So, I deserve to to suffer if I've chosen to live in Japan, and and there's an earthquake?
Florida, Florida, Florida
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Basically every major civilization arose around a river valley - and it's no coincidence that most civilizations have flood myths. The world's biggest cities are all near rivers or oceans and are all vulnerable to storms and tsunamis. Let's not go all Thanos on people who live like people have always lived.
To be fair, if the dormant volcano UNDER the geysers goes, more than Yellowstone is going to be toast. Or if you live in the Midwest when the New Madrid fault line finally rips a 8+ magnitude quake in a region that hasn’t had a major earthquake in two centuries.
Climate change has caused the Sahara to expand, the UK seeing it’s highest temps EVER RECORDED, and the average “once a decade event” has become every few years.
It doesn’t matter WHERE we are on this planet anymore, we’re readily running out of “safe” places to reside.
Florida has some pretty tough homes. We know how to build something that can withstand most hurricanes. We just don't always do it. We could change that. Trailer parks should not be allowed to exist in this state. Glorified trailers pretending to be houses shouldn't get an exception either. It doesn't take a storm this strong to blow them away. It just takes a storm this strong to blow this many away. The problem is our government has been okay with only a few blowing away every year or two.
It doesn't help that your governor is a sociopath who's more than happy to let the poor suffer.
Thankfully, his presidential ambitions are ending now, so at least there's that.
Oh I don't believe that for a second. I have zero faith in a weasel like DeSantis to not take full credit for the 99% Federal rebuild of Florida and parlay it into an even stronger Presidential ambition. We'll see.
Yeah, he can take all the credit he wants: he's still going to be shown on teevee asking for and receiving money from biden. Floridians might vote for him in 24, but other die hard fascists won't because they saw him work with democrats.
Is he done and over? No, of course not, but his presidential ambitions are a lot less likely now. Plus we get to see ads where he's called weak and pathetic by his fellow republicans in the future because he actually did the right thing for once.
So unless he spends all that fema money trafficking people allowed to be in the country: he just made his own road longer and harder.
Is he done and over? No, of course not, but his presidential ambitions are a lot less likely now. Plus we get to see ads where he's called weak and pathetic by his fellow republicans in the future because he actually did the right thing for once.
So unless he spends all that fema money trafficking people allowed to be in the country: he just made his own road longer and harder.
Nah. Even if anybody actually cared about that (they don't), he's also going on TV asking much more prominently for donations to private organizations, under the premise that they don't have the statutory guidelines and limitations of FEMA.
Wait, what happened?
I wouldn't count on anything short of the grim reaper keeping him down. And I'm not expecting that. Only the good die young, after all.
He had to take money from a democrat. To be clear: historically, this destroys the credit of republicans when they do it. Generally it marks the end leg of their political journey.
The new spin will be that he demanded Biden give him the money because Sleepy Joe's too weak to deny him. It's the kind of alpha male bullshit the cult loves.
How will Floridians feel about this?
www.businessinsider.com
Donald Trump is raising money off a "ransacking" in Florida — but it has nothing to do with Hurricane Ian
Trump is asking his supporters for at least $25 after the FBI raid on his Palm Beach, Florida, estate, while Floridians are bearing the brunt of Hurricane Ian.
www.businessinsider.com
And this?
www.huffpost.com
Matt Gaetz Votes No On Relief Money As Florida Deals With Hurricane Damage, Deaths
Rep. Matt Gaetz was one of several House Republicans who voted against a resolution to allow FEMA to use up to $15 million in the Disaster Relief Fund.
They'll find some way to rationalize these actions, assuming they don't outright pretend they didn't happen. Nothing Republicans have done so far has changed Floridians' minds about them. Why would these?
Because it's one thing to take away some one ELSES home, its another thing entirely to lose your own. When trump and maga don't come through for them after everything they've already given, they'll be pretty ******* pissed. A lot of these floridians have lost literally everything, and the prevailing conditions before ian mean it's already impossible to rebuild.
And this?
Matt Gaetz Votes No On Relief Money As Florida Deals With Hurricane Damage, Deaths
Rep. Matt Gaetz was one of several House Republicans who voted against a resolution to allow FEMA to use up to $15 million in the Disaster Relief Fund.
DeSantis' first act when he was in the House of Representatives was voting against Federal aid to Hurricane Sandy victims. This is not new in the Republican playbook. Hell, Red States almost universally have to take federal aid yearly. It's all political theater.
At least Gaetz showed up. Rubio's been MIA on most votes. I wish I had a job I wasn't required to show up and do the one thing I'm supposed to do.