Marty’s photo of the day #5111: As most of you know, last week our psychopathic führer, Donald Trump, blamed Canada for the forest fire smoke crossing into America. What you may not know is that it is not the first time a Republican has tried that bullshit.

Today’s photo shows the great fire of 2000—the highest priority fire in America at the time. Deb’s and my house is in the mountains just below the fire line in this photo. I remember the stress of evacuating and thinking that we might lose the house that Deb designed and we had built just four years earlier.

Instead of offering care or sympathy for all of those in the Bitterroot Valley affected by the fire, Montana’s Republican Governor, Marc Racicot, was all over the news blaming Democrats for the fire. Even though Racicot has mellowed in his retirement, I will never forgive him for his assholishness while in office.

Trump and Racicot were projecting. The world’s forests have taken care of themselves since long before humans existed. They don’t need to be logged or raked. Not all forest fires are a result of human-caused global warming, but many are, and in virtually all cases the fires are bigger and more destructive because of global warming.

Ever since President Ronald Reagan ordered the solar panels ripped off the roof of the White House and cut funding for renewable energy development, Republicans have been doing all they can to help greedy oil companies and stand in the way of progress to mitigate global warming. Because of that, a large portion of the blame for uncontrollable fires and just cooking our planet belongs to the Republicans. Yes, other countries contribute, but when Republicans claim, “America leads the world,” and then they fail to lead, they own the results of their deliberate failure.