ten say I don't know. I don't know how much people are contributing to it. I see both sides. I don't think any of them are believable from my point of view because I can't tell. But I can tell you for sure that if you think the models are predicting the future, you have not looked into it very much. If you think we can measure the temperature of the earth over decades, you haven't looked into it. And I find that I can't even have a conversation with somebody who thinks all of that climate alarm part is true. You can't even talk to them because they've been so hypnotized. They think the news is real. The news is not real about anything important. The news could have a correct fact now and then, but the narrative is never real. Narratives are always motivated. They're not real. If you believe the news is even trying to be real, you can't be reached. You have to first understand that they're not trying to tell you the truth. It's just not their business model.

And if you think that anybody under any circumstances can take all these weird hidden variables and gigantic variables and hard-to-measure variables and put them into a complicated model and tell you the temperature in 10 years, how do I begin to tell you how impossible that is? That's not something that the smart people figured out. That is a pure hoax, the models part. Now what I'm not calling a hoax is I don't know if it's getting warmer. I don't know if people are involved. I just know that nobody else knows. I know for sure that nobody else knows.

So but my problem with Bernie is not that he believes in climate change, and I'm pretty sure that he's wrong, at least in terms of the alarm part of it. My part is you need to be able to read the room a little bit better. You don't talk to rape victims about wearing a condom. You know what I mean? You don't talk to rape victims about wearing a condom. You know, maybe you should have had a condom with you. No, you were just making it worse.

So my first reaction was I was just going to go nuclear, and I had every F-bomb, and I was ready to go. And my fingers hit the keyboard, and I said I'm not going to make it worse because that was just a pure emotional reaction. So instead I reposted this. I said, Senator Sanders, as a Californian, I respectfully ask for you to delete this post. No Californian thinks climate change dried up the fire hydrants and cancelled fire insurance. Now whether my take is factually correct that the fire hydrants were a problem that somehow was undermanaged or that the cancelled fire insurance, that's certainly a fact. But then I told him to read the room. Two million people agreed with me, which is very unusual for a post on X to get two million views. That means people really agreed. Not every person, but it means a lot of people agreed with my take that he was not reading the room.

And I would like to add a few things. If the problem with the LA fire were caused by climate change, the whole world would be on fire by now, right? I'm pretty sure that climate change is not limited to LA. We would see basically everything on fire if climate change caused fire, if droughts caused fire. Everything that's having a slightly under normal year, which is what LA is. LA is in what I think they call it a moderate drought, meaning it's barely a drought, and it's not outside of the historical norm whatsoever. Not at all.

So anyway, who else was bad? Then Joe Biden with his defective brain and oppressor talked about the fire, but nobody remembers that. All they remember is he had the bad judgment to say, quote, the good news is that I became a grandpa. Wow. Wow. Between Sanders and Biden not being able to read the room, do they understand that California's a blue state or was?

Let's see. According to the New York Post, I think Molly Hemingway flagged this, that Governor Newsom is launching his Trump resistance plan this week. So Newsom wants to tell you how much he's resisting Trump, which looks like the problem, not the solution, this week, doesn't it? Because now we have on video Trump saying all the right things about fire prevention in California. You've blocked the water. You're not doing forest management. Turns out those were the right answers. Those were the right answers. Of course he's against DEI. Again, we don't know that that caused this problem, but it's the right overarching theme. So Trump was as right about this situation and on time because he said it way before it happened. He was right and he was on time. And it looks like California completely screwed the pooch in every dimension. At least it looks that way. We don't know that that's true.

But let me talk about the future of California politics because everything has a political element to it. And here's how Trump posted it. He said on one of his posts, some truth, I think he said the governor New Scum, as he calls him, chose to save the extinct fish instead of sending water to Southern California to fight apocalyptic wildfires. Now this is another example of how good Trump is in messaging, to take this big complicated situation and just turn it into New Scum chose an extinct fish over saving the lives of Californians. It's an oversimplification, and I don't even know if the fish part is really a valid claim because if you turn on CNN they're going to say, well, but you know it's Republicans' fault too and blah blah blah. I don't know what they say, but there's more context to it. However, as a political messaging thing, the brilliance of the summary is what Trump does better than anybody. Nobody does that well. He's the best ever at summarizing. Nobody summarizes better than he does.

Adam Carolla, who apparently is one of the more famous people being displaced, he looked like he was in a hotel room and he did a video, and he was explaining something that you might not fully understand outside of California. Do you know how hard it is to build something in California? All of these people who think, well, I'll get my insurance check or maybe I had some extra money and I'm going to rebuild. So they're going to go to the city and say, here's my plan. Oh my God, they're just entering hell. I won't go into the details, but let me just tell you this. Getting a California entity, any city really, to approve a building of anything is pretty much a nightmare. The house I'm in right now, I had built, but I think it took 18 months just to get approval, something like that. Now these are people who just think, well, it should be easy because I'm just going to build back the house I had with slight variety. It's not going to be easy. You're going to spend a year not getting the permit, and then good luck finding a contractor because everybody in your whole city is trying to hire the contractor who knows how to build stuff. You're not going to have a contractor. You're not going to be able to get insurance. You're not going to be able to pay for it with the insurance you don't have. You're not going to be able to get a permit.

I don't believe the country and maybe even Californians have absorbed how bad this is. You're seeing something closer to the beginning of the problem than the end, as bad as it was. And we don't, I don't think we can fully appreciate the economic disruption to the state. Who's going to pay for the recovery? I don't think the federal government is going to pay for it all. Is this raising my California taxes again from the highest taxes to the highest taxes on t