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senseandsensibility

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Fri Jan 10, 2025, 03:58 PM Jan 2025

The billionaires are driving a narrative about Gov. Newsom and Karen Bass [View all]

Of course social media is running with it and blaming both of them for the fires. CNN is very onboard too, and now Tur is pushing it on MSNBC. It's so transparent. They get to escape any responsibility to do anything about climate change, and at the same time take it out on "liberals". If they can turn natural sympathy against Californians who lost everything, they can blame the victims for their own fate and even limit resources that must be approved by R's from getting to them.

The stark truth is that climate changed caused this. It was an act of God, (in the secular sense) and once those winds reached hurricane like levels "dousing" the flames with water was not the answer. It was too fast moving and the infrastructure was not built for those conditions.

MSNBC just showed a fire victim yelling at Newsom, who of course handled it well. I have noticed for the past two days, CNN has been all over Karen Bass. I think they got their orders early.

All of this drama does nothing to solve the issue: climate change. But it does distract, and keep the focus off the fact that R's are soon to be charge and the responsibility for dealing with climate change is theirs now.

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