Re: Newsom's 'Compassion' for Wildfire Victims

On Jul 15, 2025 at 3:11:54 PM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:56:33 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
 

On Jul 15, 2025 at 1:38:48 PM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
wrote:
 

 On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:20:56 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
 wrote:
 

 On Jul 12, 2025 at 4:12:08 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
 

  BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

   In case you were wondering where we stand with the wildfire recovery…
  
   When the fires were still burning, Newsom was on scene speaking his normal
  mix
   of gibberish, platitudes, and tech jargon, saying that the government at
 all
   levels would have the backs of those who lost everything.
  
   Fast forward seven months. Newsom is now issuing $1700 fines to any
 wildfire
   victim who still has any debris on their property, even while he (and his
   accomplice, Karen Bass) refuse them permits to rebuild. And at the same
  time,
   he's announcing a $200 million state program to appropriate (read: steal)
  what
   used to be entire neighborhoods in Pacific Palisades and use them to build
   'affordable housing', which is prog-speak for 'dorms for bums,
addicts, and
   criminals'.
  
   Now vote for him for president!

 
  Maybe this is why the city of Scottsdale this week came by issuing
  citations for potential fire hazards. They hit me because I had a couple of
  palm fronds on the ground at the base of my palm tree as if they hadn’t
  noticed there was wind the night before.

 
 I knew it. Back when the fires were still raging, I posted right here on RAT
 that when all this is over, look for the government to muscle its way and
try
 to convert a significant portion of the burned land into "affordable
 housing".
 Welp, here we are.
 
 Today the California Senate passed SB 549, granting L.A. County authority to
 purchase fire-destroyed lots for minimal cost and convert them into
 low-income
 housing, directly contradicting the repeated and televised post-fire
 assurances of Gavin Newsom to homeowners that such government-driven
property
 conversions wouldn't happen.

 
 What does minimal cost? Does it mean under valued so a homeowner with
 a mortgage can end up under water? If so I can't imagine any of the
 voters wanting to vote for these politicians at the next election.

 
That's the true root of the problem in California. No matter how badly or
often the government abuses the people here, they continually reward them
with
re-election. It's truly like a cult. They'd rather pay $8.00/gallon for gas,
have vagrants shitting on their front lawn, and have a round of riots and
looting every six months than EVER vote for someone who doesn't have (D) next
to their name on the ballot. Which, of course, only emboldens the politicians
to be even more abusive since they know there will be no electoral
consequences for it.

 
There's no reason they couldn't find Democrats that are more
responsible to the voters.

"Responsible" moderate Democrats here are instantly labeled as Nazis and
fascists. If you're not a hard-left 'progressive', you'll be primaried by the
unions and run into the ground. Only the craziest get on to the ballot, so the
typical California cult member, er... I mean voter ends up having to choose
between a lunatic Democrat and a Republican. And since they'd rather chew off
their own right arm than EVER vote for a Republican, the lunatic Democrat
always wins.

 The only other state I see hitting those sorts of prices is Hawaii due to
the logistics.

Our gas prices are higher than Hawaii's. They're higher than everyone's. And
Gavin says it's because the oil companies are gouging us but he's never been
able to explain why they only gouge California and leave the other 49 states
alone. (Of course the reason he can't explain it is because it's not true and
he's lying again.)