It's such a low bar of decency, and yet...

Hey, you know who's the worst? Yeah, Donald Trump, he is, after all, an Omega-level asshat and basically the worst thing to happen to America since-I don't know, name an awful thing that has happened. But I was actually going to say the people who still support him are the worst. And this time...it's personal. I mean, more personal than doing more to dismantle our democracy than anyone in history.

Omega-level? Oh, it's an X-Men thing, it means the most powerful type of
mutant. So think Magneto, but with being an asshat instead of magnet powers.

Pictured: President Trump
addressing goons.

The President had this to say about the multiple wildfires on the West Coast:

"They're starting again in California. I said, you gotta clean your floors, you gotta clean your forests-there are many, many years of leaves and broken trees and they're like, so flammable, you touch them and it goes up."

-Forest Ranger Don, to some goons at 

a campaign rally in Valley Forge, PA

Surprisingly, despite his vast experience as a reality TV host and shitty business man, Donald Trump doesn't actually know anything about forest management. You can't, as he once baselessly and unsolicitedly asserted to then California Governor Jerry Brown, rake your way to a forest-fire-free future. And besides, even if you could, does he even know how big California is? There are thirty-three million acres of forest so, like, grab a rake asshat.

Pictured: 33 million acres of California forest. Which, fun fact:
is thirty-three times the number of votes by which Donald Trump lost
the popular election. It's not relevant, I just like to point it out a lot.

I'm not sure I'd trust a guy that
can't even keep a casino in business.

The State's current rash of fires are the result of lightning strikes, a natural phenomenon, exponentially worsened by anthropocentric climate change which is, you know, the opposite of natural. It's also something the President insists isn't real but totally is. Sort of like Russian interference in the 2016 election and basic human decency. Anyway, he went on to suggest that California should be on its own about this since the state didn't listen to the former host of The Apprentice's nonsense advice about a subject he knows nothing about.

They applauded letting people's
homes burn, so yeah, goons.

Earlier I said that he'd made this personal and that's because one of the fires is in the Santa Cruz Mountains which is where, until a couple months ago, I lived for the last five years. A lot of my friends have been evacuated and some have probably lost their homes and it's a dick move for Trump to threaten Federal aide based on whether or not the State is likely to vote for him. Which it's not. Oh, and by the by, Trump declared the fires a disaster yesterday, so he was just trying to appeal to his goon-base.

What bothers me the most is that it works on these people. Like, he threatens to withhold aid and they love him for it. These aren't people who felt forgotten by Washington so they voted for a man who speaks to them, these are people who cheer the misery of their fellow Americans. Are they, and I'm genuinely asking, just terrible people? I mean look, Florida and the Gulf Coast are routinely struck by devastating hurricanes and storms. Have you ever thought that we should just let them drown because you don't agree with their politics?

The answer is no, of course you haven't.
Because you're not a terrible person.