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spooky3
(34,525 posts)The hurricane wasn't named after him, so why should he care
3catwoman3
(24,109 posts)...have a Shitstorm rating. If they did, the destructiveness of Shitstorm Donnie would be off the charts.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)dchill
(38,610 posts)luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)he behaved like a grownup instead of a spoiled little 6-year-old.......
Dems will lose in Missouri because they cheat so big the votes of people of color don't even get counted. They don't even try to hide it.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Video shot outside of an apartment complex in Houston, Texas shows the flood waters rising after Hurricane Harvey
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that's just horrible
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Well at least folks have social media
Igel
(35,387 posts)The only people monitoring it are civilians, not rescue workers.
Good for her. Somebody probably used their phone to call 911.
(They've also issued alerts saying to not call 911 unless you really *need* to be rescued. If you're safe but inconvenienced, wait.)
jayschool2013
(2,318 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)malaise
(269,278 posts)Please proceed Groper Don the Con
dalton99a
(81,700 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)Then and Now.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)sarge43
(28,946 posts)The same pain, despair, rage, sense of helplessness
One thing is making it worse: Trump. He can't even act like it matters.
leftstreet
(36,119 posts)Good news, but bad memories of Katrina
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)His lack of concern in the time of a national emergency is repulsive. He's probably thinking "When can I go play golf again and stop pretending to worry about all these whiners in Texas".
sarge43
(28,946 posts)As said he doesn't even try to pretend.
orangecrush
(19,662 posts)DDySiegs
(253 posts)Have you considered whether perhaps you are being unfair to -- indeed maligning -- Caligula.
orangecrush
(19,662 posts)In Rumps case, entirely possible.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)Caligula was mad, no doubt... but at least he was highly educated, and actually knew how the Government of Rome operated.
The Orange Crush is not educated, and knows nothing about anything except mental masturbation and greed!!!
I want, we want him to go away!
Far far away!
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)There is no doubt after today.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Beartracks
(12,835 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)keithbvadu2
(37,040 posts)Scam? Doesn't say who gets the money.
slumcamper
(1,607 posts)Those who voted for, and especially those who still support this piss poor excuse for a waste of air, ARE deplorable.
Sadly for us, I guess they "took their country back," huh?
The current sickness plagues us all and casts great doubt on our future. We must turn the tide.
STOP the goddamned infighting;
If necessary, swallow a bit of pride;
Bury the hatchet
(certainly don't use it on your ally);
Suck it up;
Think beyond yourself;
Come together;
Speak out with unity;
And GOTV, 2018!
steve2470
(37,457 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)from Barbara Bush? Katrina had just devastated the gulf coast. How does she feel about Houston evacuees?
Almost everyone Ive talked to says, Were going to move to Houston. What Im hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them.
-Barbara Bush
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Thank you to all the first responders and people helping each other out. That's what we do as Americans. Here's one way you can help now.
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leftstreet
(36,119 posts)I hadn't seen it
ananda
(28,895 posts).. costing many billions of dollars ..
I'm just wondering where the money and the help will come from.
They certainly won't come from 45's self-serving, asinine tweets.
Beartracks
(12,835 posts)But then, I thought you'd be able to renounce white supremacy and neo-Nazis without having to be given a script to sullenly, woodenly, unconvincingly read from a teleprompter. So, I'm not really surprised. You're kind of bad at EVERYthing.
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LiberalBrooke
(527 posts)I know they surround him and feed him "good" news to avoid a tantrum but can they actually keep awful Houston images away from him? Or is he so far gone that he connot grasp how desperate the situation is for those in Texas?
zentrum
(9,866 posts).....and tone-deaf I can't believe they are real. It's like a bad parody of a cruel king.
But they are real--not parodies? Not phonies?
I thought he was supposed to be good at media optics telegraphed to his base. Even his base would be disheartened by these tweets at this time.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)They're saying he can't do much else about the situation, and at least praised the workers on the ground.
The bar is so ridiculously low, people think this is acceptable by comparison to not defending Nazis.