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?
The 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.
The 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.
Offering 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".
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".
I 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?
Strong 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.
That'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.
There 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.
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?
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.
These 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.
"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.
Proponents 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?"
What 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.
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