Veteran meteorologist and hurricane expert John Morales breaks down in tears on an NBC Florida broadcast as he warns what's happening with Milton:

arcofjustice

@wdlindsy Scott Fu**ing Perry is on this list, as if we needed another reason to "diselect" him in PA.

JustKathy

I was told by someone on Mastodon that it's the voters' own fault for voting these clowns in. If they want funding, they should vote better.

William Lindsey :toad:

@KathyLK I'll confess that I'm tempted to think that — but I also think it's not a helpful response to people in dire circumstances, to blame them for the poor choices they made that have contributed to their immiseration. We have huge educational challenges in the US, obviously, with so many people prone to believe toxic nonsense that ends up hurting them!

William Lindsey :toad:

@mbwood Indeed. Thanks for noting that.

JustKathy

@wdlindsy

I agree! When the racist and misogynist religious bigots have been entrenched for decades in "poorly educated" states, what are we supposed to do? The Preamble to our Constitution states, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Wouldn't it follow, then, that some government agency should be enforcing the Constitution and the laws derived from it? How can "justice" be left to voters alone?

Piousunyn

@wdlindsy How does this work, Republicans asked North Vietnam against ending war or Iran freeing hostages to make Democrats look bad, vote against making border safer, now we have this, voting against FEMA aid. How sick are Republicans for power?

TomDB 🦣

@wdlindsy An idiot with too much money…

William Lindsey :toad:

@TomDB For sure.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Piousunyn Your final question is just the right question to ask. It sums the dynamic up well.

William Lindsey :toad:

@KathyLK "When the racist and misogynist religious bigots have been entrenched for decades in 'poorly educated' states, what are we supposed to do?"

Yes, that's the question I ask myself over and over as one who lives in such a state. And I honestly can't say I have an answer. As someone whose family in this state has long been full of educators, I can say that the value my own family has long placed on education is just not shared by a lot of my fellow citizens — and I don't know why.

William Lindsey :toad:

@KathyLK I wouldn't put it past DeSantis and his cronies to exert that kind of pressure, for sure.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Ironically, we cannot show Climate Central’s 'Climate Shift Index: Ocean' for Milton...b/ the data for that product comes from NOAA NCEI facility in Asheville, NC, which was severely affected by record flooding spawned by Hurricane Helene two weeks ago."

~ David Kurtz

#hurricane #Milton #Florida #Tampa #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #Republicans
/28

Trump Invokes The Ghastly Racist Trope Of Genetic Inferiority

INSIDE: Brett Kavanaugh ... Viktor Bout ... Elon Musk

(morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"Put simply, Ecofascism is here.

Rather than address climate change as the existential threat it is, the Right will continue to deny its existence while shifting our reality as it takes place in real time. This is the same as financial crises, so-called 'immigration crises,' political crises, cultural crises, you name it."

~ Jared Yates Sexton

#hurricane #Milton #Florida #Tampa #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #Republicans
/29

ECOFASCISM IS HERE

Climate denialism was always leading us to one place: a disaster that would then be capitalized on by the deniers

(jaredyatessexton.substack.com)

Wickergaanks regretfully

@wdlindsy No. This is dangerous pap. Eco fascists are openly aware of climate change (and pollution etc) and strike a populist pose to offer oversimplified solutions that the ignorant will think sound good but has little benefit and lays the hidden burden on the underprivileged, specifically the non-white in poor countries.

Osteopenia Powers 4 HarrisWalz

@wdlindsy
Days after the other hurricane, he insisted no one could ever have predicted, I can’t wait for Tangerine Palpatine to say that no one could ever have predicted this one too!

Cavyherd

@wdlindsy

..."we hope"

Kent Ray Willard

@wdlindsy
Homer: Oh Lisa! There's no record of a hurricane ever hitting Springfield.
Lisa: Yes, but the records only go back to 1978 when the Hall of Records was mysteriously blown away.

William Lindsey :toad:

"One of the jarring developments of the past few weeks of the campaign has been the sight of Republican officials begging their own to stop spreading lies that will directly harm the communities over which they preside."

~ Jonathan Weiler

#hurricane #Milton #Florida #Tampa #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Trump #Republicans #lies #disinformation #Republicans
/30

The pathological endgame

The hurricane of disinformation threatens to consume everyone in its path

(jonathanweiler.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

@kentwillard I've just seen on social media the most astonishing lisst of reasons why we should all understand that "they" — the Democrats, and Biden and Harris, in particular — are "controlling" the weather right now. People's willingness to take flight from reality, sanity, reason, logic, facts, and truth right now is astonishing and frightening.

William Lindsey :toad:

@cavyherd Yes, good caveat, for sure.