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Dulcinea

(7,644 posts)
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 07:29 AM Monday

Trump, Musk and MAGA douse California wildfires with conspiracies, hate and lies Opinion

(USA Today) While wildfires rage across Los Angeles, President-elect Donald Trump, weirdo presidential wingman Elon Musk and other disreputable characters in the MAGA extended universe are doing all they can to make things worse.

Like smart-ass school children, they’re leveraging an unfolding natural disaster as a chance to shout stupid nicknames at California’s governor, making up nonsense out of whole cloth and pointing fingers in whatever direction lunkhead conspiracy theorists tell them to point.

In other words, they’re behaving exactly as we should now expect MAGA folks to behave, with cruelty and opportunism first, and they're doing it less than two weeks before Trump starts running the country.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-musk-maga-douse-california-221516792.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_CLICKER_T2&ncid=crm_30541-1501458-20250113-0&bt_user_id=PBege%2FZUdPDEQXxLi%2FyRd3N8N5if7O%2Fag0g%2B1YTIQRqo%2FcIvBipBhGU7cMU6icRu&bt_ts=1736771108017

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Trump, Musk and MAGA douse California wildfires with conspiracies, hate and lies Opinion (Original Post) Dulcinea Monday OP
Yep................... Lovie777 Monday #1
Yup, that's all these small hateful creatures have. They play the same few cards, Magoo48 Monday #2
They mean Newsom. GreenWave Monday #3
Newsom may run for president in 2028. Dulcinea Monday #4
Newsom will run in 2028,no doubt about it. n/t Bengus81 Monday #6
Fan the CA wildfires Marthe48 Monday #5
It's a form of terrorism. 58Sunliner Monday #7
They're just trying to divert attention from the preeminent cause of this catastrophe, that being climate change by Uncle Joe Monday #8
Always blame others for the woes that impact people, and they are never part of the problem ever. SWBTATTReg Monday #9
People need to get ready Blue_Tires Monday #10
This is very bad omen of things to come. Borogove 13 hrs ago #11

Magoo48

(5,628 posts)
2. Yup, that's all these small hateful creatures have. They play the same few cards,
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 09:17 AM
Monday

because they began without any face cards, and burned the rest.

Dulcinea

(7,644 posts)
4. Newsom may run for president in 2028.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 09:23 AM
Monday

They're trying to destroy his reputation now because they're afraid he might win.

Marthe48

(19,600 posts)
5. Fan the CA wildfires
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 10:32 AM
Monday

Douse can mean adding fuel, or extinguishing. felon and fan boy sure won't extinguish anything, except the light of liberty.

Uncle Joe

(60,331 posts)
8. They're just trying to divert attention from the preeminent cause of this catastrophe, that being climate change by
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 01:41 PM
Monday

morphing the discussion from the overwhelming evidence of fact based science to partisan political soap opera.

It's how the oligarchs and corporate supremacists are protected, keep the people frantically looking left and right while the anvil falls on their head from above.

The scope of these fires and the draught that preceded it are directly related to human magnified climate change.

Thanks for the thread Dulcinea

SWBTATTReg

(24,504 posts)
9. Always blame others for the woes that impact people, and they are never part of the problem ever.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 06:24 PM
Monday

Hypocrites ... and it's funny, I don't see them doing a damn thing to help anyone w/ the ongoing disaster in Calif.

No wonder I don't want to help a single one of these republicans in other states...they are hateful, full of spite, and don't care a damn about anyone else. Not once have I heard anything constructive from any of them.

Blue_Tires

(57,259 posts)
10. People need to get ready
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 06:46 PM
Monday

Because this is going to be the norm for every global disaster or tragedy moving forward.

We're in a post-truth society now.

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