Monday, November 12, 2018

"Alone, at last."


Donald Trump is no longer allowed to steal the show — at least not when it’s being held on Europe’s stage.



European leaders have wised up to Trump. Emmanuel Macron showed at commemorations in Paris for the World War I Armistice centenary over the weekend that there is a new approach.



No longer will Europe appease Trump, as they did for the first 18 months of his unorthodox presidency.



Instead, they now push back and isolate Trump, denying him the attention he craves.



After Trump landed in Paris Friday evening and immediately fired off a provocative tweet accusing Macron of being “very insulting.” So, the French president met with Trump on Saturday morning.



The somewhat retarded American president misinterpreted a call from Macron for an EU army (e.g. EU funded NATO).



The French president only said he agrees with Trump’s call for European allies to spend more on their militaries.



Trump does not understand that. But then, Trump does not understand much of anything.



"National Forests play a critical role in the lives of Californians. We represent 20 million acres or approximately one-fifth of California's landscape."

The single biggest threat to these incredible benefits is catastrophic wildfire. Over the last decade, an average of over 400,000 acres burned annually in California. The US Forest Service spends about $200 million per year to suppress 98% of these fires and up to $1 billion to suppress the other 2% of fires that escape initial attack and become large catastrophic fires.

Six to nine million acres of the National Forest System Lands need treatment to increase their resilience to the impacts of disturbances such as wildfire, climate change, invasive species and human population growth.

Trump is ignorant.



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