One reason California has such devastating wildfires is that the state is infested with environmentalists and their lawyers.

Via Chico’s Action News Now:

The Community Protection Project (CPP) is a $650 million, 200,000-acre project to protect communities in the Plumas National Forest that have not burned in the last 5-7 years. The forest service plans to use prescribed burns, forest thinning, and herbicides as part of the massive fuel reduction project. It’s designed to protect communities in Plumas and Butte Counties from future wildfires.

However,

The environmental group Feather River Action filed a lawsuit demanding a full environmental statement to look at the impact of logging, burning, and herbicides.

What moonbats don’t like, they bog down in red tape. Good luck cutting through it before the next uncontrolled conflagration.

Feather River Action spokesmoonbat Josh Hart — who accuses the US Forest Service of “using the climate crisis to justify industrial logging” — helpfully provides alternatives to proper forest management:

“What the real solutions to this climate crisis are in terms of protecting communities, which is hardening communities building structures out of non-burnable materials plugging holes, and clearing areas 200 feet around structures.”

There is no climate crisis, except in the addled minds of moonbats. In contrast, Los Angeles residents can attest that the threat of wildfires is quite real.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Conflagrations are exacerbated by moonbats, then exploited by liberal pols who have plans for the land. Sound familiar? Decoy Voice remembers the 2023 Maui wildfires:

If you liked what moonbats did to Los Angeles before letting it burn down, you will love Gavin Newsom’s Los Angeles 2.0.

On a tip from Jester.

Taxpayers give noisily lesbian Kristin Crowley $439,772 per year to promote DEI as chief of the LAPD. If you think that is expensive, consider the cost of having people like her in charge.

The New York Post reports:

Los Angeles fire bosses deployed just a fraction of its firefighters and trucks to the deadly Palisades Fire until it was already out of control — sending just five of the 40 available fire engines and holding back 1,000 firefighters, according to a damning new report.

A “domino effect of missteps” helped the crisis to become unmanageable.

Officials held off on ordering hundreds of available fire crews to remain on duty for a second shift last Tuesday, which would have doubled the manpower on hand, to help battle flames taking hold in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, according to internal fire department records…

Despite being available, no extra engines were readied in the Palisades region prior to the fire breaking out there, according to the logs.

It is too early to tally the final cost, but…

The Palisades Fire, along the coast, has been blamed for eight deaths as the wildfires continue to destroy the area. The fires across the region caused up to $250 billion in damages.

Just as the leadership crisis continues in Los Angeles and California in general, the largest fires (Palisades and Eaton) are still not under control.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

The liberal policies of leaving the border open and facilitating homelessness have subjected California to hordes of illegal aliens and derelicts. Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva meets both descriptions:

A man was detained by residents near the Kenneth Fire in West Hills, California, after being caught with a blowtorch. The individual, identified as Juan Manuel Sierra-Leyva, has been confirmed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sources to be an illegal immigrant from Mexico.

LA being a liberal jurisdiction,

But officials later said they lacked the probable cause to arrest him on arson charges and instead arrested him on a probation violation.

If he is an illegal alien and he is on probation, he should not have been running around with a blow torch. He should have been in prison prior to deportation. Correct that; he should never have entered the country in the first place, because it should be the first priority of the military to defend the border from foreign invasion.

Once the moonbats in charge let him loose again, he will go back to starting fires:

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are planning to place a detainer request on Sierra-Leyva, but they do not expect it to be honored due to California’s sanctuary state law, Bill Melugin reports.

As Los Angeles demonstrates, it is not feasible to live under liberal rule.

The city may never rebuild. God help the USA if those escaping the mess they made of it spread their moonbattery throughout the country.

On tips from Chris Neilson and Tlabia Majora.

Gavin Newsom didn’t like people making fun of him, so he banned parody. How else would you expect him to respond to the crisis in Los Angeles that he helped cause other than to ask the federal government to censor his many critics?

From the Daily Mail:

The California governor spoke about his struggles during a briefing with President Joe Biden during a remote video briefing in the Oval Office.

‘I ask you, we gotta deal with this misinformation, there are hurricane force winds of mis and disinformation, lies, people who want to divide this country and we’re going to have to address that as well,’ Newsom said.

Here is some “disinformation” Noisome probably wants censored:

Newsom … has systematically ensured that water out of the Sacramento River and the watershed of Northern California would go out to the sea, rather than into the aqueduct, so Los Angeles didn’t have sufficient amounts of water.

He bragged not very long ago that he blew up four dams on the Klamath River. They provided 80,000 homes with clean hydroelectric power. They offered recreation, flood control, irrigation. He blew them up.

California moonbats self-righteously prioritize fish over people. Now there’s not enough water to put out fires.

It is not enough that this cheesy creep’s presidential aspirations have been mercifully nixed. California needs Gavin Newsom out of office yesterday.

On a tip from Wiggins.

There has been a problem with dry fire hydrants as Los Angeles burns. Governor Gavin Newsom won’t answer why — possibly because government personnel is why.

They say you get what you pay for. This does not hold true for bureaucrats like Janisse Quiñones:

The Los Angeles City Council [last May] confirmed longtime Pacific Gas and Electric executive Janisse Quiñones as the next general manager of the Department of Water and Power, at an annual salary of $750,000 — nearly twice as much as her predecessor.

She was nominated by none other than Karen Bass of the African junket. Her duties include making sure water comes out of the fire hydrants.

Janisse hails from Puerto Rico, earning her extra diversity points. Her pay tops even LGBT-certified Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley:

Crowley’s 2023 pay was an absurd $439,772 — $412,493 base pay and $27,278 “other” pay.

Let’s hope Los Angelenos are enjoying their DEI government. They pay plenty for it.

On tips from R F, Htos1av, Tlabia Majora, taxpayer22, David Kight, and seaoh.

As noted in a discussion of the Los Angeles Fires and DEI, Mayor Karen Bass took off on a junket to Ghana despite having ample warning regarding the onrushing catastrophe. Sky News provided her with an opportunity to explain herself to the public. But the cat got her tongue:

Maybe Bass has nothing to say because she cannot comprehend how wildfires could still be a problem even with Joe Biden in office, in light of what Gavin Newsom said back in 2021:

On tips from Tlabia Majora, Anonymous, ABC of the ANC, and Mr. Freemarket.

This isn’t the first Palisades Fire:

The Palisades Fire, which occurred in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, in 2021, was determined to be caused by arson. … The main suspect was identified as 48-year-old Ramon Santos Rodriguez, but he was later released due to a lack of substantial evidence connecting him to the fire.

More recently, a new wildfire has been burning in the Pacific Palisades area as of January 8, 2025. This fire, also referred to as the Palisades Fire, has been rapidly spreading due to strong winds, reaching over 15,800 acres by January 9, 2025. While the cause of the current fire has not been definitively determined, the possibility of arson is being considered given the recent history of arson in the area.

Starting fires is easy and fun:

More historical context, from 2020:

A man who was arrested in Oregon after allegedly using a Molotov cocktail to start a wildfire was later released from jail but rearrested less than 24 hours later for allegedly starting six more small fires. The incident comes amid a string of devastating wildfires as northern California, Oregon, and Washington suffer varying degrees of drought following an extremely dry summer.

Domingo Lopez Jr., 45, was arrested after using a Molotov cocktail “to start a small brush fire” …

The moonbattery-induced decay of society — whereby sociopaths feel entitled, enabled, and unlikely to be punished — was bound to have consequences. This year’s Palisades Fire may turn out to be one of them.

On a tip from Tlabia Majora.

There is no need for Kamala Harris voters to live in the extremist country that elected Donald Trump. They can take refuge in a country within a country, where the objectives advanced by her party have already been achieved. Take a tour of Kamala’s hometown of Oakland, California:

Import the dregs of the Third World by the millions. Reward parasitism. Punish wealth creation through taxation or prevent it altogether through hyperregulation. Let the streets degenerate into chaos through the policies of anarchotyranny. Before you know it, your whole country is Oakland.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

In the upside-down world of moonbat rule, the government does not restrict pornography in public schools; it restricts restricting pornography:

The mainstream media and politicians claim parents are demanding “book banning” without providing any context – thus Assembly Bill 1825, authored by Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance), was jammed through the California Legislature, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom September 29, 2024, to shut parents up.

Any moonbat barking about books being banned is probably referring to LGBT-oriented pornography being removed from public schools under pressure from furious parents.

“I am introducing the California Freedom to Read Act to fight book bans at public libraries,” Assemblyman Muratsuchi said of his bill. “Unfortunately, there is a growing movement to ban books across the country, including in California. Book banning proponents are disproportionately targeting materials containing the voices and lived experiences of LGBTQ and communities of color.”

The “lived experiences” of the LGBTQ community are not something decent people would expose children to. But decent people don’t have much say in California these days.

Here’s why Democrats deemed the bill necessary:

Because parents were so outraged that the California State Board of Education approved highly controversial changes to the state’s health and sex education framework including teaching children about bondage, anal sex, pederasty, sex trafficking, sexual orientation and transgender and non-conforming students back in 2019, many ran for school boards across the state to get a handle on the sexual garbage being peddled to their kids, the Globe reported.

To sum up,

Public education in California has become sinister, as have the state’s Democrat politicians.

As California once again demonstrates, moonbats must be pried from power at every level.

On a tip from R F.

It isn’t just pharmacy deserts that liberal policies are creating in California. Classic food deserts are still in fashion:

According to a spokesperson for the company, Safeway will be shuttering its location in the Fillmore neighborhood of San Francisco “due to ongoing concerns about associate and customer safety, as well as persistent issues with theft.”

The local media reports that Safeway wanted to close it a while ago but yielded to pressure from the moonbats in charge:

Shoplifting is effectively legal and even encouraged in California. Liberal mecca San Francisco is ground zero for the deliberately engineered shoplifting epidemic.

Guess whose fault it is when there are no more Safeways in “diverse” neighborhoods? That’s right: Safeway’s, for being racist. Providing themselves with proof of racism is among the motivations for liberals to make it infeasible to run stores in areas under their total domination.

The ultimate goal is to advance Marxism. If you like grocery shopping in Venezuela, you will love it at the free food markets in San Francisco.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Moonbattery is the inversion of morality. The good guys are the bad guys; the bad guys are the good guys. Just ask Will Luna, owner of a retro video arcade in San Bernardino, California:

A crew of thugs from a local homeless encampment robbed and trashed the arcade over the Thanksgiving holiday; someone spotted the loot in the encampment and Luna went to investigate and found some of the stolen merch.

But when he went to the cops, he was told they could not enter or move the tents: “They said, ‘We can’t go inside, but you can,’” per Luna.

The gutsy Luna personally recovered some of his property from the camp full of drug fiends, lunatics, and criminal scumbags. As for the rest of it:

Vanished — including thousands of dollars worth of PlayStation and Nintendo consoles and a vintage X-Men arcade game.

Luna isn’t the only one to suffer:

All the businesses at this retail plaza have suffered break-ins as the camps have grown over recent years.

Bums from the unflushed encampments even masturbate in front of the windows of a neighboring salon.

You can’t expect much help from authorities in the Land of Fruits and Nuts. According to the prevailing ideology, business owners are capitalist oppressors; vagrant scumbags are oppressed.

On a tip from Jack D.

Screeching that Donald Trump is Hitler worked so well for moonbats, they are applying the same strategy to inject sexually deranged boys into girls’ locker rooms and force girls to compete against them in California’s Riverside Unified School District:

[T]wo girls, Kaitlyn and Taylor, are cross-country runners for Martin Luther King High School and wore T-shirts displaying the messages “Save Girls Sports” and “It’s Common Sense. XX ≠ XY” to practice.

Kaitlyn and Taylor’s families are now suing the school after its officials allegedly forced the girls to remove and cover their shirts, told them that wearing the shirts was like “wearing a swastika in front of Jewish students,” and moved the girls to the Junior Varsity cross-country team.

Real girls get moved to junior varsity to make room for politically preferred transsexuals.

On a tip from MrRightWingDave.

When liberal jurisdictions declare themselves to be transgender sanctuary states, here’s what that means:

A California judge has permanently stripped parental rights from Texas father Jeffrey Younger over his refusal to allow his 12-year-old son to be chemically and surgically castrated at the wish of the boy’s mom. …

Younger and Anne Georgulas have been locked in a legal battle over the mother’s attempts to raise their boy James as a “girl” named “Luna,” including surgically and chemically transforming his body to more closely resemble this imposed “gender identity.”

In order to sacrifice the innocent boy to her vile ideology, she brought him to California, which is ruled by likeminded fiends. She had help from the Texas Supreme Court, which voted 8 to 1 to let her do this.

Younger has spent hundreds of thousands in legal fees to save his son from a horrific fate — to no avail. Through no fault of his own, the boy has been denied any possibility of living a normal, healthy life.

Some crimes are so morally repugnant that to punish them with life in prison would be a wrist slap.

On a tip from R F.