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House Republican threatens to withhold disaster aid from California amid deadly wildfires
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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
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!
A Rizzler's last thoughts should be of Ohio.
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.
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.