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Virescit Vulnere Virtus
I highly doubt that.
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Virescit Vulnere Virtus
Do you live in Florida?
DriveInDriveOut
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Take a deep breath sweetheart.
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Virescit Vulnere Virtus
That was a bad move on his part but the job he’s done for the state of Florida outweighs it by far. @Johney do you agree?No, he's not.
State parks flap leaves mark on Ron DeSantis’ approval rating
The once-popular Governor is now below 50% approval.floridapolitics.com
47% favorable approval rating.
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Virescit Vulnere Virtus
He seriously seems like his head is about to explode. Lol.
DriveInDriveOut
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Sadly I don't think he's an outlier.
The media has the left so worked up.
Literally trying to kill Trump.
What's gonna happen if he wins....
Thebrownblob
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oldngray
nowhere special
Thebrownblob
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Yep, I don’t think this plays the way the far left thought it would to most normal people. My first reaction was why is she throwing a fit about this? 100% political for her to even say anything at all.
If DeSantis had said first “she called me and I told her to go pound”, that would’ve been political too, but he didn’t. She made a big deal about it.
Next Day Err
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Trump stole nuclear weapons secrets and wouldn’t give them back after being repeatedly asked. Yeah, I’m concerned.
Thebrownblob
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Yawn
Next Day Err
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That wouldn’t be your reaction if Obama had stolen reams of documents, some of them NUCLEAR WEAPONS SECRETS, and then refused to hand them back over to the government after he was fired.
The double standards are ridiculous.
Thebrownblob
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DriveInDriveOut
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REEEEEEE
NUCLEAR WEAPONS SECRETS
REEEEEEE
NUCLEAR WEAPONS SECRETS
REEEEEEE
sailfish
Master of Karate and Friendship for Everyone
Damn right I would. And I'm going to mock him too now that I see it.
"Our leaders." Lol.
fishtm2001
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"One of the most reliable patterns in American governance over the last 30 years is the cycle of federal disaster response. When a Democrat is in the White House, they build up competence at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and elsewhere, and rescue and cleanup operations after hurricanes, floods, and other disasters are generally pretty good.
But when a Republican takes their place, they destroy all that hard-won state capacity through negligence, incompetence, and corruption. Disaster response is invariably bungled, and many die unnecessarily. Then when a Democrat returns, they have to pick up the pieces"
The American Prospect.
But when a Republican takes their place, they destroy all that hard-won state capacity through negligence, incompetence, and corruption. Disaster response is invariably bungled, and many die unnecessarily. Then when a Democrat returns, they have to pick up the pieces"
The American Prospect.
fishtm2001
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- January 2001: Bush appoints Joe Allbaugh, a crony from Texas, as head of FEMA. Allbaugh has no previous experience in disaster management.
- April 2001: Budget Director Mitch Daniels announces the Bush administration’s goal of privatizing much of FEMA’s work. In May, Allbaugh confirms that FEMA will be downsized: “Many are concerned that federal disaster assistance may have evolved into both an oversized entitlement program….” he said. “Expectations of when the federal government should be involved and the degree of involvement may have ballooned beyond what is an appropriate level.”
2001: FEMA designates a major hurricane hitting New Orleans as one of the three “likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing this country.”
- December 2002: After less than two years at FEMA, Allbaugh announces he is leaving to start up a consulting firm that advises companies seeking to do business in Iraq. He is succeeded by his deputy and former college friend, Michael Brown, who has no previous experience in disaster management and was fired from his previous job for mismanagement.
- March 2003: FEMA is downgraded from a cabinet level position and folded into the Department of Homeland Security. Its mission is refocused on fighting acts of terrorism.
- 2003: Under its new organization chart within DHS, FEMA’s preparation and planning functions are reassigned to a new Office of Preparedness and Response. FEMA will henceforth focus only on response and recovery.
- Summer 2004: FEMA denies Louisiana’s pre-disaster mitigation funding requests. Says Jefferson Parish flood zone manager Tom Rodrigue: “You would think we would get maximum consideration….This is what the grant program called for. We were more than qualified for it.”
- June 2004: The Army Corps of Engineers budget for levee construction in New Orleans is slashed. Jefferson Parish emergency management chiefs Walter Maestri comments: “It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay.”
- June 2005: Funding for the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is cut by a record $71.2 million. One of the hardest-hit areas is the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, which was created after the May 1995 flood to improve drainage in Jefferson, Orleans and St. Tammany parishes.
- August 2005: While New Orleans is undergoing a slow motion catastrophe, Bush mugs for the cameras, cuts a cake for John McCain, plays the guitar for Mark Wills, delivers an address about V-J day, and continues with his vacation. When he finally gets around to acknowledging the scope of the unfolding disaster, he delivers only a photo op on Air Force One and a flat, defensive, laundry list speech in the Rose Garden.
aah, memories
fishtm2001
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donald was worst of all. Bush at least felt that he had to at least try during a disaster, however but not donald. He did manage to appoint a FEMA guy with some experience, who did relatively well in the response to Hurricane Harvey in Texas but it was a different story in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. FEMA was unprepared and overstretched, and just as with Katrina, rescue and repair efforts were very slow to start. Wastewater facilities and hospitals were knocked out for months, power was not fully restored for 11 months, millions of water bottles were forgotten on a runway, and something like 3,000 people died. And as usual under Republican rule, large reconstruction contracts started mysteriously going to unprepared companies with administration ties. As the severity of the disaster became clear, rather than trying to make up for it, donald started fights with the mayor of San Juan on Twitter for daring to criticize him. This childish response marked all of his disaster responses and is what made him worse than Bush.
fishtm2001
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On another note NC is one of the states where Republicans have gerrymandered democracy out of existence in the state legislature. No matter how the votes go, the GOP is all but guaranteed a supermajority of seats. And as The New York Times reports, one reason the devastation there is so bad is that these same Republicans have been undermining and blocking flood safety regulations for the state building code for over a decade.
