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Chapter 1: What happened during the LA fires?
Hey everybody. So I live in Los Angeles. I had to be evacuated. My family is okay. I don't know what's going to happen with my house, but I just pray for everybody's safety. I'll just tell you what's pissing me off so much right now after seeing the devastation of so many people here. It's just the lies over and over again from Donald Trump and all of these right-wing so-called leaders.
It's lie after lie, and it's politicizing the pain and suffering of so many people here in Los Angeles. And this isn't unique to Los Angeles. This is precisely what they do every time there's a natural disaster.
When there were hurricanes that hit the East Coast, they lied and said that FEMA was not there to help the people and migrants were getting all of the money and people weren't getting relief. Every single thing MAGA uses as a political wedge issue, you know, once upon a time. We as a country, when there would be terrorist attacks or natural disasters, it wasn't a political thing.
We came together, we tried to solve the problems, and we stood as one, we stood as Americans. And so when I read this filth, this hate from Donald Trump and MAGA, it just compounds the pain and suffering that we have here in Los Angeles, but frankly, This is not unique to us. This is how he treats people. This is how he treats marginalized communities. This is how he treats everybody.
It's always a political wedge to make us all hate each other. Enough. Enough of this crap. Here's what Donald Trump posts. He goes, Governor Gavin Newsom... By the way, I don't show Trump video and audio. You don't have to worry about me playing it. Trump goes, Governor Gavin Newsom...
refused to sign water restoration declarations put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water from excess rain and snow melt from the north to flow daily into many parts of California. He wanted to protect essentially worthless fish called smelt, but didn't care about the people of California. Now the ultimate price is being paid. An incompetent governor says,
Then Donald Trump says he is to blame for this. On top of it all, no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes, a true disaster. And folks, what Donald Trump is saying is false. But here's the thing. This false statement spreads rapidly. I hate to use the term like wildfire, pun intended or no pun intended.
I can't even tell you how many people have reached out to me and they said, oh, I heard the issue is that Gavin Newsom's doing something with smelt and you don't have water there. No, this is a once-in-a-generation event, but that is getting increasingly worse as our climate gets warmer. We're having once-in-generational droughts, and this is a catastrophic event. People are suffering.
Gavin Newsom has marshaled resources. And he's done that in advance of this as well, planning how to deal with this. And this is a horrific, horrific event that is a natural disaster. And Trump's using it as a wedge issue. But all of MAGA is, quite frankly. This is what Donald Trump Jr. goes. Can we rename DEI to DIE?
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Chapter 2: How is Trump politicizing natural disasters?
Earlier tonight, FEMA approved a fire management assistance grant to support areas that are impacted and help reimburse the state of California for the immediate firefighting costs. My administration will do everything it can to support the response. I urge the residents of Pacific Palisades and the surrounding areas of Los Angeles to to stay vigilant and listen to local officials.
President Biden posts, over 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate communities impacted by the Southern California wildfires. At least two people have been killed and many more are injured, including firefighters. It's devastating. To the residents of Southern California, we are with you. He also posts,
Already, my team has provided 24-7 weather forecast support, sent five air tankers and 10 firefighting helicopters, pre-positioned dozens of fire engines, approved grants to reimburse firefighting costs, and I've approved Governor Newsom's request for a major disaster declaration.
Brandon Richards, whose rapid response for Governor Newsom talks specifically about how Gavin Newsom ordered and pre-positioned critical assets like 75 local government fire engines, seven water tenders, seven helicopters, nine dozers, more than 105 specialized personnel in LA, Riverside, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura.
The state strategically moved California fire firefighting resources from Northern California into Southern California, including 45 additional fire engines and six additional hand crews to Los Angeles. But then on the other hand, you've got MAGA Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene saying, Governor Newsom failed so miserably in water and land management
And now the state of Canada is sending firefighting planes to bail him out. Again, joking, mocking, or perhaps actually threatening our allies in Canada by calling them the 51st state, the state of Canada. I mean, these are truly deplorable people. I mean, Hillary Clinton, this is deplorable. Who behaves like this? And by the way, Canada is helping Canadian crews because they're our allies.
We're sending their crews to help us extinguish the LA fires because that's what allies do. They don't threaten to take each other over and attack each other. That's awful. There's a broader point, folks, though, which is the question is this.
where you have someone like a President Biden or Democrats who are out there saying, here's what we're doing, here's what we're focused on, and they're speaking positively about, and they're speaking in a way that's constructive about how to get things done, and they're not attacking the other side, they're not blaming, they're working, they're doing the work, they're rolling the sleeves up.
But then on the other side, You have someone blaming, blaming, blaming. It's their fault, their fault, their fault, their fault. But there's no volleying back. Democrats aren't saying they're to blame, they're to blame. So all the people are, you see the strategy here that MAGA is using to divide us?
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