Basically waste a bunch of money for an attempt at saving face, what a fucking circus.

The 5’ is called defensible space here in the mountains, it gives firefighters room to work.

Iirc he’s eyeing retirement and won’t be running for reelection next year. After 40 years in office, he’s probably doing extra of what senators are good at doing, jack shit. Good riddance.

Read your reply:

Remove dead vegetation. OP’s article specifically states that the new bill Gov. Dipshit is trying to fast track would ban all plants and vegetation from within 5’ of a dwelling, including grass. This is now likely to include wood fences, wood pergolas, etc. My question is, what about people who’s houses are sided with wood? I live in the mountains here in CA, and most houses are wood sided. We have strict weed abatement rules as well as defensible space requirements, but like the article says, removing healthy trees and other greenery is actually more of a detriment in a fire scenario. A bigger emphasis should be promoting fire-resistant building materials, and perhaps tax incentives to do so. Metal roofs, plaster/concrete siding, etc.

…but has also shown a reluctance in recent months to take up a new case on the scope of the right to bear arms under the Constitution’s Second Amendment.

Oh gee, I wonder why.

They easily could push more socially positive virtues, but it’s likely more profitable to push a divisive narrative, especially as someone else said, to keep us occupied fighting amongst ourselves, as opposed to unifying against the wealthy.

PBS is being threatened as a whole, and not just because they’re inclusive, but because they are an entity for the public benefit, and the current assholes at large hate that sort of thing. I sincerely doubt they want to do this, but if there’s any hope of them continuing their mission, how do you propose they handle it? I’m really not trying to be a dick here, and it’s horseshit that we’re at this point as a society, but I can see where they’re at.

Better to lay down one battle to keep fighting a war.

Possibly better than the front falling off.

Gotta love that many of these supposed “feel good stories” written to goad the masses into living like serfs live to conveniently gloss over the fact that the story subjects just so happen to have a house to rent out. Cheap attempts at population programming.

“As this man’s peers, you must be the judge of his actions.”

“Ok”

“Wait, not like that”