Jan. 13, 2025

LA Burning: Zuck Slams Apple on Joe Rogan Experience, Trump vs Newsom's Wildfire War

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Mark Zuckerberg throws shade at Apple during his Joe Rogan Experience appearance, while President-elect Trump and Governor Newsom battle over LA's devastating wildfires. Plus, Fire Chief Crowley's explosive interview, fake firefighters raiding evacuation zones, and a drone versus Super Scooper showdown. Your weekly dose of Silicon Valley drama and California chaos served with a perfectly roasted side of snark.

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Caalaroga Shark media.

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From Los Angeles, where even the firefighting planes are getting

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hit with more traffic than the four h five.

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This is ballant. That's right.

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Some moron with the drone just turned a multimillion dollar

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firefighting plane into the world's most expensive pinata.

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Let's hit this.

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Well well, well, looks like President elect Trump has decided

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to become America's most aggressive YELP reviewer, giving the Los

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Angeles Fire Department a one star review. He's on truth

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Social complaining that nobody knows how to put out fires anymore.

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I guess he thinks firefighting is like running a casino

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just to clear bankruptcy and the flames will go away. Meanwhile,

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Governor Newsom invited Trump to come to see the devastation firsthand.

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That's about as likely to happen as Trump releasing those

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tax returns we've been waiting on since twenty fifteen. And

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how about that water controversy. Trump's claiming dow some blocks

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some mysterious water restoration declaration to protect a fish called

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a smelt. First of all, who knew Trump was so

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passionate about California water rights. That's like finding out Gordon

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Ramsey has strong opinions about proper library cataloging. The best

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part is when Trump wrote no water in the fire hydrants,

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no money in FEMA in all caps, because nothing says

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presidential quite like typing like your keyboard is stuck in

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rage mode.

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But here's what's really wild.

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Mayor Karen Bass was in Ghana when the fire started.

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That's rough timing. That's like being on vacation and getting a.

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Text from your roommate saying, hey, quick question, is it

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normal for the kitchen to be this smoky? And now

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Trump's threatening to with whole disaster aid. He's treating FEMA

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funds like they're his personal allowance to give out. Sorry, California,

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you didn't clean your room, no emergency money for you.

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The politicians aren't even the worst of the lot. We's

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got more problems than just the fires. We've got people

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showing up and stolen firefighter gear trying to rob evacuated homes.

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That's like dressing up as Santa Claus to steal presents

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on Christmas Eve. And these aren't even local criminals. According

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to Sheriff Luna, these folks drove in from out of town,

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brought guns and drugs too. I guess they thought, hey,

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the city's on fire, perfect time for a crime spree

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road trip. Then there's the group pretending to be from

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a fire station. They really thought nobody would check. That's

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like showing up at the Pentagon and a Halloween costume

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and saying hello, fellow generals, which way to the nuclear codes?

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Twenty arrests last week, twenty nine more. Now these people

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are treating the evacuation zones like some kind of twisted

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shopping spree. Meanwhile, the National guardists patrolling the streets of

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Pacific Palisades like it's the season finale of a dystopian

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TV show. You've got to be a special kind of

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awful to see a natural disaster and think, you know

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what would make this better?

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Some burglary.

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We've also got drone operators thinking they're filming the next

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Michael Bay movie while actual firefighting planes are trying to

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save La.

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These super scoopers.

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Are massive planes designed to fight fires, and some genius

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with the best by drone just turned one into a

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very expensive lawn ornament. Some Jabbroni out there is probably

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sitting at home right now, going huh, I wonder where

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my drone went. Meanwhile, a multimillion dollar firefighting aircraft is

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grounded during one of the worst fire seasons in LA history.

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The Passive Aggressive Olympic Trials were held at Jimmy Carter's funeral,

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and let me tell you, Vice President Harris just took

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home the gold medal in the Advanced photocropping division. Now

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you'd think a funeral would be the one place where

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politicians could put aside their differences, but no, we got

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more drama than a high school cafeteria table. Harris posts

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this group photo and suddenly Trump's gone missing, like he's

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playing an extremely formal.

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Game of hide and seek.

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Her Instagram followers are treating this crop job like it's

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the Mona Lisa of Political Shade, best photo crop of

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the decade. They're saying, I mean, when your social media

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posts are getting art criticism, you know you've really elevated

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your pettiness game. And Karen Pence, she's sitting there like

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Trump's wearing an invisibility cloak. Even George Bush got in

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on the action, keeping his handshake.

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In his pocket.

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Meanwhile, Michelle Obama didn't even show up, which honestly might

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be the most elegant shade of all.

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She's basically saying, I don't even need to.

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Be there to not acknowledge you. You know what's really

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something Harris had to certify her own election loss and

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then days later attend this funeral where she's playing digital

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photographer talk about a rough week at work. Mark Zuckerberg

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appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast, and Wow, this guy really

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holds a grudge. He's out here throwing shade at Apple

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like they stole his lunch money in middle school. First,

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he claims Apple hasn't invented anything worthwhile since the iPhone. Really, Mark,

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that's like going to your high school reunion and telling

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the quarterback he peaked in twelfth grade twenty years later,

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and he's still bitter about those app store fees. And

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then there's this whole thing about Apple not letting Meta's

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ray banglasses connects to iPhones the same way AirPods do.

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Speaking of which, Zuckerberg complaining about another company's walled garden.

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That's rich coming from the guy whose company basically owns

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social media. That's like a python complaining that an anaconda

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is taking up too much space in the jungle. You know,

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What's really interesting, though, while he's out here complaining about

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Apple's innovation drought, Zuckerberg is apparently preparing for a potential

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second Trump administration by rolling back content moderation. Nothing says

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cutting edge tech leadership quite like preemptively changing your policies

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to match political wins. But my favorite part when he

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said Apple is just sitting on the iPhone twenty years later,

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says the guy whose biggest recent innovation was changing his

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company's name to Meta and making us all pretend we

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want to hang out in a virtual world that looks

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like a wee game from two thousand and seven. Oh

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and apparently neither Meta nor Apple responded for comment, probably

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because they were both too busy counting their billions while

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pretending to be the scrappy underdog in Silicon Valley. That's

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today's news made with the help of AI, especially the

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jokes that didn't land