Gavin Newsom & Elizabeth Warren Reach New Lows

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Just when you thought that politicians couldn’t do something more despicable, along come California Governor Gavin Newsom and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. Here’s what Newsom posted yesterday:

If you click on http://californiafirefacts.com, you’ll be taken to his campaign website. That’s not the real problem. When you get there, click on the Donate button. This will take you to an ActBlue website. ActBlue, a Democrat fundraising organization, will take almost 4% of your money to fund Democrats. Elizabeth Warren is doing something similar.

As people are dying and tens of thousands of homes are smoldering, these two are using this tragedy to fundraise. Trump calling Gavin “Newscum” is proving accurate.

Styx has thoughts.

83 Replies to “Gavin Newsom & Elizabeth Warren Reach New Lows”

  1. From the CalFire website (scroll down a bit to Seasonal Outlook)

    https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

    “Seasonal Outlook
    December 2024. Following the recent rainfall that has moderated fire activity, CAL FIRE is transitioning to Winter Preparedness staffing levels statewide. This adjustment aligns with a seasonal decrease in fire activity and aims to strategically optimize resources as fire risks lessen during the cooler months.”

    But, but, with Dems everywhere screaming climate change as the fire cause, why did they reduce preparedness?

    Answer. Wealth redistribution will solve climate change.

    1. Answer. Wealth redistribution will solve climate change.

      Wow, Joe … you are Sooooooo over the target. You just summarized the watermelon strategy. Communist at its core. It will make us all “equal”. By taking stuff from the “haves”.

  2. // When you get there, click on the Donate button. >>

    So don’t click on the donate button.
    The page that opens is the fact-checking page: https://gavinnewsom.com/california-fire-facts/
    e.g. Remember the picture of the rainbow hydrant with a flaming background?

    LIE – California Ran Out of Water and Reservoirs Are Empty
    Facts About Water Availability
    FACT: Water reservoirs in Southern California are at record levels. There is no shortage of water in Southern California.
    FACT: Wildland firefighters DONT USE HYDRANTS — they use water tenders.
    And that is what has been used to ensure continued water access.Three million gallons of water were stored in three large tanks for fire hydrants in the area before the Palisades fire, but the supply was exhausted because of the extraordinary nature of this hurricane-force firestorm.

    1. Yeah are any of these debunks by Gavin even wrong? Leaning to no, hence the fuss about a dono button.

      1. Newsom and UnMe state as Fact that “water reservoirs in Southern California are at record levels.”

        A few lines down Newsom said “reported unavailability of water from the Santa Ynez reservoir.”

        Well I suppose Santa Ynez reservoir was technically at record levels, but sane people wouldn’t call an empty reservoir “at record levels”.

      2. “Wild land firefighters don’t use hydrants, they use tenders”

        Same paragraph

        “Three million gallons were stored in three large tanks for fire hydrants in the area”

        “… but the supply was exhausted.”
        But Newsom said “There is no shortage of water in Southern California”

        If the supply was exhausted, there’s a shortage.
        If a 117 million gallon reservoir is empty, there’s a shortage.

        Perhaps wildland firefighters can learn to use hydrants, given the number of wildland fires that occur in California communities. Or are they too busy attending diversity training.

        1. Santa Ynez is just one (empty) reservoir. There are others and they are very full, hence this bit about ‘shortages’ being suspect or at least requiring a lot of unpacking.

          I can totally believe that Cali ineptitude made this disaster worse, but those claiming it has aren’t doing a very good job of arguing it!

          1. Three one million gallon reservoirs were full, the 117 million gallon reservoirs was empty.

            Of 120 million gallon reservoir capacity (that’s 3 plus 117 for Newsom and UnMe), 117 million was EMPTY.

            Hence Newsom and UnMe claim no water shortage.

          2. I took the liberty of doing just a bit of the research that you should be doing:

            https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/california-fire-hydrants-water-supply-why-how-b2678083.html

            “Some of that demand would’ve been met by a 117 million-gallon reservoir complex in the Pacific Palisades, but it sat out of use for repairs as the fires in the Palisades began. Officials estimate that had the Santa Ynez Reservoir been online, it would’ve cut demand on the area’s water system from four times to three times as high as normal.

            “You still would have ended up with serious drops in pressure,” former Department of Water and Power general manager Adams toldThe Los Angeles Times. “Would Santa Ynez [Reservoir] have helped? Yes, to some extent. Would it have saved the day? I don’t think so.””

            Okay so partly correct on the Santa Ynez reservoir. Critics are over-extending on this point but it’s still so disastrous that anyone who had a hand in not getting that reservoir fixed and filled should be politically game ended at once.

            The article also makes clear that the local system was never meant to fight this kind of fire, but given what we’ve seen with fires elsewhere and the direction of climate change, LA should have been proactive and thinking big to anticipate a fiery world. More control burns for one thing.

          3. UnMe

            You should reread the article you quoted.

            There was a water shortage.

            The 117 million gallon reservoir was empty. Empty means no water in it.

            You can argue that even if the 117 million gallon reservoir was full, there still wouldn’t have been enough water for these fires. Okay, that means even you are now saying there was a shortage of water.

            All your Dems have been screaming climate change will make these fires worst.

            So what did your brilliant Dems do? They got rid of dams. By the way, dams store water.

            Since you are into research, where are the water projects that are supposed to be part of the 2014 water bond?

            Perhaps I’m mistaken, but aren’t they still stuck in permitting?

            And why would they even propose $8 billion in water works if there’s no shortage of water?

          4. “They got rid of dams. By the way, dams store water. ”

            Storage of water in a damn or reservoir does not magically make it available for use in firefighting. The dams eliminated were often old and out of use and causing a lot of ecological problems in their rivers. Having old outdated dams in an earthquake-prone state is a bad idea.

          5. Something that makes water pressure disappear is burning down 10,000 houses opening up their plumbing to the great outdoors. They went from empty hydrants to flooding streets. If only every yard had sprinklers.

          6. So, UnMe … the grotesquely overpaid Fire Chief just said that IF the reservoir were online it would have improved water demand from 4x to 3x normal. And … ?? Water mains and design water pressures should be able to EASILY handle 3x normal demands. Good Gawd … that’s why these systems are designed for EMERGENCIES !!!

            And that’s why we have MULTIPLE bureaucratic Departments of PUBLIC SAFETY … at the State Level, County Level, and City Level … all staffed by grotesquely overpaid bureaucrats to ensure the redundancy and oversizing of utilities to provide for urgent … OVER normal demands.

            What this grotesquely overpaid (> $500k/year) Fire Chief just admitted … is that NONE of these bureaucracies … including HIM … did their jobs and built a system of fire hydrants and water mains that could actually HANDLE the job.

            Yes, we beleagured taxpayers have been paying a King’s Ransom in this State for grotesquely overpaid bureaucrats to engage in every useless program and activity that is a distraction from their PRIMARY job … to ensure and prepare for EMERGENCIES. No, they have to organize DEI workshops instead.

            Sorry … the Chief just admitted his own FAIL

          7. UnMe

            “Storing water in dams does not magically make it available for fire fighting”

            True, you might need something called a pump, along with some pipes.

            But that seems to be beyond the capabilities of California Democrats.
            Based on their record, they’d take ten years to plan the pump and pipeline, ten years to permit them, and ten years to build it.

        2. Onion does love his Slimy Greasy Gavin. No lie is too big for Newscum to smile through.
          I’ve seen other diehard Cali DeMarxist politicos this week emanating the same, tired, irresponsible excuses, absolving themselves of any responsibility.
          That’s not leadership. Other than Trudope’s escapades, I’ve never seen a more weak, incompetent, pathetic political class than Cali Demarxists, in such times of trouble.

  4. gotta love the nicknames that are coming out; Lieawatha, Joe Bribem.
    the best comedy is based on truths.

  5. ‘fact’ checking.
    uhuh, a variation on ‘who’s watching the watchdogs’
    ps no mention of the dams newscum blew up.

      2. I rarely agree with you but those dams were located on the Klamath River in Northern California near the Oregon border. It would require a feat of engineering and massive construction to redirect water from those dams to Los Angeles.

  6. So, if we are to believe the UnMe’s and Dizzy’s of the world, the fires are out of control in LA because of the incredible competence of Cali’s governance.
    This is SOP for the leftards, after all, they’ll tell you that mutilating kid’s genitalia is “affirming care.”
    They are, in short, both batsh*t crazy and evil.

  7. heyo onionme, here are some urls to check out:
    ‘fire facts’
    ht tps gavinnewsom.com slash california-fire-facts/

    1. that one goes here, aka ‘californicate fire foundation’:
      ht tp s secure.actblue dot com slash donate slash cfd-em-la-fire-2025

      1. aaaaaand ye olde ‘donate’ button at the bottom goes here:

        ht t ps secure.actblue dot com slash donate slash cfd-em-la-fire-2025
        with a note at the bottom about ‘actblue’ registered charity bla bla

  9. soooooo then we look up ‘ActBlue’ in Wiki

    aaaaaand find out its all about fundraising

  10. Newsom is allegedly working with developers to convert zoning in Pacific
    Palisades from R1 (single family) to R3 (apartments)

    Let ME Fact Check this statement that Newsom called a LIE … it’s “Partially True”

    Two days after Newsom survived the recall and was re-elected he signed into law that vile LGBTQueer Scott Weiner’s Bill which ELIMINATED R-1 single family zoning … THROUGHOUT California. There already is NO SINGLE FAMILY ZONING in every incinerated community. The homeowners, or new owners can build Duplexes + 2 ADU’s on their property … 4-units minimum per (former) single family lot. And those ADU’s no longer require parking stalls, if they’re located within 1/2 mile of a bus stop.

    So one homeowner may choose to rebuild their original single family home while a 2-1/2 story 4-plex that covers virtually every square foot of their property goes up next door … and next door … and across the street. Have you seen homes of people who wouldn’t sell out to developers surrounded by high rise buildings? Yeah … it will look like that.

    There is NOTHING local cities can do about it. It is State Law … that Newsom signed. He knows that. And HE is the LIAR. Those communities are wrecked … FOREVER. Newsom wrecked them.

    1. Excellent. At least there’s a silver lining to this horror show. Good on California for enhancing property rights and alleviating the housing shortage!

      1. Spoken by someone who truly despises … The American Dream. Of home ownership and economic independence.

        Ya know what I can do here in my single family detached home? I can spin my vinyl and crank my mono-blocked twin McIntsoh MC-275 amps up to ‘11’ … and none of my neighbors can hear it as my Marvin Windows and foam insulated walls prevent me from disturbing their peace. Try that in your 4-plex.

        Yeah … for me … that’s MY American Dream.

        1. You’d be shocked at how good modern sound insulation is. I know I was when I first moved into my place.

          You know what you can do with your single family home when zoning is eliminated? Sell it to be almost ANYTHING. That’s what America is about, not pretending we live in Pleasantville and forcing everyone to indulge this delusion.

          1. You’d be shocked that I actually know what STC and IIC ratings are in multi-family walls and floors. Intimately well.

            As to my “Pleasantville delusion” … it’s a shit load better than being stuck in unpleasantville … where you appear to be Mayor

          2. Cry more. No one is forcing you out of your house, you just don’t get to force (as much) of your preferences on your neighbors.

          3. Speaking of Pleasantville … my absolute favorite Monkees tune is “Pleasant Valley Sunday” …

            https://youtu.be/h2xRPOn9LQE

            Nice lead riff by Michael Nesmith. The song was written by Carole King as a critique of suburban (single family) life. But I never took it as criticism … because I LOVE my Pleasant Valley Sundays. Yeah, and charcoal burning everywhere (that you FAKE greens want to ban).

            So Carole King writes a scathing song about enjoying a beautiful lifestyle in our single family homes … but let’s see where Carole has chosen to live … shall we?

            https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/inside-carole-kings-luxury-idaho-ranch/story?id=44237919

          4. What ‘delusion’??? That of not living five feet from some Indian/Paki/Somalian gimmigrant family of 27 because the likes of you have forced legislation banning single family homes that have been the cornerstone of American suburbia for generations??
            Go and live in Delhi and Mogadishu if you want to be enriched, leave us alone.

          5. UnMe, stop kidding us about having your own place. Everyone on this blog knows that you live in your mother’s basement – tell her I said hi BTW – permanently ensconced on an old brown corduroy beanbag chair from the 1970’s, smoking cheap ditchweed shake and pleasuring yourself to old dog-eared copies of ‘Scat Party’ and ‘Pre-teen Beauty.’

          6. unme has sound insulation.
            thats giving me . . . . ideas.
            aka ‘in space no one can hear you scream’
            and neither in unme hovel either apparently.
            like l said, giving me ideas.

      3. property ‘rights’.
        you bet!!! the ‘right’ to plop a godam tenement bldg in a given bldg site or, or,
        OR the ‘right’ to NOT have it plopped next door.
        so the ‘rights’ alllllll depend on WHO has WHAT ‘right’.
        stop ‘reinterpreting’ every godam fact figure and post unmebot

        1. ” the ‘right’ to NOT have it plopped next door”

          That’s not a right, that’s a restriction of someone else’s rights. The kind that has driven up the COL.

          1. So it’s not a ‘right’ to build a single family home, but is a ‘right’ to build multifamily residences to support your unsupportable mass migration from the 3rd world? Got it.

          3. I live in a modest R-10 … 1/4 acre neighborhood. My property has been zoned that way since about 1948 when my local County created the parcel. Ya wanna build multi-family EVERYWHERE as if that’s gonna solve the housing problem? Fine … do it on NEW parcels that haven’t been Zoned single family yet. You’re changing the rules of the game that were established 75 years ago. Anyone who believes that is “fair” or “equitable” is a nasty POS.

            And note to UnMe … when everyone builds 4-plexes throughout my neighborhood … the property values will crater as the quality of life craters. As our infrastructure… including schools are overwhelmed. As my neighborhood gets filled with a more marginal element that can suddenly afford to live here and bring their incompatible “cultures” and habits … everyone who can flee (like me) will do so. Just like we all know of “white flight” into suburbia … there will a “white flight” echo OUT of suburbia and into the wide open spaces. It’s basic economics and human nature. The State is simply moving the ghetto into suburbia. The ignorance of these SICK policy makers is stunning

          4. ” You’re changing the rules of the game that were established 75 years ago. ”

            Damn right I am. Your ‘game’ is tyranny and you don’t have a right to keep people you don’t like out of your neighborhood.

          5. Hahaha ha … you wreck our neighborhoods … and we’ll MOVE … again. No, we do NOT want to live with people who don’t share our values. So enjoy your newest ghetto. Because YOU can’t FORCE ME to live anywhere near you.

        2. Here in Alberta the WEFer mayors and councils of Edmonton & Calgary have enthusiastically embraced the idea of 15 minute communities and lifting most all residential zoning restrictions. Many older areas are now infested with 2 & 3 story high MURBs (MultiUnitResidentialBuildings). It has been said that architecture reflects culture – if so our culture is in a heap of trouble. Soon we’ll all be living (existing?) in pods in a gulag with no green spaces, outsourcing childcare to strangers, pre-occupied with materialism and on a never-ending quest for novelty. And Calgary mayor Gondek recently commented that unaffordability of home ownership was actually a good thing because it relieved us of the worry & responsibility of mortgages, property maintenance & taxes. Sunny ways indeed. Somewhere Klaus Schwab must have been smiling broadly.

        3. Try living next door to a used car lot. Or garbage dump. Or both.
          Personally I like to see some grass and tress next door but that’s just me.

    2. Cali’s property tax methodology is unplumbed madness, but so is their “tax the rich” methodology.
      The governance is actually going after the middle class, the rich and the poor at the same time, they make the UK or Canada look like a paragon of sanity, but unlike Canada, you won’t die of exposure in Cali from living in a tent.

      1. Prop13 made everything worse because now it makes no sense to relocate to live closer to your job, you just hold onto your place forever to avoid a bump in property tax. = bad traffic

        1. They are a bunch of freakin’ morons engaged in social engineering experiments with a “Devil take the hindmost” attitude, then scratching their heads in perplexity as the place goes to hell, and then saying “eff it, lets blame the rich and fundraise offa the horror.”

        2. Huh? So how have all those H1-b Visa-holding Hindu Indians managed to essentially take-over the entire city of Fremont and environs … a short drive to their Silicon Valley jobs? And what of all the remaining elements of “remote work” … wherein most people I know only have to show up physically in the office 3-days a week?

          You’re an utter FOOL who just sings his leftist doxology

        3. perfect example of unmebot’s selective thinking.
          l am utterly UNAWARE of any incident anywhere in north america of anyone FORCED to put a single family home anywhere.
          ah, but, ZONING bylaws DICTATE if one CHOOSES to build in a given neighborhood it MUST be consistent with the neighborhood, ie NO high rises, NO retail, NO manufacturing. etc.
          got that unmebot? do cite ANY case where ANYONE EVER in north amarica was COMPELLED to put up ANY kind of building.
          IT DOESNT HAPPEN THAT WAY. the only COMPELLED stuff is for example BUILDING CODES MUST BE OBSERVED.
          jeezuz murphy you are on sorry little squishy basement dweller.

  11. At least Nero only fiddled while the empire burned.
    The left actually fundraises off of it, with some success, it seems.
    We truly do live in Bizarro world.

  12. Newscum cut $100 million from the current firefighting budget.

    True the amount is still higher than the 2019 budget, but Newscum still cut $100 million.

    In fact the current budget is much, much higher than the 1924 firefighting budget.

    Newscum is the California version of Justin Trudeau; a serial liar, and nothing is his fault or responsibility.

    1. Notice the weasel words that Newsom used by saying the State has “invested” $2 Billion in Fire fighting.

      Anytime I hear a politician say they’ve “invested” in something … it’s time to hold onto your wallets and RUN!! And in this case it’s just utter bullshit.

      1. When you grocery shop are you “investing in your health” or just feeding yourself? When politicians borrow and tax to increase a DEI bureaucracy they label it “investing in a community” rather than “wasting money”. Wonder how much of the $2 billion went to asshat DEI programs vs new trucks and pumpers.

        1. How much of the state investments ended up in the grubby little hands of Nancy Pelosi, who amassed an estimated $120 million fortune on a Congressional salary.

  13. This tragedy can be mitigated with some disaster capitalism a la the Shock Doctrine. Newsom should end all density limits on redevelopment of the affected areas. Ideally the Palisades would be one giant apartment/condo complex. This would ameliorate the devastation faced by those living there because they can sell their property for more and ameliorate the housing shortage.

    1. there ya have it unmebot, exchange the devastation of entire communities burned to the ground as if the officials did everything necessary for that outcome, for the devastation of your kids having to sneak past the human garbage shooting up in the hallways of some run down tenement.
      burrrrrrilliant.

      1. Only boomers and rednecks think that is what apartment living or city life in general is like.

        1. How’s downtown living working out in say, NYC, SF, LA, Chicago where the Dumbocrats have ruled for decades? South side of Chicago apartment living is particularly ‘vibrant’ with dozens of shootings per week.

          1. SF LA and Chicago are bad places that are too expense to live and rife with antisocial behavior, though not for lack of police. NYC is quite safe it’s just crushingly expensive. Same with Boston.

        2. Only the moron liberals want humans to live in ultradense conditions while at the same time virtue signaling by paying extra for chicken and beef that was specifically raised with more living space.

    2. Anyone who believes the highest and best use of every piece of property is high density housing is truly sick in the head. Instead … I believe that politics and regulations are LOCAL … as our US Constitution declares. Central Planning is always bad planning. Local cities should be able to create and manage their own unique General Plans. One that is supported by the LOCAL people.

      There is PLENTY of land throughout the massive land area of Los Angeles County to PROPERLY locate high density housing … and it’s NOT Pacific Palisades or Malibu. And if you bother to check out how LA county satisfied the State of CA Housing MANDATE (a total shitshow of government overreach) … you’ll see that Los Angeles voted to consolidate ALL the State MANDATED new housing units in currently-zoned high density neighborhoods. They specifically EXCLUDED all single family neighborhoods. Look it up.

      2. Yes … Reason Mag. … a BIG-L Libertarian rag. As-in they believe in NO GOVERNMENT!! For anything. An odd position to argue by a communist such as you.

        Yeah, and as to the “taking” of property by zoning laws? Good luck with that … I believe the courts have settled that Law.

        Yeah, THIS conservative actually BELIEVES in government (community) … LOCAL government, where we all can vote to organize our communities as we see fit. And when that “fit” goes wrong … our community can vote to change it.

        That’s why MY COMMUNITY hasn’t defunded our police … or our Fire Departments. We have LOCAL … COMMUNITY control over that. Hence … our crime rates are minimal … while they are exploding in nearby Oakland and SanFrancisco

        1. “we all can vote to organize our communities as we see fit. ”

          There is no ‘we’.

          “when that “fit” goes wrong … our community can vote to change it.”

          But you don’t, hence the necessity of forcing freedom down your throats.

      4. Governments have a uniquely uncanny way of “solving” problems, picking the biggest and thorniest because they must be seen as Doing Something. Almost always these problems are intractable as they’ve been in the making for decades if not generations. Bloated bureaucracies, budgets and taxes coupled with abject failure are the inevitable result. Tent cities are but one issue. So let’s riddle this – In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and ensuing economic woes there weren’t any tent cities in Moscow!!! ????

  14. You have to wonder about the donations being funneled through the ActBlue website… after they take their 4% cut, what “charities” are they funding for wildfire relief? How much of the donations going to those charities is actually directed to relief efforts, and how much is lost in the “overhead” of salaries and other expenses that do not contribute to the relief effort.

    There are relief organizations that direct virtually all received donations to actual relief efforts. Catholic Charities is one (and there are several other good ones as well). It makes little sense to donate through ActBlue when you can just as easily donate directly to the charity of your choice without the 4% being carved out.

    1. And if you donate to the Red Cross … a percentage of your donation will go to The Red Crescent … to aid Gaza “victims”

      1. Are you serious? Good grief, is there not one organization not infected by Islamic leeches?

  16. This is not fact-checking, it’s damage control. And the more damage that is done, the more the people in charge will dig in their heels and fight back.

    There is a process for changing the narrative. For example, reports came in that Oregon fire trucks were being stopped at the border and forced to have emission checks before being sent to the fires, thus wasting precious time. The fact-checking stated that, first of all there were 70 trucks and not 64 as originally reported, and that the trucks were not being turned back, they were being safety-checked before being put into duty, hence the delay. Notice the change in the narrative, from “being stopped at the border” to “being turned back”? Also note that despite the trucks being subjected to safety inspections (what? they don’t do that in Oregon?) and not emissions tested, there was still a delay in the trucks getting to the fire so the original story was true but was fact-checked as false.

    Climate change didn’t work this time so they’re going after “misinformation” by fact-checking (aka changing the narrative). The net result is going to be the same. The same idiots will remain in charge and nothing will be done to prevent (or reduce the severity of) the next fire.

    I find myself kind of rooting for the fires. The more out-of-control they get, the more damage they cause, the more likely enough people will get fed up and vote for a change.

    1. Funny thing … I hold a CA professional license. And I have received “reciprocity” from several other Western States. My license is good in: Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and Idaho … by reciprocity.

      It’s hard to believe that “First Responders” and their equipment don’t receive the same kind of reciprocity … long before they try to “practice” in our State.

      1. Also hard to believe Oregon fire trucks would show up in California, not safe to fight fires.

  17. Unme
    Just wondering exactly how many families live in your heroes homes? How many sq ft are there places? And of course there isn’t a need for security.

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