Came across this excellent, angry rant on the web today:
Fuck you, AP. I've seen three different websites now start the story about Trump coming to Houston with the idea Trump has "returned" to Houston, and I know that stupid mistake started with you. It wasn't a week ago everyone was complaining how Trump had never tried to visit Houston, and now he's visited twice? Because why, it's all Texas and who gives a shit anyway?
And fuck you, Mr. President, for insisting the "recovery" is well underway. You were in a football stadium turned into a shelter for 10,000 people, handing them hot dogs because they cannot cook for themselves or feed themselves a hot meal, and you call that "recovery"? What kind of amoral blind stupid idiot are you? There are parts of town where "recovery" means they've started stripping out the sheetrock and the wood floors and the carpet and padding, and piling ruined furniture and major appliances on the street. It may take the city weeks just to pick up the trash. There are parts of town still underwater, and likely to be underwater for 6 more weeks at least. "Recovery" for them will begin when the bulldozers clear off, leaving scraped ground behind. There are people from apartments who won't return to them because they will be uninhabitable, and the fight over who owes money on the lease will begin in earnest and drag on for years. And where will they live in the meantime? FEMA trailers that aren't here yet?
The whole thing is a must read, you can find it here:
rmadisonj.blogspot.ca/…
This needs to go viral to counter the bs. MSM narratives start to try to “normalize” Trump, paint him as “Presidential”, and push the natrative of “Recovery”.
Here, the forests are still burning, people are still being evacuated, homes and business’s are still being lost, but we will rebuild, the forest’s themselves will recover, much fater than Texas.
Companion reading, Digby’s blog about Katrina and Racism,
digbysblog.blogspot.ca/...