The California Wildfires and the Scum That Allowed Them to Happen
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Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion?
No.
Can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is?
Are you going to negotiate a new treaty?
Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold the vote?
What is the strategy?
I can't assure you.
You're talking about Panama and Greenland.
No, I can't assure you on either of those two.
At face value, some of this stuff is...
Very troubling and dangerous.
Suggesting that he would use military force to reclaim the Panama Canal, which as we have been talking about for a week or more, President Carter signed a treaty to give back to Panama.
Or Greenland.
Meanwhile, Greenland, part of Denmark, a NATO ally.
That would be an extraordinary step were he to actually take any sort of moves there.
The city of Los Angeles swore in a new fire chief.
And for the first time in history of the department, she is a woman.
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You could revert water up into the hills where you have all the dead forests, and you'd stop many of these horrible fires.
There's no water in the Palisades.
There's no water coming out of the fire hydrants.
This is an absolute mismanagement by the city.
It's not the firefighters' fault, but it's by the city.
There's no resources to put out fires.
So if you look at your pictures, you don't see the firefighters there because there's nothing they can do.
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When we look at these California wildfires and I've spoken to some people from California just within the last 12 hours, even earlier today.
This didn't used to happen before.
This wasn't a thing.
Wildfires happened, but they happened inland.
They weren't out like this.
They weren't in populated areas.
And they want you to believe that all of this comes from climate change.
See, it's climate change's fault.
It's all the climate change's fault.
And yet, It always seems to keep happening in the same areas in the last couple of years.
And so that's gotten a lot of people asking questions.
They say, you know, could it have been that eco-terrorists were involved here, as we've seen, by the way, in the past?
That there are just homeless people doing this because there are these massive homeless camps all over Southern California.
And what do you think happens when somebody, I don't know, sparks a bowl a little bit the wrong way?
The entire place goes up.
And the fact they've had a drought situation for so long has led it to be completely arid out there.
And then you've got the billions of dollars spent by the state government, by Gavin Newsom.
To run these ridiculous projects, which basically goes into the pockets.
I want folks to understand that one of the things that we don't...
I don't know if we say this as much as we should.
You know how we talk about Ukraine is this huge corrupt system and they have oligarchs and they're taking all the wealth of the people.
Understand, the United States is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
And it has been one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
How does California spend $11 billion on a train to nowhere that never gets built, this high-speed rail, and yet the money all goes out into the system?
Where did the $11 billion go?
It certainly didn't go to reservoirs.
It certainly didn't go to...
Hydro pumps.
It certainly didn't go to firefighter equipment or fire equipment because, and as we see here in the National Polls, it has a story up, that it turns out that the firefighter excess equipment that California had was shipped to Ukraine.
Shipped to Ukraine.
Okay.
Okay.
We've got Senator Mike Lee on a little bit here, and he's going to talk to us about all this and more.
But at the end of the day, this is what America First is all about, ladies and gentlemen.
President Trump is out there talking about this.
He's been talking about it, by the way, for years, and we've got all the tweets up about it.
It's about looking to the problems at home.
And yes, I understand these are liberal areas, and people want to talk about, okay, I get it.
Yeah, I get that.
I get all that.
But I want to point out something.
These disasters are allowed to happen.
Once again, what do we see?
Intentional negligence.
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All right, as we watch these Florida, or I keep saying Florida, I don't know why I keep wanting to do that.
It's in my head, for some reason, I want to keep saying Florida.
These California wildfires, and we're dealing with that.
We're going to have someone on who was affected by that here in a couple of minutes later in the show.
But first, we have Senator Mike Lee joining us from the great state of Utah.
Senator, how are you today?
Doing great.
Thanks so much.
Good to be with you.
Good to be with you as well.
And Senator, you and I have talked many times about the need for the American people to, or the American government, to put the American people first.
first.
And I can't think of a greater example of that than I when I'm reading this National Pulse headline that says that California was taking excess firefighting equipment, which could be used potentially to help with these horrendous fires that are going on right now.
And they were sending them to Ukraine, along with these massive spending packages.
Meanwhile, they don't have basic resources for this, etc, etc.
Seems completely ridiculous to me.
But that really is the state of our government now, isn't it?
It's absurd.
Government is there to serve the people, not the other way around.
It's certainly not there to serve somebody else half a world away when the government at issue can't even do its own job and protect its own people.
So I hope everybody watching and listening will join me and so many others.
Praying for these poor families in Southern California and the communities around Los Angeles, that destruction is truly difficult to watch.
One of the things that's most painful about it is that California's own leadership hasn't prepared for fires like this, which is stunning.
In addition to sending fire equipment to Ukraine, for example, they've done other things that have left them vulnerable.
Now, these fires...
Like this one.
These are things that happen every few years.
This isn't news to them that wildfires happen in Southern California.
One way or another, they're coming.
And then the fact that the so-called Delta smelt, this tiny fish, I'm sure it's lovely, but it is a tiny fish.
It is not a person.
The Delta smelt is standing in the way of getting really desperately needed water to a number of parts of California.
And the fact that California's own leadership is steadfast and Protecting the Delta smelt above everything else shows just how ridiculous their priorities are.
Look, there are three major facilities on the Sacramento River.
The Shasta, the Oroville, the Folsom Dams.
All of them can hold back a combined 9 million acre-feet of water, and that's a lot of water.
But, you know, it's not enough to hold the excess water in wet years.
When it instead drains into the ocean.
We've got to make sure that the radical environmentalists aren't sabotaging vital infrastructure, like what I've just described, and water sources that human beings need to live and thrive.
Sure, it's a nice goal to worry about the Delta smelt, but don't do it at the expense of actual human beings.
And I think it really is as simple as that, because when we're talking about putting American first, we're always talking about putting American people first.
And yes, that does mean there are going to be those times where you've got to balance.
Of course, we all want.
That's something that I've spoken to Nicole Shanahan and others from the Maha movement.
I said, of course, we actually agree.
We would love to have.
Cleaner food and cleaner air.
Believe me, there's a lot of people on the right who talk about having cleaner water as well and what goes in our water supplies.
But the idea that the Maha movement is not in alignment with MAGA or Americaverse, no, it's actually quite different.
different.
It just means that we're going to be putting people first and having that balance between what's best for people and also keeping lives, keeping enough people again, making sure that we have the power that we need, making sure that we have the energy that we need, but also making sure in cases like this, that states like California and like Utah, but also making sure in cases like this, that states like California and like Utah, by the way, have Now, that's, that's exactly right.
Um, America first needs to be our mantra.
Humans first needs to be another mantra.
Don't put other species against us, whether it's the Delta smelt or otherwise.
The Delta smelt against us.
It's really amazing.
Senator, I had to ask you before we realized that this was going to be going on so much in California that really the big thing that was on everyone's mind lately has been this question of expansionism, America first.
Now, we're talking about our contiguous borders, but at the same time, when we're looking at the interests of the American people, there's these huge questions about the Panama Canal, questions about Canada becoming a state, and then even Greenland with Donald Trump Jr. Well,
first of all, it's kind of amusing in a schadenfreude sort of way to watch liberals who are absolutely losing their minds over Trump, flirting with the idea of buying Greenland or annexing Canada or taking back the Panama Canal.
Now, first of all, whether or not the United States goes through with any of this, the idea of territorial expansion in our country.
Is not new.
It's as old as the country itself.
From the Louisiana Purchase to buying Alaska from Russia.
Now, let's take the latter example.
The purchase of Alaska was referred to as Seward's Folly at the time it happened.
And this was from people who were mocking then-Secretary of State William Seward.
And, of course, Alaska would go on to...
Become one of America's greatest assets for all kinds of things.
Geopolitical strength, natural resources, oil and gas say nothing of its stunning natural beauty and the fact that it's a beautiful place where a lot of Americans now live and others visit.
But people forget that Seward also thought that purchasing Greenland was an idea worthy of serious consideration, as he put it.
He even commissioned something that he called a report On the resources of Iceland and Greenland for that very purpose, although we never made an offer.
So, you know, it's kind of interesting.
When it comes to Canada, I wonder if we should consider, could we take Alberta and leave the rest?
I don't know.
It might be like our own little frozen Texas of the north.
They may even want to join us.
I don't know.
But quite frankly, one way or another, I think this is mostly just about President Trump trolling Justin Trudeau.
For his terrible, embarrassing mismanagement of the country from the most insane COVID lockdowns, as if they could get any more insane than what we saw in parts of this country, to flooding the country with foreigners, just like Joe Biden has done in the United States, to apologizing for Canada's success and rich history, to allowing an evil regime of assisted suicide to be normalized.
Look, you know, Canadians, they stormed Normandy Beach.
...with us in World War II. They're our cousins in freedom, in the English tradition and English language, even if our paths separated during the Revolutionary War and later in the War of 1812. And they deserve a lot better than disgraceful censorship and authoritarian laws and pretty-boy socialism that Justin Trudeau has provided.
And I hope they choose strong conservative patriots to lead them after his departure when he goes back to Cuba or wherever he's going.
It'll be interesting to see where he ends up going.
Actually, I have some colleagues up in Canada who say that they think that he might not actually be fleeing, that he's going to attempt to stay in Parliament and then use that as a way to launch another bid for...
The prime ministership, which is apparently and I'm not a student of Canadian political history, but again, a few of my colleagues are apparently his father pulled a similar move during one of the times when he had a break in the prime ministership.
So he could be could be using the same strategy that his dear old dad did at one.
I mean, yeah, there's obviously lots of talk about the U.S.-Canada relationship, and I certainly think that natural resources need to be at the forefront of that.
Clearly, we have to have a close trade relationship with our Canadian cousins.
They are right there.
And at the same token, a military relationship makes sense as well.
But then, as you look further north, where do we get to?
We get to the Arctic.
That's where Greenland comes in.
That's where further resources come in.
That's where these shared mutual interests, which, by the way, are in the interests of the Canadian people.
And in the interests of the American people.
And we went through, I kind of went down the entire rabbit hole yesterday.
I went full Navy officer on everybody on explaining the sea routes and the Bering Strait and how all of these different things are going to be opening up in the next couple of years and why this is so important to compete with China and Russia, who, by the way, are already sending ice cutter fleets up there to do the same.
If the United States wants to get in on the game, we...
We should do so, and we should do so quickly.
We'll be right back after a quick break.
We've got another segment with Senator Mike Lee.
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All right, Jack Posobiec, we are back live Human Events Daily.
We are on with Senator Mike Lee of the great state of Utah.
And Senator, we've been talking about this Manifest Destiny 2.0, Monroe Doctrine 2.0.
So we've talked Canada.
We're not entirely sure what the relationship with Canada will be.
Territory, state, maybe just a new deal.
We'll see.
Greenland, I think Greenland makes a lot of sense.
But what about the Panama Canal?
This is something that President Trump, I would say, really kicked off this whole new round of discussions.
the fact that the Panama Canal has, number one, been essentially taken over, at least commercially, by the Chinese Communist Party.
And then number two, also serves as a conduit for all of the illegals coming up from South America.
I don't know if people understand how the maps work there, so we're gonna show the map up again, but yes.
All the illegals coming from South America do cross the Panama Canal.
It is a strategic choke point, not only from a maritime perspective, but also from a physical perspective.
And if the Panamanians wanted to shut down those bridges, they could in a second.
Senator Lee, should we take back the Panama Canal?
Look, among the territorial acquisitions that President Trump has talked about making, Over the Panama Canal may well be the most realistic and quite possibly the most important of the proposals that he's discussed.
Look, the Panama Canal was built by the United States of America.
It was our project.
We owned it.
We lost tens of thousands of American lives, mostly to malaria, from people who built it.
And then the late Jimmy Carter, God rest his soul.
May peace be with his family this week.
He gave it away.
This was a very foolish move.
Now, for years, China's investments in infrastructure projects in the Western Hemisphere and elsewhere, but especially in the Western Hemisphere, and increasingly their access to, their incremental access to and control over parts of the Panama Canal, it's been steadily increasing.
Now, from the $900 million acquisition of this entity known as Margarita Island for the Panama-Cologne container port and then a $1.5 billion contract for the canal's fourth bridge to Chinese operations of major ports at the canal's Pacific and Atlantic outlets to investments in energy facilities such as natural gas plants and water management initiatives.
China has been marking its territory.
It's been deepening its foothold in Panama and strengthening its position as a strategic economic partner in the region, in this region, in our hemisphere.
Now, this is where it gets interesting, though, because we have to remember our neutrality treaty between Panama and the United States from 1977 guarantees the Panama Canal's permanent neutrality.
And fair access to the canal for all nations as, quote, in the international transit waterway, I think is the term.
And it prohibits foreign military presence in Panamanian territory.
The United States reserves the right in that treaty to use military force to defend that neutrality.
Now, remember the Monroe Doctrine, named after the fifth U.S. president, James Monroe, established an American policy prohibiting any further meddling.
Or additional colonialism in the Americas as a threat to our national interests and sovereignty.
We recognized all the way back then what a great blessing, what a supreme advantage we enjoyed by having these two vast oceans separating us from other parts of the world, from other continents.
Now at the time, James Monroe probably could not have foreseen that China would one day...
We've become arguably our biggest, most medicine global adversary.
But it's long past time that we started enforcing the Monroe Doctrine against the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliates.
And this is one way that we consider going about that.
That's right.
I'm sure George Washington and Upton Monroe weren't too worried about the Qing Empire's encroachments in Central America.
But hey, here we are.
And of course, by the way, we did have relations with the Qing Empire when it came to infrastructure because that's how.
A lot of the railroads were built.
So certainly there were and always have been these imperial relations.
I've spoken a lot that I have this, I guess, tweet that went pretty viral where I said, you know, in 1776, the United States, the colonies, which became the 13 states, was surrounded by empires.
You had the British Empire to the north.
You had the French Empire in what is now the Midwest, all the way down, of course, to Louisiana, the Spanish Empire to the south and to the west.
And then Alaska was controlled by the Russian.
So the United States of America was born surrounded by empires, born obviously in battle with one of those empires and aided by another.
And so the idea that the founding fathers didn't understand these complex geopolitics is laughable to me because they had to understand them quite well if they ever wanted to build their own company or country and establish their own country without having one of those empires come in and decide to take over their new country, which of course happened in 1812.
And by 1814, with the burning of the White House, you know, certainly certainly the situation almost came down.
But at the end of the day, Senator, when Teddy Roosevelt was the president who was most famously associated with the Panama Canal, began construction during his presidency, he was an absolute champion of this.
What is the difference between the sort of neoconservative school of thought and the Teddy Roosevelt school of thought?
Well, look, Teddy Roosevelt's idea there really was a natural outgrowth of the Monroe Doctrine.
It was not about a neoconservative objective.
Obviously, the term didn't exist then, but it was different.
It was about securing freedom of navigation and making sure that we ourselves were dominant in our hemisphere.
And just as it was important and understood, as you pointed out, in 1776 at the time of our founding, that we needed to protect our hemisphere.
It was also understood more than a century later, when Teddy Roosevelt had the foresight and the vision to build the Panama Canal.
It has become infinitely more important, not less important, that we adhere to basic Monroe Doctrine principles today with a global integrated economy.
You have a lot of people, leftists, and unfortunately some even in the Republican Party, are sometimes...
Apologetic about things like that and they're wanting to not go back to the Monroe Doctrine and they want to say, well, we have a global economy now and we're much more integrated than ever before.
Look, that makes it more important not less to stick to our Monroe Doctrine principles.
That makes it more important not less to have the Chinese Communist Party not interfering with, meddling with, owning parts of, or controlling access.
To any aspect of the Panama Canal, now more than ever before, we need to not have China running that show.
And to the extent that that treaty gives us rights, then President Trump is well within his right to look at those.
He's looking out for our interests and making sure that we're safe and secure.
And this is the biggest difference, because in the school of thought that's been running Washington, D.C., and it's not just Republicans, or just not just Democrats, I should say, it's Republicans and Democrats, you hear these people again and again and again that will be so concerned with, you know, who is the next leader of some province of...
The Ukraine or Afghanistan and Iraq.
And of course, all these issues are important.
But the question is, they're so far away from any direct impact on the American people that the question is, of course, as we're so worried and concerned and focused on things that are thousands of miles away from our shores, how much time are we spending on things that actually do matter to us?
Like, oh, by the way, the Chinese taking over the Panama Canal.
Not just the Panama Canal, by the way, but putting their investment.
All throughout the Caribbean.
They're practically owned the island of Jamaica at this point with debt trap diplomacy, port after port after port.
And I'm sitting there with just, you know, as a prior Navy officer saying, what will it take for people to get to wake up?
Does the PLAN have to start building Navy bases in the Atlantic before anybody realizes this stuff?
I mean, it's just basic, just basic great power strategy.
And it seems like we've completely abrogated it for a long time.
Remember, China has a base in Argentina, a military installation in Argentina.
It was built prior to the election of Javier Millet.
And the Chinese Communist Party has made inroads, not only in Panama, not only in Argentina, in Brazil, in Colombia, really all over Latin America.
These guys are not just coming.
There's not just a looming threat that they might arrive.
They're in the Americas.
And it's important now more than ever that we start paying attention to our own hemisphere.
As much fun as it is for people to talk about political disputes and wars half a world away, when it comes to our hemisphere, we've got to be especially careful.
Ties right back in to the cartels and to everything that everyone's been talking about, about our border when it comes to, and this is something I think that people misunderstand about some of the things that President Trump said.
They said, oh, he wants to pull back from the Ukraine war.
Is he a pacifist?
Is he, you know, is he terrified of using the military?
No, no, no, no.
It's just that he wants to use it where, he wants to use the military force where appropriate.
And certainly when it comes to defending our own borders and defending our own Should be the first priority, priority number one.
And sometimes you get the sense that our own hemisphere is dead last in priority, and that shouldn't be the case.
Again, we've got this blessing of having these two vast oceans, the Atlantic that separates us from Europe.
And the Pacific Ocean that separates us from Asia.
And we've got to take full advantage of that.
But we lose that advantage and it becomes almost something of a weakness.
If we rely too much on the security that that has long provided us to the point that we neglect our own hemisphere, we neglect the Americas, then we've got them at our door.
It's exacerbated further when you've got the Biden administration over the last four years.
Enriching international drug cartels to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.
These guys are practically printing money with human trafficking and smuggling.
Amen.
Senator, we're coming up on our hard break.
Where can people go to get more from your office?
You can go to lee.senate.gov.
Find out more information from my office and look forward to more conversations like this one.
As always, thank you very much, Senator.
Thank you.
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Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C. We're very, very pleased that we can now bring you Peachy Keenan, who is there in Southern California in the area that's been directly affected by the wildfires.
Peachy, how are you?
Yeah, I've been better, Jack.
I can imagine.
So tell me what the current situation is for you and just what the last 24 hours have been like.
Yeah, it's been so insane.
I mean, some people know this, but I grew up in Pacific Palisades, in the Palisades Village.
All of our family, my husband and I are both from that area, the Palisades, Santa Monica.
Everyone we know over there has now been evacuated.
And my husband's two cousins just lost their homes.
Last night his aunt's house right now we just found out is on fire.
My in-laws had to evacuate their house.
We couldn't go there last night.
So that's like one half of my life and the other half is here in the kind of Pasadena, Altadena area.
I live from the border and this whole place is now on fire.
I keep getting texts all day of our friends.
My children's classmates, their homes are right now on fire.
And Pasadena is not Palisades.
It's not billionaires and celebrities.
This is like families who have been here for 30, 40 years and these beautiful old craftsmen.
And it's just, it's actually heartbreaking.
I literally keep getting text messages like, oh, you know, this family's house, they're on fire now.
We have friends who live just off the street from me.
She's a widow.
They have 10 children.
Her son just texted me.
Their house is now on fire.
This is Altadena.
I just came home to grab some toilet paper and some of my daughter's clothes that she didn't bring.
And I'm just looking outside and like, you know, the light is orange.
And you can just hear the...
This is my video.
We took this this morning.
My husband took this this morning.
And just black smoke pouring down.
I don't know what's going to happen tonight.
My house seems to be, you know, maybe it's okay, but you can't really breathe, so we're not going to stay here tonight.
But it's just, I mean, I can't even tell you the devastation.
Like, all of the Palisades where I grew up is basically burned to the ground.
No.
I've got to ask you, and by the way, thank God you're okay, and please let me know online or offline if there's anything that people can do to help once things get set up.
I know that that's usually something that takes a little bit of time to get going, but I've got to ask you as well about some of these questions that people have come up with.
I mean, these wildfires.
I just spoke with someone before the show, and I'll ask you as well.
I mean, did you see wildfires like this in all these years that you've been talking about, the families who are living there?
Not in this area.
I've only lived here like seven or eight years, but I grew up on the west side.
And so every few years, Malibu burns down.
And actually, my mother...
Sorry, hold on.
My mother lived in Malibu for 20 years.
She just sold her house a few months ago and left for a red state.
And I just got a text an hour ago.
Her house in Malibu is now gone.
That's totally burned down.
So her timing, these boomers have great timing, right?
So every few years, every five years, Malibu would burn down.
It was periodical, but the Pacific Palisades has never burned down.
I can't even believe that a fire that started up in the Palisades Highlands, which is pretty far up the mountains, got down to the ocean and burned all of Malibu.
I mean, these classic Palisades, Malibu restaurants.
Gladstones, which the former Mayor Richard Reardon owns, the Reel Inn, if you've ever been to the West Side, these are just, you know, Palisades High School, which is like this West Side institution, public high school, a lot of my friends went there, is no more.
And so it would happen periodically, but I've never seen it here in Pasadena.
I don't think this area has ever burned like this.
And especially the Palisades Village, that has never burned.
This is unprecedented.
One of the questions I think that is on a lot of people's minds, certainly with President Trump, he's getting into the politics of it.
He says, basically, squarely putting this on the shoulders of Gavin Newsom, saying, look, this is something that we've talked about again and again and again.
The water management, the fire hydrants, the timber management, the wildfire management, all of these things could be done, and yet you guys are putting either environmental concerns or other concerns, you know.
You know, ahead of actually just taking care of the state.
What would you say to that?
Yeah, I think that's absolutely true.
They won't clear the brush, apparently, because of the environmental activists.
But meanwhile, these mountains, these hillsides in Santa Monica and above Altadena, they're full of, like, homeless camps.
And a lot of times, this is how the fires start, where, like, a cooking stove goes wrong with the wind, or someone, you know, drops their crack pipe.
I mean, this is often arson.
Because these people are just up here in the hills and no one does anything about it.
But the other thing that's really shocking to me is that, you know, we were hearing about there's no water in the fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades, even though those people pay, you know, 100 grand a year in property tax.
But there's also no water here.
Someone told me this morning that a fireman, a firefighter, a few blocks from me, they had to break open a fire hydrant in Altadena and there was no water.
And I did see, I did witness fires, houses fully engulfed with water going on the fires.
But most of it is neighbors in their hoses.
I am not seeing a lot of water coming down on these homes.
And so, yes, our government is so ridiculous.
It really does feel like we're abandoned.
I mean, the fire department is doing the best they can.
I see a lot of out-of-town, a million out-of-town fire trucks went by me today.
But it does feel like we're alone.
And this is what I don't understand.
What about military?
Have you seen the National Guard coming out?
Anything like that?
No, just tons of cops.
I just talked to a sheriff.
They have all the streets blocked off near me.
And I asked them, I'm trying to find out from my friends who live, they fled for San Diego, the ones with 10 kids.
And I'm trying to find out, is their house on fire?
And he said, yeah, a lot of houses up there are in flames.
But there's not really a lot of information.
There's definitely no military here yet.
And I'm not seeing any water drops.
Now maybe there's water drops up on the hills right now.
I was not seeing any.
But there is an enormous police presence.
So I think that people are okay.
I think people have gotten out.
They've been smart.
They're keeping people away from these areas.
But I mean, my son is out of a job.
He works at the local hardware store.
It burned down this morning.
I picked him up there last night.
He was at work.
You know, selling flashlights and batteries to people.
And now he has no more job.
And this is a local mom and pop.
And just all the mom and pop stores up and down Lake Avenue are gone.
It's just...
It's honestly like...
I don't even know when we'll go back to school.
I don't know.
People don't have homes.
Like, what are we...
It's just wild.
It's just...
Yeah, I don't even have words.
Well, this...
And certainly, please let me know when...
Something is set up for our audience and for my audience and me personally to be able to help and I'm just gonna put this out I've been getting messages from People who are out there as well saying that, you know, senior fire officials out of L.A. and other areas saying that Newsom and Biden are not operating at 100% to contain this.
And if there's any manpower that can be brought in from neighboring states, I mean, Nevada's right there, Arizona's right there, other parts of California, even Washington state, why not?
Oregon as well.
You need the command and control.
Get the military in.
Get the National Guard.
It's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous to me to think that there's American people and we have all of these resources, all of the money that's spent on them.
And it reminds me of when the 82nd Airborne was sitting on Fort Bragg while the hurricane was hitting in, you know, western North Carolina.
It's like, they're right there.
Just sign the order, guys.
Just sign the order.
And they, like, posted one video of them doing a supply drop.
What are you waiting for?
What if it was Zelensky, you guys, who'd be there in two seconds?
I'm sorry, PG. But that's, you know, that's the way I look at this because it's like you're losing your home and you've got Americans, their homes are burning down.
They've got like dogs and these crazy videos that are coming out.
And then I'll walk down to Washington, D.C. and hear another hundred billion is going to Kiev.
Yeah, and the L.A. mayor, Karen Bass, was on some like, you know, stupid trip to Africa.
But she's in Africa.
Yeah, she's in Africa having fun on our dime.
I mean, I'm not technically...
In LA City, she's not really my mayor, but she is for all intents and purposes, like the mayor of Southern California.
And I just read somewhere she gave $20 million.
She defunded the fire department, LA Fire Department, $20 million to divert to who knows what, to DEI or whatever.
And I mean, clearly these people cannot manage this.
I just can't believe that they let the Palisade Village burn to the ground.
This is the library I grew up going to, the Gelson's.
I mean, this is like my childhood.
Honestly, it's devastating.
And I'm angry.
And people should be enraged.
And I keep thinking, Jack, what will it take for people in L.A. to finally vote out Newsom, to vote against these people?
And maybe this is it.
Maybe finally...
They will figure it out.
Although Rick Caruso, I think he did beat Karen Bass, I mean, the mayor, and they cheated the last minute.
I don't even remember that election.
He was ahead.
I do remember that.
And then, whoa!
PG, we're coming up on a hard break, but let's stay in touch as best you can and be safe.
Please be safe.
Our thoughts and prayers absolutely are with you.
And to any additional resources, manpower, and National Guard, I don't care if it's active duty, just get the people help.
Get the water drops going.
Jack is a great guy.
He's written that fantastic book.
Everybody's talking about it.
Go get it.
And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
And we're going to turn it around and make our country quite a good day.
Amen.
All right, Jack Bersowicz back live here at Human Events Daily.
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Daniel, it's great to have you back on again.
We're watching these wildfires, these horrific fires.
You said a guest on who said that it felt like their childhoods are burning down.
And I just wanted to...
Because I know you've done a lot of work on this to explain how all of this really is being caused by climate change, of course.
This is the face of the green movement.
You know, these people live in their minds and they want things to be a certain way.
They want things to be a certain way about the climate, about nature.
But reality is, is that when they're...
Policies are implemented.
You get death and destruction.
It's illegal in L.A. to water your lawn.
It has been for several years.
Even though the drought ended, they didn't rescind the order because somehow the progressive left thought this was a good thing.
So you have dry areas.
It's illegal to do forest management because the environmental left will contend that fallen trees are habitat for animals.
And they are.
But they're just also kindling.
That destroys forests and destroys neighborhoods.
And this is the result.
When the environmental left talks about animals or nature or how they only do this to protect the planet, that is a lie.
They hide behind climate.
They hide behind the green agenda to bring about a genuinely evil, misanthropic communist agenda.
And this is the face of it.
When you have water mitigation policies that are illegal, when you have forest management policies.
That are ignored.
Gavin Newsom now, the coward that he is, will get the point fingers at the right, at MAGA, at you, and say, see, this is climate change.
This is your fault.
Because now they don't have to do the difficult job of running the state.
So climate change gets to...
It's Judas, right?
I'm sorry, excuse me, it's Punch's pilot.
You get to wash your hands of all responsibility.
And that is the climate agenda.
You wash your hands of the hard part.
of being a governor and you just blame climate change.
So I get so angry on these issues.
Let me ask you to unpack something you just said there, that you said the true face is misanthropic.
I mean, that's another way of saying they're anti-human, isn't it?
Yeah, deeply human.
You know, I tweeted a lot over the weekend about Jane Goodall when she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
And I said, don't let the old lady act fool you.
Jane Goodall, her philosophy is genuinely evil.
She talks about policies to eradicate 80% of the population because of monkeys, because of primates, not humans, right?
Nature.
And she advocates, willingly advocates, for the eradication of 80% of the world population who should die, right?
And she will never say who should die.
She will just say certain people should not live and will do that by denying them fossil fuels, denying them electricity, denying them power.
And this is a world that she wants.
And she got a Presidential Medal of Freedom for a truly evil, evil philosophy.
And this is the face of it.
When you put this genuine communist agenda in action, you get destruction and death.
Nature is vicious.
This is the face of nature.
It is humans that allow us to overcome nature, whether it's surviving freezing cold, as we've done in Alaska on the North Slope, whether it's surviving and controlling fire, whether it's controlling the tides, and all of that comes with freedom and it comes from fossil fuels.
And we're denying humanity the ability to overcome the destruction of nature.
And we're letting people die as a result.
What's happening in LA is devastating.
It's awful.
And it's evil.
And it's deliberately evil because that is the green agenda.
Well, and it's deliberately evil because they see these homes being burned down, they hear people die, and they say, good, we want this to go back to nature.
We want nature to take control.
And if you really dig down, by the way, I actually had a tweet up last night where I was talking about how, you know, in the 90s, you used to see this as a character, like a terrorist type character in a lot of movies.
Because it was very obvious that they clearly wanted to kill all the humanity or at least a vast majority of humanity because they wanted nature to take back over the planet.
Yet somehow in the intervening years, that's gone from a position that's mocked and derided to one that's actually taken seriously by some of our top leaders.
Yeah, and celebrated without a doubt.
And there's a reason why the Nazis were huge environmentalists, right?
It's a deeply anti-human, misanthropic agenda.
And something I've been talking about, and I'll share with you and your audience, you know, prediction.
Climate change is going to have a huge resurgence because it does galvanize and unite the left.
It gets them giddy.
It gets them excited.
It raises them a lot of money, and it gets their activists going.
And right now, the left is rudderless.
They are leaderless.
They don't have a vision.
They've gotten destroyed in elections nationwide.
But climate can bring them together.
So watch the Democrats in Congress.
Watch people like Gavin Newsom.
Watch the mayor of L.A. when she makes it back from her trip.
Hope she's having fun.
Remember what they did to Ted Cruz when he was out of Texas during the storm a couple years ago?
And a U.S. senator has no power in the state to order the National Guard, etc.
And the media excoriated Ted Cruz.
And now the actual woman in charge...
Is out of the country and the media is just quiet, but that's a parenthetical thought.
Climate change will unite all of these people.
Daniel, we are together.
We're just about out of time here on the program.
Where can people follow you, brother?
Powerofthefuture.com or shoot me an email.
Daniel at powerofthefuture.com.
Thanks, Jack.
I pray for everyone who are victims of this horrific agenda.
