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We don’t have to imagine too hard.
Blink and you can recall to mind the insane coverage of Katrina and Puerto Rico where it became an article of faith that Bush or Trump were somehow to blame for a natural disaster and that they had perpetrated the disaster because they were racists who hated minorities.
A natural disaster is entirely attributable to global warming when a Democrat is in the White House (sorry, I know the current UN-approved term is ‘Global Boiling’) and entirely attributable to a Republican when he’s in the White House.
There are no screaming local politicos or hip-hop stars on cable news accusing Biden of not caring about Hawaiian people or warning that everyone is dying because the ice cream man doesn’t care.
Even the usual official statement that Biden isn’t going to Hawaii because he might “distract from relief efforts” meets with a tolerant shrug.
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will not travel to Maui in the aftermath of the devastating wildfires because they “don’t want to distract” from the ongoing rescue efforts, the VP said today – while at least 1,000 people remain unaccounted for.
“We don’t want to distract from the resources that need to go in to the victims of this tragedy, and of course the needs of the first responders have to be able to focus on that issue and not worry about focusing on us [because] we’re there,” Harris told reporters before boarding Air Force Two for Chicago Friday, CSPAN reported.
“We are coordinating federal resources to swiftly get there to support the work in terms of recovery, but to just support the folks on the ground. It is tragic,” Harris noted, adding that she and Biden are “deeply concerned” about the blaze that has left at least 55 people dead and decimated a beloved historic enclave.
After demanding that Trump go to Puerto Rico and attacking him for not doing it, you can guess the headlines when he did.
Trump’s Puerto Rico Visit Is a Political Disaster – The Atlantic
Trump Brings His Own Storm to Puerto Rico – New York Times
Something similar happened when George W. Bush tried to square a circle by flying over New Orleans, rather than landing, and so he was attacked for not caring enough to visit.
All of this is a cynical game. We know the rules and how it’s played, but plenty of apolitical people take it all in. And it does have a political impact. The coverage of Hurricane Katrina helped crush Bush’s approval ratings while the media’s fawning coverage of Obama’s contemptible hurricane tour helped cement a second term for the destroyer-in-chief.
Great article Daniel! Just the topic that was irritating me earlier. The leftists are back to blaming fires on Climate Change in every news story. Which means real solutions don’t get addressed, and huge effort is wasted on “Climate Change”, resulting in massive expansion of government and curtailment of civil liberties.
Just as an example, local leftists are back to advocating returning locally to aboriginal methods of dealing with fires, which is totally impractical (letting wildfires burn people out of their houses, etc.). Meanwhile practical methods of dealing with wildfires, like installing networks of fire spotting cameras, so fires can be spotted early and put out before they spread, aren’t even mentioned.
And an enormous amount of people lost their homes, cars and everything they owned. If that happened to me, I’d be back to living in the bushes. And who knows how many people died.
Hawaii is a deeply Dirtbagocrat state, of course. Something like this could never happen in states like Idaho or Oklahoma. No red state, actually.
Those people in Maui weren’t even warned by their incompetent and unconcerned D-Bag government. Their neighbors’ homes burning down were their only warning to get the F out of there.
Thanks Jeff!!!!
Leftist environmental policies tend to create stronger, more widespread fires. The wealthy hire private fire fighting services to protect their homes during the inevitable fires that quickly become hard-to-control infernos in their area. The government, with its permanent administrative state, is far past caring for the citizens
If one has homeowners insurance, one can sometimes get private firefighting service for free from the insurance company (it is profitable for the insurance company, since in case of fire the private firefighting company can sometimes save your house from burning down, so the insurance company doesn’t have to pay a big fire claim).
As if Trump is even still relevant,
That’s what I’ve been wondering. What was their forestry like? Hawaii is heavily democrat. Leftist forestry tends to destroy forests, even without leftists deliberately starting forest fires. Moving firefighters and heavy firefighting equipment to the fire shouldn’t be difficult on a long developed island.
The legacy liberal media is well trained in the use of dog whistles to call their sheep dogs. Thankfully, it’s frequency is outside of the range of hearing for normal human beings.
With Democrats, it is hard to tell the difference between a grass roots voter registration drive and a wildfire. Either way, they will still get the votes.
So much regret recently
All of this had hardly a bearing. From all of this I didn’t lose my Hungarian friends. Only perhaps Oppenheimer?? or not.
This separation was what most painful for him.
*was (since my last comment was too short)
Some people could view it as liberation but not likely them.
What is this whole bunch of zero you’re headed towards fool? Zero.
Its like all of the above affirmative but we no longer regard them as pejoratives.
Maybe we should redefine Republican to mean people who “shift” their opinion? Not of their own accord.
You have nothing, That’s why never got Reagan. That’s why you’ll never get anything.
All we get is this retard state that doesn’t even know why it’s existing in the first place. But it knows it’s existing so Trump!
Yes, on our side while we have mostly Trump retardation what they have is a virtual rainforest that wasn’t decimated to illuminate Climate Change,
He thinks this was extremely painful;
spring break for most people in the world
Oppenhiemer wasn’t a spy because nobody needs to spy on a country too gay for Reagan.
Likewise I think China already knows whatever secrets you think you have remaining. They’d be stupid if they didn’t.
It’s like a stupid country. Too gay for the Cold War but it still wants super power priviiges.
You don’t need much imagination, really. Do you?
That’s worthless the words of people are which is how Oppenheimer should be truly remembered along with his class.
That’s *how worthless, excuse me
There’s only one time that you need to respect anything people say and that is when they’re running the serious chance of flak.
Otherwise you’ll end up like Edward Teller, A man deeply hurt by a community that didn’t give a fig about him. They didn’t care about him even slightly. They cared about their community lies.
He has not a “very good answer” because his heels didn’t stop clicking after Manhattan and you don’t have to take my word for it.
These are just people. Smart or otherwise who can be set in motion and then they fulfil the purpose set out for them as they perceive it, Usually their perceptions changes a little further down the line and that’s no problem because history is just lines on the screen.
We know all about Oppenheimer even if we don’t understand anything but the narrative he gave us to understand. More importantly the people close to Oppenheimer know Oppenheimer.
“How the Maui Wildfires Would Be Covered” if America still existed.
Oppenheimer WONDERFULLY Depicts the Polarity of the Humbug
“Tim Ballard Interviews Donald J Trump”.
I mean really what is there to interview except some “fake” persona. The guy doesn’t even debate and that’s probably what passes for smart lately.
He couldn’t debate even people in his own party and that’s a bonus because he has no actual policy objectives he wants to be tied down to. Farce.
As of the time I’m writing this, Biden hasn’t even had a statement on the fire and tragic losses.
One wonders if perchance the fires were set by a human AGW proponent, as several others elsewhere have been lately?
Probably. It’s hard to imagine an urban firestorm like that occurring by natural causes in temperate Maui, Sure, it could’ve been started by some homeless derelict but those people have always lived there.
I have no doubt it was a leftist lowlife who deliberately started that fire.
Most likely it was downed power lines.
You think so?
Hawaii must have an electrical infrastructure as dilapidated and dangerous as our CA Con-Ed crap.
I did see Con-Ed wet backs repairing power lines next to Lexington Reservoir (actually a very large lake) during the Trump presidency but I’ve never seen them maintain or repair anything in the Santa Clara Valley cities.