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But firefighters said the real reasons were a lack of personnel to combat out-of-control blazes in Southern California.

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[–] HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this all just more misdirection from the actual horrible stuff they are doing?

Another Greenland LOOK OVER THERE! moment.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was his entire first term. I think that’s what’s expected from season 5 of 2017 too.

How many people were aware that Trump rolled back 112 climate and safety regulations in his first term? What about quintupling farm subsidies for corporations, effectively disqualifying smaller farms from staying in the market? Or moving covid reporting from the CDC to HHS in June of 2020, coinciding with a flattened curve of contractions relative to the rest of the world, while somehow still leading the world in deaths?

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Indeed, the Orange Shitstain's trade war with China backfired and he increased farm subsidies, socialism, from $4 billion to over $20 billion. The dumb mofo will repeat this after he loses his next trade war.

[–] TheEntity@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why is the family of the president even a big deal? Or any deal at all. What is it, a monarchy? I guess now it is.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Because Trump made all his kids advisors to the president last time he was in office.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

If Trump could, he would turn USA into a monarchy. Right now he just settles for all the features of one. Every baron of tech went to his palace to grovel at the throne.

[–] SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de 11 points 1 year ago

It's a banana republic. Makes sense they want Panama.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It is pretty weird. I have no idea if our (I guess former now) Prime Minister even has children, let alone what their opinions are

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Spewing nonsense isn't finding a way to blame them. It's spewing nonsense. It's not logical. If I was mad about capitalism and started screaming at salamanders for it you wouldn't say I found a way to blame salamanders. You'd call me insane. Let's call a duck a duck ay?

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not personnel.

  • clear cut forests
  • replant overly dense for farming lumber
  • in a climate dependent on regular smaller fires, fight every fire for 150 years
  • allow and subsidize the buildup of atmospheric carbon and the runaway of global warming and climate change
  • ignore all scientific evidence and pursue only short-term profits

... Then act surprised and blame everything but the actual problem when mega fires bloom ever larger and more out of control year after year. They even signed a non binding agreement basically agreeing to the above. And, this very much isn't just California, they just have the local climate with a drought/flood cycle that really exacerbates the cycle.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

(stop wildfires from ever happening as they naturally do to protect property, which leads to a massive build up of very flammable brush, and once a fire finally gets out of hand, instead of being rather small as happens naturally, there is immense amounts of flammable dead wood and brush which turns it into an uncontrollable monster). [We should have learnt from indigenous fire management techniques]

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

(plants the flammable, heavily invasive eucalyptus tree all over)

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Civilized societies burn smaller piles of shit on the regular!

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

"and the media can't shut the fuck up about it."

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