Climate Change or woke policies? California wildfires
US conservatives blame ‘woke’ policies for poor California wildfire response
Donald Trump Jr. has blasted the Los Angeles Fire Department for prioritizing “virtue signaling” over competency.
US Conservatives have attributed the Los Angeles Fire Department’s difficulties in preventing the raging infernos that have devastated the city over the past week to failed diversity policies.
The fires, which have consumed over 20,000 acres, have so far claimed the lives of at least five people and destroyed over 2,000 homes and businesses. More than 100,000 residents have been forced to evacuate as high Santa Ana winds continue to fuel the flames. A state of emergency has been declared in the state.
Writing on X on Thursday, Donald Trump Jr. suggested that the democrat-led state’s poor response to the wildfires was the result of the city fire department’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
“Can we rename DEI to DIE since that’s what seems to happen to the people downstream of those who place woke virtue signaling far above competency,” Trump Jr. wrote.
Others have also pointed out that California had previously reportedly spent some $500 million on DEI initiatives, while liberal media outlets complained about the predominance of white male firefighters.
“Los Angeles deliberately set out to exclude white men from becoming firefighters, and now they don’t have enough firefighters to prevent their city from burning to the ground,” prominent conservative pundit Matt Walsh wrote on X, adding that “DEI is a cancer that destroys everything it touches.”
Meanwhile, users on X have also blasted US President Joe Biden for appearing to ignore the crisis in California, instead focusing on approving an additional $500 million of military aid for Ukraine on Thursday.
Some have noted that the Biden administration had previously even provided 16 Ukrainian fire departments with gear and rescue tools while failing to supply California’s own services with all the necessities to combat the wildfires.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has also faced accusations of prioritizing environmental politics over effective fire management. President-elect Donald Trump has called on Newsom to resign, claiming that he had chosen to protect “essentially worthless fish” over the people of the state by refusing to sign a bill that would have allowed millions of gallons of water to flow into California.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who last year slashed the city’s fire department budget by over $17 million, has also faced calls to resign for embarking on a trip to Africa over the weekend despite warnings about an incoming windstorm.
Originally published on RT 10th January 2025
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This is wrong and a dangerously disingenuous bid to discredit California government while minimizing climate change. DEI policies have had no effect on staffing patterns in local fire departments or the California Division of Forestry, which oversees Calfire. Firemen receive the same training no matter whsat color they are. these fires in Los Angeles are the product of 100-mph Santa Ana winds, which reverse the normal wind flow off the Pacific Ocean and instead sweep down from the north and east. that combines with unprecedented high temperatures and drought. it hasn't rained in Los Angeles for eight months. these conditions overcame the normal system of firefighting equipment and water reserves.
here is Joan Didion, California's most eloquent chronicler, on Santa Ana winds even before climate change. i recommend reading the whole thing, but here is a relevant passage..
.https://www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/cms/lib5/CA01000508/Centricity/Domain/1538/The%20Santa%20Anas.pdf
"Easterners commonly complain that there is no "weather" at all in Southern
California, that the days and the seasons slip by relentlessly, numbingly bland.
That is quite misleading. In fact the climate is characterized by infrequent but
violent extremes: two periods of torrential subtropical rains which continue for
weeks and wash out the hills and send subdivisions sliding toward the sea; about
twenty scattered days a year of the Santa Ana, which, with its incendiary dryness,
invariably means fire. At the first prediction of a Santa Ana, the Forest Service
flies men and equipment from northern California into the southern forests, and
the Los Angeles Fire Department cancels its ordinary non-firefighting routines.
The Santa Ana caused Malibu to burn as it did in 1956, and Bel Air in 1961, and
Santa Barbara in 1964. In the winter of 1966-67 eleven men were killed fighting a
Santa Ana fire that spread through the San Gabriel Mountains.
Just to watch the front-page news out of Los Angeles during a Santa Ana is to get
very close to what it is about the place. The longest single Santa Ana period in
recent years was in 1957, and it lasted not the usual three or four days but
fourteen days, from November 21 until December 4. On the first day 25,000 acres
of the San Gabriel Mountains were burning, with gusts reaching 100 miles an
hour. In town, the wind reached Force 12, or hurricane force, on the Beaufort
Scale; oil derricks were toppled and people ordered off the downtown streets to
avoid injury from flying objects. On November 22 the fire in the San Gabriels
was out of control. On November 24 six people were killed in automobile
accidents, and by the end of the week the Los Angeles Times was keeping a box
score of traffic deaths. On November 26 a prominent Pasadena attorney,
depressed about money, shot and killed his wife, their two sons and himself. On
November 27 a South Gate divorcée, twenty-two, was murdered and thrown from
a moving car. On November 30 the San Gabriel fire was still out of control, and
the wind in town was blowing eighty miles an hour. On the first day of December
four people died violently, and on the third the wind began to break.
It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically
the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination."
What a load of unmitigated crap? The Californian desert of Beverly Hills, Hollywood and those other regions on fire are just that. Deserts. What do these people want? a blizzard? The majority of homes destroyed are over priced tools of tax avoidance and money laundering. Many of these fires were deliberately lit. Thats according to a preliminary report by the FBI and the fire services.
In most cases these fires are lit to destroy evidence of wrong doings but done at the right time and destroy flailing businesses in what they call "Jewish Lightning". But you can use that term anymore as they call it anti semitic language. Early post war wish settlers often burned down their businesses claiming full value of their depleted and old assets then collecting the money o build bigger ones Hence the term "Jewish Lightning". They often ascribed the fire to lightning when there was none.
What's really concerning to many in the Hills is the bundles of cash stored by wealthy cocaine and other drug traffickers who he embedded themselves in the Hollywood area, the largest consumers of coke and other such niceties. Its got nothing to do with not employing White fire fighters.
Most dwellers in the big end of town like Hollywood and the surrounding suburbs are tax avoiders and rogues. They create all sorts of tax shelters to avoid their legal obligations to pay taxes. Let them now eat cake.