More than 30 killed in Maui as wildfire wipes town of Lahaina off the map ... the videos of the devastation are unreal

[Zyobot]

Yeah…

I'm just imagining the kind of loose cannons this will set off. Not just the conspiracies themselves (which are too suspicious to dismiss straightaway), but also the injustice and double standards sending people who've lost everything over the edge.

Sooner or later, we'll see the results. And if the police are as complicit as those Redditors are suggesting, they won't be safe from the loose cannons who try to get back at them, either. Really, you could hardly do more to make the population turn against you than that.

 

[Rocinante]

Yeah…

I'm just imagining the kind of loose cannons this will set off. Not just the conspiracies themselves (which are too suspicious to dismiss straightaway), but also the injustice and double standards sending people who've lost everything over the edge.

Sooner or later, we'll see the results. And if the police are as complicit as those Redditors are suggesting, they won't be safe from the loose cannons who try to get back at them, either. Really, you could hardly do more to make the population turn against you than that.

Yes even if we admit that there's no conspiracy at play, the authorities still seriously fucked up in horrendous ways at every step.

It's really hard to excuse away the blocking of roads and not releasing water, though.

 

[Bacle]

This sounds like a very good argument for a massive desalination operation, or a few of them, to be added to whatever water infrastructure they currently have on line.

What the island has clearly is not enough to begin with, and the whole command chain of the island need to be run through an inquiry over who authorized or blocked what.

 

[Zachowon]

Or, the dems are taking full advantage if the situation.

HAWAII VOTED FOR THIS.

 

[Husky_Khan]

Most of the malice being referenced here could still just as easily be chalked up to standard government incompetence like it always is in response to natural disasters. The main difference is the incompetence just seems more exceptional then typical government incompetence.

 

[Rocinante]

Most of the malice being referenced here could still just as easily be chalked up to standard government incompetence like it always is in response to natural disasters. The main difference is the incompetence just seems more exceptional then typical government incompetence.

Indeed, and just layers upon layers of incompetence all at once, building on one another to create the perfect storm where people couldn't get out and alao couldn't get water to put the fires out. Just stuck to burn amd suffocate to death.

It's fucked.

 

[Typhonis]

Or, the dems are taking full advantage if the situation.

HAWAII VOTED FOR THIS.

What did Hawaii vote for?

 

[Zachowon]

Dems. Having a blue government that does not care

 

[49ersfootball]

Yeah seems like the working cause is the excessive winds in a very dry environment felled powerlines which might've caused the initial brushfires which spread very rapidly through Lahaina.

According to HI Governor Josh Green (D), both President & First Lady Biden will be heading to HI tomorrow to see the damage themselves.

Critics are calling the Maui Wildfires Biden's Hurricane Katrina Moment.

 

[49ersfootball]

Dems. Having a blue government that does not care

HI is a deep Blue State: both chambers of the HI State Legislature have overwhelming supermajorities. Plus having the Governorship & Lieutenant Governorship since 2010 & both US Senate seats since like forever.

 

[Cherico]

According to HI Governor Josh Green (D), both President & First Lady Biden will be heading to HI tomorrow to see the damage themselves.

Critics are calling the Maui Wildfires Biden's Hurricane Katrina Moment.

he really is the democrats Dubya.

 

[Captain X]

You just brought up a bunch of different leaders and potential conflicts to explain to me why we should send tanks, jets and minutions while spending billions in Ukraine.

But I don't really care if Ukraine becomes part of Russia.

And the Biden administration being dicks and Democrats being corrupt will not make me end my support for Ukraine's right to exist, nor will it make me ignore Russia as a threat to my own country.

 

[ThatZenoGuy]

And the Biden administration being dicks and Democrats being corrupt will not make me end my support for Ukraine's right to exist, nor will it make me ignore Russia as a threat to my own country.

"AHHH THAT RUSSIA! That despot across the ocean, I hope they don't get me!"

(Just making a joke. XD )

 

[Blasterbot]

Don't worry guys Sleepy Joe is on the case!

Joe Biden appears to fall asleep during meeting with Maui survivors

This isn’t the first time Biden was caught seemingly taking a nap while in public.

thepostmillennial.com

Well don't worry once they woke him up from the incredibly boring meeting where people whined about stupid shit like their dead kids he was able to relate to them on their level.

BREAKING: Joe Biden compares devastating Maui wildfires to small kitchen fire he once experienced

In 2004, the AP reported that the Biden home was struck by lighting which caused a “small fire that was contained to the kitchen.”

thepostmillennial.com

C'mon guys he is with it. been there, done that now he can get back to important things like getting 200 million more for Ukraine or getting back to vacation.

 

[Zyobot]

Could've gone in the Biden Admin Megathread instead, but:

 

[Captain X]

TL;DW?

 

[Cherico]

TL;DW?

basically bidens politically tone deaf when it comes to the Muai fires but it probally wont hurt him as much as Katrina hit Dubya.

 

[DarthOne]

 

[Marduk]

Hey, resident isolationists, no one cares about your obsessive need to stick your pet obsessions into this. They have nothing to do with the issue at hand, and if anything, you are being useful idiots doing their best to distract everyone from the fact that Hawaii is a deep blue democrat fiefdom, and so this whole mess is a result of democrats, as usual for them, despite being huge proponents of big government, being also proponents of forgetting about fulfilling the actual basic responsibilies of the government properly (because that's not cool and progressive and everyone takes it for granted) and instead running the place like a clown show (of course a very cool and progressive clown show), which has absolutely no causal relationship with the federal government not following your equally clownish foreign policy recommendations, any half competent government should be able to not be clowns at both at the same time.

 

[Zyobot]

Dear God, these police must be begging for the population to hate them!

Know I said it already, but I think it's only a matter of time before some loose cannons who will either burn or suffocate to death after losing everything anyway start firing. Really, I'd resign as fast as possible if I were a Maui police officer; if nothing else, I'd probably see the retaliation coming and get out of there while I still have a chance.

Hey, resident isolationists, no one cares about your obsessive need to stick your pet obsessions into this. They have nothing to do with the issue at hand, and if anything, you are being useful idiots doing their best to distract everyone from the fact that Hawaii is a deep blue democrat fiefdom, and so this whole mess is a result of democrats, as usual for them, despite being huge proponents of big government, being also proponents of forgetting about fulfilling the actual basic responsibilies of the government properly (because that's not cool and progressive and everyone takes it for granted) and instead running the place like a clown show (of course a very cool and progressive clown show), which has absolutely no causal relationship with the federal government not following your equally clownish foreign policy recommendations, any half competent government should be able to not be clowns at both at the same time.

What are you talking about?

Unless you mixed up your threads, we've already moved on from the Ukraine digression and are back on topic now. So, with respect, you're being obnoxious and derailing with your foreign-policy stuff when no one's been talking about it for a while.