Such sentiments are still swallowed and regurgitated all over the media. At
the fag end of the Biden presidency, however, as LA County burns, it’s
not what a lot of Americans want to hear.
At least "ve people have died. More than 100,000 people have been told
to leave their homes and the cost of the damage is almost incalculable.
California, despite having the highest tax rate in the United States and
plenty of recent experience in putting out wilder's, seems staggeringly ill
equipped to deal with the crisis.
It didn’t help that LA mayor Karen Bass went on a diplomatic jolly to Ghana this week, then promptly ignored then promptly ignored the difficult questions as she landed home. Why, for instance, had she axed $20 million from her "re department’s budget?
Gavin Newsom, California’s Governor, is also under pressure as a result
of the "res. A political animal with presidential aspirations, he often poses
as a pragmatist rather than an idealist. But today he resembles a man who
makes wrong decisions instead of difficult ones. He has kept about 90 per
cent of California’s $50 billion climate budget, even as he slashed $150
million from the state’s anti re wildest programme.
California’s failure to maintain an adequate water supply, clear deadwood from its forest
doors and conduct controlled burns have all contributed to the ongoing
catastrophe. Worse still, for Democrats, the incoming President Donald
Trump long ago made this topic one of his hobby horses. He blames
‘Governor Newscum’, as he calls him, and insists that barmy
environmentalist diktats have superseded sane "re prevention strategies.
He is particularly exercised about an absurdly expensive Californian
scheme to protect a ‘tiny little "sh’ called the smelt even if it means
turning much of the state’s farmland into a giant pyre. Today, an army of
media fact-checkers have been deployed to dispute Trump’s assertions.
Because he’s right.
For Americans in all states, the burning of California is a "tting metaphor
for what happens when Democrats are allowed to impose their
ideological zealotry on voters while pretending to govern. The home of
Silicon Valley – one of the richest regions on Earth – is somehow close to
being a failed state. Its unemployment, illiteracy and homelessness levels
are shockingly high. Once again, the divine scriptwriters seem to have
favoured the Donald at the expense of many others.
In other news, the funeral of President Jimmy Carter was held today. RIP.
Last year, the funeral of another Democratic grandee provided perhaps
the most revealing political video of the election season, as Barack Obama,
Bill Clinton, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi mingled awkwardly in the front
pews to honour Ethel Kennedy.
Today’s solemn service provided yet another historically uncomfortable moment, as Trump and Obama sat next to each other, exchanging whispers in the second row. The face of next to each other, exchanging whispers in the second row. The face of Kamala Harris, in the front, was a Californian weather system all of itself. And, of course, Biden nodded o%.
Goodnight sweetheart.
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