Hope Biden can avoid DeSantis when he goes down to check out Florida’s carnage.
OTOH, Christie was politically hurt by being photographed with Obama after a natural disaster.
If one really believes that DeSantis is more dangerous than Trump, they might hope that Biden seeks him out and hugs him on camera, being all friendly and chummy.
Or tossing a roll of paper towels at him.
This is what I hope happens.
Biden would be missing a golden opportunity if he doesn’t toss a “Martha’s Vineyard” T-shirt at Ron.
Toss? I’m looking for a “Maude Flanders” killer T-Shirt cannon.
If the Democrats were as assholish as the Republicans, they’d say something like “I bet a lot of those migrants would be happy to work at rebuilding Florida, even if it isn’t their area of expertise, but we’re not letting them come down, since you obviously want them to be up here.”
Democrats don’t even need to be the ones to say it. There’s a decent chance enough comedians will make the same observation. If they make jokes about it, Democrats won’t need to be assholes for pointing it out.
Oh but they will…
I have no doubt that political are coming that contrast the two
“DeSantis spent $12 million that could have been used to help reconstruct our state, chartering a jet for a political stunt. The immigrants got a free trip out before the storm hit, many Floridians weren’t so lucky.”
Ha haahahah. Good point. And now they will need laborers out the wazoo.
Great plan that. Oh, but surely the retired folks can load the dump trucks that Ian created. I mean, what else do they have to do?
Just as a point of order, he spent a portion of the $12 million budgeted for undocumented immigrant deportation (looks like around $500K - which is of course a lot, nice to know he’s only got enough budget to do that 23 more times).
ETA - multiple different sources suggest more like $610k.
Sure, and also the migrants were taken from Texas rather than Florida so they weren’t actually moved out of the path of the Hurricane. But since when do we allow pesky facts to get in the way of a good sound bite.
That would be a GIF that would live forever.
The guy who wants to represent the district just south of me gave an interview to a prominent neo-Nazi who has been fundraising for his campaign.
Tried to watch some of that Joe Kent i-view (would’ve preferred a transcript) and before I know it, he’s going off about how great Paul Gosar is, and I thought, ok, I taken enough for the team - I’m out.
They’ve since taken it down, but CPAC demonstrated with a tweet that they are the spiritual heirs of Fritz Kuhn and Vidkun Quisling.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED that CPAC are Russian stooges.
Loser Donald accuses Republicans of preventing a government shutdown because they hate him, makes a thinly veiled death threat against the Minority Leader, hurls a racist slur at a woman who was in his Cabinet for his entire term, gets her name wrong, and misspells “advice”, all in one post.
Shortly before the storm hit Colbert suggested that Floridians having trouble getting away tell DeSantis they’re from Venezuela. “Maybe he’ll fly you to Martha’s Vineyard.”
Sweet zombie Jesus, that video gave me severe Rappin for Jesus vibes.