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Larry-Lambert

Caption Photo: Tomorrow, President Trump takes office!

 

Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California

VDH discusses corruption in California politics here (h/t Claudio). By coincidence, it’s your sermonette. Thanks, Dr. Hansen. I’ve excerpted it here, but please read it all.

Over 25,000 acres are ablaze in Los Angeles in the Pacific Palisades fire, a veritable living hell.

Some 12,000-plus structures were incinerated. More than 250,000 souls have been evacuated and require shelter.

No one has taken charge yet. And now even the woke culprits for the catastrophe are blame-gaming each other to determine who was the more incompetent, which in this case translates to the most woke.

No one knows how many have died; all know the number will escalate in the next few days.

The eventual price tag of the ruin will exceed $200-300 billion and outstrip the billions of dollars given to Ukraine.

And there are still some completely uncontained fires.

The Los Angeles apocalypse was a multisystem, green-woke collapse—and a disastrous reminder that when Soviet-style, anti-meritocratic ideology permeates all aspects of modern life in California, disaster is inevitable.

First, note that the culprit of the catastrophe is not climate change; it is not Donald Trump. Those are excuses for arrogant incompetency and disdain for the public. And it is not racism or homophobia to fault those who paraded and virtue signaled their tribal identities so extraneous to their actual responsibilities for public safety.

Note that all California statewide officeholders are left-wing. The California left holds supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature. Only 17 percent of California’s substantial congressional delegation of 52 seats is Republican. California’s judiciary is the most left-wing in the country. There is not a single Republican on the 15-member Los Angeles City Council.

Add it all up, and the woke socialist state has been eagerly deindustrializing, decivilizing, and retribalizing its way into what is now a veritable peacetime Dresden on the Pacific.

Again, there is no one else to blame because California is one of those rare states in which Republicans have de facto zero political power. All the state media, the legacy newspapers, the Silicon Valley daily online news sites, the Bay Area-based Apple, Google, and Facebook monopolies, and the local news outlets are parrots of the woke-green mindset.

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Insurance? Is there some plan to rebuild these suburbs as they were to ensure there are some $300 billion to pay out claims? Well, no, again. The state is broke and is driving out insurance companies, not enticing them in. Its public “Fair” unfair insurance plan of last resort is underfunded and will go insolvent once a week or two of claims flow in.

California’s failure to effectively prevent and put out fires—along with hyper-regulation and inability to combat an insurance fraud epidemic—has destroyed the state’s insurance industry. Given the prior failure of homeowners to buy credible fire insurance at any cost, thousands of now-homeless had no insurance at all.

How about the region’s massive homeless population that camps out on the streets and in the tinderbox chaparral above the suburbs? Did the city investigate arson or detain, arrest, charge, and jail those rounded up with incendiary devices or seen lighting fires? Of course not. They vetoed any notion long ago of an anti-camping ordinance.

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It will signal an exodus of millions of democrat voters, now homeless, to other places in the nation, like a tumor sending out its malignant tendrils. Great. Just great.

 

Because this is the Sunday Sermonette

 

Pardon Me

With President Donald Trump set to take office tomorrow, members of the Jan. 6 Select Committee and White House are privately discussing whether to issue presidential pardons to lawmakers who served on the panel, according to lawmakers and sides. In an interview, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who chaired the Jan. 6 committee, said he spoke to the White House counsel’s office last month about the issue. Thompson noted that he hadn’t talked directly with President Joe Biden on the topic, but the veteran Mississippi Democrat said he’d accept a last-minute pardon if offered.

Thompson and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the panel’s vice chair, were recently awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by Pedo Joe Biden. Biden said he’s considering preemptive pardons for high-profile Trump critics. However, the communication between the White House and some committee members on this topic hasn’t been previously reported. Members who served on the panel haven’t asked Biden for a pardon, though others have lobbied the White House to grant them.

Time is growing short to make that happen. The pressing question is simply this (Presidential Citizen’s Medal or not), if they did nothing wrong, why would they need a pardon? Riddle me that one.

  • Bill Clinton: 459 pardons and commutations
  • Barack Obama: 1,927 pardons and commutations
  • Donald Trump (45): 237 pardons and commutations
  • Joe Biden: 8,064 pardons and commutations (so far!)

 

USA Religion Map

 

 

Toxic Masculinity

 

Bullet Points:

** Landman was an excellent series. From the season finale:

Rebecca (female atty): I’d like to point out that I am licensed to carry it in this state.
Tommy Norris (landman): I’d like to point out, Rebecca, that you don’t need a license to conceal carry in this state. That’s why we waive to each other. Everyone is fu – – en armed.

** Do you plan to upload your soul into a computer? (the sermonette continues)

** A good man is hard on himself. A weak man is hard on others.

** Postmodern Jukebox performs Hallelujah for the sermonette featuring the phenomenal Effie Passero.

 

Sen. Kennedy – worth your time to review –

 

Orders

President Trump promised to begin mass deportations on day one, but some sources have suggested the numbers will be low and gradually build. At the same time, the administration is putting its apparatus in place. President Trump’s day-one schedule was changed at the last minute due to inclement weather. The inauguration was moved inside the Capitol Rotunda, a move not seen since President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985. 

After the swearing-in ceremony, Trump plans to travel to the Capital One arena, which is open for the crowd to watch the ceremony on a large screen. After that appearance, he is expected to travel to the White House to begin signing his many planned executive orders.

He will convene a task force to plan America’s 250th birthday, the start of mass deportations, the imposition of tariffs on Mexico, an end to birthright citizenship, the termination of migrant flights, deregulations, orders permitting the expansion of energy production, restrictions on DEI and other programs, and the rooting out of career bureaucrats who work against his agenda.

During a recent meeting with Republican senators, Trump adviser Stephen Miller highlighted planned actions on immigration to begin early in the administration as part of what the Associated Press called an “executive punch unseen in modern times.”

Among the most highly-anticipated orders will be the return of the “Remain-in-Mexico” policy requiring that would-be asylees stay outside the U.S. ahead of their court dates. Others are likely to address the completion of the southern border wall, Trump’s signature campaign promise from 2016, while others are expected to target groups of illegal aliens who recently entered the United States and those who have already been approved for deportation.

Some of the immigration orders may stall, however, with the Senate hesitant to speedily confirm some of his key nominees for posts relevant to those policies. Still, some of his border actions will need only the weight of the president’s signature.

One of his key immigration promises was to implement an executive order directing federal agents to interpret the law so that the children of illegal immigrants would not be granted American citizenship. Trump made that promise in May 2023, which generated considerable legal speculation about the likely challenges to such a dramatic reinterpretation of the law.

 

Identify the Aircraft

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Identify the Feature Film

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Parting Shot

 

 

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  1. Identify the Aircraft:
    1. Boeing B-52H
    2. Supermarine Attacker
    3. Martin B-26 Marauder
    Identify the Feature Film:
    A. ?
    B. The Last of the Mohicans

    1. A. (Hint) There is Bruce Willis, and there is a graphic on the wall next to him that represents the title of the film. Do you need another hint?

      2. (whispering voice to Bruce Willis while he’s handcuffed to a chair) “Not volunteering, that’d definitely be a mistake”
        Great movie!

  2. Nazi medical experimentation on unwilling subjects led to the trial and execution of many in the medical field who participated. Nazis created enough revulsion that some dedicated Nazi hunters spent lots of years tracking them down. If the clot shot stuff gets put out in the light of day, will there be enough people who lost loved ones to the shot that a different form of hunters will appear? Will successful hunters get pardons from an understanding president? Don’t see things going that far, but beware the fury of crowds.

  3. All along the Gulf Coast are areas that were once easily purchased at a reasonable price, had structures with affordable insurance, and were so until a major hurricane wiped them off the map. Added to these areas were flood plains that were inundated with torrential rains that flooded areas never flooded in over a century. Regulations didn’t prevent building in the areas again, but if you could get insurance, it was way beyond what most people could afford. Purchasing such land with a loan was impossible. No bank would lend money with such a risk. That’s were the fire prone areas of L.A. are today. Regardless of any effort to remedy the danger, it will always exist, the land will stay mostly uninhabited, and those with the tremendous amount of money necessary to build in such areas will have few neighbors, if the government doesn’t buy the land for pennies on the dollar of the original market price to leave it abandoned. Those without insurance (and there are many) will have no resources to recover their loss and will face the reality of building in an area that never should have been inhabited without plans to prevent disaster.

    I have a feeling the next big news stories about the area will be mud slides. With nothing to prevent erosion, the ground will move even during regular rain events.

    1. “. . . the land will stay mostly uninhabited, and those with the tremendous amount of money necessary to build in such areas will have few neighbors, if the government doesn’t buy the land for pennies on the dollar of the original market price to leave it abandoned.” That is exactly what the tinfoil hat conspiracy books and articles in the 60s and 70s told us was the great plan. Reduce the population drastically, move the remaining chumps into designated living areas and have the beautiful, tarnished earth return to its natural state so that the really rich could have their villas in the woods without peons bothering them.

    2. Prime location for a house before the fire, flood, mud slide, hurricane, tornado, etc is still a prime location. This is America and they have the money…they will rebuild…

    3. You nailed it, Jess. Mud slides are coming. You could rebuild and rethink the whole place now it’s been wiped out, but insurance companies and landowners will want more money that it’s worth to manage a redo. It will be a ghost town for a long time as insurance companies and lawyers fight it out.

  4. California; Let it all collapse on itself. ZERO aid to the bureaucrats but wisely help ” we the people”. Can reformation bring the conservative voting base back? I hope to God all the rainbow flags come down so the Bear can be back up to properly represent the “California Republic ” for which it stands!

      1. No they didn’t but the Appalachian people of western N.Carolina and eastern Tennessee just happened to be living on top of some of the largest lithium deposits in the world and so… they gotta go.

  7. poor ole Joe (meaning his handlers, not the man personally) have, over the past four years, been skirting (IMHO) the legal processes in hope of dismantling our country.
    is he attempting to make my gorge rise by issuing this extreme number of EOs, most particularly to those who should have been executed rather than given long prison sentiences?
    is he attempting to make The Donald’s future pardons of the J6 look ridiculous?

  8. I have great רַחֲמוּס (pity, compassion) for the people who’ve lost their lives (and perhaps a major portion of their assets) in/due to the California fires;
    many of us on/off the western coast of Flowreeduh have similarly suffered catastrophic losses (and lost a few lives as well).
    I wouldn’t have the חֻצְפָּה (gall, impudence) to ever ask someone else to pay the costs for my stupidity/daring/incompetance through increased governmental taxation by way of “compassionate” aid, as well as insurance companies increasing the premiums of the good folk who live in North Dakota or Arizona well away from the hurricane coasts and mismanaged forests.
    The “Air Friar” is particularly/subtly poignant in this regard.

  9. Enjoy your site. The photo captioned Toxic Masculinity is not deserving of the photo. The caption should read city dude in the country. Personally I don’t equate masculinity with tennis shoes. Just saying.

    2. I was thinking since his jeans were rolled up and wearing his slip on house shoes (all ranchers have a pair) that he had just returned from some messy chores and the work boots got taken off just inside the door. The Bible (maybe, but looks like it) held on his lap tells me he’s just finished Sunday morning chores and was spending a little time appreciating God’s gifts.

  10. I don’t think California will come back in my lifetime. Why should it? Just raise the price on what is left or let it become the Gaza Strip. The have no gumption. Tom

  11. Kennedy could make “how are you this morning?” feel scary. You don’t know what’s gonna follow it, but you know it ain’t gonna be good.

  12. “preemptive pardons” wouldn’t they be illegal, a kind of bill of attainment? The U.S. Constitution only permits the judiciary to determine whether someone is guilty or innocent. If they haven’t been charged with a crime or offense, how can a pResident issue a legal document stating that person is “pardon” from that which would incur a trial in front of said judiciary and result in incarceration and fines?

  13. I have a pair of steel toed house slippers, just in case somebody needs a dose of “motivational tips” during the night!

  14. “It will signal an exodus of millions of democrat voters, now homeless, to other places in the nation, like a tumor sending out its malignant tendrils. Great. Just great”
    Many of these people will not see a dime of insurance money and have lost everything. Will we see a reverse Dust Bowl era migration eastward?
    Not being familiar with the housing patterns in the area, my question is the socioeconomic status of the areas burning. Poor people, middle class, rich?

    1. The Eaton fire took out a huge chunk of Altadena, which was mostly working class folks.

      The Palisades area was rich and very rich.

      1. The financial damage to surrounding businesses who relied on the area destroyed by fire (working class and rich) can’t be calculated.

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