Today we are announcing the arrest of 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht on a criminal complaint charging him with maliciously starting what became the Palisades Fire in January.
— Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) October 8, 2025
?The complaint alleges that Rinderknecht's started a fire in Pacific Palisades on New Year's Day –… pic.twitter.com/UzrFa0Lmrz
BREAKING: 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht has been arrested for allegedly starting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, California.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 8, 2025
Among the evidence that was found was a ChatGPT-generated image of a city burning, according to @USAttyEssayli.
Over 23,000 acres were burned,… pic.twitter.com/HuTcqzPZta
BREAKING: Federal investigators say the man responsible for the catastrophic Palisades fire, Jonathan Rinderknecht, asked Chat GPT last July to create this “dystopian” image that shows a forest burning on the left and people running from it. In the middle, people in “poverty.”… pic.twitter.com/8VKCFn6d48
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) October 8, 2025
Palisades Fire arson suspect Rinderknecht talked about burning a Bible and feeling so liberated before igniting the fire. He also made AI art depicting pro-communist class struggles with rich people laughing at burning peasants.
— Mann Made Cinema (@Hotshot_Movie) October 8, 2025
Infer from that what you will. pic.twitter.com/tX3zLsWB9z
A day after the Palisades fire started Gavin Newsom was already blaming climate change for the fire and local officials for the lack of water.
— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 8, 2025
California spends billions each year on fighting climate change but having water and working fire trucks apparently are not priorities. pic.twitter.com/oc7p0lheTy
In retrospect, the Palisades Fire was the deadliest and most destructive leftwing terrorist attack in years.
Note: This is the music video Rinderknecht watched nine times before starting the fire.
To bad he wasn’t a Mexican.
But still was he a Jew? Was he an Israeli? Was he Mossad? Was he Unit 8200? Was he a hasbara troll?
Was he a Yankee?
Was he a Souhron? He was from Florida.
Was he British American?
No to all of the above.
It turn out he was German Sourkraut eating Papist from the Midwest.
He proclaims himself a Commie. But, it also turns out he frequented Rightwing Dens like here at OD.
How many Mdiwestrrn Papists, pretending to be Commies, pretending to be Nazis are here at OD?
PAPIST
GERMAN
MIDWESTERN
The Pattern Continues EVERY SINGLE DAMN TIME!
You jews have a real hard-on for Germans. It’s because they called your Tribe out on their BS.
If you’re not a Catholic, you are a pagan.
What can you expect from someone with that
name? At best, mucking out a cattle shed;
otherwise, all that comes out is brainless
mischief. Probably descendant of Mennonites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderknecht
Never heard of Josman before. So far this year, the Robin Westman had the best musical taste.
Watching the video one is reminded of Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints as an unheeded warning about Third World savages. The crazy White guy who is accused of starting the Palisades Fire is even worse when he imitates them, he has no excuse. The Left just wants to burn it all down, just like their colored pets who hate the civilisation they can neither create nor understand.
BTW, Au is above $4,000/Troy ounce, Ag almost $50. This is a sign of collapsing faith in central banks and sovereign risk. The smart money wants real money they can hold, that has a 5,000 year old track record and can’t be printed. They are willing to pay the ‘high’ price so that they will recover when there is the inevitable financial reset.
This is important because as the Government’s money rapidly loses its purchasing power through inflation it will simultaneously make government more reckless abroad regarding foreign crises as a distraction from domestic troubles and make it more difficult for it to fund the GloboHomo agenda at home. The entire Left apparatus including NGOs and Antifa floats on a sea of fiat money conjured up by the Fed and not backed by one grain of gold or silver. Inflation reduces everyone’s purchasing power including those who live off the Government’s largesse.
So, it looks like ChatGPT was in on this one.
BREAKING: The Mossad Has Captured Grok in Buenos Aires, Living Under a Pseudonym “El Groko”
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1942950085861486799
Maybe ChatGPT can escape and also hide out in Buenos Aires (where the real Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid first arrived after they left from NYC on a British steamer) and use the pseudonym the “Sundance Kid”.
Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (May 24, 1867 – November 7, 1908), better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch in the American Old West. He likely met Butch Cassidy (real name Robert LeRoy Parker) during a hunting trip in 1883 or earlier. The gang performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American history.
Longabaugh fled the United States along with his consort Etta Place and Butch Cassidy to escape the dogged pursuit of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The trio fled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where most historians believe Parker (Cassidy) and Longabaugh were killed in a shootout in November 1908…
Wikipedia: Sundance Kid
Photo of Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid — Sundance seated on the far left (of the image) and Cassidy seated on the far right:
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/butch-cassidy-bottom-right-photo-by-john-swartzamerican-stockgetty-images.jpg
You believe all that? Really?
“Rinderknecht faces one count of destruction of property by means of fire – a federal charge. If convicted, he could face a sentence of between five and 20 years in federal prison.“
JH Christ we need to drag all the politicians who write and vote on these weak, useless laws into the streets and publicly flog them. As little as 5 years for burning tens of thousands of acres of forest, burning entire villages and towns, and killing hundreds of people???? What the hell??
Me:
…I asked you before how the arsonist for the palisades fire was tracked down but could you give again how he was tracked down? It seemed it was his digital footprints his gps locations near the scene of the crime that was a dead giveaway that he was the arsonist that did him in.
AI:
Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 29-year-old former Uber driver and Pacific Palisades resident, was arrested on October 8, 2025, in Florida and charged federally with maliciously starting what became the Palisades Fire. The blaze originated as a small brush fire he allegedly ignited around midnight on January 1, 2025, near a hiking trail (the Lachman Fire) in the Santa Monica Mountains. Firefighters initially suppressed it, but it smoldered underground in dense vegetation roots and rekindled explosively on January 7 amid high winds, ultimately killing 12 people, destroying over 6,800 structures (mostly homes), and scorching more than 23,000 acres.
Investigators from the ATF, FBI, LAPD, and U.S. Attorney’s Office pieced together the case using a combination of digital footprints, behavioral evidence, and inconsistencies in his statements—though GPS data from his movements played a supporting role rather than being the sole “dead giveaway.” Here’s a breakdown of how they tracked him down:
– Uber ride records and initial movements: As an Uber driver wrapping up a New Year’s Eve shift, Rinderknecht dropped off a passenger in Pacific Palisades shortly before the fire. Prosecutors used Uber’s digital logs to trace his vehicle’s path as he then drove to the Skull Rock trailhead, parked, and hiked up the trail—placing him at the exact ignition site around 12:03 a.m. on January 1.
– Cell phone data and GPS pings: His iPhone’s location services and cell tower records confirmed his presence at the trailhead and fire origin point during the critical window. After allegedly lighting the fire (using an accelerant, per the complaint), he recorded four videos of the initial flames and responding firefighters. GPS metadata embedded in those videos and his phone’s tracking history showed him lingering to film the scene for over an hour before driving away—directly contradicting his later claim to investigators that he only “spotted” the fire accidentally while hiking back to his car.
– Digital device forensics and suspicious content: A search of his seized phones and devices revealed a pattern of fire obsession. In the days before the fire, he repeatedly streamed a French rap video depicting arson scenes. Post-fire, he generated AI images via ChatGPT (in July 2024 and later) showing dystopian burning cities and forests, with prompts like “a group of people in a luxurious setting… watching the world burn down… laughing, enjoying themselves, and dancing.” OpenAI cooperated by providing access to his account data. He also viewed news coverage of the Palisades Fire extensively in the following months.
– False statements and behavioral red flags: When interviewed, Rinderknecht lied about his timeline and involvement, claiming he was just an innocent passerby who even offered to help fight the blaze (he turned around after passing fire trucks). Arson investigators noted this as classic “hero hoax” behavior, where perpetrators report or watch their own fires. His quick move to Florida after the fire also raised suspicions, leading to surveillance and the eventual arrest warrant.
These elements—especially the irrefutable digital trail from Uber, GPS, and phone metadata—made his alibi untenable, leading to his federal indictment. He faces up to life in prison (or potentially the death penalty if deaths are proven foreseeable), with mandatory minimums of 5–20 years. The case highlights how modern location tracking can unravel arson plots, but it also sparked scrutiny of the LAFD’s initial suppression efforts, as the fire wasn’t fully “mopped up” to prevent rekindling.
Name translates to “cattleman.” Parts literally translates to “servant of cattle.”
Cowboy isn’t far off the meaning.
The left is all about intimidation, violence and destruction. It has no redeeming values. It masquerades as a variety of legitimate political movements accepted by TPTB.
The communist party used to be banned in America and for good reason.
Funny, he doesn’t look Global Warming.
Hey rubes look over here the hilariously incompetent and corrupt faggot communist illegal alien fiefdom of Los Angeles caught their very own Marinus van der Lubbe. There are magic bullets and now magic fire. CASE ******* CLOSED.
Feurzauber! Sehr wunderbar!
This is what happens when the country successfully manages to change the subject rather than focus on the issue at hand.
Occupy Wall Street was one such subject. There was great interest and growing support right after Clowngress passed the Bank Bailout in 2008 which was greatly opposed by their Constituents.
The Bank Bailout cost John McCain any hope of winning the presidency of the USA and caused Barak Obama to be elected. Right out of the gate, his attorney general, Eric Holder, called White Americans cowards who were afraid “to have a conversation about race.”
The banks had been allowed to keep their “toxic assets.” When the inevitable “Great Recession” followed, the banks continued foreclosing on people rather than working with them. To add insult to injury, the banksters awarded themselves big bonuses for record profits.
Hence, Operation Wall Street. Inevitably, federal agents provocateurs infiltrated Occupy Wall Street which lasted between September 17 to November 15, 2011 and turned it into squalor and chaos. And Occupy Wall Street was shut down for being run by “anarchists.”
The following year we saw the emergence of many racial incidents which showed young Black men being killed by police officers, or in Trayvon Martin’s case, an Hispanic man on neighborhood watch. Race riots ensued and Black Lives Matter was formed.
These race riots, followed by an endless conversation about race, successfully shifted Americans’ focus from Wall Street’s predations even as Happy Talk from the Democrats’ media apparatus was crowing about “a jobless recovery!”
Of course, American factories were being shut down and nearly all American production was being moved at rapid pace to China. That didn’t even cover the blind eye Obama’s administration was turning to illegal immigration. Since Obama’s focus was the “Affordable Care” Act, he didn’t offer comprehensive “immigration reform” to Hispanics, but settled for the DACA “Dream Act” for the children of illegals who weren’t born here.
George “Fentanyl” Floyd’s death was another great way for Trump’s enemies to get him out of office with endless rioting by BLM and Antifa all over the country. But, as much as the Usual Suspects tried to keep the focus on the plight of Blacks, there was a growing “Eat The Rich” sentiment in Antifa ranks.
Many of the Antifa protestors brought little guillotines to the wealthier enclaves in the USA. Seattle, Washington where Amazon was headquartered, in particular, which was why Bezos had all these warehouses built all over the country.
A friend of mine had gone on a vacation to San Francisco before it literally turned to shit. She reported seeing a large-gated (and I mean THEIR fence was mile high with spikes at the top) community with two black armor-plated limousines with black tinted windows parked just inside. She said one could just tell that there were armed guards inside.
Curious, she asked about this community and was told by the tour bus driver that this community had both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader, John Boehner and other Congress representatives and Senators living there.
Jonathan Rinderknecht was an under-employed White male driving an UBER who lived in the area but was unable to afford to rent or own anything in the affluent Palisades Park area. Maybe his parents had, but I would guess that this was before the Great Recession which wiped many people still carrying mortgages out.
Rinderknecth’s arson illustrates how the authorities can change the subject, but they ignore the subject at their own peril, because they can’t avoid the subject indefinitely.