Socialist Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders is catching a heck of a lot of flack after he decided to what liberal wackadoos do best and blame the wildfires ripping through Los Angeles on climate change. Can’t these people just focus on what is actually happening right this very moment and work toward coming up with a plan to put these fires out and help those who have been displaced by it? We can talk about the cause later. Attitudes like the one Sanders has is exactly what is wrong with politicians. They care far more about pushing their agenda than taking real action to help people and stay connected to the issues they care about.
Fox News is reporting that Sanders stated that “climate change is real” before going on to say that this “existential crisis” is one that incoming President Donald Trump has to get involved with. For goodness sake, man. People are losing homes, some their lives, and you’re talking politics. Can you not read the room?
“80,000 people told to evacuate. Blazes 0% contained. Eight months since the area has seen rain. The scale of damage and loss is unimaginable. Climate change is real, not ‘a hoax.’ Donald Trump must treat this like the existential crisis it is,” Sanders proclaimed in the post published on Wednesday morning.
Mike Solana, editor-in-chief of Pirate Wires, mocked the senator’s comments, writing in a post on X, “‘[G]lobal warming ate my homework’ doesn’t work anymore. literally every single politician in california responsible for the catastrophic failure to prepare for this, from water management and controlled burns to the fire department’s budget, is a democrat.” Conservative commentator and author Justin Haskins, director of the Socialism Research Center at the Heartland Institute, noted, “Wildfires, including ones much larger than this, have been happening in California forever.”
Nicole Shanahan — who was Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s presidential running mate last year before the pair dropped out and supported GOP candidate Trump — was also among those who responded to Sanders’ comments.
“State mismanagement is real, Bernie,” she noted. Sanders has long issued such dire warnings.
“Climate change is an existential disaster facing the entire world,” the Vermont Senator declared in a tweet posted six years ago in February 2019. “We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels to energy efficiency and sustainable energy. A Green New Deal can save the planet and create millions of new jobs.”
Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and owner of social media company X, stated that regulations prevented steps from being taken that would have made it possible to avoid the wildfires in California.
“Climate change risk is real, just much slower than alarmists claim. The immense loss of homes in LA is primarily due to: 1. Nonsensical overregulation that prevented creating fire breaks and doing brush clearing. 2. Bad governance at the state and local level that resulted in a shortage of water,” Musk opined in a post he published on X.
And Sanders is not alone in declaring a climate emergency as the cause of the wildfires. Many other Democrats have joined him in his fear mongering.
“I’m so heartbroken at the devastation that’s continuously inflicted upon our country & the world & elected ‘leaders’ are ignorant, impotent, or just incompetent to doing the smart thing, which is to acknowledge that climate change is real & start to solve it,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, remarked in a post. “California, stay safe. First responders, we thank you for your selflessness. I join the chorus of prayers for all, but as an elected, I want to actually work!”
Newly sworn-in Rep. Sarah McBride, a Democrat hailing from Delaware, who is transgender-identifying member of Congress, said the fires are a climate disaster.
“I’m praying for the victims of the raging fires around Los Angeles. The loss of life, homes, businesses and entire neighborhoods is devastating. I stand ready to work with my colleagues representing these communities to guarantee they have the resources they need to contain these fires, recover, rebuild, and prevent these climate catastrophes in the future,” McBride spewed forth in a post on X.
President-elect Donald Trump on the other hand thinks the buck stops with California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and thus, he should resign from his post.
“One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground. It’s ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign. This is all his fault!!!” Trump proclaimed in a Truth Social post that was published late Wednesday night.
Newsom posted on the crisis earlier in the day on Wednesday saying, “People are literally fleeing. Kids have lost their schools. Communities have lost their churches. Families have lost their homes. Some have even lost their lives. And the President-Elect’s response is to politicize it. We’ll continue to focus on what matters: saving lives and putting out these unprecedented fires.”
“The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection currently reports partial containment of the Lidia and Hurst fires, while others are listed at 0% containment on fire.ca.gov,” the report concluded.