Mother Nature Is Heating Up, and Getting Into Trump’s Head About Raking
People trying to comprehend Trump have to get inside his head. His life is not like our lives, so you have to role play into his life.
Trump owned 17 golf courses when he became President. He is also supposedly a micro-manager (I doubt if he even does most of his tweets. He even has Sarah Cooper giving most of his short speeches on TikTok, twitter, and YouTube, with much more expression than he does.)
Us city folk have no idea what an acre is. So I looked up how many acres there are in a golf course. In a modern golf course there are 150. In a standard one there are 75.
So if we take the 3,000,000 acres burned in California’s fires (3.15 million now), and simply divide by 150 acres per golf course, we easily get 20,000 golf courses. That is about 1,200 times the acreage in all of Trump’s golf courses.
Now of course all leaves have to be removed from Trump’s golf courses, since you never know where he is going to whack it. Also, we know he takes a lot of mulligans. He can have the leaves blown to the sides with leaf-blowers, but they still have to be RAKED up. Hunting for a golf ball under broad leaves is impossible. I imagine in the fall, golf courses have to be raked daily.
Trump charges about $100 for a round of golf, so he has plenty of money to pay to get his courses cleaned. To rake even the fraction of California area covered by the fires, would cost 1,200 times his entire golf course budget.
Trump is thinking of East Course trees with large leaves. California fires are in chaparral brush, with no leaves, and in pine forests, with needles that can’t be raked.
The total acreage of California is 105,000,000. That is the size of 700,000 golf courses (Trump would be salivating at that). The 3.15 million acres burned is now 3% of California’s area.
Every time (twice) that Trump has come out here to give us fire advice, he is gently told by Governor Brown or Newsom that Trump, as President, manages 57% of California forest land in National Forests, and the state only owns 3%.
Trump told us about trees falling down, and drying out to become tinder. Thanks a lot. There are 150 million dead trees in California, 130 million of which are in his National Forests. They died from drought, heat waves, and pine bark beetles. They dry out and burn even while they are still standing.
Trump has the gall to deny Climate Change, even after we have record July temperatures and a record average temperature in August. Trump says that it will cool down. Well duh! Yes, after months of records and going into fall, of course it will seasonally cool down. That solves nothing, and it will be back next summer.
I would really like to see the watering records and bills for Trump’s Palos Verdes Los Angeles golf course over the years. Maybe Congress could subpoena them. That would bring home climate change.
Trump was getting a lot of flak for not visiting California during our natural fire and heat wave disasters. So he made a brief stop between his infectoramas in Nevada and Arizona, two states also with blistering temperatures. These states are also suffering from loss of incomes and jobs from Trump’s backward responses to the Coronavirus.
I can’t take it in Trump’s mind any longer.
These 14,000 firefighters and millions of residents are really going to need extra healthcare from breathing in all of the small particulate air pollution.
Speaking of Mother Nature heating up, hurricane Sandy was supposed to hit the Gulf coast as a Category 1, but then became a Category 2. Briefly it was predicted to even hit Category 3 at 111 mph. This rapid heating is from the warm Gulf waters. The hurricane will send flood waters around New Orleans.
Even more unusual is that there are now 5 tropical depressions at once in Atlantic waters. This is only the second time that that has occurred. To the tune of “All Tangled Up In Blue” by Bob Dylan, we present:
“And I was standin’ on the side of the road, Rain fallin’ on my shoes, Heading out for the east coast, Lord knows I’ve paid some dues, Gettin through, Tangled up in blue.”
In was on August 25, three weeks ago, that I had noted Mother Nature and Climate Change were making themselves an issue in the election. And here they are back again, and again in spectacular fashion.
