I feel similar levels of cognitive dissonance when a Floridian governor claims he cannot simply stop a hurricane. What the hell do we even have politicians for if they can’t change the weather!? Have we considered the use of nuclear weapons on the fire? Dear leader trump had a great idea on dat last time there was danger cuming for Florida.

This isn’t a debate floor. People’s lives are being are affected by the minute. A governor is stating what’s going on.

And the opposition is spreading lies.

username checks out...

Seriously tho, "A governor is stating what’s going on." is not the same as him telling facts.

> from a governor who's responsible for the fires

It's wild how much credit and blame we assign to government officials.

For instance: Many Americans essentially believe that the president has a lever in their office to adjust the price of gas up and down

I don't quite follow you here unfortunately. How exactly is the governor responsible for the fires?

It's possible to have a useful debate about whether California's fire preparedness and response is what it should be. That's not what's happening here. What's happening here is some tweet from an account with 25.4 million followers says California has cut specific budgets, but the actual budgets say otherwise. Some tweet from an account with 4.7 million followers says 60 Oregonian fire trucks are held up in Sacramento for emissions testing, but they were already in Los Angeles and never went through emissions testing.