ittle change just by itself is certainly enough to destroy an entire city if you just let it run forward.

But we should not allow ourselves to assume that any individual is a DEI hire. You'd really have to do some deeper dive and we don't often have that level of information from the outside.

Tom Ellsworth was on the PBD podcast and he was saying that the reason State Farm pulled out from the state and is no longer offering fire insurance is that they pulled out because the county of LA and the city of LA had suspended brush removal in Palisades. Really? It is the connection to the incompetence of the city. Is it that clean? I thought this was going to be a little messier, where you couldn't really tell who was responsible for what. But seriously, they canceled the brush removal and that caused the insurance companies to pull out. And they didn't immediately remove the brush and say, oh hold on, we will remove the brush, just give us a month. Nothing like that. The level of incompetence, system-wise or individuals, I don't know. It's astounding.

Now of course remember, here's something to remember. Today we're still in the fog of war. We're still getting all kinds of news that isn't real. So I think it's real but don't know. So far the fire has destroyed 29,000 acres. Would you like an estimate of how big that is? That's two Manhattan islands. Manhattan is 14,000 acres. This fire has already, and still burning, already destroyed two Manhattans. So if you're not getting the scale of this, imagine all of Manhattan gone and then another one, all of it gone, and it's still going. So if you hadn't quite understood the scale of it, that's it.

We're talking about $57 billion in economic damage. If you want to put that in perspective, the entire tax revenue of California in a recent year was 25 billion. Do you think you can lay that $57 billion on top? I mean obviously the government's going to be constrained in what it can do to help people. A lot of them are uninsured. Biden did say that the federal government was going to help for 180 days in the recovery, but that's only the cleanup and the salaries of the recovery people and the crews that are working and I think removal of the burn debris. Now those are very important, so we're very happy to have that help, but it's not going to help anybody buy a house or build a house.

Mel Gibson tragically, while he was doing the Joe Rogan podcast, his own $14.5 million Malibu mansion burned down. Now I know you're not feeling sorry for him because he is worth, I don't know, hundreds of millions or something. But it's your house. It's your house, you know. No way you're going to feel good about that. So I feel terrible.

One of the things that Mel Gibson said when he was on the Joe Rogan is that he had three friends who were cured of cancer with ivermectin and fenbendazole. And then the internet is saying, whoa, you know, there are other claims and other claims and other claims. And now they're pretty convi