January 25th 2025
This is devastating:
The Los Angeles wildfires have now burned ~38,000 acres of land, or ~2.5 TIMES the size of Manhattan, NY.
Estimated damages now exceed $150 BILLION in the costliest wildfire in US history.
This fire will impact the US economy for decades.
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===The Kobeissi Letter
What’s becoming evermore obvious is that this Massive LA Fire Storm currently in progress was premeditatedly cultivated to happen and some 0f the ‘burns’ that initiated these fires this were tactically positioned with expected weather / windstorm patterns; whereas other ‘burns’ were on account of arson. The apocalyptic scale of this disaster was anticipated with years of planning.
===crp
🚨BREAKING: Police report that looters are disguising themselves as firefighters to break into homes in Malibu.
===Benny Johnson
DEVELOPING: A petition to recall Governor Gavin Newsom is reportedly gaining signatures quickly.
NEW: MSNBC’s Jen Psaki dives into leadership issues surrounding the California fires and finds that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are to blame.
Do you think she is right?
===Resist the Mainstream
🚨Gavin Newsom is deleting all Instagram comments on his official government account with the word “resign.” His COVID playbook has been resurrected to illegally censor and label any criticism as “misinformation.”
===Amy Reichert
Re: LA Mayor
Look at this DEMON smiling as she gives an update on the devastation she has caused in LA!
Demons are REAL, folks! 👇
===MAGA Kitty
All Democrats do is lie.
===Catturd
Adam “Pencil Neck” Schiff claims reservoirs were full before the fires broke out.
This is blatantly false.
The Santa Ynez Reservoir, a 117-million-gallon reservoir in Los Angeles, was and remains out of commission.
===Media Lies
Newsom and Bass are the leading purveyors of mis- and disinformation. Receipts here:
As a new wave of fire and high winds threaten Los Angeles, the media is reporting that California’s elected leaders are not to blame and that right-wing influencers and Donald Trump are spreading misinformation and politicizing a tragedy. Racial and gender quotas through DEI aren’t to blame. No, Mayor Karen Bass didn’t cut the Fire Department’s budget. No, Gavin Newsom didn’t cut CalFire’s wildfire prevention budget. And no, there wasn’t any way to prevent these fires or the fire hydrant water from running out. Climate change made the disaster inevitable due to “whiplashing” rain levels.
They’re all lies. The Fire Department had made DEI such a priority that the city’s Deputy Fire Chief dismissed concerns that women would not be able to carry a man out of a fire by saying, “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.” Newsom did indeed reduce CalFire’s wildfire prevention budget by $150 million in 2020. If California had elected leaders who cared about the people and were competent, they could have prevented the catastrophic fires from destroying 14,000 homes and businesses and forcing nearly 200,000 people to evacuate. Climate change is not responsible for the disasters and there is no change in the rain pattern.
As always, nuance is required. The offhand remark by the Fire Chief is not proof that DEI contributed to the inadequate response. The disaster is decades in the making. LA’s leaders have known that the city was unprepared for catastrophic wildfires since the Bel Air Fire of 1961, which occurred when Karen Bass was a child and Gavin Newsom wasn’t alive. LA’s fire budget had actually increased by about $50 million compared to the last budget, reported Politico, Time, and the LA Times. And Newsom increased the CalFire budget after 2020 and increased land treated for wildfire prevention by 90,000 acres.
But these facts are either wrong, misleading, or both. The attitude toward vulnerable men expressed by the deputy Fire Chief is deeply alarming and anathema to firefighter ethics. That the disaster was decades in the making makes the inaction by California political leaders even more inexcusable. The City Council in November approved $53 million to raise salaries, but that funding is completely irrelevant to the millions Bass cut, which her fire chief last month said had “severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.” And while funding for wildfire prevention increased recently, it wasn’t enough, and Newsom was caught overstating how much land was treated by 690%.
The amount of irresponsibility and incompetence displayed by Newsom and Bass is so extreme that insiders are coming forward and speaking out publicly.
The owner of the Los Angeles Times went on national television to call it “crazy that we don’t elect leaders with competence.”
And LA Fire Chief Kristen Crowley went on CNN, CBS, and Fox to denounce Bass. “Let me be clear,” she said, “the $17 million budget cut… did absolutely negatively impact…. We do not have enough firefighters….We need 62 more fire stations. We’ve had a 55 percent increase in overall call volume since 2010 and we’re doing it with less firefighters.”
As I reported yesterday, over half of all fires that the LA Fire Department puts out are started by the homeless, who may well have started some of the fires ravaging LA. Gavin Newsom spent $24 billion of taxpayer money to increase homelessness by 40% since he took office. Karen Bass ran on a promise to force the homeless inside into shelters but has not done so.
Every hour that passes, more information emerges of the corruption, incompetence, and failure. A major reservoir in Pacific Palisades, an epicenter of the fires, was out of commission for minor repairs when disaster struck. Had it been in operation, water pressure would have lasted longer during critical hours, and many homes may have been saved.
Yesterday, a leaked LA government memo revealed that Bass had intended to cut an additional $49 million, on top of the $17.5 million already cut, from the fire budget.
“I was also directed to develop a plan as part of a budget reduction exercise, and that could equate to 48.8 million,” the LA Fire chief told CNN. “I rang the bell that these additional cuts could be very, very devastating for our ability to provide public safety. That would have resulted to 15 fire stations closing down and potentially the elimination of over 300 firefighters.”
The date of the memo is January 6, which is four days after the National Weather Service warned of danger, two days after Bass flew to Ghana on a vanity junket, and one day before the start of the Palisades fire.
And LA Fire Department insiders say the head of the city’s Department of Water and Power, who Bass hired, knowingly left fire hydrants remain broken for months, and was the person responsible for draining the emptied reservoir.
The response from the news media is that critics of all of this should shut up. “We’re on fire,” editorializedthe LA Times. “Maybe this is not the time for your political hot take.”
Why are the LA Times and others in the media defending Bass and Newsom?
In large measure because they officially endorsed them. More than that. They actively campaign for them. The hyper-partisan turn of California media two decades ago predated the more recent hyper-partisan nature of the national media. That Democrats had total, supermajority control over the state for 20 years made California media super-authoritarian.
The LA Times, in particular is a radical Left publication. It has for years adamantly opposed hospitalizing homeless mentally ill people or requiring homeless addicts to go inside. In both 2020 and in 2021, the LA Times editorial board called for defunding the police to divert funding to social services. For the LA Times, Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, who visited Cuba at least eight times, expressing admiration for its system of socialist dictatorship, aren’t Left-wing enough.
For the media and California’s politicians, the problem is we the people. We complain too much. Our taxes aren’t high enough. We’re causing too much climate change. We get too much in the way of police and fire fighting. And most of all, we spend too much time listening to right-wing influencers who only spread misinformation. We need to sit down and shut up.
Like LA’s radical Left deputy fire chief, the media and California’s politicians believe, deep down, that if the people of Los Angeles have to be rescued from fires, then that’s just proof that they got themselves in the wrong place.
And not only was the Santa Ynez reservoir off-line, there is good reason to believe that it could have been the difference-maker in the Pacific Palisades fire, which continues to rage out of control, with just 11% of it contained.
Had a massive water reservoir been online, it wouldn’t have made much difference to LA firefighters, say the media. In fact, it would have made a massive difference. And now a whistleblower has come forward to say the reservoir should never have been drained in the first place.
The lack of water available to firefighters in Los Angeles was unavoidable, say experts and the media. Hydrants ran dry because the fires were just too big and the water system too old. Even if the large Santa Ynez reservoir had been filled with water, it likely would not have made a difference, they say.
But there are good reasons to believe that it would have made a very significant difference. The Santa Ynez Reservoir is just a few thousand feet away from where the massive Pacific Palisades fire started and is the second largest of L.A.’s “ten major active reservoirs.”
It’s too early to say precisely how much of a difference it would have made, and there’s no question that LA’s fire system is antiquated. It was never created to battle so many different fires at once. What’s more, the use of so many hydrants and the destruction of so many service lines to private residences resulted in a major loss of water and, thus, of water pressure.
But the Santa Ynez reservoir was uphill from the Pacific Palisades fire and the firefighters doing battle with it would likely have had first access to its 117 million gallons of water before other firefighters below them. And that would likely have kept water pressure high.
While the media downplayed the significance of the Santa Ynez, a senior water utility executive has come forward to tell Public that “117 million gallons is a huge amount of treated water storage to have available for firefighting. Massive. Maybe one of the biggest treated water storage reservoirs on the whole West Coast.”
The person I spoke with has worked as a senior professional in a California water utility for two decades. The person told Public that the LADWP should never have drained the Santa Ynez reservoir of water. Instead, it should have kept it full for emergency use, and only drained it to repair a torn cover after the fire risk was far lower and after LADWP had a contractor under contract and ready to perform necessary repairs….
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===Michael Shellenberger
Video of firefighter in Pacific Palisades when a wildfire burned near the EMPTY Santa Ynez reservoir in NOVEMBER 2024
We all know what happened weeks later
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===Don Penim
For over 35 years, Democrats have had near-total control of California’s government. Their policies on environmental protections, controlled burns, water management, and funding priorities have directly contributed to or exacerbated the conditions that make wildfires more severe and damaging. While arguably climate change and historical practices beyond recent control are significant factors, the predictability of these fires makes the lack of proactive policy adjustments a clear failure of governance. Moreover, the predictability of the fires and winds, make the the Democrat elective officials criminally negligent, at least from a moral perspective. The first and foremost role of government is to protect its citizens. California politicians failed and did so intentionally.
===Bob Sterba
This is the Director of @LADWP , WHO IMHO, DELIBERATELY FAILED TO DO THE JOB SHE WAS HIRED TO DO FOR THE SAKE OF #DEI. Janisse Quinones ⬇️
Gavin Newsom: “I don’t know what [Trump’s] referring to when talks about the delta smelt, and reservoirs. The reservoirs are completely full—the state reservoirs—here in southern California.”
===The Post Millennial
🔥 Stunning: The Infamous Delta Smelt Fish Has Not Been Seen in Nearly a Decade – California Allowed Its Cities to Burn to the Ground Over a Fish That They Can’t Even Find Anymore
JEN PSAKI: With these fires still burning, we are facing a question about how to mitigate and prevent disasters. But Trump is lying and spreading disinformation, amplified by @ElonMusk. Musk amplified Alex Jones – yeah, that guy.
New strategy – call all their incompetent mistakes and lies …
DiSinForMaTiON
===Catturd
Psycho-politics PBS (CNN MSNBC too) good example ‘Projection’ (accuse your political opposition of the very things you are doing) ‘Gaslighting’ projection narratives and rhetoric mass mind controlling social mindsets through MSM Mockingbird Fake News and Propaganda with misinformation disinformation and blatant lying. But it’s ‘them’ (their psycho-political targets) that’s doing it. Saul Alinsky Psycho-Politics 101. So twisted it just makes one sick.
===crp
Here’s why Governor Gavin Newsom will NEVER resign despite being responsible for the Los Angeles fires and financially destroying California
Tucker Carlson explains the truth about Gavin Newsom “I know Gavin Newsom. I think a lot about Gavin Newsom, many different things about Gavin Newsom but one thing I know for a fact about Gavin Newsom is he has the capacity to beat a lie detector test. Gavin Newsom will say anything he needs to say”
“Gavin Newsom’s palms don’t sweat. His respiration doesn’t increase. His body temperature doesn’t change. Nothing changes in Gavin Newsom when he lies to your face, and there are not that many people like that, actually.”
Interviewer: “You’re saying he’s a sociopath? He can lie and not care?”
===Wall Street Apes
Here’s Truth:
Every liberal policy — every one of them — leads to purposeful chaos & crisis.
The border.
Poor Forrest management.
Defunding police.
Failing to prosecute violent criminals.
Foreign relations.
Giving light/no sentences to criminals.
Letting violent offenders out early.
Transgenderism.
Men in women’s sports.
Anti God.
Anti American.
Wussification of men.
Destruction of the traditional family.
Those are just a few examples.
During the next 12 years with Trump and then Vance in the White House, and the ever-growing migration of more Americans to the MAGA movement, we will counter measure and correct these abhorrent policies and practices.
Believe it.
For the Republic!
Cheers.
===Doug Billings
BREAKING: IT ONLY LOOKS LIKE INCOMPETENCE.
The LA Fires are happening because it’s cheaper to raze the land by fire and then claim EMINENT DOMAIN, than it is to buy the land and hire demolition crews.
SOME FACTS:
From 2000 to 2024, California has seen over 205,868 total fires.
From 2020 to 2024, there were 8,024 wildfires recorded, which collectively burned approximately 1,000,000 acres.
Additionally, 17 of the 20 largest wildfires in California’s history have occurred since 2003.
SO THE OBVIOUS QUESTIONS BECOME:
NEWSOM, how could you POSSIBLY think that you could NOT clear the brush?
NEWSOM, how could you POSSIBLY think that you could NOT keep the reservoirs full?
NEWSOM, how could you be given $2.7 BILLION to build new reservoirs, and NOT BUILD THEM?
NEWSOM, why did you REROUTE $100 MILLION OUT OF THE FIRE BUDGET to FUND ILLEGAL ALIENS?
All of this was PREDICTABLE.
All of this was PREVENTABLE.
So how and why is any of this happening NOW?
WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND ANSWERS AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
===Ann Vandersteel
The devastation caused by the LA infernos is entirely the fault of California’s failed Leftist policies.
===Tea Party Patriots
Remember the Tubbs fire in 2017.
Five years ago, on Oct. 8, 2017, at 10 p.m., the Tubbs Fire erupted in a wildland area north of Calistoga, California. It took just a few hours for the fire to consume more than 20,000 acres, and to travel about 12 miles into densely populated neighborhoods in the town of Santa Rosa.
===Rob Laakkonen
The LA Water Chief who is paid $750,000 a year: “What attracted me most to the role was social equity. It’s important for me that everything we do is with an equity lens and social justice and writing the wrongs that we’ve done in the past.”
===Autism Capital
Schiff: “The reservoirs were full at the initiation of these fires.”
Another day. Another lie.
===Breaking 911
Senator Schiff is incorrect. Pacific Palisades is served by the Santa Ynez reservoir, which holds 117 million gallons of water. It was empty for maintenance at the time the fires broke out. The Governor has ordered an investigation. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/as-flames-raged-in-palisades-a-key-reservoir-nearby-was-offline
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The current situation in California proves that Democrats are INCAPABLE OF GOVERNING. They are too insane, too woke, too deceptive, too hateful, too authoritarian, too incompetent and too arrogant to offer anything useful to civilization. If the Democrat party went up in flames (metaphorically), the entire nation would rejoice.
===Health Ranger
DARPA document on how to use “forest fires as a weapon”. It’s 170 pages long.
Not sure how best to share this with you all… Suggestions please!
===Sassy Red Socks
🚨PBS reporter is upset that people no longer trust them, insults Trump and his supporters over LA fires:
Trump and team “revises history whenever they want to.”
“Voters who supported him ultimately believe him over what we report, and believe him over the facts.”
Defund PBS.
===Western Lensman
Fake news liars have the sads.
===Catturd
Gavin Newsom is directing people to donate to fire victims then links to ActBlue. He’s using the devastating fires to raise money for Democrats.
This is straight up evil. He’s scum.
Barack Obama to Karen Bass: “I’m confident you’re gonna be an outstanding mayor of LA.”
LA under Karen Bass:
-Defunded fire dept
-Empty reservoirs
-Stolen hydrants
-Canceled hydrant testing
-Funded transgender cafes
-Visits Ghana while city is burning
Did I miss anything?
===Libs of TikTok
California Governor Gavin Newsom cut $100 million in fire prevention spending this year while allocating $3 billion for free healthcare for illegal immigrants, funded by U.S. taxpayers.
===Shadow of Ezra
California Gov. Gavin Newsom cut $100M for fire prevention before deadly wildfires: report trib.al/9d4w1CH
===New York Post
Diversity is our strength.
And nothing says diversity like three lesbians with the same name running a critical feature of emergency response in an area prone to emergencies.
===Matt Gaetz
Meet the people in charge of LA’s fire response.
All of them lesbians named Kristin.
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
===Charlie Kirk
2012 Convergence 