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California fires reveal MAGA is in its "total incoherence" era
Jesse Watters implied women are too stupid to run fire departments — most LA fire department leaders are men
www.salon.com
One thing no one can deny: MAGA influencers put a lot of work into pushing really stupid talking points. Most everyone with sense understands that the fires ravaging Los Angeles are, in large part, a predictable consequence of climate change. However, it is an article of faith in MAGA circles that climate change is a "hoax" invented by the "libs" to deny gender-affirming care to cis men, in the form of oversized gas-guzzling trucks. So they quickly jumped into action during a time of immense need, seeking someone or something else to blame. And because the movement takes all its cues from a right-wing influencer named Chaya Raichik — who posts under the name "Libs of Tik Tok" — they've settled on blaming women.
On Wednesday, Raichik tweeted a picture while falsely implying both that the entirety of the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) leadership is female and also that women's inherent inferiority is why the fires are spinning out of control.
Alejandra Caraballo
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The people that supposedly care about women's rights when it comes to trans people openly mock women for their appearance when they're in positions of power.These are the people that actually hate women.
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January 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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It would be cool if women occupied the top three positions of the LAFD, but readers will not be surprised to find out this is not the case. The fire chief, Kristin M. Crowley (pictured left), is a woman. But a quick view of the orgaztional chart shows the chief of staff, the head of emergency operations, the head of administrative operations, the heads of the regional bureaus, the head of the prevention bureau, and the head of IT are all men. Out of the 12 leaders on the page, only 3 are women — meaning a full 75% of the leadership team is male. And that is to say nothing of the first responders from Los Angeles County.
Raichik has, so far, successfully rallied the MAGA masses to prevent a community note pointing this out from being appended to her post. But what is fascinating is how much work she seems to have put into pumping out this nonsense. A reverse image search of the photo shows it was taken in February 2016 and posted on the LAFD's Flickr page, which contains almost 57,000 photos. Raichik, or whoever sent her this photo anyway, had to comb through hundreds of pages to find an 8-year-old photo to make this point.
