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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(117,314 posts)
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 05:03 PM Monday

Trump hasn't put out the LA fires yet? What is that 'incompetent pol' waiting for? Opinion

Rex Huppke, USA TODAY

Apparently Donald Trump knows how to put out the fires still raging in and around Los Angeles. But he won’t tell us, because he’s too busy calling California’s leaders “incompetent” and being almost uniquely useless.

In a Sunday social media post, the wildly unhelpful president-elect wrote:

“The fires are still raging in L.A. The incompetent pols have no idea how to put them out. Thousands of magnificent houses are gone, and many more will soon be lost. There is death all over the place. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the history of our Country. They just can’t put out the fires. What’s wrong with them?”

Yes, what is wrong with them? And why do they not know exactly how to contain and extinguish the unprecedented and deadly fires that Trump himself apparently knows exactly how to handle?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-hasnt-put-la-fires-161538407.html

He'd huff and puff and blow it out.

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Trump hasn't put out the LA fires yet? What is that 'incompetent pol' waiting for? Opinion (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday OP
The usual conservative M.O. Beartracks Monday #1
He'll grab a sharpie in the first 100 days. FSogol Monday #2

Beartracks

(13,635 posts)
1. The usual conservative M.O.
Mon Jan 13, 2025, 05:21 PM
Monday

The usual conservative M.O.:

1) Complain about liberals' supposed failings that must be the root of some real crisis that is taking American lives and causing billions in economic damage;

2) Claim to know the solution to the crisis;

3.1) Refuse to reveal said supposed solution, or to lift a finger to cooperate with any liberals who are facing the crisis or trying to solve the crisis, leaving the death toll and economic damage mounting;

3.2) Never admit that they don't really have an actual solution or a clue. Never let on that it bothers them to be so apparently heartless, pretending to have a solution yet still fiddling while Rome burns. (Rightwing media will have their backs.)

4) Campaign on how inept liberals supposedly are. Because, hey - Never let a good crisis go to waste when you can make points for your team, even if Americans lose their homes and their lives.


Note: A "real crisis" is like COVID or the L.A. fires, distinct from the fantasy crises that conservatives fashion out of wishful thinking and utter bullshit, which is another part of their usual M.O.

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