If the incompetence that leads to fires like the ones in Maui and Pacific Palisades is disgusting, the malfeasance and corruption that occurs afterwards is infuriating. From John Leake at lewrockwell.com:
In September 2023, I posted an essay on this newsletter in which I presented evidence that the August 8, 2023 Lahaina, Maui fire was a Predictable & Predicted Disaster. That the lovely, historic town was in grave danger of being incinerated by wildfire was obvious to everyone who noted that a similar fire almost incinerated the town on August 24, 2018.
On that day, a wildfire broke out on the hillside above Lahaina, driven by high winds resulting from the low pressure of Hurricane Lane that passed south of the Hawaiian Islands. The fire destroyed 2,100 acres, 21 houses, and 27 cars, and caused $4.3 million in damage, but stopped just short of incinerating the town.
In response to this near miss, Maui County made little if any investment in preventing the same thing from happening again, which it did exactly five years later under eerily similar meteorological conditions. However, this second fire could not be stopped on the east end of town, but ended up burning all the way to the waterfront and destroying every building in the historic district.
According to FEMA estimates, approximately 1,800 residential structures (homes and apartments) were destroyed, displacing approximately 5,000 permanent residents whose families had lived in Lahaina for generations. As of October 27, 2025 — over two years later—Maui County had issued 478 permits for residential construction in Lahaina.
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Flooding this year, it seems like long ago when we had the Palisades fire.
Comrade Gavin will have a high speed rail station there?
I kid there won’t be any HSR in this fourth world turd.