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by YankeeTarheel
Now is the time for Ron DeSantis to put up or shut up! With Ian on the brink of a Cat 5 hurricane, I'm well aware of what a Cat 5 can do. Our 2nd home, Abaco, Bahamas, is STILL rebuilding 3 years after Cat 5 Dorian hit and stalled on 1 Sep 2019. Our main town, Marsh Harbour, looked like pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after we nuked them, flat.
Just think how many families DeSantis could have helped with the $12 million he wasted on his stunt of flying 50 refugees from Texas to Martha's Vineyard. Allotting just $50,000 per family post storm would help 240 families recover. He just told people in the path of this almost-Cat5 storm that it was too late to evacuate--why weren't they already evacuated? A lot of people are going to die as a result. Was he too busy running against Trump and Abbott for the White House in 2024?
Or will he finally be like Chris Christie in front of SuperStorm Sandy in 2012--for 2 weeks out of the 416 weeks he was governor, he was magnificent. For the other 414 weeks he was a miserable, dreadful, often absentee governor, but those 2 weeks won him re-election ins 2013 (and, no, I didn't vote for him--he was a total fuckup for the other 206 weeks of his first term--did SO much damage to The Garden State.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."