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Blue State Blues: California Is a Third World Failed State
Breitbart ^ | 01/17/2025 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 01/17/2025 5:48:43 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The grim lesson of the devastating wildfires in California over the past week, which turned my community into ruins, is clear: private services work, and public services do not.

I live in Pacific Palisades. My house is the last one standing on the corner. There is rubble in every direction. The streets along the route my wife and I used to walk in the evening are a post-apocalyptic scene. Every beautiful house we admired is destroyed; every child our kids played with is gone.

A mile away, the center of town — which we call the “village” — is a similar scene of destruction. The stately Business Block, a hundred-year-old landmark, is now a haunted, blackened façade. The mom-and-pop shops and the boutiques are a smoldering pile of bricks and twisted metal.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: blue; blues; bluestatedebacles; california; failed; fires; lafires; losangeles; state; third; wildfires; world
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No sympathy from me. These people get what they voted for.
1 posted on 01/17/2025 5:48:43 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“No sympathy from me. These people get what they voted for.”

For me there is some schadenfreude. They think they are so smart, so superior, in reality, they are stupid drones.


2 posted on 01/17/2025 5:54:56 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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Amen, I have had people like that look down on me for my views in the past.


3 posted on 01/17/2025 5:56:05 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The big question going forward: How many California voters will buy the Climate Change excuse?

These fires were not caused by Democrat incompetence. They were caused by Climate Change!

Oh, and the utility companies. Blame them, too.


4 posted on 01/17/2025 5:57:11 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Too bad. You chose to pretend that living in a desert was normal for humans


5 posted on 01/17/2025 5:57:46 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You’re right. And the whole time they have been digging this hole for themselves, they mocked the rest of the country and poisoned American national character!

To make things worse, watching Hollywood smut and violence, people all over the world think they know ME!


6 posted on 01/17/2025 6:01:32 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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“Blue State Blues: California Is a Third World Failed State”

With how many Blue States to follow?


7 posted on 01/17/2025 6:03:18 AM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The end of the article, for those who might not read to the end, is worth repeating:

Not one took responsibility, though the county fire chief at least apologized to residents who lost their homes.

They all should have resigned. They won't, because they don't actually work for the public.

Not anymore. Not in Third World California.

It seems oddly "biblical" in a way that, like an angel of fiscal death going through a town, some prominent conservative voices were somehow spared, as if metaphorical "x" marked the doorposts of their homes.

As added to a comment on another thread, the following shows with what so many of California's "public servants" are cosseted:

California Public Pension, high to low
The latest scheme also read this morning has "some" Californians blaming "big oil" for "climate change" which "caused" the ineptitude of California's "public servants."

Because California, a beautiful state, is also "Third World California" made through the Democrat Party from city to county to state.

8 posted on 01/17/2025 6:03:23 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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They’re a failed people. They have collapsed morally and can no longer determine what’s right. Such as LA burned themselves to the ground and wants to blame the oil industry and have them pay for it.

Their governor is acting strange in interviews like he’s on drugs.


9 posted on 01/17/2025 6:05:01 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The original (Ben Franklin) fire companies in philly where all private insurance companies. They put an emblem on your house when you got the insurance. My house is protected by FA which became Reliance. If the fire/insurance company got the call for a house fire, they checked the emblem. if it was theirs they put it out. If it wasn’t, hopefully they put it out and got reimbursed. Also, Brick construction was an early requirement. saved from big fires unlike Chicago and San Fran.


10 posted on 01/17/2025 6:10:46 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ask them who they have voted for in the past twenty five years.


11 posted on 01/17/2025 6:12:35 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Too bad. You chose to pretend that living in a desert was normal for humans

The guy who made that choice was Democrat Pat Brown. The power he wielded over the California Water Project was staggering: the largest bond issue in the history of this country was approved without any plan for how the remittances to pay for it were to be collected. It was totally up to the governor. His backers wanted to build housing for 400,000 immigrants per year. He chose Southern California because he didn't want them in the north.

Now if you think that statement is some hyperbolic attribution, consider that archival oral history in his own words:

I weighed this very, very thoughtfully before I started going all out for the water project. Some of my advisors said to me and I can t remember who they were now "Yes, but people are going to come to Southern California anyway. If you don t have water, they ll be there anyway but the life will just not be as good for the people if you don t have the water project in, balancing the thing." Somebody said, "Well, send them up to Northern California." Well, I was a Northern Californian. I knew I wouldn t be governor forever. I didn t think I d ever come down to Southern California and I said to myself, "I don t want all those people to go to Northern California." It makes for very scary reading. The level of corrupt entitlement between this clown's ears is simply breath-taking.
12 posted on 01/17/2025 6:24:00 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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But I wonder whether we will ever be able to return here

Not if democrats have anything to do with it, you won't. Your homes will be replaced by high-density housing, and filled with lowlifes and illegal aliens.

13 posted on 01/17/2025 6:24:52 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: bert
In dry climates like the middle east, houses are made out of reinforced concrete and not wood. Just sayin’
14 posted on 01/17/2025 6:27:57 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Demrats have blurred the line between taxes and tribute. They see fire fighting as another mark to dole out patronage jobs to party hacks and cronies. In California you pay taxes / tribute without ANY expectation of getting good public services in return.


15 posted on 01/17/2025 6:29:58 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: ChicagoConservative27

California can’t reform itself, because its a democrat stronghold, and has evolved into a one-party state, with the help of Fed.gov massive debt spending.


16 posted on 01/17/2025 6:39:16 AM PST by PGR88
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uh, folks, it’s extremely doubtful that the article’s author, joel pollak, voted for a single Democrat ...

“Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days, available for pre-order on Amazon. He is also the author of The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency, now available on Audible. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship.”


17 posted on 01/17/2025 6:39:58 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Looking at it from a historical view...
Just like Germany and Japan after WW2.
Or SF after 1906 Earthquake.
It is just a thing which can be rebuilt.
In all the cases...what can we learn from our mistakes?


18 posted on 01/17/2025 6:50:29 AM PST by Zathras
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The best way to describe Newscum’s failed third world state.


19 posted on 01/17/2025 6:50:31 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Joe Pedophile's deal with the devil is finally coming to an end. Thank you Lord. Amen.)
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These fires mean that the far-left, DemonRATS are going to have to really bust their butts printing up “emergency” ballots for the long counts after the midterms. You can bet a lot of ballots burned in this mess thanks to the Santa Ana winds.


20 posted on 01/17/2025 6:53:10 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Joe Pedophile's deal with the devil is finally coming to an end. Thank you Lord. Amen.)
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