LA Times owner regrets endorsing Karen Bass for mayor: ‘Competence matters’

[IM2]

Time to stop believing the lies that are being spread by the right.

 

[otto105]

Better late than never?
I like this line: "Soon-Shiong called out "professional politicians" whose only job is to run for office."

MSN

Great, the Ghinese paper went maga.

Will the next edition include Shitlers! huggge fire hose?

 

[justoffal]

The reason I defend her is because she can't control the wind. The only reason the right has launched this crusade against her is because she's a black Democrat. The owner of the LA Times is a MAGA supporter.

Then there is this:
List of California Lawmakers Who Voted Against Wildfire Prevention Funding
Five Republicans and one Democrat voted against Senate Bill 867 in 2024, which allocated $1.5 billion for wildfire prevention programs.

• Jasmeet Bains (D): Assembly Member representing the 35th District, encompassing parts of Kern County.
• Bill Essayli (R): Assembly Member representing the 63rd District, which includes areas such as Canyon Lake, Corona, and Riverside.
• James Gallagher (R): Assembly Member representing the 3rd District, covering parts of Northern California, including Yuba City.
• Jim Patterson (R): Assembly Member who represented the 8th District, serving areas in the Central Valley.
• Joe Patterson (R): Assembly Member representing the 5th District, which includes parts of Placer and El Dorado counties.
• Tri Ta (R): Assembly Member representing the 70th District, covering areas in Orange County, including Westminster.

List of California lawmakers who voted against wildfire prevention funding

The bill, SB 867, was was approved for the ballot by California lawmakers in July.

www.newsweek.com

In case you hadn't noticed she's getting skinned alive by people on her own side too.

 

[IM2]

In case you hadn't noticed she's getting skinned alive by people on her own side too.

According to right wingers.

 

[justoffal]

According to right wingers.

Huh?.... Dude where were you when she fired the fire chief? Please don't tell me you were hiding in a rainbow colored bubble.

 

[IM2]

Huh?.... Dude where were you when she fired the fire chief? Please don't tell me you were hiding in a rainbow colored bubble.

Here's what really caused L.A. fire hydrants to run out of water​

As unprecedented wildfires raged through Los Angeles, some firefighters suddenly lost access to water. City officials called one shortage a “worst-case scenario”—one they expect to see again in the future.

As multiple blazes ignited across Los Angeles, California on Tuesday, attention quickly shifted to another element: water.
Within seven hours of the Palisades Fire igniting on the west side of the city, Janisse Quiñones, CEO of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said one of three million-gallon tankers available to fill the neighborhood’s hydrants had been bled dry. The next was finished later that evening; the final one reached empty in the early hours of Wednesday.
By the time the smoke-shrouded sun rose, stories of tapped and broken hydrants stationed outside of burning homes were swirling across social media, eliciting a wide range of theories about what went wrong.

But experts say this failure isn’t easily pinned on one issue or failure—instead, it’s the foreseeable result of a system that was never ready for the sort of climate change-fueled fires we now face in urban areas.

During that roughly 15-hour window from the Palisades Fire sparking and the available water tanks running dry, Quiñones said the demand for water was four times the norm, causing water pressure to lower. This made it difficult to achieve the force needed to get water into the higher-elevation tanks, particularly at the rate necessary to address a fire moving five football fields a minute, boosted by the gusty Santa Ana winds.

Here's what really caused L.A. fire hydrants to run out of water

As unprecedented wildfires raged through Los Angeles, some firefighters suddenly lost access to water. City officials called one shortage a “worst-case scenario”—one they expect to see again in the future.

www.nationalgeographic.com

 

[justoffal]

Here's what really caused L.A. fire hydrants to run out of water​

As unprecedented wildfires raged through Los Angeles, some firefighters suddenly lost access to water. City officials called one shortage a “worst-case scenario”—one they expect to see again in the future.

As multiple blazes ignited across Los Angeles, California on Tuesday, attention quickly shifted to another element: water.
Within seven hours of the Palisades Fire igniting on the west side of the city, Janisse Quiñones, CEO of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said one of three million-gallon tankers available to fill the neighborhood’s hydrants had been bled dry. The next was finished later that evening; the final one reached empty in the early hours of Wednesday.
By the time the smoke-shrouded sun rose, stories of tapped and broken hydrants stationed outside of burning homes were swirling across social media, eliciting a wide range of theories about what went wrong.

But experts say this failure isn’t easily pinned on one issue or failure—instead, it’s the foreseeable result of a system that was never ready for the sort of climate change-fueled fires we now face in urban areas.

During that roughly 15-hour window from the Palisades Fire sparking and the available water tanks running dry, Quiñones said the demand for water was four times the norm, causing water pressure to lower. This made it difficult to achieve the force needed to get water into the higher-elevation tanks, particularly at the rate necessary to address a fire moving five football fields a minute, boosted by the gusty Santa Ana winds.

Here's what really caused L.A. fire hydrants to run out of water

As unprecedented wildfires raged through Los Angeles, some firefighters suddenly lost access to water. City officials called one shortage a “worst-case scenario”—one they expect to see again in the future.

www.nationalgeographic.com

Yes well... 3 million gallons of reserve can go away very quickly with a bunch of fire engines pumping. The real problem was the lack of access of the local reservoir. It's one of the reasons the insurance companies pulled the insurance policies by the way. Anyone with a brain would have sounded the alarm the moment that happened.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The reason I defend her is because she can't control the wind. The only reason the right has launched this crusade against her is because she's a black Democrat. The owner of the LA Times is a MAGA supporter.

That’s nice

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5084899-los-angeles-mayor-wildfire-response/

 

[IM2]

Bass could most certainly have stopped those Santa Ana winds.

This whole thing is a sad display of over the top right wing bigotry.

 

[Meister]

Bass could most certainly have stopped those Santa Ana winds.

This whole thing is a sad display of over the top right wing bigotry.

Bass and Nooscum could have mitigated the damages from the winds with proper water/controlled burns/recruiting/funding policies.

You could read this if you didn't have me on ignore, IM2.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

DEI and climate policy has led to the extent of this amount of destruction, for sure.

Indiana and West Virginia's New governors kicked DEI to the curb their first day in office

 

[EMH]

Patrick Soon-Shiong - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Goofy looking, looks like the child of Bill Gates and a Chinese female...

 

[Mac-7]

I don't care what mod you are in racist ho. You are going totake it.

Bass is like the team quarterback who gets the credit after a win but most of the blame for a loss

I could look it up but off hand I dont know if Pacific Palisades is within her jurisdiction or not

Or if Bass personally appointed the $750,000 a year water czar in high heels

Or the dyke fire chief

But like it or nor she and Gavin Newsome are the face of this fiasco

And the stain of woke incompetence will follow them from now on