Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? Have you no shame? She says that you’re utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position? Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster? No, she’s got nothing to say. No apology for them. Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding? This is the longest rhetorical question I’ve ever heard. A series of rhetorical questions. We all know the answers to these things. And we all see her shamelessly trying to run away from him.

And this goes on for a while. He keeps following her, and he keeps peppering her with so-called questions. But, of course, they’re very clear what the answers to those are. And notice the body language of Gavin Newsom when he is confronted by the press. Dealing with a myriad of issues. I was just talking to Josh Green, the governor of down in Hawaii. You had some ideas around some language. Do you have to run speculators coming in? Whatever, you know. And the like. So we’re already working with our legal teams to move those things forward.

And we’ll be presenting those in a matter of days, not just weeks. Yeah, yeah. He’s talking. We’re working with him on this. Hey, dude. And then we have the sheriff. And he drops. I played this for you yesterday. He drops the depopulation word. And every conversation we’re having about evacuations, that depopulation conversation is continuously coming up. That depopulation conversation is continuously coming up. Do you mean evacuation? Or does he mean depopulation? Does he mean getting these people out of there and never letting them come back? Is that what he means? Well, so from the mayor to the sheriff to the governor, they’re having a real hard time.

And so it’s necessary to bring in the court jesters because that’s the whole purpose now of all the late night shows. There’s an anybody that does anything that’s funny anymore. It’s all about covering for the Democrats and covering for the establishment. That’s their purpose. They’re court jesters. Look, they understand very well what Saul Alinsky said, as in that book rules for radicals that he dedicated to his hero, Lucifer. Saul Alinsky said, ridicule is the most effective weapon. There’s no response to it. Well, I’ve got a response to what Bill Burr did. You want to do that? You want to do that at night, you lunatic? How are you? This was definitely mismanaged.

That’s a big word we’re hearing now. Mismanaged like some idiot on the internet knows how to manage the worst fire in LA sitting there in his underwear. You know what? Looking at the footage on the internet, I have determined that this here was mismanaged. Yeah. What do you know about it, Bill? You know nothing about any of this stuff. I would trust a guy in his underwear before I would trust you. You shill. It’s shameless shill. Look, you got to fly a helicopter and take ocean water from it while the winds are a hundred miles an hour.

I wonder how the guy that Karen Bass beat, Rick Caruso, I wonder how he saved all of his buildings. Was it with helicopters dropping water from the ocean? No, he had water trucks. Was that something that maybe Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom ruled out for use for their use? Because I guess those water trucks were diesel. We can’t have any diesel trucks around here. Come on. Unless we’ve got a battery operated electric water truck. I’m not doing it. And we can’t afford those things because I got to pay these DEI shill, these idiots that know nothing.

I got to pay them $300,000, $500,000, $750,000 because they’re a racist hire. Really? Is that it? No, it’s not incompetence at all. Give me a break. Isn’t it disgusting what they’ve done to late night TV? I mean, Carson, go back to the early shows of Leno and even David Letterman at the beginning. He was about comedy. He wasn’t about doing politics. They’ve all become political shills. And again, because ridicule is the most effective weapon. But if you’re fighting fires, you might want to have a fleet of water trucks because you know, the wind could be blowing or something and we wouldn’t want, you know, Bill Burr to do anything about that.

Even CNN Bill, even CNN is saying that it is beyond the brink. CNN says, Bill Burr, data shows that the LA fire department is among the most understaffed in America. Not only does it not have fire trucks with water or water trucks or tankers, they don’t have any firemen either compared to other places. But it’s not mismanagement. No, no. The reason you see mismanagement everywhere, because it’s so obvious to everybody and what you’re doing with your lives are obvious to everybody as well. Less than a month, says CNN, less than a month before the fire swept through LA, a group of long time firefighters gathered at city hall that plead for more resources.

They were at the quote breaking point said one, another revealed that million dollar fire trucks were sitting idle because budget cuts had shrunk the number of mechanics available to fix them. I’m going to say what people can’t say, said Freddy Escobar, president of the city’s fire union and a veteran firefighter. If we cut one position, if we close one station, the residents of LA are going to pay the ultimate sacrifice and someone will die. Many people have died. Um, CNN analysis of the most recent data available from the 10 largest U S cities and other comparable departments show the LA fire department is less staffed than almost any other major city, leaving it struggling to meet both daily emergencies and larger disasters, such as wildfires.

And I guarantee you that these other 10 cities don’t have that kind of virus that LA does. Despite being located in one of the most fire prone areas in the country, says CNN, the LA fire department has less than one firefighter for every 1000 residents that compares to cities such as Chicago, Dallas, Houston, where staffing is closer to two firefighters for the same number of residents of the largest cities. Only San Diego has fewer firefighters per capita up the coast from LA. The city of San Francisco boasts more than 1800 firefighters for about one and a half million residents in the city and nearby communities.

While LA has roughly 3,500 firefighters allotted to serve a city of nearly 4 million. So they’ve got about three times the population and, um, uh, half the fire and only two times the firefighters that San Francisco has. And then you look at what the people are doing that the ordinary people that are there talking about movie stars who like Leonardo DiCaprio fly out on their private jet, even as they claim that it’s manmade climate change that caused the fires. One couple says, if we leave, we can’t come back. Now they’re at the Eaton fire.

This story was from the desert son. I appreciate the listener who sent this to me. I said, um, uh, the paper says, although their home was inside the mandatory evacuation zone, the couple said they felt like they needed to make an effort to save their home from burning embers that landed in their yard and on their roof. And you see, this is the type of this, this type of abusive behavior from FEMA or from local people who corded off and won’t let the residents back in. Um, this is what causes people to stay behind in hurricanes.

And of course, the stay behind here during fires, they put their lives at risk because the high handed arrogance of these government officials who won’t allow them back into their property. Um, I talked about this before many times. Uh, we had, um, my sons both, uh, uh, competed in a, um, uh, contest that was run by the Fraser Institute and it was open to students from Canada and the U S and, um, each of them one first place and one year, one of them, one first place, another one, one second place.

And, um, Whistler’s, uh, story was a contrasting what happened on the coast of North Carolina when a hurricane came through and the disaster afterwards because of a high handed attitude of FEMA compared to a tornado that went through, uh, close to where we lived, another town and how everybody came together and saw that voluntarily because the state and the federal government did not get involved. You basically had, uh, private businesses donate food and supplies and clothing and all the rest of the stuff. They brought it in and massive quantities left it in the parking lots of churches and people went to the churches and they handed out the supplies that had been donated.

The only involvement of government was local law enforcement getting around the areas where they were down power lines and blocking that off to keep people from getting hurt. Other than that, the government had nothing to do and it was all the community that was doing it. Contrast that to what happened on the coast. People couldn’t get back into their homes for weeks or months. I forget what it was, but it was a very long time. We had some friends who were neighbors, but he also interviewed other people who were, uh, in that area.

And they said, well, I’m not leaving my home again. Next time a hurricane comes through as the flames receded. Now these two people that the interview here, um, Bullock and Anderson had to contend with people who appear to be looters who swept into their neighborhood, seemingly for no other reason than to take advantage of their empty homes. The first night or two, there were a lot of people with backpacks who were loitering around. They were walking up and down driveways and streets. The first two nights were terrible. Bullock said, noting that he could hear the booms of propane tanks and ammunition exploding in the distance as a fire rage.

He said, it sounded like a rock. Much of the damage of the fire occurred on the first night, but evacuation orders and warnings remained in place for more than a week later. Curfews were not implemented until days after the fire began to burn after authorities became aware of reports of looters and fire areas. A week since the Eaton fire started, Bullock and Anderson remained in their home. They could not leave their block because police had instituted a 24 hour curfew with no power. They’ve been heating their home with a gas fireplace.

Oh, isn’t that nice? Not going to be allowed to have that in California net zero and said that many of their neighbors cannot return because of the curfew. We’re here until further notice Anderson said, because if we leave, we can’t come back. Uh, a, uh, on a main road nearby armed national guard personnel only allow authorized vehicles through, in other words, government vehicles. They said they’ve not been told when the curfew might end. The few neighbors who remain have bonded however, through the isolation. This is a common story. Communities coming together to help each other because the government, if it does anything, is harming them.

Same stuff we saw throughout Western North Carolina as well. We’re grateful for the security. We’re just wondering where they were the first two days. And then you have this article from the wall street journal about another area. This is about the Altadena area. I guess is the way you pronounce that still smoldering neighborhoods of Altadena fires destroyed more than 2,700 structures and about 80 people have defied orders to evacuate, staying behind to protect what’s left of their properties from looters and from more fires after losing faith and authorities. Why would anybody ever put any faith and authorities? What wouldn’t we go through in 2020? Why would you have any faith left? No lessons learned whatsoever.

Well, maybe this will help them to learn. Residents patrol the streets and interrogate strangers living in a Hobbesian world. In other words, a dog eat dog world with no rules because we know how effective rules are for establishing water. No rules from your government rulers. A Hobbesian world without electricity or clean drinking water, some of them are armed and they’re hemmed in by yellow caution tape at neighborhood entrances flanked by National Guard troops, LA County Sheriff Deputies and also California Highway Patrol. So they got a standing army there standing on them.

We do feel like we’re in the wild west. Now, if you were in the wild west, you would be much freer. You wouldn’t have armed troops and multiple levels of law enforcement hemming you in. They said if they try to leave, they risk being unable to return. That’s what they all know. On Monday, one of this person they talked to, Lubaly, is his name. One of his friends, Sandoval, delivered essentials. The real estate broker drove her white Mercedes SUV up to the neighborhood checkpoint and stacked supplies for Lubaly and others at the makeshift border.

They’re going to patrol that border. They won’t patrol the border between the U.S. and Mexico. They will patrol the border with National Guard troops. This is California, the state of California. We’ll put the National Guard troops in there to keep people out of their neighborhoods, but they won’t use the National Guard to keep illegal aliens out of California. So she drove her white Mercedes SUV up to the neighborhood checkpoint, stacked supplies for this person and others at the makeshift border. Things like water, bagels, bananas, grain-free tortilla chips, and other staples.

One officer, she was finishing, said, can you guys hurry up? We just got an order not to allow any supplies through. And she said, well, can I hug my friend? And he said, okay, okay. Now, the humanity will come through with a lot of these people. And there’s stories in here about how the officers are looking the other way. It’s like the prison guard. I remember that picture of a prison guard in a Nazi uniform, and he’s lifting up the barbed wires. People are going underneath it. He’s looking around like, can anybody see this? I’m going to let them out.

But when they put in the robo cops, the robot cops, there’s not going to be any exception to this stuff, folks. Not going to be appealing to the humanity of a robo cop. The Altadena holdouts had prepared for this moment, one of them. Her house has a natural gas generator that supplies 22 kilowatts of power, enough for several refrigerators, making her one of the few neighbors with electricity. She has 60 gallons of drinking water in the basement as well as reverse osmosis water filter and hot water tanks for showering. She said, my old neighbor was a real prepper and I learned it from him.

I also replaced my wood siding shingles with concrete ones. I don’t know if that’s why my house survived, she said. Well, that had a lot to do with it. Whistler was, before he got hurt here, he was looking at building a house with aerated concrete blocks because they’re very lightweight, and you can cut them with a saw, like you were working with lumber or something, and they are amazingly effective at stopping forest fires. They do not burn. Police and fire officials say they’re keeping residents from returning to burned neighborhoods because of hazards like downed power lines and precarious fire, weakened trees.

Well, here’s the thing, downed power lines, like I said before, go guard the downed power lines instead of prohibiting people from moving around. Isn’t that a better way to do it? So, he says, I get that they’ll say that this is the rule, but it’s our land, our neighborhood, and as much as I respect the authorities, we are more confident than them. Let us in to defend our neighborhood. Gerber and his neighbors have turned to their community. Their community has a WhatsApp page, or what, I don’t use WhatsApp. Anyway, they had used that to talk about traffic and things like that, but now they’re using it to organize.

He said, and we’re organized better than any government. The fires further showed him that communities need to be prepared to fend for themselves. After this disaster is over, he said, he hopes that his neighborhood will build, quote, our own fire-like militia. That’s right. That’s what this is really about. It’s about people getting back to what made America great, and it wasn’t government. It wasn’t executive orders from some preening, egotistical president. What made America great was people organizing themselves and their neighbors together to serve their own needs, instead of going begging to a president or a government, especially not to the federal government.

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