Adam Carolla calls the LA fires a ‘rock bottom moment’ that will upend Hollywood politically
Comedian Adam Carolla thinks so the fires that ravaged Los Angeles because the past week will be a big turning point for the city, politically.
“It’s been said for a while now, when will we start changing course? And the conventional wisdom about when we’re going to change course is when we hit rock bottom,” Carolla told Fox News Digital by phone.
“And I would say that this city burning to the ground is the bottom moment. Maybe this is our bottom.”
Carolla, along with thousands of other residents of the Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Altadena areas of Los Angeles, had to evacuate last week when the fires broke out. He is currently staying with his friend and long-time associate dr. Drew Pinsky.
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Comedian Adam Carolla, who had to evacuate during the fire in Los Angeles, considers the natural disaster to be a “rock bottom moment” for the city. (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)
“The standard operating procedure has been slightly delayed [bit],” he said. “Whatever that schedule was, going about my day doing my thing, it was all cattywampus.”
Carolla added that he is not only worried about himself, but also about so many people he knows who had to evacuate or lost their homes.
“I would say this city burning to the ground is the bottom moment.”
“It wasn’t really just that I was displaced and that many other people in many other parts of this place were displaced, and then you don’t know who was displaced,” he said.
Carolla took issue with the management of city and state resources in the run-up to the fire, feeling that government leadership was focusing on the wrong things.
Carolla believes that government leadership has not focused on fire prevention because “all the things of running a city are not things that excite them.” (Araya Doheny/Getty Images for DailyWire+)
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“All the things in running a city are not things that excite them,” he said. “Clearing the forest floor or aqueducts or water pressure and all that stuff. It’s pretty boring. We’re California, we like to be first with things, and clearing branches doesn’t sound that appealing to us. Outlawing internal combustion engines by 2030 is pretty good feeling, but clearing branches is a bit of a boring idea. Like we want to have electric leaf blowers and things like that.”
“[Gov.] Gavin Newsom wants fun stuff, not boring stuff.” he added. “Some of the people who run California and Los Angeles are more obsessed with capital and the LGBT community and fun things rather than boring things like aqueducts.”
The 60-year-old also believes that more efforts could have been made to prevent fires, such as burying power lines, restoring aqueducts and recapturing rain from runoff, and repairing fire engines.
According to Carolla, California Governor Gavin Newsom “wants the fun stuff, not the boring stuff” when it comes to running the state. (Getty Images)
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“I pay probably 13% in state income tax and a lot of people here pay a lot of additional taxes. And we pay about $5.50 a gallon of gas. And we should probably get something in terms of infrastructure in return,” he said.
The exact cost and long-term effect of the fire remains to be seen, but Carolla believes they are it will drive change in traditionally left-leaning Los Angeles and California in general.
“Let’s hope the morons who vote for these idiots wake up now that their houses are falling down and realize that these people are incompetent idiots and idiots for voting for them, so they wake up and go the other way,” he said. . he said.
Carolla hopes that “the dopers who vote for these idiots have woken up now that their houses are falling into the ground”. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)
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“We’re going to have to have competent, pragmatic people running the city for a change, instead of some incompetent idiots with their DEI employees and ‘this is a sanctuary city.’ We’re going to have to find adults,” Carolla continued.
“It’s funny, the people who were all saying when [President] Biden came into office, ‘Now the adults are back,’ there were really horrible teenagers who ruined everything, and we’re going to have to bring back some real adults.”
