“As you press those tight paper folds together in an attempt to make one indignant lip”...

Let’s see here... Break the law and loot a food/water source for food/water *OR* wait/starve/dehydrate whilst waiting for a handout that in all likelihood will not come on time? Katrina proved that no matter how prepared/unprepared a government might be, it is never anywhere near good enough. Harvey appears to be more…

Like old Toohotformilk there, I’ve also lived through plenty of hurricanes. When you’ve been through enough, you stop worrying about them and you don’t prepare like it’s your first time - you get some water and plywood the windows and hunker down. My dad, who’s in his 70's and has ridden out every hurricane that’s…

For real. Yesterday someone on MSNBC was talking to a man from the national guard, they were broadcasting the call. The reporter asked if the national guard guy had any important messages to convey- his answer was, “DON’T SHOOT. If people are in stores taking food and supplies, they are in survival mode, and we’re…

Horseshit like this is why people hate libertarians.

You must have large, muscular forearms, what from pulling up so hard on those bootstraps of yours.

Yeah, please fuck off forever. I’ve lived through catastrophic natural disasters. People need to eat and drink clean water. Christ, go jerk yourself off with Atlas Shrugged again, you wretched piece of shit.

people who did not prepare, buy supplies in advance, or evacuate

We probably should not be humoring your idiocy, but what exactly is the supermarket going to do with those goods? Are they going to sell old bread and milk when they reopen after the flood?

And it’s not like the store’s insurance is going to do anything but total the entire contents of the store rather than nickel and diming, looking for every can of tomato sauce and copy of In Style that can still be sold.

so let’s divert emergency resources from rescuing people to arresting people for trying to feed themselves.

If I owned the supermarket I would have insurance and I wouldn’t sell flood damaged food. What if you didn’t have the means to evacuate or prepare enough supplies for the storm?

Yes, it is okay that victims of one of the worst flooding disasters in the nation’s history are finding food and water where they can. If I’m the owner of that supermarket, I’m not going to whine about a few thousand dollars worth of staples coming off the shelf. That’s probably why I have insurance.

Holy crap is this a nuclear take. Does it occur to you, oh paragon of the Free Market, that a supermarket has already written off its entire stock? If the power’s out for as long as it has been the entire damn inventory is no longer able to be sold, it would be thrown out either way. But hey someone somewhere is…

Isn’t he the same guy who, on 9/11, called the NYC Dept of Buildings to report that some WTC employees were exiting the building without swiping their badges on the way out?

Go directly to hell, you absolute nightmare of a person.

I feel like the cops / coast guard should’ve gone “yeah, people desperate for clean water and food during a natural catastrophe will do that,” and then hung up.

Yup, wouldn’t want people you know, trying to FUCKING SURVIVE during a national disaster.

We as a society really need to get over the idea that there are two equal sides to every story. No, we don’t need to have a “dialog” about everything. The world is round, climate change is happening, humans are a product of evolution by natural selection, and racism is wrong. Period. When you treat these people like…