Can a state as wealthy as California really be struggling to handle its wildfire crises, or is there something else at play? We delve into the tangled web of politics, media, and natural disasters to uncover how these devastating events are often wielded as political weapons. Join us as we scrutinize the substantial federal funds flowing into California and question why such financial muscle fails to translate into effective wildfire management. We challenge the contentious debates surrounding climate policy and governmental responsibility, all while calling out the absurdity of bureaucratic missteps that leave California's forests vulnerable to flames.
00:00:07.891 --> 00:00:13.147 If you're listening to this song and you're wondering what this is, ladies and gentlemen, that's a song from the 80s called Burning Down the House.
00:00:13.147 --> 00:00:16.571 And no, we are not mocking what's going on in California.
00:00:16.571 --> 00:00:23.739 What we're doing is we're trying to bring a little bit of attention to a situation that may not have been completely avoided.
00:00:23.739 --> 00:00:36.012 But, ladies and gentlemen, the politics and the device of politics that continues to reign in the United States is fascinating, and it amazes me how the left continues to want to focus the blame on things.
00:00:36.012 --> 00:00:45.810 But when the right pushes back or says something, now you're off limits and once again, death and devastation is being politicized.
00:00:45.810 --> 00:00:47.807 Welcome back everybody to the Rant Network.
00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:51.350 This is the dynamic duo of Stuart Briscoe and David Solomon.
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00:01:17.763 --> 00:01:18.628 I can't get it out today.
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00:01:31.906 --> 00:01:40.971 Folks, stuart and I have this week watched the devastation and it's amazing.
00:01:40.971 --> 00:01:50.156 Apparently, as of this morning, the entire size of Manhattan has been burnt down in the LA area, and it's awful.
00:01:50.156 --> 00:01:53.317 It's been weeks and weeks of no rain.
00:01:53.317 --> 00:02:11.022 There's a lot of disasters to it.
00:02:11.022 --> 00:02:13.969 I don't know if you heard this morning, but a Canadian, or precisely a Quebec, water bomber was collided with an unauthorized drone.
00:02:13.969 --> 00:02:14.431 It grounded planes.
00:02:14.431 --> 00:02:14.731 This is a mess.
00:02:14.731 --> 00:02:15.593 This is a mess, but a mess that you know.
00:02:15.593 --> 00:02:22.680 Folks, the the left needs to drive a stake to show it is right and everybody else is wrong, and this is how we're going to avoid forest fires in the future.
00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:26.200 I beg to differ, stuart.
00:02:26.200 --> 00:02:28.710 What say you on this fine Friday?
00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:32.225 That's what I have to say.
00:02:32.225 --> 00:02:37.090 You know why am I bringing music in?
00:02:37.090 --> 00:02:41.486 You know it's kind of like we're bringing some jazz.
00:02:41.486 --> 00:02:44.151 You know, now bringing up another 80s band.
00:02:44.151 --> 00:02:56.425 You know tears for fears shout and, to be honest with you, the drum solo is exactly what Gavin Newsom likes Drum roll, please.
00:02:56.425 --> 00:03:04.106 Lights, camera, action, politics, blame game, the federal response.
00:03:04.106 --> 00:03:11.445 You know I can go on and on and on and let me tell you something.
00:03:11.445 --> 00:03:14.692 The reason for this is it's California.
00:03:14.692 --> 00:03:25.143 Why am I bringing music and talent and dance?
00:03:25.163 --> 00:03:30.241 Under every single federal mandate, the federal government covers 75% of all these natural disasters.
00:03:30.241 --> 00:03:34.832 That is the typical pledge that every government and president has done.
00:03:34.832 --> 00:03:46.698 But because the only base left in this country of being left twisted DEI is California, being left twisted DEI is California.
00:03:46.698 --> 00:03:53.030 Biden has now pledged 100% expense to the federal government for the next 180 days.
00:03:53.030 --> 00:03:56.449 You want to talk about politicking?
00:03:56.449 --> 00:04:00.491 It's not Donald Trump calling greasy ball.
00:04:00.491 --> 00:04:02.306 You know Gavin Newsom.
00:04:02.306 --> 00:04:13.393 You know who walks around with his nice logo bear which, by the way, costs I don't know how many thousands of dollars his custom uniform with the bear on it.
00:04:14.200 --> 00:04:16.024 These drought-like conditions?
00:04:16.024 --> 00:04:18.028 Yes, global warming.
00:04:18.028 --> 00:04:19.750 I applaud you.
00:04:19.750 --> 00:04:21.274 Okay, let's go with that.
00:04:21.274 --> 00:04:25.468 It's all global warming, if it's all global warming.
00:04:26.271 --> 00:04:34.533 You knew that there's an issue, but yet your government, local state, failed to mitigate whatever damage.
00:04:34.533 --> 00:04:35.961 Well, we couldn't mitigate it.
00:04:35.961 --> 00:04:44.483 You have the largest gross domestic product to any state and more than the entire country that David is hailing from Canada.
00:04:44.483 --> 00:04:46.547 How's that, for crazy?
00:04:46.547 --> 00:04:59.947 There's more money in taxation in California, more regulation than in Canada and the rest of the United States combined, and Canada is pretty damn.
00:04:59.947 --> 00:05:05.550 Like you know, the sister of California Can't even come close with its regulations.
00:05:05.550 --> 00:05:14.915 But again, why is everyone so sensitive to the facts on how we got here?
00:05:14.915 --> 00:05:16.545 You know what?
00:05:16.545 --> 00:05:33.134 All the rock stars and movie stars hey man, I hope you grab your DNC ticket and you choke on it Because you're out of your house, because they couldn't figure out a way, knowing that their fire system was inadequate.
00:05:33.134 --> 00:05:37.959 Hey man, they know that if your cow farts too much, it's going to cause global warming.
00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:46.875 But they didn't know that if we had a fire and our fire hydrants couldn't produce enough water pressure, if there even was enough water.
00:05:46.875 --> 00:05:50.930 But we can't fix that problem.
00:05:50.930 --> 00:05:57.250 If you believe that insanity, you're dumber than a doornail and haven't been listening to us for the last four years.
00:05:57.250 --> 00:06:21.107 Get your head out of the sand you ostrich, because you know, even Biden canceled his trip to Romeome, probably his last chance to get his last forgiveness from pope mr popey, but he flew to california clearing the airspace for the bombers to drop sand in water.
00:06:21.107 --> 00:06:30.831 Talk about a drama show Trying to preserve whatever little credibility the DNCs have.
00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:52.132 This is a water resource controversy that our incoming president is calling sending water from North Carolina to help California, because California refuses to help itself, because there's some fish that no one can eat may have a risk of having a population issue.
00:06:52.132 --> 00:06:54.788 I mean, I can't make this shit up.
00:06:54.788 --> 00:06:56.985 I wish I could.
00:06:56.985 --> 00:07:13.423 Dave, this DEI nonsense that hailed from Harvard University and bled into every single classroom in the United States, canada and abroad is tackling the entire world, and you know what?
00:07:13.423 --> 00:07:15.487 I'm sorry.
00:07:15.487 --> 00:07:20.619 You like to say that you know in our green room, david, that I'm just so centric.
00:07:20.619 --> 00:07:23.473 Well, it's only thing in the news is this wildfire.
00:07:23.473 --> 00:07:25.432 You know, david, you're right.
00:07:35.694 --> 00:07:46.704 The center of the world today seems to be United States because of and the United States has ignored a lot of really good regulations.
00:07:46.704 --> 00:07:49.673 I'm going to give Europe this, not Canada.
00:07:49.673 --> 00:07:52.012 Canada is corrupt as the United States.
00:07:52.012 --> 00:07:58.458 They have a cleaner food system more restrictive chemicals in the food process.
00:07:58.458 --> 00:08:04.009 They've even reduced what can and cannot be deemed consumable.
00:08:04.009 --> 00:08:10.786 But here in the United States and Canada and Mexico, we don't follow those rules.
00:08:10.786 --> 00:08:16.836 However, europe has other stupid shit that's going on again.
00:08:16.836 --> 00:08:33.645 You can't make this shit up and all of this is born from the insanity of dei and and the falsehoods around the proliferation of the right is not a falsehood, it's the truth.
00:08:33.645 --> 00:08:55.259 La times, which is the most most left wing newspaper that comes out of LA, is actually now saying the DNC is actually responsible and Gavin Greasy Newsom literally is the cause of them not being able to properly mitigate these problems.
00:08:55.586 --> 00:08:57.904 He's too busy trying to sound fluffy.
00:08:57.904 --> 00:09:10.052 You know I had a board meeting last night, david, over in the association, and you know I had a lady come up to me and tell me Stuart, why aren't you a little more softer with people?
00:09:10.052 --> 00:09:16.168 And I'm like you don't need to be softer, but Stuart, you're a smart enough guy.
00:09:16.168 --> 00:09:18.354 Why don't you act a little more mature?
00:09:18.354 --> 00:09:20.759 I go, I'm 50 fucking three years old.
00:09:22.211 --> 00:09:26.134 Why don't you talk to people without the profanity?
00:09:26.134 --> 00:09:29.495 Because you fucking stopped listening to logic.
00:09:29.495 --> 00:09:34.195 Why am I having to explain A, b, c?
00:09:36.265 --> 00:10:01.917 I just don't get it, david this fire as I got way off topic and the blame is 100 on gavin newsom being a failed you know, the the left is now yelling and screaming at you and I, and if they haven't thrown something at their screen or they throw them through their phones because, you know, stew, the left doesn't want to be blamed.
00:10:01.917 --> 00:10:02.658 Don't blame the left.
00:10:02.658 --> 00:10:03.648 The left is always right.
00:10:04.671 --> 00:10:05.633 Don't you understand that?
00:10:05.633 --> 00:10:08.830 Don't you know already by now that the left is always right?
00:10:08.830 --> 00:10:14.589 The left is correct, that the left knows better than you and me, and the left has to teach us how to take a pee.
00:10:14.589 --> 00:10:18.855 It's all amazing, but let's get to the point here.
00:10:18.855 --> 00:10:32.734 The left has got no credibility in my mind, because 10 minutes ago, the left stood up and said all those entertainers who are against Israel say, aye, I'm on your side and you deserve to be listened to.
00:10:32.734 --> 00:10:46.788 But when entertainers like Henry Winkler and others stand up and say this isn't green, this is not climate change, this was arson and we could avoid these type of problems because we know what's going on, the left says no, no, you're wrong.
00:10:46.788 --> 00:10:49.836 The left has decided it's about climate change.
00:10:49.836 --> 00:10:55.058 And, by the way, the one thing I agree with you is this story has gone global.
00:10:55.058 --> 00:11:03.167 For exactly that reason, the left needs to prove once again it knows better, automatically a forest fire.
00:11:04.169 --> 00:11:11.089 Like in history, in all of the global history we've had the thousands of years of history we've had.
00:11:11.089 --> 00:11:14.518 We've never had forest fire Drought.
00:11:14.518 --> 00:11:20.374 Has anybody heard of the term drought before in history?
00:11:20.374 --> 00:11:24.708 I mean, is this only a 20th, 20th or 21st century phenomenon?
00:11:24.708 --> 00:11:29.240 No, so explain to me how this happens.
00:11:29.763 --> 00:11:31.706 What I have a problem with, stuart, is politics.
00:11:31.706 --> 00:11:41.570 Gavin Newsom, like you said, taxes over-regulates, spends money in areas to ensure to get re-elected.
00:11:41.570 --> 00:11:51.168 Let me give you, stuart and I'll remind our listeners and our viewers once again the key to getting elected is not fixing.
00:11:51.168 --> 00:11:54.111 The key to electing is build new.
00:11:54.111 --> 00:11:58.010 Build new highways, build new bridges, open up new buildings.
00:11:58.010 --> 00:12:03.210 But if you do preservation, no one notices and no one cares.
00:12:03.210 --> 00:12:08.607 So we need to start forest fires and people are going to say to me that's extreme.
00:12:08.607 --> 00:12:12.696 Hey, if I put an ounce of prevention, you don't notice.
00:12:12.696 --> 00:12:14.505 So I can't get elected on that.
00:12:14.505 --> 00:12:20.216 So here is the problem that once again, the left is focusing on.
00:12:20.216 --> 00:12:22.947 He wants to talk about reparation payments.
00:12:22.947 --> 00:12:27.898 He wants to talk about all these things that will ensure his 2028 campaign.
00:12:29.466 --> 00:12:52.837 But you know, it's interesting, stuart, because when the left goes out and attacks your good old Governor, ron DeSantis, a guy I have tremendous respect for, who has dealt with hurricane after hurricane after hurricane in extraordinary fashion, without worrying about politics, without worrying about who voted for whom, regardless of what FEMA has screwed up, because you know, we know, what has happened on that end with the American government right, north Carolina Right.
00:12:52.837 --> 00:12:57.937 And then, when a reporter asks him like why are you criticizing Gavin Newsom?
00:12:57.937 --> 00:12:59.910 Why do you get to criticize me?
00:12:59.910 --> 00:13:02.990 Why did the left get to criticize the right?
00:13:02.990 --> 00:13:08.150 Unabated in these situations, gavin Newsom mishandled it.
00:13:08.150 --> 00:13:09.394 Face the fact.
00:13:09.394 --> 00:13:16.639 He should resign as governor because he is responsible, ultimately, for the protection of his people and he didn't do anything.
00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:23.719 And I also think that the mayor of LA should resign as well, because she was absent, she was useless, she won't cut.
00:13:28.171 --> 00:13:34.995 Okay, david, I got to cut you in because we got a few minutes left and before I play some more 1980s thrill music, I got to.
00:13:34.995 --> 00:13:43.587 I got to bring up this, I got to bring up this While the world is having a war in the Ukraine, a war in Israel.
00:13:43.587 --> 00:13:47.990 This is the only thing that's on the news.
00:13:47.990 --> 00:13:55.533 Now I want to tell you of the thousands upon thousands of homes that are destroyed, as David likes to tell me.
00:13:55.533 --> 00:14:04.501 I have very big problems when I deal with the different areas of commerce.
00:14:04.501 --> 00:14:05.423 What do you?
00:14:05.423 --> 00:14:06.888 What's the terminology you use, david?
00:14:06.888 --> 00:14:09.578 I have a problem with American Express.
00:14:09.578 --> 00:14:10.542 What are they Problem?
00:14:10.562 --> 00:14:12.667 with the first world problem.
00:14:12.807 --> 00:14:18.744 Okay, california has a real first world white problem.
00:14:18.744 --> 00:14:31.402 Predominantly, every single house that burned was a multifamily house owned by a white person and most of all, those people all have a second home somewhere else or somewhere else to go and stay.
00:14:31.402 --> 00:14:40.345 So, unlike North Carolina, where the Red Cross and FEMA were told skip houses because of politics, there it was not.
00:14:45.524 --> 00:14:46.503 Now we're in the children's department does.
00:14:46.503 --> 00:14:47.070 Oh yeah, it feels so good to be back here at the Dexter.
00:14:46.999 --> 00:14:47.167 Lake Club.
00:14:47.167 --> 00:14:50.216 Now we're in the children's department, shama.
00:14:50.235 --> 00:14:51.059 Lama Ding Dong.
00:14:52.037 --> 00:14:52.822 So here it is.
00:14:53.916 --> 00:14:55.501 Stuart, I got to tell you something.
00:14:55.501 --> 00:15:24.294 It really you know, it's fascinating to me how twisted and, by the way, it's very again US-centric to believe that the only story is what you missed, which is, by the way, the funny story and I am going to pull this a little bit to the out of there is my stupid current prime minister was on CNN and so, like the world, you know, us focuses on some funny stories, but when those of us who are not in the US, there are other stories that are going on the road.
00:15:24.294 --> 00:15:26.197 There are other stories, other devastation.
00:15:26.197 --> 00:15:40.243 But it just shows you one thing that in the United States we're focusing on California, where poor rich people lost their homes and oh no, oh no, what are we going to do for these poor rich people?
00:15:40.243 --> 00:15:43.284 But you don't hear that about the drought in South America.
00:15:43.284 --> 00:15:45.683 You don't hear about the famine in Africa.
00:15:45.683 --> 00:15:54.337 You don't hear it about the killing fields in parts of Asia.
00:15:54.337 --> 00:15:57.605 You don't hear about this devastation Because Americans do not want to actually address real world problems.
00:15:58.206 --> 00:16:02.701 Real world problems is not only what happens in the United States, and that's the fascination.
00:16:02.701 --> 00:16:20.335 And I wonder why, when you guys travel and you go around the world, you're shocked by what you see, because, no, yeah, sure, in Australia they'll talk about the forest fires, but that's not the lead story, that's not the only story, and that's the amazing thing and that's why you guys struggle around the world.
00:16:20.335 --> 00:16:21.777 But this is the problem.
00:16:21.777 --> 00:16:32.870 The left and the right in your country fight to make sure that the only problems that matter that the US is the yeah, exactly, crickets, crickets.
00:16:32.870 --> 00:16:36.844 So, folks, look as we wrap it up, stuart, and I'll leave you with the last word for today.
00:16:36.844 --> 00:16:41.721 You know what, if these politicians would do their fucking jobs properly?
00:16:41.721 --> 00:16:46.535 Now I'm swearing like Stuart, do your jobs properly, but you know you can't.
00:16:46.535 --> 00:16:49.217 Now I'm swearing at like Stewart, do your jobs properly, but you know you can't.
00:16:49.236 --> 00:16:51.859 And Gavin Newsom is only worried about his presidential campaign in 2028.
00:16:51.859 --> 00:17:02.386 He wants to preserve and he needs to, and he needs the Democrats and he needs the media and he needs everybody to say no, no, gavin, he's Teflon.
00:17:02.386 --> 00:17:08.830 You don't touch Gavin, ok, unlike what you did to DeSantis and every other Republican candidate.
00:17:08.830 --> 00:17:11.952 Gavin's our guy for 2028.
00:17:11.952 --> 00:17:19.023 Stuart, last words to you.
00:17:19.023 --> 00:17:21.327 On that note, stuart is done.
00:17:21.327 --> 00:17:23.211 Thank you so much for joining us on the Rant Network.
00:17:23.211 --> 00:17:27.076 We're going to cut off stewart's uh um.
00:17:27.076 --> 00:17:27.739 Spotify on that.
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