Karen Bass

People are rightly giving her shit about the Africa trip. By no means should the mayor be in town 100% of the time, but she should've at least be aware there were extreme fire conditions in her town AND why does a mayor go to Ghana? I just don't see how that is relevant at all to the job except for her to network and have fun. 

It's no single one thing she did wrong, but rather a collective of misplaced priorities that yields this behavior. This is the key thing with liberals and the overarching DEI approach to all stuff - it isn't entirely wrong on any particular issue - but it jumbles up and misprioritizes EVERYTHING under the sun. It creates a state of confusion and an inability to function. Hence, this. And no water coming out of the fire hydrants.

A competent mayor would explain the lack of water and say - look - we store enough water to put modest urban fires - not major forest fires. And at least this would explain the lack of water. But she can't even do that. A really competent mayor would say - we screwed up and should've been storing more water in areas that are vulnerable to major forest fires like Palisades, Hollywood Hills, Brentwood, etc. and I tried to get it done but we prioritized XYZ instead. It was a mistake we won't do again.