vote.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

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They went full mail in ballot a few years ago, too.

Those in government now have zero incentive to do better.

I fully expect the result of these fires to be the CA government prosecuting energy company CEOs for arson.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

410 And you, Harry, have a really poor opinion of your fellow man. Smells rather elitist.
Posted by: From about That Time at January 08, 2025 01:01 PM (4780s)

How so?

I challenge you to spend a month scrolling reddit / tiktok / instagram / whatever with a fake profile and see if it doesn't affect you.

None of us are immune of propaganda. It's not an intelligence thing at all, and in fact it has been argued that the most susceptible people are the smartest people.

Anyone not living off the grid is being blasted 24/7 with propaganda from the big tech algorithms to the entertainment we watch (which is now largely a result of those algorithms) to the news we read to the education we receive.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 01:04 PM (uCjyK)

411 This is going to be a huge financial hit for the State of California. How many thousands of businesses, thousands of homes are suddenly gone? How many of these people will now flee the state, rather than try to rebuild? And it will be many years before this area becomes even a shadow of what it was.

To the Palisades, it's literally Hiroshima level damage. (although more of the people got away)

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2025 01:04 PM (wyMQY)

412 It's all just fun and games until a woman who doesn't know what a woman is gets onto SCOTUS.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
=====
Given that she is one stupid and lying justice, does not give the other 6 (I exclude Thomas and Alito) hacks in black reason to pay attention to her.

Anyone with any experience on a committee or team gets to deal with the idiot and lying team member on occasion. Doesn't excuse the other members from doing their job.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2025 01:04 PM (ctrM5)

413 A law just went into effect there that it's illegal to have an ID on you to vote.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 01:03 PM (2ocoG)
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I know. And yet that's not their Woody Allen's Sleeper moment.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 01:04 PM (krQz2)

414 This is criminal negligence and deserves federal attention. There is no way a state can continuously quote unquote vote this kind of shit. While we're there let's look at ballot counting problems too

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at January 08, 2025 01:04 PM (w2FfL)

415 412 Given that she is one stupid and lying justice, does not give the other 6 (I exclude Thomas and Alito) hacks in black reason to pay attention to her.

Anyone with any experience on a committee or team gets to deal with the idiot and lying team member on occasion. Doesn't excuse the other members from doing their job.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2025 01:04 PM (ctrM5)

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The danger of Jackson isn't now but in 30 years when she's senior member and, potentially, leader of a majority.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)

416
Larry Elder needs to run again, after New Scum is recalled.
Posted by: runner

He would lose again.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2025 01:05 PM (63Dwl)

417 402 Do we all have it coming to us because we voted for him?*

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:57 PM (uCjyK)

Did we learn our lesson? Some of us did.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 08, 2025 01:02 PM (i24o9)

We all got it comin' kid ...

Posted by: William Muny at January 08, 2025 01:05 PM (TTAGa)

418 This is going to be a huge financial hit for the State of California. How many thousands of businesses, thousands of homes are suddenly gone? How many of these people will now flee the state, rather than try to rebuild? And it will be many years before this area becomes even a shadow of what it was.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2025 01:04 PM (wyMQY)
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Hey, they can each get their $700 from the federal govt, I'm sure.

And Oprah can probably use the land.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 01:06 PM (krQz2)

419 But the big thing that needs to happen is to stop the non-stop propaganda from legacy media and big tech.

I don't know how that happens though.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 01:00 PM (uCjyK)

Attack the demand. Better education. Not more money. More focus on basics, less on grooming and trendy "socialization."

Teacher's unions need a hearty ass-raping for what have become of our schools.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 08, 2025 01:06 PM (i24o9)

420 Idaho is full.

That is all.
Posted by: sifty boones

Tejas - no casas.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2025 01:06 PM (jPu3+)

421 Larry Elder needs to run again, after New Scum is recalled.
Posted by: runner

He would lose again.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2025 01:05 PM (63Dwl)
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Even if not by popular vote.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 01:06 PM (krQz2)

422 311 why would you rebuild in what now looks like a volcanic crater?
Posted by: Tom Servo

So he can make it look like a supervillain lair of course.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2025 01:07 PM (lXoJ5)

423 100% Biden talks about his kitchen fire and how his house almost burned down at some point today.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 01:07 PM (t/2Uw)

424 I know. Santa Barbara was going to build one in the 90s and then it rained so nevermind, I guess.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Even worse, they built it and kept it up to date with testing (don't remember how often; but, at a reasonable rate). When they had a few rainy years they decided upkeep was too expensive and sold it to somewhere in the Arabian desert.
Now they are thinking about buying another and putting it in the same place.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 08, 2025 01:07 PM (yruun)

425 Leftists are just dogshit people. They don’t care about facts, the truth or tangible outcomes.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 08, 2025 01:07 PM (8fzl3)

426 414 This is criminal negligence and deserves federal attention. There is no way a state can continuously quote unquote vote this kind of shit. While we're there let's look at ballot counting problems too
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at January 08, 2025 01:04 PM (w2FfL)

Nah. I prefer to ship them another 50 bus loads of south American gang bangers. Keeps them occupied.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 08, 2025 01:08 PM (pohLc)

427
The danger of Jackson isn't now but in 30 years when she's senior member and, potentially, leader of a majority.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)

It's JD Vance's job to make sure that doesn't happen. Maybe Pete Hegseth can be President after his 8 years, although I'm not discounting Barron Trump, either.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2025 01:08 PM (wyMQY)

428 Just saw a headline that a 4th fire has sprung up in the LA area, the San Fernando valley.

It's looking intentional to me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, go for soda at January 08, 2025 01:08 PM (xPJvm)

429 427 It's JD Vance's job to make sure that doesn't happen. Maybe Pete Hegseth can be President after his 8 years, although I'm not discounting Barron Trump, either.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2025 01:08 PM (wyMQY)

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No such thing as a permanent majority. Democrats will be in power again at some point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

430 None of us are immune of propaganda. It's not an intelligence thing at all, and in fact it has been argued that the most susceptible people are the smartest people.

Anyone not living off the grid is being blasted 24/7 with propaganda from the big tech algorithms to the entertainment we watch (which is now largely a result of those algorithms) to the news we read to the education we receive.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Some people are better than others about propaganda. They adopt the other extreme in that all of the media is viewed as a polluted stream. That is why propaganda to the extreme never seen in the US failed to prop up the USSR. Reality always gets a say and over time no one believes anything. Trust in government is the glue even in totalitarian systems and when it is gone--you cannot get it back.

Sort of similar to if you suck one dick then you are gay. Whatever you say or do after will not change the facts. Can't take it back.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2025 01:08 PM (ctrM5)

431 Right. I have a lot more grace for people than I think most posters here do.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 12:33 PM (uCjyK)

Yeah, probably not, but if it makes you feel better to think you do, go with that.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 08, 2025 01:09 PM (dGCAG)

432 100% Biden talks about his kitchen fire and how his house almost burned down at some point today.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 01:07 PM (t/2Uw)
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Poor Beau.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 01:09 PM (krQz2)

433 422 311 why would you rebuild in what now looks like a volcanic crater?
Posted by: Tom Servo

So he can make it look like a supervillain lair of course.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2025 01:07 PM (lXoJ5)

ok that's a good answer!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2025 01:09 PM (wyMQY)

434 I hope the "Big W" doesn't burn down.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2025 01:10 PM (77rzZ)

435
Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD
@houmanhemmati
YES!!!!! If
@DrPatSoonShiong
who owns the
@latimes
is blasting
@KarenBassLA
you know it’s bad.

It’s time for Bass AND Newsom to be Trudeaued and LEAVE today.

You clearly don’t want your jobs. Let someone else do it.
https://tinyurl.com/4en72czn

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2025 01:10 PM (NpAcC)

436 With all the new regulations,it will be far more costly to rebuild. Better to take insurance proceeds if you have them, or take the loss and use remaining assets to start over in a less expensive state. Especially if you didn't vote for the assholes in charge.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 01:11 PM (t/2Uw)

437 Daily reminder: the Feds-USFS and BLM control about 97% of the forests and deserts in California. The State controls most of the public valley lands and some coastal mountain areas in the south. Counties obviously control and are responsible for maintaining public land unless designated as State property; Pacific Palisades Park is State land.

Posted by: 13times at January 08, 2025 01:11 PM (FHIX6)

438 But this childish idea that we shouldn't do everything reasonably possible to try to mitigate this periodic devastation because of reasons really speaks to a basic flaw in our system.
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It would be like if Ohio said it's citizens couldn't use salt or sand or whatever on their driveways or on streets in Winter. Can't use fireplace in Winter for backup heat... it's a denial of reality. And reality is a bitch with pointy teeth who loves to bite.

Posted by: Painful to watch stupidity in action at January 08, 2025 01:11 PM (KoNQY)

439 Californians are incapable of governing themselves. Place the state under military governance.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at January 08, 2025 01:11 PM (5IFb9)

440 What better way to guarantee an unwinnable situation for Donald Trump to be saddled with on Day 1 than to set fire to a tinderbox?

Just saying. It isn't like Antifags are worried about collateral damage.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2025 01:11 PM (DY9ls)

441 He would lose again.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 08, 2025 01:05 PM (63Dwl)

well, someone else than; but step one is Remove Newsom

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2025 01:11 PM (g47mK)

442 Making a show of humility or piety or empathy is neither humble, pious, or empathetic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2025 01:11 PM (zZu0s)

443 424 I know. Santa Barbara was going to build one in the 90s and then it rained so nevermind, I guess.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Even worse, they built it and kept it up to date with testing (don't remember how often; but, at a reasonable rate). When they had a few rainy years they decided upkeep was too expensive and sold it to somewhere in the Arabian desert.
Now they are thinking about buying another and putting it in the same place.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 08, 2025 01:07 PM

My county is retarded, they can't help it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 01:12 PM (+R1GT)

444 Yeah, probably not, but if it makes you feel better to think you do, go with that.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 08, 2025 01:09 PM (dGCAG)

I was saying that in response to the "fuck them, they had it coming to them" type posts (which I can relate to how they feel, trust me, I just know a lot of people who vote D, who are good people who have basically been brainwashed by big tech and legacy media. But like in a vague way, they can't really articulate or defend their positions. They just KNOW that they are right. Because that's what "everyone says" is right.)

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 01:12 PM (uCjyK)

445 With all the new regulations,it will be far more costly to rebuild. Better to take insurance proceeds if you have them

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 01:11 PM (t/2Uw)
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Rumor has it those homes haven't been insurable against wildfire for some time now.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 01:12 PM (krQz2)

446 The lesson for all of us - all US citizens - is that the government is not, and can not, be the solution to any problem. They ARE the problem. They can't be trusted.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 08, 2025 12:58 PM (N39Ws)

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Dennis Prager has said that when he first heard Ronald Reagan say that was the moment he had an epiphany and immediately became a conservative Republican (having grown up a liberal Jew in NYC).

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the ~~Panama~~ America Canal! at January 08, 2025 01:12 PM (EJd3U)

447 100% Biden talks about his kitchen fire and how his house almost burned down at some point today.

"So Hunter peed on Corn Pop to put out the flames. And wouldn't you know it, the son of gun LIKED that."

Posted by: Ian S. at January 08, 2025 01:12 PM (2ocoG)

448 It would be like if Ohio said it's citizens couldn't use salt or sand or whatever on their driveways or on streets in Winter. Can't use fireplace in Winter for backup heat... it's a denial of reality.

And reality is a bitch with pointy teeth who loves to bite.
Posted by: Painful to watch stupidity in action

Come for hard hitting commentary. Stay for the poetry.

That's beautiful.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2025 01:12 PM (jPu3+)

449 50 mile an hour winds spreading embers and starting multiple fires. It could be intentional or just force of nature.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 08, 2025 01:12 PM (t/2Uw)

450 The danger of Jackson isn't now but in 30 years when she's senior member and, potentially, leader of a majority.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 01:05 PM (GBKbO)
So, like pelosi.

Posted by: Eromero at January 08, 2025 01:13 PM (LHPAg)

451 I’ve burned many holes in my drawers the past four years, especially after that South American visit. Those chilies and fruits do a number on the ole colon. I could have been rented out as a flame thrower. That’s a fact. No joke.

Posted by: Joe Bidens Talking Pants Seat at January 08, 2025 01:13 PM (8fzl3)

452 No such thing as a permanent majority. Democrats will be in power again at some point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

When the rulinig party screws up badly enough yes - see the Tories in England, and the Liberal Party in Canada. But periods of closely contested races are actually rare in American Politics, the last 30 or 40 years has been an anomaly. What's more common is the 40 years after the Civil War, when with a couple exceptions the Republican Party ran the Government, and the 40 years after Hoover when the Democrat Party did the same. I suggest we're entering another 40 year period of rough stability like those were.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2025 01:13 PM (wyMQY)

453 No such thing as a permanent majority. Democrats will be in power again at some point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Parties die too but the US political structure itself (and most of the supposedly democratically elected nations) are facing the same issues--they have burned through the trust of the governed and now are unable to keep a sizable proportion of the population from knowing it.

Moving from a high trust to a low trust society inevitably has an effect on politics and political regimes at a systems level.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2025 01:13 PM (ctrM5)

454 Cheat by Mail system of voting makes it more likely that CA ballots keep voting Dem. Individual voter preferences probably have little to do with actual results in that case.
************
THIS. 1000 percent

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at January 08, 2025 01:14 PM (IQ6Gq)

455 it has been argued that the most susceptible people are the ones who view themselves as the smartest people

FIFY

Posted by: Emmie at January 08, 2025 01:14 PM (Sf2cq)

456 Just saw a headline that a 4th fire has sprung up in the LA area, the San Fernando valley.

It's looking intentional to me.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, go for soda at January 08, 2025 01:08 PM

We had some pretty bad brush fires up here during the fall. Homeless campfires mostly.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2025 01:14 PM (+QlJh)

457 448 And reality is a bitch with pointy teeth who loves to bite.
Posted by: Painful to watch stupidity in action

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"I looked into the gaping maw of reality, and all I saw was gore and death. Arraigned along its infinite rows of sharp incisors and canines were the remnants of dreams and ambitions of humanity since the dawn of time. It was an awe-inspiring sight of Nature as it truly is: uncaring and vicious. I will never go into a public restroom again."
-Werner Herzog

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

458 > Pretty much no one there has any insurance because the insurance companies pulled out of that market years ago because of stuff like this.

Yep. CA Prop 103 requires CA give permission for insurance companies to raise rates. Insurance companies looked at their numbers and the rate of wildfires and put in requests to raise rates. Gov't dithered, activists protested, and the companies didn't get permission. As a result, insurance companies have been pulling back, not offering new policies, etc.

So once again, government market interference has the worst possible outcome where people in wildfire areas have underinsured or uninsured property.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2025 01:14 PM (Odg76)

459 Who are you to criticize their culture? Bait fish are just as important as a human bean. I can’t believe how ethnospeciephobic you guys are. Check your privilege!

Posted by: Common Tater at January 08, 2025 01:15 PM (2VfHu)

460 On the bright side there will be great public beach access in Malibu after the debris is cleared... until the chain link fences go up to prevent beach access again.

(only half kidding)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 08, 2025 01:15 PM (yruun)

461 448 And reality is a bitch with pointy teeth who loves to bite.
Posted by: Painful to watch stupidity in action

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What, behind the rabbit?

(Obligatory)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 08, 2025 01:15 PM (LxER7)

462 And reality is a bitch with pointy teeth who loves to bite.

Posted by: Painful to watch stupidity in action
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Do not take head from reality.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 01:16 PM (krQz2)

463 Moving from a high trust to a low trust society inevitably has an effect on politics and political regimes at a systems level.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2025 01:13 PM (ctrM5)

This is definitely true.

I am very ... unexcited ... to see how this plays out. Typically low trust societies are terrible places to live, where corruption and sociopathy rise to the top, and everything is shitty.

And yes, I firmly believe the US is now a "low trust society". As is most of the western world.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 01:16 PM (uCjyK)

464 I will never go into a public restroom again."
-Werner Herzog
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

Hah!

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 08, 2025 01:16 PM (zZu0s)

465 Moving from a high trust to a low trust society inevitably has an effect on politics and political regimes at a systems level.
Posted by: whig at January 08, 2025 01:13 PM (ctrM5)

That right there is one of the most precious things the left has stolen from Americans. The left is evil.

Posted by: Emmie at January 08, 2025 01:16 PM (Sf2cq)

466 Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD
@houmanhemmati
YES!!!!! If
@DrPatSoonShiong
who owns the
@latimes
is blasting
@KarenBassLA
you know it’s bad.

It’s time for Bass AND Newsom to be Trudeaued and LEAVE today.

You clearly don’t want your jobs. Let someone else do it.
https://tinyurl.com/4en72czn
Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2025 01:10 P

Good that the new LA Times Chair is raising questions but my knee-jerk reaction is: Hmmm, Chinese? Am I wrong?

Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2025 01:16 PM (lCppi)

467 I hope the "Big W" doesn't burn down.
Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2025 01:10 PM (77rzZ)

Fun fact: the "Santa Rosita State Park" was actually the backyard of a private house (which I think was on PCH, but don't quote me) and the palm trees were planted there by the studio.

Once the movie wrapped, the trees remained, but were neglected by the owners of the house. I don't believe more than one of the trees is still there. Owners keep promising to replant the Big W, but so far have not.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 08, 2025 01:16 PM (Q0kLU)

468
James Woods said a lot of his and his neighbors home owners insurance was cancelled 4 months ago.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 08, 2025 01:16 PM (+oR7L)

469 A fiery but mostly fiery fire.

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (JjS/e)

470 I was saying that in response to the "fuck them, they had it coming to them" type posts

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 01:12 PM (uCjyK)

You can have my spot in the simp olympics. I am done with every last one of them, no extenuating circumstance considered.

You wanted me and mine in camps, rounded up for denying climate change, for expecting science to science on vaccines, etc.?

Yeah, enjoy your inferno. More air for me.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (i24o9)

471 lm The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA
Karen Bass cut fire dept funding by $17.6M.

That was her 2nd biggest cut.
***

Maybe $23 mil according to the slimes.

Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (lCppi)

472 Desalination is hugely energy intensive, and really only works if you're willing to build a dedicated nuclear plant to run it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (wyMQY)

473 we'll find out all these cuts were required to pay for illegal aliens' shelter and health care
.......

You know what will solve this problem? High Speed Rail.

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

474 And yet they keep voting for it because the blame never finds its actual home. They'll blame it on climate change and inadequate funding but they will never find a way to blame it on themselves or their policies. Their brain dead liberal voters will accept the nonspecific and unchangeable excuses and continue voting for their political tribe. And when someone is red pilled they sell their shit and get out of state.

Posted by: Roberto at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (lnWGT)

475 No joy in any life harmed but I feel no sorrow for their loss. The moneyed people, the majority who lost homes, are the influential people; they asked for it, they got it.
_FAFO

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (Lt3SL)

476 Karen Bass is coming back , just in time for people to pelt her with manure.

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (g47mK)

477 My county is retarded, they can't help it.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Next time we visit the SB families I want to buy you a cup of coffee...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (yruun)

478 we'll find out all these cuts were required to pay for illegal aliens' shelter and health care
.......

You know what will solve this problem? High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

... and recycling. And some bike lanes.

Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM (lCppi)

479 Leftists are just dogshit people. They don’t care about facts, the truth or tangible outcomes.
Posted by: Vengeance
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It isn't that they don't care, it's that their psyches have been so soaked in left-think since they were children that their brains can no longer process anything that condradicts the narrative that has been installed in their heads. Doesn't make it past their eyes/ears.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM (XeU6L)

480 Fun fact: the "Santa Rosita State Park" was actually the backyard of a private house (which I think was on PCH, but don't quote me) and the palm trees were planted there by the studio.

Once the movie wrapped, the trees remained, but were neglected by the owners of the house. I don't believe more than one of the trees is still there. Owners keep promising to replant the Big W, but so far have not.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 08, 2025 01:16 PM (Q0kLU)

Thanks, that's very interesting. Saved me a visit to Wikipedia.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM (77rzZ)

481 Like many of you, we have seen the James woods tweets about his newly renovated home and the devastation of his neighborhood. The problem is, he decided to invest his life and finances in a place that doesn't respect it. I can only imagine how beautiful that neighborhood was 3 days ago. But the issues that caused this disaster are well known and Mr woods knew the risk he was taking by investing in a location where the politics of stupidity rain supreme

Posted by: Roberto at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM (lnWGT)

482 Werner Herzog - Ftizcarraldo. Odd and fun and somewhat pointless.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM (jFCkp)

483 Its gonna get real funny when the California Coastal Commission (5mi Inland) starts denying permits to rebuild.

Posted by: Fisht at January 08, 2025 01:19 PM (BHEHK)

484 474 And yet they keep voting for it because the blame never finds its actual home. They'll blame it on climate change and inadequate funding but they will never find a way to blame it on themselves or their policies. Their brain dead liberal voters will accept the nonspecific and unchangeable excuses and continue voting for their political tribe. And when someone is red pilled they sell their shit and get out of state.
Posted by: Roberto at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM

That's not exactly true, there are dozens of us that have been screaming about these policies that will ruin our state! Dozens of us!

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 01:19 PM (+R1GT)

485 429 427 It's JD Vance's job to make sure that doesn't happen. Maybe Pete Hegseth can be President after his 8 years, although I'm not discounting Barron Trump, either.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2025 01:08 PM (wyMQY)

========

No such thing as a permanent majority. Democrats will be in power again at some point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

This is absolutely true. The best we can hope for is that the current crop of Republicans turn the clock back on most of the Dems' nonsense so far that when they do get back into power, they'll need to start 50 yards behind the line of scrimmage, rather than simply picking back up where they left off, which is what the GOP has always been satisfied on letting them do every time before now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 08, 2025 01:20 PM (43rDb)

486 484
That's not exactly true, there are dozens of us that have been screaming about these policies that will ruin our state! Dozens of us!
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 01:19 PM (+R1GT)

========

CaliGirl confirmed as a never-nude.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

487 ...where the politics of stupidity rain supreme
Posted by: Roberto at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM (lnWGT)

To comment or not to comment? That is the question.

Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2025 01:20 PM (lCppi)

488 You know what will solve this problem? High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

... and recycling. And some bike lanes.
Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM

Monorail!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2025 01:20 PM (+QlJh)

489 lm The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA
Karen Bass cut fire dept funding by $17.6M.

That was her 2nd biggest cut.

The biggest cunt is of course her.

Wait...nope, read that wrong but the point still stands.

Posted by: It's truths at January 08, 2025 01:21 PM (ybSPO)

490 I first saw California in 1965 on a cross country camping trip and visit to my Uncle.
Damn, it was a beautiful place then. Paradise, almost.

I had the good fortune to be stationed in Monterey for a total of four years. It was like heaven on earth to me.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2025 01:21 PM (77rzZ)

491 472 Desalination is hugely energy intensive, and really only works if you're willing to build a dedicated nuclear plant to run it.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Not to mention the cubic billions of gallons of fresh water they insist flow into the sea. Heaven forbid that they create lakes to retain it or approve simple systems to help hydrate the dry areas or clear underbrush.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2025 01:21 PM (Lt3SL)

492 Dry reservoirs.
Shouldn’t the lesbo fire chief at least put her finger in the dike.

Posted by: Redenzo at January 08, 2025 01:21 PM (V/pbu)

493 You know what will solve this problem? High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

... and recycling. And some bike lanes.
Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM

Monorail!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2025 01:20 PM (+QlJh)

more diversity

Posted by: runner at January 08, 2025 01:21 PM (g47mK)

494 >>there's a big water reservoir, already filled, just to the west. It's called the Pacific Ocean.

Posted by: t-bird at January 08, 2025 12:40 PM (zMQny)

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Salt watah bad foe glass.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 08, 2025 01:21 PM (amTrm)

495 That's not exactly true, there are dozens of us that have been screaming about these policies that will ruin our state! Dozens of us!
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 01:19 PM (+R1GT)

Heh!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 08, 2025 01:21 PM (pohLc)

496 > James Woods said a lot of his and his neighbors home owners insurance was cancelled 4 months ago.

Can someone explain that to me? How can an insurance company cancel insurance? Does he mean they refused to renew? Refusing to renew is not the same as prematurely ending contractually guaranteed coverage. If they prematurely ended coverage, isn't that breach of contract? Doesn't that expose them to huge legal repercussions?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2025 01:22 PM (Odg76)

497 488 You know what will solve this problem? High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

... and recycling. And some bike lanes.
Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM

Monorail!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2025 01:20 PM (+QlJh)

Genuine bonafide electrified six-car monorail!

Posted by: What's it called? at January 08, 2025 01:22 PM (ybSPO)

498 You’ll be surprised to learn the illegal border crossers are now looting in California.

But they really just want to pick lettuce.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 08, 2025 01:22 PM (j3d9V)

499 481 Like many of you, we have seen the James woods tweets about his newly renovated home and the devastation of his neighborhood. The problem is, he decided to invest his life and finances in a place that doesn't respect it. I can only imagine how beautiful that neighborhood was 3 days ago. But the issues that caused this disaster are well known and Mr woods knew the risk he was taking by investing in a location where the politics of stupidity rain supreme
Posted by: Roberto at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM (lnWGT)

I see this sentiment, but CA is an absolutely beautiful state. It's worth fighting for. It's just a shame that the CA GOP - the party who is supposed to be fighting for the state - has been absolutely inadequate for the task. If they would only be seen as competent, then there might be something for people to rally around to fight for.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 08, 2025 01:22 PM (43rDb)

500
Good that the new LA Times Chair is raising questions but my knee-jerk reaction is: Hmmm, Chinese? Am I wrong?
Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2025 01:16 PM (lCppi)

********
He was on Fox a few weeks ago and said he wants to hire more conservative voices.
His parents fled China and he was born in South Africa.
He recently hired Scott Jennings as an opinion writer

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2025 01:22 PM (NpAcC)

501 Good.

They vote for this shit, have at it Los Angeles. I would say maybe they’ll learn a lesson but they won’t. This shit has been going on for 30,40 years and LA/California gets more and more blue. Hawaii did t budge from their left wing voting patterns after the Hawaii fires. Neither will LA.

Oh well.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 08, 2025 01:22 PM (BqIHC)

502
The LAFD has failed the people of LA. They must be defunded. And drain all the hydrant reservoirs!!

That'll show them!

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 01:23 PM (krQz2)

503 CaliGirl confirmed as a never-nude.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I still sometimes first read her nic as "CallGirl."

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2025 01:23 PM (77rzZ)

504 488 You know what will solve this problem? High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

... and recycling. And some bike lanes.
Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM

Monorail!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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Non-disposable grocery bags.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2025 01:23 PM (Lt3SL)

505 Real high speed rail hasn't been tried.

Posted by: Chick with purple hair at January 08, 2025 01:23 PM (DobEs)

506 Wildfires Devastate Huge Swaths of Los Angeles While Mayor Karen Bass Parties in Africa
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Good. Stay there.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 08, 2025 01:23 PM (YqDXo)

507 Doesn't that expose them to huge legal repercussions?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2025 01:22 PM (Odg76)

Someone explained it up thread. You guessed it . . . government intervention created market shortages.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 08, 2025 01:23 PM (i24o9)

508 Can someone explain that to me? How can an insurance company cancel insurance? Does he mean they refused to renew? Refusing to renew is not the same as prematurely ending contractually guaranteed coverage. If they prematurely ended coverage, isn't that breach of contract? Doesn't that expose them to huge legal repercussions?
Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2025 01:22 PM (Odg76)

Insurance companies decide the area is too high risk and refuse to issue policies.

Usually combined with the state regulators putting a cap on the amount that can be charged.

Same thing is happening in Florida. Too many hurricanes and too many collapsing condos.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (uCjyK)

509 If you want to know why Kali is burning, go to Facebook or tim tok and find reels of the fire and read the comments.

These idiots DO deserve this. You cannot be that detached from reality and not pay a price.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (jPu3+)

510 In the aftermath of the fire it'll take a year to remove the toxic topsoil before residents/contractors are allowed to return to rebuild on their property. That's what happened after the Paradise CAMP wildfire.

Posted by: 13times at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (UqUFT)

511
Not to mention the cubic billions of gallons of fresh water they insist flow into the sea. Heaven forbid that they create lakes to retain it or approve simple systems to help hydrate the dry areas or clear underbrush.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2025 01:21

Not just that but everything is stupid. The riverbeds have brush and the farmers were volunteering to use their heavy equipment to clear the river beds and disc the ground so the water can seep in to the water table better. Nope can't do that, you'll go to jail. I don't remember why they said no but they did.
It's everything here.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (+R1GT)

512 ... and recycling. And some bike lanes.
Posted by: LASue

Monorail!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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Half the cost of regular rail! Genius!

Posted by: wth at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (v0R5T)

513 482 Werner Herzog - Ftizcarraldo. Odd and fun and somewhat pointless.
Posted by: pudinhead at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM (jFCkp)

Yeah but it's the Klaus Kinski Experience. That, Aguirre: Wrath of God, and Grizzly Man are my favorite Herzogs.

Posted by: front toward enemy at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (TIizU)

514 In my state, if you have land, The state will train you on controlled burns. And if you can't/won't do it yourself, the state will come out with experienced people and heavy equipment and burn it for you for a really small fee. And we are backward.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (pohLc)

515 You know what will solve this problem? High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

... and recycling. And some bike lanes.
Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM

Monorail!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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Non-disposable grocery bags.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2025 01:23 PM (Lt3SL)

No plastic straws.

Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (lCppi)

516 That is why propaganda to the extreme never seen in the US failed to prop up the USSR. Reality always gets a say and over time no one believes anything. Trust in government is the glue even in totalitarian systems and when it is gone--you cannot get it back. - whig

The Soviet Union's propaganda was far worse - it forced the entire population to repeat the propaganda to themselves and to those around them, with informants reporting on their compliance. And the State was the sole employer. In the US, individual private economic entities might compel an employee to sign a DEI compliance form, but that's about it.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (rj6Yv)

517 Can someone explain that to me? How can an insurance company cancel insurance? Does he mean they refused to renew? Refusing to renew is not the same as prematurely ending contractually guaranteed coverage. If they prematurely ended coverage, isn't that breach of contract? Doesn't that expose them to huge legal repercussions?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2025 01:22 PM (Odg76)
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I believe it was on renewal, IIRC.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (krQz2)

518 496 Can someone explain that to me? How can an insurance company cancel insurance? Does he mean they refused to renew? Refusing to renew is not the same as prematurely ending contractually guaranteed coverage. If they prematurely ended coverage, isn't that breach of contract? Doesn't that expose them to huge legal repercussions?
Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2025 01:22 PM (Odg76)

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At renewal, the company chooses to cancel instead of renew.

Home insurance anywhere in America where the thought of natural disaster is a complete cluster because of this sort of thing.

Charleston didn't have a direct hit by a hurricane the entire time I lived there. The worst damage was downed trees for a decade across the entire area. No Hugo or anything. Insurance rates skyrocketed the entire time, accelerating over the last few years and insurance companies just kind of...stopped offering insurance. It was weird.

Something is really fucked behind the scenes of the insurance industry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

519 I see this sentiment, but CA is an absolutely beautiful state. It's worth fighting for.

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Lots of beautiful places all over the country and the world. And most of them without batshit crazy left wingers running things.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 08, 2025 01:25 PM (BqIHC)

520 It's just a shame that the CA GOP - the party who is supposed to be fighting for the state - has been absolutely inadequate for the task. If they would only be seen as competent, then there might be something for people to rally around to fight for.
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They can start by fixing the elections that are designed to keep them out of office.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2025 01:25 PM (NB9gA)

521 478 we'll find out all these cuts were required to pay for illegal aliens' shelter and health care
.......

You know what will solve this problem? High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

... and recycling. And some bike lanes.

Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM (lCppi)

Plus tearing-down rayciss freeways intentionally built through the middle of communities of Color.

Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2025 01:25 PM (aBgBM)

522 California fails to manage brush and refuses to follow through with new reservoir builds so it can protect a tiny fish and wildfires happen, almost always started by humans.
_________________

Don't exaggerate. They're started by vagrants.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 08, 2025 01:25 PM (YqDXo)

523 Hopefully, Rob Lowe has his firefighting equipment on and is braving the flames of Los Angeles!

Posted by: pudinhead at January 08, 2025 01:25 PM (jFCkp)

524 all those drones flying around ... not that hard to attach some incendiaries, start fires when conditions are right.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2025 01:25 PM (Cus5s)

525 >>> All car insurance in NY went up pretty dramatically this year (as far as I can tell. I called around for various quotes, and asked a lot of friends / families). No word on why -- but I suspect that it might be because a lot of our new new yorkers are driving around without drivers licenses in unregistered, uninspected vehicles without car insurance.

Probably playing out this way across the US.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Debased currency

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2025 01:25 PM (j9ldc)

526 Can someone explain that to me? How can an insurance company cancel insurance? Does he mean they refused to renew? Refusing to renew is not the same as prematurely ending contractually guaranteed coverage. If they prematurely ended coverage, isn't that breach of contract? Doesn't that expose them to huge legal repercussions?
Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2025 01:22 PM (Odg76)

Insurance companies have been doing this in Florida for ages. Well, did. You basically can't get homeowners insurance from anywhere but the state-run insurer of last resort since all the commercial insurers left the market.

Posted by: Insurance companies are rent-seeking fraudsters at January 08, 2025 01:26 PM (ybSPO)

527 WHAT ABOUT THE CARBON FOOTPRINT?

Posted by: Chick with two nose rings at January 08, 2025 01:26 PM (DobEs)

528 You know what will solve this problem? High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at January 08, 2025 01:17 PM (v0R5T)

... and recycling. And some bike lanes.
Posted by: LASue at January 08, 2025 01:18 PM

Monorail!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 08, 2025 01:20 PM (+QlJh)

Genuine bonafide electrified six-car monorail!
Posted by: What's it called? at January 08, 2025 01:22 PM (ybSPO)

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Hyperloop FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- Take Back and Rename the ~~Panama~~ America Canal! at January 08, 2025 01:26 PM (lMAf3)

529
I see this sentiment, but CA is an absolutely beautiful state. It's worth fighting for. It's just a shame that the CA GOP - the party who is supposed to be fighting for the state - has been absolutely inadequate for the task. If they would only be seen as competent, then there might be something for people to rally around to fight for.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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They can't make a decent home movie. They don't know what competence is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2025 01:26 PM (Lt3SL)

530 Trump needs to step in and BTFO the CA GOP and start the party from scratch with his own people.

Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at January 08, 2025 01:26 PM (vogOC)

531 No offense meant, but every disaster results in the same pissing match. A fight to get to the tippy-top of the High Road to Godly Lane.

I wonder if Dietrich Bonhoeffer would be told to feel bad about himself for celebrating bad things happening to Nazis on X.

At a certain point, the enemy who wants you dead or enslaved is just the enemy. Both cheeks have been slapped so many times it is pointless to keep turning them.

The Geneva Suggestions don't reside in the human mind.

Be mad at who you want. God knows whether or not you're an asshole. It isn't for the internets to decide.

California and the fuckwits there have done a lot of damage to some of us over many years. I'm pretty sure that if Boise was burning they would roast tofu on the flames while laughing.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2025 01:27 PM (5n5kE)

532
The Soviet Union's propaganda was far worse - it forced the entire population to repeat the propaganda to themselves and to those around them, with informants reporting on their compliance. And the State was the sole employer. In the US, individual private economic entities might compel an employee to sign a DEI compliance form, but that's about it.
Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (rj6Yv)

I think ours is worse. In the Soviet Union, it was clear where the propaganda was coming from (the Party), and it was technologically impossible to force people to stare at it all day until they internalized it like in 1984.

Now our government launders the propaganda through all of our institutions to the point where no one really knows where it originates and we all carry around devices 24/7 that continue to push it on us.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 08, 2025 01:27 PM (uCjyK)

533 Ha -- Bulg with the "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" reference!

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 08, 2025 01:27 PM (ckQml)

534 525 >>> All car insurance in NY went up pretty dramatically this year (as far as I can tell. I called around for various quotes, and asked a lot of friends / families). No word on why -- but I suspect that it might be because a lot of our new new yorkers are driving around without drivers licenses in unregistered, uninspected vehicles without car insurance.

Probably playing out this way across the US.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Debased currency
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 08, 2025 01:25 PM (j9ldc)

The power of and

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2025 01:27 PM (d45JM)

535 >> Can someone explain that to me? How can an insurance company cancel insurance?

Most policies express the right to cancel at any time. This is especially true when the loss potential gets close to 100%. States and counties are letting people build in areas either along the coast, near water or in places with substantial fore risk, like this. That doesn’t mean the insurance companies have to take on that risk. Those contracts renew once a year. They simply refuse to renew.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 08, 2025 01:28 PM (j3d9V)

536 The Soviet Union's propaganda was far worse - it forced the entire population to repeat the propaganda to themselves and to those around them, with informants reporting on their compliance. And the State was the sole employer. In the US, individual private economic entities might compel an employee to sign a DEI compliance form, but that's about it.
Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (rj6Yv)
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Lenin loved the fear that he and the Cheka caused.

Which doesn't really fit in with the Marxist claims to virtue. But he loved how he could control the hoi polloi with fear.

Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 01:28 PM (krQz2)

537 nood

Posted by: Dr. T at January 08, 2025 01:28 PM (jGGMD)

538 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at January 08, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)

539 California fails to manage brush and refuses to follow through with new reservoir builds so it can protect a tiny fish and wildfires happen, almost always started by humans.
_________________

Don't exaggerate. They're started by vagrants.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

ISWYDT.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2025 01:28 PM (jPu3+)

540 Yeah but it's the Klaus Kinski Experience. That, Aguirre: Wrath of God, and Grizzly Man are my favorite Herzogs.
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Haven't seen them. I will take a look.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 08, 2025 01:28 PM (jFCkp)

541 LA Mayor Karen Bass flew a CHARTER plane to Ghana.
No expense spared for our taxpayer funded DEI royalty.
Forward!!!! For the people!!!

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at January 08, 2025 01:29 PM (ZSlm1)

542 This lake will destroy tumble weeds everywhere.

Then we'll have to import them.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 08, 2025 01:29 PM (dWMv1)

543 Be mad at who you want. God knows whether or not you're an asshole. It isn't for the internets to decide.

Posted by: sifty boones at January 08, 2025 01:27 PM (5n5kE)

That needs to go on a bumpers sticker.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 08, 2025 01:29 PM (i24o9)

544 I feel bad that Californians have to pay such a steep price for a lesson in what makes good leaders, and I feel even worse that few of them will actually learn.

Posted by: weew at January 08, 2025 01:29 PM (+8Vj6)

545 Auto insurance went up everywhere. Two main reasons. First is inflation. The cost to repair cars skyrocketed. So as logic would dictate so did insurance that last for those costs.

And second is EVs. Those are ridiculously expensive. And it doesn’t take much to make them write off loses. A fender bender can fuck op the battery enough where the car is considered totaled. So insurance for EVs in particular is astronomic right now.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 08, 2025 01:29 PM (BqIHC)

546 So once again, government market interference has the worst possible outcome where people in wildfire areas have underinsured or uninsured property.
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Golly, if only there were some way...maybe to *predict*...the responses to various inputs and outputs within an economic system? We could call it...."Economics"! And then maybe we could create...I don't know...maybe *graphs*....to explain how the supply of something or somethings...react...and maybe the demand for those something or somethings too!

Posted by: Crusader at January 08, 2025 01:29 PM (TN0g+)

547 530 Trump needs to step in and BTFO the CA GOP and start the party from scratch with his own people.
Posted by: Zeno the Stoic at January 08, 2025 01:26 PM (vogOC)

The ca gop needs to start buying more votes from the ballot harvesting gangs until the tactic is finally laid to rest.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 08, 2025 01:30 PM (d45JM)

548 Not just that but everything is stupid. The riverbeds have brush and the farmers were volunteering to use their heavy equipment to clear the river beds and disc the ground so the water can seep in to the water table better. Nope can't do that, you'll go to jail. I don't remember why they said no but they did.
It's everything here.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (+R1GT)

The Californian state government isn't stupid. It's a deliberate policy dictated to the government by the ruling oligarchy in California for the purpose of transforming the state into a fiefdom to their liking. Only their desires matter. They've rigged the voting system because their dreams cannot tolerate the opinions of an informed citizenry.

Posted by: mrp at January 08, 2025 01:30 PM (rj6Yv)

549 Fun fact: the "Santa Rosita State Park" was actually the backyard of a private house (which I think was on PCH, but don't quote me) and the palm trees were planted there by the studio.

Once the movie wrapped, the trees remained, but were neglected by the owners of the house. I don't believe more than one of the trees is still there. Owners keep promising to replant the Big W, but so far have not.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 08, 2025 01:16 PM (Q0kLU)

Fun fact 2: The family that owns In and Out planted crossed palm trees on their store fronts and incorporated them into their logo to honor their dad, who was a big fan of the movie..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at January 08, 2025 01:31 PM (I8RRu)

550 Holy crap. These people are so lucky they escaped with their life.

http://tiny.cc/7sp4001

Posted by: bonhomme at January 08, 2025 01:31 PM (Odg76)

551 The supreme irony here is that their eventual salvation for those that survive this holocaust will be coming in to office in 12 days and he will ensure that they get the Federal resources that they need. Not their shit of a Governor but Trump who many in LA hate and where voting fraud is rampant - he will still rescue and aid. Biden let NC twist in the wind while sending more money to the Ukes.

Posted by: Cheri at January 08, 2025 01:32 PM (oiNtH)

552 NY auto insurance has gin up because of uninsured motorists, accidents and thefts. All of those are almost 90% because of illegal immigrants. Go take a look at the DUI’s also.

But the benefits of illegal immigration outweigh the costs or something. Add the deterioration of our schools, raid on our social services, crime, health care system and housing.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 08, 2025 01:32 PM (j3d9V)

553 Be mad at who you want. God knows whether or not you're an asshole. It isn't for the internets to decide

He'd certainly know, being the original, infinite, and unadulterated asshole against which all other assholes must be measured.

Posted by: Job wants a word at January 08, 2025 01:34 PM (ybSPO)

554 >>>Something is really fucked behind the scenes of the insurance industry.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, building tension with Henri-Georges Clouzot at January 08, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)
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They want to be a govt agency.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 08, 2025 01:34 PM (Lt3SL)

555 Which doesn't really fit in with the Marxist claims to virtue. But he loved how he could control the hoi polloi with fear.
Posted by: Axeman at January 08, 2025 01:28 PM (krQz2)

Sure it does. Their fake "Paradise any second now..." schtick justifies it.

Posted by: front toward enemy at January 08, 2025 01:36 PM (TIizU)

556 518 496 Can someone explain that to me? How can an insurance company cancel insurance?
Posted by: bonhomme
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Something is really fucked behind the scenes of the insurance industry.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Insurance companies are essentially gambling joints where you pay your premiums and the House (aka insurance) takes your premiums, invests your money, and bets that it will not have to pay you. If the House loses too much in payouts, it will exit that game or exclude the player just like they did with card counters in blackjack.

Actuaries are the brains behind the superstructure and they earn the big bucks so that the insurance company makes a profit always or exits markets or individuals where the odds are that they will lose money.

Political regulatory agencies in states are either captured by the policy holders or captured by the insurance companies. In states where the policy holders try to place losses on the back of insurance companies, the companies exit. In states where the insurance companies hold sway, they ensure profits by raising rates and preventing much competition to the loss of policy holders.

Posted by: whig at January 08, 2025 01:37 PM (ctrM5)

557 When the rains come, it's gonna be a real mess.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 08, 2025 12:13 PM (W/lyH)
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The rainy season starts in late February and continues through March or so.

So ... soon.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 08, 2025 01:40 PM (YqDXo)

558 When you consistently elect dildos don't be surprised to eventually find one in your ass.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 08, 2025 02:06 PM (VwHCD)

559 It's callous and unChristian of me, but I'm not praying for Sodom & Gomorrah when it burns down. They wanted this, they're reaping what they sowed, and it's too bad that a few good people like James Woods refused to leave that shithole when he knew this could happen.

Of course now we'll have endless masturbatory Netflix specials about the fire and how it was probably Trump's fault, since these dicks always make it about how poor and downtrodden they are.

Posted by: Deseret Rebel at January 08, 2025 02:24 PM (7Bkgn)

560 Don't forget what California has done to ensure that Insurance Companies were going to leave or had already left. When you dictate to a company that they will take losses to do business somewhere, don't be surprised when those companies leave.

Posted by: RealityMain at January 08, 2025 02:46 PM (xeX4I)

561 They voted for this, so screw them. You get what you deserve.

Posted by: Gary at January 08, 2025 04:13 PM (FYVje)

562 L.A. Burns while Loud Mouth Bass parties in Africa a typical Democrat

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 08, 2025 04:24 PM (wGqjj)

563 "You can't fight a fire without water!"
When all the EVs burst into flame in the midst of the fires, water won't help you anyway.

Posted by: GWB at January 08, 2025 06:50 PM (NMya2)

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