Speaker Mike Johnson says “...there’s no rush for Congress to approve hurricane relief…' as Cat 5 Milton bears down on Florida. He won't bring Congress back to vote on FEMA funding, but will for damn sure blame Biden-Harris.
Florida GOP Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna voted against $20 billion for FEMA disaster relief funding. Her district will be one of the areas hardest hit by the Category 5 Hurricane Milton.
(Reminder: Florida took all reference to climate change out of state material.)
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The number of humans who equate 'weather modifications' such as cloud seeding during a drought with hurricane creation.... OK, I concede cloud seeding as weather modification but hurricanes? Like someone goes down to the shore, casts a spell, or even better gets one of those mysterious machines used by the military and government types and codes in where/when and how intense a storm?
ReplyDeleteThe weather castor who broke down because the pressure dropped significantly in less than an hour - he knew the destruction and death headed towards Florida. He knew how many humans would ignore the warnings because their Voice of Authority - MAGA - told them climate change is a hoax, that the elected officials are liars and only want your stuff, and blame some 'other' because that's historically what humans like MAGA have always done.
I pray for our country, that each of us individuals can come together, united by purpose, by country, by compassion and empathy.
Side note - I've heard it a couple places that the Military should take leadership in addressing the disaster. It is what they've done elsewhere. Why not here? I can't think of a better use for our over developed Military Industrial Complex than for them to rebuild what their buds at Big Oil destroyed. At least that's my opinion. Your milage may vary.
Pretending there is no existential threat from climate change really highlights the ignorance of republican MAGA delusions. All one needs to do then is close ones eyes and ears and the problem of climate change goes away. My guess, MAGA mentality (intelligence) runs along similar lines as the old flat earthers of yesteryear. With reified beliefs trumping (pun intended) scientific knowledge.
ReplyDeleteThe MAGA republican anti intellectual mindset and pro authoritarian proclivities are natural bedfellows fitting together very nicely.The republican MAGA blockheads.
Sorry, -FJ. I will not publish rumors and falsehoods about FEMA. You have a blog of your own to spread disinformation.
ReplyDeleteOffering reasons why people might not be in a rush to send in FEMA isn't disinformation, it's malinformation. Facts that damage your argument, ergo, "mal".
DeleteI have no idea what you mean by "...why people might not be in a rush to send in FEMA..." I've never read or heard that anywhere. Where is that from? What does that mean? Who is saying that? Why is it being claimed. How do you verify where that statement comes from?
DeleteStrong ego -FJ. The ground of all human mental and emotional suffering. The way of the West. MAGA is infused with a particular heavy and damaging strain of ego fixation.
DeleteYou're asking the wrong question. The recent helicopter incident in NC is a case in point. Why would experienced helicopter rescue pilots be ordered out?
Delete"Malinformation is a controversial term for information which is based on fact, but removed from its original context in order to mislead, harm, or manipulate. The term was first coined by Hossein Derakhshan and was used in a co-authored report titled "Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making". According to Derakhshan, examples of malinformation can include "revenge porn, where the change of context from private to public is the sign of malicious intent", or providing false information about where and when a photograph was taken in order to mislead the viewer.
DeleteProponents of the term argue that malinformation is often used in conjunction with disinformation and misinformation as part of "orchestrated campaigns [to] spread untruths", a phenomenon known as fake news. However, critics of the term argue that "unlike 'disinformation,' which is intentionally misleading, or 'misinformation,' which is erroneous, 'malinformation' is true but inconvenient". Journalists have raised concerns that terms such as malinformation expand the definition of "harmful content" to encompass true information that supports non-mainstream views, resulting in people who hold dissenting viewpoints being censored and silenced even if those views are substantiated." --Wiki
-FJ: "You're asking the wrong question. The recent helicopter incident in NC is a case in point. Why would experienced helicopter rescue pilots be ordered out?"
DeleteWhat has that isolated incident got to do with government rescue operations. One volunteer helicopter flyer ran into trouble with some fireman from Michigan and that proves what? That one incident proves your point? No. It does not.
We don't know why that firefighter told the volunteer helicopter rescuer to stop and you're taking one incident to make a point about what?
As Dave M. and I have observed, you drop in these outlying stories to prove something no one here was talking about. Why do you do that?
That incident shows only this: Some fireman from Michigan in an official capacity made, AFAIK, an inappropriate decision, and that proves what? One human failed to do his job? What about all the other people from FEMA who were being helpful and doing their best to assist the victims of Helene? They most likely were the majority.
Your example only proves that humans make mistakes. I think most of us know this.
Transgender is nothing BUT "outlier" stories, but they seem to make you jump.
DeleteAs for malinformation, this is from Canadian cyber
Defining misinformation, disinformation and malinformation
MDM can be identified as three main forms of informational activity that can cause minor or major harm:
misinformation refers to false information that is not intended to cause harm
disinformation refers to false information that is intended to manipulate, cause damage and guide people, organizations and countries in the wrong direction
malinformation refers to information that stems from the truth but is often exaggerated in a way that misleads and causes potential harm
In other words, they're alternative facts that don't support and/or contradict a preferred 'narrative'.
This blog has never published a post on transgender. You're hallucinating again. And you're all over the place with your comments. You can't seem to stay on one subject. That's why I don't post all the comments you send here.
DeleteNot everyone is dazzled by your seemingly bottomless pit of far-right codswallop. ;-)
On a related topic, who do you think better helps the poor, Government welfare agencies or Catholic and voluntary private charities. IMO, the latter actually "care" about the people they help and the former just "do their jobs".
ReplyDeleteThat's an opinion, not a fact. Religious and voluntary private charities do not have the money and resources to make a significant contribution to a major natural disaster over several states that affect millions of citizens. While their help is invaluable, it's simply not enough to cope with the sheer number of people who need every kind of assistance: medical, housing, food, water, power that is involved when a major natural disaster strikes.
DeleteThere is no way for you to verify that government relief and rescue workers don't care about the victims of disasters, so what you suggest is nothing more than your usual cynical OPINION. And you have nothing to back that up as a FACT.
All I hear from you Trumper/MAGA is that government is no good. That's cynical and untrue. "Government" like any other organization run by human beings can be a agent for good AND for bad. Why do you only focus on the bad? Have you ever asked yourself why you are an agent of negativity on EVERYTHING? I would, if I were you.
You may want to understand that your thoughts affect how you see the world and how you react to it.
Why do I focus on the BAD? Because Gyges loves to hide the bad under his CLOAK! There are whistleblowers, and there are whistleblowers. Journalism has become the former, pursuing an institutional political agenda. It doesn't like "whole" truths... only the 'partial' variety.
DeleteHow very noble of you to be so interested in "whole" truths! I commend you, but am bewildered by your support for the lunatic who keeps telling America to this day that he won the 2020 election. For some reason, that makes me suspicious of your burning hunger for "whole truths."
Delete...as opposed to to believing that 2020 was a free and fair election, the most 'secure" in history. Isn't that YOUR "whole truth"?
DeleteI'm not going to revisit the 2020 election. It was a free and fair election. You don't accept that despite the overwhelming evidence that it was, and despite the fact that recently Trump admitted that he "lost by a whisker." (He lost by a landslide, BTW.) That's your problem you have with reality and with accepting things you don't like.
DeleteYou're a conspiracist and you also seem to have, IMO, a paranoid personality. You can believe until the end of your days that the 2020 election was stolen, but that will never be true.
Isn't -FJ's statement that government employee don't really care, they're just doing their jobs simply a projection of -FJ's personal stance on the issue.
ReplyDeleteThese government employees he speaks of are often putting themselves in harms way. If they didn't care about the folks they help they'd very likely choose another line of business.
Of course whole truth for - FJ happens to be WHATEVER -FJ believes it to be. It's a MAGA trait.
ReplyDeleteThree thoughts... all regarding -FJ.
ReplyDeleteBut before I get to those, let me acknowledge that -FJ answered a question from me directly. At least on one of these comment threads.
Thought 1. In a post about Hurricane Milton, somehow the issue of transgenderism was introduced. Why? I have no idea. How does that issue relate to Milton?
Thought 2. FEMA makes mistakes. in every relief effort there are mistakes. There are also lots of great things happening.
Thought 3. -FJ, as I said to Skud somewhere here recently, facts are facts. opinion is opinion. Just because some blogger somewhere asserted something as truth, does not make it so and that may or may not be factual evidence. Case in point, the 2020 election. A blogger we all know has stated that she witnessed 3 cases of voter fraud.
That's an unproven claim, impossible to prove or disprove. So while she sincerely believes it, without corroborating evidence, what are we to make of it? Many of your posts are like that. Bring some receipts, from actual respected sources, as opposed to Gateway Pundit level stuff.
In the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election I brought receipt after receipt. Most have since disappeared from the internet, stricken as "malinformation". For 3 years, Joe Biden's mental incapacity was deliberately hidden from you through skillful stage management. Your current candidate is being hidden from you through skillful(?) stage management. You don't need any more 'receipts' from me. You just need to wake the 'ef up. Camelot America is no more. It's been captured by the post-45 corporate globalist elite, and we are all just "cloud-serf comsumers" to them.
DeleteAs for transgenderism being brought up, it was done in the context of being criticized for MY raising 'outlier' issues. The DNC LIVES for 'outlier issues' like transgenderism. I simply pointed out the obvious double standard.
ReplyDeletebtw - Do you know what in math and physics is known as a spinor? It's a particle that must undergo 720 degrees of revolution to arrive back at its' initial state. You all need to stop stopping at 360. Cause if you do, you simply enter the realm of "imaginary numbers".
Interesting. And, irrelevant. -FJ.
DeleteYes -FJ... all those "receipts" disappeared. Rudy g testified in court, he had no evidence. FOX, NewsMax, OAX are all on the hook for millions for lying about the election. The Trump Admin said themselves he lost, as did his aides.
ReplyDeleteBut you, little -FJ and the folks who "saw" people do it, found the proof, yet were not smart enough to save it, download it or secure it?
Really?
To quote you back... you just need to wake the 'ef up.
I'm no lover of Big G, but you've got to do better.
Seriously, even the Heritage Foundation, the home of fever pitch anti Big G, Anti Dem, Anti Swamp thinking has no proof.
Are they in on the ruse too?
Does it ever end?
The current censorship says it all. It's both Confirmation and Validation that "The Steal" rolls on.
DeleteDoes it ever end?
ReplyDeleteLikely not Dave. At least not for those folks who believe only what their own ego fixation advises them.
With regard to the superstitions of logicians, I shall never tire of emphasizing a small, terse fact, which is unwillingly recognized by these credulous minds–namely, that a thought comes when “it” wishes, and not when “I” wish; so that it is a PERVERSION of the facts of the case to say that the subject “I” is the condition of the predicate “think.”
ReplyDeleteWhat gives me the right to speak of an ‘ego,’ and even of an ‘ego’ as cause, and finally of an ‘ego’ as cause of thought?
-Nietzsche
The i, me, and mine exist only in the dualistic minds of the deluded.
ReplyDeleteUniversal consciousness, when ego allows after purifying all obscurations, confirms this absolute reality.