“Just move your forests to the ocean…”
I am seriously starting to think Trump has never seen a forested area in his life. What a fucking dumbass.
Remember when he said that forest fires started because people didn’t rake the forest enough?
That’s been a long running line of propaganda from the lumber industry. “old growth forests are messy and us lumber companies will clean them up!”
Which is funny because if you’ve ever been to an area that’s recently been logged (or “thinned” as they like to spin it), the ground is completely covered by a thick layer of all the branches they’ve trimmed off. Nope, no fire hazard there…
It’s like an SNL bit.
Equally as fucking dumb. It would be hilarious if he wasn’t who he is.
Trees are just those things you clear out to make way for hotels and golf courses, they grow like weeds.
Will the media never learn not to give this moron a platform ? We do not need to hear his every “thoughts” on whatever topic. People who have not grasped at this point that he is as stupid as a sack of corrugated plastic will never be convinced. Stop giving him exposure for pity’s sake.
He’s a train wreck, and train wrecks get eyeballs which turn into sweet, sweet ad revenue.
His supporters are so dumb.
No surprise he guy that asked if they should nuke it to stop a hurricane.
Or inject disinfectant to fight Covid. The guy is full of great ideas. If I’m not mistaken, his last great idea to prevent forest fires was to rake the forest floor.
My comment from just this morning:
The whole thing was, if possible, even dumber than people think.
Can’t find the video any longer, all you can see now is Trump on the podium saying stupid shit, you miss the context.
Trump’s taking the stage, ill prepared as always, when he stops for a few moments to read a CDC infographic on ways to sterilize surfaces. Then he just turns on his mouth and lets it run.
God help me, there’s nothing more I can add to illustrate how idiotic it all was.
Oh, I remember, he also suggested somehow getting powerful light inside the body. The Covid briefings should have left no doubt amongst the populace that Trump is a blathering idiot that gives no thought to what comes out of his mouth or the potential consequences. That was mostly fine until he became the leader of the free world. That republicans are satisfied with him representing them is damming. Believe it or not, there are smart, articulate people with conservative politics. Trump is not among them.
*nuke
Thanks missed the typo.
Ah yes. Plenty of extra water up “north.”
We should dampen the forests while California is going through historic droughts, telling people not to water their lawns, aquifers drying up, lakes going dry, and the Colorado River output decreasing and continual debates on where that limited water goes.
Fucking idiot.
Let’s get Nestle on it then. The Colorado river still exists in Colorado we can redirect that. /s
My solution: jail Drumpf and wet the forest with conservative’s tears… they seem to cry so easily
there’s already enough toxins in the environment.
Fragile little snowflakes one and all.
I mean, that would work…
I also have a solution for gun violence. Just stop shooting people.
Dampen the guns
Guns don’t kill people.
Ammunition does.
Dampen the ammo.
My goodness, what an idea! Why didn’t I think of that?
Because you’re not a mentally deficient grifter?
I remember when Trump suggested raking the California forest would prevent wildfires.
He was our president then, elected by the US. It was a very embarrassing time for the USA. The world laughed at us. I didn’t vote for him but he still made me feel shame for our country.
The USA has plenty to be shameful for in my opinion.
Obviously…?
Honestly after he suggested injecting lysol or bleach directly in to your veins to cure covid I will never be shocked at the slander that comes out of this idiot.
You seem to have forgotten that he suggested to build a wall all along the US/Mexico border, have Mexico pay for it, then build a moat, and fill it with alligators.
Huh… this one wasn’t The Onion.
The Onion got usurped by reality a while back.
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” - Tom Lehrer
You know what’s great about Tom Lehrer? A lot of his songs are really dated, and yet still very funny.
Also, he released his entire catalog of songs- sheet music, lyrics and audio- to the public domain.
I just shared a link this morning to his song about Werner von Braun. Absolutely brilliant.
Yeah you can just use it as a good news site now.
Hard to satire reality when reality feels like satire.
“They say that there’s so much water up north, that I wanna have the overflow areas go into your forests and dampen your forests,” Trump said. “Because if you dampen your forest, you’re not gonna have these fire forest fires that are burning at levels that nobody’s ever seen before.”
Absolute dumbass shit.
‘You have very poor land management,” he continued before recalling a conversation he had with an Austrian official about forest fires in that country. “He said, ‘Sir, we have more flammable trees than you do on your coast. We don’t have forest fires. We have land management.’ They take care of the land. They pick up the dead trees. You know, a tree doesn’t burn very easily unless it’s dead. Then it gets dry and it burns. The leaves on the ground – they’re five feet thick over here.”
Stuff that might be true (I’m never going to look into this) but isn’t funny. Goddamn Trump sending mixed signals here.
There’s no mixed signal here. The signal is “America bad, I fix”, and millions of idiots will continue to fall for it. The details of the ‘bad’ and the ‘fix’ don’t matter.
Love that the example is Australia, because just 3 years ago the whole freaking country was on fire.
Edit: lol, am dumb. He talked to the European “Austria”, not the kangaroo-laden “Australia”.
Austria. A country who’s about the size of a county in California. Not Australia. California has forests probably 4x the size of that country.
Lol, thank you for the correction xD
This guy is so detached from reality, it’s surprising he’s not suggesting that California asks the Jews to use their weather control device to create rain where needed.
Conservatives don’t have enough backbone to actually defend this nonsense, they’ll just slither away when confronted about it. Oh, but they’ll still back this goddamn moron either way.
So, when I read a headline about a politician talking about something, and what they say sounds so far beyond ridiculous and stupid, I imagine there is probably some level of context that makes it less stupid, but just poorly stated, that the particular article has no incentive to show.
Apparently not this one, as Trump went on to blame the Governor of California for not dampening the forests, and suggested the water falling in the north is “free.”
That is honestly one of the dumbest things I’ve read from an adult, and people cheered for it.
I mean, his last big idea for the entire world being on fire was “rake the leaves,” so if raking and watering isn’t gonna work, what do we do? Nuke the forests? Draw a new fire map with a sharpie?
As Carlin once said- “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realise the “leader of the free world” was stupider than that.
Me too. I’m always looking for the context, what really happened. Nope, nothing else to see here.
And this won’t even make national news. Meanwhile, Dan Quayle was too dumb to be VP because he spelled potatoe wrong.
For one, just California is over 5 times the size of Austria. Also we know that story never happened, though.
Not so sure about “leaves five feet thick”…… well, I guess I am and it’s one of the more ridiculous things he’s said, which is a high bar. I certainly have not seen five foot deep piles of leaves in California or anywhere… apparently he’s back to the “raking” thing. Of course Trump is a total expert on forest fire prevention.
Dude. He recommended mainlining bleach and shoving a UV cathode up one’s ass.
It’s sadly far from the dumbest or craziest thing he’s said.
It’s a statement of supposed fact that is very obviously not true and absurd, but sure - if I had to vote for the worst, it would be the ones that glorify violence or are about punishing his opponents. Saying the violent mob who invaded the capital and wanted to kill Congress members and the vice president were “full of love”, or discussing how his crowd should attack counter protestors, insisting H. Clinton should be in “jail”, or recently, suggesting that a US general be executed for communicating with a general in China. Also his number outs degrading statements about women are up there.
I may have been more dramatic about it, but, no, he did in fact suggest these things.
The disinfectant in question of the study was bleach, and the reason sunlight destroyed the virus is the amount of UV light in sunlight.
Oh, I remember when he said it. The statement of supposed fact I referred to mean the 5-foot layer of leaves, not the insane bleach “injection inside” and UV light “through the skin or… in some other way”. Like some other things he says, that has some basis in fact, but he’s way too dense and ignorant to really understand it, but chooses to talk in front of gigantic international audiences as if he knows what he’s talking about. There’s also an older therapy where they expose blood to UV to disinfect it, called ultraviolet blood irradiation. Definitely not with a lightbulb up your ass though.
Gotcha. I remember having a conversation with a trumper at the time trump suggested it. “I’m not shoving a lightbulb up my ass unless it vibrates” got him to finally shut up about trump around me. Apparently, he now thinks I’m gay, and I’m okay with that.
Wasn’t the last idea to rake the forests?
You rake the forests first, then just turn on the sprinklers.
Wouldn’t have been much more surprised if he suggested just turning the forests into a golf course. Especially since he thinks the water would be “free”.
Spoken like a guy who has never seen the vastness of our national forests.
Spoken like a guy who doesn’t put more than 5 seconds of thought into anything before spewing out his dumbass ideas. He just says any bullshit and his followers will clap and cheer no matter how insane it is.
You can see him looking around like “are they buying it?..” then the dumbasses cheer, then he commits. It’s just a feedback loop of stupidity.
