Excellent point about Dresden's Aryan firefighters. I'm in Berlin now, studying German. In class yesterday a young man talked about visiting Dresden. He didn't know about its WW2 history.
How? With her magic crystal ball that can see into the future? Because those winds only started blowing well AFTER she had left for Ghana. And we get high wind warnings in LA all the time so should every politician cancel their trips every time there's a warning?
From what I have read there were many warnings BEFORE she left LA. Anyway, she was initially MIA when a terrible disaster happened. It does not look good and situations like this have taken down both GOP and DEM politicians.
Ya’all remember an early Super Bowl game, when half time, everybody in a city went to the bathroom at the same time & an entire town flushed their toilets at the same time, which resulted in the town’s water pressure to disappear for a short period.
As a person with expertise in fire protection I must commend you on a simple but very accurate summary of how nowhere in the world is equipped to control this nightmare fire scenario. Nowhere.
This is all facts and information, but again Karen Bass is going to take the fall for this. Mark my words. Because the lies get first past the post and now you have to play catchup from the lies that have already circulated. That's the worse danger when you have billionaire, racist edgelord shitposters gumming up the works. And because such awful people have huge platforms due to the unreconstructed, they'll be the driving force in making sure that California hurts badly, and it bleeds.
Because a majority of California's voters didn't vote for their godking.
"Rightwing politicians and media are coming for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, accusing her of incompetence because she hasn’t personally stopped the multiple devastating wildfires, driven by hurricane-force winds, that have burned across the Los Angeles area since the fires blew up a week ago today."
Add to the list that she wasn't prescient enough to not go to Ghana as one of four delegate Pres Biden sent to attend the inauguration of their new President:
"Bass, a former U.S. representative who chaired the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations, was part of a four-member presidential delegation attending Tuesday's inauguration of John Dramani Mahama as Ghana's president." https://abcnews.go.com/US/los-angeles-mayor-karen-bass-pushes-back-criticism/story?id=117512817
That bastion of stalwart, fearless reporters and editors who maintained their balanced coverage throughout the '24 election -- the NYT -- is helping the Right wingnut narrative (surprise!) by bitching that Mayor Bass went back on a pledge she made to them in 2021 to not travel internationally:
Let me ask a question: is there anybody who thinks that anyone affiliated with the Times, when choosing between a three plus year promise not to travel internationally (in Bass' case it was also prior to being elected so there's that) and a request from POTUS to go overseas would ignore the President to keep a promise? And I'll answer: of course they would, a person's honor must take precedence over the request of a mere (old and tired) POTUS.
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"Los Angeles is among the most diverse cities in the country, so of course city departments are committed to diversity, especially after a long history of discriminatory practices."
Yes, but stepping on the heads of ***cough, cough*** highly competent White men (I'll throw out a random sample that fits the description: Pete Hegseth) for the sake of slightly qualified women or POCs -- and by definition neither demographic can be as competent as a White man, especially in a job as demanding as firefighting -- when hiring, well... that's just plain wrong. Anyone who can't see that must be looking through the lens of a Leftist, Socialist, Fascist, Communist, LGBTQIA+ rights loving, Drag show attending, very unpatriotic Lib!
What I think The Left is missing when it disses Fox News on the LA fires is that Fox News is in the entertainment business, not the news business, and its commentary on the Woke LA mayor and fire hydrants and DEI is the kind of entertainment the Fox News demographic demands. So quit shooting the messenger!
Thank you, Dok, for mentioning Dresden. Most Americans are not taught about what happened in Dresden, which is that between 25,000 and 35,000 people died. The Allied bombing and the resulting firestorm destroyed more than 1,600 acres (6.5 km2) of the city center. Some people consider the bombing of Dresden to be a war crime.
All bombings of cities are war crimes. All combatants in WW2 who had an air force and capacity did it, British, Germans, Americans, Japanese, Russians. Postwar too, Americans, Russians, Saudis, Iranians, Israelis, various non-state actors.
Besides being a war crime, it's also often an effective action to achieve war goals.
The Parable of the Sower has become non fiction.
Notice how fires were contained when winds weren't preventing aerial drops?
"Presidential Commemorative Inaugural Diet Coke Bottle" presented by Coke CEO. You move, Kimberly Clark's Depends CEO.
and Mickey D's where ya at bros? comemrative big Mac for the orange appocalypse
Excellent point about Dresden's Aryan firefighters. I'm in Berlin now, studying German. In class yesterday a young man talked about visiting Dresden. He didn't know about its WW2 history.
I appreciate this article, but is does not negate the fact that
Newsome and Bass look incompetent.
Because the sensationalist media and Republicans want you to believe that.
Do you have a better suggestion on how to "look better" with unimaginable wildfires and hurricane-force winds?
Bass should have stayed home. She knew the wildfires were going to be awful.
How? With her magic crystal ball that can see into the future? Because those winds only started blowing well AFTER she had left for Ghana. And we get high wind warnings in LA all the time so should every politician cancel their trips every time there's a warning?
From what I have read there were many warnings BEFORE she left LA. Anyway, she was initially MIA when a terrible disaster happened. It does not look good and situations like this have taken down both GOP and DEM politicians.
Ya’all remember an early Super Bowl game, when half time, everybody in a city went to the bathroom at the same time & an entire town flushed their toilets at the same time, which resulted in the town’s water pressure to disappear for a short period.
Rick Caruso would have built a wall to stop the winds. ‘cuz he’s a builder guy
Saw him on TV. Funny, he never said what he would have done differently.
Things will be perfectly fine when President Musk is sworn in Jan 20. 😉
As a person with expertise in fire protection I must commend you on a simple but very accurate summary of how nowhere in the world is equipped to control this nightmare fire scenario. Nowhere.
Ta, Dok. Right, blame the Black woman. For a natural disaster of epic proportions caused by climate change. FFS!
This is all facts and information, but again Karen Bass is going to take the fall for this. Mark my words. Because the lies get first past the post and now you have to play catchup from the lies that have already circulated. That's the worse danger when you have billionaire, racist edgelord shitposters gumming up the works. And because such awful people have huge platforms due to the unreconstructed, they'll be the driving force in making sure that California hurts badly, and it bleeds.
Because a majority of California's voters didn't vote for their godking.
Because California is a diverse state.
A white man could just piss out the fires, right?
It's all many of them are good for.
"Rightwing politicians and media are coming for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, accusing her of incompetence because she hasn’t personally stopped the multiple devastating wildfires, driven by hurricane-force winds, that have burned across the Los Angeles area since the fires blew up a week ago today."
Add to the list that she wasn't prescient enough to not go to Ghana as one of four delegate Pres Biden sent to attend the inauguration of their new President:
"Bass, a former U.S. representative who chaired the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations, was part of a four-member presidential delegation attending Tuesday's inauguration of John Dramani Mahama as Ghana's president." https://abcnews.go.com/US/los-angeles-mayor-karen-bass-pushes-back-criticism/story?id=117512817
That bastion of stalwart, fearless reporters and editors who maintained their balanced coverage throughout the '24 election -- the NYT -- is helping the Right wingnut narrative (surprise!) by bitching that Mayor Bass went back on a pledge she made to them in 2021 to not travel internationally:
"in an interview on Oct. 17, 2021....
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telling The Times that if she was elected mayor, “not only would I of course live here, but I also would not travel internationally — the only places I would go would be D.C., Sacramento, San Francisco and New York, in relation to L.A.”" https://abcnews.go.com/US/los-angeles-mayor-karen-bass-pushes-back-criticism/story?id=117512817
Let me ask a question: is there anybody who thinks that anyone affiliated with the Times, when choosing between a three plus year promise not to travel internationally (in Bass' case it was also prior to being elected so there's that) and a request from POTUS to go overseas would ignore the President to keep a promise? And I'll answer: of course they would, a person's honor must take precedence over the request of a mere (old and tired) POTUS.
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"Los Angeles is among the most diverse cities in the country, so of course city departments are committed to diversity, especially after a long history of discriminatory practices."
Yes, but stepping on the heads of ***cough, cough*** highly competent White men (I'll throw out a random sample that fits the description: Pete Hegseth) for the sake of slightly qualified women or POCs -- and by definition neither demographic can be as competent as a White man, especially in a job as demanding as firefighting -- when hiring, well... that's just plain wrong. Anyone who can't see that must be looking through the lens of a Leftist, Socialist, Fascist, Communist, LGBTQIA+ rights loving, Drag show attending, very unpatriotic Lib!
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What I think The Left is missing when it disses Fox News on the LA fires is that Fox News is in the entertainment business, not the news business, and its commentary on the Woke LA mayor and fire hydrants and DEI is the kind of entertainment the Fox News demographic demands. So quit shooting the messenger!
Thanks Obama.
Yes
Thank you, Dok, for mentioning Dresden. Most Americans are not taught about what happened in Dresden, which is that between 25,000 and 35,000 people died. The Allied bombing and the resulting firestorm destroyed more than 1,600 acres (6.5 km2) of the city center. Some people consider the bombing of Dresden to be a war crime.
All bombings of cities are war crimes. All combatants in WW2 who had an air force and capacity did it, British, Germans, Americans, Japanese, Russians. Postwar too, Americans, Russians, Saudis, Iranians, Israelis, various non-state actors.
Besides being a war crime, it's also often an effective action to achieve war goals.