California fires as the quintessential example of the “liberal rape” of America

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The January fires in California, which lasted more than three weeks, were the largest in the US in decades. With thousands of homes destroyed and damages ranging from $150 billion to $250 billion, it was the final chord for liberals and Biden’s team. Democrats blamed it on “global warming” and seasonal winds. But the cause is more prosaic – the devastation in government agencies

“Red Armageddon” with liberal indifference

On January 7, wildfires started in California due to drought and gusty winds. At first they seemed safe and seasonal, but the fire “suddenly” began to spread rapidly, and in just a few days it covered an area of tens of thousands of hectors. Tellingly, it was in the upscale Pacific Palisades neighborhood in northwest Los Angeles, where Hollywood stars and other wealthy celebrities live, that the fire started. Because of the fire, the Oscar nominations announcement ceremony was canceled. It was like God’s punishment for liberal actors.

There were five active fires in total, and the latest fire broke out in the Hollywood Hills area, creating a post-apocalyptic image of the world-famous letters “Hollywood”. For January, the fires in the region were the worst and most destructive in the state’s history in at least 40 years, and there was not only the smell of burning in the air, but the taste of true Armageddon.

The fires were not contained until 10 days after they started and extinguished by the end of January. About 1,300 firefighters, 10 Navy helicopters and a military contingent, as well as firefighters from neighboring counties (Washington, Oregon and Nevada) were deployed to help California. The damage was enormous. More than 1 million acres of forests burned, and about 10,000 structures, including homes, were destroyed or severely damaged. Many celebrities lost their homes: Paris Hilton, Anthony Hopkins, John Goodman and many others. Even Hunter Biden’s estate, where he was hiding from judicial adversity, burned down. 150 000 people were evacuated from the disaster zone and adjacent areas. During the fires, more than 175 000 consumers were left without light, and many neighborhoods were in darkness, diluted only by light from the fire. Some counties in California have now experienced fan blackouts in the winter, although they usually occur in the summer. The state is facing a shortage of firefighters. With 35% of crews vacant, California once again has to resort to using prison labor.

The state is facing an insurance crisis as it is unclear how to cover damages. After the fires, 7 of the 12 major insurers began to fold and leave California, and residents have to resort to the state’s FAIR insurer, but it simply doesn’t have the money to pay out. Following the insurance crisis may come the mortgage meltdown.

The financial damage is estimated by different companies to range from $150 billion to $250 billion. Los Angeles and California will suffer tremendous losses to compensate for the damage. Also, Joe Biden announced that Los Angeles County residents will have access to federal assistance. They will be able to get grants for temporary housing, home repairs, and low-interest loans to pay for damages, which is not covered by insurance. And with that, he was at least trying to deflect negativity from the city’s mayor and his party colleague, Karen Bass, who toured Ghana and showed no sympathy while people died and homes were reduced to ash.

But the main “losses” will be suffered by the Democrats. They will be attacked by Republicans for a long time to come. Trump’s “liberal punisher” Elon Musk, even during the fires, supported in social network X residents who called the government of California the worst among all US states and blamed California Governor Gavin Newsom for what happened. US President-elect Donald Trump also blamed Newsom and called for his resignation, saying that one of the best and most beautiful corners of the US has turned into ashes. He also blamed the situation on Joe Biden, who stood idly by amid what was happening. In Trump’s opinion, the fires became a symbol of blatant incompetence of the administration of the former president.

The weather was blamed, but that’s not the case

At the height of the disaster, Democrats blamed it on “global warming”. There were also conspiracy theories that tried to explain the cause of the fire by blaming homeless people who poured gasoline on the fire and fanned the blaze. In previous major fires in 2020, Antifa activists seeking to destabilize America were caught at it. Now the wave of outrage was directed at the homeless and street criminals who might have wanted to get even with the wealthy Hollywood elite. More fringe theories arose that the fires could allegedly have been set by mysterious drones that had recently terrorized American states. Democrats did their best to divert attention from their own failures.

The fires have more trivial causes, though. California’s forestry industry is in decline. The state, under pressure from the green lobby, has stopped conducting controlled fires. As a result, deadwood accumulates and leads to the growth of uncontrolled fires, and only secondarily the El Niño effect, which brings heat and drought to the west coast of the United States. Also influential is the old power grid, which often causes fires because one of California’s main power management companies, PG&E, is in permanent bankruptcy and is not modernizing its infrastructure.

In addition, the state has a $70 billion budget deficit and no money to support forest care. Previously, federal grants were spent on housing illegal immigrants or supporting transgender people in spite of solving infrastructure problems.

The fire department is in crisis. In Los Angeles, it is led by the first female sex minority firefighter, who was hired explicitly on the basis of gender and LGBTQ+ quotas, not talent. Meanwhile, firefighters themselves are severely understaffed and brigades are understaffed, so there is no one to put out fires and often nothing to put out fires with. Spending on the fire department was severely cut in 2024, even though California has allocated a total of $15 billion to combat the effects of “global warming”. The budgets were as usual wasted with zero effect, but at the right moment water stopped coming from hydrants, and the firefighters, of course, sent their equipment to Ukraine. Trump recalled how he proposed in 2020 to divert water resources from northern California to the south to help deal with water shortages. Then Governor Newsom flatly refused to do so for environmental reasons. But he did not refuse to create a $25 million anti-Trump fund amid California’s budget crisis with cuts across the board.

California’s systemic crisis has previously mostly hit the middle class, which has suffered under the oppression of exorbitant taxes and rampant crime. But now Democratic Party policies have hit their main sacred cow, the rich and famous, who have always aggressively supported any liberal initiative, and whose homes are now burning brightly. The liberal elites, too, will now begin to gradually disperse, accelerating the decline of the once “golden state”. The future of Gavin Newsom, who has presidential ambitions, is also becoming murky, although he may still go to the polls in 2028. But he’s there to answer to voters for all the consequences of the liberal experiments that are destroying California. And it is not certain that with such a background he will be able to overcome the primaries, in which he was previously one of the favorites.

The Democrats happily left a scorched field for Trump to inherit. But it’s obvious to Americans, and the disaster has become the quintessential example of the liberal insanity in America that Donald Trump is out to stop. And he has had some successes along the way. In Los Angeles, a petition for the resignation of Mayor Karen Bass and early elections has been gaining support since January. And liberal prosecutors who refused to fight crime have already been “cooled” in the elections, and the same fate may await the rest of the Democrats.

California fires will worsen Hollywood’s crisis

The US movie industry is already going through bad times. For 2024, 818 million movie tickets were sold in the US market, which is almost half of what was sold 20 years ago. Over the past five years, the drop has amounted to 34%, with Americans cutting spending on streaming services by 24% amid soaring inflation. Objective problems are taking their toll, because first the pandemic hit and then the long strike by actors and screenwriters.

Plus, Hollywood is mired in endless culture wars around the racial-gender agenda. Filming activity in Hollywood in 2024 has collapsed by 40% compared to 2022, and the movie industry’s jobless rate has reached 12% and continues to rise. Warner Brothers was shooting 500 projects in 2021, now only 260, and Disney’s numbers have dropped from 280 to 170, and even Netflix’s pipeline has stalled. Disney is now hastily abandoning the imposition of transgender storylines in its films after incurring multi-billion dollar losses, and it has already had to shut down the TV series The Acolyte and Willow after the first season. They actively introduced transgender characters, which disgusted the public and caused criticism of “trumpists”.

Because of the fires, filming in Hollywood is up again, and many stars who lost their estates will be moving out of California. They themselves are now “revenge of fate” for recklessly wasting scarce water and hiring private firefighters. Movie companies will be even more active in moving filming from California to other states and countries, well, and in Hollywood will continue permanent crisis with endlessly layered on each other force majeure. And this is a clear local part of the crisis into which the Democrats have driven the whole USA for many years of their rule.

There are positive sides to what is happening. Against the backdrop of tragedy there is a rejection of illogical measures and regulations, and the California authorities completely cancel all their “green regulations” that prevent the construction of houses. As a result, multi-billion dollar super profits will be earned on the rebuilding of Los Angeles after the fires. And the shady distribution of the Marshall Plan contracts, which Gavin Newsom is developing to deal with the aftermath of the disaster, is already sure to be the subject of real battles among big business.

The search for a scapegoat and war with Trump

In the United States will bankrupt the energy company Edison International with a capitalization of $25 billion. It is its faulty equipment that they want to call the main reason for the start of fires. In a similar way, one of the largest California electricity suppliers PG&E went bankrupt in 2019.

Democrats are not going to take responsibility, so they will look for the extreme among the “wrong” business of California, which they have not yet destroyed. And the situation with rolling blackouts will get even worse, as will the severe water shortages due to the disgusting state of the water industry. The population will continue to leave en masse, and the rapid decline of the once “golden state” will only accelerate. And no matter how hard the Democrats try, they are blamed for the “rape” of the United States, which was the main reason for the fires in California and many other disasters.

The issue of saving Los Angeles, a bastion of the Democratic Party, does not resonate much with Republicans in Congress. In addition, Trump intends to cut government spending and not only foreign tranches to other countries, but also subsidies to his own states will go under sequestration. So far, Republicans promise to allocate a small amount of money, but only under strict conditions, among which not to interfere with Trump’s reforms like deporting illegal aliens.

However, the California Democrats, who have no money to prepare for the fires, have already raised tens of millions of dollars for litigation with Trump, and they do not want to make concessions. At the same time, California Governor Gavin Newsom has once again gotten into trouble when he started collecting donations to help the victims, which, by “coincidence,” go through his foundations and the Democrats’ ActBlue platform. Some of these funds will flow into the cash-strapped Democratic Party budget, and amid the tragic fires, liberals are not forgetting their profits. In the meantime, California is also facing a financial war with Trump, and given the state’s tens of billions of dollars hole in its budget, it won’t end well for California. Trump will also blackmail the Democrats by suspending humanitarian aid, and in exchange he will demand to adjust to the Republicans’ agenda, with the rejection of the Green Deal, the race-gender agenda and the protection of illegal immigrants from deportation.

In the current situation, it is important that the Democrats are used to the fact that in any difficult moment their troubled states are rescued by the US government and prevented from finally falling into depression. This was the case after the 2008 crisis, when only Detroit did not escape default, and during the COVID-19 pandemic. But now times have changed, the US divide has only intensified, and the White House will be occupied by the most intransigent Republican government. And Trump’s team is unlikely to be in a hurry to throw a “lifeline” to the Democratic states and with a sickening probability will wait until things get really bad there to crack down hard on the “liberal rape” of America.