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On the first anniversary of the tragic date when DEI, incompetence and corruption led to the worst wildfires in Los Angeles history, the politicians responsible for the disaster, destruction and deaths take victory laps, leftists groups allied with them profit and survivors mourn their losses.
But if you believe Gov. Gavin Newsom, he was the real hero of the LA wildfires.
“I was there just a few hours after the fire, and was there physically in the midst of the firefighting,” Gov. Newsom told MSNBC.
“I was up there in the hills with these guys when we all turned around — when my hair literally burst. There’s a video of it,” Newsom told fellow podcaster Shawn Ryan. “And they threw me in the car and a guy hits my hair, and throws me in the car and says, ‘Get the f–k out of here!’”
There’s no video of it. According to a fire department official, he had brushed an ember out of Newsom’s famous well coiffed mane. Somehow Newsom survived. 31 people didn’t.
Thousands of homes went up in flames. Nothing has been rebuilt. And Newsom’s the hero.
“God is my witness,” Newsom agonized. “I’m sitting there, battling these fires, misinformation, little sleep over a three week period, the same jeans, jacket.”
Viewers were supposed to have gotten the impression that the governor was on the front lines, battling the fires with an ax in one hand, a firehose in another and a Twitter account in the third, going without sleep, pausing from watering the flames long enough to tweet about Trump.
All while wearing the same cheap and dirty $300 customized Lululemon jacket to show his suffering which he swapped for a higher end $6,000 coat at press conferences by February.
Gov. Newsom’s wildfire jackets became famous after it was revealed that his office had hired an embroiderer to design special pricey Lululemon jackets with the state insignia on them for the 2019 wildfires.
“Everything was happening very fast at that time, it was during the fires, President Trump was coming out here, and there were a lot of press conferences,” the embroiderer explained.
Instead of battling wildfires, Newsom’s office was getting him a custom embroidered $300 jacket with the number ‘40’ on it to remind everyone that he is the 40th governor of California.
Despite his Twitter account’s furious non-stop tweeting, Gov. Gavin Newsom has done nothing to help residents rebuild after the wildfires, but has spent all of his time blaming someone else.
Newsom wants nothing to do with the multiple failures by Los Angeles, city and county, and by state officials, and by his own administration, but has instead searched for a way to blame everything on President Trump. When asked about the slow pace of rebuilding, Newsom blamed Trump for not giving him enough money and for enforcing immigration laws.
The governor, whose self-serving presidential aspirations are a matter of public record and public contempt, claimed that ICE raids “impacted the entire construction industry across the United States” and that “the challenges, the headwinds of immigration policy and tariff policy are hurting the recovery and making it more costly.”
Since Newsom was chatting with MSNBC (currently rebranded as MS Now), no one asked him how tariffs or immigration raids had led to only 10% of building permits being issued. Or how tariff policy led Democrat officials to charge residents six figure permit fees for the rebuilding.
By late March, only 4 rebuilding permits had been issued. That was a week before Trump’s emergency tariff authority and the ICE raids in California didn’t properly begin until June.
While Gov. Newsom’s efforts to pretend that he had single handedly put out the LA wildfires while wearing the same custom embroidered jacket for three weeks straight, are equal parts comical and despicable, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who watched the wildfires from her trip to Ghana, sanctimoniously berated the Pacific Palisades residents who marked the one year anniversary by holding a “They Let Us Burn” protest timed for the beginning of the wildfires.
“I do understand the anger,” Bass smirked. “I understand people’s emotions, so if they need to focus them on me, you know, whatever, whatever it takes for them to heal and get through this. I don’t take it personally.”
The residents who have been left with nothing might be taking it personally.
Bass then accused the “They Let Us Burn” protesters of “profiting off this”, “intentionally putting out misinformation. Intentionally profiting from social media, book deals” and called them “despicable.”
Meanwhile, a concert is being held by Brad Paisley, Mandy Moore and people you’ve never heard of to fund the Altadena Builds Back Foundation. The Foundation’s board includes Robin Hughes, a Bass non-profit ally, and the foundation has handed out money to a TED talk group, a Pasadena modern arts group and a performing troupe to help the area recover from the fires..
Meanwhile residents are paying taxes on unlivable houses and waiting for Bass to let them rebuild.
Gov. Newsom and Mayor Bass have continued pretending that they did a good job tackling the fires despite the volume of evidence showing that the disaster happened because DEI and environmentalism took priority. The corruption continues to this day which is why the expert behind the Los Angeles Fire Department’s after-action report refused to endorse it after it was ‘revised’ with “substantial modifications” and “significant deletions of information that, in some instances, alter the conclusions originally presented.”
When Newsom and Bass complain about “misinformation”, they’re the ones peddling it.
And if you doubt that, consider Gov. Gavin Newsom’s story of how he battled the wildfires in his jacket for three weeks while his hair burned. You’ll be hearing it a lot on the campaign trail.
31 people died. 37,000 acres burned. But Newsom intends to politically profit from the carnage.
