Fuck every Republican in office.

I read this line too fast and thought the last word was orifice.

Hello ?

If rethugs had been in charge the regulations and building codes would have been so much more lax the whole damned LA and surrounding counties would go up in flames!

I’d imagine a lot of the problems are legacies of that era.

donations would make a federal response look puny.

I don't recall idiot rwnj pulling this garbage when NC was flooded by Hurricane Helene.

GoFundMe Wildfire Relief Fund 2025
https://www.gofundme.com/f/wildfire-relief-fund-2025

you fucking fascist Republican prick.

I wouldn't mind if Congress did something like required Fire-Wise Construction for anything up in the hills.

I hate these people.

I normally don’t label people, but he’s worthy of an exception. What an a**hole!

Even if they had 100 yard fire breaks, the high winds would have driven the embers over the break, rendering them useless.
This is what California has been doing to minimize this kind of disaster:
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/08/california-forest-management-hotter-drier-climate/

This shit only happens when Republicans are deciding on aid for states that vote Democratic.
If California had voted for Trump, there would be no such conditions.

time a hurricane occurs in the south like TX, FL, MS, etc., and there will be no blank checks, and there will be strings attached. No one , for instance, should be allowed to build anything on a beach. No houses, restaurants, hotels. Nothing.

I ask the “honorable” Senator again: has Wyoming been taking their forests?

https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20241114/president-joseph-r-biden-jr-approves-major-disaster-declaration-wyoming

https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/natural-resources-energy/2024-10-14/evacuations-for-wildfires-in-jackson-and-sheridan-areas

X number of immigrants workers? Open permission for unlimited offshore drilling rights? A promise to allow the extermination of the smelts Trump hates so much? A promise not to run for president?

Some of what I am reading here of late is baffling to me.

And he is only pay for play.
He will NEVER sign off on anything unless he gets something in return.

It is foolish to underestimate Trump.
He is quite dangerous.

It is obvious what Trump will demand.
He is already demanding it from everyone.
Money, power, loyalty, prestige.
Or silence.
And we know what he demands from women.

should be willing to "give" Trump? You got ideas to share? Or you just advising general capitulation in advance?

Newsom is already waiving environmental regulations on reconstruction before the fires are even under control. Want him to do what else?

One thing I do want all Democrats in Congress to give is an assurance that should the GOP fuck over California and attach strings and restrictions on aid to fellow citizens in need, that unlike Joe Biden's constant turning the other cheek, there will be a reckoning. South Carolina and Florida will no longer be assured unlimited, seemingly annual aid, for those whose homes continue to be washed away. Texas and it's half assed power grid can figure out its own way out of winter blizzards.

Would be no questions asked. The cons are selfish and lack empathy.

It has the means to 'punch back' against GOP fuckery. Just a matter of time before the daggers come out.

Here's what Newsome should give him: California's pay-in to the federal government, 14% of the nation's GDP. No federal help? Fine. California can keep that money and use it to recover all by themselves.

I'm sure without your input, California was going to rebuild so we could go through this all over again. This from the party that wants to end regulations because it's just gov't red tape. Who needs all of those environmental reviews and energy saving regulations. And don't forget upgrades that are required under ADA requirements.
Fu..ing assh.le!

You anti-American fascist pig!!

possible for the blue states to unite into their own country, and let the red states stop mooching tax dollars from the blue states.

There’s going to be so much money flowing into CA, all with no strings attached. Newsom will spend it very wisely. There are so many incredibly successful people there, in the arts, sciences. Just think of the real estate developers. I read here on DU that Taylor Swift donated 25 million! With no strings attached. I’m sure many other successful Californians will do the same. Hopefully, it will shame him with the little federal money that’s needed, since Californians took care of their own.

Newsom will come out of this totally on top and trump will be in the gutter.

or any of the other western states, as well as any of the southern states (providing that they have republican reps in their state and fed. governments), then no aid should flow to these states either, if you're going to tie shoelaces to the Calif. aid pkg.

Loudmouths, and wanting to hurt other Americans. Scumbags all of them.

make them rich/richer. No kick backs no money republican policy.

It turned out that the vast majority of the CA land in question was federal, but I never heard one of them speak about their own mismanagement. Or of the idea of checking your facts before you open your mouth, simply to change feet.

From a welfare state senator.

Where were the conditions on Florida's aid?.

My friends in Wyoming were shocked to hear me say that. Then I suggested that if Barrasso, an orthopedic surgeon, was at home practicing medicine the same way he practices legislating half the state would be on crutches and the other half would be crawling.


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