r/Wildfire • u/Randomlynumbered • Feb 09 '25
News (General) Sen. Adam Schiff calls for federal firefighters to be exempt from hiring freeze — Schiff’s letter to multiple U.S. agencies comes after NBC News reported that federal firefighters were not considered exempt from the hiring freeze.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/adam-schiff-calls-federal-firefighters-exempt-hiring-freeze-rcna19135261
u/justmeloren Feb 10 '25
Montana's newest senator, Tim Sheehy, owns an aerial firefighting company facing bankruptcy. He's already submitted an act to privatize wildfire management and thus .....
The grift is shocking
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u/justmeloren Feb 10 '25
No conflict of interest here /s
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u/No_Science_3845 Feb 11 '25
SEALs will never miss an opportunity to remind you they're SEALs. How many books has Sheehy written?
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u/Garden_girlie9 Feb 11 '25
I didn’t realize this price of crap actually became a senator
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u/Dramatic-Ad3758 Feb 11 '25
I know it was a typo but “price of crap” is amazing. The price of crap keeps going up. The price is currently one senator.
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u/Long-Invite-864 Feb 14 '25
Company's called Bridger Aerospace and is listed around $2.23/share on the NASDAQ
What if we all short the stock?? i did some reading and sounds like they're deeply in debt
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u/dick_jaws Feb 10 '25
Every one of them should call him and thank him, regardless of how they vote.
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u/SeaworthinessDear431 Feb 10 '25
Just wrote his office, I urge anyone reading this too as well it didn’t even take 10 minutes and I’m sure a couple nice messages will go a long way for him.
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u/Horror-Layer-8178 Feb 10 '25
Just remember one of the right wing talking points why the LA Fires were so bad was because they cut the fire budget
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u/anthropologiae_ignis Hotshot Feb 10 '25
It's political suicide to not commit 1st string FFs for the season. I think many who have districts and people they have to answer to in the west are becoming aware of that. Lip service only get you so far; and with all the tumultuous events surrounding politics lately, I'd think they may be taking their own saftey and longevity into account. So while it's been terrible I suspect they're going to try to get their shit together sooner than later.- Even if it is being done for selfish reasons.
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u/AgentSmith187 Feb 10 '25
It's political suicide
They commit some version of that about 3 times a day currently.
Im not sure they care anymore.
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u/anthropologiae_ignis Hotshot Feb 10 '25
Were speaking in a very physical dimension though. The stuff were seeing in DC is the result of a political knife fight being played out real time. Notice that every election is now stolen? Every hill one that needs to be held or die on? The rhetoric is the same kind of stuff you usually see before it all really goes to shit. Regardless, wildfires like what we just saw in LA really have a way of bridging that gap into reality, same as tragedies of other sorts, and assassination attempts for instance. So I do see what you're saying but also it's something they can't just sit on. It should also be noted that Padilla is also in the mix, so it's being worked as a bipartisan bill..
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u/AgentSmith187 Feb 10 '25
I mean wasn't there a bipartisan border bill at one point and Trump decided he didn't want the problem worked on yet instantly killing it.
The normal systems are not working as per normal.
So far it seems its Trump/Elons way or the Federal Courts and they seem to be leaning towards ignoring them too.
So far though the courts have held their ground so....
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u/anthropologiae_ignis Hotshot Feb 10 '25
All career politicians play for the same team. Trump is a outsider in that way, but I don't know that you could necessarily put the first handful of attempts being axed on his shoulders. Elon is the real menace here, the implications are he paid his way in to a appointment. What's really more is that this is very in our face, because lobbying essentially works the same way but veiled. The point I'm really trying to make is that while overtly messy out in DC, these "people" that are our representatives have to answer to their constituents back home. Aka their sponsors, so it forces their hand regardless of what takes place back east. I know it's difficult to seperate these policies from the general scene but this is that reality I touched on in my last comment. It's the same reality that will force many changes on LA so as to be able to rebuild; and allow city council members not having to worry about being crucified in the streets as normal peoples lives are changed on the order of magnitudes. The physical dimension is ever present before the thin veil of civilization.. It should also go without saying every presidency has gotten worse, approval rating almost always reach a new low with each term. As a result the pendulum swings farther and faster each time. Scary that trump was elected but is it also not as scary that democrats couldn't produce a viable candidate? Same with his first time in over hillary, populist candidates are a direct result of silliness in policies over decades. Historically speaking whoever replaces trump will expand upon his new found powers, and so on unto oblivion or revolution. Try an keep yer head up, I know it's all fucked but reason should prevail where it pertains to our jobs.
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u/AgentSmith187 Feb 10 '25
All im going to say is currently the Trump/Elon pair appear to be ignoring that Congress even exists and trying to do everything themselves.
They a r e also making noise about ignoring the final coequal branch of government as well.
No matter what Congress says they seem determined to refuse to allow funding to flow and without funding people don't get paid.
That's before you realise even if Congress works the Republicans currently hold both House and Senage and the Senate especially seems quite willing to take the word of the Executive as gospel and vote down anything they don't approve of.
You basically need to change Trump/Elons mind about Wildfire not your elected representatives.
Get those two onside and you will get the funding needed. Without them your probably not getting it even if your representatives do support it.
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u/anthropologiae_ignis Hotshot Feb 10 '25
President is just a figure head over diet dictator, house and senate have much more power ultimately. Who's gunna step to the juggernaut that is trump rn? This was the same sweep with Obama coming in, albeit not nearly as cringe. Give people enough rope and they'll hang themselves, patience my friend. It'll pan out, or the point will be proven 10 fold as it was in Canada a few years back.
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Feb 10 '25
Because it’s Schiff I won’t be surprised if it falls on deaf ears. A scumbag lowlife like that couldn’t possibly have a good idea for a Trump administration.
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u/0Marshman0 Feb 09 '25
I don’t know if writing stern letters works anymore.