Former President Donald Trump said California is not doing enough to "dampen" its forest floors, which he said will prevent wildfires from ravaging the state.
“They say that there’s so much water up north, that I wanna have the overflow areas go into your forests and dampen your forests,” Trump said. “Because if you dampen your forest, you’re not gonna have these fire forest fires that are burning at levels that nobody’s ever seen before.”
Absolute dumbass shit.
‘You have very poor land management,” he continued before recalling a conversation he had with an Austrian official about forest fires in that country. “He said, ‘Sir, we have more flammable trees than you do on your coast. We don’t have forest fires. We have land management.’ They take care of the land. They pick up the dead trees. You know, a tree doesn’t burn very easily unless it’s dead. Then it gets dry and it burns. The leaves on the ground – they’re five feet thick over here.”
Stuff that might be true (I’m never going to look into this) but isn’t funny. Goddamn Trump sending mixed signals here.
There’s no mixed signal here. The signal is “America bad, I fix”, and millions of idiots will continue to fall for it. The details of the ‘bad’ and the ‘fix’ don’t matter.
“They say that there’s so much water up north, that I wanna have the overflow areas go into your forests and dampen your forests,” Trump said. “Because if you dampen your forest, you’re not gonna have these fire forest fires that are burning at levels that nobody’s ever seen before.”
Absolute dumbass shit.
‘You have very poor land management,” he continued before recalling a conversation he had with an Austrian official about forest fires in that country. “He said, ‘Sir, we have more flammable trees than you do on your coast. We don’t have forest fires. We have land management.’ They take care of the land. They pick up the dead trees. You know, a tree doesn’t burn very easily unless it’s dead. Then it gets dry and it burns. The leaves on the ground – they’re five feet thick over here.”
Stuff that might be true (I’m never going to look into this) but isn’t funny. Goddamn Trump sending mixed signals here.
There’s no mixed signal here. The signal is “America bad, I fix”, and millions of idiots will continue to fall for it. The details of the ‘bad’ and the ‘fix’ don’t matter.
Love that the example is Australia, because just 3 years ago the whole freaking country was on fire.
Edit: lol, am dumb. He talked to the European “Austria”, not the kangaroo-laden “Australia”.
Austria. A country who’s about the size of a county in California. Not Australia. California has forests probably 4x the size of that country.
Lol, thank you for the correction xD