No, The LAFD Budget Was NOT Cut Before The Recent Wildfire Disaster.

[icanhelp1]

I shared a factual list of states that have experienced wildfires.

This upset you because you hate facts.

(And I didn’t use the term “MAGAT” and didn’t refer to you at all. Don’t pretend I did.)

"But MAGAs pretend wildfires are a California Democrats problem. "

That statement is bullshit. ^^^^^^

 

[MajorRewrite]

MAGAs are arguing that California needs to increase government spending on firefighting, increase government spending on forestry management (controlled burns etc), and increase heavy handed government control of land use (to prevent building in fire-prone areas).

Fine suggestions.

But tomorrow the same MAGAs are going to say government serves no purpose and it all has to go.

They are stable geniuses.

 

[UltraChad]

MAGAs are arguing that California needs to increase government spending on firefighting, increase government spending on forestry management (controlled burns etc), and increase heavy handed government control of land use (to prevent building in fire-prone areas).

This is a leftist fantasy ^^

In reality MAGA's want the people of Claifornia to WAKT UP and do something about the corrupt scum bags running that shit show and actual governance to take place so we don't have to keep footing the bill for a bunch of fucking retard (D)ipshits in Commiefornia because they're too fucking stupid to stop voting for scum bag Democraps and DEI losers.

PERSONALLY we should just stop funding these self inflicted disasters and kick THAT back to the states....MAGA would be THRILLED if that happened.

 

[ChloeTzang]

LOL. Make all the excuses you like. It's still thousands of buildings burnt to the ground, lives and jobs destroyed and $60 billion damage and counting. Going to be impossible to get property insurance in a years time as well.

Pure incompetence all round.

Actually that's npw been upped to $150,000,000,000 worth of damage. Yep, 150 billion. Thx Democrats, you've outdone yourselves.

 

[ChloeTzang]

This is a leftist fantasy ^^

In reality MAGA's want the people of Claifornia to WAKT UP and do something about the corrupt scum bags running that shit show and actual governance to take place so we don't have to keep footing the bill for a bunch of fucking retard (D)ipshits in Commiefornia because they're too fucking stupid to stop voting for scum bag Democraps and DEI losers.

PERSONALLY we should just stop funding these self inflicted disasters and kick THAT back to the states....MAGA would be THRILLED if that happened.

Absolutely. There is no reason to help left-wing politicians pay to recover from their own mistakes. Californians voted for this, they got it, and they need to deal with it. The rest of us are not some endless bank there to pay for Democrat politicians mistakes and corruption. Newsome needs to front up and explain how he is going help people and where he is going to fund the recovery from.

If a $750 FEMA loan is good enough for North Carolina, it's good enough for California. Besides, we have it on good authority there is no money in the FEMA piggy bank to pay for more disaster aid. That's why disaster victims in NC are being kicked out into the winter snow.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Notice the discordant note here: when it is politically convenient, the radical right whackadoodles turn on a dime and insist it's now the STATE'S responsibility to keep FEDERAL land "clean" ("sweep teh forest" ....it's all the rage now in conservative parlors).

We are now on the cusp of four years of this herp-a-derp ratcheted up to eleven.

Hopefully President Musk's DoGe commission will find enough federal savings shredding the social safety net and booting 'wounded' veterans off the Lifetime Federal Gravy Train to pay for "forest sweeping"...

In the meantime, California governor Gavin Newsom has created a web page specifically to debunk the lies being promoted by unhinged right wing. Check out the number of Chloe Tzang fainting couch posts already debunked!

 

[icanhelp1]

Actually that's npw been upped to $150,000,000,000 worth of damage. Yep, 150 billion. Thx Democrats, you've outdone yourselves.

What's sad is they may lose the most affluent part of their tax base.

 

[lessOHmo]

Notice the discordant note here: when it is politically convenient, the radical right whackadoodles turn on a dime and insist it's now the STATE'S responsibility to keep FEDERAL land "clean" ("sweep teh forest" ....it's all the rage now in conservative parlors).

We are now on the cusp of four years of this herp-a-derp ratcheted up to eleven.

Hopefully President Musk's DoGe commission will find enough federal savings shredding the social safety net and booting 'wounded' veterans off the Lifetime Federal Gravy Train to pay for "forest sweeping"...

In the meantime, California governor Gavin Newsom has created a web page specifically to debunkl the lies being promoted by unhinged right wing. Check out the number of Chloe Tzang fainting couch posts already debunked!

Loser

 

[lessOHmo]

Notice the discordant note here: when it is politically convenient, the radical right whackadoodles turn on a dime and insist it's now the STATE'S responsibility to keep FEDERAL land "clean" ("sweep teh forest" ....it's all the rage now in conservative parlors).

We are now on the cusp of four years of this herp-a-derp ratcheted up to eleven.

Hopefully President Musk's DoGe commission will find enough federal savings shredding the social safety net and booting 'wounded' veterans off the Lifetime Federal Gravy Train to pay for "forest sweeping"...

In the meantime, California governor Gavin Newsom has created a web page specifically to debunk the lies being promoted by unhinged right wing. Check out the number of Chloe Tzang fainting couch posts already debunked!

No one believes Jesse Smollete Newscum

 

[lessOHmo]

DEI

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYEx67Vv/

 

[icanhelp1]

Closer to the truth from someone with a history of California family farming..

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Absolutely. There is no reason to help left-wing politicians pay to recover from their own mistakes. Californians voted for this, they got it, and they need to deal with it. The rest of us are not some endless bank there to pay for Democrat politicians mistakes and corruption. Newsome needs to front up and explain how he is going help people and where he is going to fund the recovery from.

If a $750 FEMA loan is good enough for North Carolina, it's good enough for California. Besides, we have it on good authority there is no money in the FEMA piggy bank to pay for more disaster aid. That's why disaster victims in NC are being kicked out into the winter snow.

I think the difference this go around is, the Hollywood types are being affected. In the past they’ve largely missed the plagues and pestilence that have befallen others.

I think I saw something about Oliver Stone…a noted Conservative , bashing the Cali Gub’ner…

The worm may yet turn.

 

[icanhelp1]

https://tippinsights.com/victor-dav...ents-not-muscularity-not-experience-just-dei/

By Mariane Angela, Daily Caller News Foundation | January 08, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson, Wednesday on Newsmax, slammed the implementation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) criteria in fire department hiring practices in California.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Notice the discordant note here: when it is politically convenient, the radical right whackadoodles turn on a dime and insist it's now the STATE'S responsibility to keep FEDERAL land "clean" ("sweep teh forest" ....it's all the rage now in conservative parlors).

We are now on the cusp of four years of this herp-a-derp ratcheted up to eleven.

Hopefully President Musk's DoGe commission will find enough federal savings shredding the social safety net and booting 'wounded' veterans off the Lifetime Federal Gravy Train to pay for "forest sweeping"...

In the meantime, California governor Gavin Newsom has created a web page specifically to debunk the lies being promoted by unhinged right wing. Check out the number of Chloe Tzang fainting couch posts already debunked!

The problem with all this is California has done too little too late. These aren’t things that can be managed in five years least of all one.

Ol’ Gavin needs to listen to Tahra…

The reason California hasn't conducted more of these controlled burnings comes down to existing environmental laws in the U.S. that have posed bureaucratic obstacles to prescribed fires. It often takes years for proposals to go through reviews before any controlled burning can actually take place.

Tahra Jirari, the director of economic analysis at the the tech-aligned Chamber of Progress, told Newsweek that while there are several factors that could have mitigated the fires in Los Angeles, "if prescribed fires have been conducted at the rate they should have the damage would have been lessened."-Newsweek

 

[icanhelp1]

The problem with all this is California has done too little too late. These aren’t things that can be managed in five years least of all one.

Ol’ Gavin needs to listen to Tahra…

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01...e-malfeasance-of-newsom-bass-for-catastrophe/

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Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of the book "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won." You can reach him by emailing authorvdh@gmail.com.
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from noted historian and Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson.
I’m here in California. I’ve been a lifelong resident of the state, fifth generation to live in the same house. I had a house in the Sierra, and it would almost burn down three years ago during the Aspen Fire, and I’m speaking on the evening when you’ve all heard about the disastrous fire in Los Angeles.
As I’m speaking on a Wednesday night, there have been 15,000 acres, 1,000 structures destroyed. Nobody knows how many people are killed or missing. And how do we characterize this? Everybody’s talking about the Santa Ana winds, climate change—I mean everybody, the people in power.

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But it was preventable. And once it started, this fire, it could have been assuaged. You could have had it lessened, that the severity didn’t have to be as catastrophic. So, I would characterize it as a DEI–Green New Deal hydrogen bomb. It’s something out of “Dante’s Inferno.”

And what I mean by that is, it’s a systems breakdown, a civilizational collapse. When you look at the people in charge, [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom flew in, to sort of do these performance-art stunts, but he has systematically ensured that water out of the Sacramento River and the watershed of Northern California would go out to the sea, rather than into the aqueduct, so Los Angeles didn’t have sufficient amounts of water.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01...e-malfeasance-of-newsom-bass-for-catastrophe/

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Victor Davis Hanson@VDHanson
Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of the book "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won." You can reach him by emailing authorvdh@gmail.com.
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from noted historian and Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson.
I’m here in California. I’ve been a lifelong resident of the state, fifth generation to live in the same house. I had a house in the Sierra, and it would almost burn down three years ago during the Aspen Fire, and I’m speaking on the evening when you’ve all heard about the disastrous fire in Los Angeles.
As I’m speaking on a Wednesday night, there have been 15,000 acres, 1,000 structures destroyed. Nobody knows how many people are killed or missing. And how do we characterize this? Everybody’s talking about the Santa Ana winds, climate change—I mean everybody, the people in power.

https://www.dailysignal.com/wp-content/uploads/VictorDavisHanson-200x200.jpg
Victor Davis Hanson@VDHanson
Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of the book "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won." You can reach him by emailing authorvdh@gmail.com.
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from noted historian and Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson.
I’m here in California. I’ve been a lifelong resident of the state, fifth generation to live in the same house. I had a house in the Sierra, and it would almost burn down three years ago during the Aspen Fire, and I’m speaking on the evening when you’ve all heard about the disastrous fire in Los Angeles.
As I’m speaking on a Wednesday night, there have been 15,000 acres, 1,000 structures destroyed. Nobody knows how many people are killed or missing. And how do we characterize this? Everybody’s talking about the Santa Ana winds, climate change—I mean everybody, the people in power.
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But it was preventable. And once it started, this fire, it could have been assuaged. You could have had it lessened, that the severity didn’t have to be as catastrophic. So, I would characterize it as a DEI–Green New Deal hydrogen bomb. It’s something out of “Dante’s Inferno.”

And what I mean by that is, it’s a systems breakdown, a civilizational collapse. When you look at the people in charge, [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom flew in, to sort of do these performance-art stunts, but he has systematically ensured that water out of the Sacramento River and the watershed of Northern California would go out to the sea, rather than into the aqueduct, so Los Angeles didn’t have sufficient amounts of water.

The things you just wont hear from our Legacy LIb Media (LLM)…this is why alternative media ruled the day in this last election.

So Bass DID propose to make cuts…

 

[RobDownSouth]

THIS is how you can tell how desperate the whackadoodle right is:
When the Fringe resorts to quoting AJ's spiritual guide Victim David Hanson, they know they've forfeited the high ground intellectually. Nothin' but excuses 'n ad hominem from here on out.

 

[RobDownSouth]

DEI

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYEx67Vv/

Post removed for TOS violation? On TikTok?
Heh
Heh heh
Heh heh heh

 

[Lazaran]

BOTTOM-LINE:

The LAFD budget was NOT cut before the wildfires.

The LAFD budget was ACTUALLY increased by 7 PERCENT.

The right wing scumbags LIED.

The right wing scumbags should ADMIT they LIED and APOLOGIZE.

Full stop.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Absolutely. There is no reason to help left-wing politicians pay to recover from their own mistakes. Californians voted for this, they got it, and they need to deal with it. The rest of us are not some endless bank there to pay for Democrat politicians mistakes and corruption.

Blue states like California pay far more to the federal government than they get in return.

Newsome needs to front up and explain how he is going help people and where he is going to fund the recovery from.

The government doesn’t pay to rebuild homes and businesses after a disaster. Never has. (The one exception is after a flood, people who have paid for federal flood insurance will get a payment.)

If a $750 FEMA loan is good enough for North Carolina, it's good enough for California. Besides, we have it on good authority there is no money in the FEMA piggy bank to pay for more disaster aid. That's why disaster victims in NC are being kicked out into the winter snow.

Nobody has claimed FEMA is out of money. Disaster victims in North Carolina have received the same relief that disaster victims have always received. I repeat that the government doesn’t rebuild people’s homes or businesses after a natural disaster.

Why do you bother making up such bullshit? Your pretend world is extremely bizarre.

 

[Lazaran]

The things you just wont hear from our Legacy LIb Media (LLM)…this is why alternative media ruled the day in this last election.

So Bass DID propose to make cuts…

Yeah, dumbfuck, the Mayor DID “propose” cuts to the LAFD.

Mayors and others negotiating in the budget process “propose” all sorts of things to create a workable budget.

Meanwhile:

What did the Mayor’s FINAL budget ACTUALLY do???



Yep, that’s right… The Mayor’s FINAL budget ACTUALLY provided an INCREASE to the LAFD. A SEVEN PERCENT INCREASE.

(The LAPD got an INCREASE as well).

Hope that ^ helps.



dumbfuck

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Yeah, dumbfuck, the Mayor DID “propose” cuts to the LAFD.

Mayors and others negotiating in the budget process “propose” all sorts of things to create a workable budget.

Meanwhile:

What did the Mayor’s FINAL budget ACTUALLY do???



Yep, that’s right… The Mayor’s FINAL budget ACTUALLY provided an INCREASE to the LAFD. A SEVEN PERCENT INCREASE.

(The LAPD got an INCREASE as well).

Hope that ^ helps.



dumbfuck

Too little too late. What don’t you understand about that? Turn on your damn TeeVee and watch the fireworks. They’ve fucked this up for years and now as a certain Radicalized democrat was fond of saying…the chickens…have come home to roost.

If you had a modicum of reading comprehension, I posted that above…even put a little blue linky to it…dipshit.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Quick January Scorecard, month-to-date....
https://i.imgur.com/eSoORbn.png

 

[Lazaran]

Too little too late. What don’t you understand about that? Turn on your damn TeeVee and watch the fireworks. They’ve fucked this up for years and now as a certain Radicalized democrat was fond of saying…the chickens…have come home to roost.

If you had a modicum of reading comprehension, I posted that above…even put a little blue linky to it…dipshit.

Yeah, I get that you’re a dumbfuck that didn’t even read ((comprehend) the contents of that letter…

Try again…



dumbfuck

 

[icanhelp1]

https://californiapolicycenter.org/...ons-of-acre-feet-to-californias-water-supply/

Practical solutions to California’s energy and water shortages will always have a better chance of being implemented if they adhere to the limitations placed upon them by the climate lobby. Thankfully there are numerous solutions, strategic in their impact, that would fulfill this criteria. Sadly, however, most of them remain controversial.

Examples of climate compliant yet controversial solutions include nuclear power, natural gas power generation with underground sequestration of the emissions, offstream reservoirs, and desalination. Another example, the subject for this week, is forest thinning.

On September 23, 2020, after another round of devastating super-fires immolated another 4.1 million acres of California’s forests, Governor Newsom announced via executive order a ban on sales of cars with internal combustion engines to take effect by 2035. Whether or not you believe automotive emissions constitute a mortal threat to the planet or not, Newsom’s edict did nothing to alleviate superfires.

The primary reason for out of control wildfires is because California’s state legislature has funded fire suppression at the same time as it has regulated timber harvesting nearly out of existence. We have become very, very good at squelching wildfires before they get started. We’ve also reduced our annual timber harvest in California from 6 billion board feet per year as recently as the 1990s to around 1.5 billion board feet in recent years. As a result, California’s forests are estimated to have tree densities that are many times what is known to be historically normal.

In past millennia, fires caused by lightning strikes routinely burned off undergrowth and a high percentage of small trees, leaving the larger trees to survive these fires. Today, trees and undergrowth are so crowded that everything is stressed. Light, soil nutrients, and water are now being shared by anywhere between 2 and 6 times (or more) as many trees and plants as these ecosystems were naturally evolved to support. Observations of excessive tree density are corroborated by numerous studies, testimony, and journalistic investigations.