Ta, Dok. What was that? Oh, nothing, just got hit in the head by a flying pig. I feel so bad for the residents of western NC, even though most of them would never vote my way. I believe in voting, even by people who would not want me voting. I believe in voting.
I can see the republican party cross-checking voter registration records with homes red-tagged or otherwise deemed unlivable. You got no address, you can't vote!
I am so sorry, NC. I hope everyone can see that allowing voting to count by restoring polling places, extending the deadline at least 3 days, and so on will affect both sides, so doing the good things should prevail. And if this doesn't convince voters in NC that climate change is real, already here, and going to get worse, I feel bad for them. Imagine a category 5 or 6 hurricane stopping by and staying awhile!
I checked in on one of my college friends who lives in Winston-Salem the other day. She was very concerned about NC’s ability to vote under the circumstances.
Every Fall they hold a doomsday preppers camp in Western NC, where they pitch tents in the woods and talk about surviving the apocalypse and buy and sell knives and crossbows and various dehydrated foods.
This year’s convention was held the week of the storm. They didn’t cancel it.
Apparently they got trapped when the roads washed out and now they are stuck in the mud without fresh water and need to be rescued
If they're preppers, surely they shouldn't need the nanny-state to rescue them. Or was their only doomsday prep preparation for a shortage of Krispy Kremes?
Classic case of: When disaster strikes my opponent, I'll do everything in my power to make voting next to impossible. But when disaster strikes my people, I'll break my own laws like they don't exist, embrace voting that I find most vile, like dropping of ballots at a central location. I'll even get on a mule and find the missing voters personally, and give them each a ballot, so my Dearest Leader can reign supreme!1!!!
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Don't be surprised if we see "feel good" stories like this in the next month or so of people doing "heroic" things to make sure that people in the mountainous disaster areas get the chance to vote. And if the disaster took place in Raleigh, the GQP would have that poll worker locked away in a black site location.
Biden’s upcoming visit follows his visit to the Carolinas yesterday where he met with local and state officials and first responders.
On Wednesday, Biden amended North Carolina and Georgia’s disaster declaration by authorizing an increase in the level of federal funding for emergency work undertaken in the wake of the hurricane.
“Under the president’s order today, federal funds for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance, has been increased to 100% of the total eligible costs for 90 days from the start of the incident period,” the White House said.
The hurricane, which has killed nearly 200 people in recent days across multiple states, has been used as a major talking point by Trump’s campaign team as the former president and his running mate, JD Vance, cast skepticism toward climate change.
During Tuesday’s debate, Vance appeared to call the climate crisis “weird science” by saying: “One of the things that I’ve noticed some of our Democratic friends talking a lot about is a concern about carbon emissions – this idea that carbon emissions drive all the climate change … Let’s just say that’s true, just for the sake of argument, so we’re not arguing about weird science. Let’s just say that’s true.”
"𝐾𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑦 𝐽𝑜𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑃𝑂𝑂𝑅 𝐺𝑅𝐴𝐷𝐸𝑆" Wow, you know they are doing a bad job when the Andromeda and Pegasus galactic press comes out against them.
In 2020 - I had just broke my back in September - then in the last week of October I volunteered for CPR 3 separate times - I don’t know what I told EMS - probably something like - “Bring me back, I haven’t voted yet.” - anyway - I didn’t trust DeJoy not to ratfuck the mail-in voting - so I took my two canes and went to the polling station - Arizona wasn’t done with the voter suppression thing - they had two guys in full-riot gear stationed at each polling station - that’s not going to intimidate anyone is it - so come on Tennessee you can drag your wet-asses to polls - and vote for Kamala and Tim -
I have noticed - that having a severe injury and 3 NDE’s has definitely mellowed my personality - or have none of you fuckers noticed - I actually do wonder what my noncomments were like in the 2020 election cycle - full of gentle charm and wit - I suppose -
I'm just really upset about this new normal, and I'm devastated about all the loss of life.
Republicans only offer you dead bodies and hatred. Man. A lot of them must be ECSTATIC about all this chaos and inability to vote; this could be their key to keeping North Carolina under their unreconstructed control.
I am glad there's a competent federal administration spearheading the effort and they have a Democratic governor who will help too.
Unfortunately, said Democratic governor loses his job January 20, thanks to asinine constitutionally mandated term limit... all my NC peeps better get out there for Josh Stein!
If it's the rurals who are impacted the worst, then that's a shame.
Ta, Dok. What was that? Oh, nothing, just got hit in the head by a flying pig. I feel so bad for the residents of western NC, even though most of them would never vote my way. I believe in voting, even by people who would not want me voting. I believe in voting.
I'm from western NC. Nothing I own was damaged. I'll accept that. This is why I haven't been here for a while.
I can see the republican party cross-checking voter registration records with homes red-tagged or otherwise deemed unlivable. You got no address, you can't vote!
I am so sorry, NC. I hope everyone can see that allowing voting to count by restoring polling places, extending the deadline at least 3 days, and so on will affect both sides, so doing the good things should prevail. And if this doesn't convince voters in NC that climate change is real, already here, and going to get worse, I feel bad for them. Imagine a category 5 or 6 hurricane stopping by and staying awhile!
I checked in on one of my college friends who lives in Winston-Salem the other day. She was very concerned about NC’s ability to vote under the circumstances.
NYT has a very good read about how the Republican Legislature made this worse:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/climate/north-carolina-homes-helene-building-codes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU4.Mpf2.A4MFrw_prM7d&smid=url-share
"who could have possibly imagined that making it more difficult to adapt voting procedures could potentially harm voters the Lege likes?"
Am I allowed a sour grapes raspberry here to the lack of foresight of the Evil fuckwad vote suppressors?
Every Fall they hold a doomsday preppers camp in Western NC, where they pitch tents in the woods and talk about surviving the apocalypse and buy and sell knives and crossbows and various dehydrated foods.
This year’s convention was held the week of the storm. They didn’t cancel it.
Apparently they got trapped when the roads washed out and now they are stuck in the mud without fresh water and need to be rescued
Whose apocalypse prepping doesn't include water purification?? What an embarrassment. I hope they feel every ounce of that humiliation.
Just like Libertarians and Bears, the natural enemy of prepper militias is Rain.
Also too reality.
At least they're prepared for anything!
I'd love to see some reporting about this.
I'd love a news article on this!
I haven't seen a news article yet. I just know this from a friend who monitors those groups
Put one on, if you find it. I'm giggling over this.
Embedded Journalist account needed!
I’m mean. I find that Grade A hilarious. I hope they are muddy and miserable but that they don’t die. Relish your failure my dudes.
If they're preppers, surely they shouldn't need the nanny-state to rescue them. Or was their only doomsday prep preparation for a shortage of Krispy Kremes?
They received a shipment of 1,000 didoes instead of cheetos....math and spelling error.
Who could have guessed that Republicans making it hard to vote in red states could potentially hurt Republican turnout, it’s a puzzle for sure
I love this because it was a square on my "Democracy, Fuck Yeah" Bingo card.
Classic case of: When disaster strikes my opponent, I'll do everything in my power to make voting next to impossible. But when disaster strikes my people, I'll break my own laws like they don't exist, embrace voting that I find most vile, like dropping of ballots at a central location. I'll even get on a mule and find the missing voters personally, and give them each a ballot, so my Dearest Leader can reign supreme!1!!!
-
Don't be surprised if we see "feel good" stories like this in the next month or so of people doing "heroic" things to make sure that people in the mountainous disaster areas get the chance to vote. And if the disaster took place in Raleigh, the GQP would have that poll worker locked away in a black site location.
IOIYAAR
So Trump will claim the Dems sent the hurricane to North Carolina to do election fraud against him?
Yep. Joe Biden refused to change the course of the storm with his Sharpie.
You betcha, with that climate machine up in Alaska do all of the heavy lifting for the Kamala/Walz campaign!!1!
Yup. SLEEPY JOE. Not doing a damn thing. Not Kamabla either.
𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐡
𝐽𝑜𝑒 𝐵𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑎 𝑜𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 200 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒.
Biden’s upcoming visit follows his visit to the Carolinas yesterday where he met with local and state officials and first responders.
On Wednesday, Biden amended North Carolina and Georgia’s disaster declaration by authorizing an increase in the level of federal funding for emergency work undertaken in the wake of the hurricane.
“Under the president’s order today, federal funds for debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct federal assistance, has been increased to 100% of the total eligible costs for 90 days from the start of the incident period,” the White House said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/03/donald-trump-kamala-harris-us-election
Moving this over from TABs, where it went up a little late...
𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐞.
The former president wrote:
𝐾𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑦 𝐽𝑜𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑃𝑂𝑂𝑅 𝐺𝑅𝐴𝐷𝐸𝑆 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑒, 𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑎. 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑂𝑅𝑆𝑇 & 𝑀𝑂𝑆𝑇 𝐼𝑁𝐶𝑂𝑀𝑃𝐸𝑇𝐸𝑁𝑇𝐿𝑌 𝑀𝐴𝑁𝐴𝐺𝐸𝐷 ‘𝑆𝑇𝑂𝑅𝑀,’ 𝐴𝑇 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐹𝐸𝐷𝐸𝑅𝐴𝐿 𝐿𝐸𝑉𝐸𝐿, 𝐸𝑉𝐸𝑅 𝑆𝐸𝐸𝑁 𝐵𝐸𝐹𝑂𝑅𝐸 – 𝐵𝑈𝑇 𝑇𝐻𝐸𝐼𝑅 𝑀𝐴𝑁𝐴𝐺𝐸𝑀𝐸𝑁𝑇 𝑂𝐹 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝐵𝑂𝑅𝐷𝐸𝑅 𝐼𝑆 𝑊𝑂𝑅𝑆𝐸! 𝑀𝐴𝐺𝐴2024.”
The hurricane, which has killed nearly 200 people in recent days across multiple states, has been used as a major talking point by Trump’s campaign team as the former president and his running mate, JD Vance, cast skepticism toward climate change.
During Tuesday’s debate, Vance appeared to call the climate crisis “weird science” by saying: “One of the things that I’ve noticed some of our Democratic friends talking a lot about is a concern about carbon emissions – this idea that carbon emissions drive all the climate change … Let’s just say that’s true, just for the sake of argument, so we’re not arguing about weird science. Let’s just say that’s true.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/oct/03/donald-trump-kamala-harris-us-election
"They haven't thrown ANY paper towels! How do they expect people who have lost everything to manage without a roll of paper towels?"
Guy That Let COVID Go Wild On His Watch Blames Current President For Hurricane
"The hurricane never would have formed if I was president."
Shoulda lent Joe your magic Sharpie, then!
"𝐾𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑦 𝐽𝑜𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑃𝑂𝑂𝑅 𝐺𝑅𝐴𝐷𝐸𝑆" Wow, you know they are doing a bad job when the Andromeda and Pegasus galactic press comes out against them.
And here all this time I've been hanging around AP waiting for Allmans and Phish.
Fatso would be saying that if President Biden were there in person, flinging boulders around like Superman.
WHAR BYLINE?
Must be a Dok story.
It is. Fixed!
Cool. You're no longer like a musician playing a gig for exposure bucks.
In 2020 - I had just broke my back in September - then in the last week of October I volunteered for CPR 3 separate times - I don’t know what I told EMS - probably something like - “Bring me back, I haven’t voted yet.” - anyway - I didn’t trust DeJoy not to ratfuck the mail-in voting - so I took my two canes and went to the polling station - Arizona wasn’t done with the voter suppression thing - they had two guys in full-riot gear stationed at each polling station - that’s not going to intimidate anyone is it - so come on Tennessee you can drag your wet-asses to polls - and vote for Kamala and Tim -
I have noticed - that having a severe injury and 3 NDE’s has definitely mellowed my personality - or have none of you fuckers noticed - I actually do wonder what my noncomments were like in the 2020 election cycle - full of gentle charm and wit - I suppose -
I'm just really upset about this new normal, and I'm devastated about all the loss of life.
Republicans only offer you dead bodies and hatred. Man. A lot of them must be ECSTATIC about all this chaos and inability to vote; this could be their key to keeping North Carolina under their unreconstructed control.
I am glad there's a competent federal administration spearheading the effort and they have a Democratic governor who will help too.
Unfortunately, said Democratic governor loses his job January 20, thanks to asinine constitutionally mandated term limit... all my NC peeps better get out there for Josh Stein!