The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

Keep doing you, when the trolls get pissed you’re on the right track.

 

This could go in a number of threads because this decision to not authorize disaster funds to Colorado is in response to the state not going along with Trump's "pardon" of an election denier working as a county clerk who manipulated voting equipment to try and "prove" the "steal." Colorado rightly said no as presidential pardons only apply to federal crimes, not state ones. The administration appears to have also targeted Boulder's National Center for Atmospheric Research as part of the revenge effort.

Anyway, here's another example of playing stupid politics with disaster victims left to suffer for the ego of one very small man.

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/ne...uest-denied-colorado-wildfire-flood-recovery/

OK, sure. MAFFs are suppression tools, but not incredibly effective ones. They are a poor emergency backup to the tanker fleet and are a "24-hour" resource, meaning that it takes 24-hours after they are ordered for them to show up--and they come with a full contingent of military personnel including command, PR types, and assorted other support personnel, making them more expensive than even contracted air tankers. They have trouble flying low and slow enough under uneven terrain for their drops to be effective on many fires (same with the Very Large Air Tankers--VLATs), so you need to be careful about where you send them. Regardless of what one feels about MAFFs, citing their deployment during an incident is not an excuse to withhold recovery funds after the incident, including--absurdly--floods. Trump 1 and 2 are the only administrations in our history that play these games with disaster aid.