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You know what would be really stupid? If Texas had a bunch of power companies that didn’t work together or connect to the national grid.

But that would be so incredibly stupid that I’m sure that’s not the current situation at all.

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The White House said Sunday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had sent emergency responders, search-and-rescue teams, bottled water, and other resources along the coast.

I get that they’re helping to get votes…

I just hate how red states refuse to help Blue states.

And if there’s a Republican president, feds won’t help blue states.

Yet, Dems constantly bail out red states.

Give them help because it’s the people that suffer, but give the state government a bill.

This isn’t getting caught once with you pants down and learning the lesson, red states are actively fighting science and not taking the steps to prevent this shit in the future. And everyone else has to pay for them when we have our own problems.

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The difference between red and blue voters is that red votes to hurt people while blue votes to help people.

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You missed a part apparently…

Give them help because it’s the people that suffer, but give the state government a bill.

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Red states routinely get more money from the federal government than they contribute to it, almost without exception.

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It pisses me off how Ted Cruz and others vote against things like Hurricane Sandy relief but take everything they can get for shit like Harvey.

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It’s the Republican mindset: I got mine, fuck you!

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Also: privatize the profits, socialize the losses. I’m sure Ted has investments in disaster response companies.

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And if there’s a Republican president, feds won’t help blue states.

Once Project 2025 does away with the NOAA and the NHC they won’t even be able to pre-stage assistance for red states…

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Disasters are more fun when they’re a surprise!

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If you help the people, and then give the state the bill, you understand that it’s still the people who will suffer, right? You’ve just changed when and how.

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To pay it they have to raise taxes or cut services…

Something voters will feel, and make it more likely they vote out the current shit leadership.

I live in a red state, I know what I’m saying we do and there’s a nonzero chance it happens to the state I live in…

Doesn’t make it a bad plan. It means I’ve thought of the consequences long before making that social media comment.

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raise taxes or cut services

The when and how, as I said.

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You’re welcome for the heads up Texas. Enjoy it while it lasts…

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I look forward to the SCOTUS case declaring NOAA doesn’t have the legality to predict hurricane trajectories.

After all, if Congress wanted NOAA to project hurricane paths, they should create a law that lists every hurricane ever instead of relying on experts.

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Project 2025’s call to dismantle NOAA by eliminating or privatizing key functions of the agency is the endgame of years of attempts by conservatives and right-wing media to attack the credibility of the agency and the veracity of the data it produces. It also illustrates that the conservative plan is not just to dismantle U.S. climate policy, but also to scrub the climate data that underpins it.

https://www.mediamatters.org/project-2025/project-2025-plans-dismantle-federal-agency-tracks-hurricanes

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This aint gonna be a bad one, noone is really worried about it.

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My mil is freaking out about it. As long as it doesn’t pull a Harvey and sit dumping a years worth of water in a weekend, I’m good. It’s just a cat 1.

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3 points

Hope you’re doing OK. Heard lots of folks lost power.

Stay safe…

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We’re fine, just without power

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Mother Nature doing her best to wake the cowboys up to climate change, but alas, it is probably a futile effort.

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This is mostly gonna affect those of us in an area that is blue and well aware of the problems the hillside yokels are causing.

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As usual, their ignorance inflicts pain on everyone around them. I’m sorry.

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Eh, as far as storms go this isnt that bad so don’t worry about us too much. We usually have hurricane parties as it comes in because we know we’ll get away with a couple days off of work lol.

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