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FEMA needs help—now. Mike Johnson said no.
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This is insane. They already got hit by a hurricane and an even bigger one, the biggest we have seen until now, is about to hit the same area. Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to send help. Even when Kamala wants to ask Desantis if they need more help, he refuses to speak to her.
People will die over this political bs. I really hope they will realize how the republicans don't give two shits about them and their well being.
And DeSantis has the gall to say that Harris's offer was political.
How would he know if he didn’t take the call??
It is, but it’s also from a place of caring and genuinely wanting to help.
Careful now. People can't have more than one reason for doing something, that's commie talk.
I'll take the right thing for the wrong reasons over the wrong thing for even worse reasons.
Owning yourself to own the libs
Cutting off your nose to spite your face
The leopards were gonna come for it eventually anyway.
It's beautiful
I think Desantis and the phone call thing is mostly political theatre. She wants to look presidential. It's understandable she wants to pursue this "opportunity," but she's just VP. Not a key role in this kind of thing.
But Johnson refusing to fund disaster response is intended to prevent the Biden-Harris admin from doing it's job and helping people in desperate situations. That's fucked.
These sorts of phone calls are common, though. Desantis isn't picking up Biden's phone call either, and he isn't running.
The White House actually made an announcement that Biden and DeSantis had spoken.
Apparently this call happened Monday evening per the Miami Herald, after a lot of the criticism had been made.
Had trump called, desantis would have wet himself in supplication.
Yes of course, Desantis is a sociopath and will kiss the ring to get more power.
Having direct continuity with the next President is useful. There's some plausible arguments (though by no means a slam dunk) that the delay in transition after the 2000 election left the Bush Admin unprepared and led to 9/11.
The GOP will kill as many people as is necessary to retain power. They've been doing this for many years now.