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"The adumbrations of this fiasco will darken our national life for years to come."

I really, really doubt it.

What about the effect the LA Riots in 1965, from August 11 to August 16 in Watts? I was 11-years-old watching the TV with my father. Scared the crap out me. Except that the city I was living just outside of, Philadelphia, was rioting, too. American cities were rioting all over back then.

What effect did those riots have on the national psyche? None.

What about the LA Rodney King riots in 1992? LA has been rioting for decades. Nothing gets any better, just way, way worse.

The fires should be a relief. Burn it all down. Get rid of the evidence. Start over. Just like in Hawaii. Use the fire for another land grab.

These LA fires were set by arsonists, just months after LA Insurance Companies cancelled tens of thousands of insurance policies to people whose homes just burned to the ground. Sound familiar? And, there was no water in the fire hydrants to combat the fires with "because of government incompetence?" Again, sound familiar? OMG.

"Taxes are the price you pay for civilization." Had enough of both, yet? I know: Let's send more billions of American Taxpayer money to Ukrainian Nazis.

A healthcare system CEO getting shot in the head several times wasn't message enough? How about when insurance company CEOs start getting bumped off? Enough then?

Probably not.

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Ukrainian Nazis supported by the BIden Mob.

National insurance companies requested rate increases to offset the costs of previous wildfires throughout the state. They were refused by the Mob in Sacramento. So they cut all the California home owners off. Insurance is NOT a bottomless pit of money, like the Blues think they are. Just like the Federal government. Blues are going to be the death of America.

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The WSJ had a good editorial today (California's Fire Insurance Catastrophe) and put the blame squarely on the government.

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The no water in the hydrants is a problem with no simple solution.. You can only get so much water through a pipe. I don't know the size of the mains in the Palisades but if you open up too many outlets obviously the pressure will continue to drop. We have hydrants in my town that are known to be no good. Small mains and sediment build up. You can't get much water out of them. Eventually there will be zero pressure, perhaps even negative pressure if engines are pulling too much. Being hilly terrain there will be much better pressure at lower elevations. I saw a guy on TV saying when he evacuated he put his sprinklers on the roof turned on the water and left. How many others did this?

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Right now, we are living in a world where sometimes there just isn't enough fire in California.

It's like how there are too many coffee drinkers. There just isn't enough land or climate to grow enough coffee beans. For coffee they are talking about substitutes. At prices that are already unaffordable in a world run on debt, AKA "Spare No Expense."

In the 1980s over 30-percent of the food was processed. Artificial. Substitutes. Like McCormick's gravy packets. That figure as grow to over 70-percent today. So has the number of obese people. And Type II Diabetes. There just isn't enough real food to feed 8-billion people. Meanwhile, anything in a bag or box will kill you. And look at the prices you pay for food today. Look at the prices you pay for house and homeowner's insurance -- not just in California.

Is there a substitute for water? Is there a substitute for fire? Meanwhile anything combustible (like houses) will kill you in a fire. And look at the price you pay for insurance -- if you can get it.

Someday all this stops, like when California Insurance Companies cancelled the homeowner's insurance for tens of thousands of "insureds," just 3-months before the fires -- probably all set by insurance arsonists. Like in Hawaii.

Your house, your car, your bank, your homeowner's insurance policy, your grocery store are all fires waiting to happen.

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Apparently the Life Insurance people weren't in on the Vax scam. Screwed.

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Be a great time for a meme campaign. Would you rather DC get nuked by Russia or get drafted to fight them. I bet the answers would scare the elites even more than the support for Luigi did.

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