https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/91408723486904729...
The Americans really lack a leader with any empathy.
This only divides us more.
That's what American politics is today. It's not "how can we make things better" it's "how can I spin this to help me in the next election?"
He won because he understood how greedy and lazy and weak his opponents were and he didn't have the tact to avoid attacking them, sometimes incredibly personally. But look at how ugly people get in response to him, all while thinking they are the "good guys".
It should disturb the hell out of people. It's hard to understand how we're not going to go over some kind of edge without serious change. We are a society of delusional narcissists which reward delusional narcissists.
Only one of the "sides", at least in theory, is in control of all the branches of government, and thus should probably be doing something with that power... like, perhaps governing?
Responding adequately to a predictable natural disaster counts as governing, right?
Maybe, relative to other disaster relief it's going really well? Maybe it's terrible. I sure as hell can't tell from what the media is saying (probably because they don't know either).
Cities should not have to beg for aid. The government should have prepared and started relief efforts in full force as soon as the storm cleared. Instead he's politicizing the disaster and playing with people's lives just to shake up another outrage firestorm that distracts from the real issue.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lost-weekend-how-tru...
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/9/30/16389640/pu...
Evidence for us providing maximum support (yes it's just Twitter, but so was that Vox article): https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/914124370422976513
But this is the tactic this administration has been using to scatter people's attention and make it impossible to find reliable information about what is actually going on. Cause some outrage that exacerbates biases in the media, claim that news is unreliable because of bias, and then present the facts as you would like it.
Everyone realized the storm was worse than anyone predicted, mayor criticizes government and pleads for more help, DT creates some outrage, and now they can deflect any criticism by saying that their critics are out for their throats.
I have two undeniable facts though:
* Shit's bad.
* The WH's slow response and DT's comments are not helping.
I'm not sure if the parent comment is sarcastic or bitter, but I think it's important to remember that it's not reality. The idea is false that humans are locked into ideologies and care nothing for truth, reality, and the welfare of their fellow citizens; it's despair. It's capitulation to the few ideologues, who do see the world that way and want to impose it on the rest of us.
It's not Republicans vs Democrats, or conservatives vs liberals, it's ideologues vs good-willed, sensible people, thinking and acting in good faith.
EDIT: Honest question, now that the argument seems to be over whether the USA is putting forth its maximal effort (which I believe it is). Puerto Rico doesn't pay federal income tax, which largely funds the response that States receive. Puerto Rico is not even a territory, it is a commonwealth, and supposed to be much more independent and self-reliant than States. They even have their own President. Are they entitled to equal aid that States receive? If not, it appears what we are doing for Puerto Rico is more charity as opposed to obligation. So that makes the mayor's statements more inflammatory and inappropriate than they would otherwise be.
Again, what is this based on? Plenty of reporting indicates otherwise.
> a place that's had 85 years to prepare for a hurricane
That is disingenuous.