California may be burning, but California Democrats still have only two top priorities
- Destroying the state
- Protecting fish
The LA Times, which despite the posturing of its owner on Twitter hasn’t actually changed, has an article headlined, “Trump wants to upend California water policy. State officials say it could do harm”.
Whom would it do harm to?
If you’re in the mood for a drinking game (and if you’re not in California), drink every time the Times says “fish”.
Karla Nemeth, director of the California Department of Water Resources, said the approach outlined by the president could do substantial harm by putting water supplies at risk as well as protections for vulnerable fish species.
“The process just completed in December 2024 took over three years, using the best available science to ensure the projects are operating in concert to balance the needs of tens of millions of Californians, businesses and agriculture while protecting the environment,” Nemeth said. “To abandon these new frameworks would harm California water users and the protection of native fish species.”
The fish are native. The people aren’t. So they can go to hell.
“Protecting water quality, Delta smelt, salmon, and other species is not ‘radical environmentalism,’ ” said Josa Talley, a spokesperson for Save California Salmon.
For the LA Times, the real story is not that communities and human beings were threatened by wildfires, but that fish were.
I wish I were making this stuff up.
Hundreds of tiny endangered fish saved from Palisades burn area — in the nick of time – LA Times
The rescue team donned waders and marched into a murky Malibu lagoon scorched by the Palisades fire. Their mission: Save the lives of northern tidewater gobies, a tiny endangered fish.
The squad encompassing biologists from several government agencies mobilized late last week to try to capture the swamp-colored, semi-translucent gobies before a storm arrived. But success wasn’t guaranteed.
Whew. What an incredible dramatic story. Government agencies mobilizing to save tidewater gobies while people have no place to sleep.
Palisades fire threatens last population of steelhead trout in the Santa Monica Mountains – Los Angeles Times
Column: With attacks on the lowly delta smelt, Trump and the GOP launch baseless claims about fire and water – Los Angeles Times
These people care more about fish or an ‘endangered shrub’ which was their excuse for allowing the Palisades fire to burn, than they will ever care about human beings.