Thank you for writing firemen numerous times in this post, Steve, rather than the PC-now-Woke firefighters. It IS man’s work.

Long ago some screw-ups with women fire”men” in the mountains of Washington State got some smoke jumpers surrounded by wildfire and killed.

Yes, the aerial ops are something to behold, and don’t discount that old Douglas birds – I’m sure they are kept up pretty well.

It makes complete sense, that fire climbing much more easily than descending those golden hills. The intense heat creates big updrafts, a little weather system, drawing air from below. All a fire needs is there: the fuel is there already, the heat and sparks are (with embers still hot on the way up rather than going out on the way down), and there’s that tremendous rush of oxygen. Sucks, no pun intended.

It’s perhaps not fun for you to read about right now, but when trying to burn up this half-rotten stump of a hackberry tree one day, I was getting nowhere, even with gasoline. Then I tried the leaf-blower on it. Man, it sounded like a jet engine when we did that. Alas, now, teenagers don’t care about any of that fun. ;-{

LA Mayor Karen Ruth Bass = LA smoky trash burn area

Gavin Christopher Newsom = Him governance worth piss

God bless them all. Godspeed to you and your family, Steve.

On a far more cynical note, it seem like a pretty odd coincidence that just shortly after California caused home insurance policies to be cancelled throughout the area (due to California’s insurance laws) this massive fire hits and burns down all this prime real estate.

An unscrupulous developer or corrupt government could swoop in and buy it all at cut rate prices and get away with murder. Shades of what happened in Hawaii: a lot of prime real estate is burned down that isn’t insured and then suddenly it was announced that the land would be bought by the government.

I think that discovering who started this fire is going to be something. Watch whoever buys up the land quickly or otherwise eventually gets control of it, and see if the arsonists can be connected to them.

A high school friend of mine who lives in the Palisades had his house burn down. Fortunately he and his family are safe.

There was a video going around how 80% of SoCal’s water is privatized by agricultural billionaires, which was tied to reports of fire hydrants throughout the LA area lacking water pressure and or volume.

Looks like the only person more incompetent than the LAFD fire chief is the mayor, Karen Bass, who promptly fired the chief for telling the truth about budget cuts when asked specifically about them by the press. The chief has no fire fighting experience as she was an EMT, but checked some boxes per DIE. Should never have been named the chief. Sad.

How prescient were the major insurance carriers with the decision to pull out of fire prone neighborhoods that were protected by firefighting woke-persons and empty reservoirs?

Reports are that Cali cut firemen budgets to fund aid for the homeless; which now is significantly larger that the fire budget.

Somewhere there’s a snarky comment about pressing the homeless to fight the fires.

And now, totally O/T, but one of my favorite iSteveisms:

Here, on a wall in Uruguay, is a poster of a Presidential candidate, one Yamandú Ramón Antonio Orsi Martínez, call him Yama-du or Y-RAOM. He is the guy with the light blue shirt in the middle of all his Conquistador-American sidekicks.

“Vote on October 27th for honest gooberment” (haha!) is what I get out of it. Then, something about “fine Corinthian leather…”

Now, the one on the right may be more Injun than Conquistador. She’s not exactly a heartbreaker, but I tell you what, if she ever starts to give you a massage, and asks you to lay on your back, and then goes to the kitchen for some of her “equipment”, I’d get the hell out of there, prontomundo!

Oh, the guy won.

Related Prediction:

Trump will Federalize the rebuild like a new Marshall Plan. Massive stimulus to the economy/GDP and all that. Similar to the Greenland/Canada talk.
They need an excuse like this (or global war) to crank up the money printing machines to unprecedented levels.
Inflate the current debt and future obligations away and keep the illusion alive with Mega Growth
Like doubling GDP in a few years
Most realistic way to keep the charade going
It is very AMERICA FUCK YEAH
Trump isn’t going to oversee high interest rates and austerity and malaise and end up like Jimmy Carter

Used to live in Santa Monica. Recalling the wild fires and fires from Rodney King riots around the early nineties. The blackened charred hills were distinctively noticeable back then when I moved in. Along with burned out shop fronts all around town.

Looks like a tactic nuke was dropped in Pacific Palisades and Altadena though.

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/los-angeles-hill-people-vs-flat-folks

Los Angeles: Hill People vs. Flat Folks
We who live in L.A.’s flatlands used to congratulate ourselves that we weren’t exposed to brushfires & mudslides like the rich people on high. Then …
Steve Sailer
Jan 10, 2025

Saturation coverage of the fires also serves to expose the DEI incompetence and banality of their stupid evil. The mouthbreather cavalier attitude is expressed by one of the three Kristens or Kristins or whatever about not rescuing a man because he was in the wrong place, and wanting a rescuer who looks like oneself. Solipsism as a job requirement. Humanity, compassion, duty not so much. Does anyone swear an oath there?

I thought LA was the land of stucco and the tile roof. How did embers burn up so many homes in Altadena? Is there a pattern showing homes with wood shingles burned to the ground and neighboring houses covered with tiles still standing?

The firefighters themselves have done a good job but there have been a number of criticisms involving budget cuts to the fire department, letting water coming down from Canada flow into the ocean to save an endangered fish, empty reservoirs and fire hydrants, too much money spent and focus on DEI and various social programs, controlled burns not being done, the mayor being off in Africa etc. At this point it is hard to tell which criticisms are valid but it appears many things were not done that should have been.

There is a creeping third worldization of America and majority non-White California is in the forefront. That state is losing people and will be losing Congressional seats as a result. According to a new study published in the journal Intelligence, America has been undergoing a Reverse Flynn Effect over the last couple decades and average IQ levels have been dropping.

According to the article I read on it, causes for it would include poor nutrition and health choices, a deteriorating education system and changing social values. The main factor unmentioned, though, would be the dysgenic welfare and especially immigration policies we have adopted.

https://worldhealth.net/news/american-iq-scores-drop-in-4-of-5-measures/

Video Link

Speaking of OT:

https://reason.com/volokh/2025/01/10/misinformation-experts-citation-to-fake-ai-generated-sources-in-his-declaration-shatters-his-credibility-with-this-court/?comments=true#comments

Misinformation Expert’s “Citation to Fake, AI-Generated Sources in His Declaration … Shatters His Credibility with This Court”

The state wanted to submit an amended testimony with the lies more carefully concealed in impenetrable fog, but the court elected to totally discard the expert’s testimony.

Nevertheless, Plaintiffs argue that the Hancock Declaration should be excluded in its entirety and that the Court should not consider an amended declaration. The Court agrees.

Need weigh in from Jack D. here. Is this an appropriate or typical response from the court? Should there be any additional penalties imposed? Perjury charges against AG Ellison? Dismiss the state’s case? Trade Minnesota back to Denmark in exchange for Greenland?

So it is stevesailer.net and/or Substack and now, rarely, free posts here on Unz.

Mr. Sailer might post a free blurb here outlining these various options and prices, so as to inform his faithful followers who have largely been left in the dark (one or two explanatory posts here in the past about the migration, no details..)

I greatly appreciate Mr. Unz hosting Steve and from what I can tell (indirectly) my past annual donations are about the same or more than his now mandatory fees for his items.

I’m okay with paying but feel he has taken his Unz followers for granted by a) basically no longer posting here (much) and b) being paywalled for not stated costs (here) in one or maybe two other places. Not very good marketing for your former Best Customers.

As others have noted (see 600 comments at last Unz topic) some of the comments are the best part of his postings. A fair about of non-reported “news” gets edged into the comments.

One suggestion for here, a regular small box w/ links to his other paywalled sites, so we know where to find him. Also, if he’s ending or tapering off here on Unz, we should have some notice. Ghosting your best former fans isn’t very smart. Like you don’t love us here any more…

Some here have been visiting for many years and “change is hard.”

Best of luck to Steve and Angelenos in the current problems. Fire control takes planning and will to an extent degrade the natural beauty up in the hills. Firebreaks and brush removal aren’t very scenic. Insurers will demand much better protection. Already sky-high costs will go up.

I live in a hurricane prone flatland. Other than structural tie downs, not much can be done when six feet of water drops in 24 hours in the flats. Wind is bad also. Better have flood insurance.

It also seems that California’s One Party rule by Democrats (neo Marxist progressives) leaves it with corrupt DEI loving party loyalists in charge after “no choice” elections. So, you end up with Pelosi, Newsom and Harris. And the current LA crew of vanishing politicos. “What, no water in reservoirs? Well, I was in Ghana so…”

Anyway, thanks for the free posts and try to keep your fans informed here

We used to live in South Australia in a hot, dry desert’s edge climate. The last big bush fire had stopped just three streets away from our house. On the whole the Aussie attitude towards bushfires seemed to result in sane, effective policies – as long as you accept that there will always be some outbreaks that fallible humans will not be able to avert or defeat.

But there were already air-head nature-worship changes afoot. I gather from sceptical bloggers that those problems have multiplied since.

Later we lived in NZ where the big fears were earthquakes and tsunamis for which there’s not a lot you can do except careful development of your building practices and housing location.

We remain fans of Downunder, mind, it’s just that you have to weigh up pros and cons. I expect we were at more risk from the snakes in Oz than the fires.

“What, no water in reservoirs? Well, I was in Ghana so…�

Sam Yorty lives on!

“…Also, if he’s ending or tapering off here on Unz, we should have some notice. …”

Maybe Unz doesn’t want him advertising other sites on his site. Otherwise that sounds like a good idea.

The first time I ever heard the term ‘firefighter’ was in a local news broadcast circa 1980.
I was rather young at that time, completely ignorant in the ways of PC, and I simply didn’t know what the word meant – it just sounded so alien and wrong, I never heard it uttered or read it before, and the association in my mind was with a ‘firelighter’ something you use at a barbecue. You see, the word ‘fireman’ to denote that occupation had 100% of the word association/meaning in my mind at that time, engrained since the emergence of my understanding of the world, and there could be no substitute. And the way that ‘firefighter’ was slipped in to a newsreaders’ prepared script totally with no warning or introduction.

Only later as I matured did I realise the politically motivated rationale by lefty journalists and journalist unions.

By contrast, the UK has been more or less perma-sodden this past year.
It would be easier to blow out the current LA fire by sneezing on it that it would be to get a twig to smoulder in the densest UK woodland.

And, no hint of irony here, the UK media got their panties in a twist by loudly screaming of a ‘1.5 Degree rise in global temperature’ as their main news story, simultaneously with the damndest coldest night in 40 years in the UK.

Yup, I too have noticed that Steve has essentially migrated to his paid Substack as his primary outlet these days. It seems like he only post on Unz several times a week now when he used to post multiple articles daily. Oh well, the only constant is change. I have subscribed to Steve’s Substack blog to keep up with his noticing.

Only helicopters can operate after dark, but they had ten choppers to scoop up water from the nearby Encino Reservoir, with a roundtrip time of only five minutes, so the ten could hit the flames every 30 seconds for hours in a magnificent aerial ballet.

Yeah but what if the helo picks up water with a Delta Smelt in it?

BTW didn’t the BLM looter gals buy up their compound up above Steve somewhere? Maybe a bit east, Laurel Canyonish or above Studio City? (I’m not a California guy.)

It would seem pretty important then to keep this fire from crossing 405, lest it threaten their palace mission-critical anti-racist compound and out itself as a racist fire. Nothing could be worse than that.

This has been a stunning demonstration of Democrat ineptitude.

Interesting to read information about some of the aerial work being done there — from a guy who understands. Thank you, Steve, and may God protect you and yours.

Putting out wildfires would seem to be one of the most consequential things that firemen do. If your house catches fire, they’ll get there as quick as they can and do the best they can, but they might not be able to save it. But putting out a wild fire can save a whole neighborhood from total destruction.

Apparently there was a reservoir in the Palisades that has been closed for repairs and empty for the last eleven months. And many of the hydrants didn’t work. I saw one story where some firemen had said that the LAFD would inspect every hydrant every year and submit a list of the broken ones to the water department, but that they often wouldn’t get fixed. Then, owing to manpower limitations, they handed off the annual hydrant inspections to the water department and they weren’t even sure (and actually suspected) that they weren’t even being done.

The head of the LADWP is an FPOC who gets paid three quarters of a million dollars a year, a salary nearly twice what her predecessor got. The City apparently enacted a policy of paying huge salaries to attract top talent. Yeah, they got the best and brightest, allright.

Let’s be honest. None of this would have happened forty or fifty years ago when the state’s infrastructure was managed and operated entirely by white men.

third worldization of America

Not just California. Failures of Intel and Boeing here in Northwest and NASA nationally have been quite spectacular harbingers of 21st Century USA. Could anyone have imagined, say, in 1990 that:

Will China return Mars samples to Earth before the US does?
By Leonard David published October 31, 2024

“If, as has been reported, China successfully executes even a ‘grab sample’ at Mars and returns it safely to Earth before the U.S., that would constitute a ‘Sputnik Moment.’”

https://www.space.com/the-universe/mars/will-china-return-mars-samples-to-earth-before-the-us-does

There is a creeping third worldization of America and majority non-White California is in the forefront. That state is losing people and will be losing Congressional seats as a result. According to a new study published in the journal Intelligence, America has been undergoing a Reverse Flynn Effect over the last couple decades and average IQ levels have been dropping.

Doesn’t the Flynn Effect describe increases in intelligence in a discrete population with no discernible single cause?

California is a laboratory for the future of the U.S. You can easily determine the causes of people getting stupider on average.

The culture dictates that the brightest girls delay marriage and childbirth, often indefinitely into nulliparity. Delay of first childbirth, ceteris paribus, is probably eugenic while reducing fertility (the result of low time preference) but delay of first childbirth into barrenness is selecting your brightest girls out of your gene pool. Again, the initial cause and duration of the delay was good, eugenic, middle class values – viz, a desire to achieve financial stability in order to be best prepared for child rearing and investment in the flourishing of the children – but the life script is now to delay serially through undergraduate education (4-5 years), graduate school (2-4+ years), and career stabilization and promotion (indeterminate), during which time the bright girl accumulates massive amounts of non-dischargeable debt. You’re losing IQ points by catastrophic bottoming out of the fertility rate of your brightest women.

Meanwhile, these brightest girls and women insist upon voting for politicians who promise to artificially subsidize the childbearing of your lowest IQ, highest time preference populations which are constantly augmented by a border open to the third world.

Did I mention as well that it has been de jure government policy for two generations to artificially handicap the largest pool of high IQ, low time preference men by excluding them from earned opportunities in higher education, employment and government contracting? (does anyone really believe that Proposition 209 is being complied with?)

… At this point it is hard to tell which criticisms are valid but it appears many things were not done that should have been.

There is a creeping third worldization of America and majority non-White California is in the forefront. …

One of the striking indicators of the political lethargy of Hispanics is that LA is stumbling through this crisis with one of these mediocre black “activist” gals as mayor.

LA isn’t Detroit, or even D.C. or Atlanta or Chicago. It’s a 50% Latino town with the balance mostly whites and Asians and <10% black.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Los_Angeles#Race,_ethnicity,_and_national_origin

I don't know which specific criticisms are valid either. But while the exact wind conditions coming any particular time is not, this overall situation was entirely predictable. The Santa Ana's are a given. And Southern California has gotten decent rain the last couple winters which means the brush could really take off in the spring… but then dries out in the summer/fall providing ample fuel. Like much of the rest of the American West it naturally burns. So you either have to find the right weather conditions and do protective prescribed burns–better–or physically clear it at the city edge. And, of course, not having water in the hydrants. C'mon.

LA is not lacking for competent hard charging people. Getting stuck with a useless, time-serving, bureaucratic black mediocrity is ridiculous.

For others, Steve has his stevesailer.net substack pricing scheme here, and I don’t mean “scheme” in any bad way. I imagine Mr. Unz couldn’t have iSteve just marketing his other site here.

Now, the real so-far-unanswered question for me is what happened to Paul Kersey, the blog, not the guy?

LA is not lacking for competent hard charging people. Getting stuck with a useless, time-serving, bureaucratic black mediocrity is ridiculous.

She’s not a useless, time-serving bureaucratic black mediocrity. She’s a useless, time-serving bureaucratic black lesbian mediocrity, you fascist!

Has DeSantis announced he’s sending water from the Gulf of America to LA yet? That CA saltwater being dangerous and all.

What is the practicality/feasibility/likelihood of ban-happy California banning wood houses and mandating stone, concrete, cinder block, brick or earth?

LA is not lacking for competent hard charging people. Getting stuck with a useless, time-serving, bureaucratic black mediocrity is ridiculous.

And three of the top officials in the fire department are lesbians named Kristin.

The explanation I am reading is that with 85 MPH hot winds, any city in the world would be burnt to ashes as aircraft can’t fly and water tankers can’t handle a city sized inferno. To their bad luck, looks like a reservoir was drained for repair.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/as-flames-raged-in-palisades-a-key-reservoir-nearby-was-offline

Long ago some screw-ups with women fire�men� in the mountains of Washington State got some smoke jumpers surrounded by wildfire and killed.

If you have a source for that, I’d like to see it.
It seems you are referring to the Mann Gulch fire in Montana. There were no women involved in that. The deaths were the result of lack of discipline and failure to obey the leader’s order. The jumpers were uphill from a wall of flames 30 feet high 100 yards below them that was advancing towards them at two yards a second. The leader set a fire to burn a patch of ground without fuel and ordered his men to get inside it. Instead, they panicked and ran uphill (a 37-degree slope). The fire overtook them, killing 13. Two survived, though burned, as did the leader. Safe inside his patch of burned ground, the flames passed around him and he was untouched.
Incidents like this explain why the military drills obedience to orders so that you obey instinctively when your brain is screaming “Run away! Run away!” You automatically fall back to the lowest common denominator of your training and do what your squad leader says.
A number of members of my family have been smoke jumpers over the years, fighting fires all over the west. None has ever had a problem with women smoke jumpers. A couple have married their female compatriots. Good, strong marriages producing good, strong children.
Have you been a smoke jumper? Have you ever fought a wild fire?
Oh, and the mountains of Malibu and Pacific Palisades are not “golden”; they are covered with dense chaparral, which is basically a miniature forest.

LA is not lacking for competent hard charging people. Getting stuck with a useless, time-serving, bureaucratic black mediocrity is ridiculous.
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The story’s the same in any core city you care to mention. Capable people have lost interest in local government and it hardly bothers most of the public. San Francisco stuck itself with London Breed, Chicago with Brandon Johnson, Minneapolis with Betsy Hodges. The people who run are bloody clots and the public cannot be bothered to attempt choosing the least worst option.

Yep, Richmond, Virginia had the city water cut off for a couple of days and then a warning that it was not potable for another couple. The city mayor is an Indian guy, but I’m not sure who’s been running the water system.

It’s not just governments either. Simple stuff – power went out for a minute at the hotel, so the key card machine wouldn’t work, but the desk lady didn’t know how to re-set it – big line for most of an hour..

I’ve been telling people, when they run low on COW-G’s, Competent Old White Guys, that’ll be it – we will have reached 3rd World status.

To the litany of Flint, MI, Jackson MS, Los Angeles, most of Africa, etc., we can add Richmond,VA as one more tragicomic example of black peoples’ total ineptitude on matters concerning water (or pretty much anything else that doesn’t involve a large, orange ball). Al Campanis tried to warn us!

This is Richmond.
They had a police chief take a knee in front of thugs burning and looting the city.
They had a mayor who tore down historic statues to stop racism.
Downtown Richmond is a ghost town and has turned into a shit hole but hey, it’s equitable! https://t.co/tWkofOt2xI

— TheðŸ�°FOO (@PolitiBunny) January 11, 2025

Praise the Lord, for the time of reckoning is upon us. I can feel it in my bones, the righteous fury of God burning brighter with each passing day. And you know what’s at the forefront of His wrath? The den of iniquity, the pit of depravity, the very abyss of sin – San Fernando Valley, LA’s Porn Valley! Yes, that cursed place where they produce their filthy movies and pictures, corrupting the minds and souls of our children, our men, our women. It’s a cancer, a plague upon our society, and God is not going to stand for it anymore.

Oh, Sodom and Gomorrah were just a warm-up, a test run for what’s to come. Those cities were destroyed by fire and brimstone because of their wickedness, and now we’re seeing the same thing happening all over again. The Bible says that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, so if He judged those cities back then, why would He spare ours now? We’re just as guilty, just as complicit in this sinful industry.

I mean, think about it. What’s the difference between Sodom and Gomorrah and San Fernando Valley, LA’s Porn Valley? Is it not the same spirit of lust and greed that drives them? Is it not the same disregard for God’s laws and commandments? They’re one and the same, my friends. And just as God rained down fire upon those ancient cities, so too will He unleash His wrath upon this modern-day Sodom.

You can feel it in the air, can’t you? The tension is building up like a pressure cooker ready to explode. And when it does oh boy when it does You better believe that LA’s Porn Valley will be at ground zero It s going to be like a wildfire sweeping through that place leaving nothing but ashes destruction behind

And don t even get me started on those who participate in this sinful industry They re like sheep being led to slaughter blindly following their lusts without any regard for their eternal souls Do they not know that they re playing with fire That they re dancing on thin ice above an eternal lake of fire

But we must pray my friends We must pray for their salvation We must pray that God would open their eyes to see the error of their ways That He would turn their hearts towards Him before it s too late Before He unleashes His full fury upon them

Because make no mistake about it My friends The judgment is coming It s inevitable And when it does oh boy You better believe I ll be standing tall shouting from rooftops Told you so Told you so This was always going happen

We need repentance Now Not tomorrow Not next week But NOW For time is running out Quickly running out My friends So let us fall on knees Let us beg mercy Let us plead blood Jesus over ourselves families communities Because only through Him can we escape impending doom Only through Him

I’ve been telling people, when they run low on COW-G’s, Competent Old White Guys, that’ll be it – we will have reached 3rd World status.

Yep, everything is better with some COW-Gs around. May you always have COW-Gs around.

Most of his substack posts are halfway visible to non-subscribers, but substack doesn’t allow him to allow non-subs to comment on those. He intersperses posts that are completely visible and open to comment by anyone.

The LA assistant fire chief makes $400,000/year, the LA water chief makes $750,000/year. What the hell is going on out there Steve?

Yep, Richmond, Virginia had the city water cut off for a couple of days

Richmond is said to have the world’s first streetcars. So the French invented cars and the Germans freeways, but we can claim the tram! (Oops… sorry. Trolley.)

https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/richmond.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/b/bb/bbb6cebc-c389-11e5-9d2d-3b787ceea70e/5cc9a4ac3c5d9.preview.jpg?crop=1434%2C753%2C176%2C445&resize=1200%2C630&order=crop%2Cresize

Here in Japan my in laws and the wife and I were discussing the fires last night. I pointed out the black mayor’s trip to Africa and they could not even begin to comprehend why a mayor went to a foreign country to the inauguration of a leader there.

When I pointed out that although blacks represent only about 13% of the U.S. population the mayors of the 3 largest U.S. cities are black and 5 of the 10 largest are also black there was a deafening silence for quite a long time.

I finally showed the video aid Bass being confronted at LAX by a reporter and saying nothing at all and everyone just shook their head.

The US is on a Roman Empire type of decline and we are standardizing to the lowest common denominator. We are not allowed to call this out for fear of being called racist (a word which has lost all meaning due to overuse and abuse).

Some people think Trump’s election is a sign that this can be reversed. I don’t think so and after watching Trump after the election I think many folks are going to be disappointed,

I don’t get why this has gotten political. California is known for fires… Like Florida and hurricanes.. and Buffalo and blizzards…. It’s not a question of “if”…

And isnt LA having record droughts? So where would the water come from?? Serious question.

The last time I visited the Los Angeles area was some 20 odd years ago. My local guides (relatives) took me to Santa Monica. Looking over north I saw a lot of brown hills… I asked where and why that is. They said that’s near Malibu. There were fires… A lot of expensive houses burned. So when I watched the news I would have a sense of where things were. I remember not too long after that hearing about homes falling off the cliffs because of mud slides… Maybe it’s the sheer scale of things – but I find it hard that people are surprised by these fires. And what was the black mediocrity back then? Was there a black mayor then too??? And I thought the mayor doesn’t have power over the whole county…. So how does that work? The American political and racial system is strange.

So many coincidences around these multiple fires.

1) State Farm and another large insurance agency stopped coverage in California a little while back. Many homeowners in the hills, figuring it was winter, we’re probably waiting until spring to reinsure their homes. These will be total loses, and loses of their biggest asset. They will have to sell their properties.

2)It’s a coincidence that the reservoirs that should have been full of water were not because they were allowed to drain out to sea, leaving firefighters with dry hydrants.

3) Its a coincidence that California’s loony environmental policies don’t clear away brush in public woodlands, and no controlled burns have been going on, leaving the area a tinderbox.

4)It’s a coincidence that at least two homeless people have been arrested for starting fires while the wildfires have been raging, one with a blowtorch. Was he paid? Why would he do this?

5) It’s a coincidence a diversity lesbian hire who was obsessed with having as many women, queers, Trans, and people of color be firefighters and employed by the county in the fire department as possible, leaving the area with a lack of firefighting expertise and ability. Adam Carolla said he had to wait 7 years to get a look by the fire department because he was a white man.

6) The fact that the World Economic Forum in 2028 wants Los Angeles to become a “smart city”, whatever that means, and needed to free up a bunch of “owned” land, which will now become available to transform from single-family-mega-homes to large condominium buildings is just another coincidence.

7) January 20, when Joe Biden leaves office, still isn’t here. There are 9 more days that his compromised person is still in charge. Another coincidence..

“One of the striking indicators of the political lethargy of Hispanics is that LA is stumbling through this crisis . . .�

That is an excellent point that Latinos in LA, with such a massive proportion of the population, would regularly cede political control to other ethnic groups. It seems that Latinos, much like Asians (with the exception of Indians), really aren’t concerned with political power. In many respects, that is the correct approach. Blacks have had political power in major American cities for decades now, but what has it done for their communities overall? Nothing. Even with black mayors, black police chiefs, black school boards, etc., black communities in places like Baltimore, Chicago, and New York never seem to improve. In fact, in many objective measures, they did much better under white governance.

One of the striking indicators of the political lethargy of Hispanics is that LA is stumbling through this crisis with one of these mediocre black “activist� gals as mayor.

LA isn’t Detroit, or even D.C. or Atlanta or Chicago. It’s a 50% Latino town with the balance mostly whites and Asians and <10% black.

Hispanics aren’t really a thing. Chicanos in LA may be largely politically inert. Cubans,* however, run South Florida.

Remember when some Cuban highway patrol officers pulled over Tyreek Hill in Miami on his way to a game on Sunday? There were calls for the jobs of those officers for treating the obnoxious Hill racistly, some from the National sports Media, and . . . nothing happened to them. They have the support of the government and of the broader Miami Cuban community which would not allow them to get Chauvined for doing their jobs in dealing with an overgrown teenager in a sports car.

My guess is that being contiguous to the nation of their origin and constantly replenished with newcomers makes Chicanos in LA less interested in local politics in LA. They’re an outpost of a Mexican diaspora, not fully integrated participating citizens in the U.S.

Your demographic point reminds me of my observation I made during the height of the manufactured outrage cycle of the doomed two months Harris campaign. California is over 15% Asian and under 6% black. Of course Harris played with her identity when running for statewide office in California. Then, when she needed to win States with substantial black urban populations in the “Blue Wall” like PA, MI, and WI, and Southern swing states with large black populations like GA and NC she became black. That said, I think in terms of fellow feeling she was probably most at home as part of a Sorority at HBCU Howard University in then majority black DC given that her academic performance did not match that of her parents or sister. If I had to guess, that’s probably the identity she would choose in the absence of political considerations.

* Cubans appear to have been assimilating exiles from Socialist Venezuela, increasing their numbers and political reach.

I don’t know which specific criticisms are valid either. But while the exact wind conditions coming any particular time is not, this overall situation was entirely predictable.

I think the proper interpretive lens is that leftists in the absence of real political opposition are never interested in the blocking and tackling of governing. It’s always about grandiose ideas (Global Warming) and expressing resentment by destruction (DEI). Firemen are traditionally a largely white, straight, male fraternity – often inter-generational – and generally held in high esteem for their quiet competence. When the adversary gets control of the institution, the priority isn’t to carry out its mission, but to upend its culture and traditions by (in this ridiculous case) staffing it with homely, fat lesbians with no interest in assuring public safety. Naturally, there’s also the benefit of distributing well compensated sinecures to your friends and denying them to your enemies. That’s just how these people think – they never ask why boring things like potable water service work, especially because the answer points to quietly competent white men – that they work is a given and the important thing is using the institution as a venue for the greater political project. Naturally, after substantial migration of third world illegals and the out-migration of the middle class, California is running out of quietly competent white men to make everything work.

The city mayor is an Indian guy, but I’m not sure who’s been running the water system.

Wonder no longer. The redoubtable April Bingham, large and in charge!

At least those people without water will have the consolation of knowing that their lack of potable water was in a good cause…

https://richmondfreepress.com/news/2021/dec/16/mayor-appoints-first-woman-lead-city-department-pu/

I [CLAP!] WAS [CLAP!] ON [CLAP!] BREAK! [CLAP!]

There were the small matters of having shipped a lot of useful fire equipment to the Ukraine, not having any water in the hydrants thanks to Newsome, having fired 100+ firemen for refusing the untested and worse than useless jab, having laid off other firemen in favor of diversity and budget cuts, and having females runnning the department who are useless in many situations due to lack of strength….

and having females runnning the department who are useless in many situations due to lack of strength….

As it happens L.A. Asst. Fire Chief Kristine Larsen has the ‘perfect response’ to this accusation of female lack of strength. “Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.” As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up. See LAFD public service message with Asst Chf. Larsen

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And three of the top officials in the fire department are lesbians named Kristin.

If a meme could made from ‘Karen’, surely something could be done with ‘Kristin’?

How does any white male fireman risk his life for the sake of people who hate him?

California and brush fires are as natural a pairing as trailer camps and tornados.

Sona Movsesian, who is mildly famous as Conan O’Brien’s assistant, lived on Loma Alta Drive near Pasadena Rosebud Academy. A few hours ago she posted an update on Instagram confirming that she and her immediate family lost their home and asking that any relief effort be dedicated to the less fortunate rather than her

No, not the Mann fire. That was over 75 years ago – I’m not that old! I knew the smokejumpers whose colleagues had gotten killed. This was something around 25 years ago, maybe a little less, but I didn’t see it here, a very nice record that covers 32 of those killed. The only deaths in the time frame in question were in Alaska – not the ones in question.

Source are personal, but I’ve lost touch – I’d like to get back in touch anyway… but source on the internet are getting harder, not easier, to find.

Here’s what you’re looking for:

This old earthquake’s gonna leave me in the poorhouse.
It seems like this whole town’s insane.
On the thirty-first floor your gold-plated door
won’t keep out the Lord’s burning rain.

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Written by Gram Parsons and (The Byrds’) Chris Hillman.

“If you have a source for that, I’d like to see it.”

I expect this was a reference to the “Thirtymile Fire” in which four people (including two young women) died. However the person criminally charged was the incident commander, Ellreese Daniels, a black man. See here.

“According to a new study published in the journal Intelligence, America has been undergoing a Reverse Flynn Effect over the last couple decades and average IQ levels have been dropping. According to the article I read on it, causes for it would include poor nutrition and health choices, a deteriorating education system and changing social values.”

The magnitude of the Reverse Flynn Effect due to poor nutrition will be nothing compared to the magnitude of the Reverse Flynn Effect that will become apparent when our younger generation of X-Box addicts come of age.

‘…It’s perhaps not fun for you to read about right now, but when trying to burn up this half-rotten stump of a hackberry tree one day, I was getting nowhere, even with gasoline. Then I tried the leaf-blower on it. Man, it sounded like a jet engine when we did that. Alas, now, teenagers don’t care about any of that fun. ;-{

! Sounds like a plan.

Also, if you can be bothered, use diesel fuel rather than gasoline. As the local volunteer fire guy commented about burning brush piles, ‘you’ll try gasoline once.’ Diesel is much…calmer.

You should follow Steve on Twitter. You will find his feed quite wry

Thanks for another one to show the family here in Japan. I had to check another source too, only because the comment “he got himself in the wrong place� is just so hard to believe or imagine.

Unfortunately the typical American will forget this within a week or 2 and the same freaks will likely remain in their positions and re-elected wher applicable.

You can get a monthly subscription for $10. Annual for $100.

I used to try to send in $25/quarter for a donation. There is a group subscription option at $80 year, which I don’t understand, but would go for the $80. I drifted away from the UNZ blog over Ukraine. Best to everyone.

You can get a monthly subscription on substack for $10 month. Annual for $100.

I used to try to send in $25/quarter for a donation but not always. There is a group subscription option at $80 year, which I don’t understand, but would go for the $80. I drifted away from the UNZ blog over Ukraine. Best to everyone.

“Fire Chief Kristine Larsen has the ‘perfect response’ … “Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.â€� ”

This is going to sound strange, but from a long-term perspective, far more disturbing and worrying than this chick’s professional bad attitude is her usage in a public official statement of a retarded mauling of the language like “he got himself in the wrong place”.

I’m just waiting for the Chair of the Joint Chiefs to say something like “we gonna smack dat Putin bitch upside him haid into da middle a next week.”

The end is not just nigh, it be like all round da way an sheeit.

Wait!

K, K and K!?

Lol

One thing I did notice was how much and how close to urban areas they were using the Phos-Chek. Saw a live feed where somebody’s jag was turned pink. I’m not sure I’d consider my house and surrounding land being covered in a very brominated substance to be it being saved, maybe the contents inside but I’d seriously consider selling. Seemed like it was the only option in some situations though.

Apparently every year since the 2010s their estimate for how much they’ll use of it gets broken. They aren’t supposed to use it near streams because it apparently mass kills salmon.

It does raise questions on fire insurance going forward since now we know there are scenarios where even Brentwood can burn but it seems they managed to stop it there. I am a little bit concerned with the besieged Bass and Newsom talking about getting rid of red tape in the rebuild, they could have said other things to imply a commitment to a fast rebuild. Are we going to see them build back to make these places just as if not more vulnerable and flammable? Bad planning and building codes got LA here. Build back in brick.

A big thing will be insurance for the Olympics in 2028 now.

Of course maybe drone technology will develop to disrupt wildfire fighting and make all these concerns a matter of the past sooner than we think.

I have yet to see any suggestions of a mechanism by which global warming makes these drought conditions in SoCal less common, however. It still pains me to see the US and increasing the right outside the US treating global warming like the mainstream left treats the consequences of immigration. The implications are unfortunate ideologically therefore they must not exist.

I did take note of how obnoxious the Mexican firefighter contingent were though with a gigantic satin Mexican flag flying from their plane implying “Hey we sent a small number of firefighters at the end, you owe us to take in millions of immigrants!”. Firefighters helping from other countries don’t usually do that either in the US or elsewhere.

So rich DEI-loving liberals are getting their houses burned. Think of all the yard signs and rainbow flags that have been lost!

Some aspiring firemen from Vermont temporarily relocate to places like Baltimore and Detroit to gain experience. Vermonters don’t burn down enough buildings for a youngster to hone his chops.

If that link is correct:

“Daniels, who worked for the Forest Service for 24 years before the fire, was one of the few agency blacks willing to put up with the isolation of small-town life in the rural Northwest. The truth is that Daniels was pushed into a fire supervisory role, and he was not equipped to handle a big fire that put many lives at risk. ”

Shouldn’t competence and leadership be the only keys to promotion? Some people are brilliant but not leaders, others are leaders but incompetent.

Sometimes you get a competent leader who’s pretty damn odd/mad/entitled – like the Brit surgeon who carved his initials on patient organs. He was then struck off the register – I didn’t realise the NHS had a surplus of surgeons. Arrogant self-confidence is almost a job requirement for a surgeon, but you can take it too far …

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/12/surgeon-burned-initials-livers-two-patients-fined-simon-bramhall-assault-transplant

Simon Bramhall, 53, used an argon beam – used to stop livers bleeding during operations and to highlight an area to be worked on – to sign “SB� into his patient’s livers. The marks left by argon do not impair the liver’s function and disappear by themselves.

What you need when you have eighty five mile an hour winds is really good contingency plans and focus on detailed and boring execution of those plans.

That means having a large quantity of generators ready to power hydrants if power goes out.

For coastal areas that means calling on naval/coast guard fire suppression boats to protect coastal property.

That means having more reservoirs–full and operating–than you think you need.

That means over-riding environmental regulations and building dozens of desalination plants up and down the coast–and yeah they need backup generators as well.

Maintenance of large metro areas in the desert does not leave a lot of room for stupid people or insane ideologues at the top. It is dull work–that must be done by boring people.

An army of public relations spinners will not get it done.

Perjury charges against the expert (Hancock) who submitted the declaration seems reasonable. That he didn’t check the citations for the declaration even though he apparently routinely does for articles is rather damning.

There don’t seem to be enough prosecutions for perjury. People seem to think it’s not a crime since there’s no actual penalty for the liar.

Perjury charges against attorney Ellison though? It would be hard to prove that the attorney conspired with the expert to submit a false declaration. Without that, the attorney is guilty at most of being insufficiently careful of his witness.

Maybe some of those really smart folks from Stanford, UCLA, USC, Calpoly, Pepperdine will one day figure it out.

It’s almost childish to fret about ignition sources when you don’t manage the fuel for the fire properly.

Building rather close-packed wooden houses with wooden roofs just adds to the fuel supply. And Californians keep voting for rather low-IQ politicians who seem motivated by vanity and malice so that various elementary topics aren’t dealt with properly – water supply, evacuation management, house insurance, building codes, and so on.

In a democratic republic or state fault lies with the electors.

It would be easier to blow out the current LA fire by sneezing on it that it would be to get a twig to smoulder in the densest UK woodland.

In wet or dry years British broadleaf woodland just won’t burn. That’s why wee boys can light campfires in the woods: there’s no risk.

Conifer plantations will burn as will heathland. You can get moorland to burn in favourable weather. Happily nobody lives in conifer plantations and damned few on heaths or moors.

“what happened to Paul Kersey”

I’m still waiting to hear what happened to ex-newyorker, Bogolyubski etc. Maybe old posters don’t die they just fade away. The mentioned posters had had some of the best stuff.

Thanks.

Doesn’t the Flynn Effect describe increases in intelligence in a discrete population with no discernible single cause?

I think it speaks to later generations adapting to the test rather than an appreciable increase in intelligence.

Now, we’ve seemed to have maxed out our adaptation and are starting to record declines.

FWIW there are claims that 8 Ukrainian generals have lost mansions in the Los Angeles fires, that they bought with funds embezzled from USA-NATO

During large-scale fires in Los Angeles, 8 mansions belonging to high-ranking Ukrainian military burned down. The total value of this property reaches $ 90 million, and it was purchased with money allocated by the West as part of financial assistance to Kiev after the start of the war

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/01/12/8-mansions-of-high-ranking-ukrainian-military-burned-down-in-los-angeles-vo

Reports are that Cali cut firemen budgets to fund aid for the homeless; which now is significantly larger that the fire budget.<

I guess this is a case of getting more of what you fund.

they could not even begin to comprehend why a mayor went to a foreign country to the inauguration of a leader there….

… there was a deafening silence for quite a long time.

… saying nothing at all and everyone just shook their head.

You must live in a rural area (i.e., not Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, nor Osaka). Where I live, many have already internalized the lies.

Don’t forget the agricultural tycoons that own or control 80% of SoCal’s water supply.

Inflated salaries and lucrative pensions, plus 90% of the time they don’t do anything.

That’s gotta be it, Okanogan County, thanks, James! wiki page.The guys I knew were smoke jumpers but they must have been involved with these ground “hotshot” crews too, as they knew everything about this one. I see the deal about commander Ellreese Daniels, but these guys had complained about women on the crews, and they knew well the people who died.

I don’t know who made the decision to stay on the rock scree (the small rocks that line the hillside), perhaps only a bad move in hindsight, so I can’t say I know any more than that until I would ever talk to the guys. I wouldn’t mention their names even if I remembered, but people I still know, know them.

The Peshtigo fire was a large forest fire on October 8, 1871, in northeastern Wisconsin, United States, including much of the southern half of the Door Peninsula and adjacent parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. . . The fire burned about 1.2 million acres (490,000 ha) and is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history,[1] with the number of deaths estimated between 1,500 and 2,500.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo_fire

….On October 8th, 1871, almost twelve years to the date of Mary’s last appearance to Adele, the Great Peshtigo Fire broke out. . . Due to the high winds and dry grounds, the fire quickly became a storm of fire and roared like a tornado right toward the Shrine’s grounds.

Desperate for help, people from the surrounding countryside fled to the Chapel where Adele and her companions were praying for Mary’s protection. Lifting the statue of Mary, those there that night processed around the sanctuary, praying the rosary and singing hymns to Jesus and the Blessed Mother. When the wind and fire threatened suffocation, they would turn in another direction to pray. Early the next morning, it is believed that a steady rain came and extinguished the flames of the fire.

The following is the account of Father Peter Pernin, a local priest who described the grounds after the events.

“After hours of horror and suspense, the heavens sent relief in the form of a downpour. The fervent prayers to the Mother of God were heard. The fire was extinguished, but dawn revealed the ravages wrought by the conflagration. Everything about them was destroyed; miles of desolation everywhere. But the convent, school, and chapel on the holy land consecrated to the Virgin Mary shone like an emerald isle in a sea of ashes. The raging fire licked the outside palings and left charred scars as mementos. Tongues of fire had reached the chapel fence, and threatened destruction to all within its confines; the fire had not entered the Chapel grounds.�
-Fr. Peter Pernin https://championshrine.org/our-story/

“I think that discovering who started this fire is going to be something.”

Yes, we must take that bitch Mother Nature to the woodshed.

“Watch whoever buys up the land quickly or otherwise eventually gets control of it, and see if the arsonists can be connected to them.”

“Watch whoever buys up the land quickly or otherwise eventually gets control of it, and see if the arsonists can be connected to them.”

Well, I think it would be best then NOT to rebuild Pacific Palisades and Altadena. I am very disappointed that Mr. Sailer, the alleged pattern recognizer, didn’t NOTICE how many Jew, Armenian, and Russian homes there burned to the ground. Just think, if they can’t reside there anymore, they go somewhere else. Isn’t that what ought to be the focus? Or so I’ve been told.

It still pains me to see the US and increasing the right outside the US treating global warming like the mainstream left treats the consequences of immigration.

It doesn’t pain me one bit, because there’s no analogy there whatsoever.

The former is the use of an excuse – it’s Global Boiling now, BTW, per the UN – based on no working mathematical model of the extremely complex climate of the whole world to implement Totalitarian control of economies around the world. The latter is something happening right in front of everyone’s eyes. That there’s the Kalergi plan or any other besides just lots of Globalist wanting to destroy White societies is up for debate. It’s very obviously been happening and been accelerated.

Don’t be a sucker for the Climate Calamityâ„¢. I would never have expected that out of Altai3/4/5.

The implications are unfortunate ideologically therefore they must not exist.

No, there is no working mathematical model, almost all predictions of specific climate changes have been wrong, and decent, non-greedy, non-publicity-hound Climatologists will admit the whole this is another PanicFest scam. It’s not the implications that are ideological, it’s the continuous support of this bogus “science” that is.

(Sound familiar? Yeah, I actually thought that they were done with this one about a year into the Kung Flu Panic. Nope, they picked it back up for some additional seasons. Greta has found new work, though…)

If you have time, Altai, watch Climate: The Movie. There’s lots of detailed commentary on Peak Stupidity.

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New idea for a weapon. Inspired by morons with drones that have struck fire department aircraft.

Small drones with an ounce of lead in the belly.

Scattered around enemy airfields. They quietly land in and around grass or brush or building roofs near airfield. They activate when jet or rotor aircraft are heard.

They swarm toward the ends of the airfield when planes land or take off. They get sucked into the intake of a jet. Aircraft immobilised.

They would imitate birds that get in the way at airports today.

Something like machines seen in matrix, but much smaller and in the form of quadcoptors.

“…Build back in brick.”

Denver mandated fireproof materials after a bad fire in 1863. However the requirement was dropped around 1960. See here .

Stronger fireproofing building code requirements in Southern California is likely a good idea. But brick itself is problematic in earthquake country.

A very iSteve article on the topic of the dangers of building back with the same materials that caused so much of the problem this time.

According to MIT immigrants don’t have any impact on housing, they live underground or something I don’t know. But one thing they do feel comfortable pointing out is how productivity and innovation in home building has inexplicably disappeared from the US. At no point, however, do they note cheap low skilled immigrants working in the construction industry. Cheap low skilled immigrants always retard companies investing in the future and increasing productivity. Tight labor markets produce productivity increases and investment in new technologies. Tight immigration is actually good for the kind of high tech and high productivity economy they pretend they want. Their true instinct is to create something more like Dubai or Mumbai even if they themselves would shudder at living in Mumbai and love places like Copenhagen or Tokyo. The scorpion can’t help stinging the frog.

Immigration is a kind of omnipresent social pollution much more important than the current air pollution from the fires.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/31/1106408/the-surprising-barrier-that-keeps-the-us-from-building-all-the-housing-we-need

Part of the problem, Saiz says, is that “if you go to any construction site, you’ll see the same methods used 30 years ago.�

The productivity woes are evident across the construction industry, not just in the housing sector. From clean-energy advocates dreaming of renewables and an expanded power grid to tech companies racing to add data centers, everyone seems to agree: We need to build more and do it quickly. The practical reality, though, is that it costs more, and takes more time, to construct anything.

For decades, companies across the industry have largely ignored ways they could improve the efficiency of their operations. They have shunned data science and the kinds of automation that have transformed the other sectors of the economy. According to an estimation by the McKinsey Global Institute, construction, one of the largest parts of the global economy, is the least digitized major sector worldwide—and it isn’t even close.

Teaching the native US workforce to build better and faster would be hard enough, teaching Miguel to do it is not just impossible but defeats the whole reason Miguel got employed in the first place. He is there so they don’t have to be more productive, if Miguel works slow and badly who cares, we don’t pay him much. So they’ll build those homes back of more or less the same materials, maybe even less fire resistant assuredly of lesser build quality regardless. And they’ll keep building badly planned sprawl to house an endlessly rapidly growing population from immigration because it’s not a Ponzi scheme, we need Miguel to build the homes!

Despite the risk of wildfire it seems a lot of people who give birth to daughters who talk about “Kids in cages!” pay a premium to enjoy the internal borders of the hills and valleys of LA.

“…but these guys had complained about women on the crews …”

I expect the main problem with women is that they aren’t able to meet the physical requirements of the job. IIRC there were claims that in the 1994 South Canyon Fire in which 14 firefighters died that one of the contributing factors was that one (or more) of the women couldn’t keep up as they were trying to outrun the fire and that some of the others held back rather than abandon them. (IIRC there were also claims that the order to drop all their equipment was late). But this wasn’t really a factor in the Thirtymile Fire where the problem was bad decision making mostly by the men in charge rather lack of physical strength.

“…I don’t know who made the decision to stay on the rock scree (the small rocks that line the hillside), perhaps only a bad move in hindsight, …”

As I understand it the odds are better the lower down you can get so the road was a better choice. There was speculation that they intended to move off the scree to the road before the fire passed over them but that the fire came on faster than they expected. Two of the survivors did abandon the scree at the last minute but they were badly burned.

Steve’s just happy that, given the subscription numbers, his annual income approaches $800,000 now. That’s why the noticing here at Dollar Store Steve ranges from the banal to the jejune.

We who live in L.A.’s flatlands used to congratulate ourselves that we weren’t exposed to brushfires & mudslides like the rich people on high.

This phenomenon may be rare, but I noticed it in Grand Forks, too, doing flood relief in 1997. It was the well-off who lived close to the Red River, apparently assuming the banks were high enough. Which they were, about 99 years a century. Their neighborhood

The humbler working class– there is no real ghetto there– lived farther west. Their lawns may have been watered a bit if close enough to town. I don’t think basements are common there.). Here’s an income map:

https://bestneighborhood.org/household-income-grand-forks-nd/

The ward south of downtown along the river got the brunt of the damage. It may not be quite the richest in town– today!– but the crime map shows it to be the safest in the city.

So the rule-of-thumb that the poorest of the poor live in the flood-prone zones is almost always true.

Steve, gentlemen homeowners in LA, you might want to go purchase a few hundred gallons of blue paint…

How does any white male fireman risk his life for the sake of people who hate him?

Because professional first responders don’t stop to ask “Do you like me?” before doing their jobs. Like that FEMA gal in North Carolina did.

Act white for a change.

(Damn. There goes my resolution to stop feeding the trolls. Especially the emotional, girly ones.)

I think that one is a parody. Some of the action scenes appear to come from the Fox/ABC show “9-1-1”.

Not that reality is much better.

🚨 The LA Water Chief who is paid $750,000 a year: “What attracted me most to the role was social equity. It’s important for me that everything we do is with an equity lens and social justice and writing the wrongs that we’ve done in the past.� pic.twitter.com/FmlLFsHuba

— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) January 11, 2025

How does any white male fireman risk his life for the sake of people who hate him?

Because professional firefighters spend years learning their trade and gathering experience, and they don’t suddenly start asking themselves philosophical and existential questions when there is a fire to fight, otherwise they would lose the respect of their colleagues.

Fires up in those hills are constant.

Every few decades they turn into firestorms.

What is the practicality/feasibility/likelihood of ban-happy California banning wood houses and mandating stone, concrete, cinder block, brick or earth?

Zero. It’s an absolute terrible idea–the worst. Because of earthquakes.

You’ve read about those earthquakes in Turkey or Iran or India or China killing a bunch of people. That’s masonry. It has zero “give” and just fractures and collapses–piling up the corpses.

In contrast American wood frame houses do quite well in earthquakes. They shake around a bit … but they generally do not fracture and collapse. The main danger in older construction is that the house gets shook off its foundation and can then collapse, or burn–or at least just be a big write off. But that has been mitigated in modern West Coast construction codes with a bunch of requirements including bolting down the sill plate, and–most noticeably–by having these long tie down straps cemented into the foundation, that run about 5 feet up the vertical framing and are heavily nailed to it, so the framing stays on the foundation. (Was just discussing this with AnotherDaughter + SonInLaw as our old–now their–house is 70s built and does not have these. So need to be retrofitted as part of residing when they do their addition.)

You’ll note that these fires have wracked up impressive property damage and burned out thousands of homes, but only a handful have died. You hear the fire is coming and just get the hell out. Property damage is replaceable. If you choose to live somewhere where you house has say a 1/50 chance of burning down in any given year … well then expect to pay the insurer 2%+ the cost of you house and belongings every year. If you can afford California taxes you can afford that. If you can’t … move.

In contrast an earthquake can give little warning. LA with masonry houses would eventually give you something like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tangshan_earthquake

To the litany of Flint, MI, Jackson MS, Los Angeles, most of Africa, etc., we can add Richmond,VA as one more tragicomic example of black peoples’ total ineptitude on matters concerning water (or pretty much anything else that doesn’t involve a large, orange ball). Al Campanis tried to warn us!

Little children growing up since indoor plumbing became the standard in the U.S. express astonishment when you tell them that you have to pay for the water that comes out of the faucet. Even though water falls out of the sky and flows in the river, it’s not free when it comes out of the tap in the bathtub.

If the child is bright, you can gradually and in stages explain that the water needs to be collected, treated to be potable, transported through a system of pipe mains and laterals, and constantly tested until it comes out of the faucet in a form that you can drink.

A substantial number of adults never fully learn these lessons. If you have high time preference and the water coming out of the tap today is potable, you tend not to think about what is required to keep it that way in five or ten years. If you have high time preference and someone puts you in charge of an existing institution and infrastructure with a budget in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars built by others, you give yourself a raise, hire your friends and family, and do all manner of things that have nothing to do with providing potable water. Things like maintenance and expansion and chasing leaks and updating treatment facilities don’t get done. Foregone maintenance becomes catastrophic systems failures and multi-million dollar capital projects. Even if you’re not technically corrupt in the legal sense, the potability of the municipal water supply is not long for this world.

Because professional first responders don’t stop to ask “Do you like me?�

“Acting white” does not mean being a who sucker helps his enemies. In WWII, you didn’t stop to help a Japanese soldier when he twisted his ankle.

The people in Hollywood declared themselves anti-white a long time ago. The political class has done all it can to ruin white male lives.

White people are not your Giving Tree. You can’t abuse us forever without consequences.

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they don’t suddenly start asking themselves philosophical and existential questions

True. They’ve been asking those questions a long time not just suddenly. White men are coming to the correct conclusion. Let somebody else be captain save-a-ho. We aren’t your cuck anymore.

How can a White man fireman risk his life for people who hate him?

For a 300 K year job? For working only 2 or 3 days a week? Said working being a paramedic, cleaning up the firehouse having plenty of time and a big budget for cooking delicious hearty meals, working out playing with the coyotes, because of the 2 or 3 day work week being able to live hundreds of miles away from nasty LA?

Whatever the base pay is; over time , special extra pay for some paramedic or firefighter certification it’s a great job. Until it isn’t.

The county and cities might even have to take next months overtime pay from the illegal invaders welfare budget.

Affirmative action in action. Did you see the obese lesbian fire chief? About 70 pounds over the weight limit. I doubt she can even see her toes let alone bend down knees straight to touch her toes.

Steve I hope you and family are being very careful. SF Valley is semi desert. Please have your car packed and be ready to leave in an instant.

Just had a slight earthquake in the Bay Area. Nothing was broken in this house.

Availible on their two week archive.
https://wdcb.org/archive

Those earthquake straps what a nightmare to install on an existing building

And right on time after just a slight earthquake here near San Francisco massive waves already completely covered the beach close to the beach parking lot And it’s low tide.

My Kristen story:

Years ago I was innocently attending a Rangers game (in the old Arlington Stadium) when this Braaaaaaaap occurs behind me. Eight rows went silent while that fart reverberated off the seats. Then a woman’s voice “Kristin, how rude!” And a little girl’s voice answers ” I I I’m sorry mommy, I couldn’t heeeeeeelp it!” Silence for about three seconds, then “well you just have to learn to do it silently”……
Because we all know women, incuding Kristins, don’t fart.

OT — And I looked online, and anonymous schizophrenic racists were discussing Jagmeet Dal Vancetariquashpushpari’s admonition that Pete Hegseth be confirmed, and behold, I was surprised to be so gripped by an unexpected spirit of hope for the future:

I read the comments on it the other day, like 80% of them were saying
>get your h1b jeets to fight it
>I’m not gonna die for Israel
So basically the overton window has shifted so far even twatter civnat normies are telling them no more wars for Israel and total jeet death.
Actually kinda White pilling

OT — For balance, we do desperately need Pete Hegseth.

You’ll note that these fires have wracked up impressive property damage and burned out thousands of homes, but only a handful have died. You hear the fire is coming and just get the hell out. Property damage is replaceable. If you choose to live somewhere where you house has say a 1/50 chance of burning down in any given year … well then expect to pay the insurer 2%+ the cost of you house and belongings every year. If you can afford California taxes you can afford that. If you can’t … move.

It occurred to me that Sailer’s axiom about property values is at work here – the high cost of California homes has more to do with the high cost of desirable real property in proximity to the Pacific than the costs of what is built upon it – i.e., a Pacific ocean facing bungalow in Malibu costs several millions of dollars not because the bungalow is nice in and of itself but because of its location and proximity to the Pacific ocean and the view it provides. So that $6,000,000 home might only cost $400,000 in sticks and bricks to replace. The land didn’t go anywhere because of the fire (mudslides are a different story). My guess is that in spite of the illegal population costs of construction in LA County are probably very high though, meaning that you could build something in Ohio for $150,000 that would cost substantially more in LA for the same plans, ceteris paribus.

Any relief for those who lost homes and were uninsured or underinsured from the U.S. Treasury should come with some healthy strings from Uncle Sam requiring waivers of the kinds of bureaucratic red tape that increases the costs of construction as well as new State regulations preempting all others regarding the employment of preventative wildfire practices and procedures. California has shown itself unable to be trusted with the authority to govern in this area and to the extent that all of America is called upon to fix the mismanagement from the Federal Treasury there must be safeguards in place to make sure that it is a one shot deal.

I think that discovering who started this fire is going to be something.

You can rule out any group or organization in which Billy Joel is a member.

California has shown itself unable to be trusted with the authority to govern in this area and to the extent that all of America is called upon to fix the mismanagement from the Federal Treasury there must be safeguards in place to make sure that it is a one shot deal.

Or how about we just say Californians go eff themselves. The rest of the country has been paying a steep price for stupid blue state politics for decades.

A freak hurricane damaged my roof several years ago, and nobody in other states cared. My roof was replaced through insurance, which is what I pay premiums for.

“Act white for a change.”

Yes, whites are not likely to all quit their jobs and go on welfare, commit crimes, and do drugs like the inner city black underclass. They are going to keep working. There may be a point in the future where productive whites decide to “go Galt” but we have not reached that point.

There has been a recent swing away from going along with leftist attempts at censorship as seen with Elon Musk’s X, Facebook, LA Times, Washington Post and so on. There has also been a rise of rightwing populist leaders like Trump, Poilievre, Wilders, LePen, Farage, Meloni and Weidel in white countries.

The left will attempt to smear these rightwing populist leaders as the next Hitler. German AfD leader Alice Weidel pointed out in her recent talk with Elon Musk that Hitler was a leftwing socialist. He was a national socialist rather than an international socialist like Stalin but he was still a socialist. You can combine a belief in small government with a belief in restricting immigration, as Weidel’s party does or as Coolidge did here in America in the nineteen twenties.

Conifer plantations will burn as will heathland. You can get moorland to burn in favourable weather. Happily nobody lives in conifer plantations and damned few on heaths or moors.

Correct, because heaths and moors are usually at higher altitudes above the treeline, where it is colder and subject to higher winds. Roads are more likely to be steep and icy in winter. This makes it harder to have daily access to schools or hospitals, or workplaces.

Moorlands are mostly covered with heather which can burn in dry weather, but fortunately it is close to the ground and the fires can be extinguished.

The worst wildfire in English history was the Saddleworth Moor fire located between Sheffield and Manchester. The fire rapidly spread due to hot, dry conditions, eventually covering over 7 square miles (approximately 18 square kilometers) of moorland and took firefighters weeks to totally extinguish. No doubt part of the difficulty was due to the lack of water pipes in a largely uninhabited area.

People in northern England mostly live in the valley bottoms close to rivers, main roads, and railroad lines, or close to the coastline.

What makes the California hillsides somewhat habitable is the warm climate and proximity to the LA metropolis, , but there remains a danger of landslides in wet weather and wildfires in dry weather, which has not been entirely mastered yet,

Variations in traditional weather patterns may create extreme conditions that make these areas less safe for modern housing developments.

Everyone should remember 45.4% of the land in California is owned by the federal government. The State of California owns another 3% .

Apropos of that, some white men are finally learning that it isn’t in their interest to serve a system that hates them (all the patriotard ‘Murica! blather on FOX News notwithstanding):

Surge of Female Enlistments Helped Drive Army Success in Reaching 2024 Recruiting Goal

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/09/surge-of-female-enlistments-helped-drive-army-success-reaching-2024-recruiting-goal.html

I’m sure that girl-boss military will work out just fine for our imperial overlords, just as the girl-boss led LAFD has proven so competent during the current wildfires.

When the Saxon begins to say “F**k it!”

Colorado should have kept that requirement. The state is a tinderbox, even in winter. The Marshall fire sprang out of nowhere and burned nearly a thousand structures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Fire

I had to check another source too, only because the comment “he got himself in the wrong place� is just so hard to believe or imagine.

It’s simply incredible. They don’t even bother to lie anymore along the lines of “Women work twice as hard”, “can do anything a man does”, etc., etc. It’s just this, in your face, ‘We couldn’t care less about you’ attitude.

Thank you for writing firemen…
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It still pains me to see the US and increasing the right outside the US treating global warming like the mainstream left treats the consequences of immigration.

Perhaps it’s because the whole “Climate Change” / “Climate Emergency” / “Climate Crisis” narrative is a load of hooey.

People who operate runways are good dealing with FOD. If you’re going to go through the trouble you might as well do explosive charges and destroy the planes and related infrastructure. If I was China I would have sleeper agents placed around critical facilities. Give them a bunch of short range drones with GPS, terrain following computer vision and a target list. Once hostilities are about to kick off have you agent charge his drones, put them in the back yard and set them to launch in 3 hours as he heads out the door to his flight back to China.

(Of course this is all war-nerding. China is just going to stop shipment of basic necessities and we’ll have to fold.)

The Peshtigo fire was a large forest fire on October 8, 1871…

That date sounds familar… why it’s the Great Chicago Fire!

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It does raise questions on fire insurance going forward since now we know there are scenarios where even Brentwood can burn but it seems they managed to stop it there. I am a little bit concerned with the besieged Bass and Newsom talking about getting rid of red tape in the rebuild, they could have said other things to imply a commitment to a fast rebuild. Are we going to see them build back to make these places just as if not more vulnerable and flammable? Bad planning and building codes got LA here. Build back in brick.

After making a huge donation to the state democratic party, and cutting the mayor and her personal cronies in on the deal, Blackrock will buy the land for zimbabwean pennies on the dollar, and will be given immediate go-ahead to build high-density urban housing. This project will be a self-contained village with shopping, restaurants, etc. contained within a gated area in which non-electric automobiles and appliances are banned (gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers will still be allowed though -can’t expect the Mexicans to shell out a grand for a tiny Stihl electric mower that’ll die halfway through one lawn). The residents will be primarily wealthy Chinese, but the 10,000 unit project will include 4 Rubbermaid Sheds designated as Low Income Housing, allowing Mayor B-Ass to take credit for solving the homeless problem in LA. There is nothing to worry about as far as building quality – the development will be built using the finest materials from Home Depot, with the work force hired from the Honduran master masons whose Guild Hall is in the northeast corner of the parking lot at the Home Depot in the massive Playa Vista Development (formerly the Balllona Creek Wetlands).

That farking worthless spiccc twatwaffle has lighter skin than I do.

Voting these non-White vermin into power has consequences. Mayor Ass put her in there. Stop doing it, YT.

Bigger problem with die versity. blacks especially. Absolute lazy morons

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Steve’s just happy that, given the subscription numbers, his annual income approaches $800,000 now. That’s why the noticing here at Dollar Store Steve ranges from the banal to the jejune.

Steve looks to be doing very, very well with 6000 subscribers. At $100/year my math comes up with more like 600K, and then substack is raking off 10-15% of that in commission and various fees. So I’d think more like half a million plus in income. But it would seem that Steve’s hit the jackpot there and is doing well–which he deserves.

Yep. My township has had an influx of subcons the last few years, due mostly to an excellent STEM academy in our school district. Our rural township has a fire department staffed purely by volunteers. You know what I’ve never, ever seen? An Indian or Pakistani volunteer fireman.

Steve looks to be doing very, very well with 6000 subscribers. At $100/year my math comes up with more like 600K

Are all of those paying subscribers? If so, enjoy.

Nancy Pelosi-level clairvoyance

The udder destructive inanity of the California Democrats — so culty that even the DC establishment neoliberal race/gender/climate cult don’t want to be seen with them — can now be laid bare for all to enjoy.

China is just going to stop shipment of basic necessities and we’ll have to fold.

China has vulnerabilities, too. It can neither fuel nor feed itself. It even has to import fertilizer. Should hostilities break out, all these will be cut off. It has been a dick to its neighbors so no one likes it and will be eager to help take it down. India will seize the chance to kick China in the nuts. Its navy alone would be sufficient to block middle east oil from reaching China. Japan has the second largest blue water navy after the US. It can cut off imports to China without getting in range of any of China’s missiles or drones. Countries in the region may well take the war as an excuse to carry out pogroms against their resented populations of overseas Chinese. North Korea is a dependency of China. South Korea will see a crippled China as a way to crash North Korea, so they will join in the gang-up on China. Vietnam has serious issues with China and will seize the opportunity to mess with it. Then there’s Taiwan.
And then there is the whole question of just how capable the Chinese military is. Remember how formidable the Russian military was deemed to be before the Ukraine war. Even people on this website were asserting how much better than western, especially American, militaries it was.
Wrong.
And the successes it’s had in the Ukraine war are because the west puts restrictions on how Ukraine can use its western-supplied weapons, thus allowing the Russians sanctuaries from which to launch glide bombs, missiles and air strikes. There will be no sanctuaries allowed to the Chinese in an existential war.
The Chinese armed forces are riddle with corruption. Those who join the military are considered the dregs of society. Old Chinese proverb: one does not use the best metal to make nails or the best men to make soldiers.
Then consider that these soldiers, however good or bad Chinese society may consider them, are the only children, the only sons of a society that highly values sons, of their families. How willing will their parents be to see them sacrificed in a war against their trading partners, a war that will gain China nothing. Even in total victory it will have lost because it will no longer have any trading partners, no export markets for the goods it produces that its shrinking and very rapidly aging population can’t consume. Without export markets it won’t be able to earn the revenue needed to buy the food and fuel it has to have, should anyone be willing to provide them in the wake of a devastating war, so it will face economic collapse and famine.
We know this and China knows we know and that the rest of the world knows, too. It’s already scaring away investment and countries are looking to source their imports elsewhere other than China due to its pointless belligerency.
If Chinese leadership had any sense at all, they would stop being assholes like they are to the Philippines and Vietnam, to name two, drop their claims on Taiwan, end support for North Korea, and just be a good neighbor and friend to all. There is nothing stopping them from doing this but their own leadership.

But the convent, school, and chapel on the holy land consecrated to the Virgin Mary shone like an emerald isle in a sea of ashes.

Doesn’t work for LA. We’re not talking about rural Wisconsin here, we’re talking about Hollyweird.

God may be merciful, but he’s got to draw the line somewhere.

It’s not a coincidence, but that’s obvious and not evidence of a conspiracy. The reason insurance was cancelled in those particular areas is because insurance companies (who employ a lot of smart people whose job is to suss out probabilities of things) thought that the fire risk in those areas was increasingly high thanks to climate trends and land use/management. CA’s laws wouldn’t let them raise their rates high enough to make the risk worth it…so no fire coverage.

Turns out the insurance companies were right.

The same 8 Ukrainian generals grown wealthy through their connections with American/NATO elements and the Israeli mafia no doubt have similar palatial pads in Northern Virginia. War is a racket.

Don’t forget the agricultural tycoons that own or control 80% of SoCal’s water supply.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2021/09/20/amid-drought-billionaires-control-a-critical-california-water-bank/

I’m of mixed views on this. Yeah they’re “hogging” the water and the arrangement is “controversial”, by which the writer means they wish the arrangement didn’t exist. But when the arrangement was made, the state’s population was at a sane level and there was enough water to go around.

If I’m one of the growers, I’d have zero interest in diverting water to LA. My view would be: I’m not the one that decided on unrelenting immivasion and jamming 40mm people into a state that should have 10mm or so. If add’l water is diverted to LA, it would just result in even more foreigners flooding in.

BTW, kudos to my fellow iSteve commenters here.

Lots and lots of interesting comments here, both around the fires and more important issues of the day that issues around the fires/preparation/response touch upon. You’ve prompted about ten comments I’d like to make and won’t get to them all.

It’s cool here in Florida today. (For NE or miswesterners that means it’s sunny and 60 with a 10 mph north breeze. I did my walk an hour back north on the road and strictly south bound on the beach to keep the breeze at my back.) And AnotherMom is off looking after her mother, so can’t partake of the obvious. But huddling up with a cup of hot tea and enjoying the musings of iSteve smart commenters ain’t a bad way to spend the afternoon.

Remember, there is a “commenters to ignore” button. Mr. Unz should be given a medal for that innovation.

“At present” one can subscribe for free – see the link I provided. This is during Mr. Sailer’s “soft opening”. He’s a marketing guy, so he’s probably having fun playing around with these parameters, how many posts are paywalled and what rate his posts come out, while seeing which ones draw the most comments, at what rate people are signing up, for both free and paid accounts, etc.

We have no way of knowing what percentage of subscribers are paying customers, so Mr Sailer may still need to visit the 5 & 10 store occasionally himself. That’s 5 & 10 DOLLARS now… inflation, you know …

This place isn’t the 5 & 10, though – it’s Good Will. Anyway, I hope he’s doing great with his finances now.

I confess that I always thought this sort of civilizational collapse would occur first in South American or African countries, but I didn’t count on the extreme incompetence of black women, lesbian women and latina women.

Compounding the problem with DEI, these useless waste-of-space people were passed along in school and elsewhere, because the “optics” were right, until they finally ended up in positions of real responsibility.

OTOH, Mr. Badwhite, it’s the same big ag owners that have pushed for all the cheap labor imports for half a century, explaining why so many people are in LA and all over.. You can’t keep ’em all down on the farm.

I hope

a) he does well
b) the IRS and state tax people keep off his back. But I guess he’s survived from donations all these years without putting his foot in it/being grilled, though the USG still has six ways to Sunday if someone annoys them. Look at VDare.

” China is just going to stop shipment of basic necessities and we’ll have to fold.”

Someone elsewhere was pointing out how a mooted UK/Latvia project was going to make 30,000 drones for Ukraine.

“Sadly, all of which will be made from Far Eastern components”.

Cubans don’t like blacks but they don’t really like “Anglos� either.

The other day I was at Five Below and the surly Cuban cashier waved me over.

“Hold on,� I said. “I want to grab a bottle of water.� (The coolers are near the cash registers.)

“Next!� she shouted.

I went over to the cooler and grabbed a bottle of water.

She had already started helping the next customer. I waited.

When she finished, I moved over to start taking my purchases out of my cart, but she ignored me completely.

“Next!� she shouted, motioning for the next customer to come over.

“I’m next,� I protested.

She continued to ignore me as the other customer walked over.

“Excuse me,� I said, “but I’m next.�

The bitch continued to ignore me.

I saw another employee and shouted, “I’m next in line but this woman is refusing to ring me up.�

The employee asked the clerk something in Spanish. The clerk replied in Spanish.

“She says she tried to ring you up but you left the area.�

“I didn’t leave the area. I just grabbed a bottle of water.�

The manager and the clerk exchanged a few more words in Spanish. Then the clerk sighed heavily and grudgingly allowed me to pay for my purchases. She refused to make eye contact, though, and did not acknowledge my “Gracias.�

If you don’t speak Spanish, you are a third-class citizen in Miami-Dade County.

That means having more reservoirs–full and operating–than you think you need.

That means over-riding environmental regulations and building dozens of desalination plants up and down the coast–and yeah they need backup generators as well.

Yes, this is what needs to happen.

The second and third order effects of the fires will be interesting to see play out. The areas that burned, and the adjacent more fortunate neighborhoods that have not burned, are extremely active in Democrat politics and are a rich source of campaign contributions. These fortunate areas are now living the– there but for the grace of God go I– realization and the resulting awareness is going to drive policy changes, particularly over water policy.

There’s going to be less religiosity amongst the donor class, which typically expresses as unending calls for environmental conservation, and a pivot towards reality based, increasing water supply, which means desal plants up and down the coast. Energy is cheap and getting cheaper, the state land is there, the reservoirs can be built in the mountain canyons, and then release water into established aqueducts that lead to the cities, generating hydro power as a byproduct. The small, but very vocal and very powerful environmental movement is going to be bulldozed by the same self-interested people that once funded them.

OTOH, Mr. Badwhite, it’s the same big ag owners that have pushed for all the cheap labor imports for half a century,

Great point AEN, growers are some of the worst about cheap labor.

But…immigration is an environmental disaster. I’d rather almonds and pistachios get the water than Mexicans and Subcons.

No romance in it any more.

Took a look at “normie” media just now. Apparently the real story is: heroic black firefighters battling the blazes while whites are busy looting. See youtube recommended videos if you don’t believe me! Oh, and there’s this, of course:

Speaking of heroes!!

“Have you been a smoke jumper? Have you ever fought a wild fire?”

Special pleading disqualification. Just stay double anonymous.

Hi Chris,

I live in the Kansai area and not in the inaka. I can assure you the lies are not internalized here. I have been living here for more than 25 years.

The one thing Japan is doing, out of economic necessity, is bringing in workers from Nepal, Vietnam, etc. in order to survive economically. The population Bell Curve is against Japan. There is a part of me that is against this policy.

If you have been to Family Mart, Lawson, etc. you have probably experienced this. Also my work is related to industry here so I visit alot of manufacturing facilities. As has been the case for quite some time now there are alot of folks working in manufacturing.

I do not think Japan, nor the people here, would tolerate the level if idiocracy in L.A. and nearly 100% of the people would have the same reaction as my in laws.

All the best!
Dave

Very perceptive comment. When marriage and family is serially delayed, as you put it, not only does the natural decline of fertility take its toll, women find it harder to find acceptable partners at all-and girls aren’t warned about that. On the contrary, TV, movies, books, and celebrity examples all tell them that they’ll be just as hot and desirable at 35 or 40 as they are at 20 or 22. Some years ago now, a mother of an Ivy League daughter published an open letter or blog post warning her daughter that she’d never get a better chance to find a husband than she would while attending college. Naturally there was widespread indignation-how very old fashioned and anti-feminist! Yet it’s true.

A few of the factors include a shrinking pool of acceptable unmarried/unpartnered males (while men may marry considerably younger women, women generally stick with their own age or older), fewer opportunities to meet partners aside from dating apps that favor the young and hot, declining looks, and (sometimes) a resume/salary that can intimidate or put off potential partners. The latter point is likely getting worse as fewer men and more women get advanced degrees. Finally, the seriously bright aren’t likely to be satisfied with a dull partner, and since there just aren’t that many people on the right hand tail of the bell curve to begin with, they have a harder time than most finding a suitable partner.

In WWII, you didn’t stop to help a Japanese soldier when he twisted his ankle.

You speak from experience?

It’s not enough to lecture us on moral philosophy, you now qualify to move on to hors de combat?

Huh? I just watched a press conference with her… Sure seems to still be working

Or belch or sweat. As the joke goes, if they didn’t bitch, they’d explode.

Are James Woods and Mel Gibson anti-white?
And yes, providing medical services to an enemy, even a dying enemy, is a thing, and there are attestations of it all over the place.

LOL! Here’s Dwight of The Office‘s version (start at 2:30, unless you like the humor):

” it’s the same big ag owners that have pushed for all the cheap labor imports for half a century, explaining why so many people are in LA and all over.. You can’t keep ’em all down on the farm.”

Circa 1989 I was a young semi-homeless broke jerk, down and out in LA. During the day I slept under a tree on the UCLA campus, pretending to be a student (had a decoy textbook/pillow and a UC library card and everything). At night I worked the night shift as a medical transcriber in a big workmen’s comp clinic/insurance-scam mill in an office building in downtown LA (which was a scary desert at night back then).

Every single one of our “injured” clients was an illegal Latino, and they were all construction workers, day laborers, auto repair guys… not a farm worker among them. All recent arrivals, not farm transfers (I knew their histories). I took the bus to work (no car) straight down Wilshire Blvd at midnight every night, and I was always the only white guy on the bus: everyone but me was an exhausted napping Mexican in construction clothes, returning back to the squat in Boyle Heights and East LA for the night. I remember looking at the non-stop lines at each stop for the packed buses and thinking, That’s it, this country is toast. And it wasn’t even the 90s yet.

I live near Ilkley Moor. It has been covered by snow for a week and will be water-sodden well into spring when there are annual controlled burns.

How much value is that in Vermont??? Urban and rural firefighting is not the same.

She also said this:

‘You want to see someone that responds to your house, to your emergency – whether it’s a medical call or a fire call – that looks like you.’

The number of lesbian negroes (or anyone really) who have ever turned away the fire trucks responding to their house on fire? Hmm let me do the math, BRB.

Isn’t having a large metro area in the semi desert kind of insane in the first place though?

Never forget Mayor Beetlejuice of Chicago, after announcing that she would no longer take questions from white reporters: “I have the biggest d*ck in Chicago!”

The number of Chicago democrats who took exception to her language? Hmm, let me do the math…

Black English is everywhere these days. To think I once expected it to die away like most American regional dialects!

I guess some regard it as more properly a West African dialect using English loan words; which sounds not unreasonable to me. If I knew anything about West African languages I’d be better able to judge that claim.

The people responsible for the porn will not repent. They worship devils.

As I’ve learned…. So why are Americans so shocked then?

I don’t get why this has gotten political.

Because politics is how a polity chooses a government.

“Zero. It’s an absolute terrible idea–the worst. Because of earthquakes.”

The idea of requiring more fire resistance is fine. You just have to be careful to keep earthquake resistance as well. So brick is out but steel reinforced concrete works.

So you count on whites to be eternal cucks that will die for you? Wow, that’s a big bet!

They don’t have to go Galt. They just start noticing things and acting accordingly. You may be surprised to learn Whites can low-key change their behavior in a way that could never be proven.

The shaming technique here is to say Whites must “act white” to those who are at war with them. That’s dumb. It is a cheap attempt to cuck Whites. It’s also an appeal to faux sophistication. I mean, you wouldn’t want to be like one of those race advocates, would ya? How declasse’!.

Whites can actually be, rather assertive, even aggressive. See all of history.

Steve experiencing the end result of Citizenism, unfortunately

‘…I’m just waiting for the Chair of the Joint Chiefs to say something like “we gonna smack dat Putin bitch upside him haid into da middle a next week.â€�…’

Just be patient. It’ll come.

I was noticing all the foul language from news commentators the other day. I mean ‘fucking’ makes it into my own oral vocabulary every fifteen minutes or so — but this was new. Television news commentary?

It’s a substitute for reasoned discourse. You say ‘fucking,’ and you don’t need to prove your case logically. You just did prove it. You said ‘fucking.’

the ultra left hardcore lifetime Democrat voters in LA who are getting exactly what they voted for over the last 50 years are not going to change their minds about anything. please be realistic.

some of them might never return though, and instead will just move to your state and continue voting Democrat. indeed, Canada, not California, could soon become the primary source of people bailing out for greener pastures then continuing to vote left.

one of the key features of leftists is that they do not learn much and almost never change their minds about anything. the leaders are idealogue true believers and the foot soldiers and rabble are pawns and rubes permanently converted to the cause by decades of propaganda.

in this manner, actual Communists like the Soviets and PRC people were much more respectable since they were vastly more competent than Gay Race Communists. Gay Race Communists like the people in charge California and Canada are an entirely artificial and historically temporary class of useless idiots who depend entirely on the nearly disenfranchised, competent pale penis person infrastructure providers to continuously keep things running, while trying to eliminate that same group. it can’t last for long. infrastructural inertia built up over the last 100 years is running out of steam.

Oh, Nicholas! And you’ve spoken so nicely to me before! Here and on your blog.
I must have struck a nerve with you, somehow got under your skin.
Curious subject for that to happen. I can’t imagine a New Yorker would be interested enough in western wildfires to be upset about any aspect of it.
Oh.
Women. That’s it. Not fighting wildfires.
You don’t like women being smoke jumpers because that’s something you could never do in this or any other lifetime.
Too bad that women have been smoke jumpers for half a century. Helitack (helicopter initial attack) rappelers, too. Could you rappel from a hovering helicopter with all your gear, including chain saw and Pulaski and start cutting trees and digging fire lines feeling the heat of that inferno on you?
Did you know that the CIA hires smoke jumpers to be kickers delivering supplies to remote areas all over the world to guerillas fighting secret wars? The CIA doesn’t care if the jumpers are men or women. But it seems you and some others here do.
I wonder if you could do even the most basic physical stamina training a smokejumper has to be able to do, like carry 115-lb pack 3.5 miles through off-trail terrain, uphill and down. Women smoke jumpers can. How many jumps have you made into D.B. Cooper land — and not only survived but went right to work. Hard work. Women do that.
Well, you’re a stranger to me now.
Should I ever bump into you on the street, I’ll look right at you and say, “That’s funny, I thought I bumped into someone.
But there’s nobody here.”

‘Steve I hope you and family are being very careful. SF Valley is semi desert. Please have your car packed and be ready to leave in an instant.’

Hopefully he’s on flat ground with the rest of the hoi-polloi. It’s those canyons and hills that are hell.

Witness the Oakland Hills fire.

It would be great to rebuild rapidly, but … do we know yet what should be done to add more decades before the next big fire burns down the replacement houses? Should, say, rebuilding be banned on the street closest to the brush and replaced with a grassy park? This could take awhile to figure out.

C’mon Steve, this is not a hard one. Just say the words “Ring of Golf”.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-movie-review-of-the-bob-dylan-biopic/#comment-6939868

Embrace the future.

Everywhere between the hills–chapparal or scrub–and homes in the flats is a cleared and well watered buffer of at least 200 yards. Cross-sectionally the buffer contains the width of two golf holes–one running along the buffer each way–a jogging trail and a paved fire access road, which serves as a two-way biking trail. At various street end locations it may balloon out and contain a full on park, with playgrounds, athletic fields, or whatever else people desire. When built out it will end up being several hundred miles of additional hiking and biking and golfing looping around and through the entire metro area. A huge recreational benny for the entire community.

And every five miles or so you’ll have a nearby fire station which serves both the town and can quickly run down the fire road to swat down fires (and do clearing and prescribed burns in season).

Golfers will be able to pull up to the end of any buffer ending street, get out and play how many ever hole clockwise or counter-clockwise that they like and when desired, turn and do a similar number back to their car. Awesome!

And, while I’m not a fan of either all this phony make-work employment for women, nor especially this ridiculous nonsense of giving women men’s jobs like fireman, with this system we can finally give these “firegirls” something to do. Each “firegirl”** with be given a fully stocked department pickup and will patrol along the buffer. And–the best part–any golfer with the LAFD app, will be able to summon a firegirl to directly his location when he detects a red hot burning …. thirst for a cold one! So she can put it out.

**Note, for this job, it will be best to fire these useless, destructive chunky lesbians and hire more akin to Hooter’s waitress standards. (With say a mandatory retirement age of 27 or so–with the expectation they’ll lasso a passing golfer by then.) But I look upon this is as not a bug, but a feature.

MLAGA–Make LA great again. You know you want to.

Actuaries, i.e. insurance mathematicians, have been forecasting these more intense fires for years— related to climate change.

Wildfire Risk in the United States

In recent years, wildfires have produced severe and significant damage across the United States. These fires—caused by lightning, human activity, downed power lines, or planned fire projects that become uncontrolled—can have significant and lasting impacts on the surrounding population, wildlife, and landscape. According to a 2019 study, 4.5 million U.S. homes were identified at high or extreme risk of wildfire, with more than 2 million in California alone.1

https://www.actuary.org/node/13906

Insurers are not non-profit enterprises, that’s why some in CA pulled coverage after the losses got heavier

Wildfires have upended the insurance industry, in part because climate change is fueling bigger and more destructive blazes.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/insurers-race-to-study-wildfires-as-losses-mount/

With the ever-increasing implications of climate change and urban development in fire prone areas, firms must ensure that techniques are developed to handle this increasing risk.

https://www.wtwco.com/en-gb/insights/2022/10/2022-wildfire-risks-report

Canada’s insurance industry is tackling a record number of claims following a series of natural catastrophes this summer.

https://www.theactuary.com/2024/09/11/insurers-face-record-claims-following-canadas-catastrophic-summer

Some people are quick to blame “DEI”, “immigrants”, “non-whites”, but Sailer commenters are evidently so innumerate that no one knows what the fk actuarial science is.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/are-law-schools-above-the-law/#comment-6921877

An architect describes a fire-resistant building in Los Angeles—his first attempt burnt down in the Woolsey fire in 2018.

In the spring of 2023, I exhibited the project again, this time as Horizon House 2, at the Venice Biennale.

But I had made some tweaks. The new version featured fewer eaves and no attics (which are known for trapping embers) as well as unventilated spray-foam-insulated roofs and concrete retaining walls.

A fire-suppression system included sprinklers placed on the roof and within the landscape that could draw water from the pool. (Often, the municipal water supply runs out during prolonged wildfires, and electricity is frequently the first thing to go, so I included a generator enclosed in concrete to power the pumps.)

This one was still standing as of January 11.

https://airmail.news/issues/2025-1-11/the-view-from-here

California is our Alsace-Lorraine

It must be taken back.

Because we all know women, incuding Kristins, don’t fart.

The hotter looking the woman, the worse her bowel movements stink.

The California wildfires are a good working example of how complex systems fail. All of SoCal is built in areas that are …. inhospitable to human presence, requiring the constant management of multiple systems. One system fails, you can compensate; two systems fail, water management and fire management in this case, and disaster ensues.

Get used to seeing this, the entire USA is a complex system about to fail on multiple levels.

Insurers are not non-profit enterprises, that’s why some in CA pulled coverage after the losses got heavier

They pulled out as losses got heavier, part of which was due to the state limiting their ability to raise premiums.

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california-solving-homeowners-insurance-crisis/103-93220208-5403-44c6-9135-1276ecd74fb7

The graph you showed indicates that fires increased in size and intensity as California faced increased drought conditions. It’s also correlated in time with any number of other indicators: the number of people claiming to be trans, the use of “pronouns”, the use of land attribution statements, the incidence of human excrement on sidewalks, the rise of the BLM movement, the flying of rainbow flags, etc., etc. – i.e. the creeping social insanity in California and the insceasing incompetence of state and local governments to perform the most basic public functions – like fighting fires.

Some people are quick to blame “DEI�, “immigrants�, “non-whites�, but Sailer commenters are evidently so innumerate that no one knows what the fk actuarial science is.

Based on the following, I expect “actuarial science” is becoming as corrupted, compromised, and politically correct as is any other science – like “climate science”:

https://actuarialfoundation.org/get-to-know-us/our-commitment-to-diversity-inclusion/

https://www.actuary.org/DEI

https://www.casact.org/about/diversity-equity-inclusion

https://www.soa.org/programs/diversity-inclusion/

Target, Anheiser Busch, Disney, Tractor Supply (for God’s sake) are all for-profit enterprises engaged in the serious business of making money. And yet they all managed to destroy a lot of their revenue and stock value with fashionably woke posturing. I don’t expect that actuaries or insurers are any different.

Climate Change is bulls**t. It’s just a mystery cult at this point. It explains why summers are hot and why winters are cold and why my bunion aches. It explains everything………………..and therefore nothing.

The very fact that there is not a single story in the news about how, if it were real, it might make anything better, indicates it’s a load of hogwash. It’s propaganda, not science.

Some people are quick to blame “DEI�, “immigrants�, “non-whites�, but Sailer commenters are evidently so innumerate that no one knows what the fk actuarial science is.

In your snark at us white guys, you’re demonstrating your own lack of understanding.

First of all there’s the obvious question of “response” and “preparedness” of LA/California for these fires. That’s what a bunch of these comments are about. How useful is the lesbian fire chief whose priority is hiring more lesbians? Well for fighting fires … not very.

But even within the question of the increasing actuarial risk of these fires, immigration is an obvious big factor.

The climate anomaly in the last few years is up to about 1 degree Celius. (My go to is guys at University of Alabama Huntsville as they’ve been consistently tracking the satellite data for decades and that’s way more accurate/consistent than random weather stations.) 
https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/

Simple cycles of rain and drought driven by things like el Nino and la Nina are more salient than the total amount of warming we’ve seen. For example these California fires are severe in part because California did get winter rain the past few years which allowed a lot of plant growth, which then dried out this summer/fall. Very local stuff.

But you’re missing the obvious from your own quote:

With the ever-increasing implications of climate change and urban development in fire prone areas, firms must ensure that techniques are developed to handle this increasing risk.

My highlight is much more important than yours. Warming is bringing larger fires. But we’ve had big fires in the American West … forever. What has most changed is not that. What’s changed–what actually causes much higher insurance losses these actuaries are seeing–is that there are many more people and more expensive structures out in and adjacent to fire prone areas.

A big part of that is prosperity. People like to live in the Hollywood Hills, people like to live in the woods. But an even bigger part is that there are just way, way more people in America. And when whole neighborhoods in the city have become Mexican–or Chinese or Indian–then you get more and more whites pushed out, looking to live someplace American and more and more development pushing up against the hills in Southern California. Or you get more and more people running out to exurbs or the country in California or Arizona or Oregon or Colorado.

Immigration has a whole heck of a lot to do with pretty much every issue in the US. And just obviously has a whole lot to do with neighborhoods and housing development. Shouting “actuarial science!” and not even bothering to understand the full meaning of the quote you are trotting out? And then calling us innumerate?

A number of members of my family have been smoke jumpers over the years, fighting fires all over the west. None has ever had a problem with women smoke jumpers. A couple have married their female compatriots. Good, strong marriages producing good, strong children.

Firefighting as a dating service! Hadn’t heard that one before.

Of all the justifications for the ludicrous idea of female firemen, hatching good strong healthy white children is the best. Still I think we could come up with some cheaper less damaging options.

RETVRN
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UxnC1WW95XE
Earlier I attempted to relink “A Rescue Service In Need of Rescue,” but I couldn’t find it anywhere, but I especially wanted to link it because of the three person exercise sequence. It’s Swedes complaining about the fire department going woke. In the aforementioned sequence they do a clear, basic firefighting training exercise: don heavy equipment, including breathing apparatus, ascend a staircase bathed in smoke, rescue the passed out dude. Three candidates: a college girl, who clearly has no place here. An older guy with white hair, who might be able to pull it off on his best day had he done it from youth. And the control group: a fit, young, military age big guy who clearly goes to the gym.
The point of the whole thing was that all of them failed. It’s really hard to be a fireman.

Oh yeah.. without immigrants beautiful globally sought after Hollywood Hills would be nothing but undeveloped desert..

My in-laws were wildland firefighters together as well in their early 20s. I can confirm that that’s not that unusual in the Mountain West. I agree that in an ideal world, only young, smart, fit and selflessly courageous men would be firefighters but that’s obviously not the world we live in. In this world, fat, drug/alcohol-addicted or otherwise decrepit, dimwitted, and lazy firefighters are hardly unusual. (Standards aren’t very high because fighting wildfires sucks, making it hard to keep high quality people around ) So from the POV of someone on a crew, hiring a young, fit, sober, intelligent, conscientious and WILLING young lady like my mother-in-law was then is not “ludicrous” but obvious.

Yeah, and dying. You forgot the other benefit firemen enjoy. Dying. Oh, and injury too, just for lagniappe.

Interesting, if true. In any event, Zelensky fan-boy “HA” will soon be jumping down your throat with a reply to the effect that you are a Putin-shill for noticing something that might be true.

Please have your car packed and be ready to leave in an instant.

Good advice, at any time, for anyone who lives in California.

That land close to the Red River in Grand Forks is all park land now. I grew up close enough by the river that as a kid we used to roam around it’s banks even though sometimes we had to be a little sneaky because, as you say, it was some rich person’s back yard. Unfortunately in ’97 the whole town east of Washington Street became part of the flood plain, my parents’ house was flooded up to the first floor, it was later destroyed since the flood waters pushed the house off it’s foundations. It’s not true that only rich people were affected by the flood. There was a lot of middle & working class people who lost their homes.

Steve avoids negatively commenting on the competence of LA’s political leadership during this disaster. Hmmm.

Anglo Afro-Caribbeans are the only demographic Brits managed to assimilate to English culture en masse. Within a century or so they will all be effectively English, the Afro-Caribbean future in the UK are Jude Bellinghams and Cole Palmers https://t.co/yAYoMkvcMi

— Xanderinho (@MulattoOrfeu) January 12, 2025

“Insurers are not non-profit enterprises, that’s why some in CA pulled coverage after the losses got heavier�

No, insurance companies are dropping policies and pulling out because the insurance commissioner won’t agree to reasonable rate increases. The increasingly destructive fires are due to forest mismanagement since the departure of Pete Wilson, and the arrival of the permanent progressive majority.

Why don’t the people of Malibu come together and announce a bonus for the entire fire department if the fire is put out within 3 days so the firemen will take more risks? Did the fire run out of control because the firemen are like the cops in Uvalde?

“Of all the justifications for the ludicrous idea of female firemen, hatching good strong healthy white children is the best. Still I think we could come up with some cheaper less damaging options.”

Well back East, the old white-ethnic model of cops and firemen marrying nurses and nursing-adjacent type gals worked really well for a long time as a production line for loyal, sturdy, competent yeomen. Another good workable useful thing, ruined by Diversity and its ever-lurking Enablers.

It looks like Southern California firemen have had good contingency plans for just about everything so far other than for the 80+ MPH winds on Tuesday that grounded their planes and helicopters and sent embers flying for long distances.

Another new fire has been growing again in Runyon Canyon. If firemen don’t get a handle on that before Tuesday, we’ll see an all new level of hell. Hollywood blvd is now at a standstill past Highland.

Doesn’t it say something about “brightest girls”?

Steve will die old and affluent. Pity for the US independent intellectuals must resort to such commercial games.

Blacks and ethnomasochist whites turn everything into shit.

We’ve been watching your west coast news for days now on account of the video makes great TV.

Glued to the TV, riveted. Basically stuck on like a melted face mid-scream at Vesuvius captured in terror for tourists to see, or like a bacon-face back from Desert Storm II to meet his high school sweetheart for their postponed wedding.

Alot of people, pretty much everyone will try to tell you that there was nothing that could be done, no one knew that this would happen and nobody could have done anything to prevent this let alone ameliorate the repercussions after all – HUGE fire as your next goy-pig charade president would say.

Truth is: this was all predicted by White people whose fictional accounts of a lesbian led future have been banned for our time.

Tribe and train.

providing medical services to an enemy, even a dying enemy, is a thing

Only after an enemy has surrendered and is no longer a threat, not in the middle of a battle. And only if it doesn’t impose too much of a cost.

Why would you be more concerned about Hollywood stars and writers, most of whom are anti-white scumbags, than the white girls that were raped in England? Let’s have some perspective.

The only way the anti-white crowd ever moderates their attacks is when they feel direct pain. They pretty much have to be kept in a state of peril to get any concessions.

“That state is losing people and will be losing Congressional seats as a result.”

And if you think CA is losing people now…wait’ll the flames get doused! The flow of people out of the former Golden State will be like Niagra Falls. Joel Kotkin, hardly a man of the Right, had a great article in UnHerd lambasting LA in particular and CA in general.

You anti-whites got what you wanted. You have a bunch of bulldykes and incompetent anti-whites running the show in Los Angeles. Live with it.

If you had a moral conscience, you would be outraged by the mass rape of white girls in England. Instead, like a schmendrick, you have spent 20 years on this blog trying to make sure whites never acted in their collective interests.

You failed. You guys are throwbacks from generations ago. The conversation on Twitter is far more radical than anything around here.

I can tell you that these fires are going to affect rates nationwide on ALL lines of business. Carriers are in business to make money so stay tuned and watch the rates go up, up and away. And if the state governments balk, the carriers will cease writing coverage in those states. That’s just the way it is.

I suppose the question is asked when deciding to into the profession.

That wasn’t unusual in the early 21st century, although I couldn’t say about today.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14246527/Tom-Holland-reveals-plans-quit-acting-stay-home-dad-Zendaya-decide-children.html
https://archive.is/Ql6wq

Tom Holland reveals his plans to quit acting and become a stay-at-home-dad when he and Zendaya decide to have children
3 January 2025

How close are we? Are we already there?

Doesn’t it say something about “brightest girls�?

It says that even the brightest of the age cohort can’t swim against the tide of culture and economics.

It’s like when ignorant Baby Boomers criticize young people for living at home with their parents in their 20s. “I put myself through college by waiting tables! As soon as I graduated, I got out and bought a house and started my life!” That’s great, except that the total tuition and fees at that same college in the 2020s exceeds the pre-tax median family income. It costs more per annum than 90%+ of graduates are going to gross annually in their first jobs. Housing prices are multiples of what they were in the 1970s. Young people of both sexes carry massive sums of nondischargeable debt which must be serviced before they can think about paying rent or a mortgage, buying a car, and so forth.

It’s irritating and counterproductive to criticize people for not achieving tasks which have been made practically impossible for them.

But isn’t tribalism the endgame on this mortal coil? Even if it’s the universal mocha tribe of Bono et al?

Our current magnanimous era of free money on the ground is an anomaly. This, too, shall pass.

Maybe the FEMA worker was just getting there sooner.

“A surprising number then quit to have kids even though they still have a few years left in their brief primes.”

But … Hollywood (or music) is still generally a fertility multiplier for males, and a fertility sink for females.

I worry that Taylor Swift will end up like Kylie Minogue, still attractive in her 50s but childless. Doesn’t keep me awake though.

Thanks.

Nicely succinct.

But I don’t think South Korea is all that interested in trying to re-order the weirdness in the north.

Do actresses peak in acting ability at that age or do they peak in demand/compensation?

Before the Harvey Weinstein blow up there was a movement of actresses in their 30s and 40s and after complaining about not getting the good roles anymore, in absolute terms and as compared with make actors of the same ages. Ashley Judd and Geena Davis were making annoying public noises. They want more and better roles centered around 50 something female characters or something.

I think it’s more likely that actresses can get the “big break” much earlier in their careers than male actors. Big Hollywood stars like Clooney, Pitt, and Chris Pratt spent years couch surfing, waiting tables, playing bit parts and acting in television roles before their stardom. But male actors tend to have more longevity in leading men roles, and they get cast opposite much younger actresses.

The Ashley Judd/Geena Davis position seems hypocritical. No doubt they pushed aside an old gray mare actress when they broke into the industry. Now they’re upset that turnabout is fair play.

I would guess that the roles offered to late 30s and 40s actresses aren’t plentiful and don’t pay well, so maybe they take that as a sign to make a life change.

Well, Trump once again is spreading disinformation. So Mr. Sailer is staying quiet.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/trumps-track-record-disaster-misinformation-casts-blame-california/story?id=117547205

“the old white-ethnic model of cops and firemen marrying nurses”

In the UK, nurses used to get their training on the job, and got paid, albeit not much, from Day 1.

So often, you’d get intelligent girls finishing an undergrad degree and going into nursing. I know three or four who did that, one of whom is now head of nursing in the hospital she trained at.

One of the last disastrous moves of the Thatcher/Major years was to make nursing a “degree course”, where

a) no pay
b) expensive loans for tuition and sustenance

So the pipeline of intelligent postgrad girls into nursing stopped dead.

And you have nursing undergrads halfway through the course, not really liking it, but stuck on the treadmill because of the incurred debt. The last thing you want is to be nursed by someone who hates her job.

Medicine school in the UK sensibly gives you insane amounts of work in Year 1 – done deliberately to weed out those without either the intellectual chops or the required motivation. So all the drop outs happen in Year 1 before too much debt has been clocked up (it’s a 5 or 6 year course).

“You may be surprised Whites can low-key change their behavior”

When talking about going Galt, that does not just mean moving to a hidden valley somewhere. It would include things like putting in a minimum amount of effort on your job or engaging in various forms of sabotage. As I already said, I do not think things are bad enough for that yet.

I would not even write off liberal California as a lost cause. The leftist district attorneys in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Chesa Boudin and George Gascon, were kicked out by the voters. Proposition 36, increasing penalties for retail crime, passed. The incompetent Black San Francisco female mayor was not elected again and the current incompetent Black female mayor of Los Angeles may follow her. Many Whites have left California but many remain and have been complaining about how the fires are being handled. One White still there and paying taxes to the liberal city and state governments is the writer of this blog.

We need to be realistic but we want to avoid falling into such despair that it freezes us into inaction. That just helps the other side. We need to not give up and keep fighting.

As long as people are paying full freight for water, no it isn’t.

No, nobody regards it that way. It has some structural differences from standard English, but it is not a west African dialect.
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Thomas Sowell has said that black accents used to resemble the surrounding regions and now blacks in general speak in a way that was once specifically Southern.

“If I’m one of the growers, I’d have zero interest in diverting water to LA. My view would be: I’m not the one that decided on unrelenting immivasion and jamming 40mm people into a state that should have 10mm or so. ”

Well, I’m not so sure about that. The aggie barons are in part driving all the cheap farm labor that comes up from the south, aren’t they?

And I don’t agree that public utilities (water of all things) should be privatized under any circumstances. Seems like a cut and dry conflict of interests to say the least.

Thanks for the reply.

Are all of those paying subscribers? If so, enjoy.

No, Substack’s subscriber count includes paid and unpaid.

“Thank you for writing firemen numerous times in this post, Steve, rather than the PC-now-Woke firefighters�

The term “firefighter” is a direct description of someone who fights fires. It’s not woke. It’s not PC. It’s just fact.

For someone who allegedly despises elites, why haven’t you and others lambasted those like the billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso who utilized a private team of firefighters to protect his Palisades Village shopping complex at the expense of the neighborhood surrounding it, which was reduced to rubble.

“his annual income approaches $800,000 now�

I didn’t write that Brutsdale wrote it, that’s why its in a quote box.

But yeah, my comment above is nonsense as well, because I unthinkingly just multiplied your 6000 subscribers–at least that’s what it said somewhere on substack– by $100. Forgetting that you can subscribe without being a paid subscriber. (I’ll get around to sending my $100 in.)

Either way the number of homeowners who can have insurance is decreasing – either by lack of insurers or unaffordability. It seems to be the purest way the market is saying don’t build/buy. The only reasonable market participants should be those who don’t need insurance and can bear the risk themselves.

“FWIW there are claims that 8 Ukrainian generals have lost mansions in the Los Angeles fires, that they bought with funds embezzled from USA-NATO…”

“FWIW…..there are CLAIMS…..This is reported by the [Russian] TELEGRAM channel”

Oh-so-surprisingly, the linked article contains NOT A SINGLE SUPPORTING LINK and the author is identified only by the initials “TK”. Yeah, real solid.

Kinda odd that some Russian Telegram channel not only knows the specific number of generals with property in LA (and knows for a fact they were embezzled with US funds), they know how much the properties were worth and that they were lost in the fire. Do they know the value of any prospective insurance payouts? Oh, wait — one would actually have to stop and think about things like that before passing judgment, and who has time for that in this election cycle? Never mind.

Or else, the stooges are so hungry (in the aftermath of the Syrian debacle and yet another Kursk invasion) for good news that they’re going to much down on this roadkill-burger of a story and pronouncing it as delicious before heading off to the ER for their dysentery meds.

The claim was subsequently disseminated through websites promoting Russian propaganda, such as EDaily (in both Russian and English), websites that are part of the Pravda disinformation network (in Ukrainian, English, and other languages), well-known propaganda accounts on X (formerly Twitter), including “Olga Bazova“, among others. The claim has also appeared in dozens of Russian websites, including lenta.ru and gazeta.ru. In all instances, they cite “Military Observer�, which in turn makes a vague reference to “Ukrainian sources,� which are neither identified nor linked to any specific agency.

The only Ukrainian mention is from the aforementioned Pravda network, which systematically spreads disinformation. This publication cites a post from the Russian account “�а�правді� that includes a video claiming that the mansions of high-ranking Ukrainian military officials, valued at $90 million in total, were destroyed, without naming any individuals.

However, the video features a digitally added logo (top right) of the Ukrainian media platform United24. Yet, this platform has neither published such a video nor made any such claim.

So yeah, about as solid as most anything else the friends of Putin have been dishing out lately. But as long as we’re aimlessly offering up FWIW garbage sourced from who knows where, didn’t I always tell you people that most of the assets supposedly being sent to Ukraine wind up propping up US industries?

Very true. I drive through 400 miles of the agricultural valleys often. Even at the height of of planting and picking season the only workers 1 see in the fields and orchards are the ones driving the machines that do all the work. Except Ventura county strawberry fields ar full of workers in season. Tiny little Asians probably shipped in for the season.

The caterwauling about the need for farm workers is as if wheat growers claimed wheat was still harvested by hundreds of workers using scythes followed by workers gathering and tying up bundles of wheat followed by other workers loading the bundles of wheat into wagons pulled by horses and mules.

Instead of by those huge combines driven by just one worker. Combines named because one combine driven by one man does work that used to be done by dozens of workers doing different jobs.

In addition to all the subsidizes farmers get, their work force is paid by the taxpayers through the welfare payments to their women and children.

Same with the work force of the restaurant and non union construction businesses. And underground garment factories in garages warehouses etc .

All supported by welfare.

Conservatives opposed to both living wages and welfare. It’s one or the other. Impossible to have low wages without high welfare rates. To reduce welfare raise wages even for busboys and dishwashers. Or close down 60 percent of all restaurants as a public health measure to curb obesity

Those busboys and dishwashers aren’t single men. They have the welfare of their wives and children that supports the family. AND enables those poor restaurant workers to send tens of billions home to Mexico and Central America every year.

(Of course this is all war-nerding. China is just going to stop shipment of basic necessities and we’ll have to fold.)

I’m big on China owning the 21st century–and probably the future–because

a) smart capable people
b) not buying minoritarianism/immigrationism (don’t have an influential minority pushing it)
c) have a political system that–while clunky–is still most likely to acknowledge eugenic issues and roll out the incentives to tackle the fertility nut eugenically

With the toxic minoritarian ideology and immigration lunacy ascendant in the West we can’t even acknowledge genetic differences–racist!–or fertility issues–sexist!–much less talk about eugenic policies, much, much less orient public policy for eugenic fertility.

~~

Anyway, all that said, your “stop shipment of basic necessities” is backwards.

The problem in the US is 99% ideological and–now–50% demographic. (Yeah, that’s 149%.) What we do not have a problem with is “basic necessities”. “Basic necessities” are essentially food and energy. The US has been self-sufficient in food forever and in the last couple decades with fracking and enhanced recovery we are self-sufficient in energy and actually energy exporting. (Europe has issues on the energy front, but not us.) China actually has more problems in these areas than we do, but sits next to Russia (which Putin has made into a Chinese dependent resource depot) which alleviates that.

The only area that is a concern for the US is the silicon chip issue–with leading companies like TSMC in Taiwan, close to China and most chip manufacturing in its Asian neighborhood. But this is not something the US can’t do, nor hard for it to address. And the critical EUV technology involved in advanced chips, used by ASML and others is actually from US research and requires licenses from the US.

And in any case, the whole “war” thing is nonsense. The US and China can bitch at each, engage in trade disputes and even proxy wars. But serious direct great power war is off the table because of nukes. (As I’ve said there are a host of nations–Japan, South Korea, Poland, Germany, Iran, etc. etc. etc. that should be building nukes. Putin’s War has shown what happens to you when you don’t have them.) There may come a time when interception technology obviates the nuclear MAD balance of power. And then maybe then China conquers the world with some virus that attacks non-Chinese or something. But we aren’t near any of that yet.

Anyway, the core of America’s weakness is not anything to do with “basic necessities” nor economic weakness, it has to do with demographics, immigration and this toxic minoritarian ideological cancer that is killing us.

Agreed completely, TGToD. I confused my point with that last sentence. I meant to say that it was Big Ag in California that was one the biggest supporters of overlooking all of the illegal entry across our southern border over the many years. No, illegal Hispanics have come for all manner of work (and non-work). I can tell you that big parts of L.A. were Hispanic even before the 1989 of your broke jerk days.

However White people were still in charge of running things then, the State still voted Republican, not least due to hard-Conservative Orange Country. (It had its big Hispanic pockets even then.)

The gov in Cali is constantly hectoring homeowners to conserve water. The problem is that 80% of water here is used by agriculture, 12% by industry, and only 8% by homeowners. Even cutting home use of water substantially would not have an appreciable effect on water supply. Meanwhile, a large amount of the agricultural water is used to grow cotton and alfalfa, two low profit margin crops that are only grown because of the low cost of water to farmers. Large amounts of low profit corn are also grown as cattle feed, making the beef less healthy.

Hollywood has left a wake of discarded young actresses over its entire existence. It is pretty well known that many if not most actresses get their break on the casting couch, and how long their careers continue may very well depend on how long they are willing to grant sexual favors to producers like Weinstein and others. I would suspect the ones that learn to say no are more often the ones that fall into obscurity or get B-C listed.

In the case of Ashley Judd and many many other actresses, being attractive AND having a mother/father/uncle already established in the entertainment business is pretty much a guarantee that you’re going to get a break. Steve has a point that many close to middle aged actresses semi-retire to raise kids, but many of them also just become unattractive, difficult to work with, batshit crazy (or all three like Judd) or like in Davis’ case, being 6 feet tall definitely works against her.

Charlotte, the novelist Lionel Shriver (a woman, no trans.) wrote a long article called No kids please, we’re selfish 20 years ago for The Guardian. She’s from North Carolina, spent (too much) time in NYC, lived in London for many years, and now has finally bugged out from the ruin to Portugal.

Her article was a very honest assessment of the decisions made by her and 3 British (Londoner, I think) friends of hers, all of whom wrote their takes just too late in life to change course. I’m gonna give you a link-bomb of Peak Stupidity posts, because I laid out the 3 women’s stories excuses separately with some discussion:

First, see On Motherhood – for the individual and for society – Lionel Shriver.

Then the 3 women:
My excuse for participating in demographic collapse – 1: Gabriella
My excuse for participating in demographic collapse – 2: Nora
My excuse for participating in demographic collapse – 3: Leslie

These women aren’t stupid, which is really the shame of it, but they do some serious rationalizations and make some contradictions.

Finally, here’s some more discussion:
On the decision/excuses of deliberately childless women – Part 1
On the decision/excuses of deliberately childless women – Part 2

I hope you’ve got an hour and a half. I didn’t even get paid $800,000 for all that work.
;-}

What exactly do the decisions and actions of actresses have to do with real life?

Why did the insurers have to raise premiums in the first place? Because they didn’t expect to be profitable given elevated risks.

Target, Anheiser Busch, Disney, Tractor Supply (for God’s sake) are all for-profit enterprises engaged in the serious business of making money. And yet they all managed to destroy a lot of their revenue and stock value with fashionably woke posturing.

Climate Change is bulls**t.

Poisoning the well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well

DEI and woke is BS, doesn’t imply climate change is also.

Blackrock is the one behind pushing woke. Is Blackrock not profitable?

It’s also correlated in time with any number of other indicators: the number of people claiming to be trans

I shouldn’t have to explain to you– correlation does not imply causation and multivariable regression.

Wildfire modelling is in fact considerably more sophisticated. Why don’t you put into AI the following query:

How would home insurers model wildfire risk, would it be using multivariable linear regression?

In the aforementioned sequence they do a clear, basic firefighting training exercise: don heavy equipment, including breathing apparatus, ascend a staircase bathed in smoke, rescue the passed out dude.

In its 9/11 report the National Institute of Standards and Technology pointed out that firefighters in full gear ascending staircases in a high rise building can manage only about one floor a minute. Even then, they have to rest for a few minutes every 10 or at most 15 floors. While poor radio communications made it impossible to be sure, the NIST concluded that given these limitations firefighters probably did not make it much past the 50th floor in the North Tower before it collapsed.

Botton line: stairs can be a big obstacle in firefighting.

And given that the number is paid AND free riders, it changes things dramatically.

“his annual income approaches $800,000 now�

Huh?

Don’t act innocent.

I thought LA was the land of stucco and the tile roof. How did embers burn up so many homes in Altadena? Is there a pattern showing homes with wood shingles burned to the ground and neighboring houses covered with tiles still standing?

Neither of us live there but you are quick to ask questions already answered by many news stories.

Few if any roofs there are wood shingles (insurers pretty well ended those decades ago in most places due to their fire hazard.)

From the news accounts, many hard tiled roofs and stucco sided home (or even cement) have burned because the soffits underneath roofs outside get floating fire embers sucked inside the attics. Which then burn. Also burning trees can fall onto roofs and break them open.

Extremely hot and windy fires can find ways to burn things which seem to be fireproof.

The insurance industry will soon require more fire-resistant architecture there. Particularly nearby lot and land clearance of flammable shrubbery. You can’t really make a home airtight completely.

Yes, I agree that it is a puzzle as to how many homes have burned. But when temps get hundreds of degrees in high winds, it seems that it doesn’t take much.

Well, Trump once again is spreading disinformation. So Mr. Sailer is staying quiet.

The relentlessly neutral and credible source . . . ABC News.

It is to laugh.

Who is the second class citizen, the Haitian¡

What’s really important, competent government or equity? She’s got to get hers.

I’m glad you’ve got such amazing women in your family, #290. I’ve seen some gung-ho women like that, but face it, you can always find men who can do the job better. Obviously some old-fashioned AA/diversity was put onto the scales.

I’m in awe of the work they do, and no, I’ve never jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. (I’ve done some skydiving though.) I could probably have done much of the work the smoke jumpers do at 10 or 20 years older. However, a 115 lb pack?! No, I don’t think I could have.

No matter, in this kind of work, and in most combat jobs in the military, women, as good as they may be, have a BAD effect on morale and teamwork. Men work together very well, and women involved in it screw up the dynamics. It’s always like that. (They can’t help it either – not their fault.)

Small, small matters.

I’m kind of surprised the muppet doesn’t speak like that.

How prescient were the major insurance carriers with the decision to pull out of fire prone neighborhoods that were protected by firefighting woke-persons and empty reservoirs?

I think that’s exactly what happened. The smart white guys who run State Farm looked around and thought, “Empty reservoirs, Karen Bass, 5-foot bulldyke fire chief? No way this can end well. We’re outta here.”

This is not the site to complain about childless White women. Because at least, if not more than 90 percent of the writers and commenters are childless White men never married never had children crotchety grumpy old lifelong bachelors.

Who’s the most hated commenter on thus site? Alden
Mother of four grandmother of 8 all blue eyed and light haired N European descent. Demon housekeeper decorator and remodeler. Cranked out 6 or 7 completely from scratch homemade dinners for 6 people for years. And worked full time while doing it.

I’m what all you repressed gay perverts nerds wimps claim is the ideal White breeder of the continuation of the NW European White race in America.

But I’m hated and vilified as a feminazi jewess JFK myth debunker polish Catholic ( what’s wrong with being a polish Catholic ? all you ridiculous Hitler admirers? ). He lost his war.

I know what it’s like to raise children and run a household. I know about the homework burden. I know about transporting kids in suburbs with no public transportation I know about home repairs and maintenance.

But it’s absolutely obvious that the woman less childless grumpy old bachelor men of unz know nothing about raising children

Because most of you don’t have any White children. Most if the men of unz must have skipped sex ed classes because you don’t even know it takes a woman and a man to conceive a child.

And most of you have so little life experience and knowledge you have to look for information, false or true on the internet before you can write a comment. .

Whites can low-key change their behavior in a way that could never be proven

If only. When the standard of proof is “disparate impact” and evidence is cherry-picked, you can prove just about anything.

“Ring of Golf” interesting, funny idea.

But from what I have seen, these areas are quite vertical. Not flat or even mildly hilly.

Steep canyons, dry gulches and gullies. Yes, flat land where hillsides are bulldozed for homesites, but not large flat areas.

This RE is expensive for the views up high. The flat roads and lots are extremely costly and sold for hundreds of thousands, or millions, even vacant.

You can’t play golf in vertical landscapes with steep hills.

The “solution” would be xeriscaping the steep hillsides with non flammable stuff, but with periodic rains and wind, weeds/brush would still start growing.

Even without residences, those brushy hills would burn just like now, only worse.

Green, heavily maintained “lawn belts” between lots on the verticals might help. I’m sure research has been done but I’ve not read of any seeming practical solutions.

Maybe require the homeless moochers to put in 6 hours per day cutting brush on hillsides for their upkeep. Hard labor will keep them busy and avoid drugs and drink. Also for jail inmates.

In a sane society those parasites could become productive workers, or get out of town. Even pay them minimum wage w/ some benefits.

Instead, Hollywood leftists let the zombies infest their cities and complain when the flammable hillsides burn down their mansions every so often. Honest manual labor is never an option for these people.

“Looks like a tactic nuke napalm was dropped in Pacific Palisades and Altadena though.”

FIFY. When mouthbreathers gasp “The damage looks just like Hiroshima and Nagasaki!” they are stating something more accurate than they could ever believe.

Why did the insurers have to raise premiums in the first place? Because they didn’t expect to be profitable given elevated risks.

Because of increased fire risk – from more structures, with increasing valuations, out in prone areas, and also because of idiotic state and local policies that made large uncontrolled wild fires more likely. Perhaps the insurance companies were paying attention to the softening of standards for fire departments, the creeping incompetence in public utilities, the reduction or even banning of controlled burns, the inadequacy of California’s water supply, etc.

All of which happened at the same time as temperatures were rising. To the degree they have been rising. NOAA and other temperature monitoring organizations have been doctoring the historical records (perhaps the contemporary records too) to get the outcomes they have been told to get.

Poisoning the well.

A nice concept, but irrelevant to the discussion at hand. I have no idea what you’re talking about.

DEI and woke is BS, doesn’t imply climate change is also.

No, but the fact that both are mostly espoused by the same sort of people doesn’t make it more credible.

Blackrock is the one behind pushing woke. Is Blackrock not profitable?

Yes, and they appear to desire to continue to be so. Why are they back peddling on ESG?

https://www.esgtoday.com/blackrock-exits-net-zero-coalition-says-move-wont-change-how-it-manages-investments/

I shouldn’t have to explain to you– correlation does not imply causation and multivariable regression.

Yet you seem to think it necessarily implies causation for your pet cause. My point was that those clusters of damaging wild fires* all happened during the same time that California has been devoting its attention and public resources to nonsense and letting the important fuctions of government slide. So perhaps that might be the cause, or part of it.

Wildfire modelling is in fact considerably more sophisticated. Why don’t you put into AI the following query:

Why? So I can find out what some bowdlerized large-language model has digested?

Tell me, as to the point I brought up that you did not address: Why is it that stories about climate change never mention a single beneficial thing that a rising temperature might bring. It’s all gloom and doom. During COVID, there were stories about the upside of COVID, or at least of the COVID regime. But “The Climate Crisis”? It’s all downside. I don’t recall a single story about any possible, even notional, positive outcome to a rising mean global temperature. Isn’t that strange? Does that sound like something that is motiviated by dispassionate scientific inquiry?

*And anyway, those are only damaging in terms of dollars. In terms of acreage? Who knows. There may have been large wildfires in the past before any human record of them. Westerners have only inhabited California for about 250 years.

This is not the site to complain about childless White women. Because at least, if not more than 90 percent of the writers and commenters are childless White men never married never had children crotchety grumpy old lifelong bachelors.

And you know this…………………..how?

Once again, the women of Alden are just making stuff up.

Go to Kensington Avenue. You’ll find some real hard-workin’ whites there.

When the standard of proof is “disparate impact� and evidence is cherry-picked, you can prove just about anything.

“Disparate impact”, if taken seriously, makes any standard at all racist by default. What’s cherry-picked is its use.

Somehow, it’s only a problem when it gets in the way of progressives. But any gun-control law will have disparate impact because of the disparate behavior of various demographics.

Like the Gall-Peters projection, this is an argument which right-wingers should employ rather than dismiss. It blows up in their opponents’ faces.

Progs were all for “regional government”… until the consolidation of some counties and cities led to Republican governance in those cities. Same with black districts– that pretty much wiped out white Democrats in the South. Oops.

Yep, Richmond, Virginia had the city water cut off for a couple of days…

Don’t forget that in the Commonwealth, cities are always separate from their surrounding counties. The potential corrective balance present in other states is not available.

The term “firefighter� is a direct description of someone who fights fires. It’s not woke. It’s not PC. It’s just fact.

The fact is that the firefighters who overwhelmingly succeed in fighting fires are men, i.e. firemen.

But it is not surprising that you defend emasculating language given that you are an emasculated kind of male yourself.

For someone who allegedly despises elites, why haven’t you and others lambasted those like the billionaire real estate developer Rick Caruso who utilized a private team of firefighters to protect his Palisades Village shopping complex at the expense of the neighborhood surrounding it, which was reduced to rubble.

Why? He paid people* to protect his property. How was that done “at the expense of the neighborhood surrounding it?”. But then, I don’t expect anything a nitwit like you writes to make any sense.

*By the way, idiot, I bet the people he paid to get the job done were men.

Whites can low-key change their behavior in a way that could never be proven

If only. When the standard of proof is “disparate impact� and evidence is cherry-picked, you can prove just about anything.

The thing about disparate impact is that once there is a demographic disparity disfavoring a protected class, the burden is shifted upon the employer to produce evidence that the requirement or standard was necessary to the job.

Among others, one thing that was found not to be necessary for the job of police officer was cardiovascular fitness able to run (IIRC) a mile. So basically nothing is necessary to a job sufficient to justify not having enough of the protected class.

If you had a moral conscience, you would be outraged by the mass rape of white girls in England.

I have been for many years. We bring it up on Quora all the time for those Brits who love to shame America.

…you have spent 20 years on this blog trying to make sure whites never acted in their collective interests.

And you have spent ??? years– aren’t you “Loyalty over IQ Worship” from years back?– squiggling eel-like from any definition of what these “white collective interests” are. A commenter has to be really, really bad for Corvinus to have a valid point against him. Or a troll.

Which white collective interests? The American Colonization Society’s? The Confederacy’s? The British Empire’s? Those were all at polar opposites!

I prefer the ACS, but that ship has sailed, so to speak. You are invited, and always welcome, to make your very first practical suggestion.

Typical ignoramos ugly old crow. There were no government fire fighting companies until the mid late 19th century. The fire companies were private businesses that property owners and renters signed contracts with and paid monthly or yearly payments for the service. Less than 200 years ago.

There was also the cooperative bucket brigades. When the church bells rang the signal for a fire everyone grabbed their buckets and ran to the river to pass buckets of water.

Ancient Rome had an excellent not government fire department but a private company that took care of the entire city. A private fire company 2,300 years ago. A private company that the property owners paid monthly or yearly premiums. Just as Rick Caruso.

It was Jews like you, led by Disney honcho Zuckerberg who put the communist Venceremos brigade veteran Karen Bass in as Mayor. Commie witch has never had a real job in her life. Just community activism and political office. With yearly trips to Communist Cuba for refresher courses in Marxist subversion.

At one time most politicians were lawyers. Whether they owned the firm or were employees, they had to produce. Bring in clients win cases. Mostly by negotiations meet the payroll rent and other expenses. Collect the bills clients owed. So as to keep their jobs.
So they had some basic knowledge of how to run an organization. Pay rent and utilities for the premises. Bring in clients. Pay the work force. Succeed or the clients will go elsewhere .

All community activists have to do is hire a commission grant writer. Usually competent White men. The grant writers don’t get paid until they scrounge the grants and donations.

The community activists don’t even have to scrounge for their salaries. Just spend a few hours a day in their offices doing good works for blacks criminals and Satan. While the commission grant writers bring in the tax deductible donations and government grants stolen from the taxpayers.

You cite ABC news the old anti White communist network only zombie brain old men like you in the 70 to 90 age range watch??

Welp… evidence is pointing to fireworks setting off the Palisades Holocaust.

Gee… I wonder what group of people heralding from a nearby country LOVES setting off illegal fireworks in wild excess, to the detriment of the host neighborhoods, whenever they have a vague excuse? Whether it’s New Years Eve, or a strategic win for the Lakers, we could expect commercial grade fireworks going off across L.A. County.

A few months ago, a group of immigrants used their cars to block lanes and completely stopped traffic from entering the Vincent Thomas bridge–a bridge takeover, rather than their typical street takeovers we’ve all come to know and accept–to shoot commercial grade fireworks off the side of the bridge, presumably to celebrate a Lakers win for 15 minutes!

Long Beach police were well aware, yet nobody was apprehended! There’s only one way on and off that bridge, and LBPD chose to let all the perps drive off, after terrifying local residents of San Pedro and downtown Long Beach, who didn’t know what the hell was going on. I noticed NO local news coverage on television or in print, which astonished me. Usually a bridge takeover, including commercial grade fireworks with no arrests merits local reporting.

Not this time.

Anyway… as a pattern noticer, I’ve noticed that for about the past five years, for whatever reason, immigrants, both legal and not, have been encroaching into higher end economic zones, accessible to the “general public,” where I never used to see them. For example, they’ve encroached upon small, little-known beach enclaves in Laguna Beach, formerly known only by the locals, and acting like poor drunken peasants to the frustration of local residents. Some of these low-end immigrants wind up partying on local beaches of Malibu, and even some public areas of Pacific Palisades.

As a noticer of our ever growing local surplus of ignorant peasants from foreign lands having their public park parties in rich but fire-prone areas, I thought it would be just a matter of time before Malibu had a mini-catastrophe.

I was only wrong in that I anticipated a typical Malibu fire, with under a hundred houses being destroyed. I couldn’t even imagine what went on to happen, but then I had zero idea of how unprepared we were for a significant fire.

Going forward, I guess all American citizens should be on the lookout for illegal immigrants walking around town with blow torches…

Proper equipment fit! Well there you have it rubes! Our gals just look better doing it!

https://www.heretical.com/miscella/frcombat.html

“From the report of the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces (report date November 15, 1992, published in book form by Brassey’s in 1993):

The average female Army recruit is 4.8 inches shorter, 31.7 pounds lighter, has 37.4 fewer pounds of muscle, and 5.7 more pounds of fat than the average male recruit. She has only 55 percent of the upper-body strength and 72 percent of the lower-body strength… An Army study of 124 men and 186 women done in 1988 found that women are more than twice as likely to suffer leg injuries and nearly five times as likely to suffer fractures as men.

Further:

The Commission heard an abundance of expert testimony about the physical differences between men and women that can be summarized as follows:

Women’s aerobic capacity is significantly lower, meaning they cannot carry as much as far as fast as men, and they are more susceptible to fatigue.

In terms of physical capability, the upper five percent of women are at the level of the male median. The average 20-to-30 year-old woman has the same aerobic capacity as a 50 year-old man.”

Meh.

When we had a medium-sized kitchen fire ($100,000 damage, in the end) back around 2000 or something, the fire department showed up with four guys and two gals.

The four guys went at it, chopping holes in things and getting water everywhere. The two gals concentrated on reassuring my wife and children.

I mean, it worked — but I suspect this tends to be the de facto pattern. The guys fight the fire, the gals do all the ancilliary stuff.

‘I prefer the ACS, but that ship has sailed, so to speak. You are invited, and always welcome, to make your very first practical suggestion.’

Jim Crow.

“Because professional first responders don’t stop to ask “Do you like me?â€� before doing their jobs. ”

“Professional first responders” are the ones who camp out in a private parking lot half their shift, sitting in a 70k patrol car funded by tax payers that they get to driver straight home.

“Professional first responders” were the ones taking people to jail for not wearing a mask.

“Professional first responders have been reduced to glorified welfare recipiants who actually ask “Am I risking my pension?” before doing their jobs.

Sadly you’re confused about who the troll is and who isn’t.

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No u-oNN kenn tcheyndzh zis.

Black English is everywhere these days.

“Black English” is a contradiction in terms.

Knowing this interview was not conducted on a boat in choppy water, what would make Gavin Newsom uncontrollably sway back and forth like this? pic.twitter.com/yrmFWTa4qW

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) January 13, 2025

OT — 1 — Is this true? — 2 — Is this Trump?

Israel has capitulated on several factors, allowing for a deal to be reached:

* Isreal has agreed to withdraw FULLY from Gaza leaving no troops or security zone. That includes a full withdrawal from the Philadelphi corridor.
* It has agreed to allow Hamas to rule Gaza. That is…

— Shaiel Ben-Ephraim (@academic_la) January 13, 2025

It’s not true that only rich people were affected by the flood.

There are no rich people in Grand Forks. Nor did I say no working people suffered. But the better-off were closer to the river. The folks on the west edge of town– we were put up in a gym there– by the strip malls and fast-food joints took advantage of the expansive and less-expensive land. This is North Dakota, after all, and exurbia is cheap.

Like LA, it was that rare place where the more threatened land had something else going for it, and successful people moved in rather than out.

There’s a theory that the fire resulted from a New Year’s Eve fire that wasn’t quite out. The 100 mph Santa Ana would have picked up an ember easily. It is believed it was caused by fireworks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/12/palisades-fire-origin-new-years-eve-fire/

https://archive.is/b6tjN

You cite the anti White pro black criminal DEI affirmative action anti American pro BLM pro anti fa
Washington Post that has cheered black scum from Huey Newton and Angela Davis MLK to George Floyd.

How can you be so naive and credulous as to believe anything in the Washington Post??

The LAFD has responded to that allegation claims the fire was completely put out.
New Year’s Eve 12/31

The fire was reported 1/8/25 around 8/am 9 days later.

( what’s wrong with being a polish Catholic ? all you ridiculous Hitler admirers? ). He lost his war.

Hitler was pro-choice in Poland. Henry Morgentaler would have felt right at home in Auschwitz.

Pursuant to the ordinance of the President of the Republic of Poland of September 25, 1932 on the performance of medical practice, it became obligatory to determine a medical reason for termination of pregnancy verified by two doctors other than the one performing the procedure.� The only period when abortions could be performed to an unlimited extent (“on demand�) were the years of the Nazi occupation (1943-1945).�

https://nationalsecurityjournal.nz/evolution-of-the-abortion-law-and-its-practice-in-poland-against-the-background-of-the-current-legal-framework-in-new-zealand/2/

� German occupation authorities legalised abortion in Poland on the basis of the ordinance of March 9, 1943. See “On March 9, 1943, Hitler introduces abortion in Poland,� 9 March 2016, Interia Nowa Historia.

https://nationalsecurityjournal.nz/evolution-of-the-abortion-law-and-its-practice-in-poland-against-the-background-of-the-current-legal-framework-in-new-zealand/14/

Fair points. I’ll present another POV to be balanced:

My colleagues and I recently published a paper comparing 71 years of Santa Ana wind events, starting in 1948. We found about the same amount of overall Santa Ana wind activity, but the timing is shifting from fewer events in September and more in December and January. Due to well-documented trends in climate change, it is tempting to ascribe this to global warming, but as yet there is no substantial evidence of this.

California is seeing more destructive fires than we saw in the past. That’s driven not just by changes in the climate and the winds, but also by population growth.

It’s very hard to extinguish a fire under these conditions. The firefighters in the area will tell you, if there’s a Santa Ana wind-driven fire, they will evacuate people ahead of the fire front and control the edges – but when the wind is blowing like this, there’s very little chance of stopping it until the wind subsides.

Other states have seen similar fires driven by strong downslope winds. During the Chimney Tops 2 Fire in Tennessee in November 2016, strong downslope winds spread the flames into homes in Gatlinburg, killing 14 people and burning more than 2,500 homes. Boulder County, Colorado, lost about 1,000 homes when powerful winds coming down the mountains there spread the Marshall Fire in December 2021.

https://theconversation.com/how-santa-ana-winds-fueled-the-deadly-fires-in-southern-california-246965

https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/jon-keeley

So if his analysis is accurate–I don’t use the terms “right” “wrong” because it’s impossible to ascertain– population growth is a main cause.

But he cannot exclude climate change being another main cause either.

Also, the fires were so rapid, very likely would have made no difference if firefighters were or were not DEI.

Science is data collection and analysis before drawing conclusions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

Some people here jumped to conclusion that immigration and DEI are the main and sole causes, without presenting firm evidence at all.

I love the third name in that byline, Imogen Piper, but why is she reporting “from London”? Using Google Earth?

https://archive.is/hHNvS

The fat black lesbian doesn’t help her own case. But yes the main problem really is so many houses on those hills.

Yes I saw that in the film too.

I can just imagine myself in my old age…..I am trapped in a house and a big strong negro comes to save me….I hesitate….I ask for a white male to come instead…….I die……Diversity Inclusion and Equity…..(Equity=Communism)

Bardon,

Although I hate to generalize it is hard to deny. As an engineer if I only look at statistics and facts and also remove emotion then what you say seems to hold true.

Perhaps a native Californian (although not a Angeleno) might be allowed to weigh in on this situation. Shortly after I left the Golden State in 1981, it was taken over by “progressives”. When I left, there were adequate water resources for the population then.

Since then, the population has doubled, but the water resources were not further developed. The “progressive” theory was that such development was essentially retrograde and that the State and its new immigrants would just have to learn to conserve water, that being the most “green” approach.

As a result of this criminal mismanagement, LA is in the state that it is in.

Rather than merely complain about the current situation, let me suggest a practical solution.

Return California (Alta California) to Mexico.

“Pigs to the left of me, pigs to the right, here I am, stuck on the zipline with you…”

It can get mighty Chile in the pool in January…. not to mention July. Flavia below the fold has more about the forecast for 28/12 of 2013, in case you wanted to know. WTF month is 28 – what, they don’t do that Gregorian calendar down there?

I’ve been telling people, when they run low on COW-G’s, Competent Old White Guys, that’ll be it – we will have reached 3rd World status.

And there are no Competent Young White Guys coming up to replace them because they know they will be last in line to be hired. See Adam Corrola’s 7 year wait to get interviewed by LAFD.

That’s why the whole We Need Hi-Bs Because There Isn’t Enough US Talent is so specious. Why get a CS degree when you know the FANGs are only hiring straight off the plane pajeets as indentured servants for $25 an hour.

30 years ago I knew a guy who worked at the World Bank, which is fully funded by the USA. He said don’t even bother applying if you are a white male.

I wish DJT the best of luck, but the rot is deep and will be difficult to dislodge. Taking federal money away would be a good start.

“his annual income approaches $800,000 now�

Huh?

Well, even 10K is ‘approaching’ 800K, if you are headed in the right direction. As the Good Book says “the race is not to the swiftâ€�.

I’m okay with paying but feel he has taken his Unz followers for granted

To be fair to Sailer, a large quantity of his Unz followers are mentally retarded

Yeah, and dying.

Depends very much on where you work. Being a fireman in a leafy suburb means you won’t being going into warehouses full of toxic chemicals, but rather following the EMTs to slip and falls, car accidents, smoke alarms going off, etc.

You are well paid, have time to have a second job, and with the rule of 80 can be fully retired in your early 50s. Boredom is probably your worst enemy.

Madeleine Stowe was smoking hot in The Last of the Mohicans and in another movie, whose name escapes me, where Richard Drefus as a cop was watching her because her boy friend was a criminal and he fell in love with her.

Re: fighting… CA will need Federal money… A lot of it. Trump and the Republicans hold the whip hand. Sure, here’s your money…Only if you immediately abolish all DEI programs, FIRE every DEI officer/parisite , abolish stupid enviro regulations, etc. Don’t want to do that? No money for you, baby blue. Trump has the opportunity to fight to win, he needs to do it.

But I’m hated and vilified as a feminazi jewess JFK myth debunker polish Catholic ( what’s wrong with being a polish Catholic ? all you ridiculous Hitler admirers? ). He lost his war.

I’m guessing you must spend most of your Unz time in the more fetid corners of Unzworld. I find it difficult, nay impossible, to believe that anyone, host or commenter, on Steve’s blog ever accused you of being a Jewess. We have a more discerning commentariat than that. Heck, even our village idiots are smarter than that.

It’s not that hard for females to find a guy willing to have sex with them and impregnate them, so that would be nothing to brag about in itself. The hard part is finding the guy willing to stick around and help raise the children. I have known multiple women raising children by themselves and multiple men with two, three or even more women chasing after them for children support.

For every guy with multiple children he does not care about and help take care of, there are other men who never had children. It has always been the case through history that more women reproduced than men but that is even more so now. Sixty or more years ago girls were pressured to find a breadwinner husband. There was no large welfare state and no affirmative action jobs to help boost female income. There were more decent paying factory and other types of jobs for men. This made it easier for responsible males to get a decent paying job and use that to attract a wife. It made it harder for the good looking irresponsible bad boy type to have multiple children. That is no longer the case and hasn’t been for decades.

Truth vigilante accuses me of being a jewess . What a word, from some Trollope or Dickens novel.

I’ll repeat majority of the men of unz never married no children didn’t do their duty to reproduce the White race. But endlessly bitch about White women who didn’t have kids.

But I did. have kids and grandchildren. So to hell with you all, writers and commenters. This site should be renamed wehatewomen.com

Today gun owners won an important victory under Illinois state law in the Guns Save Life v. Cook County case.

SCOTUS denied cert in two major 2A cases.

United States v. Daniels, a challenge to the Federal prohibition on those that use cannabis, for any reason including medical, from possessing a firearm. The 5th Circuit had previously found the law unconstittional and then on remand from the United States Supreme Court, has once again, found that law, as applied to Daniels unconstitutional.

Huge developments on the Assault Weapon ban and High Capacity Magazine cases.

FPC WIN: The Third Circuit has reaffirmed its opinion striking down Pennsylvania's law banning 18-20-year-olds from open carrying during states of emergency. The Supreme Court previously sent the case back to be reheard in light of Rahimi: https://t.co/zuDLq1METu pic.twitter.com/GEZaDVzcEc

— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) January 13, 2025

Today's history tidbit is interesting.

Because how did anti-gunners change 150 years of "2A means individuals can have guns" scholarship/cases into "2A is state militias"?

Well.. they lied and produced propaganda.

From 1976-1977, US gov't debate questions for high schools: pic.twitter.com/yfcdU8e26m

— 2A History (@2aHistory) January 13, 2025

“Ring of Golf� interesting, funny idea.

But from what I have seen, these areas are quite vertical. Not flat or even mildly hilly.

Steep canyons, dry gulches and gullies. Yes, flat land where hillsides are bulldozed for homesites, but not large flat areas.

Just to be clear the Ring of Golf goes at the top of flats. It would be roughly contouring but not strictly contouring. It does not push into the various canyons and arroyos but sits below them to protect the city, from fires like this. Specifically, what happening in Pacific Palisades and especially Altadena where the fire rolled down out of the hills, burned the houses against the hills, then the next house, then the next house … and burned through a regular city neighborhood of houses.

If you want to live up Laurel Canyon or on Mulholland Drive, that’s fine. But you will outside Ring of Golf insurance rates. In ordinary times the fire department will respond to you normally, both your home and wildfire in your area. But when big wind swept fires kick off the fire department defends the at the Ring of Golf your hillside retreat is written off.

Yes, this is different than our current paradigm where a parasitic financial, bureaucratic, legal elite runs America completely in their own interest utterly indifferent to the interest of the America people. But that’s not how this are supposed to work in a republic. A republic is supposed to work in the interest of ordinary productive families. The Ring of Golf would be designed to work like a medieval town wall or a national border. Protection from invasion for the normies inside.

60 years ago was 1965 when the federal welfare state was in full gear. Before the JFK/LBJ administration every state and county in America had its own welfare system. Including the poorest states like Vermont Main Mississippi and Alabama.

By the 1920s and 1930 black women and their kids were moving north to all the east coast and Midwest cities to go on welfare and work for cash as maids.

The puritans of New England established welfare for widows orphans and single moms with kids very early on like the 1630s. So did the Dutch of New York, the Quaker’s of Philadelphia and the Germans through their Lutheran and Catholic Churches. I know there was welfare in Virginia and Maryland in the colonial era. Georgia was established by Oglethorpe as a welfare colony for the very poorest English. That changed to a slave state.

Typical man of unz. Ignorant knows nothing about the history of welfare in America. Believes it didn’t exist until 1964.

You must have read National Review and other dam fool idiot ignorant conservative publications that claimed there was never any welfare in America until the New Frontier and Great Society of the 1960s.

Welfare didn’t begin in 1964/5

It began around 1610 with the new Amsterdam Dutch through their churches . When that 1600’s ship of Brazilian Jews arrived, the Dutch insisted as a condition of being allowed to settle in New Amsterdam that the Jews establish their own welfare system. Through their religious organizations. Which they did.

Typical man of unzip ignorant fool if you claim there was no welfare in America until 60 years ago 1965.

How many children and grand children do you have???

I did my part for the White race. The blue eyed light haired NW European branch you men of unz think is so great.

BTW, the idea that te average working man should make enough wages money to support a non working wife and kids until at least 16 did not exist ever in human history until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And that was accomplished through the rise of labor unions. Labor unions which the cubicle coolies of unz despise.

But that’s another history lesson for the ignorant men of unz.

Welfare didn’t exist in America until 1964/5. Absolutely not true.

The scariest part of this woke nonsense is when she admits she’s not strong enough to carry a man out of a fire, but it’s really the man’s fault for being in that situation to begin with.

The scariest part of this woke nonsense is when she admits she’s not strong enough to carry a man out of a fire, but it’s really the man’s fault for being in that situation to begin with.

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— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) January 9, 2025

If you think your citations are proof of anything you’re an ignorant fool.

A black Marxist lesbian mayor installed by Jew Zuckerberg a head honcho of Disney. 3 assistant fire chiefs lesbians all overweight non firefighters one black. The black one looks like she’s almost 300 pounds. Way over the weight limits. .

Insane environmentalists who prevailed on the state government to take down the Klamath river dam to preserve the salmon who spawned perfectly well in the Klamath river fir decades after the dam was built

But all the salmon died after the dam was torn down. I have no idea why. Environmentalists usually aren’t affirmative action morons. They’re White men, often Jews banned from woke progressive jobs because they’re White men. Just a bundle of Marxist authoritarian buttinskies.

They closed down the California lumber industry to save the spotted owls. But the great barn owls killed and ate all the spotted owls. The environmentalists were also inspired by class hatred when they closed down the lumber industry. Cubicle coolie hatred of blue collar workers.

But the lumbermen bad their revenge. They turned to marijuana growing. And became very very rich. Richer than all the trust fund upper middle class environmentalists. California is an agricultural state. And shortly after the environmentalists shut down the lumber industry marijuana became California’s biggest crop. And most profitable.

You’re right it’s not all affirmative action morons. Environmentalist buttenskies have a lot to do with the destruction. The state legislators are heavily affirmative action Hispanics. And they go along with the most insane environmentalists and progressive Marxist’s. Because they were docile slaves of the pre Columbus Indians then slaves of the conquistadors then peons of the Latin American upper class.

And now a vast army of docile slaves of the progressive marxists.

50 years ago when the state legislators were mostly White they would not have obeyed progressive marxists. But now it’s heavily Hispanic and they do what they are ordered.

The affirmative action woman Janissa Quiñones was put in charge if the LA water department. At a salary $750,000 3/4 of a million a year. An affirmative action non White lesbian like the mayor and the 3 asst fire chiefs. The reservoir the Santa Ynez reservoir is supposed to have enough water for the hardest hit area in this fire. Pacific Palisades Malibu west Los Angeles.

But the Santa Ynez reservoir has been completely empty for about 5 years. And the stupid DEI moron Quinones didn’t even know that.

Also, the fires were so rapid, very likely would have made no difference if firefighters were or were not DEI.

LOL. Who’s claiming the firefighters are DEI? The complaint is the ‘leadership’ is DEI, ya dumb ching chong.

Some people here jumped to conclusion that immigration and DEI are the main and sole causes, without presenting firm evidence at all.

Ah, so—here’s some evidence, Charlie Chan:

The mayor Los Angeles could have elected, Rick Caruso, proved to be more competent using private resources than the entire publicly employed DEI-led/hampered army. Reacting to events, Caruso called in pre-arranged protection for the major outdoor mall his company had built in the heart of Pacific Palisades in 2018. It survived. Everything around it burned.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14280517/Palisades-village-mall-saved-rick-caruso-la-fires.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/private-firefighters-la-wildfires.html

Some of the only commercial structures still standing in Pacific Palisades are in The Palisades Village mall, saved by businessman Rick Caruso, Karen Bass' 2022 mayoral opponent.

This is a great learning moment.

Caruso knew the fire risks, considering he previously served as a… pic.twitter.com/2c3ItvZ54k

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 12, 2025

GOD DAMN IT
SOMEBODY HELP ME
THEY ENDED SEARCH IN 2020 AND NOW NOTHING WORKS
Sean McConnell is Dennis Prager’s radio engineer. A month ago Dennis suffered a fall and he’s still in hospital (may he mend fully); recently, Sean lost his every possession in the wildfires. I’m trying to donate to Sean’s GoFundMe. There isn’t one result that makes any sense. I want all sons of Ashoka to die. Searching for “Sean McConnell” yields result “Garcia.” I’m not kidding, this is hidden like he criticized Hillary.

REPLY TO THIS — SOMEBODY HELP ME

Truth Vig accuses EVERYONE he disagrees with of being a jew. You’re nothing special in that regard.

You’re just another old, 2nd gen feminist who got discarded by the movement because you’re white, and decided to adopt white nationalism because no one else wanted you.

The sad thing is you’re not unintelligent, but similar to Truth Vig, you accuse anyone who disagrees with you of being a childless man of unz! man of unz!

Unhinged and bitter, you are.

“Typical man of unzip ignorant fool if you claim there was no welfare in America until 60 years ago”

I did not say that. I said there was no large welfare state if you go back more than then. In his Losing Ground book, Charles Murray shows the big increases in welfare availability to a hypothetical couple in the sixties using 1960 and 1970 as the two dates for comparison.

I like some of your comments but you have a tendency sometimes to distort what others say so you can set up a strawman and attack that. I also see personal insults in your reply to me, something I did not do with you in my last response. I suspect your demand to know whether I have children is because you want to further personalize this and further attack me personally. You might want to consider the possibility that women are not always faultless and can make bad choices in life. My wife broke up with me almost 40 years ago because she liked the bad boy type and got bored with me, since I was not that type. She then went through a number of failed relationships and ended up on welfare in her fifties. I ran into her one time and she looked miserable. I think she realized late in life she should have been nicer to me, stayed with me and had a child with me. This was not the only relationship I had of this type but I am not going through my whole dating history here.

I did not spend Christmas with my children since I have none. I spent it with a niece whose father lost his factory job when it moved overseas, became an alcoholic and died early. I care about my niece. You do not have to have a child to care about someone. When I left, as I was walking out the door she yelled at me she loved me.

I’m sure everything you say about the fireman job is true (at least in normal times). But that’s not the point. The point is that in order for any society to hold together, there must be those who are willing to put everything on the line in order to protect it.

That’s not something that can be purchased with a mere transaction. Some things are transactional. And some things require a deep relationship based on loyalty.

Too many people think White men will keep on dying and/or risking their lives (or a stubbed toe) because, golly darnit, they have a good pension. If the people being protected turn out to be skeevy anti-whites, guess what? F that contract, they ain’t dying for you.

You can call the bulldykes and the “smart fraction” Indians and Asians to come save your butt.

“Young people of both sexes carry massive sums of nondischargeable debt which must be serviced before they can think about paying rent or a mortgage, buying a car, and so forth.

It’s irritating and counterproductive to criticize people for not achieving tasks which have been made practically impossible for them.”

B-b-b-but, think of all the great new ethnic restaurants! And all the fresh new differing perspectives of the multiracial gang beating up the white schoolkids in the parking lot! And all the different colorful flags of many nations that can be run up the school flagpole, whenever the fascist racist Stars and Stripes is pulled down every week! And all those white debt-slaves, paying unending rent and interest to us rental-property-owners forever!

It’s the new slabery, yet more payback for de old slabery! Diversity is (((our))) greatest strength, boychik!

It is possible that they may not need the money. Because:

The nonprofit has made millions since then, with NPR reporting that 2022 tax records showed that it pulled in more than $65 million in donations that year.

https://people.com/dennis-prager-hospitalized-back-injury-8745492

You can use the link from Mike Gallagher on X here

It’s been a rough patch for the Dennis Prager team. After Dennis’ fall, his loyal, years-long radio producer lost everything in the wildfires. Please join me in helping Sean get back on his feet. He’s a great guy. https://t.co/W79QeXgn4M

— Mike Gallagher Show (@GallagherShow) January 12, 2025

It will bring you to McConnell’s Go fundme page.

If that doesn’t work, here is link to gofundme page for S. M.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-sean-rebuild-after-the-eaton-canyon-fire

Bromance Guy: “Some people here jumped to conclusion that immigration and DEI are the main and sole causes, without presenting firm evidence at all.” (Sorry JIE, just quoting him, too lazy to scroll up.)

LOL what bad faith reasoning. At this point, it’s too late, Nate: nation-wrecking weasels like you have no right whatsoever to “firm evidence”; indeed you have no right to any evidence of any kind whatsoever. You have no arguments. You wasted them all, and we all see the result. You’re done.

We don’t want to persuade you of anything, convince you of anything: we only want to see you tried and sentenced. Your role now is simply to sit still and meekly take every single f#cking slap in the face aimed your way, and brother the conga line for that is light-years long. Immigration and DEI (and the Jews who caused them) are the ‘main and sole causes’, the prime movers, of virtually all societal woes in ZUSA, n’importe quoi.

Evidence? We don’t need no steenking evidence, ese — Circumspice! Look around you! That’s our evidence. Pfft. As if.

Tell you what, homes. We’ll put a nice pot of daisies in your cell, in lieu of a window, to brighten things up a bit.