Harvey threatens Texas
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I calculate it'll be a while before the treasonous garbage of Texass start yapping about secession again.
Here I sit
Buns a-flexin'
Giving birth
To another Texan
Here I sit
Buns a-flexin'
Giving birth
To another Texan
A Cuban, a Canadian, and a Texan walk into a bar. The bartender says "What'll ya have, Senator Cruz?"
I know who loses ... the American consumer.
Apparently, 80% of homeowners around Houston DO NOT nave flood insurance. There are going to be a lot of DYI repairs to mouldy houses made down there, over time.
Trump is obsessed with crowds and ratings, even in flood-ravaged Texas
After all these months it's still unclear whether or not Donald Trump knows he's not on reality television.
Since his inauguration the man has made his obsession with ratings and crowd size very clear, and on Tuesday when he visited Texas for a briefing on Tropical Storm Harvey relief efforts, he just couldn't help himself from celebrating the really great press that came out of the storm.
During the trip to Corpus Christi, where Harvey made landfall, and Austin, Texas, Donald had two face palm-worthy moments that left the world questioning why on Earth he's treating a natural disaster like an episode of reality television.
One came when he stood atop a platform outside and marveled at the crowd before him. "What a crowd, what a turnout," Trump said into a microphone.
Naturally, people saw the president taking time out from his speech on the storm to admire the crowd of people who came to hear him speak as problematic.
According to a White House pool report, reporters on-site "heard no mention of the dead, dying or displaced Texans and no expression of sympathy for them. The message was services are coming and Texans will be OK."
Earlier during the same trip, Trump also thanked FEMA administrator Brock Long for his service, saying he "has really become very famous on television over the last couple of days."
Excuse us? Uh, yeah congrats to this FEMA administrator for getting some on-air time during a devastating and unprecedented storm that's displaced huge numbers of people. He's probably really jazzed to have gotten this fame, even though it came at a tragic cost, right? Nope.
Trump is obsessed with crowds and ratings, even in flood-ravaged Texas
Dood has a serious disconnect from reality.
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and this guy is just a gold digging asshole:
After all these months it's still unclear whether or not Donald Trump knows he's not on reality television.
Since his inauguration the man has made his obsession with ratings and crowd size very clear, and on Tuesday when he visited Texas for a briefing on Tropical Storm Harvey relief efforts, he just couldn't help himself from celebrating the really great press that came out of the storm.
During the trip to Corpus Christi, where Harvey made landfall, and Austin, Texas, Donald had two face palm-worthy moments that left the world questioning why on Earth he's treating a natural disaster like an episode of reality television.
One came when he stood atop a platform outside and marveled at the crowd before him. "What a crowd, what a turnout," Trump said into a microphone.
Naturally, people saw the president taking time out from his speech on the storm to admire the crowd of people who came to hear him speak as problematic.
According to a White House pool report, reporters on-site "heard no mention of the dead, dying or displaced Texans and no expression of sympathy for them. The message was services are coming and Texans will be OK."
Earlier during the same trip, Trump also thanked FEMA administrator Brock Long for his service, saying he "has really become very famous on television over the last couple of days."
Excuse us? Uh, yeah congrats to this FEMA administrator for getting some on-air time during a devastating and unprecedented storm that's displaced huge numbers of people. He's probably really jazzed to have gotten this fame, even though it came at a tragic cost, right? Nope.
Trump is obsessed with crowds and ratings, even in flood-ravaged Texas
Dood has a serious disconnect from reality.
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and this guy is just a gold digging asshole:
If you want other comparisons research what happened when the US experimented with evacuating large cities during the Cold War. In order to be effective the cities had to be evacuated in a day at the most. It was discovered that such an evacuation was logistically impossible.
As for Houston an attempt was actually made in 2005 to evacuate the city when Hurricane Rita approached. The result was as I stated - total gridlock with people stuck in their cars for a full day. Here is a quote from an article discussing the possibility of evacuating Chicago.
Most experts agree that no major American city can be evacuated in less than 12 hours, if they can be evacuated at all. New York’s Emergency Management Agency expects it would take upwards of 12 hours to complete a citywide evacuation.
There’s also the real-world example of Houston, Texas, roughly the same size and population of Chicago. In 2005, 2.5 million people fled the area as Hurricane Rita approached. Citizens had just watched the devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina a few weeks prior, so almost everyone left, resulting in the largest evacuation in U.S. history. The ensuing gridlock stretched hundreds of miles, and drivers were stuck behind the wheel for up to 24 hours.
Eventually, Houston Mayor Bill White started calling the highways “a deathtrap,” and urged people who had not left to shelter-in-place. Up to 118 people died in the Rita evacuation, from car accidents and the heat. That’s more than ten times as were killed by the storm itself, which caused little damage to Houston.
You can read the full article here. Escape from Chicago: How Long Would It Take to Evacuate? | WBAA
Nope. Just like the Tea Baggers in Louisiana who criticized Obama until their sorry azzes got screwed by the oil crisis. Once disaster hit, all their principles and schit talk about self reliance went out the window. Soon enough they came with hat in hand and on bended knee kissing up to the federal government they were criticizing just days before.
Funny how forum right wingers never mention anything like that.
That's all you got eh...
Pretty sad when everyone here knows you support a President that defends Nazi groups... and you're to stupid to even be embarrassed about it..
If you had any knowledge, you could be fun to debate with.
But since you don't, you aren't.
Here, it's even from your fav ClintonNewsNetwork.
Joel Osteen says church has opened doors to flood victims - CNN
The building they bought flooded pretty bad from previous hurricanes, so they installed floodgates,
but they weren't tested.. till now.
Them: church is flooded
Everyone: no, it isn't
Them: the roads around us are flooded
Everyone: no, they aren't
Them: city didn't ask
Everyone: dafuq
Oh yeah, they city 'forgot' to ask them.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsama...n-its-doors-to?utm_term=.fqPeqkJPE#.wfqXnY8rV
Interesting to watch on TV, George Brown vs Lakewood Church.
Obama is now standing in a puddle acting like a President--give me a break. - 1:57 PM - 31 Oct 2012
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/263746662978166785
Donald Trump arrived in Texas, gave a briefing at a fire station, and told Texans, “This is a really special place and a special state.”
So far, so relatively normal. Straight afterwards, however, several hundred Trump supporters arrived and the US president proceeded to give them a speech that seemed curiously indifferent to the plight of the tens of thousands of people made homeless by Hurricane Harvey, which has caused record-breaking rain and catastrophic flooding.
Presidential events are often reported on by one journalist picked from among the White House correspondents, whose “pool report” is then shared among the rest of the press corps. Normally, language in pool reports is brisk, factual, and dispassionate. For this one the pool reporter happened to be from a Texas paper, the Dallas Morning News, and what they heard was apparently enough to prompt a remarkable shift from normal pool custom.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/263746662978166785
Donald Trump arrived in Texas, gave a briefing at a fire station, and told Texans, “This is a really special place and a special state.”
So far, so relatively normal. Straight afterwards, however, several hundred Trump supporters arrived and the US president proceeded to give them a speech that seemed curiously indifferent to the plight of the tens of thousands of people made homeless by Hurricane Harvey, which has caused record-breaking rain and catastrophic flooding.
Presidential events are often reported on by one journalist picked from among the White House correspondents, whose “pool report” is then shared among the rest of the press corps. Normally, language in pool reports is brisk, factual, and dispassionate. For this one the pool reporter happened to be from a Texas paper, the Dallas Morning News, and what they heard was apparently enough to prompt a remarkable shift from normal pool custom.
After the briefing, Trump did an impromptu rally type speech in front of a few hundred Trump supporters who somehow managed to know exactly where the president was doing the briefing.
He stood on a raised platform of some type. Couldn’t tell if it was a step ladder or not. But he was not on a truck. Spoke into a microphone.
“I love you, you are special, we’re here to take care of you. It’s going well.”
“What a crowd, what a turnout.”
Reporters heard no mention of the dead, dying or displaced Texans and no expression of sympathy for them. The message was services are coming and Texans will b
“Texas can handle anything,” POTUS
“We are going to get you back and operating immediately,” he told the crowd (this contradicts the “Long haul” Sen. John Cornyn has publicly discussed and the caveat from FEMA administrator long moments earlier that it’s going to be a slow process).
https://qz.com/1065191/hurricane-ha...s-sympathy-for-flood-victims/?utm_source=qzfbHe stood on a raised platform of some type. Couldn’t tell if it was a step ladder or not. But he was not on a truck. Spoke into a microphone.
“I love you, you are special, we’re here to take care of you. It’s going well.”
“What a crowd, what a turnout.”
Reporters heard no mention of the dead, dying or displaced Texans and no expression of sympathy for them. The message was services are coming and Texans will b
“Texas can handle anything,” POTUS
“We are going to get you back and operating immediately,” he told the crowd (this contradicts the “Long haul” Sen. John Cornyn has publicly discussed and the caveat from FEMA administrator long moments earlier that it’s going to be a slow process).
Osteen was shamed into opening his doors. He would have lost a good chunk of his economic base if he didn't. It is purely business with this charlatan.
No one agrees with you.
I doubt that surprises you, though.
"Southeast Texas is drowning under the weight of Harvey, yet people nationwide —particularly those outside the state — have settled on making Osteen the villain," wrote The Dallas Morning News.
Due to the insufficient facts, The Dallas newspaper said they aren't defending Osteen or whether he was slow to open the church's doors , but said "the backlash is an excellent example of what too often happens in the midst of crisis these days: The chance to fire off pre-written narratives without pausing for any evidence."
"The Osteen tweet storm threw a match on a tinderbox of easy fodder: wealth, religion, red state," wrote The Dallas Morning News. "The perfect combination for a 140-character verdict without the facts."