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1 minute ago, crash_davis said:

DeSantis' comments echo previous remarks he gave where he said that "we don't have time for pettiness" when people's lives are at stake and that he is willing to speak to Biden about preparations and responses to the hurricane.

Says the man who is wasting FL taxpayer dollars on chartering jets to take immigrants from TX to the east coast. 

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Says the man who is wasting FL taxpayer dollars on chartering jets to take immigrants from TX to the east coast. 

His base masturbated to the stunt. He got his money's worth. And now his base who are anti government are going to love that he is bipartisan and reaching out for hand outs. 

Fuck him and his base.

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1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

now he wants Biden's help and federal money.

https://www.newsweek.com/desantis-biden-florida-hurricane-ian-1746899

When Hannity asked about the call with Biden, DeSantis said: "What I said today is my phone line is open when people's lives and their property are at risk like this.

"We all need to work together regardless of party lines. The Biden administration has approved our request for a pre-landfall declaration and did that very quickly. So we're thankful for that."

DeSantis said that there will be more requests for federal assistance, especially for Floridians that may have been displaced by the major storm.

 

DeSantis' comments echo previous remarks he gave where he said that "we don't have time for pettiness" when people's lives are at stake and that he is willing to speak to Biden about preparations and responses to the hurricane.

Of course he does. And he won’t thank Biden for his help. And if by some chance a hurricane hits New York in the near future, he’ll bitch about them getting federal aid. We know the GOP playbook. 

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3 hours ago, crash_davis said:

now he wants Biden's help and federal money.

https://www.newsweek.com/desantis-biden-florida-hurricane-ian-1746899

When Hannity asked about the call with Biden, DeSantis said: "What I said today is my phone line is open when people's lives and their property are at risk like this.

"We all need to work together regardless of party lines. The Biden administration has approved our request for a pre-landfall declaration and did that very quickly. So we're thankful for that."

DeSantis said that there will be more requests for federal assistance, especially for Floridians that may have been displaced by the major storm.

 

DeSantis' comments echo previous remarks he gave where he said that "we don't have time for pettiness" when people's lives are at stake and that he is willing to speak to Biden about preparations and responses to the hurricane.

 

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

I hope White House advisors are hard at work figuring out the best way to get as much aid to Floridians as quickly as possible, all while having Joe Biden make DeSantis gargle his balls in the process.


send the money to counties and bypass desantis’s people 

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But of course.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/us/politics/desantis-biden-hurricane-ian-aid.html

 

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As a freshman congressman in 2013, Ron DeSantis was unambiguous: A federal bailout for the New York region after Hurricane Sandy was an irresponsible boondoggle, a symbol of the “put it on the credit card mentality” he had come to Washington to oppose.

“I sympathize with the victims,” he said. But his answer was no.

Nearly a decade later, as his state confronts the devastation and costly destruction wrought by Hurricane Ian, Mr. DeSantis is appealing to the nation’s better angels — and betting on its short memory.

 

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“As you say, Tucker, we live in a very politicized time,” Mr. DeSantis, now Florida’s governor, told Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night, outlining his request for full federal reimbursement up front for 60 days and urging the Biden administration to do the right thing. “But you know, when people are fighting for their lives, when their whole livelihood is at stake, when they’ve lost everything — if you can’t put politics aside for that, then you’re just not going to be able to.”

 

 

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The tonal whiplash for Mr. DeSantis reflects a different job and a different moment — a Tea Party-era House Republican now steering a perennially storm-battered state dependent once more on federal assistance to rebuild. Yet even in the context of his term as governor, the hurricane has required Mr. DeSantis to test another gear.

 

 

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He has, to date, often used his executive platform to elevate himself to Republican rock-stardom, positioning himself as a possible 2024 presidential contender with a series of policy gambits that can feel precision-engineered to maximize liberal outrage.

His most recent stunt — flying undocumented Venezuelan immigrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard — reinforced that he is more than willing to turn the machinery of state against specific political targets. He has suggested that the next plane of immigrants might land near President Biden’s weekend home in Delaware.

The present circumstances have inspired a less swaggering posture toward a leader whom Mr. DeSantis has long called “Brandon” as a recurring troll, aimed at the man he might like to succeed. “Dear Mr. President,” the governor’s request for a major disaster declaration and federal assistance began on Wednesday.

“Ironically,” said David Jolly, a former Republican congressman from Florida, “there’s nobody in America that Ron DeSantis needs more than Joe Biden.”

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More than that, Mr. Jolly said, a governor who self-identifies as unswerving in his principles now finds himself with little choice but to push for storm relief actions “antithetical to his professed ideology.”

“He held those convictions strong in the House,” said Mr. Jolly, who has been sharply critical of the party in the Trump years. “I doubt he will hold them as strongly in the governor’s mansion.”

In 2013, Mr. DeSantis and Representative Ted Yoho, another hard-line conservative, were the only House members from Florida to oppose the Sandy package. For Mr. DeSantis, who represented a coastal district in eastern Florida, the vote at once established him as an eager combatant from the party’s ascendant right wing — he was a founding member of the Freedom Caucus — while at times placing him on the defensive back home.

In a local interview that year, Mr. DeSantis said the bill contained “extraneous stuff” that could not be classified as emergency spending. “I never made the point of saying we shouldn’t do anything,” he said, adding that he could have supported a leaner package focused on immediate relief. Asked then if he would vote against a relief package that affected his own district, Mr. DeSantis was noncommittal, suggesting he would support a responsible plan.

Through the years, critics in both parties have accused Mr. DeSantis of applying this standard selectively. In 2017, as he was poised to run for governor, Mr. DeSantis supported an aid package after Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria as places like Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico strained to recover.

His 2018 primary opponent, Adam Putnam, made an issue of Mr. DeSantis’s voting record during the campaign. Storm-weary voters, a Putnam spokeswoman warned then, should protect themselves against “further destruction at the hands of Hurricane Ron.” Mr. DeSantis’s congressional office denied any inconsistency at the time, rejecting a comparison between the two disaster packages and saying he had supported emergency spending “when immediate and necessary.”

Asked about the governor’s past positions on Thursday, a DeSantis spokesman said the administration was “completely focused on hurricane response.” “As the governor said earlier,” the spokesman, Jeremy T. Redfern, said, “we have no time for politics or pettiness.”

Some Northeastern lawmakers, including Republicans, have not forgotten how Mr. DeSantis and some of his peers responded when the New York area was under duress. “Year after year, we had given them billions of dollars,” said Peter King, a former Republican congressman from Long Island, alluding to aid packages for Southern states and calling the resistance to Sandy relief his angriest moment in office. “Every one of them comes to New York to raise money. They either go to the Hamptons or they go to Manhattan. And both areas were devastated by Sandy.”

This week, Mr. DeSantis said he was “thankful” for the Biden administration’s efforts so far, moving to place himself in the tradition of above-the-fray leadership from past Florida governors who negotiated catastrophic weather events on their watch.

The president and the governor have each made a point of saying publicly that they and their teams are in touch. “He complimented me. He thanked me for the immediate response we had,” Mr. Biden said on Thursday, suggesting that any political conflicts with Mr. DeSantis were irrelevant in these times. “This is about saving people’s lives, homes and businesses.” (In February, Mr. DeSantis baselessly said Mr. Biden “stiffs” storm victims for political reasons, insisting that the president “hates Florida.”)

Haley Barbour, a Republican former governor of Mississippi who presided over the state’s response to Hurricane Katrina, said there was nothing inherently inconsistent about a conservative governor seeking federal storm money. “People think this is a role for the federal government — that some disasters are too big for the community to bear the cost to get back to where you need to be,” he said.

Besides, he suggested, Mr. DeSantis and the White House suddenly had something in common. “Biden likes to say, ‘Build back better,’” Mr. Barbour said. “Well, that’s what Florida wants to do.”

 

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i am no DeSantis fan*, but this hurricane is giving him a chance to look like an effective leader.

I haven't been watching super closely on all the big new cable channels, but on the surface, he is coming off pretty well.

 

 

* i will not be voting for DeSantis

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53 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

failure of leadership and lack of decision making. Official death count is 42 for this county ....

 

Seems like a rather obvious call to make if it's heading straight for heavily populated areas.  

Weather Advisor: "Governor, it'll be coming ashore in a matter of hours. We should issue the evacuation orders."

DeSantis: "No, let's wait and see what happens.  Let's wait until it officially makes landfall."

Weather Advisor: "Landfall, sir?  When it arrives on land?  Land is where the people live."

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Saw it being mentioned a bunch on social media, but haven’t looked into it enough to determine the validity, but some are claiming DeSantis and others have been asking for disaster relief donations to be directed to them.  It would be completely on brand for Republicans to do this, and then only spend that money on Republican areas.

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On 9/30/2022 at 8:06 AM, yoladu said:

i am no DeSantis fan*, but this hurricane is giving him a chance to look like an effective leader.

I haven't been watching super closely on all the big new cable channels, but on the surface, he is coming off pretty well.

 

 

* i will not be voting for DeSantis

If you can look past the fact that he’s unrepentantly pro-rising sea level, Desantis is exactly the leader this country needs in a hurricane.

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Of course they voted against it.  They knew it'd pass without their votes.  Now when a disaster hits a Blue state they can vote against similar relief and point back to this claiming they even voted against it in their own state...but still benefiting from this current relief.

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18 minutes ago, Burt said:

Of course they voted against it.  They knew it'd pass without their votes.  Now when a disaster hits a Blue state they can vote against similar relief and point back to this claiming they even voted against it in their own state...but still benefiting from this current relief.

that’s way too calculated. 

dems propose = gop votes against. they can’t let biden have a win.  on anything.

no need to overcomplicate it. 

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Perla getting her shit put on blast everywhere

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/02/us/marthas-vineyard-migrants-perla-huerta/index.html

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Huerta served in the US Army for more than 20 years, US Army spokesperson Madison Bonzo confirmed to CNN.

“Perla Haydee Huerta served as a Combat Medic Specialist (68W) and Counterintelligence Agent (35L) in the regular Army from April 2002 to August 2022. She deployed to Iraq from May 2003 to July 2004 and October 2008 to October 2009; Afghanistan from December 2010 to July 2011, September 2014 to January 2015, August 2018 to November 2018 and January 2019 to February 2019; and Djibouti from August 2013 to October 2013,” Bonzo said. “She held the rank of master sergeant at the end of service.”

She made it to E-8 and retired.   Not a shabby career at all, but pissed it all away for DeSantis.

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2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Perla getting her shit put on blast everywhere

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/02/us/marthas-vineyard-migrants-perla-huerta/index.html

She made it to E-8 and retired.   Not a shabby career at all, but pissed it all away for DeSantis.

And there I was thinking "Haydee" was a People of Walmart handle, but no, it's Byronesque...

"Origin:Greek

Meaning:well-behaved, modest

Haydee is a girl’s name of Greek origin. This sweet name means “well-behaved” and “modest,” two desirable traits for any new addition to your family. Haydee is also an alternative version fo the Greek name Haidee, which appears in Lord Byron’s poetical work Don Juan. The 'y' addition to the name brings it into the modern day. Haydee is a charming alternative to names like Haylee or Heidi."

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Meanwhile, Biden reassures Puerto Rico without throwing paper towels at them:

PONCE, Puerto Rico (AP) — President Joe Biden arrived in Puerto Rico on Monday to survey damage from Hurricane Fiona, as tens of thousands of people remain without power two weeks after the storm hit.

The Category 1 hurricane knocked out electrical power to the U.S. territory of 3.2 million people, 44% of whom live below the poverty line.

Power has been restored to about 90% of the island’s 1.47 million customers, but more than 137,000 others, mostly in the hardest hit areas of Puerto Rico’s southern and western regions, continue to struggle in the dark. Another 66,000 customers are without water.

Biden has pledged that the U.S. government will not abandon Puerto Rico as it starts to rebuild again, five years after the more powerful Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017. 

While leaving the White House on Monday morning, the president said he was going in part because people there “haven’t been taken very good care of,” and they were “trying like hell to catch up from the last hurricane

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