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From BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cd9w8xk75ndt Title as of 16:15 EDT.

Posting a screenshot, because it's a live story and the BBC might change the title as the story develops.

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 29 points 6 hours ago

Literally old man yells at cloud.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 hours ago

This assfuck is all-in on AI and data centers. He doesn't give a fuck about the air.

He could help Canada, but he won't. It's all about bullshit. He needs to feed his fat fucking cow followers with endless bullshit. No gaps in the feedings. Bullshit day and night.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Take my energy tiny blood clot

[–] CyberneticOwl@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

I mean, careful what you wish for: legislators could troll Trump by drafting bills that use the same language to go after his agencies that have screwed up air quality, water quality, etc.

Dear Canada,

I am really sorry about the senile old fuckwit criminal that some of us decided to let run wild. I tried to tell the other fuckwits that it was a terrible idea. They did not listen.

Sincerely,

Your Friend in the Banana Republic to the South

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Old Man Yells at Cloud

[–] plasticbuddha@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago

Now Canada is distracting from the Epstein files...

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago

Trump should put 100% import tariff on wildfire smoke.

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 9 points 7 hours ago

Bet those windmills would be nice to have now.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 7 hours ago

This comes from the rake the forests guy.

Nowadays he alternates between old man yelling at cloud and batshit insane.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago

So this is where he gets cancer and croaks? Cuz I've probably have my cancer and probably will croak. Hopefully after him. I don't want to miss it when he does. C'mon pretzel! 🥜 Peanut! Get in there!

[–] radix@lemmy.world 229 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Is he saying the atmosphere is a shared resource that no nation should be filling with pollution?

It's fascinating how close he is to getting it, while the world knows he never, never will.

[–] amio@lemmy.world 69 points 13 hours ago

Meh, weaponized hypocrisy is 99% of what comes out of his blubbery bitch-ass.

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 31 points 12 hours ago

No, he's saying that the atmosphere is a resource owned by the US and that other countries should pay for it.

Can't ICE just shoot the dirty air for moving in the general direction of one of those masked goons? They could fear for their life or something.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 61 points 13 hours ago

As a Canadian in the middle of these wildfires, which fire marshalls and environmental scientists have been warning about for years, I'm glad Doug Ford is getting chastised by his big buddy over a problem that should weigh heavily on his shoulders.

And yes, please, set a precedent to start treating the air as a shared resource. I can't wait to see what kind of penalties get levied against the US once we make that a thing.

I know he'll forget the whole thing once he starts sundowning tonight, but a girl can dream.

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 hours ago

Hmm when compensation from America since they are now invading us with vile smoke from Oregon and Idaho at this very moment?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Our windmills arent actually windmills, they're fans, and we're blowing all the smoke at you!

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

I always wondered how they made the wind...

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

You promised to spend that money on rakes!!

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Trying to blame his own butt stench on Canada.

Maybe the smell is coming from the Epstein files. Try airing 'em out!

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 hours ago

He's this close to understanding externalized costs...

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 7 points 9 hours ago

Interesting... Though not nearly as interesting as the epstein files. WHERE ARE THEY!?

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

Jesus Christ he is stupid

[–] Dvixen@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Blah blah blah.

Suck it up, butterrump.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 52 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

This fucking dumbass. Lets tariff them, that will surely stop them creating all this smoke. The outcome from his liberation day tariff war was so abysmal I'm surprised he's not too ashamed to utter the word ever again.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Tariff THEM? Do Americans not know how tariffs work? This is like punching yourself in the face and then saying you got beat up.

[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 22 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I've had maga family tell at me that the other nation pays tariffs despite all evidence to the contrary. To answer your question, no they don't know how it works.

[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 6 points 10 hours ago

As someone who works with tariffs every day, people believing this infuriates me.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 25 points 14 hours ago

That would require an iota of self-awareness.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That demented thing can not feel shame.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Oh indeed, and on top of the man's own innate mental problems, he was also warped by Roy Cohen and Norman Vincent Peale. From the former he learned to never apologize, never admit to losing, never admit to being wrong, and always attack every critic; from the latter he learned to believe that he cannot fail, and in fact that God himself will ensure his victory. He is a perfect storm of narcissism.

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 hours ago

This is what happens when we don't vote. GET OUT AND VOTE!

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 25 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 4 points 13 hours ago
[–] Steve@communick.news 19 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Seriously. I've said this many times before.
Not everything Rump says is newsworthy. Reporters need to learn when to ignore the moron.

[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 10 points 14 hours ago

Rump breathing == media profit. Outrage sells after all.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I think the hope is, if they talk enough about the stupid shit he's saying, his fan base will finally see what an idiot he is. But, alas, his fan base is fucking dumber somehow. And yes, it's getting really old hearing this shit every fucking day.

Dump:"Not many people know there's a "b" in that word, dumb."

Jim Bob:"Trump is so smart."

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

His fans don't listen to the news that reports on the dumb shit he says, they just twist everything he and his say into something vaguely meaningful to them.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 12 hours ago

Drill baby drill.

Ps. This applies also to our pipeline-suckling prime minister.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

I just wish he actually cared.

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

FUCKING DUMBASS

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

It would probably be good if the governments of North America could come together and discuss how to more responsibly and sustainably manage their forests. Beyond increasing temperatures caused by climate change, the recent intensity of summer fires on this continent are also driven by the fact that we no longer do controlled burns of forest lands evolved to regularly burn, leading to accumulated dry underbrush. We treat our managed forests like farms, monocropping species onto dry hills that are better adapted for wetter, more diverse ravines. We woefully underfund the departments tasked with doing these things. As bad as climate change is, these summer fires could be way more mild if only we could hold our governing bodies to be more responsible. But I guess that's where the climate change ultimately came from, too.

[–] yes_this_time@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

There is some truth in what you are saying, which makes for the best misinformation.

Canada's fires are largely in unmanaged areas in wild forests not tree farms, suppression was never happening, the increase in fires is due to hotter weather (the north experiences higher increases than global average).

Forest management is more of a contributor in the US (but climate there too).

BTW prescribed burns do happen but they are heavily regulated, not a tonne of them. There were a bunch of deaths a while ago, which increased regs, rightly or wrongly.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 7 points 12 hours ago

We got more than a million square miles of forest in Canada. We'd have to employ a significant portion of the population to do the things oil companies keep claiming we're supposed to be doing. We've never had to do these things before.

We have been measuring how dry the forests are for a long time now. We know why the forests are burning. They're dried out because of climate change. We know climate change is caused by global warming. We know global warming is caused be increased carbon dioxide in the air. We know burning fossil fuels puts more carbon dioxide into the air. All of these things have been measured, we know the cause.

If the oil companies think paying people to rake the forests, clear the brush or whatever will help, then maybe they should pay people to do these things?

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 6 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Canada must pay for the wall and it must be tall enough to block smog!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

And deep enough to block, I don't know, knives. And quarries.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

He's going to let wind farms poop up, so they can blow the smoke back... or tell'em to rake up the leaves.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

How much polution the usa caused with all the illegal wars it did and the sale of wespons to other hostilr countries and militia?

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