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Editorial: California burns: Where’s the president?
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | October 15, 2017 | Chronicle Editorial Board

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bias; california; journalism; media; msm; progressives
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1 posted on 10/15/2017 6:31:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now they want him to tweet.


2 posted on 10/15/2017 6:33:04 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And only 30 days ago they were going to secede.

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3 posted on 10/15/2017 6:33:11 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Editorial: California burns: Where’s the president?

He's in Washington, D.C. Where's your communist POS Governor Moonbeam?

4 posted on 10/15/2017 6:33:59 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: Lurker

And only 30 days ago they were going to secede.


^^^^ THAT ^^^^


5 posted on 10/15/2017 6:34:05 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

IF they were US citizens he might comment.


6 posted on 10/15/2017 6:34:36 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No one gives a shi...er...Obama about Mexifornia any more.
Suck it up and wait for the big one, buttwipes.


7 posted on 10/15/2017 6:34:43 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought californians wanted President Trump to jump off a cliff and also thought they wanted to secede. Also, they said they could go it alone. Am I missing something here???


8 posted on 10/15/2017 6:35:02 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Lisbon1940

Well where is the Governor? I am sure Trump has sent in all the Federal assistance he can. They have had fores in Cali before.


9 posted on 10/15/2017 6:35:03 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I believe that the SF Chronicle has already declared Mr Trump illegitimate as President based upon their various caveats about the 2016 election. So is this a bit of “what have you done for me lately?”


10 posted on 10/15/2017 6:35:13 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Editorial: California burns: Where’s the president?

You insult him at every turn and you now want him to help you? Oh, the arrogance!

11 posted on 10/15/2017 6:35:30 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Californians don’t want him anyway.


12 posted on 10/15/2017 6:35:37 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Send some B-52s with napalm.


13 posted on 10/15/2017 6:38:07 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought ya’ll hated him and you want to secede from the Union.

You say now you want his attention? Wait your turn. Besides every libtard out there is so brilliant that help is not needed, right?


14 posted on 10/15/2017 6:38:44 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“The most cynical speculation would be that he could not care less about a state that despises him like no other”.

Call me cynical! You folks seem to be happy with your ways and don’t give a hoot about following US laws. You love going it alone.


15 posted on 10/15/2017 6:38:50 AM PDT by Tac Double Tap (I'd rather die standing than on my knees begging.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why should LIEberal Californian’s care what President Trump says or not? According to them he’s not their president anyway. They want Ca to secede so take care of the disaster with their President Moonbeam in Sacto.


16 posted on 10/15/2017 6:38:52 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The SF Crapicle would be blasting PRESIDENT Trump for “playing politics” if he showed up to “empathize” in California. The commies at the Crapicle are evil and hateful maggots. We don’t elect presidents to go out and publicly “empathize” every time there is a disaster. Geez. Morons.


17 posted on 10/15/2017 6:39:21 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Has Sheila JACKSON LEE changed her name yet?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Perhaps a tweet like “I am deeply sorry for the victims of the government of California. Perhaps if they valued human life and property over the Kangaroo Rat’s habitat they’d let people go in and clean out deadwood like they used to.”


18 posted on 10/15/2017 6:39:29 AM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom not more government)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He is also someone who should have learned by now
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Oh he has and that is why you are getting the BIG ORANGE FINGER!


19 posted on 10/15/2017 6:41:19 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (Millions more Closet Trumpers than Never Trumpers)
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To: Common Sense 101

Our esteemed governor- hizzoror gay ass Jerry Brown is busy signing new laws that would improperly imprison California residents for calling a tranny a dude and a dyke a girl


20 posted on 10/15/2017 6:41:31 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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