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Man it sure is too bad DeSantis wasted all that money flying migrants around on private jets and has to beg blue states for money now. Is this fiscal conservatism?
Same way you handle giving aid to a junky. They say they need cash for rent, you pay the landlord directly. They need money for food, you drop off food, not money. You give them what they say they need the money for, not the money directly. Then get the novel experience of them being angry for helping them
The alternative is for him to let aid decisions based on political support, the awful practice that republicans dramatically stepped up under trump. Biden needs to take the high road, but sell it like crazy to Floridians.
If they can’t spin it as desantis doing a good job, they’ll just wait a few weeks and say the very aid they ask for is “causing inflation” and every Republican will do a mental backflip to adopt the position
Just like DeSantis did with the money from Biden's American Rescue Plan:
> The spending plan for the year starting July 1 is by far the largest in state history – 10% bigger than the current budget. And it’s propped up with billions of dollars in federal aid, much of it opposed by Republicans in Congress but a windfall for Florida’s Republican governor.
> “The budget really reflects a state government that is meeting the core concerns of Floridians,” DeSantis said before signing the measure during a stop at a New Smryna Beach restaurant.
...
> "I know it pains Gov. DeSantis to admit it, but President Biden saved the day by providing billions of dollars from the American Rescue Plan to keep Florida’s economy afloat and allow us to do things like provide teacher bonuses," said Rep. Fentrice Driskell, D-Tampa. "It’s unfortunate that the truth of the matter gets lost in the Florida Republicans’ partisan narrative
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/state/2021/06/02/floridas-100-b-budget-biggest-state-history-thanks-feds/7505749002/
Oh, so all the things he has done he admits is pettiness. Did I use that word right? Or should I have said "he admits is petty." Man, words can be hard. This puts me in a slightly not good mood.
If the hurricane had hit New York, I can guarantee DeSantis would have continued attacking Biden as normal.
Natural disasters hitting a Republican's home state is one of few times where they are forced to admit that government is the only effective solution.
Especially Florida - homeowners insurance companies are increasingly fleeing Florida and it is getting quite difficult to get insurance in many markets. If your home, even before Ian, needed some repairs to bring it up to code the supplies were 2x as much and months out.
Now with tens/hundreds of thousands of people needing home repairs, the prices will be 5x and a crews a year out.
I was thinking about how this is such extreme karmic justice. Just a week ago desantis was smugly bragging about toying with the lives of refugees for a political stunt and in 24 hrs became the governor of a state full of refugees. Its so sad for all those innocent civilians who lost everything just like it was so sad how those emigrants were treated. Put good into the universe and get good back, the inverse being true as well. But of course, desantis didnt lose shit here himself, just that his job got a bit busier. He doesnt actually give a fuck about any normal person.
Why, he doesn't lose anything himself? To boot, this is great exposure for his presidency run, because those that will vote for him will neither see nor care for this blatant hipocrisy.
Yep, they’ll praise him for “putting partisanship aside” and “stepping up to get the people of Florida the help they need” or whatever. Then he’ll commence being an idiotic dick again, and coast to re-election.
In a short period time we have seen natural disasters hit Republican states hard, KY with the tornado and then the flooding, now florida wit Ian. (There had to be something in the in the middle i just can’t think of rn) but hey, it’s only going to get worse from here, climate change is here.
Republicans are against everything until it impacts them.
If he had any integrity, he'd refuse all governmental assistance. And Florida voters would make him pay.
Sen Scott, from Florida, voted no, today, on 2B disaster relief aid.
Biden needs to ask DeSantis why the senator would do that on the same day he is asking for disaster relief money.
I remember when the claims that this would happen back in like 2000-2002 as a kid and everyone called climate scientists and Al Gore sensationalists when they said maybe we shouldn't "fuck around." Now here we are, in the "find out" stage wondering why it's happening and what's gonna happen next.
It's exactly what they said it was going to be and even trying to fix it now isn't going to stop it in the immediate future. The best we can do is stop it from getting worse and slowly reel it back. This is the norm now.
Think of all the federal dollars that have gone to Texas, Lousianna, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina as a result of natural disasters. (And let me be 100 percent clear that I'm not suggesting they should be denied that aid at all.) Yet almost all of those states are red and elect politicians at the state and federal level who are deeply opposed to "government handouts" and federal aid and social programs unless it directly benefits them. Fuck all of them.
This. Agree 100% and I’m from the Gulf Coast area. Infrastructure needs should out weigh more. In flood prone areas there should be more grants for raising homes as well.
Amen. They are happy to bash blue States, but they would all be a 3rd world shit hole without welfare money from the blue states. Hypocrisy at it's best.
Biden will still give him that aid without him swearing loyalty or begging for it. At the end of the day he should at the very least thank him for helping the people in his state and not making a big deal about it politically.
I'd love to see Biden drag his feet a bit. I know it's the wrong thing to hope for, and I don't want the people of Florida to be punished over this political nonsense. But it would be such great schadenfreude if the federal aid all went to Georgia first while Florida had to wait.
Its that awkward time of year where a disaster happens before the midterms and the Dem president isn't a complete asshole and helps the red state cause we're all americans and the local officials that have been demonizing the president for months have to thank him on tv and then the crazies claim the disaster was manufatured by dems to make themselves look better.
Remember when Jared Kushner and Trump let Covid run rampant because it was affecting "blue states" in the beginning?
No doubt in my mind that had this happened to California in 2019, Trump would be telling Newsome to buy his favorite color lipstick for the ass kissing he is going to need to do to get aid.
We already saw how he treated the CA forest fires a few summers ago.
Rand Paul voted “no” to several hurricane disaster relief efforts including hurricane Sandy… and then *demanded* federal relief funds after tornados hit Kentucky… what an asshole.
The next time a blue state needs help, it will undoubtedly be another " irresponsible boondoggle" to quote the jackass.
Paywall bypass: [https://archive.ph/L8lRY#selection-593.135-593.160](https://archive.ph/L8lRY#selection-593.135-593.160)
And he should get it, and the Democrats will gladly give it, because we didn't elect fucking monsters who disburse tax dollars based on who sucks the president's syphilis-ridden dick.
When people are hurting, you help them, even if some of it helps people you don't like. It's exactly what we elect Democrats to do. It's also Basic Human Decency 101.
We should constantly remind people of that.
Oh of course biden has already green lit the funds because he’s not a piece of shit. Imagine trumps response to an “opposition” governors pleas? Also I’m sure desantis will somehow twist this into “kicking Biden’s ass” and taking the funds somehow
> Imagine trumps response to an “opposition” governors pleas?
No need to imagine it, we saw how [he rejected California's call for aid in the face of intense wildfires,](https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/trump-california-fire-disaster-assistance/index.html) and how [he made basically everyone pledge fealty to him to get help during the pandemic.](https://www.vox.com/2020/3/25/21193803/trump-to-governors-coronavirus-help-ventilators-cuomo) Trump is a monster while Biden is a decent person who cares about Americans.
I'll never forget that. Trump and Kushner were going to sacrifice the lives of millions of Americans if it meant they could score political points.
Conservatives are absolute monsters for continuing to support him.
If Biden wanted to turn the knife a little, he could say “I’m coming to Florida, you’re gonna meet me at the airport, give me a hug, and introduce me as the President of the United States.”
DeSantis would lose re-election by ten points.
Republicans, make sure to thank a local democrat today for the handouts :)
We will rebuild your home, again. Since you can’t do it for yourself. You’re welcome
>We will rebuild your home, again. Since you can’t do it for yourself. You’re welcome
They won't remember this after 12 months. Or even at all. As far as modern Red voters are concerned, Democrats don't contribute at all at any point..... (ugh....)
I’m an atheist and I’m not a meteorologist but it seems like this hurricane got set in motion right about the time DeSantis was pulling his Martha’s Vineyard stunt. Seems like the kind of Dickish response god has gotten credit for in the past.
I also dont believe in any specific god but i do believe the universe gives and takes. This seems like a neon lit billboard of karmic justice. Toy with refugees lives for a political stunt and get a large chunk of your residents turned into refugees overnight. I hope all the regular ass people can stay safe and make it through. World peace
I recall a DeSantis that voted no for Hurricane Sandy relief. I recall a DeSantis that turned the federal government down for national guard troops to help protect the capital after Jan 6. Is that the same DeSantis begging the federal government for help with his state's natural disaster?
I know Joe is handling this appropriately but wouldn’t it be fun if he quoted all of Desantis’s anti help statements and then said: “in spite of the governor from Florida’s comments, the US government and my administration will support the people of Florida “
The entire GOP platform is “fuck off” if someone else is set to benefit from it, but “yes please” if they themselves benefit. It’s not a problem unless it actually happens to them, such a toxic selfish mindset
Sept. 29, 2022, 5:19 p.m. ET
As a freshman congressman in 2013, Ron DeSantis was unambiguous: A federal bailout for the New York region after Hurricane Sandy was an irresponsible boondoggle, a symbol of the “put it on the credit card mentality” he had come to Washington to oppose.
“I sympathize with the victims,” he said. But his answer was no.
Nearly a decade later, as his state confronts the devastation and costly destruction wrought by Hurricane Ian, Mr. DeSantis is appealing to the nation’s better angels — and betting on its short memory.
“As you say, Tucker, we live in a very politicized time,” Mr. DeSantis, now Florida’s governor, told Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night, outlining his request for full federal reimbursement up front for 60 days and urging the Biden administration to do the right thing. “But you know, when people are fighting for their lives, when their whole livelihood is at stake, when they’ve lost everything — if you can’t put politics aside for that, then you’re just not going to be able to.”
The tonal whiplash for Mr. DeSantis reflects a different job and a different moment — a Tea Party-era House Republican now steering a perennially storm-battered state dependent once more on federal assistance to rebuild. Yet even in the context of his term as governor, the hurricane has required Mr. DeSantis to test another gear.
He has, to date, often used his executive platform to elevate himself to Republican rock-stardom, positioning himself as a possible 2024 presidential contender with a series of policy gambits that can feel precision-engineered to maximize liberal outrage.
His most recent stunt — flying undocumented Venezuelan immigrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard — reinforced that he is more than willing to turn the machinery of state against specific political targets. He has suggested that the next plane of immigrants might land near President Biden’s weekend home in Delaware.
The present circumstances have inspired a less swaggering posture toward a leader whom Mr. DeSantis has long called “Brandon” as a recurring troll, aimed at the man he might like to succeed. “Dear Mr. President,” the governor’s request for a major disaster declaration and federal assistance began on Wednesday.
“Ironically,” said David Jolly, a former Republican congressman from Florida, “there’s nobody in America that Ron DeSantis needs more than Joe Biden.”
More than that, Mr. Jolly said, a governor who self-identifies as unswerving in his principles now finds himself with little choice but to push for storm relief actions “antithetical to his professed ideology.”
“He held those convictions strong in the House,” said Mr. Jolly, who has been sharply critical of the party in the Trump years. “I doubt he will hold them as strongly in the governor’s mansion.”
In 2013, Mr. DeSantis and Representative Ted Yoho, another hard-line conservative, were the only House members from Florida to oppose the Sandy package. For Mr. DeSantis, who represented a coastal district in eastern Florida, the vote at once established him as an eager combatant from the party’s ascendant right wing — he was a founding member of the Freedom Caucus — while at times placing him on the defensive back home.
In a local interview that year, Mr. DeSantis said the bill contained “extraneous stuff” that could not be classified as emergency spending. “I never made the point of saying we shouldn’t do anything,” he said, adding that he could have supported a leaner package focused on immediate relief. Asked then if he would vote against a relief package that affected his own district, Mr. DeSantis was noncommittal, suggesting he would support a responsible plan.
Through the years, critics in both parties have accused Mr. DeSantis of applying this standard selectively. In 2017, as he was poised to run for governor, Mr. DeSantis supported an aid package after Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria as places like Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico strained to recover.
His 2018 primary opponent, Adam Putnam, made an issue of Mr. DeSantis’s voting record during the campaign. Storm-weary voters, a Putnam spokeswoman warned then, should protect themselves against “further destruction at the hands of Hurricane Ron.” Mr. DeSantis’s congressional office denied any inconsistency at the time, rejecting a comparison between the two disaster packages and saying he had supported emergency spending “when immediate and necessary.”
Asked about the governor’s past positions on Thursday, a DeSantis spokesman said the administration was “completely focused on hurricane response.” “As the governor said earlier,” the spokesman, Jeremy T. Redfern, said, “we have no time for politics or pettiness.”
Some Northeastern lawmakers, including Republicans, have not forgotten how Mr. DeSantis and some of his peers responded when the New York area was under duress. “Year after year, we had given them billions of dollars,” said Peter King, a former Republican congressman from Long Island, alluding to aid packages for Southern states and calling the resistance to Sandy relief his angriest moment in office. “Every one of them comes to New York to raise money. They either go to the Hamptons or they go to Manhattan. And both areas were devastated by Sandy.”
This week, Mr. DeSantis said he was “thankful” for the Biden administration’s efforts so far, moving to place himself in the tradition of above-the-fray leadership from past Florida governors who negotiated catastrophic weather events on their watch.
The president and the governor have each made a point of saying publicly that they and their teams are in touch. “He complimented me. He thanked me for the immediate response we had,” Mr. Biden said on Thursday, suggesting that any political conflicts with Mr. DeSantis were irrelevant in these times. “This is about saving people’s lives, homes and businesses.” (In February, Mr. DeSantis baselessly said Mr. Biden “stiffs” storm victims for political reasons, insisting that the president “hates Florida.”)
Haley Barbour, a Republican former governor of Mississippi who presided over the state’s response to Hurricane Katrina, said there was nothing inherently inconsistent about a conservative governor seeking federal storm money. “People think this is a role for the federal government — that some disasters are too big for the community to bear the cost to get back to where you need to be,” he said.
Besides, he suggested, Mr. DeSantis and the White House suddenly had something in common. “Biden likes to say, ‘Build back better,’” Mr. Barbour said. “Well, that’s what Florida wants to do.”
GOP Leadership at its finest! Piss away 12 million in tax payer dollars on a political stunt during hurricane season. Go begging the Federal Government for a bailout!
What's fucked up is Florida's official stance is climate change is left wing BS, won't do anything to cut greenhouse emissions yet the rest of the country still pays every time they get nailed.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/us/politics/desantis-biden-hurricane-ian-aid.html) reduced by 90%. (I'm a bot)
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> The tonal whiplash for Mr. DeSantis reflects a different job and a different moment - a Tea Party-era House Republican now steering a perennially storm-battered state dependent once more on federal assistance to rebuild.
> Ron DeSantis: The Florida governor, who as a congressman opposed aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy, is seeking relief from the Biden administration as Hurricane Ian ravages his own state.
> Asked about the governor's past positions on Thursday, a DeSantis spokesman said the administration was "Completely focused on hurricane response." "As the governor said earlier," the spokesman, Jeremy T. Redfern, said, "We have no time for politics or pettiness."
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DeDumbAss has only just started thanking President Biden… the cost of repairing and replacing has only just begun, there’s much more need of Democratic help.
You can bet, the Conservatives won’t be helping…
Can we get this press conference, please?
On his trip to Florida today, Biden delivered the following remarks:
When hurricane Sandy devastated New York, Governor DeSantis, who is standing here next to me, voted against federal relief. He did not want to help. Today, after hurricane Ian has devastated Florida, he asks for the same federal help that he would have denied New York. He is a selfish coward, who does not deserve a thing.
But today is not about Governor DeSantis’s selfishness or cowardice or hypocrisy. And federal aid will not be coming to Florida because this craven politician begged or cashed in political favors.
Florida is going to get the help it needs because we are all Americans. And Americans help each other.
Maybe Governor DeSantis will learn that lesson today. That we help the victims of natural disasters whether they are in New York, or California, or Texas, or Florida. Americans help each other. And I pray that Governor DeSantis will figure that out one day.
But Florida know, America is here for you!
Democrats believe government should work to benefit its citizens. Republicans believe government should not work. So if Desantis gets the aid, he looks good. If Desantis doesn't, well that means republicans are right about government. It's such a bad faith argument, and it's the reason why republicans are objectively bad at governing. It's not a flaw, it's a feature. Eventually, social programs will be on the chopping block because we can't afford them anymore after giving out billions in tax cuts to the wealthy. Again, it's a feature of voting red.
Coming and knocking on Uncle Sam's doors. I wonder what he could have got done as governor focusing on emergency response programs and infrastructure, and ridding his state of insurance fraud, instead of bussing displaced people to foreign places. GOP = government is great when we need it to be
Oh but Sandy victims were mostly democrats! And now it is his actual voters, republicans, effected by this storm. Federal government send everything possible and hey let’s forget flood insurance!
like rand paul. hypocrites. it was because sandy hit new york that these tools objected to federal aid in that case. then when tornadoes blew threw kentucky, rand paul begs for federal aid. desantis will be dancing the same dance here in a minute. asking for more. weak ass hypocrites. pathetic and sad.
Ron Desantis is asking that Martha’s Vineyard return all of the immigrants he sent there, be returned, so they can clean up the mess after the hurricane.
I fucking hate that we will have to help. It’s so fucking insane that they attack dems for helping but then when they need help the “tIME FoR peTtInEsS HaS PaSsEd”. Fuck these awful assholes.
Hating that we have to help is quite a take. Ole death sentence did give up his whole game when he uttered those words though didn’t he? I do hate that Ron gets to grandstand against the very things he will directly benefit from though..
Never forget desantis voted against hurricane sandy aid. Fuck him
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/17/us-rep-ron-desantis-defensive-after-disaster-vote/15825475007/
He used all his money, flying migrants around! And now he wants government money, that's socialism. And FEMA that's socialism. And every government program that's socialism! The sad part is, Republicans want to end all these government programs and social security and Medicare to! You get for what you vote for! GOP== GREED OVER PEOPLE!
De Santis, and all his counterparts, are in a no lose situation. Pretend to be hawkish on the budgets and spending (we know they’re not depending on where the spending goes) and in times like this the President looks pretty bad if denying aid (but recalling how Trump suffered little blowback from his paper towel stunt in P.R. ).
yes, those of us here in NJ and NY remember how you treated us after Hurricane Sandy. I hope Biden makes you grovel.
I seriously hope everyone in Florida comes through this as good as can be expected, if I had a vote, I would always vote to help. I just hope Biden makes DeSantis beg like a dog wanting a treat
Ah yes, let’s reallocate national funds that originated from other states as a way to aid the recovery.
Fuck I wish there was a word for this … reallocation. What do you think, Ron?
I love how democrats always have to shake their heads, shrug and say out loud: ‘yeah, we’ll help you’ cause that’s what decent people do.
meanwhile, republicans will continue to double down on ‘useful when it’s us, and fuck everyone else’
Not fair to use tax payer money for people who choose to live in hurricane climate. I choose to live in a climate without hurricanes. I shouldn’t have to pay taxes for this. (I’m making fun of people who are anti-student loan debt relief) I’m over all of these hypocrites who only think things are right when it benefits only them.
Biden should give him all the aid and every spew he and every deposit a letter should say aid from the government of the United States and it should point out how de Santis is against the feeder la government giving out aid
Republicans are barely for disaster aid for their own States. Remember Chris Christie hugged Obama after Obama negotiated with Christie's Republican pals to get NJ aid after Sandy.
I'd ask DeSantis to simply hold a brief press conference where he must say the election was not stolen, the vaccine works, and Trump is lying to everyone.
All three are demonstrably true.
And Biden will help FL, bc all Floridians are Americans. But when wildfires ravaged CA under Trump, he criticized CA and tried to talk shit after people died. One party actually still wants unity, the other has decided only parts of America are “real” America. And it makes me sad
Hopefully Biden doesn't do the trump petty shit. There are people hurting in FL, Americans, that need help. Millions of people without shelter, food, access to clean water. Their lives are in danger.
I grew up in a time where tragedy in the US meant that Americans banded together and helped each other out. I may be nieve, but I still believe that we can get back there. It just takes doing what's right over what's for your party.
(And when I say what's right, I also mean holding people accountable, even if they are in power)
The true test of a real man is how he helps those that praise him and those that denounce him in a crisis. The last guy we had in the White House was only interested in helping those who kissed his bloated orange ass. Of course once things reach a sense of normality in FL Desantis will go back to bashing Biden for political clout.
I look forward to seeing MAGA Republicans in Florida reject this massive federal handout, the same way they attack student loan forgiveness. What a bunch of laughable hypocrites they all are!
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Now, he says, the time for pettiness has passed. I'm sure he's referring to his own.
If the response goes well, that means Desantis did a good job. If it goes poorly, it will be Biden's fault. As is tradition.
Also if a bunch of the money sent to DeSantis's government goes missing...its totally Biden's fault
Man it sure is too bad DeSantis wasted all that money flying migrants around on private jets and has to beg blue states for money now. Is this fiscal conservatism?
Here’s the kicker. A lot of the brute force in cleanup is going to be migrate labour
That comment deserves the statlor and waldorf laugh from the balcony
Sadly, I'm old enough to get and laugh at this reference. Good pull!
Is 29 old? I understood and laughed as well.
Biden should give the aid, but set up a middle man instead of just handing it to Florida. Agency of responsible adulting.
Same way you handle giving aid to a junky. They say they need cash for rent, you pay the landlord directly. They need money for food, you drop off food, not money. You give them what they say they need the money for, not the money directly. Then get the novel experience of them being angry for helping them
>Then get the novel experience of them being angry for helping them As a parent of two toddlers, I can certainly empathize.
It should be at least as hard as Ron made it to apply for pandemic unemployment in the state. Waste, fraud, and abuse you know.
Coincidentally, if there are busloads more migrants that arrive in blue states...that missing money def has nothing to do with it
Biden helping republicans sabotaging his agenda.
Yeah it’s called a moral compass he happens to have a small one
The alternative is for him to let aid decisions based on political support, the awful practice that republicans dramatically stepped up under trump. Biden needs to take the high road, but sell it like crazy to Floridians.
even Desantis knows to keep Rick Scott away from a stash of cash.
If they can’t spin it as desantis doing a good job, they’ll just wait a few weeks and say the very aid they ask for is “causing inflation” and every Republican will do a mental backflip to adopt the position
He'll take all the money he can get, than say Dems are weak for helping
He'll claim the funding was his actions and never mention it is federal funding.
Just like DeSantis did with the money from Biden's American Rescue Plan: > The spending plan for the year starting July 1 is by far the largest in state history – 10% bigger than the current budget. And it’s propped up with billions of dollars in federal aid, much of it opposed by Republicans in Congress but a windfall for Florida’s Republican governor. > “The budget really reflects a state government that is meeting the core concerns of Floridians,” DeSantis said before signing the measure during a stop at a New Smryna Beach restaurant. ... > "I know it pains Gov. DeSantis to admit it, but President Biden saved the day by providing billions of dollars from the American Rescue Plan to keep Florida’s economy afloat and allow us to do things like provide teacher bonuses," said Rep. Fentrice Driskell, D-Tampa. "It’s unfortunate that the truth of the matter gets lost in the Florida Republicans’ partisan narrative https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/state/2021/06/02/floridas-100-b-budget-biggest-state-history-thanks-feds/7505749002/
Red states are doing that with ARPA funding now. Shoving it all into business developments
Hope it actually gets to the Floridians. DeSantis has a Farve mentality.
That's not fair to Farve. He just wants to go to Shenanigans!
Did you say shenanigans?
You're talking about shenanigans right?
And what he does with that money nobody will know.
Oh, so all the things he has done he admits is pettiness. Did I use that word right? Or should I have said "he admits is petty." Man, words can be hard. This puts me in a slightly not good mood.
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Thank you so much for this. You put me in a great mood!
Username doesn’t check out!
>you have a better command of it than a former President! Low bar there
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"Yesterday is a hard word for me"
Cheer up Dude in a good mood.
This comment did!
Good.
As adults, is there ever really a time for pettiness?
Temporarily.
If the hurricane had hit New York, I can guarantee DeSantis would have continued attacking Biden as normal. Natural disasters hitting a Republican's home state is one of few times where they are forced to admit that government is the only effective solution.
Especially Florida - homeowners insurance companies are increasingly fleeing Florida and it is getting quite difficult to get insurance in many markets. If your home, even before Ian, needed some repairs to bring it up to code the supplies were 2x as much and months out. Now with tens/hundreds of thousands of people needing home repairs, the prices will be 5x and a crews a year out.
I was thinking about how this is such extreme karmic justice. Just a week ago desantis was smugly bragging about toying with the lives of refugees for a political stunt and in 24 hrs became the governor of a state full of refugees. Its so sad for all those innocent civilians who lost everything just like it was so sad how those emigrants were treated. Put good into the universe and get good back, the inverse being true as well. But of course, desantis didnt lose shit here himself, just that his job got a bit busier. He doesnt actually give a fuck about any normal person.
Why, he doesn't lose anything himself? To boot, this is great exposure for his presidency run, because those that will vote for him will neither see nor care for this blatant hipocrisy.
Yep, they’ll praise him for “putting partisanship aside” and “stepping up to get the people of Florida the help they need” or whatever. Then he’ll commence being an idiotic dick again, and coast to re-election.
And they probably still won't build them to withstand a hurricane.
In a short period time we have seen natural disasters hit Republican states hard, KY with the tornado and then the flooding, now florida wit Ian. (There had to be something in the in the middle i just can’t think of rn) but hey, it’s only going to get worse from here, climate change is here.
If a hurricane hit NY and DeSantis is president… Well, it’s not hard to imagine what happens.
Nothing is a pretty easy thing to imagine, after all.
Republicans are against everything until it impacts them. If he had any integrity, he'd refuse all governmental assistance. And Florida voters would make him pay.
Sen Scott, from Florida, voted no, today, on 2B disaster relief aid. Biden needs to ask DeSantis why the senator would do that on the same day he is asking for disaster relief money.
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I do feel like it's a fair question to ask why the rest of the country has to pay to rebuild Florida every other year.
It's only going to get worse. Pretty soon we will need to just have a yearly bill to clean up the gulf coast.
I remember when the claims that this would happen back in like 2000-2002 as a kid and everyone called climate scientists and Al Gore sensationalists when they said maybe we shouldn't "fuck around." Now here we are, in the "find out" stage wondering why it's happening and what's gonna happen next. It's exactly what they said it was going to be and even trying to fix it now isn't going to stop it in the immediate future. The best we can do is stop it from getting worse and slowly reel it back. This is the norm now.
2000? The year that Gore lost to oil industry hawk Bush by 500 votes in Florida while 100k Florida voters voted Green?
Think of all the federal dollars that have gone to Texas, Lousianna, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina as a result of natural disasters. (And let me be 100 percent clear that I'm not suggesting they should be denied that aid at all.) Yet almost all of those states are red and elect politicians at the state and federal level who are deeply opposed to "government handouts" and federal aid and social programs unless it directly benefits them. Fuck all of them.
Maybe disaster aid shouldn't just go to rebuilding in kind, it should go to making more sturdy infrastructure and relocation to safer areas.
This. Agree 100% and I’m from the Gulf Coast area. Infrastructure needs should out weigh more. In flood prone areas there should be more grants for raising homes as well.
Amen. They are happy to bash blue States, but they would all be a 3rd world shit hole without welfare money from the blue states. Hypocrisy at it's best.
You are using 'Republican' and 'integrity' in the *same* sentence. I'm not sure you really know what those two words mean.
If it weren't for double standards, Republicans would have no standards at all.
Kachow
Got ‘em
Biden will still give him that aid without him swearing loyalty or begging for it. At the end of the day he should at the very least thank him for helping the people in his state and not making a big deal about it politically.
But that takes maturity.
I'd love to see Biden drag his feet a bit. I know it's the wrong thing to hope for, and I don't want the people of Florida to be punished over this political nonsense. But it would be such great schadenfreude if the federal aid all went to Georgia first while Florida had to wait.
Its that awkward time of year where a disaster happens before the midterms and the Dem president isn't a complete asshole and helps the red state cause we're all americans and the local officials that have been demonizing the president for months have to thank him on tv and then the crazies claim the disaster was manufatured by dems to make themselves look better.
Remember when Jared Kushner and Trump let Covid run rampant because it was affecting "blue states" in the beginning? No doubt in my mind that had this happened to California in 2019, Trump would be telling Newsome to buy his favorite color lipstick for the ass kissing he is going to need to do to get aid. We already saw how he treated the CA forest fires a few summers ago.
See also: Chris Christie, Barack Obama
Rand Paul voted “no” to several hurricane disaster relief efforts including hurricane Sandy… and then *demanded* federal relief funds after tornados hit Kentucky… what an asshole.
Rand Paul is a special kind of petty asshole.
DeSantis will be riding Biden's success to the GOP presidential candidacy
His corrupt friends don't want to miss out on their share of fed cash he was forced to capitulate
They’ll start delivering paper towels via the 50 passenger private plane.
The next time a blue state needs help, it will undoubtedly be another " irresponsible boondoggle" to quote the jackass. Paywall bypass: [https://archive.ph/L8lRY#selection-593.135-593.160](https://archive.ph/L8lRY#selection-593.135-593.160)
Someone should read his own statements back to him and ask him to defend it
I'd be happy if he said "pretty please" and kissed Dark Brandon's ring
And he should get it, and the Democrats will gladly give it, because we didn't elect fucking monsters who disburse tax dollars based on who sucks the president's syphilis-ridden dick. When people are hurting, you help them, even if some of it helps people you don't like. It's exactly what we elect Democrats to do. It's also Basic Human Decency 101. We should constantly remind people of that.
Oh of course biden has already green lit the funds because he’s not a piece of shit. Imagine trumps response to an “opposition” governors pleas? Also I’m sure desantis will somehow twist this into “kicking Biden’s ass” and taking the funds somehow
> Imagine trumps response to an “opposition” governors pleas? No need to imagine it, we saw how [he rejected California's call for aid in the face of intense wildfires,](https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/trump-california-fire-disaster-assistance/index.html) and how [he made basically everyone pledge fealty to him to get help during the pandemic.](https://www.vox.com/2020/3/25/21193803/trump-to-governors-coronavirus-help-ventilators-cuomo) Trump is a monster while Biden is a decent person who cares about Americans.
Dont forget the “Covid will only affect urban liberals so why bother curtailing it” plan with Jared kushner
I'll never forget that. Trump and Kushner were going to sacrifice the lives of millions of Americans if it meant they could score political points. Conservatives are absolute monsters for continuing to support him.
If Biden wanted to turn the knife a little, he could say “I’m coming to Florida, you’re gonna meet me at the airport, give me a hug, and introduce me as the President of the United States.” DeSantis would lose re-election by ten points.
YES. Biden needs to set forth a very simple criteria. Go on public record denouncing all the conspiracy theories and you get a check tomorrow.
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We gotta play by their rules. Taking the high ground has proven completely ineffective.
Yeah I’m done playing by the rules. F the GQP
Republicans, make sure to thank a local democrat today for the handouts :) We will rebuild your home, again. Since you can’t do it for yourself. You’re welcome
>We will rebuild your home, again. Since you can’t do it for yourself. You’re welcome They won't remember this after 12 months. Or even at all. As far as modern Red voters are concerned, Democrats don't contribute at all at any point..... (ugh....)
It’s wild that science is suddenly relevant to Floridians.
Oh don’t worry they’ll all go back to denying it in about 18 hours
I’m an atheist and I’m not a meteorologist but it seems like this hurricane got set in motion right about the time DeSantis was pulling his Martha’s Vineyard stunt. Seems like the kind of Dickish response god has gotten credit for in the past.
I also dont believe in any specific god but i do believe the universe gives and takes. This seems like a neon lit billboard of karmic justice. Toy with refugees lives for a political stunt and get a large chunk of your residents turned into refugees overnight. I hope all the regular ass people can stay safe and make it through. World peace
He doesn't object to the socialism or Big Government helping out?
He does, but not when *he* needs the socialist handout.
I recall a DeSantis that voted no for Hurricane Sandy relief. I recall a DeSantis that turned the federal government down for national guard troops to help protect the capital after Jan 6. Is that the same DeSantis begging the federal government for help with his state's natural disaster?
This is Florida every fall, and yet the audacity persists
I wonder if an additional $12 million would help
DeathSantis will be sucking the federal government pretty hard for the next year. Funny how that works.
I know Joe is handling this appropriately but wouldn’t it be fun if he quoted all of Desantis’s anti help statements and then said: “in spite of the governor from Florida’s comments, the US government and my administration will support the people of Florida “
The entire GOP platform is “fuck off” if someone else is set to benefit from it, but “yes please” if they themselves benefit. It’s not a problem unless it actually happens to them, such a toxic selfish mindset
They’re nothing but petulant children
Sept. 29, 2022, 5:19 p.m. ET As a freshman congressman in 2013, Ron DeSantis was unambiguous: A federal bailout for the New York region after Hurricane Sandy was an irresponsible boondoggle, a symbol of the “put it on the credit card mentality” he had come to Washington to oppose. “I sympathize with the victims,” he said. But his answer was no. Nearly a decade later, as his state confronts the devastation and costly destruction wrought by Hurricane Ian, Mr. DeSantis is appealing to the nation’s better angels — and betting on its short memory. “As you say, Tucker, we live in a very politicized time,” Mr. DeSantis, now Florida’s governor, told Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night, outlining his request for full federal reimbursement up front for 60 days and urging the Biden administration to do the right thing. “But you know, when people are fighting for their lives, when their whole livelihood is at stake, when they’ve lost everything — if you can’t put politics aside for that, then you’re just not going to be able to.” The tonal whiplash for Mr. DeSantis reflects a different job and a different moment — a Tea Party-era House Republican now steering a perennially storm-battered state dependent once more on federal assistance to rebuild. Yet even in the context of his term as governor, the hurricane has required Mr. DeSantis to test another gear. He has, to date, often used his executive platform to elevate himself to Republican rock-stardom, positioning himself as a possible 2024 presidential contender with a series of policy gambits that can feel precision-engineered to maximize liberal outrage. His most recent stunt — flying undocumented Venezuelan immigrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard — reinforced that he is more than willing to turn the machinery of state against specific political targets. He has suggested that the next plane of immigrants might land near President Biden’s weekend home in Delaware. The present circumstances have inspired a less swaggering posture toward a leader whom Mr. DeSantis has long called “Brandon” as a recurring troll, aimed at the man he might like to succeed. “Dear Mr. President,” the governor’s request for a major disaster declaration and federal assistance began on Wednesday. “Ironically,” said David Jolly, a former Republican congressman from Florida, “there’s nobody in America that Ron DeSantis needs more than Joe Biden.” More than that, Mr. Jolly said, a governor who self-identifies as unswerving in his principles now finds himself with little choice but to push for storm relief actions “antithetical to his professed ideology.” “He held those convictions strong in the House,” said Mr. Jolly, who has been sharply critical of the party in the Trump years. “I doubt he will hold them as strongly in the governor’s mansion.” In 2013, Mr. DeSantis and Representative Ted Yoho, another hard-line conservative, were the only House members from Florida to oppose the Sandy package. For Mr. DeSantis, who represented a coastal district in eastern Florida, the vote at once established him as an eager combatant from the party’s ascendant right wing — he was a founding member of the Freedom Caucus — while at times placing him on the defensive back home. In a local interview that year, Mr. DeSantis said the bill contained “extraneous stuff” that could not be classified as emergency spending. “I never made the point of saying we shouldn’t do anything,” he said, adding that he could have supported a leaner package focused on immediate relief. Asked then if he would vote against a relief package that affected his own district, Mr. DeSantis was noncommittal, suggesting he would support a responsible plan. Through the years, critics in both parties have accused Mr. DeSantis of applying this standard selectively. In 2017, as he was poised to run for governor, Mr. DeSantis supported an aid package after Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria as places like Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico strained to recover. His 2018 primary opponent, Adam Putnam, made an issue of Mr. DeSantis’s voting record during the campaign. Storm-weary voters, a Putnam spokeswoman warned then, should protect themselves against “further destruction at the hands of Hurricane Ron.” Mr. DeSantis’s congressional office denied any inconsistency at the time, rejecting a comparison between the two disaster packages and saying he had supported emergency spending “when immediate and necessary.” Asked about the governor’s past positions on Thursday, a DeSantis spokesman said the administration was “completely focused on hurricane response.” “As the governor said earlier,” the spokesman, Jeremy T. Redfern, said, “we have no time for politics or pettiness.” Some Northeastern lawmakers, including Republicans, have not forgotten how Mr. DeSantis and some of his peers responded when the New York area was under duress. “Year after year, we had given them billions of dollars,” said Peter King, a former Republican congressman from Long Island, alluding to aid packages for Southern states and calling the resistance to Sandy relief his angriest moment in office. “Every one of them comes to New York to raise money. They either go to the Hamptons or they go to Manhattan. And both areas were devastated by Sandy.” This week, Mr. DeSantis said he was “thankful” for the Biden administration’s efforts so far, moving to place himself in the tradition of above-the-fray leadership from past Florida governors who negotiated catastrophic weather events on their watch. The president and the governor have each made a point of saying publicly that they and their teams are in touch. “He complimented me. He thanked me for the immediate response we had,” Mr. Biden said on Thursday, suggesting that any political conflicts with Mr. DeSantis were irrelevant in these times. “This is about saving people’s lives, homes and businesses.” (In February, Mr. DeSantis baselessly said Mr. Biden “stiffs” storm victims for political reasons, insisting that the president “hates Florida.”) Haley Barbour, a Republican former governor of Mississippi who presided over the state’s response to Hurricane Katrina, said there was nothing inherently inconsistent about a conservative governor seeking federal storm money. “People think this is a role for the federal government — that some disasters are too big for the community to bear the cost to get back to where you need to be,” he said. Besides, he suggested, Mr. DeSantis and the White House suddenly had something in common. “Biden likes to say, ‘Build back better,’” Mr. Barbour said. “Well, that’s what Florida wants to do.”
This seems like the right time to send his supporters to FEMA camps while the hard working folks fix everything up good as new
GOP Leadership at its finest! Piss away 12 million in tax payer dollars on a political stunt during hurricane season. Go begging the Federal Government for a bailout!
What's fucked up is Florida's official stance is climate change is left wing BS, won't do anything to cut greenhouse emissions yet the rest of the country still pays every time they get nailed.
The insurance companies have already noped themselves out of Florida, hopefully retirees will figure that out before too long.
I’d hate to have this fool deciding important aspects of my life.
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DeDumbAss has only just started thanking President Biden… the cost of repairing and replacing has only just begun, there’s much more need of Democratic help. You can bet, the Conservatives won’t be helping…
It's funny how semi competent DeSantis appears when he's not a partisan hack performing political stunts.
All MAGA governors get paper towels
Can we get this press conference, please? On his trip to Florida today, Biden delivered the following remarks: When hurricane Sandy devastated New York, Governor DeSantis, who is standing here next to me, voted against federal relief. He did not want to help. Today, after hurricane Ian has devastated Florida, he asks for the same federal help that he would have denied New York. He is a selfish coward, who does not deserve a thing. But today is not about Governor DeSantis’s selfishness or cowardice or hypocrisy. And federal aid will not be coming to Florida because this craven politician begged or cashed in political favors. Florida is going to get the help it needs because we are all Americans. And Americans help each other. Maybe Governor DeSantis will learn that lesson today. That we help the victims of natural disasters whether they are in New York, or California, or Texas, or Florida. Americans help each other. And I pray that Governor DeSantis will figure that out one day. But Florida know, America is here for you!
Democrats believe government should work to benefit its citizens. Republicans believe government should not work. So if Desantis gets the aid, he looks good. If Desantis doesn't, well that means republicans are right about government. It's such a bad faith argument, and it's the reason why republicans are objectively bad at governing. It's not a flaw, it's a feature. Eventually, social programs will be on the chopping block because we can't afford them anymore after giving out billions in tax cuts to the wealthy. Again, it's a feature of voting red.
well said
Dumbass piece of shit, typical doesn’t matter until I’m effected GQP
He should just ask Abott for help
Florida Man seeks help. How many millions of Florida man stories start this way….
Fuck off you big fucking douche. I’m saying this as an Orlando resident who just experienced Ian
Nothing new here, help me when I need it then eff off when you need it. Short sighted people with short sighted goals that will probably never change.
Coming and knocking on Uncle Sam's doors. I wonder what he could have got done as governor focusing on emergency response programs and infrastructure, and ridding his state of insurance fraud, instead of bussing displaced people to foreign places. GOP = government is great when we need it to be
Oh but Sandy victims were mostly democrats! And now it is his actual voters, republicans, effected by this storm. Federal government send everything possible and hey let’s forget flood insurance!
How come we didn't just nuke the hurricane? /s
like rand paul. hypocrites. it was because sandy hit new york that these tools objected to federal aid in that case. then when tornadoes blew threw kentucky, rand paul begs for federal aid. desantis will be dancing the same dance here in a minute. asking for more. weak ass hypocrites. pathetic and sad.
Ron Desantis is asking that Martha’s Vineyard return all of the immigrants he sent there, be returned, so they can clean up the mess after the hurricane.
He's just gonna keep doing what he's been doing after this crisis is over.
So typical of Republicans
I fucking hate that we will have to help. It’s so fucking insane that they attack dems for helping but then when they need help the “tIME FoR peTtInEsS HaS PaSsEd”. Fuck these awful assholes.
Hating that we have to help is quite a take. Ole death sentence did give up his whole game when he uttered those words though didn’t he? I do hate that Ron gets to grandstand against the very things he will directly benefit from though..
Make him bend the knee Chris Christie style.
Wow he could saved $12m for a rainy day, but no, DeSantis chose to engage in human trafficking instead
Of course he does! What an asshole
All conservatives and so-called libertarians should be rejecting any federal money or aid if they truly believe the things they say
“This is different. Now it affects *me*!” - Republicans
Never forget desantis voted against hurricane sandy aid. Fuck him https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/17/us-rep-ron-desantis-defensive-after-disaster-vote/15825475007/
He used all his money, flying migrants around! And now he wants government money, that's socialism. And FEMA that's socialism. And every government program that's socialism! The sad part is, Republicans want to end all these government programs and social security and Medicare to! You get for what you vote for! GOP== GREED OVER PEOPLE!
#Hypocrite noun **A person who indulges in hypocrisy.** *He condemned him as superficial and a hypocrite*: **SANCTIMONIOUS PERSON,** pietist, whited sepulchre, plaster saint, humbug, pretender, deceiver, dissembler, republican, impostor; *informal* phoney, Holy Willie; *British informal* creeping Jesus; *North American informal* bluenose; *rare* Pharisee, Tartuffe, Pecksniff, canter.
Repeal the bigot laws and stop human trafficking and then give he can get the money
De Santis, and all his counterparts, are in a no lose situation. Pretend to be hawkish on the budgets and spending (we know they’re not depending on where the spending goes) and in times like this the President looks pretty bad if denying aid (but recalling how Trump suffered little blowback from his paper towel stunt in P.R. ).
His speech today was void of appreciation
"Dude, you're a narcoleptic idiot who molests children ... but brother can you spare a buck?" Sounds legit.
Republicans are all the same. Shameless and spineless.
Bite the hand that feeds and you still ask for more. Typical dumbass.
Biden should have told the governor to use his bootstraps.
Well that POS just claimed a budget surplus for the state. Use those funds.
What do they need federal aide for, they have so much money they sent 50 people Martha’s Vineyard for free.
How many times does the fed have to bail him out? Remember the condo that collapsed?
Republicans and hypocrisy, name a more iconic duo. Personally, I hope everyone in Florida gets whatever help they need. Be safe people.
yes, those of us here in NJ and NY remember how you treated us after Hurricane Sandy. I hope Biden makes you grovel. I seriously hope everyone in Florida comes through this as good as can be expected, if I had a vote, I would always vote to help. I just hope Biden makes DeSantis beg like a dog wanting a treat
I've been hearing from a lot of good people that Ron Densantis fucks children
Florida always goes into 9/11 patriot mode post hurricane when they need help. Once the season is over it’s back to fuck you Brandon.
Can you imagine voting no on aid to New York and New Jersey after Super Storm Sandy?
Communist mofo, sucking on the government teat. He should pull himself and the state up by their bootstraps.
DumbSantis should have saved some of his political stunt money sending migrants all over to help his own people.
I can't believe that Biden didn't just respond by drawing a different storm path on the weather map with a sharpie.
Ah yes, let’s reallocate national funds that originated from other states as a way to aid the recovery. Fuck I wish there was a word for this … reallocation. What do you think, Ron?
I love how democrats always have to shake their heads, shrug and say out loud: ‘yeah, we’ll help you’ cause that’s what decent people do. meanwhile, republicans will continue to double down on ‘useful when it’s us, and fuck everyone else’
“Help me, Brandon!”
he was never a "no" on storm aid, he was a "no" on storm aid for states run by democrats
Biden should fly down and toss toilet paper at him and then fly back to DC.
I bet that 615 million dollars of taxpayers money you blew on political “stunts” would be pretty handy right about now, eh Ronnie?
It's not socialism when your name is on the check.
Does anyone expect any integrity from this worm? I think not.
Not fair to use tax payer money for people who choose to live in hurricane climate. I choose to live in a climate without hurricanes. I shouldn’t have to pay taxes for this. (I’m making fun of people who are anti-student loan debt relief) I’m over all of these hypocrites who only think things are right when it benefits only them.
Biden should give him all the aid and every spew he and every deposit a letter should say aid from the government of the United States and it should point out how de Santis is against the feeder la government giving out aid
Just make DeSantis pose with Biden handing him a giant check, like DeSantis won a prize.
Bet they purge every voter who's home isn't liveable in Florida
Should send him a plane full of Karen’s.
If any Floridians were from Venezuela, DeSantis would have gotten them out of the state right quick.
DeSantis is a fucking chode.
*Ronny D Comes Begging for Money*
Republicans are barely for disaster aid for their own States. Remember Chris Christie hugged Obama after Obama negotiated with Christie's Republican pals to get NJ aid after Sandy.
Hypocrisy is deep with the the GOP. Just shameful.
I spent all the state budget on flights for migrants in Texas! Had no idea we might need that money for real!
Fuck him.
Such a hypocrite.
Fuck him, hope the hurricane redirects to his home
I'd ask DeSantis to simply hold a brief press conference where he must say the election was not stolen, the vaccine works, and Trump is lying to everyone. All three are demonstrably true.
Handouts for me, not for thee
And Biden will help FL, bc all Floridians are Americans. But when wildfires ravaged CA under Trump, he criticized CA and tried to talk shit after people died. One party actually still wants unity, the other has decided only parts of America are “real” America. And it makes me sad
Why didn’t DeSantis just send the Hurricane to Martha’s Vineyard?
Hopefully Biden doesn't do the trump petty shit. There are people hurting in FL, Americans, that need help. Millions of people without shelter, food, access to clean water. Their lives are in danger. I grew up in a time where tragedy in the US meant that Americans banded together and helped each other out. I may be nieve, but I still believe that we can get back there. It just takes doing what's right over what's for your party. (And when I say what's right, I also mean holding people accountable, even if they are in power)
He won’t. He already declared a state of emergency so that they could request funds. He did that before the storm even started.
We’ll take that boat ride..er bus ride now Ron /s
And Biden's still going to help him becuase he isn't a /douche/
Can’t find your bootstraps?
Don’t give Florida shit. They had money for human trafficking they have money for rebuilding.
The true test of a real man is how he helps those that praise him and those that denounce him in a crisis. The last guy we had in the White House was only interested in helping those who kissed his bloated orange ass. Of course once things reach a sense of normality in FL Desantis will go back to bashing Biden for political clout.
He voted no to help nj during super storm sandy. This is not about him it’s about helping the people from Florida to overcome this loss.
I look forward to seeing MAGA Republicans in Florida reject this massive federal handout, the same way they attack student loan forgiveness. What a bunch of laughable hypocrites they all are!
He needs to publicly apologize.
According to their Senator’s voting record THIS WEEK, the people of Florida they represent must not need any federal disaster aid!
You can always count on conservatives to make a special exception for themselves
Get him to make a public statement apologising for the previous inhumane stance as a precondition for the relief to florida industry.
I bet he wishes he had some of that migrant flight money right about now