The beauty of capitalism is that it can capitalize on most anything — even the stratospheric crime rates resulting from liberal rule in California. Just ask Ray Tissan of RT Unbreakable Glass:

Rooftop Koreans had an even better technique for defending businesses from the greedy hordes of the allegedly oppressed.

On a tip from Wiggins.

The fires that local authorities allowed to get out of control in LA last winter were an opportunity for liberals not only to replace nice neighborhoods with government slums but also to rake in cash:

A star-studded concert that reported raising around $100 million for victims of the fires that rocked Los Angeles earlier this year suddenly has little to report months later, and it’s unclear whether any of that money actually made it to the thousands of victims.

Investigative reporter Sue Pascoe uncovered that much of the money, raised at the behest of California’s biggest Democrats, was quietly funneled to a plethora of nonprofits that reported giving little if any direct aid to residents who lost their homes, belongings, and loved ones in the record-breaking fires.

Fox 11 Los Angeles has the story:

A similar outrage on a greater scale was revealed when we learned from DOGE that USAID bestowed many $billions collected from taxpayers who may have thought their government was acting in their interest upon pernicious nonprofits throughout the world.

On a tip from abcanc.

The devastating wildfires that local authorities allowed to get out of control in California last winter were not so much a crisis as an opportunity to accelerate the transformation of the erstwhile Golden State in accordance with Democrat objectives:

Six months after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires, California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled $101 million in funding Tuesday for “multifamily low-income housing development” that will “contribute to a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles.” The priority is for “geographic proximity to the fire perimeters of the Eaton, Hughes, and Palisades fires.”

Democrat rule means gentrification in reverse:

California state law and a local Los Angeles ordinance require fire-destroyed rent-protected housing — which includes all apartments in the city built before October 1978 — be replaced with low-income housing. Because the affordability requirements use county-level income data, not more local incomes, definitions for “low” and “very low” income housing reflect much lower incomes than the norm for the affluent Palisades community.

Barks Jennifer Seeger, the HCD deputy director of the Division of State Financial Assistance:

“The Multifamily Finance Super NOFA – Los Angeles Disaster (MFSN-LA Disaster) makes funds more accessible to support the development of safe, fire-resilient multifamily low-income housing that will provide long-term stability, protect vulnerable populations, and contribute to a more equitable and resilient Los Angeles.”

What a beautiful locale to build an equitable slum at public expense.

To qualify as Supportive Housing Multifamily Housing, a project must provide at least 40% of its units for the homeless, or individuals who have spent at least 15 days in “jails, hospitals, prisons, and institutes of mental disease.”

Those who don’t want to live in that kind of neighborhood will get out, leaving behind a higher percentage of government dependents to guarantee the election of still more radical leftists. California has succumbed to the Democrat Death Spiral.

On a tip from abcanc.