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basilico:
Gov Newscum has been lying and exaggerating about his fire mitigation process. Billions budgeted for, no projects done.

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/01/13/blaming-climate-change-for-la-fires-only-makes-newsom-look-even-more-incompetent/

Democrats have given him $50 million to use in resisting Trump deportation program. Looksnlike they seriously need a new voting block as black voters support continues to dwindle.

Critics on social media have alleged that Mayor Karen Bass cut the city fire department’s budget by $23 million this year. The accusation has spread quickly, with many looking to cast blame for the devastating wildfires that have destroyed thousands of buildings in Los Angeles County this week and resulted in at least 4 deaths.

In her story on criticism’s of Mayor Bass during this crisis, reporter Linh Tat addressed the budget question.

“On Thursday, a spokesperson for L.A. City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, who was budget chair last year, said the city increased the fire department’s overall budget by approximately $53 million in the current fiscal year. However, $76 million – intended to pay for fire department personnel – was placed in a fund separate from the fire department’s regular account when the budget was adopted because contract negotiations with department employees were still taking place at the time.”


As a result, if you just compare the LAFD’s budget last year to this year’s, it looks like it went down $23M. But that’s because when the budget was adopted last May or June, the city was still negotiating those new contracts. The $76M that was set aside in a separate account ultimately was moved once the MOUs were finalized.

But some news outlets and critics of L.A. Mayor Karen Bass suggested this week that there were cuts to areas of the fire department’s budget.

basilico:
I'll revisit ...
Updated . This sums up the California fires.

Unbelievable.
They cut the funding of the firefighters.
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Deeprooted:


Not even up to a million naira

Desusi:
Is it $770 dollars only to be given each landlord or $770,000? What a crazy world! The 770 dollars is not enough for only lunch?

CUMIN:
770 dollars can't even last a week in California.

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beyep:
770 dollars he should have bother instead assisted in making the insurance company comr through.

The people living in the area millionaires 770dos is a insult to them

forgiveness:
What is 770 to property worth hundreds of thousands dollars?

slaypapa:
God destroy California for a reason

radautoworks:
Cold weather, grilled cheese sandwich and tomato basil soup. If you know, you know

(Hubby had a turkey avocado melt).

givedemwotowoto:
LA fire department and other departments are focusing on the wrong things. Once you start prioritizing DEI over competence, things eventually horribly go wrong

Thousands of protesters gathered in Paris to celebrate the death of French far-right figure Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Demonstrators were seen setting off fireworks and chanting slogans in the capital’s Place de la République on Tuesday. Some brandished placards including “The dirty racist is dead” and “A beautiful day.”
Earlier that day, Le Pen, the founder of France’s right-wing National Front party, died at the age of 96.
Le Pen was a polarising figure in France and was convicted multiple times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence.

Similar gatherings took place in other French cities, including Lyon and Marseille.
Senior French officials slammed the “shameful” street celebrations. “Nothing, absolutely nothing justifies dancing on a corpse,” said Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau.
By contrast, left-wing France Unbowed politician Mathilde Panot saw what she called the “spirit of Charlie” in action. Le Pen’s death coincided with the 10th anniversary of a fatal shooting at the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper by Islamist militants.
A family funeral for Le Pen is to be held on Saturday in his home town in Brittany. In her first public reaction, his daughter Marine Le Pen called him a “warrior” and said many people were mourning him.

Double0h7:
I'm checking out Sia!

Her feature on a kendrick lamar tune finally woke me up to her gift because I've been avoiding our modern sisters in the media... for sending us back 500 years 😢

You, through Jack millionaire, brought me to Sia 😂

budaatum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MkYz_BpmMo?si=VtBMr4jheN2J8pF9

basilico:
That bill, would be nice to know how many pages it was and how many touched on the FEMA funding.
If you knew a bottle of cyanide had been emptied into the newly renamed Gulf of America, would you go swimming there?

Ibime:
Trump couldn't because he was challenged at every point by civil society including in his own party and in his own Government . Make no mistake he requested it from all of them from Bill Barr to Comey to Ukraine who he asked to investigate Biden.

Now he has absolute power, he will unscrupulously wreck anyone he sees fit.

Democrats didn't do anything they said Trump will do. You're starting to sound like the deranged people. Even Republicans (of which you were one) opposed Trump and any decent person even in his own party will fight against that criminal abomination to their party and civil society and they did. When your own party establishment are the ones against you and you keep saying "they're out to get me", that's because you are the problem. Bush is your problem, Cheneys are your problem. McConnell, McCain and Romney are out to get you, that's because you are an unscrupulous criminal and everyone agrees, even your side. There is a no witchunt if you are an actual witch.

The only reason he has been saved from facing real accountability was to prevent a civil war and because Republicans were scared of getting primaried by his deranged fan base. Everything from tax fraud to perjury to hush money to attempted election fraud in Georgia, to organising fake electors, to insurrection, to engaging a foreign state to prosecute his opponents is on his record, and any single one of these will take down any decent President like it did to Nixon.

Trump 4 years was not more prosperous than anything before, he just caught the tail end of the low interest rate environment and The Fed QE balance sheet response to the great recession of 2008 that pumped equities. If Trump was in power 2020 to 2024, Republicans will be booted out like any other incumbent unlucky enough to be in power for the post pandemic economic shivers.

Ibime:
That speaks more about the nature of who is in power and how democratic/autocratic they will be.

Biden didn't kill Musk, they could have crippled him with various infractions he has committed before the Security and Exchange Commission. But Trump and the Republican establishment will absolutely crush in this 2nd term. Zuck recognises an unscrupulous autocrat when he sees one, and he has bent the knee.

There is nothing scandalous in the claims he made except he is trying to suck up to the mad people on the Republican side. I will be proud as a health official to say I censored information that discouraged people from getting vaccinated. Only in Trumpanzeeland is that a crime. Every country and health ministry worth its salt fought against anything that would discourage their citizens from being vaccinated and achieving herd immunity.

LordBiden:
They didn't say he is not guilty,just that the office of president comes with immunity.

The fact that you love trump doesn't mean you should leave your brain elsewhere when commenting.

Mood11:
Getting better at making Pancakes

First picture, yesterday.
Pancakes and some watermelons.

Second picture, today.
Pancakes and scrambled eggs. There’s purple cabbage and some carrots in the egg.

Oh! The topping is honey

basilico:
Are you working for the wrong employer? Might want to consider this LA department .
Pretty impressive overtime Huh.
Some of these are directly involved in the current emergency responses.

IjeBos:
Nkwobi

IjeBos:
Nothing better than hot pepper soup when you get back in at 5am.

Ojuntana:
It is usually hard to judge these kind of cases with religion as the base

Their prophet married a 6 year old girl and raped her at 9

He kept sex slaves and encouraged his followers to do same

They are simply following the dictates of their religion

In a society that upholds freedom of religion, how do you prosecute a man for following the examples of his prophet?
Isn't that religious persecution?

armyofone:

Just small...not much noise you know me

PDPGuy:
He learned it from Nairaland 🤣🤣

AmazonTopaz:
Don't worry he is going to fumble it and ruin it and Americans will rightfully deserve it.

basilico:
P/S. I know so little about these matters.

armyofone:
Blessed New Year to you and cococandy and everyone here!