the OBJECTIVE JERK
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PERMITS, EMPTY RESERVOIRS, AND INCOMPETENCE: Dip Shit Demoacrats Can't Do Shit.
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Today I discuss/Bitch about the Palisades Fire and the claims around why it spread, why recovery feels stalled, and why so many people can’t get clear information without digging for firsthand videos. How this catastrophic event proves Democrats can't govern and why "More Government" does not work. We also talk about how basic wildfire prevention like water access and brush clearance gets tangled up in politics, permits, and media narratives.
- Why is China buying all the property?
- Choosing firsthand resident videos over local news coverage
- Wind, ignition sources, and why timing still matters in winter wildfires
- Water reservoir readiness, maintenance delays, and hydrant supply concerns
- Brush clearance and defensible space as practical wildfire prevention
- frustration with cleanup pace, rebuilding barriers, and accountability
- Concerns about homelessness optics, civic priorities, and foreign governments owning American land.
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Heat, Yard Work, And A Rant
SPEAKER_01You were listening to the objective jerk and I um said jerk. What's going on, everybody?
SPEAKER_00Let's see, it's hot as balls here in the Philippines. Just got done doing a little yard work.
Finding Firsthand Palisades Fire Videos
SPEAKER_01It's like it I gotta you have to do yard work like super early just because as soon as that sun freaking cracks, dude, it's so hot. So like I was doing some stuff, and here it is not so about 8:30, it was just like okay, I was sweating, and I was like, I gotta come in and cool off for a little bit. And my wife is working on doing some cleaning and organizing in the kitchen, and so I was just kind of finishing my coffee and I came across the video about the Palisades fire, right?
SPEAKER_00And I was like, you know, I haven't really heard much about it lately. I think that's you know, meant to be that way.
SPEAKER_01Like it's what's the word I'm looking for? Like they don't want you to get information, they don't want you to learn or know anything about it because it shows you how incompetent the Democrat individuals are. Maybe not so much policies, it's just how they are in general. I don't know. I mean, if you can't if you think that the Palisades fire and everything surrounding it was handled well, then I guess you deserve to be there. And I don't know, I just don't get it. You know, and I guess it was easier for me. Like I moved around a lot. I didn't I didn't have to stay somewhere. You know, I wasn't afraid to move. You know, I think there are some people who are afraid to go anywhere. I mean, I moved to the Philippines. That's a pretty significant uh move there. But before that, you know, just in this, you know, if if there was a better opportunity or something, whatever, I would move to it.
SPEAKER_00So people that continue to live in and around the palisades like dude, move.
Why The Fire Spread So Fast
SPEAKER_01And a lot of people are, you know, to be fair. A lot of people are leaving. Oh my gosh. But still, some people just, you know, like they, I don't know, man, like it's just it is a mental condition, you know. So I watched this video, I watched a couple videos actually, and they're not like I had to look for them. There's lots of like news, local news, certain things, but I don't want to watch that crap. I want to watch the videos from normal individuals who live or experience the whole thing and talk about it and show, you know, and I actually found a little video of this guy who he sounds like a kid almost, but he's an adult. But he grew up there and his house burnt down, his childhood home, and so he, you know, talks about it, and it was just like and nothing's being done, you know. I mean, it's it it seems like it was planned. Like they had planned on it. Maybe it didn't, maybe it was a little well, I don't know, man. So the Palisades fire happened in January of 2025, which is not, you know, it's not summer, obviously, right? So it's not as hot or dry as it is in the summertime, but it's windy, and that was the big problem was there was a huge wind, gust, and stuff that came, you know, from out of nowhere or whatever, and that really messed it all up. So you take that, you take the poor planning of the Democrat government. The reservoir is empty, and the they don't clean up the brush fryer, the brush, you know, stuff like they're up and around that whole area. Because it's intermittent it's detrimental to small creatures and snails and squirrels and whatever. So they just let it let it go. So all that together. Plus, then you just you had some retarded DEI hires who were running like the fire department and everything. Just people that never fought a fire, never experienced or had to go through anything. I wonder what happened with them. I should have looked into that a little better. Remember, there's that fire chief, and then that really full-on lesbian dyke that's like, well, if you're in a house burning and you got yourself in that like what? I don't know, it's just it was just so many things that came together, you know, to make that whole situation as shitty as it was. And real quick, because I don't know. So I'm you know, I talk about topics like this generally because it's like I'm I don't have anybody here to talk about it with. You know, my wife don't really care, and then I don't want to, you know, bother my kids with it. So it's like I just sit here and basically talk to myself. So instead of talking to myself, I talk to this microphone. So with that, oh yeah, I gotta try not to rock because of creaking.
SPEAKER_00Crap. Anyway, so I like to use the word fag or fag it and or retarded.
SPEAKER_01And when I say those words, like those words used to mean something back in the day, but to a lot of people, and myself included, they don't mean the same thing. So back in the day, and you know, when gay people were underground and no one, you know, when no one, you know, was admitting that they were gay and all that kind of stuff, and and then you had really like homophobia, you know, and like fag it, fag it, you know what I mean? And then people would try and, you know, and they'd use that term, oh man, you're a f you're just like a fag, right? Same thing with retard, you know, it was like, okay, you're mentally challenged, you're stupid, so you're retarded. And that was actually like a term that everybody used. It wasn't derogatory back then, necessarily. So now they are, but for people like myself, when I say that, I'm not talking about gay people, or I'm not talking about mentally challenged people. I'm just talking about garbage human beings. Like, faggot no longer has anything to do with people being gay. It's just an idiot piece of trash person. And retarded is just like you're stupid. It's not that you're disabled because, you know, for whatever reason you had a head injury or you're born that way. No. It's retarded is you choose to be stupid. So, like for me, and I'm doing this little disclaimer because I'm sure I'm gonna say it, because I'll get a little worked up, I guess. But so to me, people who had their houses burned and are were upset, but yet they still live there and they still vote for Democrats, you are retarded. Okay, Gavin Newsom, Mayor, what was their bass? They are all faggots because they're just garbage human beings. So, just so you know. And I'm sure I'll probably my YouTube channel, not that, you know, if I had some if I had actual views, I'm sure my YouTube channel would have been canceled a long time ago. But I can get away with shit because I only get like, you know, 10 views on YouTube. I mean, some are less and some are more, but so average I would say.
SPEAKER_00But anyway, but yeah, that's just kind of how you know I don't I don't, I mean, I don't know.
Reservoir Problems And Brush Clearance
SPEAKER_01Like I might like jokingly say something like faggot with a gay person or whatever, and like yeah, you're you know, but it's you know, that's kind of jokingly, but when I'm when I'm like, dude, you f you're faggot piece of shit, that is a garbage human being. I don't, you know, being gay has nothing to do with it. Uh but it's just kind of anyway, so I just wanted to kind of clarify that. Because although I think Mare Bass is a lesbian and Gavinusom is I don't know what the hell that guy is, but that's not why I say it. Anyway, I wonder how my AI is gonna work on because I use AI for my bus, my podcast, and it does the bullets and kind of the stuff I talk about. I wonder what it's gonna do for this. That's gonna be kind of interesting. Anyway, so that's out of the way, right? And I probably won't even say it now anyway. I just wanted to clarify that. But so you had all those reasons, right? You had incompetence by the faggot pieces of shit in charge, the governors and mayors, no water reservoir, which I guess you could, you know, hey, it's not summertime. Okay. But the thing is, is like the the cover that they have on the reservoir so it doesn't evaporate and dead animals don't end up in it and all that kind of stuff. They had to replace it. So they drained it. But their regulations, they're only supposed to drain it when there's an adequate, you know, replacement temporarily, some kind of something that can fill that void, right? And they didn't have it, and they drained it anyway.
SPEAKER_00But then it sat there like that for six months. You know, like, what the hell? Why is it taking so long?
SPEAKER_01So it's almost like I mean they didn't know the winds were coming, so I mean that's the thing, is like you can kind of argue, like, man, there's no way they you know, I don't think it was planned. Maybe it wasn't, but then there were people setting fires.
SPEAKER_00So I don't know, makes you wonder.
SPEAKER_01But so they just totally dropped the ball. Water there was no water, no fire trucks, no nothing. People had to do their you know, there were some houses that survived, but it was because people did the work and you know. And then also, one thing I found interesting is like the first neighborhood or first little town or whatever that the fire got to didn't burn the area because the people, the the residents cleaned up the brush that would ignite and burn, you know what I mean. Not the city, not the state who owned all that land, you know, like the fire department. I guess they were like, hey, you need to do this, you need to do this, you need to do this. They never did it, right? So the residents took it upon themselves. But in order for them to clean it up, they had to pay to get a permit. And that's the other problem with these socialist democrat freaking ran things. They have so much red tape, so many permits, so much crap you gotta pay to do the simplest, dumbest thing. Where does that money go? You know? It's just it's retarded. So with all this kind of crap, and yet people still choose to live there, you are retarded.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, that's insane.
Red Tape, Permits, And Self-Reliance
SPEAKER_01So that that area survived because the people took it upon themselves, which is ridiculous. It's like, oh my gosh, dude. So you had people lighting fires on purpose, you had the windstorms, you had no water, you had incompetence. I mean, on every level, everybody that was in charge, fire department, mayor, the governor, they're all faggot pieces of shit who were also retarded. And so then you, you know, you have the outcome that that happened. It was just it was horrific. It was like the worst natural disaster like in American history. It's like the worst fire, the cost and everything was worse than you know, the major earthquakes, and like it's insane, you know. I don't know how many lives were lost, though. I don't think I don't think I forgot to look into that. I don't think there was that many lives lost. Like, I think more people died from that like '94 earthquake than in this fire, I want to say. Could be wrong. But I know it's, you know, money and you know, the the amount of devastation that the cost is just like was tremendous, you know what I mean? And then it's like people couldn't even go into their house. They had to get my kids are out there yelling.
SPEAKER_00And just the permits to do any kind of cleanup or do anything, and it's like this is crazy, right?
SPEAKER_01Then, and then also with California, like in San Francisco and LA and certain, they have a huge homeless problem, skid row, people on fentanyl, all that crap, right? And it's just always there. Then suddenly they clean up everything and make everything nice because the Chinese president, Qing Maun Chung Chong, I don't know his name, comes to visit and it's like, what? And so they lay out the red carpet and have it, oh, look how nice it is here. And probably because they're trying to be like, hey, you should open businesses here, or who knows, or whatever.
SPEAKER_00But but then what's funny is a lot of the property that was burnt from the Palisades is being bought up by Chinese companies. So, I mean, that shouldn't even be a sentence.
SPEAKER_01You know what I mean? Chinese no other foreign governments should own any kind of American freaking land. Like, what is that? You know, and China's buying up property all around, like freaking what do you call it, you know, crops and fields and stuff throughout the country. They need to they need to get rid of that crap. Like, that is just insane. That is stupid. I don't know, like I don't get that. So it's like you have Democrats who are basically socialists who basically allowed this fire to happen and then are selling property to a communist country.
SPEAKER_00Like you know, what the hell?
SPEAKER_01So that's what's going on, right? And now here we are, it's May, it's the beginning of the summer, early summer, in the same reservoir that was empty, that left fire hydrants empty and firefighters unable to do their job, is empty still. Or again, I don't know if they even filled it up, but it's now empty. Here it is coming up on, and there's no brushes are being cleared, nothing. They ain't doing nothing. It's the same shit. And then what what it what do all these dumb faggot pieces of shit Democrats socialists say? Oh climate change. Climate change. Oh, it's climate change. So it's climate change when people are starting fires, and then you know, there you can't do anything with climate change. Yes, climate change is a thing. The world, the climate changes over millions of years, thousands of years, whatever. It's gonna happen regardless. Whether we're here or we're not. Now, do humans, you know, make it worse? Yes. But there's only so much that we can do to kind of change, but we're not gonna really change anything. But what you can do is clear the brush. You can do is make sure your water reservoirs are filled up. That's what you can do, but no. Climate change. See, it's just typical retarded faggot piece of shit thinking. They just blame everything, and then they'll somehow figure out how to blame Trump.
SPEAKER_00Well, Trump. I don't know, man. Like, it's just I don't know how anybody lives in that fucking state.
Homeless Cleanup And Foreign Land Buys
SPEAKER_01I my brother-in-law lives there. I remember they lived, well, his so his wife is a doctor, and she's very liberal. She's a nice lady. We get along, but we don't talk politics. But she's very liberal. She made him vote for Hillary, I guess, in 2016. But they lived in Illinois for a long time, and then I think New York for a little bit. It's like all the liberal, you know what I mean? But so they moved to California, and I was like, oh man, don't go there. But they live, I can't remember where exactly, but it's you know, it's not near LA or anything necessarily. She's a doctor working at like the VA hospital, and it's actually more conservative area. And most of California, most of the country is conservative. It's just you get those cities that have the higher population because everybody's living on top of each other, and they get them to vote Democrat, and you know what I mean? Like it's I don't know. Look at that too.
SPEAKER_00It's like, you know, if if people would just kind of look at I gotta change my screensaver. Get tired of doing that every time.
SPEAKER_01But but yeah, I guess it's you know, he says it's not like what you see on TV or whatever. So I can't remember where they're at though. I was hoping to remember, but so hopefully maybe being there, working in a VA hospital, and being somewhere that's not super liberal, she'll kind of, you know, get some common sense. You know, she's a doctor, but I've met many, many doctors who are stupid. Like they know medicine and they're good at that, but they don't know how to put gas in her car, or you know what I mean? Just they don't know just other stuff, and so it makes them just their common sense. That's the whole their book smart, but they don't got any common sense. I don't think she's that necessarily, but I don't know.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, so here we are.
Climate Change Claims And What Helps
SPEAKER_01It's I don't know, like the whole thing is just insane, and the fact that it's not more mainstream tells you a lot too. You know, like I put in or I saw I saw something else. I saw I can't remember what it was, but I saw something that reminded me of the Palisades fire. So I was like, oh yeah, what's going on with that? So then I I put that in like YouTube and it's just bringing up all these news clips, like the the you know, the local news and whatever, which you can't trust them. I don't want to hear what kind of bullshit propaganda they're trying to, you know. So yeah, I was trying to just find just regular people. And if you look for those people, people who are actually there, and you know, seeing what's going, you know, boots on the ground, seeing what's going on, it's it's it's pathetic, man. It's just I mean, it's people are seeing it though. I mean the The polling and everything. It's Democrats are like they're done, man. Seriously. Nobody is upset with Trump's doing with Iran. I mean, some people don't like it. Like myself, it's like, hey, it sucks to be in a war. But Ayatollah, Hamas, they had to go. So I'm not upset about that. And, you know, Iranians that grew up there, they're cool with it, they're happy with it. And actually Trump is, I mean, the the the strait or whatever, the thing, the Hawan, I forget what it's called. I guess it's still kind of closed, basically. But, you know, you got El Salvador. Is it El Salvador why do I always forget? El Salvador is where we kidnapped the president guy, right? Basically. So now working with them to get now they're no longer part of the EU.
SPEAKER_00And it's like America, El Salvador, and some other countries are creating their own oil, whatever it's called, you know.
Media Trust, Politics Fatigue, And Wrap-Up
SPEAKER_01So then, you know, because it's because Iran was always holding everybody, you know, hostage. They they would do all this crap. They would, you know, promote terrorism, support terrorism, pay for it, fund it, all that kind of stuff. And when anybody was like, hey, you need stuff that, oh yeah, oh yeah, well, we're gonna close the the strait. We're gonna close the thing, we're gonna close the thing. So they got they got away with doing it for decades, you know. I mean, Hillary Clinton, every every president's like, yeah, Iran's a problem, we gotta deal with it, and they never do anything. So now that Trump does, and they're like, hmm, I don't know, man. I'm just I've you know, I've been slowly pulling away from a lot of the politics stuff because I don't know, it's just it's kind of annoying, it's infuriating sometimes, and just to see like just retarded faggot pieces of shit who don't see what's going on and understand everything, but because you know, Jimmy Kimmel or whoever, whatever, says some kind of retarded shit, and they're like, Yeah, yeah. It's like, man, quit watching that shit. Just go on a little. It's not really that hard to just go on a little journey of exploration on, you know, and you know, do more than you two too. Do, you know, rumble, do them all, you know, and try and just see, you know, proof is in the pudding, right? So it's like, I don't know. But people don't they don't want to know, they don't want to learn that they're actually wrong. My mom was like that. You know, she would watch the view or whatever stupid shit. And I would talk to her, and she'd be like, oh my gosh, what about this and that? And then then, you know, and I'd be like, Well, and I would counteract it, and then she would just be like, Well, I don't want to talk about it. And I'm like, well, you brought it up. Like, what the hell? And then whenever I would come at her with like facts and have something this to support it, I don't want to hear that. I don't want to hear that. Well, and that's why, you know, it's I don't know, it's just she was retarded. I loved my mom, but she was retarded. So yeah, I don't know, it's just it's insane. The whole, you know, and then you what was you know, then there was I don't even know. I remember looking into the the the big uh like chemical spill fire in Ohio. Remember when that was going on? That was just but then again, you didn't really see much about it.
SPEAKER_00Dude, it's just that's I don't know.
SPEAKER_01And then you have it's just you just see the blatant censorship and propaganda, like it's so obvious. Oh, California, like Gavin News Dick, we it's the fastest cleanup thing. Like he says all this makes up all this bullshit, and nothing's done. Like most of the stuff is nothing's built. And then all the crap that like California was like you know, one of the states that had the most electric cars, Teslas, they all burnt those batteries in the ground.
SPEAKER_00Like that ground is just fucked. I don't know, man. Like it's just it's just horrible.
SPEAKER_01But it dude, that's Democrat, that's Democrats in a nutshell, man, right now. I'm not saying Democrats have always been that way, but that's where they're at right now. And I think they're on their way out, man. They either have to completely get rid of Democrats and just, you know, they're gonna just like, okay, we're no longer called the Democrats. We're the whatever. They'll come up with another, you know, and rebuild, or they're gonna just kind of rebuild and keep the Democrat name, but like they're getting rid of like so many of the people. Because it's just they're losing, they're losing ground left and right, and it's like we can't have just a one-party system. So what's it gonna be? Is it gonna be MAGA and Republican? You know what I mean? So MAGA's gonna be more conservative, Republicans gonna be more liberal, you know? Because a lot of liberals are going to the Republican side because of how nuts and retarded the the left is, the far left, whatever, you know, it's like it's insane. It's I don't know, like it's I always say it like I'm okay, it's I'm happy that it's all coming out, and it's but but like it just it it like kind of hurts my heart that there are so many people who still fall victim to the lies and the bullshit and believe it all, you know what I mean? It's just like man, I don't know, it sucks. But that's it, it's kind of wanted to bullshit about that. Let me know what you think, your thoughts, your experiences, whichever. But appreciate you hanging out, and I'll see you guys next time. All right, God bless. All right bye.