Daming Liu

I am so over trading

[Daming Liu @daming23]

@Dodgers CLUTCH AS ALWAYS

[Aus Integrity @QBCCIntegrity]

Everyone using Grok to call out Starmer, Merz & Macron coke incident on the train to Kiev as “Ai Generated”, here’s the view from the other camera you see in the next clip in the thread tagged for CN.

Globalist leaders are making decisions about war under the influence.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

HOLY SH*T 🚨 Huntington Beach California said they will declare themselves a Non Sanctuary City

They are directly defying Gavin Newscum to work with Donald Trump to DEPORT illegals

CALIFORNIA IS WAKING UP

[George @BehizyTweets]

Dear Liberals,

This is what a non-DEI hire looks like.

Watch how Pete Hegseth answered Senator Eric Schmitt's question with perfect articulation & detail. He didn't mention how poor he was growing up. He just answered the question.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

BREAKING: LA's newly-elected DA Nate Hochman announces charges against 3 criminals who stole $200,000 from an evacuated home during the fire.

2 face life in prison. 1 faces 22 years.

[Citizen Free Press @CitizenFreePres]

SENATOR MARKWAYNE MULLIN IS COOKING WITH GAS.

This is one of the best moments from the Hegseth hearing.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

ELIZABETH WARREN: "You are quite sure every General who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for 10 years but you're not willing to make that same pledge?"

HEGSETH: "I'm not a General, Senator."

[Carl DeMaio @carldemaio]

BREAKING - An L.A. fire arson suspect Juan Manuel Sierra is not only here illegally, but has been in trouble with CA law enforcement 17 times in the last 8 years! From robbery to vandalism to assault with a deadly weapon!

ICE says they asked CA officials to honor their deportation requests, but they refused citing CA's Sanctuary State law!

Repeal Sanctuary State NOW!!

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Trump is just straight up posting text messages now about the absolute disaster state that Los Angeles is in right now

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Is it stupidity or self-loathing when taxpayers pay 13% state tax and get total and complete incompetence?

What are the wins that California residents point to as points of pride to justify the status quo? Said differently, how much economic and ecological destruction do we need to suffer before a majority say enough is enough and break the Democratic cartel that is ruining our beautiful state.

How many more businesses need to leave? How many hi earning residents need to leave? How much further do test scores need to fall? How much more looting and crime do people need to suffer?

I hope this fire is a wake up call that gross taxation, regulation and moral grandstanding doesn’t equate to effective governance. In fact it enables the exact opposite.

California is riddled with grossly ineffective politicians and bureaucrats.

Much like with alcoholism, the cure starts with deprivation. Giving these people less resources is the critical first step. The second is to replace them, writ large, with people who are resourceful and smart. Find operators willing to spend a few years away from private industry to run our critical organizations.

An entire batch of new people with some modicum of operational experience will then prove what many other places already know: you can do more with less by being transparent, accountable and experienced.

Not experienced in grift, corruption and politics. But experienced in results, metrics and accountability.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

Karen Bass spoke at the Directors Guild of America three months after taking office as Mayor of LA, in February of 2023. I already didn't think she could do the job, but she really confirmed it that night with these statements:
- She hadn't planned on running for Mayor. So, no forethought.
- She appeared to know NOTHING about the entertainment business. This is like the Mayor of Las Vegas knowing nothing about the casino business.
- She had not staffed her office yet. How do you not put that together before election day? She asked the crowd to recommend people, as if we were a live Craig's List.
- She seemed unable to move off her "homeless campaign" speak. She suggested that film productions give jobs to homeless people. Random homeless people, when our business, FULL of experienced, talented people, was hurting from the decrease in productions.

Karen Bass needs to resign immediately.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

As a new wave of fire and high winds threaten Los Angeles, the media is reporting that California’s elected leaders are not to blame and that right-wing influencers and Donald Trump are spreading misinformation and politicizing a tragedy. Racial and gender quotas through DEI aren’t to blame. No, Mayor Karen Bass didn’t cut the Fire Department’s budget. No, Gavin Newsom didn’t cut CalFire’s wildfire prevention budget. And no, there wasn’t any way to prevent these fires or the fire hydrant water from running out. Climate change made the disaster inevitable due to “whiplashing” rain levels.

They’re all lies. The Fire Department had made DEI such a priority that the city’s Deputy Fire Chief dismissed concerns that women would not be able to carry a man out of a fire by saying, “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.” Newsom did indeed reduce CalFire’s wildfire prevention budget by $150 million in 2020. If California had elected leaders who cared about the people and were competent, they could have prevented the catastrophic fires from destroying 14,000 homes and businesses and forcing nearly 200,000 people to evacuate. Climate change is not responsible for the disasters and there is no change in the rain pattern.

As always, nuance is required. The offhand remark by the Fire Chief is not proof that DEI contributed to the inadequate response. The disaster is decades in the making. LA’s leaders have known that the city was unprepared for catastrophic wildfires since the Bel Air Fire of 1961, which occurred when Karen Bass was a child and Gavin Newsom wasn’t alive. LA’s fire budget had actually increased by about $50 million compared to the last budget, reported Politico, Time, and the LA Times. And Newsom increased the CalFire budget after 2020 and increased land treated for wildfire prevention by 90,000 acres.

But these facts are either wrong, misleading, or both. The attitude toward vulnerable men expressed by the deputy Fire Chief is deeply alarming and anathema to firefighter ethics. That the disaster was decades in the making makes the inaction by California political leaders even more inexcusable. The City Council in November approved $53 million to raise salaries, but that funding is completely irrelevant to the millions Bass cut, which her fire chief last month said had “severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.” And while funding for wildfire prevention increased recently, it wasn’t enough, and Newsom was caught overstating how much land was treated by 690%.

The amount of irresponsibility and incompetence displayed by Newsom and Bass is so extreme that insiders are coming forward and speaking out publicly.

The owner of the Los Angeles Times went on national television to call it “crazy that we don’t elect leaders with competence.”

And LA Fire Chief Kristen Crowley went on CNN, CBS, and Fox to denounce Bass. “Let me be clear,” she said, “the $17 million budget cut… did absolutely negatively impact…. We do not have enough firefighters….We need 62 more fire stations. We've had a 55 percent increase in overall call volume since 2010 and we’re doing it with less firefighters.”

As I reported yesterday, over half of all fires that the LA Fire Department puts out are started by the homeless, who may well have started some of the fires ravaging LA. Gavin Newsom spent $24 billion of taxpayer money to increase homelessness by 40% since he took office. Karen Bass ran on a promise to force the homeless inside into shelters but has not done so.

Every hour that passes, more information emerges of the corruption, incompetence, and failure. A major reservoir in Pacific Palisades, an epicenter of the fires, was out of commission for minor repairs when disaster struck. Had it been in operation, water pressure would have lasted longer during critical hours, and many homes may have been saved.

Yesterday, a leaked LA government memo revealed that Bass had intended to cut an additional $49 million, on top of the $17.5 million already cut, from the fire budget.

“I was also directed to develop a plan as part of a budget reduction exercise, and that could equate to 48.8 million,” the LA Fire chief told CNN. “I rang the bell that these additional cuts could be very, very devastating for our ability to provide public safety. That would have resulted to 15 fire stations closing down and potentially the elimination of over 300 firefighters.”

The date of the memo is January 6, which is four days after the National Weather Service warned of danger, two days after Bass flew to Ghana on a vanity junket, and one day before the start of the Palisades fire.

And LA Fire Department insiders say the head of the city’s Department of Water and Power, who Bass hired, knowingly left fire hydrants remain broken for months, and was the person responsible for draining the emptied reservoir.

The response from the news media is that critics of all of this should shut up. “We’re on fire,” editorializedthe LA Times. “Maybe this is not the time for your political hot take.”

Why are the LA Times and others in the media defending Bass and Newsom?

In large measure because they officially endorsed them. More than that. They actively campaign for them. The hyper-partisan turn of California media two decades ago predated the more recent hyper-partisan nature of the national media. That Democrats had total, supermajority control over the state for 20 years made California media super-authoritarian.

The LA Times, in particular is a radical Left publication. It has for years adamantly opposed hospitalizing homeless mentally ill people or requiring homeless addicts to go inside. In both 2020 and in 2021, the LA Times editorial board called for defunding the police to divert funding to social services. For the LA Times, Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, who visited Cuba at least eight times, expressing admiration for its system of socialist dictatorship, aren’t Left-wing enough.

For the media and California’s politicians, the problem is we the people. We complain too much. Our taxes aren’t high enough. We’re causing too much climate change. We get too much in the way of police and fire fighting. And most of all, we spend too much time listening to right-wing influencers who only spread misinformation. We need to sit down and shut up.

Like LA’s radical Left deputy fire chief, the media and California’s politicians believe, deep down, that if the people of Los Angeles have to be rescued from fires, then that’s just proof that they got themselves in the wrong place.

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

HAPPENING NOW: Mexican immigrants are protesting deportations in California.

As an immigrant, I say to all immigrants:
If you don’t like American policies, go back to your home country and work to change the policies there. Full stop.

[Eric Abbenante @EricAbbenante]

Adam Carolla tells those affected by the LA wildfires that 'You asked for it' by voting Democrat:
Adam Carolla: "Gavin Newsom, you know, got recalled essentially, and he still won. We had a choice between Rick Caruso. For mayor we ended up with Karen Bass. We sort of get what we deserve.
And I do want to say to all the people in Malibu, very Blue Palisades, very blue, Santa monica, very blue.
You guys like all this: You voted for these people.
You're sitting around right now going, how come the fire hydrants don't work? Where's the mayor? Why is she out of the country? What's going on with the aqueduct? You voted for these people. This is who you voted for. You in Santa monica. You live in these places.
You think it's more important to have a woman of color versus a qualified person?
You think it's more important to have a lesbian running the fire department than a qualified person? Well, you asked for it. You got it. Now, your house is on fire."

Democrats elected people who were so inept they reportedly did not want to drop seawater on the fire because they were worried about the saltwater harming the vegetation.
As thousands of homes burn , Democrats: 'Think of the plants!'

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: LA Mayor Karen Bass called for $49M in additional cuts to the fire department just *one week* before the LA fires which would have shut down 16 fire stations.

California: We deserve better leaders.

The revelation was made by the Daily Mail who obtained a leaked internal memo.

"The LAFD is still going through a [financial year] 2024/2025 $48.8million budget reduction exercise with the [City Attorney's Office]," the document read.

"The only way to provide a cost savings would be to close as many as 16 fire stations (not resources, fire stations); this equates to at least one fire station per City Council District."

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

She was paid $750,000 a year to keep fire hydrants empty?

She should be fired and prosecuted.

[Ann Vandersteel™️ Renner for Governor of Florida @annvandersteel]

BREAKING: Up to 6 FIRES BURNING NOW.

11 DEAD.

$135-$150 BILLION in damage.

10,000 homes and businesses destroyed.

NO WATER!

Pacific Palisades reservoir empty and off-line.

Defunded and understaffed fire department.

AND THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE IS BUSY WORRYING ABOUT TRUMP-PROOFING THE STATE!!!

They’re worrying about PROTECTING ILLEGALS, WHILE THEIR REAL CITIZENS BURN!

Get these FUCKING CLOWNS outta there!😡😡🤬

[Stella X @Stellaaa]

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP.

Gavin Newsom bitching on live TV about Trump not having visited Los Angeles this week despite the fact that Trump isn’t even in office and BIDEN IS STILL PRESIDENT.

Reprehensible.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The real red pill will come when people try to get permits to rebuild their homes and face multiyear waits.

This might finally spell doom for the Coastal Commission, which should not even exist as an organization.