Dustin Swartz

[Dustin Swartz @DustinSwartz14]

@ChazAnancini @TomiLahren Leftist retards like you can't be reasoned with, can't tolerate opposing viewpoints and can't debate in the forum of ideas. Therefore, they always resort to violence.

[Dustin Swartz @DustinSwartz14]

@JourdanJD Coach a winning program? LOL... Michigan had to cheat to win rheir Natty - and now they'll never win another National Championship after Hairball left the program in shambles on his way to NFL millions so he could avoid suspension.

[Dustin Swartz @DustinSwartz14]

@KGoBlue10 @JourdanJD Penn State does win, retard... they made the Final Four last year and was one bad INT late in the game from playing in the Championship Game.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

BREAKING — On his first day in office, President Trump will suspend the security clearances of the 51 former intelligence community officials who "lied” about Hunter Biden’s laptop being Russian disinformation leading to mass censorship of the story, per Fox News.

🔥🔥

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

For more than a decade, the media, Democrats, and Hollywood have told us that Western civilization in general and the United States in particular are white supremacist, genocidal, and unsustainable. The founding of America occurred not in 1776 but rather in 1619 with the beginning of slavery, whose effects are felt more strongly than ever. The original colonies and the expansion of the Western frontier depended on the extermination of indigenous people and theft of their lands. And our crimes against nature have resulted in apocalyptic climate change, which requires radical changes to the way we live our lives.

The consequences of this self-hating Woke ideology can be seen today in catastrophic fires, mass evacuations, and burned rubble of Los Angeles. So-called progressives finally achieved what they supposedly warned of but in truth wished for: the eviction of the affluent descendants of colonizers, the incineration of their homes, and the destruction of a city that, more than any other, represents our bloody history of white supremacy and conquest.

I’m not suggesting that Democrats consciously sought to destroy Los Angeles. The entertainment industry professionals in Malibu, Topanga Canyon, and Pacific Palisades, who voted overwhelmingly for California’s progressive Governor, Gavin Newsom, and LA’s radical Left mayor, Karen Bass, thought they were voting for social justice and sustainability. They didn’t imagine their vote would result in their homes burning down.

And yet that’s what their votes resulted in. Over the last 24 hours, the evidence of gross mismanagement and incompetence by Newsom and Bass has only grown more overwhelming. On January 2nd, a full eight days ago, the National Weather Service urgently warned of extreme fire conditions. To drive home the point, the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles office held a press briefing warning of impending catastrophe.

On that day, Newsom and Bass should have called out the National Guard. They should have had planes and helicopters circling over Los Angeles spotting fires and putting them out immediately upon detecting them. They should have issued emergency warnings to residents. And they should have used various methods to spray water, including mobile sprinkler units alongside normal firefighter hoses, to wet down vulnerable areas.

Instead, the following day, Karen Bass flew to Ghana on a frivolous junket. And Gavin Newsom only called out the National Guard yesterday, seven days later than he should have.

In truth, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Newsom and Bass should have constructed two to three times more water reservoirs than Los Angeles has in order to deal with fires of that magnitude. Newsom and Bass should have not only built water recycling and desalination plants, like they have in Israel, they should have built them with excess capacity so that, in an emergency, those plants could have pumped fresh water to supplement the water in the reservoirs.

And instead of emptying the prisons and jails, subsidizing rampant homelessness, eliminating penalties for breaking the law, and allowing addicts the mentally ill to camp everywhere and start fires, Newsom and Bass should have cracked down on the rampant disorder and violent crime, all of which has skyrocketed under their misrule.

It now appears that at least one of the fires was started by a homeless man. Whether or not that’s the case, over half of all fires put out by the Los Angeles Fire Department are started by the homeless, which has diverted the agency from doing what it should have been doing, which was preventing catastrophic fires, including by putting them out as soon as they started.

Why didn’t they? Why did Newsom and Bass make so many catastrophic errors?

Part of the reason is that they are self-centered and craven politicians, typical of the people who hold office in California. They claim to care about society’s victims; in truth, they care only about themselves and their self-image. Newsom, Bass, and other California politicians are uninterested in doing a good job and instead obsessed with their own personal promotion. For that reason, they have long been focused like a laser on playing politics rather than governing effectively.

Another reason is that they are beholden to affluent, radical Left environmentalist and social justice donors who live in places like Marin County and Hollywood. These are the same people who bankroll radical Left groups like the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council, who have successfully blocked desalination and water storage plants, the proper clearing of flammable debris in forests, and effective management of landscapes around housing development, for over 45 years.

Before that, the same groups and financial interests halted the expansion of nuclear power, which is the perfect energy source for desalination.

And these are the same people who demanded that homeless encampments be allowed to spread throughout the city and that addicts and the mentally ill be given free housing with no strings attached.

All of these things were done in the name of saving the environment, social justice, and saving black lives. The result of them was the destruction of the environment, grotesque injustice, and the disproportionate loss of black lives, including from violent crime, which increased 15% since Newsom took office and grew to be 31% higher than the national average.

For decades, Hollywood cranked out movies and TV depicting the exhaustion of natural resources and climate as causing the apocalypse. Yesterday, some reporters and scientists blamed climate change for the lack of rain in LA. That’s ridiculous. There's no trend in annual rainfall from 1877 to 2024. We have wet years and dry years.

Destroying civilization turned out to be expensive, not cheap. Californians pay the highest taxes for the most expensive gasoline, electricity, and water in the nation. Under Newsom, we spent $24 billion to increase homelessness by 40%.

Both ancient wisdom and modern psychology teach us that one can understand a person’s motivation by the consequences of their actions.

California’s Democrats, progressives, and politicians lied when they said their highest priority was protecting the people of California. They lied when they said they cared about social justice. And they lied when they said they cared about protecting the environment.

Instead, what they cared about was destroying the civilization they had long ago decided was evil. All civilizations require a story. The story that built Los Angeles and California was one of human progress. The story that destroyed it was of human sin. For decades, progressives, Democrats, and the news and entertainment media preached that civilization was evil and doomed. Slavery, indigenous genocide, and climate change were proof.

And now, as the city of angels smolders, it’s clear that progressives reaped what they sowed.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

Dresden in Los Angeles and our Confederacy of Dunces

LA is burning. And the derelict people responsible are worried that they are found out as charlatans and empty suits.

The leftwing voters who enabled them are getting angry over the inferno that their chosen politicos green-lighted—as if they are shocked, shocked by the consequences of their voting.

The dam buster Nero Newsom made his accustomed fiddling appearance and then split—when the media began pointing out that he prohibits new reservoirs, sends precious water out to sea, blows up dams, prevents precautionary gleaning of forests and chaparrals, and then usually blames “Climate change” or “Trump” when called to account.

Poor Karen Bass was DEI-ing in Uganda after being previously warned that lack of rain, record winds, and kindling-like hillsides put her city in existential danger: Out of sight, out of mind.

Or did she junket across the world to consult about fire prevention with Ghana’s new president?

Was slashing nearly $18 million from the $50 billion city budget, after bragging about creating “451 new positions” in various woke/DEI fields, a way to prevent 25-square miles of Dresden-like desolation?

The embattled Fire Chief Kristen Crowley for two years has bragged not of response time, not of preventive strategies to stop fires, not of slashed budgets and water shortages, but instead about her DEI credentials as the “first” (fill in the blanks) LGBTQ etc. woman, who has hired “70 percent” of her force as either nonwhite, or nonmale, or nonbinary, or non-old fashioned, tough-guy firefighters.

The LA utility head? Usually AWOL. The permanent director of LA infrastructure is usually quickly fired or resigns for incompetence, bribery, or malfeasance.

Joe Biden? He was there—but only to try to put thousands of acres of federal land off-limits to roadblock the evil incoming Trump administration.

Did Joe have ideas to save LA? Maybe, but as usual he talked instead about himself—in this case his new great-great grandson and the miraculous salvation of his grandkid’s house (not the 1100 structures that then were ashes). And then he left, dispirited that his last junket to Italy may have to be cancelled.

Kamala Harris, our vice president?

Remember her during the 2024 campaign and how she rushed to Florida to glom onto Gov. De Santis’s masterful performance in dealing with record flooding?

Nowhere was the LA resident to be seen, as she too plans next week a last minute multimillion-dollar freebie junket.

What is the attitude of these “public servants” in times of existential crisis?

Maybe it’s: “Ashes, ashes, all fall down”….

[Ben Stevens @BenScottStevens]

Penn State’s two-headed MONSTER in the backfield, from the B1G 🏆 on

Kaytron Allen:
• ORE - 14 att, 124 yds, TD
• SMU - 11 att, 70 yds, 2 TD
• BSU - 17 att, 134 yds

Nick Singleton:
• ORE - 10 att, 105 yds
• SMU - 14 att, 90 yds, TD
• BSU - 12 att, 87 yds, TD

Dynamic duo.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 MAKING DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME PERMANENT: A bill has been filed in the 119th Congress that will abolish changing our clocks.

HR 139 makes Daylight Savings Time permanent. Should it pass?

This means that we would "spring forward" later this year, and never "fall back" again.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

John Fetterman admonishes his fellow Democrats for opposing the Laken Riley Act:

"If we can't come up with at least 7 votes [from Democrat Senators] - that's a reason we lost."

"If you're here illegally and you're committing crimes, I don't know why anybody thinks that it's controversial, that they all need to go."

Good for @JohnFetterman for being willing to say something fair. Sad that this is noteworthy in our current moment, but here we are.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Photos from the insane damage on January 6th, exactly 4 years ago today.

jk. This is from when BLM burned down our country for 6 months and most rioters had their charges dropped.

[Dustin Swartz @DustinSwartz14]

@KeyedInWins @DickieV @IndianaFootball @SMUFB YOU are the one who is not objective. Junior...

[Dustin Swartz @DustinSwartz14]

@Cfish0031 @KeyedInWins @TGWoodsy @DickieV @IndianaFootball @SMUFB The CFP results would disagree with you... but don't let actual game results get in the way of your brilliant "opinions".

[Dustin Swartz @DustinSwartz14]

@KeyedInWins @Cfish0031 @TGWoodsy @DickieV @IndianaFootball @SMUFB I think Tennessee would disagree with you that the Big 10 is overrated. But, hey, don't let facts get in the way of your SEC homerism.

[Dustin Swartz @DustinSwartz14]

@KeyedInWins @DickieV @IndianaFootball @SMUFB Really? Vanderbilt and Oklahoma would be middle-of-the-road ACC teams... get a clue, retard.

[Dustin Swartz @DustinSwartz14]

@crossfire56 @UncomSenseUSA @Pacolypto @dannykanell And if you lose to shifty Vanderbilt and Oklahoma teams, you should be punished, too. But, hey, at least you're consistent...

[Dustin Swartz @DustinSwartz14]

@crossfire56 @Pacolypto @dannykanell Not anymore with NIL... it has massively leveled the playing field.

[Dustin Swartz @DustinSwartz14]

@ChrisHODL21 @CharlottesDad23 @dannykanell Weird how you ignored SEC "powerhouse" Tennessee's embarrassing ass beating... but, hey, at least you're consistent.

[Dustin Swartz @DustinSwartz14]

@LFGM1217 @dannykanell Because Army plays in a FAR WEAKER conference than the Big 10. If you seriously can't see that, you should start following another sport because you are stupid.

[Dustin Swartz @DustinSwartz14]

@Lane_Kiffin You would have gotten embarrassed just like Tennessee did... give it a rest, stop whining gotten, and don't lose to 4-8 teams.

[Dustin Swartz @DustinSwartz14]

@uRichardNoggin @JRodgers11 @WoodsSavannah They would have gotten embarrassed just like Tennessee did...