I don’t like everything about this video, there’s a clip of the President elect at the beginning that is misleading, and a poorly done graph, but the main point is accurate and clear – we are not prepared to meet the climate extremes now coming our way.
Recovery in the Smokey Mountain region devastated by Hurricane Helene will be slow and painful, over years, or decades, if it comes at all.
Disaster expert Samantha Montano, an informational MVP, is interviewed.
I found myself asking, OK, so who did you vote for? Because if you voted for a Republican, you voted for more of this. We came within a hair this week of a Musk/Trump engineered government shutdown that would have defunded all FEMA relief, and the Project 2025 game plan, now being staffed and implemented, is for dismembering FEMA and leaving disaster recovery costs to state and local units.
Defunding FEMA must come eventually, but to do it early hints the perps have a mind to pocket some of the money.
The Republicans broke it so they can claim it’s broken so they can break it some more
I have no sympathy for anyone who voted for Trump who is up against this. Maybe it’s because I’ve lost everything a couple of times without a bailout and don’t see it as some bleeding-heart big deal. The only reason we’re even hearing about it is because it’s white people. You hearing anything about the barrios downtown that got wiped out? No. Hearing about the white coal-miners’ daughters
Republicans broke it, they own it …