Love My Country, Loathe My Government: January, 2025, Part 5, Political Class Insanity: Stupid Wildfire Comments From Biden, Newsom and FEMA

Every month we devote posts to just general political class insanity that is running rampant through the country. The members of the American political class continue to show that they are incapable of efficiently operating any level of government in this country.

Even their best efforts are almost always ineffective at resolving any problem facing Americans. They spend a great amount of time not trying to improve the lives of their citizens but continually ensuring their reelection and enriching themselves, their families, and their friends in the process, all at taxpayer expense.

1)Unfortunately, today’s post on political class insanity will focus on three very stupid statements from two politicians and one government bureaucrat. As everyone knows, the city of Los Angeles is still being ravaged by multiple wildfires. At least two dozen people have already died, tens of thousands of acres have been burned to the ground, and thousands of structures are now ash.

In the middle of this fiasco, Biden held a wildfire briefing.meeting with his most senior administration officials, a meeting that for some reason was filmed. After making a few statements, Biden turned to his Vice President to turn the meeting over to her, and stated: “Madam vice president, I know you’re directly affected. So, you fire away, no pun intended.”

Seriously, people have died, people are homeless, people have lost all of their possessions, and Biden says something like this, “no pun intended.” Social media exploded with disgust over his nonchalant comment, calling Biden’s comment sick, disgusting, and tone-deaf, among other reactions.

A true leader would carefully pick their words in a crisis time like this, something that Biden has never been. See his remarks at the following link:

https://ijr.com/biden-faces-backlash-after-tone-deaf-wildfire-remark/

2)Okay, second disgusting statement from a politician relative to the fires. Gavin Nesom is the governor of California. As a leader of the state, he is one of the powerful politicians in the state that are responsible for protecting the lives and property of California residents. Given the catastrophic fires, he should be laser focused on getting relief:

Instead of being laser focused, he is being petty focused. He apparently reached out to Biden and requested that Biden censor social media because there was a lot of “misinformation” about his actions and decisions not being optimal for managing and minimizing wildfires in the state.
Never mind that he cut the state government fire fighting budget by $100 million, never mind that fire hydrants in the city had no water, reservoirs were intentionally emptied, etc. But rather than fix what he broke, he is more focused on trying to cover up his ineptness with this distraction of misinformation by blaming the Internet, not himself.
Specifically: 'I ask you [Biden}, 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,. It breaks my heart as people are suffering and struggling [and] that we're up against those hurricane forces as well.”

Given the dire situation in one of his cities, why is the governor even aware of what is being said on social media? Shouldn’t he be totally focused on disaster relief? Instead, he wants his ego and political future protected, which apparently is more important than the suffering in LA.

Reaction to his vanity and coldness was swift:

“Disgraced Governor, Gavin Newsom, is more concerned about fighting misinformation, than helping Californians, Misinformation? Part of your state just lost their livelihoods, "fact-checkers" are not gonna fix this problem,” wrote Congressman Wesley Hunt X.
“I get a chill down my spine every time I hear a politician say we 'have to deal with this misinformation,” said comedian Bridget Phetasy.
“HOLY SMOKES. Gavin Newsom is now playing the victim, claiming it’s “misinformation” that he failed on the fires,” wrote social media user Johnny “Maga on X.”
“Gavin Newsom needs to RESIGN,” the Breaking911 account wrote on X.

Despicable behavior in very sad times, such a lack of focus, empathy, and compassion.

3)It is not just politicians that are making stupid and ridiculous quotes about the wildfires.But first, let’s consider the scandalous failures the governments in California have perpetrated during the wildfires:

Many fire hydrants do not work or have been stolen.
Reservoirs are empty.
The LA fire department is underfunded, understaffed, and under-resourced, especially in light of the $17 million budget reduction that the city politicians pushed through.
The city leader, Mayor Karen Bass, took a trip to Ghana in Africa despite the numerous warnings of weather experts that the city was very vulnerable to high winds conditions and the potential of fires.
The state government had reduced the budget for fire prevention and response by $100 million.

As a result, at least 24 people are dead, thousands have been evacuated and are homeless, over 40,000 city acres have been charred, thousands of homes, schools, and businesses have burned to the ground, etc.

And yet, a Biden bureaucrat has a completely different take on the situation:

Deanne Criswell is the head of FEMA, the Federal government entity that responds to domestic emergencies.
She is supposedly leading the Federal government’s effort to relieve the suffering and damage in LA.
And yet, she still had time to appear on a CBS news broadcast, the situation in LA not as important as her getting TV screen time.
But it gets worse than her vanity.
When the CBS reporter asked why the city seemed so unprepared for the worst set of wildfires in a very long time, Brennan answered this unreal response: “I think that they were very prepared. This is something that they are very used to, they fight fires all the time. But they have never seen 100 mile an hour winds that are fueling the fire, and those winds and that weather condition is what really impacts, you know, where this fire is going to go, but more importantly, how they’re able to try to contain it in those first few hours and days. And because it was in such a populated area, it just makes it that much more challenging to be able to get in there and secure the perimeter, but as well, try to save as many homes as possible.”

They were “very well prepared?” Are you kidding, dozens dead, thousands homeless, major parts of the city burned to the ground, etc., I hate to see what would have happened if they were not “very well prepared.” Wildfires are not unknown to the city and state. Santa Ana winds are not unknown to the city and state.

An old Mark Twain saying goes as follows: “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” Sound advice for Biden, who says something totally inappropriate and improper in dire times, for Newsom, who cares more about his image and ego than the dire times, and Brennan, who has no sense of reality, Fools, all of them, and certainly not the leadership style needed to fix what is raging in Los Angeles.

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