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Victor Davis Hanson: California—New Wildfires, Same Faces
The Daily Signal YT Channel ^ | Jan 27 2025 | victor davis hanson

Posted on 01/28/2025 6:00:56 AM PST by texas booster

Over 10,000 homes destroyed, and $50-$100 billion in damages as California battles another explosive wildfire. Find out why nothing has changed and who's accountable:

“The estimate of the damage is somewhere now between, perhaps, $50 and $100 billion, and we don't have enough homes for the people who were left. But here's my point, nothing has really changed. Karen Bass is still the mayor. The deputy mayor, Brian Williams, is still under house arrest, or he's under investigation for phoning in a bomb threat.”

“And we still have this mysterious thing, don't we? Who causes these fires? It's taboo. You cannot mention the word homeless, but there are no lightning strikes. There are no other exegesis that might explain why these things keep happening. But you do have tens of thousands of homeless people spread all over the L.A. area, of 18 million people, many of them in the hills that camp out. So, my point is, we now have another fire.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: gavinnewsom; hairgelhitler; joebiden; karenbass; mousselini; vdh; victordavishanson
“So, my point is, the perfect storm of water mismanagement, timber mismanagement, insurance mismanagement, civic government mismanagement, the role of DEI—they're all in place.

For Victor's latest thoughts, go to: https://victorhanson.com/

00:00 Fire Crisis Update
00:13 Leadership and Accountability Issues
02:27 Current Fire Situation: Hughes Fire
02:49 Water and Resource Mismanagement
04:31 Future Outlook and Solutions
05:37 Conclusion: How the Left Want to Rebuild Los Angeles

1 posted on 01/28/2025 6:00:56 AM PST by texas booster
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Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

From the comments section:

California residents who have rooms or rental properties are saying they are afraid to rent them out even temporarily to people in need because CA laws protect squatters. Just another way CA politicians failed the people.

Great, short video by VDH pointing to the source of the problem - the politicians!

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2 posted on 01/28/2025 6:03:49 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

That’s a great reader comment about squatters in California.

We had such an experience 40 years ago. It took SIX MONTHS to evict a deadbeat, non-paying “tenant.” When the sheriff was FINALLY scheduled to come to the house to evict him, he took off on his own like a self-deporting illegal. And the laws have become even more pro-criminal since then.


3 posted on 01/28/2025 6:11:32 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It isn’t a long video, and I got ready for work while listening to it.


4 posted on 01/28/2025 6:46:20 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

The fires were planned and the many, many “coincidences” that led to them were purposely put in place by Biden all the way down to stupid Karen Bass.


5 posted on 01/28/2025 8:09:21 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: texas booster

btt


6 posted on 01/28/2025 9:23:41 AM PST by GailA (WELCOME BACK JESUS AND PRESIDENT TRUMP & FLOTUS MELINIA.)
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To: texas booster
California residents who have rooms or rental properties are saying they are afraid to rent them out even temporarily to people in need because CA laws protect squatters. Just another way CA politicians failed the people. Great, short video by VDH pointing to the source of the problem - the politicians!

Insane choice - insane results. Thanks for posting.

7 posted on 01/28/2025 10:19:40 AM PST by GOPJ ( "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill)
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