Some asked what could have been done differently in LA - I do lunges for a living and even I can figure this out:
1. Have existing reservoirs filled. If repairs are needed do them during rainy season or after new ones are built.
2. Build the new reservoirs Californians voted to fund in 2014 - not one is complete.
3. Stop using tax payer dollars to fund crazy sh!+ like drug kits to the homeless and fund desalination plants.
4. Increase funding to the fire department - don’t cut it.
4. Do prescribed control burns!
5. Create fire breaks.
6. Divert the water for the smelt fish back to urban areas. - when the fire retardant and fire waste washes into the ocean those fish are screwed way worse.
6. Get nut farmers out of Cali and into another state. It takes 1.1 gallons of water to grow an almond.
7. Make sure during fire season the mayor is in LA so someone can declare a federal emergency - this way the navy choppers that drop water could have been deployed immediately. Not days later.
8. Call in the National guard before all of LA is on fire and being looted.
9. Force the privately owned utility companies to update their 100 year old equipment so it doesn’t fail and start fires and kill people and animals.
11. Recall Gavin Newsome.
This is from my friend @ericspiegelman, who served as a commissioner under both Mayor Garcetti (and then Bass, for a moment).
There is no end to the ball-dropping this week by Karen Bass and her office.
NEW: Los Angeles residents execute a leg hook takedown before making a citizens arrest after finding a man allegedly trying to start fires.
Beautiful.
One witness said the men used zip ties and rope to detain the arsonist suspect.
The incident unfolded when a local was driving by and he saw the man with a yellow blow torch.
With help from neighbors, they cornered him and made the citizens arrest.
“We really banded together as a group. A few gentlemen surrounded him and got him on his knees. They got some zip ties, a rope and we were able to do a citizens’ arrest,” a witness said.
LAPD has not yet released the man’s name or his connection to the fires.
Video: @MattSeedorff (FOXLA), charleichar on TT.
CA, and especially LA, is controlled by Democrats. THEY are responsible. No more passing the buck.
Our Mayor, who was in Ghana as fires exploded in our city, cut the fire budget by $17 million. Endless amounts of money funneled to bullshit scammer homeless nonprofits. We’re the highest taxed yet we have encampments and squalor everywhere. Even worse, we don’t have enough firefighters to respond to the absolute disaster we’re experiencing right now. Rather than conserve the record rain we got last year, we just drained it into the ocean. We are a failing city run by a sick excuse for local government.
You want to radicalize people against the modern Democratic Party? Send them to LA.
I may never forgive people for thinking that the man who built The Grove, Americana & Palisades Village wouldn't be as good a mayor as the SEIU pick. Thanks for calling in to @FOXLA, @RickCarusoLA.
We need competent leadership.
@elonmuskADO I still say twitter. It’s doesn’t flow in a sentence. “I saw this on X”… doesn’t work. I have to say twitter for it to even sound like a full sentence. You could’ve picked anything but a consonant that sounds like a vowel doesn’t phonetically work
Dear American University Students…
You have every single American politician and mainstream media outlet in absolute meltdown…
They care more about your actions in standing in solidarity with Palestinians…
Then the actions of Israel bombing hospitals, universities, refugee camps, WCK workers and children…
You are fkn AMAZING…
Kind Regards… THE WORLD…🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Emory's Caroline Fohlin is knocked down by the police while shouting: “I’m a professor!!” Hear the disbelief in her voice. She never expected to be treated like this by her own university for protesting Israel's slaughter.
But remember, democracy is on the ballot in Nov...
@jonathanhatami Thank you for being the first to start this fight against Gascon. Because of you, we now have an opportunity to change LA. Wish it was you at the helm but this is a good start.
UPDATE: 15 million views now for my interview with @Byoussef - making it the most-watched interview I’ve done since the launch of @PiersUncensored . https://t.co/BTHgYQ9hRi