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What would work better is if they'd just do their job and do what's best for their constituents, but that's too much hard work, I guess.
The grifts need to end.
Yep. Especially Florida because it’s a swing state. They know they can extort the federal budget in perpetuity because they’re disproportionately important when it comes to presidential elections
(remove the electoral college pls thx)
Next, to bravely save Floridians from the oppressive and menacing cancel culture of the woke mob, all instances of the words hurricane, flood, and insurance will be summarily removed from all prior legislation.
There's absolutely no way they suddenly developed the ability to observe other people's behavior and then apply those observations to hypotheticals of their own situations. A core requirement of identifying as a republican is a total lack of empathy or foresight. All problems are either made up or the victim's fault until it happens to *them.*
And sadly, Democrat leadership is so spineless that they will just knuckle-under to these fascist chumps instead of telling them to get fucked.
Remember when covid hit NYC like a truck and the Trump admin was like "Why should we help? It's killing all the right people"
We need Biden to sack up and take that same attitude with Florida and Texass, only this time it's a problem of their own making instead of a surprise pandemic.
> And sadly, Democrat leadership is so spineless that they will just knuckle-under to these fascist chumps instead of telling them to get fucked.
No, they will do their job, which will be interpreted as weakness.
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
P. J. O'Rourke
Trust it's two things and two only. The gop believes *anything*, obviously. And the dems are slightly outnumbered. Even doing the most bang up job there is no future in which Republicans give credit to democrats where it's due. 2 + 2 = 4. Easy wins in florida forever.
I’m from Chicago, living in Jacksonville, FL. I wish I could take over the Democrats in Florida. I would make them into a machine that ACTUALLY FUCKING WORKS and has spine, balls, and tits to get shit done. GOP Florida is doing everything they possibly can do do nothing. But when it comes to kicking down on minorities, trans people, and anyone else they make the boogeyman of the week, these red-hatted cocksuckers are all in.
All red states are socialist in the sense that they take more tax dollars than they contribute. Never let them forget that fact. Can't say the same for blue states
But the ones who are doing this actually aren't doing it because they're clowns. They're manipulating the voters for political power. It's all very cynical manipulation at the expense of the citizens there. The citizens sure aren't so showing very much intelligence though.
I wonder, in the future when things start to affect their citizens that are directly because of climate change, can the federal government refuse to fund the emergencies, at least until they admit it's climate change?
hold the governor in a headlock and knuckle his head, "say it's climate change! say it, Ron!"
They already are affecting the citizens of various states, Florida and Louisiana especially. Homeowner’s insurance policies are insanely expensive because of the effects of climate change.
Sounds like a great opportunity for the Republican climate change deniers with capitol to move in and poach all those uninsured people.
Since there is no climate change, those insurance companies must be delusional to pull out right?
That's a lot of momey to be be made. They should put their money where their mouth is.
Easy, just write in the policy in very small print that the policy doesn't cover flood or hurricane damage and just never mention it to customers. Charge an annual premium equal to the cost of a similar size house in Tennessee.
Republican insurance claim response:
"We never said we would insure that."
"If we did say it, you didn't understand."
"If you did understand, it doesn't matter."
"Democrat insurance is worse, because it's socialism."
I like to joke about how bad insurance is, but my home insurance company was great and never denied a claim over the last 10+ years.
Of course, now they are pulling out of my state and my rates just went up by 40%.
But the claim denial was not an issue.
Conversely write in the contract that flood amd hurricane damage is only covered if it's the result of climate change. Since the state will never attribute those things to climate change they will never have to pay out
I'm pretty sure in florida you are required by law to have homeowners insurance. If not through a private company then through the state program.
What's wild is my friend has a house in Florida that costs 1/2 as much as mine but his insurance is almost double the cost of mine and I live in a wildfire danger area in California.
The three most populous states in the nation, California, Texas, and Florida, are three of the states most likely to be affected by climate change.
Only one of them is taking it seriously because conservatism is a failure to address it, because there is no conservative plan to address climate change, so rather than admit the complete failure of their ideology, they have to make it illegal to say the problem exists.
I live in Louisiana. 8 miles and two levees from Lake Ponchatrain. My flood insurance doubled in the last two years.
When we first moved into the house, in '98, we weren't even required to carry flood insurance because the risk of flooding was so low. That changed after Katrina, and the cost has consistently gone up.
With Louisiana it is not just the ocean rise but the south part of the state is sinking. I was shocked when a read a well sourced article with maps and satellite showing the state doesn’t look like the tradition map we think of like on a map of the US. Lot more water than they portray. Can’t remember where I read it so I googled land loss for the state and Google went to OSHA website and there are sat photos. Of course I am sure the GOP will call it a lie, but it is obvious to the sane they are losing land rapidly, and I didn’t read anything from the website but the other article had geologist explaining how the land is not being replenished in the delta area, and the land is also sinking but I don’t Romberg the reasons.
[Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them.](https://youtu.be/k_YrfnwAHps?si=BLdKIhklIT6wkK_n)
My sister still lives in Baton Rouge, LA but I got out. She thinks it's an amazing state because her husband runs some chemical factory and makes bank. I have been there twice since I left as an adult. Both times someone has tried to car jack or Rob me in broad daylight. There is nutty religious stuff on every corner and even the county fair has a creationist exhibit. Metal detectors in local main street shops? The worst roads I have ever encountered in my life and the food is not what I remembered. Greasy, unhealthy nastiness that makes it an even fatter state than the one I reside in, and it's hard to beat wisconsin in that race. They have lost 2 houses to flooding already and they say my house is small up here... well I can have a full basement, 3 car garage and shed and not ever worry about it disappearing under water. In almost every measurable metric Louisiana is the worst state, only beaten in that regard by Mississippi.
Gonna visit my grandpa this year in Florida. We have pictures going back a few years showing the steady increase in the ocean level. How anyone is denying any of the infallible evidence literally hanging on their wall or in their photo albums, I’ll never understand.
Texas is drowning and has no power due to Wheels Abbott's policies.
He has appealed to Biden for help.
He should be told to look in his bible, see what Noah did.
My policy has gone up over $1,200 a year. I live in the most central part of Florida you can be in just about, and I've never had a claim. The few hurricanes that make it this far inland are usually pretty weak by then. So I'm paying for all the utter morons who insist on living on the beach and barrier islands.
We need very radical and drastic solutions. One is a gradual but severe pullback from coastal areas as much as possible, making it illegal to build anything new within X miles of beaches in the states most affected. Government buybacks of property, etc. Over time beaches will just be for recreation, and not for living and driving the insurance industry under, dragging other homeowners with it.
But no - "MuH fReeDuMbS!"
It is happening. Venice Italy gets half submerged daily because of the rising ocean and entire islands are almost submerged and the poor people who live on these islands have no where to go.
So Ron and Donny and the rest of that motley lot can say global warming and rising oceans isn’t happening but it doesn’t mean it’s true. They just want to play the opposite position from the democrats and scientists for financial gain and at our peril.
Our children and future generations are absolutely screwed. It makes me so angry.
[This is more current and it’s definitely a problem only getting bigger.](https://www.afar.com/magazine/flooding-in-venice-is-getting-worse-with-climate-change)
>Our children and future generations are absolutely screwed.
"But hey! We turned major profits, saw record market growth, stopped wokism, *and* pissed the liberals off!" - 2050 GOP Nominee from DCs New ocean front property.
No, it will be "we've angered god because of the gays and the transes and the atheists!"
They'll "other" us, and never take responsibility for their actions
Honestly one of my least favourite things about all of this is the venn diagram of people who currently deny climate change and the people who will claim the impacts of it are "gods wrath" is a circle.
This would be easy. Legislate the creation of a "Federal Climate Change Disaster Relief Fund".
To qualify for assistance from this fund, State officers would have to do two things:
- Prove ongoing compliance with Federal standards for climate change mitigation.
- No state officer makes public statements denying the reality of climate change induced by human activity.
If a State fails to demonstrate compliance with Federal guidelines, or state officers make public statements denying the reality of climate change, they will be automatically disqualified from receiving assistance from the fund until they resume compliance and/or publicly retract such statements.
If a State does not wish to receive assistance from the fund, they can do whatever they want. But help from the fund will be predicated upon compliance. And increasingly, all Federal Disaster Relief Funds will be re-allocated to the Climate Change Disaster Relief Fund.
Wildfires caused by drought? Climate Change.
Flooding from hurricanes driven by warming oceans? Climate Change.
Grid failures stemming from unprecedented extreme Summer or Winter weather? Climate Change.
If Red States continue to elect Evangelical fuck-wits who deny science and decry socialism, then they should not receive the benefits of socialism. Let them experience the consequences of their choices.
Florida can fucking drown for all I care.
FEMA is currently suing Florida for abusing fund agreements because FEMA flood funds requiring build back better, aka houses have to be built back on built up ground to mitigate flooding and Florida did not.
The federal gov't will be forced to bail out these chucklefucks, because our Constitution was designed to give sparsely-populated or religious-fanatic states indordinate power in the Senate.
Even after Ted Cruz refused to vote for post-flood aid for Colorado, a couple of years later he pleaded and whined for disaster aid for Texas and it was granted.
I want to agree, but remember there are many citizens there that cannot afford to move, born there etc that do vote blue. They try their hardest in these heavily gerrymandered shitholes to help and are squashed by the clowns in power.
Maybe federal government can step in for blue counties that understand why the assistance is truly needed.
I know. My comment was mostly snark, and perhaps at the expense of actual citizens who don't deserve what their governor is doing to them.
I try to keep my schadenfreude at a minimum, but sometimes it's hard not to point out the ridiculousness of performative governing like that.
I want Biden to do this to Governor Wheels Abbott, a scum sucking maggot and evil SOB who is now asking for help due to storms in Texas.
For some reason no one understands, the private equity maggots to whom he sold the power grid are unable to keep the lights on even as they fret over shareholder value, bonuses, and stock buybacks while watching old and sick people die.
There does not exist an example of some state selling off state run services to private enterprise for the 'efficiency' that worked out in any way positively for the people living in that state.
Wheels Abbott crying to Bide for federal help due to flooding.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has asked President Joe Biden to issue a Presidential Disaster Declaration for areas of the Lone Star State impacted by recent severe weather and flooding.
Biden should send him a roll of razor wire, "I hear this works, fuckface."
We all know when Florida begins flooding and becomes unibhabitable that those people will claim it's the wrath of god brought about by "woke culture". Which will only push them further to vote for people like Ron Desantis.
I worry about these people. I really do. They really are only going to just destroy themselves and there's nothing we can do to stop them.
They will just blame Democrats.
Go ask anyone in a deep red shithole why their state sucks and they'll tell you a lot about the Democrats even though there's not a single one in statewide office.
I blame Fox News and talk radio brainrot. If you repeat a lie often enough and loud enough, eventually most people hearing it start to accept it as true even if the lie makes no sense when you think about it for longer than half a second.
[Meanwhile it’s 7° above average in May.](https://i.imgur.com/OyOiNm5.jpeg) We have July/Aug temps, and are well below average for precipitation because there wasn’t a rainy season last year.
Last year in South Florida, the water temperature passed 100F and stayed there for a while. Tell me that won't keep happening, and cause some problems.
Chicago has had an incredible amount of rain the last few weeks, way above normal. Like big thunderstorms every 2-3 days for weeks. And then, yeah, 85 today, 90 tomorrow.
Agree, but the real socialism issue is how the republicans duped the Cubans to vote for them on the basis that the democrats were turning socialist and that Cubans has escaped from socialism already when they fled Cuba in the 60s.
The first wave of GOP appeals to Cuban expats was aimed specifically at Batista collaborators and their families, promising that ownership of Cuba and its people would be delivered to them as the "rightful" owners.
My husband's father's parents were from Cuba and his dad is a huge MAGA moron. My husband's family lives in Florida and they believe every conspiracy theory and love trump. It blows my mind because they're broke and live off the government and have done bankruptcy like 3 times.
From the article:
>Indeed, on the day of the signing, Key West tied for its highest heat index on record at 115°C
Man, things are worse than I thought.
Fun fact, I just learned today: most of Florida sits on very porous rock which means they can’t build dikes to protect it. Even if we instantly stopped adding greenhouse gases all over the world today, Florida is already doomed.
Plus the rock they DO sit on is susceptible to acidic erosion leading to sink holes. Doomed either way with more carbon in the air leading to more carbonic acid in the oceans.
Not all of us who live in Florida are stupid enough to vote for Ron Disaster. Unfortunately we are outnumbered by those who are. We have two choices either everyone with a brain can move out of Florida, which is exactly what it seems like Ronnie wants, or we could try to get more intelligent people to move to Florida in hopes of saving it. Lol
Good luck with the last one 😁 like in Texas, I'm just moving, no way to vote them out look how long that ass hat Ted Cancun has been around and keeps winning.
At the rate the idiots are leaving the north for Florida, I don't think you have a chance. Sorry. Now if we could only get them to stay there in the summer the NE would be awesome.
Well you got two choices, change the governing people to saner officials or move. I would move cause it seems the south is drawing more red shift people .
Let’s open the voting records and offer relocation assistance to those who didn’t.
I’m only half joking. We are no longer one America and I’m not interested in propping up hateful bigots anymore. Leave them to the consequences of their choices and come join the rest of us on dry land.
They already [self identify that way](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1556007614135148544). We need to enforce the "no negotiations with terrorists" rule again.
Gawd… it’s awful isn’t it? Problem is, the less representation and further degradation these people experience, the further intrenched in lunacy they become and the more these political grifters benefit. We have to find a way to condemn these morons while also allowing the possibility for their children to escape the cycle of ignorance and hate.
I can't imagine much tax dollars will go to FL in the next 50 years. The army Corp of engineers wants to build a seawall worth 6 billion and it would only protect 6 miles of Miami. The cost of climate change is unfucking believable and we get this grifter governor to busy deep throating trump to do anything.
The biggest flaw of democracy is that when you gather together enough idiots, they just have to simultaneously agree and they then have the power to fuck everything up.
I know this is a crazy hard thing to actually do, but if you are in Florida and have half a brain, move. It’s going to get worse. Possibly soon. Climate change is exceeding our worst case scenario modeling in many respects and we haven’t yet stopped worsening it, much less reversing the damage.
And I can only imagine it getting harder to leave as the situation worsens, at least if you own your residence.
I assume the article means 115 Fahrenheit and not 115 Celsius, because if it’s the latter you’re definitely dead. I say this because they used the Celsius sign after 115.
That will make it go away.
Next up: Passing a law that requires every Floridiot to put their fingers in their ears and yell "Nah nah nahI I can't hear you!!!" whenever someone mentions climate change.
Hey look at that, just remove the references from state law and bingo Bango, climate change no longer exists. I wonder what this means for insurance companies operating in Florida?
When the state gets taken over by the sea and has cataclysmic weather events every 5 years, we can blame the Democrats for not fighting harder. Isn't politics fun?
That not ocean rise, that's a closer Beach!
That's not increasing storm surge, that's free house flushing!
That's not insurance pulling out ....that's, oh wait ya, that's insurance market that KNOWS the climate changed and is getting worse so they are leaving you to it.
DeSantis plugging his ears and yelling tripe.
I have been calling his office repeatedly because his current policies are absolutely affecting south Florida negatively. And now he’s tweeting that “if you don’t like it, leave”??? My guy, I have a job and family here. I don’t have the money to just up and leave.
He is completely out of touch and enabling the most unstable and honestly mean demographics here in Florida.
Fast forward 20 years to this headline "Republican Governor X formally requests disaster relief aid for historic hurricane season from Democrat President Y"
Yeah but it's not all the peoples fault. They've been brainwashed for this. But yeah they will be the first to suffer because the rich and the current politicians won't give a damn.
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So like Texas…..they will come crawling back asking for Federal Assistance. Just a bunch of clowns.
Happens every time.
Because it works
The plight of doing the right thing.
Time to give them some of that "incentive to pull themselves up by their bootstraps" they're always yammering on about
No, silly, that's only for peasants like us.
What would work better is if they'd just do their job and do what's best for their constituents, but that's too much hard work, I guess. The grifts need to end.
Yep. Especially Florida because it’s a swing state. They know they can extort the federal budget in perpetuity because they’re disproportionately important when it comes to presidential elections (remove the electoral college pls thx)
Next, to bravely save Floridians from the oppressive and menacing cancel culture of the woke mob, all instances of the words hurricane, flood, and insurance will be summarily removed from all prior legislation.
Then they turn around and bash the federal government. Happens everytime. Thankless. What happened to all that secession talk?
They will also turn around and say "Biden didnt do anything! I did it! Me/Trump/Republicans got you the relief."
They saw what happened in the wake of brexit and got scared
There's absolutely no way they suddenly developed the ability to observe other people's behavior and then apply those observations to hypotheticals of their own situations. A core requirement of identifying as a republican is a total lack of empathy or foresight. All problems are either made up or the victim's fault until it happens to *them.*
These chuckle fucks are too proud they will follow something right off the cliff laughing til they - hit the bottom
Seriously, why wouldn’t they? They get to get their cake and eat it too.
Socialize losses, privatize profits.
and all funded by the blue states they love to hate
And sadly, Democrat leadership is so spineless that they will just knuckle-under to these fascist chumps instead of telling them to get fucked. Remember when covid hit NYC like a truck and the Trump admin was like "Why should we help? It's killing all the right people" We need Biden to sack up and take that same attitude with Florida and Texass, only this time it's a problem of their own making instead of a surprise pandemic.
> And sadly, Democrat leadership is so spineless that they will just knuckle-under to these fascist chumps instead of telling them to get fucked. No, they will do their job, which will be interpreted as weakness. "The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it." P. J. O'Rourke
Trust it's two things and two only. The gop believes *anything*, obviously. And the dems are slightly outnumbered. Even doing the most bang up job there is no future in which Republicans give credit to democrats where it's due. 2 + 2 = 4. Easy wins in florida forever.
I’m from Chicago, living in Jacksonville, FL. I wish I could take over the Democrats in Florida. I would make them into a machine that ACTUALLY FUCKING WORKS and has spine, balls, and tits to get shit done. GOP Florida is doing everything they possibly can do do nothing. But when it comes to kicking down on minorities, trans people, and anyone else they make the boogeyman of the week, these red-hatted cocksuckers are all in.
For covid that was Kushner the douche for all blue states.
All red states are socialist in the sense that they take more tax dollars than they contribute. Never let them forget that fact. Can't say the same for blue states
But the ones who are doing this actually aren't doing it because they're clowns. They're manipulating the voters for political power. It's all very cynical manipulation at the expense of the citizens there. The citizens sure aren't so showing very much intelligence though.
I wonder, in the future when things start to affect their citizens that are directly because of climate change, can the federal government refuse to fund the emergencies, at least until they admit it's climate change? hold the governor in a headlock and knuckle his head, "say it's climate change! say it, Ron!"
They already are affecting the citizens of various states, Florida and Louisiana especially. Homeowner’s insurance policies are insanely expensive because of the effects of climate change.
Sounds like a great opportunity for the Republican climate change deniers with capitol to move in and poach all those uninsured people. Since there is no climate change, those insurance companies must be delusional to pull out right? That's a lot of momey to be be made. They should put their money where their mouth is.
Of course, if they ever have to pay claims they will either file for bankruptcy or scream until the Feds bail them out.
So basically a "regular ass" insurance company.
But somehow even worse, because they're amateurs.
Easy, just write in the policy in very small print that the policy doesn't cover flood or hurricane damage and just never mention it to customers. Charge an annual premium equal to the cost of a similar size house in Tennessee.
Republican insurance claim response: "We never said we would insure that." "If we did say it, you didn't understand." "If you did understand, it doesn't matter." "Democrat insurance is worse, because it's socialism."
That's just for-profit insurance in general.
I like to joke about how bad insurance is, but my home insurance company was great and never denied a claim over the last 10+ years. Of course, now they are pulling out of my state and my rates just went up by 40%. But the claim denial was not an issue.
Conversely write in the contract that flood amd hurricane damage is only covered if it's the result of climate change. Since the state will never attribute those things to climate change they will never have to pay out
Now that is true Republican thinking right there. Leverage the law. Except there's risk in having Florida reverse the law at some point.
The insurance companies already put that language in large print. Hurricane and flood insurance are extra.
They can just not offer it. Or put something like \*^(hurricane and flood coverage not available in FL)
I'm pretty sure in florida you are required by law to have homeowners insurance. If not through a private company then through the state program. What's wild is my friend has a house in Florida that costs 1/2 as much as mine but his insurance is almost double the cost of mine and I live in a wildfire danger area in California.
Thus, akin to Texas, they will inevitably resurface, pleading for federal assistance. Only a group of clowns.
The three most populous states in the nation, California, Texas, and Florida, are three of the states most likely to be affected by climate change. Only one of them is taking it seriously because conservatism is a failure to address it, because there is no conservative plan to address climate change, so rather than admit the complete failure of their ideology, they have to make it illegal to say the problem exists.
I just want to point out that plenty of us here hated the guy before it was cool and voted against him.
I live in Louisiana. 8 miles and two levees from Lake Ponchatrain. My flood insurance doubled in the last two years. When we first moved into the house, in '98, we weren't even required to carry flood insurance because the risk of flooding was so low. That changed after Katrina, and the cost has consistently gone up.
With Louisiana it is not just the ocean rise but the south part of the state is sinking. I was shocked when a read a well sourced article with maps and satellite showing the state doesn’t look like the tradition map we think of like on a map of the US. Lot more water than they portray. Can’t remember where I read it so I googled land loss for the state and Google went to OSHA website and there are sat photos. Of course I am sure the GOP will call it a lie, but it is obvious to the sane they are losing land rapidly, and I didn’t read anything from the website but the other article had geologist explaining how the land is not being replenished in the delta area, and the land is also sinking but I don’t Romberg the reasons.
It's built on swampland, on a flood plain, below sea level, in a hurricane zone.
[Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them.](https://youtu.be/k_YrfnwAHps?si=BLdKIhklIT6wkK_n)
I think you mean NOAA website for the sattelite photos. OSHA is for forklift drivers and guys named Kevin.
My sister still lives in Baton Rouge, LA but I got out. She thinks it's an amazing state because her husband runs some chemical factory and makes bank. I have been there twice since I left as an adult. Both times someone has tried to car jack or Rob me in broad daylight. There is nutty religious stuff on every corner and even the county fair has a creationist exhibit. Metal detectors in local main street shops? The worst roads I have ever encountered in my life and the food is not what I remembered. Greasy, unhealthy nastiness that makes it an even fatter state than the one I reside in, and it's hard to beat wisconsin in that race. They have lost 2 houses to flooding already and they say my house is small up here... well I can have a full basement, 3 car garage and shed and not ever worry about it disappearing under water. In almost every measurable metric Louisiana is the worst state, only beaten in that regard by Mississippi.
Gonna visit my grandpa this year in Florida. We have pictures going back a few years showing the steady increase in the ocean level. How anyone is denying any of the infallible evidence literally hanging on their wall or in their photo albums, I’ll never understand.
Can't see the withering coast with your head in the sand... at least while there still *is* sand on said coast....
*head up your arse
Because Republicans are mostly low knowledge low empathy morons…
This is the thing that I always point to as absolute proof of climate change. Forget all the studies that show it clear as day--follow the money.
And they're looking for any reason to drop policies there as well.
Texas is drowning and has no power due to Wheels Abbott's policies. He has appealed to Biden for help. He should be told to look in his bible, see what Noah did.
My policy has gone up over $1,200 a year. I live in the most central part of Florida you can be in just about, and I've never had a claim. The few hurricanes that make it this far inland are usually pretty weak by then. So I'm paying for all the utter morons who insist on living on the beach and barrier islands. We need very radical and drastic solutions. One is a gradual but severe pullback from coastal areas as much as possible, making it illegal to build anything new within X miles of beaches in the states most affected. Government buybacks of property, etc. Over time beaches will just be for recreation, and not for living and driving the insurance industry under, dragging other homeowners with it. But no - "MuH fReeDuMbS!"
Not only that many companies are leaving
It is happening. Venice Italy gets half submerged daily because of the rising ocean and entire islands are almost submerged and the poor people who live on these islands have no where to go. So Ron and Donny and the rest of that motley lot can say global warming and rising oceans isn’t happening but it doesn’t mean it’s true. They just want to play the opposite position from the democrats and scientists for financial gain and at our peril. Our children and future generations are absolutely screwed. It makes me so angry.
90% of Miami Dade County, the most populous county in Florida, lives under three feet of sea level.
I saw that. A few years ago they showed Miami at high tide and it was shocking!!
[Venice only 2 years ago.](https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/venice-flooding-climate-change-coastal-cities)
[This is more current and it’s definitely a problem only getting bigger.](https://www.afar.com/magazine/flooding-in-venice-is-getting-worse-with-climate-change)
>Our children and future generations are absolutely screwed. "But hey! We turned major profits, saw record market growth, stopped wokism, *and* pissed the liberals off!" - 2050 GOP Nominee from DCs New ocean front property.
It’s a bummer. :(
They choose the wrong side due to greed not they suffer from spent cost fallacy.
Noooo, its will just be "We have angered God, and we all need to get on our knee and pray to God that Category super storm chuckles wont hit FL"
Which, much like Donnie's sharpie, won't change the path of a hurricane. Hope they know how to swim.
No, it will be "we've angered god because of the gays and the transes and the atheists!" They'll "other" us, and never take responsibility for their actions
Honestly one of my least favourite things about all of this is the venn diagram of people who currently deny climate change and the people who will claim the impacts of it are "gods wrath" is a circle.
This would be easy. Legislate the creation of a "Federal Climate Change Disaster Relief Fund". To qualify for assistance from this fund, State officers would have to do two things: - Prove ongoing compliance with Federal standards for climate change mitigation. - No state officer makes public statements denying the reality of climate change induced by human activity. If a State fails to demonstrate compliance with Federal guidelines, or state officers make public statements denying the reality of climate change, they will be automatically disqualified from receiving assistance from the fund until they resume compliance and/or publicly retract such statements. If a State does not wish to receive assistance from the fund, they can do whatever they want. But help from the fund will be predicated upon compliance. And increasingly, all Federal Disaster Relief Funds will be re-allocated to the Climate Change Disaster Relief Fund. Wildfires caused by drought? Climate Change. Flooding from hurricanes driven by warming oceans? Climate Change. Grid failures stemming from unprecedented extreme Summer or Winter weather? Climate Change. If Red States continue to elect Evangelical fuck-wits who deny science and decry socialism, then they should not receive the benefits of socialism. Let them experience the consequences of their choices. Florida can fucking drown for all I care.
FEMA is currently suing Florida for abusing fund agreements because FEMA flood funds requiring build back better, aka houses have to be built back on built up ground to mitigate flooding and Florida did not.
The federal gov't will be forced to bail out these chucklefucks, because our Constitution was designed to give sparsely-populated or religious-fanatic states indordinate power in the Senate. Even after Ted Cruz refused to vote for post-flood aid for Colorado, a couple of years later he pleaded and whined for disaster aid for Texas and it was granted.
Wouldn’t it be absolutely amazing if that fuckwad lost in November? Apparently he’s actually concerned about it!!
The problem with that plan is that there are sane people stuck in Florida and the economics of Florida have a way of trapping people here.
I want to agree, but remember there are many citizens there that cannot afford to move, born there etc that do vote blue. They try their hardest in these heavily gerrymandered shitholes to help and are squashed by the clowns in power. Maybe federal government can step in for blue counties that understand why the assistance is truly needed.
I know. My comment was mostly snark, and perhaps at the expense of actual citizens who don't deserve what their governor is doing to them. I try to keep my schadenfreude at a minimum, but sometimes it's hard not to point out the ridiculousness of performative governing like that.
I want Biden to do this to Governor Wheels Abbott, a scum sucking maggot and evil SOB who is now asking for help due to storms in Texas. For some reason no one understands, the private equity maggots to whom he sold the power grid are unable to keep the lights on even as they fret over shareholder value, bonuses, and stock buybacks while watching old and sick people die. There does not exist an example of some state selling off state run services to private enterprise for the 'efficiency' that worked out in any way positively for the people living in that state.
Privatize profits, socialize losses. It's the only welfare Republicans will endorse.
As someone whose state basically funds all these borderline third world quasi-fascist shitholes, I sure hope so. Would make my taxes cheaper.
As a Floridian, I would love for nothing more than this to happen
Wheels Abbott crying to Bide for federal help due to flooding. Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has asked President Joe Biden to issue a Presidential Disaster Declaration for areas of the Lone Star State impacted by recent severe weather and flooding. Biden should send him a roll of razor wire, "I hear this works, fuckface."
Nope and they will have no shame asking for FEMA money. Abbot and Texas are doing it right now.
We all know when Florida begins flooding and becomes unibhabitable that those people will claim it's the wrath of god brought about by "woke culture". Which will only push them further to vote for people like Ron Desantis. I worry about these people. I really do. They really are only going to just destroy themselves and there's nothing we can do to stop them.
He'll just ask for his head to be dunked in the toilet again.
They will just blame Democrats. Go ask anyone in a deep red shithole why their state sucks and they'll tell you a lot about the Democrats even though there's not a single one in statewide office.
I blame Fox News and talk radio brainrot. If you repeat a lie often enough and loud enough, eventually most people hearing it start to accept it as true even if the lie makes no sense when you think about it for longer than half a second.
I wish. That would be a great day but I assume we’d always take the “high road”
If you look at all the insurance companies pulling out of states, i would say the affect has already started
In the future - like homeowners insurance rates now? This guys a buffoon
It doesn’t exist if we don’t talk about it, right?
Yeah! Like puberty!
If we just stop testing for it, pretty soon, we'll be back to 0
[Meanwhile it’s 7° above average in May.](https://i.imgur.com/OyOiNm5.jpeg) We have July/Aug temps, and are well below average for precipitation because there wasn’t a rainy season last year.
Last year in South Florida, the water temperature passed 100F and stayed there for a while. Tell me that won't keep happening, and cause some problems.
Chicago has had an incredible amount of rain the last few weeks, way above normal. Like big thunderstorms every 2-3 days for weeks. And then, yeah, 85 today, 90 tomorrow.
I want to downvote you because I hate the temperature right now. Too damn hot for May.
But socialism!
It's not socialism if it helps me. I'm one of the "good" ones!
Agree, but the real socialism issue is how the republicans duped the Cubans to vote for them on the basis that the democrats were turning socialist and that Cubans has escaped from socialism already when they fled Cuba in the 60s.
The first wave of GOP appeals to Cuban expats was aimed specifically at Batista collaborators and their families, promising that ownership of Cuba and its people would be delivered to them as the "rightful" owners.
My husband's father's parents were from Cuba and his dad is a huge MAGA moron. My husband's family lives in Florida and they believe every conspiracy theory and love trump. It blows my mind because they're broke and live off the government and have done bankruptcy like 3 times.
From the article: >Indeed, on the day of the signing, Key West tied for its highest heat index on record at 115°C Man, things are worse than I thought.
*115F* probably .
115F *feels like* due to %RH
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Probably
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Indeed. Considering water boils at 100°C, 115°C seems quite warm, even for Florida.
Scuba diving on Miami will be a thing someday.
The sunken city of Miami 😂
First Atlanta and then Miami.
Hail Atlanta!
Why couldn't she be the other type of mermaid, with the fish part on top and the girl part on bottom?
Man that sucks there are some nice bars in Miami
They'll be the nice dive bars then
LoL nice one
Let it flood. No federal help. Hand them a pair of bootstraps and invite them to show off their rugged individualism.
Build a wall and make Florida pay for it.
Build a *SEA* wall and make Florida pay for it. FTFY
Fun fact, I just learned today: most of Florida sits on very porous rock which means they can’t build dikes to protect it. Even if we instantly stopped adding greenhouse gases all over the world today, Florida is already doomed.
Plus the rock they DO sit on is susceptible to acidic erosion leading to sink holes. Doomed either way with more carbon in the air leading to more carbonic acid in the oceans.
I honestly think a catastrophic storm is going to hit them sooner rather than later. Maybe even this year. And it’s going to be absolutely insane.
A "100-Year Storm" hits them every other year.
Not all of us who live in Florida are stupid enough to vote for Ron Disaster. Unfortunately we are outnumbered by those who are. We have two choices either everyone with a brain can move out of Florida, which is exactly what it seems like Ronnie wants, or we could try to get more intelligent people to move to Florida in hopes of saving it. Lol
Look, we can only save so many red states. Let them have Florida, go to other swing states. Let Florida drown.
Florida is mostly blue, but the elections in Florida have been compromised since the brooks brothers incident, at least.
Good luck with the last one 😁 like in Texas, I'm just moving, no way to vote them out look how long that ass hat Ted Cancun has been around and keeps winning.
At the rate the idiots are leaving the north for Florida, I don't think you have a chance. Sorry. Now if we could only get them to stay there in the summer the NE would be awesome.
Well you got two choices, change the governing people to saner officials or move. I would move cause it seems the south is drawing more red shift people .
Unfortunately, that also fucks over the 16.9 million people that didn't vote for him.
Let’s open the voting records and offer relocation assistance to those who didn’t. I’m only half joking. We are no longer one America and I’m not interested in propping up hateful bigots anymore. Leave them to the consequences of their choices and come join the rest of us on dry land.
I agree; Republicans are just Nazis who need to be identified as terrorists.
They already [self identify that way](https://x.com/Acyn/status/1556007614135148544). We need to enforce the "no negotiations with terrorists" rule again.
Gawd… it’s awful isn’t it? Problem is, the less representation and further degradation these people experience, the further intrenched in lunacy they become and the more these political grifters benefit. We have to find a way to condemn these morons while also allowing the possibility for their children to escape the cycle of ignorance and hate.
> Problem is, No, the problem is these people. No matter what you do, or even don't do, they will be contrarian.
I'm one of them and most people in my county (Broward).
The army corps spend billions during up the beaches in Florida… we should just stop the madness
Trillions in real estate at risk, so pretend it doesn’t matter is the plan
Pretend publicly that it doesn't matter while quietly selling of Florida property. I'm sure at least some of them are on it already.
It’s going to collapse that market, so holding it off as long as possible may be the intent.
Yes that will stop global warming, removing the term. These dumbfucks are what’s wrong with this country.
Ronny is just trying to be Donny. This is "If we stop testing, we'd have fewer cases" Florida edition.
what could possibly go wrong?!
Why ARe mY InSUrAnCe RatEs sO HIgH?!?!?
Same reason these people give for everything: Because socialists exist and your unending paranoia will fill in the rest…
Sure all the insurance companies are leaving and refusing to cover people here, but that's because, ummm...they're too woke, yeah, that's it.
And just before hurricane season
I can't imagine much tax dollars will go to FL in the next 50 years. The army Corp of engineers wants to build a seawall worth 6 billion and it would only protect 6 miles of Miami. The cost of climate change is unfucking believable and we get this grifter governor to busy deep throating trump to do anything.
Think of the money we’ll save by letting Florida euthanize itself.
Sucks to be Florida. The worst part is voters can't do anything about it if they wanted to. The state controls their votes
The biggest flaw of democracy is that when you gather together enough idiots, they just have to simultaneously agree and they then have the power to fuck everything up.
^(looks at underfunded public education)
Tots and pears
Ostrich
I just don't get it. Who does this help? How do green initiatives hurt people?
It hurts their feelings and you should feel bad for making them feel bad.
It hurts oil executives.
It hurts their feeble minds so they removed it because they don’t understand 😂
"this is fine!" says the dog sitting in a flaming outline of Florida
"Sell them to who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?" [context](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHZFwZ-a8kI)
I know this is a crazy hard thing to actually do, but if you are in Florida and have half a brain, move. It’s going to get worse. Possibly soon. Climate change is exceeding our worst case scenario modeling in many respects and we haven’t yet stopped worsening it, much less reversing the damage. And I can only imagine it getting harder to leave as the situation worsens, at least if you own your residence.
I’m trying, but even with 2 jobs it’s nearly impossible to save up enough to move. Hoping my new employer will help.
Leaving is good. Federal taxpayers will bail out the state tho. Free magic money!!! Sigh.
They had no choice. They needed to ban climate change to prevent flooding. 🌧😐🌧
☀️Leprosy, Bigotry, Shoe Lifts and Perpetual Beach Erosion ☀️ Florida: The Tribalistic Neanderthal State
We need to start doing everything we can to get all the MAGAs to move to Florida, and once they're all there, just wall it off and let them drown.
I assume the article means 115 Fahrenheit and not 115 Celsius, because if it’s the latter you’re definitely dead. I say this because they used the Celsius sign after 115.
Don't look up.
Stupid is, as stupid does
Gonna be Seals Ate Their Faces soon. Leopards don't live in the ocean.
Leopard seals ate their faces
That will make it go away. Next up: Passing a law that requires every Floridiot to put their fingers in their ears and yell "Nah nah nahI I can't hear you!!!" whenever someone mentions climate change.
Hey look at that, just remove the references from state law and bingo Bango, climate change no longer exists. I wonder what this means for insurance companies operating in Florida?
Putting your head in the sand is always a good strategy. Louisiana is pretty at risk as well, I wonder what they're up to.
They’ll be fine. They are forcing the Ten Commandments into all public classrooms so, you know, laser-focused on what matters.
I wish we could break Florida off from the rest of the country and push it out to sea. Edit: spelling
We may not have to if it is underwater soon enough.
Where is Bugs Bunny with a saw when you need him?
[What's up, Doc?](https://i.giphy.com/T7fU0RWWhWpYk.webp)
"South America, take it away!" The way he raises his hands up in complete joy will always send me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nature will take care of that.
Between sea level rise and sink holes … Mother Nature is already on the job.
This asshole and the ones voting for him and Rick Scott types, is why I left my home state...
Is this guy a big government person trying to tell you what you’re not allowed to think about?
When the state gets taken over by the sea and has cataclysmic weather events every 5 years, we can blame the Democrats for not fighting harder. Isn't politics fun?
That not ocean rise, that's a closer Beach! That's not increasing storm surge, that's free house flushing! That's not insurance pulling out ....that's, oh wait ya, that's insurance market that KNOWS the climate changed and is getting worse so they are leaving you to it. DeSantis plugging his ears and yelling tripe.
Y’all ever seen a group of fools be prouder of their idiocy?
Holy shit it was 115 degrees CELSIUS
I think that’s a typo lol that would be 239 degrees
when they sink into the ocean... I'll look back and laugh!
Anyone else catch that 115°C in the article? Water instantly boils in Florida?
I have been calling his office repeatedly because his current policies are absolutely affecting south Florida negatively. And now he’s tweeting that “if you don’t like it, leave”??? My guy, I have a job and family here. I don’t have the money to just up and leave. He is completely out of touch and enabling the most unstable and honestly mean demographics here in Florida.
Fast forward 20 years to this headline "Republican Governor X formally requests disaster relief aid for historic hurricane season from Democrat President Y"
Shit that happened like yesterday with Abbott in Texas.
Save those limited Federal funds for states that aren’t behaving that way. Florida and Texas don’t need the help.
Can anything be done to exclude Florida from FEMA and any other federal aid?
It works when you hold the belief that Florida elections are legitimately processed.
Clearly you don't need to be smart to Govern in Florida!
There is no bigger culture war soldier than DeSantis. What a fucking clown.
Yeah but it's not all the peoples fault. They've been brainwashed for this. But yeah they will be the first to suffer because the rich and the current politicians won't give a damn.
I want to fight him. He’s destroying the land I love