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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Trump was watching the live feeds from Houston....
He would not be tweeting the inane blather he's posted.
The disaster has overwhelmed the ability for local LE and CG personnel to respond to emergencies.
People are trapped on their roofs or desperately wading though waist deep waters - and no transport to shelter when they get to high ground.
Idiots are still trying to drive through deep water.
It's Apocalyptic - not going great.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Using Federal power to help evacuate the sick and elderly.
jpak
(41,760 posts)n/t
maryellen99
(3,790 posts)malaise
(269,278 posts)and Houston and other cities are complete disasters - wait for one of those overburdened bridges to collapse -the Con will make Bush during Katrina look efficient and we know how that one went
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)What an epic disaster.
jpak
(41,760 posts)Houston LE is asking the public for help - lots of private boats getting people to high ground.
They are also asking people to take evacuees to shelters - lots of new shelters opening up.
dalton99a
(81,699 posts)enough
(13,270 posts)to other people.
nini
(16,672 posts)He does not. He would be watching and simply not giving a shit.
That's why he is so dangerous.
George II
(67,782 posts)....on how to profit on the reconstruction.
kairos12
(12,896 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)I mentioned her book a day or so ago.
It is exactly what has and will happen here..
SAD....
No-- SICK...
CrispyQ
(36,557 posts)When Reagan said that government was the problem, I couldn't believe I had friends who voted for him. I have never understood how anyone could vote for someone who openly expresses their disdain for government. If you owned a company you would never hire the candidate who told you they hated your company & wanted to destroy it. How do the likes of Scott Walker stay in office? Or that whack job down in FL? Too many Americans are just fucking stupid.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Trump does not care. He wants to gut funding to FEMA.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/us/politics/trump-budget-coast-guard.html
WASHINGTON The Trump administration is considering deep cuts in the budgets of the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency as it looks for money to ratchet up security along the southern border, according to a person familiar with the administrations draft budget request.
The goal is to shift about $5 billion toward hiring scores of additional agents for Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as toward infrastructure to support a crackdown on illegal immigration at the border. A significant portion of the money would go toward erecting a wall along the border with Mexico, one of President Trumps signature campaign promises.
To fund those efforts, though, the plan would seek significant reductions in other areas, including a 14 percent cut to the Coast Guards $9.1 billion budget and 11 percent cuts to both the T.S.A. and FEMA. The three agencies have played high-profile roles in the Department of Homeland Securitys post-Sept. 11 security architecture.
All told, the plan would increase the departments budget by 6.4 percent, to $43.8 billion, for the 2018 fiscal year, also using savings from other executive branch departments to fund it.
elmac
(4,642 posts)the dictator don't give a shit and his base will love him for it.
Vinca
(50,326 posts)He doesn't give a shit about these people unless he needs something from them.
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)Demtexan
(1,588 posts)He will not be able to go cheap on this.
I bet he will do another Bush.
lark
(23,191 posts)He made the one obligatory emotionless tweet to differentiate himself from GW, that's all they will get from him. When he comes to town, it will ll be about him and not much about them, if anything. Orange assface is all he is, inside and out.
Loge23
(3,922 posts)The Horrid One is probably scouting waterfront properties that will be available when this horrendous storm is over.
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uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Also, RC has a high% they keep for themselves.
Best advice is to wait a bit for locals to tell us where to donate.
worstexever
(265 posts)Pimping a book written by a convicted criminal and utterly vile man, tweeting about *the Wall* and disparaging NAFTA. Super presidential, right?