I’m not sure if gay marriage causes hurricanes, but it looks an awful lot like hate and fascism cause floods.
And Quarterly Earnings reports.
Remember reading about the starving that went on in the early USSR. How their mismanagement led to crop failures while their neighbors had great years of food production.
I kinda want to get out of infrastructure work. I see how cost disease is ripping it all apart, and I keep thinking that if I stay in the field I am going to be dealing with disasters that are coming. With all the tools I need to fix things but not legally allowed to do anything as the floods kill us all.
I am on a liferaft trying to get us to safety while people are cutting holes and all voted to ban my patch kit.
DeSantis cuts state funding for thing then demands the federal government pay for it.
Local city government cuts funding for sewer/storm drain repairs, then demands DeSantis pay for it.
I think the difference here is that floridians at local and state level want to cut funding, so they’re welcome to do that. The issue is, if that’s what you vote for and enact, don’t then turn around and ask for government money and/or turn down other states when they ask for federal money (like after Sandy).
So now the Democrats will use the ignorance, evil and hypocrisy of these clown to highlight what happens when you elect GOP, right? Right?
Now Democrats will assert that this is Ralph Nader’s fault, because he stole all those Green votes from the other big in-bed-with-fossil-fuels party. Meanwhile, it will still be incredibly important to reach across the aisle and work with Ron DeSantis on bipartisan solutions.
Have you heard Ron? Do you really think that demagogue would listen to common ground?
I’m old enough to remember when Chuck and Nancy took Congress in 2018 and tried to have a bipartisan negotiation with Donald Trump.
I fully believe the liberal dorks in Florida would do the same if they had any chance of taking one of the comically gerrymandered legislative houses.
I mean, it kinda is, especially in Florida of all places.
Had even half his voters, just in FL, gone to Gore in 2000, it wouldn’t have even been a question who won. The world would be a wildly different place.
So yeah, thanks Nader voters.
And somehow we still have people preaching abstinence or a third party this year in their arrogant quest to make perfect the mortal enemy of good.
Had even half his voters, just in FL, gone to Gore in 2000
If half of his voters had gone to Gore and the other half gone to Bush, there would have been no difference. And Nader was quite popular among liberal Republicans (my own Sierra Club loving fiscally conservative father, included).
Past that, it was Pat Buchanan who had an unrealistically large number of votes in Florida, largely due to the construction of the “Butterfly Ballot” and the placement of Gore’s name on the ticket. The whole argument over mispunched holes and hanging chads boiled down to whether a bunch of Gore votes were under-counted thanks to crooked Republican-aligned election workers.
And even if we scrape all the third-party candidates off the ticket in a straight up one-v-one contest, Al Gore’s real sin was losing conservative Democrats to George Bush Jr by a 12-to-1 margin relative to Green defectors. He got Southern Strategy’d in the same way dozens of his down ticket Democrats got got during the 80s and 90s, and then again as the country lurched hard right in favor of Palin, Gingrich, and Trump in the run up to 2016.
And somehow we still have people preaching abstinence or a third party
The lesson that Democrats took away from 2000 was that you never actually have to appeal to progressives in your own party. Always, always, always sell out to corporate interests, and then just make “Compassionate Conservative” sounding noises to shut up your liberal base. Kerry, Obama, Hillary, and Biden all learned from the Gore playbook and adopted a purely rhetorical electoral strategy, while spending their working hours bailing out banks and big businesses, force-marching more troops across the Middle East, the Pacific Rim, and Latin America, and privatizing all of the essential New Deal / Great Society social programs of the last century.
When Joe Biden’s platform is to the right of Ronald Reagan’s, what the hell is a progressive to do? Keep voting along with the pack, so Biden’s successor can lose to Ron DeSantis/Ted Cruz ticket in 2028?
Well maybe all the police and gun owners of florida can shoot the water away with guns since they nixed building pipes and ponds to deal with it.
Maybe they can nuke the floods away.
With the amount of heat released during a nuclear explosion, this might work. I think we need to do a test. It look like Miami is flooding right now.
The leopards have come home to roost…
Yo get what you vote for.
Maybe tell him the stormwater projects will “wash the gay away” and Desantis and his followers will be all over it.
I look forward to seeing the cost of insurance in flood prone areas go up and up and up. No way to get people to move preemptively due to climate change other than to make them go bankrupt first. STOP fucking bailing them out, STOP making US citizens pay for the shitty decisions of red states.
fyi it isn’t “just” houses. I am waiting for the annual calls from local governments about what got trashed this year.
Water-proofing stuff makes it run hotter and often makes it, counterintuitive I know, more likely to have fire/explosion issues. Hotter stuff doesn’t last as long or work as well. Organic matter releases methane both in the ground and above it. Add this to total fucking inability of civil engineers to do a site visit and acknowledge that the former non-flood zone is a flood zone now and you get yearly problems.
Not doing it this time but I almost got sent across the US to deal with a single pumping system that is browning out and dying this week. Local person is handling for me and I will be on the phone. So there is my Monday.
Oh, here we are again in the hands out, crying for help and funds portion of the “no guv’ment!!!” and “we’re gonna sucede!!!” crowd.
Is your raised truck not high enough for you to take shelter from the floods in? Can’t you hang your wet clothes to dry from the “rolling coal” pipe you have? Can you use those 27 trump flags made of asbestos as a blanket to warm you?
Maybe as you’re waiting for the “guv’ment” to come rescue you like a frightened fairytale princess, feed you with taxpayer dollars and repair your uninsurable without “guv’ment” help homes… Maybe you could just float on your back in the water while you wait and think about your stance on climate change?
And remember, as your elderly neighbor’s dead body floats by next to you, you can always use all your left over “Joe Brandon, I DID THAT!!!” gas pump stickers to put over their eyes and mouth to keep them closed.
Wow, scathing! I love it. They deserve and need to hear it.
Pra ba jeeba!
It’s fine, the peasants will just suffer and die, there’s always more peasants.- ol’ Meatball Ron.
Good old pudding fingers Ron.
Oh god let this catch on.
But but but…he completely eliminated climate change from Florida just last week!
What if we had pipelines built to pump Florida water to Texas or California dessert?
California checking in. We aren’t on fire any more, mostly, we are having flooding issues. No more water please. Or at least stagger the deliveries out over the entire year, not just late Jan - May.
Other nations have invented this weird technology where they dig holes. I think we could use that technology to dig holes and then maybe look at the holes 🕳️ for inspiration. Maybe someone, one day could figure out what to do with holes so that a huge amount of water could be stored locally. It’s just so difficult. I mean, holes! Who knew…hold on the exopresident is still talking…yeah and Obama.
Write that down 👇
Let’s all LOL that stupid idea off! 😂
Anyway, how are those more important and useful oil pipelines going? Thousands of them as I understand, some coming from Canada. The Canadian pipelines are specially easy because you just have to go dig the dirt for tar, then you just dissolve it and pipe it up. It’s not like water where you would have to do all sorts of crazy things like look at it to make sure it’s still liquid, and like put the pipeline inlet where the water is and then have to actually pump it. It’s an incomprehensible amount of impossible engineering work. Like for example for tar, it’s pretty easy because it cakes on the wall so you send a pig plug to scrape the inside. But for water, man! It probably has fish it in and you might need to scrape it but also, who knows what the fish are planning. Definitely impossible to do.
That guy is the king of wrong. Every move just guarantees more pain and suffering but those idiots keep voting for him.
