Adam Carolla Predicts California Fires Will Change the Politics of the State
In his view, it will be the aftermath when people want to quickly rebuild and come face to face with California’s progressive bureaucracy that will red-pill thousands of Democrats.
Adam Carolla is broadcasting his podcast from a hotel room because like many Californians, he was forced to evacuate his home. In a recent episode, Carolla predicted that this disaster is going to change the politics of California.
The human aspect of the California fires is pure tragedy and is heartbreaking, but the failure of leadership that led to this evokes rage. Even so, that is not what Carolla suggests will change the politics of the state.
In his view, it will be the aftermath when people want to quickly rebuild and come face to face with California’s progressive bureaucracy that will red-pill thousands of Democrats. He goes so far as to say that some people will not even be allowed to rebuild over environmental concerns.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
ADAM CAROLLA: These p**** are all sitting around crying about Karen Bass, water pressure, how come the forest wasn’t cleared?, of all the brush, what’s happening with the infrastructure? You guys all voted for Karen Bass, the Mayor of Los Angeles, you all voted for Gavin Newsome and now you f****** get what you get. Oh now your house is on fire now your thinking about something else. What’s going on around here?
You didn’t give a s*** about what was going on when other people’s houses were on fire but now you care. So here’s what’s going to happen all these people who were deep blue Democrats are now going to have to pull a permit to rebuild. And they’re going to get the 28-year-old b*** from the Coastal Commission telling them to go f*** off and then they’re going to vote for Trump, or whoever’s Trumpy and next, you see they’re going to get turned, they are going to get turned hard because I’ve always said live in the rent control apartment in Santa Monica fine good we know how you vote. Go deal with the city, try and pull a permit these are going to be thousands of homes super wealthy people and these people don’t want to live in Venice. They like it where they are. They love Malibu, they love the Palisades, they love Santa Monica. There’s going to be a whole bunch of rich people and they’re going to go I’m rebuilding and I’m going to rebuild as fast as I can.
Between the part where they go to the Planning Commission and plan check and initially and they try to pull a permit to the time the first load of lumber, the first load of 2×4, has dropped off on their lot where their house formerly stood it’s going to be three years and a thousand permits and a thousand arguments and a thousand discussions with the Coastal Commission.
This video is cued to start at the 25:59 mark, so just press play (strong language warning):
One of the podcasts that I listen to on a regular basis is the Versus Media Podcast by Stephen L. Miller, who you may know as @redsteeze on Twitter/X. In a recent episode, Miller suggested that the reason the media is working overtime to deflect blame for the fires is because they know that if California goes red, Democrats will never win another presidential election.
Don’t think it couldn’t happen. Florida, Iowa, and Ohio are solidly red states now but were considered swing states just a decade ago.
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California swings like a pendulum do
Homeless on foot, two by two
Burning Palisades, dirty Oakland
The rosy-red cheeks of illegal children
Roger Miller would hug your neck!
We’re giving our age away here.
Nobody can afford the cost of rebuilding, is the big picture. The little picture is countless opportunities for grift.
“Afford” as usually actually means that everybody has a better use for the money, like living somewhere else.
A lot of people who rebuild will rebuild elsewhere.
Another reason to ditch Dems and in many cases ditch California How much of this is due to Affirmative and DEI hires.
The best way calm things down is to shoot anyone starting a fire, the sane for looters. It would not take many to stop this.
The rich can rebuild but may move to destroy other states with their BS politics and culture
That’s what the rest of America is afraid of.
“ The human aspect of the California fires is pure tragedy and is heartbreaking, but the failure of leadership that led to this evokes rage…”
This is most certainly *not* a failure of leadership. This is the inescapable consequence of their desired policy objectives. They intended for events like this to happen so they could advance their goals. When will people wake up to this if not now?
If you’ve never read the book Merchants of Despair now might be a good time.
I think Corolla is being far too optimistic. Leftists are emotional, not reasonable. They don’t change their votes because of little things like this. In Chicago they hated the idiot mayor they voted for, Lori Lightfoot, so they voted in someone even WORSE!
On top of that, the people who are burned out of their homes are not going to be voting there. THey’ll have to be living elsewhere for the next few years, at least. They’ll likely vote for the biggest idiots they can identify in the new places they infest. Those places might all burn to the ground, too.
I don’t see LA getting rebuilt, really. And for those “lucky” ones whose houses survived, like James Woods … what are they going to do? I don’t think they are livable places. Services are probably all out – and not coming back soon since there is no one there, and they are, kind of, by themselves amidst surrounding devastation. OTher places are far worse.
The guy on Malibu who built a fire-resistant house that is the only one standing on his beach … is he actually going to ever go there? It will be nothing but drug addicts and homeless and criminals camped out in the ashes of his neighbors – right on the beach. The beach, no longer blocked off by the ugliest of mansions, will be a free-for-all. SO this guy, in his lone 20 million dollar beach house will get to share his space with the dregs of society … probably his porch, too. He might end up wishing that his house had burned down and he had an insurance check in his hand rather than a deed.
Agreed. I’d buy Carolla lunch anyday, but I think he’s overly optimistic. Once you’ve caught stupid, there’s noplace else for it to go. Intelligence gets deconstructed by senility, but nothing deconstructs stupid.
Well, schools do, but almost never in anyone past puberty, and only if you’ve carefully arranged for the kids to be taught by the not-stupid. Which in most government schools, and especially California’s, is not just a no, but a hell no.
Remember how, during the Rodney King riots, all the libs ran out to buy guns?
Then they found out about the waiting periods and all the other gun laws they wanted so badly……
And after that they still supported those laws, they just wanted to be somehow magically exempt from them.
Like Greawsom, at the French Laundry.
Years after the King riots, Californians elected a nominal Republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger, as Governor in 2003 and 2006. Radical Democrat Gray Davis was recalled during the 2003 election of Schwarzenegger.
The reflexive drone like Deep Blue found in California is a phenomenon of the last 15 years. Many more conservative Californians voted with their feet.
Back in 1999 a co-worker asked me how I was prepping for the Millenium. I told him that anyone who hadn’t started 10 years earlier was already too far behind. Cascadia snapping will make these LA fies seem like cocktail hour. But I bet right now that if you were to poll people in Portland, that 9 out of 10 would be more worried about Yellowstone, even though humans will likely be gone from the face of the earth before it erupts again.
Yep. When that breaks… every overpass of every freeway is GONE.
Agree on low chance of being rebuilt in a substantial way. Think of all the missing schools and other infrastructure (and tax base). This is like a bombed out city in Ukraine, to which they ironically sent supposedly spare fire equipment. What families with kids will stick around for the years necessary to restore things?
Corolla is wildly optimistic. It is well known that Jamie Leigh Curtis and her husband pledged $1 million to help their neighbors in the Palisades. USA Today goes on to report that they are in contact with the offices of Gavin Newsome, Karen Bass, and Adam Schiff to determine where the money will have the most impact. The trifecta of California competence. Gotta give Jamie Leigh credit for generosity, but none for smarts.
I agree with Primordial.
I’ve enjoyed Adam for years. He grew up on welfare in the valley and, along with Victor D Hanson, gives deep CA perspectives, but I suspect he’s dreaming if he thinks any real fundamental shift in state politics will come out of this.
They’re already circling the wagons and looking to the next narratives. I was at the gym this morning and CNN covered the wildfires a lot and never once mentioned the American Psycho Governor.
But this one’s gonna leave a mark — we’ll see what happens.
The thought I have is one that wouldn’t have entered my mind a dozen years ago. Maybe the fires were deliberately started to facilitate a government land grab.
I hate that my natural cynicism has exponentially increased since the onset of the Obama presidency.
Almost like China was looking for primo real estate? Fire sale anyone?
Trump will be expected to authorize federal funds to restore and rebuild Los Angeles County and all of its communities affected by the fires. I have no doubts the he will do so. But I say such funding ought to come with a price tag: a demand for Newsome’s resignation.
It has to be a much bigger price tag than that. Newsom was only one of many and Californians are going to just keep doing the same thing.
There really should not be a dime of federal money going into anything that is due to insane policy (especially treasonous policy like all the aid and comfort they give to illegals and fight against the nation for) and incompetent leadership that the people keep choosing. Newsom was a known entity, from the way he destroyed San Francisco, but they still elected him to Governor. No … federal money should not be spent on self-inflicted state wounds. And that doesn’t even take into account how California has been trying to force other states to follow its suicidal path in everything. Remember what they tried (and are still trying) to do to other states over Cali’s insane child mutilation fetish?
That would be incredibly stupid. The wise states again get put on the hook for the stupid states; follies, and Trump gets a token resignation from a proven-incompetent Democrat, freeing the seat to be assumed by an unproven but still incompetent Democrat.
Better would be for him to suggest they just rebuild using the fund they were going to use to “Trump-proof” California. Because clearly they have bigger threats to worry about than Trump.
Stupid or not, Newsome was on the Sunday shows demanding federal help and attacking Trump for politicizing the events and accusing Trump of spewing disinformation. So, the political games have begun even though the fires are still raging. Initial estimates are in the $200 billion range and it will take 10-20 years of recovery efforts.
FEMA claims it has no money. Western NC and Hawaii are still waiting for the Feds to help, but there has been little to no assistance.
“FEMA claims it has no money.”
Ha ha! What would you bet that — but for Trump — money would magically be found?
Someone should remind hair-gel that Biden is the current president. FEMA should have no money. Defund it at once for complete and utter failure in its alleged mission.
Federal help as in normal FEMA? Sure.
Rebuilding costs? Oh HELL Nah. Not without the equivalent of CA going into receivership and coming directly under the daily control of the Federal Gov’t.
Newsome would probably ask Xi for help before he asks Trump.
CA leaders including Newsom will be on Trump like white on rice demanding the Feds send $, equipment, personnel to clean up the catastrophe that the dumbass policies CA leaders wanted have created for CA.
I’m pretty sure that that kind of contribution would be seen as inviting subversion. Accepting it could therefore be enjoined. Then things will have to play out like New Orleans after Katrina, and Hawaii and NC after their brushes with nature.
I’m afraid you’re correct. But he shouldn’t.
“You burned your bed, now lie in it.”
And, thinking about the schools and property taxes there … they have to rebuild all those schools. How much did the last school built in LA cost? I remember hearing something about a half billion dollar public school … Can you imagine how much property taxes are going to have to go up to replace entire school districts?? (Even though there are no students there, now!) And electricity prices were super high out there, but now they have to completely replace all that infrastructure.
I seem to recall that it was close to half a billion to put up a public toilet. Anything remotely resembling a recovery is gonna take quite a while. Unless they radically alter their approval processes. And they can count on the Greens to oppose that.
Bring back girls on trampolines…
Wishful thinking. Dems going to blame it all on bass. Replace her with new dem with same policies. Nothing will change in CA. There will be no “lessons learned”. There will be no failure analysis. There will be no accountability. CA is on permanent decline curve under dem super majority. Every year more taxpayers move out, replaced by illegal aliens and homeless junkies. Every year worse than before.
Exactly. I live in California. Charles Manson (D, Dead) wins statewide. Landslide in LA, San Francisco, Sacramento.
There is a recall Bass petition drive. It MAY go to a vote. If it does, most likely she wins. If she does lose it will be to some other DEI wackadoodle.
The problem is that people that vote on DEI, LGBTQADCXYZ, etc., MAY conclude that they elected the wrong person, but not that their selection criteria were wrong.
Maybe it is time for a federal action to split the state up, as it is obviously too large for one governor and one party to handle. Subdivide it into census block manageable state entities; Give the Dems the cities on the coast, and split the rest into three Republican controlled states: North, Central Valley, and South.
That time may be at hand.
Great idea.
It can’t be done without the California legislature’s consent, and I see no reason why it would agree to give up its own power like that.
If Mike Johnson was on his game, he would require the legislature to take up such an action as part of a federal financial bail out package for the devastated areas because of their dereliction.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/derelict-duty-speaker-johnson-supports-conditions-california-bailout
There will be a massive exodus of people who do not have fire insurance or cannot get the permits to rebuild and build within the two year tax deadline. I see a lot of the actors relocating in Georgia. Many already have homes in the ATL.
It makes total sense to seek refuge in the competence of proven leaders like Fani Willis and Stacey Abrams.
The wealthy and deep-pocketed Hollywood and business elites can build their palatial homes wherever they want, in the U.S., or, abroad. They have the luxury of hiring lawyers to facilitate the permitting process, and/or, moving to more hospitable climes, if they run into Kafka-esque permitting obstacles imposed by Dhimmi-crat apparatchiks.
It’s Joe and Jane Six-pack, who have limited finances and zero legal/political clout, who are going to bear the brunt of the stress and frustration of the rebuilding process. Middle-class folks who can’t just up and leave California, even if they wanted to.
Why can’t the middle class folks up and move? Lots of middle class folks move every day. Everyone who isn’t a convict, in prison, on parole or probation and needs the permission of the Judiciary to leave can absolutely pack their crap and go. It might be unpleasant, might have to take a pay cut or start a new career but to say they can’t leave is simply not true.
Sure, middle-class folks can move, and, do often. I didn’t write that no middle-class person could leave. I was referencing a specific segment that won’t be able to.
My point is that there is a large segment of middle-class California residents will not have the financial security/resources/job flexibility to enable them to move out of California, even if that’s their preference.
They CAN move to a more sane location in another area of our continental size Nation b/c they have free will and the liberty to do so. I didn’t argue it would be easy, only that the choice does exist for them. Everyone has lots of choices and trade-offs to consider.
Instead they made a decision to stay and ‘roll the dice’ again on the decades of accumulated bad public policies and incompetent leadership and they came up snake eyes with a catastrophic fire.
We’re talking in circles, dude.
Yes, free will and the option to move exists. That’s obvious and a given.
I’m saying strictly as a practical matter, that, for a certain subset/segment of the middle class — a guy or gal whose job is California-based, who has a mortgage/rent and kids to feed and take care of, and, perhaps is already carrying a large load of credit card debt, car loan, etc., for whom finding or securing a new job in a new state is too great a risk to take, financial constraints and job constraints will make moving nigh impossible.
You don’t know what an individual’s personal circumstances are, either.
There’s a certain callousness to your broad generalization and assumptions about residents who stay in California, even if they want to leave.
What if someone has an ailing parent or family member that they have to help take care of, in California? Moving out of state isn’t an option. That’s in addition to a person potentially being in tight financial and job constraints, where moving is not a feasible option.
There are choices and trade-off. IMO much of your argument comes down to excuses to not move. Pointing out that individuals have free will and individual liberty and thus ‘agency’ isn’t callous.
A scene from HBO ‘The Sopranos’ is instructive here. Tony’s wife goes to therapy and the therapist tells her she must leave Tony n/c he is an evil man. She then lists out all these steps; file for divorce, for custody of children, for alimony.
The therapist yells her; no, you must go home, get your children and abandon all those possessions/money b/c they are tainted by the evil Tony does to get them.
She is flabbergasted and refuses. The therapist then says you know he is evil, the possessions are evil and if you stay then you are complicit in the evil. She doesn’t leave Tony b/c she found the option of a clean break too hard. She made a choice.
Unfortunately, on day one, this may be the first big test of the Trump administration, where the rubber meets the road, or does not. If he is OK with just dishing out some $100B of taxpayer money and CA can continue with business as usual, my outlook for his administration will shrink. We have a $2T budget deficit, going to $3T in the next recession, major problems with an open border, failing public schools, and many other problems. If Trump is unwilling or unable to deliver tough, but needed, solutions, IMO America is “toast”, lagging behind Europe/Germany by a decade or two.
If COVID and crime didn’t change how they vote, this won’t.
Many will take their insurance pay out and sell the lot (and avoid the mansion tax) and leave. They will go to Wa, Or, Nevada any place that allows mutilation of children and abortion.
I agree. Liberals will not change their vote because of this. I have a lefty family member who is blaming Trump, saying Trump was trying to block Newscum from bringing firefighters from Mexico to fight the fires. Remember when Minneapolis burned to the ground, as well as other blue cities? They still vote blue. We all will pay for this with increased insurance premiums.
The Dems have pushed mail ballots, ballot collection, and prolonged counting of votes precisely to make sure they win regardless of circumstances. Every angry voter in CA could go red in the next election and when the count is ‘official’, every Dem will win.
Good luck, CA, but I think you’re boned.
a liberal by definition, lacks basic reasoning capacity, so no, CA politics will not change
NARRATOR: No. It won’t.
I think Adam Karolla is overly-optimistic.
For the last 25 years, not to vote for Democrats (especially in places like CA and NY) is to support bloody-minded fascists, neo-nazis, racists, homophobes, trans-phobes, and misogynists. This image is one of knuckle-dragging, fat, crass, ugly, stupid people who hate for the fun of it. “Progressives” have had this image drummed into their soft heads by “progressives” in K-12 through college, by the media, by big-tech, and by our worthless entertainment industry. (Why was Jussie Smollett believed so willingly?)
Simultaneously, they portray themselves as smart, sophisticated, caring, compassionate, selfless persons whom we would all love to have living next door. Who can be persuaded to change his vote when this contrast is the perception of what seems to be the only choice? Only the Democrat marketing will change, but not the substance of what they do.
I predict that there will be little change in voting in CA. Try telling a Muslim that Mohammad was a brutal warlord who invented Allah. His mind would be more open and rational than a California “progressive.”
Really?
Bye!
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