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- politics@lemmy.world
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is not taking calls from Vice President Kamala Harris about storm recovery just over a week after Hurricane Helene hammered parts of his state.
A source familiar with the situation said he was dodging the Democratic presidential nominee’s calls because they “seemed political,” according to a DeSantis aide.
“Kamala was trying to reach out, and we didn’t answer,” the DeSantis aide told NBC News.
The same person said “not to my knowledge” when asked if DeSantis had spoken to President Joe Biden.
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What a fucking piss baby. I have friends directly in the path of eye of hurricane Milton. I hope Gov. DeathSentence doesn’t get them killed in the name of neo fascist virtue signaling.
Two other officials with DeSantis’ office said that so far, there has been no effort by Biden to reach out to the governor on Hurricane Milton.
This is such a bullshit thing to say. If the sadistic antihuman monster known as DeSantis didn’t accept contact from them regarding Helene, why would he expect them to immediately reach out to him on Milton? Current administration’s efforts would be better spent coordinating with someone who is actually interested in the well-being of Floridians.
“They haven’t said a word about Milton… I mean, they’re calling us every hour on the hour but I assume it is about Helene.”
No fucking duh it’s political, she is an a political post, you are in a political post. Not all politics is bad, some of it is about finding a way to get the government to actually help people in need
get the government to actually help people in need
This is the part conservatives cannot do.
If you want to save some money, just remind them that vulnerable groups have also been impacted. They will refuse all help just to make sure the out-groups continue to suffer.
“Government doesn’t work! Vote for me and I’ll show you just how poorly it can be run!”
The GOP gave up on attempting to even put up a facade of “we’re trying to help you” at least a decade ago. At this point, they’ve convinced their voters that we cannot afford to help everyone, so we only help minorities. And because of that, they would rather we just help nobody.
When the reality is, we could very easily provide for all of the needs of every citizen several times over if people actually paid their fair share in taxes.
But you add in the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” mindset that has infected the minds of American workers, and you end up with a bunch of sad, angry, jingoistic people who do everything they can to make sure nobody gets any help for anything.
Well, that is, until they personally need it. Then it’s different.
Almost as if there’s been a concerted effort for decades to push concepts like “rugged individualism” over collectivism, and “American exceptionalism,” while literally sabotaging our own education system so that people remain ignorant enough to continue voting against their interests…
some of it is about finding a way to get the government to actually help people in need
And here is where you lose conservatives, and why, at its core, it is a rotten ideology.
Until it is literally them that needs the help. But then its different. They’re different.
DeSantis is still a piss baby
Tampa’s mayor should get in contact directly. This is going to be very bad, and they are going to need all the help they can get.
What a petty little man-child.
You would think any man that short would want all the help he can get when the water starts rising.
Party before country, right?
He’s such a petty little bitch. Put your heels on and just take the call, Ronnie.
If Biden’s team bypasses DeSantis entirely and coordinates directly with the impacted counties and communities, that would make DeSantis look 100% useless on the national stage.
I truly hope that’s what they’re doing.
I’ll say this, if trump had won I don’t know a democratic governor who would consider not taking a call from pence after a national disaster. Every governor pulling this needs recalled
Run down the chain then. Local county officials have a lot less to lose by working with the federal government to save their constituents.
What a clear example of these politicians not giving a rat’s ass about their citizens. Even if it was just a chance for her to have a political talking point, ISN’T THAT BETTER THAN HAVING YOUR CITIZENS SUFFER???
They would rather people’s lives get ruined than give Biden/Harris a possible win. I’m sure as people’s homes are getting swept away they’ll be comforted by the fact that Harris didn’t get one over on DeSantis.
Inb4 DeSantis claims the Government is ignoring Florida when it comes to hurricanes
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