Bill Maher Takes An Axe To Progressivism In Blistering Editorial About The LA Fires

Posted • January 18, 2025: Bill Maher is back and took no prisoners regarding the Los Angeles County wildfires. I know he’s bound to make some stupid remarks about conservatives in due time, but the man might be pushed toward leaving the Democratic Party if the lack of common sense keeps up. In the closing editorial, he had taken a flamethrower for California liberals for the gross incompetence and outright negligence exhibited in responding to what will become the costliest natural disaster in American history. The HBO host appears to have had it with the excesses of American liberalism. Sure, he likely doesn’t mind paying high taxes, but he also would like to see results. He aptly described California as a state where paying high taxes gets you nothing, threading a quip about the long-overdue, over-budget, and all-around quagmire that is the high-speed rail network.

He later took a speargun to the political leadership, like Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said the local folks would figure out why there was no water. The reservoirs were not filled, fire hydrants were disappearing, robbers stripped some for their parts, and the comedian called Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass the Nero of American politics for partying in Ghana as the state burned. -- Bill Maher @billmaher: “We may not be able to do much about the weather, but we do need a better plan for putting out a burning city than waiting for rain.” -- Maher also touched on the irony regarding protocols blocked to prevent wildfire outbreaks, like clearing vegetation around the hills and under powerlines. I don’t care about global warming, but these people do., and for all the whining about saving this flower or that bush, a wildfire is immensely more damaging to the planet. The 2020 wildfires wiped out almost a generation of greenhouse gas reductions, which Maher quipped meant that people suffered for nearly 20 years driving those early model Priuses for nothing. (…)

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