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(70,694 posts)on the hurricane physically/personally. I've already left myself open for dissing his cred for this event (or *any*thing!1 )
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)the only thing I want to hear about the hurricane is if it weakens trump and the republicans.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)that the Democrats can use to stick it to republicans
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Wow
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)I am all for funding and rebuilding specially if it's at the Democrats initiative because that would help win elections
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)I've long read your posts and thought there was something off about you. This confirms it. Disgusting.
shraby
(21,946 posts)Irma is doing. MSNBC is reporting live about it.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)Just evacuated to Orlando safely from the W Palm Beach area. MSNBC has excellent coverage and I'm very grateful, watching it now.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)You need help. People are going to fucking die because of this. Get a goddamn grip.
demmiblue
(36,851 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)She usually does good about taking care of discussing politics even though there is something else going on.
chillfactor
(7,576 posts)I for one am enjoying the coverage on MSNBC..if you don't like, use your remote and change the channel..problem solved. BTW, Ari just did a very good report on politics.
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)about politics
greyl
(22,990 posts)eShirl
(18,491 posts)and this one is bigger than Andrew.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I hope you never fall to a natural disaster. They suck.
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)aren't sentimental...if we want to help folks we have to win first that means staying focused on politics at all times and totally devastate the repukes no matter when where or how
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)people in urgent need because we have not won yet.
I hope you are never in a disaster. If you are though, I will help regardless of whether or not it helps politically.
shraby
(21,946 posts)YourKillinMeSmalls
(2 posts)Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)Politics plays into infrastructure maintenance and construction, regulations for building codes, how communities are shaped. Where the good zip codes are as opposed to the so-called bad zip codes. How that impacts jobs, types of housing, jobs, schools, emergency services - all political.
Highways, evacuation routes, shelters, preparation... funding - both state and federal.
How poverty can and does determine who will survive because of the necessary resources needed to just up and go. Wealth disparity plays into this. Low wages, lack of jobs, lack of affordable - and decent - housing. All political.
Healthcare - can you afford your medicines and pay for gas and lodging if you evacuate? All political. Because your state government could be one that works to keep the economically depressed ...depressed. So could your federal government.
Will shelters have needed resources to handle medical emergencies? That includes laws, regulations, education, the effects of poverty - all political.
There is no aspect of a natural disaster that isn't political because they involve people - their lives, their homes, their jobs, the environment, infrastructure, etc.. How resources are distributed prior to the disaster impacts how much resources are available during the disaster, and all too often, after the disaster.
Recovery is political. Otherwise, why would there be fights to get needed funds to rebuild? Help and rebuilding should be a no-brainer.
Much like equality and opportunity should be a no-brainer. Yet they are not.
Why? Because of socio-politics, socio-economics. Economics is political. Social issues are political. Governing, which determines how well/poorly both state and federal react to a disaster, is political.
Even if you remove your own personal concern for the well-being of people out of the equation, as you have done - a hurricane is STILL political.
Lars39
(26,109 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts): if they talk about anything other then the hurricane they should be talking about global climate change which is connected to the hurricane) a subject that seems to be taboo on the networks!
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)and makes the repukes look bad
MineralMan
(146,308 posts)Parts of Florida may not be. News is about what is actually happening that affects people immediately.
Go watch a college football game or something, please...
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)is being trashcanned for being asinine and as ton deaf as anything Trump could come up with.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)Lives are at stake. They are a cable news channel. This is a huge national story. Turn the channel if you don't like it.
BTW, this story you don't think they should be covering so much has huge political implications.
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)like lemmings....24/7 .....
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)but I kind of agree with you. It is important to know about the hurricane, but both CNN and MSNBC have reported on nothing else during the hours last night and this morning I've been watching.
Of course this hurricane is monumental and worth reporting on thoroughly, and it's important to get information out to the public about what's going on and what they should be doing to protect themselves and their loved ones. Of course we are worried sick about friends and relatives who are in danger, and we want to know where the hurricane is heading and how much damage it's likely to do.
But. This nonstop reporting from people riding around in cars showing us boarded-up buildings and people standing on the beach telling us how windy it is cannot be all that helpful. Couldn't cable news devote, say, 15 minutes of each hour to mentioning other news, including political news? Has NK launched another missile, for example? It seems to me that cable news is exhausting themselves to find things to broadcast about Irma--and again, I'm all for massive coverage of this terrible disaster--to the point of showing a lot of "filler" material that is more noise than signal.
Let the brickbats fly!
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)MichMary
(1,714 posts)--this Harvey and Irma will probably help the GOP. Scott is looking good. Doing everything possible to get everyone out who wants to go--using school and city buses, getting gasoline in, keeping the stations open as long as possible by promising police escorts for station employees, getting hotels to waive no-pet policies, etc., etc., etc.
If the Rs can handle the aftermath as well as the preparation, this will not be a situation where the Ds will benefit (unlike Katrina.)
Sorry to burst your bubble.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)craving political news, you can always look online or pick up a local paper.