Re: Will Late Night Roast Newsom And Bass For Fires? Don’tHold Your Breath.

On Jan 13, 2025 at 12:30:16 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 1/13/2025 3:08 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

 On Jan 13, 2025 at 9:24:37 AM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

 On 1/13/2025 12:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

   On Jan 13, 2025 at 1:30:45 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net>
wrote:
  

   We know L.A. Mayor Karen Bass cut $17.6 million from the city's fire
   department budget. The progressive mayor wasn't even in L.A. when the
fires
   broke out. She was in Ghana on a political junket.

  
   She might have been forgiven for being out of town if it had been just
a bad
   coincidence, but the National Weather Service had been issuing warnings of
   "extreme fire danger" to city officials for several days *prior* to her
   departure and she decided to leave anyway. Absolute dereliction of
duty. If
   there's a legal mechanism in California for the governor to remove a
mayor,
   Newsom should absolutely do so, but he won't because he has too much
himself
   to answer for in this mess.
  

   The optics couldn't get much worse. Remember how SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and
   late-night comedians mocked Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas when he was out of
state
   in Cancun during a deadly cold weather front in 2021?  It's hard to forget
   given the nonstop jokes on the subject.

  
   But notice neither the media nor the late-night jokesters had anything to
 say
   when, in the middle of a winter weather emergency in California, with
   thousands of citizens trapped in their homes under 10+ feet of snow
(that he
   and his bald-headed lunatic of a predecessor assured us would never be
seen
   again due to 'climate change'), Newsom suddenly vanished. He could not be
   located anywhere.
  
   But never fear. It turns out he was just in Baja California, Mexico.
Newsom
   was frolicking on the beach in Cabo San Lucas while hundreds of people
were
   snowed in with no food or power in the mountains during a winter snow
   emergency.
  
   Other than the choice of Mexican resort destination, it's exactly the same
   thing that Cruz did. But with Newsom it was actually worse. As a matter of
   executive function, it happens to be worse to abandon your constituents in
 the
   middle of a weather crisis when you are the governor as opposed to a
senator
   who-- unlike a governor-- has no authority or ability to direct personnel
 and
   manage resources.
  
   So Cruz couldn't have actually done anything to help had he stayed but
 Newsom
   very much could have. Yet Cruz is the one who is vilified by the media
while
   Newsom's failure was all but ignored.
  

   Another possible source of comedy? HBO's REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER. The
   long-running host has shown a knack for truth-telling regardless of party
   affiliation. He's been a thorn in the Left's side for several years,
mocking
   progressives for their extreme culture war positions and woke overreach.
 
   He's based in L.A. and might skewer pols who have made the problem
   exponentially worse. He's also a Climate Change alarmist and might
focus on
   that angle, even if there's no evidence climate change played a role
in the
   catastrophe.

  
   Of course it didn't. There's only so many ways these fires get started.
 Either
   nature starts them-- almost always via lightning strikes-- or humans start
   them. Sometimes it's because humans don't maintain the power lines and
they
   fall over during high winds and spark fires, or they're caused by human
   negligence (a tossed cigarette butt) or arson.
  
   There was no lightning when these fires started and they've ruled out
downed
   power lines. That leaves only one option left: someone started the fires,
   either accidentally or on purpose. It was not fucking 'climate change'.

 
 Afaik, 'climate change' doesn't start fires, it continues them.

 
 California has been known for massive wildfires...

 
You appear to have researched this topic beyond a level of casual
resident interest. Are you thinking of running for office?

Even in the wildly improbable chance I could get elected as something other
than a leftist lunatic in this state/county/city, I'd be hugely outnumbered in
the Assembly and would be able to get literally nothing done.

I could go stand and beat my head against a wall and have a more productive
day than I would as a non-'progressive' in the California State Assembly.