Leroy N. Soetoro
2025-01-13 02:07:01 UTC
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The emperor has no clothes and no empathy.
Its likely, though, he still does have a standing reservation at the
French Laundry.
Of course, its Gavin Newsom, of whom I write.
The smug and ambitious progressive California Governor whose political
aspirations went up in flames as Los Angeles continues to burn to the
ground, leaving a shocking number of residents lives in tatters.
And its Newsom, who has become the arsonist, setting the fire to his
political fortunes with a series of unforced errors putting a cap on
years of mismanagement and abandoning crucial infrastructure in favor of
useless far left policies that made social justice and climate warriors
feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Since the inferno broke out, Newsom has shown that hes ill prepared and
shameless: shifting blame to others and trying to ditch one of his
devastated constituents.
Its like he and the epically feckless Karen Id rather be in Ghana Bass
had made a political suicide pact for 2025.
As Pacific Palisades was ablaze, Anderson Cooper asked Newsom about the
dry hydrant situation there. Instead of owning any failure, he passed the
buck.
Look, the local folks are trying to figure that out, he told Cooper.
Actually, Gov., you should have ensured the local folks had it sorted as
risks were well known.
This all stops with the top, even if it was a local issue. This
apocalyptic inferno wasnt some freak accident in a backwater that no one
could find on the map. This was Los Angeles, home to millions, and a city
that remains under constant threat of wildfires.
Then he cowardly tried to use a fake phone connection to brush off an
anguished mother sifting through the rubble of her community.
Governor! Governor! I live here, Governor! That was my daughters
school! said Pacific Palisades resident Rachel Dervish, running after
Newsom as he tried to hightail it back into his SUV.
Im literally talking to the president right now to specifically answer
the question, of what we can do for you and your daughter, he said with
all the blessed chutzpah of Jan Brady speaking on the phone with George
Glass.
When Dervish asked to hear the call, because I dont believe it, Newsom,
who was clearly not on a line with anyone, then switched tactics. He said
he was trying to get ol Joe on the horn but he had no service. He
explained that he had tried five times and was walking around looking for
a signal.
She continued to press him on the lack of water in the hydrants.
Why was there no water in the hydrants, Governor? Is it going to be
different next time? she asked.
It has to be, it has to be, of course, he said when she told him he was
doing nothing.
She was desperate and grief stricken. She was also like so many in her
neighborhood angry.
There were red flag warnings and yet, Bass was in Africa and Newsom was
out to lunch. Why wasnt he micromanaging their preparedness and their
water supply.
Natural disasters are a fact of life in the Golden State and its
impossible to guess mother nature but there are also ways to prepare for
battle and mitigate the damage from her wrath.
Take Ron DeSantis, who every year is faced with a destructive hurricane
season. He is an extremely competent crisis manager who prepares for the
worst, marshals all resources and communicates extremely effectively with
Floridians.
He seems to revel in the details, in the foresight and in the aftermath,
helping residents return to normalcy as soon as possible.
The act of governing is not sexy. Just look at the Florida Governors
terribly unflattering white rain boots. Karl Lagerfeld he is not.
Newsom, on the other hand, is slick and handsome. But he is empty and
incompetent. He is skilled in delivering platitudes about diversity and
inclusion, hyper-focusing on marginalized communities, including the
endangered Delta smelt, according to Trump.
And for all his talk about tolerance, he was cold and dismissive to
Dervish. Sometimes being a leader means listening and being a soft place
to land. Expressing both confidence and humanity.
Its what George W. Bush understood when he stood on the pile at Ground
Zero and said, I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you.
Newsom, who was very high in the dems presidential depth chart,
spectacularly failed this moment on both a political and a human level.
Voters will not forget.
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