DEI IN A FIRE: LA’s Obese Female Assistant Fire Chief Says, No, I’m Not Able to Carry Your Husband Out of a Fire, But If You Think About It, Isn’t That His Fault?

This is the ultimate in DEI: A morbidly-obese entitled woke woman telling you that if she’s not able to perform the tasks required by her job, that’s your fault, not hers.

You’re the one who got yourself into a burning building, after all. Don’t blame her if she’s too weak and out-of-shape to carry your husband out of the blaze.

But up the food chain in L.A. things get even worse:

The mayor’s Website lists, as of March of 2023, six deputy mayors and an “Acting Deputy Mayor of Communications.” Here are the details of the deputy mayor mentioned in the above tweet: FBI agents search home of Los Angeles deputy mayor over City Hall bomb threat.

FBI agents searched the home of a Los Angeles deputy mayor this week as part of an investigation into whether he made a bomb threat against City Hall, officials said.

A statement from the office of Mayor Karen Bass said she was notified of Tuesday’s search at the residence of Brian K. Williams, her deputy mayor for public safety, as part of an probe into an alleged threat.

The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that officers responded “earlier this year” to a bomb threat against City Hall.

“Our initial investigation revealed that the source of the threat was likely from Brian Williams, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety,” the department said in a statement Wednesday. “Due to the Department’s working relationship with Mr. Williams, the investigation was referred to the FBI. The FBI remains the investigating agency.”

So the “Deputy Mayor for Public Safety” is accused of making “a bomb threat against City Hall?” This is satire that even the Babylon Bee couldn’t come up with.

Related: Timeline: Bass Knew of Fire Risk Before Abandoning L.A. for Ghana Trip.

More: L.A. County ‘Accidentally’ Sent Out Terrifying Warning On Thursday.

As if Los Angeles County residents didn’t have enough to worry about right now, the county’s official alert system appears to have sent out a terrifying warning by accident.

Much of Southern California has been forced to evacuate their homes due to the ongoing wildfires. The wildfires started in Pacific Palisades but due to strong winds, they’ve spread to several other parts of Southern California. So far, though, much of downtown Los Angeles and the valley appears to still be in OK shape.

However, on Thursday afternoon, millions of Los Angeles County residents received a terrifying warning.

“Emergency Alert. NEW: This is an emergency message from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. An EVACUATION WARNING has been issued in your area. Remain vigilant of any threats and be ready to evacuate. Gather loved ones, pets, and supplies. Continue to monitor local weather, news and the webpage alertla.org for more information,” the alert reads.

Los Angeles residents who thought they were in a safe area were understandably terrified.

“Every person in LA County got it,” one fan wrote.

“Got it in Long Beach,” one fan added.

The false alert was also heard live on at least one local news show, amplifying its coverage and further rattling LA residents, already on edge:

The county’s in the best of hands, to Insta-paraphrase.

GOOD LORD: Oregon sending crews to help battle Los Angeles-area wildfires.

That sounds great until you know… the rest of the story:

“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” —Thomas Sowell.

AI IS GETTING TO BE PRETTY FUN, ACTUALLY:

Sometimes even a deep fake comedy clip can reveal a deeper truth.

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Waltz to Clean Out Deep Staters from National Security Council: ‘We’re Taking Resignations at 12:01’ on January 20.

Incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Breitbart News exclusively that every intelligence official from the various departments and agencies across the federal government currently detailed to the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House under outgoing President Joe Biden will be expected to vacate the premises by 12:01 p.m. Eastern on Inauguration Day when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated again.

Waltz, in a phone interview earlier this week, told Breitbart News that he is making sure everyone understands that it’s “crystal clear what the agenda is.”

“Everybody is going to resign at 12:01 on January 20,” Waltz said. “We’re working through our process to get everybody their clearances and through the transition process now. Our folks know who we want out in the agencies, we’re putting those requests in, and in terms of the detailees they’re all going to go back.”

Much more at the link, all of it good.

CALIFORNIANS ARE FED UP:

It’s impossible to tell whether Newsom was actually trying to reach Biden or whether he had cell service… but I wouldn’t bet on either.

STRATEGERY:

Britain is a madhouse.

PRIORITIES:

Not even a peek at rebuilding some of the state’s water infrastructure?

HMM: Why Is Diet Root Beer Up 131% Even Though Aluminum Is Down? “This may count as an ‘old man yells at cloud’ moment, but before the Flu Manchu lockdowns and the resultant supply chain breakage, HEB’s house brand of Diet Root Beer went for $2.25 a 12-pack. Now, here in early 2025, it’s going for $5.20. I calculate that as a 131% inflation rate over five years, considerably above the official 21.9% phony baloney ‘let’s lie for Biden’ rate. So what gives?”

ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE LONG A CHANCE:

Well played.

JONATHAN TURLEY: RIP, Snail Darter: The Species that Shut Down the Tellico Dam May Not Actually Exist.

In the annals of environmental law, no creature is more famous than the Snail Darter, the endangered species that shut down completion of the Tellico Dam in the 1970s. It required congressional legislation to allow the dam to be finished after years in the courts where judges maintained that the species had to be protected under the Endangered Species Act. According to the New York Times., the species may turn out to be as mythical as a unicorn.

The controversy began in 1967 when the Tennessee Valley Authority started constructing a dam on the Little Tennessee River, roughly 20 miles outside Knoxville. Environmentalists and locals opposed the project and, in 1973, a zoologist at the University of Tennessee named David Etnier went snorkeling with his students and found a possible solution. He spotted a small fish and called it a “snail darter” because of its movements and eating habits. He reportedly announced “Here’s a little fish that might save your farm.”

Dr. Zygmunt Plater, an environmental law professor at Boston College,  represented the snail darter before the Supreme Court. He did an excellent job and, in 1978, the Supreme Court ruled that “the Endangered Species Act prohibits impoundment of the Little Tennessee River by the Tellico Dam” to protect the endangered snail darters.

That was then.

The Times now quotes Thomas Near, the curator of ichthyology at the Yale Peabody Museum who leads a fish biology lab at the university, that “there is, technically, no snail darter.” Worse yet, it was actually just another member of the eastern population of Percina uranidea, or stargazing darters, which is not considered endangered.

Near and his colleagues have published the results in Current Biology.

In other words, years of litigation and millions of dollars were spent on what was a false claim, and the courts accepted the claims hook, line, and sinker.

As David Frum began the chapter titled “Dam Yankees” of his 2000 book, How We Got Here: The 70’s: The Decade that Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse), “An early flag of the American Revolution displayed a coiled rattlesnake (and the fierce motto ‘Don’t Tread on Me’) to symbolize the country’s fierce determination to rule itself. Two hundred years later, the animal with the best claim to represent the American character was not the rattler but a small freshwater fish: the snail darter…The fish might not have been much to look at, but it had a sure sense of timing.”

SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: Elon Musk has ripped the cloak of deceit off one of Britain’s most disgusting scandals.

This may be hard to comprehend, dear reader, but the people of that enlightened land did not protect their daughters. I’m sorry to say they abandoned them to their fate. Police, whose duty it was to look after the most vulnerable, either arrested the girls, dismissed their pleas for help or left them with their tormentors. For that famously kind and decent land had fallen under a strange enchantment, which was called multiculturalism. It said that, no matter how wicked or cruel the men were to the children, you must never speak of it. The dark spell, and what a powerful spell it was (enough to vanquish justice and compassion), caused any who dared to say that Pakistani Muslim men were targeting white girls to become the bad people. Because all cultures are equal, you see, even ones that don’t believe in equality or which agree that girls who aren’t virgins are whores and deserve to be punished.

And those who struggled against the powerful spell that stifled their countrymen were called racist. And to be racist or bigoted or “far-Right” was to be far more hateful than any hatred inflicted on female children, or so the people of the good and fair country were told by their leaders.

And when the monsters swore at the children whom they were raping, saying, “White slag!” “White c—!” – well, that wasn’t at all racist. Because multiculturalism and the BBC say it cannot be so.

A few brave women (Julie, Ann, Maggie, Sarah) who woke from the enchantment and warned young girls were in danger from British Pakistani men were banished and forced to apologise for being “reckless in my choice of words”. Or they lost their seat in the shadow Cabinet.

And the evil – a vast, suppurating evil such as the land had not known for a thousand years – continued to blight that good and fair country. The authorities colluded to make sure the hatred must never speak its name, and the girls carried their lonely torment within them and their rapists got access to the babies they had impregnated them with. (Oh, yes, they did. So strong was the multicultural enchantment it made people surrender the values they had been born to.)

And the monsters were not banished from the good and fair country, not one of them sent back to countries that were neither good nor fair, in case their human rights were breached.

Then, one day, the richest man in the whole wide world came along and broke the dark spell. Elon had read court transcripts telling what those monsters had done to the female children, and he could not believe such unfathomable depravity had taken root in the good and fair country. Because of his great wealth, Elon could not be intimidated into agreeing that thousands of white girls should have been used as a peace offering to placate the gods of multiculturalism. His righteous wrath shamed the cowardly leaders of the land and in their panic they cried “Misinformation!” But the people were having none of it. For they were awake now and they saw what horrors the brutes had been allowed to get away with. As the wicked enchantment lifted, the malevolent myth of multiculturalism was unmasked, the country slowly but surely recovered its senses and demanded the guilty be found and punished, even unto the highest in the land.

Read the whole thing.

Related: Julie Bindel: I was called racist for exposing the grooming gangs… but this atrocity has still not gone away.