Victor Davis Hanson (23:32)
Sources said she hired in her budget, her $50 billion budget, 451 new positions. And you go and look at them as I did. They're all, not all, but almost all of them are dei. So remember, everybody, DEI is a sin of commission and omission. It impedes productivity. It's a commissariat that double guesses you and tries to audit you when you're doing nothing wrong. But then it eats away resources and it destroys meritocracy. If I could just indulge everybody, I would like to go down a check roll of this confederacy of dunces that destroyed Los Angeles. So you start with the mayor and you pointed out she thought she was warned. Remember that the Santa Ana winds were high, the chaparral was dry, they'd had fires before stay here in the command post. And she decided to go to Africa to showcase. I don't think she went there, Jack, to consult with the president of Ghana about fire protection strategies. I guess it was dei. It's sort of like if I was the mayor of Los Angeles at this point, I'd go to Sweden to see my roots. She thought it was, it would resonate. And then she really didn't come back quickly and she was confronted at the airport and she got an honest reporter because he wasn't an American. So he said Americans are corrupt. So she said, he said, you know, why did you leave and are you ashamed? She just looked there stone faced, comes back and then gets in there and she tells the reporter to shut up and she doesn't have a clue. So as these fires are going on, the city is releasing false alarm after false alarm about mass evacuations. So everybody is, the whole city now is paranoid, as they should be. They start to evacuate. No, you don't have to. No. And so they have no trust in the government. And then people start things. He did and this is one of them. And then in 2018 when they had a similar fire and remember there's 200,000 homeless people. Greater Los Angeles, Jack, is 18 million people this fall. So there are people all over here on hillsides at night in the winter who are lighting fire. They caught one, as Mel Gibson mentioned and other people have mentioned and they usually let them out but there's a high likelihood that some people to keep warm are lighting fires. And this took off. But in 2018 somebody mentioned that said don't dare drive, blame the homeless. This from the ex Castroite who used to have her hegiras as she went to Havana to meet the good man himself, the mass murdering Fidel, head of the Black Caucus in Congress. So then you look at her appointments, so she looks at the water and power utilities are, and she says, well, we've had a little problem with our appointments. The prior guy is now in federal prison for bribery. So we had another person who then quit. So I'm going to get the first Latina. So they got Ms. Kionis and they said, you know, to get a quality person like that, we've got to double the salary to $750,000. We got to pay this brilliant person who we know what PG and e is like. PG&E is bankrupt. She was at PG&E, so they paid her $2,000 a day to come over here. And the city burns and she says, we have a 3 million gallon tank. It's down. That's what happened. Well, you don't really care how many gallons are in the tanks. You should know how many gallons it takes to put out a fire. Maybe you should have had 10 million, 20 million, 30 million. Oh, you did. You had 117 million gallon reservoir at the top of the city. And it's, it's fire season. It's still the late fall, early winter, it's dry, there's Santa Ana winds. And so surely you, head of the brilliant person from PG&E who's getting $2,000 a day to shake up the system because your predecessors in federal prison is empty, under repair. So what, what would it matter if you had 3 million gallons or not when you needed 100 million? And there's 1 million reservoir sitting there that could have saved these people's dreams and livelihoods. And it's empty. Okay, so then we go to the vice mayor. She's in Ghana. So we have Mr. Brian Williams, her DEI, appointed Deputy Mayor for safety. So she's in Ghana. So everybody goes, well, Brian Williams is here. Oh no, he's not. He's under suspicion. He's under suspicion. He phoned in a bomb threat to the city council. So poor Mr. Deputy Mayor for safety is not on the job. So then we go to the fire chief. Well, we know from Ms. Crowley has talked. She keeps saying, I've had all these jobs. I've had all these jobs. Well, they were mostly in paramedic jobs. And when she does talk the last two years about her tenure, it's always that I brought in 70% DEI. And now she's under the gun because she cannot speak about herself the last two years in terms of anything other than I'm the first LBGTQ woman fire chief. She didn't complain that we knew. She never went to the press and said she was going to cut 45 million. She did cut 17 and now they're starting to blame her. So then she blames the mayor and then she says, I love this. Well, our job starts with the hydra, when the water comes out. So we were all there and it's true, we were there to put out the fire, but there was no water. That's not my concern. It is your concern. You should have had all of your fire marshals every single day going through the whole city, checking those. And then when that didn't come out or the first hour, you should have had a backup plan. Plan. And you should have been on the phone every single day with Ms. Quinones saying, is that reservoir full? Is that reservoir full? I got my people out there. The moment a spark starts, we're in danger. Ms. Quinones, get that reservoir full. I'm going to go public with it. No, but she did have a assistant DEI fire chief, a very husky person, but she was quoted. She had a nice little cute gay woman who had a little cute video. And she said, Christine Larson. Yes, Christine Larson. Well, you know, people say, can you carry a man? Look at the. Ms. Andreje. The hating of Ms. Anthropi. Anthropia. I don't know what we would call it. Ms. Andrea. Ms. Andrea. And she says, if I have to carry a man out of a house, he's in the wrong place. If I go to a. I guess you'd say, okay, Ms. Larson. So if you go to a swimming pool and a toddler is at the bottom of the pool and he can't write, and you're not able to jump in and hold your breath and go down and swim with him on his back, then he's in the wrong place, isn't he? Is that your attitude? Anytime you can't do a task, you blame the victim. That person should be fired. Crowley should be fired. Quinones should be fired. Mr. Williams, if he's not fired, he's on leave. The deputy mayor, he should be fired. Karen Bass, of course, should resign. And then we go up the ladder. Where was Kamala Harris? She's got a tenure. So Kamala Harris, during the election. Jack. Remember when she said Ron DeSantis is not doing enough for the flood victims in Florida? I'm a natural disaster person. So she flies into Florida, she gets in front of the camera, she's ready to do all this, and then she gets, poor Joe, he still got his little bitter streak. Well, you know, I get along with Ron DeSantis. He's doing a good job. So she shuts up, and then Ron DeSantis puts his boot on her mouth and says something like, don't try to glom onto my work. So I thought she had a record and she's an LA resident, so I thought she would be in the Cameras, I'm Kamala Harrison. As you know, I support full utilities and power. I'm a fracker now and I believe in energy development as I announced in my hundred year transformation metamorphosis. And she's not there. So then we go to Joe Biden, the President. Joe's there? Yeah, he's there, but he's there to put off thousands of acres off limits to the public so you can't have power to Angelus. And they ask him about Joe. Hey, let me. Let me tell you, my grandkids house was saved. My son, my. His kid, I guess his dog. My kid's house was saved today. I'm a great grandson. How do you think that. And then later he goes to another press conference. He goes fire away, fire away. Questions about people who've been torched. And is it true that he suggests that he was at Nixon's funeral? Funeral Rather than Carter, Somebody called me up. I have to check that. Somebody said that he had said that, that he thought he was at Nixon. Anyway, I'm going to. Don't quote me on that. So then we had Nick. So then we come to the piece de resistance with our mayor, excuse me, our governor. So Mr. Mel Gibson the other day said, what should the governor have done? Mel said, use less hair grease. So he flies in, and he always flies in with his Abercrombie and Fitch vest. Kind of like I don't have one on, but kind of a nice vid. He's got his hair slicked back, kind of like that David Muir guy that had his coat pinned up. He looks the same. He's got it slicked back. And unfortunately a woman runs up to him and gets through security and he said, I don't know, I'm just calling the President. But of course he's not calling the president. And she starts to yell at him. And what does he say about the hydrants? Well, it's a local matter. It's a local matter. Do you mean, Gavin, that there's natural springs in Los Angeles of water? So Los Angeles gets, I think, 15% of its water from wells. They get it from the Owens Valley state problem, the Colorado river state problem, and the aqueduct and penstocks that are pumped over the Grapevine state problem. So we look at you, Gavin, and you know, in 2014, we voted we 7 point field, 7.5 billion for a 1.3 million acre new reservoir above Millerton Lake, not far from where I'm speaking on the San Joaquin River. It's a tertiary reservoir. There's Not a lot of problems. It's not in the High Sierra, it's right in the foothills. 1.3 is what we were supposed to do. Well, it's been 11 years and I don't know where the 7.5 billion, I bet it was for other tasks, but we didn't build it. So then we go to the sites reservoir on the Sacramento, another low so that we could have more storage. 1.5 million. We didn't build it, but we have the Los Granos Grandes Victor, they're going to build the other one. At least it'll double the capacity of San luis. Well, it's 1.7 million. They didn't build any of them. So they said we don't need 5 million acre feet of storage to put in your stupid aqueduct and pump it over to la. So you have a lot of water. And then it got a little worse, Jack, because they're letting out 90%. Then when you don't build reservoirs and you have wet plentiful years, you say I don't have anywhere to put it. So of course it's preplanned. So they let 90% of the water out, don't pump it into the aqueduct, into the estuaries to save the delta smelt the three inch, what they call the canary in the mine, which is endangered because they want to bootstrap on climate change and farming and Los Angeles taking water because it's not as fresh water and oxygenated. So we're going to take all the water, cancel the contract, let it out to the ocean, save the canary in the mine. And then they don't tell you there's evasive striped bass that are devouring these things like chocolate candy. And there are five municipal districts around the bay. Now these are left wing, enlightened utopian people who put sewage treated but sewage into the delta and bay. So there's a final piece to this. He didn't build the reservoirs, he let the water out and then he started a grandstand. He came up with this crazy idea that he was going to be the indigenous persons president and the environmentalist green radical president. So he was going to go up the Klamath river and blow up Four Downs. And he was going to then say we don't need 80,000 homes with clean energy, we don't need flood control, we don't need irrigation, we don't need recreation. The people have homes on the lake. Screw them, they're probably wealthy white insects anyway that prey on society. Screw them, we don't care. We're Going to blow them up. And then he caused an environmental disaster of mud flows that killed flora, fauna, everything. But he did say that I restore to Native American people their native habitat. How does he even know that? Is anybody alive in 1860? I don't think so. And so that's his record. Then you look to the fire problem. Paradise fire, aspen fire, campfire, same old thing. They come in, he walks around, gets his Abercrombie and Fitch little thing, he gets his hair back, he walks around. Sometimes he carries a little shovel. Shovel some ashes. Sometimes he has a little pokes around. Usually, you know, he's got some officials from the federal government he wants to bail him out. And then he's running a $70 billion deficit, state deficit, given all the stuff he spent on 500 million for illegal alien health care, all that stuff. Di. And they ask him every single time, don't you think you could bring back the timber companies? Don't you think that the logging mills, to glean the forest, can't you let individuals go up and get their firewood from the fallen trees in the Sierra or the Cascades? Don't you think you can clean the chaparral on the foothills? Don't you think you can let the farmers and ranchers graze a little bit more to get the brush down? No, no, no, no. I just got off the phone with the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, the wildlife conservants, they said no. So that's what he did. And he created a tinderbox. He created a tinder box. Then he didn't allow enough water to hide it. And then he changed ancient protocols of all these awful people. You know what the subtext of all this is? Is these evil white person people, these evil white males like William Mulholland, you remember him from Chinatown fame, The guy who dreamed up a way to have 18 million people in Los Angeles by brilliantly and ruthlessly bringing in Owens Valley Colorado River Aqueduct, and created Los Angeles and created the most efficient futuristic water distribution system in the world. But he was an old white guy. And so therefore we cannot have anybody ever like him again. Or the architects at the California Water Project in the Central Valley who figured out in the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s how to transfer two thirds of the state's water to where only one third is found, but 2/3 of the population are found. And the greatest distribution of water in the world and the highest lift of any pipeline in the world over the grapevine. Those evil white people did that. And then we go to the Most sophisticated highway system by 1960 in the world. The California freeway system. 101 99, all these things. We added i5 and the 70 and it was all the work of these awful white men. Then we have these great universities. No we didn't. Victor. You think Caltech and USC and UCLA and Stanford and 1950s and 60s that really got going became world class universities. They were not great universities. You're mistaken. You're suffering from false conscience just because you went to Stanford, the UC system, you think they were good, they were racist, they were sexist, they were transphobic, they were homophobic, they were mediocre. But when we came, we took your legacy and we stripped off these racist names. Bolt Hall, Earl Warren. We got them all done. And we created these great universities and they're turning out people like the Karen Basses and you know, the Ms. Kionis, these brilliant people that are running the infrastructure that they inherited but they did not add to. Not one iota do they add to it. But they're correcting the endemic embedded sexism and racism tech within it. And that's where we are. How's that?
