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Related: About this forumThe Many Reasons Shitstain's Big Mt. Rushmore Fireworks Wank-Fest Is A Truly Stupid Idea
Ed. - This is just for starters, since all of the Black Hills is in Moderate Drought status (update through Tuesday 6/23, which is the data cutoff).
For the last decade, fireworks have been banned at Mt. Rushmore due to environmental concerns and public health concerns. President Trump, however, is not somebody who seems to care about either, so he's planning on going ahead with his fireworks show on July 3 at the iconic site.
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Due to climate crisis shifts in precipitation, the conditions are ripe for a catastrophe. The Black Hills moisture level in April and May was 30 to 50 percent below its long-term average, the Rapid City Journal reported. June has been hotter and drier than normal and the long-range forecasts suggest those conditions will continue until July, as The Associated Press reported.
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Trump has wanted to have a fireworks show at Mt. Rushmore since 2018, but advisers had successfully steered him away from that idea, according to The Washington Post. And yet, when he was asked about the risk of wildfire earlier this year, Trump failed to see the large picture of the surrounding forest. "What can burn? It's stone," he said in January, as Popular Mechanics reported.
The state authority distributed 7,500 tickets to the event through an online lottery. While coronavirus cases are surging throughout the country, there is no social distancing requirement for the July 3 event at Mt. Rushmore. Instead, the Interior Department will post signs throughout the park urging visitors to wear a cloth face covering when it is impossible to keep six feet away from others, and it will provide face coverings for all of its employees, according to The Washington Post.
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https://www.ecowatch.com/mt-rushmore-fireworks-trump-public-health-2646260174.html?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4
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The Many Reasons Shitstain's Big Mt. Rushmore Fireworks Wank-Fest Is A Truly Stupid Idea (Original Post)
hatrack
Jun 2020
OP
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)1. Add arsonist to Predator Grump's list of infamy.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)2. Right?
What an ass hat
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)3. What can burn? It is stone. The sheer stupidity
Of that remark is straight jacket lunacy! Has he ever been there?
hatrack
(59,592 posts)4. Has he ever been there? Please! There are stairs, and you have to walk from the parking lot.
It's . . . . so . . . . . . . . . . far . . . . . . .
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)7. Trust me, I know!:)
Been a few years but coming out of that tunnel, seeing those faces carved in Stone, then seeing Crazy Horse from the small restaurant
There is a drought in SD right now. That is why they stopped the fireworks 7 years ago.
littlemissmartypants
(22,797 posts)5. He really does just want to burn it all down, doesn't he.
I guess we should be glad they're fireworks and not nuclear weapons.
In my mind I see the poor animals scrambling to keep from burning to death. Its a stark metaphor for our current situation.
I feel ill.
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)6. And I'm sure the stupid trumper SD governor is right there.
Idiots
nykym
(3,063 posts)8. So notonlt does he want to
KILL us ALL, he wants to burn the country down.