As wildfires engulf Los Angeles, an eerie six-month-old prediction by Joe Rogan about uncontrollable fires has resurfaced amid the devastation.
Tens of thousands of residents, including celebrities, have fled multimillion-dollar homes as hydrants in key neighborhoods like Pacific Palisades ran dry, leaving firefighters without essential resources.
Criticism has mounted against Mayor Karen Bass, who was overseas in Ghana when the fires began.
Reporters confronted her upon return, demanding accountability for her absence and recent cuts to the fire department budget. Billionaire Rick Caruso slammed the mismanagement, comparing the city to a “third-world country” due to its lack of preparedness.
The crisis has also drawn national attention, with figures like former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk blaming state leadership, particularly Governor Gavin Newsom, for failing to address California’s water issues. Trump accused Newsom of prioritising environmental policies over essential water access, while Musk slammed bureaucratic red tape for hindering fire prevention measures.
The Department of Water and Power urged residents to conserve water as firefighting efforts strained the city’s supply, with three-million-gallon tanks serving Palisades residents completely depleted.
Public outrage continues to surge on social media, with some calling for Bass’ resignation, accusing her of prioritising international appearances over local crises.
Critics have linked the water shortages and mismanagement to broader failures in leadership and infrastructure planning. The political fallout includes renewed calls for reform, with some warning of a looming political shift as public trust in California’s Democratic party-aligned leadership reaches new lows amid unprecedented destruction.
Donald Trump was mocked for sounding the alarm on the California water/fire crisis during his interview with Joe Rogan.
Turns out, he was right.
Trump spent nearly 7 minutes ranting about the issue, blasting Newsom for doing nothing to fix the problem.
Trump specifically… pic.twitter.com/zSls82byPo
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 8, 2025
Is this more engineered destruction?
(1) Failure to do controlled burns like other US states do.
(2) Allowing run-off water from mountains to go to the sea and refusing to collect it because of some “endangered fish”, then declaring water shortages in order to limit water usage.
(3) Firing thousands of firefighters because they refused to take the COVID “vaccine”. These firefighters now work in other (non-woke) states.
(4) Reports of people deliberately setting some of these fires. I have heard of this before, and people have actually been arrested in the past for this.
(5) I’ve seen videos that look like DEW strikes, but who can be sure.
The “deep state” might expose themselves more than they wish by what is going on here because people are now more awake as to what is going on. I suspect that once this is all “done and dusted” that there will be criminal charges for the leaders of California.
There is now no water in hydrants. I cannot help but wonder if this could quickly “go South” and end up like the “Great Fire of London” a few hundred years ago. It looks serious now and although the wind has died down, most of the fires are 0 percent under control.
If you were a (corrupt) Democrat and California was bankrupt, then how do you get or make money? You extort it from the Federal Government by starting fires (or engineering the situation so they start and grow) or planning 3 billion Dollar rail projects that you grab the money for but never build and then refuse to return the money.
Is this more engineered destruction?
Short answer, YES.
They don’t clear away the brush and deadwood like they’re supposed to. They claim it’s better for climate change or the environment or Taylor Swift or whatever, but it’s really just because they’re lazy and would rather embezzle the tax money than actually put it to proper use.
The numbskulls here in NZ do the exact same thing. No one even rakes up the grass after a cut.