Mike Lee responds to the LA fires by attacking California Democrats and echoing Trump's talking about about protections for "delta smelt" playing a role
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Does he, as a Christian, believe in the Good Samaritan parable found in the Bible? By his actions, it looks like he skipped that story from the Canon of Christian scriptures. He is not showing any compassion with his condemnations. Utah has enough woes for him to stay out of California's business.
How does ignorance and lack of compassion win votes? These guys have nothing constructive to say about anything. They need to stop condemning in the middle of a disaster. If they cannot help, stay out of the dialogue.
Wait till Utah starts to burn again, typical this Asshole always forgets the facts like the Milford fire in Utah fueled by winds consuming over 363k acres . . .
FFS Mr. Lee, is it true,?
Doggone Delta Smelt setting fires again!
Politicking over people's pain.
Fuckwit.
I believe Utah has an awful lot of Morons!
Or was that Mormons 🤔 Nevermind.
Obviously has Muppets too!
Shameful.
People are evacuating, running for their lives, losing everything and he’s going to attack the California Dems? Lee is always talking about conservative, Christian values. He talks the talk but never walks the walk.
Interesting that they find a way to blame blue states for any disaster they have but red states don't get blamed for disasters that happen in their states.
And having said that, it stamps out Marge's loopy theory. Somebody should mention that to her. Maybe on that other site that we've all left a while ago?
Victim blaming is so on-brand for the GOP. If Lee had been around when Anne Frank was captured, his response would be that she sucked at hiding and shouldn't have been Jewish.
Rs have been playing the delta smelt card for decades now. Meanwhile we haven’t had but a scintilla of rain for over a year. These ignorant righties can kiss my California ass.
can these people not read...the area where the delta smelt lives in is not some savior for water for southern CA...this is the most moronic argument that I have heard of...the GOP needs to grow up and learn a thing or two...their stupidity is unequaled
And you will find that all of the other Republicans will use the same comments over and over like they came up with an original thought that just happens to be on target with Trump's talking points. Like from a Republican playbook or something.
Is there any MAGAt Congress person out there that may actually think and consider actual facts & historical precedent before parroting idiotic ramblings from a demented man?
Remember when you might disagree with a republican, but at least you knew it was an original thought, not a robotic repeat of whatever crazy thing Donald said.
Biden is here. He just ordered 2000 nat guard troops and 15 US naval water drop helicopters. A president you can count on.
What is gonna happen when that orange son of a bitch is in office and Florida has a demon hurricane, or Cali has a killing fire
Newson’s actions is the reason it is terrible with terrible forest and water management because of the environmentalists who want money over what is needed.
This is a simple accusation that MAGA seems to understand and once again republicans run with it. Once the seed is planted, all else fails to get through. It works and we are suffering because of it.
So let me get this straight: literally any excuse, including a tragic and devastating fire event, is simply the ticket to book one of these assholes to come on the teevee and start spewing completely unrelated fascist BS?
I live in Central California.
They complain about water until they are asked about who will pay for water improvements. (Dams, canals, etc.)
The farmers who want that water want taxpayers to buy it for them,... And only them.
It's a Republican game.
A way to complain with no resolution.
It was probably inevitable that the parties would sort themselves along the lines of empathy and ethics. Opportunistic, compassionless shitbags have overtaken the GOP and Mike Lee was in the vanguard of the movement. Like many charisma-free sycophants, he’s attached himself to Trump’s scrotum.
Maga is using our tragic climate caused disaster as an opportunity to spew lies, false information and propaganda !
None of them ever stood in hot, dry, 60mph wind blowing brick sized burning embers onto them and their homes.
You can’t even fight the fire during that kind of wind !
Why is Mike Lee being asked about deadly fires that aren’t occurring in his state? Is he some kind of expert on wildfires or just a sick political hack?
The "Media" gains by the controversy. It exposes the inept nature of leadership, however, but America is not brave enough to switch the channel and put someone else in who actually has some principles to stand on.
In theory maybe but America is stronger when united. It is a shame that it takes getting into a war like we did with Iraq for Americans to feel like they are united. Why is it that we cannot hold on to the principles that we learned in kindergarten to know how to get along with others?
These guys are idiots. They turn everything into a political football. They have no empathy and are always on the attack with lies, misinformation. Water is not the problem here, wind is the problem.
Utah just keeps sending embarrassing people to Washington.
Mike Lee, tops the asshole list.
Jason Chaffetz, resigned congress to be a fox asswipe.
Mitt Romney, caved and ran
Burgess Owens, Donald's black guy to point at
The list goes on and on....
Turns out Mormons are cult followers. Shocker.
These are blast furnace, fire storm conditions. Fire crews are busy saving lives, not homes. A fire hydrant charged with water and plenty of water pressure is no match for these conditions. For better or worse, city/county planners with the community's blessing have allowed this risky development
Again please go read Project 2025
The GOP have plans on changing who can vote and how.
There is absolutely no guarantee the US will ever have a free or fair election again.
They laid all of this out in Project 2025
protecting one fish from extinction caused the fires? these people are either insane or believe the American people are stupid enough to believe such hogwash. Or, they are stupid enough to believe such crap....which i can believe.
The fires weren’t caused by water restrictions related to smelt. The fires were caused by the climate conditions which make the area fire-prone in the best of years and have been exacerbated by climate change which Trump and his minions like to pretend isn’t real.
Apparently it’s only “too soon” to do anything but offer “thoughts and prayers” only when the GOP is trying to ignore another mass shooting their insanely irresponsible gun policy facilitates
This - "revert water up into the Hills" is irrigation - how to do it, what it will cost, how much energy would it require, or who will pay for it is left unsaid It's pure fantasy
Phony. Koch funds 140 entities for climate change denial. Big Oil and Koch s.b. holding press conferences on how their profits and climate change denial allow them to speak up, MAGA!, and make Cali dwellers whole.
Every time there’s a mass shooting these guys are like “don’t politicize a tragedy” and yet here this cracker is spouting lies as peoples lives are currently being destroyed
OK, all you MAGA electeds: the northern water NEVER reached LA and Southern CA. There are MOUNTAINS between there and here. If you're going to pontificate, get your butt out here and see the geology. It's not politics, baby. It's, per your view, God. 🙄
Mike Lee is an opportunistic dirtbag. Anyone from the western US KNOWS that extreme dry + extreme winds = a scary fire recipe that’s incredibly hard to fight even in the best of circumstances. Let me guess, he also claims to be super Christian but “thou shalt not bear false witness” is optional.
Maybe California can start watering the mountains during dry spells. These guy are just brain dead. Any Dem who says they want to work with these guys are crazy too.
There is nothing they won't politicize anymore. My governor in La. told Democrats they better approve Noem for secretary of HLS two days after the terror attack. It makes me want to weep.
so they are blaming a fish, which actually helped KEEP more water in the area by stopping more development, for fires that started in arid areas without the habitat where this fish could live? Sheesh
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Doggone Delta Smelt setting fires again!
Politicking over people's pain.
Fuckwit.
I believe Utah has an awful lot of Morons!
Or was that Mormons 🤔 Nevermind.
Obviously has Muppets too!
Shameful.
JFC
d u m b f u c k e r y begin…🤦🏽♀️
Fuck Mike Lee.
What is gonna happen when that orange son of a bitch is in office and Florida has a demon hurricane, or Cali has a killing fire
They complain about water until they are asked about who will pay for water improvements. (Dams, canals, etc.)
The farmers who want that water want taxpayers to buy it for them,... And only them.
It's a Republican game.
A way to complain with no resolution.
None of them ever stood in hot, dry, 60mph wind blowing brick sized burning embers onto them and their homes.
You can’t even fight the fire during that kind of wind !
Don’t see why they put any trust in this gasbag.
Trump is on the air bad mouthing Gavin Newsom..!
What a fucking piece of shit he really is..!
This is what people voted for??
And it ain't the smelt sucking up the available water. It's the ag interests (who favor Trump).
https://www.c-win.org/cwin-water-blog/2022/7/11/water-grab
https://sites.uci.edu/energyobserver/2015/04/21/california-water-usage-in-crops-and-the-water-value-of-almonds/
Do these jackasses know they are 450 miles apart?
Mike Lee, tops the asshole list.
Jason Chaffetz, resigned congress to be a fox asswipe.
Mitt Romney, caved and ran
Burgess Owens, Donald's black guy to point at
The list goes on and on....
Turns out Mormons are cult followers. Shocker.
The GOP have plans on changing who can vote and how.
There is absolutely no guarantee the US will ever have a free or fair election again.
They laid all of this out in Project 2025
Stupid fish!
My God, they are filthy. How dare they.
We need healthy food.
We need domestic jobs.
We need to protect our cultures.
We need to protect the environment.
Suggesting protections for smelt are meaningless attacks all 4 of those ideas. It's insidious, no matter how silly it looks
zero integrity - zero relevance
https://wildfiretoday.com/2024/10/16/largest-utah-wildfire-holds-evacuations/
https://www.kuer.org/science-environment/2024-07-16/utahs-human-caused-wildfires-have-burned-more-in-2024-than-all-of-last-years-fires