Hurricane Helene FEMA and the weak Federal response

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You yourself made it political in the opening thread where you mention FEMA and the Biden administration. Now you tell me that I shouldn't make it political or mention FEMA? So I offered you my opinion to the contrary. I guess I apologize if it affected your sensitivities or invaded your personal space. My bad. However RINO's or not, the affected are receiving help. The ones not receiving help are trapped behind a100 miles of missing road, not minor repairs, but completely gone. No infrastructure to speak of , all roads closed .I am really close with a few brewers and owners in the Ashville area, and our industry is rallying around several collaborations with 100% of the proceeds going to affected communities in Ashville and other places. Already have a couple hundred signed up. Don't tell me I don't know, those people lost everything, business and home, all of those people lost everything. So ya, a bit sensitive about it. If you don't want to have politics leak into a thread, don't bring up politics.

LOL Im not complaining about it being political AOB, you are mistaken

It's the opposite it has a political aspect just like it did during Katrina and all-natural disasters it's why I brought up the Carville quote should have been the first clue

read the link from the Ashville Citizen below they know its political aspects as well.

You were the one concerned about political stumping, not me, how about quoting where I said suggested or inferred it didn't have a political aspect? I know it does Katrina did too. 

What you said that caught my attention was your suggestion we shouldn't discuss the topic because of the deaths, thus the concerns it was affecting your sensitive nature. All the while it is all over many other platforms on social media.

FWIW I have no problem being called "sensitive" to human suffering in Ashville and the other surrounding areas. So glad you have talked with your brewery friends in the area and they are OK, we are still waiting to find out about a few people in Ashville and other areas in Western Carolina.

Thankfully we found out earlier that most of our family, friends associates, and clients in the rest of the affected areas are alive though most have either damaged to thier homes or businesses.

 lastly, if you made it this far here's an article about the political aspects of hurricanes and natural disasters from the Ashville Citizen you know as in Ashville NC virtually ground zero 

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news...499421007/

Quote: 
WASHINGTON - Another presidential election blown around by a hurricane.
In terms of politics, Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden are hoping that recovery from Hurricane Helene will resemble the federal government's response to Hurricane Sandy in 2012 - a fairly smooth process that did credit to the last Democratic-led White House in a presidential election season.

 
Disaster politics is nothing newDisaster politics are a staple of presidential politics, from the post-world war flu epidemic of 1918-1920 to the start of the COVID pandemic in 2020.
 
After all, fall campaigns take place in the heart of flu season, although any disaster - and the government response to it - can change the shape of American politics.
 
During the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927, President Calvin Coolidge appointed a prominent official to head up relief efforts: Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.
 
Already famous for food supplies to Belgium during the world war, Hoover rode flood relief all the way to the White House (where he eventually ran into an economic calamity known as the Great Depression, although that's another story.)
President Lyndon Johnson created a template for modern presidents in 1965 when he traveled to Louisiana to survey the damage wrought by Hurricane Betsy. LBJ assumed personal control of recovery operations.
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Presidents - as chief executives and the only leaders selected by the entire country - are expected to take actions that will protect and help Americans," said political scientist Lara Brown, author of "Jockeying for the American Presidency: The Political Opportunism of Aspirants."
 
"When disasters occur," she said, "Americans look to presidents to see how closely their promises of compassion, protection, and assistance match their deeds."