While facts (real or alternative) rarely seem to matter either to Trump or the GOP… maybe their proposal to punish California for its flagrant disregard of sound forest management is ripe for implementation.
Or maybe just ripe? Why do so many GOP legislators in Washington want to punish Californians in exchange for any mercy or money?
{Let’s remember that according to AI, the Federal government owns 56-70% of California’s forest lands. Private ownership accounts for 40%, leaving the state responsible for just 3%.}
It is high time for a little responsible forest money management.
Starting immediately…
To hell with California’s smelts. Screw the waterfowl. Damn dams are inconvenient, and besides a good dam break and resulting flood is good to clear out slums in decrepit, declining, sanctuary-declared, leftist democrat-led cities and towns. California – the world’s 5th largest economy – needs to get a fiscal haircut and stern reprimand.
Nationally too, there has been too much waste… proverbial pork… bridges to nowhere…
From now on, there will be no federal aid for hurricane relief in the Gulf States. No hurricane is a surprise… many are charted with Sharpies, so we all know where in advance they will strike.
Lava flows in Hawaii? Ha! Eruptions can be largely predicted and lava moves slowly. If someone cannot get out of the way, it’s their fault.
Earthquakes too… a little rattle and roll is good for enhancing your rhythm.
As far as Tornado Alley is concerned, a good readjustment of topsoil is good for everyone. While the Dust Bowl is an ancient memory, moving a chunk of Kansas to Illinois seems reasonable, and less expensive than by truck or rail cars.
Nor’easters in New England? Not a worry. Just think of lobsters clawing their way as they relocate to higher ground in Penobscot Bay. They have 10 legs. Use them. No transportation subsidies for them.
Certainly, we have to stop reimbursing Springfield, Ohio residents for the loss of their pets; even if they were delicious.
Isn’t chicken the new white meat anyway… or was that more pork?
And let’s not forget about Alaska… high time to stop spending money on binoculars for a better glimpse of Russia from our windows.
Montana? Sorry… no money for you for errant Chinese spy balloons falling from the sky, even if that carnage might cause the buffalo to stampede. Bison meat… certainly exportable to global markets without government trade sanctions is good too.
And farm subsidies are a thing of the past.
And pork… government pork? Nope… it’s your bacon in the fire from now on.
FEMA? Cast off into the dustbin of history.
I think it is wonderful that Congress is finally stepping up to put some much-needed and long-overdue fiscal controls on flagrant emergency spending to help American citizens.
It’s high time to put a stop to this financial drip, a leakage that is undermining the inherent strengths of the states and allowing good Americans to rely on handouts in emergencies, even when all else has been lost.
The wildfires in LA are the proverbial (flammable) straw that broke the camel’s back.
And we should punish nature too when Mom doesn’t provide enough rain.
Let’s cloud-seed the skies… until the heavens burst, and who cares about flooding in Missouri, Iowa, or along the Mississippi?
The reappearance of, “Stupid is as Stupid Does” reportedly dates to 1862
Anthony Trollop used it in 1882.
Forrest Gump popularized it in 1994.
Thank goodness Congress has restored it to our lexicon by its actions in 2025.
Why don’t the American media and Op-ed writers see this as clearly as I do?
Jonathan Swift surely would approve of all this.
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