Hurricane Ian should remind us of one thing: We’re all in this life together. It’s easy to let your partisan flag fly with “gotchas” since we’re talking about Florida.
We could be smug watching Republicans like Governor DeSantis, who happily stoked outrage about “government tyranny” over vaccines and masks, getting frustrated when his constituents fail to follow evacuation orders.
We could go for the schadenfreude when watching the up-by-your-bootstraps types in Florida line up for government assistance from FEMA. Or what was the best part? Watching DeSantis, whose entire MO is trolling Biden and the Democrats, happily accepting help from Dark Brandon and the federales.
“But here’s the thing: We’re not talking about debating points. We’re talking about human beings…. Who’ve had tragedy visited on them. And the only responses should be empathy, charity, and love.”
On to cartoons.
Uncle Sam does his job, regardless of politics:
Some say that stronger hurricanes aren’t an indication that the climate is changing:
Has DeSantis seen the light?
How to win elections:
The Former Guy gets inspiration for next time:
Putin now has fewer options:
Did hitting the asteroid give us any ideas?
I read the piece by JVL and disagree in this sense. Democrats in office do not play games about aid like Republicans do. So they don’t oppose the farm bill as a way to get back at the GOP for difficulties on the SNAP program.
Nor did Obama play games with Sandy aid – even though Chris Christie deserved it. And Biden is not stiffing Florida.
More than that Democratic presidents don’t put in place cabinet officers who work to thwart the mission of their department (as GOP presidents have done for years – where the EPA, Interior and so on are headed by folks who have no intention of carrying out the intentions of Congress when the law was passed).