Isn't the President of the United States supposed to be more concerned about the well being of our country and every state in our country than worry about his own well being?
Sure there is an impeachment going on, but so what? Tweety says he is innocent, and there is nothing illegal in black-mailing and bullying Ukraine to find or create dirt on his political rival, Joe Biden and Joe's son. This, according to Tweety, is fine.
According to every Republican it is OK to use Presidential power for his next election so what is the problem? What is Tweety afraid of? Why doesn't he allow the Dems to go ahead and make fools of themselves on their own while he does his job?
Why should Tweety pay any attention to this impeachment proceedings?
The only tweet Twump ever sent was last year during the California fire season, saying they should rake their forests like they do in Finland. Only the Finland people found that funny because they told the world they DO NOT rake their forests. lol!
"The Most Populous State in the U.S. Is on Fire, and Donald Trump Hasn't Said a Word"
By Christina Zhao On 10/30/19 at 8:09 PM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/most-populous-state-us-fire-donald-trump-hasnt-said-word-1468821
"As Californian officials continue their battle against wildfires in the southern half of the West Coast, President Donald Trump has still yet to address the roughly 300 blazes that have broken out across the state over the past week."
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"In recent months, the Trump administration has routinely targeted the homeless communities in San Francisco and Los Angeles as California continues to burn. According to experts, the president's push to roll back climate policies could worsen the Golden State's chances of increased natural disasters in the future. Last week, 50,000 Los Angeles residents were forced to evacuate their homes and most schools in San Fernando Valley were closed over safety concerns.
However, Trump has yet to publicly address the latest fires. In the past, the president has repeatedly blamed "gross mismanagement" for the devastating fires that have plagued the state. The latest Trump tweet about California's fires was shared in January.
"Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen," the president wrote. "Unless they get their act together, which is unlikely, I have ordered FEMA to send no more money. It is a disgraceful situation in lives & money!""
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""Climate change is causing warmer temperatures, which dry out vegetation more," University of New Mexico biology professor Matthew Hurteau wrote in The Guardian. "It is also causing winter precipitation to fall over a shorter period and the length of the fire season is increasing. Vegetation in California is increasingly primed for fire."
Former Democratic Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday condemned the Trump administration's push to water down Obama-era standards for fuel efficiency. "This is not just another legislative game here," Brown told the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Environment, according to the Washington Post.
"This is life-and-death stuff. And climate change is related to the fires in California. California is burning while the deniers make a joke out of the standards that could protect us all.""
Last year Tweety stuck his foot in his mouth as usual, like he tends to do.
"Donald Trump's first tweet about the California wildfires blamed the victims"
By Adam Rosenberg Oct 11, 2018
https://mashable.com/article/donald-trump-blames-california-wildfires-on-california/
"Even setting aside Trump's inability to appreciate the complexity of the situation — we've all been dealing with the same historically stupid leader since Jan. 2017 — the timing of his victim-blaming tweet is highly questionable, given the tragic impact the fires have had so far. Not to mention the fact that Thousand Oaks, one of the California communities affected by the fires, is still dealing with the fresh grief of a mass shooting."
"Trump Says California Can Learn From Finland on Fires. Is He Right?"
By Patrick Kingsley Nov. 18, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/18/world/europe/finland-california-wildfires-trump-raking.html
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The Finns don’t rake.
Raking for leaves and needles is not a normal feature of Finnish fire prevention, according to Rami Ruuska, a forest fires expert at the Finnish Interior Ministry. Instead, Finns focus on removing dead trees from the forest floor — where possible.
“Of course, we have a big country and we can’t do it everywhere,” Mr. Ruuska said.
President Sauli Niinisto of Finland said, in an interview published Sunday in a Finnish newspaper, that in a brief conversation in Paris on Nov. 11, he had explained the virtues of Finnish forest management to Mr. Trump. But he didn’t recall mentioning raking.
The secret to the Finns’ forest management system lies instead in its early warning system, aerial surveillance system and network of forest roads, said Professor Henrik Lindberg, a forest fires researcher at the Häme University of Applied Sciences, a college in southern Finland.
At times of high incendiary risk, the Finnish authorities are highly effective at delivering warnings across most forms of media, Mr. Lindberg said.
Local aviation clubs are paid to fly over the most threatened areas of forest, increasing the likelihood fires will be spotted before they spiral out of control. “The ignition probability is about the same as in Sweden, but they’re caught quicker,” Mr. Lindberg said.
And timber and paper companies have built an extensive network of roads through Finland’s forests. Built primarily to make the landscape more accessible for logging, they also slow down the path of a fire — and allow fire brigades to reach the flames faster.
“Almost all Finland is covered by this forest road network, so of course it’s easier to get nearer to the forest fires using fire trucks,” Mr. Ruuska said.
Finland is much colder than California.
Temperatures in Finland, part of which lies within the Arctic Circle, can drop below minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Even in August, the temperature is usually in the mid-60s.
The incendiary risk is therefore much lower for most of the year in Finland than in California, where high temperatures, dry air and frequent wind make wildfires far more likely.
“It’s not a good comparison,” Mr. Ruuska said. “We have a half-meter of snow during winter, so it’s quite natural that we don’t have any fires over the winter, and our autumn is quite wet.”
The trees aren’t the same.
Finnish forests are mainly filled with tall boreal trees — pine, spruce and birch — whereas much of Californian vegetation consists of lower-lying chaparral shrub land and small trees, which are more prone to catching fire.
“The whole comparison is a bit wild,” said Mr. Lindberg, who suggested that it would be better to study methods in Mediterranean Europe, where forests are more like those in California.
Finland is not fire-free.
Despite its effective fire-prevention system, Finland still experiences forest fires: Around 2,500 acres of trees have burned down this year, the highest annual total since 2006, Mr. Lindberg said.
But the damage was still much less severe than in neighboring Sweden, where 62,000 acres were affected.
“We’re doing something right,” Mr. Ruuska said. “But we also have good luck.”
Well, there you have it. All Tweety had to do is ask an expert about Finland and he could have avoided looking stupid again.
