The Culture War - Tim Pool - January 14, 2025


Jimmy Kimmel CRIES, Calls Trump, MAGA SCUMBAGS For Slamming DEI Policy That WORSENED LA Wildfire

Topics
DEI policies and wildfires Jimmy Kimmel condemns Trump on fires homeless fires exacerbate wildfires
Hosted by
Tim Pool Phil Labonte Hannah Claire Brimelow
Mentioned
Donald Trump Jimmy Kimmel Martha Rory Sykes Joy Reid Shelly Sykes Graphene Dream Sacramento Bee John Abatzaglu Adam Carolla Karen Bass Elon Musk Zuckerberg Wildfires Bocas Geez
Democrats Spark OUTRAGE After Funneling Donations For Fire Relief Though Democrat PAC ActBlue Tiktok To SHUT DOWN On Sunday As SCOTUS Fails To Issue Decision On Ban, Trump Says HOLD UP

Episode Stats


Length

30 minutes

Words per minute

157.57

Word count

4,738

Sentence count

379

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

sentences flagged

Toxicity

25

sentences flagged

Hate speech

10

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Jimmy Kimmel breaks down the devastating fires in Los Angeles and calls President Trump a "gaggle of scumbags" and says firefighters aren't "white enough." Plus, cast your mind back to the past and try to figure out why the L.A. fires are so bad.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
Topics generated with Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct.
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
00:00:00.000 Their entrance makes the bingo balls rumble in fear.
00:00:04.760 The free space is free out of respect for them,
00:00:07.780 and their dabs are too fast for the naked eye.
00:00:10.800 They're not just grandmas, they're grandmasters.
00:00:14.600 Betty, Dolly, Martha, queens of Delta Bingo,
00:00:19.300 hollerers of the hall, and they're here
00:00:21.920 to teach the next generation of players.
00:00:24.680 Learn what it takes to be a bingo master at grandmasters.ca.
00:00:28.360 Must be 18+. Play smart.
00:00:30.760 The wildfires in L.A. are expected to get worse.
00:00:33.920 A new warning has been issued that with the Santa Ana winds picking back up,
00:00:39.120 the fires could spread.
00:00:41.080 The death toll is at 24, hundreds of thousands evacuated,
00:00:44.580 12,000-plus buildings destroyed,
00:00:47.160 and a new fire, the auto fire, has been ignited, burning 55 acres.
00:00:51.640 Now, there's conflicting reports as to whether or not that's been contained,
00:00:54.660 but as the winds pick up, there's a fear.
00:00:58.000 New fires, more fire.
00:00:59.720 It's going to spread.
00:01:01.020 It's going to get worse.
00:01:02.380 Now, as we're trying to deal with this to the best of our abilities,
00:01:05.300 politics, it's going to play a role.
00:01:07.760 And while Donald Trump and many conservatives have criticized,
00:01:10.500 and I believe rightly so,
00:01:12.100 DEI policies, which have made the problem worse,
00:01:15.080 liberals are coming out and attacking Donald Trump.
00:01:17.820 Notably, Jimmy Kimmel, who on his show broke down, nearly crying,
00:01:23.340 watching the fires rampage not too far from his studio.
00:01:26.740 And you know what?
00:01:27.240 I do feel for him.
00:01:28.360 And it's got to be scary.
00:01:29.660 Those fires have destroyed the homes of people you love, people I love.
00:01:34.160 And so I certainly, I can empathize.
00:01:37.060 But Jimmy Kimmel goes on to lie about what's really going on,
00:01:40.640 lie about Donald Trump's position, 0.99
00:01:42.140 and then refer to those of us who've supported the president and his administration as a gaggle of scumbags. 0.99
00:01:49.580 Now, that's a step too far for me. 0.97
00:01:51.480 You want to play those games, Jimmy?
00:01:53.100 We'll play those games.
00:01:54.360 Let's break down the real cause of this fire.
00:01:57.500 Let's break down how your policies have caused this.
00:02:00.640 And ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to have to go off on this rant,
00:02:03.640 explaining to you exactly why these DEI policies make me so angry.
00:02:08.900 And I'll break it down for you.
00:02:10.240 I know many people struggle to define wokeness and explain this, but we will.
00:02:15.660 We'll get started, of course, by listening to what Jimmy Kimmel had to say.
00:02:19.300 But before we get started, my friends, head over to castbrew.com, pick up some castbrew coffee.
00:02:23.500 We got Focus with Mr. Bocas.
00:02:25.620 It's our new espresso blend.
00:02:26.880 And of course, everybody loves Ian's Graphene Dream.
00:02:30.160 It's a great coffee.
00:02:30.980 We sponsor ourselves.
00:02:32.160 And of course, you can go to timcast.com, click Join Us, become a member to support the work we do here.
00:02:38.300 If you like the reports on this channel, if you like Timcast IRL and the work we do,
00:02:42.380 we rely on members like you to make this all possible.
00:02:45.720 So again, timcast.com, become a member, support our work.
00:02:49.440 But now let's get back to the news.
00:02:51.940 Mediaite reports. 1.00
00:02:53.700 Jimmy Kimmel breaks down over fires, bitterly condemns Trump and his gaggle of scumbags, 1.00
00:02:59.940 saying firefighters aren't white enough. 1.00
00:03:03.400 OK, the only issue is that's never what Trump said.
00:03:06.500 No one has any criticism of the firefighters for being not white.
00:03:11.280 The issue is the L.A. Fire Department complained about having too many white people,
00:03:16.580 held people back, and now there is a shortage of firefighters.
00:03:19.980 But hold on.
00:03:21.120 Let me actually go through the story and then show you what Jimmy Kimmel said.
00:03:25.160 Mediaite reports.
00:03:26.140 Jimmy Kimmel, in his first show since the wildfires broke out in the L.A. area,
00:03:30.140 delivered an emotional condemnation of President-elect Donald Trump and his allies.
00:03:33.580 In a solemn monologue on Monday, the ABC late-night host recounted what he called
00:03:38.620 a very scary, very stressful, very strange week in L.A.
00:03:42.700 He tossed a footage that showed just how close his studio was to one of those fires.
00:03:47.420 As you know, it has been a very scary, very stressful, very strange week here in L.A.
00:03:55.980 where we work, where we live, where our kids go to school.
00:04:01.560 We are back in our studio, which we had to evacuate on Wednesday.
00:04:04.360 This is, that's our building right there, the El Capitan.
00:04:08.060 That is how close this fire was to our theater here.
00:04:12.260 Many of us had to leave our homes in a hurry.
00:04:15.160 Some of our co-workers lost their homes.
00:04:19.120 That's Hollywood.
00:04:21.620 It's, it's been terrible.
00:04:24.360 It's been a terrible, everyone who lives in this city knows someone.
00:04:28.580 Most of us, multiple people, families, friends, colleagues, neighbors whose houses burned down.
00:04:34.020 And the truth is, we don't even know if it's over.
00:04:36.700 We had 100-mile-per-hour winds fueling this nightmare.
00:04:40.280 As of tonight, the winds are back.
00:04:42.980 And I think I speak for all of us when I say it has been a sickening, shocking, awful experience.
00:04:49.320 But it's also been, in a lot of ways, a beautiful experience.
00:04:52.940 Because, once again, we see our fellow men and women coming together to support each other.
00:05:01.060 People who lost their own homes were up volunteering in parking lots, helping others who lost theirs. 1.00
00:05:06.820 And tonight, you know, I don't want to get into all the vile and irresponsible and stupid things our alleged future president and his gaggle of scumbags chose to say during our darkest and most terrifying hour. 0.99
00:05:22.500 The fact that they chose to attack our firefighters, who apparently aren't white enough to be out there risking their lives on our behalf, is, it's disgusting, but it's not surprising. 0.99
00:05:32.980 Instead, I want to focus on thanking those men and women. 0.90
00:05:38.660 You know, it's a paranoid, delusional reality.
00:05:47.380 The audience screaming and cheering for something that didn't happen.
00:05:51.180 Listen, Donald Trump did not attack firefighters for not being white enough.
00:05:56.200 Trump supporters, conservative personalities, moderates, whatever.
00:06:00.340 Me?
00:06:01.200 We never attacked firefighters for not being white enough.
00:06:03.340 We attacked the ideology that has placed race and gender and gender identity over the ability to fight fires or to properly staff the fire department.
00:06:15.300 I want to start by showing you this article from Sky News.
00:06:18.940 L.A. Fire Department's $487,000 per year diversity chief sparks fury for defending DEI by blaming victim.
00:06:30.160 Quote, he got himself in the wrong place.
00:06:33.960 Many of you may have seen this video because it's gone massively viral.
00:06:36.920 But I'm going to start this off by explaining to you the problems of DEI, and this one really makes me angry.
00:06:43.940 Now, I know Jimmy Kimmel lying about all of this is irksome as well, but this one really, really...
00:06:50.620 Their entrance makes the bingo balls rumble in fear.
00:06:55.300 The free space is free out of respect for them, and their dabs are too fast for the naked eye. 1.00
00:07:01.360 They're not just grandmas, they're grandmasters.
00:07:05.160 Betty, Dolly, Martha, queens of Delta Bingo, hollerers of the hall, and they're here to teach the next generation of players.
00:07:14.780 Learn what it takes to be a bingo master at grandmasters.ca.
00:07:19.260 Must be 18 plus. Play smart.
00:07:21.620 Pisses me off.
00:07:22.660 You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call, that looks like you.
00:07:29.480 It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.
00:07:34.820 Is she strong enough to do this?
00:07:36.440 Or, you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire?
00:07:38.480 Which my response is, he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.
00:07:46.840 That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
00:07:48.980 He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.
00:07:54.660 Well, I'll just start by saying, yeah, sometimes people do get themselves in the wrong place,
00:08:00.600 and they do need someone to carry them out of the fire.
00:08:02.780 That's the job.
00:08:03.860 But the reality is, right now, with these wildfires, that's not what's happening.
00:08:07.920 The 24 dead did not get themselves in the wrong place when they were trapped by a rapidly spreading wildfire.
00:08:16.460 But now let me explain to you why this one makes me so angry.
00:08:20.220 It's a story from NBC News.
00:08:22.500 Former child star Rory Sykes dies in California wildfires as mom tried to save him.
00:08:28.800 Sykes, 32, was born blind and had cerebral palsy and difficulty walking.
00:08:34.460 NBC News reports.
00:08:36.500 Former Australian child star Rory Sykes, who was born blind and had cerebral palsy, died Wednesday in the California wildfires
00:08:42.720 after his mother said she was unable to save him from their home.
00:08:46.600 Shelley Sykes told Australian outlet 10 News First that she has a broken arm and could not lift or move her son.
00:08:52.660 He said, Mom, leave me. 0.97
00:08:54.420 And no mom could leave their kid, she said, crying.
00:08:56.700 Shelly Sykes said she drove to the local fire department for help, but they told her they did not have any water.
00:09:03.640 She said when the fire department brought her back, Rory's cottage was burnt to the ground.
00:09:09.020 According to 10 News First, firefighters told the mother that her son died from carbon monoxide poisoning in the wildfire.
00:09:15.520 His death has not been officially included in the wildfire death toll, the station reported.
00:09:19.880 So when the criticism is diversity, equity and inclusion, it is this.
00:09:25.660 Now, I don't blame the LAFD for Rory Sykes's death.
00:09:29.380 The reason I am outraged is because the gall of this individual, this $487,000 a year diversity chief, 1.00
00:09:38.340 for them to say, well, he got himself in the wrong place.
00:09:44.100 There is an effort to hire people based on ideology instead of ability.
00:09:50.760 And it's one component of why there is not enough firefighters, why the reservoirs were not filled.
00:09:56.020 And despite the fact there was a fire only several months ago and a warning a week ago,
00:10:01.060 they did not plan to mitigate this disaster.
00:10:03.940 So Jimmy Kimmel, cry.
00:10:05.700 I get it.
00:10:06.360 It's sad. 1.00
00:10:06.920 But to insult Trump and everyone else around him as a gaggle of scumbags is pure ignorance 1.00
00:10:12.800 or you're intentionally misleading your audience. 0.98
00:10:16.280 Here's a story from January 10th, 2025.
00:10:20.060 Yes, LA Fire Department is understaffed.
00:10:23.440 Would more money save us?
00:10:25.460 Even with millions more, LAFD would struggle to contain fires under such extreme conditions.
00:10:31.620 Perhaps.
00:10:32.940 Maybe the fire is just too intense.
00:10:35.440 But I do think it's fair to say if you had a full reservoir, there would be water in the hydrants that don't have any.
00:10:43.760 So let's not predict whether or not it would solve all of the problems.
00:10:48.140 But let's point out how it was made worse by this crackpot ideology.
00:10:53.520 In November of 2015, the LA Times reported why the LAFD is still largely white and male despite diversity efforts.
00:11:04.360 Harvard Business Review published this story in 2018, making U.S. fire departments more diverse and inclusive.
00:11:12.120 And to exemplify the problem, not that it is about the firefighters not being white enough, but that there aren't enough firefighters and you won't hire white ones. 0.77
00:11:23.160 From Outkick.com, Adam Carolla says he was rejected from LA Fire Department because of his race.
00:11:30.240 Geez, I want to talk about my white privilege so badly.
00:11:36.700 I graduated North Hollywood high with a 1.7 GPA.
00:11:40.580 I could not find a job.
00:11:42.000 I walked to a fire station in North Hollywood.
00:11:44.520 I was 19.
00:11:45.420 I was living in the garage of my family home.
00:11:48.140 My mom was on welfare and food stamps.
00:11:49.980 And I said, can I get a job as a fireman? 0.64
00:11:52.740 And they said, no, because you're not black, Hispanic, or a woman. 0.97
00:11:57.160 We'll see in about seven years. 0.97
00:11:59.220 And I went to a construction site and dug ditches and picked up garbage for the next seven years.
00:12:04.520 I got a letter in the mail sent to my father's house saying, your time has come to do the written exam for the LA Fire Department.
00:12:12.920 I took it and I was standing in line and I had a young woman of color standing behind me in line. 0.82
00:12:18.400 And I said, just out of curiosity, when did you sign up to become a fire man?
00:12:22.760 Because I did it or a person seven years ago.
00:12:25.900 And she said, Wednesday.
00:12:28.480 That is an example of my white privilege.
00:12:31.660 This story is not uncommon.
00:12:34.120 I've heard this story since I was a kid.
00:12:36.240 My dad was a firefighter in Chicago.
00:12:37.740 And as the story goes, if you're a white man, good luck.
00:12:41.400 Now, in other cities, if they don't have a shortage of firefighters, there's a whole other can of worms to open on the politics of affirmative action and these policies.
00:12:50.300 But we're talking about California.
00:12:52.120 We're talking about the LA area, which is understaffed.
00:12:55.340 And if you're understaffed, why would you have these policies?
00:13:00.860 Their entrance makes the bingo balls rumble in fear.
00:13:05.400 The free space is free out of respect for them.
00:13:08.720 And their dabs are too fast for the naked eye.
00:13:11.400 They're not just grandmas.
00:13:13.280 They're grandmasters.
00:13:15.500 Betty, Dolly, Martha, queens of Delta Bingo, haulers of the hall.
00:13:21.640 And they're here to teach the next generation of players.
00:13:25.620 Learn what it takes to be a bingo master at grandmasters.ca.
00:13:29.560 Must be 18 plus. Play smart.
00:13:30.980 This is Jimmy Kimmel's misconstrued criticism.
00:13:33.580 Trump, Trump supporters, conservatives, moderates, people like me.
00:13:38.800 We are not saying we don't like firefighters who aren't white.
00:13:42.280 We're saying hire the people if you need them and don't hire based on ideology, gender, orientation.
00:13:51.780 Hire on whether or not the individual can do the job.
00:13:56.040 Now, Time magazine has a more direct response saying the L.A. fires have nothing to do with DEI.
00:14:03.140 They go on to criticize many of the claims.
00:14:06.120 Writing, Elon Musk, conservative journalists and commentators and numerous others on social media are blaming the L.A. fires on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, despite providing no evidence to verify their claims.
00:14:16.400 Well, it's a good thing for those of you watching that actually already presented the evidence before reading this article.
00:14:23.580 So, you know, they're full of it.
00:14:26.280 But sure, let's read more.
00:14:28.500 They say during a time at which fire suppression and disaster recovery ought to be the highest priorities.
00:14:33.280 DEI attackers are recklessly seizing this opportunity to advance an agenda that ultimately aims to further divide Americans.
00:14:40.080 I live in Los Angeles.
00:14:41.520 We don't need more disinformation about DEI, especially right now.
00:14:45.040 Let me just pause real quick to then say perhaps you should stop engaging in it.
00:14:52.440 But anyway, I digress.
00:14:55.100 While the article does accurately describe how the Santa Ana winds and dry grounds are principally responsible, they don't add the failure to mitigate the fires, such as forest floor management, filling reservoirs and hiring enough staff.
00:15:09.860 They didn't factor in how that actually is making the problem worse.
00:15:13.540 They're going to mention that Karen Bass has been accused of cutting the fire department's budget by 17%.
00:15:19.300 They call it an inaccurate claim.
00:15:21.580 Sure.
00:15:22.040 But here's the real issue.
00:15:24.200 Fact checkers like to play a game.
00:15:26.460 And you know what that game is?
00:15:27.580 They misconstrue the argument made against them so they can claim it to be false.
00:15:32.420 The example I'd like to give is let's say Donald Trump did a backflip on just flat ground.
00:15:38.420 And wow, everybody was so impressed.
00:15:41.060 And all the Trump supporters start sharing around this story that Donald Trump pulled off somehow at 80 years old, a perfect backflip.
00:15:48.340 All of a sudden, you'll see a fact check from one of these corporate news outlets that say, did Donald Trump do a backflip dot dot dot on Saturday morning?
00:15:57.980 False.
00:15:58.380 They'll then write 300 words where you get this long tirade breaking it down.
00:16:04.600 And at the very bottom, it'll say, well, Donald Trump did do a backflip.
00:16:08.300 He didn't do it on Saturday.
00:16:09.440 He did it on Monday.
00:16:11.420 You see, that's the game they play by adding or changing the context.
00:16:15.180 They can call the whole thing false when in reality, the fire department's budget was cut.
00:16:21.220 Don't take my word for it.
00:16:23.560 How about 9news.com NBC?
00:16:26.520 Yes, L.A. cut 17.6 million dollars from the fire department's budget.
00:16:32.700 The L.A. fire department's budget was cut by nearly 17.6 million this fiscal year.
00:16:36.560 That's a roughly 2 percent decrease from the previous year.
00:16:40.160 But Time magazine says 17 percent.
00:16:43.240 Hey, I thought the issue was 17 million, not 17 percent.
00:16:48.040 They then go on to say that actually the budget was increased.
00:16:50.760 OK, well, at this point, I can only tell you this.
00:16:53.480 If you've got two conflicting news reports, how do you even determine which is true?
00:16:58.480 Now, largely, I've seen across the board that there was a budget cut of 17.6 million.
00:17:02.920 And when Time magazine says 17 percent instead of 17 million, it sounds to me like they're
00:17:08.620 falsely conveying information so they can debunk a claim nobody made.
00:17:13.600 Now, I don't need to go and rehash what I already showed you.
00:17:16.160 And that just touches on the surface of why Jimmy Kimmel is wrong and misconstruing our ideas.
00:17:21.880 The truth is, many fire departments across the country are trying to introduce DEI policies.
00:17:28.520 And this means they care more about ideology than meritocracy. 0.97
00:17:34.120 That is to say, they would rather hire a black lesbian woman than a man who is capable because 1.00
00:17:40.480 they're trying to find some kind of ideological goal and having, as the video said, people who look like you. 0.97
00:17:47.840 And I just want to add also, as an aside, the majority of the country is white.
00:17:54.440 So the majority of your staff would be white by your own claims, but they're not doing that anyway.
00:18:01.760 Now we have this story from USA Today, which just shows how insane the whole thing has really been.
00:18:06.420 Updated yesterday on the 13th, LAPD hasn't linked LA fires to MAGA, cause of blaze unknown, fact check.
00:18:13.820 Wait, what?
00:18:14.800 What are they fact checking?
00:18:15.760 That's right.
00:18:18.440 On threads of all places, Zuckerberg's Twitter counter, or I'm sorry, X counter, people were posting claims that the LA authorities had linked the wildfires to three supporters of Donald Trump.
00:18:31.800 Quote, apparently LAPD are looking for three persons of interest, all tied to a MAGA website, who were spotted at the source of all three major LA fires.
00:18:40.580 This might have been the opening salvo in Trump's war against any state he considers an enemy within.
00:18:47.120 The post was shared more than 200 times in four days.
00:18:51.960 Dare I say, my friends, threads is a dangerous source of misinformation.
00:18:56.760 Watch out.
00:18:57.280 Okay, in all seriousness, X, Facebook, YouTube, Rumble, like literally any platform is going to have people making these claims. 0.95
00:19:05.000 But I do think it's particularly funny that they want to insult Trump and his gaggle of scumbags for accurately criticizing the policies of California. 0.88
00:19:13.860 Meanwhile, their supporters are claiming it was Trump supporters who started the fires. 0.91
00:19:20.080 The reality is, when you take a look at the news reporting, it's largely believed the LA fires likely began as a reignition of New Year's fire that LAFD ignored once it went cold.
00:19:32.400 Post Millennial reports.
00:19:33.480 A new theory on what started the California wildfires has emerged as authorities have gathered evidence and are coming closer to seeing what started the largest of these fires.
00:19:42.040 With that, the Washington Post reports the source of the fire could have been the remnants of a fire first responders put out about a week beforehand, but did not track afterwards.
00:19:50.820 According to the Washington Post, analysis of photos, videos, satellite imagery, and radio communications, as well as interviews with witnesses, offers new evidence that the Palisades fires started in the area where firefighters had spent hours using helicopters to knock down a blaze six days earlier.
00:20:08.380 Their entrance makes the bingo balls rumble in fear.
00:20:12.840 The free space is free out of respect for them, and their dabs are too fast for the naked eye. 1.00
00:20:18.700 They're not just grandmas, they're grandmasters.
00:20:22.920 Betty, Dolly, Martha, queens of Delta Bingo, haulers of the hall, and they're here to teach the next generation of players.
00:20:33.060 Learn what it takes to be a bingo master at grandmasters.ca.
00:20:37.020 Must be 18 plus. Play smart.
00:20:39.220 They're going to say that reignitions are commonplace in states such as California that get frequent wildfires.
00:20:44.780 And officials frequently warn that areas burned by wildfires that are seemingly extinguished can flare up even weeks afterwards if fire smolders underground or inside wood.
00:20:55.920 Despite that, an LAFD spokesman told the outlet that it is not the department's practice to maintain patrols on recently extinguished fires.
00:21:03.360 So, for all the liberals that are claiming climate change, the reality is, it's people.
00:21:12.180 According to PJ Media, they say 95% of California's wildfires are started by people not global warming.
00:21:20.260 They present this amazing list.
00:21:22.960 At breakneck speed, the mainstream media hopped aboard the global warming bandwagon.
00:21:27.000 And here's just a few of the headlines.
00:21:28.200 You've got Time Magazine, the New York Times, ABC News, LA Times, New York Times, Bloomberg, Sacramento Bee, the Associated Press, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.
00:21:38.120 And they're going to say the irony is that the Democratic Party has long claimed to be a voice of science.
00:21:42.920 Unlike those unenlightened, knuckle-dragging Republicans, the liberals are the ones who fearlessly follow the science, bravely going wherever it leads.
00:21:51.440 Following the science, they point out, an overwhelming 95% of California's wildfires are man-made.
00:21:57.360 It is not true that half the fires are started by Mother Nature or acts of God.
00:22:01.560 And it's not kind of sort of true either.
00:22:04.320 95% is an absolute landslide.
00:22:08.480 John Abatzaglu, a climatology professor from the University of California, has studied 30 years of wildfires in LA County.
00:22:15.000 After examining the data, he was unequivocable.
00:22:17.900 Quote, more than 95 of these California fires are human-ignited fires.
00:22:22.580 And according to Open the Books, since 2019, over 5,200 homeless encampment cases were reported in the heart of Los Angeles.
00:22:33.400 The downtown features art museums, hip restaurants, a mix of modern, high-rise buildings, and traditional landmarks.
00:22:38.760 And in May of 2024, NBC Los Angeles reported,
00:22:44.720 Up in flames, rising number of homeless fires threatens LA neighborhoods.
00:22:50.660 In their brief breakdown, they say,
00:22:52.940 There were 13,909 homeless fires in LA in 2023, almost double the number from 2020.
00:23:01.240 Some of these fires are apparently caused by homeless people tapping into city electrical wires under the sidewalk.
00:23:07.300 City officials confirmed that the wires can cause explosions if they're tampered with.
00:23:11.240 So, I think it is clear.
00:23:15.940 The problems of wildfires are natural.
00:23:19.100 Wildfires do happen.
00:23:20.760 And it looks like this fire was started by people.
00:23:24.380 It looks like the problem of homelessness has exacerbated the problems of fires.
00:23:29.860 And certainly, dry ground, brush, lack of humidity, all of these things can make the problem worse.
00:23:36.220 It is still human beings.
00:23:38.320 And heck, if you want to go the climate change route, it's still human beings.
00:23:41.840 Which means, this is a policy failure of California. 0.99
00:23:47.740 So, please, Jimmy, you don't need to cause a gaggle of scumbags because you are not smart enough to do a Google search. 0.98
00:23:55.100 But, hey, I made this video just for you. 0.97
00:23:57.160 Please watch it with all due respect.
00:23:59.980 You're a large personality.
00:24:01.360 I want you to do better.
00:24:02.600 I want you to know better.
00:24:04.160 Let's go.
00:24:06.220 Right now, Republicans are eyeing conditions on California wildfire aid after Trump criticism, says Reuters.
00:24:13.420 And you know what?
00:24:14.460 I think that's fair.
00:24:17.840 Considering everything I just showed you, and that's only the tip of the iceberg, shouldn't it be that Republicans say, if you want aid, California, you have to fix these problems.
00:24:28.660 Why?
00:24:28.960 Well, if we give California $5 billion to fix this, but they don't deal with the underlying cause, it happens again.
00:24:37.080 And are we going to be, the rest of the country, covering this bill every time a homeless person starts a fire or an arsonist or an illegal immigrant, whatever? 0.98
00:24:46.460 Yeah, I don't think that makes sense.
00:24:47.620 My friends, it's really hard to escape this stuff, because even with all the Jimmy Kimmel nonsense, you've got this.
00:24:56.120 Joy Reid claims billionaire right wants a part-hide state in post-wildfire California.
00:25:02.400 Reid said venture capitalists are preying on the golden state amid the L.A. wildfires.
00:25:07.480 And that's the world that they live in.
00:25:10.420 It's always going to be everyone else's fault.
00:25:13.780 It's always going to be some conspiracy.
00:25:16.360 The venture capitalists are coming to steal your land. 0.61
00:25:19.400 Now, I know some of these conspiracies exist on the right, too.
00:25:22.100 But, hey, when we make criticisms about your policies, it's substantially more reasonable than you claiming some nebulous climate change did it.
00:25:31.400 But that's the reality of their argument.
00:25:33.460 The liberal person, the liberal position, despite the fact that they're understaffed, despite the fact their reservoirs are drained, despite the fact they have a homeless problem they won't solve, and that homeless are starting fires, despite all of these things, they say it's everyone else's fault for burning carbon and causing climate change.
00:25:58.020 And we're going to solve this by taxing Texas?
00:26:03.000 Never made sense.
00:26:04.340 Not to mention, China and India are the biggest polluters, and they don't seem to ever fall to the radar of the climate activists.
00:26:11.760 Now, by all means, we can have a conversation about the environment, climate change, and all of that, but that's neither here nor there.
00:26:16.960 Right now, what we're talking about is how humans started a fire, most likely, and humans were not prepared to deal with that fire.
00:26:26.180 That's policy.
00:26:27.760 That's social order.
00:26:29.480 And that is everyone's fault.
00:26:32.440 Now, look, many of you will say, Tim, it's not fair.
00:26:35.600 You can't blame Republicans for this, but I'll tell you this way.
00:26:37.900 The way I grew up was that everything was my fault.
00:26:42.980 I know a lot of you are saying, chill out.
00:26:45.020 No, no, no, but I mean it.
00:26:46.560 As the story goes, I like to tell, I was late to school one day because a train was in my way.
00:26:51.740 Their entrance makes the bingo balls rumble in fear.
00:26:56.380 The free space is free out of respect for them, and their dabs are too fast for the naked eye. 1.00
00:27:02.440 They're not just grandmas.
00:27:03.760 They're grandmasters, Betty, Dolly, Martha, queens of Delta Bingo, haulers of the hall,
00:27:12.420 and they're here to teach the next generation of players.
00:27:16.340 Learn what it takes to be a bingo master at grandmasters.ca.
00:27:20.340 Must be 18 plus. 0.92
00:27:21.260 Play smart.
00:27:22.700 I got a tardy.
00:27:24.180 I got detention.
00:27:25.860 And I said, it's not my fault, Dad.
00:27:27.820 Train was there.
00:27:28.540 And my dad said, you know the trains go through there.
00:27:31.320 You know the train track is there.
00:27:33.760 Your responsibility is to accommodate for these things.
00:27:36.760 And he was right.
00:27:38.020 So what I mean to say is, we as a nation should take responsibility for the failures of California.
00:27:43.520 And that means Donald Trump needs to go in.
00:27:47.520 The Republicans need to go in and say, we will help you.
00:27:50.060 But you have to abide by changes.
00:27:53.420 We know California is mismanaging this.
00:27:55.880 Donald Trump knew and warned them.
00:27:57.480 And while they're largely to blame for not adhering to it, what can we say that we warned them over and over again and then nothing was ever done?
00:28:06.240 The New York Times published this article, September 10th, 2024.
00:28:12.100 Three wildfires have burned more than 100,000 acres in SoCal.
00:28:15.740 The authorities have arrested a man suspected of starting the line fire.
00:28:19.740 My friends, the point is, I know we do largely what we can.
00:28:23.720 But we need to take responsibility ourselves, even though they're supposed to be in charge in California.
00:28:29.900 I'm just saying, it's time to step up and assert some responsibility and tell California you will abide by our rules if you want this relief.
00:28:38.680 In the meantime, Jimmy, please refrain from insulting people who are smarter than you, because we were right the whole time.
00:29:08.680 Their entrance makes the bingo balls rumble in fear.
00:29:38.680 The free space is free out of respect for them, and their dabs are too fast for the naked eye. 1.00
00:29:44.980 They're not just grandmas, they're grandmasters.
00:29:48.680 Betty, Dolly, Martha, queens of Delta Bingo, haulers of the haul, and they're here to teach the next generation of players.
00:29:58.880 Learn what it takes to be a bingo master at grandmasters.ca.
00:30:02.880 Must be 18+. Play smart.