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Ricardo Grinbank's avatar

In a reaction to Trump's blaming games regarding the tragic fires in California and his lack of empathy, I think it's very fitting that the flags all over this nation are at half staff in an expression of mourning in honor to President Carter when this great nation is starting to enduring another four years of a cruel ignorant, soon to be a convicted felon.

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Cathy 98280's avatar

I have an awful feeling that he will demand all flags be raised the moment he is inaugurated. It’s all about his fragile ego.

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lauriemcf's avatar

Exactly what my husband predicts. It would fit his personality b/c then it would look like all of Washington were celebrating him.

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Stacey E's avatar

Of course he will.

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Rick Sender's avatar

No, it’s all about California doing what’s right for the people and not for the smelt

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T. Richardson's avatar

Have you ever experienced drought? The ground is dry. Vegetation is dry. It does not take much for a fire to start in those conditions, especially when the wind is so extreme with gusts of up to 100 mph. Once a fire starts in those conditions it is very hard to stop even if those dams had been built. BTW the history of large infrastructure like dams in our country is that those projects receive massive federal funding. Do you support massive federal funding for infrastructure? Trump the builder couldn’t get infrastructure bills passed through a Republican controlled Congress when he was president last time. So your whole argument is just nonsense. Republicans don’t believe in infrastructure spending and haven’t for decades.

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Rick Sender's avatar

There have been Bill after Bill after Bill to Bill reservoirs that was even one approved 2020 for a huge reservoir that still sitting and it hasn’t been built and this is what I’m talking about. You can blame Trump for whatever you want. I don’t give a shit, but honesty is honesty.

Not to mention that I just posted it elsewhere. There was an original budget to build a high speed rail by the Democrats from San Francisco to LA which hasn’t even gotten off the ground. The original buzz it was 33 billion and now it’s 88 billion. This is the Democrat controlled state.

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Rick Sender's avatar

By the way that rail was supposed to be completed in 2020. And it doesn’t exist.

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Rick Sender's avatar

"The mayor is apparently in Ghana," she wrote. "The fire departments budget was apparently cut by 17 mil. And someone made the decision to not refill some of the reservoirs - now some fire hydrants are dry. Leadership in California is beyond negligent. This is completely unacceptable."

In another post, Michaels continued, "California governor @GavinNewsom issues a press release admitting they knew about the insane fire risk this past Sunday because he was propositioning fire engines. And yet, he just called in the national guard a few hours ago. Pacific Palisades ran out of water at 3am. I’m so so upset for the people of California. My family who stayed. My lifelong friends who live there. Our brave firefighters. This is not a partisan issue it’s pure incompetence and misprioritization."

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Rick Sender's avatar

You’re kidding me with your post, right I live in Nevada and I lived in California for 30 years and went through decades and decades of needless fires due to an under allocation of budget to stopping these things from happening. Mitigating their damage by fire barriers, brush clearance, etc.. and not allowing millions and millions of clean water run into the Pacific Ocean for no reason at all other environmental bullshit like saving the smelt or an almost extinct bird instead, let’s just allow hundreds of billions of dollars to damage to peoples lives and people’s homes

A damn is a damn for a reason. It’s not infrastructure like a road or a train. It’s saving water from running into the ocean and wasting it.

And under Democratic control they refused to do it

And let me say something else since you brought it up if the Democrats didn’t stop Trump from mitigating the building of the wall, we wouldn’t have spent $150 already on a illegal immigrants and having to clean it up now which is gonna cost another hundred billion.

I’ve lived in four different states and I’ve seen infrastructure plans built everywhere. This is beyond infrastructure. And by the way, the dams are not being built to stop the fires. It’s to give the fire department enough water to use to put them out right now. Fire trucks are pulling up to the fire hydrants and there’s no water in there.

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sean malee's avatar

Give it up Rick, you are making up bullshit. You don’t even believe. Water storage doesn’t have anything to do with wildfire. Fire hydrants have nothing to do with wildfires. 🤪🤣🤣🤣

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Rick Sender's avatar

Correct. they have to do with saving homes AND LIVES from wildfires. How do empty hydrants do that ? You don’t get it at all,?

2020 prop 1 in Cali ..one billion to build water reservoirs and nothing has been done. As an example. You should read the comments from ACTUAL VICTIMS OF THESE FIRES AND SEE WHY THEY ARE COMPLAINING AND WHO THEY ARE BLAMING .

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sean malee's avatar

True enough rick, fire hydrants save homes in cities and suburbs. In this case the hydrants were dry due to infrastructure being inadequate. Watersheds in northern CA do not share water to so-cal. That water comes from eastern sierra and Colorado rivers. It literally has nothing to do with the important work of saving native fish from extinction due to misuse of water resources. Being a nor-cal native i have lived with wildfires my entire life and around here there are no hydrants in sight. That is for the city folks. Wildfires are primarily burning in forests far away from the hydrants. If they become strong enough to break into the urban interface they are generally beyond hydrants. There is a bigger picture here than political fact spinning.

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Rick Sender's avatar

The problem with politics here in this case is what happened just prior to this fire where apparently Newsome cut the budget by 100000,000 and the mayor of LA cut the firefighting budget by 17 million and the fire chief wrote a letter in November stating that under these conditions if there is a major fire, they won’t be able to handle it and now the fire chief is yelling and screaming at the top of her lungs only to be stifle by the mayor and maybe even fired I don’t like the political blame game but in this case wrong place wrong time.

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Rick Sender's avatar

Yes, and one of the problems is when you have a configuration like this you open up in Northern Cal to help the people in southern Cal. It’s one state not two different states. I’m not sure if that’s structurally feasible, but it should be.

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Rick Sender's avatar

Conflagration sorry spell check

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Rick Sender's avatar

Sean, the reservoirs were full in Northern California and Residence saw firefighters opened the valves of the fire hydrants to save their homes and there was nothing and now it’s just been discovered that apparently there was a big reservoir above Pacific Palisades that was drained a few months ago before the fire I’m not sure if that’s true but I’m gonna send you a link. I don’t agree with the assertions made but some of the facts if they’re true or actually scary. https://t.co/RVTZpU0pW5

Again, I think this video is over the top but again I’m gonna start checking the facts and if this is true, it’s horrific.

I have posted here before that back in 2020 I believe or even earlier $1 billion was set aside for to build two reservoirs in order to mitigate the vast damage that has happened this time and the money still sitting there. Nothing has been done

I also posted a little while ago a link to the history of California fires which have been happening since the mid 1800’s. There is a map that shows how many fires so this is historic incompetence not just on this administration, but in the entire state and federal government.

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Marcia Battin's avatar

Today your words continue to be offensive, but today they are particularly offensive. Happy you chose Nevada over California; those of us who still live here, decades longer than your 30 years, are mourning with friends and relatives, friends of friends, mourning the loss of homes, businesses, a synagogue in Pasadena, schools in Altadena and the Palisades, the list goes on. Perhaps you just take a break from the blame game?

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Rick Sender's avatar

Take a break from the blame game. We have been trying to blame Gamie for 40 years and they haven’t worked yet Marcia. The hell are you talking about? My wife’s ex Director of operations who lives in Altadena just lost her home in its entirety after just finishing remodeling it.

The problem is that people keep electing people that don’t do their job and if that’s you call the blame game then good In 2020 Marcia, if you live there still then you remember prop one in 2020 that allocated $1 billion to building two reservoirs and where the money still has not been allocated and the reservoirs have not been built. They could’ve saved hundreds of not thousands of homes. And other structures

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Colette Wismer's avatar

Laughing at you, not with you! Please stay in Nevada or some other place. Do you think Canada would take you? Probably not.

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Rick Sender's avatar

Who in the hell would like to leave the US and go to Canada? And you keep laughing. No problem. Oh only biased, ignorant, bubble think celebrities, that won’t leave anyway….as if anyone cares if they leave….US under Trump, best place on earth to live.

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Riversong Pond's avatar

Could the reader who kindly posted instructions for blocking this troll please do so again. Thank you.

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Rick Sender's avatar

Yeah why would you ever want to hear an opinion that differs from yours? Not here for sure. Try those fleeing “X” and going to skyblue so they don’t hear that that are TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY

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Ricardo Grinbank's avatar

Hope nobody obey that selfish order.

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Sharon's avatar

Do you think they’ll redo all the films and pictures that show him being inaugurated with them at half staff and then order them destroyed?

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Apache's avatar

Didn't Nero Play His Harp While Rome Burned? Seriously My Heart Goes Out Towards All That Have Suffered During These Fires...

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Philoctetes's avatar

Nero was in Antium (modern Anzio) when the fire broke out. Yes, there are traditions that he sang of the fall of Troy during the fire (probably NOT true). But, unlike Trump, he very generously provided relief for Rome's citizens after the disaster, beautified the city, and helped to fireproof it (wider streets, large open plazas, etc.). Don't compare Trump to Nero.

Nero was a polyglot, and a great patron and lover of culture and the arts.

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Apache's avatar

Thanks Philoctetes... DJT, and Nero share many traits... Both had/have 'Golden Houses'... Both have/had Reputations for Debauchery, and Spectacle... Regardless, DJT wins the 'Race To The Bottom'...

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

Nero also tried to kill his mother Agrippina several times before he succeeded.

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MLMinET's avatar

Tfg didn’t do that. He just despised her because she couldn’t take care of him after he was born; his father didn’t step up.

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Craig Gjerde's avatar

Nero fiddled—perhaps what Trump did on J6!

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Apache's avatar

DJT did Fiddle on J6... DJT watched on TV for hours before he shot a Video asking his Minions to go home...

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LuciaRegan's avatar

T. Diddled on J6

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Reader/Writer's avatar

He is already convicted, just not sentenced yet.

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BetsieD's avatar

As I understand it, it is only AFTER he is sentenced that the word Felon is permanently attached to his name. Which is why he is trying to stop that from happening.

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Kathi Ruel's avatar

CFDT is already convicted. His sentencing id scheduled for Friday.

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Rick Sender's avatar

And what is that gonna solve?

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Russell John Netto's avatar

Obviously, once he's sentenced he's a convicted criminal and that's important to some folks.

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T. Richardson's avatar

Technically it does preclude travel to certain countries as well. Not a great look for a president.

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Rick Sender's avatar

The day after sentencing the appeal begins.

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Russell John Netto's avatar

Although one might argue that that boat had already sailed long ago.

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Rick Sender's avatar

It’s important to him too, not to be convicted for bullshit, but it’s still gonna be appealed after the sentencing. What would you say when the verdict gets overturned on appeal

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Russell John Netto's avatar

The Supreme Court has voted 5-4 not to delay the sentencing in the hush-money case (Roberts and Coney Barratt joing the liberal justices). It should never have even got on to the docket. Now, the guilty judgment remains on Trump’s record and he will remain a felon, but will likely avoid punishment in the form of custody, a fine or probation. Yes, pal - you've voted for a convicted felon, so own it instead of whingeing about it.

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MLMinET's avatar

Ask him. He’s calling a Supreme Court justice to stop it.

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Sheila Garvin's avatar

Is it possible to block Rick Sender?

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Rick Sender's avatar

Once again….who is trying to shut down free speech!??! Read your post above.

Ask Zuckerberg. Who just opened up free speech again as did Musk.

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samani's avatar

Sheila Garvin, perhaps the best way to block is to ignore? I see that name I pass on without reading. He really really wants attention!

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Rick Sender's avatar

I hope you’re not a defendant in a courtroom one day and one of the jurors thinks exactly like you

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Rick Sender's avatar

And he should. This whole case is BS. $75,000. This is why he’s being a convicted felon because he wrote a check for $75,000. Bill Clinton wrote one for $850,000 for the same exact reason there was no investigation. There was no paper trail. There was no trial. There was no jury and there was no verdict and nobody knows where the money came from.

And I hope the Supreme Court does what he’s supposed to do because from the beginning this trial was rigged Oh man, I mention of the prosecution’s two star witnesses were a prostitute/porn star and a convicted perjuror

And let me finally say this the only thing that needs to concern every American is what a president does from the day he takes office till the day he leaves office and the impact he makes with them either briefly or long-term. That’s what a president needs to be judged upon

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Terry's avatar

why are here? you will never convince any of us the felon rapist is even human let alone a good person...do yourself a favor and fuck off

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Rick Sender's avatar

I don’t want to convince you of your illness. You’ll need to talk to yourself to do that. My post had nothing to do with Donald Trump, but about the incompetence of the Democrat party in California, and the reason that the state is falling apart, and that people are fleeing in droves the first time in decades 1 million people left California. And continue to do so.

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Marcia Battin's avatar

Think you missed yesterday’s report about how the CA population has stabilized. Droves is highly inaccurate. I have to agree with Terry, time to take a hike. Oh wait, you did, maybe focus on your new state? CA does not miss you.

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Rick Sender's avatar

And trust me we found a much better place here in Las Vegas And Henderson.

And yet one million have left the state …first time in decades. Dont believe everything you read.

I was just there. Wilshire and witmer. Had to walk on the street. In order to avoid the tense and the homeless and it smelt like urine everywhere we walked.

Went to Langers’s deli that’s been there since the 40’s I think, and the man was gonna close his restaurant because his customers were getting accosted and there were too many homeless in the area

Famous L.A. deli may close due to safety, homeless concerns. A national news, local news, and in the newspaper, and here’s the head

This was the news article and the times and many newspapers and many magazine .. just one little slice of the pie

It was in the paper and on the news on a Monday two customers at 2 PM got costed outside his restaurant waiting in line to sit down and he walked out and said if the Mayor doesn’t fix this problem and move these homeless encampment I’m closing on Thursday and thank God the mayor went down there the next day

It’s a cesspool of what it used to be an indicator that things are indeed getting better if they just fired the idiot who is district attorney there

But your sanctuary city status is not gonna help you it’s gonna get worse

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MLMinET's avatar

No he should not. Would you? If you did, your call would never be returned. He COMMITTED the crimes. Whether YOU think so or not, a jury heard the evidence and made the decision.

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Rick Sender's avatar

What crimes? Lololol. Witness list….a porn star/prostitute? And a convicted felon perjuror. But it doesn’t matter that THESE POLITICAL ATTACKS ONLY HAPPEN IN OLIGARCHIES Just like COUP’S D’ Etat. Removing an elected leader

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CyberFascist's avatar

It’s following through with the law.

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Ellen H's avatar

They should stay at half staff for the next four years.

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lauriemcf's avatar

My husband is betting that immediately following his inauguration the flags will go up -- as if in celebration of Trump. I hope he's wrong. So does he.

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BetsieD's avatar

Maybe we should keep them at half staff for all 4 years. :-(

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Colette Wismer's avatar

I think they should be flying at half staff for the next four years.

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Rick Sender's avatar

He’s very empathetic and he’s also correct in his assertion. Unless you live there, you may not know that. Read my post above Ricardo.

This is not a good time for him to have said this, but it’s long overdue

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Jon Rosen's avatar

Trump? Empathetic?

ROTFLMAO.

I am honestly not sure if you are just deluded or taking absurd quantities of illicit drugs.

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

Trump has no empathy for anyone but himself. He is a malignant narcissist and sociopath, and these are dangerous personality disorders for anyone in power to have. Rick Wilson was right when he said Trump destroys everything he touches. Our country will be no exception.

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Bill Katz's avatar

Rick Sender on drugs? He is addicted to republicaine.

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Marcia Battin's avatar

Empathetic? The immature use of the derogative “Newscum” says it all. He is a vile, ignorant, transactional convicted felon. Maybe you can help him rake the forest floor.

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Rick Sender's avatar

These were all the comments on various websites today and very meritorious as a matter of fact. You don’t read my post do you four years ago a $1 billion allocation proposition one was passed to build two reservoirs and they’re still sitting nothing has happened. You don’t think that deserves that name how many homes and lives that he might have saved

And what he means by raking if you had any decency to not hate so much and read what he was saying it’s called brush mitigation, and they do it all the time they cut hill, sides, and slopes down to nothing so the fire can’t continue up a hill, but that hasn’t happened has it not to the extent it needs to be

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