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‘Half the Country’s Thinking Magically’: California Fire Victims Grapple with the Political Paralysis Over Climate Change
Politico via Yahoo ^ | 1/11/25 | David Siders

Posted on 01/13/2025 10:10:32 AM PST by DallasBiff

ALTADENA, California — Residents of California’s San Gabriel Valley had been coexisting with wildfire danger for generations before this week’s firestorm. Even relative newcomers, like me, know the house will shake when helicopters carrying water to fires in the foothills fly low overhead, or how to tape plastic to the windows and hose down our eaves.

We’ve swept ash and burnt leaves that have rained down in our yards. We trim the trees and hope our insurance companies won’t drop us. We nervously watch the hills. And even in this place where there is little dispute that the danger is only getting worse due to climate change, we don’t leave.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; davidallen; davidsiders; democratincompetence; democratparty; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; fires; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; politico
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WTF? The headline of this article.

Seems like the writer is saying half the country(Trump voters) are rejecting the radical liberal dogma of "climate change"

Well damn right, it was radical liberal democrats incompetance that had a substancial part of the tragedy.

1 posted on 01/13/2025 10:10:32 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

These climate Nazis need to be weeded out of polite, normal society. No one should heed their rantings and ravings.

“Climate Change?” Why don’t they blame the Easter Bunny for the fires? Makes as much sense.


2 posted on 01/13/2025 10:15:17 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Russia? China? Democrats and RINOs are the biggest threat to the survival of America.)
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To: DallasBiff
But I discovered that in fire-gutted, heavily Democratic Altadena, where that kind of message might typically travel, climate change was nowhere near top of mind. It was the wind, . . . . or population growth, or the way that Californians tucked their homes into the foothills. It was a lack of investment in infrastructure, or the fire hydrants that ran dry.

Your neighbors are right, David. You're the idiot for thinking that "climate change" matters more than these things.

3 posted on 01/13/2025 10:15:48 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: DallasBiff

How much carbon was thrown into the atmosphere because of these fires? Are these Liberals blaming Newsome, Bass and the DEI fools for their stupid policies that make these fires so devastating? No? They want to blame Trump instead? They worry about “climate change” which they think is caused by “carbon” and they think the big problem is a Florida resident who currently holds no political office?


4 posted on 01/13/2025 10:15:51 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Obviously.


5 posted on 01/13/2025 10:17:33 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DallasBiff

Politico and Yahoo, both paragons of math, physics, and all things climate. /s

Well, imagining such things does allow them to avoid the fact of looking into the mirror and admitting that, as journalists, they are right down there with studies majors and that the most simple real college math class would be as Group Theory to them.


6 posted on 01/13/2025 10:17:56 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: DallasBiff
Seems like the writer is saying half the country(Trump voters) are rejecting the radical liberal dogma of "climate change"

DNC talking points.

But they're less effective now because they do not control the narrative.

7 posted on 01/13/2025 10:18:15 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: DallasBiff

Ahem, this was Politico via Yahoo which means complete BS.


8 posted on 01/13/2025 10:18:50 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: ClearCase_guy
Are these Liberals blaming Newsome, Bass and the DEI fools for their stupid policies that make these fires so devastating? No?

They're trying to salvage Gavin Newsom's candidacy for 2028 because their bench is thin.

9 posted on 01/13/2025 10:19:45 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: DallasBiff
And even in this place where there is little dispute that the danger is only getting worse due to climate change

That's because, in that place, the people are almost entirely leftist libtards who believe that "climate change" is responsible for the destruction of LA, instead of misguided and incompetent democrat leadership.

10 posted on 01/13/2025 10:19:56 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The end of censorship is reaching X and now Facebook.

If we can get Youtube fixed the leftists will permanently be on the run.

If they cannot control political discourse all of their ugliness will be revealed.


11 posted on 01/13/2025 10:20:46 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: DallasBiff

The climate is dynamic and there’s nothing we can do about it.

If you don’t recognize that, you’re thinking magically.


12 posted on 01/13/2025 10:21:48 AM PST by fruser1
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To: Sicon

If you click on my name you will see that twenty years ago I predicted the rise of a new religion that I said would be totally crazy.

It is here now.

It is called “climate change”.


13 posted on 01/13/2025 10:21:56 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: DallasBiff

He’s distraught that too many “Useful idiots” decided to stop being useful idiots.


14 posted on 01/13/2025 10:23:50 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: DallasBiff

So far as the fire disaster in California is concerned, everybody with an ounce of sense knows “climate change” is a distraction from the political incompetence of the governing bodies (read “Democrats”) in the state.

But if the gullible yokels there still want to think carbon dioxide is the ultimate culprit, they need to look at the trends in CO2 emission over the last 10 years from the US, China and India. And when they start raising hell over the next coal-fired power plant going up in the latter two countries, do let me know (I won’t hold my breath).


15 posted on 01/13/2025 10:26:02 AM PST by Stosh
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RE: Thinking magically.

I really like the movie Xanadu. Appeals to the other side of me, outside of the bitterness and yearning for revenge and justice.

It bombed at the box office but then grew in respect and has become a cult movie. Appeals to the inner knowledge that love can conquer all.

“Magic” from Xanadu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S5s9R3ZNGY


16 posted on 01/13/2025 10:26:14 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

““Climate Change?” Why don’t they blame the Easter Bunny for the fires? Makes as much sense.”

Well every body knows that the Easter Bunny is not science, whereas climate scientology is science. Don’t you see the difference?


17 posted on 01/13/2025 10:27:22 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: DallasBiff

Every magical thinker I’ve ever met has been a liberal.


18 posted on 01/13/2025 10:30:46 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: DallasBiff

The writer suggests that Climate Change Unbelievers are the cause of the fires. The fires have nothing to do with Democrat policies.


19 posted on 01/13/2025 10:30:55 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

Absolutely correct.

But, ask any of them.. “What happened in Jan of 22 that directly effected the climate worldwide?”
They’ll have no answer.
Ask any of them..”What was/is being released into the air when structures/areas burn?”
They’ll stand there dumbfounded not knowing, not able to answer.

The first is the Tonga volcano as well as Iceland volcanism-lately.
The later is chemicals and toxins, etc such as asbestos.

They are ignorant. Plain and simple.


20 posted on 01/13/2025 10:33:08 AM PST by crz
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