You see that soulless glare on the faces of a lot of people who have traded their morals for profit.
She’s in good company with the GOP, very on brand to be an ignorant cunt throwing your constituent’s corpses at the rising tidal waters of reality.
and either they dont smile or they smile like psychopaths
That’s my rep! 🏳
They know exactly what they are doing. They are going to blame the President. They don’t care about their own people.
The Harris campaign should be running 24/7 ads about how they reached out to DeSantis to offer aid and he refused to take the call.
They’re already blaming him.
Because their people will blame the President too.
There was recent shift in polls in Florida, making it a tossup state, I’m wondering if that vote by Republicans could have to do with it.
reference please? i havent seen anything except florida being up rep by a good bit
then there is also this from NYTimes, further confounding things
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/upshot/florida-poll-harris-trump.html
thanks. Id be astounded and delighted if harris can win florida, but you never know.
that article is all over the place. it links back to itself (clicking the poll link takes you to a link for that headline)… I was able to find the actual poll: https://napolitaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GCM24-FL09-Mini-Crosstabs-Pres.pdf
Polls aren’t very indicative of election results in a state with as much voter suppression as Florida.
There’d probably have to be at least 10% more voting age Dems than Republicans to make it competitive.
What if a few rural counties get washed into the ocean?
She’s cute so they will back her and continue to vote for her. Florida GOP has figured this out and flexing hard. Run a cute vapid cunt and you’re good.
All so they can say, “Look how little the Biden administration is doing for the people of Florida!”
Literally putting life and property on the chopping block for their political posturing.
Is this another non white woman that’s a Republican? Talk about a traitor… Jesus Christ
I was all set to say that a lot of Cubans seem to be so anti communist that they’re pro fascist. But she’s not Cuban. I assumed wrongly. She was born in California.
Talk about a traitor…
To be a traitor, you had to pretend at loyalty to begin with. I don’t see anything in her background to suggest she was ever more than a stooge for the GOP.
That’s very common among Cuban ex-pats. The community is inundated in right-wing revanchism and a burning sense of entitlement and hatred. Every time a liberal US politician tries to reopen diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba, the dead-enders lash out. Every time a conservative promises more sanctions, more embargo, and a tighter siege of the island, they start prepping their boats for Bay of Pigs 2. The Cuban lobby isn’t as bad as AIPAC, but not for lack of trying.
I say we just let Florida go… Maybe make Puerto Rico a state instead… Build a wall to keep Floridians out
PR doesn’t have a majority in favor of statehood yet.
Maybe DC then
She should go stand on the beach and try and stop it with thoughts and prayers
Agreed. She should put on her best “American flag” or “Make America Great Again” bikini/swimsuit and livestream herself praying the storm away.
What if this time instead of being decent, we just don’t send aid. Too long we have let these voters elect these tools without consequences. They don’t want aid? We shouldn’t send it. Helping regardless sends the exact wrong message.
Because in my version of America we look out for each other, even the assholes who don’t subscribe. Helping regardless sends exactly the right message.
This is refreshing to read. I wish the rest of the US thought the same
About half of us do. But that’s not enough.
This is refreshing to read.
You said it. I’ve lived in Florida my whole life, and I’m situated in the current path of Milton (on the east coast). Lemmy, and this thread in particular, is peppered with comments rooting for an entire state’s worth of countrymen to die in an imminent natural disaster, or be excommunicated, because some portion of the electorate is too ignorant or brainwashed to vote in their own best interests. It’s gross and un-American.
Good luck, countryman. We’re with you.
People can and do come around (especially young people) when they see you as the helpers rather than the rival tribe. One of the biggest stumbling blocks for Democrats - particularly in a state like Florida or Michigan or Pennsylvania - is how often they see politicians shower the state with attention in the six weeks before election day and then forget it exists as soon as the voting is done.
Another is the way both parties seem slavishly loyal to the biggest corporate interests in the respective states, despite groundswells of opposition to their gestapo-like municipal controls. The history of Disney in Florida is straight out of the most vile dystopian libertarian bullshit imaginable, straight down to Disney security officer collectable “challenge coins”.
Let’s compromise on aid… Brought To You By Joe Biden!
One of the savvier moves Trump made was to show up at every disaster scene with a campaign bus and a t-shirt cannon. He made a spectacle of every relief effort. He personally put his name on the COVID tax-relief checks. Consequently, he continues to be one of the most popular candidates to run for President.
Meanwhile, Biden took office in 2021 and immediately started compromising with his rightward flank. He billed everything as “Bipartisan”. He traded away child tax credit extensions and Medicaid expansion to Senators in his own party as a condition for bailing out Intel and sending more weapons to Israel. Miserable politics. Deplorable approval ratings. He went the full Lyndon Johnson at the end, dropping out without even trying for reelection.
Because what the fuck, innocent people will die? People that didn’t vote for whoever this dumb sack of shit is?
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It’s coastal Florida, hurricanes are inevitable.
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They shouldn’t need emergency help because they should have evacuated. Evacuation orders were issued Monday.
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Why should the rest of us subsidize their poor choice of living location? If you cannot afford adequate insurance, then you shouldn’t live there. The cost of insurance should reflect the actual risk and not rely on taxpayer subsidy.
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We have helped in the past, and it hasn’t fixed the fundamental problem - see point 1.
It’s different to send aid to Asheville, hurricanes aren’t really expected to destroy elevated inland town. Coastal Florida should expect this weather.
Poor planning on their part shouldn’t constitute an emergency for the rest of us.
You need to shut the fuck up and sit down.
Is it considered tacky to keep the plywood up year-round?
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Because we have ethics and they don’t. Also because a lot of innocent people would die, not just republicans. I’m a queer socialist in a red state as are many of my friends. It sucks but it’s where we’re from and it’s not the easiest thing for everyone to find a job in a better area.
They will still vote for her.
I kinda get the accelerationist-like game plan conservatives are doing here (voting down funding and then blaming the other political side), but it’s just so evil considering that alternative options would actually help people and achieve the same effect.
Vote for relief funding, maybe do some “helping” for press photos to look good, spend some billionaire money that conservatives aren’t lacking for fundraisers then boast about it, calling democrats and current administration ineffective. Same result but it might save lives with the added bonus that nobody can call you out on lying.
Is it really so hard to do some good every once in a while? It really feels like conservatives are allergic to morally good deeds.
They operate on fear and hate. Helping people won’t activate either of those.
This right here. If people are outside of a perpetual state of fear, they might get the room to think and question how things are done and who gets which share of the wealth.
It’s way easier to sit in your office and screeeeeeeee.
A “no” vote is a siege, framing a hurricane’s destruction as a wrathful act of god sent to punish a lesson into Pinocchio is accelerationist
That’s quite a sentence
Carlo Collodi’s self-loathing is quite a force
That’s their platform, they obstruct anything that might help unless the democrats accept moving rightward in the process. They’ve been doing it since Obama at least
They have been doing it for 50 years, it has just expanded and grown increasingly sinister:
First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible.
This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.”
Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.
https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/Wreck the government, then point to the Democrats and loudly claim everything is all their fault…
Same shit here in the UK, Fuckers spent 20 billion on no one even knows what the week before they got kicked out.
I find it frustrating that she’s so blazingly hot and simultaneously such an incredibly ugly person. I was explaining this to my girl, and she said “she’s like the female Josh Hawley.”
Yes, I immediately criticized her for saying he’s hot, he looks like a goober d-bag to me. But, she pointed out, as a hetero man my vision isn’t clouded by his looks, so all I see is the pure, Emperor Palpatine evilness of him.
She thinks he’s evil too, but a good-looking evil apparently.
I can see his attractiveness to some extent, but I think it’s mostly that he’s an average looking dude of relative youth in comparison to his colleagues in the Senate. Put most men in a well-tailored suit and you’ll set at least some hearts aflutter. Give him time and his lich core will take over.
And yeah, she looks like your typical Fox News broadcaster who has been chosen primarily due to their pretty face and ability to spread vitriol with reckless abandon.
Look, I agree its bad but let’s not blow it out of proportions here. It is not the “world’s strongest hurricane” it is only the 4th world’s strongest hurricane. Major difference.
it is only the 4th world’s strongest hurricane
So far
I detect a distinct hint of sarcasm.
The familiar scent of facetiousness?
It’s gonna be the 1st strongest hurricane to hit the same area less than 14 days from the last hurricane.
If it passed in spite of her dissent, she’ll take credit for it with her constituents. They always do.
“God should smite the sinners!”
“Wait, no, not like that!”
Republicans: As long as it hits Democrats too…
Reminded of the aftermath of Ida, during which the wealthier districts in Mississippi and Alabama got immediate and substantive bailouts while the poorer municipalities were left to rot.
It’s happened before, it will happen again. Your proximity to power will determine the relief you receive.
