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https://nypost.com/2025/01/17/media/bill-maher-calls-out-hypocritical- liberals-who-wont-criticize-californias-dem-leaders-despite-mistakes-made/

Liberal talk show host Bill Maher argued that liberals who usually
politicize tragedies are silent when Democratic leaders are to blame.

Many California residents, including celebrities, have lost their homes in
the Pacific Palisades area as wildfires continue to rage there and
elsewhere in Los Angeles County, burning more than 27,000 acres,
destroying over 10,000 structures and killing at least 25 people,
according to local officials.

While LA Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom have taken some criticism for their management before and during the devastating fires,
Maher argued in a TMZ interview that more critics need to speak out and
hold liberal leaders responsible.

“I’m with the people who want to hold politicians accountable,” Maher said
to the news outlet.

The comedian highlighted that many liberals are saying, “We shouldn’t talk about it now,” describing them as “hypocritical.”

“It’s so funny to hear that coming out of the mouths of liberals, because
they hate it when conservatives say that after a gun tragedy, which is
what conservatives always say after a mass-shooting. ‘This is not the time
to politicize it.’ And then it never is,” Maher said.

“It is absolutely the time to talk about it.”

While he said that there are some other factors making some level of the disaster inevitable, such as global warming, he stood by his assertion
that “errors” were made.

“Was it always going to be bad? Of course,” Maher said.

“Their arguments are not wrong. We built the city in a terrible place to
build a city. Global warming absolutely does make hot stuff and weather
worse. Winds were ridiculous. Yeah, I get all that. And they also made a
lot of errors.”

Maher added that “If you held Bush accountable for Katrina” then “you have
to have some intellectual honesty in criticizing your team when they don’t
do it right. And they’ve had a long time to get this right-er.”

The HBO host also stressed that somehow such disasters “always seem to be
the worst they possibly could be” – a sign that more should be expected of leaders.

“I think we should demand better,” Maher argued.

Conversation

GC1993
17 January, 2025

Errors? The "mistakes" included:

Collecting billions in taxes to manage forest, and barely doing any forest management

Collecting billions in taxes for creating water reservoirs, and not
creating a single new one

Emptying a reservoir in the peak fire season

Cutting expenses for firefighting, right before peak fire season

Taking no responsibility, ever, for anything, despite a horrible record on practically everything

Turning away help from NY, and Musk

That's just right off the top of my head.

...and that is just at the state level, not the city level.

Those are not "errors", those are the combination of incompetence, misallocation of funds, and quite possibly corruption (as those billions
went in someone's pockets).

Tyrone Baker
18 January, 2025

Climate change had NOTHING to do with
1) cutting the fire department budget
2) leaving reservoirs empty so that fire hydrants ran dry
3) not positioning fire trucks in fire prone areas ahead of the wind
storms (which weather forecasts predicted)
4) the mayor leaving for a cocktail party in Ghana the day before the high
wind fire season was forecast to start

GIVE ME A BREAK DEMOCRATS.


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