Unapologetic Jimmy Kimmel Still Delivering Politics Instead of Punchlines

 The American Spectator  

"America needs jokes now more than ever. Last night, Jimmy Kimmel instead gave them another diatribe. In comedy, boring offends most."

"Rosanne Barr returned to ABC’s airwaves last night after a seven-year exile.

Just kidding.

"Jimmy Kimmel returned to ABC’s airwaves after a seven-day exile.

That was my attempt at a joke. Kimmel, who increasingly delivers speeches instead of punchlines, should try one sometime. (RELATED: The Return of Jimmy Kimmel)

When the network canned Roseanne for offensive comments issued on her own time, that amounted to freedom of association. When the network suspended Kimmel for offensive comments on its airwaves, that amounted to censorship.

"The Left sees everything backwards in a funhouse-mirror reflection that distorts reality to its liking.

"ABC suspended Kimmel last Wednesday after he attempted to characterize the murderer of Charlie Kirk as essentially subscribing to the same views as his victim. This follows a long-established pattern of people living in an ideological hallucination, denying reality and instead conveniently blaming the people they hate for political assassinations and other atrocities. (RELATED: Jimmy Kimmel Is Living in a Material World)

"A Communist did not murder John F. Kennedy, they have insisted for the last 62 years — the John Birch Society or the CIA or some other villain straight out from Progressive, Inc.’s central casting did it. Black Muslims didn’t murder Malcolm X, George W. Bush really engineered 9/11, and a furry-enthusiast sharing a bed with a transgender paramour, radicalized to the Left according to his family, repeatedly complaining that Kirk spread “hate,” and writing anti-fascist slogans on his assassin’s tools did not kill the Turning Point USA founder — a MAGA Republican did it.

"MAGA Republicans, at least in the Boston market, could find some irony in a commercial for Join.ICE.gov airing in the block of ads immediately preceding the program. Jimmy Kimmel Live started with a cable-news montage of commentary on the controversy that resulted in the host’s brief suspension — and undoubtedly a brief boost in ratings." . . .

Jimmy Kimmel TV Comeback Collapsing as Sinclair Broadcasting Group Says It Won’t Air Show on Its ABC Stations 

. . . “Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!‘ across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming,” a rep for Sinclair said. “Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return.”  Nexstar has not issued a statement as of this writing."

No, firing Charlie Kirk’s haters is not a free speech problem 

. . . "If people at any business cheer someone’s death because they oppose his policies, whom else would they think it is okay to kill?  Should an employer be required to keep him employed because of free speech?  I don’t think so." . . . 

Parody: Rough Week For Liberal Comedy As Kimmel's, Colbert's Monthly Cycles Sync Up

It sounds like the restless natives won . . . " Let's see what happens. Whether Jimmy returns or not, the people who watch TV between San Francisco and Washington D.C. are making their feelings heard. They are sick and tired, as I am, of programming under FCC licenses that turn into infomercials for the Democrats.

What else do you call "The View" but an informercial? It's 60 minutes of ladies attacking President Trump. They call it "free speech," but in fact it's an unbalanced discussion of events. Yes, we have a right to look at their licenses and remind them that they are not serving their community's interest. Again, check out Sinclair and Nexstar."

Jimmy Kimmel Insists He Hadn’t Meant to Brand Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Assassin as MAGA  . . . "Again, Disney/ABC pulled Kimmel because of the false accusations due to consumer anger:

• ABC station owners told Disney about their concerns with the comments
• Advertisers called in about the comments
• Nexstar and Sinclair threatened to preempt the show

"It had nothing to do with the FCC comments."

Watch: Kimmel Makes It About Himself, Delivers Emotional Non-Apology on His Return  . . . "There was no government suppression of your show, Jimmy. If there had been, you wouldn't be back on so quickly. Private companies can pull you for saying something you shouldn't, that they know is wrong, or that they think adversely affects their bottom line. That's America, and you suffer the consequences of being a horrible human being. Government suppression is what happened with Google because of pressure from the Biden team."

Hot Takes: People Demolish Kimmel for 'Crocodile Tears,' Point Out Where Real Suppression Has Been    . . . "I reported earlier on Jimmy Kimmel's non-apology emotional statement. 

"He was very emotional and said he didn't intend to blame any group in his comment. Yet he did, whether he admits it or not. Then, even in these new comments, he refused to acknowledge what the authorities have said is the leftist politics of the alleged killer. Jimmy Kimmel made it about him, alleging suppression by the government."

Was Kirk ‘Divisive’—or Did He Simply Say What Millions Believe?

"Charlie Kirk’s critics branded him “divisive,” but his defense of common-sense values made him a unifying voice for millions—until the Left sought to silence him."

American Greatness   

"As many have observed, the murder of Charlie Kirk by a deranged leftist silenced one individual, but it awakened the voices of a movement that hitherto had hardly known it had a voice."

 

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is exercised that Charlie Kirk once said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was “a mistake.”

"Rep. Bennie Thompson sees AOC’s charge and raises it: “The fact is,” he said in an official statement, “Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric was divisive, disparaging, and too often rooted in grievance. The beliefs he evangelized normalized fringe views on race, sex, and immigration. Unfortunately, his rhetoric resurrected dangerous prejudices of a dark past.”

"Gosh. Here’s a question, Congressman. What sort of grievance would someone have to entertain in order to be moved to describe someone who simply sought to engage young people in conversation as “divisive” and “disparaging?” Follow-up question: Did Charlie Kirk try to “normalize” fringe ideas about “race, sex, and immigration?” Or were the ideas he espoused, in fact (you see that two people can deploy the “in fact™” gambit), perfectly normal ideas that reflected the beliefs of millions of Americans, even if those ideas departed from the Washington consensus?

"As for the Civil Rights Act, Charlie Kirk did say its expansion was “a huge mistake.” Here’s the context. A student asked Charlie whether he wanted to get rid of the Civil Rights Act. He replied that he thought we should have a one-page bill that outlawed racial discrimination and left it at that. Most Americans, he went on to note, don’t support forcing women’s sports teams to allow men pretending to be women to compete. But the Civil Rights Act has been interpreted to say just that.

"He agreed with the original intention of the bill, he said, but argued that it was “too broadly written” and played into the hands of people who wanted to expand and weaponize the bill to enforce a radical progressive agenda that included so-called “affirmative action,” i.e., reverse racism in the form of discrimination against whites and Asians. Result? A 100-page bill that created “a permanent anti-racist bureaucracy within our federal government to go find racism where it doesn’t exist and create it in new places where it otherwise did not exist.”

"Christopher Caldwell touched on an essential aspect of Kirk’s observation in his book The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. It is common in academia and the media, Caldwell notes, to regard the Civil Rights Act as a great victory for equality and social progress. After all, was it not a potent weapon in the battle against Jim Crow and other expressions of racism?" . . .  More...

Megyn Kelly slams ‘coward’ Van Jones for branding Charlie Kirk ‘racist’ 2 days before assassination — then writing CNN op-ed praising him

Megyn Kelly slams ‘coward’ Van Jones for branding Charlie Kirk ‘racist’ 2 days before assassination — then writing CNN op-ed praising him  "Megyn Kelly ripped CNN analyst Van Jones as a “coward,” accusing him of smearing Charlie Kirk as a “racist” just two days before the conservative activist was gunned down — and then shifting his tone after Kirk’s death to protect his image.

"Kelly reacted to an essay that Jones posted on CNN in which he revealed that Kirk sent him a private message on X the day before his assassination on Sept. 10 — inviting him to his show for a “respectful conversation about crime and race.”

"On her SiriusXM show, Kelly said Jones “came out on Friday with a nice story about Charlie, and as I’m sure he predicted, it’s now getting even conservatives to say nice things about Van.”. . .   

Stabbing Suspect Accused of Murder: 'I Got That White Girl' | Newsmax.com  . . . " 'I didn't notice until now that the man accused of stabbing and killing the Ukrainian young woman in Charlotte, N.C. said on camera, 'I got that white girl, got that white girl' while walking around with her blood dripping from his knife. Nobody reacts . . ."

 Megyn Reveals Erika Kirk Was Shaken by ‘Jezebel’ Article that Detailed Placing Curses on Charlie Kirk – Megyn Kelly   "I have been wrestling with whether to bring you this story for a few days now. I have been wrestling with it because I find it so vile and off and odd, but I decided that I had to report on it because the groups who did this deserve public censure. 

"When I was out in Arizona last week I learned that, two weeks before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the far left website Jezebel declared that it had a mission to cast bad luck or a curse on Charlie. They wanted to hurt him in some way. They declared, “If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.' ”   Video

Democrats vs. Free and open speech

 Youtube ADMITS Biden Forced Them To Censor Conservatives, A RECKONING Is Coming

And then there was Google: Google Admits to Censoring Americans at the Behest of the Biden Admin, Vows to Make Amends

Try to find a counter argument to a leftist post one has to dig far deeper than the first page to discover it. Meanwhile the same leftist posts will be repeated several times before one can find any counter arguments. TD

Law Is Passed. Gavin Newsom and his California Senators are ending Free Speech   "This information is largely accurate based on official records. SB 771 is a real bill introduced in the 2025-2026 California legislative session by Senator Henry Stern (D), with several Democratic coauthors. It passed the Senate on September 11, 2025 (ayes 27, noes 9), passed the Assembly on September 10, 2025, and was enrolled (officially prepared) on September 16, 2025. As of September 23, 2025, it has been presented to Governor Newsom but has not yet been signed, vetoed, or otherwise acted upon—he has up to 30 days from presentation to decide. If signed, the bill would take effect on January 1, 2027. Key Provisions of SB 771The bill adds a new title to California’s Civil Code (Title 23, commencing with Section 3273.72) focused on holding large social media platforms accountable for certain civil rights violations facilitated by their algorithms. Here’s a breakdown: 

Kamala Harris Compares Trump to a Communist Dictator, Then Endorses Zohran Mamdani

Legal Insurrection 

"You cannot script a more appallingly and manifestly stupid, dim-witted crone-harlot-dunce, than the vile Kamuluh." Comment to the post below.

"Kamala Harris appeared on the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC last night to promote her pointless new book. It has been almost a year since the 2024 election, and Harris is still favoring media outlets that she knows won’t challenge her with any difficult questions.

"During the interview, Harris compared Trump to a communist dictator.

"From The Wrap, via Yahoo News:

Former Vice President Kamala Harris stopped by “The Rachel Maddow Show” for her first primetime interview since the 2024 election on Monday night, and she used the appearance to explain why President Donald Trump’s handling of the Jimmy Kimmel situation makes him a “tyrant.” . . .

. . . "Later in the same interview, Harris offered a weak endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, an actual communist. This is beyond parody.

"From FOX News:"

Former Vice President Kamala Harris offered a lukewarm endorsement for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a Monday interview.

Harris sat down with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for an interview where they discussed her new book “107 Days,” which will release on Tuesday. Maddow highlighted a portion of Harris’ book that discussed the former VP’s “stars project,” where she met with and identified rising stars in the Democratic Party." . . .

Gavin Newsom Tries to Take a Page Out of Trump's Playbook, but Gets Ended by Palisades Fire Victim

It seems every time Gav the Gov enters his office, California becomes a worse place to live. TD

RedState

"Hey Newsome [sic], your flawless streak of being right about everything must be absolutely draining! Solved the homeless crisis yet, or too busy jacking up taxes and gas prices to the stratosphere? Lockdowns nailed, surplus turned deficit like magic, and that missing fire fund money, poof! Care to share your divine genius with us mortals?"   Katie Jerkovich 

"California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom embarrassingly tried to take a page out of President Donald Trump's playbook, but got completely destroyed by actor and Palisades fire victim Spencer Pratt.

"In a post from Newsom, not his high school press tweet team, the Governor wrote a post on X using all caps, trying to replicate one of Trump's signature styles for his social media posts. The post included a link to a website where people could purchase a red MAGA-style looking hat with a message that read, "Newsom was right about everything." . . .

"In response, "The Hills" star and Pacific Palisades resident reacted to the post, wanting to remind everyone of the loss their community experienced in the Palisades and Altadena fires that hit Southern California earlier this year, with a death toll that rose to 30.

"He also pointed out Newsom's failures prior to the disaster, like slashing funds to fight wildfires, and failure to have full water storage to fight blazes, all of which made things so much worse." . . . 

Satellite images show wildfires burning in Southern California – NBC Los Angeles

 " As a resident of the once-Golden State, the criticism of Newsom from the various folks on social media is right on target. From Newsom's insane authoritarian rule during the COVID-19 pandemic, making up his own rules and keeping our state locked down and schools closed longer than pretty much anyone else, to his massively cutting millions of dollars in funds to fight wildfires, this so-called leader is such a disgrace.

"Editor’s Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda."

Antifa in America: The Truth Behind the Mask

FORGOTTEN HISTORY

"Antifa has become one of the most polarizing forces in modern American politics. Labelled by critics as a violent extremist group and by supporters as anti-fascist defenders, its true identity lies somewhere between the headlines and the chaos in the streets. But where did Antifa come from, and how did it rise to prominence in the 21st century? In this episode, we trace Antifa's ideological roots back to pre-WWII Europe, where militant resistance groups first confronted fascist movements. We explore how those ideals evolved over decades and crossed into the U.S., merging with elements of anarchism, socialism, and direct-action activism. The video examines major flashpoints—from Berkeley to Portland—and how Antifa’s decentralized structure complicates efforts to define or confront it. Through investigative reporting, protest footage, and historical context, we break down how Antifa operates, what it believes, and the implications of labeling it a domestic terror threat. Is Antifa a legitimate resistance to authoritarianism—or a threat to civil discourse and public safety? Watch to decide for yourself. Written and hosted by Colin D. Heaton. Forgotten History is a 10th Legion Pictures Production."

September 20, 2025 “I Believe that Creature is a Changeling”: Hillary Clinton and the Los[s] of Shame in American Politics

Jonathan Turley  

"There has to be some lingering residue of shame left; some modicum of decency in refraining from such raw hypocrisy at these moments. Yet, we seem to be living in an era of post-shame politics. The only thing missing is lawyer Joseph Welch:"

"Charlotte Bronte once wrote “I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.” No quote better captured the chilling curiosity that is Hillary Clinton. This week, Clinton (without any sign of shame or self-awareness) attacked others for seeking censorship and blacklisting political opponents through government and corporate collaboration. Clinton is one of the most anti-free speech figures in the United States and actively campaigned for the censorship of opponents. Today, my column in the Hill discusses the hypocrisy of many on the left this week after the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. However, there is simply no one in the same class as Clinton in hitting hypocrisy’s rock bottom.

"This week, Clinton declared: “I think this is a very clear example of using the power of the state to suppress speech. It is a direct government action to try to intimidate employers, organizations, corporations, much of which we’ve already seen, to remove an opponent, even though it’s a comic.”

"For many in the free speech community, the statement led us to spit out our morning coffee.

"Clinton and her allies have long shown contempt for the intelligence of the voters, often denying facts or flipping positions while denying any inconsistencies. It was a record that produced not only polling as one of the least popular American politicians but also record lows in the public’s view of trustworthiness and authenticity. Clinton’s campaign routinely lied about major issues, including denying to the media that it funded the infamous Steele dossier.

"For the record, I have repeatedly criticized Administration statements from recently on free speech and some of the actions taken against critics as threatening to our core values of free speech. This has included threats to prosecute hate speech and flag burning despite countervailing precedent. However, the last person any of us in the free speech community wants to see in this fight is Hillary Clinton.

"As I have previously written, Clinton heralded the growing anti-free speech movement and noted that “there are people who are championing it, but it’s been a long and difficult road to getting anything done.” . . .More

California’s Newsom Copies Trump

"If Newsom and his fellow radical pro-criminal Democrats throughout the Golden State hadn’t allowed these plagues to overrun its major cities, Trump wouldn’t have to do it for them. Same for D.C., Baltimore and Chicago." American Liberty News

Uncle Paul's Parodies

Gavin Newsom's Press Office Copying Trump | Know Your Meme

"On August 19th, 2025, X user @EndWokeness posted photos of Gavin Newsom's Director of Communications, Izzy Gardon, and his Digital Director, Camille Harper Zapata, writing, "Gov. Gavin Newsom's tweets are written by these two."

A man with not one original idea
California’s Newsom Copies Trump to Avoid Fed Intervention - American Liberty News   "‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.’ You know President Trump is succeeding when his lefty wannabe nemesis, and 2028 presidential hopeful, Gavin Newsom, is shamelessly copying Trump’s playbook on fighting crime and homelessness.

Even as he rails against Trump’s anti-crime agenda, the copy-cat Democrat governor announced a new plan to deploy California Highway Patrol (CHP) “crime-suppression teams” across the state to prevent crime and promote public safety. 

"Not unlike Trump’s federal policing surge in D.C.

"Sounding like Trump using the feds in D.C., Newsom’s office said in a statement: “CHP officers assigned to crime-suppression teams will saturate high-crime areas, target repeat offenders and seize illicit weapons and narcotics.”

"Newsom’s announcement followed remarks at POLITICO’s California Summit, where he ridiculed the president’s “authoritarian tendencies.” 

"He has also later announced a new ‘SAFE’ task force to dismantle homeless encampments throughout the state, similar to Trump’s effort. Of course, Newsom claims his approach is different.

"“The President is doing things TO PEOPLE. California is doing it WITH PEOPLE,” Newsom wrote on social platform X.

"But slogans aren’t fact." . . .More

UPDATE: Gavin Newsom Tries to Take a Page Out of Trump's Playbook, but Gets Ended by Palisades Fire Victim 

"The saddest part about this is Newsom's complete grift. He is so unauthentic and unoriginal he can't even post his own thoughts. He has to appropriate the style and words of another immensely popular man (TRUMP) to feign relevance. What a fraud."

'GOING TO HELL' Trump goes scorched earth on ‘failing’ UN in speech blasting immigration, ‘world ending’ nukes & ‘sharia law’ in LONDON

 UK Sun  

"London has been so changed, they want to go to Sharia Law."

"His full throttle, assault of a speech left the assembly members gobsmacked as he warned world leaders ''your countries are going to hell''.

"The US president returned to the 80th UN General Assembly for the first time in five years - and shocked everyone with his fiery words.

"Trump touted America's role in bringing peace to seven conflicts since taking over the White House.

"He touched on one of his favourite topics in politics - immigration, telling assembly members it's time to end the ''failed experiment of open borders''.

"He said: "It's uncontrolled, your countries are being ruined.

"While criticising immigration in Europe, Trump took a dig at Sadiq Khan, calling him a "terrible mayor".

"He asserted, without any evidence, that London was heading towards "Sharia law", which is Islam's legal system.

"He said: "And I have to say, I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it's been so changed, so changed.

" 'Now they want to go to Sharia law, but you're in a different country. You can't do that." . . .

Is It Any Surprise This Is What Abbas Is Demanding From UK After It Recognizes Palestinian Statehood?  "BREAKING: Mahmoud Abbas Demands Reparations From UK After Its Recognition of Palestinian State" . . .

. . . Now legal experts have warned that it could also be a costly decision – because the new country would ask for eye-watering damages in compensation for land 'taken from the Palestinian people' when Britain relinquished control of the region after the Second World War.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has a long history of threatening to sue Britain, is demanding 'reparations in accordance with international law' based on the value of the land which was under British rule between 1917 and 1948. . . . 

Queer Terror; The violence towards conservatives may be part of a broader terror network

"Far leftists, including trans militants, held positions in some security agencies from which they’ve been largely purged by Trump." Martin Arostegui

Trans Team USA Cyclist Claims World is ‘Better’ After Charlie Kirk’s Assassination   "A transgender member of the U.S. Olympic cycling team is taking heat for having posted multiple social media comments celebrating the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

"Chelsea Wolfe was reportedly an alternate cyclist for the USA’s women’s BMX team at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Wolfe is a male who claims to have transitioned to a woman and has a history of controversial statements.

"But now he is raising eyebrows for the hate directed at Charlie Kirk, according to the Daily Mail." . . .

Queer Terror; The violence towards conservatives may be part of a broader terror network  "The FBI is investigating leads indicating that the assassin of conservative leader Charlie Kirk at a Utah college campus last week forms part of a far-left terrorist network that could have connections with Cuba and China.

"His violent radicalization in Marxist transgender ideology fits a pattern of recent attacks across the country linked to an outcrop of groups such as Armed Queers (AQ), which recruit online, engage in paramilitary training at gun ranges of a new organization with chapters in all 50 states called Socialist Rifle Association, and seem closely tied with ANTIFA.

"Current investigations are focusing on the AQ Salt Lake City chapter, which held a 2024 protest event in the city’s suburb where Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson, was shacked up with a lover transitioning from male to female. The AQ-SLC logo was inscribed on shell casings found at Robinson’s sniper position. The group has scrubbed all its social media postings since his arrest. (RELATED: Away With the Absurdity That the Left and the Right Are Equally Vicious)

"Analyst Tony Seruga, through sources in the FBI, says that federal investigators, based on GPS data, believe that there could have been at least a dozen other individuals involved in Kirk’s assassination, which appears to be the latest and most serious in a series of hits by AQ and other far-left terror cells using high-powered weapons and military type tactics.

"The Trump administration has vowed to break up the “far left terror network,” allocating $58 million to beef up security around the president and his top officials to counter the heightened threat. Congress is expected to vote more money for the protection of its members, who might also be vulnerable to assault." . . .

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, the Democrats revel in two minutes of hate and attack the Second Amendment  "We knew that the left’s response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination would be ugly, but it was uglier than anyone could have predicted and infinitely more stupid, too. It was uglier because hordes of people celebrated the death of a young father because they disagreed with his ideas, and it was stupid because of how they approached the gun control arguments that always arise when someone, anyone, gets shot." . . .

. . . "If you hate murder, as Charlie did, you don’t disarm good people; instead, you punish bad ones and institutionalize crazy ones. What you don’t do is what leftists have done in America for decades: Abandon the rule of law and encourage the evil and the crazy to think they’ve got the right to kill." . . .

UPDATE: Over half of liberals call Kirk assassination ‘understandable’   "More than half of the nation’s liberal voters and 40% of Democrats believe that the assassination of Charlie Kirk was “understandable,” the latest evidence that the killing has revealed a massive partisan divide in America.

"In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey shared with Washington Secrets on Tuesday, 54% of liberal voters believe that Kirk, the cofounder of youth voting mobilizer Turning Point USA, spouted hate, so his killing was not surprising.

“Charlie Kirk was speaking hateful words and his murder was tragic but understandable,” said 54% of liberals and nearly half of Democrats, a group Rasmussen pollster Mark Mitchell described as voters for losing 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

"Overall, most voters said that they believe Kirk was more of a uniter and agreed with the opposite view. Rasmussen said that 62% agreed with this characterization of Kirk: “Charlie Kirk was peacefully and respectfully debating people and it is a tragedy that he was murdered.”  

Why Our Systems Collapse

"When merit is replaced with ideology, fires rage unchecked, killers walk free, and fragile systems collapse—leaving lives and cities in ruin."

 Victor Davis Hanson  

"The final tragic irony is that all of the above derive from racial and ethnic essentialism and chauvinism, masked as victimhood, ensuring critics are recast as victimizers."

"America has a lot of built-in safety backups and redundancies.

But every once in a while, when tradition, science, time-tested protocols, and common sense are ignored, a fragile system utterly collapses.

"Usually, an iconic event reveals how vulnerable the entire country has become, and predictably occurs when suicidal ideologies and nihilism, in perfect-storm fashion, wreak havoc.

"The media, academia, the bureaucracy, and higher education can mask the dangers of their political agendas—at least until their sheer incompetence or toxicity can no longer be hidden or excused, and a predictable disaster ensues.

"Take the January 4-5, 2025, Pacific Palisades fire that destroyed an entire historic neighborhood of Los Angeles. The embers had not even cooled when we were lectured that “climate change” was responsible for the historically predictable annual autumn and early winter Santa Ana winds that whip up horrific fires before the first winter rains arrive—a phenomenon documented for over two centuries.

"The media, in reporting the conflagration, downplayed human culpability. But over the next few weeks, outraged former homeowners and independent journalists began cataloging the real symptoms of a total system failure that turned the normal end-of-year fire season into a catastrophic inferno.

"A lot of things had to go wrong to utterly destroy an ancient, coveted neighborhood. But DEI managed to do all of that with ease.

Gav the Gov

"First, we learned that the incompetent mayor, Karen Bass, had cut the fire budget. Then, despite warnings of dry hillsides, underfunded fire protection, and predicted high winds, Bass was nowhere to be seen during the most dangerous weeks of the year.

"Why? She was junketing in Ghana, an African nation rarely considered vital to the running of the third-largest city in the United States.

"The now-convicted felon, Deputy Mayor Brian Thompson, was under house arrest for phoning in a bomb threat to the city hall. So a mayoral apparatus did not exist.

"Next, the clueless and vastly overpaid Janisse Quiñones, the CEO and Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, was likely hired based on diversity, equity, and inclusion criteria despite a prior uninspiring record in her administrative roles at PG&E. She was utterly unprepared for the fire.

"When the fires swept in, a key reservoir that might have saved the community had been bone dry for months while under superficial repair. Dozens of fire hydrants were nonfunctional.

"Unhinged environmental mandates had prevented homeowners from clearing nearby combustible brush on the hillside, the proverbial fuel of the Santa Ana wind-powered fires." . . .More