Offthemat

What a screwball. Can you imagine? Racially profiling when you’re trying to identify illegal Mexicans?

How leftists manage to tie their shoes.

If you want an idea of how effective the cartel’s military operations are, just look at how they fight each other.

Gavin Newsom Burns His Own Firefighters https://freebeacon.com/california/gavin-newsom-burns-his-own-firefighters/

How much of it is the CIA responsible for?

Insurance is part of their responsibility. Rapid response is part of their responsibility. Emergency preparedness is part of their responsibility. Distributing recovery and reconstruction grants and loans are part of their responsibility. It’s possible that they’ve become too big, too distracted or misdirected since becoming part of Homeland Security, but what you’re hearing here is that they are an all around failure.

Think Singapore.

I’ve also seen fire oddities, like the residence that is covered by insurance that conveniently burnt. I’m not saying everything could have been saved, but generally when the insurance company cancels your coverage, you do something. But not California.

This is betrayed by the views of the nearby neighbors homes that were burned to the ground.

I truly believe Trump will solve the issue without ever resorting to engaging the military.

The Special Forces have been training foreign troops since Vietnam, and it continues today. None have ever stood up to their own opponents, much less our forces.

The truth in this is provided by the examples of the homeowners whose homes were spared due to their diligence in maintaining the area around their property.

The widespread opinion is that FEMA has become a federal behemoth that doesn’t deserve the word ‘Emergency’ in its name. They may eventually manage to distribute the funds provided by taxpayers to disaster victims, but their performance in the immediate aftermath tends from non-existent to detrimental. As President Trump pointed out in California, the insurance companies had been warning them for years about their fire protection practices. They used the money allocated for anything but. Just as @jross describes the government’s requirements for citizens to obtain aid, we need assurances that California will remedy this issue before distributing the massive funds that will be required to rebuild. Maybe they could get some advice from the insurance companies.

No

That Bill Maher, they call him a high functioning dope smoker. Still a dope, though.

FEMA = government incompetence. Will Trump delete FEMA?

It was red and came from the OSU corner.

That’s funny, I watched it last night and they threw the brick in the Fish/Downey match, in the one I watched.

Look at Ben Laden raid is more like it. Superior numbers and technology.

You’ve got me there.

Thank God the people who plan and execute these types of operations are better informed, trained, and equipped, and have more of a can-do attitude than our resident pessimists. That and their tendency to go in with about a 10 to1 advantage in personnel and firepower. I’d be interested to hear what weapons would be considered a step above what our military has.

And I might suggest not letting assassins from Iran in the country. But Biden had a different idea.

Because Iran put a bounty on them.