MARK GRUBERT: They've made private homes illegal to build in LA County. That's against the law. You have to build multiple family dwellings now. There's an entire Marxist movement that was rooting for Malibu and Pacific Palisades to burn to the ground

They've made private homes illegal to build in LA County.  That's against the law.  You have to build multiple family dwellings now.  There's an entire Marxist movement that was rooting for Malibu and Pacific Palisades to burn to the ground.  Hundreds of fire trucks were in there repair shop.  The money that was cut by Karen Bass to the fire department, roughly $20 million, went to the public library system that was forced to do away with late fees that they claimed were racist.  So that put the public library system in the red because there were not allowed to collect late fees on books any longer.  So the money for the fire department went to the library system.  --Mark Grubert

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11:53.  It was an awkward event I mean yeah go ahead 

11:55. I was just going to say that was from the visit last Friday and there was a lot of that and of course she was lying.  National Guard troops did prevent a lot of people from going back to their homes.  It was a really awkward event very tense very tense awkward because it was Trump was actually calling them out. As an La resident, how could how did you feel about that conflict?

12:14.  Well, it was great show business entertainment.  I mean Newsome had the wherewithal not to show up after meeting Trump on the tarmac in a work shirt, jeans, and boots.  I don't know where he thought he was, but he did not go into that trap that Karen Bass went into.  It was highly confrontational.  She was dancing around.  She's now saying that her health czar now said that they can't go in there because there are too much hazardous waste, so she's now deferred to Barbara Ferrar, LA's phony doctor, Director of LA County Department of Public Health official who is stopping people from going in to deal with their homes.  They also have military vehicles there to prevent people from going into deal with her homes.  Three, they are never going to get permits to deal with rebuilding their homes.  The situation, if you look at Maui, if you look at Lahaina, that has been almost 2 years, Emerald, they lost 1800 homes; we lost 18,000.  So you're looking at 10% of the total here in LA.  1800 homes in Lahaina nearly 2 years, it'll be this summer, have 36 work permits and three homes have been rebuilt.  Think about that and the model that they are using here, the eco model, that LA uses is their sister city in Maui.  So three homes built in 2 years, 1800, 36 permits.  1800 homes lost here, it's 18,000.  Do the math. Never going to happen.

13:45.  Your home, you're blessed that yours did survive the fires, right.

13:50.   Yeah I'm in Hollywood, so I evacuated during the Sunset Fire and then came back 10 days later.  And then another fire started.  They are all arson.  They arrested the arsonists in the second fire.  These are all homeless transients with meth pipes that has been pointing pointed out by Michael Schellenberger and others.  Whether Nate Hochman, the new DA, will prosecute them is up to Nate Hockman at this point. So we'll see if he means what he's been saying about prosecuting people to the fullest extent of the law for arson.  Which these are arson cases whether they are deranged or not is a matter for the courts to decide.

14:30.  As a final note, just so we can hone in on this, do you think anything has changed since Trump showed up?  Do you think it put any kind of a fire under the feet of local officials?

14:40.  No.  Absolutely not.  In fact, it probably inspired them to stall even more.  These people are not going to be able to rebuild.  The homes are super expensive. It's not about even clearing the land.  Most of them are never coming back.  I predict the government, the state government, will seize the property at some point, two, three years down the road and build low-income housing which is what they want to do.  There's a chapter in Mike Davis's book called, [Ecology of Fear, 1998, Chapter 3, titled "The Case for Letting Malibu Burn"] Burn Malibu, Burn. There are many progressive people, Marxists, in this city, who wanted Malibu to burn to the ground economically, politically, and socially, and in a Marxist way, they want to get rid of those wealthy homes there.  They've made private homes illegal to build in LA County.  That's against the law.  You have to build multiple-family dwellings now.  There's an entire Marxist movement that was rooting for Malibu and Pacific Palisades to burn to the ground.  Hundreds of fire trucks were in their repair shop.  The money that was cut by Karen Bass to the fire department, roughly $20 million, went to the public library system that was forced to do away with late fees that they claimed were racist.  So that put the public library system in the red because they were not allowed to collect late fees on books any longer.  So the money for the fire department went to the library system.