Don’t you know….wildfires only happen because the governor didn’t rake the forests. That’s why he’s firing federal forestry workers and park rangers. Wait….

Trump is really making those wild fires a priority. Why won't he turn on the faucet to help? O well. I know someone in the Carolinas I'd like to see gone anyway.

another head scratcher/gut churner/soul sighing show. it's way over time to get some patrols on the 'information highway'. the web of lies/undue social influence/bias reporting/echo chambers and general nastiness needs some lines of (lack of a better word) decency that nary be crossed.
it's been done before.
'fire in a crowed theater' put some measurement on of the definition of 'free speech'. there is a line where 'free speech' fails to be freedom & becomes the dungeons of despair.
it's a tough subject to gauge, but do trust caring* people can draw a 'line-in-the-sand' so young people don't kill themselves over cyber bulling. or hyper-partisan yodels don't attack random INNOCENT people. or where honesty and a love of variable facts becomes a touchstone.
it needs to happen.
this would be the (past) time to get all types together and hammer out some guidelines. Maybe, use existing laws. change the 230(#?) shield limits. AI monitoring. or have civil suits to sue, sue, and sue until the posting of anything that comes into a person's head, meets a reality check.
not against the exchange of ideas, challenges of the norms, or any free speech of merit (or even some of dubious value) -but just getting us out of the muck of the 'muddy minimum-maintenance roadway of disinformation'.
peace.


*extend that to all of the 'sick-of-this-s*it' folk)

I don’t know about bird flu, but I had the flu last week and it was much worse than Covid for us.

Bird flu is transferred to cattle and pets….and has been found in milk and meat. It is beyond time to worry, especially since our pandemic response team has been fired….again…just like it was before Covid (by the same person who learned nothing).
The FDA and CDC are run by a man with severe brain damage both from decades of heroin abuse and brain worms eating a significant portion of his brain (although to eat the rotting road kill and get brain worms, he had to have serious brain damage already)…he doesn’t believe in vaccinations and seems to believe the best thing is full epidemic and let whoever dies die.
With Medicare and Medicaid in limbo at best, hospitals are already struggling to stay open, just wait until they are chocked full of patients but few if any staff. Its coming.

Buy PPE now while you can. N95 masks are already gone from shelves here, so is hand sanitizer. Things will get weird, and there will be no public health warnings telling you it is happening. They have been banned outright.

Not so much baptism by fire and more throwing acid in democracy’s face.
As one of the >48% of Americans that still support democracy, I apologize for my idiotic antidemocratic neighbors and the pain their choices will cause the globe.

I'm Canadian, and many of us Canucks are mobilizing to fight this dumbass' trade war tooth and nail. We helped Trump & Biden to get Chinese EV out of our market. Tiktok out of gov't employees and many other policies besides, but we're getting f*ked by Trump yet to no gain for Americans. It's s shitshow.

My province's Conservative premier got caught in a hot mic moment saying he was "100% happy when Trump got elected but then Trump stabbed him in the back." I was like WTF did he expect?

Is Trump's second term a sort of Baptism by Fire for America's democracy? We're certainly get burned by the inferno south of the border.

Shocking. One of Elon’s doge bags has been fired for multiple super racist Nazi loving posts he made all last year through December, all this was well known by Musk when he hired him.
Not a surprise the felon’s administration is knowingly infested with actual active Nazis, it is led by a neo fascist Afrikaner….Elon, whose family moved to South Africa for the apartheid and racism.

You can’t spell “hatred” without “red hat”.

In a panic because his dismantling of the air safety boards, firing the FAA head, putting a hiring freeze on air traffic controllers who are already 30%+ understaffed, and erasing any job security for the remaining few the day before (when there was another near miss between helicopters and planes due to understaffing and the added stress he intentionally put them under) only took a day to cause a mid air crash, the moron is blaming Biden for training disabled people to work in the field….

…..obviously forgetting the order to hire more disabled people for air traffic control was made by him in 2019 because there was a shortage back then and that was his “fix” (didn’t fix anything), or hoping his people are too stupid to look it up knowing they are all too dumb to remember what happened yesterday.

Every word is a lie, every action a disaster.

America won’t survive 4 more months of this, forget 4 years.
Remember remember the 5th of November…..Where’s America’s Guy Falks? Can he make it the 5th of March instead please….we don’t have until November.

Still going….



New fires today

Continuing to burn, now in the world famous neighborhoods of Brentwood, Belaire, and they’re evacuating Encino.


Some estimates are now saying $150 billion + (including lost commerce)….and growing.
(Side note- estimates to “rake the forest clean” as fire deterrent like some have suggested are about $1 Trillion per year in California alone and would require every undocumented immigrant in America and then some to do the job, so no deportations.)

Multiple people have been arrested for starting these and other fires in LA. A man with a propane torch was caught lighting Xmas trees and garbage cans that seem to be the start of the Kenneth fire, a woman was caught starting fires near Palisades on the 8th (her fires were reportedly put out, so maybe not the start of that fire) and there’s footage of what’s claimed to be people starting fires in what looks like down town LA tonight.

The Palisades Fire has exploded to more than 19,000 acres with 6% containment as of early Friday morning. The fast-moving Eaton Fire is at 13,000 acres and 0% contained. The Hurst Fire is at least 771 acres and 37% contained, while the newer Kenneth Fire is at 1,000 acres and is 35% contained.
Estimates are $50-$60 billion in losses with over $10 billion in homes lost so far and rising. Winds are forecast to drop slightly tomorrow but rise again significantly on Sunday.

One of two “super scoopers” on loan from Canada is out of commission after hitting a civilian drone this morning, further hampering efforts. Fortunately the plane managed to land safely with a hole in its wing and not crash into residential LA.
It is a crime to fly a drone in an active disaster area, with a $75k fine and up to 12 months in prison.
Firefighters lost water pressure when PG&E shut off electricity to the pumps that maintain water pressure to keep the lines from sparking new fires, again hampering fire fighting efforts. They are working on getting generators attached to the pumping stations to restore pressure.
At least one new fire started in LA today, suspected of being arson.
This already looks to be the most costly natural disaster in American history, and it is still unfolding.

I hope Biden manages to deliver the aid he has promised before he leaves office. The felon will clearly try to block any aid to a blue state out of personal spite and will leave us to fend for ourselves. (If only we could do the same)

Pacific Palacades Wiped Off The Map


These were all multi million dollar homes at the least.
Total economic losses are estimated by experts at $60 billion so far, with multiple fires still burning.

Drone footage of some aftermath.

Last night there were 6 major fires in LA burning well over 20000 acres of the most valuable real estate in America, including ocean front Malibu where minimum home prices are in the tens of millions.