No, this isn’t a Babylon Bee Headline. It’s from a Newsom post on X. Grok created the image.
New Executive Order
“NEW: Just issued an Executive Order that will allow victims of the SoCal fires to not get caught up in bureaucratic red tape and quickly rebuild their homes. We are also extending key price gouging protections to help make rebuilding more affordable.”
Nearly 4 million people viewed this Newsom Nonsense. How many caught the red tape irony, two of them actually?
The first is obvious: The state of California has numerous roadblocks and red tape on getting nearly anything done for environmental reasons. So Newsom has done nothing but pledge to cut his own red tape.
The second is that “price gouging protections” are guaranteed to cause delays because lumber and services are going to be in short supply.
So, as Newsome promises to cut some red tape (and we will see about that) he’s putting up other red tape in the form of “gouge protection”.
Expect more red tape to follow in the form of a price gouging swat team.
Protection of Illegal Alien Arsonists
Meanwhile, please note the Governor will spend $50 million to protect illegal immigrants from deportation.
California State Representative, @J_GallagherAD3, James Gallagher Posts on X
“At a time when California should be laser focused on responding to the devastating wildfires in LA, Democrat lawmakers’ priority is creating a $50 million slush fund to hire government lawyers for hypothetical fights against the federal government and to defend criminal illegal immigrants from being returned to their home countries. The disconnect between what Californians need and what Democrats are focused on is astounding.”
Please note some of those to be protected are arsonists.
Protecting Arsonists
Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin, @BillMelugin_ writes: “Per ICE sources, the man seen in a viral video being subdued by residents & arrested by police w/ a blowtorch near the #KennethFire in West Hills is an illegal alien from Mexico named Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva. He is in custody on a probation violation & has NOT been charged w/ arson. I’m told ICE will place a detainer request on him with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, but they do not expect it to be honored due to California’s Sanctuary State law. I’m told Sierra-Leyva will have a court appearance tomorrow. Again – he has not been charged w/ arson and is in custody only on a probation violation at the moment, as multiple agencies have been interviewing him.”
The man illegally crossed the border from Mexico, according to Fox. He was initially detained by residents after they saw him walking around their neighborhood with a blow torch. LAPD says they only charged the man with felony probation violation because they found “no probably cause of suspicion of arson.” “There was not enough probable cause to arrest this person on arson or suspicion of arson, and therefore, this person was arrested on a felony probation violation,” LAPD said.
Arson Attempt Video
The city and the state want to blame Climate Change instead of their own inept policies.
So this man will not be charged.
Let’s Discuss Governor Gavin Newsom’s Los Angeles Fire Fact Check
In case you missed it, please see Let’s Discuss Governor Gavin Newsom’s Los Angeles Fire Fact Check
Here’s a tidbit. Newsom brags (literally) about spending 3.8 billion on firefighting while spending $24 billion on homeless.
Now the state seeks $500 million to defend illegal immigrants, even arsonists and those on felony parole violations, from deportation.
If you live in California aren’t you proud of what Newsom has done for your state?
More California Facts
April 28, 2024: Chipotle CEO on Menu Prices “California Isn’t Making It Easy”
Higher state minimum wage went into effect April 1; chains say burritos and burgers are getting more expensive in response.
May 20: California Governor Escalates the War on Gasoline Impacting Neighboring States
Prepare to pay another $1 per gallon in California with higher prices in Nevada and Arizona too.
June 15, 2024: Twenty Percent of California Lives in Poverty, What’s Going On?
On a cost-adjusted basis, California leads the nation in percentage living in poverty. Blame the Progressive oligarchs like Governor Newsom.
December 6, 2024: California Reaffirms an Open Arms Invitation to Illegal Immigrants
Protests based on the “California Values Act” which limits state cooperation with federal immigration authorities are underway.
June 17, 2024: Hoot of the Day: California Proposes Restraining Orders to Stop Thieves
More and more headlines look as if they are from the Babylon Bee. Let’s discuss the latest idiocrasy from la-la land.
Repeating what I said in my previous Newsom post:
Dear governor, you are a miserable failure with piss poor priorities.
Please apologize, then resign.
Government can’t stop price gouging if rich people want to pay more… ridiculous as it may seem Newsom is pandering.
Newsom’s career is over. The photos of fires will follow him forever. His incompetence, wokeness and financial mismanagement will be his legacy.
Once the recall effort begins, I will volunteer to collect signatures.
Puh-leeze. We tried a recall before. Newsom won handedly.
Who is going to be the Republican candidate? Another over-the-hill black talk host? [lol]
If this were a funny joke, the standard reply of “too soon” would apply.
Rabid Republican partisanship on full display as the country continues to burn.
And the stupidity will only be ratched up when Trump is sworn in…
& federal funds are cut off to states & cities that lean towards the democrats…
even though republicans live there as well…
just like in 2018:
Trump refused to give California wildfire aid until told how many people there voted for him, ex-aide says
You get 750. Same as what they did to NC.
Or Lahaina Maui…
The Americans in NC and Maui should have flown to New York, tossed their passports and transitioned/self-identify as an illegal alien, and their $750 could have been increased to $10k and free luxury lodging. Got to love a government that prioritizes non-citizens over citizens.
More or less the same can be said of all democrat governors across the US
The dems are now upset about looting and theft but they were fine with it when they were looting and stealing from all the retail stores and bussinesses . Now we have the dems who voted for the leaders who allowed it against bussinesses upset that the same gangs are rumaging threw the fire rubble looking for treasure that may have survived the fire . Some are talking about the law breakers need to be shot on sight .
These people have no shame and are the definition of hypocrites . Of course they want the regulations and permitting and red tape eliminated as they try to rebuild but had no problems with it when it added thousands of dollars to the cost of evryday people that struggle to make ends meet . Many bussinesses and retail had to close because they were being victims of the Dem policy .
Newsome is on an image public relations emergency now. He does tik tok videos discussing plans and also was limping some fancy fire chopper that was employed for fires. I suspect Jerry Brown actually ordered those. Newsome is basically a common fence lizard. Sits and does nothing, then acts with great speed when he has to. Then sits and eats bugs
Great article mike, you nailed it.
“The Biden Treasury continues to hand Team Trump a bag of rocks… Yellen has drawn down the Treasury General Account by $200bl in the last two weeks. As you head to the debt ceiling, you should be building the TGA. Or at least leaving a cushion”
The evil of this admin has no limits
Dry your tears, my dear minion, the Golden Age is upon us!
You have a right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you.
That’s going to cost money.
“Real-estate investor Robert Rivani spent close to three years renovating an oceanfront mansion on Malibu’s star-studded Carbon Beach. Including the price of the original home, the project cost close to $27 million. He had been planning to list it for $40 million this spring. Last week, Rivani watched as the California wildfires tore the five-bedroom home apart, reducing it to rubble. ‘It’s catastrophic,’ he said. ‘How do you sum up losing over $20 million in 24 hours to any human being?’ Rivani said his insurance falls under the state’s already-stretched Fair Plan, which provides only up to $3 million in coverage for residential properties, so, even if it pays out, he says he will be out more than $20 million. No other insurer would cover the property for its full replacement value, he said.”
With all due respect, I do not feel sorry for him much at all. I am grateful he or anyone else did not lose their life , at from what you describe. Maybe I am wrong, but if know other insurer would cover him for full replacement value, then he knew going in there was risk involved correct?
No I’m with you. He knew the risk, but he literally flushed 20 million in the toilet. These are real losses and there are a lot of them
You’d think that he could have invested a small extra amount for a fire-retardant foam system like this…
https://www.frontlinewildfire.com/protect-home-with-roof-wildfire-sprinkler-system/
I saw a video years ago of a one inch thick foam which you could manually spray over your home as a fire approached – it provided excellent protection for hours afterward – can’t find the product now…. Firefighters were also using it – they’d coat all houses in a street and then move on to the next street. In one fire event, all houses were saved except one which had an open garage door….
And I hope that all those houses & businesses built right to the oceans edge are not allowed to be rebuilt again. Doing so would be an ecological and environmental catastrophe.
The state needs to apply eminent domain and rule no rebuilding next to the ocean.
In the video, they say a couple of neighbors said they saw the man try to light fires, yet the police said they didn’t have enough probable cause to arrest him for arson. Eyewitness testimony isn’t good enough?
Apparently, there was a fire in Palisades on New Years Eve.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/12/report-new-years-eve-fire-caused-fireworks-may-have-caused-palisades-fire/
There were multiple fires. Some of which were obvious arson. The coverup will be if the arsonists were homeless or illegals, they will cover it up because of politics. This is likely already occurring. The man caught with the blowtorch for instance.
here is the map of the before and after
https://walzr.com/la-damage
“Price gouging” is a necessary thing that helps prevent shortages and attracts additional supplies. Price controls will only result in shortages. High-demand items are supposed to cost more.
Managing the narrative. Newsome wants people to perceive that he is doing something so his PR staff came up with this idea. Underneath there are probably lots of money for consultants and such.
California needs to pass a law banning wildfires.
Arson.
For that, California would first have to demonstrate the ability to “arrest” wildfires. Pun intended!
Then again, for a civil suit against a wildfire, they just need to be able to “serve” the wildfires? Hmm..
“Again and again, developers and real estate interests crushed efforts to limit development in high-wildfire-risk areas of California. Now, some of those developments have burned to the ground.”
https://www.levernews.com/the-architects-of-l-a-s-wildfire-devastation/
“The widespread devastation of the recent fires — including in parts of the city at lower risk of wildfires — illustrates how building structures in high-fire-risk zones can have downstream effects in other areas. …. These were the kinds of developments targeted by Stern’s bill. After the legislation was introduced, disclosures show, the real estate lobby descended on it: A litany of developers and real estate groups lobbied to kill the bill.”
Surprise. Surprise. This disaster was not caused by regulations, but rather by criminally reckless deregulation.
Kind of curious Newsome and dems went all in on Climate change.
Have claimed drought was inevitable for years.
Whether or not Drought was caused by climate change, Drought happened.
If a person is at top of command and had reason to believe drought was certain, then got said Drought, why would that person in command not prepare for consequences of that Drought to communities afflicted?
You say this is greedy developers and real estate people at fault.
Pretty Big disconnect from what actually happened.
There was little municipal water available to fight Fires. That is Failure of government leadership.
To borrow from Biff Tannen, “The corporations OWN the government!!!!”
BOTH the major parties are fully beholden to big business. They are conveniently labeled “Left” and “Right” so the masses can keep fighting among themselves instead of dealing with the actual source of the scourge.
The donor-CRAT Party has not done even one thing on the economic policy front that can honestly be called leftist over the last 50+ years.
It is not a matter of either-or. Greedy developers built these houses. Lack of firefighting facilities was the aggravating factor. It is a one-two punch.
To quote another poster: “Socialism is the fire department saving your house from a fire. Capitalism is the insurance company denying your claim.”
The fire department was not properly equipped to save the houses. Why? Because the donor-CRAT Party is *NOT* socialist. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
Insurance companies denying the claims is going to follow. IOW, capitalism will “succeed” – again.
California Dems can not Spin their way out of this.
Captain Newsome has run ship of state aground on the reef named Drought. A clearly charted Reef on every ones Map.
Ample rainfall run out to the Ocean and no way to retain that rain for instances when needed. No piping to deliver that Rain being built.
People have lost lifetimes which can not be replaced. Saying”hey Bummer” not going to make things better.
agreed. And other than 1 of 2 elections, from top to bottom Democrats run everything in this state and have so for over 50 years, more so the last 30……. The multi millioniare hollywood elites, while I do not wish anyone to lose life, but everything else about them they can go -uckthemselves. You got what you voted for and lectured me about how F-ed up I am……..really _uck them
They want to import millions of illiterate peasant illegals to come here and then not provide ample water and infrastructure to enable said policy…the democrats have no understanding of the concept of land carrying capacity. Imbeciles. The worst are the hypocritical pedowood elites who now insist on dismantling the environmental (over)regulations they have voted for decades as it directly impacts them. Pathetic on all counts.
No sympathy for the donorCRAT Party here! But the alternative is the party of Ronald “privatize everything including the sidewalks” Reagan, also, incidentally, from California! But even though Reagan just had the neoliberal wet dream, it is BJ Clinton who largely made the dream come true during the 1990s.
IOW, we are screwed – no matter which way we go!
All of California has a big wildfire risk, that goes with the Mediterranean climate … 6 consecutive months without rain each year. So it matters a lot less where you build, and a lot more how you mitigate the fuel buildup and other upwind fire risks wherever you build.
There’s enough blame for all.
Well, 6 YEARS ago, this report identified high fire risk areas in California, and also warned development in the state’s high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying wildfires and putting more people in their path.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Wildfires-and-Climate-Change-California%E2%80%99s-Energy-Future.pdf
That is EXACTLY what has happened since then, and this time as well.
“The fire spread outward from the Palisades Highlands neighborhood, one of the Palisades’ more recent developments, which borders undeveloped state park land, into lower-risk areas.”
So, it does matter a lot where you build.
Newsome shoulder wave thing – psycho.
https://tgstat.ru/en/channel/@DDGeopolitics/135980
We can look at CA to see what the limousine liberals want to enact at the federal level. Thank god they didnt win, it would be a banana republic.
We can hope CA voters have learned from this period and change their ways
‘I Think Things Are Going to Be Bad, Really Bad’: The US Military Debates Possible Deployment on US Soil Under Trumphttps://www.yahoo.com/news/inside-military-quiet-debate-over-200000589.html
– EO’s used to be used by those in charge to get their way, temporarily of course. Seems they are now being used in CA. to protect the law breakers, The people harmed by Government’s Asinine Actions, to support The States other failed policies, to keep the scams up etc. I see we have come full circle on EO’s and they can be used for any ill advised purpose that they can dream up, and then put into actions. SAD!
– CA. Governor will spend $50 million to protect illegal immigrants from deportation at a time when the State of CA. Is in potentially “The Worst Shape” in CA. history perhaps? Who’s cares about the U.S. Citizens in CA.? I see CA. Obviously Loves The Illegals, but what about the CA. Taxpayers (I.E. Citizens) who will “Be Paying For It All? I guess Newsom figures the homeless due to His and CA. policies, don’t deserve anything. Maybe they need to “LEAVE CA. and then they will be noticed…
> Minimum Wage Increase: Raised Prices, Lost Jobs, Businesses Hurt, so a very successful attempt at controlling the businesses and people in your state worked?
> War on Gasoline: Just as Stupid as Most CA. Reckless policies are..
> 20% live in poverty in CA: Out of pure curiosity, does that match the % of illegals in CA.?
> Protecting illegals: #1 Job for Newsome and the Democrats
> Restraining Orders: They don’t and have never worked for any reason I am aware of. I have pulled them and had them pulled on me. I pulled one on a person that pulled a gun on me, and then they pulled one on me, for doing so. I don’t even own a gun, and never have. The person owns several, and illegally I am pretty sure. Nothing ever done about it, but that was 30+ years ago. I doubt it’s changed much. You’re leaving the person that caused the infraction to STOP IT from occurring again, seems sort of illogical on every turn I can muster up. Poor woman who Truly Need and Rely On Them get screwed over probably, from my own experience, but I digress…
– At a time when California should be laser focused on responding to the devastating wildfires in LA, Democrat lawmakers’ priority is creating a $50 million slush fund to hire government lawyers for hypothetical fights against the federal government and to defend criminal illegal immigrants from being returned to their home countries. The disconnect between what Californians need and what Democrats are focused on is astounding.”
> They can’t and won’t focus ANY attention on the “Self Induced” Wildfires, as it’s a clear reflection of their sheer incompetence as Leaders, or lack thereof. Every time it’s mentioned in the MSM the Democrats and CA. Roll up in balls and Tremble, as this is their largest fallout in many decades in CA. Which is the “North Star” of the Liberal Lunatics!!! Without being able to say “We Democrats Control the Biggest, Brightest and Best Cities” in the Country. Well NOW they no longer do, as CA. NY, ILL. And others are simply a giant pot of crumbling States, and Major Cities all across the Country. A cease pool of problems, obviously not to be solved by those in charge currently.
I agree He should resign, but he won’t…
It will be amusing to watch what governmental response this particular disaster gets in contrast with other disasters. Pacific Palisades ain’t exactly on the wrong side of the tracks. The bulk of local, state, and federal taxes are paid by people such as live there. They’ll do more than clutch their pearls if they get an undesirable response from their governments.
Situation is a bit like illegal immigrants in Martha’s Vineyard.
The amusing Government response will be:
1. We are doing all that we can, and will continue to do so.
2. We understand your problems and are addressing them.
3. We know you have heard things, but they are not true.
4. We know you have seen things, but that wasn’t what it was.
5. We will never let this happen again.
6. We don’t have enough resources from the Feds.
7. We can’t get around the rules in place to help you.
8. We put everything we had as always to help, but fell short.
9. We blame the Republicans as you should too.
10. We see this as a reason to elect more Democrats to get around this sort of stuff. We have roadblocks we can’t get around without more Democrats in “Power & Control”
Top 10?
No! We tried to get rid of him in the recall election but the Republican party in CA is totally ineffectual, which is why the Dems have a supermajority in the Legislature.
Hey Trump – Send us some competent Republicans!
Competent Republicans won’t come from Trump, not from Washington. Have to grow them yourselves.
To be fair, a good fraction of the CA Democrats would pretend to be Republicans if they thought it would get them elected.
Typo? $50 or $500 million? Or were those two numbers for different things?
Please remember Newsome got his start running a restaurant in SF that catered to cougars. He is not exactly a high IQ type.
Don’t forget climate change…
“The Associated Press published an article titled “Climate Change Contributed to a Week of Wild Weather That Upended Life in the US,” which was heavily ratioed on X for blaming the Palisades Fire solely on “climate change.”
The journalist behind the article, Melina Walling, who uses the pronouns “she/her,” failed to mention arson reports and the alarming mismanagement of city fire resources by radical far-left Democrats in power, including Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
“Climate change laid the groundwork for California’s megafires,” Walling wrote. Walling’s selective reporting, aimed at drumming up climate anxieties among the public to further the left’s climate change agenda, is extraordinarily misleading.”
Can ICE turn up at the courthouse tomorrow and detain the arsonist?
If California won’t lay arson charges can the Federal Government lay charges if any federal lands were impacted?
I seem to recall that there was a case many years ago where a killing took place in a state without the death penalty but because it was done on federal lands the perp was tried federally and executed. Considering that the death toll is likely to include deaths from fires that at some point crossed federal land can Trump arrange that those peeps are tried and executed?
Could Trump sign an EO making all those illegally in the country subject to federal law for any felonies they commit? Biden commuted 37 death penalties in his final month and Trump in his final month in his first term had 3 federal executions. Putting scores of illegal gang bangers on federal death row will send a message to illegals about Trumps resolve and Newsoms weakness come the 2028 election.
They conducted a raid in CA a few days back! 7 days and counting…
Just read that CA recently passed a law concerning rebuilding a home that burned down. if you fail to rebuild in 2 years the tax basis will reset to current values.
This is huge. decades ago californians passed a law that locked property values in to their values at that time. this was like back in the 80s!
I wonder how many people will be able to afford property taxes if their valuations reset?
A whole lot less than now! I need to see a god source for this statement though.
How many will even be able to rebuild within 2 years?
Can’t someone just give the governor a fiddle and let him be?
So, now that Newsom is toast, who can Dems run for president in 2028? The butt pirate from South Bend who didn’t visit the Ohio train wreck? The moron who just lost in 2024? Governor Knucklehead from Minnesota? Governor Maleficent from Michigan? Serious question. They might have to go with Joe Biden again.
The Pennsylvania guy, Josh Shapiro?
Yeah, probably.
Well, yes. They are already on record as being pro-genocide so they might have to go further along that road anyway.
But they will add a female, non-white as the running mate so they can appeal to the rest of their base.
Doubtful. Given what Israel is doing and the geostrategic mess its Likudnik leadership creates that impacts our country, why would anyone vote for someone who is a dual citizen of any particular country, let alone that particular albatross around our necks. I would be concerned that his calculus would be to send my gentile kids to fight and die for his precious zionist ethnostate when push comes to shove in the middle east and/or will ‘ride and die’ with Israel even if it destroys the economic position of this country.
How on earth did this guy get elected? No wonder the state is in a huge financial mess.
Because he is a reflection of the people?
The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or – much more mysteriously – to submit to it.
– Jean Francois Revel —
Unfortunately that last part seems to explain Seattle. The exercise tyranny themselves crowd is in Olympia.
Most Californians wish is for the tyrannical government to govern them harder…
Well, since the advent of farming, we’ve been bred to expect, if not want, a king/emperor/chief/big-man. Notice how little kids love being princes and princesses.
Given the popularity of “slavery” for thousands of years, one might argue that many, if not most of us, are bred to be slaves, keeping in mind that the word, “slave”, covers a lot of ground.