Southern California’s current wildfires are certainly tragic and devastating. But if you’re not enraged by the hysterical finger-pointing from the top Democrat politicians at everyone and everything but themselves, you’re not paying attention. Sit up straight and take notes.

I have nothing but a hurt heart for the people who have lost their homes — whether it was million dollar homes of celebs or the modest middle-class homes at the Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates — losing your home and being left with barely more than the clothes on your back affects your sense of self and safety regardless of your economic standing.

At the same time, I’m beside myself with a mixture of resigned contempt and basic pissed-offedness at the Democrat Lords and Ladies who have been too busy with ostentatious displays of social justice posturing than worrying about the ruinous consequences when ignoring maintaining the infrastructure. Ron DeSantis gets part of it.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called out a reporter on Thursday for the lack of blame being placed on California leaders for the devastating wildfires, pointing out that it’s in stark contrast to how Republican leaders are often treated in the wake of disasters. (snip)

“Is it appropriate for people in your industry to try to create division and to try to create narratives any time these things happen?”

“Now, you’re not as interested in doing that because Newsom is a D. If Newsom was a Republican, you guys would go try… you would have him nailed to the wall for what they’re doing over there,” he continued.

Legacy media has been the PR firm for the DNC for some time. After the Wu flu, the jab, and the lockdown, their credibility (and popularity) has plummeted with an ever more untrusting populace. The incompetence of the Democrat one-party rule in California has been visible for years.

The most politically damaging video to emerge from the massive wildfires burning Los Angeles could have been of Mayor Karen Bass staring blankly into a camera like a deer in headlights as reporters asked her if she had anything to say to the thousands of people whose homes were incinerated.

However, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) did one worse than Bass by telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “The local folks are going to have to figure that out,” after Cooper asked why so many fire hydrants in the city had no water to douse the flames threatening homes.

But water mains and reservoirs aren’t that sexy a thing to spend money on when there’s Diversity to be imposed, and Climate Change freaks to be feted. Like this pompous equine posterior.

The Democratic Party’s failure to spend on water infrastructure goes beyond incompetence and into ideology. Asked to respond to Caruso’s claim that low water pressure was due to mismanagement, Greg Pierce, University of California professor of urban environmental policy, told reporters that investing in necessary water infrastructure to protect homes in Pacific Palisades was a “subsidy” for wealthy homeowners, adding, “I think the conversation has to be more about whether these areas are habitable.”

Say what? Dude! The “natural” water for the region, like the perennial Los Angeles River, might be adequate for about 300,000 people. But there are 4 million in the basin and this blase handwaverium at people losing their homes, rich or poor, because he feels Mother Gaia never intended 300,001 is morally unconscionable.

There’s enough conspiracy mongering over these fires already without this kind of “you deserved to lose your home” bovine excrement. Victor Davis Hanson nails it:

Dresden in Los Angeles and our Confederacy of Dunces

LA is burning. And the derelict people responsible are worried that they are found out as charlatans and empty suits.

The leftwing voters who enabled them are getting angry over the inferno that their chosen politicos…

— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) January 9, 2025

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…chosen politicos green-lighted—as if they are shocked, shocked by the consequences of their voting.

The dam buster Nero Newsom made his accustomed fiddling appearance and then split—when the media began pointing out that he prohibits new reservoirs, sends precious water out to sea, blows up dams, prevents precautionary gleaning of forests and chaparrals, and then usually blames “Climate change” or “Trump” when called to account.

Poor Karen Bass was DEI-ing in Uganda after being previously warned that lack of rain, record winds, and kindling-like hillsides put her city in existential danger: Out of sight, out of mind.

Or did she junket across the world to consult about fire prevention with Ghana’s new president?

Was slashing nearly $18 million from the $50 billion city budget, after bragging about creating “451 new positions” in various woke/DEI fields, a way to prevent 25-square miles of Dresden-like desolation?

The embattled Fire Chief Kristen Crowley for two years has bragged not of response time, not of preventive strategies to stop fires, not of slashed budgets and water shortages, but instead about her DEI credentials as the “first” (fill in the blanks) LGBTQ etc. woman, who has hired “70 percent” of her force as either nonwhite, or nonmale, or nonbinary, or non-old fashioned, tough-guy firefighters.

The LA utility head? Usually AWOL. The permanent director of LA infrastructure is usually quickly fired or resigns for incompetence, bribery, or malfeasance.

Joe Biden? He was there—but only to try to put thousands of acres of federal land off-limits to roadblock the evil incoming Trump administration.

Did Joe have ideas to save LA? Maybe, but as usual he talked instead about himself—in this case his new great-great grandson and the miraculous salvation of his grandkid’s house (not the 1100 structures that then were ashes). And then he left, dispirited that his last junket to Italy may have to be cancelled.

Kamala Harris, our vice president?

Remember her during the 2024 campaign and how she rushed to Florida to glom onto Gov. De Santis’s masterful performance in dealing with record flooding?

Nowhere was the LA resident to be seen, as she too plans next week a last minute multimillion-dollar freebie junket.

What is the attitude of these “public servants” in times of existential crisis?

Maybe it’s: “Ashes, ashes, all fall down”….

Wildfires aren’t new to SoCal. It’s a semi-arid basin surrounded by forest and brush-covered mountains. Just like a handful of wet years is followed by a handful of dry ones, wildfires come with regularity, fueled by the Santa Ana winds — another annual weather event. No matter how the enviro-weenies spin it, it isn’t “climate change”.

Some reporters and scientists are blaming climate change for the lack of rain in LA. It's ridiculous. There's no trend in annual rainfall from 1877 to 2024. We have wet years and dry years.

Climate change isn't responsible for the LA fires. Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass are. https://t.co/JftaPPPMLV pic.twitter.com/iX4Q7TxfdH

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) January 10, 2025

However, serious discussions about land management, brush clearing, controlled burns is similar to filling potholes. Not enough glitz for media that wants Gavin’s toothsome grin or the rainbow-hued fist pumps for Los Angeles Fire Department spending their time on getting three lesbians to run it and shafting males of pallor because firefighting is about how you look, not how you perform. And if some pink-haired chick can’t drag your husband out of burning building?

LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson:

"Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place." pic.twitter.com/BofTVr6dWP

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 9, 2025

These are people who are overjoyed to show their contempt of you.

And, let me get a little personal here. I was born in Los Angeles in 1954. I grew up and lived in SoCal until about 20 months ago. I have seen so many wildfires in the basin over that time. I remember my grandfather driving us through Bel Air after the 1961 fire was out and only chimneys and blackened trees were left standing. In August 1967 I was at my friend’s home, just above Rinaldi Street, when the hills above us exploded and we got ready to evacuate. Every few years there was an “inferno” that destroyed homes and lives. In between were still fires, but in the uninhabited forests, who really cared?

Today not only does this fire get 24/7 media coverage (even the newscaster dilettantes who stoop to be at the scene), international press is covering it, breathlessly and with phrases like “unprecedented” “never seen anything like it”, yadda yadda yadda.

And it makes me grit my teeth because this kind of coverage only happens when it is in Los Angeles. Go 30 miles east and a conflagration of this magnitude gets maybe 5 minutes coverage at the top of the hour in news broadcasts. Maybe a minute or so update through the day.

e.g. The Old Fire (2003) that started via arson in the San Bernardino area and burned for a week – 93,000 acres, 6 deaths, almost 1000 homes destroyed and scorched the campus of CalState San Bernardino got just perfunctory coverage until it joined with fires along the San Gabriel mountains and encroached on LA county. THEN suddenly legacy media discovered it. [insert the lyrics to Eagle’s “Dirty Laundry” here]

BTW 2003 was called the “Fire Siege of 2003” — 14 fires in the basin. Living in Rancho Cucamonga at the time, it was the closet we came to mandatory evacuation (our cars were packed and ready to go). I was also working on the 4th floor of the courthouse in Rancho and had a clear view of the San Gabriel Mountains and watched as the fire swept along them.

Billions of dollars in bonds have been passed by people who bought into the Sacramento Democrats’ promises to use it to build reservoirs and increase water infrastructure. Nothing has been done, Los Angeles burns and legacy media slurps up every excuse Nero Newsom makes.

I weep for the state I loved growing up in. Not the least of which is that as long as the Democrats run it from top to bottom, they’ll keep running it into the ground. That’s what they do, that’s who they are.

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