Congressman Ron DeSantis wants to put a time limit on the Mueller investigation.
But he wants investigations into Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
Texas’s Secretary of State turned down offers of manpower and equipment from the province of Quebec, asking her to send the state prayers, instead.
I maintain that Texas should not get a dime in aid.
If Houston wants aid, we can make it its own state. Texas gets nothing, as per the principles so avowedly espoused for so long.
+1000
Every single port city and island should be having billions pumped into it for sea-wall and sea level rise protections. I live in New York City. At the rate things are going, this city will vanish from the Earth in the future because of sea level rise. So many precious areas of our planet, like Venice and San Francisco will either be washed away or greatly diminished because of sea-level rise and no one is doing anything.
Building a wall to keep out some of our hardest working people is just so stupid.
That’s a little cruel. Not every Texan is a Republican or conservative. You’re basically harming a million good people to spite a hundred thousand bad ones.
I think you’ve got that backwards, in terms of who’s good and who’s bad.*
That is, harming one hundred thousand good ones for the sake of spiting a million bad ones.
You are correct that harming the few good ones to spite the many bad ones is a misguided idea.
*For clarity, it’s the Republicans and the [del]conservatives[/del] reactionaries who are bad, and the non-Republicans (who are unfortunately outnumbered by the bad guys) who are (at least provisionally) good.
Yeah, either way you spin it, not helping Texas because some level of people there are people you don’t like is immoral. And even then - not all Republicans and conservatives are bad. There plenty of Republicans who despise Trump. I’ve never been to Texas but I wouldn’t support denying aid to any part of the country just because the majority of its inhabitants don’t agree with me politically. We’re one nation.
All of Texas from Austin-San Antonio and southward went for Hillary. There are PLENTY of us who listen to NPR and read the New York Times every day and loved Obama. This is a BIG state. And yet there are many many days when the Texas legislature and Texas politicians are an embarrassment and a disgrace to level-headed people like myself and all of my friends.
Instead of denying aid to Texas, let’s just split the difference and float Ted Cruz out to sea in a leaky raft.
ETA: You don’t really want to deny aid to people like this, do you?
Canadian prayers? Is he trying to get them all smited?
My cynical California self actually believes that Texans would turn their backs on California if there were a disaster here.
It’s possible, but it’s nice to be the better person. If you turn your back on them, then you’re no better than they are.
Please don’t demonize all of us, because we have stupid politicians and a bunch of jerky Trump supporters. That hurts. We’re not all like that. The state isn’t one monolithic entity, just like California isn’t.
Every State in the Union has its value, and its good and bad moments.
The Alt-Right hates New York City as much as they hate California. Both are seen as places of “Liberal depravity.” I for one welcome any affiliation with California.
But even though they hate my city, I would never hate theirs. There’s always a diamond in the rough.
Just what Houston needs. A heavenly barge full of poutine mysteriously shows up.
Shit! Now I TOTALY want Heavenly Poutine.
Didn’t Heavenly Poutine open at Lilith Fair back in '98.
Last year a québécoise family made the world a better place by opening up a poutine restaurant in my town.
My cynical Massachusetts self remembers the energy crisis of the 1970s and how Texans reacted to the crisis in the Northeast:
Thank you for the reminder. I was feeling guilty as hell about not really giving a shit about the Texans; now I’m a lot better.
Oh, us Bay Staters are sending help, lots of it – trained rescue crews, tractor-trailer loads of donated goods, even down to taking (even more than we usually do) shelter dogs from Southern partner rescues* to free up room in them for Harvey refugees. Collecting money, too, of course. And we expect our tax dollars to go to the rebuilding effort – because all of that is what good citizens do.
But we have long memories.
- Shelters in the Northeast regularly import and rehome dogs from high-kill shelters in the Southeastern states. For example: http://arnne.org/home/about-us/