The Anti-American Agendas of California’s Democrats Catching Up

California fires produce as much pollution in 2 days as all the state’s cars do in a year. Yet California Governor Gavin Newsom has never responded to this inconvenient fact in his quest to be the new Climate Change Czar, nor have the corrupt bureaucrats at California’s Air Resources Board.

Their lies are catching up with them.

A few months ago we reported that Gov. Newsom, who isn’t running for President, refuses to seriously address what ails his state, instead focusing on shady, unaccountable, immeasurable issues like climate change, and the “equity” hoax.

Southern California is on fire. But here are Newsom’s priorities and what he has been focused on:

• “Newsom created the California abortion sanctuary state
• Newsom legalized abortion/infanticide up until birth, authorized a trans sanctuary state allowing children to receive hormone blockers and chemical castration without parental consent
• Newsom exacerbated the homeless crisis spending $24 billion only to gain more homeless
• Newsom says he’s working on the thousands of fentanyl deaths
• Newsom has embraced illegal immigration, even providing health insurance for illegal aliens.
• Newsom is also on board for the bottomless pit of high speed rail and Delta water tunnel(s), while frequently reminding the state’s residents to stop using so much water and energy.

It is painfully apparent that California Governor Gavin Newsom has never made important human priorities his priorities. His policies and priorities are anti-American.

A troll reader went on the attack claiming the Globe was politicizing the Palisades fire and LA Mayor Karen Bass’s failure to respond:

“Bass left on Saturday, the Palisades fire started Tuesday and she’s back on Wednesday. From Africa. Let’s blame her for the weather while trying to figure out the difference between a video call from next door or 10,000 mi. away. OK? It’s the new American way.”

We responded:

“The hurricane level Santa Ana Winds were announced a month ago. The Weather Channel reported December 10: Dec 10, 2024: ‘Particularly Dangerous Situation’ is forecast for Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Strong Santa Ana winds could peak at 80 mph, causing quickly-spreading wildfires, should one be ignited.”
“Due to the expected long duration of dangerous fire weather conditions and critically dry fuels, there is the increasing potential for any new ignitions to have very rapid fire spread and extreme fire behavior,” The NWS office in Los Angeles said in their forecast discussion.”

Mayor Bass had one month to prepare. Gavin Newsom had a month to prepare. Mayor Bass went to Ghana West Africa instead. Newsom has been promoting his policies and the shiny tourism and entertainment industries – of which Southern California is a premier location:

“2024 has been a year defined by resiliency, and we’ll continue to show this strength heading into the new year,” Newsom said on X. “From entertainment and tourism to budget and jobs — here’s a recap of the Golden State in 2024.”

What happened to a coordinated emergency response to the Palisades fire? Why did it take so long to call in the National Guard? Why weren’t fire departments posting fire engines in neighborhoods ready to respond knowing these were hurricane strength winds?

The U.S. Navy and National Guard have more than 200 C-17s and hundreds of C-130s available in the state. CalFire now has 6 C-130s. Newsom, together with federal assistance, could have mobilized multi-agency assistance and prepared for the dangerous winds and wildfires.

The warnings even before the Weather Channel’s December 10 warning, were there. As the Globe asked, “how did this happen, even after the devastating 2018 fires in Paradise CA, which killed 85 people and destroyed the entire town?”

Since that devastation, Gov. Newsom has removed 4 dams along the Klamath River – dams which provided fire fighters a lot of water during wildfires.

And when Joe Biden was elected, by April of 2021, Gavin Newsom claimed that “wildfire preparedness will be better now that Biden is in office instead of Trump.”

Oops. Can’t take that back.

We’ve long reported that the state’s last reservoir project was completed in 1979, when the population was 23 million – nearly half of what it is today. 50 years later, California now has 39 million residents and the same number of reservoirs.

Californians have approved more than $30 billion in water bonds in the ensuing years – but no reservoirs have been built.

In 2014, while Gavin Newsom was Lt. Governor, California voters approved $7.12 billion in bonds for state water supply infrastructure projects. Of that, $2.7 billion was designated for water storage projects. But more than 10 years later, there are no new dams or reservoirs, or other water storage projects to collect and store California’s winter runoff, 80% of which is sent to the Pacific Ocean for environmental purposes.

As we asked Wednesday, “How is it that Gov. Newsom and Gov. Jerry Brown before him, hasn’t gotten any actual water storage built? The short answer is they don’t want it. Both would rather have the $30 billion Delta Tunnels project instead, which would destroy California’s very important Delta region.”

Remember this: The voters approved more water bonds in 2014 – ten years ago.

While Gov Newsom is publicly whining about Trump and some news outlets like CA Globe “politicizing” this tragedy, mismanagement is political. Political incompetence is political. Gross negligence is political. Corruption is political.

Gov. Newsom slashed roughly $150 million from Cal Fire’s wildfire prevention budget. Why? CalFire is probably the best state forest management and wildfire fighting agency in the country. And California is a tinder box with decades of neglected forest management.

If the Pacific Palisades fire catastrophe doesn’t bring about political change in California, the state is done.

President-elect Donald Trump already called for Gavin Newsom’s resignation.

As we said Wednesday, “Newsom has been ‘Trump-Proofing’ California rather than ‘Wildfire-Proofing’”. Failing up is no longer acceptable with Southern California on fire again.

Newsom has been playing at being governor rather than caring for the safety and security of the people. Newsom has shown no interest in actual governing, which his sites set on the White House since first running for governor in 2010. And because of that, Gavin Newsom’s political career may have just gone up in flames.

What is going to happen with Californias’ already tenuous homeowners insurance crisis? Will the entire state melt down economically? If we can’t insure our homes… Houston, we have a problem. A colossal problem. With the country’s most expensive real estate, some of which just went up in smoke, how does California recover? Where does the money come from to rebuild?

“California has prioritized ‘suppression-only’ strategies and failed to remove accumulated vegetation, leading to denser forests with increased fuel loads – our forests have become tinderboxes, leading to devastating outcomes when a fire starts,” Assemblyman Bill Essayli said on X.

“Bottom line: many of the wild fires CA experienced could have been prevented or significantly mitigated with better management, policies, and funding. This is a time for accountability and, more importantly, change in how we approach fire policy. Many of the rejected proposals were brought by Republicans, and I suspect they were rejected for that reason. There is only one political party to blame for CA’s failures.”

Indeed.