And DeSantis has the gall to say that Harris's offer was political.

Owning yourself to own the libs

I think Desantis and the phone call thing is mostly political theatre. She wants to look presidential. It's understandable she wants to pursue this "opportunity," but she's just VP. Not a key role in this kind of thing.

But Johnson refusing to fund disaster response is intended to prevent the Biden-Harris admin from doing it's job and helping people in desperate situations. That's fucked.

And how DeShitStain is too busy violating people’s first amendment rights to pick up the phone and coordinate for Milton.

Which.
Most of middle-Florida is going to go away. If we’re lucky, only for a few days or weeks.

He doesn't need that. The constitution already gives the president the permission to summon Congress for emergencies.

he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them

Moral high ground. "They go low, we go high".

The biggest issue with liberals are them taking their opponents in good faith, while their opponents exploit this fact.

Except on the republican side it goes like "We go low, you go high", and the republicans are not the only ones using it. In fact, the nazis used it to get into power, and so is Putin, Orbán, etc.

The President can call a special session of Congress. Now, they can gavel straight out if they like, but when shit hits the fan, that's going to put the media narrative against them.

I'd like to step back for a moment and remember something: people are going to be hurt by this in just the next couple of days. I detest the fact that we have to play these games with media narrative. I also don't really like making fun of GOP politicians who are actively working against helping their own constituents. But apparently, that's what we have to do to get people in charge who aren't goddamn fucking children.

Kamala’s addiction to thin mints

Relatable.

"If people starve to death because we have no post-disaster emergency services, that's God's will."

I mean, if you ignore the parts about giving away your wealth, being a good samaritan, looking for fault in yourself before criticising others, more stuff about collecting treasures in heaven instead of on earth, humility and patience in the face of adversity, honesty, forgiveness, even more stuff about throwing out moneylenders and people making money from religion...

Basically, take away the entire gospel and a solid chunk of the epistles, focus on the "If I regularly ask for forgiveness of whatever unspecified sins I might have committed, Im a good person and won't burn in hell like all these bad people", squint a little, account for a margin of human error, and he does look a bit like a Christian!

And it's all about the upcoming election. They can't allow Biden Admin to appear to have any kind of "win" prior to November.

If people actually gave a shit...

Problem is that all of the states run by the kakistocracy of the American Fascist Party also contain good people who absolutely LOATHE them but are powerless to get rid of them due to gerrymandering and other forms of voter suppression and also can't just move to somewhere with competent non-villains in charge.

IIRC something like <40% of people in “red states” are voting for Republicans (Gerrymandering, anyone?). Sure, some, arguably too many, are non-voters, but you can’t leave all of these people out to dry just because some are to blame. Unfortunately.

I was told that killers can be stopped by good guys with guns.

The Speaker leads the House. The House is in charge of the budget. This is it's main function, the House is supposed to be the voice of the majority but of course it's been broken due to gerrymandering.

The speaker of the house is second in line to assume the presidency if both the president and vice president die, and they run the house of representatives. It's a rather powerful position.

On funding issues, a lot. Especially when the funding runs out.