LA Burning to the ground

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Jacques Strap
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In reply to Jacques Strap • 9:58a, 1/10/25
Jacques Strap said:
Total systems collapse


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They are de-civilizing the state and de-industrializing the state and de-farming the state. But they're not telling the 40 million people that their lifestyles will have to revert back to the 19th century, when you had no protection from fire."

"You didn't have enough water in California. You didn't have enough power. You didn't pump oil. So we are deliberately making these decisions not to develop energy, not to develop a timber industry, not to protect the insurance industry, not to protect houses and property. And we're doing it in almost a purely nihilistic fashion."


I always appreciate this guys' commentary. VDH is one smart dude.
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In reply to Jacques Strap • 10:05a, 1/10/25
Jacques Strap said:
Total systems collapse


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They are de-civilizing the state and de-industrializing the state and de-farming the state. But they're not telling the 40 million people that their lifestyles will have to revert back to the 19th century, when you had no protection from fire."

"You didn't have enough water in California. You didn't have enough power. You didn't pump oil. So we are deliberately making these decisions not to develop energy, not to develop a timber industry, not to protect the insurance industry, not to protect houses and property. And we're doing it in almost a purely nihilistic fashion."

Yep. Didn't Earn It + climate disinformation = death and destruction.
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In reply to Jacques Strap • 10:06a, 1/10/25
Jacques Strap said:


The eugenics left is obsessed with keeping the blek population under control. Remember what Ruth Ginsburg said about abortion - she said the quite part out loud: it was always about keeping the bleks from breeding.
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In reply to Jacques Strap • 10:15a, 1/10/25
Jacques Strap said:
Total systems collapse


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They are de-civilizing the state and de-industrializing the state and de-farming the state. But they're not telling the 40 million people that their lifestyles will have to revert back to the 19th century, when you had no protection from fire."

"You didn't have enough water in California. You didn't have enough power. You didn't pump oil. So we are deliberately making these decisions not to develop energy, not to develop a timber industry, not to protect the insurance industry, not to protect houses and property. And we're doing it in almost a purely nihilistic fashion."

He's got a great take on the whole breakdown. It's not only happening in Calif.
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10:40a, 1/10/25
VDH is wise..... takes tragedy to wake some people up.

Sadly.

California has been destroyed by Woke.

- el KKM

{ sipping coffee }

{ eating donuts }

Go Bears!

Beat opponent!!

VDH tweet:
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In reply to william • 11:06a, 1/10/25
william said:
VDH is wise..... takes tragedy to wake some people up.

Sadly.

California has been destroyed by Woke.

- el KKM

{ sipping coffee }

{ eating donuts }

Go Bears!

Beat opponent!!
I doubt it, but I have some optimism the loony left will realize Didn't Earn It and other stupid regressive ideas just lead to death and destruction. The problem is by definition regressives are anti-intellectual and anti-fact.
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11:11a, 1/10/25
FTR:

Print Journos - it's Santa Ana winds.....

- KKM



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11:19a, 1/10/25
How much are we going to have to pay to bail out millionaires and their idiocracy?

Still folks in North Carolina get nothing.

Biden is the most corrupt, evil president in history.
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12:01p, 1/10/25
Insurance Stocks
Symbol % Chg
MCY -20.44% Mercury General Corporation
ALL -7.40% The Allstate Corporation
TRV -4.71% The Travelers Companies, Inc.
PGR -1.37% The Progressive Corporation
AIG -1.37% American International Group, Inc.

Mercury General is mostly centered in California. About 80% of its premiums of $4.6 billion in 2024 were derived from the state, making it one of the most exposed insurers to the LA County fire.
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12:07p, 1/10/25
Good question.

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Are we about to find out these fires are being set by illegal migrant gangs with the intent of looting?

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12:10p, 1/10/25
Does anyone really get jail time in LA anymore?

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In reply to Jacques Strap • 12:11p, 1/10/25
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I'm sure they're all white ... like virtually all looters.
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12:13p, 1/10/25
Has there even been a bigger cluster**** of government failure than this?
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass demanded her Fire Department make an extra $49million of budget cuts last week, a leaked memo revealed.


This cut is already on top of $17.6million of cuts in her latest budget.

The extra cuts, requested just days before fires broke out and devastated swathes of Los Angeles, would have shut down 16 fire stations and crippled the department's ability to respond to emergencies, sources said.
DailyMail.com interviewed current and former senior LAFD officers briefed on the shocking proposed cuts, and exclusively obtained the memo from an LA Fire Department (LAFD) whistleblower who posts on social media under the moniker 'LAFD Watchdog'.

The memo is dated January 6, only a day before the devastating Palisades Fire started.


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When responding to questions about whether women firefighters could physically do the job, like when she hears someone say, 'you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire,' Larson said her response is "He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire."

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12:42p, 1/10/25
Is that a dude?

Sort of makes me not really care about the ****ers out there.
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1:02p, 1/10/25
LA Times: Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline and empty when firestorm exploded


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A large reservoir in Pacific Palisades that is part of the Los Angeles water supply system was out of use when a ferocious wildfire destroyed thousands of homes and other structures nearby.


Officials told The Times that the Santa Ynez Reservoir had been closed for repairs to its cover, leaving a 117 million gallon water storage complex empty in the heart of the Palisades.

The revelation comes among growing questions about why firefighters ran out of water while battling the blaze. Numerous fire hydrants in higher-elevation streets of the Palisades went dry, leaving firefighters struggling with low water pressure as they combated the flames


Department of Water and Power officials have said that demand for water during an unprecedented fire made it impossible to maintain any pressure to hydrants at high elevations.

Had the reservoir been operable, it would have extended water pressure in the Palisades on Tuesday night, said former DWP general manager Martin Adams, an expert on the city's water system. But only for a time.

"You still would have ended up with serious drops in pressure," Adams said in an interview Thursday. "Would Santa Ynez [Reservoir] have helped? Yes, to some extent. Would it have saved the day? I don't think so."

Had the Santa Ynez Reservoir been in use in that period, Adams estimated, that demand might have been three times as high. Water in the reservoir would have fed the firefighting equipment and helped the pump stations push water to the storage tanks. But the reservoir "wouldn't have lasted forever and would not have been a fix-all," Adams said.

"Eventually, you would have gotten to the same place," he added. Adams cautioned that he was basing his assertion on a rough estimate, and that he had not calculated the specific impact.
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1:05p, 1/10/25
Will we find out if this was a
  • Criminal gang member starting a fire so the gang could loot?
  • Terrorist?
  • Mentally Ill arsonist?
  • Homeless encampment resident trying to tap into electricity?


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In reply to Jack Bauer • 5:18p, 1/10/25
Jack Bauer said:
This should be his punishment.
Our vibrations were getting nasty. But why? I was puzzled, frustrated... Had we deteriorated to the level of dumb beasts?

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6:02p, 1/10/25
Didn't Earn Its fight among themselves.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/la-fire-chief-says-city-failed-residents-wildfire-prep-budget-cuts-screaming-properly-funded
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In reply to Jacques Strap • 6:59p, 1/10/25
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When responding to questions about whether women firefighters could physically do the job, like when she hears someone say, 'you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire,' Larson said her response is "He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire."



So everyone that gets in a car wreck like say when a drunk driver hits them or a driver runs a red light and the victim is not at fault and needs to be removed from their totaled car "got themselves in the wrong place?"

Talk about some serious victim blaming
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In reply to Jack Bauer • 7:00p, 1/10/25
Jack Bauer said:


In many states he would have been lucky to still be alive as the likelihood he would have been shot would be high.
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7:07p, 1/10/25
Nobody

Woke - " I sure hope there are lots of lesbians fighting the fires"

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In reply to Redbrickbear • 10:29p, 1/10/25
Redbrickbear said:
He is a disaster. From top to bottom.

Truly sad for California.

Since 1900 we have had 14 Republicans as governor and 5 who were Democrat.
Since 1943, it has been 6 Republicans and 4 Democrats.

The latest is the sorriest excuse we've seen. He is the one under whom CA has made the news the most. And for all the wrong reasons. An exodus of businesses and a lot of native Californians leaving for places that they would't necessarily be interested in going to if it weren't for him.

A total disaster of a leader.

And this latest tragedy is just exposing how badly CA has transitioned in just a few short years.
We've always had a certain level of liberal ideology here, but it was in check. Because we could actually get our fair share of Republicans.

This dude has blown the lid off the barrel of the nonsensical. Just like the far leftists blew off the lid nationwide and got us an incompetent president handled by a bunch of nonsensical leftists.

Forest fires are meant to break out on occasion to maintain the balance of nature. New growth sprouts from such fires.

It would seem that very few positives can come from this horror out here right now, but I hope from the ashes can rise a new sense of logical and rational thought. And from there will blossom an awakening and get these left leaning coastal elites to rethink their positions on things. Much like Americans did bringing DT back.
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11:40p, 1/10/25
The LA mayor is finished.

The California governor is finished.

However the ridiculous woke policies and attitudes found throughout the state will continue.
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