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aware of dog posted:I don't think he's even nominated a FEMA director, so probably terribly There is absolutely a FEMA director but it speaks volumes that people keep repeating the idea that he hasn't nominated one yet. 
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SirPablo posted:So a tropical storm/hurricane is going to hit Texas and Louisiana the next several days. But it wont just move in and dissipate, it is going to meander for many days, dumping a fuckton of rain. This area has already had a wet August. This is going to be a major disaster. How will Trump handle it? EDIT: Actually, I was googling around to see exactly what the headline was that talked about this. I think it's related to this: https://weather.com/science/environment/news/america-flood-protection-infrastructure-insurance quote:On Tuesday, President Donald Trump revoked an Obama-era executive order establishing the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS) designed to reduce the risk and cost of future flood disasters. The executive order ensured that new development in and affecting floodplains would be constructed to better withstand the impacts of flooding, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Aug 23, 2017 |
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mango sentinel posted:They want to get beat up to justify Trump's reaction and make their side sympathetic. Beaten by Bears.
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evilweasel posted:i am offended by the shroud I was going to say they just made oversized klan hoods for them.
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Lightning Lord posted:There is absolutely a FEMA director but it speaks volumes that people keep repeating the idea that he hasn't nominated one yet. It's because Trump hadn't nominated anyone to run FEMA before the start of Hurricane Season, presumably because this poo poo does not occur to him until someone points it out.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:By ignoring it. But donnie loves getting rained on.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:It's because Trump hadn't nominated anyone to run FEMA before the start of Hurricane Season, presumably because this poo poo does not occur to him until someone points it out. Plus they picked someone who actually knows about disaster preparation and response (you can debate about how good he is at it tho) instead of like, Pat Robertson. Clearly the party picked that guy
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NOAA is the relevant agency that Trump still hasn't appointed a director to.
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Beachcomber posted:Beaten by Bears. Actually there are probably a lot of bears that would not take that much issue with white nationalist ☹️
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This is all happening because Rick Perry had Texans pray for rain. Monkey paw, people! MONKEY PAW!
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StrangersInTheNight posted:It's because Trump hadn't nominated anyone to run FEMA before the start of Hurricane Season, presumably because this poo poo does not occur to him until someone points it out. tbf in that respect he's just following the time-honored traditions of the republican party the guy bush ii put in charge of fema's experience was as a commissioner of some horse association. as you might imagine that is one of the reasons katrina didn't go so well. by not nominating anyone at all at least the person in charge is a career person with limited powers instead of a wildly unqualfied idiot
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SirPablo posted:So a tropical storm/hurricane is going to hit Texas and Louisiana the next several days. But it wont just move in and dissipate, it is going to meander for many days, dumping a fuckton of rain. This area has already had a wet August. This is going to be a major disaster. How will Trump handle it? By blaming Democrats and the fake news media. And probably Obama somehow. Basically he'll make W's handling of Katrina look masterful in comparison.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:The younger generation polls more liberal than any in history. 1) I don't put much stock in those polls, because definitions of liberal vary wildly. 2) Whatever young right wingers exist are much more overtly fascist than older generations.
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oh hey trump's fema guy is actually wildly more competent than bush's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Long
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Mordaedil posted:I was actually going on about Creationism, which is a really stubborn subsect of Christianity that attempts to hinder science. Catholicism has its own issues with the whole "buying your way out of sin thing", but it's not Americas cross to bear. Coming from a catholic upbringing, I feel one of the problems is that people believe that simply being religious is enough for the golden ticket into heaven. The most devout Catholics I know had no problem reasoning away terrible things they've done, because at least they go to church on Sunday and pay the tithe. Also there's a pretty dangerous line of thinking that God indeed works everything out in the background. That itself isn't problematic, but it makes it easy to go "the poor will be taken care of by the Lord" as you mark your ballot to kill poor people. Also this is a random aside, but in my experience, the leftist candidates are never ever moral choices to vote for, because of abortion. I know a crazy amount of people who are more or less moderate, but still vote right candidates because abortion is murder and the church is unwavering on that front. I absolutely refuse to believe the Catholic Church, or Christian churches in general, will change their stance on that in ten, or even twenty years.
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aware of dog posted:I don't think he's even nominated a FEMA director, so probably terribly
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Cingulate posted:Cook, can I have your opinion on if Sir is gender neutral "Doctor" is gender neutral. 
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JazzFlight posted:Cool thing they got rid of those flood insurance protections right before this! His beef with Obama actually takes priority over common sense. The craziest part is so partisan even when he fucks things up here and focuses on the media during the necessary speech they'll still vote GOP Kale fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Aug 23, 2017 |
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Fitzy Fitz posted:NOAA is the relevant agency that Trump still hasn't appointed a director to. NOAA can run just fine without a head, honestly. It, really the NWS, routinely handles weather events every day. I'd say the bigger impact is not having an advocate for funding. That has hurt the agency in the long run.
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SirPablo posted:So a tropical storm/hurricane is going to hit Texas and Louisiana the next several days. But it wont just move in and dissipate, it is going to meander for many days, dumping a fuckton of rain. This area has already had a wet August. This is going to be a major disaster. How will Trump handle it? I live in Texas. Just checked the weather forecast and it just shows "rain". No "severe thunderstorms". So we'll be fine. 
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Your Taint posted:By blaming Democrats and the fake news media. And probably Obama somehow. Third Of Louisiana Republicans Blame Obama For Hurricane Katrina Response Under Bush
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WrenP-Complete posted:"Doctor" is gender neutral. E.: http://www.lvz.de/Leipzig/Bildung/Kein-Herr-Professorin-Universitaet-Leipzig-stellt-Missverstaendnis-klar meh. It was only in one document, not on door signs. Still, the public debate was hilarious.
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SirPablo posted:So a tropical storm/hurricane is going to hit Texas and Louisiana the next several days. But it wont just move in and dissipate, it is going to meander for many days, dumping a fuckton of rain. This area has already had a wet August. This is going to be a major disaster. How will Trump handle it? Yeah this is suppose to be bad and uh.. let me just check Oh they still haven't filled that position.
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evilweasel posted:oh hey trump's fema guy is actually wildly more competent than bush's He also has a perfect name for a gay porn actor.
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coyo7e posted:He just canceled levee improvements last week didn't he? He issued an EO last week revoking an Obama EO that, if I understand it correctly, directed federal agencies to use a new standard for evaluating flood plains that took climate change into account.
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JazzFlight posted:Cool thing they got rid of those flood insurance protections right before this! I'm pretty sure federal flood insurance is still in place, mostly because I haven't heard an endless cacophony of terrified screams well, no more than usual since January 20, anyway edit: well okay, there was a provision to cut it in the Very Stupid No Good Very Bad Trump Budget, but it's one of the things that rightly caused a bipartisan freakout so good luck Donald
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Like that bitchmade little poo poo will do anything if he does. The GOP is nothing but nazis and cowards too weak to stop them.
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evilweasel posted:oh hey trump's fema guy is actually wildly more competent than bush's A competently-run FEMA is not a good thing in the hands of this government. At least Brownie might accidentally drop some food on poor people after a hurricane, instead of competently ordering the National Guard to shoot any
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SirPablo posted:Third Of Louisiana Republicans Blame Obama For Hurricane Katrina Response Under Bush Yet another reason why the overall populace are loving morons and we have the President we deserve.
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A bit of good news today: https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/900473233702625281
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Theres a small shipment of play doh already headed to Texas, no need to worry lads
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evilweasel posted:i am offended by the shroud I love that it looks for all the world like a garbage bag
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evilweasel posted:oh hey trump's fema guy is actually wildly more competent than bush's Hrmmmmmmmmm quote:
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Hollismason posted:Hrmmmmmmmmm the sum total of bush's guy's relevant experience when he went into work on his second day of work was his first day of work
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aware of dog posted:He issued an EO last week revoking an Obama EO that, if I understand it correctly, directed federal agencies to use a new standard for evaluating flood plains that took climate change into account.
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buglord posted:Also this is a random aside, but in my experience, the leftist candidates are never ever moral choices to vote for, because of abortion. I know a crazy amount of people who are more or less moderate, but still vote right candidates because abortion is murder and the church is unwavering on that front. I absolutely refuse to believe the Catholic Church, or Christian churches in general, will change their stance on that in ten, or even twenty years.
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Hollismason posted:Hrmmmmmmmmm Yeah, our point is that Long actually is an emergency manager, incompetent or not, and Trump didn't appoint a sweating televangelist to pray bad weather away like everyone was expecting.
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evilweasel posted:i am offended by the shroud
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achillesforever6 posted:As a Catholic it amazes me how much of its problems could be solved with common sense/decency and that making said changes wouldn't cause the collapse or destroy the institution. Like what's so hard with allowing priests to marry, don't hide/protect the pedophile priests, focus on poverty not abortion, and not being poo poo against LGBT people? institutions that persist based on a thousand years of tradition and orthodoxy don't permit change very often, it's one of the prerequisites for their existence. in the US the gay friendly catholic-lite sect are the Episcopalians
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