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 hasnt 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.
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Your are a dreadful person and a disgrace to Jim Robinson and all Californians.
“Devastated California awaits your leadership, Mr. President. Tweet up, if you care.”
If he did tweet they would complain about that too.
As a Californian, I feel very fortunate that we are receiving aid after the extreme buffoonery of our governor and the hateful and violent mindset of the left in our state.
Actions have consequences ... and Kalifornistan the rest of the country should not have to suffer for your idiotic politics. Succeed as you threaten BUT if you do don’t attempt to come to Arizona. If you are not HARD CORE conservative ... you will NOT be welcome in the free state of Arizona and we zonies will let you know about it.
Secede ... damn spelling corrector
I saw a post on Facebook yesterday. Someone was mad at President Trump because he hadnt sent in the National Guard and said dont bother showing up here youre not welcome Mr. President.
Thanks! I knew I heard him he expressed his concern to Americans in California.
Having time on my hands, I checked the 3 hardest hit counties...Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino. According to red/blue 2016 county presidential election results they collectively voted 65,3% for Hillary. F ‘em.
Whiney liberal scumbags need to drop to their knees and beg....
The ill educated and poorly informed are everywhere. The State declares an emergency and the Guard is activated by the GOVERNOR. That would be MOONBEAM. The Federal Government, the Trump Administration, made it a Federal Disaster Relief after MOONBEAM requested it and Vice President Pence showed up IN PERSON in Sacramento to declare such.
I'm sure glad the conservatives in California are brilliant because the leftists are brain dead.
I don’t agree with this line of thinking. People deserve to be rescued, even the ones who hate you. I am glad that President Trump has this philosophy.
“I dont agree with this line of thinking. People deserve to be rescued, even the ones who hate you. I am glad that President Trump has this philosophy.”
Even for people who would disarm you, take away your health insurance, tax you into penury,etc and ultimately throw you
Into a concentraation camp? Democrats like that? You are way too nice for combat.
IDK about that. I am just keeping my finger off the trigger until it is time to shoot. If guys in California for some reason attacked those providing aid to those who got hurt, then I would be all for cops or military fighting the attackers
Signing their secession paperwork.
What, do they want him to wizz on it to put it out?
He talks, they attack. He doesn’t talk, they attack.
Disasters like this were predictable once the bunny-huggers let their lust for promoting Gaia outweigh their common sense and force the forestry service to stop maintaining firebreaks and clearing those and clearing dangerous old growth in the interest of a “return to nature in its pure state”
“Send some B-52s with napalm.”
You are a disgraceful TURD!
Pretty sure they just want some free stuff...
Not aimed at you, Eric but other posters.
Have any of you actually been in CA?
As a native and a property owner - I agree that the politics su##
but remember we are the land of Reagan, it’s still a beautiful state and there is hope - amazingly enough recent emigrants are more conservative than some natives!
TRS
Dad was in the Army. We were stationed overseas for about ten years.
In 1961, we sailed from Yokohama into Oakland (under the Golden Gate Bridge) to return home.
Oakland looked damned good to me...
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