The Bass/Newsom L.A Wildfire Cartoon Roundup

Kyrie Eleison of the left:  It's Not My Fault, It's Not My Fault, It's Not My Fault, Amen!

By Rich Kozlovich 

I will have more on this as the information coming forward about the incompetence, corruption, and failure we're seeing here being exposed is unbelievable. I've published three pieces on this, Hello Hollywood, Welcome to Reality, Part I, Part II, and Part III.  All hard hitting to the point you'd think it couldn't get any worse.  Well, that turned out to be wrong, as it appears there's no bottom to this story.  Also, if anyone has any doubts Governor Gavin Newsom is anything but an idiot, take a look at my

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Posted by Rich Kozlovich at 1:47 PM

 

Hello Hollywood, Welcome to Reality, Part III

By Rich Kozlovich 

 

Yesterday I posted Part II, and I did what I'm doing a lot more now, and that's linking followup articles as updates at the end of my commentaries in order to make sure the whole story gets told.  But the number of commentaries about this became so large I decided to eliminate those links and use them, and a lot more besides, to create a second piece, a third piece, and at the rate this is going, there will most likely be a fourth piece.    

Last Saturday in, P&D and the Week That Was,  I stated:

As for the L.A. fire disaster, which my first article covers, as this unravels it's really gonna get ugly as these misfits finger point and blame each other, and even some will condemn the Democrat party.  Many I'm sure will try to project their blame on Trump, Republicans, conservatives, etc.  

Well, that's what's happening and it didn't really take much insight to conclude that what was going to happen.   One Democrat Senator claims this is just a preview of what's to come under Trump blaming big oil, global warming.

Okay, supposing that has any resemblance to reality, then one has to ask, why is it happening now? Biden has been President for four years, and the entire administration has breathed the fumes of the fever swamps of global warming activists and have acted accordingly.  If that's so, and it is, then can he explain why this isn't the fault of California Democrats, and the Democrat party and Biden?  

If they really believed climate change is responsible for all of this, and given California's wildfire and wind history they should have known this was a major possibility, so why weren't they prepared?  Where were the firebreaks?  Why wasn't brush cleared out?  Why were the reservoirs empty in spite of record rain fall? Where was the maintenance on the fire hydrants?  Even if they didn't believe in global warming given California's history that should have automatically been standard operating procedure. 

Mad Maxine knows who really is responsible. It's the rich.  The usual leftist meme:  Blame someone else for their failures. Gavin Newsome blames local leaders, and as it turns out....according to Newsome, he's blameless and demands answers, and besides it's really all Donald Trump's fault.  Yet it wasn't the local authorities or Trump who cut $100 Million from California's fire prevention budget in 2024, it wasn't local officials who fought the Trump administration that tried to stop the misdirection of water to alleged save any number of fish species.  It wasn't local officials or Trump who removed four hydroelectric dams that by their very nature were water reservoirs.  It was Newsome. 

Here's the one I really like.  FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell blames global warming....well... they all know the planet isn't warming so they've changed it to climate change.  The department that played politics ( Here and Here), with a history of throwing Americans under the bus, you would think their concerns would be fixing what they're doing that has been so disastrously wrong!  But it isn't, in spite of all that, it's real challenge and concern is disinformation.  (More Here)

They failed miserably to care for hurricane victims in North Carolina, claiming they didn't have sufficient funds to help them, and as it turns out FEMA's resources were going to illegal aliens. (More Here and Here)

 (End of the American Dream)—What we are witnessing in the mountains of North Carolina says a lot about where we are as a nation.  The federal response to Hurricane Helene has been absolutely abysmal, and hardly anyone is really surprised by this because the federal government can’t seem to do anything right these days.  

And it gets worse as this piece shows how politics was paramount with the Biden administration, not duty.   

A clip from a FEMA disaster preparedness meeting has sparked fresh outrage, shedding light on the Biden-Harris administration’s politically motivated handling of disaster response efforts. The footage, recorded in March 2023, shows FEMA Emergency Management Specialist Tyler Atkins prioritizing the needs of LGBTQIA+ communities over broader disaster relief efforts.

So, why am I bringing in all this FEMA stuff?  For the best reason in the world.  It demonstrates a pattern of activity.  A pattern of corruption and stupidity.   FEMA just kicked out 2000 hurricane survivors out of temporary housing into snowstorm and freezing temperatures.  What FEMA was and is doing,  is what what California has been doing.   

The reasons for California's failure to control this fire is nothing more than a demonstration of what the left are doing all over the nation.  Corruption, incompetence, stupidity, politics over duty and responsibility.   The Democrats have handed conservatives a major gift, and this may become a major turning point in American politics.  

The Fire Chief says her diversity push had nothing to do with this disaster.  Okay, I'm willing to accept that if she's willing to accept her incompetence and stupidity played a large role in this disaster.  She was part of the program that caused a lack of resources.  She knew fire hydrants would not work, she knew the reservoirs were dry, or not working, and she was responsible for that failure because her focus was on hiring more women and spending what resources she had on DEI training instead of fire prevention and control.  

California has rewritten the laws to make penalties for crime as painless as possible as a result looting is rampant, and now people are outraged, imagine that, so now there's a recall movement for Karen Bass.   Make no mistake, as Governor DeSantis notes, if Newsom, or for that matter Bass, were Republicans the media would be tearing their heads off.  But have no doubt the people of California and L.A. will elect someone just as worthless as these nitwits.

The people of California, totally supported by a corrupt media, elected Newsome twice and supported him against a recall.  Whether all that was fraudulent or not, he's their guy, and now they have to pay the price.  Schadenfreude.

Posted by Rich Kozlovich at 6:44 AM

Hello Hollywood, Welcome to Reality, Part II

Barr and Newsome:  Are they guilty of negligent homicide, or depraved indifference?

By Rich Kozlovich

This is from the 1964 speech "A Time for Choosing" given by Ronald Reagan who became Governor of California from 1967 to 1975. 

"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man’s age-old dream – the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order – or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.”

How could California go from Ronald Reagan to Gavin Newsome and sink into such depravity?  On January 11, 2025 Todd Gregory and Erik Gregory posted this article, Newsom, Bass guilty of negligent homicide, outlining in the article the monstrous history of socialist tyrants.  Socialism is the mother philosophy of fascism, and communism, it's children, two sides of the same coin, along with all the other ism manifestations, such as environmentalism.  All of which are misanthropic. 

"Negligent homicide is a criminal charge brought against a person who, through criminal negligence, allows another person to die".

"Depraved indifference is a state of mind in which someone acts with a reckless disregard for human life and the value of human life.  In the United States, depraved indifference is a legal term that can be used to describe a type of murder known as depraved-heart murder. Depraved-heart murder occurs when someone acts with depraved indifference to human life and their actions result in death, even if they didn't intend to kill."

 

He went on to discuss the monstrous horrors Mao imposed on the people of China, including outright murders and planned mass starvation, and his brand of DEI where farmers were told they were going to be surgeons and surgeons were forced to be farmers.  

California is America's Maoist China, as the authors go on to say:

In modern America, the closest thing to Mao’s and Obama’s progressive Utopia is to be found in the sad, violent, debauched state of California.,...How can California’s voters continue to vote for the likes of DEI mayor Karen Bass, a dyed-in-the-wool racist who idolized Fidel Castro and shrugged off warnings of imminent fire danger in Los Angeles in order to go party in West Africa on the taxpayers’ dime? ..........

Newsom’s decidedly unscientific fantasy about apocalyptic anthropogenic global warming..... the smelt fish lives while people die in preventable, government-caused wildfires......because Gavin Newsom keeps flushing trillions of gallons of rainwater out to sea rather than building up and maintaining California’s reservoirs to fight fires

The articles goes on to make what I think is a really cogent observation asking:

What about the idealistic if misguided waitress in South Central LA who donated a hard-earned $50 to the Kamala Harris campaign, only to see Kamala give that money to billionaire Oprah Winfrey or other celebrities from the progressive Überklasse?  Is there some cognitive dissonance for the waitress, or will she mindlessly vote for Karen Bass for mayor again, and Kamala for governor in 2026?

These are radical leftists who are directly responsible for billions of dollars in damage and the death of over a dozen people.  I can only image how horrible those deaths must have been.   

Will all this cause Californians change the views and habits? I don't think so, but the rest of the nation is watching, and it seems clear Americas are finding it inconceivable how anyone in a leadership position can be so incompetent, so stupid, so vile, and so self serving as these nitwits in California have been.  This disaster could very well become a major turning point in American politics.  This drives home the reality of what leftism is and has always has been; irrational, misanthropic, and morally defective.

So, are they guilty of negligent homicide or depraved indifference?  They're guilty of something that merits punishment, and which ever carries the most punishment gets my vote.  Gavin Newsom must be held accountable, A mere resignation is not enough.

One more thing.  Has anyone  seen an explanation as to why Mayor Barr was in Africa in the first place, and was she there on the public's dime?    

This isn't just California, this is leftism, this is the insanity of the Democrat party in America. 

Posted by Rich Kozlovich at 1:29 AM

Hello Hollywood, Welcome to Reality, Part I

By Rich Kozlovich

It appears Hollywood has received a "warm" welcome to the world, the world they helped to create, one they lovingly embraced, the secular religious world of leftism.  Everywhere else that embrace represented disaster, and we have over 235 years of history to prove it.  No lights in Cuba, no water in L.A. and after sixty years of communist control of Cuba a third of their houses are in ruins, and they've supported all of this insanity everywhere.   So, yet they're not all warm and happy? 

Instead they're outraged, outraged I tell you, ranting and demanding the resignation of these people in charge in California (Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here,) And these are the same kind of nitwits Hollywood wants running the nation.  Imagine that!  

And just because it's their ox that's being gored, or in this case their houses being destroyed with all the things they treasure, they're outraged.  Remarkable.  Well,  I say.... schadenfreude!  They brought this on themselves, but this will help prevent this from being brought on the nation. I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that.

Will Hollywood, and California abandon their leftist dipsticks, and turn MAGA? Nah, I don't think so because there's always a lunatic like Jim Jarmusch who knows those really responsible are ‘climate deniers’, i.e., conservatives, whites, along with traditional Christians and Jews, and it wouldn't be long before the invertebrates in Hollywood and the rest of the leftist nutrolls would follow suit.   Bernie Sanders, who thought the Soviet Union was paradise, also claims global warming is the cause, but scientists are finally bucking this mass scientific hysterical fraud say, climate change isn't the cause.   

But, hey, c'mon man, we really know who's at fault.   It's the Jews.  Radical Left-Wing Code Pink Links California Wildfires to Gaza Conflict.  What would these poor insane leftists do if there were no Jews to blame for their failures? 

Believe it or not, there is an upside to this, and perhaps we should all stop picking on these politicians and officials in California.  They’ve provided an incredibly important service to the nation, and the world. So, let me explain.

Let's take a look at the official incompetence of the unelected leadership.

1. L.A. Fire Captain: Some Supplies Aren’t Designed for Firefighting
2. Firetrucks Use Garden Hoses From Residential Homes to Fill Up Water Tanks as Hydrants Run Dry (VIDEO)
3. Environmentalism-Obsessed LA Doesn't Have Enough Water to Fight Fire Effectively
4. LA Fire Chief Warned Budget Cuts Would Impact Responses to Major Emergencies Weeks Before Fires
5. Years Before LA Inferno, Commiefornia’s Fire and Water Management Policies Raised Fears of Catastrophe
6. Last Year a Fireman Told Joe Rogan That With the Right Wind and Fire, LA Would Burn to the Ground [VIDEO]
7. Firestorm of incompetence in Los Angeles: Water company admits their big reservoir to fight fires was bone dry 
8. Marlow: LAFD Prioritizes Diversity over Preparedness…
9. L.A. Officials Complain There Aren’t Enough Firefighters – After Firing Hundreds Who Refused to Take COVID Vaccine

Official incompetence and stupidity was universal, and on going, and in spite of all the history and warnings about California's fires and "devil wind storms", stupidity was embraced as wisdom.... an all too common thread for leftists. 

For years there’s been a lot of rhetoric back and forth between conservatives and leftists, but conservatives no longer need to argue.  California has in so many ways provided proof leftism, represented by Democrats and RINO’s in America, is a failed secular religion ruled by historically ignorant, emotion mongering brainless nitwits, incompetent fools, and corrupt misfits.  See, definition does lead to clarity!

Now a look at the incompetence level by the elected officials.

1. LA Mayor Karen Bass Was MIA in Africa While Her City Burned
2. Maybe That's Why Mayor Karen Bass Kept Her Mouth Shut About Her Absence in Handling the LA County Fires 
3.  Dem Rep. Sherman: ‘Political’ to Blame L.A. Fire Budget Cuts for Impacts of Fire
4. Newsom on Water Situation: ‘Local Folks Are Trying to Figure That Out’
5.  Palisades Fire Incinerates Future Career of Mayor Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom’s Presidential Aspirations 
6. Watch: Gavin Newsom Thanks L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, Away in Africa, for Help by Phone During Fire 
7. 'Never enough diversity': Watch as L.A. Fire Department spent years pushing super-woke policies
8.  No Water, No Mayor, But Plenty Of Diversity
9.  MADDENING: Watch Adam Carolla Explain How He Applied to be a Los Angeles Firefighter But Was Turned Away for Being a White Male (VIDEO)

Amerian Thinker puts out a Weekly Digest, and Andrea Widburg made some extermely cogent observations:

The Democrat politicians they trusted to protect them from reality’s consequences failed. Obsessed with social justice, climate change, DEI, CRT, LGBTQ+, ..... Gavin Newsom cut the fire remediation budget, although he did make free medical care available for illegal aliens.........

Mayor Karen Bass (a Maoist who once believed in violently overthrowing the American government) found money for a trip to Ghana after cutting the fire department budget.  As for the fire department itself........ The fire chief, Kristina Crowley, believed that her priority as chief wasn’t dealing with fires; it was getting more women on the force......Kristine Larson, the “Equity Bureau” chief, had tough words for men foolish enough to find themselves physically incapacitated during a fire with only women firefighters available to help out: 

“He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.”

What about the California Republicans?  From what my conservative friends from California involved in CAGOP say (who are not on the leadership's happy list) the party leadership is filled with RINO's and act just as corruptly as Democrats to hold on to power. They share in this fiasco just as sure night follows day. If what the author is asking for is going to happen, there would have to be a massive revolt in the CAGOP. We'll see, but given what they've tolerated, their anti-conservative biases, along with their TDS issues, I'm inclined to think holding your breath until that happens really isn't a very good idea.

So, back to my point about thanking California, and the reason why we need to thank Californians, even the dead ones, for continuing to vote  for these misfits.  We can now assuredly say if California is doing something they think is really great, we know it's really a bad idea.  So, now anyone choosing to do the opposite to what they're doing in California can be confident they're making the correct decision.   That's priceless, and it's incontestable history!  So, from now on all conservatives have to say to ranting leftists is, “tell me about the water in L.A".

Thank you California, and keep up the good work!  I thank you, the nation thanks you, and the delta smelt thank you also. 

Update:  

•  L.A. Descends Into Chaos as Looters Exploit Wildfires
•  National Guard deploys to stop looters.
•  Newsom, Bass guilty of negligent homicide 

Posted by Rich Kozlovich at 12:24 AM