The competency crisis is among us

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Democrats and their moronic DEI arguments are a constant reminder of how true this is. We not only have a competency crisis, we have a stupid crisis as we watch Democrats act like angry, spoiled little children in these Senate confirmation hearings.

It is also illustrated every day on this forum by brainless leftist asshats and their lie filed moronic claims, arguments and trolling.

The competency crisis is among us

In 2019, the Los Angeles Fire Department’s current deputy chief appeared in a promotional video for a television drama about firefighters.

In the video, deputy chief Kristine Larson, who is both black and lesbian, extolled the virtues of inclusivity and diversity while bemoaning that a traditionally male space is not immediately accommodating to women.

“The reality is: you’re not one of the boys,” said Larson, who, between total pay and benefits, pulled in a cool $447,979 in 2023. “You never will be one of the boys, but you can be a good firefighter.”

She added, “You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it’s a medical call or a fire call, that looks like you. It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.”

Larson, who answers to LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley, a white lesbian who made $654,951 in total pay and benefits in 2023, then said of those who doubt a woman’s ability to serve as an effective firefighter, “‘Is she strong enough to do this?’ Or, ‘You couldn’t carry my husband out of a fire.’”

“Which my response is,” she added in the 2019 promotional video, “he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.”

A series of deadly wildfires would later consume large areas of Los Angeles, destroying entire communities and revealing a city and state that are as corrupt and mismanaged as they are incompetent.


 

The deadly rise of incompetence

It’s the same problem that befalls all empires that grow fat, lazy, and luxurious. With great wealth and power comes the creeping acceptance of decadence, apathy, and corruption, vices that, if allowed to flourish, will consume until there’s nothing left; it’s rotted all through. A country may tolerate a few bad actors, but a culture that actively recruits and rewards the badly unqualified? That is unsustainable.

America is no different. It can endure tremendous pain and strain, but not incompetence. It’s far too complex and interconnected a country to allow for the complete failure of one of its parts, let alone most of them. When the machine is allowed to break down, either due to apathy, ignorance, malicious intent, or generational knowledge loss, that is when things get ugly. That’s when people start to die.

January alone has been a masterclass in incompetent and contemptible leadership.

Earlier than the devastation in Los Angeles, on the other side of the country, a motorist barreled down New Orleans’s famous Bourbon Street, intentionally striking and killing 13 New Year’s revelers. As it turns out, the city had purchased anti-vehicle barriers to protect against such events. Yet not only did it fail to deploy the barriers for New Year’s, even despite all the usual warnings and cautions regarding holiday-timed terrorist events, but its 65-year-old police chief also revealed she was unaware they even had such security measures.

“I didn’t know about them,” she said, “but we have them, and so we have been able now to put them out.”

She’s 14 bodies too late.

At subsequent meetings, she would later refuse to answer questions regarding how the attack could have been prevented.

Following the car assault, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell called it a “terrorist attack.” But then an FBI spokeswoman declared unequivocally that “this is not a terrorist event.” The FBI then put out a statement clarifying it was indeed investigating the Bourbon Street attack as an act of terrorism.

The FBI also said there were likely accomplices. Then it said there were no accomplices.

The alleged killer in the attack, by the way, posted several videos to the internet declaring his allegiance to the Islamic State. The FBI says he was never on its radar and it had no idea about the videos.

Nobody has resigned or been fired. We’re not ruled by leaders capable of such gestures.
 
"She added, “You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it’s a medical call or a fire call, that looks like you. It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.”
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What a racist bigoted piece of lesbian shit. :palm:

Know one gives a shit when they're on fire. What a nasty pretend man fuckwad. Lesbos don't know how to be a "man". Period. That's why they always fuck it up.

And lesbo dykes are always warring against men. An intrinsic animosity towards men is part of their identity.
 
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"She added, “You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it’s a medical call or a fire call, that looks like you. It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.”
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What a racist bigoted piece of lesbian shit. :palm:

Know one gives a shit when they're on fire. What a nasty pretend man fuckwad. Lesbos don't know how to be a "man". Period. That's why they always fuck it up.

And lesbo dykes are always warring against men. An intrinsic animosity towards men is part of their identity.
It was pretty despicable. But that's what DEI gets us.
 
Oh, it gets better. The mayor is on a trip to Africa B UT at least LA has a deputy Mayor.

OOOPSIE, He is on leave because he sent in a bomb threat to City Hall in December.

Nobody can make this shit up. Lefties, this is all on your plate and hopefully Trump will shave Newscums ass down to a point before he commits sending one cent.

FBI raids home of LA deputy mayor who allegedly made bomb threat against City Hall

ByJosh Haskell and Tim Caputo KABC logo
Thursday, December 19, 2024

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I wonder if he said "this is MAGA country"?

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Democrats and their moronic DEI arguments are a constant reminder of how true this is. We not only have a competency crisis, we have a stupid crisis as we watch Democrats act like angry, spoiled little children in these Senate confirmation hearings.

It is also illustrated every day on this forum by brainless leftist asshats and their lie filed moronic claims, arguments and trolling.

The competency crisis is among us

In 2019, the Los Angeles Fire Department’s current deputy chief appeared in a promotional video for a television drama about firefighters.

In the video, deputy chief Kristine Larson, who is both black and lesbian, extolled the virtues of inclusivity and diversity while bemoaning that a traditionally male space is not immediately accommodating to women.

“The reality is: you’re not one of the boys,” said Larson, who, between total pay and benefits, pulled in a cool $447,979 in 2023. “You never will be one of the boys, but you can be a good firefighter.”

She added, “You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it’s a medical call or a fire call, that looks like you. It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.”

Larson, who answers to LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley, a white lesbian who made $654,951 in total pay and benefits in 2023, then said of those who doubt a woman’s ability to serve as an effective firefighter, “‘Is she strong enough to do this?’ Or, ‘You couldn’t carry my husband out of a fire.’”

“Which my response is,” she added in the 2019 promotional video, “he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.”

A series of deadly wildfires would later consume large areas of Los Angeles, destroying entire communities and revealing a city and state that are as corrupt and mismanaged as they are incompetent.


You're incompetent.
 
It was pretty despicable. But that's what DEI gets us.
And what tasks do they perform for a salary of 1/2 million dollars?

For comparison ...

A Brigadier General in the United States military earns between $93,000 and $173,000 per year, with a median total pay of around $124,000. This includes a base pay of $69,000 to $129,000 and additional pay of $24,000 to $44,000.
 
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