A rake to the Finnish

The nasty guy has been claiming that the horrendous damage by fire in Northern California is because the forests have not been properly managed.

When the nasty guy was in Europe meeting heads of state Sauli Niinistö, president of Finland make a comment that it is a land covered by forests and they have a good monitoring system. “We take care of our forests.” Of course, coming out of the mouth of the nasty guy it got mangled. He said Finland spends “a lot of time raking and cleaning” their forests.

That prompted the Twitter hashtag #haravointi (raking). The Finns responded with various images of them raking and mocking. Some examples of what was posted (at least in English):

“Rake America Great Again” / “Make America Rake Again”

“Rake News!”

“Rake against the Machine” (photo of a rake leaning on a garden tractor).

A video of a man raking a beach to prevent sea level rise.

A photo of a woman in the forest with a vacuum cleaner.

A suggestion that synchronized raking be added as an Olympic sport.

“Here in Canada we have automated with our forest Roomba.”

“I have been so wrong! I thought we were suppose to drain the swamp. No! We are suppose to rake the forest. Thank God we do not have to rake the swamp. That would be so dangerous.”

“Rake, Rake against the dying of the light.” Apologies to Dylan Thomas.

“A rake to the Finnish.”

And one more: two men using a giant comb on the desert.

Leah McElrath, in a Twitter thread, talks about the magnitude of the destruction of the Camp Fire did to the town of Paradise, California. Workers are sifting through ash to find bone shards of people who didn’t make it out.

Then McElrath wrote:

Trump deceptively pushes a land “mismanagement” narrative because he is laying groundwork to privatize public lands/expand logging. When you hear Trump or any Republicans talk about “forest management” or “land management” in relation to these wildfires, you need to replace the words with “expanded logging company access” or “privatization of public lands.”
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There is no indication forest “mismanagement” played any role whatsoever in the #CampFire. That is simply false.

Commenters add: The forest is managed by the Secretary of the Interior – a person who works for the nasty guy. The mismanagement claim fits the conservative narrative that the government can’t do anything right, so let the private sector do it.