It will be 20 years before these neighborhoods are fully rebuilt. California created this problem by not allowing deforestation, closing dams, lack of water management and Marxist treatment of insurer concerns last year. No wonder StateFarm Farmers etc bailed. Now the rest of America will have to bail out these folks who voted for the bad decision makers that led to bad decisions. FJB
It will be 20 years before these neighborhoods are fully rebuilt. California created this problem by not allowing deforestation, closing dams, lack of water management and Marxist treatment of insurer concerns last year. No wonder StateFarm Farmers etc bailed. Now the rest of America will have to bail out these folks who voted for the bad decision makers that led to bad decisions. FJB
"Joe Biden" said that el gobierno federale will pay 100%. They then threw 2,000 people out of temporary housing arrangements in North Carolina hill country during unusually severe winter storms. If those NC folks were illegal alien members of Biden's Foreign Legion they could be riding scooters in La La Land, paying for everything with United Nations debit cards while they set brush fires before heading back to their free hotel rooms.
ItтАЩs gonna be very interesting to see who can handle the truth following TrumpтАЩs swashbuckling.
And I love Trump and MAGA!
But the traps are far and wide тАФ deceptive and deep. Question is: Will TrumpтАЩs insatiable need to be loved, and his тАШdreamsтАЩ of тАШWinningтАЩ overwhelm the REALISTIC approach to the fantasies of тАШCalifornia DreaminтАЩ ?
California is NOT the Jerusalem of the Promised Land; NOT тАШAlmost HeavenтАЩ; NOT the New Jerusalem of American Manifest Destiny.
California IS a failed, fallen, flagrantly oppressive Republic that mirrors the Great Whore of Babylon тАФ тАЬI sit a QueenтАЭ тАФ demanding the favors of all nations, including the тАШUnitedтАЩ States of America, over which she claims dominance.
President Trump is a world-class leader. But, as one who does not consume strong drink тАФ Will he be deceived by drinking тАЬthe wine of her wrathтАЭ, becoming drunk and seduced by her excess ?
Somehow the basic values need to be identified and understood; otherwise, тАШyou canтАЩt make a silk purse out of a sowтАЩs earтАЩ comes to mind.
And if there is NO Due Diligence тАФ тАШyou canтАЩt polish a turdтАЩ stops you dead in your tracks.
I.E. : If there is no Reformation in California,
The same fate awaits the rest of us as did Hosea with Gomer. . . . With more devastating results.
Trump can't wait to make the Dems appear as idiots. He'll come into town at meet with the home losers and get things going on the rebuilding. It will be a massive task, but nothing Trump can't handle.
While Trump may be a good man he isn't God. This type of disaster cannot be fixed. I think this was most likely a massive strategic blow designed to destroy the Trump government before it gets started.
Building homes in a forest that is subject to severe drought was also a bad move. Zoning and building codes should have been crafted better to either clear the tall and potentially dry vegetation away from the homes, or, keep the homes out of the forested areas.
I live in a region that is subject to wildfires due to dry summer conditions and every year there are fires that consume someone's "cabin" or vacation home tucked away in the endless groves of Junipers and Cedars. I lost my sympathy for those people a long time ago.
I know the devastation in L.A. involved vast neighborhoods not in forested areas but many fires, such as the Paradise fire a few years back, cause so much devastation because the structures are snuggly tucked in between the large, drought stressed trees.
I live in a heavily forested area on a 160 acre property which is quite isolated. I have endured three years of evacuation orders in which I have refused to leave. I have cleared a substantial buffer zone around my home. And have sprinklers on my roof. I also have water storage on the property. When the fires get close I soak my entire lawn area down, test my pumps,( I have a back up) and then start cleaning up any windfall that may have come down recently. In the past when homes are evacuated the police have actually broken into homes and confiscated firearms under the guise of "protecting people from looters". No one in my area evacuates and we look after each other. WE must get back to neighbours looking out for neighbours and realize that government rarely helps in these situations. It has been said that God helps those who help themselves. That old adage is timeless.
I agree with everything you said and the soaking and water storage to fight a fire is simply mandatory. Caveman knew this thousands of years ago. In my state I have a concealed weapon carry permit, no messing around with me!
There are no easy answers. If left up to the Libertarians, there would be no public access to beaches at all. ALL of it would be bought up. Ultimately, all land on Earth would be private, and the Global Elite the new Lords. And no one hunts in the King's forest but the King and his friends.
"I think this was most likely a massive strategic blow designed to destroy the Trump government before it gets started." ~ Peter Sawchuk
Mark Levin, basically, makes the case that the Supreme Court is stuffed with DEI and political hacks. If the Constitution isn't salvageable, is the nation?
"We live in a world full of urban challenges: from racial injustice that impacts our minority populations to natural disasters that threaten safety and property to environmental changes that affect the very water we drink and the air we breathe. To address these challenges, cities seek tools that can positively transform the urban environment. The most promising of these tools is technology. Technology enables the City of Los Angeles to efficiently and ethically improve the quality of life for our residents, businesses, and visitors. In other words, when done right, technology makes us тАЬsmarterтАЭ. This is why the City of Los Angeles strives to be a тАЬsmartтАЭ city.
In 2019, the City of Los Angeles Information Technology Agency (ITA) convened its Smart City Committee, composed of 24 departments and elected officials. While Los Angeles had become a civic technology leader (winning #1 U.S. Digital City award for three straight years), the exponential growth of new technologies and increasing public expectations requires new levels of coordination to realize our smart city vision."
Trump's picks were idiots too. What's her face adopted two teenage African girls while she was pregnant. She had "been looking for something like this." She couldn't pass up a deal like this.
Take your emergency pill, and when you calm down to where you are able to think and reason, watch it again, through to the end of John Yoo's comments. And, in the event that you are unable to reason, then don't waste your time.
This was a disaster designed to help create the WEF insane vision if a mart city. Google SmartLA 2028, it's been preplanned a long w Lahaina, NC, Paradise, etc. While Trump is clearly not a deity, he's the best choice we have at the moment.
Well, here is one thing about it: All that underbrush that should have been removed and fed the fires is gone now!
Rough way to learn a lesson.
Also I noticed one oldster whose parents left him their family home in the Palisades. He refused to evacuate and saved his home with his garden hose! The only house left standing for miles!
... is this all forward planning, with the assumption that there will be a drastically reduced world population in the near future? Perhaps SO CA population reduction is phase one?
That water was being used to irrigate onion farms in a desert that have no right to be there. No way was that water ever reaching L.A., so itтАЩs not applicable here. It was the tribes in the Klamath region that have been pushing for the dams removal for 20+ years. The main reason is to restore the native salmon population in the Klamath region. It used to be the 2nd largest salmon fishery in California, but has been decimated in recent years. IтАЩve spent a lot of time in the mid and upper Klamath basins, and I support the move.
I'm not picking a side, just pointing out that it is a complex world, where it would be in everyone's interest to get along, and people like Newsom appear toxic in that regard. They need to quit shoving the blame off on someone else, and start standing for accountability.
The population is reducing already for multiple reasons. Take with salt: I heard someone did a calculation using published census figures for every region, and came up with a total world population about 4 billion BELOW what the federales state it is. The fed numbers aren't based on actual count, they're a calculation based on several assumptions (no salt needed for that). So, ЁЯд╖
Damns destroy valley/ecosystems. In the same way Forest Fires destroy the existing cover. It takes years to get back to what once was, despite the fact that Nature shows brave signs immediately thereafter.
So...it is a Decision. Those that say people are secondary, always seem to be First at the Trough, though.
Newsome brags about how he closed the dams. If there is ever an argument for cloning idiots for politicians for hire, I would definitely be incline to believe he is proof. He can speak about the most somber subject matter with the most sinister smirk on his face. Like most narcissists he forgets to fake empathy.
Correct! The coastal commission will not allow anything to be built on the beach ever again. These fires will make more lawyers rich and our country poorer. Expect real estate prices to climb in Vegas as most rich displaced Angelenos will move.
Not just Vegas, Mark. They will come to Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and continue to devastate an already over priced real estate market in these states. I despise California refugees. They are ruining my state. Utah, the Salt Lake City area, now has the 3rd highest housing prices in the USA. It's truly disgusting what is being charged for a simple home. Property taxes are soaring. Maintenance costs are out of control. It's getting harder to sell homes because the number of people who can afford them is diminishing.
We are in a bad way. There is none who can resolve this. No, Trump, in all of his fortitude will not solve this. The system must collapse and it must be re-set. That is the only way. Unfortunately, a lot of people are going to suffer if not die as it comes.
~ Build Back Better, Reverse-Ownership & The WEF-Pwned Codependents ~
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"The system must collapse and it must be re-set." ~ Cankerpuss
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Reset to what? How? By whom?
If we don't step up to the challenges and reset it ourselves, TPTB movers-and-shakers will do it, themselves, and more for themselves than the rest of us, so we can get back to our Father Kunstler's online-church-basement nattering ninnyhood and little if anything else and collect our UBI. Life is good.
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"The Great Reset Initiative is an economic recovery plan drawn up by the World Economic Forum (WEF)..." ~ Wikipedia
"You will own nothing and be happy." ~ Klaus Schwab
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Who will own nothing, Klaus? You also? Want us to own nothing? You first then.
No?
Ok, then it looks like I, Cankerpuss et al are going to have to step up to the plate and make some home runs, before we get owned, or more so.
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"The term 'pwned' originates from a misspelling of 'owned' in online gaming forums and is used to indicate that someone has been dominated or defeated, often implying that an account or system has been compromised." ~ Merriam-Webster dictionary
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Want to take back ownership? Get back on the 'beachfronts' and start building. Do it without any PTB's fucking permission, except your own. Get the homeless to help you. Move and shake. It's 2025.
Trump may not completely solve these behemoth problems but he will certainly not exacerbate them either as is the leftist marxist bureaucracy in these blue states hell bent on destroying everything in their path.
He might be swinging from a tree in WNC, but they have enough debris there already. If WNC continues to get ignored - folks sleeping in tents in freezing weather and snow, fed crumbs - there will be a fire like he's never seen. Keep it up Newsom, you go ahead and tend your donor class. That might be just the spark this country needs.
Right CP, Western NC. Snow-covered and temps in the teens, people living in tents - 3500 getting kicked from hotels because FEMA not renewing vouchers. Unfucking believable. Hard to fathom the disparity in response.
The best thing that may come from this is the collapse of the mental retardation AKA Leftist Progressive thought. Patti shows herself to be a 6 year old mental midget.
If I owned a lot there I would build a tiny house on it. I would encourage my whole neighborhood to do the same. This state makes you believe you own your land but when you sign your title papers you soon realize you donтАЩt own shiz. Mineral rights. Nope. Water rights, nope. 6 inches of dirt, yeah maybe, just deep enough for footings. You canтАЩt be taxed on a non fixed house. I would build one gorgeous shed. F Them
CharB - you go girl. Great idea. Even better, hire the Amish to come build it. (You know something about building, by your use if the word "footings") Recently read an article - Zerohedge, I think - about the Amish going to help in NC. They built 12 tiny houses in 48 hours - all paid for by them - $300K total. Sixty Amish carpenters did all the work in the 2 days. They are beautiful people. Love the "F them" attitude. Keep it up. <3
Yes. I saw that on TikTok and so proud of the mighty hands of those people working as a community. Notice how they also came out for the first time in droves to vote. Proud of anyone who has convictions and stands for something
The Amish built the houses in Boone, NC - home to Eustace Conway. Have you ever heard of him? You'd like him. If '64 is your birth year, you're +/- 60 now. He's 63 - so we've all had the same life experiences. There was a book written about his life - The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love. Check it out, he's an amazing man.
The wind is still bad here. I keep looking outside to see if I need to shut off my power and cover my house in water but then it dawns on me that no globalists want to live in the inland empire. Lol. ЁЯШВ
My hunch Trump (the Feds) will demand rebuilding LA because they know a good portion of any money given to the Dems will be confiscated (stolen). Trump is a doer and will get things going immediately without all the usual City processes. California governments will be declared incompetent giving the Feds a far reach into CA.
Jr. and Eric are salivating over possibilities in improving LA, especially with the Olympics maybe coming. President Trump is going to have to figure out how to keep the insurance companies solvent, his probable first big job. I anticipate some hotels with TRUMP on the front. Along with lots of other carpet baggers.
Just an observation, the estimates of damage in the fires is approaching 250 billion dollars.
That is how much Elon Musk is worth. Maybe he can just buy everything destroyed and allow Tesla style rebuilding of the area. I will bet he would get lots of help from current residents. Musk can get access to the coastal area and build his California space port and screw the Coastal Commission.
I would bet they will become some kind of private locked neighborhoods, average folks don't stand a chance rebuilding. It wont be allowed, they are already saying there are native artifacts on sites to prevent new building. Alternately they may use it for mining or industrial. California has been Maui'd.
Also, Mark, you are right. The Dems think of insurance as a bottomless pit of money that can be drawn on ad infinitum. The same way they think of the US Treasury. I am starting to disagree with some folks on the blog, the Left IS just plain stupid.
How quaint. Selling Insurance tied to Reserves to pay out claims when the day comes.
Most Americans have Zero idea about the U.S. Derivatives Market where naked/unbacked insurance is written every minute of everyday, wait for the U.S. Treasury and the Fed to jump in to save their butts. After pocketing years and years of ill-gotten gains stuffed into private pockets.
Insurance companies are required to keep reserves far in excess of the premiums they collect. And they also buy reinsurance to insure themselves against catastrophic losses like the one in California. CA regulators would not allow insurance companies to charge their insureds for the cost of the reinsurance. That is one of many roadblocks for insurance companies to charge a premium commensurate to the risk they take on. The insurance companies are not to blame. There is no "naked/unbacked insurance" in the home insurance market. Each state regulates insurers within their state, and California's regulators have tied the hands of the insurers. That is why they're leaving.
The afore mentioned California Coastal Commission is busy trying to block Space-X shots from Vandenburg. One of the truly positive things going on right now, just to punish Musk. I admire Musk, instead of kowtowing to the slime of the Left in California, he leaves and moves to Texas, both Space-X and Tesla.
Mark - "Now the rest of America will have to bail out these folks"
Just say no. Nothing will change if we keep bailing out states that put themselves in these situations. Other than the truly destitute, let the other Californians pay for their mess.
Otherwise a moral hazard is created (or continued), where the citizens continue to elect the same leaders who enact the same policies and get the same outcomes. They need to learn from their mistakes, and pay for them.
Yes, fires are natural in Southern California. Sometimes you can't just be a little bit natural. If people are going to live there in large numbers, the forests near them must be cleared out regularly.
Not that easy, the brush is being cleared out in the fire zones, to be replaced with wooden structures called houses, restaurants, small businesses, power lines, and poor government. The pictured neighborhoods, burned out, had zero brush buildup, but lots of planted trees and landscaping. The houses were the fuel. Clearing brush will help in the deep woods but where these fires were, urban congestion was the enemy. Have you visited SoCal? It is naturally built to burn, wet and dry seasons, vegetation build-up then drying out and burning. Recycling is done by burning. It produces rich soils that just help out with vegetation build-up. Just like the prairie fires of the Great Plains.
The forested areas near the developments very rapidly become developments. Much of the тАЬforestedтАЭ areas are not forested but grassland with small shrubs, which burns like crazy. To stop the vegetative build-up, you will have to clear out the new growth every single year. That will not happen, so it becomes the job of the fires.
Maybe a good idea would be to install concrete fire breaks enclosing residential areas wide enough to stop fires. Unfortunately, arsonists do not locate fires in wild areas.
It will be 20 years before these neighborhoods are fully rebuilt. California created this problem by not allowing deforestation, closing dams, lack of water management and Marxist treatment of insurer concerns last year. No wonder StateFarm Farmers etc bailed. Now the rest of America will have to bail out these folks who voted for the bad decision makers that led to bad decisions. FJB
No fucking way...while they let NC twist after the hurricane just a few months ago. They better not fucking dare pull that shit
"Joe Biden" said that el gobierno federale will pay 100%. They then threw 2,000 people out of temporary housing arrangements in North Carolina hill country during unusually severe winter storms. If those NC folks were illegal alien members of Biden's Foreign Legion they could be riding scooters in La La Land, paying for everything with United Nations debit cards while they set brush fires before heading back to their free hotel rooms.
ThatтАЩs a sharp piece of prose, Brother.
ItтАЩs gonna be very interesting to see who can handle the truth following TrumpтАЩs swashbuckling.
And I love Trump and MAGA!
But the traps are far and wide тАФ deceptive and deep. Question is: Will TrumpтАЩs insatiable need to be loved, and his тАШdreamsтАЩ of тАШWinningтАЩ overwhelm the REALISTIC approach to the fantasies of тАШCalifornia DreaminтАЩ ?
California is NOT the Jerusalem of the Promised Land; NOT тАШAlmost HeavenтАЩ; NOT the New Jerusalem of American Manifest Destiny.
California IS a failed, fallen, flagrantly oppressive Republic that mirrors the Great Whore of Babylon тАФ тАЬI sit a QueenтАЭ тАФ demanding the favors of all nations, including the тАШUnitedтАЩ States of America, over which she claims dominance.
President Trump is a world-class leader. But, as one who does not consume strong drink тАФ Will he be deceived by drinking тАЬthe wine of her wrathтАЭ, becoming drunk and seduced by her excess ?
Somehow the basic values need to be identified and understood; otherwise, тАШyou canтАЩt make a silk purse out of a sowтАЩs earтАЩ comes to mind.
And if there is NO Due Diligence тАФ тАШyou canтАЩt polish a turdтАЩ stops you dead in your tracks.
I.E. : If there is no Reformation in California,
The same fate awaits the rest of us as did Hosea with Gomer. . . . With more devastating results.
+1000
Trump can't wait to make the Dems appear as idiots. He'll come into town at meet with the home losers and get things going on the rebuilding. It will be a massive task, but nothing Trump can't handle.
The Dems don't need Trumps help to "appear as idiots."
I think people see things better when someone plays on the irrationality/idiocy they're looking at.
While Trump may be a good man he isn't God. This type of disaster cannot be fixed. I think this was most likely a massive strategic blow designed to destroy the Trump government before it gets started.
Building homes in a forest that is subject to severe drought was also a bad move. Zoning and building codes should have been crafted better to either clear the tall and potentially dry vegetation away from the homes, or, keep the homes out of the forested areas.
I live in a region that is subject to wildfires due to dry summer conditions and every year there are fires that consume someone's "cabin" or vacation home tucked away in the endless groves of Junipers and Cedars. I lost my sympathy for those people a long time ago.
I know the devastation in L.A. involved vast neighborhoods not in forested areas but many fires, such as the Paradise fire a few years back, cause so much devastation because the structures are snuggly tucked in between the large, drought stressed trees.
I live in a heavily forested area on a 160 acre property which is quite isolated. I have endured three years of evacuation orders in which I have refused to leave. I have cleared a substantial buffer zone around my home. And have sprinklers on my roof. I also have water storage on the property. When the fires get close I soak my entire lawn area down, test my pumps,( I have a back up) and then start cleaning up any windfall that may have come down recently. In the past when homes are evacuated the police have actually broken into homes and confiscated firearms under the guise of "protecting people from looters". No one in my area evacuates and we look after each other. WE must get back to neighbours looking out for neighbours and realize that government rarely helps in these situations. It has been said that God helps those who help themselves. That old adage is timeless.
I agree with everything you said and the soaking and water storage to fight a fire is simply mandatory. Caveman knew this thousands of years ago. In my state I have a concealed weapon carry permit, no messing around with me!
I am jealous. The communists up here in Canada have totally banned sidearms. It still won't stop us from resisting.
Man after my own heart. Wish I had your arrangement.
There are no easy answers. If left up to the Libertarians, there would be no public access to beaches at all. ALL of it would be bought up. Ultimately, all land on Earth would be private, and the Global Elite the new Lords. And no one hunts in the King's forest but the King and his friends.
"I think this was most likely a massive strategic blow designed to destroy the Trump government before it gets started." ~ Peter Sawchuk
Mark Levin, basically, makes the case that the Supreme Court is stuffed with DEI and political hacks. If the Constitution isn't salvageable, is the nation?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/172513576441554/posts/2342676356091921/
It is more in line to create a 15 min city NWO style. Google Smart LA 2028.
"We live in a world full of urban challenges: from racial injustice that impacts our minority populations to natural disasters that threaten safety and property to environmental changes that affect the very water we drink and the air we breathe. To address these challenges, cities seek tools that can positively transform the urban environment. The most promising of these tools is technology. Technology enables the City of Los Angeles to efficiently and ethically improve the quality of life for our residents, businesses, and visitors. In other words, when done right, technology makes us тАЬsmarterтАЭ. This is why the City of Los Angeles strives to be a тАЬsmartтАЭ city.
In 2019, the City of Los Angeles Information Technology Agency (ITA) convened its Smart City Committee, composed of 24 departments and elected officials. While Los Angeles had become a civic technology leader (winning #1 U.S. Digital City award for three straight years), the exponential growth of new technologies and increasing public expectations requires new levels of coordination to realize our smart city vision."
SmartLA 2028
https://ita.lacity.gov/smartla2028
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If the technology survives, we'll need to get up to speed.
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Not if we continue to allow Democrats to run rough shod all over our beliefs, Constitution and set the narratives.
Republicans need to grow a spine and fire back at them which is why one of the reasons Democrats hate Trump so much.
He talks back at them and speaks directly to the people in ways that everyone can understand.
Trump's picks were idiots too. What's her face adopted two teenage African girls while she was pregnant. She had "been looking for something like this." She couldn't pass up a deal like this.
Amy Coney Barrett
What Mark REALLY means was that the Supremes haven't been totally replaced by Zionists like himself. I see nothing to support his allegation.
Take your emergency pill, and when you calm down to where you are able to think and reason, watch it again, through to the end of John Yoo's comments. And, in the event that you are unable to reason, then don't waste your time.
And also get those people out of the way so they can build their precious 15 minute cities.
Actually, when you cut through the bullshit you realize they are more like 15 minute prisons.
This was a disaster designed to help create the WEF insane vision if a mart city. Google SmartLA 2028, it's been preplanned a long w Lahaina, NC, Paradise, etc. While Trump is clearly not a deity, he's the best choice we have at the moment.
This fiasco started long before Trump even left the first time. Type in Smart LA 2028.
Agree.
Well, here is one thing about it: All that underbrush that should have been removed and fed the fires is gone now!
Rough way to learn a lesson.
Also I noticed one oldster whose parents left him their family home in the Palisades. He refused to evacuate and saved his home with his garden hose! The only house left standing for miles!
The underbrush will return in the next rain. It needs to be maintained.
With taxpayer money, without buy in.
Bet on it. And there won't be anything you or I can do about it.
Oh, please! You know they will. They always have. Why would this time be any different?
Calfornia didn't just close dams. Under Newsom's guidance they actually blew up dams: https://www.ecowatch.com/dam-removal-california-2645546590.html
Who needs enemies when your State is Run by one Party Progressive Democrat Marxist Rulers.
If California thinks they have water problems now ...
The Largest Dam Removal In U.S. History Is Happening Now In Oregon
https://thatoregonlife.com/2024/01/the-largest-dam-removal-in-u-s-history-is-happening-now-in-oregon/
... is this all forward planning, with the assumption that there will be a drastically reduced world population in the near future? Perhaps SO CA population reduction is phase one?
That water was being used to irrigate onion farms in a desert that have no right to be there. No way was that water ever reaching L.A., so itтАЩs not applicable here. It was the tribes in the Klamath region that have been pushing for the dams removal for 20+ years. The main reason is to restore the native salmon population in the Klamath region. It used to be the 2nd largest salmon fishery in California, but has been decimated in recent years. IтАЩve spent a lot of time in the mid and upper Klamath basins, and I support the move.
There is the energy generation factor.
I'm not picking a side, just pointing out that it is a complex world, where it would be in everyone's interest to get along, and people like Newsom appear toxic in that regard. They need to quit shoving the blame off on someone else, and start standing for accountability.
Yeah no argument from me on those points
The population is reducing already for multiple reasons. Take with salt: I heard someone did a calculation using published census figures for every region, and came up with a total world population about 4 billion BELOW what the federales state it is. The fed numbers aren't based on actual count, they're a calculation based on several assumptions (no salt needed for that). So, ЁЯд╖
The US might have to import water from Greenland?
Damns destroy valley/ecosystems. In the same way Forest Fires destroy the existing cover. It takes years to get back to what once was, despite the fact that Nature shows brave signs immediately thereafter.
So...it is a Decision. Those that say people are secondary, always seem to be First at the Trough, though.
The house you are living in destroyed an ecosystem when it was built.
Newsome brags about how he closed the dams. If there is ever an argument for cloning idiots for politicians for hire, I would definitely be incline to believe he is proof. He can speak about the most somber subject matter with the most sinister smirk on his face. Like most narcissists he forgets to fake empathy.
Mark - those neighborhoods, for multiple reasons - will never be rebuilt.
Correct! The coastal commission will not allow anything to be built on the beach ever again. These fires will make more lawyers rich and our country poorer. Expect real estate prices to climb in Vegas as most rich displaced Angelenos will move.
Not just Vegas, Mark. They will come to Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and continue to devastate an already over priced real estate market in these states. I despise California refugees. They are ruining my state. Utah, the Salt Lake City area, now has the 3rd highest housing prices in the USA. It's truly disgusting what is being charged for a simple home. Property taxes are soaring. Maintenance costs are out of control. It's getting harder to sell homes because the number of people who can afford them is diminishing.
We are in a bad way. There is none who can resolve this. No, Trump, in all of his fortitude will not solve this. The system must collapse and it must be re-set. That is the only way. Unfortunately, a lot of people are going to suffer if not die as it comes.
California escapees, funded by the ill-gotten gains of Mommy and Daddy, have ruined Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Utah. And more. And more to come.
The Poster Thing for the Country. They think everything is valued in money.
~ Build Back Better, Reverse-Ownership & The WEF-Pwned Codependents ~
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"The system must collapse and it must be re-set." ~ Cankerpuss
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Reset to what? How? By whom?
If we don't step up to the challenges and reset it ourselves, TPTB movers-and-shakers will do it, themselves, and more for themselves than the rest of us, so we can get back to our Father Kunstler's online-church-basement nattering ninnyhood and little if anything else and collect our UBI. Life is good.
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"The Great Reset Initiative is an economic recovery plan drawn up by the World Economic Forum (WEF)..." ~ Wikipedia
"You will own nothing and be happy." ~ Klaus Schwab
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Who will own nothing, Klaus? You also? Want us to own nothing? You first then.
No?
Ok, then it looks like I, Cankerpuss et al are going to have to step up to the plate and make some home runs, before we get owned, or more so.
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"The term 'pwned' originates from a misspelling of 'owned' in online gaming forums and is used to indicate that someone has been dominated or defeated, often implying that an account or system has been compromised." ~ Merriam-Webster dictionary
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Want to take back ownership? Get back on the 'beachfronts' and start building. Do it without any PTB's fucking permission, except your own. Get the homeless to help you. Move and shake. It's 2025.
Trump may not completely solve these behemoth problems but he will certainly not exacerbate them either as is the leftist marxist bureaucracy in these blue states hell bent on destroying everything in their path.
Californians will be the new Okies.
And go back to Oklahoma? Is a latter day John Steinbeck going to document this disaster?
Very few have the writing ability.
Lots of Plagiarists in Hollywood.
"This Series of Concocted Lies, is "based on true/real events".
And the Great Reset is already on its way. That is exactly what is going to happen.
Nope, Newsom is already rewriting the rules and telling them to stand down. He wont let his donor class suffer.
He might be swinging from a tree in WNC, but they have enough debris there already. If WNC continues to get ignored - folks sleeping in tents in freezing weather and snow, fed crumbs - there will be a fire like he's never seen. Keep it up Newsom, you go ahead and tend your donor class. That might be just the spark this country needs.
Ron, sorry, but I don't know what WNC is referring to. For my slow mind can you clarify? Western North Carolina?
Right CP, Western NC. Snow-covered and temps in the teens, people living in tents - 3500 getting kicked from hotels because FEMA not renewing vouchers. Unfucking believable. Hard to fathom the disparity in response.
More money for Ukraine and MOABS for Gaza.
Priorities.
Yep, for the sane, it's hard to grasp.
The best thing that may come from this is the collapse of the mental retardation AKA Leftist Progressive thought. Patti shows herself to be a 6 year old mental midget.
Hopefully they will have no choice.
If I owned a lot there I would build a tiny house on it. I would encourage my whole neighborhood to do the same. This state makes you believe you own your land but when you sign your title papers you soon realize you donтАЩt own shiz. Mineral rights. Nope. Water rights, nope. 6 inches of dirt, yeah maybe, just deep enough for footings. You canтАЩt be taxed on a non fixed house. I would build one gorgeous shed. F Them
CharB - you go girl. Great idea. Even better, hire the Amish to come build it. (You know something about building, by your use if the word "footings") Recently read an article - Zerohedge, I think - about the Amish going to help in NC. They built 12 tiny houses in 48 hours - all paid for by them - $300K total. Sixty Amish carpenters did all the work in the 2 days. They are beautiful people. Love the "F them" attitude. Keep it up. <3
Yes. I saw that on TikTok and so proud of the mighty hands of those people working as a community. Notice how they also came out for the first time in droves to vote. Proud of anyone who has convictions and stands for something
The Amish built the houses in Boone, NC - home to Eustace Conway. Have you ever heard of him? You'd like him. If '64 is your birth year, you're +/- 60 now. He's 63 - so we've all had the same life experiences. There was a book written about his life - The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love. Check it out, he's an amazing man.
The wind is still bad here. I keep looking outside to see if I need to shut off my power and cover my house in water but then it dawns on me that no globalists want to live in the inland empire. Lol. ЁЯШВ
Come East, young lady, we need more like you here.
20 years? Will the alt-bio-human robots be rebuilding them?
These slaves will be treated better than many humans. Men will pretend to be bio-robots to get girls.
To get the alt-bio-girls, you mean.
My hunch Trump (the Feds) will demand rebuilding LA because they know a good portion of any money given to the Dems will be confiscated (stolen). Trump is a doer and will get things going immediately without all the usual City processes. California governments will be declared incompetent giving the Feds a far reach into CA.
Your last sentence is mandatory.
Jr. and Eric are salivating over possibilities in improving LA, especially with the Olympics maybe coming. President Trump is going to have to figure out how to keep the insurance companies solvent, his probable first big job. I anticipate some hotels with TRUMP on the front. Along with lots of other carpet baggers.
Too Big/Jigged To Fail (II). Save the Big, urinate on the small, destroy the country. Not a story Hollywood is going to let out.
They already did. See Smart LA 2028 in search bar.
Just an observation, the estimates of damage in the fires is approaching 250 billion dollars.
That is how much Elon Musk is worth. Maybe he can just buy everything destroyed and allow Tesla style rebuilding of the area. I will bet he would get lots of help from current residents. Musk can get access to the coastal area and build his California space port and screw the Coastal Commission.
I would bet they will become some kind of private locked neighborhoods, average folks don't stand a chance rebuilding. It wont be allowed, they are already saying there are native artifacts on sites to prevent new building. Alternately they may use it for mining or industrial. California has been Maui'd.
Also, Mark, you are right. The Dems think of insurance as a bottomless pit of money that can be drawn on ad infinitum. The same way they think of the US Treasury. I am starting to disagree with some folks on the blog, the Left IS just plain stupid.
How quaint. Selling Insurance tied to Reserves to pay out claims when the day comes.
Most Americans have Zero idea about the U.S. Derivatives Market where naked/unbacked insurance is written every minute of everyday, wait for the U.S. Treasury and the Fed to jump in to save their butts. After pocketing years and years of ill-gotten gains stuffed into private pockets.
Insurance companies are required to keep reserves far in excess of the premiums they collect. And they also buy reinsurance to insure themselves against catastrophic losses like the one in California. CA regulators would not allow insurance companies to charge their insureds for the cost of the reinsurance. That is one of many roadblocks for insurance companies to charge a premium commensurate to the risk they take on. The insurance companies are not to blame. There is no "naked/unbacked insurance" in the home insurance market. Each state regulates insurers within their state, and California's regulators have tied the hands of the insurers. That is why they're leaving.
The afore mentioned California Coastal Commission is busy trying to block Space-X shots from Vandenburg. One of the truly positive things going on right now, just to punish Musk. I admire Musk, instead of kowtowing to the slime of the Left in California, he leaves and moves to Texas, both Space-X and Tesla.
Mark - "Now the rest of America will have to bail out these folks"
Just say no. Nothing will change if we keep bailing out states that put themselves in these situations. Other than the truly destitute, let the other Californians pay for their mess.
Otherwise a moral hazard is created (or continued), where the citizens continue to elect the same leaders who enact the same policies and get the same outcomes. They need to learn from their mistakes, and pay for them.
Yes, fires are natural in Southern California. Sometimes you can't just be a little bit natural. If people are going to live there in large numbers, the forests near them must be cleared out regularly.
Not that easy, the brush is being cleared out in the fire zones, to be replaced with wooden structures called houses, restaurants, small businesses, power lines, and poor government. The pictured neighborhoods, burned out, had zero brush buildup, but lots of planted trees and landscaping. The houses were the fuel. Clearing brush will help in the deep woods but where these fires were, urban congestion was the enemy. Have you visited SoCal? It is naturally built to burn, wet and dry seasons, vegetation build-up then drying out and burning. Recycling is done by burning. It produces rich soils that just help out with vegetation build-up. Just like the prairie fires of the Great Plains.
The forested areas near the developments very rapidly become developments. Much of the тАЬforestedтАЭ areas are not forested but grassland with small shrubs, which burns like crazy. To stop the vegetative build-up, you will have to clear out the new growth every single year. That will not happen, so it becomes the job of the fires.
Maybe a good idea would be to install concrete fire breaks enclosing residential areas wide enough to stop fires. Unfortunately, arsonists do not locate fires in wild areas.
Just went gold mining in Julian on Sunday and was appalled to see just how many houses had tree lines right up to the house.
No one learns until it is to late.
Exactly, Ben, people learn by surviving disaster. The only thing stupider than people is government as all levels prove time and time again.
Google Smart LA 2028. This was all preplanned!