Trump's draft EO on changing how wildfires are fought

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https://mountainjournal.org/white-house ... uppression

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Yeah, they can't even lie good.

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That story makes so little sense that my head hurts just reading it.

How exactly do you shoot yourself in the arm accidentally in a car? A pretty long and bizarre list of things have to go wrong for someone to get into that position. I can't imagine it happening without lots of alcohol being involved.

And this little gem makes even less sense:

In response to the Post’s reporting in April, Sheehy claimed that he actually lied to Peach in 2015 about accidentally shooting himself. Sheehy said that he fell and injured his arm during the hike in Glacier – but he lied about the self-inflicted shooting to conceal the fact that he may have obtained the bullet wound during friendly fire that he endured while fighting in Afghanistan.

Um, my first thought is that I think even ER doctors in Montana probably can tell the difference between a very recent bullet wound and one that happened sometime earlier. He claimed that bullet wound was from a firefight in Afghanistan in 2012. Three years is a long time.

Why are all these people such awful liars?

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ark-ranger
He shot himself and lied about Afghanistan

The company has been struggling financially, according to their SEC filing. Looking at the draft EO that lays out the lifting of maintenance standards it would only make sense that less $ spent on maintenance would improve the bottom line. Gotta love how he blames it on climate change attitudes.
https://fireandsafetyjournalamericas.co ... ec-filing/

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Here is the company - Bridger Aerospace;

https://bridgeraerospace.com/about/

It is - I think - a legitimate company providing aerial firefighting resources.
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It is - completely and utterly - a great example that is in-line with what David Brooks (on PBS last night), called ‘Patrimonialism’…

FELON, PEE-pants donnie is willing to do an Executive Order to change the course of Federal Wildland fire response - potentially affecting 10’s of millions of people - just to add a few more $$ to the pockets of one of his supporters.
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He's a real piece of work. During the election season there was a continual series of explosive allegations and then lawsuits against him.
https://dailymontanan.com/2024/10/04/co ... employees/

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Unsaid in that article is that most of the ‘push’ for some of this re-structuring of federal firefighting, including;
- creation of a single fire agency,
- transfer of military aircraft to civilian fire contractors,
- BIG - and completely IRRESPONSIBLE - changes in how fire-fighting aircraft are inspected by federal firefighting agencies, and
- major changes in wildlife policy….

…are coming from Montana Senator Tim Sheehy. Who, it just so happens - yes, you guessed it - owns an aircraft company that contracts firefighting aircraft to federal and state agencies.

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/n ... 62c92.html
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