Summary
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) threatened to withhold federal disaster relief from California during ongoing Los Angeles wildfires that have killed at least 16 people and destroyed over 12,000 structures.
Davidson criticized California’s forest management policies, echoing misleading right-wing claims that poor management, not climate change, is to blame.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom refuted these claims, noting that the state’s forest management budget has increased tenfold since 2019.
Davidson’s comments follow a pattern of GOP blaming state policies for disasters, similar to rhetoric from Trump.
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Is that the same energy that gave him that happy and loving face?
bOtH siDeS!
That was the old thing. The new thing is bOtH siDeS riGgEd SyStEm!
Then instead of doing anything you do nothing and it’s the same result. Much more convenient.
I thought it was well established that decades of forest management that included extinguishing every single fire is what has produced an excess of fuel for today’s fires.
Edit: In case I am misunderstood, I’m pretty sure that kind of forest management was changed a long time ago, but the consequences are still evident. I am not saying that denying funding is in any way correct or justified. There is nothing about California’s forest management that would demand that.
Yes, so what’s “misleading” is that they’re using these talking points to blame current forest management policies on the problem. Also they’re doing this so they can ignore/deny that the climate is changing and making the area more susceptible to fires, no matter what your fire management policies are.
There’s also the “California bad” rhetoric because nobody wants to live in shitass Ohio.
LMAO get bent Ohio GOP: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ohio
A Rizzler’s last thoughts should be of Ohio.
Never mind that California probably has more conservatives than most conservative states…
Yeah, it’s a big place. Lots of farms vs the very high density cities.
California has more 2024 Trump votes than the smallest 30 states have citizens of every age.
It’s very close to matching the Trump votes of Texas and Florida, but they were a bit ahead.
I’m on the other side of the continent, but California is a big place!
They stopped doing controlled burns. Climate change is just more fuel on the fire so to speak. Fire is natural, not allowing shit to burn away ungrowth has %100 not helped, but this is just repubs denying climate change like the fucking dipshits…as usual.
They stopped doing controlled burns
For a while, yes. They’ve been doing them again for a while now, though, so we’re not even as bad at it as we were
That’s scary to think this could be worse.
Never mind how baseline dry California is. It’s so dry, your lips start to chap just being there. Embers in hurricane winds landing on exquisitely dry grass, brush, trees.
People who live in deserts get it. A semi can have a chain dangle too low, hit the highway, and start a brush fire.
Pod Save America has some solid, direct info on it.
California could just not pay the US gov that much easily. They get MUCH more from Cali than Cali gets from them…I hope it doesnt come to that though.
Terrorist
Saying you a qon these days is advertising you are one of the very worst of human beings.
Luigi-stares
Deny us aid and we stop sending you more federal taxes than any other state…by far.
We could use that money here.
Somehow, I’m pretty sure California has an overall policy of “no, you get to play by the rules, or we don’t let you have money.”
This is where we are now: fall in line with status quo, or burn.
They can’t get the independent and free-thinking side of America to support them, so now they will leverage health and safety to force them into submission.
Correct
Fuck Ohio then. GGez. Don’t @ me about hypocrisy I’m done with it.
Do it, do it. Watch the federal budget crash without California.
It’s not like we can just choose not to pay federal taxes in response to this.
(Would be nice if we just seceded.)
I think you are implying they could charge more in state taxes so the feds don’t get the money. Sadly in the California housing market, that $10k limit makes it meaningless.
Literally waiting for succession already. Please. California can sustain itself can we please leave already?
Reminder that the late asshole, Jim Imhofe, did delay hurricane relief aid to hurricane Sandy victims. You don’t see them attempting this asshole behavior for relief to Oklahoma or Florida. Every time I have suggested that someone reciprocate this behavior for red state aid, I have been shouted down. Because the behavior goes unpunished, it continues.
It’s important to remember Republicans do not see voting as a way of selecting representative leadership.
They see it as a litmus test for the peasants, any who do not vote for the One True American Party are traitors to the state and must be punished.
