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danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#326651: Sep 9th 2020 at 8:50:15 AM

The sky is gray and it's raining ash here in California so, you know, same old.

Edited by danime91 on Sep 9th 2020 at 8:50:25 AM

AzurePaladin She/Her Pronouns from Forest of Magic Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: Mu
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#326652: Sep 9th 2020 at 8:55:14 AM

That feels like Neuromancer's opening line, its bizarre to think that it's real.

The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -Fighteer
TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#326653: Sep 9th 2020 at 8:58:04 AM

Is Washington or any of the politicians there doing anything about this?

Anything at all?

(Asking mostly on the democratic side, since Trump and the GOP, of course, are most likely going to just shove their heads in the sand and ignore the fires all together...)

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#326654: Sep 9th 2020 at 9:04:08 AM

What are politicians going to do about current fires? Filibuster at them?

danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#326655: Sep 9th 2020 at 9:14:40 AM

Well, they can't really do anything about current fires, but they could enact some policy changes on how we prevent and mitigate future ones. California doesn't do nearly enough controlled burns, for one thing. We need to burn away all the detritus and fuel that's been building up over the years, rather than wait for a big out-of-control fire to burn it all.

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#326656: Sep 9th 2020 at 9:17:30 AM

> What are politicians going to do about current fires? Filibuster at them?

with the amount of hot air they dispel they might make the fires worse!

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#326657: Sep 9th 2020 at 9:38:29 AM

Trump will probably order more fires to be set to spite nature.

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Jasaiga Since: Jan, 2015
#326658: Sep 9th 2020 at 9:40:19 AM

Is anyone watching CNN? Trump admitted on TAPE ON THE RECORD that he intentionally downplayed the virus back in February.

Like explicitly. They are playing the audio.

This man is a monster.

TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#326659: Sep 9th 2020 at 9:43:29 AM

[up] He is also still not taking the virus seriously, since he is solely using it as a political tool to attack his opponents with.

A true monster indeed.

Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#326660: Sep 9th 2020 at 9:45:25 AM

Watch his polling go up as a result of him admitting he would deliberately downplay a deadly virus

That is how logic works nowadays, don't ya know

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#326661: Sep 9th 2020 at 9:46:21 AM

Is there any crime Trump denies continually? Eventually, he admits to them all.

Trump is just enjoying his immunity due to the treachery of the GOP.

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#326662: Sep 9th 2020 at 9:50:14 AM

It typically goes like this-

Unaligned Media: It is reported that the President did <x horrible thing>.

Trump's allies in the media: The President would never do such a terrible thing.

Trump: I did it and I'd do it again!

To semi-quote Marx, first outrage then farce.

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Sep 9th 2020 at 9:50:42 AM

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
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#326663: Sep 9th 2020 at 9:54:09 AM

Oh sweet Sobek Trump is literaly that goofy "I'd fucken do it again" meme

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#326664: Sep 9th 2020 at 9:57:33 AM

The "dramatic surprise twist " is a hallmark of reality game shows.

Quite. Hype-mongering is the only skill Trump has. It's what both his campaign and Presidency run on. He does shit like this all the time because that's what he is: a showman.

He views the American public not as his constituency but as his audience and he goes out of his way to try and build hype both for Presidential acts that he's taking (usually terrible ones) and for things unrelated to him. And now he's hinting at a Series Finale for COVID-19 because he knows that nudges and hints of exciting episodes to come are how you keep an audience addicted.

It typically goes like this-

Unaligned Media: It is reported that the President did <x horrible thing>.

Trump's allies in the media: The President would never do such a terrible thing.

Trump: I did it and I'd do it again!

To semi-quote Marx, first outrage then farce.

That's not always the case. Sometimes Trump's line is, "I didn't do it. But if I did it, it would be okay, because there is nothing wrong with doing it. It's perfectly fine to do it. But I didn't do it. And I'd do it again!"

Edited by TobiasDrake on Sep 9th 2020 at 9:59:07 AM

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#326665: Sep 9th 2020 at 10:05:28 AM

CNN on that

It's from Bob Woodward's new book, so I expect the "Hoax!" Cries from Pennsylvania Avenue shortly

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#326666: Sep 9th 2020 at 10:15:58 AM

Yeah, with Trump, I argue it’s better to think of him less as an idiot and more as a rather clever con/showman. He doesn’t know how to run a country, but he does know how to keep the attention of the masses. Indeed, I’d say part of of why he has as much power as he does is because his base is having more “fun” in politics than they’ve had in a while.

He’s a clown, but he’s very good at being a clown.

Edited by Protagonist506 on Sep 9th 2020 at 10:16:08 AM

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
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#326667: Sep 9th 2020 at 10:20:48 AM

I would not agree with that. Trump is a passable entertainer, who can rise to those levels because of the systemic erosion of political trust, education and a bunch of other assorted things. He's mediocre at best - his magnum opus The Apprentice wasn't really that good.

And mediocrity is fine for entertainment, but not for governance.

Edited by Aszur on Sep 9th 2020 at 11:23:03 PM

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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
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#326668: Sep 9th 2020 at 10:46:07 AM

Actually, controlled forest fires is a good way to prevent uncontrollable fires. And Trump is hindering that effort with his import ban on Chinese drone components. So yes, Trump is making fire season worse.

You know what else is making things worse? Gender reveal parties using explosives and setting fields and forests ablaze. Really, it's high time the US makes those illegal. Every year for several years now it is the same thing, reckless idiots setting their garden or a local field ablaze because they insist on using fireworks or just plain explosives for a gender reveal.

You know, maybe do it in a way that doesn't pose a fire hazard in the middle of a dry spell?

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#326669: Sep 9th 2020 at 10:47:59 AM

[up]It's unfortunately not just a USA problem. Australia has had problems with gender reveal parties going horribly wrong too.

Edited by M84 on Sep 10th 2020 at 1:48:23 AM

Disgusted, but not surprised
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#326670: Sep 9th 2020 at 10:49:04 AM

I've said it before, Trump should have stuck with television, he's at least reasonably entertaining as a TV host, and relatively harmless.

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#326671: Sep 9th 2020 at 10:50:30 AM

Is that what the gender reveal parties meme is about? Oh god what the fuck did Florida man do now...

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#326672: Sep 9th 2020 at 10:52:02 AM

Oh you wish it was just Florida.

It's not even just the USA.

Here's a vid of a car igniting in Australia last year as part of a badly thought out gender reveal:

This stupidity has gone global.

Edited by M84 on Sep 10th 2020 at 1:53:55 AM

Disgusted, but not surprised
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#326673: Sep 9th 2020 at 10:54:09 AM

Florida man is the modern Paul Bunyan: A state-transcendent being representative of all things 'Merica at its drunkest, highest, and criminalest.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#326674: Sep 9th 2020 at 10:54:37 AM

Another stupid thing about it: It's not a gender reveal either.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#326675: Sep 9th 2020 at 10:56:55 AM

[up][up]That's not what Florida Man means. Only in Florida refers to the fact that we hear about Florida's weird shit more often because Florida is very transparent about its weird shit.

Disgusted, but not surprised

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