Donald Trump a couple of years back suggested to Newsom how to prevent this sort of devastation by redirecting water to forest areas instead of straight into the Pacific Ocean … he took no notice of course.
Next step was this:
There was also the appointment of a DEI lesbian as fire chief, along with no forest policy, no clearing, preparation, relatively no funds, almost as if Newsom and Co wanted this to happen in order for someone to buy up the prime real estate at firesale prices …
No water to fight the fires once they (were) started?
While there are certainly well-heeled people living in Palisades, there are also many middle-middle class making ends meet at those prices. In the case of James Woods, the antiWoke former actor, it’s a bit like we know him through social media. His wife posts …
Newsom did nothing whatever until it was burnt out … now, Wednesday evening, their time, he’s suddenly sprung into action with huge grandstanding about all he’s doing.
Whichever way you slice this one, it certainly has the stench of Maui, with major moneybags poised to pounce, just as in North Carolina. And the fact is … there’s absolutely nothing anyone can do once the crims decide to wipe out some prime real estate.
Appropriate, I suppose, for a nation which based its legislature on the Roman model:
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(Plutarch: the life of Crassus)