Yeah, cheezy tourists and everything:
Posted on 01/13/2025 3:59:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Days after a devastating wildfire, residents of Pacific Palisades have started sifting through the ruins, and their memories.
This weekend was supposed to be an ordinary one in Pacific Palisades. Boy Scout Troop 223 was planning a weekend camp-out at Malibu Creek. The local youth baseball tryouts were scheduled at Palisades Recreation Center’s Field of Dreams. Sunday morning was a time for the farmer’s market just off Sunset Boulevard, for picking over produce and grass-fed meat while kibitzing with neighbors.
For as long as anyone here can remember, the Palisades have been a bucolic corner of Los Angeles, its houses dotting the narrow roads that meander through the canyons that are tucked between the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Those who could afford to live in those homes were drawn by its slower pace, far enough from the freeway hamster wheel to get lost in the Technicolor sunsets over the water.
Now those neighborhoods are hardly recognizable after wind-whipped fire roared through one enclave after another, leaving in its wake homes that were burned to the ground, cars that were incinerated and lives that were shattered.
“There’s nothing left,” said Darby Woods, a local real estate agent who lost her home in the fire. “It literally looks like what you see on TV in Ukraine. It looks like we’re in a war zone and there’s no reinforcements coming. It’s just decimated.”
When the wind calmed down on Thursday and attention began to turn to other areas of Los Angeles where the fires raged, residents trickled in to pockets of Pacific Palisades to see what remained of their homes — and of the lives they’d built there.
The acrid smell of smoke hung over the Palisades’ Castellammare neighborhood, up on a bluff overlooking the Pacific. A man on a...
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The USA's second most valuable real estate is located in Palisades, California, but was just consumed in a catastrophic wildfire because fire mitigation protocols had been abandoned and dry brush left to accumulate to catastrophic proportions.
Coincidence?
“all I saw was almost like a sideways tornado, sort of, because it just kept rolling and the sound was coming from it as it continued to roll. And all of a sudden, we watched that wind just come down and we saw everything just bend the trees, it was just like, it was crazy”
You are in a war zone and the globalists are conducting the war but, unfortunately for you, environmental terrorist reinforcements are coming.
I would rather live in the Palisades than change Biden’s diaper.
The most obvious coincidence is just very poor governance and oversight by the political establishment. No long term vision, no respect for history, no serious leadership. One does not need to get deep into conspiracies - unless you want to.
This crop of Democrats are not the same as Roosevelt, Kennedy or even Clinton democrats. They are self-absorbed, petty, small minded people who act recklessly and carelessly on the issues that are of the most critical importance while pretending that insignificant and speculative issues are important purely to satisfy their egos, sense of virtue, and as red meat for their voting blocks. They are not competent to run a banana stand let alone the cities and states.
Same root cause.
Progressivism.
They want you to think it is incompetence so you don't come to the realization that it was premeditated, and you are more than willing to cooperate.
Yeah, cheezy tourists and everything:
Better to reign in Los Angeles than serve in Mar-a-Lago?
“For as long as anyone here can remember, the Palisades have been a bucolic corner of Los Angeles..”
And then, and then...they voted it all away.
Trump says: “Make America Great Again”.
Newsome says: “Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”
The New York Times published a story on this without mentioning “climate change.” I may need a moment to recover from the shock. It has to be in there, and I just missed it.
Oh please, I didn’t say it wasn’t true I just said there are other explanations. Anything is possible, nevertheless what I said is true. They are derelict, focused on unprovable intangible concepts and totally neglectful of the most critical and obvious tangibles. Whether it was deliberately or ineptitude it is still damning and criminal. Both narratives could be true (evil people appoint incompetent people) but to chase these people out of office and/or to see justice served we need to convert another 15%-20% of the electorate.
They will never prosecute “incompetence,” and people need to spend the rest of their lives in prison for this.
Hmmm.
They can prosecute criminal negligence
They ain’t gonna.
Name one time a government official got prosecuted for “criminal negligence.”
I dare you.
At noon on Jan 20th we’ll have a new POTUS and a new AG. Let’s set some precedent. It’s not like Trump didn’t warn Newsom 5-6 years ago about forestry management and water supply.
Every year California has between 7000 to 9000 fires. There is no excuse to have been unprepared, to divert resources away from fire management, to empty the reservoirs, to not refill the aquifers, to take down dams and dump scarce supplies of water into the ocean, to not have firefighting aircraft on the ready, to not have enough firemen, to have fire trucks in a repair yard for years. This year in particular was known to be a La Niña year which means dry weather; combined with the Santa Ana winds we should have been on standby. Sort of to your point, it’s like how the National Guard should have been on standby on Jan 6, but the obvious was ignored for some reason.
The woman who automatically renewed Mohammed Atta’s visa was punished- oh wait, sorry, she got a promotion. Nevermind.
“Coincidence?”
Both areas were also planned ahead of time to become “Smart” or “15 Minute” cities.
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