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.

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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.

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As mentioned earlier, Los Angeles burning down demonstrates that it is not feasible to live under liberal rule. Allysia Finley lists a few of the reasons.

One is that according to environmental radicalism, humanity ranks last among lifeforms — even below plants:

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 2019 sought to widen a fire-access road and replace old wooden utility poles in the Topanga Canyon abutting the Palisades with steel ones to make power lines fire- and wind-resistant. In the process, crews removed an estimated 182 Braunton’s milkvetch plants, an endangered species.

The utility halted the project as state officials investigated the plant destruction. More than a year later, the California Coastal Commission issued a cease-and-desist order, fined the utility $2 million, and required “mitigation” for the project’s impact on the species.

Progressives will be pleased to hear that since the milkvetch requires wildfires to propagate, it should soon be flourishing.

Enviromoonbattery helps explain the shortage of water to put out the fires:

Smelt protections restrict the amount of water that flows from the state’s north to the south. This has led to billions of gallons of water being flushed out to the Pacific Ocean each year…

Speaking of fish, Mayor Karen “Largemouth” Bass has taken heat for cutting the LAFD budget. However,

In truth, the fire budget didn’t shrink since city leaders last autumn approved a new union contract that boosted pay and benefits by $76 million—about $20,000 per firefighter. Even before this raise, firefighters on average earned about $200,000, plus $90,000 in benefits. Many can retire at 55 with pensions equaling 90% of their final salaries.

DEI-compliant firefighters do not need to meet conventional requirements. Citizens who are incinerated because female firefighters are not strong enough to rescue them get what they deserve, according to LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson.

Los Angeles spent $350 million this year on firefighter pensions and benefits. Much of that would have been better spent on fire prevention, which made up only 5% of the department’s budget.

Money is misallocated to pay moonbats to be lesbians rather than to protect the public from fires.

Then there are the homeless hordes that Democrats spend a fortune to grow, combined with the collapse of allegedly racist law & order:

Last year’s Park Fire—the fourth largest in state history—was allegedly ignited by a man with two prior felony convictions who was on parole for a DUI. The Los Angeles Times reported in early 2021 that 24 fires on average were breaking out each day in the city’s homeless encampments. A fire in an encampment shut down an L.A. freeway last November, the second time that had happened in a little over a year.

Looks like a homeless illegal alien authorities allowed to run loose despite having committed a felony might have started the Kenneth Fire. Then again, he says he was just using a blowtorch to smoke marijuana.

Los Angeles may not be rebuilt. Refugees are welcome only if they leave liberal politics behind.

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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.

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.

Evidence accrues that DEI has played a part in the unpreparedness of LA bureaucrats to deal with predictable fires. It isn’t just Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley. Consider LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson:

Larson was lauded as the first black woman to be hired on as an LAFD chief.

“You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it’s a medical call or a fire call, that looks like you,” said Larson in the video [below].

Actually, most people want to see someone who can rescue them and put the fire out. Yet Larson dismisses non-DEI qualifications to be a firefighter:

“‘Is she strong enough to do this?’” she said in the voice of critics. “‘You couldn’t carry my husband out of a fire.’”

“Which my response is, ‘He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.’”

In other words, let him burn. Rescuing people who might be disabled and putting out fires are not important. Only moonbattery is important.

Americans will likely die so that liberals can shove this down our throats:

Had enough yet?

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On a tip from Wiggins.

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.

Los Angeles is engulfed in wildfires, forcing even normally supremely comfortable Hollywood leftists to flee their homes. In this time of crisis, residents must be reassured to know there are competent people in control. Or maybe not.

Daniel Greenfield quotes from a KABC story that has since mysteriously disappeared:

Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley is used to shattering glass ceilings. She isn’t just the first LGBTQ+ person to the lead the department, but also the first woman. …

Crowley is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community and says the LAFD has come a long way in terms of inclusion adding there’s a ways to go. Crowley believes the more diverse the LAFD, the better the department is at serving a city as diverse as Los Angeles.

In other words, straight white males need not apply for jobs at the fire department, because the deck is stacked against them. This discriminates against most people who are good at fighting fires.

Crowley made her focus on DEI clear from the beginning:

“The LAFD is fully committed to creating positive change,” said Fire Chief Kristin Crowley. “With the new DEI Bureau, the Department will develop and drive forward key diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies and initiatives to enhance the LAFD’s work environment and performance. We will maximize our efforts to build and promote a culture where our diversity is truly valued [yadda yadda yadda].”

Good thing Crowley isn’t the only one in charge. Los Angeles has a mayor, after all. Oh wait:

Via Daily Mail:

Furious Los Angelenos have blasted their mayor for traveling to Ghana while the city burns, despite having ample warning about ‘critical’ weather conditions in the days before. …

To make matters worse, a litany of failures by LA city officials appear to be fueling the out-of-control blaze, which has forced tens of thousands of people to flee some of the city’s ritziest enclaves as homes and businesses burn to the ground.

Then there is this:

[Bass] cut nearly $20 million from the city’s budget for fire services for the current fiscal year — and proposed even higher cuts.

This frees up taxpayer money for more pressing concerns.

Don’t be too furious, Los Angelenos. You voted your way into this.

On tips from WDS 2.0 and Wiggins.

It isn’t just San Francisco. Down the Left Coast, tourists are advised to also avoid Los Angeles:

Recall that Tim Walz allowed mobs like this to run riot in Minneapolis. Kamala Harris, who has endorsed defunding the police, even raised funds to bail the rioters out of jail.

Leftists like Harris and Walz run Los Angeles. If they consolidate control at the federal level, the video above will characterize the entire country. The government will side with these mobs against those who try to defend themselves, who will be disarmed.

On a tip from Wiggins.

After the blasphemous LGBT parody of the Last Summer and the criminal spectacle of men being award gold medals for punching out women, it seems unlikely that any city hosting the Olympics will outdo Paris for moonbattery. But with Karen Bass at the helm, Los Angeles will try. Automobiles are haram in the liberal religion, because they allow independence and because there is something inherently masculine about them; therefore, traffic issues will be resolved by banning them.

Barks Bass:

“We’re already working to create jobs by expanding our public transportation system in order for us to have a no-car Games.”

Whenever leftists inflict something particularly onerous, they pretend it will somehow create the jobs they deliberately destroy through minimum wage, hyper-regulation, overtaxation, et cetera so as to maximize government dependency.

Bass said public transportation will be the only way to access the Los Angeles venues…

In case you were short on reasons not to attend the Olympics, now you’re set.

Paris has been lauded for how accessible the Games have been, with nearly every venue reachable by Metro, commuter train, tram or bus. Los Angeles has bus and light rail systems but only two subway lines, public transit that pales in scope to metropolitan cities such as Paris, London and New York.

But the important thing is that Bass says she is building “a greener Los Angeles.”

On a tip from Steve T.

What Joe Biden is to political leaders, Los Angeles under the domination of likeminded kooks like Mayor Karen Bass is to cities. Civilization is literally collapsing:

Multiple vehicles were set on fire during a street takeover early Saturday in the middle of a downtown Los Angeles intersection.

The fires were reported about 3 a.m. at 18th and Main streets, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

They were deliberately set, likely for entertainment purposes.

No arrests were made, nor were any vehicles impounded, police said.

Law enforcement lifting a finger would be systemically racist, according to the prevailing ideology.

We can have civilization, or we can have moonbattery. We cannot have both.

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These days the American dream of owning their own home is beyond the reach of many young people, mainly due to the crushing burden of excessive government, which has driven up interest rates and the cost of housing. Their problem is, they are going about it the wrong way. Instead of getting a job and working hard so they can afford a mortgage, they should quit their jobs, blow their money on fentanyl, and spend their time defecating on the sidewalk. That would earn them the reverence of the liberal establishment, which bestows extravagant privileges on those it adores — including luxury housing. No need to own a home when Big Government provides for you:

It would be nice to think that at some point, the people who are effectively enslaved through taxation so as to pay for this will push back. But apparently it is too late for that to happen in California.

On tips from WDS 2.0, Franco, and Wiggins.

Authorities are running out of new ways to express their adoration of degenerates who orient their lives around sexual perversion. The Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles has resorted to taking down street signs forbidding U-turns because the signs are accused of inhibiting the LGBT lifestyle:

The signs that read “No Cruising” and prohibited U-turns were installed in 1997 when neighbors complained about gay men hanging out and looking for dates in certain residential areas close to popular gay bars.

The “No Cruising” signs came down in 2011. But some U-turn signs remained. LGBT militants viewed them as a last remnant of resistance.

On tips from Chris Neilson, Franco, Barry A, and WDS 2.0.