Dick DeSantis Tells Tucker He’s “Cautiously”Optimistic Biden Will Help Florida

He’s cautiously optimistic AFTER Biden already mobilized relief for Florida because he can’t relate to anyone doing something good for those who think differently. This guy deserves to go down in flames and back to the swamp he crawled out of. What an indecent, integrity deprived POS.

Besides the giant hypocrisy of his vote against aid for victims of Sandy, maybe he shouldn’t spend 12 million tax dollars to human traffic 50 immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard. What about that red??? What a tool your governor is. I say Biden should follow your leader, blow into town AFTER the storm, toss a few paper towels, and tell you to go fuck yourselves. Right Puerto Rico???? Or give you the height of stupidity after climate change creates historic fires, fly in and berate you for not sweeping the forests. Goddamn. How fucking stupid can you folks be?????

Just read the causeway bridge between Fort Myers and Sanibel Island has collapsed in places. My family used to vacation there almost yearly-I always enjoyed the wildlife refuge on the island and the shelling was phenomenal. Hope something can be done in a fairly timely manner for those folks.

Sure, the governor is a hypocrite, he’s G.O.P. so natch, but much might be lost from this storm and the worse ones down the road: because they are not going to get less damaging, only more so.

Fuck him. And while I’m at it God DAMN him to hell! I say that as someone who worked two seasons (2004 and 2005) as a DTE (Disaster Temporary Employee) for FEMA. Both taking disaster aid applications over the phone and as response shifted to Helpline work to move applications that had been hung up (the process was often automatic if all the data was in the system and the applicant’s info. was electronically verifiable) so that people could get the aid they were eligible for. I can also say fucking with response isn’t new with Trump. Or with Republicans objecting to for example Hurricane Sandy aid.

Remember if you will the 2004 & 2005 hurricane seasons. FL got hit by FOUR, count em four hurricanes in 2004 which just happened to be an election year. And the President’s baby brother who bent and broke laws & procedures to deliver the state to W in 2000 needed to deliver it again. OF COURSE there was a massive federal response, as there should have been. It was the largest in FEMA’s history which is how I got hired on in the first place. New “Nipsys” (National Information Processing Centers) were massively expanded in several locations, with warehouses being rented and wired in record time with high speed internet and complex phone systems as temp. agenices were contracted to hire four to five hundred temp. workers at each location. In 2004 we got a week’s worth of training before being sat down at our “workstations” (at first it was just those tables with folding legs, a laptop and phone connection & headset and a halfway decent folding chair with a padded seat) to take calls from people applying for aid. I was one of a group singled out after a while to be trained on helpline work (I’d eventually be sworn in as a bona fide Federal Employee) which again took almost a week.

The NEXT year, when Katrina hit things were different. Yes, a few hundred temps were hired and they got a day and a half of training! Hmmmm. And when the time came for us to do helpline work, things I was allowed to do the prior year to “unstick” an application that was hung up, things I could have done (and did the year before) with the click of a mouse I was no longer allowed to do! I could go on, but the point is that New Orleans wasn’t GOP territory and Louisiana in general still sometimes had Democrats getting elected. Yes, MS got hit too and Trent Lott’s second home not far from the ocean got wiped out. But, as would be the case with TX that year Bush knew he was winning MS and TX no matter what, and so would damned near everyone else on the GOP ticket down the ballot!

DeSantis is despicable. And the GOP loves him for it.