Re: Spin Cycle: Wildfires Rage, And Politicians Fan The Blame

On 2025-01-13 3:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Jan 13, 2025 at 12:42:20 PM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
 

On 2025-01-13 1:15 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
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  On Jan 13, 2025 at 1:30:42 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
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  Newsom also claimed that he still had complete confidence in the leadership
  in place - including L.A.'s Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, who was on a
  taxpayer-funded trip to Africa when the fires
  began.

    For that alone, Newsom should be removed from office as well. If he really
  does have confidence in Bass, that shows his judgment is severely
  compromised.
    Other than Bass, let's meet the people in charge of L.A.'s fire response.
  Bizarrely, all of them are lesbians named Kristine. What do you suppose the
  odds are that in a profession dominated by men due to the sheer physicality
of
  its requirements, that the top three officials in the LAFD would turn out to
  be lesbian women? Kinda suggests that promotions in LAFD aren't based on
merit
  and ability but rather on the gender and the sexual practices of the
  candidates, does it not?
    Kristina Crowley - First LGBTQ Fire Chief LAFD.
  Salary: $439,722
    Kristina Kepner - First Lesbian Assistant Chief LAFD.
  Salary: $264,468
    Kristine Larson - First black lesbian Equity Bureau Chief LAFD.
  Salary: $399,000
    And here's Larson responding to a question about whether she'd be capable of
  carrying a grown man out of a burning building. She says if she can't, then
  it's the victim's fault for ending up in a burning building in the first
  place. Seriously.
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https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1877458187600719873/vid/avc1/720x720/RTD4R-YNN_uBrXB0.mp4?tag=16
 

As horrific as her statement is, the even more horrific thing is that
the people who hired these tokens got elected in free and fair
democratic elections. If this isn't a wake-up call for EVERY L.A. and
California voter, then they are all brain dead.
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I'm hoping that these disastrous fires act like the Truckers Convoy did
in this country: as an illustration that Californians are governed by
horrible people and need a dramatic change in direction.
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But you're going to need something else to really accomplish change: a
credible alternative.

 That's the problem. Every time we get rid of one of these malefactors, they're
replaced by another one just as bad, if not worse.
 Jerry Brown, the Cryptkeeper, was a bald-headed lunatic and when we were
finally rid of him, who did we get? Gavin Newsom. And after he terms out and
has to leave, the Democrats are all abuzz about Kamala Harris taking his
place.
 

I've heard a bit of that. Sheer lunacy! I'm sure SHE would love to be governor but it's discouraging to imagine significant numbers of people voting for her. I feel sure that most of the votes she got in November were from the fools who let the media convince them that Trump was a threat to democracy; there couldn't have been LARGE numbers of people that actual thought she'd do a good job.

In L.A., we had the buffoon Antonio Villaraigosa (real name: Tony Villar), who
was then replaced by Yoga Pants Garcetti, and now Karen Bass. What's really
depressing is that I actually look back fondly on the Villar era. He was an
empty suit, but at least he kept the city clean and we didn't have trash
mountains and vagrant encampments and out of control crime. It was Garcetti
that started the destruction of the city in earnest (with a lot of help from
Gascon) and Bass has only accelerated it.
 

  Trudeau's vote share declined after his first term
in office but the alternatives, particularly the leader of the
Conservative Party at the time failed to inspire sufficient confidence
to win. Andrew Scheer led the Conservatives in 2019 but failed to
resonate sufficiently with voters. He was replaced by Erin O'Toole, who
got virtually identical results in the 2021 election. It was only when
the dynamic Pierre Poilievre became leader a couple of years ago that
people really started to believe in the Conservatives as being a truly
credible alternative.
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California needs their own Pierre Poilievre. I'm not close enough to the
situation to know if you have anyone like that on hand.

 We had Larry Elder last time around, who I've heard is going to run again for
governor. He'd make a great governor, but good luck getting California voters
to elect him. They're all suffering from Helsinki Syndrome.
 (Since he's a black man and a conservative, rather than celebrate Elder's
'diversity' as they would normally do, the L.A. Times dubbed him 'the black
face of white supremacy'. Seriously. They actually did that.)
 

I read a few of Elder's columns back during the recall process and thought he was a pretty sensible guy and very positive in outlook as well. It's really unfortunate that the elites have decided to characterize him as a white supremacist.
I don't know if some PR genius could "rehabilitate" Elder; if not, you might have to look for someone entirely different or even just a "stand-in" (someone who would appear to be the candidate but that would be strongly guided by Elder and like-minded people once in office). I'm convinced that Biden was a "stand-in": he was too cognitively impaired to actually lead the country, even when he was first sworn in.
I think Trudeau was likely a "stand-in" too: he's too dim to have a well-thought out ideology and is probably fed his ideas and lines by Katie Telford in the Prime Minister's Office (effectively, his chief of staff). Telford had the same role here in Ontario for our past premier Dalton McGuinty and his successor, Kathleen Wynne (Doug Ford's immediate predecessors) and did similar harm to Ontario as she then did to the country as a whole. Who Telford gets HER ideas from may well be Chairman Xi.
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Rhino