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

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The biggest problem we have is nuclear warming not global warming. And the nuclear people can't have the nuclear. Nuclear is the power. You know I rebuilt our entire nuclear force and our nuclear is the best in the world and Russia's right behind us"

~ Donald J. Trump in an interview with Hugh Hewitt (I'm not linking: go to HughHewitt dot com if you want to read)

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/26

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Tribune Sad. And on the mark, sad to say. Thanks.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Republicans who voted against FEMA funding, from Kamala 2024

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/27

Meteorologist breaks down in tears over monster hurricane Milton: "This is horrific. It's an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane."

"You know what's driving this. I don't need to tell you. Global warming, climate change is leading to this and becoming an increasing threat."

(kamala2024.substack.com)

[mbwood@toad.social]

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

[kathylk@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy

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.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@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!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mbwood Indeed. Thanks for noting that.

[kathylk@universeodon.com]

@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@universeodon.com]

@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@mastodon-belgium.be]

@wdlindsy An idiot with too much money…

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TomDB For sure.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

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

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@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.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

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

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"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

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/28

Trump Invokes The Ghastly Racist Trope Of Genetic Inferiority

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

(morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"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

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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)

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@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@newsie.social]

@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@wandering.shop]

@wdlindsy

..."we hope"

[kentwillard@zirk.us]

@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.