Bonkers, Blather, Blunders & Buffoons #43 (2025)
Bonkers, Blather, Blunders & Buffoons #43 2025
As of this date, the multiple, incredibly destructive wildfires tearing apart the suburban Los Angeles area for weeks are reportedly now under control. Plagued from the start by inadequate water supply (hampered greatly by an apparently empty reservoir) and said to have been a slower than normal response from LAFD units, while reportedly several of their trucks were sidelined in need of repair. Regarding the latter issue, just two months prior to the igniting of the fires, the Chief of the LAFD had requested almost $97,000,000 to provide for the replacement (in stages) of the department’s entire fire truck fleet, which was turned down. Included in that request was a reported $24-million for “new fleet/apparatus purchases” now. Additionally, the LA Mayor “had demanded the LAFD make a $49-million budget cut on top of the already decreased funding from the prior year. With cruel irony, the LAPD ended up short of sufficient firefighting equipment and personnel when faced with those historically destructive fires (at least 24 persons killed/200,000+ citizens displaced). Apparently, the fire department budgets were well below where they should have been in recent years. The Democrat Mayor and City Council had angered many residents because of her/their “alleged (budget) focus on diversity and inclusion over emergency preparedness.” Turned out to be a very disastrous trade off. And we must remember that insufficient water supply to fight those fires was also a deciding factor in the incredible losses.
And on the subject of the Los Angeles wildfires, California’s Governor appointed a new Adjutant General of the CA Military Department back in 2022. Soon thereafter, the Military AG decided to “decommission” the State’s Emergency Response Command. The Emergency Response Command “included Team Blaze, a firefighting detachment, and Team Shield, a security forces detachment that worked with Team Blaze on firefighting missions.” Both teams were comprised of volunteers. Blaze members could’ve joined with LAFD to fight the recent fires. Shield members, mostly retired police officers, could have helped with traffic control. Neither unit was available for fire duty by virtue of “decommissioning.” Said CA Democrat Representative Mike Gatto regarding the actions of the Democrat-dominated state and legislature: “When the history of these fires are written, people will conclude that it was 25% the weather and 75% incompetence and poor management.” Reportedly, the CA Military Adjutant General’s prior priorities included emphasis on “inclusion,” which may have contributed to the lack of Team Blaze and Team Shield’s ultimate supplemental firefighting presence.
Here’s a chuckle starter. Illegal migrants, either newly arrived in the U.S. or criminals living here of longer duration, don’t seem to be at all happy about the way they’ve been treated as America has finally started its long-overdue involuntary deportation flights. Said one native Columbian in his twenties, now sent home: “The (deportation) treatment was despotic, humiliating.” The response to that frustration is simple. You broke long standing U.S. federal immigration laws by crossing our border illegally. That alone makes you, and all those like you, a criminal in the eyes of Americans and American law. Kid glove compassion does not apply to you as a violator of America’s borders. So, save your whining, fragile criminal (on at least one illegal entry count). You’ve learned a hard lesson. Mercifully, in the case of the complainer above, with only the U.S. illegal entry crime to your name in America, now returned to Columbia and apparently free (literally) to re-begin your new life on home turf. Now, stay there. Or, if you choose to invade an American border again, prepare to be even further “humiliated.”
President Trump has made amazing strides in short order implementing his best for our nation plan to re-direct, re-Constitutionalize, and provide welcome new strength for America. That’s while a seemingly offended and stubborn, reality-challenged Democratic Party, especially the foolish self-centered progressive element of that no longer a relevant political party, when it comes to what’s in the best interest of America now concentrating on re-instating our treasured tradition of Democracy. Just think back one short month when we dodged the ruination of our republic, likely forever. Last Wednesday, outside the Capitol Building in Atlanta, a Democrat State Representative led a group of protestors (said to be “hundreds”) who are apparently concerned about what USA Today described in print as “the dismantling of American democracy under President Trump.” That, as the Democrats and their posse members claim, without laughing, that it’s President Trump and his enlightened America First appointees who are determined to take our free nation away from its citizens. When the scary irony is that it was Mr. Biden and his radical team of progressive button pushers who spent four years trying to turn America into just another Socialist-Communist after-thought nation in service and serfdom to the leftist political elite. That lunatic, threatening finger, accusing conservatives of trying to “dismantle” our democracy, needs to be reverse-pointed 180-degrees to the real, crazed democracy destroyers, the Democrat radicals.
Regrettably, homelessness in America has now reached a record annual number, with almost 772,000 people without independent shelter in 2024, up 18% from the previous year. Reasons include: Biden-permitted competition from illegal migrant families (housing and jobs), basic lack of enough affordable housing, inflation-driven high housing costs, natural disasters, and the end of pandemic-era assistance, etc. Deportation of illegals may eventually somewhat ease the housing stress, but this problem on the lengthy list of White House issues may well take years to tame.
Results from a 2024 national 4th & 8th grade level student learning assessment test showed another drop in basic skills achievement in America. For starters, “at least a third of America’s students failed to demonstrate ‘basic’ reading skills expected for their age group.” Regarding math, 77% of 4th grade students showed ‘basic proficiency.’ While only 61% of 8th grade students met the acceptable level of math learning & retention. ‘Education groups’ placed the blame for the deficiencies on the COVID-19 pandemic. While Republicans, on the other hand, blamed Biden politics & woke lesson plans (rather than FT teaching of basic subjects). One reaction is a deflection from reality. The other is the truth. Maybe we don’t actually need a national Department of Education, as has been proposed!! And we definitely do need far more effective nation-wide school choice for our current and future young students.
And finally, for this edition of 4B’s, these few forgettable quotes from the leftist elite of our northern hemisphere. Democrat Representative Jamie Raskin referring to the rapid-fire new administration of President Donald Trump (and Elon Musk) who, claimed Raskin on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” that they are conducting a “rapidly expanding and accelerating coup.” Apparently, that would be totally unlike what the past incredibly power-hungry and funding-wasteful Biden administration spent four years doing at the behest of unknowns behind the curtain. Then there’s CA Democrat Senator Adam Schiff claiming, also on MSNBC that President Trump didn’t “give a rat’s ass about law enforcement.” Of course, totally untrue, especially as shown by the current roundup and deportation of thug illegals to make our communities and nation safer for our citizens. Also, MSNBC host Al Sharpton recently claiming that President Trump was incapable of “human feeling.” Hard to know where that came from, especially and thankfully so, that we now have a national Chief Executive who finally truly cares about America and the American people, unlike his processor who, among other instances, was infamously recorded checking his watch frequently during the distinguished, somber arrival at Andrews AFB of our deceased service members killed at the time of that disastrous, hasty withdraw from Afghanistan.
And then there was a recent CNN guest, a female Democrat, who expressed deep concern about the on-going rounding up of illegals, currently just zeroing-in on the dangerous and criminal kind. Her concern seemed to ignore those who threatened our safety and security, but rather the potential future deportation of those illegals who plant and pick our crops. Regarding the latter, she feels that we should fix the immigration system, rather than punishing illegal individuals already here. Said she: I can’t wait until American women can’t get blueberries for their smoothies.” Finally, someone has hit on the crucial issue surrounding the deportation of illegal immigrants!! This kind of deep thinking is key to the nation’s future. For gosh sakes, the safety and security of America aside, do not deport anyone responsible for bringing fresh blueberries to market for smoothies. Have you no decency?
(Fact Sources: LAFD budget cuts related to wildfire response via dailymail.com, Perkin Amalaraj, 1-14-25; CA voluntary firefighting force decommissioned prior to fires via dailysignal.com, Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, 1-16-25; Illegal Columbian migrant deported and unhappy about his treatment via The Wall Street Journal, Juan Forero, 1-29-25; Democrats now convinced that its nation-saving President Trump who is now destroying democracy via Savannah Morning News, front page, 2-7-25; Homelessness in America reaches new high annual level via The Wall Street Journal, Jon Kamp, 12-28-24; Poor proficiency in reading and math is our unfortunate reality for that nation’s 4th & 8th grade student via nypost.com, Alex Oliveira, 1-29-25; Intellectually changing quotes from liberal elites via breitbart.com; Pam Key, 2/7, 1/22, 1/31 2025 and blueberries for smoothies via foxnews.com, Alexander Hall, 1-29-25).