UNBELIEVABLE!!!

This isn’t the first blog I’ve titled “unbelievable” and as long as Trump is the President, I don’t think it will be the last either. I hope so, but I don’t think so even though I reserve the word for things that I find truly unbelievable not just things I find distasteful which is just about everything he does. There are worse fates though. The President could be in total agreement with me on everything and not behave in a manner I find absolutely awful, but then, I would have nothing to write. The last time I wrote a blog titled “Unbelievable” was June 21, 2018 when Trump put kids in intern camps because their parents were illegal immigrants. He did so to make a political point! So, I’ll start.

He’s done it again! Thousands of people have suffered enormously and a number of people (approaching 80 at the time of writing) have died in wildfires in California. “Nearly 60 per cent of California forests are under federal management, and another two-thirds under private control. It is the federal government that has chosen to divert resources away from forest management, not California,” Brian K Rice said yet Trump is blaming California for the disasters they are witnessing. He points to Finland as an example of a country where proper forest management is practiced – another absurd point. It’s California, not Alaska! Not only that, the Finish President denies having the conversation Trump said they had. At least, the Finish President doesn't recall it! The president has long expressed doubts about climate change and infamously pulled the US out of the 2015 Paris Accord on climate change. His search for alternative explanations behind the California fires is entirely consistent with his pro-business stance on climate change – denial of its existence – when even the tiniest bit of sympathy is in order! If you accept Trump’s and other skeptic’s stance on climate change, you have to question whether greenhouses even work. We know they do! Whatever happened to the expression, "polluters pay!"?

It could be a diversion though. You might ask, “Divert from what?” The first amendment and what happened to Acosta of CNN, lest we forget.

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