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Back to episode — Episode 2716 CWSA 01/10/25

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his second term. Everything's different. All right. That was a little side conversation there. Apparently there was a fake alert that went out to everybody's phone in LA County saying that they needed to get ready to evacuate. This turned out to be just a mistake. The alert told people to gather loved ones, pets and supplies and get out of town. And it happened when people were the most frightene…

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tuff before any houses burned down. Now that's just about the most evil crime you can imagine, setting somebody's house on fire so you can rob it. The level of evil in that is hard to imagine.

There was however one poor individual, a criminal, who had a little blowtorch and he was trying to allegedly set something on fire, presumably for that purpose. We don't know what he was thinking but he looked like he was doing it probably as part of that gang burning down homes. And he got spotted by some of the locals. The locals sent their men out. I saw the video of it and you might be surprised that none of the women came to help, which is good. I didn't want them to. But if you want to have like a little glimmer, just a little glimmer of hope, you watch the video of the maybe half a dozen men who confront this guy who still got the torch. One of the men is armed but he doesn't point it at him. He just has it ready in case he needs it, warns him to stand down. The other men surround the situation and they take him out. Now I mean they took him to the ground and handcuffed him and waited for the police.

And watching those men not have any backdown in them, there was no backdown. They were going to take him out one way or another. They were going to shoot him, they were going to kill him if they had to. Preferably they would capture him and hand him to police so we could know more about whatever he's up to. And that's what they did. But I'm pretty sure if their only choice had been

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to do worse they would have taken the only choice because I don't think that guy was going to walk out of that neighborhood. And things are getting really dicey. So when there is something that looks to residents like a complete breakdown of the social order, by the way I'll probably get demonetized on YouTube again. I got demonetized yesterday. I got demonetized for I don't know what but my best…

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