DeSantis’s disaster response was good. He did an excellent job the last few hurricane seasons, including when Ian hit us, and he’s cognizant of how crooked the insurance companies were, among other things.
Say what you will about everything else (and I have a lot to say, trust me, I would not vote for him), but y’all are just demonizing him because he’s a Republican. And, quite fairly, for some destructive party line policies.
Also… y’all haven’t seen anything yet. I was in this rain, and again, it’s nothing compared to Ian or the upcoming season.
“Weatherz are woke libz!!! Rain is a Chinese Jewish CRT and if you ingest the water, Hunter Biden did the chemicals in it so you’re a trans! If trump could diarrhea in this water, even up high from his gold helicopter, floods would all melt and turn into enough nachos for everyone and beer and we’d have a second super bowl, but instead DEMZ locked him in prison for being Jesus and making a most BEAUTIFUL phone call!!!” My penis don’t work guud and it’s frustrationing cuz I want to use it for gay and not tell anyone else at church!!!"
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.
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.
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?
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.
He knows democrats will bail him out because they do the right thing. Insurance agencies won’t, though. The writing is on the wall when your insurance premiums skyrocket. Or worse, they drop you.
How many insurance companies are actually left in Florida? I thought a good percentage of them have pulled out of the state entirely citing climate change. I know the premiums offered by the remaining companies have to be insane and it’s not going to get any better.
Massive flooding of whole cities is simply not an insurable thing. Not even with all the reinsurers in the world can you pay out a city of millions. Most sane countries don’t even try.
I live about 5m under sea level. Should de dikes breach and my polder flood (and I don’t die horribly), the insurance company pays fuck all. The Dutch state has a giant mountain of cash sitting by for cases like that.
Of course, handing DeSantis a giant pile of emergency cash would just mean it instantly gets turned into bribes, so that wouldn’t work for Florida.
Fun fact, the biggest point in Florida is currently 345 feet above sealevel. (it’s somewhere near the ballsack.)
The average is like 100
It’s a very bad state to ignore climate change in.
(Edit fixed the stats.)
My insurance is dropping me because I had the audacity to try to use it. We had one claim that paid for some damage after a flood, one to pay for a water heater, and that’s it. They decided that means we will probably ask again the next time something goes wrong, so why would they want to keep insuring us?
I’ve had friends get fucked in the ass by their insurance company that refused to let them buy flood insurance even though they weren’t particularly close to a body of water. When the “once in 500 years” (not) flood came, their house that they had owned for years was destroyed. Insurance that they paid for picked up none of their $100,000 damages.
They rebuilt it out of pocket and are selling it and moving to a place that is more ecologically stable. Fuck insurance companies.
I mean…. It sounds like the insurance company knew it was going to flood. Being close to a body of water has nothing to do with likelihood to flood…
Seems like your friends should have moved before the flood, if they couldn’t get insurance for it. Why were they even searching for flood insurance if “they weren’t particularly close to a body of water”?
Sorry but this definitely sounds like your friends’ fault. They knew they needed the insurance because it would flood, the insurance company knew with high certainty it was going to flood, and then it did flood.
Insurance is a scam, and it pisses me off that we’re still tolerating their bullshit.
The concept is good. But the way it is run right now is just taking money and fight tooth and nail to pay as less as they can gey away with it.
