Why Did Newsom and Bass Make So Many Major Errors?

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-12 10:52:19 | Updated at 2025-01-12 13:54:58 3 hours ago

Why Did Newsom and Bass Make So Many Major Errors?
X/RCP ^ | Michael Shellenberger

Posted on 01/12/2025 2:24:20 AM PST by RoosterRedux

For more than a decade, the media, Democrats, and Hollywood have told us that Western civilization in general and the United States in particular are white supremacist, genocidal, and unsustainable. The founding of America occurred not in 1776 but rather in 1619 with the beginning of slavery, whose effects are felt more strongly than ever. The original colonies and the expansion of the Western frontier depended on the extermination of indigenous people and theft of their lands. And our crimes against nature have resulted in apocalyptic climate change, which requires radical changes to the way we live our lives.

The consequences of this self-hating Woke ideology can be seen today in catastrophic fires, mass evacuations, and burned rubble of Los Angeles. So-called progressives finally achieved what they supposedly warned of but in truth wished for: the eviction of the affluent descendants of colonizers, the incineration of their homes, and the destruction of a city that, more than any other, represents our bloody history of white supremacy and conquest.

I’m not suggesting that Democrats consciously sought to destroy Los Angeles. The entertainment industry professionals in Malibu, Topanga Canyon, and Pacific Palisades, who voted overwhelmingly for California’s progressive Governor, Gavin Newsom, and LA’s radical Left mayor, Karen Bass, thought they were voting for social justice and sustainability. They didn’t imagine their vote would result in their homes burning down.

And yet that’s what their votes resulted in. Over the last 24 hours, the evidence of gross mismanagement and incompetence by Newsom and Bass has only grown more overwhelming. On January 2nd, a full eight days ago, the National Weather Service urgently warned of extreme fire conditions. To drive home the point, the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles office held a press briefing warning of impending catastrophe.

On that day, Newsom and Bass should have called out the National Guard. They should have had planes and helicopters circling over Los Angeles spotting fires and putting them out immediately upon detecting them. They should have issued emergency warnings to residents. And they should have used various methods to spray water, including mobile sprinkler units alongside normal firefighter hoses, to wet down vulnerable areas.

Instead, the following day, Karen Bass flew to Ghana on a frivolous junket. And Gavin Newsom only called out the National Guard yesterday, seven days later than he should have.

In truth, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Newsom and Bass should have constructed two to three times more water reservoirs than Los Angeles has in order to deal with fires of that magnitude. Newsom and Bass should have not only built water recycling and desalination plants, like they have in Israel, they should have built them with excess capacity so that, in an emergency, those plants could have pumped fresh water to supplement the water in the reservoirs.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; democrats; derelictionofduty; fire; infrastructure; losangeles; negligence

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1 posted on 01/12/2025 2:24:20 AM PST by RoosterRedux

To: RoosterRedux

since Dems are climate change believers, they should have seen the dangers of unaddressed brush build-up - and counteracted. they simply don’’t think - process information logically. they seem to have a mental disability as Lib Logic is never logical.

3 posted on 01/12/2025 2:32:28 AM PST by avital2

To: All

Michael Shellenberger used to be a liberal.

4 posted on 01/12/2025 2:33:44 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Emerson paraphrased, "If you strike at the king, don't fail." The Democrats failed. )

To: RoosterRedux

They wanted money to spend on their favorite pet projects and they could wring any more from the coffers so you rob Peter. I would say to pay Paul, but you are diverting Paul’s money to pay for you favorite pet project: A chorus like of leg kicking prawns some bent scientist has decided he wants to study.

5 posted on 01/12/2025 2:44:38 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimati. )

To: RoosterRedux

Errors? What errors! This appears to more of a plan. When Oregon offers men and machines and you insist that the fire equipment has to be DOT and smog tested before it gets to the fire? This is error, this is f’ing intentional. Now understand I’m not being a conspiracy person. I’m stating the obvious when you put politicians who are totally incompetent, unprepared, don’t care, are narcissist and commies, then what the hell did you expect would happen? These two couldn’t find their way out of a paper bag with a map, flashlight and guide dog. Their agenda is more important than the safety of the citizens. More important than allowing the destruction of LA’s economy.

De Mayor is bad enough, but the Governor who can over rule her is worse. There is no leadership!

6 posted on 01/12/2025 2:48:48 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)

To: RoosterRedux

"Why Did Newsom and Bass Make So Many Major Errors?"

We owe a debt of gratitude to Governor Ron DeSantis for demonstrating to the nation in their November 30, 2023 debate just how untrustworthy and incompetent Newsome might be should he win the presidential election in 2024.

7 posted on 01/12/2025 2:49:59 AM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)

To: All

The larger view is that the evident destruction of the Los Angeles infrastructure was preceded by the evident destruction of the San Francisco infrastructure.

DEI is a threat to the infrastructure of California.

DEI is a threat to the infrastructure of the USA.

DEI is a threat to the infrastructure of western civilization.

8 posted on 01/12/2025 2:50:05 AM PST by SteveH

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