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Jan. 9, 2025 - Viva & Barnes

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California is Burning Because of DEI & Bad Policy! Trump UIpdates AND MORE! Viva Frei Live

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	And I just wanted to let you know that I'm the useless piece of shit responsible for your home burning down.
	So just keep giving me your insanely high taxes and keep voting Democrat so I can keep burning this motherfucking place to the ground.
	Thank you.
	Hi, my name is Gavin Newscum.
	And I just want to let you know that I'm the useless piece of shit responsible for your home burning down.
	So just keep giving me your insanely high taxes and keep voting Democrat so I can keep burning this motherfucking place to the ground.
	Apparently, you had a rule.
	You're not supposed to use the F word within the first thing.
	I don't know if there's going to be many F bombs in the stream.
	I forgot that there were two of those where they used the S-H-W-E and the F-U-C-K-Word in that video.
	Um... Thank you.
	I don't have anything else to talk about today, except for the Los Angeles fires, which is the same thing.
	It's one thing after another.
	We lived through the worst forest fires back in 2023-2024.
	It wasn't arson, it wasn't forest management, and then they started arresting and convicting people for arson.
	It's bad.
	I've got a lot of California without naming audience man okay I don't yes breaths.
	Thank you.
	Mic check, one, two.
	Now we'll see.
	Now it's going to be nice and beautiful and perfect.
	And I'm telling you...
	Let me just go over to Locals and see.
	Do I have to start this all over again?
	I don't have to start it all over again.
	Refresh in Locals, and now I can hear my beautiful, lispy voice.
	Let me hear it much better, yes.
	You know why it's much better?
	For whatever the reason...
	And I don't know what it is, and I don't want to blame Studio if it's my fault.
	Occasionally, it logs you out without logging you out of Studio, and then it mutes the mic without you seeing that the mic has been muted.
	Ah, do we want to start this?
	You all heard the AI-generated thing of Gavin Newsom at the beginning of the show.
	Audio not silent, video also went silent.
	We're back, people.
	Okay, sorry about that.
	But it's a bizarre thing where, like, When I can no longer share screen in Rumble Studio, because for some reason on the back side, it seems to have logged me out, then I've got to refresh and log back in so I can share the screen.
	Oh, you didn't hear the...
	Well, then let's go back and start this all from the beginning, shall we?
	If we didn't hear the Gavin Newsom, the AI...
	This is what Gavin Newsom wants to make illegal people.
	Holy crab apples.
	Okay, so hold on.
	It was AI of Gavin Newsom standing in front of fire right here.
	This is it.
	It's quite hilarious.
	Posted by Il Donito.
	We didn't hear this?
	I played it twice.
	Oh, you know what?
	It's fate, actually, because he swore on this, and I was saying how if you use the F word within the first five minutes of a YouTube video, they treat it differently.
	Hi, my name is Gavin Newsom, and I just wanted to let you know that I'm the useless piece of shit responsible for your home.
	So just keep giving me your insanely high taxes and keep voting Democrat so I can keep burning this motherfucking place to the ground.
	Thank you.
	Hi, my name is Gavin Newsom.
	Listen to this.
	I just wanted to let you know that I'm the useless piece of shit responsible for your home burning down.
	So just keep giving me your insanely high taxes and keep voting Democrat.
	So I can keep burning this motherfucking place to the ground.
	Burn it to the ground.
	We're going to get into all of this because there's been a number of stories that are confirmed, unconfirmed, rumors.
	Let me just do one thing because I'm getting in touch with someone right now.
	I sent you a link via DM.
	It's such an outrageous situation.
	First of all, it is quite ironic that...
	Gavin Newsom wanted to pass that pizza legislation that would have prohibited AI-generated videos for the purposes of election interference or whatever.
	That was a fake video.
	I'll play you a real video, which you may not be able to even identify as not being AI-generated nonsense because of the sheer insanity preposterousness of it.
	This is Gavin Newsom.
	Literally standing in front of the consequences of his failed policy and failed leadership.
	It's burning behind him.
	A.K.A.
	the opening, the thumbnail.
	It's burning behind him.
	And what does this MFR do?
	He says this.
	People are literally fleeing.
	People have lost their lives.
	Kids. It's on you, Gavin.
	That's on you.
	Families completely torn asunder.
	Churches burned down.
	On you.
	This guy wanted to politicize it.
	I have a lot of thoughts, and I know what I want to say.
	I won't.
	I stood next to a president of the United States of America today, and I was proud to be with Joe Biden.
	And he had the backs of every single person in this community.
	He didn't play politics, didn't try to divide any of us.
	Finally, your message to the folks here, to this community.
	I mean, we have their backs.
	We're going to be back.
	And this is going to be a long, long recovery process.
	But look, we have residents moving back into Paradise, California.
	I've seen remarkable recovery efforts.
	I've seen remarkable sense of community, purpose, resilience.
	So, you know, I'm not just playing the politician role of optimism.
	I really am long-term optimistic.
	But the devastation to hear people wailing and crying.
	They're concerned about their pet, their family.
	They're just bewildered about what they're experiencing.
	And again, not just experience.
	I was not talking past tense.
	This is happening in real time.
	Zero percent containment.
	Zero percent containment.
	What's an amazing thing is they never want to politicize it when they're responsible for it.
	They want it to politicize the Katrina response.
	Blame it on racism.
	They want to politicize every single natural disaster.
	The hurricane in Florida, the result of climate change, Trump and DeSantis' failed policies.
	They want to politicize every single catastrophe, every single disaster, every single tragedy, except for the ones when they know damn well, not just in their heart of hearts, but on paper, black and white, that they are responsible for it.
	Let me just go back to that thing.
	I have to make sure that that's...
	It's so absurd that I almost wanted to make sure it wasn't AI-generated.
	But no, this was actually posted by Gavin Newscum, standing in front of the burning rubble of his failed leadership, blaming Trump for trying to politicize it.
	People have lost their lives.
	Kids lost their schools.
	Families completely torn asunder.
	Churches burn down.
	We don't want to politicize it, so let me use my own failure to take a cheap shot at Donald Trump.
	This guy wanted to politicize it.
	I have a lot of thoughts.
	How about you shut your mouth and think?
	You've got a lot of thoughts.
	So, look, I've got a lot of family in California.
	Sister, brother, nephews, aunt, cousins, lots.
	Let me see what news I'm getting from people.
	So I've got a lot of family down there and a lot of family friends.
	And it's as bad as everybody is thinking it is based on the end of times video footage that we're seeing on the internet.
	Bernie Sanders.
	I mean, look, this is going to be a meandering show.
	We're going to go through all of the not bad takes.
	They don't want to politicize it, except to politicize it, to blame Donald Trump.
	And the takes are...
	I created the term political retardant.
	The takes are politically retarded.
	Of the highest order.
	Bernie Sanders was one of the latest ones.
	It's just...
	Well, let's go with...
	Well, no, I think we've given Andrew Lichtman enough of a...
	Enough of a roasting, but let's, you know, why stop there?
	Alan Lichtman takes to Twitter.
	January 9th, this is today, yeah.
	Donald Trump pledges he would bring America together in his second term.
	Instead, when faced with his first challenge as president-elect, his first challenge as, are you an idiot, Lichtman?
	Like, you're proving that your idiotic failed prediction was not the failure of anything other than the fact that your brain is turned into mush.
	His first challenge as president-elect.
	The Los Angeles Fires.
	He politicized the tragedy with false claims about Gavin Newsom failing to sign a water restoration declaration.
	He even resorted to middle school insults calling Newsom, Newscom.
	First, we're going to get into all of this.
	That was, what's his face?
	Alan Lichtman.
	Alan, I can lick my own whatever, Lichtman.
	Bernie Sanders, never missing a heartbeat to blame something on...
	Climate crisis.
	Comes out and says, climate crisis.
	Hold on, where was it?
	There's so many.
	It's like you're keeping track of mentally unhinged individuals.
	Bernie. When did Bernie Sanders put that tweet out?
	Bernie Sanders blames it on climate change.
	You go into the...
	So here's where it is now.
	You see the fires are burning out of control.
	Zero percent contained, at least as of yesterday.
	Maybe the winds have died down.
	You hear a number of statements, causes, whatever.
	People are saying it's arson, or at least the result of arson.
	People spreading the rumors, or at least making assertions of fact that would lead people to think very conspiratorial thoughts that, you know, recently insurance companies were...
	Canceling insurance policies.
	And I just got a text from someone who's down there, went to the perimeter, safely away, says it's absolutely wild.
	You hear a ton of statements.
	I'm sorry, I'm getting a lot of pings here, so we're keeping track of a live situation.
	And it's impossible to know what to believe anymore.
	And where do you start?
	I mean, you start with Trump is needling Gavin Newsom and saying this is the result of failed policy because they are prioritizing the Sacramento Delta.
	What was it?
	The Sacramento Delta.
	It's a fish.
	By diverting freshwater into the ocean so that the salinity levels of the Delta are adequate for the spawning of the Sacramento Delta herring.
	So I'll get the name of the fish when I pull up the article.
	And they say, oh, no, that's not true at all.
	That didn't have any impact on it.
	Then you actually have to go and say, oh, it didn't have a direct impact on it, but it had an indirect impact on it.
	Then you get your claims of DEI policy within the Los Angeles Fire Department.
	You have your first lesbian police chief, as if anybody gives a sweet bugger all.
	And then the lesbian police chief was in there to fight sexism and racism within the LAPD.
	And lo and behold, you get the other one there, the mayor defunding, allegedly, the fire department, allegedly.
	California firefighters donating firefighting gear to Ukraine.
	And you hear all these things.
	You're like, what the hell's true?
	And what the hell's not true?
	And it turns out, by the way, it's all freaking true.
	And we're going to go one by one.
	It's not just that it's all true.
	It's all true.
	And it takes the culmination of failed policy into catastrophe.
	For people to see just how bad the failed policy is and has been for an extended period of time.
	you.
	And then you get the...
	People don't want to politicize it, but others are rejoicing in the loss of property when it's their political adversaries.
	Here's the Bernie Sanders.
	Listen to this.
	Bernie Sanders posts this picture.
	Can you appreciate this?
	This is end-of-times level stuff.
	At least if you believe in that, and I say that without judgment, this is what it would look like.
	If you don't believe in that, this is what it looks like.
	And what does Hillary Clinton ass-kissing coward, I don't know what else to call him, Bernie Sanders have to say about it?
	80,000 people told to evacuate.
	Blazes zero contained.
	Eight months since the area has seen rain.
	The scale of the damage and loss is unimaginable.
	I am once again asking.
	Climate change is real, not a hoax.
	Donald Trump must Can you imagine the balls it takes for this scumbag coward to now take an existing crisis that has been years in the making under existing leadership?
	And then trying to somehow find a way to pin it on what Donald Trump has to do when he gets into office to combat a problem, which isn't climate crisis, by the way, but even if it is, if you enact local policy that would be exacerbated by whatever climate crisis you think exists, they're trying to pin the blame on Trump, who hasn't been in office for four years and won't be in office for another two weeks.
	Pin this on him.
	The culmination of years of neglect, corruption, and negligence.
	Now, let's just operate.
	We'll give Bernie the benefit of the doubt.
	Climate crisis is not a...
	Okay, if it's not a hoax, what would you do then?
	Would you not tend to the forest management and leave dry tinder to burn if you actually believe that climate crisis is real?
	I mean, you wouldn't do it even if you didn't think climate crisis was real.
	Even if you thought climate change was a hoax, you still would have proper forest management because one thing that's clear, if you leave dry brush in dry areas, fire starts.
	If you leave dry brush in areas when fires start, they are exponentially worse than if you adequately clear it or do controlled burns.
	Don't politicize the LA fires.
	Also, the LA fires are Trump's fault.
	What are you saying?
	Eight months they haven't seen rain.
	Oh, okay.
	So eight months, they've known there's a problem, but it's been years.
	And what do they do instead when you hear stories of fire hydrants running dry, literally?
	The police force, or not the police force, the fire force defunded, literally.
	Diverting fresh water.
	So let's go one by one.
	Andrew Lichtman, or Alan Lichtman, says that the water restoration thing Gavin Newsom didn't sign.
	And you go fact check that, by the way.
	And the way they fact check it, because they are wordsmiths of the devil, is to say there was no such thing as a water management declaration.
	There's no such thing as that.
	And therefore, it's a lie.
	Oh, except for the fact that when he's talking about water management declaration, what they're talking about is properly managing the existing freshwater reserves that they have.
	And until they start nuking the internet, I should probably start...
	What's the word I'm looking for?
	Archiving this.
	Just go look into these things, people, because being, I don't know, a journalist...
	Oh, get out of here.
	I'm not...
	I'm not doing that.
	Let me go archive.
	The information is out there.
	It's actually out there and it's actually at your fingertips.
	I like to mess with these things and just pick things that are not bicycles.
	Look, it's an amazing...
	It's the smelt.
	The Delta, the Sacramento Delta smelt.
	Listen to this.
	Where's the title?
	Delta smelt hatched at UC Davis Labs swim in a holding tank in an aquarium in the Pacific in Long Beach, 2019.
	This is from October 2nd, 2024.
	State and federal officials have decided to curtail additional water flows intended to support endangered...
	This is October of this year, meaning that they had been doing it up until now.
	They decided to curtail additional water flows intended to support endangered fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta this fall, a controversial step that is being praised by major California water districts but condemned by environmental groups as a significant weakening of protections for the imperiled fish.
	The debate centers on a measure that calls for prioritizing additional flows for endangered delta smelt, a species that has suffered major declines and is thought to be nearing extinction in the wild.
	The step of releasing a pulse of water through the Delta in September and October is typically triggered when the state experiences relatively wet conditions, as it has during the last two years.
	A coalition of environmental fishing groups says the flow, called the Fall X2 water releases, they're vital for the smelt.
	Yada, yada, yada.
	Oh, lordy.
	Let's get rid of this one.
	Let's go to the other article.
	Here. Questions about the water.
	Is this about here?
	Ah, here we go.
	This is the one.
	Look at this.
	February 12, 2023.
	Sorry, let's bring this up here.
	This comes from resources.ca.gov.
	Questions and answers about water diversions and the Delta smelt protections.
	What's the problem?
	Over the course of the decade, the population of the fish has decreased.
	Yada, yada, yada.
	How are decisions made?
	How are decisions regarding pumping cuts made?
	Operations of the wet project pumps are regulated to comply with the endangered species law through biological opinions issued by the federal regulatory agencies.
	In 2007, the federal court found that existing biological opinions written to protect the Delta smelt and several runs of anadromous fish were inadequate.
	Okay, hold on.
	Let's see here.
	What's the problem now?
	In early December, the combination of a high pulse flow through Delta channels and high pumping rates of the water project pumps pulled many Delta smelts into the vicinity of the water pumps.
	Oy, oy, oy.
	Let me see here.
	Hold on a second.
	We're going to get rid of this one.
	This is not the best one either.
	Where was the article?
	I have an article where they're talking about the issues of rerouting fresh water.
	into the delta for the purposes of the fish.
	you.
	Eh, crap.
	That's somewhere here.
	Alright, well, the Delta smelting, you'll go look at the problem.
	It's been a known problem in terms of diverting water resources, fresh water, to support the smelt.
	It's a very laudable issue.
	But that is what Trump was talking about when he's talking about unlocking the fresh water that they have.
	That they're diverting to preserve the Sacramento Delta smelt.
	Get to the insurance having been cancelled, by the way.
	So you've heard now rumors.
	Water mismanagement is a known issue.
	We heard Trump threatening, saying you're not going to get any more federal funds if you don't manage the water properly that you already have.
	It's a big wheel that you can turn and you can redirect it.
	That happened before.
	There was discussion about that when Trump was running.
	The failure to properly manage the forest has been a problem that people have been complaining about for years.
	The adding fire to the conspiracy theory is homeowners insurance canceling fire insurance in these specific areas where these fires are now raging.
	And for that, I direct your attention to Exhibit B. This is from July 3rd, 2024.
	Scrambling California homeowners consider going without insurance.
	Listen to this.
	This is from KCRW.
	Ray Barrios reading the thing.
	It's among 30,000 State Farm customers in California who have to find new fire insurance.
	Ray Barrios lives in one of many large single-family homes that line the squiggly, narrow streets of Brentwood.
	The community is manicured.
	Plan development number...
	Wildland urban interface here.
	Okay. The flammable hills just north of this LA neighborhood that look typically tinder, open dry grass or trees without dense undergrowth feel far away.
	Not far enough according to the home insurance industry.
	Barrios and many of his neighbors are among 30,000 State Farm customers in California who begin losing their home insurance policies today.
	This is July 2024.
	Most of the affected customers live in high fire risk areas, which in Southern California includes parts of Woodland Hills, got family there, Pacific Palisades, and Bellwood Air and Brentwood.
	I understand why the insurance companies are reacting this way, because we've lived through the actual fires.
	When he moved into his home in 2017 with his wife, two toddlers, yada, yada, yada, fire risk wasn't really top of mind.
	Many of the state's largest and most destructive fires, Thomas, Woolsey, yada, yada, hadn't happened yet.
	In the first two years, they have a bunch of farms.
	State Farm is just the most recent company to shed risky homeowners.
	As wildfires get more common and more severe, insurance companies have started dropping policies en masse.
	More than a major inconvenience for the homeowners, it signals a reshaping of how and where we live in California.
	You go down here, it says, you tried other insurance companies, all refused.
	He has until September to come up with another plan, and the choices are slim.
	These are problems that the government has known about for a long, long, long time.
	And you can blame climate crisis as much as you want, when in reality, if it's the result of force management problems, potentially knowing that you have inadequate resources to combat fires, it takes a great deal of audacity to even suggest that Somehow, Trump's divisive rhetoric of pointing the finger where the finger deserves to be pointed is the issue here.
	Ali Michael, oh my god, I love this.
	Glad you played it again.
	Please give us a link where we can share it.
	I will send it in a second.
	I'm just going to read some of these here.
	Viva Fry, as a Californian, I assure you, many of us hate Gavin cum dumpling as much as you hate Trudeau.
	Something like that.
	I'm noticing some similarities between, some meaningful similarities between Newsom and Trudeau.
	That was from I Hate Death over in our locals community.
	This was not a sudden thing to happen.
	Insurance companies have been dealing with this for years and finally had enough.
	Watch the first 60 seconds to know this was predicted.
	This was not a sudden thing to happen.
	Insurance companies have been dealing with this for years and finally...
	Oh, sorry.
	I think that got posted twice.
	Watch the first 60 seconds.
	Let's do that right now, shall we?
	Let me see what this is here.
	I've got a commercial, so while I bring that up and take this down, let's go watch the first 60 seconds of this.
	California insurance crisis explained.
	A hidden gem that people...
	Got a question for you.
	Let's just say you are a CEO of a homeowner's insurance company.
	You're using your family's money.
	You're living in the state of California.
	Every single policy that's being written is losing money for you.
	How much longer until you stay in the state of California and say, guys, we're leaving the state of California.
	It's just not worth it for us because right now it looks like California is doing everything in their power to push out every single homeowner's insurance.
	In the state of California, here's why.
	California has 40 million people living there, of which 55% of them own a home.
	However, in 2023, nearly 7% of all real estate deals in the state fell out of escrow.
	Do you know why?
	Because the buyers couldn't afford the insurance.
	They couldn't get insurance.
	They're like, I just can't afford to pay the homeowner's insurance here.
	Makes no sense.
	I'm out.
	I'm not buying it.
	Matter of fact.
	Seven insurance companies in the state of California.
	State Farm, Allstate Farmers, USAA, Travelers Nationwide, and Chubb recently limited new homeowners policy.
	It's so bad that in 2022, Allstate quietly paused writing new home and condo policies in an email to Bankrate.
	Here's what Allstate said.
	The cost to insure new home customers in California is far higher than the price they would pay for policies due to wildfires, higher costs for repairing homes, and higher reinsurance premiums.
	It's actually incredible because the anecdotal stories that I hear confirm this to a T, people who simply can't afford to live there.
	They can't afford to live there, and they can't sell their properties because nobody can afford to live there.
	Holy hell, is that unbelievable.
	By the way, all of this, all of this, this is, you know, catastrophes oftentimes are like bankruptcies.
	They happen slowly, then all at once.
	This catastrophe is the culmination of failures at every level of government over extended periods of time, and these idiot, smooth-brained jackasses like Bernie Sanders want to blame it on one easy-to-pinpoint bogeyman, climate change.
	Not a question of property taxes, cost of living, cost of repairs.
	Exceedingly limited ability to do what you want with your own property.
	Poor forest management.
	And then it all culminates with this.
	We're going to get to the arson in a bit, by the way.
	So that's the insurance issue.
	And you have similar problems out in Florida.
	Florida's not perfect.
	And this is why some people don't have insurance out in Florida.
	And then when catastrophe hits and if they lose their property, they lose everything.
	Oh, this is Hiro Sanish...
	Hiro... Hirosan Ishiban says, Delta smelt.
	They are actually a non-native species from Japan, and research shows draining water doesn't help them.
	No proof they even exist anymore, by the way.
	I did the research myself.
	Well, thank you very much.
	But that was the rationale for diverting, literally, freshwater into the delta to reduce the salinity of the saltwater to facilitate, promote, enable the spawning.
	Of the Sacramento Delta smelt.
	That's the rationale.
	They're actually pumping fresh water in droughts into the Delta for the smelt.
	I didn't know that they don't exist anymore, but...
	Beat the fires out with your Delta smelt.
	Okay, that's who's had entry required.
	So that's the insurance problem.
	And you hear it, and you can't blame people for connecting those dots.
	Is this...
	You know, we've talked about eminent domain, the government reclaiming land after disaster in Lahaina, in East Palestine, in North Carolina, for whatever the reason.
	Lahaina, they say it's a beautiful property.
	They want it.
	They want to create 15-minute cities, and the easiest way to do that is to burn the motherfucker to the ground, to quote AI Gavin Newsom.
	And so whether or not these things are connected by intent, they can certainly be exploited by And even if they're not connected by whatever, the fact that they're happening simultaneously, you have failed policy which drives people to have to leave.
	People couldn't even sell their homes and now they burnt down to ashes?
	And how many are not going to have insurance and have lost everything?
	So where are we at now?
	We're at diverting fresh water for the smelt.
	We're at homeowner's insurance in fact actually being cancelled.
	I had another little receipt, not receipt, whatever you know.
	Article for that.
	And then the issue of, was it arson?
	I have yet to hear...
	Let me just...
	It's intense down there.
	Okay. Okay.
	I have yet to hear how these fires initially started.
	Not that it really...
	It matters.
	I mean, it kind of does matter, but the fires start, and then as a result of everything that we've been talking about, systematic failures, we haven't even gotten to the cutting the funding for the fire department, but at least you've got a lesbian fire chief, people, so priorities.
	We haven't gotten to all of this.
	We've gotten to diverting the freshwater.
	I'll show you the receipts for donating firefighting equipment to Ukraine.
	So California's been doing that for a little over a year.
	We don't know how the fires got started.
	Some people were saying arson, much like they were saying arson in Canada.
	And then the government was saying, no, it's not arson.
	And then lo and behold, they arrest people for arson.
	The Nova Scotia fire was started by arson.
	And they say, all right, well, even if it started by arson, it wouldn't be so bad if it weren't as a result of climate crisis, climate change.
	Bullshit, by the way.
	If you had forest management done properly, the arson arguably wouldn't get there.
	If you had water in the fire hydrants, Had a little bit more than 0% contained.
	So you hear some rumors that it's arson.
	I also heard, or at least read, people asserting that it was heavy winds blew down the electrical poles that started the fire and it went out of control.
	I can tell you what I don't have is video evidence that it was wind blowing over fire poles.
	What I can tell you that I do have...
	Are we looking at the same thing here?
	What I can tell you that we do, this is coming from John Rocker.
	I hope he's not off his rocker.
	Bada bing, bada boom.
	Former MLB pitcher, your favorite Florida man, mega business, John Rockwell.
	JohnRockerBraves1990s at gmail.com.
	He put this video.
	I don't know if he took this video.
	Oh, it's coming from the fire photo girl.
	Pause this very loud.
	The homeless were starting fires in California today, possibly being the cause for the mass wildfires in LA.
	Another reason why the mentally deranged need to be taken off the streets.
	This is coming from the Fire Photo Girl, who wrote, Unbelievable, I am literally fighting with a homeless person who is lighting fires.
	She told me she is doing a good thing, Colton Jurisdiction.
	Fire Photo Girl, breaking news, photographer, videographer.
	California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
	You know, it's very interesting, and this is going to make people connect other dots that may or may not exist.
	You imagine if you wanted to have a little bit of eco-terrorism and, you know, government officials who now know that they have mentally ill individuals.
	If you've been to California, you know that the homelessness is a big problem.
	You know, drug addiction is a big problem.
	If you had activist...
	Organizations or activist government officials who really wanted to make people understand just how bad the climate crisis is.
	So you go and get a bunch of homeless people to really, really start some fires mentally.
	You say, you're doing a good thing.
	Start the fires.
	People will understand how bad the climate crisis is.
	And then after all this is burnt to the ground, we can rebuild a 15-minute city and it'll be fire compliant and ecologically sensitive.
	I mean, people are going to put those two and two together if they want to connect those dots.
	At the very least, and I don't know Fire Photo Girl.
	That seems to be evidence of a homeless person, or at least a person, starting a fire on a windy day in the brush of California.
	I take that one with a grain of salt because I don't know who Fire Photo Girl is, but I know who Anthony Huberman is, or Andrew Huberman.
	I always get this up on his first name.
	I know who Andrew Huberman is.
	My wife, she follows Andrew Huberman.
	She's like, Dave, did you see this?
	Andrew Huberman.
	We're at 302 Pico, and people are lighting fires now.
	You can see that lit a fire, these guys.
	Not all the people there, but some of those guys lit that fire and they're actually, the trees caught fire and then the palms are catching fire.
	So civilians are now lighting fires down in the so-called, you know, you know, flats around Santa Monica, Venice.
	So be safe out there.
	Fire department's been dispatched.
	We don't have enough water to put this thing out.
	No shade.
	We're at 302 Pico.
	We'll get to that in a second.
	People are lighting fires now.
	You can see they lit a fire.
	These guys, not all the people there, but some of those guys lit that fire.
	And they're actually, the trees caught fire and then the palms are catching fire.
	So civilians are now lighting fires down in the so-called flats.
	Now what I was asking, I didn't DM.
	I didn't DM Huberman.
	I just wanted to make sure that that was his video that he recorded and not a voiceover, although I don't think he did.
	I'm just neurotic.
	Let's see if he replied.
	I just want to make sure that that's his voice that he recorded the video.
	But bottom line, there are people lighting fires down.
	And there's seemingly good evidence, good video evidence of it, whether or not it was the initial cause.
	We'll never know.
	We don't have the video of the initial cause or of the fire poles being blown over and starting it naturally.
	So, where are we at right now, people?
	Fresh water being diverted for the smelt.
	Home insurance, fire insurance being cancelled en masse.
	Apparent arson.
	Forget the taxes.
	We'll get there in a second.
	And we got Crash Bandit over on Rumble.
	Putting two, two, and two together.
	Viva! UN 2030 agenda.
	30 by 30 equals take 30% of the land away from the people by 2030.
	Plus the whole C40 climate cities.
	BS. It seems like there could be a plan.
	P.S. LA is a C40 city.
	P.S. LA is a C40 city.
	And then we got...
	Oh. Yeah, okay.
	So then we got...
	I think I just played this one.
	Look at Arson Concerns videos of Dr. Andrew Huberman.
	If the arsonists didn't start the fire, they likely accelerated them.
	True. And I just want to make sure that he recorded that video, but I do trust Andrew, so there's no...
	Okay, then we got Boopsy over in VivaBorn's Law.
	hard to believe the death count by news is only five people.
	It's.
	It's getting word from people on site there.
	it's wild so Alright. Where were we?
	What else do we got here?
	Oh, yes, that's right.
	We'll go through it, people.
	Gavin Newsom is very sorry for your loss, Los Angeles.
	The Sacramento smelt needed your fresh water.
	Ukraine needed your firefighting equipment.
	And you needed your first LGB...
	This is not even me quoting it.
	Your first LGBTQ plus fire chief.
	Don't worry, she's getting it done.
	You couldn't make this crap up if you tried.
	Gavin Newsom standing in front of his burning disaster of his own incompetence, corruption, malfeasance, lecturing Trump on trying to politicize it.
	Drought not over for some California farmers thanks to questionable Delta smelt regulations.
	This was the article I wanted to bring up there.
	And by the way, I had to fact check this because I saw it.
	People make the claim.
	And you know that this one chapped the asses of Newsweek.
	They had to confirm as true a number of fire departments in California did donate firefighting supplies to be sent to Ukraine in 2022.
	The state has also sent medical supplies and protective gear to help first responders in Ukraine.
	What was the other one here?
	Oh, there we go.
	This was it.
	From Pride.
	Amid Palisades fire, Los Angeles' first LGBTQ plus fire chief is proving lesbians get it done.
	I swear to all that is holy, I thought that was parody when I first read it.
	I went to read the article.
	This is from the article.
	We're going to get into Christian Crowley.
	Crowley is the first woman and first openly LGBTQ plus person to hold her post.
	She's married to retired firefighter Holland Bullock.
	I don't give a crap in the best possible way.
	Her nomination came after former fire chief Ralph Terrazas stepped down amid growing scrutiny for not doing enough to stop sexist and racist behavior within the Los Angeles Fire Department.
	Mayor Eric Garcetti said at the time that he nominated Crowley to the position, not due to her gender, but due to her abilities and skill with public safety challenges?
	This is reality, people.
	people.
	Hold on a second.
	on.
	I want to get the...
	Look at this Politico here.
	Check this out.
	Okay, that's it.
	Save and exit.
	Donald Trump Jr. finds a way to blame Ukraine for spread of Los Angeles fires.
	But firefighters said the real reasons were lack of personnel to combat out-of-control blazes in South California.
	It's a massive circle of finger-pointing.
	They're going to actually say, yes, we've been diverting freshwater for the smell, but that wasn't directly caused to the fact that they ran dry in the fire hydrants.
	No. No, it's not true that they donated firefighting equipment to Ukraine.
	Okay, it's true, but it didn't have the impact.
	It was lack of personnel.
	Oh, okay.
	Who do we blame for that then?
	Climate crisis?
	Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of president-elect, dragged Ukraine into...
	I think it's Bongino who calls it the Republicans' pounce story.
	I don't know if he coined the term.
	They blame Trump Jr. for pouncing on the incompetence and corruption that led to disaster, loss of property, and loss of life.
	It's not the fact that they did it.
	It's the fact that Republicans and Don Jr., the big bad boogeyman, is pouncing on it.
	Los Angeles County Fire Department sent a plane full of surplus like boots, hoses, nozzles, yada, yada, yada, to Ukraine.
	But the donation was in 2022.
	No, no, no.
	This year, Los Angeles Fire County Chief Anthony Marone reported a lack of personnel and had to request help from nearby counties.
	So you donate gear.
	I don't know.
	I guess you're donating it because you don't have enough personnel to make use of it.
	And you don't have enough personnel for a crisis.
	And you MFers come out and blame climate crisis?
	First and foremost, and then blame Trump for highlighting the fact that you are all a bunch of deadly incompetent buffoons?
	There are 9,000 firefighters in Los Angeles, counting between the country's fire department, 29, yada, yada, yada, which is still not enough to address all the fires in the region, Marone told the New York Times on Wednesday.
	Hey, here's a question.
	What the hell are our tax dollars going to?
	Yours, not mine.
	I don't pay taxes in California.
	What the hell are your tax dollars going for?
	Fox News reported that firefighters were unable to contain fires raging since earlier this week because of strong winds, extreme dry weather, lack of visibility, and outdated water supply systems in the region.
	Outdated water supply.
	When you first say, it's not happening, okay, it's happening, but it's not our fault that it's happening.
	When people were saying that the fire hydrants were running dry, everyone was like, no, no, no, no, don't jump on that.
	It might...
	They're not running dry.
	Okay, if they're running dry, it's only because the central power stations have burnt down, so they're not able to...
	No! You're paying tax dollars out the ass so you could be governed, restricted from doing things with your own property, and they can squander your tax dollars building what?
	A kilometer of the high-speed rail, the foundation for it, so they can divert it to protect the Sacramento Delta smelt?
	Trump lashed out.
	Oh, he got the lash out.
	He lashed out to California Governor Newsom on Wednesday, calling him new scum.
	Virtually apocalyptic in a true social poem.
	It is a part of a year-long blazing feud.
	Oh, yeah.
	Has had, with the Democrats in California, a solidly blue state.
	Hopefully not for long.
	I mean, I don't know who's going to be left there afterwards.
	About forest management processes and wildlife containment plans.
	Meanwhile, in Ukraine, first responders were extinguishing fires and evacuating dozens of victims from yada yada after all.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, don't worry about it, guys.
	At least your donations to Ukraine have gone to good use.
	That's interesting.
	Why would it cost $3,600 for that?
	The Trump camp has derided Ukraine, criticizing his president, Vladimir Zelensky, as a salesman and threatening to halt American military into Kiev while it has been resisting Russia's...
	It's unbelievable.
	The piece turns into a puff piece to defend the response in Ukraine.
	By the way, what's going on in Ukraine?
	$500 million to Ukraine as California burns?
	I mean, you could make this up, but no one would believe it.
	There we go.
	Joe Biden's final $500 million to Ukraine package leaves $3.8 billion on the table for Trump.
	$500 million.
	What date is this?
	Oh yeah, that's right.
	Updated. January 9th.
	California burns.
	Lahaina burns.
	East Palestine, I don't even know it, burns and then is subject to toxicity.
	North Carolina is leveled.
	Remember when North Carolina got leveled and then Kamala Harris literally the weekend of announces that there was 150 million to Lebanon to deal with the aftermath of Israel's war with Hamas?
	They fund, they give aid to Israel to wage the war.
	Military arms, whatever.
	Then they give aid to Gaza to help the victims of that military incursion.
	Then they give more money to Lebanon to deal with the results of that.
	They're financing funding and squandering American taxpayer dollars on both ends of that conflict while Americans literally die as a result of natural disasters at home.
	And no shame, no second thoughts in terms of the timing of it.
	Maybe hold it off a little bit.
	So they're donating stuff to Ukraine.
	They've got DEI hires, so you got your first lesbian fire chief.
	Good for you.
	Who is she?
	Did we read this one?
	Who is Kristen Crowley, Los Angeles fire chief, faces wave of anger?
	You can't get mad at her.
	That would be misogynist and homophobic.
	Let's hear this.
	Experiencing an extreme fire weather condition with red flag alert.
	At the time of the fire the relative humidity was 12 and the winds were approximately 25 miles an hour with gusts up to 50 miles per hour.
	Currently the fire is at 1,261 acres and growing based on aerial reconnaissance.
	The fire is being fueled by a combination of strong winds and surrounding topography, which is making it extremely challenging for our personnel that are assigned to this incident.
	I'm just like, we'll continue in a second.
	How many days have you been on the job for?
	The topography, does that include the debris and the brush that hasn't been cleared as a result of forest management?
	Just out of curiosity.
	Is topography sort of a euphemism for failed forest management policy?
	Yeah, it's being frustrated by the topography.
	That is California.
	By no stretch of the imagination are we out of the woods.
	You heard a chief say 10 p.m. tonight to 5 a.m. tomorrow will be peak winds.
	And having just quite literally an hour or so ago gone up the canyon and saw firsthand the impact of these swirling winds and the embers and the number of structures that are destroyed.
	Not a few.
	Many structures already destroyed.
	And the fact that people were still not evacuated, still did not heed the warning.
	Heed the warning.
	Might it be because traffic on an ordinary day in LA is crippling and debilitating, let alone when people are abandoning their vehicles on the highway?
	Oh my goodness.
	They didn't heed the warning to leave where they couldn't really get anywhere anyhow.
	It's your fault for not heeding the warning when those who did heed the warning were forced to abandon their vehicles on the street due to the fires.
	It is a reminder of how serious this moment is and how important it is you listen to these evacuation orders.
	Now let's go to...
	Let me close this because we don't want that anymore.
	Good. Noxious.
	Okay. Los Angeles Fire Chief Christian Crowley is facing a wave of anger amid the wildfires.
	It comes as authorities have said the four fires which have burned more than 4,000 acres have not yet been contained.
	Some firefighters have also reported hydrants being dry.
	In any other country on earth, these people would go to jail if they were lucky, preventing them from being able to stop the blazes, according to reports.
	Such reports have prompted some social media users to slam Crowley's leadership of the fire department.
	Republicans pounce.
	How dare you pounce on the fact that fire hydrants are dry?
	Newsweek contacted Crowley's office for email.
	Why it matters?
	Well, so far, two deaths.
	That's on the hands of Newsom, Crowley, and whoever else.
	There's another woman, Karen.
	We've got to get to her in a second.
	Two deaths have been reported about the fires.
	The blazes remain a threat to human health.
	No shit, Sherlock.
	Particular matter is bad.
	This means everyone may begin to experience some adverse effects such as difficulty breathing, throat irritation.
	Oh, by the way, at least they're telling you now.
	At least 9-11 after this.
	If the air is fine, come down, and 20 years later, people are dying of cancer and the government can't compensate those people or even allow them to get the medical treatment that they need.
	But my goodness, I guarantee you, Zelensky and his government are getting the finest of medical treatment with American taxpayer dollars.
	Sensitive people with older riches, yada, yada.
	Fine. You can't breathe that air.
	It's terrible.
	Four fires currently burning.
	It's burnt a thousand acres, yada, yada.
	In the last hour or so, this is an older article, a fourth smaller fire, the Tyler Fire, has been reported.
	How did they start?
	How did they start?
	Authorities say none of the blazes have been contained.
	There is no possibility of bringing them under control.
	That's totally fine.
	It's totally acceptable.
	Your job is to do what you cannot do, and you have failed despite...
	Despite all of the taxes that you've taken, despite all of the years of PrEP, despite all of the warnings that you've had, when insurance companies start canceling policies because of increased risk and the inability to increase their premiums because of some state law, you know that there's a problem.
	And if you do nothing about it, and then when the problem explodes, pun intended, and you don't have water to put it out, yeah, you don't get to say, there was nothing we could have done.
	The Los Angeles Times also reported that some firefighters battling the blazes said on internal radio systems that hydrants were coming up dry, meaning they didn't have enough water to put out the fire.
	LA Department of Water and Power spokesman confirmed reports of reduced water flow from hydrants, but provided no details on the number or scope of the issue.
	In a statement to Los Angeles Times, the agency said crews were working to maintain water supplies, which rely on water tanks.
	Who's Kristen Crowley?
	Kristen Crowley is the first woman and first openly gay LGBTQ plus person to hold her post.
	She's married to a retired fighter fighter.
	Her nomination came out of this part I read in the thing.
	Quote, I look for who's best, not just who makes history.
	End quote.
	Garcetti said at a press conference.
	Bullshit. If you even have to say that she's making history, you're looking for the fact that you want to make history.
	You made history, Garcetti.
	Congrats. Because the protection of our city first and foremost has to go to the human being who is best prepared to lead.
	But let me be clear.
	You're about to get lied to.
	When someone says, let me be clear, go back and pull up my tweet.
	It's true and true time and time again.
	Let me be clear.
	That is Kristen Crowley.
	And the progress is incredibly important and long.
	And this progress is incredibly...
	Important and long overdue.
	When she was nominated to her position in 2022, she had been with the fire department for 22 years, having been a firefighter, paramedic, engineer, fire inspector, captain, battalion chief, assistant chief, sorry, fire marshal Yada.
	She became LA's first female fire marshal in 2016.
	When she took the firefighter exam in the late 1990s, she ranked among the top 50 of 1,600 applicants.
	Crowley accepted the nomination, saying as fire chief, if confirmed, I vow to take a strategic and balanced approach to ensure we meet the needs of the community we serve.
	We will focus our efforts on increasing our operational effectiveness, enhancing firefighter safety and well-being, and fully commit to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture within the LAFD.
	Holy, sweet, merciful help.
	Well, enjoy your diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture because it's left your homes burning.
	LA. Commentator Rogan O'Handley, also known as DC Drano, put it on Twitter.
	On the left is the LA fire chief allowing her city to be burnt down with no water and fire hydrants.
	On the right is the New Orleans police chief who allowed a terrorist attack on Bourbon Street without barriers.
	DEI is quite literally getting people killed.
	Bring back merit.
	And I presume they're talking about the...
	Who was it there?
	The constable, the superintendent?
	Kirkpatrick? Oh yeah, shit, I didn't know that we had those little temporary, the temporary yellow breakers that would have prevented a vehicle from killing 15 people.
	I didn't know that we had those.
	We had those all the time.
	We didn't put them up because, you know, we're a bunch of idiots.
	LAFD Captain Eric Scott told Millsweek, we did experience some challenges with water pressure.
	Well, this word, challenges, this is what, if you work in corporate, this is how they say we fucked up.
	This is like, this is the polite.
	Pat yourself on the back way of saying we fucked up.
	It's not a failure.
	We responded to a challenge.
	We did experience some challenges, making sure the water was there in the fire hydrants that are there to fight fires.
	We experienced some challenges.
	LADWP proactively filled all available water storage tanks, including three 1 million.
	Thanks for telling us what you did do.
	How the hell did fire hydrants run dry?
	Tell us what you didn't do that led to that catastrophic problem.
	However, water availability was impacted at higher elevations, which affected some fire hydrants due to a limited replenishment of water tanks in those areas.
	This is what you call the word salad gibberish to cover up the fact that you've fucked up and people are going to suffer as a result.
	Water availability was impacted.
	Do you notice how it's the passive?
	I talk about this all the time.
	It's not, we didn't get the water up there, it's...
	We failed to provide the water.
	Water availability was impacted.
	We don't know how it happened.
	It was just impacted at higher levels.
	It affected some fire hydrants due to limited replenishment of water tanks in those areas.
	The extreme demand caused a slower refill rate for these tanks, which created a challenge for our firefighting effort.
	There's a word again, challenge.
	In other words, we failed at the job that we're hired to do.
	The systems that are in place to respond to crises failed when there was a crisis to which they needed to respond.
	They're continuing to respond to the firefighters, including evacuating residents from their home.
	Santa Ana winds are forecast to diminish Thursday.
	The infrastructure that exists to answer crises failed when the time came to answer that crisis.
	Do you know what happens?
	I don't want to say third-world countries, but I'll say in developing nations, when something like that happens, it doesn't look good.
	It's not justice that's resolved in the courts.
	And I'm not saying nobody should do this, period.
	You know what happens in, let's just say, communist-type countries, totalitarian-type countries?
	When people in positions of power fail like this, through their own negligence, they end up in jail.
	You know what happens in a DEI society when things like this happen?
	You blame climate change.
	Climate crisis.
	Who was it that I was just talking about?
	Oh, it was about what happened in communist China.
	When prosecutors fail, well, in fact, it ended worse than in jail.
	When people fail, they end up in jail.
	And that's if the system protects the people, the wrongdoers, from the wrath of the people who are now suffering and dying as a result of their grotesque, egregious incompetence, policy failure, poor decision-making, and inability to do what they exist to do.
	Well, we experienced some challenges getting water out of the fire hydrants that exist to put fire...
	Get the fuck out and go to jail now.
	I'm sorry.
	Oh, you want to trial first?
	Yeah. Why wasn't there water in the fire hydrants?
	We didn't have enough water.
	Why didn't you have enough water?
	Well, because we had a bunch of fires at the same time and the water had problems getting...
	Oh! Did you not know that?
	Well, no, we sort of knew that because the infrastructure is old and failing, and we've known that for a long time, and we've also known there's a lot of brush over there, and it increases fire risks because insurance companies have been canceling their policies for a long time.
	But by the way, don't worry, but at the Sacramento Delta smelt, if you can find any, they're very much appreciative of our freshwater, and Ukraine is very much appreciative of our fire hydrants, our firefighting equipment.
	But don't worry, that wasn't why we failed this time around.
	That was the connection to Trudeau and Newsom.
	Donating... Firefighting equipment to Ukraine.
	Do you remember what Justin Trudeau did when COVID was coming around the corner and he knew it?
	He donated Canada's PPE, personal protective equipment, to China.
	Knowing that COVID was coming, he took 16 tons of PPE, donated it to China, and then what ended up happening?
	Because he knew it was coming.
	COVID came, and it ravaged nursing homes and old people homes because they didn't have enough PPE to protect themselves.
	Don't worry, guys.
	Whatever we gave to Ukraine, we didn't need because we were understaffed in the first place.
	We couldn't even use...
	We didn't have enough staff to ban that equipment.
	So don't worry.
	It wasn't the donating it to Ukraine that was a problem.
	It's just that we didn't have enough people.
	We were understaffed.
	You know, like the Capitol building was understaffed on January 6th.
	Crap, we've been going for too long on Commitube.
	We're going to end this and bring it on over to...
	We're going to bring it on over for Karen Bass.
	Carol Baskin.
	Had a husband.
	Okay, we're going to take the rest of this party on over to Rumble.
	Not VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com just yet.
	But oh, shoot.
	Nerds. Let me see if I missed any...
	Let's see here.
	There's some tagging.
	Here, let me go.
	I'm going to go to the chat on Commitube.
	Everyone come on over to Rumble while we do this.
	Viva. I love you, Viva Fry.
	Says Matt and Tina.
	Thank you very much.
	Trump1 says, Viva, do you know Ukrainian civilian firefighters have their salary by the U.S. taxes?
	I know that as well.
	American tax dollars are subsidizing small business in Ukraine as a result of the consequences of the war with Russia.
	If that doesn't tell you that it's not...
	I made the joke.
	It's not America second, Ukraine first.
	It's not Israel first, Ukraine second, America third.
	It's not Ukraine first, Israel second.
	Who else do we give money to?
	And I say we now because I pay taxes in America.
	It's America last, almost quite literally.
	Oh, sorry.
	It's Israel, Ukraine, The Sacramento smelt.
	What else?
	The indigenous woodcock from...
	I'm just making up a bird now.
	It's the brush.
	You don't want to disrupt the brush.
	The brush comes before Americans.
	What else comes before Americans?
	Almost literally everything.
	And then Americans.
	Misadventure CHS Viva.
	The higher up you go, the harder to maintain pressure.
	It was out of their control.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm not going to fight with you.
	I'm not trying to...
	Rage on you, misadventure.
	I don't know if it's intended to be sarcastic.
	The fact that you can make that statement knowing that that's the cause means it wasn't out of their control.
	It means they didn't address the problem that they knew existed in the first place, period.
	If you cannot service the fire at higher altitudes because water pressure is a problem and you know it and you do nothing about it and now the problem has exploded into a catastrophic inferno, like firebombing of Dresden.
	You don't say we could.
	It was out of our control because we knew what the problem was and did nothing to resolve it.
	Period. Misadventure says he's talking about the 1,000-gallon tanks on an engine.
	That infrastructure was never designed to handle 1,000 household taps running wide open.
	Okay. So they failed on being able to address a very realistic problem that was so real that insurance companies were canceling policies.
	That's not an out.
	That's incrimination.
	Sorry, I'm serious.
	It's not a question.
	I'm not trying to shame or rage.
	I'm trying to see if you post a reply.
	You were describing advanced knowledge of the problem.
	It's culpability when nothing was done to address that.
	This is nothing new.
	And not only is it nothing new, they knew that the problem was so serious that insurance companies were canceling policies because it was simply not cost-effective or not even...
	Feasible to maintain them.
	And from what I also understand, California had some rules that the insurance companies couldn't raise their premium a certain amount, and so they just pulled coverage altogether.
	All right, we're going to end this.
	Oh, good.
	Get on over.
	Let me give you the link to Rumble.
	No, the link to Rumble is in the pinned comment.
	I've got Rumble Rants over here from King of Biltong.
	In fact, I'll read those while everyone comes, but let me give everyone the link.
	So that you can come on over to the RumbleTube.
	Bada bing, bada boom.
	Link to Rumble.
	Come. And I'll give everyone the link to VivaBarnesLaw.Locals.com Oh yeah, I'm using...
	No, I'm using RumbleStudio today.
	Okay, so I'll go like that here.
	Link to Locals.
	Come on over.
	In fact, before I do that, we're going to read a couple of chats and some tip questions over on Rumble.
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	Code Viva.
	Just want to see if anybody can...
	Just checking for some updates here.
	Okay. And we stream every Friday and Sunday, 4 p.m., 3 p.m.
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	We cook interesting things and talk up a storm.
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	Get some Anton's built on.
	It's delicious.
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	Did I get to everything here?
	Entry required says the dangers of climate change policies are real.
	Take that.
	Take that to your smelt fish fry.
	And it's a meme of Trump saying, snowflakes melting on an open fire.
	Okay. Then we got up here.
	Gantet says, I know you want to play DEI, Viva, but read this article.
	PG&E.
	Procter& Gamble has not done property upkeep.
	This is from Gantet.
	It says, Viva, I know you want to play DEI.
	I'm certainly going to include it as a contributing factor, not a sole factor whatsoever.
	But read this article.
	PG&E, Procter Gamble, I don't know what PG&E stands for.
	I'll look that up.
	I'll open it in a second.
	Has not done proper upkeep of the power structure in Cali going back for years.
	Here's an article from 2019 about safety upgrades.
	There's no doubt in my mind 90% of the fires are caused due to PG&E's greed and incompetence.
	Let me bring this open.
	Actually, no, I'm going to do this over on...
	Over on...
	Rumble. Viva, look at Arson Concerns videos of Dr. Andrew Hoopman.
	Okay, I got that.
	Hard to believe the death count is only five, and I got the rest of these.
	Okay, so what we're going to do right now, we're going to go on over to Rumble.
	YouTube, thank you for being here.
	I will see you all later.
	I'll do an update if there's any update.
	Maybe I'll go live again.
	Oh, I'm going live at six o'clock.
	I'll share the link with you guys, another podcast at six o'clock, so stay tuned.
	All right, we're going updating onto Rumble and Locals Now.
	I think we're not disagreeing, Ganthet, from our locals community.
	I think we're also basically in agreement on all of this.
	It's a bunch of contributing factors.
	There's no question.
	I'm not saying it's strictly DEI, or even predominantly DEI, but DEI factors in here.
	Bottom line, it's an element, and there's a catastrophe.
	So what degree, proportion of causality, we'll never know.
	We just know that it is one of the issues at hand.
	You've got antiquated power lines.
	You've got antiquated water systems.
	You've got diverted water for energy, not energy, conservation.
	So this is what makes it a perfect storm of failure.
	The bottom line, I would say the least on the list would be climate change, climate crisis.
	These are problems that have existed in California for an era.
	Now to bring it up.
	PG&E.
	Let me see here.
	Can we do it here?
	Okay, there we go.
	We're still able to share.
	PG&E woes.
	It's not Procter& Gamble.
	Okay. Pacific Gas and Electric.
	My apologies.
	Reports this company delayed safety upgrades in California.
	This is from February.
	I don't know what's been done, and this is five years old by this time, literally, so I don't know what's been done in the last five years.
	Pacific Gas pushed back Wednesday on a new report alleging the company repeatedly delayed planning safety upgrades to a transmission line in the area where California's deadliest, the most destructive wildfire started last year.
	Sorry, Gath, I mean, this actually further confirms the issue.
	They've known about this for at least five years now.
	You do nothing, literally nothing within five years, and that which you do only exacerbates the problem?
	Yeah, you're exquisitely culpable.
	Um... Thank you.
	This entire fire event in Cali should be on Mr. Drop Fire, Gavin Newsom says.
	A-A-J-J-E-E.
	Oh, lordy.
	But let's find out who...
	There was another player in here, and she's a Karen.
	Karen Bayes.
	I love...
	Let me get ad blocker.
	This is from the New York Post.
	L.A. Mayor.
	LA Mayor Karen Bass cut fire department funding by $17.6 million, focused on homeless spending months before wildfires turned city into hellscape.
	By the way, for all the money they spent on the homelessness problem, they still haven't solved that either.
	Unless this was the solution to the homelessness problem.
	Just burn the whole fucking city down.
	Burn it all down.
	You no longer got a homeless problem.
	Everyone's homeless.
	Los Angeles?
	I mean, these are the things you hear.
	So you've heard, canceling insurance policies, confirm.
	Diverting fresh water.
	For the Sacramento smelt, confirmed.
	Donating firefighting equipment to Ukraine, confirmed.
	Insurance, did I say the insurance cancelling?
	Confirmed. Known weaknesses in infrastructure, confirmed.
	A firefighter chief who's focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, confirmed.
	Cutting the firefighting budget so you can focus on the homeless who might be the ones causing this in the first place, confirmed.
	Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass faced scorching criticism Wednesday as it was revealed that...
	She cut the city's fire department budget by $17.6 million ahead of this week's devastating fires.
	Oh, but don't worry.
	I just did that cut.
	That couldn't have contributed to this because this was years in the making.
	As she prioritized funds for its massive homeless population that largely went unspent, according to a report.
	The cut was the second largest in Bass's 2024-2025 fiscal budget, city figures show.
	And it wasn't even the gutting she wanted.
	Oh, she didn't get all of it.
	Dude, I'm not getting ads from bad circulation.
	Let's all pause here.
	The cut was to say, yeah, if she'd had it her way, they would have cut it by $23 million.
	LA budgeted, and then they're going to say, oh, it's only $23 million of $830 million.
	It's a drop in the bucket.
	It wouldn't have changed anything.
	LA budgeted $837 million for the bravest in fiscal year 2023-2024, which was, shockingly, 65% of the $1.3 billion slated for the homeless.
	Hold on, let me read that again.
	LA budgeted $837 million for the bravest in fiscal year 2023, which was 65% of the $1.3 billion for the homeless.
	A city controller study found that nearly half of that funding went unused.
	Unused? Squandered?
	Misappropriated? Allocated to other entities?
	Not arm's length?
	I don't know.
	Where'd the hell that money go if it went unspent?
	Is it still sitting there?
	Her budget cuts resurfaced as the LAFD issued a rare public plea asking for off-duty firefighters to join the battle against three massive wild fighters Jeez, we know we have a problem about antiquated firefighting systems with pressure going up to higher elevations where fires also occur.
	So let's cut the funding.
	And spend it on the homeless, but then not also spend it on the homeless.
	70,000 people ordered to evacuate from their homes.
	Okay, it's about leadership management that we're seeing a failure of.
	And all these residents are paying the ultimate price for that, said Rick Caruso, LA developer who lost the city's 2022 mayoral race to Bass.
	The fact that Bass was in Ghana when the flames broke out added further fuel to her backlash.
	Was it a vacation?
	Hold on, hold on.
	Why was she in Ghana?
	Why would the ambassador of Ghana do such a thing?
	That's an episode of The Simpsons, people, in case anybody didn't get it.
	Let me see something, Karen.
	Grok. Why was Karen Bass in Ghana?
	Let's see what it says.
	Don't say vacation.
	Karen Bass was in Ghana as part of a four-member U.S. presidential delegation attending the inauguration of John Dramani Mahama as Ghana's president.
	This trip was scheduled to celebrate the new presidency and also included engagements with Ghana's first female vice president, Naana Jane Opoku-Agyamang.
	That's amazing.
	Even in her excuse for not being there, it's DEI related.
	Not DEI, but I'll say gender identity politics based.
	Holy... Where's the article?
	All right, so she's there.
	It wasn't a vacation.
	I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
	What the hell does LA mayor have to do with celebrating the presidential election in Ghana?
	Hold on a second.
	Hold on.
	Actually, I might have to ask this question live.
	Why would Karen Bass, LA mayor, celebrate the election of the Ghana president?
	I'm very, very curious about this now.
	Karen Bass says the mayor of Los Angeles was part of the U.S. delegation.
	Okay, fine.
	Here are several reasons why she might have been involved in such an event.
	Diplomatic relations with Ghana?
	The U.S. often sends delegations to significant international events like presidential inaugurations as a gesture of diplomacy.
	Personal and professional interests.
	Bass... Bass chaired the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, okay, that explains it, which suggests a professional interest in African affairs.
	Her presence at the inauguration could be seen as a continuation of her work in international relations.
	As the mayor of LA, community engagement.
	Los Angeles has a significant African diaspora, including notable Ghanaian community.
	Her attendance might be viewed as a gesture to engage and honor the heritage of the constituents of Ghana.
	Economic and symbolic presence.
	Okay, so that's why she's in Ghana.
	Holy crap, people.
	Amid reports LA fire hydrants have run dry as they battle the flames, Caruso said Bass was directly to blame and called her out for being literally absent as the city burnt.
	I think you should start asking, why don't you call the mayor who is out of the country and ask her?
	Get an answer from her.
	Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is on a taxpayer-funded trip to Africa as part of the Biden administration presidential delegation.
	While her city is burning to the ground, wrote America First Work President Ashley Hayek on X. This is insane.
	Elon Musk, who has been serving as the advisor and confidant of the president, even chimed in and said utterly incompetent.
	Bass finally returned to Los Angeles where she met with California Governor Gavin Newsom amid the torched rubble as flames still burned.
	Uncontained across the city.
	Unreal. So, yeah.
	It's all true, by the way.
	Almost literally every single conspiracy, the only question is whether or not it connects into some form of broader conspiracy.
	Ganthet says, back in our locals community, what I'm trying to say, Viva, tons of typos.
	Don't worry about that.
	PG&E is the biggest culprit.
	A greedy private corp.
	Well... We don't know what they did in the last five years.
	If they were on notice five years ago, I'd be curious to know what they've done in the last five years.
	But agreed.
	This is a culmination of cause, but it's a culmination of multiple causes.
	A greedy private corporation raking in millions.
	Yeah. Also, a greedy government sucking up your tax dollars and then blowing it on their vanity projects.
	Responsible for countless deaths and no one is holding the responsible.
	Personally, PG&E CEOs and government officials should be put on trial.
	I'm not going to read the rest.
	I'm just a little hyperbolic.
	I'm going to ask Grok a question in a second.
	The smelt is a type of cope.
	Most, if not all, of Callie's water problems are related directly to greed and corruption going back decades.
	There is a lot to this story that would really grind your gears if you looked into it.
	In Cryptos, I do also, well, I guess we could get into that.
	I saw an interesting expose, documentary, about how a family, what was their name?
	I shared it earlier today.
	Showing how they want, you know, the owners of Palm, wonderful food, the pistachios.
	I forget what the name of the family was, but it was a great 10-minute exercise.
	This is right here.
	I'm not going to play the whole thing because A, it's not entirely my work, and B, it's eight minutes long.
	When Californians suffer through unprecedented drought, one billionaire couple owns a massive share of the state's water system.
	Oh, sons of bitches.
	In a series of secretive meetings two decades ago.
	That system was largely paid for by the very taxpayers whose water these billionaires hold hostage.
	Urban water systems are desperate for water, but in 2023, they'll receive just 5% of what they requested from the state.
	The Resnicks are the biggest farmers in California.
	As of 2007, they owned four San Francisco's worth of farmland.
	I'll give everybody the link to this so that I don't feel guilty about misappropriating the knowledge therein, which was not the fruits of my labor.
	Prime News Digest.
	Here it is.
	Give this to everybody here.
	Link. So yeah, but the whole point is, of all of the causes which we've seen now, I would say last on the list would be any form of climate crisis.
	But it's the first one and only one that they go to.
	And then they get mad at you for getting mad at them and calling out their egregious corruption and incompetence.
	So that's what's going on.
	We're on a thread here.
	Okay, so as far as I know, there are people...
	Yeah, I got the DM us to PG&E.
	You suppose New Scum's Vineyard is running short of water?
	Okay. And I think...
	Well, that's it.
	So I'm waiting to see if we get any update from what's going on on the street.
	The devastation is...
	It looks like the firebombing of Dresden.
	And so...
	That's that.
	I mean, let me see if there's anything else that we've missed or anything else that happened.
	Oh, yeah, it was Hunley.
	It was Eric Hunley to also give credit where credit is due, who I'm going to double check him in real time now.
	Hunley said this was the insurance policies being canceled.
	And Hunley says, yes, apparently they tried to raise the rates, but they were unable.
	So they canceled the policies under California law.
	The elected insurance commissioner must approve rate hikes greater than 7% annually.
	Now, let me just go over to Grok and double-check if Hunley has led us astray.
	Hunley does not lead people astray.
	And Grok2 says, the statement is generally accurate but requires some context for clarity.
	Proposition 103 under California's law, which was passed in 1988, insurance must get prior approval from the state's insurance commissioner for any rate increase for most lines of property and...
	Casualty insurance, including auto and homeowner.
	Rate hike threshold.
	Specifically, the insurance companies must file for approval if they want to increase rates by more than 7% annually.
	If the increase is less, the company can file under the file and use system.
	Okay. What's the context?
	Rule of the commissioner.
	The commissioner has the authority to review and approve or deny these rate changes, whether they are deemed excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory.
	It's great.
	More policy failure.
	Leading to catastrophic loss of property.
	And if it's, you know, there's two people that died as of now reported, you see some of the footage, and it'll be a miracle, I guess, if only two people die as a result of these fires.
	In my opinion, most Democrats in power are fascist dictators, but people that keep voting for the same policies.
	That's from Rumble.
	So let's see what's going on in the chat over here.
	Let's go over to Rumble.
	Let's go to vivabarneslaw.locals.com in the side.
	Okay, so we got Rex Reeder Ghost in our Locals community.
	It says, Viva.
	I'll leave the same comment here as I did elsewhere.
	California is in a death spiral that has been for 30 years.
	It was still salvageable in the mid-90s when I last lived there, but the people that could affect change are the people that continually enable the problems.
	Karen Bass did not elect herself.
	Gavin Newsom did not elect himself.
	The scales have now tipped even further by people simply leaving the state.
	Of course, many of those people just become some other state's problems.
	None of this really has anything to do with the current fires.
	As people want to latch onto DEI or other things to assign the blame for the problems, it makes no difference if John Wayne is the fire chief or Admiral Levine.
	Neither could stop what was coming this week.
	That's not to excuse the stupidity because even if it's firsthand, Southern California is supposed to burn.
	It's meant to burn.
	It's the climate, not climate change.
	People think they can deny reality by building homes in a place that's supposed to burn and then complain when it does.
	The only way to prevent it is to raise every piece of land that has vegetation on it every two to three years.
	But that is to raise every piece of land.
	I mean, that means clean.
	Development has effectively done that in some places, but it has also built up houses against places that physically can't be developed.
	Then the houses themselves become the fuel.
	California has a problem, and they are many.
	Viva Audio is not good.
	Okay, now I got the sound.
	Okay, so let's go over here.
	And now let's go over to the overall chat and see what's going on.
	I didn't know that.
	I'm an idiot.
	I don't know what that's about.
	don't know what that's about.
	Five dead people, says Boopsy, supposedly.
	It's intense.
	I mean, we've got immediate friends, family, contacts, and it's wild.
	Okay. Holy crap, is it 150 already?
	Let me see.
	Oh my gosh.
	puff
	I think that's it for the news.
	What else do we have?
	Oh, we got the Trump sentencing tomorrow in New York is on as scheduled.
	So we're going to see.
	I'm going to try to live stream that.
	Scratch my nose here.
	It's not going to be live stream, so we might have to do like a live stream commentate.
	What time is Trump's sentencing tomorrow?
	Merchant is going to issue his sentence tomorrow.
	Tomorrow's schedule, it's scheduled for 10 a.m.
	So I'm going to try to live stream that, although it's only going to be live stream tweeting because it's not televised or broadcast otherwise.
	Oy, oy, oy.
	That's tomorrow.
	And what else is on the news?
	Oh, yeah.
	We'll save it.
	We're going to save a story over on VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com and have the after party there.
	Five confirmed dead, says Pam Walker.
	I saw some footage.
	I mean, it's, let's say, LA Fires video.
	Let's just watch a few of these videos.
	It's absolute insanity.
	Okay, that's Huberman with the alleged starting of the fire.
	This is a guy who had to tie up his jacket so that it made him look a little leaner.
	Where was...
	Here, let's see this.
	Runyon Canyon is on fire.
	I've never seen anything like this.
	Born and raised in LA.
	All of West Hollywood and Hollywood is now under threat.
	Jeez, that's loud.
	Sorry. As you can see, it's already pretty big.
	Ash everywhere.
	That is wild.
	This is right up against West Hollywood.
	The Sunset Strip.
	Do you see it?
	Is that spreading in real time or is that just coming over a house and we see it?
	It is just a wall of flames.
	I've never seen Los Angeles like this in my life.
	Look at these tornadoes of fire that it creates.
	Right there.
	You see that?
	It generates its own weather.
	This is insane.
	Okay. There was one.
	What is this?
	News. TV crews are using SpaceX Starlink to broadcast live.
	That we just got today.
	That's the only reason that you're able to see us right now is because of a Starlink connection that we just got today.
	That's the only reason we're able to hear and communicate with you.
	There was one that I wanted to see actually in particular, but I don't know if we're going to find it in time.
	We're not watching the full documentary here.
	Livelihoods. Everything.
	Oh, and then there's this clip from Joe Rogan.
	He was telling me, he goes, dude, one-Re went viral.
	Let's listen to this.
	I talked to a fireman once.
	This was one of the reasons it freaked me out.
	And he was telling me, he goes, dude, One day.
	He goes, it's just going to be the right wind, and fire's going to start in the right place, and it's going to burn through L.A. all the way to the ocean, and there's not a fucking thing we can do about it.
	I go, really?
	He goes, yeah.
	We just get lucky.
	He goes, we get lucky with the wind.
	He goes, but if the wind hits the wrong way, it's just going to burn straight through L.A., and there's not going to be a thing we can do about it.
	Because these fires are so big, dude.
	They're talking about thousands of acres that are burning simultaneously with 40-mile-an-hour winds.
	And the wind's just blowing embers through the air, and those embers are landing on roofs, and those houses are going up, and they're landing on bushes, and those bushes are going up, and everything's dry.
	And once it happens, it happens in a way where it's so spread out that there's nothing they can do.
	There's nothing they can do.
	Yeah, you just have to evacuate, right?
	Nothing. Nothing they can do.
	I talked to a fireman.
	It's pretty wild.
	I mean, if you say it's going to happen and there's nothing you can do, we knew it, and there's nothing we did.
	I mean, I don't know.
	There was...
	Oh, that's Gavinism.
	There was somebody...
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, this...
	Okay, this was yesterday where, again, people can connect dots that don't connect and people are saying, oh my goodness, this is evidence of Iranian missile strike or something.
	Watch this video.
	And I think it's going to start right about there.
	There, you see that?
	People are saying, what is that?
	And my best guess is that that's like a short on a high-tension power line and it's just the flame running down the line.
	This is where, when people do not trust the government, they will see conspiracy everywhere and they will come to conclusions that might be inaccurate, but conspiracy traumatized.
	Corn Macabre says, did you see Mel Gibson is on Joe Rogan today, Viva?
	I didn't see that, but I'll definitely watch it.
	DuckFat says, LA is on fire.
	It's so hot, it's melting tires.
	Lesbians are getting hired.
	I don't even know what that means.
	Okay. Rogan is controlled opposition, says don't obey.
	Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but that would be one hell of a double-fakey, false-flag, controlled opposition.
	He might just be a guy who has his opinions.
	I have always had great trust in the government screwing everyone over, says Will Hodges.
	Yeah, you can count on them to screw you.
	No question about it.
	You can count on them to be corrupt as any corporation.
	I love that everybody's like, oh, corporations are private for profit enterprises.
	They're corrupt and that's why you've got to trust government.
	As if government is not a corporation that has the monopoly of violence and the monopoly to take 40% of your income and spend it in ways that you don't necessarily want.
	A government is a corporation and to think it's public interest is idiotic.
	It's wildly naive, and they are to be trusted no more than private corporation.
	They just have different motivating factors in terms of predicting what their behavior is going to be.
	And the one thing about government is that they're corrupt, they're incompetent, and they fail their way upwards.
	Okay, so let's go now and take the party on over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com, where we're going to talk about...
	We're going to talk about...
	Oh, Jack Smith.
	Did I miss anything?
	Guys, if I missed anything, let me know.
	I'll go to the Rumble chat for a little bit.
	Link to Locals.
	Let me actually link to Locals here.
	Bada bing, bada boom.
	And let me link to you the podcast that I shall be doing.
	If I can go live again later, or at least maybe get an interview with people who are on the ground.
	I'm on with Jean-Claude from Beyond Mystic.
	We're going to talk about...
	It's going to be more Canadian stuff, so it'll be a little repetitive for those who have already heard it.
	But check it out here.
	Link to...
	Link to podcasts tonight.
	Six o'clock.
	Forget the typos.
	Cobalt Rock says they want us dead.
	Well, they certainly want a lot of people dead to reduce the population.
	It'll be good for the environment.
	Jabery308 says, well done, David.
	Good to see you all.
	Thank you very much.
	Same to you.
	I would have just bought hookers and drugs, says Codger.
	All right.
	Have a good day, everyone.
	That is it.
	Tonight, I'll be there live at six o'clock with Jean-Claude.
	It's called Beyond Underscore Mystic is his handle.
	With a very interesting picture of me for the thumbnail, but I don't care about those things at all.
	Let's see, there was one more tip that just came in over on vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	Boopsie says, one thing government and corporations have in common, they want you addicted to their product.
	Ooh, not bad.
	And then Woodworker1999 over in Local says, not to make them blameless, I think in 2017, but the state required PG&E to focus on renewables, and so they had to divert funds from maintenance.
	To building windmills, etc.
	Roostank says, Viva could DM Mark Grobert to see what...
	I know that Grobert's okay.
	And I think he's got to move again.
	Grobert is alive and well, but probably very pissed off and very stressed.
	I can tell you that.
	Grobert's alive and well.
	But I think he's got to move.
	Okay. Oh, and Roostank says, Viva Grobert has a front row seat.
	To the Inferno.
	Hopefully he is safe.
	No doubt he will have lots to tell about the disaster.
	Yeah, apparently his front row seat might be a little bit too front row and he might have to back up a few seats.
	So I'll...
	I will...
	I'm in touch with Grobear.
	We're close.
	We're friends and I have his number and he's alive.
	But holy shit, does he...
	Oh yeah, look at this.
	I forgot we got a new merch up.
	I saw someone just said I want the shirt.
	We got I Am Alex Jones merch up.
	Yeah. I like it.
	I like it a lot.
	That looks freaking good.
	Anyways, get some merch if you want something.
	But otherwise, the best and the easiest and most fruitful and intellectually fulfilling way to support us is to join and become a member at vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	$10 a month, $100 a year if you get the entire thing.
	The entire thing paid at once, but otherwise, that is it.
	Oh, and then Ganteth says, that's a load of crap.
	PG&E made $2 billion in profits and just got $15 billion for upgrades to the power grid.
	Mel Gibson delivers a brutal critique.
	Okay, we're taking this all over to the Locals community.
	So, everyone, come to Locals, and if you're not, I will be live tomorrow.
	12.30?
	I'll be live tomorrow.
	All right, we're going over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
	Rumble. Peace out.
	See you tonight.
	Godspeed. Stay safe if you're in LA, and there should be political, judicial, legal reckoning for all of this.
	Peace, peeps.

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