“BATON ROUGE, LA—As punishing wind and rain from the former Hurricane Harvey made landfall, government officials urged Louisiana residents Wednesday to evacuate dangerous lower income brackets. “Given the extent of the potential destruction, we urge anyone in the path of the storm to make their way to higher median…
An internet friend* of mine is in Florida. She’s not evacuating because a)she’s not in an evac area and b)she can’t afford to. Her family is in Canada. (Yes, she moved from Canada to Florida. Her husband is worth it.)
Please, please, dismiss the trolls, people.
A lot of poor people (who are usually black or brown) live in areas called food deserts, where most stores are convenience stores or little markets with few healthy options. When you can get a burger and fries for $3 but a salad is $7, it’s obvious they’ll go for the burger meal. Crap is cheap and healthy food not so…
Over the past few days, the Pasco county and Flagler county have been using prisoners to fill sandbags.
I am always pissed off when people are all “Why didn’t they just leave?” Well, let me tell you as someone who could have been in that position. Where are you going to go? You don’t have a car...you rely on public transportation...whoops..that’s stopped running. Maybe you have relatives that can come get you, but…
me @all of the Obamas:
It’s almost like this would be a job for the US Military but hey, guess you got to fill your bizarre urge for slave labour somehow.
That little baby saying “Barack Obama” in the last video has me in tears. I miss this President so much.
Those videos are adorable. It’s so nice to see how happy and excited the kids are. Obama just radiates joy, light and positivity. While, he should not be named, is a black hole. I would love to meet him.
I read an article, I can’t remember the name of the magazine, that was about the houses that the super rich build, or remodel. One family turned a lovely farmer house (think Green Gables) into a giant monstrosity that was so large they incorporated the silo into the house, and made a lego room for the children in the…
Yeah this is like the second place I’m going with my torch and pitchfork when the revolution comes.
Dinner. party. house. God damn it, i hate these people.
the funny thing is that the super wealthy don’t realize the rest of us are laughing at them. I guarantee their Latina maids are making really witty trenchant comments about them at home to their Dreamer kids.
It’s tasteless and horrible. Just like Betsy and the whole DeVos family.
With any luck though we’ll still get Mar-a-Lago.
yeah, but enough about her odd magneto/scarlet witch cosplay outfit...
I’ve been to the DeVos’ “entertaining condo” in Grand Rapids, a luxury, two story PH owned just for throwing parties (I was naive enough at first to think it was their son’s actual home). The Libertarian adopted “Don’t Tread on Me” flag flies off the balcony, and I wondered, “how could anyone, ever, possibly trample…