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Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 02:38 PM Nov 2018

California voters will BURN Trump, IF he is allowed to run for reelection!

Last edited Sat Nov 17, 2018, 07:39 PM - Edit history (1)

Fire Officials Denounce Trump's Tweets Threatening to Cut Funding for California Wildfires

Donald Trump had a lot to say about California’s forest management in the wake of the states’ deadly wildfires — and many officials are saying the president got it completely wrong.

“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” Trump tweeted on Saturday. “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!”

The following day he added, “With proper Forest Management, we can stop the devastation constantly going on in California. Get Smart!”

Speaking out against the threat, California Professional Firefighters President Brian Rice said that the president had gotten it “dangerously wrong.”

Pointing out that the state of California should hardly be blamed when the majority of forests are not under their control, he added, “it is is the federal government that has chosen to divert resources away from forest management, not California.”
https://people.com/politics/fire-officials-denounce-trump-tweets-california-wildfires/


Video, showing California wildfires:


"If" the Mueller Investigation fails to destroy any chance of Trump being reelected, California voters, celebrities and firefighters will!

On edit at 4:36 PM MTZ on 11/17/18
I wonder if this OP Title works better:
RECENT CNN Video Clips of California Fires
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roamer65

(36,745 posts)
1. If Dump manages to steal the election in 2020...
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 02:42 PM
Nov 2018

it will be by another electoral vote/popular vote mismatch.

If it happens, that will be the end of the republic.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
2. He really needs to be called out loudly more often that he's a fucken stupid asshole, unfit
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 02:52 PM
Nov 2018

to be president. What gets me are these idiots that support him waving their little flags claiming to be patriots. FFS, he doesn't give a damn about them, the people of the country or the country. FFS, many in this country have had a massive brain meltdown. I attribute much of it to Fox News and the bullshit they spread 7x24. It's become a country wherein many can not think for themselves.

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
3. What amazes me is people with the audacity to post Fox News lies at DU...
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 03:04 PM
Nov 2018

Don't people realize flame-bait, Opening Posts, which mention Fox makes them look like Freepers?

For the record, in a civil lawsuit Fox was forced to prove, in court, Fox is not a news media; but instead entertainment media.

Not long afterward, several, attractive female announcers, working at Fox, filed lawsuits - FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT - against Fox and Rupert Murdoch and other executive at the corporation.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
7. Some people just get easily sucked into the BS at Fox News. Discretionary thinking seems
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 03:24 PM
Nov 2018

rather void in today's America.

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
5. What about well-known celebrities, who will speak out against Trump?
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 03:14 PM
Nov 2018

Could someone give this poignant Opening Post a 5th recommendation, before it vanishes from the General Discussion page?

MountCleaners

(1,148 posts)
6. Current line on the right is that...
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 03:18 PM
Nov 2018

...Californians are somehow less "American" than everyone else. We can look forward to at least two more years of demonization of California by Trump and the right. As a Chicagoan, I know this stigmatization well. We always get blamed for homicides and they are always making it sound like life here is horrible. Any place that votes blue is not worthy of consideration. What's more, this administration and its defenders increasingly have a policy of limiting their compassion for victims of disasters - whether natural (forest fires, hurricanes) or caused by humans (mass shootings). Used to be that repubs at least made a show of concern when lives were lost.

I'm wondering what sort of Bible these "Christians" are reading. They don't believe in compassion for anyone but themselves anymore.

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
12. Precisely, my concern! I'm not sure how the Electoral College works, in California...
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 07:06 PM
Nov 2018

Or for that matter, I'm not sure how the E.T. works in New Mexico; but I know how in works in Alabama.

Hekate

(90,758 posts)
13. The EC ensures that Wisconsin's few individual votes are worth vastly more than ours
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 09:17 PM
Nov 2018

Which is how Hillary "lost" despite having 3,000,000 more votes than Trump. Not picking on Wisconsin in particular, the same goes for all the low-population rural states. Their vote is worth a lot more than mine.

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
11. It was obvious to those, who previously replied... I guess you should put in context...
Sat Nov 17, 2018, 05:36 PM
Nov 2018

with the rest of the headline on the Opening Post

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