Posted on 10/30/2019 8:43:52 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Former Governor Jerry Brown told Congress on Tuesday President Trump and the Republican Party were responsible for the ongoing California fires because of their opposition to drastic climate change policies.
Californias burning while the deniers make a joke out of the standards that protect us all, Brown told the House Oversight Committee. The blood is on your soul here and I hope you wake up. Because this is not politics, this is life, this is morality. This is real.
Brown was testifying against efforts by the Trump administration to rescind Californias waiver that previously allowed it to set its own emissions standards for vehicles effectively giving the state control of the entire auto industry. The administration argues that Californias policy is actually worse for the environment because higher standards make new cars which are more energy-efficient than old cars more difficult for consumers to buy.
The ongoing California wildfires have a variety of causes. The immediate cause of the Getty Fire in Los Angeles, for example, appears to be a tree branch that was blown by high winds into power lines, according to the Los Angeles Times. Critics fault California and its utility companies for spending money on complying with green initiatives rather than on burying power lines. Others also cite homeless camps, where past fires have started, and poor forestry management policies that have barred the clearing of brush that can provide fuel for wildfires.
But Brown and other Democrats have identified climate change as the cuplrit, even though there is no scientific evidence to support that claim. In 2015 and in 2017, Brown also blamed climate change for wildfires in California.
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Glad I’ve lived long enough for people to actually suffer under Socialist Totalitarian Rule!
Not sure anything will change, but still...it’s nice to see a blatant example in Real Time.
And we HAVE family in San Diego. And I LIVED in San Diego from 1980-82. (NEVER going back!)
And I truly LOVE Northern CA along the coast. Conservative, hearty people.
As goes Illinois, so goes California? And New York? And Oregon? And Washington state? And the Eastern Seaboard?
Socialist Cancer is eating us from the coastlines INLAND.
Glad I’ll be dead before America is completely gone. :(
California is burning because they are not allowed to trim brush in the power line right of ways.
That and illegals often set fires to mask their movements, been reported on here for years.
Further, the repeat arson fires in Cali by “enviros” and other assorted left-wing nutjobs.
California Über Alles - Dead Kennedys
I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles and never frowns
Soon I will be president
Carter power will soon go ‘way
I will be Führer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school
California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California
Zen fascists will control you
Hundred percent natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can’t happen here
Big Bro’ on white horse is near
The hippies won’t come back, you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay
California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California
Now it is nineteen eighty-four
Knock-knock at your front door
It’s the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
Come quietly to the camp
You’d look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don’t you worry, it’s only a shower
For your clothes, here’s a pretty flower
Die on organic poison gas
Serpent’s egg’s already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown
California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California
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Songwriters: Eric Reed Boucher / Raymond John Pepperelle / Geoffrey Lyall / Darren Henley / John Leonard Greenway / Michael Franti
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Even _IF_ AGW were real, Trump wouldnt be responsible for anything that happens until well beyond 2030, idiots...
One of the snowiest and wettest years in decades.
I read that a tree was blown into a 250,000 volt line which arced and caught fire. These high tension lines cannot be buried - for a number of reasons. You have to clear the trees along the path far enough that trees cannot fall onto the lines.
Politicians usually make lousy engineers/scientists.
Hey Jerry, see that big bright yellow thing in the sky? Stare at it until you figure out what is causing warming.
Jerry Brown is psychotic.
What a vile POS!
This is the Big Lie theyre all pushing to deflect responsibility for their own crimes and failures. How many Californians lives, homes and happiness need to be sacrificed on the altar of the Green God to appease his wrath?
Communists destroy things and then blame their enemies for it. Soviets used to do that a lot.
“...Unfortunately they are trying to set the narrative to deflect blame from themselves.”
Very true.
Brown, and his leftist clan of renown are a bunch of juveniles in adult bodies with serious expressions on their faces. It’s a ruse to make them appear credible.
I think the Republicans have to take the local out of California politics to get a handle on all of this. The time is now.
Efforts??? Wait, what? You mean the policy hasn't even been implementedted? How can it be the cause if hasn't even been implemented? And even if it was implemented, would that make it retro-actively the cause of past fires?
Stupid, evil, and dangerous.
Every time you tell them to cut their brush and reinstall wide agricultural belts around their inhabited areas a large portion of California Freepers sound so much like this guy that they may as well be his echo. Glad I moved away from there before that mentality got me.
Dumbass.
It would be compassionate for the unfortunate insane citizens, to reopen the mental hospitals and related mental illness care institutions.
Clearly, letting the inmates out was a mistake.
He is stark raving like the citizens of his state.
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