CA Burns, 9 Dead & Shitstain Threatens To Cut Off Funding: "Remedy Now Or No More Fed Payments!"

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At least nine people are known dead and over a quarter million have been evacuated as the combination of gale-force winds and microscopic humidity drive walls of flames across both ends of California. Whole communities have been burned down, residents have lost their lives on highways in desperate attempts to escape, and firefighters are desperately trying to contain some of the blazes on Saturday with higher winds expected again on Sunday.

Against this deadly inferno, with tens of thousands of emergency personal putting their lives on the line and the risk still growing, it might seem like the appropriate time for a leader to issue emergency orders freeing up more funds, sending in military forces to relieve weary first responders, offering every possible assistance to the nation’s most populous state at a time of utter disaster. That’s what a leader might do. If we had a leader.

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Donald Trump’s only mention of the fires in California — his only mention — is a spiteful threat to cut off funding even as people are dying. During another round of fires in August, Trump made similar threats after demanding that California practice clear cutting to remove forests. But as the Sacramento Bee pointed out at the time, Trump has already slashed federal funds for forest management in California.

Trump obviously relishes the chance to tell California to go to hell—even when the people there are experiencing literal hell. And he probably thinks that his sneering at burning homes and dying children on the West Coast will play well in red states where they can think of better ways to spend the money that was collected from blue states. Just because California makes the biggest contribution to the federal budget by far doesn’t mean it should get anything back. What’s saving lives next to paying for subsidies on something that needs subsidies because of a Trump-imposed sanction?

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/10/1811771/-As-fires-ravage-California-Donald-Trump-threatens-to-cut-off-fire-management-funds

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1. Proving he's a "globalist"

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2. No he can't!

He thinks he's already dictator since that's what he wants and plans on making happen. He's got his pet SCOTUS and thinks they will cover up any breaks with the constitution he makes and that he can commit any crime he wants and nothing can be done because of the absolute sycophantic rw devotion of 4 of the (in)justices.

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3. Way to go "president of all the people"...

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With trump in office I get why some in California wonder if they'd be better off as their own country.

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4. THOSE. ARE. FEDERAL. FORESTS.

If you're going to blame the party which got the money, blame Ryan Zinke, you bloated piece of crap.