Or a state with a governor that had an executive order to challenge any federal action that had to do with Texas energy independence right after Biden got in.
Everyone wants to secede and fight against them until something bad happens.
I mean it’s a much wimpier response than the previous President who wouldn’t have missed a chance to not help or talk shit on a blue state emergency. Imagine being a President for all states.
But he may have stuttered and said the n word accidentally.
Seems like FEMA is more setup to handle warm-weather disasters instead of such a massive coldweather disaster. Not to mention distribution of aid is exponentially more difficult in winter storms. Hopefully they learn from it and improve the next winter weather disaster response.
FWIW this is from FEMA’s website: As of Feb. 21, FEMA provided 60 generators, 10,000 gallons of winterized diesel and 10,000 gallons of gasoline for the last seven days to the state of Texas to support critical infrastructure. FEMA is coordinating flights of water to multiple locations in Texas. The agency has provided over 4 million liters of water, more than 126,900 blankets and more than 1 million meals.
It is amazing to see how unprepared the avg person is, when they can’t hop in their car and get it at Walmart. No food or water stores, freezing to death ( or asphyxiating themselves) from a hard freeze lasting less than a week, no provision for elimination. Sad.
I think 4mm homes had no electricity and 60% of water systems went offline.
Well, now that we have addressed the trumpublican’s biggest concern regarding Biden (his speech impediment blooper reel), id just like to say how happy i am, and optimistic that Biden has prioritized getting the EPA back up and running after the previous administration cut it off at the knees. It will likely take more than 4 years to undue what was done over the previous 4, but im happy we are moving in the right direction and prioritizing environmental protection again.
Are you mentally incapable of accurately representing any position I hold, or just emotionally?
I should have known better than to lead with a joke about the absurdity of Biden’s continued absurdity and end with a mention of an actual shit policy like HR 1.
I only looked at the key provisions on Wikipedia, but what do you not like?
Is that an either/or? Or can we choose “both”?
Anti-vitamin C people parsing the minutiae.
Meanwhile, the Democratic version of late 2nd term Reagan is arriving even earlier than expected.
I’m about to head out for a bit but, broadly-speaking, it further weakens an already weakened election system. Taken as a whole, the provisions deliberately obfuscate the entire election process even more than they were in what was the cleanest, least problematic election of our lifetime that should never be questioned on any social media platform.
It also shoves this down the throat of states who would rather see sensible measures like voter ID or not mailing out a ballot to everyone on a voter roll that hasn’t been purged in decades.
I know, I know, there is no conclusive proof that fraud, irregularities, anomalies, dead voters, voters who registered in parking lots, boxes full of unfolded “mail-in” ballots or expulsions of poll watchers had any significant influence whatsoever on the outcome of this last election.
That doesn’t diminish the concerns many people have over how it all went down, and this bill is just doubling-down on making the process even less secure and less transparent than it was before. If you don’t want to be accused of stealing elections, don’t do things that election thieves do. And in such a brazen and open manner, at that.
I remember when I was a child how John Gotti was able to say that he was a good guy, even a great guy. All of those “allegations” were a hoax by over-zealous prosecutors, etc. Of course, anyone with a brain could see that he looked like a crook, acted like a crook, smelled like a crook, spoke like a crook and did all the things you’d expect a crook to do, all while insisting “I am not a crook”. Nothing could be proven until it was…
I can go over in more detail later, but this is probably destined to be filibustered in the Senate. Small blessings still exist.
Hang on. Biden did a LOT of meeting with foreign leaders as part of Obama’s administration. He was extremely active in foreign policy, even perhaps more than Obama. Why can he not adopt the same leadership style as his former running late on the other side of his VP position?
Biden is obviously much more of a delegator than Trump, and has always been one to do that. Why does it have to be fishy now? I know the timing is convenient, but seriously.
I see a bit of negatives and a bit of positives. In regards to the security, there always seems to be a tradeoff between security and freedom. I am generally okay with less security for more freedom. I would roll the dice on not having a TSA if it meant I could show up 15 minutes before my flight. I am okay with less voting restrictions and more opportunities to vote as long as verification is possible (and I think it still is). Verification is key here. They need to be checking the validity of a certain percentage of votes to ensure the election doesn’t have fraud to a degree that could swing it.
Now this I will heartedly concur.
Just before and sometimes after Hunter.
You’re not wrong. We take a lot of things completely for granted with our connected society.
I agree cold weather distribution is probably much harder. To me it seems that FEMA has a track record of screwing up… They’ve had issues with several major disaster responses.
That’s not to say they shouldn’t be helping or anything crazy like that. But it’s not like they’re rock stars at this.
I walked straight into that one
It’s a bit odd to me. While we’re freaking out over a VP meeting with foreign leaders which is not rare at all we have the Pentagon promoting two females. Which is newsworthy because the only reason it didn’t happen earlier because they were sure Trump would have an issue with it because they were women.
I mean we’re miles and miles ahead of where we were in competence and leadership in December.
My post was only in regards to H.R. 1.
I don’t have an issue with it, but at the same time I do understand others may differ on the security / freedom tradeoff.
My position on opening up voting access and removing restrictions is that I am all for it as long as verification can be done to ensure the election was fair.
My bad. I’m sorry if I harmed your delicate sensibilities by satirically commenting on your multiple posts mischaracterizing Bidens speech impediment bloopers.
I also apologize for similarly leading with a joke about the continued absurdity of trumpublicans, and ending with a mention of an actual good policy: my appreciation of the EPA being prioritized again. That pattern of post can be hard to follow if you’ve never seen it before…
And if you don’t want to be accused of pushing for Jim Crow Voter Suppression laws in order to make elections more “secure”…don’t push for laws that are now being pushed by Trumpublican legislators…and in such a brazen and open manner at that…
Election security my ass…
IMO it comes down to which downside would you rather err on: the side of allowing illegal votes to count, or restricting folks from legally voting? There will always be loopholes and ways to game the system- no policy will be perfect. So personally, id prefer to err on the side of policies that increase legal voters voting (even if that also opens up a loophole for a small amount of fraudulent votes).
Meanwhile you’ve got Republicans fighting to make sure people can’t vote on Sundays for the sole reason that blacks are much more likely to vote on Sundays.
Republicans are all for everyone voting. Except the groups who may vote Democrat. You’re already seeing massive suppression efforts at the state level. Even more so than some of the blatant ones we saw in 2020 like Harris County Texas