That the clock should shut up?

Pictured: Davidson giving the camera
his best "pay attention to me" look.

I guess what I'm saying is that Congressman Warren Davidson should probably shut his buckhole (it will make sense in a minute). Who and what? Exactly. Davidson, a wait for it, Republican representative from the Buckeye State (see?) evidently thought that the midst of devastating fires burning the city of Los Angeles as we speak, were a perfect opportunity to own the libs and demand that disaster relief funds for California be omitted a spending bill until the state reforms it's forestry management. 

You know what they say about
broken clocks, right?

So, couple of things. First, is the state's forestry management to blame here? I don't know. And neither does Ohio Congressman Davidson. I suspect that no one has answers yet, and won't until this is all over. Hindsight is twenty-twenty, but loud-mouth, uninformed comments from someone rando trying to sound big on Fox Business isn't even hindsight. If it turns out there is blame to place and if it happens that CAL FIRE fell down on the job somewhere, I'm sure he'll crow about how right he was, but again, not because he knows something, but because he's a spiteful jackass and guessed.

You can see what right wingers don't want
us using Wikipedia or looking into things.

The congressman, for his part, doesn't appear to be an expert on this subject. He made his fortune by inheriting his dad's business, and then trading stocks based on knowledge gleaned from his position in Congress. In further Wikipedia research, he's also the guy who compared being asked to show ID and COVID vax status to the holocaust, and voting against the condemnation of Russia stealing children from Ukraine. 

Isn't he a felon who told everyone to
drink bleach? Why do people listen to him?

If this all feels similar to that time convicted felon and President-elect Trump insisted that a previous round of forest fires could have been prevented had California only raked its forests better, it's because it's exactly like that. That time, he was using the Shasta fires to score political points in Pennsylvania, because MAGA people base a large part of their personality on hating liberals and there is no greater bastion of woke vegans than the Golden State. 

Of course, we're also the largest bastion of Federal money so, again, maybe don't tell us how to rake our thirty three million acres of forest? Damnit, I'm letting them pull me in. That's their goal right? People like Davidson and Trump? Out crazy one another with increasingly ridiculous statements designed to simultaneously infuriate the left while thrill the right? To convince us that the other side is the enemy and not say, the offensively wealthy oligarchs who just bought a felon* a second term?

Pictured: Mark Zuckerberg explaining that he's ending fact-checking on Facebook
because the facts have a liberal bias, all while wearing a $900,000 watch.

*Yes, I mention the felony-status three times in this post. Let me have this, ok?