Gavin Newsom is unfit to run the state of California. The fire that has consumed tens of thousands of acres at the time of this writing could have been controlled had he not ignored warnings. The devastation of these fires will be felt for years to come as the death toll rises and over 100,000 residents have been forced to flee their homes.
The fires began in the Pacific Palisades on the morning of January 7. All three 1-million-gallon water tanks were completely empty by the evening. In 2019, then-President Trump demanded that Newsom turn his attention to forest management.
“Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way,” Trump recently said.
“He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn’t work!), but didn’t care about the people of California. Now the ultimate price is being paid. I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean, fresh water to FLOW INTO CALIFORNIA! He is the blame for this. On top of it all, no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes. A true disaster!” Trump added.
Newsom is blaming CLIMATE CHANGE for the failed response. “We’re successfully waging war against thousands of fires started across the state in the last few weeks due to extreme weather created by climate change while Trump is conducting a full on assault against the antidotes,” Newsom said in response to Trump’s message, the Washington Post reported at the time.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was 7,400 miles away in Ghana as the fires broke out. Bass approved of cutting $17.6 million in funding from the Los Angeles Fire Department’s budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year. “Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while their homes were burning, and do you regret cutting the Fire Department budget by millions of dollars madame mayor?” Sky News asked Bass when after her plane landed. “No apology for them? Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?” he said. Naturally, she had no comment. In fact, she had pushed to decrease the department’s budget by $20 million but was met with minor pushback. Those funds were redirected at the California slush funds intended to help the homeless, and sadly, the number of homeless will significantly rise after this incident.
The mental gymnastics one must do to continue supporting these blue policies is astonishing. This catastrophe was completely unrelated to climate change. Newsom and Bass FAILED California and should be forced to resign immediately.
