Helene, Helene, Helene...
"Talk to the people that are suffering and they will tell you a different story[. T]hat is the truth. Stop believing whoever u are getting your info from. TRUMP‼️🇺🇸❤️"
This culminates the nadir of responses in what passes for intelligent political discussion I was having this week - this about criticisms of the government's response to the devastating hurricane.
I started to ask him how he had been in touch with the folks that have been cut off from all contact with the outside world.
What had they told him about their suffering? Were they really concerned about immigration at that point? Foreign aid? Ukraine? Those were issues that one thought about from the comfort of one's home, from a position of comfort and entitlement, not in the middle of a disaster. Did they reject FEMA as some sort of Democratic Party monster? (Where are the red tarps?)
Probably not.
Even if they had the time to think about the things that they previously took for granted, that they might have criticized, the things that they now missed, those things were now displaced with the very basic instincts of survival: water, shelter, food, loved ones.
I don't blame this joker. I just find him ironic. These low information citizens have a tendency to be arrogant and brutish. And there's a reason for that. Look at who they follow. Look at who they listen to. Telling me to stop believing whoever I'm listening to is the perfect metaphor for what is wrong. I don't for a minute think that they will quit "believing" or that they will start reading and digesting things from more than one source. Or, for that matter, that they will stop following this idiot.
But if there's one important takeaway from what has happened this week, something that is actually linked to immigration, it is that in the middle of a disaster, where a real statesman would have put on hold the political posturing and bickering and worked to help ease the suffering, he exacerbated it by making false claims for purely selfish reasons. We can't deal with the army of jokers but we can take out their general. Vote this asshole out.
