Los Angeles is on fire — and both Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass are scrambling to protect … themselves.
The conflagrations have left at least five dead and thousands of structures destroyed.
Tens of thousands of acres consumed.
More than 100,000 forced to flee and at least 300,000 left without power.
And the fires still rage.
An utter catastrophe. The response from Bass?
“If you need help, emergency information, resources and shelter is available. All of this can be found at URL,” the progressive dimwit bumbled at a press conference.
She had already been justly condemned for being on a pointless trip to Ghana (one she’d chosen to take despite weather service warnings of the coming prime wildfire threat) when the flames began to spread — though she lamely defended herself by saying that she’d been “on the phone the entire time of the flight” as she belatedly hurried back.
This presser, pathetically, was her attempt at damage control.
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Just after finally arriving back in LA, Bass faced media questions as she came off her phone-friendly plane — and blatantly refused to answer.
“Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today?” asked a Sky News reporter.
Bass just stared into space and said nothing.
Yet the mayor had good reason for going stone-silent.
She helped cause this catastrophe by cutting north of $17 million from the LA Fire Department for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, instead prioritizing homeless services funding — an act her fire chief warned her would hurt disaster response capacity.
Meanwhile, the guy she defeated to win her job, developer Rick Caruso, is noting that the city’s lack of preparedness for wildfires was one of his key campaign issues.
But what about Gov. Gavin Newsom, until now the alpha dog among likely contenders for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination?
Surely he must have had some useful response, with the eyes of America on him?
Nope: CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked him why the city’s fire hydrants went dry at the moment they were most needed; Newsom blathered, “Look, the local folks are trying to figure that out.”
Pass that buck, Gavin.
President-elect Donald Trump called Newsom out directly for nixing his plan to move water from the state’s lush north to its arid south, reportedly killed in the name of saving a fish called the delta smelt.
And don’t forget that Newsom simply lied about how much anti-fire forestry work the state had done under his administration, overstating how much land was treated with firebreaks and prescribed burns by almost 700%, per a 2021 NPR investigation.
What about LA’s public utility system?
Well, two of its last three general managers resigned in utter disgrace.
One, David Wright, got six years in prison for taking bribes.
The current head, George McGraw, calls himself “a leading queer voice in social entrepreneurship, environmental justice, and water” and says on his official webpage that he wants to “bring focus to equity, empowerment and sustainability” to the job.
DEI kills — literally.
Left-leaning Democrats have run California and Los Angeles for years.
Despite knowing that wildfires are a major risk, they failed totally to prevent or prepare for a major one.
The glaring incompetence Newsom, Bass and their co-partisans on crime, immigration, schools and everything else defined their basic infrastructure and readiness capacity.
Now we see the deadly result, a harsh reminder that a vote for Democrats is a vote for indifference to government’s most basic public safety duties — inviting chaos and destruction.
Amid this inferno raging across Los Angeles, the left can no longer hide from the tragedies it owns.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
