Posted on 10/15/2017 6:31:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As raging wildfires devour the lives, homes and dreams of Californians in an unprecedented scale, one voice has been conspicuously mute through day after day of crisis: President Trump.
This is not a man who is reticent to let Americans know what is foremost on his mind. He is also someone who should have learned by now — after devastating hurricanes and the Las Vegas massacre — that Americans expect their president to step forward with empathy and resolve in moments of national trauma.
Yet Trump has offered no more than a few perfunctory words about the Wine Country fires that have left at least 40 dead, consumed thousands of structures and stretched the physical and mental mettle of the dedicated firefighters and medical professionals to the edge of exhaustion.
So how can it be that the loss of 40 human beings on American soil did not merit a single tweet? The most forgiving interpretation would be that Trump, along with the cable networks that seem to attract his laser focus and have not made this a huge story, have a case of disaster fatigue. Perhaps the problem is that he hasn’t been blasted for his underwhelming response: There is no surer way to provoke him to his phone. The most cynical speculation would be that he could not care less about a state that despises him like no other.
Devastated California awaits your leadership, Mr. President. Tweet up, if you care.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
There were areas of Santa Rosa still being evacuated yesterday. You don't need the hassle of a president coming to visit in the middle of ongoing operations.
I want all presidents to stay away from my city. It creates a traffic nightmare. I once sat in my car on the highway for 40 minutes so Pres Bush could get to a fundraiser in Oakville. I was only going to visit my elderly mother, but people in cars around me were trying to get to work and to pick up their kids. They shut down Hwy 29 between St. Helena and Oakville. It's just wrong that a president on non-official business can cause such disruption.
I thought California had TONS of money?
To give away of course.
Maybe they can apply for aid from The Clinton Foundation.
(Huge Belly Laugh!)
Editorial: My grass needs a mowin’, where’s the President?
This coming from people who live in a city that is come to smell like an open Mexican sewer? I have been traveling to San Francisco on business regularly since 1986 and over those 31 years the city has start to smell a lot worse. It is due to the idiotic low flow toilets that don’t wash out the sewers. When I am there and I close my eyes the smell makes it easy to believe that I am in Nogales, Mexico.
This coming from people who live in a city that is come to smell like an open Mexican sewer? I have been traveling to San Francisco on business regularly since 1986 and over those 31 years the city has start to smell a lot worse. It is due to the idiotic low flow toilets that don’t wash out the sewers. When I am there and I close my eyes the smell makes it easy to believe that I am in Nogales, Mexico.
The signers will have a singathon while they hold tightly to their money while claiming the president isn’t helping...
You are thinking of the big forests in the Trinity Alps and Sierra Nevadas.
The small Inland Coastal mountains in Napa, Solana, Lake, and adjacent counties are dominated by a native chaparral habitat with lots of scrub oak, manzanita, and chamise — all non-commercial trees and bushes. The factors you list are not at play in this area.
This area gets almost all rain in a six month period, Nov to April. There is extreme variability in rainfall year to year. Last year was a record setting wet year, so we are now at month 5 of our dry season with a huge fuel load. The native plants are also highly resinous and quite flammable.
If the people/media on the left ever listened to any of President Trump’s many speeches, both formal before huge crowds and with the many small gatherings he holds in the White House, they would have heard him speak with compassion of the suffering of people in CA several times. Unfortunately, the left only reads/hears the few sound bites that the dishonest media plays over and over.
And, I do believe, the Governor of California recently declared, at the U.N. of all places, that "Donald Trump is not in charge of the United States", and that California was going to open climate negotiations with China and other admirable nations.
Perhaps these twinkle-toed fantasists should be looking to China, or Africa, or the Clinton Foundation, or to outer space for help with their problems.
The Editorial Board of the Chronicle Eh?
Wants the President to tweet about San-Fransicko.
Really?
I was thinking of a Live-Aid type concert with Babs and Moonbeam on stage together. Maybe a type of Dolly and Kenny rendition, but different.
I heard the President’s comments and they were very good.
They are complaining Trump has “offered no more than a few perfunctory words.”
Well, next time lets get a word count requirement for comments on natural disasters.
What POS they are.
The President of Mexico?
Devastated California awaits your leadership.
But wait didn’t California claim they had all the answers to everything guess they reap what they sow?.
Here’s a switch:
The head of California’s emergency services on Monday penned a letter to the U.S. Forest Service that raised to prospects that the state may stop protecting national forests during fires.
Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci said the agency has stiffed local governments $18 million for fighting wildfires on federal lands last year. “I cannot continue to support the deployment of resources to protect federal land that ultimately may bankrupt our local governments,” Ghilarducci said in the letter sent Monday to Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell.
Some communities were just recently reimbursed for last summer’s Cedar Fire in Sequoia National Forest and several Northern California counties are still awaiting payments for other fires. (2016) Additionally, the Obama people found a loophole in the agreement they had with local firefighters since 1955 that says they don’t pay part time firemen. Nearly 1/3 of the California force is made up of volunteers.
So, here’s Trump cleaning up more of Obama’s corrupt treatment of the people, even in a state as liberal as this. I guess they do eat their own.
rwood
Yeah, that’s even better.
People have died, Ahole. Get your head out.
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