Political analyst Kevin Drum on Thursday took stock of X owner Elon Musk's promotion of falsehoods about the fires decimating California, and came away with the unsettling conclusion that his lies are becoming too numerous and fast to debunk.
Writing at his Jabberwocking blog, Drum ran down multiple false claims Musk promoted about the fire, including claims about emergency water tanks being emptied before the fire began and the city of Los Angeles supposedly slashing its fire department budget.
In addition to those flatly false claims, Drum also took apart misleading claims promoted by Musk, including one about the fire department supposedly being decimated because they fired members who refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
"A grand total of 12 LAFD workers were fired for neither getting a COVID vaccine nor requesting an exemption," writes Drum. "They have long since been replaced."
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Drum then goes on to state the actual reason why the fires in California are so severe right now: Climate change.
"Virtually all of the increase in California wildfires is due to warming," he argues while pointing to a recent study about fire intensity over the last several decades. "There's overwhelming evidence for this."
Drum then turns back to Musk and reflects on the fact that the X owner feels absolutely no regard to ensure that the information he is spreading is accurate.
"In addition to having an audience about a thousand times the size of mine, it took him only five seconds to repost that comment," he concludes. "It took me two hours to write this one. It's not possible to keep up with his firehose of lies and misinformation."
