Trump threatens California with no federal aid for wildfires

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Trump Approves Major Disaster Declaration For California

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I was not aware that Malibu was a forest... unless my memory from when I visited there is mistaken, it isn't.

The apologia for Trump's spiteful and inhumane responses to the devastation of this tragedy are a political narrative divorced from realism.

One could cut down every single conifer in California and there would be no fewer fires. It's actually difficult to set a living tree on fire (with the exception of eucalyptus), and what is actually burning at the start of most California fires is dead grass, and shrubbery, the latter which can grow 10 to 15 feet high.

Hey I have an idea, if forest management IS the problem, how about increasing its' budget AND dealing with climate change, in order to actually be on the safe side?

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Of course they don't, that's something everyone is responsible for, starting with all world leaders & including the govt. of California.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

The bottom line is that Trump is blaming the fires on California's restrictions on commercial conifer logging, despite the fact that one of those fires is not in a conifer forest, or forest at all, and most wild fires in California are not in conifer forests. In fact, the conifer forests in southern California catch on fire far less often than the semi desert areas.

Paradise is in a conifer forest but not a national forest or state wilderness area. It is an ordinary city and the city has jurisdiction over tree removal.

What Trump gets wrong about wildfires, by a fire scientist

Trump tells FEMA not to send any more money to California for "forrest [sic] fires".

REALITY CHECK: Only 3% of California forests are owned by the State of California.
"Forrest" is spelled with only one R.

That Motherf***er (Rep. Rashida Tlaib's contribution for understatement of the year) was not only willing to allow 2,975 American citizens to die of racist indifference and neglect after Hurricane Maria because they were brown-skinned and Spanish speaking, he's apparently perfectly willing to allow Californians (and as Niemöller observed, presumably others as well) to suffer and die simply because they don't vote Republican.

Is America tired of winning yet?

Who owns the other 97%?