Is NOT right, and seems to be ‘typical’ of Commiefornia…
When dreamy, beach-adjacent Pacific Palisades became a moonscape after the conflagration that started on Jan. 7, 2025, homes worth billions of dollars, lifetime bodies of work by musicians and artists, and prized real estate in one of the best areas of L.A. became dust. Many fire victims want to rebuild and reclaim their old community. However, it didn’t take long before the state and local leaders who had promised to move mountains to streamline the rebuilding process began to have other ideas. Instead of receiving help from Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom, they and state Democrats dragged out the permitting. And now it appears we know why.
The Palisades and Altadena fires left 15,000 structures in cinders and thousands of people without homes.
Now, using lack of housing in the state as an excuse, Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA planners are considering instituting planning changes that would play the Palisades like a game of Tetris, placing hundreds of units of low-income housing in areas where previously there had been two.
Full article, HERE from PJ Media.
Why does this NOT surprise me? Just like their ‘two week’ approvals to rebuild are apparently taking up to two months!!!
And I’m betting they will not pay what the people want for the land. Any bets on them doing eminent domain when they don’t get what they want? And prime properties with ‘views’ for ‘selected’ contractors…
Not that this is anything new…
Grrr…
Karen Bass’ term is up in 2026. She will probably seek reelection, and she will probably win it. It’s sort of like Mayor Wilson Goode in Philadelphia. He ordered the bombing of a neighborhood which caused a similar conflagration. Was he run out of town? No. He was re-elected. It’s the voters.
You need to provide a LOT more context on the 1985 MOVE fire in Philly. They were not choirboys and the fire didn’t just happen.
They were a bunch of black radicals who had a habit of shooting at firemen during calls among other delightful games and they had turned that row house into a fortress using railroad ties stacked up to build shooting hides with loopholes inside the house. They staged yet another armed confrontation when their children were in the house and retreated inside to begin the siege. The cops were trying to enter from the roof and dropped explosives to break a pillbox on the roof to clear the way which ignited gasoline stored with a generator up there.
The fire dept refused to attack the fire until they were sure they weren’t going to be shot, and by that time the fire wasn’t controllable and the whole row was lost.
I attended Drexel U in 1974-75 and MOVE had a house in the area so we heard all about them. Goode was mayor but AFAIK did not have command authority.
Close but no cigar.
The PA State Police dropped an “Explosive device” AKA satchel charge to demolish the bunker on the roof. The tar roof smoldered then caught fire.
The fire department did not respond because the police thought the fire would drive out the MOVE members from their row house. It did not. As you stated, when they did attempt to fight it it was too late.
The previous MOVE confrontations ended up with a dead police officer so no quarter was given.
I played hockey with both fireman and police officers at that time and my sister was a nurse and dating a Hwy Patrol officer.
You are correct that Wilson B Goode took no responsibility for his ordered actions.
And yet – the California voter will continue to vote for their abusers. I just don’t get it !
That’s easy. Look at the new voter demographics.
Beach-side Section-8 housing! Whod’a thunk it? And how long before Malibu Beach looks like San Diego?
Because either too many voting for their handouts and/or plain old corruption in the vote counting.
Same philosophy as Mamdani in New York. At least he’s more open about being a socialist (but he does keep denying he’s a Communist).
California is weird , as a kid in Texas I thought it would be cool to go see , the Navy took me there many times , after that I wasn’t “California Dreaming” . Just too many people. Maybe if I was rich? ……..Nah , still wouldn’t live there .
* Side note , I think many of the near recent fires there were started on purpose by bad humans or aliens .
From the Palisades News
Ballots cast in the five voting precincts that largely constitute the Palisades (9005918A, 9005919A, 9005929A, 9001382A, 9007693D) overwhelmingly went to Harris compared with the now President-elect and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (who threw his support behind the Republican nominee in late August.)
Both my Sympathy and Give a S**t meters are staying on the left peg.
I am not sure that California votes are one hundred percent clean and honest. My basic view is that I do not trust the ballots in any jurisdiction that went for Harris.
Now, this could be perceived as paranoia and circular reasoning on my part.
But, we do have a fairly gnarly dispute resolution problem where ‘what rules should elections follow’ is concerned.
The history of elections in this country has a long period about which disputes can be raised, and it is certainly contentious to assume that only certain elements of those are admissible, and only in precisely the way that serves faction M in this current moment.
My understanding of 2020 is that we have basically proven that rich minority academics do not authoritatively represent poor minorities. Likewise, rich elected minorities and poor minorities. That these proxies would hold was the basic premise for a lot of recent decades of election law, case law, and preferential hiring in various situations.
The commies have had plans in place to do this for this for YEARS. Just like the destruction of Lahaina has seen almost NO homes rebuilt. All part of a plan.
I’m not convinced California is filled with that many ignorant people. Maybe voting security will become national law, the real tallies will appear, and the derelicts will find they don’t like being spit on while they motivate around town.
The low income housing is the death nell for neighborhoods. Businesses flee, crime increases, and finding a place to buy groceries becomes a long trip across town. Turning the Palisades into a ghetto is par for the course with the current officials in charge.
I believe CA is one of a handful of states that does not require ID to vote, so there’s that. I also read, unverified, that the states that did not require voter ID all went to Harris.
I think I might have heard something about states that had ‘vote by mail’, and Harris.
But, hearsay, I have not even checked myself what the states were claiming at the time to be the practices in force.
Voters? Who cares about voters? Since when do voters even matter? Only those who count the votes matter (a non-original or new thought). Someone someplace will always agree with those in power – doesn’t matter how many – allowing politicians to claim to represent “the voters”.
Violence is the >only< answer. And the politicians have it at their command.
Me and my wife were born in California in the late 50s. Me in SoCal and her in the bay area, we met in college in the 70s. After college we moved to Sunnyvale. Our sons were born in the early and mid 80s. Business moved our family to the east coast in 96.
The people in the latest SoCal fires are all Dems and wealthy doners. The lack of permits to rebuild is nothing new but will hurt the Dems running California and the country. People have already donated $100M to help these fire victims but the money has vanished as does any large amount going to a Dem cause. With no permits being issued and now public housing being “planned” by the state and city for the area these wealthy Dem donors should be waking up to what has been stripped from them and how their party is operating – it will cause a change that will hurt the Dems big time.
“All property belongs to the state.”
Says so right in their manifesto.