Trump blames Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom for deadly wildfires

Alex Jones has a take

 

Isn't he the same guy that lied about Sandy Hook?

 

State Farm saw the risk and gth out

California insurer canceled policies months before Los Angeles wildfires

 

Good point. I guess when it is your money you make wise choices. Compare this to LA County who CUT their Fire Department budget by $18M

The headline is likely misleading. Insurance policies are legal contracts usually for one year duration. State Farm likely non-renewed policies in accordance with their contract and State law. Cancel sounds like they did it at the last minute vs non-renewal requires advanced notice

 

Guest worker program works when its needed.

Newsom confirms Mexico sending firefighters to help California

Mexico is sending firefighters across the southern border to help California battle the devastating wildfires that remain largely unchecked around Los Angeles, California Governor Gavin Newsom confirmed on Friday.

 

Never waste a crisis

 

So cutting other government spending to raise spending on police is bad now?

 

Most people don’t likely shop every year for this type of insurance, so if you’ve been with an insurer for 10, 20 or more years - and the insurer sends out a letter that the homeowner won’t be renewed or are exiting an area, I think most people would call that their insurance getting “canceled” - despite the reality of them also being annual contracts.

I guess it was a smart business move, but a lot of people probably screwed if they didn’t act fast enough (and even if they did, that just means the new insurer is screwed or may have language in their policy about paying in the first few months of a brand new policy, which would kick it back to the homeowner being screwed).

 

I’d love to know what the true story is regarding the budget. My latest understanding is that there was a cut to the increase in the budget, not that 2024’s budget was less than 2023’s. But my cursory searches haven’t yielded citable sources on the budget numbers.

 

So are you implying that the New Orleans mayor did not have any responsibility for the recent events there or are you just providing a data point for something that happened 20 years ago?

 

I'm old enough to remember when red state North Carolina got flooded terribly, and there was a 16-page thread largely compromised of blue-state leaners, who wanted to criticize every level of government involved.

Because red state.

That happened, right?

 

Super interesting 2022 article from Cal. Too bad they didn’t learn from their mistakes. Wonder why they chose to not do control
Burns

How the Indigenous practice of ‘good fire’ can help our forests thrive


Ask the Honorable Ron W. Goode, Tribal Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe, what’s missing from the land and he will tell you it’s fire.

It may be a contentious subject, especially given California’s recent traumatic wildfires. “But I need to talk to you about fire,” Goode says.


Ron Goode leads a cultural burn at the Jack Kirk estate in Mariposa, California. Credit: Sinead Santich
“Many of the bushes that we’re now burning haven’t actually been burned for about one hundred and twenty years,” Goode said while conducting a burn on the Jack Kirk estate in Mariposa, California. “And they’re crying. They want fire, they want to be restored.”


Meanwhile in totally unrelated climate boondoggle news, they spend hundreds of of millions electrifying a port that was working fine and chose to not build a single reservoir after voting in prop 1 in 2014 which specifically called for the building of multiple reservoirs

but yeah. The decision of Cali politicians has nothing to do with the spread of yet another wildfire in Southern California.


Port of Los Angeles receives unprecedented $400-million grant to electrify operations

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_(2014)

 

Trump fueled falsehoods while LA burned