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Bill Maher Savages CA Leadership over LA Wildfires in Brutal Takedown of Their Failures
« on: January 19, 2025, 11:36:23 am »
Bill Maher Savages CA Leadership over LA Wildfires in Brutal Takedown of Their Failures

By Nick Arama | 12:57 PM on January 18, 2025
   
 
Bill Maher wasn't holding back on Friday in his "New Rules" segment on the Los Angeles fires. Like many residents, he is furious with what had happened and said he refuses to just blame the high winds, in a savage takedown of the Democratic leadership on HBO's "Real Time." Even the caption to the video read, "Welcome to the Bungle."
 
"We may not be able to do much about the weather. But we do need a better plan to putting out a burning city than waiting for rain," Maher said. He described how some were so partisan now, they even defend their "own team over death" and a lot of Democrats are saying "don't blame politicians, you can't do anything about the wind." While Maher acknowledged that you can't do much about the wind, he then went into all the problems that were not the wind--things that could have been addressed:

Axios ran a story on how getting the water out of the hydrants in Pacific Palisades was more complicated than it seems. I’m sure it is, I’m sure it’s very complicated. That’s why I pay 13 percent of my income in this state every year to people who I assumed were working on things like this.

 https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/01/18/maher-remarks-on-los-angeles-wildfires-n2184503#google_vignette
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Re: Bill Maher Savages CA Leadership over LA Wildfires in Brutal Takedown of Their Failures
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2025, 12:43:22 pm »
A mismanaged disaster response was inevitable.  There is no management.  In the 90s LA County, which is a massive place, went from normal to left-leaning ethnic, and then far left whacko.  The lunacy pervades every office and every layer of government.  It would take at least 10 years of conservative leadership to fire the incompetent bureaucrats and unwind all of the stupid laws.
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Re: Bill Maher Savages CA Leadership over LA Wildfires in Brutal Takedown of Their Failures
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2025, 02:36:27 pm »
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Re: Bill Maher Savages CA Leadership over LA Wildfires in Brutal Takedown of Their Failures
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2025, 03:08:43 pm »
A question to Briefers in other states:  Does your state or people in your state regularly do controlled burns of brushland, forests or prairie?  (And which state are you in?) I know the answer for three:  Kansas (yes), California (no), and Oklahoma (no).
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Re: Bill Maher Savages CA Leadership over LA Wildfires in Brutal Takedown of Their Failures
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2025, 03:26:29 pm »
Quote from: The_Reader_David on January 19, 2025, 03:08:43 pm
A question to Briefers in other states:  Does your state or people in your state regularly do controlled burns of brushland, forests or prairie?  (And which state are you in?) I know the answer for three:  Kansas (yes), California (no), and Oklahoma (no).

Idaho does. But I think it is directed by the BLM.
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Re: Bill Maher Savages CA Leadership over LA Wildfires in Brutal Takedown of Their Failures
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2025, 03:30:45 pm »
Quote from: The_Reader_David on January 19, 2025, 03:08:43 pm
A question to Briefers in other states:  Does your state or people in your state regularly do controlled burns of brushland, forests or prairie?  (And which state are you in?) I know the answer for three:  Kansas (yes), California (no), and Oklahoma (no).

California does in some places. Not sure if it is federal land or not.
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Re: Bill Maher Savages CA Leadership over LA Wildfires in Brutal Takedown of Their Failures
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2025, 03:42:14 pm »
The money quote:

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[Maher] referenced a report from Axios about complications with water access in Pacific Palisades, sarcastically remarking, “That’s why I pay 13% of my income in state taxes — to people who I assumed were working on things like this.”

This is the rub.  Liberals don't mind paying high taxes.  But only now are they beginning to realize they aren't getting anything in return for those high taxes.
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Re: Bill Maher Savages CA Leadership over LA Wildfires in Brutal Takedown of Their Failures
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2025, 03:47:03 pm »
Quote from: The_Reader_David on January 19, 2025, 03:08:43 pm
A question to Briefers in other states:  Does your state or people in your state regularly do controlled burns of brushland, forests or prairie?  (And which state are you in?) I know the answer for three:  Kansas (yes), California (no), and Oklahoma (no).

Alabama:   https://forestry.alabama.gov/Pages/Fire/Forms/Rx_Burning_Guide.pdf
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Re: Bill Maher Savages CA Leadership over LA Wildfires in Brutal Takedown of Their Failures
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2025, 04:35:44 pm »
Never heard of "controlled burns" in Connecticut.
Probably not needed much in New England.
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Re: Bill Maher Savages CA Leadership over LA Wildfires in Brutal Takedown of Their Failures
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2025, 12:41:28 pm »
Quote from: The_Reader_David on January 19, 2025, 03:08:43 pm
A question to Briefers in other states:  Does your state or people in your state regularly do controlled burns of brushland, forests or prairie?  (And which state are you in?) I know the answer for three:  Kansas (yes), California (no), and Oklahoma (no).

Local land owners use to do them here, but lately the government have been charging folks with arson if they do... It has allowed the forest land to grow up with brush that is dangerous. Hard to walk through your land if overgrown with shrub trees... then when you do get a fire, it is hard to put out due to all the undergrowth that fuels it up to the bigger trees that used to be immune to smaller fires.
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Re: Bill Maher Savages CA Leadership over LA Wildfires in Brutal Takedown of Their Failures
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2025, 07:07:23 am »
Quote from: The_Reader_David on January 19, 2025, 03:08:43 pm
A question to Briefers in other states:  Does your state or people in your state regularly do controlled burns of brushland, forests or prairie?  (And which state are you in?) I know the answer for three:  Kansas (yes), California (no), and Oklahoma (no).
A number of out perks will "harvest" standing dead trees to reduce the potential for fire damage, but no controlled burns as far as I know in VA.
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