hokiewolf said:
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hokiewolf said:
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Fire equipment to Ukraine and massive funding of illegal alien freebies, works every time, when democrats are in charge........
Tulsi using AI-generated videos to peddle your disinformation? Of course she is.
Grifters of a feather flock together.
Is she wrong?
in this case yes. The donations of old equipment two years ago didn't hamper the efforts to put these fire out. Poor planning and underestimating for the worst case scenario plus unprecedented Santa Ana winds did.
You could also add poor leadership at all levels of government as well as lack of funding because said leaders "prioritized" issues/topics/measures based on political sentiment/conviction instead of putting the taxpayer citizen first.
Cool story. Clearly North Carolina suffered from poor planning and underestimating their worst case flooding scenario. Was that poor leadership at al levels of government? Why didn't we see Fox News reporters chasing around local Republican leaders asking about their total lack of flood engineering?
I guess if Dems get convinced to become as classless as you maybe we'll see that next time the NC mountains flood out. And there will be a next time... this is going to get worse, not better.
If the good leaders in NC based all of their planning around global warming and it increasing the likelihood of catastrophic weather events, then yes 100% agree with you. But that is not the case in WNC but it is in California. They base all of their policies on climate change AND fail to plan for the potential consequences of climate change. So yes, that's a failure on California's leadership, both in state government and Los Angeles.
For instance, the mayor of LA should have doubled the resources and money obligated to emergency services, because of climate change, not cut services.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
I also find it hilarious that Newsom thinks relaxing draconian environmental restrictions so folks can rebuild is some sort of awesome thing.
So you're saying NC leaders should get a pass because they refuse to plan for the more intense storms that scientists have been telling them for years are coming? Lol, got it!
But again, you're view of what happened and is happening in California is clearly being filtered through a hyper-partisan lens that always looks for ways to exploit Dem tragedies for partisan gain. It's easy to find a bunch of half truths during a crises, and a bunch of pissed off people looking for answers, and Fox News, etc takes full advantage.
The reality rarely fits on a bumper sticker, and is never as cartoonish as you're suggesting it is... OMG the fifth largest economy on the planet, with a GDP larger than France, is TOTALLY INCOMPETENT! Please. Could it be that you just don't like Gavin Newsom?
Anyway, fun fact... it turns out LA's fire budget was actually increased by
$53 million, not cut. That was half truth bullsh**. In fact almost everything that you guys have been bawling about is half truth bull***** Here's an interesting history of prescribed burns if you'd like to educate yourself on what's really happening there:
https://jabberwocking.com/why-dont-we-do-more-prescribed-burning-an-explainer/One complaint that is totally fair is regarding fire insurance, but that's an example of trying to fix one big problem and inadvertently creating another, not incompetence. It happens.
