ericcspooner

Christian | Husband | Father | Passionate about BIM, ConTech, AI/ML and advocating for Americans constitutional liberties. Views are my own.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Over the next few weeks you’re going to hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there’s nothing that could have been done to prevent the fires from destroying Los Angeles.

Those will be lies. They could have prevented them. Governor Newsom cut the funding for preventing forest fires and failed to build sufficient water resources for fighting fires. Mayor Karen Bass cut $17.5 million in funding for the Los Angeles Fire Department and then went to Ghana even though she knew of the risk of catastrophic fires.

It’s true that California, in general, and Los Angeles, in particular, are fiery places. It’s true that the Santa Ana winds made the fires worse.

But Newsom and Bass have known about those hazards for all of their careers and failed to deal with them. Their rank incompetence and lack of leadership are shocking and scandalous.

It’s hard to overstate how badly they screwed up water management. LA firefighters haven’t had the water they needed. Newsom hasn’t built the new water reservoirs that Los Angeles needed. And Newsom even cut the budget for water infrastructure projects last year.

Why is that? Part of the reason is that they were focused on other things. Making the fire department more racially diverse. Climate change. Homelessness.

And the reason they were focused on those things is because those are what the radical Left that controls the Democratic party wanted them to focus on.

Year after year, they do nothing while focusing on things like trans and Trump and climate and ignoring the things that really matter to the people of California.

The Democrats in California aren’t like Democrats in other states. They are radicals. I would know, since when I was a young radical I moved to California for that reason.

As many of us get older, we become more moderate. We become more practical. We understand firefighters and police officers are necessary. We are reminded of the importance of things like safe streets and hard work and good schools.

But more than that, I saw the consequences of radical progressive policies on the environment, homelessness, crime, education, water, and everything else. Violent criminals, in particular, are devouring Los Angeles, Oakland, and the rest of California.

The people who control the Democratic Party in California worship books about Los Angeles, like City of Quartz by the Marxist author Mike Davis. In that book, Davis claims that the problem in Los Angeles is that too much money goes to things like firefighting to protect wealthy neighborhoods.

They did the same thing on crime and homelessness. They failed to provide adequate funding to the police. They weakened the laws that allowed for burglaries and robberies. They subsidized homelessness, attracting homeless people from around the United States to camp illegally and start fires.

Over half of the fires in places like Los Angeles and Oakland are caused by the homeless committing arson, often out of some petty revenge.

We don’t know what started all of the fires, but at least one started within the housing subdivision. Others may have started in the interface between housing and wildlands. Or it could have been started by the homeless.

Whatever the case, California and LA didn’t invest enough in preventing fires because they were distracted by radical Left causes.

When Rick Caruso ran for Mayor against Karen Bass, he called for increasing the fire department’s budget.

A big part of the reason he lost is simply because he was white. I watched focus groups in 2022 and the most racist people were white liberals in Los Angeles. When they discussed the mayoral race, the white people overwhelmingly said they couldn’t vote for a white man and had to vote for a black woman because she was black.

The Latino men and women in separate focus groups were much less racist. They wanted to know about their policies.

It was the radical Left that invented the racist idea that white people alive today should feel guilty about things white people did in the past. Racist white guilt led people in Los Angeles and California to vote against a guy who would have prevented those fires.

And so, over the next few weeks, when you hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there’s nothing they could have done to prevent the fires from destroying Los Angeles, don’t believe them.

It’s time for California to grow up and move beyond the juvenile Leftism that has destroyed the state and destroyed Los Angeles. We can’t trust our leaders to run anything. It’s not just incompetence. It’s that they really don’t care.

It’s time for Californians to demand new leaders — ones who aren’t beholden to the radicals who control the Democratic Party. .

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I have a message for all you MAGAs out there.

You are winning. Not only are you winning, but you won (past tense).

I know it’s hard to believe. Depending on your age, no Republican has ever delivered liberty in your lifetime other than Reagan. You have watched the country slip deeper and deeper into neo-Marxist decline for decades, with the likes of the Bush family, Romney and McCain doing very little to slow the decline (in fact, they accelerated it).

Even when Trump was elected in 2016, your hope was extinguished quite rapidly as the D.C. Beltway stomped on his inexperienced promise, just as they did to the Tea Party.

The Obama years were unendurable. It seemed everything was against the Constitution and the basic framework of morality that once defined America. It was hopeless. I was there with you. 2008 to 2016 were years of deep depression for me too. I truly get it. Despair and hopelessness were everywhere, and not a glimmer of light shined through the veil of evil. I totally understand your feelings of trepidation and distrust now.

But prayer works, and it did.

Consider 2024.

Whatever you call it—the “Deep State,” the “Establishment,” the “Blob”—whatever it was, from 2020 to 2024 it expended every bit of ammunition it had, it called in every trick and favor it knew, it liquidated all of its reserves, it poured out all of its power, it spent all of its money, it called in all of its reinforcements, it did EVERYTHING in its power—and it lost.

Bigly.

Starting in 2020 with the steal of the election and the installment of a braindead puppet and his equally insipid Veep, the Blob was secure in its belief that it could extinguish the MAGA spirit. The lawfare was new and unprecedented, and they were utterly confident it would succeed. The media lies were ever-present and voluminous, and it seemed nothing could stop their tidal wave of disinformation. They shut down the country over the flu. They suppressed social media. They burned our cities down. They installed a new, vapid puppet candidate when their old puppet candidate had his brain atrophy beyond usability. They flooded the airwaves and the Internet with lie after lie after lie about Trump and Vance and everyone even tangentially in their circle.

None of it worked. NONE OF IT.

The veil was torn away.

The PEOPLE (the ones at the top of that pesky Constitution, you know, “We the PEOPLE…”) saw through it. All of the Blob’s tricks ceased to work. ALL OF THEM. We collectively became Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. We saw the man behind the curtain and knew he was nothing. We tore the curtain away. We came to understand that the power is OUR power, and not that of the deceitful “wizard.”

The fact that Trump won despite the expenditure of every asset at his enemies’ disposal shows that the People are wise, the People have regained control of their destiny, and the Blob’s hypnotic spell over the People has been thoroughly, utterly, completely and permanently broken.

You have won.

YOU HAVE WON.

Zuckerberg’s surrender today is extraordinary proof of what I say.

If I was a preacher I would be in the town square, standing on a milk crate, with my megaphone set at 11.

But like all victories, the win can be squandered. Do not squander it.

Now is the time for big dreams. Greenland. The Panama Canal. Destroying the Deep State. Ending DEI. Ending racism. Making America healthy again. Creating unprecedented prosperity for all. Ending forever wars. Uniting the nation behind our founding principles. BIG, BIG dreams—and they are now attainable.

We stand at the precipice of an opportunity to redefine who we are, but we must stay united.

Donald Trump is a unique visionary. He is the sort of man that comes along only every 500 years or so. America has never seen anything like Donald Trump. Please give him your trust, at least for now. Keep winning bigly. Please unite behind his agenda.

Optimism is infectious, as is pessimism. To exploit the victory we already won, we need to be united, optimistic, happy warriors. That happiness and unanimity will demoralize our enemies and cement our victory for future generations. We cannot let the enemy off of the metaphorical wrestling mat into which we shoved their lying, deceitful mouths.

You say you disagree with Trump on some things? That’s fair. That’s America. Voice your disagreement. But when push comes to shove, please realize that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and that at the end of the day we’re all on the same team pushing for the fulfillment of America’s promise.

Go team.

Thank you.

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@BasedMikeLee Nuclear power!

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Can we make this man the next Speaker of the House!? Please 🙏

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

This isn’t complicated.

Separate the bills and vote on them individually.

one vote on the clean CR

one vote on the debt limit

one vote on disaster relief

one vote on farm bailouts

Radical right? Individual bills for each issue.

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@XDOGENEWS I would prefer no federal income tax. But, if we must, let’s do flat tax.

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