California Fires: LA Mayor Karen Bass addresses LAFD budget cuts

[@PositiveWordMeditation]

Bass and Newsome need to resign

[@danielcarlson800]

My dream come true.

[@ouslander1]

Resign? So they can still obtain a Pension and Severance pay and the Taxpayers can fund their Retirement? How about Firing and charging them with Dereliction of Duty and the countless other charges they are GUILTY of!!!

[@danielcarlson800]

@@ouslander1 Someone will cry racism!!!!!!!

[@o.astamp5680]

They wont, and the majority of Californians will continue to vote for progressives...even over moderate candidates. They shouldn't give em anything federal, they should be forced to use their own GDP and tax payer dollars in a more efficient way....instead of on all the bullcrap

[@Xabier2.0]

They won’t resign nor will they be held responsible.

[@TheOtherKine]

She shouldn't even show up any more. She should just get out of the way and resign, never to be seen again

[@wenettehamilton7585]

News like, look at trump, look at looters.

[@antlerman9516]

This is what LA residents voted for, now deal with it, you the people of LA did this not the mayor.

[@EljansLife]

Those fund supposed to be in the fighter goes to woke and gay people.

[@smauglord8117]

@@antlerman9516no we didn’t

[@ramjohnston3370]

​@@antlerman9516 so that's the same respond people from north Carolina and Florida should get after the storms right ?

[@bw988]

How about cutting your pay instead of fire fighters budget. Gaslighting on display

[@pambp5978]

Fire fighting should not be cut, saying this though it has been done by all types.. Alberta Canada had one of its worst fire seasons this summer the politicians there who cut the $$$ are conservative.

[@JackDuripper]

There's a lot of gas lighting in LA rn

[@frankmacleod2565]

she makes $232K a year, not 17 million

[@andrewh7599]

She's disappointing and disgusting at the same time.

[@subg8858]

If you knew anything about Maoism, you would never be disappointed by a maoist, anymore than a cowboy would be disappointed in the behavior of a rattlesnake. Give your head a shake

[@gregj831]

That woman is sociopathic

[@susanhess8396]

Bass and Newsom need to be held accountable for their crime of mismanagement and misspending tax dollars. This will cause companies to raise premiums across the country, not just California. Bass and Newsom horrific decisions will cost every insurance holder across the country.

[@brennanworthy6043]

How about slashing Karen Bass's pay? Overpaid, useless idiots who were hired for racist reasons.

[@freidahaley2275]

AMEN!!!! Before kicking her out!!!!

[@timh5168]

She wasn't hired, she was elected. People in LA voted for this.

[@ThisisKyle]

​@@timh5168electing someone to run a government position is the same as them being hired

[@BlackKettleRanch]

She was voted in. The citizens have done this to themselves because they're arrogant, and they don't learn.

[@hrodriguez112]

She's not as good as Trump on deflecting questions. Maybe she should of used a sharpie to redraw the path of the fires.

[@jeffreyflowers5203]

Bass is a joke.

[@reza_dc2]

she's a monster , fucking disgusting.

[@shivama6679]

Rick Caruso would've been a massive joke. Bass is doing great.

[@Sbxallday]

​@@shivama6679Doing great at what exactly?

[@wwbuirkle]

@@shivama6679 LMFAO

[@wwbuirkle]

And a liar

[@KB-ke3fi]

FIRE HER

[@KitGoldenlance-x7w]

Literally

[@benpinder889]

Firing squad?

[@ITSFULLOFSTARS1]

Mayor Karen Bass made history by becoming the first black woman to remain silent in public.

[@smauglord8117]

that’s a surprise 😂😂😂

[@blackrhino3442]

That’s for sure

[@ColeWheeler4Lyfe]

😂

[@gregj831]

LOL

[@BabaYaga-yh3yi]

That’s a good one 😂😂😂

[@Supras111]

FEMA: $800 per household, EXACTLY the same as they gave Hawaii, Florida & the Carolina's.

[@janyurechko7945]

Not one dime more!

[@timh5168]

It was $750 actually

[@DamonMason-c6v]

And only if they don’t find any burned up Trump signs in the rubble 😂😂😂

[@ttfahd]

and just a tent....in the winter time

[@ttfahd]

@@timh5168 yup....2 weeks of groceries.....But I lost my home.....wheres the food going?

[@SFClark]

All of the Hollywood celebrities' need to call for both Newsom and Bass to resign.

[@stephenpaul6118]

Unfortunately, many celebrities are probably friends with them.

[@vel230]

Hollywood will never turn on its own people.

[@joshlamb4271]

Yeah they should put their money where their mouths is

[@BlackKettleRanch]

That would make them look wrong when they promoted the left wing agenda all along.

[@AvidiaNirvana]

Nah, the cult is terminal.

[@chris_panda]

Newsom and Bass RESIGN NOW!!!

[@vpej8508]

We dont have enough firefighters and equipment. But cutting the budget by 17 million and sending fire equipment to Ukraine had no impact on the fire departments ability to fight the fires. Sure

[@shanedaley6236]

And while her friends get money from the budget for projects that benefit her or them but they cut things that matter

[@sugarshaker9162]

Right and we actually have to rent our firefighting planes from Canada

[@badnotgood]

@@sugarshaker9162 canada? the country that trump threaten recently? that's sad...

[@Linda-z9s]

BASS AND NEWSOME NEED TO RESIGN, THEY DON"T EVEN QUALIFY TO BE WALMART GREETERS!!!!!

[@danielcarlson800]

@@Linda-z9s 🎯

[@stopngo1019]

😅😂🤣...lol...👍

[@grizz6150]

Unpesedented wind ? The santa anna winds come every year . Total bs

[@TheHellFlower1]

In the fall, dude. We're a tad past that.

[@Jessie-it6fg]

@@TheHellFlower1I got an alert about the wind a week before it happened….

[@grizz6150]

@TheHellFlower1 Dude ' Mother nature has no controlled time frames.

[@Spoon101]

​@@TheHellFlower1winter just started, its was a long summer for most of the country, jeez people are easy to grab onto the narrative, think a bit.

[@TheHellFlower1]

@@grizz6150 It's pretty reliably cyclical, Sugar.

[@anthonyvenney389]

If this mayor can't handle these fires then how could she handle a major earthquake with major loss of life to her residents. Absolutely pathetic.😔

[@pauljayvlogs489]

The fact she couldn’t let him finish his question… how did 17 million dollars not have an effect on staffing.

[@shanedaley6236]

They also fired people for not taking the vaccine

[@sugarshaker9162]

She lies if her mouth is open she is lying

[@audreytakaki5369]

Shame on her! She needs to resign and step down!

[@diegoflores9237]

Not only that, they sent firefighting equipment to ukraine too

[@longlivefreedom9853]

Yeh ok Russian Bot

[@brycenhubbard6224]

Yea except california did in fact do that.​ It took one google search, that was it.@@longlivefreedom9853

[@RoscoesRiffs]

The comment came from an 11-year KZbin member. I think you're calling a real person a bot. It's really not hard to check. ​@@longlivefreedom9853

[@ThirdEchelon111]

​@@longlivefreedom9853 That's a perfectly truthful statement. In 2022, the city of Los Angeles sent extra firefighting equipment to Ukraine, to help their first responders out from all the fires they were experiencing from their war with Russia. How is someone passing along that information, a bot program that somehow benefits Russia? Idiot.

[@tomsmith476]

Extra equipment fire trucks hoses etc to Ukraine are the ukrainians going to come out and help us

[@Daximillion-t2d]

Karen Bass resign! Newsome resign! Hold them accountable for this California!

[@rockingG56]

Tuff budgetary times but just enough money to go to Africa on a taxpayer funded visit.

[@drunkenastarte5243]

...don't forget the public libraries enjoying a $14mil boost to their budget!

[@DonLewis9274]

Every one of those liberal woman are very hard to look at!

[@smauglord8117]

😂😂😂

[@santaclause2875]

Liberals, in general, are not the prettiest people to look at. Never have been, never will be.

[@briec579]

She is a typical angry, lesbian minority. I say this as a female. Disgusting and looks unwashed and likely smelly.

[@maryjaneshoe-fm4yr]

Your profile pic isn't so hot.

[@DeuCyJUIcY22]

@@maryjaneshoe-fm4yrit’s ok we all know you’re a disgusting mess with purple hair

[@BlackKettleRanch]

Newsom's estimated net worth is $30 million. His attitude is, "Let them eat cake."

[@Sbxallday]

She should do the right thing and resign.

[@tofargone16]

sounded like a kammali word salad.

[@GregoryCunningham]

What’s a Kammali? Is that how someone with a 3rd grade reading level spells Kamala?

[@SFClark]

Knowing there were catastrophic winds coming, I would have ordered additional crews to be on duty. To go a step further, I would have strategically placed them through out the fire prone areas of the county. Mayor Bass, a typical democrat, who just offers more excuses.

[@shanedaley6236]

I call bs on the wind issue when the president made a detour from visiting his grand daughter during her pregnancy to meet with the governor

[@WilsonS]

This is LA county, where people think it’s smart to vote in candidates whose sole focus is projects for the homeless, instead of prioritizing home owners.

[@allensprouse2984]

I’m tired of jobs that are given to minorities and women, and not given to men and women who are capable of doing their jobs without reverse discrimination!

[@Taurusmoon75]

🙄

[@شايمهيل-د2ط]

I’m a minority, highly educated and hard working and can’t find job anywhere!

[@allensprouse2984]

@ I feel badly for you, I’m not against minorities or women, but when jobs are given out because of sex and skin color; I don’t believe that we’re getting the most qualified people!

[@janyurechko7945]

​@allensprouse2984 funny you mention skin color. I see all theses AA in key leadership positions that have most all gone quickly to corruption. Not looking good.

[@Taurusmoon75]

@@allensprouse2984 And you are? Go apply or stfu

[@freddiecarr7602]

She knows that next week things will be ok---------DEI

[@amrit5516]

All the tax dollars ppl pay and they say that they have a tight budget? Really? You couldn’t allocate funding into important emergency services like the fire departments???

[@johnvanderploeg6707]

Those DEI departments really eat into a budget.

[@calypso2niner]

Calling BS on this fraud.

[@Margrace-i8n]

How can CA have money problems when they're the 5th largest economy in the world...?

[@BeKicky14]

Illegals.

[@TheSquiggleySpooch]

Because bass and all the officials are lining pockets. They literally can’t account for billions spent on the homeless crisis.

[@Spoon101]

Welfare and liberal progressive ideologies...

[@Netcentric-fk6ek]

they don't have money problems. They just squander the money they have on the most corndog dumb projects. In 2022 Ca. had a staggering 97.5 billiion surplus. Thankfully it was spent on social programs. You know ' spent $30 billion of our tax dollars on housing affordability proposals, but California still has the most unaffordable housing market in the country. Tens of billions have been spent on homelessness but California has the nation’s highest number of homeless.”

[@johnvanderploeg6707]

They spend it as fast as it comes in.

[@josepha.levesque806]

The news headline should be DEI hires unable to do Their job putting properties and citizens in harms way, Hawaii 2.0 same story different location!

[@bw988]

Very sad. She couldn't care less

[@danielcarlson800]

@@bw988 That's why she went to Ghana!!!!!

[@KnightxxArrow]

In 2014, voters handed California $2.7 billion under Prop 1 to secure the state’s water future with new storage projects. 10 years later, not a single reservoir is complete.

[@drunkenastarte5243]

After the devastating 2018 wildfires in SoCal, President Trump pushed for & got a bi-partisan bill passed through Congress that gave massive funding to build a new state-of-the-art system of aqueducts that would have trapped rain water & excess snowmelt from the north, and funneled it into new reservoirs in the much dryer south. Newscum threw a tantrum and shut the whole project down, because "Orange Man Bad!" and "MuH cLiMaTe ChAnGe!"

[@shanedaley6236]

And some of them are getting into or are in need of major repairs and rebuilding

[@pingcharlton4824]

Get their money out and sent them to the jails😈😈😈

[@TheDankFarmer]

Didn't Earn It

[@chookgoo77]

Bass is the one who's confused not reporters or citizens.

[@Chuck-js8dy]

Bass and Newsome both need to resign

[@kevint5391]

What a total disaster, the mayor of LA and the head of the fire department are totally 100% . responsible for one of the worst disasters in US history

[@blue.5058]

Bass needs to announce her resignation form office and publicly apologize to the taxpayers for her extreme ineptitude. Her job is to tend to the city’s business- not to attend press junkets in Africa.

[@1234itbeme]

1st Slash the money for the firefighters. 2nd Send the firefighters equipment to Ukraine.

[@johnvanderploeg6707]

"Forget" to refill the reservoirs in a timely manner.

[@le832]

This has nothing to do with “Ukraine” FFS!

[@freidahaley2275]

Same bunch of idiots!!!

[@ThisisKyle]

​@@le832you're right this doesn't have to do with Ukraine he is pointing out that our mayor sent firefighting equipment to Ukraine rather than keeping it in our state. So he is not making a point about you crying he is making a point about how our government keeps making objectively stupid decisions

[@1234itbeme]

@le832 Let's send all of our money 💰 to help everyone else but the citizens of the United States. That sounds like a great idea.

[@RandyBoBandy.]

Ask about her deputy getting a $750,000 PER YEAR salary!!! A 300% increase over the former deputy mayor. All you voted for this.

[@TuxBearlux]

excuses ...excuses ...

[@GenXamerica]

She says “unprecedented” wind storm but many just say “these are the Santa Ana winds”. So which is it? Many interviewed have said they have never seen winds like this. Maui had crazy high wind out of nowhere with hurricanes 600 miles away. NOAA put out odd warnings on Monday about fire danger winds. This does not add up.

[@DonLewis9274]

Distraction tactics!! 11 days before inauguration. Something is rotten in Denmark!!

[@spacecat7247]

Or maybe it does? Just in the wrong way. In a bad way.

[@doktorzhigonzo9165]

I see no remorse or accountability here

[@eddieg6436]

She is a JOKE!!! Get her OUT!!! Install Rick Caruso who will MANAGE things properly. (Does common sense even exist anymore?!?).

[@steverivera8968]

Both are a joke

[@ITSFULLOFSTARS1]

@@steverivera8968 Found the Bass voter.

[@ITSFULLOFSTARS1]

@@steverivera8968 only you Steve. Only you.

[@ndeeeed]

What we really need is a recall, recall, recall!

[@AsInLifeSoInMusic]

Fun fact LA County GDP 700b Ghana ? 70b Bravo bass, I hear the last nail

[@bjkarana]

Might want to took into how much money LA has spent on DEI programs and other such "necessities" instead of the LAFD, LAPD and other first response departments.

[@drunkenastarte5243]

...and in the case of the LAFD, their DEI "fire chief" has wasted how much of that under funding $$$ on implementing 3yr long DEI training programs being forced on all members? AND THEN... goes on about how there's "no set target to hit" on "inclusivity initiatives" of women + minorities + LGB-whatevers, because the LAFD has been historically, "far too male & far too white" >.

[@matthewturley1152]

Reminds me of the mayor of New Orleans

[@shacknastyray4429]

Ol George Clooney needs to write an op ed for Bass and Newsome to step down......

[@wenettehamilton7585]

Dont accept that BS

[@sheeptards097]

Affirmative action politicians

[@sarahpowers6246]

Thank goodness she was in Ghana and they gave all that equipment to Ukraine.

[@johnvanderploeg6707]

Ghana...some president that she was there to see inaugurated. Not sure why a stupid mayor was on a federal diplomatic trip, on taxpayers money, no less.

[@FusionHowie]

BlackRock is about to go on a shopping spree for real estate !!

[@SirJordanLore]

bingo. alot of these fires are happening where the 2028 Olympics facilities are going and a proposed "smart" city is planned to go. Kinda similar to what happened in Hawaii.

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

1:26 BULL!

[@CAMOMASKAUDITS-tx2iw]

There's a reason why every single person behind her is looking at her with absolute disgust. Radiating incompetence. "If you-if you look back, you'll see that I was actually right, if you look back." What an absolute moron. No person should ever have to look at her and think her as a leader in any capacity, even in retail.

[@italia3691]

Karen Bass just another DEI disaster!!!!

[@sfletch3042]

Do you know what elected means?

[@Blak-h1z]

Dei strikes again

[@subg8858]

Except she was elected. More like dipshits voting for maoists strike again

[@jeneanramos56]

So trying to cover up her mess up

[@stevendavis5855]

Wow these people can really gaslight people

[@FifaNguyen-t7e]

don't blame the wind, water can stop fire.

[@Anthony-fr2if]

Well, I was there and I saw what you did I saw it with my own two eyes So you can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been It's all been a pack of lies

[@PokaLips]

71 years old.

[@SharCreatingVibes]

She should be fired. She doesn't know how to talk to the people who are facing such deadly situation. She is a failure. She was more focused on making sanctuary city rather than preparing for the unthinkable.

[@sw1479]

OMG. She truly is a brave woman. Can anyone believe she still dares to show her face at a time like this?

[@AharonTzvi]

Highest taxes in the country but she blames the budget.🙄🙄

[@patrast4464]

So mush trust in the hands of few jokers and woke DEI clowns

[@teenyverse7707]

Karen Bass cut fire department funding by $17.6M...The cut was the second-largest in LA's history...LA voted for her... ya'll deserve her....

[@davids6898]

Local news need to come down hard on our politicians. Stop trying to make our idiot leaders look like saints.

[@SharCreatingVibes]

Just imagine. If there would be 7.5 or stronger earthquake. These people are not ready for any disaster.

[@gilbertovanessian6998]

Once the fires are over, people will forget, and will put these clowns back in office again

[@the-sj3vq]

All DEI Hires in the scene 😂😂😂😂

[@lloydclement2152]

This disaster will qualify Karen Bass as a front-running candidate of the democratic ticket.

[@henrykwon8068]

1. Is ANYONE gonna ask her why she was on the trip to Africa with the taxpayers' money? 2. Why didn't she come back right away after finding out that LA was on fire?

[@striker44]

What is this mayor's salary? Cut her salary and get her to work instead pf partying in ghana. She is non-essential compared to firefighter and police.

[@annetteschatzel76]

What a bunch of woke ,sad and irresponsible excuses for leadership.

[@GordonAlan-s8d]

Are the Bass and Newsom voters proud of themselves now ????

[@earlanderson4002]

Feminists in charge in mayor's office and fire chief. Yeah, right!

[@DamonMason-c6v]

She seems as smart as the voters who elected her 🙄

[@striker44]

Incompetent Mayor Karen Bass and governer Gavin Newsom.

[@frankmacleod2565]

why on earth was she in GHANA???? She should be fired for that alone.

[@OpenSesame858]

People in N Carolina lost homes. They got a whopping $750. Biden just promised to pay 100% of the rebuilding costs for California..... let that sink in.

[@JM-bd6ml]

People are pissed, no water, few fire fighters, few police, high crime….Bass and Newsome are useless

[@enriquepacheco1754]

You Californians voted for this...

[@rougecampos317]

She should step down right away and put in jail i smelll bs

[@Momsaidimsped]

Im in california rn and dayum it smells BAD here😨

[@brandonbeard2061]

wind may fan he flames...but wind doesn't start fires

[@bart-v]

LA Mayor under fire! (pun intended)

[@ayeitsnino647]

First New Orleans, now L.A. if you don't think these acts are intentional, just watch what happens in the next big city. Pat yourself on the back for letting that criminal in the White House

[@1773punkin]

If there were budgeted complications why did she still accept her pay or accept a reduction in her pay??

[@phoenixvette]

$17,000,000 is not much. I'm sure half the people n Palisades had an extra 17mil. When the state gets donors they usual give a few million. A few years ago the CSU system had a $1,500,000,000 surplus and not much was done with that. The most you can do with 17 mil is buy 30 Firetrucks or 7 helicopter.

[@bbrebozo6417]

The LA COUNTY fire chief complained and the mayor’s minion gave him a dirty look. These moronic officials are closet tyrants. They deserve to face criminal charges for their negligence.

[@nathanielcarreon5634]

Justifying her incompetence and focus only on her political life

[@roadie9775]

wow that smiling! She seems so happy to see people suffer.

[@Liberalcali]

Remember they made a multimillion dollar building for homeless

[@jasonmichaelshipp2978]

Tough budget Bass? Then resign and save us on payroll expenses.

[@donaldsmith8864]

Mayor says: we are gonna maybe do this, gonna maybe do that, gonna have to just wait and see. California....the "gonna maybe" state. well....I'm gonna leave....and not maybe.

[@freidahaley2275]

👏👏👏👍

[@wrangleryj3417]

Budget cut has no effect on wildfire December 2024 fire chief sends letter saying budget cut hamper the fire deptartment response to large disasters. The mayor need to be held criminally and civilly liable for her decisions.