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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,244 posts)
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 01:58 PM Oct 13

GOP holds Americans' disaster relief hostage. They'd rather push conspiracies.

Let's start by acknowledging that almost any national event that dominates a news cycle during a presidential election now inevitably also becomes the subject of fierce – and all too often – dishonest political gamesmanship.

Back-to-back massive hurricanes in the six weeks before the country picks either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump? Let the games begin.

How the Democrats and Republicans approached all that tells you plenty about where they are as political parties right now.

Many Democrats in the U.S. House advocated for an immediate increase in funding for disaster relief. Many Republicans, from Trump on down, grasped instead for conspiracies, including lies about assistance being withheld in states hit by the hurricanes and the all-out bonkers claim that Democrats somehow manipulate the weather to aim storms at Republican strongholds.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-gop-holds-americans-disaster-relief-hostage-they-d-rather-push-conspiracies/ar-AA1sb6Lz

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GOP holds Americans' disaster relief hostage. They'd rather push conspiracies. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 13 OP
Of course they are, zorbasd Oct 13 #1

zorbasd

(201 posts)
1. Of course they are,
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 02:11 PM
Oct 13

they know through experience the MSM will never call them out on that ..... as usual for the past 20 years.

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