Trump tweets 'gross mismanagement of forests' is to blame for California wildfires
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - President Donald Trump early on Saturday said gross mismanagement of forests is to blame for two unchecked wildfires burning in California, where nine people have been killed and hundreds of thousands forced to evacuate.
There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor, he wrote in a Twitter post.
Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!, he added.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-wildfires-trump/trump-tweets-gross-mismanagement-of-forests-is-to-blame-for-california-wildfires-idUSKCN1NF099
Americans are fleeing for their lives. Tiny Two Scoops want to cut their Federal funds.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)And profit from destroying national forest's everywhere.
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)Someone should clue in the orange anus they are called wildfires, not forest fire, but he wouldn't listen
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)The old growth forest rules are to protect the sequoias. The brush around LA is not "old growth" and there's no way to "clear it out," it's just natural landscape.
Also it prevents erosion. If you went around cutting down all the brush around all of LA it would cause serious problems.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)that are carrying much needed water and just dumping it all in the Pacific Ocean?
louis-t
(23,297 posts)yardwork
(61,703 posts)Trump knows that his base is too uninformed to know the difference.
TNNurse
(6,929 posts)wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)riversedge
(70,299 posts)oh yeah, Ca mismanaged the Santa Ana winds also. Ca needs help at this time, not gross blame.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-threatens-pull-federal-funding-california-wildfires-gross/story?id=59102371
......FIRE BURNS TOWARD MALIBU
The Woolsey Fire broke out on Thursday and quickly jumped the 101 Freeway, a major north-south artery, in several places. On Friday, it moved over the Santa Monica Mountains toward Malibu, where flames driven by hot Santa Ana winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour (80 kph) raced down hillsides and through canyons toward multi-million dollar homes.
Early on Saturday, fire was nearing Pepperdine University, a private residential college with 7,700 students, where students remained sheltered on the schools main campus in Malibu. ......
joshdawg
(2,651 posts)He makes a stupid statement (lie) and follows it up with another stupid statement (lie).
For him it's as natural as breathing.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)Cut funding to fix it unless it is the military or tax cuts for the rich! Can't believe this man made it to the highest office in our nation. It's not like people didn't know what he was before the 2016 election. Of course his base are nothing more than cult members who worship money and professed billionaires.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,592 posts)God, I miss having a President we could admire.
Someone who knew how to comfort a person who has just lost everything.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)trusty elf
(7,401 posts)perfectly characterizes chump's performance.
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)where the sun don't shine!
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Botany
(70,581 posts)It has a pyrrhic life cycle that is based on fire.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Of course not.
Doodley
(9,124 posts)Takket
(21,625 posts)And betray the anericsn people on a daily basis. Does that count?
Doodley
(9,124 posts)Takket
(21,625 posts)Pisces
(5,602 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)and as for gross mismanagement, ...................look in the mirror asshole, your a un-indicted conspirator of breaking campaign financials laws, and you committed conspiracy with Russians.............................FUCK YOU...................maybe the state should look and see if you defrauded them like you did in New York........................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.......................
Silver Gaia
(4,546 posts)People are suffering and dying, but he thinks he knows everything because he's such a stable genius. I seriously cannot take much more of him. GAHHHHHH
vlyons
(10,252 posts)nt
rzemanfl
(29,568 posts)The reply title just fills itself in.
Roadside Attraction
(238 posts)Who are you gonna believe:
-- Trump, or,
-- Smokey the Bear?
I'm going with Smokey.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Lead with the truth:
During forest fires in California, Trunp lies about causes
NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)LittleGirl
(8,291 posts)tanyev
(42,610 posts)I don't for a second believe he came up with it himself.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)the most hateful disgusting sick human alive.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)CA CHIPS branch of the proud boys were behind peaceful protestors smashing windows so the cops on the OTHER SIDE of the protestors would hear property damage and start swinging clubs and shooting tear gas? I do. (AND NO...I dont have a link...see my signature). Whats to stop CA proud boys from starting fires all across CA all summer or ever since then, to distract and give the gop reasons to bash CA? Just a question.
babylonsister
(171,091 posts)As wildfires rage, Trump administration plans to slash fire science funding
https://www.revealnews.org/article/as-wildfires-rage-trump-administration-plans-to-slash-fire-science-funding/
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)And his incendiary reactive outbursts demonstrate his ignorance
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Which is standard operating procedure for him.
elmac
(4,642 posts)<a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=6j39xi" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a>
Paladin
(28,272 posts)"Mismanagement" has nothing to do with it---he just wants to make suffering people suffer more. As usual.
packman
(16,296 posts)Remember Reagan famously saying trees were the main contributor to air pollution?
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Trees_cause_pollution
Takket
(21,625 posts)But here we are............ his response to Americans burning to death it to threaten to pull funding, WHICH HE ALREADY CUT, for the service that manages California forests.
Literally
Americans are burning to DEATH. Not trying to be dramatic.... that is what is happening. and he wants to cut funding to the service that helps protect them. That's like saying Chicago should disband its police department because it costs too much and people still get murdered.