(10-01-2024, 09:24 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(10-01-2024, 07:31 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: If the people affected by this weren’t mostly white, this administration would be all over it.

Sorry, that’s just the way I see it. Everything with Democrats is political. Everything. If they were to respond quickly to this, they would risk marginalizing the minority vote, so, they drag their feet. Just exactly like they did with the East Palestine train derailment.

They're up on top of hillsides that are only connected by dirt roads.
They're not all in one big city piled into one big shelter.
The storm is just as devastating as Katrina but there are reasons the response won't be quite like Katrina and those reasons have little to do with race.
You're the one making it about race.
I say all this as we are still awaiting a ping back from a work colleague in Yancey County NC. Hope they're safe.

A real leader would have directed the National Guard to go in and start clearing roads, bringing in supplies and help with relief efforts.  FEMA should also be there doing the same thing, but I saw a story earlier that their priorities are DEI and environmental concerns.

Regardless if people live on hillsides and on dirt roads, the Federal, State and local governments all have the equipment needed to clear roads.  Residents are having to do what they can just to get fuel for chain saws and other equipment that they have to clear the roads up themselves.

So what exactly are the reasons for the response not being like Katrina?  Could it be that your party/"President"/Vice-"President" couldn't be bothered to help those white rednecks that live in the woods?

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