A probably vain offer/plea for MAGA and MAGA Fluid decency post Milton
If you don't spread lies/conspiracies to exploit human suffering for your own benefit and/or fun, then I won't ... Well, I would never do that anyway; so I have no leverage. Good luck to us all.
The worst part about a potentially Florida future-altering direct hit on Tampa Bay and the 8 million people of the I-4 Corridor bearing down us is a potentially Florida future-altering direct hit on Tampa Bay and the 8 million people of the I-4 Corridor bearing down on us.
But the unpleasant dreariness of waiting is made grosser by the likely inevitability of predictable, deeply cynical post-storm MAGA and MAGA Fluid lying and nonsense, as we’ve seen with Helene.
I know it’s pointless to say it, MAGAs and MAGA Fluids; but this isn’t a game.
Maybe, if I publicly shame you about it in advance, you’ll behave yourselves and prove me wrong and we can just work together. Pre-emption can be effective. We’ll see. And I love for my dark anticipations to be proven wrong.
Good luck to all, even the folks who claim we libs control the weather and FEMA hates GOPers — or something.
For decent folks out there, I know that living in good faith with people who hate sharing a community with the idea of you so much that they’ll indulge the idea that you control the weather and seek to harm them with it — and then ignore them afterward — is daunting. But we decent people don’t have any other choice. And remember, that pathology is their pathology, not yours.
You’ve done nothing to justify it. It’s not on you; it’s on them. And the actual you, they actually hate less, which is something, at least. And of course, there are plenty of decent people who won’t don’t hate anybody or any idea enough to do all this …
Note how casually Elon just says oh never mind; all life is a game to him:
Buttigieg told MSNBC that some of the confusion on X stemmed from Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs), a move by the Federal Aviation Administration to ensure safety for aircraft conducting Hurricane Helene rescue and recovery activities.
Buttigieg said, however, he and Musk managed to get to the bottom of what was happening, and sort out problems for pilots helping to get Starlink equipment to disaster-hit areas.
"We were able to take care of it," Buttigieg said. "And, I think, to me it's an example of how often the best thing to do is just to pick up the phone."
Later on Friday, Musk had a more positive tone while replying to a post from Buttigieg on X about the government delivering additional emergency relief to South Carolina.
Musk said, "Thanks for expediting approval for support flights. Just wanted to note that Sec Buttigieg is on the ball."
There’s so much more. But you get the point. And I will not waste any time or effort debunking anything post-storm. I’m getting it out of the way now. I’ll just refer back to this as needed.
Here’s hoping the better angels win out in the coming days. See you on the other side.
Ah yes, now MTG says that "liberals" control the weather. Wasn't it last year or the year before that it was Jewish Space Lazers that caused wildfires? Schizophrenics do have weird reasoning patterns.
You are correct. See how much more PRODUCTIVE a civil conversation between Musk and Buttigieg was than all this overheated political rhetoric. PROPS to Buttigieg for calling Musk up and talking about the situation. You are also correct that Musk should have called him first before going OFF with his own rhetoric. BUT I'll tell you from personal experience the LEFT is VERY MUCH guilty of engaging in this very same overheated rhetoric and may be worse. I get cussed out by both the right and the left quite a bit, so I'm familiar with the rhetoric on both sides. We have both been guilty of it ourselves, but in the end, we've also both shown ourselves willing to dialogue. Again big props to Buttigieg for picking up the phone. A rare skill these days.