{"id":158584,"date":"2025-01-15T12:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T20:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=158584"},"modified":"2025-01-15T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T01:56:01","slug":"is-la-doomed-1-15-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=158584","title":{"rendered":"Is LA Doomed? (1-15-25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UF0CePmp8lE?si=JOdA5tYeI0zTZun1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click to play at 01:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#60\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"60\">01:00<\/a> NR: Mayor Karen Bass Partied While Her City Burned, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/mayor-karen-bass-partied-while-her-city-burned\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/mayor-karen-bass-partied-while-her-city-burned\/<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 04:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#240\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"240\">04:00<\/a> LAT: L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn\u2019t, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-01-14\/firefighters-lafd-response-lack-of-staff-engines-pacific-palisades-fire\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-01-14\/firefighters-lafd-response-lack-of-staff-engines-pacific-palisades-fire<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 11:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#660\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"660\">11:00<\/a> L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is Bad in a Crisis. Here&#8217;s Why, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rp3_vkoM_yI\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rp3_vkoM_yI<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 18:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#1080\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"1080\">18:00<\/a> CNN: \u2018Beyond the brink\u2019: Data shows LA Fire Department among the most understaffed in America, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/14\/us\/la-fire-department-resourses-understaffed-invs\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/14\/us\/la-fire-department-resourses-understaffed-invs\/index.html<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 38:30\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2310\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2310\">38:30<\/a> Hamas &amp; Israel reach hostage deal <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 42:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2520\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2520\">42:00<\/a> Paul Town on Mark Halperin&#8217;s show, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1KXqmGicrzw\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1KXqmGicrzw<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 52:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3120\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3120\">52:00<\/a> Reviewing Pete Hegseth&#8217;s performance at Senate hearing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6VxLCYm30jo\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6VxLCYm30jo<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:07:20\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#4040\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"4040\">1:07:20<\/a> John Podhoretz, Noah Rothman were theater kids, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VSI4GkkFzKY\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VSI4GkkFzKY<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:08:20\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#4100\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"4100\">1:08:20<\/a> Pete Hegseth nomination for SecDef <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:14:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#4440\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"4440\">1:14:00<\/a> Greg Gutfeld on LA&#8217;s fires <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:38:28\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#5908\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"5908\">1:38:28<\/a> American Primeval, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/09\/arts\/television\/american-primeval-history-books-movies.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/09\/arts\/television\/american-primeval-history-books-movies.html<\/a> <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:39:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#5940\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"5940\">1:39:00<\/a> John Podhoretz recommends American Primeval, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z_N7MY1eFqU\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z_N7MY1eFqU<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:58:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#7080\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"7080\">1:58:00<\/a> Kip joins to talk about the decline of the organization man<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:33:40\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#9220\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"9220\">2:33:40<\/a> Mark Halperin on the Israel &#8211; Hamas deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Ve5rdeJI9E\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5Ve5rdeJI9E<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01:00 NR: Mayor Karen Bass Partied While Her City Burned, https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/mayor-karen-bass-partied-while-her-city-burned\/04:00 LAT: L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn\u2019t, https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-01-14\/firefighters-lafd-response-lack-of-staff-engines-pacific-palisades-fire11:00 L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is Bad in a Crisis. Here&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=158584\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,258,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-california","category-los-angeles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"01:00 NR: Mayor Karen Bass Partied While Her City Burned, https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/mayor-karen-bass-partied-while-her-city-burned\/04:00 LAT: L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. 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