Better idea:

Not entirely topical, but I will use any excuse to post the greatest Kinja comment I know of

☐ Mayweather

You know what? I’m usually pretty civil here, but my mother and sister are both in the Houston area right now. Both voted straight D in the last election, and definitely believe in global warming.

True but voter suppression does.

Can you not right now? Texas is a purple state that goes red because it’s gerrymandered to hell and back. It’s also home to Houston, the most diverse major city in the country, which is also getting hit the hardest.

Jesus. I’m glad they were rescued. That is awful.

Jesus. Very happy to hear they’re safe. Though I do enjoy how casual that woman in the La-Z-Boy is.

This is the worst pic I’ve seen come across my FB feed. Fortunately, they have reportedly been rescued.

Screenshots from local news...

“FEMA’s going to be there for years” FEMA director Brock Long told CNN this morning.

Well, that’s the thing! So many snarky comments about people :”refusing to leave,” when, unless you have a car, gas money, and are excused from work, you CAN’T LEAVE. But if they declare mandatory evacuations, the State or City has to pay to bus people out, no matter how poor or brown they are. Hence the lack f…

In fairness (AND Belive me I don’t want to be fair) Trump did get someone nominated and Senate approved in time. But no this was not filled for months. But it is filled now.

Ted Cruz also wanted to block federal aide to Sandy.

And all but one with constituencies off the coast: Midland, Waco, Lufkin, suburban Dallas, Lubbock, Amarillo, rural West Texas. Only Randy Weber has a district on the coast (the area hit by Ike in 2008), but he assumed office after that, and since Republicans have the memory of a gnat and no capability for shame...

Oh look! All Republicans! What a shock.

8 Texas congressmen (R, Duh!) voted against hurricane Sandy relief when it hit New Jersey back in ‘12.

I will probably be headed down there in a week for disaster relief. But I want to post this excerpt from Newsweek and Bob Reich (in 2015!), which encapsulates my feelings entirely:

If this had hit 50 miles further down the coast a town of nearly 350,000 might be underwater, with an incompetent, uninterested dumbfuck and his lightly-staffed agencies manning the federal response. Austin’s getting buffeted by tropical storm-force winds now with 4 inches of rain, could be 15 by early next week.