Joe Rogan is as soon as once more underneath hearth.
It’s been greater than every week since a wildfire in Southern California broke out, destroying 40,000 acres of land from the Pacific Palisades to the higher Los Angeles space. Greater than 12,000 properties and companies have been burnt to the bottom and dozens of lives have been misplaced.
To this point, no trigger has been recognized, however the long-time UFC shade commentator and well-liked podcaster despatched listeners right into a frenzy when he positioned the blame squarely on the shoulders of homeless individuals, suggesting that the “losers” are lighting fighters to “get their anger out” and loot multi-million-dollar properties.
“That is your whining liberal, ‘It’s f*cking local weather change, get up.’ No, it’s arson, you f*cking idiots… The homeless are doing it,” Rogan mentioned on a current episode of his JRE podcast. “They’re extra inclined to make use of hearth to get their anger out… You’ve gotten 100,000 losers simply tenting in your avenue… What do you suppose goes to occur when there are individuals with $50M homes, and also you’re tenting out only a block away?… They’re looting individuals’s homes… Swarms of organized gangs are exhibiting up.”
Rogan additionally slammed California Governor Gavin Newsom’s dealing with of the state of affairs, claiming that the state had spent “zero” on stopping wildfires final yr whereas dumping billions of {dollars} to assist the practically 200,000 “losers” that reside within the state.
“We have been simply speaking in regards to the wildfire state of affairs and the way they spent $24 billion final yr on homeless,” Rogan mentioned. “What did they spend on stopping this wildfire? Zero! Zip!… The entire state is so poorly managed. It’s so irritating and complicated.”
Joe Rogan echoes false report shared by our subsequent president of america
On social media, President-elect Donald Trump amplified a declare that Newsom had slashed the state’s hearth price range by $100 million simply months earlier than the outbreak of the current wildfires. Whereas Newsom did approve cuts to a number of supplemental funding initiatives within the wildfire price range final yr, the state’s multibillion-dollar firefighting price range and workforce truly elevated.
Of the cuts that have been made, the most important was $46 million associated to a pilot venture to create hydrogen from biomass. One other $35 million was minimize from wildfire resilience initiatives on state-owned land and $28 million from initiatives undertaken by numerous state conservancies.
“We’ve doubled the scale of our firefighting military, constructed the world’s largest aerial firefighting fleet, and elevated the forest administration ten-fold since taking workplace,” Newsom wrote on X in response to the false reporting. “Time to serve these people the details.”
Since 2019, the California Division of Forestry and Hearth Safety has seen a price range enhance from $2 billion to $3.8 billion in accordance with FactCheck.org. The variety of CalFIRE personnel has practically doubled in that very same timeframe, going from 5,829 to 10,741.
