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DeSantis Declares Emergency Over Floods After Cutting Stormwater Funds
(www.commondreams.org)
I’m not sure if gay marriage causes hurricanes, but it looks an awful lot like hate and fascism cause floods.
And Quarterly Earnings reports.
It's almost as if ignoring a problem, doesn't make it go away.
It worked for Florida's Covid numbers! All those deaths were for natural causes!
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He knows democrats will bail him out because they do the right thing. Insurance agencies won't, though. The writing is on the wall when your insurance premiums skyrocket. Or worse, they drop you.
How many insurance companies are actually left in Florida? I thought a good percentage of them have pulled out of the state entirely citing climate change. I know the premiums offered by the remaining companies have to be insane and it's not going to get any better.
Massive flooding of whole cities is simply not an insurable thing. Not even with all the reinsurers in the world can you pay out a city of millions. Most sane countries don't even try.
I live about 5m under sea level. Should de dikes breach and my polder flood (and I don't die horribly), the insurance company pays fuck all. The Dutch state has a giant mountain of cash sitting by for cases like that.
Of course, handing DeSantis a giant pile of emergency cash would just mean it instantly gets turned into bribes, so that wouldn't work for Florida.
Fun fact, the biggest point in Florida is currently 345 feet above sealevel. (it’s somewhere near the ballsack.)
The average is like 100
It’s a very bad state to ignore climate change in.
(Edit fixed the stats.)
Coincidentally, I posted this in Political Memes yesterday-
Mar-A-Lago will become the first course exclusively comprised of 18 holes of water hazards.
And the fraud was off the charts too. Roofers going door to door offering free roofs: “oh we can put in a claim…”
My insurance is dropping me because I had the audacity to try to use it. We had one claim that paid for some damage after a flood, one to pay for a water heater, and that's it. They decided that means we will probably ask again the next time something goes wrong, so why would they want to keep insuring us?
Insurance is a scam, and it pisses me off that we're still tolerating their bullshit.
The concept is good. But the way it is run right now is just taking money and fight tooth and nail to pay as less as they can gey away with it.
I would argue that the concept is flawed. The base idea is that you calculate statistics on how much you would be likely to have to pay out, then set premiums such that you'll always be ahead of payouts. Essentially, everyone pays so that the unfortunate few who need help can get money out of the common pool to help.
This is just taxes, basically. We already do this with fire departments and such. However, insurance adds a profit motive on top because it's a company, so the amount they take in must always be significantly higher than the amount they pay out. And if it's a publicly traded company then the amount they make above and beyond the amount they pay out must always be higher every quarter.
Like at a certain point, why not just do taxes and better disaster relief? As an added bonus, the government would have an extra incentive to care about things that may make the payouts increase, like poor infrastructure or climate change.
Many people are ideologically opposed to taxes and cooperation.
Reminds me of when right-wingers accidentally reinvent like buses or socialized health care under a different name.
In short, people are emotion driven and many of them are stupid on top of that.
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In May, DeSantis signed a bill that removes most references to climate change from state law and streamlines fossil fuel development projects—"Don't Say Climate Change," the bill's critics have called it, including a meteorologist who spoke up against it on air. On the day he signed the legislation, Key West was a record-setting 115°F.
"If we stop people from using the words 'climate change' that means we won't have any more flooding or hurricanes. I'm the smartest." - Meatball Ron
"If walk on the track and I close my eyes, the train won't hit me!"
That's not true at all!
You also need to put in headphones so you can't hear that pesky whistle.
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DeSantis cuts state funding for thing then demands the federal government pay for it.
That's just being conservative. If you don't have to spend money, you're saving! /s
(But seriously on some level, probably the tactic. Why spend state money when you can ignore and then plead for money from the Federal government? It's so perfectly grifty. Lives don't matter, only votes enough to stay in power.)
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Don't worry, I'm sure he'll find a way to blame Democrats for this somehow
"If those dang Democrats would have stopped my decisions, we wouldn't be in this mess!"
I’m almost positive that Mitch McConnell has used that exact defense before.
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It's the wind turbines knocking the water out of the sky!
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So now the Democrats will use the ignorance, evil and hypocrisy of these clown to highlight what happens when you elect GOP, right? Right?
I mean yes, but Republicans literally do not care. They will still vote for Rhonda Santis just because he pisses off Dems. Not because they like his policies or think he's a good candidate.
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Well maybe all the police and gun owners of florida can shoot the water away with guns since they nixed building pipes and ponds to deal with it.
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a climate is a good guy with a gun.
Yo get what you vote for.
Maybe tell him the stormwater projects will "wash the gay away" and Desantis and his followers will be all over it.
I'm going with God is punishing them for their treatment of the gay community. Throw their shit right back at them.
The leopards have come home to roost...
Oh, here we are again in the hands out, crying for help and funds portion of the "no guv'ment!!!" and "we're gonna sucede!!!!" crowd.
Is your raised truck not high enough for you to take shelter from the floods in? Can't you hang your wet clothes to dry from the "rolling coal" pipe you have? Can you use those 27 trump flags made of asbestos as a blanket to warm you?
Maybe as you're waiting for the "guv'ment" to come rescue you like a frightened fairytale princess, feed you with taxpayer dollars and repair your uninsurable without "guv'ment" help homes.... Maybe you could just float on your back in the water while you wait and think about your stance on climate change?
And remember, as your elderly neighbor's dead body floats by next to you, you can always use all your left over "Joe Brandon, I DID THAT!!!" gas pump stickers to put over their eyes and mouth to keep them closed.
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I look forward to seeing the cost of insurance in flood prone areas go up and up and up. No way to get people to move preemptively due to climate change other than to make them go bankrupt first. STOP fucking bailing them out, STOP making US citizens pay for the shitty decisions of red states.
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It's fine, the peasants will just suffer and die, there's always more peasants.- ol' Meatball Ron.
I'm so glad his focus for the last two years was on terrorizing queer people instead actually fixing anything. /s
jesus and the sky god and their special ghost friend are all we need! you all must be a bunch of evil woke transgenders if you don't realize desantis is the only thing protecting our great maga country from a giant woke rainbow of destruction
But but but...he completely eliminated climate change from Florida just last week!
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What if we had pipelines built to pump Florida water to Texas or California dessert?
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Desantis and the like are just like shitty villains in a bad super hero story.
That guy is the king of wrong. Every move just guarantees more pain and suffering but those idiots keep voting for him.
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