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Well, I am a refugee from California.

I spent 35 years of my life in California before I moved my family over here to a much

better state, Florida.

And one of the reasons we moved is because California is dramatically mismanaged.

Nearly every summer in California, there would be a request from the state to stop watering

your lawn.

There would be a request from the state to ensure that you didn't keep your thermostat at below

78 degrees.

And now we have this breaking out in California again.

And naturally, the entire media have decided that the problem is, of course, global warming

because when bad mismanagement happens, the problem is, of course, global warming because when bad

mismanagement happens, the problem is always global warming in a democratic area, always in forever. It's great. You just blame the sky. The big problem, of course, is that it's very, very hot outside. Now, the problem that I have with this particular explanation is that for a very long time, namely thousands of years, in the summer, it gets very, very hot in California. In fact, my entire life, since I was a small child, it got very hot in the summer in California. In fact, that was one of the draws to California. It was summer on the beach in California. But I lived in the valley. I didn't live on the beach. And what that meant is that since the time, I was but a barefoot young child, it would be 120 degrees in places like Burbank, California, and North Hollywood, California. It would be just baking outside. And every single year, the grid would be strained. And every single year, there'd be transformers that blew up. I remember there was one summer living in North Hollywood as a teenager where the transformer near our home blew up. It was on a Sabbath. So we couldn't even get in our car and turn on the air conditioner. We just sat there in 120 degree frying our asses off. Well, this sort of thing is frequent in California because

California is wildly mismanaged. If it turns out that there is a predictable weather event that

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