The Great LA Fires: Woke Inner-City Posses, Geoengineering, Conspiracies, and a Befuddled Lara Trump

 As the greater Los Angeles area continues to burn republican politicians and right-wing types everywhere have filled the media with all sorts of comments. Most of them are laced with the type of compassion shown by Alabama GOP Senator, Tommy Tuberville. Speaking on the ultra-right propaganda outlet, News Max the Senator, in part, said, "California has many republicans" who are good people and I hate it for them. They are just overwhelmed by these inner city woke posses with the people that vote for them. I don't mind sending them some money, but unless they show they're going to change their ways and get back to building dams and storing water, doing the maintenance with brush and trees--everything that everybody else does in the country and they don't do it--they don't deserve anything, to be honest with you, unless they show they're going to make some changes."

It is unclear who makes up those massive woke inner-city posses, but the, Tuberville was a little light on those details. However, The Senator's message was clear, start voting for republicans, or rebuild all on your own. 

Georgia Congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, ever obsessed with the notion the government controls everything, wrote, "Why don't they use geoengineering like cloud seeding to bring down rain on the wildfires in California? They know how to do it." 

Cloud seeding has been on Greene's radar before. She blamed the Biden administration for using it to cause massive floods in western North Carolina back in late October. At the time Greene claimed it was an attempt to prevent Trump voters from casting their ballots. 

On the bright side, Ms. Greene has made progress of a sort though. Before she was in Congress Greene accused Jews of starting wildfires in northern California with satellite controlled lasers. According to the future Congresswoman those crafty Jews wanted to build a high speed rail system along with accompanying stations and needed to clear the forests out of the way.

Conspiracy theories aside, Ms. Greene's understanding of, "geoengineering," is a tad suspect. In order for cloud seeding to work there has to be moisture present in the atmosphere--you know, clouds. In the last six plus months LA has received 0.8 inches of rainfall. All of that fell before October 1st. In short, you can't seed what isn't there.

Speaking of conspiracies, actor Mel Gibson went on Fox News to say, "In the events like this you sort of think , well is it on purpose? It's an insane thing to think. But one begins to ponder whether or not there is a purpose in mind." Salon reports Gibson also speculated the state's movers and shakers wanted to empty out the state, comparing them to the, "old cattle barons," who wanted to clear people off the land. Mr. Gibson apparently didn't offer up a reason why these unnamed few wanted to empty out the state, or if Tommy Tuberville's woke, inner-city posses would be included in this Golden State diaspora. 

Finally, we have Lara Trump, former RNC chair and daughter in law to Big Don. She was on Sean Hannity's show and said, "I would really love for somebody out there to explain to me how climate change is the reason the reservoirs are dry, that there was no water in the hydrants." 

Her comment moved one social media user to post, "These are the people who want to scrap the Department of Education." 

Other than Marjorie Taylor Greene's cloud free cloud seeding idea no one on the right has proposed any solution to the problems in Southern California--although Donald Trump recently said, "Canadian water," could help. Meanwhile, at least one Fox wag celebrated the disaster, saying the state's voters would now turn on democrats with a vengeance.  

There can be no doubt that somewhere out there someone is saying the Los Angeles fires are God's retribution on a sinful place. Those who are and the others looking for political gain thanks to this nightmare need to keep something in mind though. The Lord doesn't really discriminate when it comes to disasters. At the moment California is burning, but that doesn't mean somewhere down the line Florida and other ruby red states won't get slammed by a massive hurricane, or tornado. 

When it happens--and it will--just remember what all you MAGA wankers are saying to Californians right now. Because sooner than any of us can imagine some of you are also going to need help and answers, not politics and, in more than a few instances, unabashed glee. 

1-15-25

Los Angeles is Burning and Donald Trump Tells Us Why

 As large portions of Los Angeles County burned to the ground, President-elect, Donald Trump had this to say. "Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way." 

Trump even tells us why, California Governor Newsom would do such a thing, "because he wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called the smelt. Now there is no water for the fire hydrants." Later the man who will become President once again posted, "One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground. It's ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign. This is all his fault!!!"

Ah, yes. It was vintage Trump, all the way down to the juvenile, derogatory, nickname. But why? What has Gavin Newsom ever done to Donald Trump, besides being a democrat? Does the Trumper see him as a potential opponent in 2028? (Hey, I don't care what the 22nd amendment to the Constitution says. If Donald Trump is alive in any way, shape, or form in 2028 he is going to want a third term. Fuck what the Constitution says now. The Supreme Court is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump Org. and somehow, someway they'll get around it. Trust me.) 

Maybe, but probably not. For one thing it is doubtful Donald Trump thinks that far ahead. He has always been more of a, "what's in it for me right now," sort of guy. Actually, this most recent torrent of bile is the opening act of, "Donald's Great and Glorious Revenge and Retribution Tour."

That's right, the President-elect is pissed off at the California Governor because Newsom opposed Trump's plan during his first administration to redistribute water to farmers in the state's Central Valley. Newsom was successful and even collaborated with Joe Biden during his term to, in effect, erase what Trump had thought he'd accomplished. 

But wait, wasn't Trump trying to help farmers irrigate their fields and fill fire hydrants in Los Angeles? Well, yes and no, First, we aren't talking Ma and Pa Kettle farmers. We are talking about huge corporate growing operations owned by the sort of people who contribute scads of money to Donald Trump. Second, the water that would have headed to LA would have been minimal at best.

As Ryan Teague Beckwith stated online, "Well remember that Trump wanted more of that water to go to nut and fruit farmers in areas most of whom support him and not to the residents of Los Angeles, most of whom don't." And, as Beckwith also pointed out. right now, Los Angeles has enough water to fight the fires, what it doesn't have is the infrastructure to get it to all those hydrants. 

In this case Trump's lust for retribution led him to post outright fiction. According to Newsom, that "water restoration declaration," El Don mentioned is not a real thing. It never has been. He simply made it up, probably to make it sound like the ongoing disaster in LA is directly linked to Newsom's environmentalism. You know, "See there, if he had just signed this non-existent paper, Pacific Palisades would have been saved instead of those damned fish."  

For those wondering, shit like this is going to get worse. Think not? The guy wants to invade Greenland for God's sake. Saying Donald Trump is erratic is like saying Norman Bates had some bothersome Mommy issues. 

You elected the crazy son of a bitch, America. Here is hoping enough of you are left by the time he is finished to regret it.

1-9-25

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, A Home Grown, Old Fashioned, All-American Homicidal Maniac

Timothy McVeigh was born and raised in western New York. He was of Irish descent. He joined the U.S. Army and served honorably. After he was turned down for Special Forces Training, he left the service and meandered around the country picking up a few bucks here and there at gun shows and down in Waco, TX during the infamous, Branch Davidian standoff. (He sold anti government bumper stickers out of his car.) In April, 1995 McVeigh, with help from his pal, Terry Nichols, blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City with a huge home-made bomb he had stashed in a rental truck. The explosion killed 168 people, including 19 young children who were attending a day care center in the building. 

Shamsud-Din Jabbar was born and raised in east Texas. Although he is not of Irish descent, like McVeigh he is an Army veteran who served honorably. After he spent nearly ten years active duty and another couple in the reserves Jabbar's career, which remains a tad fuzzy, is reported to have been in real estate. Unlike McVeigh, Jabbar was married. In fact he was married twice, both of them ending in divorce. He was paying child support to one of the ex-wives, while the other had hit him with a restraining order. 

At some point in his life he apparently started to buy into the hate filled rhetoric of the organization known as ISIS. There is no proof, at least at this point, he ever had any contact with ISIS leadership--if there actually is such a thing--or if any of them even knew he existed. As we all know, Jabbar acted on his new found philosophy of disenfranchised reality in New Orleans. Early New Years morning he plowed his rented truck through the crowds on Bourbon Street, killing at least 14, although that number may rise. New Orleans police killed him after he came to a stop and opened fire on them.

On the other hand, the U.S. Government killed Tim McVeigh after a trial, a short stint in a federal prison, and a last meal which included chocolate chip mint, ice cream. 

There are a few other differences in these two cases of heinous terrorism. The main one being after McVeigh was identified prominent politicians didn't start howling open borders were allowing Irish white guys to enter the country to perpetrate savage crimes.     

The gruesome fact McVeigh had actually killed a lot more people didn't matter. As soon as Shamsud-Din Jabbar had been ID'd and the news about his ISIS flag had been reported, President Elect Donald Trump posted on social media, "When I said the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals that we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true. The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Our hearts are with all the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department." 

Never one not to take a hint from Donald Trump, or to create a conspiracy, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene posted in part, "Terrorist attack in NOLA similar to the one in the German Christmas market. What did we expect would happen with wide open borders and millions of gotaways?" 

Thursday morning Trump doubled down. He wrote, "With the Biden Open Border Policy, I said many times during rallies and elsewhere that Radical Islamic Terrorism and other forms of violent crime will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe."

Again, Shamsud-Din Jabbar was born in Beaumont, TX and up until the moment of the attack he lived and worked in Houston. Before he drove the truck down Bourbon Street, he had posted on social media he had planned to kill his family, but changed his mind. All of which begs the question, which open border does Trump and Greene want to shut down? That one between Texas and Louisiana? It is a known crossing point for criminals--the most notorious one being Lee Harvey Oswald who used it to get to Dallas from New Orleans before he assassinated President John F. Kennedy. 

Jabbar might have had an ISIS flag on his rented truck, but in truth he was one of us: a home grown, old fashioned, All-American homicidal maniac. ISIS and their twisted interpretation of Islam was simply an excuse to explain his rage and madness. Things weren't working out the way he wanted, or had hoped, so like McVeigh and even Oswald he chose not to blame himself, but rather the country he once defended. 

To paraphrase Marjorie Taylor Greene, what did we expect would happen when these fascist wannabes found out Jabbar's name? Well, we can expect, as one wag on CNN put it, "No matter what happens politicians will always politic." 

Amen to that, brother.   

1-3-25