Dereliction Of Political Duty In A Tweet

[turbinetree]

August 10, 2018 2:53 am / 0 Comments / Climate Change, Disasters, Featured Post, Politics, White House


Reprinted with permission from Creators.

It’s been policy hereabout to ignore presidential tweets of no national consequence. Whether Donald Trump likes Roseanne or dislikes Rosie matters not. But Trump’s tweets about the catastrophic California fires do. They demonstrated remarkable ignorance and cowardice. And in the words that weren’t there, they showed a collapse of the leadership needed to defend this country from the onrushing disaster of climate change.

“Bad environmental laws,” he tweeted, have diverted needed water “into the Pacific Ocean,” making the wildfires “so much worse.” That’s the ignorance part.

The claim that firefighters don’t have enough water is not true, and to a moronic degree. “We’re having no problems as far as
access to water supply,” said Scott McClean, deputy chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Rob Stutzman, a prominent Republican strategist in California, called that tweet “nuts,” as well as “frightening” in its dumbness. Water plays a surprisingly small part in fighting wildfires. The main weapons are flame-retarding chemicals dropped from planes and creating physical fire breaks.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/dereliction-of-political-duty-in-a-tweet/

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“It’s a sad state of affairs when journalism is reduced to chasing the uninformed, unsupervised tweets of the president,” Brown’s spokesman told Politico.

He’s not wrong about that, generally. But unsupervised and dangerously ignorant tweets from someone who still is president do require attention. A dereliction of national duty cannot be brushed off.

[dchill]

1. "...unsupervised tweets"

Excuse? What's that about?

[gratuitous]

2. Bad data leads to bad decisions

For some reason, though, the alarmingly uninformed Executive doesn't elicit too much concern from Congress or the popular media. Oh, there are a couple of lonely voices crying in the wilderness, but as long as the people dying are far away on the other coast, or in some shithole territory that doesn't even have the common decency to be a real state, or can be safely ignored for other reasons, nobody in a position to do anything gives a tin shit.

Now, let's all pay attention to the latest tantrum about a president upset by citizens' free speech. Because that's what the popular media will cover, not those dreary wildfires and hurricane-caused power outages. You can't even get good wi-fi in those places!

[vlyons]

3. Trump recently tweeted some stupidity about why Calif has fires

He blamed it on Calif routing its water to the ocean, which, of course is untrue on so many levels.

[saidsimplesimon]

4. Blah, blah, blah

is what I hear when the dummy speaks for his master, putin.

A dereliction of national duty cannot be brushed off.

[Fred Sanders]

5. The Confuser in Chief purposely confuses and conflates, it has to be on purpose to feed his base

anger and fear and create hate against...us.

"The tweet may also reflect crossed mental wires confusing the wildfire crisis with the ongoing disputes over dividing available water between farms and fish. (As for the fish, it’s not just the Delta smelt. Salmon farming is a huge business.) The connection seems to have flown directly out of the presidential belfry."

Batshit crazy notions from the belfry!

[saidsimplesimon]

7. I agree, Fred.

He also must be concerned that his "funding" of personal wealth through money laundering could be part of Mueller's gig. He is not crazy, he is a Russian tool in our WH. imo

[BSdetect]

6. The msm must resolve to never again enable a moron to spout BS lies endlessly.