Comedian Bill Maher joined right-wing pundits weaponizing California wildfires to lambast the state government’s progressive-leaning policies in his Friday monologue on HBO’s Real Time. Maher prefaced his argument with,

Maher lamented paying 13% of his income every year to California officials ‘who I assumed were working on things like this.’

Bill Maher has joined a burgeoning chorus of pundits in railing against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass over an ill-timed trip to Ghana she took as her city became engulfed in ongoing wildfires. The wildfires have devastated Southern California since last Tuesday: More than 40,