The Real timschochet

“The money that could have saved homes from the fire was spent on DEI and trannies instead” is such an absurd and idiotic argument that’s it’s not worth really responding to. I am not going to defend Karen Bass here. I don’t like her and I don’t think she’s good at her job. But she was elected, she’s not a DEI hire. I want and expect a society in which competent people do their absolute best to cope with crisis and extreme weather, where diversity is encouraged, where transsexuals are protected, treated with respect and dignity and have the same rights as everyone else. These are not and have never been contradictory goals.

@Horseman can’t really be this stupid right? Gotta be shtick.

In a forum with jerks, anti-Semites, racists (besides yourself) and trolls, somehow you always manage to to distinguish yourself as in a category all your own. It’s quite impressive.

I don’t underpay undocumented immigrants. When I use them (for day labor only) I pay them what they ask. I don’t dicker. I do believe in free market capitalism, but I think price gouging during emergencies is wrong.

I am running into unscrupulous landlords who are raising apartment prices in the LA area. This is anecdotal but I’ve spent the last 24 hours trying to arrange apartment tours for my in laws through Zillow and the prices are being updated as we speak.

That’s not criticism over competence issues which is what I was referring to.

I wasn’t referring just to this crisis. Show me an instance when you’ve EVER criticized a conservative.

This was @Strike’s response to me yesterday when I commented that there were many reasons why a liberal would vote for the Democratic Party. But no he only cares about competence; this isn’t political for him. What a lying sack of sh!t

Also- didn’t you just yesterday write that if I keep voting for Democrats this is what I can expect to happen? You’re full of crap.

I wrote “implied” because it is. You only attack Democrats. If competence is all you care about then link to when you’ve ever attacked a conservative or Republican.

The Ninth Circuit is a federal court though. So once again, attacking Newsom for this would be unfounded.

You know I used to enjoy watching this fantasy football show with Eric Dickerson, because whatever projections he made about players that week, I could count on things going the other way. I knew if he advised starting somebody, that was the week to sit him down and start somebody else. You serve the same role for me here.

Yeah Biden is truly tone deaf. However he does not deliberately make cruel remarks, Trump does. Trump is not tone deaf; when he’s being an a$$hole he’s aware of it. For the most part Biden has acted Presidential here. He didn’t immediately respond to this crisis by attacking and blaming. We’re in for a long 4 years.

Of course they could have done more. Of course there were mistakes made, and incompetence, and of course life long politicians like Newsom and Bass are going try to cover their butts afterwards and try to paint things in the best possible light. What else is new? But guys like @Strike are taking all this to another level and attempting to make the argument that it is liberalism or the Democratic Party that is at fault, or woke ideology, or whatever. And they are further implying that if we only had conservatives and Republicans in charge a lot of this could have been prevented. I think that’s crap and I think it’s in really bad taste even to make the argument.

Well it was either this, or a bunch of evil DEI liberal a$$holes in Sacramento who love it when people suffer.

Based on the poster I would guess it has something to do with the Jews.

Well I kind of care. Not a ton but some.

Which is, let’s face it, a complete and total embarrassment. Thirty years from now you’ll pretend to your grandkids that you never voted for the guy.

Thats a federal action based on what I read. Again I don’t have time to get into it, but I am highly skeptical of your assertion that liberal policies significantly contributed to this crisis.

Rick Caruso was a centrist Republican who, since Trump arrived, became a centrist Democrat. But his views haven’t really changed. He’s pro-business, socially liberal (but not leftist), anti- socialist, anti-populist.

Now my sister in law at Oak Park is being evacuated.

Even if you were correct about all of this (and I don’t have the time to argue whether you are or not) there’s a lot of reasons to vote for liberal Democrats if you yourself are a liberal Democrat, beyond the issues you mentioned.

Been spending the day trying to find my in-laws an apartment for the time being. Not an easy task. Lots of folks out looking

Not on this topic because I don’t agree with most of the Democrat’s proposed solutions to climate change. Or the Republicans. I vote Democrat but not because of this issue.

How is this relevant to the Palisades catastrophe?