Joe Rogan is as soon as once more below fireplace.
It’s been greater than per week since a wildfire in Southern California broke out, destroying 40,000 acres of land from the Pacific Palisades to the better Los Angeles space. Greater than 12,000 houses and companies have been burnt to the bottom and dozens of lives have been misplaced.
To this point, no trigger has been recognized, however the long-time UFC shade commentator and fashionable podcaster despatched listeners right into a frenzy when he positioned the blame squarely on the shoulders of homeless folks, suggesting that the “losers” are lighting fighters to “get their anger out” and loot multi-million-dollar houses.
“That is your whining liberal, ‘It’s f*cking local weather change, get up.’ No, it’s arson, you f*cking idiots… The homeless are doing it,” Rogan mentioned on a latest episode of his JRE podcast. “They’re extra inclined to make use of fireplace to get their anger out… You have got 100,000 losers simply tenting in your avenue… What do you suppose goes to occur when there are folks with $50M homes, and also you’re tenting out only a block away?… They’re looting folks’s homes… Swarms of organized gangs are displaying up.”
Rogan additionally slammed California Governor Gavin Newsom’s dealing with of the state of affairs, claiming that the state had spent “zero” on stopping wildfires final 12 months whereas dumping billions of {dollars} to assist the almost 200,000 “losers” that reside within the state.
“We had been simply speaking concerning the wildfire state of affairs and the way they spent $24 billion final 12 months on homeless,” Rogan mentioned. “What did they spend on stopping this wildfire? Zero! Zip!… The entire state is so poorly managed. It’s so irritating and complicated.”
Joe Rogan echoes false report shared by our subsequent president of america
On social media, President-elect Donald Trump amplified a declare that Newsom had slashed the state’s fireplace finances by $100 million simply months earlier than the outbreak of the latest wildfires. Whereas Newsom did approve cuts to a number of supplemental funding initiatives within the wildfire finances final 12 months, the state’s multibillion-dollar firefighting finances and workforce really elevated.
Of the cuts that had been made, the most important was $46 million associated to a pilot challenge to create hydrogen from biomass. One other $35 million was minimize from wildfire resilience initiatives on state-owned land and $28 million from initiatives undertaken by varied state conservancies.
“We now have doubled the dimensions of our firefighting military, constructed the world’s largest aerial firefighting fleet, and elevated the forest administration ten-fold since taking workplace,” Newsom wrote on X in response to the false reporting. “Time to serve these of us the details.”
Since 2019, the California Division of Forestry and Hearth Safety has seen a finances enhance from $2 billion to $3.8 billion in accordance with FactCheck.org. The variety of CalFIRE personnel has almost doubled in that very same timeframe, going from 5,829 to 10,741.
