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View From The Lair

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Equality and Equity

The Kommifornia wildfires have merged an unusual dichotomy.  Pete Hegseth caused quite a consternation among leftists senators during his SecDef inquisition.  He actually said that he would enforce equality in the armed forces.

HORRORS!  The very thought of such chilled the blood of the leftists. I hope that all reading this are aware of the concept of equality – that everyone is created equal and treated the same.  That everyone has the opportunity to succeed or fail based upon their own merits, work, determination and perseverance.  Totally antithetical to marxist tenets.   Marxist practices include “reforming” language to make their version of what they want the citizens hear to be more palatable to their ears.  Thus, the term “equity”, what normal people think to be that all people are equal in the eyes of the law. (Eye rolls here.)  Or a lack of favoritism toward side or the other.  (Snickers are appropriate.) Or the old fashioned idea that it is the difference between the value of an asset and what might be owed on that asset.

Wrong.

In marxist language, equity means that everyone gets the same outcome, regardless of where they started.  Came from a broken home, went to school in a bad district, learned how do something and built a business? Became successful? Shame on you!  You didn’t build that! If you happened to be of a pale complexion you obviously suppressed someone and stole all that success.

Now look at what Los Angeles has accomplished.  Janisse Quinones, director of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (scrimping with the miserly income of $750K) declared that she operates “through a lens of equity and social justice.”  One might think that equity and social justice might be delegated to a flunky making only a paltry $400K.  And that the director might look through a lens of delivering water and power to the citizens. HAH!  With full support of the mayor Karen Bass (former US Congress Critter and former member of the marxist domestic terror organization that bombed the US Capitol in 1983) social justice and “equity” was the focus.

Then the fires started.  The fires burned with equality.  It didn’t matter if your home was a $650K starter home or a $28M mansion overlooking the Pacific.  Palisades, Malibu, all the same.  No one had water in the hydrants.  The fire treated everyone equally.  And when it finished (they’re still burning) the result was equity.  All houses were reduced to a pile of smoldering cinders.  The burned out husk of a Sub Zero resembled a scorched Whirlpool.  The remains of a Lexis or Lincoln had the same scrap value per pound as a Kia or Mazda.

Exactly what Marxism delivers every time its tried. Destruction, devastation and death.  Kommifornia.  Marxism perfected.

Ciao,

The Snark

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Consequences

Elections have consequences as former President Obozo once remarked. Those consequences are being revealed in Kommifornia as I write this.  The people of that once beautiful state elected individuals of dubious mental capacity who ran on policies of even more dubious merit.

In a place that was called “Land that burns” by the original indigenous peoples, one might consider that wildfires are an issue.  When documentation from modern times also corroborated this condition, an intelligent person might consider preparing for such events.

But, alas, no.

The city reduced the firefighter’s budget.  The state failed to build reservoirs to hold precious water.  Or to even consider building desalination plants to treat sea water for municipal purposes. (Wrightsville Beach, NC had a pilot plant for decades that provided delicious fresh water from a desalination plant. And at a cost competitive with treating river water.)

The newly appointed lesbian Fire Chief prioritized DEI qualifications for fire fighters with the rationale that “people want responders that look like them.” Not really.  If I have a fire or any other emergency I want a team that looks like an organization of NFL  linebackers, not an old white guy.  She admitted that she couldn’t meet the criteria of being able to drag an incapacitated victim from a burning  house and added “he shouldn’t have been there in the first place.”  Very few emergencies come with warnings or schedules.  If a 5’4” female wearing turnout gear can haul my injured self out of a house, fine.  Otherwise, send in the linebacker.

The greater tragedy is that DEI, CRT and other divisive strategies are not simple nonsense.  They are nonsensical, yes, but they are strategies developed decades ago and utilized to inculcate Marxism into our society and government.  This isn’t the original Marx and Lenin version.  This has mutated into a strategy tailored for modern times.

The greater question is whether the LA Mayor, Fire Chief, governor and attendant responsible members of local and state government are simple “usual idiots” of the marxist forces trying to take down our country, or are they deliberately aware of the actions they are taking to destroy the society, one state at a time.

Actions of morons and idiots are still culpable for negligent homicide.

Deliberate actions of marxist instigators are culpable for murder and treason.

Intense, thorough, penetrating investigations are necessary to discern which is the cause. Prison time is demanded for the first.  The penalty for treason is a bit harsher.

Ciao,

The Snark

Be Careful When You Donate

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On Sunday, The New York Post posted an article about some of the donation sites collecting money for the victims of the California wildfires. When you donate to anything, be sure to read the fine print.

The article reports:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom sparked fierce outrage for soliciting donations to victims of the deadly Los Angeles wildfires via his super PAC, which pushed users to add their personal information to a Democratic fundraising site.

Newsom, 57, posted a link on X to californiafirefacts.com, a website set up by his campaign committee, in response to what he claimed was misinformation on the wildfires. 

But the site urges users to give money to the California Fire Foundation and links them to a module from ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s fundraising platform. The ActBlue donation box says the money is being raised by Campaign for Democracy, Newsom’s super PAC. 

…The California Fire Foundation, which helps firefighters, their families and victims, allows users to donate directly without relying on a service like ActBlue to make those transactions. 

Users who donate via Newsom’s fundraising appeal are also automatically signing up for text messages from his super PAC, if they provide their phone numbers.

ActBlue isn’t doing this for nothing:

Observers online also quickly pointed out that ActBlue takes a portion of all donations as a processing fee. ActBlue claims to “charge a flat rate of 3.95% on each donation” to “cover the processing cost.” The Post has contacted ActBlue for comment. 

The article notes:

“Both Gavin Newsom and Elizabeth Warren were exposed for using the California fires to push Democrat fundraising efforts. It doesn’t get much worse than this. Americans, remember these receipts when you head to the polls,” X user Jack wrote.

“Getting a great preview of how a President Newsom would handle a national emergency—hop on a left wing podcast, have the hosts use Act Blue for relief donations (where $ will ultimately get funneled to Dem causes), and then retain the donor lists for future Dem fundraising,” user Vanessa wrote on X, referencing Newsom’s appearance on the liberal “Pod Save America” podcast.

“Newsom….never let a fundraising opportunity go to waste,” user Andrew Laing wrote on X.

Donations directly to The California Fire Foundation, Operation Blessing, Samaritan’s Purse of the Salvation Army might be more effective.