Trump's the king of stupid statements "Raking the forest" is just as dumb as "You need a photo ID to purchase groceries" .
Trump's the king of stupid statements "Raking the forest" is just as dumb as "You need a photo ID to purchase...
Wyatt James
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Lucas Rogers
someone change the bottom picture to read canada
Jose Bailey
Trips of truth.
We all know his rake comment was just dogwhistling anyway. Canadian genocide coming soon.
Andrew Taylor
lel
Justin Young
>I don't understand how fire works
Jeremiah Collins
california niggards want to save some bucks they even dont employ mexican gardeners they prefer to burn down, the modern babilonia
Angel Hernandez
Retard.
Aiden Baker
Is what he said wrong? I think not. Also, there are plenty of things at the grocery store you need id for.
Popular herb used during Thanksgiving.
Henry Bailey
Have to admire the confidence to just boldly fabricate answers in the moment then flatly deny or spin it in retrospect. He’s not an academic or a philosopher - he’s a politician. His job is to be popular, not accurate.
Aiden Baker
it's true though, and every forest ranger knows it. all that brush is fire fuel.
Jace Williams
>The (((nose))) on that (((Californian)))
Are they subly hinting at Jewish control of Hollywood?
Luke Harris
The leaf fears the rake
Levi Powell
>smart people: oh, you mean clear the underbrush and scrub in hazard areas, and how you need an ID to use a credit card or drive a vehicle to the store
>dumbass faggots: DRUMPHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Anthony Morris
Luis Bennett
trips get what they please
Grayson Taylor
Jackson Perry
Plant biologist fire scientist here. That brush is dead and has got less h2o than the trees maans. When it burn it burn faster u kno?. It get hot enough the tree burn too but trees big and wet (lik ur mum) so they don’t burn too good.
Owen Cox
If you don't live in the woods you wont die in a forest fire.
If you live in the woods tend the forest so you wont die in a forest fire.
Not rocket science.
Mason Cook
>Claim Canadians started the California fires
>Outlaw Canadians
>Day of the Rake
>Canadians become US citizens
>Treuedaueue becomes 46th president of the United States
Wyatt Fisher
Jej
William Anderson
It doesn't work with that picture plebs. Sure we have wildfires but it doesn't concern the US. Nor do we need aid from.
Liam Miller
Luis Edwards
Raking the forest is how you fight wildfires. Don’t make your lack of knowledge and education into my problem
Noah Taylor
Daniel Cooper
just let the entire town build up 2 feet of kindling in every yard
Gavin Williams
Kek
Nicholas Hughes
I like to imagine he was dog whistling Jow Forums
Austin Anderson
Fixed
Aiden Perry
Jordan Wright
Liberals scream about environmental topics constantly and then when someone makes a real comment suddenly you become total retards.
Proper STEWARDSHIP of land involves preventing fires and soil erosion from lack of ground cover.
You RAKE THE FOREST to provide space for rooting plants to hold onto the dirt and promote life.
I activly and yearly take the hill behind my property to encourage grass to grow.
You're a stupid nigger and represent everything wrong in the world
Grayson Ramirez
Based trips
Jack Sanchez
Double 3s and it’s more accurate
Owen Watson
Nice
Brayden Morris
They don’t have niggers putting out their joints in the middle of the forest like Cali does
Ryder Hall
Haha jerry brown just admitted it though
Thomas Walker
This. I filled seventeen yard waste bags this weekend cleaning up leaves and debris to keep my lawn and garden healthy.
Brayden Ortiz
>The leaf fears the rake
Burgers fear the grill .
Parker Torres
>you can keep your doctor
>average of $2500 in medicare savings
he might be boisterous but at least he didnt lie to my face.
Camden Bailey
But those were big beautiful towels he gave them
Xavier Torres
Oh the irony !!! Looks like Trump is getting his day of the rake .
Rake America Great Again – is Donald Trump right about Finland’s forests?
Experts pour cold water on American President's claim that raking leaves is used as a way to prevent fires in Finland.
The worst forest fires in California’s history are still burning. So far they’ve left more than 70 people dead and at least 1,300 missing.
At the weekend, US President Donald Trump visited Paradise, a Californian town devastated by wildfires. His solution to the state’s problem? Following Finland’s example.
Speaking amid smouldering ruins, Mr Trump told reporters: “I was with the president of Finland and he said ‘We have a much different — we’re a forest nation.’ He called it a forest nation, and they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things. And they don’t have any problem.”
Mr Trump has repeatedly blamed mismanagement of California’s forests for the outbreak of this autumn’s destructive wildfires. The US president tweeted that there is “no reason for these massive deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor.”
Tyler Wood
These retards didn't realize it's an actual thing (and obviously not done with a fucking garden rake) either because they lack the vocabulary (ironically these are also the people who pretend they are educated and smart) or because they have no fucking clue about forest maintenance because they are city idiots who have never even seen a tree. They were just too much in a hurry to post about orange man bad to stop and think that maybe they were the ones who don't have a clue.
Nolan Taylor
President Niinistö disputes Trump’s recollection
Trump’s comments have drawn criticism, not least from Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, who contradicted his American counterpart’s recollection of their conversation.
Niinistö told Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat “I mentioned to him that Finland is a land covered by forests and we also have a good monitoring system and network.”
The Finnish president said he remembers saying the phrase, “we take care of our forests,” but adds “raking wasn’t brought up in the conversation.”
Austin Flores
Do Finns rake their forests?
“No. It’s definitely not true,” says Henrik Lindberg, a forestry expert and principal lecturer at Häme University of Applied Sciences HAMK.
“About 200 years ago in central Europe there was a practice called ‘litter raking’, to collect leaves for animal husbandry and bedding, but it was never done in Finland,” he says.
The Finnish Interior Ministry‘s forest fire expert Rami Ruuska agrees: “We don’t rake forests. Finland has much forest area, it would be impossible.”
Instead, he says, Finns “service” forests by collecting dead wood where possible. That process is mainly the responsibility of Finland’s large forestry industry.
Kayden Robinson
Metsähallitus – Finland’s state owned forestry corporation – is keen to downplay the significance of forest maintenance in preventing forest fires.
“We do not rake forest floors in any circumstances,” says Metsähallitus’s sustainable develoment manager Antti Otsamo.
“Sometimes we collect logging residues like branches for energy production, but this is done by appropriate machinery. Even then the main purpose of the activity is to collect energy wood, not fire prevention,” Otsamo adds
Easton Sanchez
What if there’s a fire in Finland?
“Regular forest thinnings reduce the likelihood of ground fires spreading,” says Lindberg, but he thinks the most important fire reduction factor is Finland’s dense network of forest roads, built by the forestry industry to improve access for its workers.
“It helps give people access to forests. For example if they’re in the forest picking mushrooms and have their mobile phones, they can call if they see a fire.”
The roads can slow down the spread of fires and also improve access for emergency services, he says: “They were designed for timber trucks, but can also be used by fire trucks.”
Finland’s forest monitoring system also comes into play. The system, operated by the Finnish Meteorological Institute FMI, triggers warnings when the conditions are right for fire to break out. Those warnings are then spread by the media, telling Finns that they aren’t allowed to light fires in forested areas.
If a fire does break out, it’s tracked from above by aircraft and satellite imaging. The Finnish government even pays for private flying clubs to fly over affected areas and inspect the scale of the fire. “It’s quite cheap because they’re volunteer pilots,” says the Interior Ministry’s Rami Ruuska.
The extensive monitoring system and forest road networks help to fight fires before they get out of control. According to university lecturer Lindberg, Finland has far fewer serious forest fires when compared to neighbouring Sweden.
He says in part that comes down to Finland’s network of voluntary firefighters: “Guys who know their backyards.”
In a way, Lindberg says, “Finland is an exception in having amazingly few forest fires.”
Matthew Ross
California and Finland are worlds apart
Ultimately, the experts are clear on one thing: comparing Californian and Finnish forests doesn’t make any sense.
“It’s maybe not a fair comparison,” says Ruska. “Our nature and forests are so totally different. Maybe it’s fairer to compare California and the Mediterranean.”
Lindberg goes further, saying the climate and forest structure of the two are entirely different.
“It’s a bit wild, and even absurd, to compare it,” he says.
Metsähallitus’ Antti Otsamo agrees, saying Finland’s climate just isn’t right for forest fires to develop: “Forestry areas are covered by snow for several months every year, and the actual fire risk period is short or sometimes non-existent.”
So how big of a risk are forest fires in Finland? According to Lindberg, in the summer of 2018 – one of the hottest on record – only 1,000 hectares of forest was destroyed by fire. That’s out of a total 23 million hectares of forest in Finland.
Lindberg says you only have to look at the nation’s insurance payouts to forest owners to see the scale of the problem.
“Normally you would see insurance payments between €200,000 – €800,000 for fires,” he says. Wind damage from storms is a far bigger threat, leading to annual payouts of between €2 – €3 million, and in some years up to €20 million, he adds.
Angel Howard
"The word “raking” raises also a few problems. According to Professor Antti Asikainen from Natural Resources Institute Finland, in the United States raking means harvesting the logging residues to piles with a bulldozer with a brush rake. “Trump used the right word in the right context—knowingly or unknowingly,” he said."
In other words, Trump was right, but they're going to ignore that.
John Torres
>Forestry management only collects dead wood for energy
So this is either a lie or they don't actually do anything to "take care" of the forests?
Adrian Baker
I searched Amazon, i have yet to find a "Forest Rake"..
Elijah Phillips
Humorous online reaction
Finns reacted to Trump’s comments on twitter, coining the hashtags #rakenews and #rakeamericagreatagain in English, and #haravointi in Finnish.
From members of the public tweeting pictures of them raking in the forest, to civil society, celebrities, politicians and sports stars, it seems the idea of trolling Donald Trump on social media caught the nation’s imagination on Sunday.
Basketball star Lauri Markkanen, who plays in the NBA for Chicago Bulls, posted a picture of himself with a rake with the caption “anybody need their floors raked? #FinnishRakingSeason”
Twitter user Per Lindroos speculated whether synchronized raking might be a new Olympic sport.
And Kristiina Vahvaselkä found another use for rakes after cleaning up the forests – posting a picture of sausages sizzling over an open fire, with the rake used as a grill!
Charles Lee
GONNA NEED 2 RAKES
Andrew Long
It's not always about you, snowflake.
Samuel Gray
>Bulldoze millions of acres of forest.
Why not just pave all of nature while you're at it?
Dominic Murphy
Meanwhile the Foreign Ministry’s Director of Communications for Europe Ville Cantell got creative and wrote “When you are Finnish, you can just grab them by the handle and go at it in the forest. And they let you do it”.
Day of the rake for the US . How ironic .
Leo Harris
>I don't understand how fires work
I don't understand how Trump doesn't understand.
Oliver Collins
I hope California burns to the fucking ground.
Jayden Gomez
>not knowing how brush works
hope you burn in a forest fire.
Robert Butler
>these retards lack the vocabulary
>"the floors, you gotta take care of the floors"
It's called the ground, he'd know that if he turned off the TV and put down his Happy Meals occasionally
James Brooks
>the joke
>A FUCKING LEAF
Jeremiah Jackson
change it back to california and put a burger in
James Cook
:^| Very nice post.
Jordan Hill
if at this point you don't understand why he does it on purpose.
Dominic Roberts
You do clear the forest of debris though unless you enjoy forest fires. The left is painfully stupid.
Adam Phillips
Ayden Thomas
Except it would actually work. But I know, opposing trump is all that matters now, abandon all reason in order to get sick burns on him.
Camden Wood
Californian forest fires are so bad because the smaller scale fires which would naturally occur are prevented, for various reasons, thus allowing it to build up to a much more devastating inferno in the future.
Jack Watson
>i don't understand why my statement is ignorant
>i have no idea what taking care of woodland actually entails
>other states don't have the fire problems that california has, despite having as much, or more, wooded areas and similar, or drier, climates
Jeremiah Reed
DAY OF THE RAKE IS REAL wtf
Dylan Butler
I bet you then fertilise it, don't you?
Lawn care is retarded.
Robert Edwards
no, just perimeters around towns and cities
John Gonzalez
>The firefighters shouldn't have had to rake brush
...is one of the most sensible things this kike has said.
Matthew Harris
Those canadians dont look chinese enough
Jack Wood
Now change this one so the top sign reads "India"
Lincoln Clark
"regular thinning activity" is quoted right there, numbnuts.
Jonathan Jones
Grenade-chan will eventually rid us of your intolerable species.
William Clark
DAY OF THE RAKE US !!! DAY OF THE RAKE !!!
INSTANT KARMA IS A BITCH !!!
THE IRONY IS DELICIOUS !!!
BEWARE OF THE CANADIAN CURSE !!!
President of Finland denies telling Trump the country rakes its forests to prevent fires
While touring a town ravaged by the Northern California Camp Fire on Saturday, President Trump said Finland's president claimed the country doesn't have many problems with forest fires because it spends "a lot of time on raking." Finland's President Sauli Niinistö said the topic of raking never came up in their conversation.
Mr. Trump was visiting Paradise, California, this weekend with California Gov. Jerry Brown, California Governor-elect Gavin Newsom and Paradise Mayor Jody Jones when he was asked what could be done to prevent a similar disaster in the future. The wildfire has been called the deadliest and most destructive in the Golden State's history.
Jose Lee
Now that's a winner
Isaiah Harris
Evan Perry
"You gotta take care of the floors. You know? The floors of the forest. Very important," said Mr. Trump. "I was with the President of Finland and he said, 'We have a much different — we're a forest nation.' He called it a 'forest nation.' And they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they don't have any problem. And when it is, it's a very small problem."
Dylan Murphy
Imagine being so arrogant that even though your state literally burns to the ground twice a year because of forest mismanagment, you have the gall to call someone else ignorant on forest fires. There is no way Trump could possibly do worse than California is doing. Fucking natural forests that aren't managed at all don't catch on fire nearly this often. Whatever California is doing is making the forests worst. Its like they are watering them with gasoline or something.
Chase Reed
Fuck reddit . You know you're being raked burger .
Niinistö said he doesn't remember mentioning raking leaves with Mr. Trump, but did say the two leaders spoke about the California wildfires when they met in Paris in early November.
"I mentioned [to] him that Finland is a land covered by forests and we also have a good monitoring system and network," Niinistö told lta-Sanomat, Finland's second-largest paper on Sunday. He also told the newspaper that he remembers uttering the phrase "we take care of our forests" during their conversation.
Twitter quickly learned of the raking comments, with many from Finland ridiculing Mr. Trump by tweeting images of themselves or others raking in the forest. Some used the hashtag #haravointi, which is translated to #Raking in english.
Adrian Wood
Kayden Gutierrez
Christopher Carter
someone post the house of /ourstar/ in cali
Jacob Perry
there are no such thing as anti trump memes
only accidentally pro trump memes
Joseph Jenkins
That’s right charles cheng, you import South African niggers that have never fought fires with water.
Aaron Jenkins
What would happen if the wildfires reached one of the bigger liberal cities with streets that are now covered in human feces? How fast does human poop spread fire?
Charles Taylor
These people have never used a rake in the forest.
I clear areas of my forest of dead branches, fallen timber, buildup of twigs and whatnot, and I can tell you a good sturdy rake is absolutely indispensable. You need other tools of course. A pole saw, hand saw, loppers, etc. But when you're most of the way through and there's still a shit ton of little sticks and twigs and stuff on the ground, you rake it all up and put it in a pile somewhere.
The biggest problem with forest mismanagement is a buildup of dead wood on the ground. All you have to do to make your forest more defensible is simply gather up all this dead wood and put it in a pile somewhere. You've already taken a good step towards making your property more resistant to fire.
These people are dipshits.
Julian Walker
Which our lovely dog fucking friend has demonstrated and so does every other jealous and sad country.
Landon Stewart
Why the fuck are the Californians a Muslim family? I literally can wait for ww3 im so fucking sick of this garbage political climate and these fucking jews
Grayson Butler
>canadian defense force
Right on time
Julian Torres
Chase Lee
Jaxson Wright
>he doesn't rake his forest
Jose Davis
It's literally called a Dozer Rake for clearing the forest. Lol WTF
Daniel Gray
Another example of the dozer equipment used to rake the forest
Isaiah Hernandez
>raking the forest
>easy way to get working class people to understand that the major issue is that of forestry management that has been ham-strung by California's environmental legislation, specifically the management of the O horizon and clearance of the brush found on the periphery of heavily forested areas.
The problem isnt that he says stupid things, the problem is that you are too stupid to understand what he is talking about.
Lincoln Rogers
You're clearly not a firefighter. Trump is dead on right. ~ A friendly U.S. Forestry employee.
Justin Nguyen
He's not a politician and he OBVIOUSLY doesn't care to be popular. In fact he seems to dare Libtards to dislike him more.