Might have to use a coke or dr pepperAggie95 said:
There's no water left
Cali fires and wind storms
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TAMU1990 said:
They will never say if it's an illegal or a terrorist who came across the border. It would absolutely kill the democrats- it's already going to finish Newsome's presidential hopes. Trump better find out.
Trump and many republicans will say it. And likely provide receipts. If this guy is an illegal, especially from the ME, it is going to come out, and it will prompt a shift for many. This is terror on a an unimaginable scale if it were to turn out to be terrorism.
This guy could have just been a copycat though.
Meet the people in charge of LA’s fire response.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 10, 2025
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… pic.twitter.com/qzXt5fa7uF
"I don't get this. Am I supposed to believe that someone who has 22 years on the job and rose through the ranks starting as a Firefighter, then Paramedic, Engineer, Fire Inspector, Captain I, Captain II, Battalion Chief, Assistant Chief, Deputy Chief, Chief Deputy, and now Fire Chief is not qualified for the job because they're gay?"
This is one of the more ignorant and naive statements I've ever read. As a standard policy, most medium/large city FDs have built some form of affirmative action into their promotional processes such that those candidates with minority statuses receive bonus points allowing them to promote quicker than their non-minority counterparts. This has been going on for decades and is not in dispute.
Furthermore, it is also quite common for the upper brass of these FDs to be at least parially comprised of folks who did indeed rise through the ranks, but did so in more administrative or non-fire suppression roles. This isn't always the case, but it does happen. Thus the reason why these folks appear incompetent when the SHTF - they've never really done it.
This is one of the more ignorant and naive statements I've ever read. As a standard policy, most medium/large city FDs have built some form of affirmative action into their promotional processes such that those candidates with minority statuses receive bonus points allowing them to promote quicker than their non-minority counterparts. This has been going on for decades and is not in dispute.
Furthermore, it is also quite common for the upper brass of these FDs to be at least parially comprised of folks who did indeed rise through the ranks, but did so in more administrative or non-fire suppression roles. This isn't always the case, but it does happen. Thus the reason why these folks appear incompetent when the SHTF - they've never really done it.
The fact that the top two spots in the lafd are lesbians, ensures those hires were solely based on dei, period.
Fight against the dictatorship of the federal bureaucracy!
Minorities, bisch please. Civil rights were created to heal the horrible wrong of slavery. Carpet munchers are parasites on the programs legislated for those whose ancestors actually suffered harm affecting generations.
Gen. Cornrow Wallace said:
"I don't get this. Am I supposed to believe that someone who has 22 years on the job and rose through the ranks starting as a Firefighter, then Paramedic, Engineer, Fire Inspector, Captain I, Captain II, Battalion Chief, Assistant Chief, Deputy Chief, Chief Deputy, and now Fire Chief is not qualified for the job because they're gay?"
Yes
I will be honest, it sure seems this was all set up to fail when the fires came ? DEI hires that are now obviously not qualified for their position, insurance companies cutting contracts just 4 months ago, no water in the hydrants due to water supply issues, money being cut from the LAFD in large quantities, arsonist caught lighting fires, now they didn't even test the fire hydrants this year? I mean what else am I missing ? Something doesn't smell rightnortex97 said:— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) January 10, 2025
Good job LA voters!
Yep. Oh, and Newsom said he didn't need temporary firefighters a few months ago, vetoing a bill for that.
Possible migrants in gangs set the fires then to facilitate looting?
I'm not going to put my regular tin foil hat (with a perfect track record for 4+ years) on here about the timing just yet, but I am not convinced this was just a coincidence of all the idiocy and some winds. And no power to pump water up hill while the planes are grounded. Oh, and bonus insurance insanity:
Last year Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have let CalFire retain seasonal firefighters to help with staffing shortages. His veto forced the layoff of thousands of seasonal firefighters, who he never replaced despite his promises. This is negligence of the highest order. pic.twitter.com/f5c4Hvj073
— Kate Sanchez (@KateSanchezCA) January 9, 2025
Possible migrants in gangs set the fires then to facilitate looting?
🚨 UPDATE: Here’s the arsonist who was arrested for allegedly starting the Kenneth Fire, which has burned 800+ acres of Los Angeles
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 10, 2025
Are we about to find out these fires are being set by illegal migrant gangs with the intent of looting?
Or maybe to distract law enforcement? https://t.co/xjyb6nSMx3 pic.twitter.com/ZiVrE1Hukw
I'm not going to put my regular tin foil hat (with a perfect track record for 4+ years) on here about the timing just yet, but I am not convinced this was just a coincidence of all the idiocy and some winds. And no power to pump water up hill while the planes are grounded. Oh, and bonus insurance insanity:
Basically, California voters passed a law in 1988 called Proposition 103, which made it way harder for insurance companies to operate in the state without getting their asses kicked. On top of requiring insurance companies to get government permission from an elected commissioner… pic.twitter.com/pK1eLtQ9QV
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) January 10, 2025
Quote:
Basically, California voters passed a law in 1988 called Proposition 103, which made it way harder for insurance companies to operate in the state without getting their asses kicked. On top of requiring insurance companies to get government permission from an elected commissioner before raising rates (I'm suuuuuuure that doesn't distort the market, wink wink), the law makes it far more difficult for actuariesthe math nerds who rake in gobs of money making sure insurance companies don't price their policies too low and, you know, go out of business) to do their jobs.
You know that whole thing about "the future might not look like the past"? Insurance companies in California are only able to use old historical data, not advanced statistical models that account for how the world might be changing (such as southern California becoming hotter or drier or windier).
Insurance companies in Californiaunlike in literally every other state in America!also aren't allowed to pass on the cost of reinsurance (think of reinsurance as big boy insurance policies that little boy insurance companies purchase to pass along the risk of having to make massive payouts after largescale disasters, such as half the city of Los Angeles getting wiped off the face of the earth), which means any insurance company that operates in California pretty much has to eat a big whopping **** sandwich whenever something bad happens. Because of all this, many of the major insurance companiesState Farm, Allstate, USAA, Travelers, Nationwide, all the usual suspects you see advertising with cartoon mascots during the Super Bowlhave reduced coverage across the entire state, and State Farm pulled out of Pacific Palisades entirely.
1,400 of the 9,000 homes in the neighborhood had insurance through the state's insurance company of last resort, a janky government operation called the FAIR Plan. But the FAIR Plan only has around $200 million set aside, and its exposure in Pacific Palisades alone is close to six billion-with-a-B dollars. Whoops! Now pour me another glass of champagne and let's talk about those fire hydrants that somehow ran out of water.
Yeah lots of stuff going on and not a field I know much about.. something just doesn't add up.. system was setup to fail.. and boy did it. Can you imagine if you had a $4-5 million home burn down because these jokers were all in charge..and on top of that you had no insurance because it was dropped? I bet there are thousands of absolutely livid people over there…. Prob not a good time to go visit the LA area
On top of all this, Trump will be sworn in soon and he will go to California and bring all this stuff up in his press conference over there…. This will make them even madder when the sitting US president calls out their governor and all their city officials for allowing this to happen. Hell he's already calling for Newsome to resign
On top of all this, Trump will be sworn in soon and he will go to California and bring all this stuff up in his press conference over there…. This will make them even madder when the sitting US president calls out their governor and all their city officials for allowing this to happen. Hell he's already calling for Newsome to resign
They still had insurance, it was just dropped by one carrier.fullback44 said:
Yeah lots of stuff going on and not a field I know much about.. something just doesn't add up.. system was setup to fail.. and boy did it. Can you imagine if you had a $4-5 million home burn down because these jokers were all in charge..and on top of that you had no insurance because it was dropped? I bet there are thousands of absolutely livid people over there…. Prob not a good time to go visit the LA area
On top of all this, Trump will be sworn in soon and he will go to California and bring all this stuff up in his press conference over there…. This will make them even madder when the sitting US president calls out their governor and all their city officials for allowing this to happen. Hell he's already calling for Newsome to resign
Many had not gotten the new insurance per the news or something I read somewhere .. but I agree, most of them took some type of new state insurance
I'll use my property as an example. We are lucky our insurance hasnt dropped us but the rate tripled last few years. And I'm in a more severe fire zone.
Here's an area where it's properly cleared with a fire break.
Here, it's not cleared, yet. Libtards would say leave it alone as the nature intended. Private property rights say **** you, I'm clearing this **** up.
Here's an area where it's properly cleared with a fire break.
Here, it's not cleared, yet. Libtards would say leave it alone as the nature intended. Private property rights say **** you, I'm clearing this **** up.
AlaskanAg99 said:
I already said this was all arson. There was no lightening strikes. And u til I hear otherwise, no arcing of powerlines.
Its is plausible of a homeless camp starting a fire, but 3 lit off in close time, yet far apart that it wasn't embers.
There are gangs in LA deliberately starting fires so that people evacuate then and they can rob their homes
— Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) January 10, 2025
This is happening at a large scale, at least 100 robbers
Likely the Chilean crime syndicate
More reports are coming about that. Gangs starting fires and then looting areas as people evacuate.
fullback44 said:
Yeah lots of stuff going on and not a field I know much about.. something just doesn't add up.. system was setup to fail.. and boy did it. Can you imagine if you had a $4-5 million home burn down because these jokers were all in charge..and on top of that you had no insurance because it was dropped? I bet there are thousands of absolutely livid people over there…. Prob not a good time to go visit the LA area
On top of all this, Trump will be sworn in soon and he will go to California and bring all this stuff up in his press conference over there…. This will make them even madder when the sitting US president calls out their governor and all their city officials for allowing this to happen. Hell he's already calling for Newsome to resign
Not only that but the fires are being started by foreigners with the intention of looting your house when you evacuate.
Amazing cascade of societal failures that led to this point.
TheWoodlandsTxAg said:Meet the people in charge of LA’s fire response.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 10, 2025
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… pic.twitter.com/qzXt5fa7uF
The equity chief makes more money than the assistant chief, lol.
PHOTO: Firefighting aircraft damaged after colliding with drone over the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, California.
— AZ Intel (@AZ_Intel_) January 10, 2025
The plane landed safety and is grounded because of the damage. Officials are investigating. pic.twitter.com/UDAjalGyxR
Drones are the social media of the sky- immensely powerful tool that lots of dbags use just to annoy others.
zgolfz85 said:
Starting a wildfire should result in instant execution
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. Hippocrates
I love what passes for journalism these days. There's an article that says "Henry Winkler slammed for pushing conspiracy theory related to the wild fires", then you open the article, it says the conspiracy theory is that it was arson, then the next paragraph says someone has been arrested for arson. I suppose I clicked on it, so they got what they wanted.
Sadly, we need Xi Jinping to visit the the fires and Newsom might stop them
— mark normand (@marknorm) January 9, 2025
Maybe already posted, if so oh well... So this lady is confounded by all the men showing up on scooters in her neighborhood going up to all the homes. They were surely sent to help, right? RIGHT?
https://instagr.am/p/DEn33rGMhvQ
So just who is Allison Agsten? She is a nutjob who works for the USC Center for Climate Journalism and Communication and admits that "climate change" has exacerbated the fires in LA.
https://instagr.am/p/DEnJH6RPq-e
https://instagr.am/p/DEn33rGMhvQ
So just who is Allison Agsten? She is a nutjob who works for the USC Center for Climate Journalism and Communication and admits that "climate change" has exacerbated the fires in LA.
https://instagr.am/p/DEnJH6RPq-e
You know she might just be right.....The Earth's climate has been in a constant state of flux since it was formed billions of years ago.
Climate change is real, has been, always will be.
She's just wrong in the root cause. Hint: It's that giant glowing thing in the sky that shows up everyday like clockwork (aka the Sun), not humans......
Climate change is real, has been, always will be.
She's just wrong in the root cause. Hint: It's that giant glowing thing in the sky that shows up everyday like clockwork (aka the Sun), not humans......
she is also missing things like:Krombopulos Michael said:
You know she might just be right.....The Earth's climate has been in a constant state of flux since it was formed billions of years ago.
Climate change is real, has been, always will be.
She's just wrong in the root cause. Hint: It's that giant glowing thing in the sky that shows up everyday like clockwork (aka the Sun), not humans......
- underbrush control
- controlled burns
- proper preparation and staging for potential fires
- ample water supply
Just because these fires happen and will continue to happen, doesn't mean they can't do better preparation and action to prevent them from being so "catastrophic"
Also think some consideration should be given to using eminent domain for road expansion or at a minimum alternative ways out of neighborhoods. One way in and one way out is problematical, as we have just seen.Raiderjay said:she is also missing things like:Krombopulos Michael said:
You know she might just be right.....The Earth's climate has been in a constant state of flux since it was formed billions of years ago.
Climate change is real, has been, always will be.
She's just wrong in the root cause. Hint: It's that giant glowing thing in the sky that shows up everyday like clockwork (aka the Sun), not humans......
- underbrush control
- controlled burns
- proper preparation and staging for potential fires
- ample water supply
Just because these fires happen and will continue to happen, doesn't mean they can't do better preparation and action to prevent them from being so "catastrophic"
In many of these neighborhood that is due to geography and there wouldn't be an easy to way create more ways with eminent domain.
one safe place said:Might have to use a coke or dr pepperAggie95 said:
There's no water left
It's California. Use komboucha and call it a bouchboard.
That social group definitely has a conformity stereotype they have settled on to help ensure group acceptance and status. From the style and look to the manner of speech. It's amazing.
Also, vainly struggling to try to reverse climate change with unpredictable results by trying to manipulate the behaviors of billions of humans on a global basis seem the wrong way to go about solving an immediate and near term local civil safety issue.
Also, vainly struggling to try to reverse climate change with unpredictable results by trying to manipulate the behaviors of billions of humans on a global basis seem the wrong way to go about solving an immediate and near term local civil safety issue.
Cali doing Cali things again.
This is heartbreaking to watch….
I don’t think I’ve watched a video of these fires that has captured the meaning of home so completely.
— Katherine Boyle (@KTmBoyle) January 10, 2025
Pray for these people. 💙
pic.twitter.com/jFX6K4wCGW
Elon evidently replied "True" to this seemingly crazy Alex Jones post before it was deleted. Weird.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/know-else-blamed-major-fire-224559151.html
I'm absolutely, positively dumber for watching that video.Mega Lops said:
So just who is Allison Agsten? She is a nutjob who works for the USC Center for Climate Journalism and Communication and admits that "climate change" has exacerbated the fires in LA.
https://instagr.am/p/DEnJH6RPq-e
Reminds me of a girl I met in Australia who got her Masters degree in some sort of Climate Change related field. Then, she couldn't find a job. Ultimately she found a job with an NGO, or in academia somewhere, I can't remember.
The woman posting this video's livelihood is dependent on keeping the hoax going. Just like the race grifters - Al Sharpton, Ben Crump, etc.
And I love the fact that she said she left her home just as the looters were showing up but, let's overlook that for now. Classic Kalifornia.
duck79 said:one safe place said:Might have to use a coke or dr pepperAggie95 said:
There's no water left
It's California. Use komboucha and call it a bouchboard.
If they're old, they're out. Cali is so dumb
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